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f ?? ' ? ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER,^ * * - ... / , r~<> ' ??.,? >? j ,f,-3 BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1880. ' NO. 37. VOLUME XXV. . ?... ?/..,{<{ n.'.VT mmmmMMMM ? MMMaiMMrf'" ~ . , I ,1 Selling the Farm. Well, why don't you gay it, husband ? I know what you want to say; Vou want to talk about selling the farm, for the mortgage cannot pay. I know that we cannot pay it, I have thought ol it o'er and o'er; For the wheat has failed on the corner lot, where wheat never failed before. < And everything here's gone backward since Willie went off to sea, To pay tke mortgage and save the form, the homeataad,.for yon and me. t -know it was best to give it; it was right that the debts bo paid, The debts that our thoughtless Willie, in the hours of his weakness, made; And Will would have paid it fairly, you know it as well as I, If the ship had not gone down that night ^ when no other ship was nigh. But, somehow, I didnH quit hoping, and even m , t A 3 (Bat rknow ii our Will was alive on earth, he'd surely be here to-day.) I thought that the merciinl Father, wonld J7 . ..... somehow care lor the lad, Because he was trying to better the past, and because he was all wo had. Knt now I am -well sigh hopeless, sinca hope for my boy has fled, For jelling the tarm means giving him up, and knowing for sure he's dead. Oh! Thomas, how can we leave it, the home we have always known ? We woa it sway from the fore6t, and made it; so much our own. First day that we kept house together was the day that you brought me here; And no other place in the wide, wide world will ever be half so dear. Ot ootm9, you remember it, Thomas?I need i notaak you, I know. For this is the month, and this the dav?it wan twenty-six years ago. And don't you remember it, Thomas, tho winter ihe barn was made ? How we were so pioud and happy, lor all our debta were paid? The crops were good that summer, and every thing worked like a ?harm, And we lelt so rich and contented to think we had paid lor the larm. And now to think we must leave it, when hero I was hoping to die, It seems as il it was breaking my heart, but the lount ol ray tears is dry. There's a man np there in the village that's wanting to buy, you say. Well, Thomas/he'll have to have it, bat why does lie come to^day ? But there, it is wrong to grieve yon, for you have enough to bear, And in all our petty troubles yon always have borne your share; I nm but a sorry helpmeet since I have so childish grown. Ther^, there, go on to the village, let me have it out alone. Poor Thomas, he's crowing leeble, he steps eo * weary anc! slow, There is not much in his looks to-day like twenty-six years ago. But I know that his heart is youthiul, as it was when we first were wed, And hu love if as strong as ever tor me, and ir\r> CViJlif* niir Knt* tlint'o Oh, WiKie, my baby Willie, I never shall see him mare; r.evei shall hear his tootsteps, as he comes through the open door. " How are yoa, ch-ar little mother?" were alwitjs the words he'd say; It seems as if L would Rive the world to hea; it again to-day. I know when my boy was coming, be it ever so early or late, He wan always a whistling " Home, Sweet Home," as he opened the garden gate. And many and many a moment, since the night that tho ship went down, Havel started up at a whistle like his, out there on the road from town; And in many a night ot sorrow, in the silenca early and late, Havo I held my breath at a footstep, that seemed to pause at the gate. I hope that he cannot see us, wherever his . sool may be: It would grieve him to know the trouble, that's come to lather and me. vui u.uiu uj mu tree do piauieu, me aay no ' wns twelve years old; Tho sunlight is glinting through it, and turnits leaves to gold; Andbtten when I was lonely, and no one near at band, 1 have talked to itt hours together?as il it .could understand? ; >'. And fometiraes I used :o fancy, whenever 1 spoke of my boy, It was waving its leaves together, like clapping its bands lor joy. It may be the man that will own it, that'n coming bny to-day, Will be choppiug it down, or digging it up, and burning it out of the way. And there-are the pansie* yonder, and the roses he hepeJ to tend? Why, every bush on the dear old place is as dear as a tried old friend. Andno^we must'go and leave them?but thir#! thoy have come irom town; .?H , i. . t .. *. . j nnven c nau ume tosmootn my nair, of even t A change "wy gown. I can see them both quite plainly, although it is getting lute, t And the stranger's a whistling " Home, Sweet nome,v as he comes up from the gate. I'll go out into the Jkitchen now, lor I doD't want to look on his lace. Wha? b&s he to be whistling that, unless lie haa bought the place. Why, can that be Thomas eommg ? he usually steps so slow; There's something come into his footstop likr twenty-six years ago. l"hore's something that sounds like gladness, and the man that he U6ed to be Belore our Willie went out lrom home to die on the stormy sea. What, Thomns! Why are you smiling, and holding my bands so tight ? And why don't you tell me quickly?must we go lrom the farm to-night ? What's that? "You bring me tidings, and tiding* of wonderful joy," enifclM be^ory joymis; -unless it is news o; my u>y. ? Oh.Tbomi*! Yoa cannot mean it? Here, le malnAlr in rnnr fflAA ""TTT~?' ? ?r~Now tell m<Tf)gH:n It b Willie that's wanting 1 to buy the place. ? Chicago Inter-Octan. TOM'S SISTER. She was fifteen when the mother died and Tom was seventeen, and the babj barelj five hours old. She never went to school after that The housekeeping fell upo-j her, and sh< had to be littie .nother to t&e motherless baby. Her father, who was a bookkeeper had- never earned over a thousand i year. Ivah's rearing, therefore, hac "been on a basis of simplicity and fragility. People said the new duties woul<3 prove too heavy for her. for there was r hint of the fragile in her slight little body, though there was nothing sicklylooking about her. P"* There was a freeh though delioat< color in her cLeek, life in her blue eye, :uid in all her movements a freenes; which asserted an elastic nature. i When she was eighteen, her father was found dead at his desk. At once all the family income was cut off. i Tom, at the time, was studying bookj keeping, and in assisting his lather had had some practice in the work. "You must ask for father's place, Tom," Ivali said. It was the day after the burial. Tom had his face in his hands, tha picture of abandon. He taised his head. His eyes were swollen and red with weep: ing. ' I don't see how you can bear to think of such thines in our great sorrow," said Tom. "T want nothing but to lie down and die." Ivah's face was white and pinched, but her eyes seemed looking away to tiie guiding star of duty. " But, dear," she saia, " we have got [ to go on living. It would be selfish and cowardly for either of us to die and leave the other. And then, too, there is our baby. There is just one way. Tom; we must find where our duty lies and go to meet it. Our duty is to r? 1. TV rl^ live JUi" Caen utnui auvi iui uawj xuus/ Aiis we must work. We can't afford to lose a day from work. We owe for the coffin in which our dear father is buried. I have been making plans. I have discharged Mrs. McGfll. I can take care of baby and do our housework, and I can keep our table expenses to three dollars a week. But we haven't even that to spend unless you can get work. You .ought to go right away and ask for papa's place. If you prefer, I will co and ask for you." " Harris Brothers would not pay me a thousand dollars," said Tom. " Of course not," said Ivah. " You're anew hand. Perhaps they would not pay you anything at the start; but it would be much if you could even secure the place." "They need an experienced bookkeeper. I could not ao their work." Tom said, dejectedly. "I could help you, Tom," said Ivah, cheering. " You could bring the books home and we could work together at night after I get baby asleep." " I've no idea that they would give me a trial." " May I go ask them to?" Tom's silence gave consent, and Ivah went. Her father had been in the employ of Harris Brothers lor twenty-three years. They were kindly disposed toward her and Tom; they would like it if he could take the father's place; they hardly thought he could fill it. Yes, they were willing he should try. Tom was a beginner; his brain was I clouded with sorrow; his henrt ached, j He felt such a dread of the future, with its sudden responsibilities, that he must ' ? + * ?' i* T_ . 