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!Tho Sinsrin? Bird, i ' "Oh, swept, sTrft, ihe ?wal'ow ?ung, ( From the nc?*t he hniUtal high: j A.111I tlio robin's raptured echo rung From his leafy pereh elose by. j " Oil, sweet. sweet, sweet." rang the joyful tune | "Oh, sweet, sweet. sweet i- the world iti June, j ' 11 Oh, sweet, sweet, sw? et," the maiden said, As she twined her hair with llowers; ; From bird and Moscow the eeho speil V Through the long and biU-ful hours. ,?" Oh,sweet, sweet. sweet," rang the joyful tunc, i sweet, swvi't i.-> tit.- world in June." i " Oh,sweet, sweet. sweet,v the swallow sung On the summer's dyii g night; "sweet, swoet, sweet," the echo rung, ^^As^the roliin plumed for flight; "Oh, sweet is the summer when just begun, And sweet, sweet, sweet, when her lite is done.', , But the maiden, never a word she said, \ As she donned her weeds of woe; The bird that sung in her heart was dead, kWith the summer of long ago: The sweet. swe< r. sweet, of the bloom an.! bird I w r As idle mocking lu r dull ear Ik nnl. L.,- Oh, sweet, sweet, sweet is'the whole glad earth, When the summer days are here; ^^And sweet, sweet, sweet is the time of dearth, K Though the autumn days arc drear; S If only deep in the heart is heard H The gladsome song of the " singing bird. L I HANNAH AND I. HIR V j\Iy father had moved into a new r>laf?p. Prosnpctivolv. I enioved much I in the dethronement of our household ( ?ods, and the reduction of all our < worldly goods to a state of chaos. I ] foresaw the delicious suspense, anxiety , ind final dismay or rejoicing that would ittend the transit of our looking-glasses , md parlor chairs. I looked forward to j jwkind of nomadic existence about the . jfcise during the days wherein we were \ ^fir.g settled, to the exploration of , jnknown depths under the closet ( jtairs, and of mysterious recesses be- ] Lind the chimney. I expected to sit ] pd sing in the best rocking-chair, to , bll my tired limbs on the best mattress, pd to take my dinner with a large ( moon from out a fruit-jar. } | When, therefore, I rode up from the , [epot on top of the box containing my ( jiother's best china and glassware, I . Lli 1*^1/1 ?lr.rv i Si Hill <J \ 1 ^ UHU uuuirxu) aiou . id. TliO short cuds of my hat- ] fluttered spiritedly in the March , :e, and the anticipatory tremors in , jreast creaked tho .starched shirt- J beneath my jacket. ( a very tender nge we "realize that ] is a world of disappointments. ; he next fer* days my life consisted j ly in hunting up the hammor, run- j for lyiils, trotting up to ttie store lown to the tinner's and after the ( nter, pushing stove-legs into place, ( ng up footboards of family bed- ( s, lifting* tho comers of bureaus, ( ag upon tho painter and the wliite- , man, getting my lingers pinched, ^ ig scolded, getting a cold, losing f landkerchief, liaving nothing in ( ;ular to eat save a little baker's , I, and now and tlien a bit of beef, ( fstean cooiiod sometimes oy my motner sometimes by my father, sometimes by ( Man- Sullivan, and occasionally by all three. , By the third day I began to see that ( the anarchic style of housekeeping bos , - its disadvantages and to feel-that the m^0 brings of a naturally goodinstitution ^ were wj^jng o^ifcL^Tfamily service. moftfiig of that day I left my ^ Mn^i^ther and Mary Sullivan stretching a r |Kjppet fitted for a room 15x15 to cover dining-room, walked" , yard-to take the air. f P"? As I saunt eredc^aaUMJfteil?SS^e , L mvcv^^Tr 'greeted by a visioiTftf"*' yotfm?I cannot say of beauty?swing- f ing upon the gate over tbe way. The " vision " wore a large bombazine ^ hood, such as was at this time in high repute among grand mothers, but was nerer calculated to enhance the charms ' tif the young. A little plaid shawl was , pinned askew about her shoulders. One ,t of a species of embroidered pantalets J * * which, like the dodo of Mauritius, has since become extinct, had slipped down , and lay like a crinkled bandage around ; the top of her shoe. " Hallo!" said I. "Hallo!" responded she; " you're a mean, nasty bov!" " I should have promptly returned . . this compliment but for the consider- ! ation that I had just moved into the community, and everything depended : upon my acquiring a good reputation. ; Without replying, therefore, I began reflectively digging a hole in the gate- ' post with my jack-knife. The " vision " swung back and forth, and hummed " I want to be an angel." In giving an unusually vigorous lurch outward an apple flew from her hand and fell into the middle of the muddy street. 1 I digress here to state that, though a popular street, that portion of it in i front of my father's house generally 1 was muddy. During the spring and J **fall months wo had a large, swashy pool ' there?one that appeared to flow from ? a secret perennial source oPmuddiness. 1 Tn fho Tririt[ir TiinnHiv if frr>7.p nv?r and ! ""T made capital skating. During the sum- ; t; riicr it gradually dried away, until, at J the polly wog" season, when alo^p a 1 boy can take the highest rational enjoy- 1 ment in a mud-puddle, only a damp ' pot in the center of the street indicated ] he place from which the water had sub- ; i sided. It was now at high tide and the apple fell into the ooze just below it. 1 "Boy, come over and pick up my i apple," commanded my neighbor. Conscious of setting that young pagan 1 * an example of good manners, I returned ! the apple with a bow my mother had taught me. She gave it two or three cleansing dashes on her dress skirt and t.lion saidr "Lend me your knife and I'll give * yon half." She set the apple upon top of the gatepost, savagely jammed the knife through it, wiped the blade on her shawl and returned the knife with the larger part of the apple. " Thank you," said I. " What is your name, boy?" 1' George Harriman. W'liat is yours ?" " Hannah Ann Farley. You going to live in that house ?' "I expect to." "I'm glad of it. There's been a disagreeable, stnck-up little girl living over there. I thought when first I saw you, you were going to be just like her." This I took as Hannah's apology for iier recepnon. it was sausiaciory, ana W" we might then and there have beeomo friends, but at that moment Mar}' Sullivan came to our front door and called i me home. She said the brass-headed ; tacks were all gone, and I must go to i the store for more. "When I returned ; Hannah Ann was nowhere to be seen. i The next morning I was fortunate enough to find a live-cent piece in a : crack of a bureau drawer, and promptly f started for a store wherein to spend it. i The streets were so muddy I thought I i would go across and leap the neigh- : bor's fences. I was in neighbor Farley's yard when I was sharply hailed from a little window high up in the end of tile house. " Boy, come up here !" " How am I going to get up ?" "Go around to the kitchen, and ask mv mother to show you the way." I hunted up the kitchen, and found Hannah's mother. Prior to this time when I wished to represent a female figure upon my slate 1 had a triangle surmounted by an eclipse, and this in turn finished by a small circle; hereafter, with Mrs. Farley in mind, I drew a cylindrical ticrnre with a small circle on the upper end, and a slight depression representing the waist-line. After onco seeing Mrs. Farley I could never wonder that Hannah was forever borrowing a } in to fasten something on with. There could never be a more delightful garret than Mrs. Farley's, for never could there be a woman who could excel her in the celerity with which she would use up furniture. Such a collection of mirrors with shattered glasses, bottomless chairs, dismantled bureaus, and tables standing upon three legs is seldom mef ! " What cio you want to play?' asked Hannah. " Pirate." " What's a pirate?" I explained, and Hannah forthwith V became the most bloodthirsty of pirates. '< .. Jt was in mv heart to spare the women Vund children, but she refused to listen to such n proposition, and felled her > victims lef and right without regard to ace or s x. Once she pierced me through th s heart, and I fell bleeding, dying, hit icg my head against the chimney, cud yelling oat in unfeigned agony. AJterwai I, we were riding peaoefully aloiw ove* the green fields, and beneath the calrSl iue sky, on a two-legged and L vvry dusty sofa, when a party of brij^^^da swooped down upon ua', and bor? PMcepECKaeanti? ! wkm i IIII?MC ns off to a loathsome dungeon behind a ' dismantled bureau. We flattened our-' I selves and crawled out, beheaded the brigands, appropriated their spoils, and v returned triumphant to our own homes. We were very dusty and covered with n cobwebs when I remembered my live- o cent piece and said I must go. u " Give me half of what you're going c to buy, and I'll go with you," said t Hannah. a I couldn't very well refuse this goner-} t cms offer; so she put on her hood and 1: shawl, at my suggestion tied up her shoe- j strings, and we started. She expressed u & preference for black licorice, and I i ' expended my money upon that luxury: j c and shared it liberally. We came home ! v hand in band, and though Hannali went I t over-shoe in mud and water