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fl^T" BY HUGH M Bells Across the Snow. Oh, Christmas, merry Christmas, Is it really cetne again ? With its memories and greetings. With its joy huI with its pain. There's a minor .n the carol, And a shadow ii tho light, And a spray o! cypress twinino ? -n With the holly wreath to-night. And the hush is nevjr broken By laughter light ind low, As we listen in the sluiight To the "bells acros. the snow." Oh, Christmas, merry v'hristmas, Tis not so very lonu Since other voices bleated With the carol and thesong ! II we could but hear themsingiiig As they are singing now If wa could but see the rau_ -e 01 the crown on each dear brow, There would be no sitr i to sm ther No hidden tear to flow, As we listen in the starlight To the ' bells across the snow" Oh, Christmas, merry Christmas, This never more can be; We cannot bring again the days 01 our unshadowed glee; But Christmas, happy Christmas, Sweet herald ol good-will, With holy songs ot glory, Brings hcly gladness still. For peace and hope may brighten, And patient lovo may glow, As we listen in tha starlight To the "bells across the snow." THE BOTTLE'S STORY A CHRISTMAS SKETCH. The bottle, filled with water, hidden behind a picture in the pret parlor, and in the water whs growing sturdy ivy vine, which l:ad ciimbed l and caught bold of th-j cord that he the picture, and, in its joy at reaching great a height, had thrown out tv cheerful, glossy, light green loaves th looked smilingly down >n the large darker leaves below. The children hr.d all gone to be* Their stockines were hanging in a ro under the mantel in the dining-roon -, - ?four of Lhenv Oae pink and white, an enf short in the leg?that wm the twc year-old MyV; and one checked in bhie ""- -and gTay-that was nine-year-old Maud's. The gron people were upstairs ! caressing thtpare room?(grandmamma i ?tb*J dear cl lady!?was coming from her cottage 1 the country to spend holiday week)?ith Christmas greens. The parJoivas already dressed. Festoons of joll;cold-defying winter vines dotted with bright red berries hung from the c<fing : nd inwreathed the gilt chandel;', wrfcsths, garlands and ! crosses of au imn leaves brightened the : gray walls, c'd bunches of slender dried , grasses noddT,, from quaint, small white ? pitchers und-tfetty little vases. , "How JoViy th? parlor looks to- j ?night!" said idelicate voice irom one i, corner r\f ?.? ?J spear of "grassjbenV sTSg&vzij "Lovely!" epeated a bunch of au- L tumn leaves fi-m the opposite correr. I " And how appy we should bo," said i the ivy, " to Uink t hat we help make it | V so! And jet when I was first taken i from my pamt vine?'twas in la3t j October ? I .houaht I should never cease to regpt the outer life. But * I have been sheltered from winter's cruel winds 'md heavy snows, and ^ tended with i^aaly care and tender love, and I've no cbubt, if I remain here aur- j ing the summer, I shall find it just as , Eleasant to lok at the sweet face3 and ear the hap j voices of the dear childreh as to s e the gay butterflies and listen to thv songs cf the birds. But you, Bottle,'?looking down at the bot- f tie which bed her and the water that y gave her life-1" aren't you rather lonely P i Shut in hptwpn t.hn h<ir?k r>f fr.hu r\iofrnva I and the wall,50U can see nothing." "I can sen yon, dear Ivy," answered t the botile, h a clear, rippling voice, " and yon axe a very pleasant thing to look upon; and in the morning I can see a long sunbeam on the wall, and that is a very pleasant thing to look upon. And as for being lonely?not a hit of it; 5 I'm as happy as I c.m be. And you would say I ought to be happy if you * but knew the life I U3ed to lead before I ? had the honor and pleasure of suppo t- j ? in? vou." 11 "Tell us nil about it?pray do," beg-. t ged many little voices. "Hear! hear! hear!" barked the ? bronze dog that stood on the top of the ? marble clock. " A story from the bot- J tie." } " A story from the bottle," repeated ? the feather du3ter, as it hopped quickly in. on its one wooden leg, from the hall, where it had been lying on the mat. "I ^ mu?t hear it, too. Clock, couldn't you step ticking for a little while?'1 " Sorry 1 can't oblige you," said the clock, in a fairy-bell jike tone; "but I was wound up this afternoon, and so I must go on for a week; but I'll tick as soft'y as possible, and you won't notice r. it as soon as the story begins." " Now. bottle," barked out the small *. bronze dog, " we're all ready." r "Yes, go ahead," called the drummer- j boy from the lid of the match-box. ? "Well," if you insist upon it, and it ? will really give you pleasure," said the " bottle, modestly, "although I had no intention of telline a storv when I spoke ^ of my past life, I will t'o ahead. I'll be- " gin with the time just after I left the ? manufactory.*' "Manufactory?" said the ivy. "Manufactory," explained the bottle? " "a rlaee where they make bottles." "Oh!" said the ivy. "You see I 1 didn't know, 'cause there's no place ? where they make ivies. Ivies grow." ^ "I left the manufactory," continued ? the bottle. " with a number of other 2 1 i- *11 > " uui,'. ics wuuugu iise me 10 uave oeen my ~ brothers and sisters." "Perhaps they were,1' barked the 5 bronze dog. . "Very hkely," said the bottle. "And we were ail carried down into a dismal ? place called a cellar, and filled with some dark-looking stuff that both tasted and Fmelled very?" R " Unpleasantly," hinted the ivy. ? " Unpleasantly, ye3; thank you, that's the word," said the bottle. "Then corks were forced into our mouths, and we were taken to a large store, where we were ranged around on shelves in j " company with hundreds of other bottles I v _ r - ni ?J _ ? 1 ? ui mi suapes anu sizes, ui course we i couldn't speak to each other; but for all i a that, we didn't lead a quiet life, for the j a1 tore was always fullot men from moin-. v ing until night, and otten far into the ^ night too. Such a tiiirsty crowd as they j8 were! always wanting something to j* drink, and getting noisier and thirstier 3< all the time. Well, one evening a 34 bright-iookine, pleasant-faced young man came in. ' A bottle of your very K best whisky,* said he. * It's my birth- j day, and I have some friends coming to I b spend the evening, nncl I must make a i ^ bowl of punch.' Ti>e man behind the ! j* counter took mo down from .the shelf I d ('Oh!1 thought I, 'it's whiskj I hold, ( v is itP I wonder what that's good for' ?), !c wrapped me in white paper, and handed j j, me to the pleasant-faced young man, !; J who put me in his overcoat pocket and j 1 hurried home. That was the beginning I } of it." J " Ah, indeed," said the feather duster; fP " so that was the beginning of it? By- [ the-bye, may I ask the beginning of 1 whatP" 6*? " The misery and unhappiness in this j t house," answered the bottle. "In this house?" cchoed the many Si little voices. "ILSf AND H. T. W -J, !8." said the bottle. "I wasn'ts ne visitor, I assure you, for ai -our master, you know?took me his pocket and set me upon the Agnes?our mistress, you know? 'Oh, John, John, 1 wouldn't.' ? only kissed her and baby Lou?" ?ss her little heart!" barked the 1 dog. ind said, 'Nonsense, my dear.' 4>hn's friends came, and the punch "Side, and that was the beginning c nd I began to tind out that very naot wha'i whisky was good lor, bat it was-bad for." lat ?" as'ied the ivy. : men's heads and hearts," ans: the bottle, solemnly. "It a them silly and crazy, and ui and selfish. It brings povertjrs and disgrace to the happi.oma takes all the sunshine out ofii children's lives, and clouds eve hlessprf flhri atmfto Aftflr tti'ht I was scarcely empty. John drevery day more and wore, amr dear mistress be^an to look pand 'shabby, and the children cot jo to 'school, their clothes w<o patched and their shoes wo broken. As for the teby?" fcs her golden curls!" baked the br'oos. 