1. 1 _ nave lauea dui ior iaaiis worus ui couragc and hand of help. In tne most desponding mood, when he was ready to let go, to let fate come on, there was the sister, patient and .brave, to bring forward reserved forces and save the day. | Never a word had she about her own I heartache; never a word of the hard day passed at washing or ironine: or baking, with baby's hindering littls hands to be keptaway from the scalding j water or thi hot irons or the swelling dough. Never a word heard Tom of the sweeping-day, when she went into every corner ot the desolate house, discovering reminders of the dear father, which ktrr-vnr?lif on/lHon onQcnic r\f nftin t.n hp iS&V/UftlJW W ? borne alone. Not a word did he hear of the backaches and armaches in soothing fretting baby to her afternoon nap; nothing of the loneiy time when she sat in the si lent, silent house, wearily patching and darning; nothing of the drudgery over the hot stove, of the dish-washing. of the mopping. * She planned her work and hurried it along to keep the unpleasant out of Tom's sisrht and hearing. Returning at night he would find baby in bed, having had her bread-and-miik supper. The little round table would be set, looking cheery and inviting with clean linen, clear glass and polished silver, while, perchance, flowers on the mantle brightened nnd sweetened the room. And when the supper-table was cleared Ivah would sit by Tom to do the multiplyin? and dividing, and adding and verifying?the drudgery of the bookkeeping. At length the anxiously expected day came when Tom was to hear the judgment a3 to his trial. When.he returned at night Ivah scrutinized his face, her heart full nt perceiving that it was not very cheerful. She refrained from asking questions, leaving him to choose his lime and manner of crmmunicating the result. " Harris Brothers offer me the place at forty dollars a month," he said, after supper. "Oh, Tom, how glad we ought to be! how thankful! I've felt all the time that God meant to take care of us," Ivah said, and then she broke down and cried. " But if I can do the work of the place," said Tom, grumbling, 441 don't see why I shouldn't have the wa^es which belong to it. I've about decided to tell Harris Brothers that I will not work for half-pay." 44Oh, don't, Tom. don't!" cried Ivah, takingalarm. 44Think huw much it is worth to have secured the place. Take what you can get till you have gained skill and demonstrated your value. When you are sure of your skill, and they are sure, you may ask for a higher salary. We can manage well with forty dollars. I find new ways of economic ing every day." On and on she went, till Tom wa? persuaded to close with Harris Brothers' offer. He would not have been able to deserve this but for his sister's watchful help. Even after he had gained skill in the work he still brought his books home for her aid. Often she was left bending | over the figures while he went out to : refresh himself at some place of amuseI merit or bv a call. eeiore me year was out loin s salary h:id been raised to seventy dollars a , month, and a few months later he announced that, at last, he was to have one thousand dollars. "Isn't it pood, dear Tore?" Ivali said, cuddling close up to him. "We i can begin to lay by something for baby's education." I " I can't spare much money," said Tom. with his eyes downcast. There was silence for a moment, and then he ! went on with some words that made his sister's heart beat in a dreadful way. 1 " The fact is, I've been waiting for n rise in my salary to?to? make an imt portant change in my life." Ivah's heart stood still in terror. Again Tom paused. " What is it, Tom? What change: You are not going away? ; "No. I suppose I ougl:t to have told you before. I'm?I'm engaged to gel married." She gasped, "Oh, Tom!" and ther n i'mIa fooro IU1 iUlV tVitlh]. Tom was vexed at her emotion. " I don't see why you need take on ai this rate," he said, with petulance. " I , should think you'd rejoice at any happir ne6s that comes into my life of drud gery." "Yes," sobbed Ivah; "but it was sc ? unexpected! Dear Tom, I am glad o: s anything that will make you happier Of course, it has been very dreary foi you since father died, and you have had I to work hard." I fihp Hid not, n_? mnnw snntlipi . would have done, 14 And I have worked hard; and your work, Tom, has taker I you out into the light and life and suni shine; mine has tied me to the lonelj > house. You have hud time and heari . to make love and to win love." She said nothing ot this, hut askec ; the name of the woman who was to tak< , herplace. 3 When Tom gave it she said: " Thai sounds like a IVench name." "She*is of French parentage," Tom admitted. "When do you expect to be married?' "Next Wednesday." " And this is Saturday. I fear I can't get things ready for you. Your room ousht to be repapered"."" No matter about my room," said Tom, with nervous haste, for he saw a chance to say, in a natural connection, what he dreaded to say. " I think we had better go to Mrs. Hill's for a few months, at least. I want Marie's honeymoon, at least, to be pleasant. Baby's getting to be such a bother. It would make you so much more work, too," he hastened to add, glad of so good an excuse. "What would the house be witnout Tom?" cried Ivah's poor heart. Then, too, the prudent little soul trembled at the extravagance of Tom's plan. " I don't "see, Tom, how you can afford to take rooms at Mrs. Hill's. 71 we divide, we double the expense; I don't see how we can manage on a thousand dollars." Tom rose from one chair and flung himself into another. " I don't suppose we shall'stay there a year," he said, impatiently. "Oi course, I can't keep up two establishments: that isn't to be expected of a man. Other young men marry and set | up for themselves. You can't expect I that I can stav tied ud to you always, Ivah. I should think you might "do something to earn a living. You can't expect to go through life without work. Why can't you teach?" Ivah replied with low, pathetic voice: "You ought to know why, Tom. I have been doing housework since I was fifteen. I have no preparation for teaching." "Well," said Tom, iu his easy way, "vou have a good head for planning. I You'll have to think it over and determine what you'll do." He went out and left his sister sitting with white face and wide eyes. It was not dismay that she must go out sinele-handed to the combat that kept her sitting there like a statue; it Was that Tom was willing she should fight alone. With a deserted feeling she went in to where baby was sleeping; sne dropped beside the bed; she kissed baby's hand, thrown out. Then she put her eyes against the counterpane and made a vew never to desert?baby! She would as soon have thought of promising never to desert her own heart. She promised never, never to desert Pom. She had a vague iear that evil was advancing upon Tom. She knelt there till she had persuaded herself that she had no right to censure Tom. All young men fell in love, and all wanted to marry. She could not expect Tom to be a sacrifice to her and baby. , When she had thus decided, she sat up and began to plan her future. There seemed only one thing for Ivah to do; to take some boarders. Before going to bed, she went to the Tribune office with an advertisement for the morning Daper. By the time that Tom had vacated his room and goue to Mrs. Hill's, an elderly man and wife were ready to move into it. Table-boarders also came. That first day Ivah cooked for seven boarders. She had a young girl to look after baby, wash dishes, run errands, etc. Ivah's rule was to