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BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1881. NO. 11. VOLUME XXVI jA The Well. Dark and cool the water lies In the old time-honored well; Deep, down deep the bucket flics. And how ffren, who can tell ? For the hoI.oi.!>ny. hot witli play. For the in' iivr (i:ed with toil, Fur tlio t: .v< ii : -,>!i his way. Doth 'he tireless rope uncoil. And how ol'tcr*. who can tell? Or, who !ii>: the gracious draught Drew up from the bounteous well ? ur, who s'iijk tne ancient snait t They are <!u?t, who slaked their thirst At the little silver fount In the wild woods, where it firht Called the huntsman to dismount. They are dust, the pioneers, Who the strong-arm forest broke, Where the old woll now appears, Where now curls the village smoke. So shall we within the vale With our children's children dwell; But the waters ne'er shall fail In the old time-honored well. ?Robert Balling, Si. Louis Post'.Vixpatch. OUR COLONEL'S STORY. OB A SLIP 'TW1XT THE CUP AXT> THE LIP. xuu tux ftucn uouuj xuix uuouu, said our colonel. " Intimately!" " Perfectly I" "As well as my own brother, sir!" most of us replied, though, if the truth be told, there was not a man at the mess-table who had ever heard of McPherson before. Ton see, it was the commandiEg officer who spoke, and it was always j risky saying him nay when he expected i yea." " They used to call him, you recol-1 lect, 4 The Great Unwashed,' a vulgar j but appropriate sobriquet, neverthless," continued the chief. "Great, on account of his burly and preciously ugly person ; unwashed, by reason of his accredited scant acquaintance with brown 1 Windsor, spring water and the functions of the dhirzeesand dhobies?i. e., tailors and washermen of the land. ' On his cofFee estate in the mountains and among his undraped and unscrubbed coolies, this disregard for' the comforts and conveniences of life went for nothing?perhaps it was even in keeping with the surroundings; but when he came down to this city, walked r?nVvliA rroWJzana finrl ocnlaniiflp or showed with its swells at the band, his appearance was something too outrageous, and his brother K. C. B.'s, meaning Knights of the Coffee Berry, and not, as you might suppose, of the Order of the Bath, dressy men hereabouts, whatever else they are on their plantations, cast him completely into the shade by their get-up and gorgeousness. "As for the spinsters and young widow I of the station there was scarce one but who fought shy of admitting him into her presence as a morning visitor, much less as a suitor, though many of these blooming ladies were on the sharp lookout for the silken chains of matrimony, : and Barkis?that is to say, McPherson? was, as they knew, willing. " But, disadvantages of person and at- j tire notwithstanding, he was a right good fellow, this same gentleman. He was honest, hard working, thrifty, simple-minded, and, from being a mere ad-; venturer without interest, friends or money, he had, self-helped only, saved i np the bawbees little by little; had bonght patch after patch, acre after acre, of virgin Jand; cut down its timber, i cleared it, planted it, and now he had squatted down free from incumbrances on Ailsa Craig, as he called his property, i as pretty and as fruitful a small coffee estate as could be fonnd in one of the : most picturesque districts of this lovely island. " Now you young gentlemen who are in the habit of lawn-tenising, afternoon 'eaing, talking, spooning, walking, riving, with all the feminines, plain ad colored, of this place, and who &ink that you have only to ask and be . eceived?which I beg and entreat you will not put to the test, cutting up "the mess and so on?can't perhaps realize to yourselves the difficulties the worthy < I am speaking of had met with in even 1 this overstocked matrimonial emporium. The Anglefrails, the Hunters, the Hookers, lots of girls whom I will not name, had snubbed or turned up ; their pretty noses at him when he came a-wooing, and so, nolens rolens, he re- j raained a bachelor, anathematizing his ill-luck and venting his disappointments upon the backs of shirking and recu sant Tamil coolies, the recognized natual enemies of coffee and the scapegoats of its cultivators. " Then as a last resource he sought; from his brethren of the berry around counsel as to the most advisable method of getting the so needed helpmate, and the first man he consulted was Herr Thaler, a successful and rich German, whose estate bordered on Ailsa Craig. " 'So, so I' said that personage. 