'Ae wittered about" the house in her? tire feet, because sie had no shofc aJ, and everything jrew dark andrkrn, and at last here was scar noney enough to 3uy bread. Chna: eve came. Agnes?our dear mis??sat before the smf ll tire in the gratolding baby Lou?'' "3 her blue eyes!' barked the brojlog. > - VjPn her knee, aid the other hilT were gathered around her. i ?ohi>' lying on thelounge asleep, said May 'fe old: times we ued ang up our stagings on Christum' 4I)id weP'risked Tom. 'I dcj'ijpniber. Wlat for?' 'Why, Stut wis used to cane and fill them -nq 7*1 ) things ' an3* ered May. ' Oh, ri Sab ms.' sai i Ton; 4 the boy next 'rc* doc telling me sonething 'boat him j* tew Why won't he come here tonig We've beengood cnilluns, and ^ mi: lathe boniest mamma in the Wo^May mnde no reply, but Maud, " giafc^p where 1 stood on the mantel, t" a whisper:' I guess lie don't r? conasPp there's a boi tie j time their papa awoke and in*$$nto the street. Mamma 1* look* Mr'after him, and * hen the J littlonea^ilt by her side and said . tbjjjrayesevery prayer ending with ^ ?3pbte*ai: papa!1 and bade her L gofgjfef If bottles had hearts, mine wou*nave ?nre^ 3Gfe?X saw jat sad, lonely woman boryfier See ; her hands, and cry?oh, so bitterly' as soon as the children-^rew eon< ad heard her sob out: Oh, save him.vsve him,; dear God. and bring back<'ie light and happiness to my dear chiiVn, lorthesakeof she Christ Child born V?he. holy Christmas day!' And f?s b ? sobbed a?d prayed the door of the c n~tt8ctied, and John came in, sobejVnd with a tender look in his face andj">iight light in his eyes. Down on h/knees he fell before the sweet mamja, and held out his arms to her whij&e cried, in a broken voice, with the ^rs running down his cheeks: Ne\Jra^ain, my good, patient wife? levennever, never again.'" u(?L(3ear!" said the bronze do?, " I vishf could move my tail far enough irou-tt to wipe my eyes with it." . f iLa t he small stockings," continued f ^jttle, " were hung up after all, and 'toy3 and candies put in them; and onn wiio hadn't been asleep on the OUD" m , knew it!" screamed the feather H8** ', jumping straight up and down in se. . ? But wide-awake, and listening U * , his children said, has kept hH t and never, never?" >ui iiy arms are so stiff, holdin-vthsHi n one position so long, I can't." " And," said the bottle, looking up it the ivy, "you were brought here vitfcthe autumn leaves and grasses, and rom that Christmas to this the parlor 18S ?rnwn nrptt.ipr ?nH nrotfi Or on/1 flio ittlehorae happier, and the baby has he cunningest blue shoes?" "Bless her dimpled cheeks'." barked he bronze dog. "?And May and Maud go to school tgain. and are getting to be line scholars, md Tom is a jolly little fellow." "But there's a bottle in the house ret," said the feather duster, slyly. '"Cuat's true," said the bottle, " but t hJs joined the temperance society, md fiat makes all the difference in 'he vorW; and in consequence c f its taking o water, tc-morrow will be?" "Stop a moment," said the clock. 'To-morrow i3 here?I'm coins to trike twelve;" tmd it struck with a i very sound. fc"Ttiree cheers!" cried the leather duser, waving its feathers about so wildly hat little bits of them flew ail over the oom. "?A merry Christmas!" chimed in .11 tfce other little voice3; and then i.ence reigned in the parlor once moreFire and Wreck. Tha-e is an inconceivable amount of raste in our imperfect civilization. ?he Firemen's Journal, of New York, eportu that, during the last three uontfcs, thera has been an average ot wo twenty-thousand-dollar JTes every ay in the United States and Canada, mounting to a oss of more than twelve lillions. Of this loss forty per cent. ra= covered by insurance, but the whole f it was a lous to man. insurance aereiy aiviaes tue ios3 among a great iany individuals, instead of its cru3hic a few. Much, and probably most, of this loss light have been prevented. A little xtra expense makes a orick nouse absoltely incombustible, and can much iminish the combustibleness of a rooden one. A mere coating of plaster f parid under each floor, in the Italian lethod, will almost always confine a re to the story in which ft breaks out. Water, it appears, is more hostile to lan and his works than fire. The ritish "Wreck Register" for last year, ist published, reveals tQe astounding ict that there are from fifteen to twenty esaels wrecked every day throughout le -world. Tbe number of vessels wrecked on the ritfeh coast last year was 3,000, which ra3 a decided decrease from the average f the last few years. Two years ago le number was 4,104. We should remember, however, that re,at Britain has now about 000,000 estieis afloat, manned by nearly four >iljfior.s of persons. That is to say, burnt lour millions of human beings are tjrU times afloat upon salt water in e??sets bearing the British flag. The 'lleek statistics show that, during the ia'u twenty-five years, the whole numeir of wrecks near British shores is 49,tV, causing the death of 18,319 per jjnts. iTtie facts published by the "Wreck .egister" justify the conclusion that rite-ht-lf of these disasters might have ffeen prevented. For one item, there lore 701 collisions near the British bast* last year; for another, four hundred vessels are still in use which are aore than thirty years old. On the the; hand, it is reported that the iiritish if?'-saving service rescued last year ,30*2 persons from wrecked vessels. ?he waste from this wreckage in mere iroperty is very great; but the waste rora anxiety and terror is beyond compilation.? Youth's Companion. The population of the cily of Berlin, he cipital of Prussia, including tue ;arrison, is 1,118,630, an increase of sixeen per cent, since 1R75, and more than louble since 1860. FOB THE FAIR SEX, i ______ Purchased Beauty. A Jady correspondent who has patro i ized the New York " bazar of beauty ' an institution devoted to beautifyii , the female face and fieure, says the r SUlt is simrlv this? "Vrt WAmow n< paint without detection. Devotees faslnon may just as well abandon tl contrary opinion. I looked into il mirror on getting out of the chair, an hardly recognized myself. My face wi greatly changed. Mv eyes shone, n cheeks glowed, and there wa3 a brigh ness and piquancy that had not bee there when I entered. But this, rain you, was in a somewhat dimly-lightc room, where the work was siltened an shaded. Ten minutes afterwurd I m< myself in a street-mirror, urder the fu glare of a noonday sun, Wev, I was sin ply disgusted. The paiited surfac looked no more like humax skin than : didlike sole leather; the bla;k around m eyes was like strokes of charcoal; m lips had the unnatural redof scarlet infe I walked up to the glass n,\d viewed m artificial countenance wita a feeling c repulsion. It reminded me of som execrable portrait done in "water colors I hurried into a store and bought a vei; with which I covered the beatification Then I went straightway home, am scrubbed my face until everj trace c foreign substance was gone. My expe rience convinced me of the uttei folly o paint as a beautifier, for by noposBbilit; can it be put on without showiniex ?V.