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ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1878. NO. 45. . VOLUME XXV. < < . . ...i ,--i . ' V . . MM?????^^^^^^^ ' ? ? ' """" ***?AiTA<iiimn I n The Masque of Months. BY FDGAB FAWCETT. With bright or sombre gear, With 8mite QJ- frown or song, > In ? masque the months go gliding Perpetually along, First January is here, With eyes that keenly glow, A frOBt-mailed warrior striding A shadowy steed of snow. Then February, a form .' Pale-vestured, wildly fairOne of the North Wind's daughters With icicles in her hair. Then March, black-robed in ttorm, The dread of homebonnd ships, Who flics over lands and waters With a trumpet at her lips. Thon April, gloom and shine, Sad, merry, wilfal, meek, With a crocus in her tr< sses And with tears upon her choek. Then May, the nympli divine, With ehonlders wLite as curds, O'ercanopied by caresses Of butterflies and of birds. I# , Then June, whose beautieB vie With the roses' richest shade, So sweet as to set uj dreaming That a rose has grown a maid. Thon passionate young July, That proud, hot-tempered lord, Who bears, though of genial seeming, A lightning-flash for a sword. Then August, grave, serene, A dame of Btately grace, With the touch of time laid surely On her lovely dimpled face. men soil oepivwuer, eocu In a nunlike veil of mist, With lashes that hide demurely Two glimmers of amethyst. Then flashed October, she Whose joys with pain are blent, Like a qneen whose soul is aohing Amid pomps magnificent. Then doll November, free From hope, desire or care, Having done with all heart-breaking, Being simply cold despair. And last December drear, With piteoofl, low-drooped head, In a voice of desolation Crying out, " The year is dead!" And so, with changeful gear, With smile or frown or song, * The month's, in strange variation, 4 m flwoi* trli^ina alnn<r. - .V "J LijppincoWs Maqazine, AUNT HEPSY'S HAIR TRUNK. -* y ',*> IT j"--' t I# It was., an old-fashioned trunk, iron-, bound and antiquated, with the name of its former owner inscribed on the lid in brass nails. Much longer than it was broad or high, it bore a funereal sug: geetiveness, and bespoke nothing of the wardrobe it might contain. Aunt Hepsy called it a hair trunk, why we do not biow, for there was very little vestage of the capillary substance visible on any part of it It was a historic trunk; she Bftidtt descended te fwm tit* revo-i lution? and it certainly looked as though it had. Aunt Hepsy had never been much of a traveler, and her experience, even after fifty years, in that particular direction was limited ; however, on the day of which we speak, she started on a "journey," she and the hair trunk, and a bandbox, and a calico bag, and a rosebush. A niece who lived with and bid I fair to follow the maidenly precepts of her aunt, assisted her in packing, and saw her wifely seated in the antidiluvian * - 1 * * ? - T i.~ venicie wwcn was xo convey uer mj hjo railway, and it rolled away with this solitary passenger. The vehicle had only proceeded a few rods from the honse when "Driver, driver, hold on, stop," was heard from the inside of the coach ' 'What's the matter marm?" asked John. " I forgot my nmberel; won't yon nin back and tell Jane to give it to. yon ? It's in the right hand corner of the keepin' room pantry. Tell her to be kerfnl and not knock down the penny royal." " Blame the nmberelar," quoth the knight o' the whip, as he dismonnted, and hurried toward the house. Hardly had he proceeded a dozen Bteps when the horses started : moved by some unprecedented impulse they broke into a run, and shouts of " whoa, whoa, driver, driver," issued from behind the flapping ourtains of the coach. Suddenly there was a cessation and a moment later oould you have looked into the coach yon would have seen the driver fanning Aunt Hepsy with the lid of that favorite band-box. As she opened her eves and looked half consciously into the driver's face, her first words were " Is the trunk safe? " not for a moment realizing the romance of her position. "I guess so, marm," replied the protector, "but if we keep on this way, I can't ketch that there train no how." Everything being restored to order again, the driver mounted Mb RAftt and thav rolled awav once more. Every thing went smoothly except when the wheels struck an occasional stone in the road,-which did not improve Annt Hepsy's opinion of traveling, nor the condition of the rose-bush. They arrived at the station just in time to join the confused crowd who were rushing hither and thither. Aunt Hepsy became mixed up in the multitude, was whirled and jostled along, all the time calling at the top of her voice " where's my trunk, .where's my trunk ? Have you seen tiny thing of my trunk ?" she asked of the engineer as she fetched up against the side of the cab; a terrible shriek of the whistle, and the hiss of demons startled the old lady oflf of her feet, and the next moment, jostled along, she tumbled in at the baggage car door much disconoerted. " O my trunk " she murmured. " What's the matter with yer trunk ?" enquired an able bodied baggage imasher. "Does this part go to Newark ?" she inquired; then with satisfaction beaming in her eyes and a smile gradually spreading itself over her bewildered features, she exclaimed : "Laws! there's my trunlt now," and quietly seated herself on her precious old revolutionary friend. Be it said to the everlasting credit of that baggage smasher, he escorted her to a cnmfnrfAble seat in another car. and the train started. " Elizabeth," shouted a man at the door, as the train soon halted before another station, "Eliza beth " shouted another one at another door. Aunt Hepsy looked inquiringly round for a moment or so, no one got np ; then she remarked to a gentleman in the next seat, "I guess Elizabeth ain't here." "Fare, madam, fare," asked a very Hnrnne lookincr vouncr man of Aunt Hepuy, as the train once more moved along. " Well, I am very sorry," said the old lady, " but I didn't bring any ticket with me ; if I had thought there was a chnnce to sell any I would have, certain." "Fare, madam," repeated the conductor. "I was just sayin',' continued Aunt Hepsy, that I hadn'1 none with me, would like to 'commodate you but perhaps if vou're anxiout you might drop a line to Jane.?The fail don't come off in three weeks yet.' " I don't care about the fair, what I?' "Well then," interrupted Aunt Hepsy " what did you speak about itfor then?' " What I want," continued the oonduc ler, " is your railroad ticket; where ari !you going?" "Oh, Jaws, why didn't J yon say so ; howsomeever I'm going to I Newark, and I wish you'd be good ' enough to stop at my nephew's house ; ! it's one with brown blinds and a silver j door-bell instead of a knocker. I haven't ; got any ticket." " Then I must?." Just ! at that juncture there was a sudden con! fusion; the car reared, plunged and I stopped short. Aunt Hepsy turned a I double summersault over the seats in front of her, and landed against the wood' box ; the rose-bush demolished, that beautiful band-box twisted into unrecognizable shape, the conductor iu the course of his pirouetting had sat down on it. The old lady was unhurt, and ' with unusual composure, she turned to i the oonductor, who sat beside her, and i asked " What place is this?" "Don't [ know," groaned the conductor. " Do they always stop that way ?" asked the 1 old lady. Just then a man came in at the door j and asked "anybody dead here ?" and i proceeded to pick up the damaged con- j iductor. " Dead,"remarked Aunt Hepsy, I " well I never, what's the matter now ?" j "' "Rftfl n. fiolliaion." said the man. I | That's a complaint we don't know anything about down to the Corner's ; do i folks die of it ?" asked our undisturbed I herione as the man helpe 1 her to her foet. After some delay the passengers were