'Zere is noting more easy. Zave off zat rapjget beard, burn in ze fire zose old clodes '< not fit for 'Oundsditch or any Juden . Strasse, buy von big tob, mein frend, get zome Europe muster coats and zen [ return to ze frauleins and vidder fraus j vid ze monish bag in ze 'auds. If z-y vill not 'ave zou, zey vill take ze rupee; trost 'em for zat, mv zon.' " But the recommendation was unpala t t?Uie,aiiU IU a^iratl'.VkCJitiUi|;iatuv.ui'iv.) I so another fidus Achates was appealed to, one Jack le Geste, a man mucn ad- | dieted to chaff and practical joking. " 'In this land of pearls and precious j rtones, no go, dear boy,' paid Mr. le G. ' From Dondra Head to Point Cala- J mere?north, sonth, east, west?the women won't look at von; that yon ' have fonnd ont long Ego. Give np hnnting, then,, in these oft-trod colonial fields, and draw the home covers. Don't yon happen to know a bonnie lassie in yonrown "Caledonia stern and wild," or , a pretty colleen in theoisle of shillelahs and shamrocks, who wonld be glad to share enrry and rice with yon ? Go and ; try those parts; if not, have a haphazard : ^hy at where I hail from, the Channel j Islands. Spins?aye, and precions good- > looking ones too?are as plentiful there as cocoanuts are here, and maybe one of them might be induced to clear ont in your favor. Failing those islets I know of no other dodge than indenting \ipon one of those co-operative associations, . which furnish everything, even to a j better half. But mind, old man, they keep a roster for foreign service in their offices; first lady on the list, plain or , pretty, first for duty; you pays your money, but you don't take your choice.' " But these suggestions also were con-! eidered infeasible and put aside. Presently, however, a thought struck McPlierson. " 'Le Geste,' said he, 'when I was a boy there lived in the neighborhood of my father's manse a widowed lady with two or three then wee, very wee daughters. From what I can recollect of them their means were cramped, not to say scanty, but they were of good blood and form. One of the children, the eldest if my memory serves me, was called Effie-^Effie Needum?and prom- j ised to be bonny, for I can faintly recall her blue eyes, flaxen hair, rosy complexion and jimp little figure. If she is alive she must be close on thirty ; for ! it is many years since I came out here a stripling and was Cninna Doray ? ' Anglice, little master?on tho Pavcock estate, as my kind employer styled' that property. Mrs. Needum knew me well ?better, indeed, than I knew her. I . wonder if she and the bairns be in the tend of the leal or the living.' *** Write directly and inquire.' And Sandy did so, and ascertained that Jris old. acquaintances, Miss Effie included, wire still alive and prondly bearing np against the res anr/usta domi. Armed with which intelligence he once again returned to Le Geste. "'It is all right now, Mac,' said he; ' your course is as clear as day. Send a M chit" to materfamilias N.; tell her that yon are well-to-do in the world, own lands and cattle, men servants and maid servants; that you want to settle ; that as a whipper-snapper yon liked ? no, better say loved? ftiss Effie, and ask her in plain English to come out and many yon. Above all things, though, vbe sure and send your photograph ; j ou ' are not such a very, very bad-looking chap, Sandy, if you would only dress lik - a Christian and not like a coolie.' " So the letter was written, submitted to Lo Geste's inspection, sealing, posting, and in due course was received by ; the Needums, in whose little household 1 it created no small amount of astonisli; ment, and was much spelt and pondered over, especially by the damsel most con ea rned?still a comely if even a some; what passe body? and w ho, after a ^nnsPTih'd to rrn nut, snwl wed hrr 1 suitor. ; "'After all, mi'her dear,' she said, ; 4 he has houso and home for me; maybe, by-and-bye, f >r you, too, Jennie; and I'll do all I can to help you. It's the best thing for me. And really, Mr. McPhevson?or I suppose I ought to call him Alexander?is yet young and not bad-looking. Quite the Contrary? , very, very nice-lookirg. See the photo j be has sent us.' "And Miss Jennie quite agreed with | her elder sister that Mr. McPherson was 1 a beauty. " ' Well, my bairns,' said the old lady, ! 