three times, ' she bore it with inimitable good-nature.'t From that morning our friendship i matured rapidly. Sometimes Hannah i f was at our house; sometimes I played in i the Farley garret; and sometimes when R she had a sore throat, and wore a pvepa- j * ration of lard and camphor-gum around j * it, we had permission to play in Mrs. ~ Farley's parlor. "Whenever Hannah * stole cookies and ginger-snaps for her- i * self, she always laid in for me; when j Man- Sullivan made tea-saucer pies for I ^ me, I carried them red-hot from the j 'i oven to neighbor Farley's, and Hannah j md I watched them cool with hearts | " that beat as one. Then while one-half i * the juice drizzled over my jacket the j D corresponding half dripped on Hannah's I ~ apron. Hannah was passionately ionu i :>f"jooce!" j" "Wlien scliool opened, Hannah and 1 ; went hand in hand, and stood by one 1 mother in days of adversity as well as I Jays of prosperity. Hannah being a a miserable scholar, her days were mostly | s af adversity. The months slipped away, and the j rears grew apace. My father petitioned ; the town authorities to fill up that mud j s puddle in front of our house. The j c town authorities gave every encourage- i a mcnt that the " whole board" would be l ^ ?n the spot at an early day, but we I !, looked for them in vain. My father 1 raade a second and third importunity j 0 frith like results. Then he pressed his j a jrievance upon their attention as gen- : tlemen and men of honor. As gentle- j v>on nrwl mnn nf lirmnr (mve their A-ord that the matter should be neglect- f ' 2d no longer. We lived upon that j _ promise six mouths. Then my father, j ,, jrown irate, threatened to sue. The i board, becoming defiant, just wished lie | ^ tvould sue ; they should like to see him j a sue. At this retort my father's feelings 1 n rose to the summit of moral indigna-j :ion; ho wouldn't sue; he scorned to . lower himself to a quarrel with such ^ men ; but he would pay no more taxes j . in that town; and energetic prepara- : :ions for our removal began. ! ^ Hannah and I were sitting upon the j ^ ;dge of Air. Farley's coal-bin when I j . communicated to her my father's de- j ^ lision. As soon as she saw I was in j earnest she dropped over upon the! mthracite, and gave veut to a llow of | :ears. She declared that she couldn't j ind wouldn't have me go. She should j g lie with loneliness, and she wished she I >vas dead. A few tears of mine drizzled j >ver into the bin and mingled with , Saunah's. Afterward she appeared re- j ?onciled,and manifested intense interest ; , n our preparations, obtruding her ser- j , of YmitoA mnfil mr mnflipv I ?lared she should never be ready to go ? if that Farley girl couldn i be kept at j J liorutc. L. The rfrfirningof our departure dawned j ^ it last. Mynutiei- ai*\ io : n ;ho. depot, leaving me tofollow, as I i had come, on the last load of eoods. "" j B-was-an-ApriL morning, succeeding ! i heavy rain-storm, and the waves of my ; a father's mud-puddle ranhigli.^Hym^^? at upon the old patuni^M^^^^^^H ?ate, sobbin form xiss. She clutched frantically at my j c jacket, but, realizing that delays are 1 langerous, I sprang upon a dry-goods j e box in tlie wagon, xne norse, mosi se-1 j rerely afflicted with spring-halt, started i c off at a fearful gallop, and we disap- j peared around the corner forever. I e As soon as circumstances would per- j \mit I addressed a letter to Hannah, and ) a soon received a reply, of which the fol- ! $ lowing is a verbatim copj: j a .V'/ Dectr Gorge:? ! y I now set down to let you know how i I am. I have had a soar throat nerely ; s all the time sence yen Left. Somebody Las shot our Cat. School commenses j y next week. I dred it. A new family ! j has moved into your House, there is too j 1 boys, Eddy and willy. If we never see j i each other again on urth I hope we may j meat in heaven. Yours Truly, J t .Hannah a. j? able*. i s The letter also contained two blots j t and a grease spot and was directed by j f Hannah's mother, wrong side up with ; n care. I wrote her oncc more,but received ' c no answer a failure which I attributed to a her aversion to all literary labor rather : r than to any diminution in the ardor of ! t ber affections. I attended school for the next three ] I :>r four year3, and then entered the I e wholesale mercantile business in the j v service of an uncle. I became a rishig ' t roung man. Some of the time I rose s rapidly, as gaseous matter and young 1) men between the ages of sixteen and n twenty-five are in the habit of doing. ; t: Our family also prospered. From three- I h ply in our parlor we passed by easy stages through body Brussels to Eug- [ c lish Wilton, and we numbered the o successors of Mary Sullivan by twos . v md by threes. . j -p Presently I arrived at that age whereat ; extremely witty people begin pointing at 1 a voting man peculiarly sharp and or- o iginal jests concerning the subject of j s matrimony. At first the implication j s therein conveyed that I had only to j choose was gratifying to my vanity; but j s by the time I began to direct any serious a thoughts that way myself, so much solid e wit had become an insufferable bore, j There were girls in large quantities and ! s excellent qualities all around me, but 1 the thought of advancing to auything c serious with any one of them always j r suggested Hannah. " : r My reminiscences of Hannah were not | i such that I could crcato an ideal femi- j t nine character of her; bnt when a fel- ! low has sat in a coal-bin with a girl and ; taken alternate sucks on as many Jack- ; son-balls as 1 had with Hannah, no subsequent experience can ever entirely c efface the impression. I had a curiosity c tolnow what Hannah had become. The , c surest way to satisfy this cariosity c seemed to be to go and see her. I ac- ti cordingly went. t The girl was pretty. Sho had color | t and frankness ; she had grace and re- -i pose of manner. Her finger-nails were 1 c scrupulously kept, root and crown, and j r her hair was tflossv. as well as fashion- ! t ably dressed. j c The year we left town Hannah's' j mother died ; and after the billows of; aftiiction had surged over his soul for j t about six months, Mr. Farley again be- ' f held the sun and took a new wife. The , c new wife hail taken infinite pains with j t her step-daughter. The step-daughter's t present appearance, as compared with J r her former condition, bore favorable J t testimony for the lady's system. Han- ' v nah said that when we were children I 1 had seemed like a brother to her, end I j d at once placed myself upon a fraternal . v standing. I interrogated her in regard a to the occupants of my old home, and 4 she finally confided to mo that she was engaged to the younger Wetherbee, the c "willv" of her letter. j I afterward saw him, and could not $ but inwardly applaud the discrimination lj that led her, even in childhood, to be- : t< gin his name with a small letter. Ho n was an individual of from 110 to 115 0 pounds weight, though what there was i i, of him was drawn out and judiciously v distributed with a view to making the J 0 most of straitened circumstances. There ; ]] may be no more ink in an exclamation j point than a vowel, but it is better ; }j adapted to attract attention. As to a color, energy and vivacity, Hannah had j enough to supply three just like him. ^ Hannah's, I soon perceived, was the r philosophical form of engaged life. One ; t evening when we went to walk, she said j v to me : I z '* Mr. Wetherbee has his faults; no j one knows them better than X. But ^ where," added she, touchingly, "where { will you find a man who hasn't faults V" ? "Where, surely!" responded I. | t " I don't look for perfect happiness (: here below," continued Hannah, pen- i { sively; "I've seen too much of life for ' r that!"