transferred to another train and in time arrived at Newark. Here the news of the accident, having preceded them the ; crowd and confusion was worse than ! ever. IL j * " Hack ma'am," " Hack ma'am," I "Hack ma'am." "Yes," remarked Aunt Hepsy as she was assailed by a I half dozen of the sharks, " hacked all to ; pieces." Rose bush gone and just look | at this band-box, with my brand new hat I in it." "Hack ma'am," shouted one i i imporunate individual as he grabbed at j i the band-box which now looked like a j | used up accordeon. In spite of protests j i he seized the box, and was leading the j old lady along the platform. " Well I j 1 never. I told Jane it would be just so, ; i everything mixed; Mr. young man where j ; be you goi'n'?" "Got a nice hack, ] , ma'am; take you anywhere, hotel, pri- i vate house; take you anywhere you want ! to go." " Well, yon are accommodatin'. I'm , glad I met you; if it hadn't been for you I don't know what I would have done." j *' Here's theback ma'am; git right in; ! j Iiave you got any paggager i "Yes, yes, I've got a tnxnk; a hair trunk." y"Then give me your check ma'am." I "Oh, that's it, now be careful, don't j drop-that trunk for there's a jar of pre- 1 serves in it and it might break." j Away went the driver on his search, j j leaving the old lady to her' oogitations; every sign within readable distance was j j duly perused and her musings were only ! | interrupted by a boy who put his head ; I into the window and shouted, " black j yer boots." "The insolent critter," ; thought Aunt Hepsy, " as though my , | boots heeded black'ifig." ".TKey must haye given your trunk a pretty, good shaking down out here, , ma'am; ain't mu<5h left of it but the *^onie^n*Ttli plrecuf&s |fiec^of^ bag- j gage. | "They did use it a little careless," rei plied Aunt Hepsy, " the man that was I takin' care of it they say got killed, stove i upsot on him and roasted him; but the I 1 * ? ? 1. ~ J ' trunk i guess wasn t tsuuruueu. aymvi just run over to that insurance office and ask the man what they will charge to in-1 sure my life. I can't take the responsi-! bility of taking care of myself much ! loDger." "Can't do it marm; no time now. ! Where wonld you like to go ?" " Up to my nephews?" j " Where does he live ?" j "Why, in Newark of course?he's a grocer, sells snuff and?" I "I don't care about that; what's his ! i name?" "Oh ! his name's Prosper." ! " Prosper what ?" " Prosper Judge, named after our late j i respected pastor; his father lives down j j to the Corners, aad his sister made so , ' much talk by her coming to church : i with a strange young man with a blue j i neck-tie and?" " But I don't see as how that's to the j nint. I want to know the number and ; the street where your nephew lives." j " Here it is, right here, on a card that i ' Jane writ and gave to me when I was j ; startin'." "All right ma'am," and be- j | fore the old lady knew it, there was a j I sudden start that nearly threw her out l of her seat. In due time the carriage halted in | front of a comely brick dwelling, the j door opened and there stood the nephew | " Law sakes, Prosper, how do you i do ? Oh dear me, what a nice house ; you've got, but I'm tired out; jrhv didn't you paint your blinds green. Look out for that hair trunk." All this was spoken while she was going up the steps, and at the top she met Prosper's wife and here again she stopped. " Why, Susan ! how do you"do; if you : : knew how glad I was to get nere; just look at that cobweb on your hall lamp. : Jane said?but, me, I'm so fluttered, I j ! don't know what all she did say. I ' | thought I never would get here; my best ! bonnet is all smashed, and I had to give | the rose-bush to a boy to carry and I ! ; never saw it after that; law ! what a pretty collar you've got on, and wheie | j (Ud you get that pin with the rubies in j | it ?" " Why, Aunty," inquired Susan. ! " Ain't you most tired out ?" " Tired, child; that's no word for it. I | I thought I never would get here. The i i engineer broke loose and run smash into I another, and a man with a big sign on | his hat came to me and says he, ' old woman, be yon much hurt?' and says I, . ' I ain't hurt and I ain't an old woman, ! | either,' and says he, ' its a wonder; for | ! I guess there's three or four hundred on ! 'em killed.' 'Just to think of three or ! four hundred old women being killed,' j I says I; ' is my trunk safe?' Says he,' I > j guess so, ma'am '? Oh, law, I'm so I tired." "Here's your trunk, Aunty," said; Prosper, as he brought a bundle of lath ; into the hall. "Is that my trunk," gasped the old ' ^ 11 T3 1?ATTT T"l T1 fVl A | IHQTi " QUIiCBj X iUopoi j nun uuuoA uuu : canopy can I ever get away from New; ark. All mined! And I sot so much store by it. To think that old grandma Charity's trunk should come to such an end ! If that man that was takin' care of it was only alive, I'd like to see him just to tell him what I think of him. But we must unpack it, Prosper." And they did unpack it; but a sad sight indeed was it. There was the jar of quince preserves smashed all over Aunt Hepsy's best cap, which lay deeply imbedded in a pumpkin pie; over it was generously ; spread all her snuff, by way of spice; a bottle of hair dye had soaked its way through the purple and fine linen into a | loaf of cake, on the bottom of which was , pasted a box of corn salve. Susan coma1/I lo/lrr tvln'la PmcmAI* Axtri , 1V1VCU UUC ViU J.MUJ ) n U^u * ? ' cated tLe cap from its bed of pumpkin J pie, and Betty, the maid, ran for x glass , of water; it was evident that accumulated ; misfortunes had overcome Aunt Hepsy, i for Prosper was only through with his work in time to save her from sitting down in the coal hod. She had fainted. hi. i At the conclusion of Aunt Hepsy's visit to the Judge mansion, she had so far re- At covered from her fatigue and trepidation that it was decided she should visit another nephew in Boston, the Rev. At j Parsimmon Pucker; furthermore, to yei ! make the trip as agreeable as possible, ste Prosper was to go with her as far as New York, and then see her safely on we board the Fall Biver boat. The hair jjei J trunk meanwhile had been neatly re- ar{ j paired and was in as good condition as qj ; ever, barring its faded and ancient look, th, 1 and Susan had put a few extra touches on a0] Aunt Hepsy's bonnet, which gave it a th( ' more recent air. Her old Bhawl gave jg' ' way to a brand new cloak, and there was uu I a general transformation in her appear- tec j ance. She looked ten years younger . mfl 1 than when she arrived in Newark. Still SU1 I nil fliocQ olnornn^ipq nf ftttirA flOTlld not I ,'ns ! extiuguish those characteristics of person ty. | which distinguished her from other in1 dividuals. How many times Bhe inquired on( j of Prosper concerning the safety of that inc j trunk as they hurried along on the cars, jU(] I it would be difficult to enumerate. At ] I last they stood together on the wharf close by the steamer ; Prosper saw her safely on board and then hurried off j rec] toward home. As she sat looking out of ab( the window of the ladies' cabin she discovered her trunk on the wharf Qh and alarmed lest it should be left j)a behind she hurried out and along ]e8l the gang plank just in time to meet a truck load of baggage. The porter did f0D not see her but kept on, the truck struck ^ the old lady ; there was a squeak and a sta splfesh : a few minutes after a very wet 0f \ old lady was carried into the cabin ; she for didn't look bo pretty as she did a gei few minutes before. She was put in ma charge of the stewardess, and the hair 0f, trunk was resorted to. An hour later 0f j she occupied one of the sofas in the cab- j8 j in arrayed in other attire and seemingly anc as composed as ever. Just then an elder- ^ ly, benevolent-looking gentleman ap- ]jV( proached her, and in a quiet way in- <jeI