have a few dishes, woll-prepnred, and having a homeflavor. As she had reckoned, this pleased. The seven boarders brought in others. Before the month was out, there wpre more applicants than her table would accommodate. At the month's end, with a throbbing heart, Ivah carefully cast up her accounts. Wnen this was done, she shut the little book, caught baby to her knee, kissing and hugging the child The little hind lady had come out abend. There was a balance of thirteen dollars in her favor. She knew that her boarders were so well pleased that she could venture a small advance on her prices. Very small it was, only seventy-five cents a head, on the week, but it told on the re turns. Before five months had passed, Ivah decided to take a larger and better house, more conveniently situated for business people, and to put up her prices. The house was nearer Tom's iuarters, and before Ivah was settled, 'om came around with his books. " It will be so pleasant to have you near,1'he said, Ivah discerned the sadness in his smile. Slie had remarked before that rn i -? J.UIU >YOO lUUlWUg IIUUUUL JUU U1UIC worn. "Whenever you are belated in your work, you must come and let me help you, Tom,1' she said, beginning to cast ud a column of figures. 'When they had finished the work, she inquired about Marie. "She's at the theater," said Tom,with a dash of bitterness in his v?ice and in his face. " Why didn't you go with her?" Irah " I could n't afford it," said Tom; "besides, I have to work. You know I keep Mrs. Webber's books besides Harris Brothers' books." " I suppose you're laying by something but you mustn't overwork. Couldn't Marie help you some?" "Marie!" Tom cried, with a derisive laugh. Ivah was greatly pained that Tom could use such a tone toward his wife. "There is nothing Marie can do except to spend money. I am not laying up anything. She keeps mo in debt every hour of my life. I am owing ninety-six dollarR board now." "Why, Tom!" cried Ivah, shocked. " Why don't you go to a cheaper boarding-house?' "Itian'tget away from Mrs. Hill's till I have settled arrears, unless I leave mv trunks. Think of that humiliate !? IU'11 . " Oh, Tom, I would do anything, I would live on parched corn, before I would live in debt." " But you could not help the debtii you were bound to such a person as my wife." ' That night she lay awake, planning for Tom, remembering her vow to stand by him?to desert him never. He needed her now. The next day she called at Mrs. Hill's, ' and by becoming surety for the payment of Tom's arrears, she had his belongt ings moved to her boarding-house. As , this was now a stylish establishment, i Marie made no objection to the move, especially as some ot the ladies at Mrs. Hill's had begun to cut her* Ivah believed with Tom that the secret of Marie's extravagance and dis' content and dissipation was the wnn1 nfnspfnl pmnlnvmfint Tvnh ant. horapll I to meet this want. i " The French women have such :i kr.ack at making tilings look their best i and you have such taste, Marie, that il would be a real favor to me if yov would see to the setting of the table,' u Ivah said, with her prettiest manner which was very pretty indeed. So Marie, her skill and Belf-esteeni - nattered, went to the dining-room anc did her best at spreading the table, and > Ival: praised the result." By some simif lar finesse Marie was induced to ta&( . charge of the ladies' parlors. Then Ivali beguiled Marie, who wai I really good-natured, to learn cake baking. Marie became positively in * fatuated witli the work, and even I morning, right after breakfast, s>h< i would go to the kitchen and make thi cakes for the following day. r Time which belonged to her owt L affairs and to baby Ivah gave to attend ing Marie to lectures and concerts an< I other amusements less dissipating thai ? the theater. To tell how Ivah's work for Marl t was done would be to tell a long anc wonderful story of patient, persiBtent 11 watchful, adroit devotion, under many I trying circumstances. 1 In the midst of the training, Ivah was asked to become the wife of a man ; whom she much esteemed, and toward whom her heart had been tending. He was a talented young lawyer, wellstarted upon a promising practice. It was very enticing to the girl?for Ivah was not yet twenty-one? the thought of a quiet home where she could get away , from people and have a rest, cherished and cared for?she who had been always caring for others. ; But she dared not let go of Marie and Tom, and there might be such a thing as . baby being unwelcome. Years passed, and Ivah, well, when : she saw clearly that Tom could do without his sister, she went to help a certain i young lawyer, who declared that he could not do without her. And " baby" is Ivah's baby yet, for her two strong boys, who came to her in her happiness and prosperity, can never displace her mother's baby, with whom Ivah learned to bear the cross, whose pathetic cry called her into the sacred path of i-lntw whifh lpartpf.h toward the sun rising.?Youth's Companion. . ILResults of Last Tear's Farming. The price for wheat as returned December 1 by the producer is $1.11, making a total value of $499,008,803 for 1879, against a total value in 1878 of $326,346,000 at the same date. The last report from the department at Washington calls attention to the enlargement of area devoted to this cereal in many of the large winter-wheat States?New York, West Virginia, Ohio and Michifan, each seven per cent.; Texas and 'ennessee, each ten percent.; Kentucky and Indiana, each fourteen per cent."; Missouri, sixteen per cent.; Kansas and Oregon, each twenty per cent ; Illinois, twenty-two rer cent. There are quite general complaints of the ravages of the Hessian fly in early-sown crops, and of drought retarding germination in the later sown. Yet the crops start out on the whole under prospects considerably above the average. The area in winter rye has fallen off about three per cent, from last year. The New England States, the States north of the Ohio river and the Pacific States, equal or slightly enlarge their hist year's acreage; Texas, the only one of the gulf States in which this crop is of. sufficient importance to attract attention, reports an increase of nineteen per cent. The other sections report a diminished breadth; the falling off in the soutnern miana states js iuuy onefiftli. The condition of the crop is j about on the average. A decline of twelve per cent, is noted in the oat crop. The price as returned in the December report averages 33.2 cents per busl^l, against 24.6 last year at the same time. The average yield of corn per acre of the whole country, according to the last returns, is 29.1 bushels, ugainst 26.9 bushels in 1878. This average was exceeded in only one previous year?1875 ?wiien it was 29.4 bushels. The average price of the crop obtained by the farmers up to the December return was 37 6 cents per bushel, against 31.8 in 1878. The increase is general in all sections of the country. The only States showing a decline are: Mississippi, two cents; Tennessee, three cents; Kentucky, three cents; .luiQneseia, two cents, anu iri.13souri, one cent. The total product of buckwheat for the country} is estimated at 13,145,60ft bushels, which, at the average price returned by the producer, fifty-nine cents per bushel, give3 $7,860,COO in round numbers as the value of this crop, against $6,454,000 in 1878. The hay crop is about ten per cent, less than that oi 1878. The average price of hay is about $9.24 per ton, against $7 21 in 1878. The last estimate of the cotton crop gives 5,020,387 bales of 450 pounds each. The price returned by the producer is an average of 10.2 eent3 per pound. The total product of the country in tobacco is within a small per cpnt. of that of 1878. As a whole the qualitv is but slightly better than that of ?ast year's crop, although an improvement is quite marked in several States. The price on the farm remains about the *ame as last year; it has not kept pace with the improved prices in wheat and cotton. More attention to the cultivation and after management of the crop