'I can't gainsay you but that the por- j trait is winsome and douce enough; but; i as I call to mind the boy Sandy, the j son of the minister, he was uot nearly . so seemly and well favored. But it is, ! indeed, laug syne since I set eyes on | j him, and likely he has got handsomer as he got older; some men do.' "Then, everything being settled,, Miss Needum accepted her kismet, agree to go out, and her lover?open- \ handed, honorable, true, as I have al- J i ready told you he was? gent the where withal for passage and outfit. " And pending the many, many weeke that elapsed, and while the good ship j Queen of Serendib was sailing round | the Cape for Ler destination, a change, , a radical change, came over the life and ! habits of onr bride-expecting friend. ! He cast into the limbo of things done j with his coarse ' cumlies,' rough ' dun- [ garees' and other country clothing, and ! burst out into 'Europe muster' linen, 1 tweeds and serges. He purchased i largely house furniture and knick- [ knacks; he bought a lady's horse and a ! Peat's sidesaddle; he whose equine pro- j divides L.:! nv>ver extended beyond a : shaggy mountain pony, and a tattered j and torn pig-skin. Ho told his old \ flames and chums that ho was going in I for the Benedict, and bashfully lis- | tened to the ' riles' and jeers of the one, and the chaff anil laughter of the other. "As the time for the arrival of the 1 Queen uf Serendib drew nigh awful; were the fidgets of our hero ; and many : days before it was possible for that slow I and sure craft to reach her port he was j there walking about with a big binoc- { ular in his hand3, looking out seaward , and entreating all sorts and conditions ! ol men lor tuo very earnest news o 1 uer ; being sighted. The fact was that the I rough-seasoned old fellow was on the ; very tenterhooks of anxiety and expec- j tation, as nervous as a schoolgirl and i behaving himself ax such. " Then at long last it was told him i that the vessel was in the offing, was j rounding the .point, was at anchor in I the harbor, and in the Master Attend- i ant's boat, cushioned, flagged and bedecked for the auspicious occasion, Sandy McPherson, Esquire, of Ailsa Craig, planter, rowed alongside, ' same I like he governor,' the native specfutors | observed. " Scrambling up the side he took a I hasty glance at the many passengers assembled on the poop, and, instinct- j ively guessing that Miss Effi?was not j among them, he dived below and con-1 i fronted the stewardess. j : "' Miss Needum on board, and well?'! i asked he. " 'l'es, sir,' replied the matron, ' and 11 a very nice, good, kind, pleasant young i lady she is, and I've taken the greatest 1 care of her.' She felt sure tuat tne i gent was Miss N.'s husband to be, and | ] that there was money in his purse for a , ] gratuity, notwithstanding that, accord-. , ing to the terms of the passage money, . stewards' and stewardess' fees were in-; , eluded?a fiction, gentlemen, a pleasant j fiction, which you will finil out when ; , you go down to the sea in ships. "' Take this card to her,' said the ' ' pale and trembling gentleman. ' I'll', wait her coming up in that far corner of ; this saloon.' " Glancing at the pasteboard the i j woman disapi)eared, and presently j, there ascended, step by step, from the : , regions below, first a neat straw hat, ;, trimmed with bright ribbons, beneath that hat a face somewhat worn with i years and cares, but still fresh and j! comely enough; then a slight, compact j; figure, draped in plain, well-titling. garments, shawled ond ready for the ; shore. Miss Effie, in propria persona, 1 stood before her hand-seeker, blushiug , ? -.1 ... 1 t * ueiesiiiu rosy ieu. , " He advanced from his coign of van-! tage to greet her, but as he grew nigher, j instead of the warm, affectionate wel- j come he looked for, therg _ was a fixed | stare, a shudder, a hasty retreat and a ; loud scream which resonnded from stem to stern of the big ship and brought I every one from decks and cabins into i the saloon. "' Miss Neednin?Effie, my girl, what on earth is tbe matter?' hurriedly stammered nut the astounded Sandy. "* Shiver my timbers, what ails the ! lassie?' put in the captain. ' Look out j for squalls, if you've annoyed her!' And j all the bystanders echoed the words in more or less threatening terms. She was evidently a favorite on board. " ' Ob, take him away,' cried the lady, piteously; ' take him away from me, some oue! I don't know him I I've been misled, deceived! I can't marry him?indeed, indeed I can't. He is not Mr. McPherson who wrote to mo, to whom I came out to be mar?. He is ; so ngly. Oh, snch a dreadful fright! ril return him his money. I'll work i my way back to my poor mother. I'll do anything, but I can't bo his wife. I'd rather die first!' '' t 'iVVi/.i! Vaa/1 T /Iftn't in/IAO/1 ?r?