quired: i <}ai " Air you sufferin' from the effects of i fre, your fall, ma'am ?" . effi Aunt Hepsy stammered and hesitated j)e a little, and then pulling out one of her | 0f j new hem-stitched, replied, "not partic- j (je., ularly; a little sore in spots howsomev- I Wftl er; jl suppose it aiwaya uuppeuu wj pcupie who travel. It's temptin' Provideuce, as I beard my nephew say once veE in a sermon, to try to carry sweet-meats ^ and rose-bushes on a railroad train." eac "May I ask,"inquired the gentleman, njg " who your nephew, the pastor, is ?" ^ "Certainly," replied Aunt Hepsy. ^ ( " He's my brother's oldest son, and lives prc up to Boston. They say he's one of the best preachers thereabouts. He's preached there ten years." _ "Yes, yes," mused the old gent, . J '' and his name is Rev. P. Pucker." m8 " How did you know it ?" asked Aunt ^ Hepsy, with a start. . * " Because he was installed ten years mf! ago, and I am a deacon in his church. "Pc Deacon Squeakleather, if you please." " You don't say it. I've heard Persy 8ld' speak of you agin and agin. Why,deacon, C0E I feel as though I had known you for P0? years." ho1 " I-a-I-a helped you out pf the water," continued the deacon, as he tried to pull tl10 the dloth over a worn button on his "P coat. .. -4 he.x " N&w, deseori? hoto can I thank you ; did you see anything of my calico bag ? ^ Now come to think, I haven't seen anything of that bag since, and the trunk? BCa my hair trunk?I do wish I knew what /jy( Vio.l Konnmanf f.Viftt. \Vhnf floP.R makfl / j this boat shake so ?" ^ "It's the engines," replied the deacon. 8VC 1' They have j ust started.'' " You don't mean to say they have tre( Injins aboard, do you ?" inquired Aunt Hepsy nervously. "Steam engines," wa, suggested the deacon, " the motive ijj power of civilization." se|( "Surehr deacon; yes I see; but I var don't think they are much safer than a sun real Ingin," and Aunt Hepsy went on 0f with a long account of her experience to f0jj which the deacon listened with evident ?re( pleasure. a c] "There ma'am," said he, rising from jeaf his seat and pointing out of the window, wil] " there is Castle Garden, a famous old roa. building where Jenny Lind once sung.'! "Yes, and would you believe it," uot] observed Aunt Hepsy, "there was ?0 Prosper, put on his best clotheB, came all the way down from the "Corners to hear her sing, staid a week, and would eve. you believe it, when he came home he gysj was so particular, he said there wasn't a ^ e girl in the whole town could singlike her, tref and he had the impudence to tell the wnr /vn? /iIiai'v fliof oIia Tinf. ? iCOUOi VI UUX UUVU WUMW uuv Wiuv* ? w hold a candle to her, and he actually laughed at her when she said she'd jest 0^( like to try her on old Windham once. carj Jenny Lind may have been powerful good, but I don't believe she was ahead of our leader, no how." The trip to Boston was entirely without T incident. Our heroine was safely landed wh? at the parsonage, the deacon was seeing and her to the door, in spite of the fact that fpn his pastor had met her at the station. leac Originally she had meditated only a gar< short visit, but week after week passed sing away; still she remained, and nearly witi every day might have been seen in front Liv of the mansion, the deacon's horse and abo new chaise. Where was the deacon? tow Why he was inside of course, seeing whi after church matters. Nothing of the obs sort. He was sitting on the sofa by the bro side of Aunt Hepsy as chirp as a chirp- call ing bird. she* Aunt Hepsy grew younger every day, he and one morning came down stairs sing- froi ing, self " This is the way I long have sought his And mourned because I found it not." she " Aunt Hepsy," remarked the Rev. P. and Packer, "I have an intimation that tot Deacon Squeakleather has taken a great jmr interest in you." "Now Persy 1" re- ing, marked Aunt Hepsy, "why Persy, now bot what makes you think so ?" He apptjuruuutjtj, uuijr appcaiauuoo , u.\jvi Aunt Hepsy, isn't it a fact ?" and "Well Persy, you are so pressiu', tou I think I must tell. There it is,- just soo look there," she said holding out her ano hand, upon one finger of which was qui a bright ring. con "When," inquired the pastor. tioi "Next week," replied the old lady, the " and I've sent for Jane and Prosper, not and all the folks to come up, and " eitl just then there was a ring at the door- clei bell, the door opened, and a stout fellow wei brought in a stylish new trunk marked ter< in big letters on the end, " Hepsy Tub- pae lins Blimkin Squeakleather."?Water- an | town (JV. Y.) Reunion. po< ?? | A Medical Yicw of Cats. ^ | The well known English medical paper, pet ' the Lancet, speaks thus unkindly of the to domestic cat: Apart from the mischief bei these creatures may do by lying upon fer your young children for warmth, and as' suffocaling them, they are by no means lut to be despised as enemies. When ex- pai cited or stirred to anger it is more an< easv to defend the bodv from the direct of attack of a dog than to repel the sly and pa] i sudden onslaught of a cat. It is, more- fir* i over, a mistake to suppose that there is pa] I no danger in the bite or the scratch of wii J one of these animals. There have been isli , abundant and melancholy proofs of the we peril of contracting hydrophobia from cai cats. The danger is scarcely less than gr< that which attends an injury inflicted pa by a dog. This should be borne in mind, pr< and if the consideration should have the he effect of diminishing the number of cats soi maintained, or rather kept without nny an adequate provision for their support, the pe popnlation will be the gainers. ey lantic Wrecks for Thirty-seven Tears. We have before us a record showing a number of lives lost in crossing the \ lantic during the last thirty-seven a ars. In this period fifty-six fine \ lamers have been wrecked, and in f enty-nine instances more or less lives \ re lost. Nine vessels were never t ard from after leaving port. These t ) the President in 1841, the City of i asgow in 1854, the Pacific in 1856, c i Tempest in 1857, the United King- t m in 1868, the City of Boston in 1870, e i Scanderia in 1872, the Ismailia in t 13, and the Colombo in 1877. The v mber of lives which were thus blot- t I out aggregates 1,397. Of the re- e ining vessels, four were burned, five t lk by collision, two by colliding with d bergs, two foundered at sea, and thir- s four were wrecked on various coasts, o is is a suggestive showing, for it at L :e calls into contrast the relative peril d urred by dependence upon human p Igment and human handiwork. s Chirty-four steamers, as above stated, g re been wrecked, and an inspection of p i localities where the wreoks occur- t I shows that several have happened in p >ut the same vicinity. For example, i City of New York in 1861 and the r icago in 1868 were both wrecked on t! unt's Rock, near Queenstown. No f< a than twelve have been destroyed on i i coasts of Nova Scotia and New- h tndland. It may be asked if vessels t mot be built Btrong enough to with- f: nJ driving upon rocks as in the cases " the Atlantic and the Schiller, at least e a sufficient time to enable the passcn- s s and crew to obtain assistance or ke their escape; but here the question fc jost obtrudes itself and the answer c those who have considered the subject a that vessels cannot be so constructed 1< 1 yet profitably used. Taking this into g ount with the aggregate number of t< 38 lost, in all 4,780, and it will be evi- " it that the problem of reducing the s lgers of the sea, becomes as we have s fluently urged, one depending on the h cacy of the life-saving inventions. " vices which will keep large numbers ^ people afloat for considerable periods, n rices that will keep individuals above ii ter that can be rapidly adjusted to k i person with no possibility of mistake, ^ rices for taking lines from wrecked b tsels to the shore, devices for indi- o ing the relative positions of ships to d ih other, new signals for fog and " ht, and contrivances of that nature, 1 are subjects for the inventor's skill b levising better modifications and im- o ivementa.?Scientific American. o ? h What Shade-Trees to Plant. s] ........ f.i L'here is a great satisfaction in Know- : -what selection of shade-trees those 0 0 are competent to judge would make 11 road or lawn planting. Just such ^ amotion is now before the public, " 1 it will prove of very great value to ise who intend to beautify their roades or private grounds. The park amission of Washington, D. C., com- a led of three men of high standing in ri ticultural circles, have planted miles y street-trees numbering about forty a usand. The bulk of these are made 6; of twelve varieties, and are named 0] ewith in the order in which the comision valued them for the purpose: c] lite maple (Acer ddaycarpum), ^ lerican linden (Tilia Americana), n lerican elm (Ulmua Americana), a] rlet maple (Acer rubium), box elder c] zgundo aceroides), Bugar maple ler saccharinum), American white w (Fraxinus Americana), English w amore (Acer pseudoplatanus), but- u -ball (Platanus oricntalis), tulip- p 3 (Liriodendron tulipifera), honey y ast (Oleditschia triacanthoa), Nor- 0] T maple (Acer platanoides). .'his is an excellent assortment to ?? )ct from for road-side planting. Each iety here named when full grown as- w les handsome proportions, and most p( tnem nave oriuianc ana attractive age in the fall. In planting shade- f :s along the road-side, especially in iE ay country, they should be set at it fifty feet apart, for if closer there ^ 1 be too much shade, and bad wet ^ 3s in the spring are sure to follow, s close planting should also be Btren- 0l tsly avoided in decorating private w onds. Any system that excludes ^ free access of sun and air from the ^ illing-house is pernicious. Go wher- ^ r one may he will find this faulty \ iem of close planting in vogue, and light cases out of ten there are two >s or shrubs on a space where one jn ild have been enough. The plea this is a desire for immediat eeffect. ! remedy is to cut down in time every je er tree. This last is seldom if ever, fc ied out.?Scribner. How He Stopped the Sheep. h< Vi/vtt nm-ontfomnrrltr frtll/vnr f Vlair lnarl&r "?J ?" ri irever he goes; but, if in case of ^ den alarm, any one of the flock runs 8fl vard to escape, and thus takes the , I, the rest generally follow him re- ^ iless of any obstruction. Of this c fular disposition, Dr. Anderson once , leseed an instance in the town of * erpool. A butcher's boy was driving m ut twenty fat wedders through the , n, but they ran down a street along t'~ ch he did not want them to go. He jV erved a scavenger at work with his * om a little way before them, and ed out loudly for him to stop the BC ep. The. man accordingly did what 8e could to turn them back, running n side to side, always opposing himto their passage, and brandishing broom with great dexterity ; but the ^ aw 1-rk-ii/Vh oonfofarl nraaaarl fnrwArrL I * I' ? , le , at last, one of them came right np gj. he man, who, fearing it was about to fij. ip over his head while he was stoop, grasped the short broomstick in h hands and held it over his head. jfl stood for a few seconds in this po- 'aj on, when the sheep made a spring ^ jumped fairly over him without jQ ching the broom. The first had no ner cleared this impediment than y ther followed, and another, in such ( ck succession that the man, perfectly j founded, seemed to lose all recollec1, and stood in the same attitude till ^ whole flock had jumped over him, ai one of them attempting to pass on j ler side, though the street was quite oj ir. As this took place during wet ither, the man was entirely bespat- n Bd with mud before they had all ised, and it is impossible to conceive t] lore ludicrous appearance than the ? >r fellow made on this occasion. ' j tl A Paper Carpet. " n L description is given of a paper car- ! c ; now made in England, and designed p imitate parquet flooring, the paper k ng printed in patterns to imitate dif- g ent woods from photographs, so that, ; c it is stated, the resemblance is abso- ii elv perfect. The floor is first pre- s red by being made perfectly level, o 1 the crevices filled up with plaster 1 paris ; over the surface, aB thus pre- s red, hession is stretched, and on this, t it lining paper and then the patterned li per is pasted, the whole being finished s v? i.;_ j .# n :h a coatiug oi n peculiar nmu ui v?ru- ; o i, described as wounderfullyjhard and ! b ar-resisting. This kind of carpeting t 1 be kept perfectly clean with the s jatest ease, and though the wear of I per carpeting may be thought r Dblematical, the inventor Btates that a has had rooms covered with it for c ne sixteen months, without showing s y appreciable signs of wear. Ita ap- t aranoe also, is very satisfactary to the t e. r How to Sing JL Song. In choosing a song, select something nth at least sensible words ; the better nd more interesting they are, the greater Till be your chance of success. careul to get a song wholly within your rocal powers, for if vou attempt somehing too high or to > W.you will probacy subject yourself to ridicule. HavDg chosen your song, study the words arefally that you may fully comprehend he sense and sentiment; popular singrs make it a practice to learn the words ij heart?a habit worthy of all comaendation and imitation. When you horoughly understand the words, you lay attempt them in conjunction with he tune or music, and in doing so eneavor to arrange breathing-places j'these hould be fixed bo. as to aid the sense, r at least not to mar the meaning and atent of the poetry;* When you have ecided where to takd breath, mark the ilaceB with a pencil,, and be careful in tudying to observe those marks. As a eneral rule, unless a phrase of the 'Oetry commences with the first beat of 1 be music bar, we shall find that a bad lace for breathing. Many singers never dream of pre-aranging the places for taking breath, and his fact alone would suffice to account Dr much of the bad singing we hear, n one of Horsley's glees the bass voice as to sing alone the line, " Mist a! blaok Brrific maid and when the vocalist, as reguently happens, takes breath after 'black" instead of after "Mista," the fleet is truly comical, making the line ound like "Mr. Black, terrific maid." Every word should be pronounced disinctly, even more so than in ordinary onversation. We sometimes miss the spirate "h" when listening to a carets render, but the loss is felt with reater force when tfie" words are allied o music. I have heard a line from I ? ~ ** ti 1 II JL'He Jb&lllH B l/augxifcer ui uuuu((ivu I ound like " Before I give you a penny weet-tart," simply because the singer ad forgotten to give fully the " h " in 'sweet-heart." Again, the letter "r," rhich we English alrtioat ignore in comlon talk, should certainly be observed 1 singing. How otherwise are we to now in such a song as " The Message," rhat is meant on the long holding notes y the word "farther?" The. absence f the " r," as too commonly sung, proneed "father," and 90 we get the fine, 'I heard it float.father and father." "hese remarks as to the words have all een made in reference to English. Of ourse, we ought flpt to attempt any ther language before we know that we ave acquired a proper control over its pecial pronunciation and accent, and iien we should be careful to acquaint urselves with the meaning and sentilent of the words before we venture to ing them for others to hear, and possily to criticise. Anecdote of Pciteri the Great. Peter of Russia, or Peter the Great, 3 he is commonly call^l, w.n a man of emarkable qaalities of mind, and ?1 ?u.i lougu very nat. mu amu ad considerate to those who deserved