is suggested. The denartmcnt estimates the total crop at 384,059,659 pounds, valued at $21,541,591. airainst 39-2.546.700 pounds, valued at $22,137,428, in 1878. The potato crop of the country for 1879 is estimated at 181.369,000 bushels, which at the price returned, 43.5 cents ! as the average, makes in round numb ?rs j $79,000,000, against a valuation in 1878 j of $73,050.000. It must be remembered that the aver age prices here given are as returned by llie farmers of the whole country, ana not the prices in the great markets.? New York World. A Brilliant Diamond Robber. ! One of t he cleverest diamond robberies of modern times is reported in a tone of odd complacency by the leading journals of St. Petersburg. About a fortnight ago a handsome equipage drew up at the door of the tirat jeweler in the capital. Alighting from the carriage, an elegantly dressed and remarkably pretty young lady entered the shop and requested that some parures of brilliants might be shown to her. Several costly sets were forthwith submitted for inspection, and after some hesitation she ! selected a riviere and pendants valued at 10,000 rubles, and stating that she was ! the wife of an eminent mad-doctor, whose name is a household word in St. Petersburg, requested the proprietor of the establishment to accompany her home with the jewels, in order to settle finally with her husband about their price. The jeweler packed up his dia-* ! mondj> and got into the carriage with his fair customer. Presently they arrived at a large house, and were re: ceived at the porte cor.here by a Suisse in splendid livery, who conducted them . up a brilliantlv-ligiited staircase into a richJy-furnished drawing-roomthat which the laay begged hercompa, in to take a seat, and, jewel-case in hnion i proceeded to summon " her husbaand, L Entering the doctor's consultation-rnd." ! in an apparent state of uncontrolloom agitation, she informed the latter able she had brought her unfortunate spouse ' to visit him, in the hope that he would undertake to cure him of the strange 1 monomania under which he had labored ' for some time past. " My -ifflicted hus band," she said, " is a wealthy landed proprietor from A , in the government of Minsk: he is quiet and harm less, bui has diamonds on the brain. | He will talk of nothing else, poor fel? 'llow! Will you see him? I have left ' 1 him in your drawing-room, and am I U * ? Ua - nrl\iln | II1UUI1 LUll I1B1 VUU3 tw 171- |in;ar.Hii i 1 you diagnose his c:ise. Might I, there fore, ask you to accompany me to my t carriage before you go to him? It will | he such a relief to me to leave him in I your care." Her ingenious device was . ! crowned with comnleto success. She | drove off with the diamonds; an interi I view betwee* the doctor and the jeweler ' I fully confirmed her statement with reI I spect to the hitter's alleged monomania, { and resulted in his beins placed under *! bodily restraint, from which he was j only rescued three days later by one of ' | his partners, who succeeded, with the | assistance of the police in tracking him ; to Dr. V?Ps renowned private lunatic r j asylum. No trace has yet been dis3 ' covered of the gifted lady who accom' i plished this, in every sense of the word, i "brilliant" coup .?London Telegraph. I i Father (who is always trying to teach i his son how to act while at table)? | " Well, John, you see that when I havfl e : finished eating I always leave thti i | table." John?"Yes, sir, and that's i, about all you do leave." TIMELY TOPICS. The London World has " no reason to -y doubt the truth of the statement current ' In society last week to the effect that < the two sons of the Prince of Wales, now serving on board the Bacchante, have been induced by some foolish companion to allow themselves each to be tattooed on the nose with an anchor emblem. The prince and princess are said to be in despair about the affair; and all the medical science of London has been consulted as to the possibility of obliterating the marks." Numerous cases of depredations by wolves have recentlv occurred in Hun gary. A band of these animals passed through *ne ofthe suburbs of Temesvar, destroying any animal which was rot housed. A clergyman who was returning home in a sledge from a neighboring town was beset by a pack of wolves. He bade the driver make all*posaible Bpeed; but at a sharp turning the sledge was upset, the clergyman was thrown out, and torn to pieces before the eyes of the terrified driver. In a country village a few wolves came boldly at mid-day into the inn yard and devoured an ass; and at Szalouta a shepherd was killed and eaten as he was passing along the road at night. Mr. Tennyson is described in interesting fashion by a; clever correspondent of the San Francisco Chronicle. "Nobody," s says the writer, "would suspect him for .? a poet now. His face is strong, and his j eyes have a certain brightness, but he is 1 seamed, rather than wrinkled, from q forehead to chin; he appears to be 8 pufiy; he is partially bald; lie stoops ana shuffles; dresses ordinarily and care- ' lessly, and has a generally rustic mien and denotement. He does not affect, and never has aflected, eeneral society, and t.he fact shows in nis bearing and slovenly raiment.4' The correspondent adds that Mr. Tennyson has made such wise investment of his large literary earnings that his entire proppertv is probably worth $1,000,000?a remakable fortune for a poet. The successful expedition of Professor Nordenskjold has proved that the shores of the Arctic sea are not so inhospitable as has been generally supposed. Perhaps the most interesting of the minor discoveries made by the learned explorer is the finding of a new re.uedy against the draad of all navigators and the particular scourge of Arctic expeditions?nan e!y, scurvy. It appears that there was not a single case of this disease during the whole voyage; and this remarkable fact is due. not to the employment of lime-juice and other antiscorbutics in ordinary use. but to t the use of a curious little berry, hitherto c unrecognized, produced by a plant which finds an ephemeral existence in -c the snow and ice during the stioi't Arctic: 1 summer. The berries are found in great abundance, and are said to be a favorite \ fruit with some of the natives of tho s great ice world. Its flavor resembles c that of the raspberry, but is more acid. \ The mode of preparation adopted on the \ voyage of the Vega was to dry the bor- \ rie? and then preserve them in the milk i of the reindeer, which was then allowed ? to freeze. In this state the fruit can be r preserved for an indefinite period. c In some quart rs there seems to he ] little doubt that diamonds will be made ^ sooner or later artificially. A Dr. Percy, c writing to the London Timet, says; "I l agree with Mr. Maskelyne in thinking t that there is reason to expect that the t diamond will some day be artificially ( produced, but if so, possibly a very long r period will be required to form a crystal t of sufficient size and quality to be of any \ commercial value. Alumina, the sub- v stance of sapphire and ruby, has long c ago been crystalized, yet to this day r no artificial sapphire or ruby worth a | farthing has appeared in the market. ] The balas ruby, or red ipinel, was ; formed about lorty vears ago by Ebel- \ men in small but distinct crystals, of t which I have specimens in my coliec- c tion; vet, so far as I am aware, the r natural gem is alone known to jewelers. [ Possessors of diamonds have not at a present any reason to fear that the value j of their property will be lowered by 8 the crystalizcd carbon of the chemical f laboratory." j r In one of his St. Louis meetings, Mr. r Moody, the revivalist, recently remarked p that the telling ol individual experience p in religious matters waa not only as a t rule Uuitless of good results, but in t many cases it was positively harmful, 3 The "experiences of different persons varied according to their constitutions, and in no two persons were the feelings induced by conversion the same. To < some the knowledge came with the sud- i denness of the lightning's flash, while to ] others it was gradual as the dawn. In i no two persons is the process the same, i " for God does not repeat Himself." In- ] quirers must not be told, he said, of this i person's experience and of that person's. If meetings for inquirers were properly i conducted there might be " a thousand i conversions where there are ten now." i He compared meeti*gs to "clenching the nail when it is driven home; to harrowing in the seed when sown, so that i Satan cannot pull them away as the bearer passes out of the church door." Again, he likened them to" looking into a net after it was thrown to see i! it had caught anytlrng." woras oi TTiBuuuw The heart ought to give charity when the hand cannot. Whoever learns to stand alone must , learn to fall alor.e. Youth should be patient, because the future lies before it. A man of numerous desires ia of all beings the most independent. He who waits at the gates of by-andby enters at the gates of the never. He that speaks the truth will find himsell in sufficiently dramatic situa tions. 