_ lUlSO i^CCU Kill) x VlVix u ujuggu iiu- | derstand this,' said the taken-aback and j completely-flabbergasted one. 4 What does it all mean ? Are we not engaged ? , Have you not come out of your own j free will to accept the home and the love I offer you? Did I not send you j my likeness ?' " 'No, no!' " ' Surely I did. It was taken by Collodion, our best photographer, and, when he gave it to me he said: "Mr. 1 MePherson, sir, there is no flattery 'ere. Your worst henemies would admit that." Why, I myself put it inside the letter to your mother.' "'I repeat, no?decidedly and emphatically no! Look at this,' aud drawing from her bosom a little locket she opened it and displayed the head and face of a younger, much handsomer and in every outward respect a more lovable man than the scared one now before her. It was the counterfeit pre-' sentment of Mr. Jack le Geste, aud 11 leave yon to imagine what MePherson thought when he saw it there. "How could itget into thelocket,you ! ask? Why, in the simplest way in the i world. That good-for-nothing fellow, Le Geste, when Sandy's letter came into ; his possession, thought to 'sell' him, and so had surreptitiously removed his carte de visite, substituting one of his j own, and EfHe had w orn it ever since. " The disappointed bridegroom pleaded hard and tried every argument to induce the girl to let matters progress, but she was obstinate and determined. " She would esteem and respect him always, but nothing more. To let the cat out of the bag, Miss Eflie had fallen desperately in love with the picture of her supposed Alexander, and in vulgar language had spooned over it awfully | during the tedious and lone hours of a long voyage. Of course she imagined that it was ber intended husband she [ was approving, or she would not have 1 done it?certainly not. " So, quite chapfallen and in the maddest of rages, MePherson returned to his estate. " Arrived th^re he cut from one of his ! coffee bushes the thickest and knottiest j of sticks and proceeded with it in search of Le Geste; but, fortunately for the! ' jester, he had made tracks and was gone. I "Thenhe reverted to his old customs | and habits, sold his not now necessary ! goods and chattels and thought as little i as he could of the false Effie. 1 " A fickle and capricious creature, woman. Listen, gentlemen, to another j exemplification of old Virgil's dictum. "In the same ship in which, shortly after the breaking ofi" of he r intended espousal, Miss Needum sailed for England : there came on board almost at the last : minute a slim, dark-haired, good-look! ing man. going home, some said for ; health; others, in fear and trembling of j an irate Gael with a huge stick in his , hands. Be this as it may, the healthI seeker or the fugitive?take which yon J please?was no other than Le Geste, J and, to close my story, when the vessel I i i-i -a ol Trr-1J e ?,1 10U0I16tl at OU JjLUiUUti iui naiw auu ! provisions be and Effie went on sboro I and returned man and wife." ' ODDITIES. Thimbles were an invention of the Dutch. The order of Knight Templars was instituted in about 1117-1118. You will never " find " time for any-1 thing. If you want time yon must make I it. In perceiving the tints of scarlet, our [ eyes are affected by undulations recur*; ring 482,000,000 times a second. French graves are sometimes decor- j ated with wreaths of black and white horsehair?selected for its durability, j At a prize exhibition for India mus ? Ion voWJci Inner anrl A lliiJS, it pCVC JU1UU V?W I yard wide weighed less than four ounces. Among the Athenians the perforation of the ears was a mark of nobility; with j the Hebrews and Romans it indicated j servitude. One species of ants in New Mexico j construct their nests of some stones of; one material chosen from the various | components of the sand. Dogs in a state of nature never bark, j they whine or growl. The explosive j noise is only found among those which ; have been domesticated. The poison of a rattlesnake is as fatal: to the snake itself as to anything else. ! One having accidentally struck its fang ! into its own side died in a few hours, j Bone-black possesses the singular i property of completely absorbing the j color OI aiiuusu uu* tcgcrauic UI nuium | solution, and of rendering quite color-1 less the water charged with it. The original of " Mary had a little Iamb" was written Mr. JohnRoulstone, of Boston, proprietor of a popular riding school, sixty years ago" "Mary," the owner of the laml), is now Mrs. Tyler, of Somerville, Mass. The lamb, if now living, is supposed to be pretty tough mutton. The race of gypsies appeared in Ger- ' many in 1517, having quitted Egypt when attacked by the Turks. An act1 was made against their itinerancy in England in 1530, and