-I it. Tf ? uiLiy wunt n its. 11 imiuiu litis uuhqi parted beaaty of complexion, there i no use trying to make up the deficient by sacrifice. It is far better to turn oti ingenuity toward wearing our hair be comingly, for in that direction a gra deal of comeliness may be commandec But let pigments alone, unless you ai content to be pretty in a ghastly wa; and at the sacrifice ot all outward ind cations of warm flesh and blood." u;IVew? and Notes for Women. The Princess Royal of Denmark, at recent grand dinner at the Elysee, woi a diadem of diamonds which once W? worn by the Empress Josephine, h< great-Grandmother. The young lad converses brilliantly and speaks Frenc like a Parisian. There is nothing in the world equf to fashionable enterprise, says the Ne^ York Mail. A well known and ver ambitious lady of Murray Hill, has ser tn Phinn. fnr n norf ?ii? tom TrinH nf io ?v V ?? WV1 v <IU All'.U Ui W\< which she proposes to serve at a kettle drum next January. So many admirers ot Mrs. Langtr agtu'her eifts of game, book", flow erf to have m^ter^i^ii^r'S3e^Fii^T^^ ing trade of the island of Jersey. Two of the best steel engravers in tt country are womr-n?one living in Ne York, and one in Columbus. Ohio. Dr. B. Joy Jeffries, in testing t! children in the Boston schools in rel tion tc color-blindness, finds the bo much more deficient than the girls. The queen has given Lady Moun morris, whose husband was shot by h ttnan ry in Ireland, a suite of apai meets in the Hampton Court palace. A favorite paragraph with Lucret iMotc, wuen uer autograpu was assi for albums, was: " In the true marria; relation the independence of tliehu band and tao wile is equal, tlieir ind pendence mutual, and their obligatio reciprocal. At the gillies' ball given by the que at Baimoral lately, the Grand Duke Hesse, the Prince ana Princess of Wale Lord Sir Bartle Frere, and othe ^..^wimction were among the guest ^nd the -jueen danced several reels, tl first for many years. How Long Man May Live. I!. was Professor Hufeland's opinionth thp limit; nf txujiiVn'iS-'immqn 'iViw mirrht set at 200 years. Th is ou the general pri ciple that the life of a creature is eig times the y arsof its period of growt That which is quickly formed quick perishes, and the earlier complete dev< opment is ached the sooner bodily d cay ensue. More women reach old a than men, but more men attain remar able longevity than women. Some an rnals grow to be very old. Homed at mals live shorter lives than those wit] out horns, fierce longer than timid, ai amphibious longer than those which i habit the air. The voracious pike e: ists, it is said, to an age of 150 year the turtle is good for a hundred yea or more; and among birds the goidi eagle is known to have lived nearly 3i years, while the slv and somber cro rpnphpo fhp vpncrniilp <i iro r\f o nonfnr Passing up in the scale of Jife to ma and skipping the patriarchs, we hi many recorded instances of longevi among the classic Greeks and Roman Pliny notes that in the reign of the Ee peror Vespasian, in the year 76, the were 124 men living in the limited an between the Appennines and the Po 100 years and upward, three of who: were 140 and four over 135. Cicerc wife lived to the age of 103, and the R man actress Luceja played in public; late as her 112th joar. Coming down to more recent tim the most notable authentic instances great age is that of Henry Jenkins, < Yorkshire, Engiand. who dicJ in 167 169 years old. Re was a fisherman, ar at the age of 100 easily swam acress rap rivers. Another historic case is that i Thomas Parr, ot Shropshire, a day 1 borer, who lived to the age of 152 year When more than 120 he married hisse ond wife, and till 130 he could swing tl scythe and wield the Hail with the be of his fellow laborers. In his 152d yes Parr went up to London to exhibit hie self to the king. It proved an unluck visit, for violating the abstemious hab of a century and a half, the old ma feasted so freely on the royal vitual that he soon died merely of a plethor On examination, his internal orgai proved to be in excellent condition, an there was no reason why he should n< have lived much longer save for this ui fortunate taste of royal hospitalit; Prolessor Hufeland's roll of centenariar includes many more remarkable case among them that of Mittleste.lt, a Pru j * aio.il suiuici, rvnu aeiveu ?12Liy*SUVt years under both Fredericks, tightir many battles and enduring much hai campaigning, and who after all this ma ricd kiiccessively three wives, the la when he was 110, only t.wo years befoi his death.?Springfield Republican. "Breylty Is the Soal or Wit." The following amusing stpry, whic was told by Franklin, ought to I read and acted upon by allcorresponi ents commuricatin? their thoughts I the newspaper press. A young man, c commencing business, proposed to paii /wrr hia nhnn windnw ' Jnhn Thr?mi son, hatter, makes aLd sells hats f< ready money," to which waB added tl sign of a hat. One triend suggeatc that, a3 he made and sold hats, tt word "hatter" was unnecessary. ! was there/ore struck out and the sip remained, " John Thompson makes be sells nats for ready money." Anoth< friend advised him to omit the phra; " for ready money," as there would o cur occasions for selling on credit; an so the sign read: "John Thompsc makes and sells hats." It was the hinted the buyer of the hat did not ca] who made it, and that the sign wouJ be better if it read: " John Thompsc sells hats." But another amputatic was in store still, for a critic pointed 01 I he uselessnfiss oi the phrase "sel hats," for, said he, " no one would ev< suppose that the hats were to be givt away for nothing." Thus at last th aspiring tradesman commenced bus ness, like many worthy successors, ui der the modest sign of " John Thorn gon."?Alb ny Press. ABBEVILLE, I : V CURIOUS FAtTS.X^ Photographs are now taken from bal loons. \ ' ? The Mongols make their clothing ot ' goatskins. V ( Railroad car wheels%re made o compressed sawdust. '; English manufacturers are putting I rubber tires on carnage wheels. ? The poisoned arrows of the Indians of i f Guiana are blown through a lube. ^ Wakes are of Saxon origin, and were . first instituted in England, A: D. 886; ~ The elobular form of the earth wa. l~ first suggested by Thales, of Miletus ' o about 610 B. C. ,d The well-known "iEsop's Fables1' ' j were written between five and six hun- ( dred years before Christ. n Goose-feather beds and pillows were ( introduced by the Romans during the ( " government of tne Caesars. t Bags of ice are employed by surgeons { for laying upon affected parts to pro* duce insensibility by freezing. j r Excess in dress was restrained by law " in England, in the reign of Edward IV., j 1465, and again in the reign ol Elizabeth i e i^ 1574- c , The first elephant ever seen in Eng- . land was one of encrmous size.presented ' by the king ot France to Henry IP:, ?. ? of England, in 1238. t j Firearm} were a prodigious rarety in . Ireland in 1489, when six muskets were j sent from Germany as a present to the f , earl of Kildare, who was then chief ^ governor. I - ~ Buffon tells U3 that the shepherd's j 3 dog is the origin of the entire canine u j race. The Irish wolf-dog is supposed ^ c to be the most ancient species known to j i. Europe. c t A New York surgeon removes super- j 1. fluous hairs from the lips or laces of ^ re ladies by destroying the follicle through j 7, he means of electricity, the hairs being ^ i- ?lled one by one; a tedious but certain g pticess. c ? J Wh.t Thej Knew Four Thousand Years f re Ago. t is Froi one of these books, compiled J )r after t,q manner of our modern encyclo- fi ly pedias, ^d the compilation of which is i h shown t> have been made mo/e than ? two thou^nd jears B. C., it hfis been P il ascertained, wh?h ^as long been supw posed, that tfcaldna was the parent land ? y of astronomy for t is found, from this " it compilation aid fron other bricks, that ^ a the Babylonia caalogued. the stars , i- and distinguish*! an*, named the con- j stellations; tha the> arranged the fi y twelve wnsteluiioiis .tQat Jorm our " ?, Prwent ?e oour?e of the +bJ ' 3S5IS5 the week/M Vlow ' into seven day* six >cMdtys of hffldr, * and the seventh & day ofW to which 'w they gave a name fron. wfeft we have derived our word uSabbatV^-fl which . be day, as a day of rest frottjH labor of 1E a- every kind, they observed ^rigorously al ys as the Jew or the Puritan. *.1P motion i of the heavenly bodies anv^e p^. in t- nomena of the weather were n.