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^ABBEVILLE PRESS AXI) BANNEl| ' BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1881. NO. 6. VOLUME XXYI. f|| The Absent One. The (milliner sua i? Alining I?rijj'it. Balmy ami sweet the breezes blow, Fair Nature r* >tLi\l i;i robe* of light WouKl fain I: : joy on nu- bcsto<.v; But ah! in ::ie nun -! . ;h bhiiic, Charmless 'he 'he bir-1, the flow< For she who ail tliriiic Has gone, and th- y have lost their pnw Alas! without lvr brilliant smilo Tiie *h>-<'Ti of morn I? tublnight gloom. Larth can no more niv s":il beguile, My life is l?nt a living tomb; Without licr voiiv, the melody Combine 1 of all iisrnn'Mouu things, Is only dissonanee to r.i>\ T!io sound of harps wuh bjoketi strings. He:- eye is like the radiant star That ush- rs it: the dawn of day, Through danger's night when sorrows mu A tdecpless w.iteh it keeps alway, Till peace and safety c<'ine again ; Without it-> beams I dwell alone, Forlorn among the ""Mis of nun, My pleasure, hope and mission gone. Come back my beauteous angel, come ! Anil never more from nv depart: Oh, seek thy final vest and home Within my loving arms and heart! Together we will roam around, And in the seem s before us find Tho glories of each sight ami wound Reflected from cauh other's mind. THE CAMEO. "Felicie! Fclicie lirevard! Cor hero directly!" The soft French name had a que sound, cominp from Mrs. Monson's th lips and acid voice. Felicie came slo1 ly np the stairs to where Mrs. Mons< vnlnlilr \vifh Inrffrr Mr. Thornton. "Felieio, walk a little faster!" sa Mrs. Monson, sharply. "Hero is Thornton, that has missed his fine cameo. You were in his room dnstin yesterday." "It was a head of Apollo," paid M Thornton. '-I bought it in Xaple Conld you have swept it behind tl furniture ?"' At the first mention of the came Felicie put her hand in her pocket, si turned deathly pale, and a half cry e caped her. "Have you got it?" cried Mrs. Mo son, shrilly. '*Ii vou have, out of the doors you shall pai:k. Trouble enouf I hava had with you already?and all your relations!" She seized her by her shoulders, ar attempted to put her hand into h ? ~ -rociofcirl rlocmornf P1 ?JUl/lkClr? ICiltig Ab0?avvv? Mvwrv.w.v. She was as white as a ghost. "Come, come, Mrs. Monson! T1 cameo is not worth all that," said Thornton. It was really worth enough to ha' made Felicie open her innocent ey wider than they had ever opened b fore. Mr. Thornton had often noticed F licie. He believed her to be hones and he saw that she was terrified Mrs. Monson's violence. "But I mean to get to the bottom it," said Mrs. Monson. Thornton caught her by the wrist ai forced her to unloose Felicie. He gaher a look before which tho shrewis ness vanished like smoke. "Yon had better go downstairs * liT '11 4.1, said ue, quieny, " jl win sctnc lu with Felicie." Mrs. Monson walked submissive downstairs, and left Thornton and t) frightened girl alone. "Now," said Thornton, kindly, b with determination in his voice, "tc me how all this happened ?" Felicie put her hand in her pock* and handed out the cameo. "I know you won't believe me," s] said, bursting into tears; " but I did n steal it." "I believe you," said Thornton. "( on." "1 was ausung m jour rouin. ? p my handkerchief on the mantelpiec When I took it up I did not notice tL I took anything with it. When I g downstairs I felt it in my pocket, was hurrying to put it back when found you and Mrs. Monson here." She was very pretty when she crie She had a delicate beauty very differe from Mrs. Monson's bnxom dauglite: He wondered how two types so diffeie could be produced in tile same farni] "Are you Mrs. Monson's niece ?" asked. "No!" she answered, with a ring indignation. "My mother was Al \fA?cA?'o 01 ofny onrl o lnrlv TVfv fftt.ll XUViiRVU o Oioivij t*Mv* M. *i*?j . ? ? was French." "And how came you hero?" "My father and mother died, and had nowhere else to go." She began to cry again. Thomton had never felt so eorry { any human being in his life. "And have you never been educated he inquired, after a pause. - "I can read and write, and leanspe French. My father was a Fren teacher, and he used to say to me, wh I was a little thing : 'Felicie, you mi study burd some of these days, and y must play and sing but I cannot ph and I have no heart to sintf." Thornton looked at her in silence i ^ some time. "I have never benefited others mu< but this is a chance I will not let si Felicie, how would you like to go school, and then learn some busiiv chat would make you independent such as flower-making?" "Or dress-making," responded t practical Felicie. "Very well," said Thomton. "I kn< of a respectable place where you c live. Let me see?you aro about: teen ?" , "Nearly eighteen," said Felicie. Thornton stared. She was, then, quite a woman, a an uncommonly pretty one, too, lie Si to himself. "You are sure you will not repei But perhaps I am wrong in taking y away from your natural guardians in t manner." "You may take me away or no said Felicie, coolly. "But if some < does not take me away I shall tako r self away. I am going now to | everything I have, and nothing will duce me to sleep another night urn this roof." That settled it. Thomton toot dard and wrote an address 011 it, ami less than an hour Felicie presented h self at her new friend's, with a has! containing all of her worldly poss sions. Mrs. Monson came home to find J licie gone, and no clew to her, wl Felicie wa? being snusrly ensconced a little sunny room at Miss Shepard's Miss Shepard had been an hum friend and dependent of .Russell Tho ton's mother, and was only too glad have it in her power to do anything "Mr. Russell." Thornton appeared in the eveni and fixed upon a plan for Felicie's ture arrangements. "You shall have a certain amonn month," said he, "beyond your boa With that yon may do as you ple? You may go to school, or learn dr< making, or anything else you like, leave for New York to-morrow eveni and in a week I sail for London. I si be in Europe certainly for three yei and at the end of that time I shall 1< you up to see what you have mad< yourself." Felicie looked at him with herpr< dark eyes brimming over with te She had learned to dread and ] strangers. These two?Russell Th( ton and Miss Shepard?were the c two who had ever been kind to he all her life. "I will try?I will try !" was all conld say. Thornton rose to say good-bye. "When I come back I expect tc dazzled with your acquirements." He shook hands with her as he sp< and then with Miss Shepard, and next, moment she saw his graceful fie disappear in the darkness. She tur to Miss Shepard. "Will ho ever?do you think he ever come backshe asked, with q ?ring lips. ;* . r'nf '. -wt;'- r-... "Of course. Three years will slip by easily." It seemed an eternity to look forward to, in Felieie's imagination. The next day, she said to Miss Shepard: ,r . "Do you know what I am going to do with what Mr. Thornton gives me? I ?A i l , i i? m or lnirim u> mini iu mii;^ : "Learu to sing!" said IVIiss Shepard, in the same tone as if sbo liad saiil, "Learn to fly!" "Yes," said Felicie?"to sing like the groat opera-singers. My mother sang beautifully, and I raean to sing like her." Miss Shepard interposed no objection, and she soon learned to oppose nothing t hat Felicia said. She was so bright, and so helpful! Miss Shepard's dull little house had never known any r< youthful merriment, and it wanned the poor old soni's heart to feel Fclicie's active and magnetic young presence about her. i^Jie sunneu nerson, as 11 were,-111 .tklicie's youth ami beauty; and irVlioie found herself soon to be the very apple of TMiss Shepard's eve. She liad begun her singing lessons the veek after ihornton left, and might be heard trilling and caroling down in Miss bliepavil s stlilty nttie parior, aim touching light chords 011 Miss Shepard's wheezy old piano, all day long. Nor did she forget to loarn some other things besides. She never kimw herself to be fond of books. Her life had been so hard and colorless that she really did not know what she liked except singiDg. But she read with a steady purpose of improvement that Qe worked wonders. She bought copybooks and changed her unformed, child?r ish handwriting for one full of vigor. lu She had a natural quickness in learning everything that belonged to domes"m tic affairs, and two years slipped away 'r> in a happiness and content that poor Fe. lieie had never dreamed of. 1<* About this time, when Felicie was ^r- twenty, she saw an advertisement for a s* tirst soprano in one of tho great city 8> churcli choirs. She determined to apply for it, and without saying a word to Miss Shepard, she slipped off, and went s* to tbe vestry-room where the candidates 10 were being examined. Wheu she found herself before so ?