1 f*To Adam, paradise was home. To the good among his descendants, home is paradise. Despair and postponement are cowdice and defeat. Men were Dora to succeed, not to fail. Impoliteness is derived from two sources?Indifference to the divine and contempt for the human. j When a man dies men inquire what he has left behind him; angels inquire what he has sent before him. , They that will n?t be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason, she will rap your knuckles. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and lie who plants kindness gathers love. " 1 nf V\oH nan manners arc a morals. A conscientious man will not grossly offend in that way.?Bovet. Nothing is more dangerous than an imprudent friend; better is it to have to deal with a prudent enemy.?Laiontninc. The generous who is always just and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approached the throne of heaven. He who betrays another's secret because he has quareled with him, was never worthy of the sacred name of friend; a breach of kindness will not justify a breach of trust. Self-devotion is but a form of gener osity; the generosity of those who give themselves, having nothing more and nothing better to give, and belongs equally to the nobler natured of both sexes. Unselfish and noble acts are the most radiant epochs in the biography of souls. When wrought in earliest youth they lie in the memory of age like the coral islands, green and sunny, avid the I melancholy waste or ocean. 1j \ The Dogs or Constantinople. I allude to the 108,000 homeless dogs vhose domicile is the streets of this city, rhey are said to be the descendants, legenerate, no doubt, of the numerous jacks of wolves that once, probably be"ore the taking of Constantinople by Vlahmoud, roamed about on either shore >f the Bosphorus, in which the immulity they now enjoy, begun from fear, las now its source in affection. One of ,be former sultans, Abdul Medjid, whose mbjects were not so down-trodden as he Turks of to-day, nearly created a evolution by ordering the annihilation >fall Ihe street dogs by poison. As ,hey in those days were four or five times nore numerous than now, this sweepng edict caused sucli a furious murnuring among the population, who love learly their four-footed compatriots, ,hat it was rescinded, not, however, beore many thousand curs had bitten the lu9t. Another Padishah, Abdul Aziz, lad given or rather sold, to a French a /iA**rtnnniA?? nf nil fl\fl 5? Constantinople and suburbs. The price paid for the concession was 120,000 rancs. The capitalist's intention was o kill all the animals, skin them, and an their hides for glove-making, the est eoing for fertilizing purposes. Elaborate preparations were made for iheir slaughter, the flaying of the jodieB, and storage of the skins. Howiver, the first two emissaries of death, vho, armed with meat-balls, clubs and lacks, stole upon an unsuspecting cur md promptly sent his soul to the canine >ureatorv, were perceived. A young rurkish lad discovered them at their leadly occupation, rushed horrortricken to all the neighbors, and raised heir ire by relating what he had seen, rhey sallied out en masse, armed with ool8, utensils, etc., snatched up in laste, and surrounded the terrified dog:atchers, caught red-handed, with the till quivering corpse of their victim lalf thrust in the sack. An explanaion was rather difficult. A fierce aC fKronfn nocaoH fhrAllCrVl tho lACCliC vi l/Ui&abO puoovu vmw :rowd, the hands of those nearest he culprits had begun to clutch and hump them, and they would certainly lave met the same fate as De Flesselles vith the Hotel de Ville mob in 1789, rhen he was hanged, torn to pieces, md his head impaled on a pike, luckily, at this critical moment a patrol lassed, all this scene having been at light, heard the disturbance, dashed in .nd rescued the couple of prisoners, not >efore their bleeding faces and lacerited clothes testified to the warmth of he mob's feelings. The failure of these various attempts induced the humane \.z;.z to try another plan to decimation, le founded a hospital for dogs. Num>erless admissions were granted at first o diseased, crippled and superanuated urs, whose case whs properly endorsed, md when the public mind became ac:ustomed to the sight of the ambulance* oaded with dogs passing through the treets, a general "haul" was made. Vithout distinction of age. color, 01 tate of health, the patients were trun lied off to the " hospital." Ere long it Itiunujc )J?lUCll(/f Ujf tuc iaigc iiuuiuvi \JI rnrials, that the " hospital" must )e one for incurables. Suspicion was iwakened by a passer seeing one of the ' doctors " kick a recalcitrant " patient" >ut of the ambulance, and this ingenious :ontrivance was found out,' like the >thers and a stop put to the massacre. l?ike the "Terror," although its reien vas of short duration, the "hospital" aused the death of many thousands, rhis was the last scheme invented to hin out the canine population. Since hpn, that is, for some lifteen years, the logs have had a calm era of prosperity, 'ufili'd only by such passing events as he arrival of the 40,000 refugees in 1878, vlien so many of these quadrupeds full mder the sacrificial knife, and jrladlened the hearts of Bulgars and Kou ncUotes in tiie shape or unctuous - j?a.inbs" and greasv ''pillai." In the Turkish quarters, and indeed everywhere, they are treated kindly enouen, >ut the charitable and good-natured Osnanli goes further and rations a number >f them, great or small, according to his neans. His four-footed dependents tnow the hour of breakfast and dinner md swarm.on the doorsteps at the apjointed hour with a regularity beyond ill praise. Bones and slops are set beore them and disappear into their cajacious gullets in inverse order to that lame, a few crunches of their massive nolars sufficinz to reduce the most solid >art of a sheep's anatomy to digestible >owder. In Pera,the European quarter, heir presence is tolerated on account of he work they dons scavengers.?Correpondencc Philadelphia Telegraph. California Drivers. The California ranchmen have wonierful apitude for driving and one sees some pretty good examples among the hills. The road down the mountain rides is entirely unguarded upon the outer edge, and the descent in most places is precipitous. A balky hdrse or a fractured wheel, or a slight carelessness in handling the reins, might easily send a carriage load of people to destruction?and an awful destruction, too. 