acouragement. Ohi day a young remit was standiri^ guard before the oorof the entrance.to Peter's private Cambers in the pabice of St Peters urg. He had rece'ived orders to admit 0 one. As he was passing slowly up tid down before the door, Prince Ment liikoff, the favorite minister of the czar, pproached, attempting to enter. He as stopped by the recruit. The prince, ho had the fullest liberty calling pon his master at any time, sought to ush the gaard aside and pass him, yet le young man would not move, but rdered his highness to stand back. "You fool!" shouted the prince, don't you know me ?" The recruit smiled and said, " Very ell, your highness, but my orders are Bremptory to let nobody pass." The prince, exasperated at the low illow's impudence, struck him a blow 1 the face with his riding whip. "Strike away, your highness," said le soldier, "but I cannot let you go i." Peter, in the room, hearing the noise itside, opened the door and inquired hat it meant, and the prince told him. he czar was amused, but said nothing . thfl t.imp. In the evening, however, n sent for the prince and the soldier, s they both appeared, Peter gave his vn name to the soldier, Baying : " That man struck you in the morng; now you must return the blow to lat fellow with my stick." The priuce was amazed. "Your masty, " he said, " this common soldier is i strike me ?" "I make him a captain," said Peter. " But I'm an officer of your majesty's DUfeehold," objected the prince, "I make him a colonel of my Life uards and an officer of the household." iid Peter again." " My rank your majesty knows, is lat of general," again protested Mentrikoff. " Then I make him a general, so that te beating you get may come from a an of your rank." The prince got a sound thrashing in . ? ? WAATClif TITO a 16 presence ui uue uzxu, u? kulu? t?w 3xt day commissioned a general, with ie title of Count Oroinoff, and was the under of a powerful family, whose de* endants are still high in the imperial irvice of Russia. The Nile's Singing Statac. A traveler with Gen. Grant in the ast thus tells of this giant: All that is ft of Memnonism are the two colossal atues, the one to the north being the atue that, according to the historians id priests, used to utter a sound every orning when the sun rose. The statue silent enough now, and is a monolith >out fifty feet high. A good part of te base is buried in the earth, but they om up over the plain?as, in fact, we id see them?miles and miles away, ou may have an idea of the size when )u know that the statue measures ghteen feet three inches across the loulders, sixteen feet six inches from ie top of the shoulders to the elbow, id the other portions of the body in ue proportion. No trace can be found [ the cause of thd vocal sunrise pheomenon. One theory is that the priests sed to climb into a recess in the body E the statue and perform a juggler's rick. I do not think so badly of the : Igyptian priests, who, I suppose, were ood men in their way, and not cnaria- i ins. You might find one priest in a ' raltitnde capable of climbing into a re- j ess and calling upon the people to pay j ew rent or tithes or something of the | ind. But this sound continued for j enerations, and I do not believe you ! ould find generations of priests carry- i 3g on the deception for years and years, o I dismiss that theory and take aniUa* "Rmtrunh fvrnlainH to ufi. (lUOl nu*va r ?he statue would be moist with dew at unrise, and the sun's rays acting upon lie dew would canse it to emit a sound ike an interrupted chord of music ; just uch a sound as you hear from a sea hell if you hold it to your ear. As the un is sure to shine every morning on hese plains, you could be certain that uch a phenomenon would recur daily. ! can well imagine how a freak of nature night be taken as the voice of the gods, ;nd how humble priests would'bow lown to it, and not enter into scientific peculations. After the statue had been ossed by an earthquake and riven, he music ceased which only confirms ne in doing justioc to the poor priests. r FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. The Vegetable Garden. The success of the garden depends largely npon the quality of the seeds used ; many other conditions, however, are necessary, as well as some degree of knowledge and skill, without which even the best seeds must fail to give the desired results. The most favorable soil for a garden is a light, rather dry loam, with sufficient admixture of vegetable matter. Bat , situation and nearness to the house are often of more importance in the ohoice , of location than the constitution of the BoiL A heavy, wet, clay soil is not suitable for a vegetable garden ; yet, if no other ground is available, underground drains, deep working, and a covering of i sand and muck or peat, will transform even such an unpromising soil into a i fair garden. A slight sloping surface, other conditions being equal, is , more favorable than a dead level, as it I - a??* t__i.j.? j? ?? ?j :c aumiiB ui ueittu uxumuyo, nuu jx mwuou toward south or southeast, all the better A deep soil is very desirable, but care must be taken, not to deepen it too much at a time. Not more thau one inch of subsoil, which has not been ploughed or spaded up before, should be brought to the surface in a season. Whenever possible, all the ground intended for garden purposes should be plowed or spaded before winter. Much disappointment is caused by sowing too early, before the Boil is warm and dry enough. Even if the seeds j germinate, in such cases little is gained and much risked, as the plants cannot make a vigorous growth before their proper season; and seeds sown later will often give better results than earlier sowings. Another frequent cause of failure is the too deep covering of the seeds. As a rule, the smaller the seeds the lighter they should be covered. The smallest seals, such as celery, sweet marjoram, thyme, and other herbs, require hardly any covering at all; and when the ground is fine and not too dry, sowing on* the surface, and gently pressing down with a board, is sufficient. Medium-sized seeds should be covered one-half to one ^ inch, and the largest, such as peas, f beans and corn, two to three inches, and deeper in dry weather. Most seeds, to gtve the best results, ' should be sown thinly, except snch kinds 1 as have feeble sprouts,, as parsnips, carrots and beets. These, if sown too thin, i and the surface becomes baked, "v cannot break through the crust, while many sprouts together can, and it is but i little trouble to 'thin out the superfluous j plants. Cucumbers, melons, squashes, i and all plants subject to the ravages of insects, should also be sown thickly, and x afterward, when the leaves are hard r enough to defy the attacks of their ene- j. mies, thinned out properly. Beginners often err in making the rows or drills too close to each other. ? The taller the plants the more space l. should be given them ; but even the 0 smallest herbs should not be planted so close as to prevent the free use of the t hoe or weeder between the rows. c Thorough cultivation and loosening u of the soil are among the principal conditions of success in the garden. A i good hoeing in dry weather is often bet- \ ter than watering. "When the latter is fi resorted to, it must be done thoroughly, g and not so as to moisten the surface j only. This superficial sprinkling does generally more harm than good; it ^ causes the plants to form rootlets near ^ the surface, instead of below. These surface roots are dried and parched by T the rays of the sun as soon as the mois- y 1 ? ' ~nn/1 1 norma a lure utxuuieo uyupumicu, ouu i?n? uuu ^ plants without nourishment. T For the raising of early vegetables a c hot-bed is indispensable, and some of the most delicious products of the garden cannot be grown successfully without being started under glass. As far as the limited space of these .