> many persons, and saw the strange pro10 fessor who presided at the organ, ner s* heart sank ; but when at last "Miss Brevard" was called forward, and she saw u" the familiar notes, ner voice returned se to her. She had never felt more mistress of herself. She sang with inspi?* ration. Her voice was so pure and rich and beautiful in tone and compass that 1(* she knew almost intuitively that she er j would succeed. And, indeed, about a ? week afterward, she received a letter from the choir committee, who "having ,10 maile inquiries about her, and finding' r* she was a suitable person, would be glad to have her accept the place of first so70 prano. The salary would be five hunts dred dollars, with the privilege of take" ing lessons from any professor she might select in tl e citv, not to cost more than e" ?, etc." Felieie rushed upstairs to show it to i Miss Shepard. "Just think! Five hundred dollars! of An.1 nnlv tr\ Rincr fnr it! And lessons from BaiiHi! What I have longed for u* and could not afford!" [e Miss Shepard looked at her in delighted surprise. H "Oh, Felicie, dear ! what will Mr. Rus\ sell say?" 13 "Don't you think he will like it?" Baid Felicie, stopping short. 1? "Of course he will, my darling." ie "Then it's all-right," said Felicie, skipping off to answer her letter. ^ In a little while Felicie began to think she took a wicked pleasure in her voice. She could not but be proud of it. Sun-. it, /lo-p liomimo ? Anv r>f trinmnh to her. She felt that when she sung her solos every note was listened to with delighted attention ; but she kept down her innocent, girlish vanity by saying *? to herself: "When Mr. Thornton conies home he will have heard so many line voices !e- that mine will be nothing to him ; and if ho sees that I am vain of it, he will be utterly disgusted with me." I She had beeu sinking in the choir I o'ao whole winter. It was the afternoon of Easter Sunday, and the church was d- packed to hear IVliss Brevard sing. She had never sung so gioriously; rs> she felt a delicious sense of impending u* happiness. Lv. At last the senice was over; the peohe pie had Hocked out; the sexton would , be around in half an hour to lock up ?f everything for the night. Felicie remained. Wlieu every one er had left the church she stolo to the organ and beeran nlavinc. Then she be pan to sing a simple little hymn that I Miss Sbepard had told her was the favorite of ItusseU Thornton's mother. "1 never heard anybody but she sing or it," she often said, as she heard Feiicie singing it. " She thought she was entirely alone in the great, dark church, while the twilight shadows slowly crept in the stained glass windows; but there was some one else. A gentleman sat in the corlst ner of the church, who turned around ou so as to face the c1 oir. iy. It was over in a jew minutes. Feiicie rose and made her way down the rickety for steps that led from the choir gallery. When she got to the church door the ;h, gentleman came forward out of the ip- dusk, and caught her two hands in his. to "Feiicie !" was all he said. ?ss j "I thought you were not coming back ;? for three years; and now?I am so stamen r he "Are you sorry, Felicie?" "No," said Felicie, lioldly. ow They walked together toward Felicie's home in the soft spring evening, tif- "How gloriously you sing, Felicie!" said Thornton. "But do you know that little hymn you sang last was my mother's < hymn V" nd "I knew it," said Felicie. "Miss "d Shepard told mo so. and taught it to me; and I have often thought I would learn to sing?much better than I do ou now?and sing it to you." his They lingered on the way home, so that Miss Shepard was quite miserable 'V when they came in. >ne "I knew something pleasant was go?y ing to happen," Felicie said, "for I felt get a bird singing in my heart all day." in- In a week people were saying : ler ''Do you know Russell Thornton is going to marry that pretty girl, with : a the French name, who sings in St. Fein ter's church ?" er- The report was true. ket "Do brides ever select their wedding es- presents ?" asked Felicie, just before they were married. Fe- "I don't know," said Russell, Iaughiile ; "but you may." in "Then give me that head of Apollo, i. Oh, what a lucky thing it was that 1 ble unconsciously stole it!" m- : .. A Sub-Treasury Gold Wagon. The New York Scientific American n?? says: The little, dingy-looking "gold *u" , wagon," which has been used for twelve j years past to carry the money received t a fcr duties from the custom house to the sub-treasury, has been retired from serise. vjt.0i Sometimes it made as many as a 2R9" ; dozen trips daily, carrying as much as * 880,000 glittering gold coiu each time. nK? : The money was usually put up in bage ia^ ; of $20,000 each, which were placed in irs> i heavy oaken boxes with massive rod??k | iron handles. These boxes were then 3 put into the wagon-box and a lid witb clumps of iron was locked down over it. itty 'piie wagon was pushed liko a hand-cart ars- by two custom-house porters, accom^ear j panied hy an armed watchman, whose )rn* duty it was to see thattlie load of treasnra was not interfered with by thieves. r in The little used-up wagon has carried i in its time probably not less than she j ?500.000,000, or about 4,500 tons weight in gold, and the dead weight and strain of the precious freight liad rendered il > be i rather rickety and unsafe. In its place ' a new wagon has been purchased, witli ! solid wheels girt with iron tires half at the iDt.h thick, painted a deep blue coloi 'nre ! and marked with the sovereign letter* ned J " u. S." in front. will i A correction of the census bulletir itiv- I gives Home, Ga., a population of 10,02i I instead of G,152 as previously reported & FOR THE LADIES. Thr ProllifHt Ilririo in Eniflnuri* Frances Evelyn Maynard, the voimpr heiress who has j r.st been married to Lord ! lirooke,eldest son of the Earl of Warwick is one of the most beautiful women j in England, and as generous as she is ! beautiful. Tim wedding was tlio grandest that London has seen for many seasons, and was honored by the presj 01100 of the Prince and Princess of i Wales, and several other members of the royal family, Prince Leopold acting as best man. The bride's dress was an improvement on the usual livery white satin and orange blossoms, the front being covered with old point and droop! inp ninges of orange blossoms. Tlio | veil was also of old point. Her only ; jewels consisted of a single tow of ex | qui.-ite pearls. The bridemaids were j twelve in number. Their Gainsborough ! dresses were of white moire, the India ! muslin fichus being fastened on the ! bosom with large bunches of Marshal ; Niel roses, the bouquets also consisting j j of the samo llowers. The Gainsbor- j t ougli bats were made of similar material I ; to that in the lichus. The favors were j | particularly pretty, consisting of dai>ies, ; | orange blossoms and maidenhair. The j bride's traveling dress was of velvet, of j ! a perfect shade of brown, the bonnet j and cape being of the same tint in bro- i j caded gauze. The queen's present was \ a cashmere shawl. The Prince and j Princess of Wales gave a gold bracelet j with a clasp of magnificent sapphires ' and diamonds. It was purchased at St. j Petersburg. There wero several bun- j died presents, including some splendid ! | jewelry and valuable plate. Lady1 1 Brooke's pet name is " Daisy," and her : husband pave her a wedding present of t I a diamond collar with pendant daisies, j j Guy Summer Drrsnca. Red abounds in summer toilets, and 1 I is shown in all materials. A French I costume, just imported for Newport, is I of cross-barred batiste, in two or three , shades of red, trimmed with deep plait- j ings and draperies edged with black | Rreton lace. Another dress for yacht- | ing, or the mountains, or seashore, is a j dark garnet wool as heavy as flannel, ' ' yet as fine as camel's hair; this is made j ! with a hunting jacket and overskirt and ; has many rows of soutache braid of the j I same shade for trimming. Large bows | and sashes of dark red satin ribbon are j used with white costumes of various ' fabrics, such as nun's veiling, dotted j muslin and cream-white balistc. Very! pretty toilets of white wool have Spanish lace plaitings and draperies of satin surah in stripes of most brilliant hues, or else in pale fade colors. Mauve, or pink, or lemon-colored Surah dresses , have two deep flounces of white open ' embroidery around the skirt; above j this is a draped short overskirt and a j shirred round waist. A polka-dotted I surah of dull red shades