'The path is wide enough for one pair of wheels only, but at intervals, in favorabie places, it broadens so that ?? ?? ntlior Tn <lri ve ICftUiO liiAJf vv<iv? ?w . , in such a manner as not to meet another traveler midway between these places is a special branch of the art. The huge iumber t< ams which carry wood from the mills in the mountains to the yards in the valleyp, being .unwieldy and very heavy, are especially hard to manage. Yet the drivers always seem easy and nonchalant. First there is a large four-wheeled oaken truck with a seat in front ten feet above the ground; behind it is another truck, somewhat shorter but still enormously stout. Thev are fastened together and loaded with from ten to fifteen tons of freshly-sawn lumber?boards and joists. This mass is drawn by six or eight mules or horses, guided by reins and a prodigiously long whip. The first wagon has * poweriul brake, worked by a Ion* iron lever by the driver upon his seat. The driver is a man of nerve and courage. His skill must be of the highest order. It will not do for him to take fright even if in imminent danger, and he must kno v to a hair's breadth where he can go and where he cannot. Towering up far above the road, overlooking the most stupendous depths, and guiding with a few slender lines a tremendous force, he must needs be an adept, and a tireless one. But a beholderignorant of the danger that surrounds him?would say that his work waB simple, and that he managed matters with ease. True, he seems to. With his broad-brimmed hat shading his sun-burnt face, his sinewy hands nold ing the reins with carelessness, his legs outstretched, with one foot feeling the all important brake, he joes onward with his monster charge" witho..t trouble or concern; the bells upon the horses' breasts jingle a little tune; the great wheels crush the stones in the path; the load creaks like a ship's hull n a sudden gust; wild birds sweep down into imzy, sunny ueptua ut-iv**, yet the driver seems to take no heed But let a "scare" take place; let a herd of runaway cattle appear at a bend and set the horses wild and then see what will happen. The day-dreamer will become a giant of strength: he is up in a flash: he shortens his hold on the reins, and feeling his wagon start up beneath him, places a foot of iron on the brake. The horses snort and rear and surge; the harnesses rattle, the dust arises, the load shrieks again, and the huge wheels turn fatally faster and faster. An instant may hurl the wagon down into the valley with its struggling traina mad rush to the other side ol the way may end all in one horrible plunge. Muscle, eye, brain and skill are then brought to work so splendidly together that the peril is averted, and the lookeron, who knows not the way ol the land, regards the teamster with profound respect thereafter.?San Francisco Argus. FABX, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLJ Reclp?i. Italian Beefsteak.?Cut a stei from any tender part, beat it. and seas* with onion, pepper and salt. Lay it an iron stew-pan that has a cover to closn, and take care that it does n burn. In two or turee hours it will quite tender. Rice Podding.?Three-quarters of cupful of boiled rice, a pint of milk, t yolks of three eggs, the grated rind of lemon, a little salt; stir all together ai bake; when cool, beat the whites of t eggs to a stiff froth and add a cupful ai a half of powdered sugar, pour it ov the top, set it in the oven and brown. Plain Sugar Cakes.?One cupl sugar and tablespoonful butter rubb together, one well-beaten egg, one cu ful sweet milk, one and a half cupfi sifted flour, a little salt, one half te spoonful soda, and one teaspoonf cream of tartar sifted in with the flou season with nutmeg; bake in small Hi Apple Puffs.?Pare and core t fruit, and either stew them in a sto jar, or bake them. When cold, m the pulp of the apple with sugar ai lemon peel shred hne, taking as little the apple juice as you can. Bake the in a thin paste in a quick oven; a qut ter of an hour will do them, if sma Quince marmalade or cinnamon pound is an improvement. Ham Balls.?Beat six eggs until ve light, and add flour gradually until y have a batter stiff enough to admit being made into balls. ' Prepare sol rnld hoilpd ham. fat and lean mixed. chopping it up very fine; then flour and mix with the batter. Drop t balls into melted lard that is boili: hot; fry, and then drain them on sieve till free from the adhesion of a: grease. This is a nice way to use ha after it has been sent to the table sevei days, and a good deal has been cut fro the joint, so that it no longer makes very sightly dish. Kloklnc Com. A correspondent of the Country Ot Ueman writes: I have tried all the vai ous ways to prevent cows from kickii while milking, and have found no more harmless, easily applied, and effectual as the Dutch or Hollai - J L!.L - ~ meiuou, WU1CI1 13 IU ui&c a ouiuu iu about four feet Ion?, and put it aroui both hind legs, just above the gambi iointa, with a slipknot; draw tig enough to bring both legs firmly t gether; wind the rope two or. thr times between the legs, around thisro or noose, drawing it tight, and fast the rope by a hali hitch. In Nor Holland, this is practiced on all t cows at* every milking. They a driven to the milking-grou id, whe stakes are driven about two feet liig and to these stakes the cows a lied for milking. Each cow go directly to its own stake, and when be milked they voluntarily place th< feet in proper position to have their le tied. The Dutch milk-pail is nearly the size of a small wash-tub, hence t: necessity ol having the cows stai moderately still; otherwise they a liable to get into the pail. Megrim*. There is a sue den determination blood to the head, generally attackii horses at work, or in harness upon t road, producing symptoms which m be mistaken lor apoplexy. It is a tei porary loss of volantry power and se pation. The symptoms are as follow The animai is first observed to sha his head as the tit approaches, reels ai falls down, but there is no spp-sm; t pulse ia lull, hard and almost motio less. He soon recovers, rises to his fe< shakes himself and goes on as if notln had occurred. Draft horses are mc subject to this trouble than others pulling heavy loads. It may, or m not, be accompanied by disease of t brain, and it is a singular fact tli horses which have been affected wh worked in the collar, seldom have when rode under the saddle, a convir ing proof that the collar may and olt does produce the trouble by pressv upon jugular veins, causine an und pressure of blood upon the "brain frc the distended condition of th? veins the head. The remedy is to procure collar which fits the neck nicely, ke the bowels in good order, and by means feed corn or corn meal. Coal Oil for Inaect*. A correspondent of the Califon ** ' * ??A L ?- AwViniiofa^ all f UOritCUUUTZHl, UUVlIlg muaumvu ...? . known remedies for plant lice and ott minute forms of insect life which pr upon plants, resorted to coal oil whi proved a complete exterminator. ] says: I procured from a druggist atomizer, and filling a bottle with kei sene, sprayed over a camelia to be e perimented upon. It was a very dir plant, branches and leaves covered s only with scale, but with black fun^u a very small quantity sufficed to vaj: rize and cover the entire plant. Aft the fluid had evaporated and thepla was dry, the scales were found dea shriveled, and partly detached, a] with the slightest touch fell off; t black fungus, also, which everyboi knows is so tenacious on the leal, w dried up into a loose powder, which shake sent to the ground. College Cheers. Dartmouth's unearthly cry was bo probably, in the mind of some und( Sade who had heard that his Air ater was originally chartered " for instruction and conversion of ye Indii youth of Ilis Majesty's Province;" a: who thought that something aborigir would be appropriate. This is the j suit: Hnrrah! H*rrah! Hurrah! Wah-noo-wah! The second syllable is prolonged inde I nif.plv in a most aDDallin? hoot, and t final \Vah comes out in a sharp slaccc that is startling in the extreme. I a inclined to think that the Dartmou cry must rank first in the second class college cheers, although that of Rutgt may, perhaps, dispute this clair While, however, Dartmouth endeavc to inspire terror by its yell, Rutg( prefers to excite mirth: 'Rah' 'Rah 'Rah! Bow-wow-wow! A few hundred Rutgers men with ro< lungs certainly produce as comic effect with their cheer as can well imaeined. It is a most sublime yelp. Racine has a punning cheer, the fit part of it being not only the orthod< prelude to all other cheers, but also part of its own name. It eoes R a- Ra-CINE.' It is quite original, and pounds we In fact, it is tiie only Western colle cheer that deserves consideration. One of the colleges that possess i "initial-cheer" (if I may so describe I ?lm Ortllnrro nf tlio r,f Ynr It is not very remarkable either for i genuity or euphony, yet its invento deserve considerable credit for departi from the monotony of alphabetic slogans. 