?Hannah is some years my junior ^ and must at tin's period have arrived at I t the mature age of nineteen years. I returned home and two years slipped away. I was still halting between two j opinions and looking inquiringly at a third, and the " opinions" had bgun to manifest lively symptoms of taking care of themselves, when one day in a neighboring city, strolling through a paperbar factory whose proprietor was my friend",WBttTciicr^ss Hannah. " How in the world came you here?" >luntly ejaculated I. "By the fortunes of life ami the milray." i didn't know whether she was to bo ddressed as Farley or Wetherbee. and ibsening thai she was dressed in deep tiAiivrtinnr nnvfVnnrr tlinf ivncrlit. uggest explanations. She presently old mo that her lather was dead. Then ,s I sought her confidence?on the fraornal basis?she told mo that her father lad left his estate incumbered. " Those disagreeable Wetherbees hold mortgage on the house," said she, 'and they are just the exacting, unaeommcda'ting kind of people who couldn't hesitate in foreclosing the day he time expires !" She bad set herself about earning iiouey to pay the indebtedness. "You sco," said she " the property is oft by will to mamma and myself conointlv. If it is disposed of at a forced -i- -i t- nmi lilt; 11 musi uc ill u ^ituu pauiun, iuiu lien poor mamma will be left without a tome. She lias done everything for me" -here Hannah's large eyes filled with ears?" and it is a small thing for me to rv to save the home for her." I said I wondered she hadn't sought a iifferent kind of employment and sug;ested teaching. " Oh, I've tried applying for schools. Nvo or three times I've received invitaions to examinations; and they've given le perfectly dreadful lists of questions -asked reasons why we performed perations that I never before knew we id perform." "Music, then." "I love music; but there are three eachers to every pupil. This is pleasnt work, and I am happy in feeling I hall save the home for mamma!" "When 1 reached homo that evening I old an opera ticket I had purchased in he morning, and, whereas I had always rnoked fifteen-cent cigars, now pur based a box at ten cents (I gave inern way before the close of the week and ent back to fifteen's) and asked mother ' there wasn't a place somewhere in lie city where they cleansed and dressed ver-soiled kid gloves to look as well s new. For the next few weeks I had considrable business in a neighboring city, nd I used to transact it in season for tie threc-o'cloek train, and then conln.le to wait for the express. Hannah as always in fine spirits, buoyed up by lie belief that she was making sure rogress in paying that debt. I should s soon thought of discharging the ational obligation by peddling matches. One warm Saturday afternoon, when stood by her side, and she leaned back itigued, but distraetingly pretty with lie loose hair culling around her jmples, she inadvertently laid her hand n the corner of the table next me. It as growing thin and the H formed by lie blue veins on the back, and which, 1 the days of youthful simplicity she ad told me stood for Harriman, stood ut with great distinctness. I suggested being allowed to make an rrangement removing lier from the ecessity of liquidating those debts. >he refused to listen. I pressed the latter unnvailingly. I then went to the proprietor, told im Miss Farley was an old schoolmate nd a friend of mine, who was heroically rying to save the family residence for er stepmother, and asked him if he ould not furnish her a better position; ut Frank is the most obtuse of creatures. Ie finally asked me if she could keep ooks. Rememberin/5-?34^iJJirgflS-in bat useful epistle Dy no leans confident, but ssacfl: " Give her the books, any way, and Dok to me for d^.ages.'' He found tlirff she wrote a neat hand, nd liad a slight inkling of double ^Lv ; but when it came to the subject ^remuneration, and she asked him M, much lie had paid his last booltPior, hgjiad the ?^ifiity~ torei^ 1 He liad 8800, but I ishall allow vou 1,200.' " Ah !" said she, "he Mas an old and xperienced bookkeeper, while I know ittle about it. Why under such cirumstances do you increase the salary ?" Frank wouldn't have scrupled at an ntire series of equivocations in his own lelialf, but since only my ir>t?rests ^ere t stake, his conscience b >came as tenler as George Washington's. He finally ckuowledged that the increase was proid ed for by a friend. " I shall accept the position at $800," aid she, with dignity. I went up and held a conversation ritli Hannah. I "reasoned" with her; ! "set things in their true light;" I ' made matters clear." It did seem as f she might see, but she wouldn't. Upon the urgent and repeated invitaions of mv mother she consented to pend her Sabbaths at our piace. one ras in the frequent receipt of letters rom her stepmother, in which the aost affectionate sentiments were ouched in the most beautiful language, nd on Sunday evenings she used to ead me extracts from these letters with ears in her eyes. The pay-day came at length whereon was morally certain she would receive nough to complete her payments. I rent to see her ait her boarding-place hat evening, and broached the deferred ubject. She attempted evasion, but I ad decided that if ever I was to have ay own way in this connection it was ime I began. The result was I went tome with her the next day. We found Mrs. Farley had just deided to marry the former chairman f that board of road commissioners rho wouldn't fill up my father's mudmddle. "I think, Hannah," said she, reflectvely, "that perhaps we'd better dispose f tlie property, and take our repective portions to purchase our trouseaux with." They did accordingly, and one " repective portion " was made up as quickly s I could spur on an able and experinced corps of dressmakers. During the years that have elapsed ince that eventful period, or.r domestic ife hag been sometimes critical, anil >ften peculiar, but always jolly. I've lever seen the Lour when in the inmost ecesses of my heart I've regretted that ny father's family once resided opposite hat mud-puddle and Hannah Ann.? 11 yfieUl Rep u hiica a. The Animal World. A cattle drover near Chicago owns a :ollie that is said to be a marvel. One lay a bet was made that he would take sharge of thirty cattle, then in a car, til being unknown to the dog, as soon is unloaded; that he would drive them o his owner's place, which was distant wo miles; that although it would be loces.sary 10 unve me uuuuuia uinuug ?tber cattle on the way the dog would leither permit one of the strange cattle o join his drove nor would he allow one >f his thirty to stray from its com >auions. The dog won. In the court-house tower of Norrisown, Pa., a flock of snow birds has lived or over five years, yet with every stroke if the bell announcing the hours as hey passed the birds have never ceased o leave the tower in the greatest constellation, but maintain their position in he air until the last stroke has fallen, rhen they at once returned to the tower, .'hus every hour has their rest been listurbed during the entire period 1'ithout, however, causing them to seek nother lodging. The bell weighs nearly ,000 pounds. Otters are used in fishing at Pondiherry on the banks of the Matta Colly, .ishop Heber relates that they drive the lioals into the nets and sometimes iriug out the larger fish with their eeth. He saw at Pondicherry a row of ine or ton very large and beautiful tters, tethered with straw collars and r>ng strings to bamboo stakes. Some ;ere swimming about at the full extent f their strings, or lying half in and alf out of the water ; others were rollng themselves in the sun on the sandy >ank, uttering a shrill, whistling noise, s if in play. Murdock McKenzie, of San Francisco iad a young bull that betrayed him by naldng a headlong dash for him as ho urned to leave after feeding him. Afaorite mare and a pet colt of Mr. McKen, ie's were qietly feeding some 100 yards listant, and no sooner -"was the worthy ;entleman struck by the vicious animal han both mare and colt were observed lying to his rescue with the speed of lie wind, and, charging upon the bull, Irove him away with hoof and teeth, hus enabling Mr. McKcnzie, who had ecovered his senses in the meantime, o stagger to the fence and climb out of langer. C.'ikhI tor unities. Wo arc pleased to sav that our baby was permanently cured of a herioua protracted irregularity. of the bowels by the use of Hop Hitter* by its mother, which at the same time restored her to perfect health and strength.?The Parents, Univetaity avenue, Rochester N. Y. See another colnmn. No lesfl than in lines.of railway are / _ _ The Loons. As the small stock of fresli meat we , Lad brought with us from Troniso was ! diminishing in a most alarming manner, I it was decided to put into a harbor, I X- ?1 ?n. I j lUlIL'U imiUt'H'ftS JJU>, ill VI VAC JL IV IV- | plenish our provisions. This bay was reputed to be a famous place for i "loons," as Brunnich's guillemots arc invariably called, and well did it de-; serve the reputation it had acquired, for it was one vast loonerv, teeming with birds. The bay wa.v bounded on the three sides by high hills, terminating at the water in abrupt, precipitous cliffs, about 100 feet in height. Frost and the action of the weather had formed nar- i row ledges 011 the faces of these limestone cliffs, rising in regular stratifica- , tions, tier over tier, from base to summit, j These ledges were the looneries, and : 011 them were congregated myriads of; birds. So thickly were they clustered : together that the combination of their 1 black and white plumage made the face ' of the cliffs assume a " pepper and sa;t" hue. Some idea may bo gathered ol j the countless numbers of these birds by the fact that my companion and myself in less than two hours bagged GOO, j * ? ? - - 1 ! 1 .1 1.. 