^ down *r ijg and a connection detected bet,en ttie a1 t- weather and the change of th'aj00n> V They invented the sun-dial to H ^ the fe ;a movements of the heavenly boc^ tbe ^ water clock to measure time, ant^ey M e speak in this work of the spots t the m |. sun, a fact they only could have kiwn tl e* by the aid of telescopes, which it is,p. a< na posed they possessed, from observat^ 1c that they have noted down of Te,s tc and the fact that Layard found the er. P( tal lens in the rums o; Nineveh. w P1 " bricks " contain an account of the dt c< !S? ugo, substantially the same as the nai r< rs rative in the Bible, except that th(w jf? names are different. They disclose thatT houses and lands were then sold, leased and mortgaged; that money was loined } at interest, and that the market gard;n- | ers, to use an American phrase, ' "worked on shares;' that the farmir, when plowing with his oxen, beguil?d I, ^ bialahis vriVn stiort und liomely sona, t be two of wliich have been found; and, t j .n" connect this very remote civilizatioi with the usages of to-day, J may, in I conclusion, refer to one of the bricks of ? y this library, in the form of a note, which' i[~ is to the effect that visitors are ree~ quested to give to the librarian the numj?e ber of the book they wish to consult, and that it will be brought to them; at the perusal of which one is disposed to I1" fall back upon the exclamation of Solomon, that "there is nothing new under ^ the sun."?Popular Scientific Monthly. x- Individuality or the Horse. 8 rg One thing curious and interestir, 0? about the horse is its individuality. mi..- ?._ \\ 00 JLUis i? ? ujuurauitJiiBiiu uummun tu un w animals, undoubtedly, to a greater or y less degree, but surpassingly so, we q think, in the case of the horse. How I({ tbis characteristic varies in horses is fc7 well known by any one who has ever g intelligently drawn a rein over a pood q* roadster. The individuality of horses rg varies as much as that of men. Every aa one has a different mental as well as Qf physical make-up. Some horses seem m to have brains, to have sense, are quick ,i8 to understand and obey the least sign, q_ motion, or word of their master; others ja are not inaptlv termed " lunk heads," always awkward, lumbering about, es difficult to teach, and never " make any01 thing," in a borseological sense. It may be true that these traits in a horse 0 are sometimes due to the habits of his l(j driver or owner, and that the horse itid sell may not be so much to bJame lor his 0f ignorance, but however much he may be excused on this score there is a sur,g prising difference in these mental qualic'm ties of horses. Some men drive and use 3g horses lor years and yet never realize gt anything, or that mere is any more ir difference between them thnn there is Q. between so many barrels of saw-logs. v" Other men who handle horses a great deal, who buy and sell frequent.y, and in who study much their different charg acteristics, will tell you how wonderful a' horses are, how much more they know '" than some men, how much each one has ? to be driven and handled differently, and 3t bow much they will sometimes t^ach even their drivers! Between a nervous, " sensitive, intelligent horse and his con? siderate owner how large a union of 3 fellowship and sympathy exists! In ' the stabie, on the road if overtaken by an accident, the cool, sensible man is ' sure to have a quick sympathy for his r.. ) TT - a. L.. U*. ,j laimiui uorse. nu irusi-s 1113 master us r_ Lis master trusts him. If the master is g7 quiet the horse will be equally so, knowre ing that everything is sale; if the master blusters, or becomes anxious, or exhibits fear, the horse knows it at once, and seems restive likewise. Oh, that men only Knew that horses know much more than they give them credit for, and they wonld use them more humane^ Ij than they now do. Horses are not )e brutes; thev are noble, intelligent, j_ sensible creatures, the most useful animal servant whicii Divine Goodness has given to man, it 1 > Those in pursuit of the marvelous may >r get a grain of caution from the lollowie ing. taken from an article on "Living id Toads in Stone," by Thomas G.Denny, ie in a recent number of " Science Gossip." It " Most of us have heard of' Flint-Jack,' ;n but I do not think many readers of tbis d journal have met vfith any manufac2r lurers of fossil toads; but I knew, many 3e years ago, a working naturalist living c- in Leeds who used to prepare for salo d toads -stated to have been found in be-'s >n of coal?by baking them perfectly blaok in and hard in an oven, and then taking re square pieces of coal, and splitting Id them carefully, cutting a hollow in eaoii ?n portion to receive the'an cic-slitptUo.' in it A factory has been discovered at Mills waukee, Wis., from which 12,000 pounds of oleomargarine are sent out every dry. ;n with no marks to distinguish it from is genuine butter. ii n- The Coniss Centennial engine (1,400 P" horse power) is being placed in position at the Pullman works at Chicago. C., WEDNESDAY Garibaldi and Bis Wife. Miss Brewster writes in the Philadelphia Telegraph as follows about Garibaldi ana his wife: Francesca is a j 9hrewd woman, and Garibaldi baa great confidence in her economy and management. He gives her all the B20.000 J which he receives as an annual salary from the Italian government. The greater part of this large sum she in- ] vests in land for their two children, Clelia and Manlio. She has built in her native town, Saraccehi, a great ugly house upon a hill and furnished it with * much cost, but in wretched taste. She ' rroc o ni)oaanf nrirl nf .QoronnVii a anKurK T! i? i/uiMJMUU gill VTA MiUU^VUl! t? OUUU1 U ol St. Damiano d'Asti. AJter the house | was finished. Donna Francesca was of ' course dying to see it, and also to show J her.-elf off as Garibaldi's wife to her old " tovnfolk. After the Genoa-Garibaldi J jxl ibition was ended, on their way to " Mi Inn she dragged the poor old mau up J ;o Suracchi. At St. Damiano d'Asti a a iroression of her townspeop le met them. c 3aiihaldi was lifted, bed and all, into a sarriage, and taken up a steep road to 5arm.chi; from thence up still higher to t Dor.na Frances ca's new house, which p )vcrlooks her native village. Green tri- t, imphal arches spanned the roads; a peeches were made; there were loud c mrrabs, and Donna Francesca drove a riumphantly through her old town, v rhere she used to run about barefoot, a A iroud and happy woman, the wife of q u* n z'?ijz ?J *i-? i ? - uu gieaii uran janu, auu mr iioaiesa o n ier former mintreES, Garibaldi's daugh is er, Teresita Canzio. Saracchi is a poor tl ittle Italian village, -with about 200 in- I labitants, all tillers of the land. There t; 3 a school supported partly by Donna i'ranceeca and partly by the commune >f Antignano. Donna Francesca ' bul- j ies" the whole set. When they were ^ iving in Rome, in the villa outside of t( 'orta Pla, the daughter and sons of t| Lnita wished Garibaldi to go to gee t| ome person that, for some reason or ^ ither, was disagreeable to Francesca. p Ivery time the visit was proposed ? Yancesca grew surly and said: "No!" ^ )ne day when they were all eating, the p isit was again proposed; Garibaldi Jj, aid, slyly: "Y- * yes; letusgo!' Then G )onna Francesco rose in her wralh. 0 he took her plate, which was full of j? oar and brocoil, and smashed it vlo- p :ntly on the floor; then seized the table ~ loth and whirled all the dishes off the ible. She brandished her knife about 3 she informed them that the visit . aould not be paid, and, moreover, is lould never be mentioned again; she k ashed her knife against the wall, where P le point stuck. Then she seized Gari- e1 aldi's couch and wheeled him out of s< le room, he all the while chuckling tl washer display of temper. * it 1s need.