has pink satin ! ribbon bows and facings of pink on the i great ruche that heads the gathered i tf ounce which is scalloped on the edges, j The loveliest white nun's veiling dress, ! with pale blue embroidered dots on it, ! has border stripes of blue, and is edged j Pumi'cih looo A nnlf> lilnn Kntin j surah has largo balls of darker blue, ! i with a shading of golden brown on the ; edgo of each ball; this has loops of i golden brown surah covering the frout i breadth, with alternate blue and brown j plaitings at the foot. Fitnliloii Fuucien. i The parasols with knots on the top j and at the end of the handle have been : revived. Cut silk flowers with bead hearts are j substituted for muslin and cambric blossoms. I Little girls' kilt-plaited gowns have i rows of buttons down even' sixth or seventh plait. The red shaded feathers seem to find j i favor more rapidly than those of any other color. Cheap Japanese hats are again worn j this summer, but they are extravagantly ! trimmed. Olive and tea roso is one of the most' exquisite of color combinations for even-; ing wear. Arraseno is knitted into pretty hoods ! for evening wear. It is as soft and bo-1 coming as chenille. Pink linen undergarments trimmed with black Lice aro fresh enormities in ! Parisian underwear. White Spanish lace scarfs, or muslin scarfs with borders of Aurillac lace, are worn in full dress. The lily of the valley effect in chenille fringe is produced by pressing tbe strands at regular intervals. The most fashionable size in Japanese i panels is four and a half feet long and i five and a half inches wide. | Batiste printed with bonqueis'of small flowers is new and exceedingly pretty j for summer gowns. Instead of a border some par as.."Is have a band of bright plaid or bright color about half way up the gores. Printed cambric dresses for morning and sateen for afternoon is laid down as the nxle for summer dressing. The silk mull used for kerchiefs and collarettes this season is striped, aud is even more becoming than the plain. Ties for traveling dress are about four and one-half inches wide, and are made of mixed silk resembling the granite ribbons. A wreath of (lowers worn around the crown of a bonnet, and then carried down to the front of the dress, is exceedingly pretty. Parasols covered with Japanese crape are worn with gowns of Japanese crape. The mantles bordered with stiff deep ! plaitings, like those on the lower edges ! of skirts, ure uglier than any ether outside wrap. The handkerchiefs to be carricd with brown suits have their edges buttonhole-stitched in brown, with inner borders in colors. JLV.iues moiuers now \\cur wiuiw ] plumed bonnets when they attend their i daughters to the altar, and look as gay I as the bridemnids. The little silver-headed scarf-pins are replaced by those headed with stone when worn with the little linen collars in English shapes. The Granny bonnet, worn by children in the summer, is of foulard instead of velvet or beaver, lis trimming is only a bow and strings. Some of the shaded ribbons have btee. like borders on their lighter edges. When made up into bows white lace is sewed on the dark edge. ."caning oi' llells, In many places, sayj an English ; paper, a bell is rung " after dark." The origin is usually curious, though generally and wrongly put down to the curfew. At Storrington, a village ia 8ns, sex, the bell rings at 8 i\ m. This is in virtue of an endowment. A man lost , his way on the Downs in a sea fog, and , only found his home by hearing tin; bell of Storrington church. Jn gratitude i he endowed the church with a sum of money, on condition that the bell should i be rung at 8 o'clock every night. A similar account in given of the bell at Great St. Mary's, Cambridge, which rings at 9 r. m., having been endowed by a Saxon princess, who was saved from perishing in the fens by hearing a , Cambridge bell. " Great Tom," of . Christ church, Oxford, is tolled 103 j times every night. The origin is prob. ably the same as that of t he others, but the "scout" only knows that tlio "buttery" is then opened. At Home a bell i rings at "one hour of night" for the Do Profnndis, and at "two hours" the t evening before a fast. This " one hour ; of night" means one hour after the Ave , or Angelus and not, as a clever tourist ! oncj desciibed in his diary, 1 o'clock , :Q cje morning. 5 Morse, who invented the telegraph, and Bell, the inventor of the telephone both had deaf mute wives.' Little com? meat is necessary, but just see what a i man can accomplish when everything ie , quiet.?Lowell Citizen. >!- - ^ .*' THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. l'onltry Nairn. The number of eggs consumed in this country is enormous, and has rapidly , : increased for a quarter of a century*, j As many as 10,000,000 have been shipped to New Yoik annually from Mon-1 treal alone, and it is computed that more ! ! than thrice that number come east from j 1 Ohio and the interior states. Eggs are i - - ?i ,i??_ i reporteu mso us vtjrv bc"u~l*u unu ucui | i this -winter in Great Britain, where some j 400,000,000, valued at near 88,000,000, 1 ; areanuually imported, mainly from tho j j Continent. It has been estimated that | I the consumption in the United States ! I reaches more than 1,000,000,000 every | year. Furin nntl Unrdcn Ncrrn, In reply to an inquiry as to how to j prevent a row from eating her young, ! a correspondent of tho Country Gentle-! man recommends giving them "say half j a pound of pork or scraps from the pack- j ing-houses or blood and waste from the j butchers two or three times before and ! on the day they farrow. Since I have ' adopted this plan I never lose any. Last. spring mv man neglected one of the! sows and she ate up twelve pigs. This > spring she lias ten, and is ono of the : quietest anil kindest of all the mothers." ] Posey county, Indiana, claims to have ' raised the largest cow in the world. Her 1 name is Lady Posey, breed mixtd Durham and Big English. Her measure- | ments are : Greatest height, fivo feet, ten inches ; girth, eight feet nine inches; length, ten feet six inches, or including tall, seventeen feet; her form is good, I and, though not fat, she weighs 3,000 i pounds. Her color is red and white, red predominating. Agf, six years. Her present owner lives in Stark county,; Illinois. Dr. Lyon Plavfair, perhaps the great- J fst. livinc English authority on food, ' said in the debate in the house of com- j mons on oleomargarine, that, as it con- i tained the same fats ns those obtained ; from the cow?minus the aromatic fats | which curiously enough produced ran-! cidity in bad butter?ho thought the I sooner it supplanted bad butter the bet-' ter. Ee believed that it would do that, but he did not think that it would supplant good butter. Sassafras bushes maybe eradicated by plowing deep and harrowing. Thist will bring the roots to the surfaco. | Plant com or potatoes, and keep the crop well hoed to kill any sprouts that i may appear. Two years of this treatment will thoroughly destroy them. " i Ft-rtiliziug Orclinrdit. Professor Beal, who has been experi-: menting with an orchard situated on rolling land of a black, loamy naturo ' since 1873, reports these results: Around j some trees small circles were k^ptculti-; vated ; but these trees do no better than ; TvlnVli rrrriTv in sod. A circle of grass extending nearly out to the ends ' of tho overshadowing lines is of little or no damage to the tree after it has grown fifteen or more years and has become well established. Trees of this age left in grass without manure, in our orchards, grow more slowly, produce less fruit, of a smaller size and poorer quality than trees which have been well cultivated; the fruit is generally in our experiments of a brighter oolor when grown on trees left in grass. "When spread broadcast about a tree, barnyard manure produces a good effect about two years sooner than when fliA ia nlono/1 nlricro tn flio frAP. Some trees were kept heavily mulched, to others ashes were applied at the rate of one wagon-load of leached, or two or ! three bushels of unleaclied per tree, others were given a wagon load of barnyard manure; theso applications were made four years ago, and jjorhaps it is too soon to arrive at conclusions, but as yet, the trees appear about the same, no difference being visiblo in fn.vor of' either of the above modes of manuring. , Where clcar cultivation has beeu prae-' ticed without fertilizers or mulch, tbe fruit seemed to be just as abundant and of as good quality as in the three last cases enumerated. Thorough tilling of of the laud lias been one of the best experiments, anil Las apparently produced the best