1 and, Uatl we required it, many xmuureus more could have been obtained in the j same space of time. On the first dis charge of our guns a perfect cloud rose 1 in front of us, completely obscuring the j face of the cliff. The noise produced ; by the tremendous whirring and flapping | of wings can only be compared to that ; made by the fall of water from a large 1 cascade. As they flew seaward they , struck us in the boats, while the killed i and wounded fell upon us like hail. The . incessant flight of these birds in differ j ent directions, during the days we re- | mained at anchor in the bay, reminded me more of the swarming of hundreds I of hives of bees than anything else; so ;, continuous were their flights (hat we used to find it almost impossible to i1 sweep the land carefully with a telescope , for game, in consequence of the rapid , passage of these birds across the fiolds : of our glasses. The loons build their j! nests on the lodges of the cliffs, where their eggs, of which there ; only one , 1 in each nest, are perfectly secure lrorn j the depredations of all thieves but i the skuas and the Glaucus gulls. : These latter birds breed on the summits j ' of the cliffs, immediately over the ; I looneries, which they watch with a 1 jealous and greedy eye. The male and i i female loon alternately guards the ; ^ precious egg, and woe betide the un- ; 1 fortunate guillemot who should be j ] tempted away, by food or otherwise, j 1 from his sacred treasure. The watchful ! 1 skua or burgomaster quickly swoops j 1 down, and on the return of the loon its ; I nest is empty. We were, unfortunately, I a few days too early to obtain any of |1 the eggs for our breakfast-table, but we j 1 reveled for some time in such delicacies j ' ns "Innnsouu." " stewed loon," "cur- ] ried loon," and other ingenious methods j; of cooking those birds.?Captain j : Markham, in Good Words. ! j i i Words ot' Wisdom. Nature is content with little, grace 1 < with less, but lust with nothing. To give pain is the tyranny, tc make i ] happy the true empire of beauty. Divine vengeance comes with feet of: J lead, but strikes with hands of iron. ; 1 He who bears much from others, finds ! J that they, after a while, bear^much from . him^ . . - - - ; r -Tne habit of. saving is hard in the ac- . quiring j but, sometimes, too easy in the i retaining. . . TVia onvinrn! man sees 110 means of 1 equaling the person above him, save by j i pulling liim down. * i God hears the heart without tL < words, but lie never hears^the^-w^^^ without the the foundation of manufactures, siuce the jiroduetions of; nature are the materials of art. God's laws were never designed to be like cobwebs, which catch the little i flies and suffer the large ones to break ! through. Length of days is wisdom's right- j hand blessing, typical of eternal life; j but it is in her left hand that are riches and honor. Ignorance and deceit are two of the worst qualities to combat. It is easier j to dispute with a statesman than a j blockhead. Events are not determined by the 1 wheel of fortune, which is blind, hut by ! | the wheels of Providence, which are j j full of eyes. Make a good beginning of living in youth ; for your after life will bo too i busy about its own concerns to return | to rudiments. A slave has but one master; the amI bifious man has as many masters as there are persons whose am may conj tribute to the advancement of his for-! I tnne Saved by a Water ISiillalo. The water buffalo is an animal much in j use in Singapore for purpose of draught. ! i It is a dull, heavy-looking animal, slow I at work and disgusting in appearance, ! but remarkable for sagacity and attach- ! ment to its native keepers. It has, : I however, a particular autipathy to a j European, and will immediately detect I him in a crowd. Its dislike to and ourage in attacking a tiger is well- ! known all over India. Not long ago, j as a Malayan boy, who was employed bv j his parents in herding water bull'aloes, was driving his charge by the borders , of the jungle, a liger made a sudden spring and seized the lad by the thigh, and was dragging him off, when the two ' old buffaloes, hearing the shriek of dis- . tress from the well-known voice of their ! little attendant, turned around and charged with their usual rapidity. The tiger, thus closely pressed, was obliged j to drop his prey to defend himself, j While one buffalo successfully drove away tho tiger the other kept guard OTer the boy. Later in the evening, when the anxious father, alarmed, came out with attendants to seek his child, he found that the whole herd with the exception of the two old buffaloes had dispersed themselves to feed, but that thev were still there?one standing over the bleeding body of their little friend, while the other kept watch on the edge of the jungle for the return of the tiger. \ Tlic Sargasso Sea. ! This is the name given to a portion of j J the Atlantic ocean covered with the sea- . i weed, sargassuni. Its boundaries may be indicated by tracing a triangle, of i which three corners are represented by the Azores, the Canaries and Cape de Verd. "Within those limits the sea is clothed on its surface with a garment of j vegetable material, so thick as to retard ! the progress of vessels sailing through ! if. Steamers avoid it becauso of the fouling of their screws and paddles by the , weed; but sailing vessels bound to the i West Indies, South America, the Cape of j Good Hope, etc., must pass tlirougii it. , j When Columbus, on his first voy| age, lmd got some distance to the west-! ward of the Canary Islands, he was i I amazed to find his ships in what looked like a meadow. As far as lie could see, ; the water was covered with a greenish yellow plant, as water lilies cover a pond. This was the first time such a ! thing had been seen and the sailors ! were scared. Columbus could not exI plain the sight he saw. and mi^ht have ; thought with his men, that the weed ; was the covering of some dangerous ! rock which lay a short distance down. ; ready to tear and rend them. The lead was hove but no bottom was found. The ships kept on their course, and in a few days they got clear of the weed. Story of a Picture. Richard Gibbs, ex-minister to Peru ! from the United States, narrates the I ; following anecdote: At the centennial j exhibition Gibbs was greatly attracted j by the picture of " Yankee Doodle " , ! It pleased him so much tha; he bought! | a chromo of it aud took it with him to i Peru. He arrived home in time to keep ! "open house" on the Fourth of July, | and this picture was the center of atI traction throughout the entire day. The heart of every American who looked j upon it was stirred to the very depths, j and some of them actually shed tears. I Many of them were not satisfied with | one look, but returned again and again to gaze upon this pictured semblance 1 which aroused all their patriotism and j love of country. One man, an Amerij can, an attache of the government, came I back late in the evening and asked ! permission to look once more upon the ! picture, Faying he believed it would cure him of home-sickness. He gazed at it long and earnestly, and he parted with streaming eyes and trembling lips, j The news came in the morning that this ; man had died daring the night,far from : home and kindred, with nothing but j > the memory of this picture to comfort, him. ABOUT BRUSHES. Fuel* About Their iUnnnfttrture?YVIiei'O ihe BrlHiIos Come From. Brashes are among the more common articles in constant use, atul like a great many other articles that are universally employed there are many interesting facts concerning them and their manufnfhivo. Tlio varieties and kind of brashes are so great that it would be impossible to give all due consideration within the limits of a newspaper article, but a few facts concerning ordinary bristle brushes may interest the average reader. It may seem somewhat singular that it should be necessary to import any article or material entered into the construction of ordinary brushes, and yet it is said that there arc millions of pounds of pigs' bristles imported into this country every year. America is considered a great country for the pig. We expor; pork in immense qualities, so why do we have to import bristles ? The reason is simply that the bristles on the back of an American pig are not sufficiently "" > " ?i-- 1 4i.? still, ana ave 01 no vaiue except m mc very cheapest grades of brushes. In this country the pig is bred for pork, and it is usually slaughtered when one year old, and hence the bristles do not have the opportunity to becomo very stiff and hard. The best and most valuable of all bristles are those which come from Russia. In all that country the hogs run wild, frequently reaching the age of eight or ten years. They are hunted and shot down, and thousands of pounds of bristles from their backs are exported to America, where they are worth about $5 per pound. In Poland nearly or quite as good bristles aro obtained. In both countries the linrrc for.,1 linrn linrlr nnd vnnls. Are lank and lean, find valuable only for their bristles. Large quantities of bristles are imported from Germany, which, though not quite .so heavy or stiff as those first mentioned, are much superior to American bristles, being worth $3 per pound. Bristles are also imported from France, being of a liner texture, more suitable for fine varnish brushes, and worth SI.50 per pound. American bristles are worth all the way from thirtyfive cents to $2 per pound, but, as stated befoie, are used only in the cheaper grades of brushes. It is stated on good luthority that until within the last five years all tooth brashes were imported From England or France, but that within that time their manufacture has begun in this country, and that