- ? .unpleasant raWeJMJS She is a capital nunjelwraKind ? ad devoted to Garibaldi. She is as * rontr m a -horse; can lift the old man P' i her arms, rubs him patiently, dresses di 3d undresses him, andnevfirgiveshima flJ :oss word. She puts him to sleep as il: P( e were a baby, and then locks him up P< i his bedroom if she is obliged to go g< way, so that he may not be disturbed, tl 7hen they were living at Frascati a oi '.w years ago a deputation came ? om Viterbo to visit the " General of the ai Lille, or Thousand." When tne comlittee arrived, the membt-rs were told iat it was impossible to see Garibaldi, cl i he was asleep; Donnu Francasca had P' ,cked him in the ledroom, anci gone o5 y; > Rome on busing with the key in her d: ocket. "But we mu3t see him," the lc jmmittee members cried. " We have tl sine all the way from Viterbo!" The h :ply was: " Impossible, unless you can h 'ait until Donna Franci?sca returns." U hey could not wait, ano had to go back si ) Yiterbo. without an interview with lc le old general. ai ? c< Testing Her Innocence. The following touching sccne recently Cl ?eurred in a court of justice in Paris: ?' vwoor pale wiaoistress was arraigned V o\ theft. She appeared at the bar with J aet baby of eleren months on her arm. 1 She went to get some work one day,and 2 Jtole three gold coins of ten lrancs each. , The money was missed soon after she ? \eft her employer, aud the servant wfs ? ent to her room to claim it. The serVvat found her about to quit the room " jib thi three gold coins in her hand. S)esaid to the servant: "I was going to-?rr J them back to 3 ou." Neverthe- 11 lesfts'ae was carried to the commissioner a of v>iice,nnd he ordered her to be sent r. befoe th? police court for trial. She was \jo poor to engage a lawyer,, and c whenpsked by the judge what she had p to sayfer h?rself, she answered: " The v day I vent 10 my employer's I carried j* my chia wit'a me. It was iu my arms ? as it is .ow. I was not paying attention Jl to it. liere vere several gold coins on J, the mam<Jpiecfc, and, unknown to me. it stretchy out Its little hand and seized 1 t.hrpft ninfja ithinh T HiH r?r?f nhcnnro D until I goiho$L" I at once put on my c bonnet, an' -mTgoing back to my em- ^ ployer to rtAir, them, when I was ar- 1 rested. Tin' is he solemn truth, as I a hope for heaven', mercy." c The court 'souli not believe this story. y They upbraided the mother for her im- ' pudence in endeworing to palm off ^ such a manif*'^ iie for the truth. They 4 besought her, :?r hsr own sake, to re- E tract so absurd t tale, for it could have 5 no effect but to obige the court to sen- r ten;e her to a, mncj severer punishment 3 than they were dismsed to Inflict upon ^ one so young and evidently so deep m 1 poverty. > a These appeals hiufrio effect, except to strengthen the poonmother's pertinacious adherence to tor original story. c As this firmness was^sustained by that I look of innocence whiih the most adroit c criminal can never counterfeit, the court ? was at some loss to discover what <le- c cision justice detnandtd. To relievo 6 their embarrassment, one of the judges 8 proposed to nnew the scene described 1 by the mother. Three gold coins wore < placed on the clerk's table; The mother i was requested to assume tho position in ^ which she stood at her employer's i house. There was a breathess pause in t court. The baby soon discovered the t bright coins, eyed them for ^ moment, < smiled, and then stretched loifch its liny t hand, and clutched them in its fingers 1 with a miser's eagerness. The mother ? was at once acquitted. ??? 1 An Apple-Paring Bee.'* ( Apnles are so plentiful all over the , country that the very fact ought k> in- j duce the return of a good old-fashioned | amusement in the shape of apple-pat ing ' bees. Such a bee was given at tUe.resi- , dence of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Johniton, , Fifth avenue, New York, the other. i evening. All the ladies appeared dreastd j quite in the fashion of their great grand < , mothers' time, mob caps and large whit? ]! j neckerchiefs being conspicuous featurw j'. of the costumes worn. Real country j', tare of the most approved !Sew England . type was provided, to the infinite de- , light of the guests, not the least import- ; ant items of the unique menu being enor- ; mous mince and pumpkin pies, veritable '! patriarchs of all the rest of their kind, , Mtliinl) tirnrn onnonnnunfln !n great state, and received by the assembied.company with due reverence and ; applause. And, to crowu all, says the ! Commercial, a live tiddler, quite a connoisseur in the repertoire or Sir Roger dc Coverly's day, made his bow just at ( the right moment, and opened the oruer ' of dancing with a brisk country re?i in ' which every one preaent then quickly joined. " Oh! the long evenings of duets and tris! 1 The admirations and the speculations; llx: < Mamma Mius!' anu the ' Amoor Mios!' 1 ll,.i i'unti Pulpitis' on such occasions "? l when compared with an evening like the above! ? j It is said that a cave, large enough at 1 the entrance to admit a "coach and 1 four," has been discovered in a mouu- : tamous formation some thirty miles back ol Black bay, on the north shore of Lake Superior. i , JANUARY 5. 188 v ' ' < - ' v> TIMELf TOPICS. The missionaries must be making progress in Japan when the chief priest of the Chioin temple at Kioto is so dis- j tressed and alarmed at the spread of the ioctrines of Christianity among his , Jountrymen, that lie ha3 drawn up a memorial containing his arguments against ;he Christian religion, and transmitted it to the department of education. ^ England is beginning to be troubled it the number ofpeople coming to the 1 [Jnited States. The London Economist sstimatfs that the emigrants coming to t ;his country during the current year )ring with them $35,000,000 in specie. ^ vhile the average value to the United , States of each person in adding to the >roductive resources of the country is t 1940, so that the number landing this ' rear constitute an "actual or potential .ddition to the wealth of the country " >f$100,000,000. . Emigration as a national evil is sorely J roubling Italian statesmen. Statistics 1 rove to ns that 1,168,000 emigrants left heir overtaxed country between 1868 r nd 1878, having previously obtained a ertiflcates from the government,where- t s an unknown number annually depart ^ without letting the government know. ? ind of all these it is estimated that oneuarter go away w ith the determination y ever to return. The largest contingent q 3 supplied by the province of Venice, a he next by Genoa, and the third by t /ombardy, apparently in exactjratio to c heir former prosperity. s Hon. Wm. E. Dodge, president of the rational Temperance society, who lias g een a Jarger contributor to the cause of \ smperance than any living man, says h liere is no greater error than to suppose <j bat the work of the temperance societies as been in vain. He claims that in the D ast fifty years the cause has made tre- ^ lendous progress in every part of the a Duntry. Even in New York the old 0 ractice of proffering the glass of wine to c very visitor to the household has be- t] ome extinct, and he thinks the custom ^ I " wining" guests on New Year's day i being effaced, although the fashionable eople nave become excessively extrava- ? ant in the use of rich wines. " s That the old superstition that Friday & i an unlucky day for traveling still i] eeps people at home on that day is p roved by the experience of nearly fi /ery railway conductor. Of the pas f ;ngers on the New York division of c le Pennsylvania railroad, fifteen per ? ;nt. are carried on S^y^^^averS^fhtother week J iva. The days ofljeft^wt trayel-arfr * ^proximately Monday wnu nineteen er cent., and Saturday with eighteen jr (ent., there being many persons Ding to and returning from business on u lose days. The percentages shown y i other week days are: On Tuesday, 