results. I have experimented in thinning apples while they arc small and tind it very profitable. The Floivcr Gnrdm. Aside from the pleasure derived in j cultivating flowers, there is no doubt; j that floriculture is a profitable occupation. Towns and villages spring into existence where a decade before was i only an unpeopled waste, and the shopkeeper, mechanic, or artisan is glad to buy the surplus the fnrmer may have from his overflowing garden. This I know to be the fact in scores of ins! an- j ces where the business of nurseryman, market gardener, or florist was, as; it' were, forced upon the farmer by his. village neighbors desiriug to buy the products of his garden. Here is a case somewhat in point. The original pro- i | prietor of one of the largest seed houses , in New York, a shrewd Scotchman with ' an eye to the main chance, emigrated i from Scotland sometime about the bo- j i ginning of the present century. Ho was i ; a nailer by trade, and was entirely ignor-1 j ant of anything pertaining to seeds or gardening ; but one day coming through | the Bowery, then half farm, half city. ! he saw a rosebush in a cottage window, It was a rose in a wilderness, for prob ably there were not a score more in the : j city tben. Ho went in and bought it | fur fifty cents, took it home, painted the j pot green, and placing it in the window ! of his nail shop, quickly sold it for a j dollar. This was easier work and bct\ ter pay than nail-making. So ho started out daily, buying plants of all kinds, always painting the pots green?(a practice by tho way that modern science would frown at)?doubling his money rapidily. From plants the transition to dealing in seeds was natural and easy ; so that in less than twenty years from the time tbis humble Scotch nail-maker had purchased his first rosebush iu tho Knwprv lii? seed house had become the i largest on this continent and he was a ; wealthy man. Itrci'dinc Farm Hornm. Y?Te have encouraged the use of the ! large imported horses of the better class, j because wo Lave thought that one of the i greatest defects in our farm horses was j want of size ; and this, it seemed to us, could better be supplied by an infusion of the blood of tho draft horse than | from any other source. But we are eer; tain that in many localities quite as large | an infusion of this blood has been made ! as will bo profitable; and that, for the ! uses of the farmer, better horses can be j produced from these grade draft mares | by the use of a stout, large, compactlyi built thoroughbred horse, or a liiglilyI bred, well-formed and good-sized troti ting stallion than by a further infusion I of tho blood of the draft horse. Re! turning again to the Percheron blood, 1 we have do hesitation in affirming our j belief in its excellence, and that it is to ! this blood, which at a very early day j was largely introduced into Canada, : that the horses c i that section owe much 1 of the excellence that distinguished j them fifty years ago. Very many of the j \vy best sires of general purpose or ! farm horses that wo have ever had in the United. States have been brought ! from Canada, and evidently partook I largely of this blood. From that coun| try we have had the Pilots, the Cur1 beaus, the Columbuses, tho St. Lawi rences, the Royal Georges, the Napo1 leons, the Normans and many other reci ognized families of superior excellence, i which we believe derived their :.uerit : mainly from the old Percheron blood, I brought over by the French settlers, I rather than from an imaginary seion'of ' imported Messenger, spirited in same i mysterious manner across the border, [ as a certain self-styled "horse authority" | in this country has told us over and | over again. And while, as we have said, ; we think in many sections we have had quite as much of the coarse, draughthorse blood introduced as will provo valuable, yet we are clearly of opinion that we can never get too much of the genuine Percheron blood in any part of i our country, where the production of hardy, useful horses is the object in view. ? ' ' ' ----- ilo- ' ... ... .... .. t I Keel pci?. Roll Jell? Cake.?One cup sugar, j three eggs anil beat them well; one cup i flour, one even teaspoonful soda, one even tenspoonfnl cream taitar. Sorn Milk Biscuit.?One pint of sour j milk, one teaspoonful of soda; add to f your flour a half cup of lard and spoon- j 1 fill of salt; then mix the flour with the s milk. Make stiff enough to roll out as i t - 1 i xl x _ <f pic crust; cut tnem ana put luuia 10 bake in a moderately hot oven. ! a Washing Flt-ed.?One bar of good i 1 potash, two ounces of ammonia, one ; . ounce of salts of tartar ; put tho potash j J into four quarts of rain water (use porcelain ketiles if possible) and soak slow- j c lv, not boil; when dissolved remove j [ from the stove; when cool add tho am- j inonia and salts and put up in jugs or j 8 bottles corked tightly. Soak the fine 8 und coarse articles to be washed sepa- j J rately over night. The following morning rinse out and use a half cake of soap, j a cut line, one cup of fluid and two pails i J of soft water ; put tine pieces into this I 1 ciirl^ o f?inr mntYionfu tul*o i I UUiVi OUUJ) UpLJ V. 4. UU1A t* iV, IT JLUVILIWUV.! j out, add ft pail of cold water and put in 8 tho coarse clothes to boil; suds, rinse, c blue and starch as usual, arid your clothe3 will be beautifully clear and [ white without nibbing. Wash colored clothe s in tho water the clothes are taken c into from the boiler. c A Liberal Reward Will be Given j j To (he woman who, upon trying ou a i new bonnet, never mentioned that her t hair wasn't fixed. 1 To the writer for the press who never 1 said that his contribution was dashed s off. 1 To the person, age or sex immaterial, I who, when relating an accident of which r he or she was a witness, did not lay particular Btress upon what "I did" or "1 s said." c To tho young man who doesn't think ; fc the girls are all dying after him. ' t To the young woman who wouldn't j * choose an ice cream to a substantial jc meal. , c To the samo young woman who never ! fretired to the cupboard, upon reaching j c home, for "just a bite." To the woman o? er thirty wno never | v had an offer. , ( To the storekeeper who never said, j I "As it is you, I will call it so and so," t and then charged double price. j ? To tho schoolboy who does not at all 1 c times look upon tho Schoolmaster as j f his mortal foo. ! t To the young lady graduate who i t would not rather have a white satin I ' dress than high class honors at the I graduation exorcises. ' To the married man who never con- c sidered the possibilities of a second t marriage. i t To the married woman who doos not ' sometimes wonder how she ever came j 1 to say "Yes." j a To the clergyman who doesn't feel. o just a little proud o! the tears he calls 1 F up al a funeral. 1 To the man who never inquired "Is j j-' this hot 3nough for you?" or "Is this fnt. mn V t CU1U UllVU^U Xv/ c J VI* To the butcher who weighs his meat J without the bones. To the ruau who ever exchanged um- j brellas. find went off with a worse one ' thiin be lel't behind. j ^ To the Dpan who never said it rained 6 ju.c;t because he didn't take his umbrella j \ with him. j 1 To the small boy who never whistled. I To tKe small boy who never sighed 1 ? to be a hunter, an Indian fighter or a j e pi rute. | j Tn <lio doctor who has the hardihood r to tell u wealthy patient that, nothing ^ ails him. js To the undertaker who hears of .death " with feelings of uniLingled grief. To the boy of eighteen who doesn't! t know more than hi.s parents. i v To the Sunday-school that has not ( * experieuced a spasmodic growth just c before Christmas or the picnic season. |f To the housekeeper who hasn't said 0 there was plenty more in the cupboard : f when pressing the last slice cf cake on j 1 her company. ! ^ To tho amateur farmer who never i f drew the long bow.when dilating tipon 0 his agricultural achievements. To the widow who does not like to , have her mourning becoming. To tho druggist who does not make a profit of one hundred pe?. -ent. on every- j thing he sells. i To tho drug clerk who has grown rich enough to retire. j To the man, woman or child who j isn't tired and sick of the dull, weather of this present year of grace 1881.? j Boston Transcript. A. Beautiful Home. j It is an excellent thing to have a well-1 kept house, and a beautifully appointed i table, but after all tho best cheer of I every home must come from tho heart j and manner of the home mother. If1 that is cold, and this ungracious, all [ u\e weaua 01 inuia cuuuut mun.ti uiu | homo pleasant and inviting. Intelli-1 1 gence, too, must