now the home manufacturers can compete with their foreign brothers. Another article used in the manufacture of brashes is tampeco, a sort of wild grass that grows in Mexico. When this is colored it is cullicult to discern it irom naxr. jli i* imported in large quantities from that country, and is worth twelve cents per pound. Horsehair also is largely used in making brushes. ' It is sometimes mixed with bristles, and sometimes used by itself. (Strange to say, it is impossible to obtain a sufficient supply in this country, and large quantities are imported from South America, where it is Dbtaiued from the manes and tails of wild horses. It is worth fifty cents per pound. Rice root from Brussels is another material that entei-s into the construction of some kinds of brushes, and considerable quantities are imported. The mattttfacture of brushes is not particularly interesting in its various operations, though some branches of it require considerable skill and ingenuity. Ihei material into which the bristles are set usually comes to the brush manufacturer partially reatly for use, but considerable labor is required to put tho goods in condition f01^4he market, even oit^-^Tie^usUeJnTfe set. The first "->cess is to sort the bristles by taking ^ ndful and passing them through a upright steel points, like the teeth of .1 comb. There nre about as many methods of making brushes as there are kinds of brushes. In paint brushes the bristles are arranged around the small end of a conical stick and secured by twine wrapping. A great many brushes are made by inserting tufts i.tbristle into holes bored in rows. Ofte-. rimes they are secured by dipping the 1 -'Ot ends into hot pitch, winding a piece of string around these ends, then dipping them again, and quickly find dexterously introducing them with a twisting motion into the holes, where the pitch sets and holds them. Many brashes, notably hair brushes, are made by driving qh'e bristles through holes and fastening them with wire. A skillful person is known to have drawn live hundred tufts in an hour, but one hundred in an hour is considered good work. An ingenious machine has been invented for making flat brashes, which tills from sixty to eighty holes per hour. Much of the work with bristles is performed by girls and women, many of _ 1 ? AVA11C! 1 n flio WllOIU ueuuiut; ijuiio ut-miuuii i.. business. The delicate brushes, called also hair pencils, used for water colors, are mr.de of hair of the camel, goat, badger, sable, squirrel and other ani mals, by binding a bundle of them together, after being carefully arranged and their points temporarily protected, and sliding this through the large end of a quill till the points project sufficiently far through the smaller end. The tube having been previously softened by water, contracts as it dries and holds the bundle of hairs fast. The best brushes of this kind are made of hair taken from the tail of a species of Russian sable.?Boston Herald. He Didn't " Bunko." " 1 ~ 1 1? /Irwu-r, in TV*. X 1115 UlllilYU uicu nuuouu UVH14 *4? troit si:c weeks ago to make 'their pile have had p. hard tune of it, and must be about ready to leave. Fact is, the gan:o is too old to work on our citizens, and strangers who reach here are generally pretty well posted on all sorts of games to deceive. The other day there was a dreadfully innocent-looking farmer doing a little trading at a Woodward avenue harness store, when one of the bunko steerers got after him for a sheephead. After followiug the stranger long enough to learn his name and place of residence, he suddenly confronted him on the corner with: "Iiello! Mister Smith! Well, well!" "You've got the start of me," said the old man as lie looked bunko over. "But I know you. You live just outside the corporation limits of Blankvillo, and have got one of the best farms in the county." "Yes, that's so, and who be you?" "I am a brother of the postmaster." " Is that so?" "Yes, and I've seen you in the postoffice a hundred times. How are all the 101KS "All well, I believe." The farmer not only knew what bunko was, but his sou was postmaster at Blank ville. Nevertheless lie asked: " Seen your brother lately V" " Not for three months, but I'm coming up there next week." "Sure you've seen my farm, are you V" "Sure? Say, didn't you miss some earlv pears one night last fall?" "l'es." " Well, I?ha ! ha !?I'm a great lover of early pears, and I was there about that time." "Say, I'd like to speak to you," said the farmer as he looked up and down the street. " Certainly. Then we'll have a glass of beer together and I'll show you around town." The two walked up Congress street to Bates, and half-way down Bates to Larned, and then the farmer reached for the collar of the bunko chap and said: " When I found them pears gone 1 swore I'd lick the thief if I had to live a hundred vears to do it!" " But I?I?!" "Stole my pears, did you?robbed my pet trees, eh !" growled the farmer as ho slammed the young man around. "No! no! never !" " Lying won't help you a bit!" muttered the old man, and he put on steam and cracked the boy's heels together, slammed him against a brick wall and Hung him un a snow-lieap with only breath enough left in his body to agitate a feather, while his store clothes were a sad sight to see. " He stole my airly pears last fall," explained the old man as several persons came running up, "and if I hadn't got the worth of 'em back I'll have to wait till some other time. He'll come to directly, r.nd if he feels like talkin' he'll give you all the little particulars !" But when bunko was helped to his feet ho wouldn't say a word, and was in such a hurry to get somewl.ero that he wouldn't stop to dig the snow out of his back hair.?Detroit Free Press. Holland, in spite of its East Indian possessions, consumes the poorest of coffee; all travelers complain of this, for it is universally adulterated. Sea-Way. The tide slips up tho silver sand Dark night and-rosy day; ' It brings sea treasures to the land, Then bears them all away. On mighty shores, from east to west, It wails and gropes and cannot rest. i Oh, fide! lh.it still doth ebb and flow Through night to golden day; Wit. learning, beauty, come and goTliou giv'st, Ihoii taka't away. I But sometime, on Home gracious shore, ' Thou shalt lie still and ebb 110 more. | ITEMS OF INTEREST. A down-East girl who is engaged to a lumberman says she has caught a feller. ?Boston Bulletin. "An Egyptian disposition" is a thievish propensity, "gypsy" being a contracted form of Egyptian. The Bay of Naples and the Bay of Biscay?what horseman has a finer pair of bays.- -Steubenrille Herald. There is nothing on earth so lowly but that duty giveth it importance?except sifting ashes on the nigh side of a healthy wind. Boers aro not by any means confined to South Africa. It is astonishing how many are to be met with on a single day's travel in the United States. A Rhinebeek lady calls her husband a fire-escape, because ho lies abed just - * '"? 1 1_1 - long enough to near me woou cibukio in the cook stove.?lihincbeck Gazette. Some enterprising searcher after painful realities tells us that the cucumber was cultivated 3,000 years ago. The inference is probably drawn from the fact that many bodies at that early date were interred in a sitting posture, as if doubled up with the cramps.? Modern Argo. There is in Baltimore a boy named " Ollie," who is just out of dresses. A friend of the family asked Ollie "Whose bov he was?" "I'm mammy's boy." "Why, Ollie!" said'lis father, reproachfully. "Yes," continued Ollie, "and I'm papa's boy." " How can that be?" asked the friend. "Why, my gracious!" was the reply, " can't a wagon havo two horse;1 ?" The restaurants have had such a run of custom that some of the waiters are a little inattentive. A stranger called for a plate of oysters, and after smelling them, he said: " Waiter, are these oysters fresh?" "We are not running an intelligence office." " I would -like to know if they are fresh." "Well, then, eat them, tlxcn you will know for your self. You don't expect me to out them for you, do you ? Do I look like I was here to try old oysters on?"? Galveston News. The laborers in the St. Gothard tunnel have suffered from a mysterious disease that long baffled all physicians ; but an Italian physician, Dr. Giaccone, has now traced it, with the aid of microscopic investigation, to parasitic worms that are engendered by (he underground atmosphere and lodge in the intestines of men working in it. A Swiss physician, Dr. Sonderegge, has supplemented this discovery by devising a method of expelling the parasites. The two doctors are hailed in Switzerland r.s benefactors of their race. j The revised census returns show a : total of 25,520,582 males and '24,(532,284 j females in this country, an excess of i 888,298 males over females, and a total j of 50,152,8li<>. New York State has ! 