5.25; Wednesday, 15.75; Thursday, 16; ? ad Friday, 15. The project of tunneling the English '! tiannel vigorously t] ashed. J ears has been expenffl^B^^lr this 11 irection has now sunk a shaft to tbc ? ivel at which it is proposed to pierce le tunnel, and the infiltration of water J! aving been* checked, there is every ~ ope that the enterprise may be carried Jj > a successful termination. Anotner iaft is to be immedlately sunk for tbe * iwering of tbe necessary machinery P ad materials. Then tbe experimental P Dmpany will be regularly organized ? >r their great undertakinz. Already 7 2rtain more sanguine spirits not only '' ;e the tunnel completed, but are talkie about, bridging the channcl as well, 'resently, no doubt, remarks the New Tork Graphic, we shall hear the propo- i ition mooted to tunnel the "Atlantic, uch an object would seem bardly more aring now than was the scheme of an . cer i cable, or tbe Pacific railway J vhen it was fir3t broached. Tbe far West editor drops into poetry t nd stays there very comfortably, workng his pinions at tbe rate of Bixty lines fl in hour. During a recent storm three > epresentatives of the Comstock press I assembled in Virginia City, Nev. The c onversation turned on "newspaper 8 oetry." One said it was the easiest i rriting in the world?that is, the averge poetry as seen in the papers ol the i ay. He could write it at the rate of a t ine a minute on any subject- The point e ras disputed and a wager finally made hat the rhymer could not throw off g hen and there sixty lines of average t ewspaper poetry in an hour. The only a onditions were that rhymes were to be t >f the nature known as "allowable," ( tie usual "poetic license" should be / llowed and *' applicability " should be t onfincd to no section. Tbe wager was < iron by the poet. The verses were E urned with the regularity of clock i vork. "There," said the scribbler at i he end of a few ticks less than fifty-two i ainutes, " I have won the bet and given t ou a grand kick-up to end with by ( hyming a dozen times or more on a i ingle word." The man who lost the t vaster had a terrible revenge. He pubislied the whole poem, "kick-up" and ill, the next morning. The following i3 the report of the sub. j lommittee appointed by the joint con. sessional committee on the xorktown i lentennial celebration to prepare a pro- i gramme of ceremonies at the dedication i flin V.^rlrf-rtorn mnnnmont - The M [uests of the national government will < issemble at Washington, October 18, < [881, and be received there with proper ] leremonies by the congressional com- i nittee. The committee will proceed i vith the invited guests and such govern- i nent officials as may join them to York- < own, to arrive there on the morning of < ,he 19th. Preparations will be made ] luring the morning for the landing of I roops, and the oration and poem will < <c delivered at 2 o'clock p. m., with i lucli accompanying services as the com- ] mittce may determine. These services ] will consist of brief addresses of wel- j jome by the governor of Virginia and < ithers, an original ode, the laying of the I jorner-stone with an address by the 1 President of the United States, who will 1 be invited to preside on the occasion. 1 Hie exei^ises will be interspersed with ] music by the military bands present and j with salutes by the artillery. Ou the f -Twentieth there will be a grand parade 1 3f all the military organizations present I in the battlefield and a review by the ] President of the United States. The military exercises will conclude with a dress parade. A competent army officer will be selected to take command of the parade. It is hoped that a naval review i n:vy bo held on the twenty first in the : adjacent waters. The governors of all ! Lite States will be invited 10 De present i w-jili their military 6talfs and such mili- i tbry organizations as may wish to ac- i jKapany them, and it is particularly dejij-id that at least tiie thirteen original ; Stntes should provide lor as imposing a ' representation as possible by the presence of their civil officers and military urbanizations. The committee would suggest, without presuming to give any aavi\-c in the matter, that each State pi'oviwe itself with i-uch means of transport :itAoE as will utlord accommodation wlu e jl rt sent at tue celebration and will unaDie \it to take part in any local scrvic?s\ which may take placc. Texas fin importing large numbers ol uieriiiu s.'iecu, the number imported iuring ihiv past season exceeding that ot any JV.rrAier season during the past ten years- \ Poverty iV ji> want, of much, but avarice demand* everything it haa not. the soiT: f have noticed that some farmers, in order to obtain a large quantify to turn dow3, wait till a later stage. W May not much of the difference of "ai opinion of the value of green manuring Lot arise from fctfs causeP On valuable ^ land, near read? markets, the loss of a Xh( season, or even a single crop, would gjV( often pay for mature ana hauling it from . market; still in stch cases there is much Jl (rreen vegetable natter, refuse, which J - ? ?' ' ^ lv _ i FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSMOIB Farm and Garden Notes. Apples boiled with meal are good for plugs. A balky fodder is the natural food of ruminants. Charcoalf or turkeys is highly recemnended as a fattening food. Tomatoes are a wholesome food for sens, and tliey like them. too. A uniform use of water is essential to ;he healthy growth of Cornstalks contain more potash than ' iny other fodder fed to cows. Pots containing flowers should be J cashed as often as any mold or fungus j growth appears. , Sheep manure is much richer than i hat of cows. Practically it is estimated ] it nearly double the value of that of i attle. j This is the season for sorting out the j nferior fowls and sending them to mar- l :et. Keep only the finest specimens for 1 text year's breeding. < The progressive farmer should never ! est content with the result of last year's ] .chievements. but cress forward to 1 ligher culture, better crops, cleaner ields and grander successes in the seaons to come. Water made slightly salt, and to srhich bran in the proportion of one uart to every gallon has been added, is aid to . increase the yield of milk by wenty-five per cent., if it is tfiven to ows as their ordinary drink. After a bort time the cows will refuse pure rater, unless they are very thirsty. Figs that have been raised on milk, rass, clover, tubars and roots until they reigh 100 or 200 pounds are generally ealtby. They are then in a good conition to fdtten. For storing onions there is no better lace than a dry, cool and airy lolt, rhere they can be spread out thinly, nd often looked over for the removal f those which may have begun to de- 1 ay. Warmth and moisture are fatal to lie keeping of onions, and much hand- < ing is almost equally so. One needs not to be much of an epi- J ure to be able to distinguish readily the j ifference between a fowl that has been hut up and delicately fed for a time be)re killing and one that has been forced o scratch for a living. Confine fowls atended for the table in a darkened < lace, give them plenty of milk, either I resh, thick or sour, with grain and < able scraps, and you will have a deliate articlc of food, with no strong j chicken1' OTttoyrr.M'r touggtm sum-1J ior, ana it needs so umomt to snow t jat it will be profitable to expend ;veral dollars per acre to reduce this to wo acre3 for a cow. I am more and lore in favor of mixed grasses and eavy seeding for permanent pasture. Phere 1 sowed orchard grass, blue rass and timothy with the clover, it is ettcr now than it was the first year. A successful old farmer once said that one acre of land well prepared and cu'vated will produce more than two rhich ieceivc only the-same amount of ibor used on one. One cow, horse or lule, sheep or hog, well fed and cared >r, is more profitable than two fed on tie amount that will keep one-well. >ne acr<; of grass is worth more than wo of cotton where no grass is raised, "be farmer who never reads the papers, nd sneers at book farming and imrovements, generally has a leaky roof, >roken-down fences, and complains o( ad seasons and poor lands. The farmer rho is above his business, and intrusts - - *-1- ~in /Inn aooanr hflfl J OLUero IU uiaiia^c, m uuu ??