lend its charm, if *,ve ? would have home and Eden. The se- 1 vere style of house order neatness sol- U dom leaves much margin for intellectual' t culture. Even general reading is con-! i sidered as out of the question for a wo-' i man so hurried and so worried with her ? scrubbing and polishing, and making up : garments. A simpler style of living and ! ] hotise furnishing would set many a j c bonded slave at liberty, and add vastly t to the comfort of all in the house. ; ( TlncnifuHf-v rnrnlv nrevails in tlie:5o i ? spotless lino and letter houses. Com- j panv disai range the books and disorder j the house, which had work enough in , it before. The mother cannot throw | oil her household cares, and sit down tor a real heart to heart converse with ; the old friend of her childhood. : Still less can she enter into the joys : and pleasures right and delightful to her own children, because of tho extra ' work of clearing away it will bo likely to make. I With all yo.ir toils to make a house ! beautiful, do not neglect tho first ele' ment of all, to beautify yourself, body i and soul. A sweet, loving word, and a 1 warm clasp of tho hand, are far more to a guest than tho most elaborately ' embroidered lambrequins at your win- I J . dows or tlio most oxijui.site damask on j , your table. There are bare cabin homes I that have been remembered with | ] pleasure, because of the beautiful lov- ( iog presence there; and stately palaces . which lcavo tho impression of an ice- l berg on the mind. j 14 Here Formality," '. Inquiry was yesterday made for Mr. j i Vamlerbilt at tho offices in tho Union | depot by a man who seemed to have ! i slept ail night under a stairway and ! breakfasted upon nothing. When (old j , that the railway king lived in New York I ; he asked for tho vice-president of the I , Ccnl ral road. Tho vice-president beiug i j out of town, ho asked for tho genoial j manager. This officer was also absei:.t, [ and the stranger continued: i "Perhapstho assistant superintend- h ent could seo to tho business. Is he in?" | "No, sir; ho won't bo in until to-j j ; morrow." I " Could I see thcgenpral ticket agent?" ( " His office is uptown ?" Tho man walked to and fro in an ab- j < ! sent manner for a minute and then I ( ,asked: " Would it do any good for me to a:<k 1 you for a puss to Chicago ?" ! " No, sir." " Or half way there?" ! " No, sir." "Is there tho least possible chance for me to get a pass V" "No, sir." 1 " Would I stand any show to beat a j conductor?" " Not a show ?" j; " How would the top of a freight , train work ?" I " You'd be put oft at once, "Well, it's all right. My style of1 riding is always on the trucks anyhow, j ' and .1 only called up here out of mere ' formality. Pleaso give mv respects to J 1 all the officials, and say that I deeply ! reirrot their absence. Tra-li!" I j Ten minutes later he was inspecting the running geut ?>f the cnacbe* on the , P.tcitic express, aud if he didn't make ; tho trip last night it was not his fault. 1 ?Detroit Free Prtss. A STRANGE VISITOR. Mir Immense Self-Po??onMion He Displayed In nn Encounter Willi n ItlcSnnkc in tlx ('em nil Purls, New York. ' This is the third ono that has beer onnd in the park this spring," saiil s uan at the arsenal, holding out a curiou< piny-looking olijeet for a otm report?] o look at. ''No, it'snot a toad, thonel: bey call them horned toads. It's a liz .rd, and the people in the museum call t the phrynosoma." The animal was about four inchef onsr, and unpleasant to look at. I'f >ody waj flat, the upper surfaco cov sred with short dark spines, and the inter surface with small plates. The )ack of its head was armed with ev.iral recurving sharp spines, witL ihorter spines here and there. A flylil m the keeper's hand, and the lizard, hat a moment before was to all appear ince dead, raised itself on its shorl piny logs, and turned its curious head he idack eyes gleamed and the throal juffed out convulsively ; a quick spring ind the fly was gone. Then the fly satcher relapsed into listlessness. " I've bad this one a week," continued ho fly-catcher's captor, " and cany lim in my vest pocket; in fact, he'f pute a pet; will eat llies from my hand is you have seen, and is warranted nol o bite, though he could pinch a piece >ufc of a nail if he felt inclined, lun ? Well, I should pay so;" and givng the lizard a few wild passes through he air as a sort of eye-opener, he explained, he put it down, and off it ran, lead in the air, using the feet on one lido together, which gave it the pecuiar rolling gait of a Narragansett pony, )ut one that sent it along so that a man uust run to keep up. The heat was b .hort one, however, for the lizard itopped suddenly, settling itnelf sc dosely against the concrete pavement hat it would not have been noticed bj ho casual observer. In fact, the lizard vas an interesting example of that class >f animals endowed with what art :alled "protective resemblances," its jeoeral color being exactly like the lesert sun-dried tracts upon which it if ound in Texas, Mexico and Southwest California. How this stranger got tc Central Park is a mystery, but such a? 10 are frequently sent North through in? iLian iw tuiiu^uiun, uuu iv iq jiiui/ble that some one has disposed of ar ibjeciionable souvenir from a distant riend by turning it out to pasture ic ho park. At any rate its timely capuro saved it from certain death next riuter. " You wouldn't think such a creature rould know anything," continued the >wner of the lizard, " but a snake haj o wake up early in the season to get the >est of it. I call him Samson, because he first day I had him he pushed undei ho leg of a heavy chair that was tipped gainst the wall and fairly knocked il iver. If a man were as strong in prolortion to his size he could lift the obeisk. No, that didn't show any cunning, >ut; I'll show you where cunning came p. I caught a big striped snake aboul wo weeks ago. I was standing in mj aid when along came a big toad, put ing in its best hops, and right belimJ t the snake, so intent on the chase thai t came right up to mo. I caught it ;ept it lor'"SomeUnn* -iti 6 bo?--ffith t ;lass top, and one day it struck me thai he spines on the lizard must have beer nieuded as a preventer against snakes ! thought I would test it, and I pul Samson into the box. Then I disc >v ired that he was as wise as Solomon fou see, this revised Testament businesi oakes a mau familiar with Bible numes The snake evidently had not tasted food ince last summer?you know thov leep all winter?and quick as a flasl 16 darted at tha lizard, but, as th< >oys say, he got left. The little fellov rent round the box like a shot, bu' in ally the snake cornered him, ant :aught him by the hind claw. Now, t rog oi: toad will squirm around and fac< l snake and get demoralized generally ind give it a chance to catch hold o he head ; but my lizard knew a gam< vorth two of that. When the snak( ouclied him ho turned his head directly ivray. The snake tried every way h< iould to edge up and get the little ellow by the head, but it was no use, ,o he went to work to swallow him tai] u*st. Ho stretched oat his jaws and dan ted his long teeth into his legs and gradually worked the body into his notttb with the smaller teeth. When le had taken in as much as he could ;his way, the long fangs were loosened ind thrown ahead and a fresh hold aken, each side of the mouth edginp ihead in turn. Nothing could stand his pressure long, and in ten minutes lalf of the patient lizard was out ol li^lit. He was only waiting fo; his urn, and it soon camo; the suake's lip< lad reached Lis neck, when operation? leased. Tliere were four or five spine? ih sharp as needles pointing out everj vhich way that put an end to the swalowing business. I didn't see the lizard augh, bur. he must have felt like it, loi le wasn't hurt in the least. It took th* make half an hour to get rid of him ju't it tried two 01 three times again tc iwallow him. At every jump the lizard urned his back so that the spines facet" he snake, and at last I separated them fes, it was rather cruel; but I lookec it it as a scientific investigation. " The behavior of a common toad thai l gave the snake afterward might b< ;onstrued into something moro thar iccident. Do you remember the storj )f a frog that when he saw a snake tool i stick in his n.onth and held it cross wise, so that, the !