'Kfth! 'Rnh! 'Itah! C! C! N! Y! In fact, alphabetical cheers are alt ?nm/irniia onH qIiaiv n rrv* KCkliUl IUU iiuiuviuuui ?>u\* www .. ? & lack of originality in the colleges wht they prevail. Williams has a curious sort of che that should not be omitted in the li It is not particularly stirrine, ev when chorused by a multitude, a when only a dozen or more give it il Bimply ludicrous. It goes thus: 'Rah! 'RhIi' 'Ran! Will-yums! yam*! TCMS! ?Acta Colum biat Some uninvited guests attemped intrude themselves on a party at 1 dependence, Mo. They were w corntd with a rifle. One of the ra was mortally wounded, another i ceived a flesh wound in his thigh. T rest escaped. D. Extermination of Beasts In India. A belt of jungle filled with, ferocious animals lay for years around tlie vultijjj vated lan!. The official records frequently speak of the mailbag being earin ried off by tigers, and tho custom of the fit mail runners carrying iangling rines 0t or bells to scare away tne wild beasts be survived to our own day. Lord Cornwallis, in 1789, had to s ?nction a grant of public money to free the military a road from the depredations of these "e animals. J The ravages of the wild elephants j1*1 were on a larger scale, and their extermination lormed one of the most im1(1 portant duties of the British officers er after the country passed under our rule. Tigers, leopards" and wolves Blew their 'al thousands ol men and their hundreds of ed thousands of cattle. But the herd of p- wild elephants was absolutely resistless, lis lifting off roofs, pushing down walls a- trampling a village under foot as if it ul were a city oi sand which a child had r; built upon" the shore. In two parishes is. alone, during the last few years ol the he native administration, fifty-six hamlets ne with their surrounding lands " had all ix been destroyed and gone to jungle, ad caused by the depredations ol wild eleof phants." Another official return states iin that forty market villages throughout ir. Birbhum district had been deserted 11. from the same cause. ed Large reductions naa to ne maae m the land tax, and the East India company borrowed tame elephants from the * native viceroy's stud in order to catch vj the wild ones. " I had ocular proof on my journey," writes an English officer i * in 1791. of "their ravages. The poor timid native ties his cot in a troe, to . ' which he retires -when the elephants approach, and silently views the destruc- < ? tion of his cottage and the wh^le profits of his labor." " One night," writes an i * English surveyor in 18i0, " although I had a guard the men of the village close , to my tent retired >o the trees, and-the ' womfen hid themselves among the cattle, leaving their huts a prey to the ele- J f)hant8, who knew very well where to ook for grain. Two nights before some of them nad unroofed a hut in the vil- ! ri- lage. and had eaten up all the gniin i 01? which a nnor familv nosaessed." '' Most ne fortunately for the population of the as country." wrote the greatest elephant i ad hunter of the last century, " they depe light in the sequestered range of the t id mountains; if they preferred the plains, ' "el whole kingdoms would be laid waste." ht All this is now changed One of the complaints of the modern Englishman ee in India is that he can so seldom get a I pe shot at a tiger. Wolves are dying out in many provinces; the ancient Indian 1 th Jion has disappeared. The wild elephant i he is so rare that he is specially protected re by the government, and in most parts i re of India he can only be caught by offi- ( h, cial license under official supervision, re Many districts have petitioned for a ,ea close season, so as to preserve the edible j game still remaining. The only animal ;,r that has defied the energy of the British official is the st ake. One may, however, judge of the loss of life by wild beasts "e in the last century from the deaths ! xd caused by this, their ehief survivor at. re the present day. The ascertained number of persons who died from snakebite in 1875 Was 17,000, out* of a total of of 21.391 killed by snakes and all other -ig wild animais. The deaths from wiid he beasts in the last century wore probably ay not under 150,000-a year.?Cortihill Masxi mine. n" What was Found in an Ohio Cave. An exploring party Has made wonaera(j ful discoveries in a*cave in Adams l,e county. Ohio, supposed t > be the work ,n_ of the mound-builders. In Tiffin townet( ship is a plateau of *200 acres surrounded by high hills. At :i depression in the (l.y plateau there is a well three feet in dijn ameter and twenty-five feet deep. Pcrny sons have frequently descended into the he well and explored the cavernous chamaj hers of mathematical regularity to en which it leads. On the walls ot the it chambers may be seen among other IC. writings the inscription "Von Brody, en 17S9;11 made by that Indian hunter, who ire preceded the."Ohio Company" in 1786. ue In the fourth chamber, reached through )m a narrow passage, had long ago been in found a well, ten feet in diameter, and a of unknown depth. It was to learn the ep secret of this well that two merchants, no a lawver and two newspaper writers 1 I provided themselves with arope-ladder, implements ior oreaKinp sion? nuu tia lanterns. The.v descended fifty feet into he the well, where they found a narrow ier gallery fifty feet long. leadine hv"a j ey gradual descen to a chamber 235 "feet , ch lone. 110 feet wide and twenty-four feet high. In the center of the chamber was ' an found a large mausoleum, carved out of , 0. the solid rock and covered with devices, x- inscriptions and bas-reliefs. On a stone ty couch, in its center, lay the stone figure ' l(rt of a man of giant proportions and well 1S; carved. A carved winged cap or hello. met covered the head. Carved vaaes. ;er decorated with flowers and leaves, stood nt at the corners of the couch. A copper, ] r(jt lamp hung suspended above the head of l nd the figure. Twenty smaller tombs were he foun<f against the walls of tne chamber \ \y and twenty-five facps had been painted j as on the wall near the entrance. A tymb ' a was broken open, and revealed a well < preserved mummy nine feet one inch in length. The hair was of flue texture, , ? black and curly. A copper spear head, , almost as hard as a file, several copper ? utensils, a cup, two piates and a small , urn were also found in the tomb. ' Wrapped in varnished cloth, at the IipoH nf the mummv. lav a book of 100 J? thin copper leaves, on which characters d had been engraved. _ ^ Capital Punishment by Electricity. e* The proposition to employ electricity as rfn agent in capital punishment lms been advocated both in Franc*?and Gerifi< many. A recent writer, in the latter I," country thus sketches the method of procedure: In a dark room, draped with black, and which is lighted by a single torch? the chamber of execution ' f ?there shall stand an iron figure of justice, with her scales and sword. This ' goddess will carry a powerful electric " battery in her inside; and this battery ' will be connected with an arm-chair ?the seat of death. In front of the chair shall sUnd the judge's tribunal, and only the judge, jury and other officials shall Be present with the conod demned during the ceramony of execuRn tion. This will consist iq^the judge he reading the story of the crime committed by the prisoner, who will be st rigidly manacled to aforesaid chair; and wlien this has been done the judge will a break his rod of office and toss it into one of the scale-pans of the tigure of justice, at the same time extinguishing the jJ. solitary torch. The descent of the pan n!rniiIf un^ ?TQ W m UUIUpiCLV tut f itvn IV/ wutuiv, uuu shook the wretoti into the next world. an 1 it) Frozen Earth in Siberia. k. Professor Nordensk.jold investigated n- the formation of the strata of frozen ira earth several h?ndred feet thick which ng occurs in Siberia and Polar America, al Along the coast of Siberia there is a stratum of water resting on the bottom of the sea, which is several degrees below the freezing point, so that a flask o- of comparatively fresh surface water, ;at when* sunk into this stream, begins to >re freeze. Stuxberg observed that the < < ? r. ^ 4.