* I o business to attend to." I Health Hints. It is said that a po !*''*'' of fresh tea eaves moistened with water wiil curea tye on the eyelid. ; The true physiological way of treat ng burns or scalds is to at orce exclude he air, with cotton batting, flour, craped potato, or anything that is lanaiest. The inhalation of air charged with ammonia vapors, as a remedy for whooping-cough, ha3 been tried in l"rance with success. One of the methods of application employed is boiling tmmonia in the room wnere the patient s. To cure an ingrowine toe-nail keep a toteh cut in the middle of the nail at he top. Always cut the naii straight tcross, instead of in at the corners. Speaking of corpulency, an exchange ays: Take a hint from the lower ani nais; those who feed chiefly on ammai md vegetable ultrogen are lean, as liens, igers, vultures, crows. Those who live m grains and carbonaceous foods are at, as the bovinea, the equines, domes ic fowls. In general, the avoidance of ;arbon in its various forms oi starch md sugar will produce leanness, though f one has a tendency to corpulency it nay not be entirely checked by diet. Vigorous exercise is a help in checking his tendency. Active and nervous features are always lean. Oversleeping labitually and overeating produce ex:ess of adipose. Windmill* on the Farm. A writer in the Country Gentleman jives his experience with windmills as bllow3: I have had a windmill in use on my jlace about a year?thus far for pump* ~ nnin i>. raispfl the water I U* VY MAXIJ AW ..... brty-five feet from the bottom of the (veil to a tank in the upper story of one jf my outbuildings, from which we Jraw at will at both house and barn. For pumping it is a complete success, ind if kept at work would pump probibly fifty times the water we need. We asually put it in gear about once in tbree >r four days, and let it work till the tank jverflows and then stop it. It is readily jut in or out of gear by means of a iiandle near the ground, and a small ;hiid can start or stop it. The wheel of ;he mill is ten feet in diameter, a size large enough for pumping, unless a very large quantity of water is needed, but it is my opinion that for sawing wood, jutting hay, etc., or other work where ;he attention of a man is required it would work too slow with an ordinary wind to make it profitable. A larger tvheel might answer as a power for such pnm ?nH the Surposes. rui fuumus ke there need be no difficulty, for if supplied with a grist it would grind without an attendant. Not a single Lhing has broken or got out of order in my mill so far. Care ot Young Plffi. Three or four weeks is the age at which pigs always need the most careful attention. At about this period the pig reaches a point wnen the milk of the jow is not sufficient to keep ud a healthy growth, and unless the pigs have been taught to eat before this time, there will always be trouble with them. The only ;J ii. 4. U *1 i. \ way to avoiu il is iu leauu mem w eni, and drink at the earliest possible age. This may easily be done by placing a little milk or other palatable food, in liquid or semi-liquid form, in a trough near them, but where the sow cannot tec at it. By the time the pigs are a week old they will begin to taste it, and then they will very quickly learn to eat heartily. Give them plenty of nutritious, palatable rood from this time on, and there will be no further difficulty.? National Live S ock Journal. Uretn Food for the Land. After speaking of the advantages of " green manuring," a correspondent of the Country Gentleman says: In experience, after a course of many years' observation, I have found thatgreen manuring plants should be plowed under previous to coming into bloasom, in order to obtain the largest beueftt t' y y S* t might, instead of going to the compost w " heap, or being left, as is too often the case, to waste away in the air, be lightly covered in the soil, doing much good, the Even a small growth of some kind of " grain, if sown very thick, would be a trac great benefit; not so Wich, perhaps, in eral the amount of ferlilizitg matter it would J .4 add to the soil, as in th-^charL^t. I Vno w at that hereabouts we cannot grow fair ong potatoes on soil which has been planted ser to hoed crops a few years, but if we seed ? it to clover or grass for a single year, pre good fair potatoes are produced inquan- p cities. I suppose that land gets " sick" of ??!! the plow and hoe, the same as one does T Df the sameness of breakfast, dinner and ,A rapper; at all events, I have kno ?rn land a.D0 well manured (as the times go) fall off in yield, while if some different plant be ^9rj rrown one season, or a few weeks' growth of some grain be turned under, a mrprising change is produced. Different ioils, in different localities, vary in the Bill <ime when lailure or sickness begins. boh utcipct. tho English Sauce fob Hot oe Cold i Boast Beef.?One tablespooful scraped aorse radish, one tablespoonfal made L nustard, four tables poonfula vin- men jar, one tablespoonfal powdered wh< iugar; blend all ingredients together mea ind serve in a gravy dish. " Tl Eice Pie.?To a pint of boiled r;ce for i t<3d a pint of rich cream, two eggs, salt, A md a little mace. Let these ingrodipnta at tl ie well mixed, spread half the quantity o ie n a deep baking dish, lay pieces of inte shicken upon it and cover them with the exc remainder of the rice, and bake in a hot do* >ven. . mer Salad of Cauliflower.?Boil the ;auliflower ti l tender; let it get cold; ;hen let it lie for an hour in a mixture >1 oil, vinegar, pepper and salt. Then Irain, heap it in a disb ana cover wna Mayonnaise sauce. A Pertinacious Landlord. " Isn't there such a crime as conduct :alculatfd to provoke a breach of the jeaceP" asked a nervous-looking man Ii )f a police jastice yesterday morning. yet "Of course there is," responded the and astice. just ^^^n^d^^^warr^for^my land- 1^5 h^Tront steps and howls for bis money, cans f I should kick the whole spine out of 1. lim I'd be arrested, wouldn't IP" as 1 " Yes; I think you would. Why don't witl rou pay him*" 2. " That isn't the question. He comes busi o my house at four o'clock in the morn- blo< nv anH veils throueh the keyhole, and foui hen be goes up through the vacant the louse next door and gets on my roof it a md shouts down the chimney. Says he 3, vill have thai monev. III should droo. 4m l flat-ironcn him. or blow him up witnN pan )owder. it would go hard with me, \.4L wouldn't it?1' bj? "Pretty apt to. Can't you come to tntt lome understanding with himP" 5r, " It seems not. Say, has he got a right ger io climb over my fence and have fits in 6. ny back yard, just because I owe him a" abo ittle money P" rub " Does he do thatP" rat< "Of course he does, and when we haul and lim in the house, he yells murder and 7. Iraws a drowd. Have I got a right to is tl naul the life out of him with a club for bet' ;hat?" T "I think not," responded the judge, vali " Why don't you move?" woi '* That's got nothing to do with it. pro [ want to know if he is entitled to slip hea ap on the ice and fall through my base- V ment window, and do $10 worth of Jibe damage to the glass. Couldn't I mash the stuffing CJt of him for thatP" ' certainly not." - ?? "But when he lays down olrthe sidewalk and Howls tbat his mother is dead- Nel and he can't bury her because I won' | ^ pay what I owe him; haven't I got any the remedy P" are " I don't know of any. I think you'd dm better pay him." tell 4' But isn't it conduct calculated to pro- the voke a breach of the pea e, when be 8hc comes around with a quart of laudanum ere and a hor9e-pistol and threatens to take prc 'em both right on the premises if I don't ?oi put up P Ain't it a crime when he hangs cat nimself to a tree in front of my house is j with a paper pinned on him that I drove j8 ( him to suicide? Won't the law touch set him for coming to my door at daylight wj and claiming he's me and yelling that I vei want to get in and lick my wifeP" w( "I don't think you can do anything m( but pay him or move. The man has a bo right to his money." to "That's all I want to know," replied an the nervous man, appearing relieved, wc I'm the landlord, and my tenant says thi he'll have me airested for doing th"se th< things. Now you bet he'll put up that mc ??? T'll fall r,ff tnn nf the I f+fki vvcaiuu ui . u u?u v? ?? ?