-nake could Dot s-va! o\v him? Well, that's a little too mud [think; but aa soon as this toad was aught he began to inflate himself wit! vind,so that by the time the snake, whiel lad both hind legs down, had rearhec lis body, he was twice hib original size md you wouldn't have believed h< 11 I 1 11 3 L LU . ;oiuu uuvo UL't'u HWHiiuweiii uui iu? make in half an hour had finished hiin Lt ate three more good-sized toads tha lay, too, making four, one of which wai ,wice as large around as itself. "Speaking of lizards, probably tin inest collection in the country is in tin lrsenal here. Most of them are ii ilcohol. but the larger ones are stuffed fhey were all collected and named b; Prince Maxmilian, the great naturalist Df NeiJ, Germany. He died somi fears ago, and the trustees of th< museum bought most all his collect,ioi JJl UllU >J UIUUiLLUlIO tlUll U-|iUI\;o. 1U' uiolis is represented in this collection by a s;aiall specimen in alcohol, whicl is for from showing tho true character istica of the lizard. When alive it is ; very beautiful animal, having a largi throat pouch with peculiar marking.It seems to bo without frar. I one owned one that would crawl into m; lap and over my .shoulder, examiniuj every crevico in my clothes with tin greatest carc. . When it was set bet'or 11 mirror its entire appearance changed tlio chest became erect, the poucl puffed out, and tho Mack eyes llashet viciously, and if care was not taken i would dash at the gl;;ss. In tho Mar Unique islands the anolis is kept fo lighting purposes, and serves the pur |H>se of the game cock, possessing al the pugnacity of that bird. Large sum ire often staked upon the combats, ii which the vanquished lizard is usual I, paten by tho victor, an ending hardl, admissible under the present pit rules. ?New York Sun. Doing a Favor, Tliev met on the stairs. "Hello!" " Hello!" "Say, old boy, you are growini mightv careless." " How?" " Why, jus1 now I found tho door c vour room wide open." "That's all right. I haven't bee: cjone a minute." "Well, I knew you'd do the same b me, so I shut it." "Thanks. Tho first time I find you floor open, the spriug-lock set to catci und the keys on your desk, I" 1 retur tho favor. Please send me up a but u'lar and a crowbar as you go down."l<W,e Press. The scheme for a new militia law ap pears to rest largely upon theconvietio that tho national guard is N. G. ODDITIES. I > Agassiz once bad an opportunity to j carefully measure a large jelly fish as it t 1 lay at the surface of the sea. Its dink i! was seven feet in diameter and its ten) j tacles 112 feet long. * The house-spider's web will last for ! 1 1 many weeks, while the garden-spider ! j must spin afresh or mpnd his web every i I twenty-four hours. The former sometimes lives from six to eight years. 5 In various parts of Ireland, Scotland and Wales are remains of beehive, j shaped huts, underneath which are ,! chambered bnrial places. These huts l i are of great antiquity. i j ADout tne vear iun or our era nieu t Simon Stylites, a Syrian, who had lived , in self-imposed martyrdom for thirty . years on the top of a granite column t thirty or forty feet high. ; " Boot stretcher to the royal family" 1 is a decidedly raro title, yet there still i lives at Baden an old man who for many ' | years filled this office to the father of the present Austrian emperor. His only I i duty was to wear the archduke's new r | boots until they were sufficiently easy i for his royal master, and the old rei j tainer now en joys a comfortable pension ; I for his service?. * j A ckne observer claims to have dis' I proved the story about an owl wringing ' j its head off by looking at a man who II was walking around it. He writes that " j ho } laced an owl on a post, and began ' to walk rapidly around it. The laTge 1 j round eyes followed him through three ' i circles, and he began to wonder why 1 ! the head didn't drop off. when he dis i covered that the neck had a fly-back j motion which, when the head had been ! turned half way round, whisked it back through the circle, and brought the j gaze again on him with such precision and so quickly that the movement had : three times escaped his notice. I A wild goose joined the flock of a | farmer of London, Canada, but'only appeared at meal times. After satisfying i its appetite it was noticed to pick up an j ear of corn and fly away. After circling i about it dropped apparently into t'?e I river. It was discovered that it cur! ried the corn to a sick and di.sab!1 d i companion that conld neither walk r. jr ; fly. Finally the visits ceased, but shortly i afterward the sick gander wandered ! inro the camp and gobbled up the corn ! itself. He remained all.winter, and the ' indications are that he has made up his ! mind to settle down and go to house| keeping. , Testimonial to Mrs. Hayes. ' A letter from Chicago says: The au- j I 4oaf 1 ir?r\r\lo 1 alhiim In "\fra ) | tU^ia^/U k^QVJlUiUUiUJ. M1S/UU4 WW A'MW* I ! Rutherford B. Hayes by the women of j [ ' Illinois has been finished. The work j ;! consists of six large volumes, of G50 | . | pages each, elegantly bound in full | . j Turkey morocco. All through the book ; , | are scattered India ink drawings. The | j' inscription reads: " From the ladies of j Illinois, who have admired the courage | r j Mrs. Hayes lias displayed in the admin- j . ! istratioii of the hospitalities of the ex- I t ! ecutive mansion. God grant that the | t ' influence of this signal and benign ex-; [ ; ample may be felt more and more as ! i age follows ago in the life of the great i t republic!" The dedicatory poem is by j t Mr. Benjamin, of Chicago. It is en- i ; titled, "Greetings from God's Own, ; ' Clearing, Illinois." The first signature j ; is that of Mrs. James K. Polk, of Nash- j I ville, Tenn.; the second that of R. B. | ; Hayes. Among the autographs in volume one, are those of the members of the late " Hayes Cabinet." Chief-Jusj tice Waite and the justices of the su! j preme court, and the governors of i nearly an me oiaies ana xernione?, i ' under the official seal of each, followed 1 ; ; by congressmen and prominent professional and business men. Volume two i ; begins with the representatives of the , j State of Illinois, including the citv and j ; county officers, and a large space is | filled by the postmasters, followed by j i railroad officers and bankers. Volume j i three is devoted to authors and poets, j i Prominent among these are Oliver ! i Wendell Holmes, Thomas Bailey Al- j : drich and Harriet Beecher Stowe. H. i W. Longfellow subscribes his name j j with the lines: j "Whene'er a noblo deerl if wrought, ' I Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise i To higher levels rise. | "Her presence lends its warmth and health | To all who coiue before it; I If women lost us Eden, sitch 1 | AS mil! auovu ruaioro 11. [ Mark Twain says : " Totul abstinence I ' j is so excellent ft thing that it cannot be j ! ! carried to too great au extent." In my j | paj-sion for it I even carry it so far as to I ; totally abstain from total abstinence j ' itself." Then follow departments de- I ! voted to music, actors, painters, sculp-1 j tors, science atid education. Voluma ! r i four contains autographs of scientific ' | and professional men ; volume five, \ i prominent business men and journalists; r j volume six is devoted to the ropresenta5 J tives of temperance and religion, both J ; j State and national. |1 Indians Killing Cattle. 1 One of the most novel and interesting : features of ration day at tlie Los Pinos agency, in Colorado, is the billing of the cuttle by the Indians preparatory to the distribution of their carcasses. A recent 5 nl ilia nrYannv flino flio j >1011 ui (i)u iud a^&uv/ r luwo uwoviiuu^ wuu 1 scene: After the rations of flour, sugar 7 and coffee had been issued, tho entire L assembly of Indians repaired to the cor" ral. Six fat cattle were there. The > Indians mounted the corral fence. They { 1 | had their Winchester rides and their ? ; long-barreled revolvers. The squaws 1 ! sharpened the scalping-knives on stones, j ; Some had small axes. When each had 1 chosen his position on the fence, all was ' ready for the slaughter. The cattle be3 came nearly frantic at the sight of the I 3 Indians on tho fenco. They ran wild about tho corral for some moments. [ When they became quiet the "selector," 3 as he is calleil, chose the Indian for the lirst shot. A rille was aimed, the word 3 ! riven to fire, and a steer droiined. This j o ' ?. * J was a beautiful shot at a hundred yards 1 distance. It killed tho steer almost in stantly. The second shot was made by f a youug Indian, apparently not more ' ; than eighteen years of ago. It was made 0 I with a United States army pattern Celt's 2 | revolver. The distance was about sixty 1 I i.nv/lo Tt lirnnnrlit ilmrn tliA stpfir 1>V ft 0 shot over tho left eve. The other four 1 | shots were perfect. At the last shot, 1 | so soon as the sixth steer hail dropped, " j men and squaws rushed pell-mell into 14! tho corral. They began skinning the 0 ! cattle while yet kicking. Tho novelty j ' ! of the sight was amusing. Within ' 3 ' twenty minutes these Indians had the^e l y j six steers "butchered"?if butchering ] a j it may be called?and portions selected j e i lashed upou their ponies. In a separate J ? j corral two cattle were likewise killed j ' j for the chiefs. Chepita, Ouray's widow, ; 1 gets a hind quarter from this lot, in | honor of her deceased husband. Ail Arab IJopIj. r El Hejjnj ilm Yusuf, governor of the - two sacred cities of Mecca and Menineh 1 under the Ommiade Caliph, Abnel Mes lik, was one of the most bloodthirsty j a tyrants who ever lived, hut even he oey c.?sionally heard the plain tmth from y the Arabs with whom he came in con" tact. One day he hud gone on a little in alvance of his guards, and falling in v ilii an Arab, said to him: "Oh, chief of the Arabs ! what thinkest thou of El 1 Hcjjaj?" " He is a capricious brant," [replied tho other. "Have you com: plained of him to the Commander of the i Faithful, Abd el Melik ibn Merwan ?' 