( pages permits, we trust to nave succeed- ? ed in giving beginners, in the outlines * at least, the most important principles ? of growing vegetables, so that, with care ? and attention, and by following the special directions under their proper J heads, good seeds cannot but give satisfactory results. Protecting Frnlt Treea. fl Mr. D. E. Darrow who has a thrifty g young orchard of six hundred trees in t Madison county, N. Y., writes to the r Rural Home that, in common with t everybody else who has tried it, he finds r the potash wash for trees an excellent i practice, and that the cheapest and t easiest way is to " take a few bars of f common soap and slice them up in 8 pieces one-eighth of an inch in thickness, t and bind them in a few of the main top c branches, where they will wear awav j gradually as the rain softens, and it will g trickle down and penetrate every part of s - ? *--3 -i. XI- ~ the tree. Ion mil oe surprised ui mo e effect and completeness of the applies- a tion." He adds that card paper is a snre g protection against mice; it should be c removed as soon as the snow disappears ? in the spring. \ Light for Live Htock. c All farm stock when kept by day in j stables require light as well as good t ventilation. A horse kept for months in e a dark stable is liable to become blind, t The same ia true of pigs, that they want i more light; those kept in light pens c have been found to be more lively and a in better cjnaition than those kept in t dark pens, other things being equal, t The same is true of cows and sheep. 1 Poultry are not an exception to tins nue, i that light is beneficial by day for farm t stock kept in stables or confinement, d Provide, then, for light as well as f for warmth and ventilation for all live t stock. t - rrrr- TTTTTT b Our Mea9nre and Weight, r A writer in the Saturday Review s traces the use of the foot and pound, a and rejects the old theory that we are v indebted for them to the Romans. While s it is undoubtedly true that we derived A both the foot and the pound from Italy, ti we can go back to a much remoter k antiquity to trace their use. The Baby- t] lonians or Chaldeans used both the cnbit t< and the foot as units of length. These were 1 subsequently adopted by the Egyptians, who introduced considerable variety, so that there is no little confusion between the different kinds of cubits and feet. The natural cubit, of about eighteen s inches, and the foot, which waa two- I thirds its length, were transferred to B Greece, and the cubit having fallen into a disuse, the foot became the ordinary o standard of the Romans. At the same C time the double cubit, which was equjva- p lent to three feet, would appear to a have survived in the form of the ell of t mediaeval Europe, and in our yard. As il all these measures were originally de- n rived from the proportions of the human v body, some caution is necessary in refer- t ing their origin, though perhaps aa old a as history, to remote antiquity rather q than directly to the length of the fore- h arm or of the foot. It must be admitted, s however, that the coincidenco of length r among all civilized nations is very stnk- t ing. The derivation of the pound t weight is more complicated. The earlier \ Tower pound appears to have been of i Roman origin, being presumably identi- 1 cal with the Greek-Asiatio mina, while t the hundred-weight corresponded to the 1 talent or weight of a cubic foot of water. j Subsequently the Troy pound was sub- 1 8tituted, and, for commercial transac- c tions, the pound avoirdupois, from the t old French pound of sixteen ounces. ( Fashion Notes. Basques are still worn. Orerskirts die bard. Chemisettes are in vogue. Antique laces are revived. The trailing dress is dead. Canton crapes are in fashion. Navy blue is now called Clematis. Leg-of-mutten sleeves are revived. Auratum is the new name for gold jolor. Tho Henri Deux is the coining costume. Small satin buttons are coming in (rogue. Combination costumes remain fashionable. The short kilt skirt is an accomplished fact. Plevna is the new name for winejolored shadings. Looped-up back draperies are no longer fashionable. Waistcoats are simulated on most of h.Via now rlrpnnpn Charles II. collars are seen on new Jacques and polonaises. All fashionable costumes are made of two or more kinds of stuff.] Boucle jardiniere is one of the new names for knotted bourettes. Boucle d'Angora is a v<tty handsome jhecked fabric in bourette effects. What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. Pin-head checked bourettes are among ;he most popular of the new goods. There is not a property in nature but i mind is born to seek and find it out. The newest thing in stockings are Dourette effects in colors to match cos;umes. Be not deceived with the first appearinces of things, but give thyself time to je in the right. Wisdom is a solid and entire building, >f which every piece keeps its place and , carries its mark. Gold and silver threads are thrown in < rery effectively in many of the galloons, ringeu and laces. ] Gold and silver tinsel, beads of all 1 rinds, and mother of pearl are all used ' n giving effect to millinery. * Mother of pearl buttons, in shades to * natch the new goods, will be used on vool and silk and wool fabrics. The flower of civilization is the fin- j shed man ; the man of sense, of accom- j >lishment, of social power?'the gentle- \ nan. ? .KIDDOns, m two L-ouea ui uuiur, t watered on one side And satin on the c everse, will be en regie for summer ? jonnets. < Short kilt skirts, blouse waists or waistcoats, and cut-away jackets will be i a high favor for midsummer outdoor t Iresses. ? Fluted black lace, headed with rain- 1 iow jet passementeries, are appearing ? >n black silk and black camel's hair aantelets, dolmans and sacques. Life is in living. The marble palace 3 not always a bower of love. .Every kind word-is a flower, whioh will beautify our Lnal home. Every good deed is an ever freen, which will mark our' restingilace. Keep the tongue from nnkindness. Vords are sometimes wounds ; not very leep wounds always, and yet they irnate. Speech is unkind sometimes, 1 when there is no nnkindness in the 5 leart. So much the worse that needless rounds are inflicted; so much the t rorse that unintentionally pain is < aused. Tame Jaguars. Only stupid brutes are untamable, and j q spite of his ferocious instincts the ? aguar is not deficient in those higher oul-elements which qualify animals for he companionship of man. Under ' ;ind treatment and a judicious mixture .? nnA Animal /I i af f V?A CTVfWir?l- * >1 VO^DWUXC QUU auiuim vuvi; i/iav os usually grow up into amiable and Qost interesting pets, and are found in 1 he peaceful fellowship of monkeys, dogs J ,nd Dlack raccoons on many ranchosof c iouthern Mexico. They follow their mas- i er like dogs, share his seat in the chim- * ley-corner, search his pockets for playhings, and greet his return from a jour- 1 ley or a hunting expedition by embrac- j Dg his knees and licking his hands or i he lapels of his coat with indefatigable i ervor. They climb and explore a > tranger like a tree, and if he encourages f heir familiarity they have a curious way f enciroling his neck with their fore { >aws, and hang thus for minutes to- ( ;ether, expressing their affection by a ? noring purr or by gently rubbing their g ars against his chin. In their rough- f nd-tumble gambols with dogs they j [onerously forbear to make use of their . laws, but the spectacle of a bona-flde j Ight seems to excite their dormant com- j >ativeness, and witnoui au_y u^piucuu ause for personal resentment tame aguars have been known to rise from heir couch with an ominous growl and upressive of murderous intent if two irci ins fought or a dog got a thrashing i a the opposite corner of