-r- ? house and have the Inquest in the par- of i lor. A man can't live four months in str my housr for nothing without going to is ] some trouble, now you hear me," and thj the nervous man pranced off, glowing Th all over with grim determination.? a f Brooklyn Eagle. hei yoi The Power of Salt. sto A writer in Chambers' Journal says th< that certain facts have been made known 6" which shof? that lime is a good pre- is-1 esrver of timber. Ships and barges we used for the transport ol lime last longer than others. A small coasting schooner loaded with lime was cast ashore and sunk. She was raised and set afloat ^ once more, and remained sound for rec thirty years. Again, a platform of nine u0 planks was used to mix mortar on dur- t mg three generations; then, baing jo te(j longer required, was neglected, and at j e length was hidden by grass that erew over it. Sixty years afterward, on clearing4he ground, it was discovered, sound and preserved. But it seems to , have a rival in salt, for it is said that in tu. the salt mines of Hungary and Poland the galleries are supported by wooden r piilars, which last unimpaired for ages, h ' in consequence of their having been lm- ^ pregnated with salt. Pillars of brick , and stone used for the same purpose crumble away in a short time by the , decav of their mortar. It is also found , that wooden piies driven into the mud of salt marshes last for an unlimited ^ time, and the practice of using timber in docks by immersing it for some time in salt water after it has been seasoned is generally admitted to make timber more durable. External causes of decay, such as dampness, may be made ?? imperative by the painting ol the wood; q( out ury rou ia.Ktj3 piauc me*pcunvu uj the presence of paint, and seems to be due more to h^at than to dampness. < Possibly salt might be S3 used as to pre- br serve wood Irom dry rot, while paint is! would protect it from atmospheric causes tic of decay. ba ? th John Haberstraw is not a very ro- a mantic name for a hero, but a poor fei- an low who bore it sacrificed his life'near ^ Hagarstown, Ohio, in an attemptfcosav the lives of others. He was alone : hand-car when he saw a special r gpr train almost upon him. of his own safety and solici* that of the huadreds ' ' the approaeliing trs; the car nntl pu*fK preventing wlostrouacol'' over anr* ern h' th? ?y%T TTlfTl - 1 "Wy -ift1 HUMOROUS. e bear of a grocer who calls his scal?fe| abash " because they lie in weight.hHR| nil Citizen. Wm man in & passion resembles comBB i redder he sets the more heat WH ? out.?Philadelphia Herald. New York piano manufactories ipany has failed. They were unable ieet their ontstanding notes. Real estate is advancing rapidly, no mistake," said Jones, a* he dug dost out of bis eyes of a windy day. Weil, wife, you can't say I ever conitcd bad habits." "No, sir, you g<mlyexpand them.*? Clcvtlandlake > EbjJ/wJi%fcia eijri who to an-am handkerchief flirtatious tbf&to" fhfe . I ;ht to be appointed cbief of tbesI&BsI I rice. I I am a man of /ew words," said J ndereast. "True enough,*1 replied '1 :g," true enough; but you never tire epeating them." he only remarkable thing thus far J **11- T> L.K t. (KA lib iXJLUU* UClUUMUb O TiM? 10 >uv y Hilar fact that she has not yet in- ; sed every American piano as " the___ t" in tho market.?Norritiovm Her- i Whan I was a young man," say* inea, " I was always in a hurry to . i trie big eiid of the- log and do all ') lilting; now I am older, I seize hoUh-s** he small end and do all the grantittle Jimmy is laid up with the ] isles and suffers a great deal, hn^^ >n he was aske<* how he isles he brightened up and lie doctor savs I can't eo HHIH a week.QalvetUm Afeutf.S ifl good churchman was he breakfast table on the conduul of the vestry when - lie-was suddenly rrupted by bis hopeful, aged seven, laiming: " Papa, why don't you pull m your vestryman P n~ Boston Comrial Bulletin. Little Mabel Morton Gliding o'er tbe ice Says onto her lover, " It is just too niee." Twenty minutes later Birdie starts for hpete, Busted is her bottle' *" And her tortoise oomb. ' I am no doctq^^Wck.or piU-vendeJ|?;J I have had/ good long a happy ojj& 'jgjm not, thereforaBB ^ give my ufMl^ MnFs for health, essomep^BBBreeron HhSeBBt fi % nld save, I apprilfri4? loDg your life, atijdjaik. \ 1th goes, make it ^j6rKl& i i 7iU you, then, praetfci tht Storms in ne of the faults of the clinfttefjaipKW DifesfcMetter, is the terriUMHSiHH| ir frequency at certain times, aiflOB irkOddenness. Of these storms theiffiM two Iliads?the wind st>rm and ttWaB it storm. ^Vrljfoh is worst is hard i. A most unpl^itv^aut pt-^liarity ; storm is its apnearauC? 5? V^H| >rtest notice. Vennor, d by some as a tolerablTj?ufe^t"e|gj^ ?phet in the East, w<ft^o?ion hmlJH metimes when there are ax.the indj- ^ ions of an appr aching itot?. thert 10 storm, and vice veragwbeLtto air 3lear and pleasant, a storm maS*??e ldding along in twrtty minutes. The *3 ndsare often very severe, and are ry bareful. They sometimes blow for seks acd weeks at a time. ?he coty <i? >n trees here are the cottonwood and r-pldera. Manv of these sje blown shreds by the windi each is Its fore?, d the softness of the fiber of the ud. Often the wind blowswjJSriskJy it 0Le can scarcely keep his footing in ' ) street, and if a grocer or dry goods xchant chances to leave boxes or iks out of doors he has the pleasure seeing them blown rapidly down the -;jjsj eet, and very likely if his signboard loose it will follow after. No~wonder it runaways are frequent in Lincoln, e soil is very porous, and it takes hut ew hours to reduce a mudouddJe to a ip of dust, and then if the wind blows a have what is known here as a dust rm The streets are not paved and j wind has full sweep. The air is ed with dust at these times, and iife out a burden, and this lasts often for eks. It is impossible to keep clean. The OfflcfrHe Was After. i Galveston millionaire was asked ently by a detection of his friends if would not consent to allow his name be used in connection,with the Uni . States senators nip. ue ivpueu miu never had meddled inpolitics before, t just now he had made up his mind apply for ^^position other than the tatorshit). ' Ah! I suppose you want to get on i supreme bench," sail one of tbe " amiitee. The heavy property-owner shook hi? ad and toyed with his $5,000 diamond '* * Perhaps GarfieW is poing to offer u a plac<> in his cabinet P " ' No. You haven't guessed it yet." 'Foreign mission P1' ' Gentlemen, I'll be candid with you. v years I have been trying to get the y authorities to have the slop-barrel . my back cate emptied once a month. d have failed. I am determined^? ve that slop-barrel emptied, so plied to the city council forAhe p^ >n of driver tj a scaveng? ilveston News. ^ yS&pr Of late the queidoao' ed2er??lP V year r ' ! *||fe ;. , y-:. .' 3PI " 'g . 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