2 | asked El Hejjaj. "No," said the Arab, " for he is even worse. Allah curse them both!" At this ' '' juncture the soldiers came up, and the Arab, takingiu the situation at a glance, a winked at his questioner, and ciied: "Mind, Prince, that you disclose tho y secret which is between us to none but i Allah?' El Hejjaj laughed and dis* missed him with a gift.? Temple linr. n Professor Dolbeare, of Tuft's college, one of the original inventors of the tele phone, whoso rights were bought by the Western Union Telegraph company, lia? now invented an entirely new tele). phone, through which it is claimed cond i versation can be heard ovicr any length of wire. SCIENTIFIC NOTES. The excessive resonance of churches, M. l'Abbe Barret says, can be modified to any degree by the simple expedient of stretching iron wires across the dome. ! It is calculated that the amount of I force daily expended by an adult weigh- j ing 150 pounds in the performance of! the o>dinarywork of the body would raise 3,400 tons one fro1, I .applied mechanically. A Frenchman proposes to rent for mushroom-raising purposes a portion of the Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. The part selected by him is the avenue named in honor of Audubon. It is said that the proposed mushroom farm will not alFect the natural grandeur of the wonderful cavern. For the next transit of Venus across the sun's face, which occurs December 6, 1882, and which will be seen to advantage on the American continent, the leading nations are already making I preparations. France in particular seems just now to be active in the matter. The commission established by i T-l i * s # O.f 1 me rrenca Acaaemy 01 ocienueH uua resumed its labors under the presidency of AI. Dumas. A credit has been given by the government for constructing new refractors. Not less than twelve are now building, to bo used on the several stations which* have already been selected, and will be ready by the end of the present year. An invention has just been made by a firm of German gun manufacturers which promises to add very greatly to the power of artillery. Hitherto the fear of premature explosions during the transport or filling of shells has prevented any large employment of nitroglycerine and certain other'extremely violent but easily imflammable explosives, for the purpose of charging them. It is claimed for the new invention that it will enable such substance* to be used without danger. The interior of the shell is divided into a number of cells, which are to contain substances non-explosive in themselves, but which, when combined, form a powerful explosive. The walls of the cells must . therefore be broken up before an explosive charge is formed within the shells; and the inventor proposes to make these partitions of such strength that, while they will withstand ordinary jolting, they will be shattered bv the shock to which a projectile is subjected when fired from a gun. A Gigantic Sugar Corn Factory. The Chigago Sugar Refining company are building a factory to convert 25,000 bushels of corn into sugar a day, or something like 8,000,000 bushels a year. The buildings cover 320,000 square feet, and are expected to cost ?1,500,000. The sugar-house is 160 feet square, with eleven stories and ImQAmont nr 14-11 feet hich. It is to be of wood and briek, containing 4,000,000 bricks. It will be supported by ninety piers of masonry, resting on piles, each-pier carrying about 400 tons. There will be required 42,000 forty-foot piles, or 31S miles of piling. Adjoining the sugar-house is a building for corn, sixty by 1G0 feet, and three stories high. It contains five large steam engines, two pumping engines, one flowing engine and several small steam pumps. The pumps have a capacity of 10,000,000 gallons per day. The steam engines will be equal to 2,000 horse power, and the blowing engine blower furnishes a blast for 7,000 lioi-se power boilers. Next to the corn-house is the filler house, 120 by 100 feet, and eleven stories high. This building is a fireproof one, built of brick, iron columns, wrought iron floor beams, with brick arch floors. Its tweuty-four piers carry Rnn +/-Y-?a annli Al? 19. nnil fnns TllAtA are 2,500 forty-fuot piles driven fifty : feet below the surface. The next building is a corn-house, | sixty feet square and three stories high, with machinery in it to empty the cars I automatically. The next is a boiler-house, seventy-, fivo by 150 feet in size, three stori?-s and basement, with a coal bin suspended above the boilers to feed them automatically with coal. The boilers have a capacitv of 7,000 horse-power. There arc twenty ox these known as the Babcock & Wilson section boilera. The chimney for the house is 240 feet high, with a twelve-foot inside flue. The base is forty feet square. Between the boiler-house and the chimney is an economizer, that the waste gases of the boilers pass through on the way to the chimney. By this means the heat is utilized by pumping the feed waters of the boiler through this economizer. The works will commence with 12,000 bushels of com per day, which will soon increase to 25,000 per day. The corn can be received by car or vessel, and the goods likewise shipped. T"e company will manufacture all kinds of starch fo^umdryand culinary I purposes, strop aW^flpe sugar. A Japanese Doctor. Traveling in the interior of Jap in ha i sundry drawbacks. The water is bad, i and there is a lack ot such food as a civilized stomach can digest. The traveler is also assailed by myriads of fleas, hornets, and a fly which bites like a mosquito. An English lady, while traveling in fhat country being laid up with pain and fever, produced bv these } pests, seDtior a native doctor. He was an old-fashioned practitioner, whose j medical knowledge, having been handed i down from father to son, led him to ! look with suspicion upon European j methods and drugs. Dressed in silk he entered the pa- j tient's room and prostrated himself three times on the ground. Then sit- j ting down on his heels be asked to see j her " honorable hand " and her " honor- j able foot." Feeling her pulse ami look- j ing at her eyes through a magnifying j glass, he informed her, with much sucking in of his breath?a sign of good breeding?that she had fever and must rest. Lighting his pipe he smoked and con templated his patient. After again makiLg an examination he clapped his hands three times. A servant entered carrying a hundsomo black lacquer chest. Inside there was a medicine chest of gold lacquer, fitted up with shelves, drawers, bottles, etc. Compounding a lotion [he bandaged | the patient's arm and hands, telling her ; to pour the lotion over the bandage at intervals. He tben gave her medicine | for the fever, to be drunk in hot water, j and warned her not to use "sake" for a day or two. As thi.i is rice beer, containing seventeen per cent, of alcohol, the prohibition did not compliment the Japanese ladies. On being asked to name his fee the doctor, after many bows and much sucking in of his breath, suggested that half a yen (fifty cents) might not be too much. The lady by giving him a whole yen (a dollar) called forth fervent expressions of Kratitnde. Subsequently she invited him to dinner, and had her gravity nearly upset by his noisy gulping*, gurglings and drawing in of the breath. By these performances, most distressing to a European, but which Japanese etiquette prescribes, he showed his appreciation of the repast. Elephants in a New Hole. The Detroit Fne Press says: An eminent. chemist has been making an analysis of elephant's milk supplied by the female elephant Ilcbe, who had a calf several months since The globules of cream are wonderful in size and very transparent. In flavor and odur it is superior to goat's milk and fully equal to cow's. The elephant's alf, weighing 22."