the room. In t itner ways, too, their savage instincts c ssert themselves now and then ; and 1 he proprietor of a wayside tavern in < he neighborhood of Uxmal told me that i le had to part with a tame tiger because t u warm winter nights, when it heard 1 he yells of its wild brethren from the < lepths of the Lagotasso, the creature t requentlv took it into its head to answer 1 hese calls, and startled the inmates of * he farmstead from their midnight slum- 1 iers by a demoniac scream which was 1 epeated by all the echoes of the sur- ] ounding sierra. Moonlight nights J eem to make them restless ; they prowl ] bout as if troubled by some unsatisfied i rant, or promenade on the roof to the ' ?JaMmant nf thfl weatherboards. ' OliUUO ? l liberal animal diet is said to make J hem subject to aggravating fits of this 1 ind, especially the males, which reach 1 heir full size, if not their full strength, f award the end of the second year.? < Appincott's Magazine. A Dream that Cost $3,500. | In last July Mr. John A. Pittsford, 1 uperintendent of the Mount Blanchard Jnion Schools, Ohio, was married to diss Josie Smith. Miss Lena M. Howrd, of Morrow county, commenced proeodings against him in the Hancock c Jommon Pleas Court for breach of i iromise of marriage, laying her dam- 1 ges at $10,000. The case came up for 1 rial recently, and, by his own letters, r t was proven that he had promised to c aarry ner sometime before, and that he g ?as-engaged to her up to within less e han a month of his marriage with \ nother girl; that he visited her fre- f [uently; that he gave suggestions as to ii ier bridal outfit, and examined the f ame; that he vowed -often he would a aarry her, "God being willing," and \ hat he finally broke the engagement on i he ground that he had had a dream, in f srhicn a notion came into his brain that i t would not be good for him to marry t ier, and then in less than a month he e rent off and married the other girl. HiB i ettera further showed that he offered to f mrchase the bridal trousseau of the girl 1 le had thus cruelly cast off. The case ? xxjupied nearly a day in its trial, and i he jury brought in a verdict of $3,600 c lamagee. e int rnujuaftii u< A Cat ot the Wonderful Talking Machine and a Description of How It Work*. 81 We present to our readers a sketch of this -wonderful machine whioh is now fi causing so much sensation. A machine that can talk, laugh or 0; sing, that can record the human voice n in silent type and reproduce it in vocal sound a minute or a thousand years after ^ its record, is, indeed, such a wonder that one can hardly realize its possibili- ^ ty. The inventor, Mr. Thomas A. Edison, who has already made so many sur- .. prising inventions, has in the produc- 11 tion of the Phonograph capped the P climai of human ingenuity thus far. a The Phonograph is as remarkable for its simplicity as for its wonderful ef- tl fects. 01 On one side of the instrument, as seen j*' in the sketch is a sensitive diaphragm, which vibrates in accordance with the , sounds made in front of it. This diaphragm carries a point as represented, which closely approaches the surface of b a cylinder, around which tin foil or other '' easily indented material is wound. The a< cylinder is revolved by clockwork at a v< regular speed before the point, and as ai the diaphragm is vibrated by the sound, the point vibrates correspondingly n against the cylinder, and thus indents ir the tin foil in a manner exactly corres- hi ponding to the length and frequency of ti the vibrations of which the sounds are tc composed, thus making an exact record of the sounds upon the surface of the ^ cylinder. Having thus recorded the a Bounds in the form of indentations, it now ^ only remains to reproduce it or make j the instrument "talk back," or repeat v vocally what was previously recorded. This open stem is simply the reverse . -1 of the other. On the opposite side of the instalment may be seen a second J" diaphragm, also provided with a point, J" which, as the indented surface revolves, rides in and out of the indentations made bv the recording point, and thus aj; 3auses the reproducing diaphragm to be ot thrown into vibrations corresponding exactly to the original vibrations" m md thus -reproducing the original ge sounds in all their integrity. This he reproduction can be effected any sh ime after the recording, so that he ;he tin foil can be removed -from sa ;he cylinder, be preserved for centuries, th md again' wrapped upon the cylinder 6d md made to speak, sing or laugh, ac- in :ordiug to the nature of the recorded iounds, years after the speaker or sing- re ir had turned to dust. W( If snch a thing is possible, as is now, a fact, accomplished by the Phono- UI jraph, the question may, indeed, be to wked, what is impossible to human ge- vii lias ? and we are forced to exclaim with he i recent writer on the telephone : tv( " Oh! Science give us one more link. That we may hear our neighbors think." ?New York Scientific News. pi M Oil Words of Wisdom. .. To believe a business impossible is the th ray to make it so. re Under our greatest troubles often lie di >ur greatest treasures. of The enjoyment of being able to make i very little go a great way nas a real :est. m There are many shining qualities in di ;he mind of man, but none so useful as nt liscretion. m Some speakers and writers have a river ef words, but only a spoonful of ;honghts. ^ No woman can be beautiful by the jg torce of features alone, any more than g( the can be witty by the help of speech. ^fl We should do by our cunning as we lo by our courage?always have it ready ^ o defend ourselves, never to offend )thers. p] The wise man makes equity and jus- ca ;ice the. basis of all his* conduct, the th ight forms the rule of his behavior, sto ieference and modesty mark his exte- th ior, sincerity and fidelity serve him for su iccomplishments. gr If you know a man who is willing to ax dss your boots because you are rich mi 70 a may be sure that there is some one sh vhom he compels to kiss his boots in pt etum. He who will cringe before one pe vko is bigger than himself will play the yrant over one smaller than himself. ?j. You are a coward, if afraid to tell the da ruth when you should do so. Yon are a Sc soward when you insult the weak. You ur ire a ceward if afraid to do right, if you pi ihrink from defending your opinion, or; rom maintaining that whioh you know an o be just and good; and you are es- ni| jecially a coward if you know certain tal ihings of yourself, and care not to own th ihem to yourself. wl ha th A General Surprise. dc We cull the following from an article J n Scribner, entitled " Deer Hunting on ,heAu Sable:" The next evening one 111 )f the dogs, footsore and worn out, renamed in the woods. His master and ha >ne other sallied out into the inky dark- ?h less to look for him at points near which hey deemed it probable he would have he ain down. They took a lantern, with- Fi rat which it would have been impossible th o walk, and after a fruitless search, ex- co ;ending to a distance of three miles or th 10, turned back. Suddenly they heard hi ight foot-falls in the tote-road, and cli vith two or three beautiful bounds, a sh coring doe alighted within the circle il- afe uminated by the lantern, approached it sti - ?: onil olmnat t/innliPr? SOI II W1UC-OJCV4 n\ju\A\jjL Wiiv* t with her nose. A young spike-horn fn juck followed her and both stared at the ?