2,500,283 males and 2,577,527 females, i All the States along the_Atlantic coast. i except Delaware and Florida, contain more females than males. Alabama, i Louisiana anil Tennessee also show an i excess of females. All the other States have an excess of males, lint Maine is very nearly equally divided, it having j 324.084 males and 324,.SGI females. Th? i most marked cases of the excess of males | are in the Territories and the newer | States of the West. A .Moorish Coft'ee Stand. i Leaving the market-place we passed through a crumbling old archway into a ! shady lane shut in by high walls. Here j a Moorish colTee stand was established j in a shanty run up against the inside of i the arch,and benches were placed along i fim wnli? nf tlio lane for customers. It was ail amusing study to watch tlio keeper of that coffee stand at work preparing the cup of coffee ordered for me I by Simon. He was a littlegray,wrinkled man with bent iigure, clad in a complete suit of flame-color, which gave him a semi-diabolical aspect to eyes i familiar with the opera make-up of ! Gcntlie's Mephistoplieles. His oddlyshaped kettle, too, placed on a very small stove level with his chin, had I something alchemical about it. Seen j in the gloom of the shanty, the fancy ! easily transmuted it from a kettle into j an alembic for the distillation of unt canny liquors; and the patient, keenly ! watchful face of the old Moor as he ! m-nvmrl nortioii of coffee for the cup ! o- x and fanned the flame under this alembical kettle, would have made a very fair model for a Paracelsus. Men might come and men miglit go in the quiet lane, pacing from dust and strife of the market, but this true artist went on intently grinding the berries and fanning the lire as if his earthly horizon had been bounded by the wall of his rickety workshop, and the whole duty of man had been the brewing of good coffee. After live minutes waiting the powerful portion was put into my hand. It was worth waiting for. Black and thick and strong, the sip of liquor in the tiny cup half lilled with grounds was more refreshing than a quart of the mawkish mixture hurriedly slashed into one's cup by the breathless waiter of a Parisian cafe.?Temple Bar. Valuable Recipes. Pulls.--Take one box cigars, Colorado i claro, Havana fillers. Mix theso judiciously with a newspaper reporter and J wait patiently until the next number of i the paper appears. Suet Pudding.?This may bo easin prepared by newspaper men. All that is necessary for the paper to do is to j libel some person, and he will quick 1} suet. The pudding, while making, should be stirred energetically. Waite Cake.?When some chum comes up, slaps you on the shoulder and says, "By Jove, old boy! you take the cake!' and then wants to borrow a few dollars, lend them to him. Then you'll have enough wait. This makes waite cake, i To Prevent Lamp Chimneys from i Breakii1 -This is easily done by burnj ing candles. { To :Makt> Coal Last.?Burn coke. Printers Pi.. ?This delicacy is madby mixing twenty-live bottles beer (quarts^ w'th a sleepy compositor, and then turning him loose in a composingroom where (he type is standing on galleys. Soft Soap.?The principal ingredient I is tally; mix this with people whose disI ..!<< vnnfnvicf ins nrn eonceit | llllf?utr)uiii? ami egotism. Specimens of this popu| lav soap may 1- found in almost any I newspaper, | To Raise Greej lVas. Turn your j hens in the garget. ? l>w.: A. I'latinmn Workina*. The only platinum worker in the ! United States is Joaquin Bishop. of Sugartown, Chester county, I'a. The As ! sociaiion of Mining Engineers recently miulo an excursion to tin; works of Mr. Bishop, to see his working of the in1 tractable metal. Mr. Bishop, who gets | most of hi.s supply of metal from the Ural mountains, in Russia, has l?een working platinum for forty years. In 1815 ho took a premium, Imt at that time the demand forplatinuin Mas so j small that it only occupied him one day 1 in the month, using the metal principalj ly for rivets to fasten artificial teeth. I Before the engineers Mr. Bishop melted i a piece of platinum with the ease that j a plumber melts lead. The intense heat used may be imagined when it is known I that a steel tile held in the blast burned j like a piece of wood. The Russian government used platinum in its coinage until 1S(!1, when about ^'2,500,(100 ! worth of platinum coins had been struck. The rajah of Bampoor appeared at j Queen Victoria's recent levee in a eurij oils costume, a compromise between (he j East and the West. While his extremj jtiea were incased in the black dress| trousers and patent-leatlmr boots of what i we t ern- civilization, his body was draped | in rich cashmere shawling, which hung i j about his shoulders in graceful festoons, j j while at the same time it formed a sort j i of Highland jacket, fastened down the I chesi. with gold buttons. ? | Philosophers say that affairs slum).I always j 1)? conducted with 3 view to the greatest good j of the greatest number. Dr. Bull's Cough j Syrup has demonstrated itself to be of the great- I cat good to the greatest number of suffereiv. j / j NEWS EPITOME. East and Middle. | A locomotive that has just been put on the Pennsylvania railroad is said to be the largest j in the United States. It is sixty-three feot long, with driving wheels six and a half feet | high, and runs between Xew York and Phila| delpbia. I Extensive forest fires are reported in seej tions of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. TTivnr T Jtm i.TT liavine <lf><*ltnn<1 tliA denev of tlic New York world's fair committee, ] maile vacaut by General Grant's resignation, . nothing further will be done until the subscrip* tions are in a more advanced state. A death from trichinosis has been reported in Hoboken, X. J., the victim being a woman. The doctors who made the antopsv declare that there were 50,000,000 worms in her body. The pedestrians Rowell and Weston have signed articles of agreemont in New York to walk for the Astlcy championship belt in England nest June. Font ladies have just graduated from the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women. TnB Delaware senate has killed the local i option bill. The Massachusetts house of representatives has defeated, by a vote of 122 to 70, the bill to give municipal suffrage to women. West and South. The Bank of Home, at Rome, Ga., has mad? | an assignment. A Tovifo colored man named Barnes at- j I tompted to assault a young lady near Sparta. | Ga., hut was driven away by two gentlemen. A party of men pursued Barnes, caught anc ] Killed Jinn. Great floods aro reported from the vicinity o. the Platte river iu Nebraska. Tlio rivor overflowed its banks, washing away railroad bridges . and dwellings, ami inundating towns and 1 j farms. The loss, exclusive of railroads, will b< ( i millions. | A coi.onr.n man named James Bates, whose 1 age the last census gives at 125 years, died o ' few days ago at Urbana, Ohio. 1 An ico gorge at Fort Pierre, Dakota, caused I the water to rise rapidly, flooding the whole 1 town and compelling the inhabitants to lice to 1 ! high ground. The damage done is large. The man-head in a puddling furnace in i Brown, Bonnell k Co.'s rolling mill, at Youngsj town, Ohio, blew out the other morning, the 1 ! escaping steam and flying debris wounding 1 | twelve men, three of them seriously. ! The Indiana constitutional amendments ] ! which wore ratified by a vote of the people one 1 j year ago, ami afterward overthrown by a deci- ' { mon of tho supreme court of the State, were ! I ratified by a large majority in a special election | the other day. These amendments tako In* \ | diana out of tho list of Octobcr States. The governor of Wisconsin has signed a bill : passed by tho legislature prohibiting the prac- ] I tice of "treating." The bill provides that any ^ ! person who shall hereafter ask another to , i driuk at his expense, or any person consenting ] to drink at another person's expense, shall be | ' liable to arrest and punishment. I COSIMAXDER CHARLES J. 3I('D0U0AL, U. S. N., i was drowned at Cape Mendocina, Cal., in at- j I tempting to land from the lighthouse tender, i j He was on duty at the time as lighthouse in- i j spector. A remarkable ease of fasting is reported at | 13attk> Creek, Mich. Last October Mrs. 1 i Henry Ingram had some teeth pulled and ' : this brought on naseau and inability to j 1 j retain food. The woman is still alive, hav- 1 ! ing eaten or drank nothing since Oetot ber. She is nourished by being bathed in beef , j tea, milk, etc., which act by absorption, the J quantity absorbed being nearly a quart a day | from these baths. She feels a sort of hunger ' j which is soon allayed by a bath, alter wuicn I alic feels as if sho had oaten. A bath of water i will qirtncli her thii-wt. Her stoaKUdjjs^said to ; be totally paralyzed. .Tames Cl'huie, who murdered Benjamin C. i Porter, the New York actor, mi Texas two years | ago, has himself come to a sudden end at Las i Vegas, New Mexico. Ciirrie, it appears, was ' on u drunken spree, and threatened to kill ; several peonlo, among whom was a bartender, who in self-defense shot the Texan murderer. The ball entered Ids forehead and camo out at the back of his head. A party of railroad I hands, friends of the dead man, attempted to : lynch the bartender, but the sheriff succeeded j in gettin? him to jail. A coroner's inquest was , i held, and the jury at once returned a verdict ol | shooting in self-defense. Further heavy floods are reported in the , j West. At Yankton, Dakota, tho peoplo were I driven to the surrounding hills by the rise in ! the Missouri river. In the Platte valley ol j Nebraska three lives were lost and one-half the I bridge* washed away. From Washington. Thb President has decided not to call an i extra session of Congress. Tiir- lout ufa+r.mnnt ?1mu-a rtin tntnl nnmnnt t\i ' national batik circulation now outstanding to be ! $347,307,551. The total amount of legal-tender ' ; not'-s now on deposit by the banks is $31,610, 135, leaving the net amount of circulation of the national banksnow outstanding which is secured by United States bonds $308,751,410. A 1TLL history of the origin of tricliinoais, I the hog epidemic, au<l tho means for its pre1 vention. will soon be issued by the treasury de| partment Ok\ei!AL Lew Wallace lias declined the ap; pointmcnt of charge d'affaires to l'ai-aguay anil j Uruguay. j Lieutenant it. ?