^ 4.u^ trawi-net onen froze ihm kj me uuiawiu. ert This was accounted for by the freezing st! of the fresh water which the net carried en down with it from the surface. Nnrnd denskj.'ld thinks that the mud carried is di-wn by the rivers into the sea, as it sinks to the bottom, carrying with it fresh water adhering to the minute par tides, an-1 that this fresh water, like that I a. carried down ly the net, frcezoH at the bottom, forming thus a frozen stratum, to wliiuli increases year by year until it in- reaches an enormous thickness, lie is el- of opinion that a portion of the earthy en I layers of Siberia was formed in this iv- way, although, he adds, he by no means he considers this the only way in which such formations arose.?Nature. Bine Gentian?A Thonclit. . I shall never be a child, With its dancing footsteps wild, Nor a tree-footed maidon any more-, ,Yet my heart leaps np to see The new leal upon the tree. And to hoar the light winds pass O'er the flowers in tbe gras?, And lor very joy brims o'er,'4'~' As I kneel and pluck this store 01 blue gentian. ' * >7 .: . if' '< / (i ?'?:t ?.ii I shall never climb thy peak, Great white Alp that cannot speitlc ,tn Of tbo centuries that float over th?> like dreams, Dumb ot all God's secret things Sealed to beggars and to kings? . f ( ' ' ' ( ' Yet I sit in a world ol sight, ^ Color, beauty, sound, and light, 'While at every step, tneseems, Small sweet joys spring ?p, like fleams Of blue gentian. . , . . . /T!- "J- ''/A '? , MflM.tt'H I shall not live o'or again ;:M -u u-.ij This strange lile, bolt bliss, bnli pain; >ti ! I shall ?loep till Thoa oali'st me to aria* ' j Body Rnd soul with new-born power*, .?* > If Thoa wakenest these poor flowers,v,:S-: ! o Wilt thou not awaken me,.> v - //, } /; i i .*! I Who am thirsting att* Thee ? > tji <! >u? Oh! when faith grows dim and die* I ,v\ Let me think of Alpine skiea in y f And bine gentian. , : r < l.j . , ?Good lVor4i .*? ,Wrr.\n 1TCXS OF I3TEBEST. Arkansas ranks next to leXas as a" cotton producing State. Virginia has 675 colored scltools " taught by 415 colored teacher*. >'fl fr \y> \ sound company?One thntnlriaa <<> telephone line.?Lowell Saru: .*?-? ?r* I .an It is the boss printer who takes an 1 honest boy and makes a devil out of .. j ".ift! o: nu:fV"f A Prussian gravedigger has been Mr,,,.. rested for roasting bodies and selling thpir fat. ? ! The late Duke of Portland's news-' paper subscription till amounted" to' 86,500a year.'' " '"l 7 """ ''"1; ?>W? A man in Tuscaloosa <jounty,'Ate;'A ite twenty-seven oranges one morning n before breakfast. . l.omu# mdtokl Sixteen farmers were frozen to death; ? in Minnesota on the pame day, "\yhilft ;j poing to market.: mit Where no wood is, there the fir^ goefc^.,,, too; so when there, is no tale-bearers the^strife ceaseth. ' , ' v'" . *' " Love laughs at locksmiths," and y^t there isn't anything funny about a lock- I smith.?Boston rost. j". ' ;-- :m "in The man who navs morefor slion rent than for advertising don't understand ; his business.?Ilornce Qrt/eley.- - >ot By measurements given in tbpBookof,., Revelations tUere is only room<enough, in heaven for 297,000,000,000,0b0 persons. A statistician computes that 2,500;000' watches and 4,000,000 clocks are annu-'' ally turned out in different parts of the world. " ' ?'. i o;!t Never take a bull bi the liorns. young \ man, but take him by the tail, then yon., ken let go when you want to.?Jefh; .. Billings. . ' One of the comical sights of leap year . will be a girl whispering a tale w lovt into the ear of a deaf man.?PfiHaiieU * phia Chronicle. -?? * London TVutt chinks that Amerittia' horses are more docile than English horses, because the former are 'mora kindly treated. ' A. P. Gorman, the new Setaator from Maryland, was formerly pwsiident of a n base hall club in Washington, and is renowned as u good "catcher." .... . ,,T On a dark night:, with four clothes- ? lines stretched across the back yard, the most sensitive part of a man is his high hat.?Binghamton Republican. It is estimated that there are now 40,000 less Chinese in number on the ' Pacific coast than there were at the be- i ginning of the agitation against them. ? ;< W. S. Thomas, of Elizabethtown < Tenn., has two sons, one thirteen years, old and weighing 351 pounds, and the other seven years old and weighing 178 pounds. Over 522,000,000 was expended in New Xork city last year in the erection of ' new builCings, which is in excess of the ' itiiount expended for new buildings any year since 1871. A . finlitinn niiolitipQ nf fcllfl . . /in jucn VI kUV iiguviM? ? Ute3 of Colorado may be gained from :he fact that the Indian whp is known o have killed Lieut. Weir was only hirteen years of a/re. The fire of patriotism-burns like an electric light in the bosom of that A merican who is ready to be sacrificed in sny pujblic service of responsibility and profit.? Waterloo Observer. A correspondent writes: "Where if, the warmest spot on earth?1' He is respectfully referred to the small boy whose mother has been exercising her jlipperupon him.?Albany Aryiis. "What is woman's will?'' shrieks a 30cial scientist of the bachalor persuasion. Experience in our younger days teaches us that it is the only will that the heirs don't want to contest.?Oswego Record. " He has gone into the lecture busi ness,"said one man to another in response to an inquiry ab?ut a mutual friend. "Is that 60?" "Yes; he was mjirried last week to a woman witli the sharpest tongue in town." The small islands of the West Indies, known as the Leeward islands, are becoming a source of sugar supply to the United States. Five \ears ago none was received from there. Last year $300,000 worth was shipped. You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an earnest effort to confer that -i * if... ?:n r.^A I..* pleasure on oinersr iou win mm .u?.i the battle is gained if you nevrr allow yourself to say anything gloomy. An excellent chest-protector for a cold day is a folded newspaper buttoned under the overcoat. But in case a paper is used on which the subscription is unpaid the party is liable to be fioz^n stiff in a very short time.?Itocldand Courier. From statistics just published it appears that there are about 75,000 houses in Paris, exclusive 01 public buildings. Their total value is etuiaiited at twenty-three millions sterling. The superhcies of the capital is put down at 20.000 acre-*. There are 600,000 yards of sewers. The population numbers 1.990,000, or about 100 inhabitants per acre. " what, never?" I can never lot-got her 'lark blue eyes Like theeuimnersky when the dav hns /led; Nor their sudrien look ot sweet surprise. Nor thi! low, solt spoken words she said. I cun never lorgetthc murmured words, For they lifted my soul from its maze ol doubt. When she said, in tho voice of ii singing bird's " Young man, vamose, or I'll Are von nut!" ?Haickcyc. A Remarkable Shower of Worms. A strip of country nearly half a miie wide lying near Nevada City, wn< visited by a peculiar storm last Friday morning at about eight o'clock. Mingled with the snow and rain that fell were myriads of strange-lookin* worms. They came Hown by the millions, covering the snow so completely that one nld nnt. walk within tlve infested dis triet and avoid treading upon them. L. Dulac captured a large number of the visitors and brought several of them to town ?n a bottle. The specimens vary in length from one to two inelie*. and are about, a sixteenth of an inrh in diameter. They are in color nearly white and their bodies are transparent. ?Nevada City Transcript.