> ight, their nostrils dilated and quiver- ch ng, and every limb trembling with ningled excitement and fear. There tai sas an exclamation that could not be fa suppressed, a vain effort to shoot, and at* ;he deer were gone like a flash into the a larkness. It was curious to hear both ea gentlemen, on returning to camp, pro- tie .esting that to shoot deer under such ar nrcumstances would have been wholly mi insportsmanlike. In ? pc fir Depcpalation of St. Helena. ^ A curious description has been given be >f the decrease of the population of the an sland of St. Helena, memorable in all T1 listory as the scene of the last years of ac Napoleon. Its industries have been al- to Qost ruined by the opening of the Suez anal, which has diverted most India- tic ;oing vessels from its shores, and the St imployment of steam condensers for be cater on sailing vessels, saving them sli rom the necessity of calling at the th Bland for fresh supplies of water. One- Qi ourth of the population has immigrated, en n/MTT t'hoM ay a /-itiItt 0. Afti. malpn r\f dii K1U JUVSTT VUOiV (UV VUAJ ?,WWA T J V. vtl. ?hom 1,154 are children, left on the ca aland. The revenue, chiefly derived w? rora customs duties, is but very little gn aore than $80,000, and but little more tw han 825,000 is spent on all' the public ca fstablishments of the island. The peo- ju >le are asking for a grant of money to rom England, but they are urged to ye lave recourse to improved agriculture ap tnd attempt the growth of fine species of be ;obacco, of the cinchona plant or the toi )il yielding rose, all of which are, it is dr laid, adapted to the climate and soil. ' Di JLM31U9 VI Aiimvow A Dublin doctor says fatal oases of anstroke cannot be cored." They propose to proscribe bachelors o/?Iiaa1 Ivsovfla r\f Tawa LUiU OVUWl lla/wub w* t??w Why is a balky horse like the capital f Turkey ? Because he is constant in o pull. The Cincinnati Enquirer observes that larriage' is often a mirage. And still oung people will make haze to the edding. Professor Chinning makes the shiverig announcement that the glaciers will lough over New England again in about million years. " There will be no ball olub in Turkey lis season. They can't play there with* it knocking the ball outside thejnew Dundary lines. General Mite, the dwarf, is said to ave earned $20,000 for his mother in le last two years. This is a fine illusation of tne value of the 1'widow's ite." According to reoent returns France as 1,982 important bridges, erected at cost of nearly $60,000,000. Of this timber 861 were in existence at the eginning of the century. "Can that horse run fast?" asked a oy of a milkman the other morning. No, sonny," replied the purveyor of lueous lacteal fluid, "he can't run sry fast, but he can stand the fastest of ly horse you ever saw." A young man, just engaged on a inche in Truckee, CaL, was set to drivig a yoke of cattle, and at noon, when s wanted to feed them, was observed ying to unscrew their horns, in order > get the yoke off the A little girl said: " I like the oountagflfe acause there is no corners. When TvJ* V lisvmj* wi/t+Viav folia mn nnt An rrn frTT U JUUIUO U1VVUW* vuuo JMW uvw ^ ler than the corner of the street, but? m't yon see??there are no corners ire, and I can go anywhere." lere is another awful conundrum: What the difference between the man who is a weakness between the shoulderades and the man who wants Congress vote him $100,000 for services render* [ during the war ? Now listen to the iswere; One has a lame back and the herja back claim. A sympathetic but inquisitive young an, who was visiting a county prison, intly asked a girl prisoner the cause of >r being in such a place. " Oh," said e, with a contemptuous toes of her ad, "I stole a water-mill, and got off fe, but, like a fool, I went back after e stream that turned it, and was arreet." The sympathetic young man left mediately. Mrs. William Orawslay lost her life oently at a fox hunt in England. She is riding rapidly after the hounds, when ir horse leaped a hedge and landed ider a small apple tree. Stooping avoid the branches, hor head came in Dlent contact with the trunk, by which t neck was broken. She was only 'enty-flve years old. Forest and Stream describes the rcrnl m arm or in wbifth ft two-inoh water ' pe that had become clogged was " sansed. A hole was punched through i eel's .tail and a string was passed Jttogh. The eel was then' started rough the pipe. An occasional jerk minded the eel to advance, which he d, going the entire length. A bunch rags was then tied to the string and t e pipe was cleansed. A comparison of ancient records with odern observation tends to show that phtheria is an oldjdisease with a new ime. It made great havoc in New ngland, especially in New Hampshire id Maine, at three different epochs, 35-'8, 1786 and 1832. The disease ems t? have spread slowly irom its -st centers of outbreak in the attack of 35-'8, taking four months to reach )ston and two years to arrive on the inks of the Hudson river. The trunk ot a tree three hundred feet gh?or a section of it?from Missisppi, is to be among the wonders of the iris Exhibition. Last year's geologi1 survey in Southern Utah revealed e fact that the areas ocoupied by , uidinff timber are much smaller than ose which are capable of supporting ch growth. The destruction by fire eatly exceeds that of the woodman's e, and it seems desirable that some athods for preventing forest fires ould be devised, and as a measure of iblic economy, adopted in Utah, and irhaps in other Territories. The proverb, "Those who live in ass houses should not throw stones," tes back to the union of England <>nd otland, at which time London was inidated with Sootchmen. This did not ease the Duke of Buckingham, who ganized a movement against them, , ,i parties formed, who went about ghtly to break their windows. In relation, a party of Scotchmen smashed e windows of the duke's mansion, lich stood in St. Martin's Fields, and d so many windows that it went by e name of the Glass House. The ike appealed to the king, who replied: Steenie, Steenie, those wha live in ass houses should be careful how they ng stanes." Mr. Fritz A. L. Von Ehren, a printer, s obtained a patent on a flying maine of his ewn invention. Perhaps ) are the only persons who knows why i invented the coutrivance. When itz sets up " sperm oil in bottles " for e " turmoil of battle," and the e tor mes into the composing room wim a under cloud on his brow, a copy of 9 paper in one hand, end a villainous lb in the other, and demands to bo own the fiend who committed the rocious blunder, Fritz will drop his ok, jump into his Hying machine and ar aloft like a bird, and thus escape a ictured skull. Every "intelligent . mpositor " should have a i ying maine.?Norristown Herald. An exceedingly simple method of obIning levels is described in the Manu cturer and Builder. At each of two itions, perhaps a hundred feet apart, pole is driven into the ground. To oh pole, near the top, a glass tube is sd. The lower ends of the glass tubes e then connected with each other by sans of a sufficiently long piece of dia rubber tubing. Water is to be >ured into one of the glass tubes till it Is the tubing and part of the tubes ; it 11 rise to the same level, of course, in ith tubes, and the record of this height be marked on the poles alongside, le method is capable of surprising curacy, and will serve where obstacles visionintervene between the stations. Right is right No one seems to quesin thin somewhat startling argument, ill there is little doubt that it may be 11? ?""A/. A/% fn a iier, m Bomo uuocd iu ouuutiv w ? ght wrong, than battle for justice to e bitter end Take, for instance, that lebec apple case, which the two farms began three years ago. There is no sputing the fact that both farmers nnot own the brrrel. The first cost is only three dollars, or, to avoid arimont, let it be three dollars and enty-five cents if you wish. Now the se has been decided by a Quebec dge and the total cost thus far amounts over 81,700. Besides, the end is not . t, as the defeated farmer says he will peal the case. It would have been tter if they had a-peeled tl^e apples aether in the first place and given the ied frnifc to George Francis Train.? rtroit Free Prena.