>I. Bemiy, United States ! navy, has been ordered to command the steamer ! Maryand Helen on the proposed Arctic expoj dition in search of the Jeannette. | A voluminous report on trichina) compiled ! DV Mll'gCOU uriaziur, U1 lUU iiiuiiiiv; iu/^ntai i ! service, states that nearly all animals may be | infected with trichina.-; but the heretofore com- , : monly received opinion that these parasites j j \\vre originally found in nits is untenable, although tlwy may bu reproduced in any animal j feeding upon the flesh of other trichinosed ani' ranis, of whatever species, and the circle of in- j fcction is thus believed to be kept up. There is j J not much ground for the supposition that hogs I are infected from kitchen slops, as there is j nothing essentially different in them from the { food eaten by the family. Hogs kept in stalls j in which trichinosed lioga have been kept will j become infected. The only menus of provcu- j j tion of disease among the swine are: First, I ' That the stall* or pens be kept wtupulously j clean. Second. The swine must have good, j i clean food, and not be allowed access to dis| eased meat of any kind. The practice of throw- j I ing dead poultry, rats or cats to swine is a 1 I source of danger, and should be prohibited by J J statute. Third, As soon as any animal is sus- I ! neeti-d ol'lieiiiL'diseased it should be separated t i 1 ?" - I j t'roin the herd. The report shows that triohinie | have been fouud in all countries whore search I " has been made, but owing to tho German habit ! of eating raw meat there have been more j ea-es of trichinosis in that country than else- j : where. The results of correspondence with i ! professors of anatomy and demonstrators ol ] . anatomy of neany every medical college and | i public institution in the I'ldted States wliero j j directions arc made are given, and the infre- | j cpiency of the disease in this country may lie j j fairly presumed from them. These statistics j ; cover the institution" above named from Xcw , Mnglaiid to the Middle. Southern ami Western j States, including California. A chapter is de- j j voted lo the general utility of public abattoirs, I and it is reiterated throughout the report that | ' ordinary cooking will de-troy trichina' and ren- ! i tier them harmless. The folly of any nation j 1 prohibiting theentryof pork from abroad when, in fact, no country i> without trichina? of its own. is well shown, and it is held to bo ridiculous io assume that a foreign variety is more . harml'el than tho.-eofa native production. I Foreign News. Tiik Itussian proposals for arranging inter national measures for the extirpation of the Nihilists are favorably received at Berlin. ^ Firry Indians employed in the quarries near Montreal have struck for an advance of twenty- : " five per cent, in their wages. / ltuioi.i'u Xieolkr A* Co., London rieo mer- j chants, have failed for .?5UO,OOti. j Advices from London state that the dreaded ] plague is spreading in Turkey, and that Europe ! J is already becoming alarmed, fears being expressed that the pest may spread westward. t PttiNi.E CllAUt.Ks, of K mmatiia, has been pro- ' claimed king of that country. 1 An indecisive battle, lasting six hours, has r been fought between the Biisutos, of South i' Africa, and the British, Colonel Car"ington and : K other English officers being severely wounded. ! < Tin: Boers demand indemnity front the British for the losses received during the late war. Movr.MK.vrs in favor of land reform and the extension of county franchise are making great headway in England, many organizations springing up continually among the small tenants nnd agricultural laborer*. A DtsvATtH from ltoine says: "A lady obtained a private audience with the pope, and warned liitn that the day and hour were tixed for tho murder of himself and Cardinal Pccci." A TEl.EfsitAM from "D.,"' the nihilist correspondent of tho IitlrtiHsi'jmnt at Geneva, dej elures that if Sophie Perowsky (afrosted lot complicity in the czar's murder), is condemned and executed Emperor Alexander III. \\ill perish. f Tub Berlin police authorities have expelled ! j eisrhteou socialists. I A warehouse seven stories high and filled f with a valuable stock belonging to John Has- | lam k Co., cotton manufacturers, Manchester, " Las been burned. The loss is estimated at 1-100,0.00. Ono fireman was killed anil two | others weYe dangerously injured. Last rear 95,857 emigrants left Ireland, being 48,103 more than in 1879. JiEBEATTER came lauueu ai ?,ugusu porta will be classiiied so as to facilitate the isolation of those affected with the foot and mouth disease. Russia is making strenuous efforts to induce the other powers to unite in compelling Switzerland to abolish the right of asylum for Nihilist refugees. FOBTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. ^ Semite Spccial Sfuien. The Vice-President laid before tlio Senate the resolution for the appointment of the Sen- I ate oflicers, stating that the Senator from Vir- % ginia had the floor. Mr. Mahone thon, in a | three-hour speech, defended his action of voting \ with the Republicans. j? Is further debate on election of officers of the Senate Messrs. Hampton, Brown, Jonas and Dsw.b vAnlin/1 ?f\ flifi nrAviniw /lfir t3 AJW' fV WJ'VVW.. -X. ?.. *- J,.v.w?w . a made by Sir. Mahonc. There was also a tilt ? of a porwonal nature between Mr. Jonas anil J Lit) colleague, Mr. Kellogg. On motion of Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, a resolution was adopted authorizing the secre- ? tan* of the Senate t?i pay from the contingent fuiid the necessary fmu ral expenses of the late i Senator Carpenter Tin pending business, being the resolution for the election of the officers of the Senate, waa then taken up....A motion to go into executive session was rejected-yeas, 25: liavt;, 25 V political debato, j J with the South and the rights of the freedmen j :is the subject, was then carried on until ad- j journmcnt. It is easy finding reasons why other j ? people should be patient. i * ? mmm* j v [Clintcn (Iowa) Herald.] j el James Butler, Esq., Clerk of the i g Roxbury Carpet Co., Boston, Mass., I smploylng eight hundred hands, in a ; communication concerning the admir- j able working of an article introduced ~ into the factory, says: The famous Old Kerman Remedy, St. Jacobs Oil, has Kj sftectcd several cures amr>ng our men, B| who have been badly hurt in working ' || success every time. How They Fixed It. Young widows are not generally averse j kg lo theater-going, neither was Madam D., j |? i resident of Puie de Faubourg, St. Ho- j ?| uore at Paris, when, the other day, the ! pi postman brought her an envelope with 931 two stall tickets?one for her the other For her little son?for the representation s Df a new and fashionable piece at a well- }|J? known playhouse. Upon the paper, j?o stamped with a count's coroaet, she km found the mysterious words: " Be! ^ punctual. My seat is just behind j pours." Was there any one of the visit- J ars of the building more punctual for I JP" the opening accords of the overture than j she? Not even her generous anonymous ! had learnt the act of punctuality so well j M us she?the seat behind her was empty ! ind remained so. There she sat, wait- j A ing for the interesting acquaintance she j ii liad hoped to meet. Many a time the 1 floor of the stall was opened, but that seat behind hers remained unoccupied for a long, long time. At last Madam D. lost patience, and considering .herself neglected most outrageously, left the theater. She drove home directly, \nd?oh horror! found the door of her dwelling open, her presses and 'safes forced open and emptied of every object worth carrying off. She concluded that | her anonymous friend had, after all, been i punctual to his appointment, and vowed 1 she would never again accept of tickets j from a stranger.?Paris Letter. (Jackson Daily Patriot.) Happy Friends. ^1?y,_WiQbnrne, Pastor M. E. Church, MexiaTYesfn?,{ft*te3 as follows: j j Several months since I TFJFceired c. supply of St. Jacobs Oil. detaining two j bottles, I distributed the rest among j friends. It is a most excellent remedy ; T for pains and aches of varions kinds, J 2? especially neuralgia and rheumatio otl affections. i 801 ????? (>y "One thing at a time" was the fa mous De "Witt's great maxim. Being pu asked how he was able to dispatch that prt multitude of affairs in which he was engaged, he replied that his whole art; t consisted in doing one thing at a time. ^ A Lndy's Wish. " Oh, how I do wish my skin was as cleat , and soft as yours," said a lady to her friend. " Yon can easily make it so," answered the friend. " How V" inquired the first lady. "By using Hop Bitters, that makes pure rich blood ?? and blooming health. It did it for me, as you & observe." 