} pounds at its birth, March 10, 1880, gained 700 pounds in one year on this milk diet. Now that it has been demonstra ed that elephants a e productive in captivity, ir. wonid be something of au addition to American wealth in live stock to include the elephant. A good-sized herd would supply an ordi nary city with milk and do all the heavy [ pulling, loading and unloading in business. The Parisians, too, learned to eat elephant steaks whon they were obliged, while the African hunters all declare that elephant meat is very palatable. HUMOR OF THE DAY. A lover is like a tug-boat when ho M goes out. with a toe.?Salem Sunh'am. J Everybody should talip a newppaper .;> ?but not from other folks' doors'eps. * t1 To be short in his accounts is,' in vjs a cashier, a crime; in a reporter it is a virtue. ? Will theonmingman eat dried apples? ?Central City Jl^m. If he wishes to bo classed as a swell he probably will. According to the recent censns tWb'& population of London is 3,814,571, and the analysis shows that 3,814,000 called Jfe ' Iroquois " a 'orse.?Puck. The man who has invented a living machine should make his trial trio now. There have never been more flies out H than at this present time.?Picayune. The Brooklyn Eagle {fives the follow- ^ ing as a Boston lad's definition of his < ..-Jj stomach: " Something that goes across 'cjs the teacher's knee when I get licked/ g Ground for objection: "Me buy the a) property, sor? Me be a landlord and be >'' shot in the back I Shure, there's to be no more landlords!?we're all goin'to ;% be tinnants?"?Punch. We warn newspaper men gainst a jjm counterfeit 3100 bill now in circulation, ' i Probably no professional men handle so many bills of that denomination as tho pencil pushers, and we hope our timplj jj warning will prevent any from getting -'j. caaght.?Rochester Express. An elderly gentleman says to a little.- Ms miss of seven : " 8ay, sissy, will yon *4 marry me 1" The child, taking the piv. ponition gravely, curls up her mouth u -M jf considering the subject.. " Come, -f-. 6issy,"say8 her mother, "will you marry the gentleman?" "Yes, 'n., but? (aside)?ma, I'd like a newer husband,'.^ FINANCIALLY EMBARRASSED. A man in business often is, You'll find, perplexed and barrassed; But when he's walking down the street, ^ With his best girl so trim and neat, And ice cream signs his eyes do meet, With not a cent to stand th? treat,' The girl may look him in the phiz; And at such times he surely is Financially embarrassed. ? Yoi'kers Statesman. . *. % Some one has formed 1,051 English words of not less tban four letters from the letters in the word " regulations." $ The above item is having an extensive 3 circulation through the newspapers. A giunce at the word "regulations'' '''t shows that it contains all toe vowels . - A . ^:.^v-532 and six oi tne most trequentiy usea consonants, so there isn't anything won- 39 derful in the feat mentioned. The person who accomplished it conld hare . ^ done more for humanity by sitting a^. the forks of a road and acting as an ^ automatic guideboard.?New Haven ^ Register. Feanut Statistics. The crop of peanuts which supplies the entire country comes, for the most r part, from Virginia. In a few of th? ^bet-_8outhern States the. peanoi has been plantedTlmt the"yiaH^in quantity or quality is scarcely worth couMi3g_ia_, ?|j comparison with that of Virginia. Many ~w"~' vcara ago the Spanish seed was sown in fj l Virginia and it fructified wonderfully,* the nut as it grows now being double . p the size of the original seed. It is still supposed by many that the esculent is still a foreign importation, but this is not so nor has it been for the past three*3 years. The receipts of the peanut is this city from'VirgiDia for thepast tlirefe V years, from October 15 to June 1 ea<*.h ' year, here is as follows: 1878 79, 84,606v.-rv;^ bags; 1879 80, 99,017 bags; 1880-81, 76, 443 bags. The total receipts in 1879 were 104,344 bags, and in 1880 127,402 . ha era Tho avprftffl enrrent nrica. as 72&S given by a large importer, was: Handpicked, 4 l-2o. to 4 3-4c. ?er pound; choice, 4c. to 4 l-4c. per pound;- lower grades, 3c. to 3 l-2c. per pound. A large quantity of shelled peanuts is sold 4i annually in this city for confeetionejy.^JU purposes. To give an idea of the ?<nsumption throughout the entire country * * the following figures are quoted: -3 Stock of bags on hand June 1: . v-'jj 1879. 1880. 1SS1 -J Virginia 28,374 59,885 130,256 -1* Now York city 24,000 35,000 20,000 Boston 8,000 8,000 17,000 Philadelphia..,. 14,000 17,000 20,000 Totals .84,374 119,885 187,256 M The available surplus stock on hand Vrtm VAvlf pAcfnri artii ^3 ill i.ion xui a, uvgvvu mi*v* Philadelphia, Jane 1, 1881, i.. excess of the stock at the same time in 1879, was 102,882" bags, and in 1880, 67.371 bags. The -past winter was fo cold that the consumption of peanuts was much be- \ low the average. At the cpfning of spring dealers found their stock nearly 1L all on hand; nor is there any likelihood, in the opinion of prominent merchants in the trade, that for the balance of the * year the market will be otherwise than dull and weak.?New 1 ork Herald. ' ^ The Leslie Assignment. . The final proceeding in the matter of ? the Frank Leslie assignment was taken-" \ yesterday. An order was entered acquitting* Mr. Isaac W. Eng\and, the fr/im oil fnrtlior nhlicmtinnfi to-? tlictrust, and discharging and releasing the bondsmeii who had become bis V ; ?* sureties in the stnn of_ 3100.000, and canceling their Lend. S, The case has been a rcumrk'a&e^gfte, &r*i and probably stands unparalleled inthe^^" judicial histoi7 of this State. It is peculiar in that it probably is the only V J instance on record where an assigned $ estate, instead of being sold in accord- ."%> ance with the provisions of the assign- *. < ment, has been carrit d on by the assiguee in the interest of the creditors for a -'J period of nearly four years. The experiment was a hazardous one, but in this case it seems to have been attended with the best results. The eslate at the time it came into the tgi possession of the assignee was inventoried at $75,000, and was incumbered '_ > bv debts amounting to about ?1<)0,000. In less than four .years the assignee has 1 compromised witli and obtained releases from all the creditors, and has turned .. over to the executrix of Air. i<ranK Leslie, who had meantime died, an ' estate worth certainly not less than hill "-v* a million of dollars. * <53 Though several millions of dollars passed through Mr. England's hands during his assigneeship, his accounts were passed without the challenge of a dollar. In these days when so much has published about delinquent trustees and estates absorbed in the process of administration, it is gratifyiug to find so ' conspicuous an illustration of a trust > faithfully and wisely administered.? . - New York Sun. ??? Another African Hunter. One of the most remarkable African ? hunters who ever lived to return from hi the wilds of that continent has just published an account of his travels. f. The ordinary African traveler of literature kills lions, tigers aud elephants . ? without number; his tiusty rifle never & misses fire at the critical moment, and " 4 the cowaidly natives always run off, leaving him in a plight fr<>m which he rescues himself onlv by the greatest ^ address and skill. But this exceptional ?i man, Dr. Holul>, was no such fellow. x" He couldn't even hit a baboon at bhjrt rantre. His second shot at a monkey * went into his own hand, grazed his A temple aud tumbled him out of the wagon. A herd of horned horses came ? near running over him. Iu chasing ^ some antelope he got in 'a thorn bm-h and nearly tore himself to pieces: he came near shooting his own dog while j in ambush for hyenas on a moonlight ? night; thought he hit a gnu plump in tho head as it was drinking by night, luit could never find a trace of the beast; wandered off with bis pnm, got lost and sunstruck and was s*ved by a savage; tumbled into a stream trying to land a three pound fish, aud a panic seizing him while on a watch for iions ? he and his servant scrambled quickly into a tree, where they roosted till sunrise. He was about three years 1? a ining the use of the ride, and seven years' practice did not make him a dead shot. But ho evidently learned to tell the truth, which is more than African hunting ever did for a sportsman before.? Di rait Free Press.