9 The celebrated Italian embalmer, m Paolo Gorini. lately died at Lodi, axed ^ sixty-eight. His whole life was devoted j| to science, and he died a beggar. Tho ?g State gave him a splendid funeral, and j? the day after his burial a subscription if was started to raise him a monument. B Here 1m the Tent. 5} Dizziness, naussa, despondency, jaundice, ! 13 loss of appetite, inflammations, gravel, female n diseases and all troubles of the urinary organsl ra and bladder are quickly and surely removed by j ?j Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. , ! " I'm sitting on the style, Mary," he j |j warbled, as he unconsciously planked ! g himself on her new white bonnet. "Ob; J wlrisper what thou feelest," she mis- [' mured, as she promptly introducad an | inch and a half of shawl pin through his | epidermis.?Elevated Railway Journal, j f Indigestion, 1)Vsx'i:i*sia, nervous prostration 9 and all forms of j;cnci".tl debility relieved b\ a taking Messmax's Pi/iTonized Beef Toxic, the only preparation of beef containing its entin nutritious properties. 11 contains blood-malo'ng. forco-gcnoratingand life-sustaining properties: is invaluable in all enfeebled conditions, wlietlici tho result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, i overwork, or ueute disease, particularly il | " resulting from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, j 1 Hazard i Ca, p^priet(^,Js*t:,.v_Vork. ' {? There is but one way to cure baldness, aud ^ that is by using Cahdolixe, a deodorized extract lea of petroleum, tho natural hair grower. As re- *5? cently improved, it is the only dressing for tlir hair that cultured people will use. TWENTY-FIVE CENT TREATISE g On tho Horse and his Diseases. Containing an Index of Diseases which (fives the Symptoms, Cause and the Best Treatment of each. A Table giving all the Sli principal drugs used for the Ilorse, with the ordinary an dose, effects and antidoto when a poison. A Table j0' with an Engraving of the Horse's Teeth at different A volnil.ln nnt- ! ?HU AlUAVO iUl ituiui, iuv N.W.ection of Receipts and much other valuable information. 100-Pnue Book sent postpaid to auy address A in tho Unitod States for twenty-tire cents. Postage m Stamps taken. NEW VORK NEWSPAPER UNION, 148 k 150 Worth Street, New York. H The Create*! Discovery of the Age. V For over thirtv-fotir year* _ DR. TOBIAS'S VENETIAN LINIMENT lias been warranted to cure Cruun. ili<*, Spa.?m?, Diarrhea ami Dv.sr-nterv, taken internally, and Sore Throat. Pains in the biiubs, Chronic Rlieinuatisin, Old Sores, Pimples, Blotches and Swellings. oxter- fl nallv. and not a bottle ha- been returned,many Jam- Bl ili.'s statins tin y would not be without it ewn it it M was $1U a bottle. Sold t'> drtltfpists at \Jo and 50 1 cents. Depot, -i'i Murray Street. New York. I }tc|labl.<, Durable ami Economical, willfnriiinh <> | & mr\* )?nrer icith/(** riirlriuit irnlrf Ih'iit uminthn \53 V/Wiii'' built, uot fitted with an Automatic cut-off. !e!id!orIlm-itr.itedC'Htalivuo".I,"f<irIul'orniationA; A i rl.-".. i!. \V. Payne .v Sons. Box Si'.m, C'orniiu, N.V. i V RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA, m 1 Cati No other preparation lias ou?mm> many cam so; ; hose distressing complaints as Pond's KMrnd. j YQ 'ond's Exlrnet (?!n?tei* I2.ic.-nts) is invaluable in , lie-e discuses. bumk'ieo. Pains in Back or Side, <-te. j ond's Km in el Ointment (.50 cents), for use when . J1] emovul of clothin,: i* iticonvenienf. is aure.it help i a relieving inflammatory caws. Sold by all driijr- | f i ttits. . I J ftQQO a yeart<> Ao-nt". Mel xpetfos. s<{ <> !!i pi J ;Ver. Add re.-* K. Swain Co.. AiKii-ta.Me. PETROLED! Jl 'i Used and approved by the leading P j CIMS of EUROPE and AMERICA^, J Thti most CATAEBH, HF3I0ERH0IDS, Coughs, Coldi, Soro Sliroat, Croup and 3 .Wiry them. 25 and 50 cent sizes of al CBANIi .VF.DAIi AT THE PHILADELPHIA I kILVEH HEOAL AT THE fABU KXP? M Ism FOR RHEUMATISM, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, backache, Soreness of the Chest, Gout, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swell' ? ings and Sprains, Burns and Scalds, General Bodily , Pains, 'ooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted Feet and Ears, and all other Pains and Aches. No Preparatlcj on earth aquala St. Jacob* Oil i a safe, sure, simple and cheap External emody. A trial entails but the comparatively ifling outlay of 50 Conta, and every one suffering 1th pain can have cheap and positive proof of it* alma. Directions in Eleven Laagnagea, OLD BY ALL DRUGGI3T8 AND DEALEB8 IN UEDIOINE. A. VOGELER & CO., Baltimore, Md., U. 8. i. y Y K U-T-14 j^r: ^F?r Catarrh, Vhftp nii Uw Hay Fever, Cold in the ' WAM RhUt' wHead, etc., Insert with ' breaths throuph the **3^ ? &Icl It Trtll oe ab- ^ &< I &327M Horlwd, clcanainfir and iCALS 30^.<^ V7<?Jft?/8 hcalini; the dueaaed m^SMarr*"* Fop Dsafesss, the ear, rubbing In A Cure at Last. ixjciriry without number for tho cure of Catarrh re been extensively advertised, and doubtlem re is some virtue in all of tliern, but tho evidence iverwliolminjt that Ely's Cream Balm ffoes more eetly than any other to the seat of the disease, 1 thouifh it is a comparatively new discovery it i resulted in more cures within the range of our icrvation than all the others pnt together.?From ~\Wkt*-Burrt, l\t., CnionlLea<la\ <tf Dte 19,187V. 5rice?50 cents. On receipt of 60 cento, will il a package free. Send for circular, with 1 information. ELY'S CREAM BALM CO., Owego, N. Y. Sold by ail Druggisto. Wholesale in New York, Philadelphia^ Syraciihc, Boston, Chicago and other cities. GOOD FAMILY REMEDY! STRICTLY PURE. B AlliM iisengravlng represents Uv> Lungs in a healthy stated What the Doctors Sayr mj rr rT/>nnj nf TiiTliirfnn ^rissnuri.%avK "I omtnend your'1 RnlHam' In preference "to any ' ler mcdiclno for coughs and colas." )B. A. C. JOHNSON, of Mt. Vernon. Ilia., write* of lie wonderful cures of Consumption inhiaplae* tjif use of "Allen'* Lnnir Hnlnnui." )R. J. B. TURNEB, Blountsville, A2a., a practicing yvU Jan of twenty-live years, writes; "It is tho best paiation for Consumption in the world.-" >r nil Diseases of the Tliroaf, Lungs nn?l 'iilniAunrv Ortans, it will lie (bend a uiont xccilcnt Ucrncdy. I AN EXPECTORANT IT HAS NO EQUAL! IT CONTAINS NO OPIUM IN ANY FORM! N. HARRIS & CO., Proprietors, CINCINNATI, O. For Sale by all Druggists. id by McKASSON & BOBBINS, New Vofk. . HOP BITTERS/l (A Medicine, not a' Drink.) jjf CONTAINS ' Bp " nOPS, BUCHU, MANDRAKE, | DANDELION, fe AND THE PUREST xsd BxsTMiroiCALQrALi- h ties OK ALL OTUHB BlTTEB8. jd THEY CUKE g All Dineasesof thcStomaeh, Bowels, Blood, H ' >;> Liver, Kldnevt, and Urinary Organs, Ner vousacss, bleenlc.-*ffl( ssand especially Kj Female Complaints. Ja $1000 IN COLD. Will lie paid for a case tl-ay will not cure o^c3 < lii-Ip. or foranytuliu i mpure or Injurious (S found in tlicm. hi Ask your druggist for JIop Bitters and try tliciu before you sleep. Tnku uu other. K 1) 1 C.l>! an absolute and irresistible euro for. E Drunkenness us : of opium, tobacco and n j 11 * SE.vn FOR Cmct-LAB. nBOBHR Ait atwve toM t<y droi-sUts. H ' * Hep ni:ur* Mfc. Co., Ilo-iitiUr, N. Y.(Jt Toronto,OoU B P AGENTS WANTED "FOR THE ' * ZCTORIAL HISTORYoftbeWAR ?Lils is tlu> cheapest and only complete end reliable itory of tho Great Civil War published; it abounds narratives of personal adventure, thrilling ineints, daring exploits, heroic deOds, wonderful apex, etc.: and contains life-lilte portraits of 1(H) idlUK generals, Send for siH-cimen imp* and extra him to Agontu. National Pen. Co.. l'liila.. Pa. * ??? a Baa ra ?i ^ L uclluluil' :ye-classf?s. t IleproscnliiiK tin* rhoicoof .lectwl *Turtyi?eell awl AmIht. The li;;!itest, handsomest, il strongest knowu Sold l>v Opticians and vclera. 31 ide l.v SPENCER OPTICAL F'G. CO., IS Maiden Lane, XewYcrfc eHnlr Dye IstlieS AFKST ueously.pwjiiuclni,' tf:e most :iji|> li'ii! tt is a Manilanl prepa-atlon ami a favorite ooevcry well app< ilntcrt to?? letfo: J-aily or Gentleman. i L A B AS TIN 11 r litiMiint,' Walls au<l Ceilings, is tin* p.ur-t valuable terial known. It is far superior to Cairo ailue, an>l re oonoriiiral. 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Vasolino Cold Crcc-n" rreatment 01 VisrliiiA CAwnVp IfllliBliftlJIa, ?r??upcHor to out ?inii?roBea? oF'tR VASELINE COXFECTIOXSDiphtheria, etc. An aereeable form of takLour goods, ing Vaseline internally. 25 CENTS A BOX. ?wtion? COLGATE & CO.. K.Y. . . If."' ' . ^6Tv-? '' '-i?> . ^ ^ . v . v . : ' , '