in the reign of Charles I. thirteen persons were were executed for associating with gyp-! sies, contrary to the law. The phrase " dead as a herring " may i be traced to the fact that the herring is an extremely delicate fish, and whenever it is taken out of the water, even though it seems to have no hurt, it gives a squeal and immediately expires, and though it be thrown immediately , back into the water it never recovers, i HEALTH HINTS. Swelled neck may be cured by washing the part with brine, and also drink-1 ing some of the mixture twice a clay. until cured. ; A lump of wet salaratus applied to 1 the spot stung by a wasp will afford in-; 3tant relief. The alkali property neutralizes the poison. A wash made from the spotted alder is recommended for ivy poisoning. Also ! the shop water of a blacksmith's trough is a sure cure for poison ivy, and dog-: wood and strong salt and water as an antidote for the poisoning of sumach. For toothache and its accompanying facial pain Dr. Sporer strongly advises, j in a St. Peter burg medical journal, the : use of chloral and glycerine?dissolving ! from a scrapie to half a dram of the j former in two drams of the latter, and j upplying a plug of wadding soaked in j this to the source of pain. As, however, this may cause considerable irritation of j the mucous membrane of the mouth, the chloral can be applied in substance j by wrapping from half to at most one grain of the granules of chloral in a little wool to keep them together, and placing in the cavity of the tooth; on the chloial becoming dissolved the accumulated saliva is to be ejected. All kinds of burns, scalds,and sun- j i-'-i-i- ! burns are almost immediately raiovcu , by the application of a solution of soda , to the burned surface. It must be re- j membered that dry soda will not do un- j less it is surrounded with a cloth moist i enough to dissolve it. This method of { spinkling it on and covering it with a wet cloth is often the very best. But it is sufficient to wash the wound repeatedly with a strong solution. It would be well to keep a bottle of it always on hand, made so strong that more or less settled on the bottom. This is what is called a saturated solution, and really such a solution as this is formed when the dry soda is sprinkled on and covered with a dry moistened cloth. It is thought by some that the pain of a burn is caused by the hardening of the albumen and soda relieves the pressure. Others think that the bum generates an acrid acid, which the soda neutralizes. WISE WOItDS. It is as difficult to throw a straw any distance as a ton. ~TH It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them. Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest. True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is who inspires it. He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at. last. The moral cement of all society is virtue, it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys. Strong as our passions are they may be starved into submission and conquered without being killed. The first time a man deceives you the fault is his; if he deceives you the second time the fault is your own. We appreciate no pleasures unless we are occasionally deprived of them. Restraint is the" golden rule of enjoyment. Civility is in itself a fortune, for a courteous man always succeeds in life, even when persons of greater ability sometimes fail. Good temper is like a sunny day; it sheds a brightness over everything; it is the sweetener of toil and the poother of disquietude. Every man carries about with him a touchstone, if ho will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glittering, truth from appearance. There is a pleasure in contemplating good; there is a greater pleasure in receiving good; but the greatest pleasure is doing good, which comprehends the rest. Oil Upon the Troubled Waters. William Porter, who was wrecked early this year in the steamship Diamond, of Dundee, bears testimony, in a letter published in Chambers' Journal, to the extraordinary efficacy of oil in calming waves: " I first heard of its good effects in the case of a whaler in the South Seas. She was on the point of foundering. The men were unable, owing to heavy seas, to remain at the pumps, when some of the oil casks broke adrift in the hold and smashed. The oil was then pumped out with the water, and the sea, though still as high, did not break on board" At the wreck of the Diamond ho considers that they owed their life to the oil thrown out. The old battleground of Tippecanoe belongs to the State of Indiana, and is inclosed with a fence. THE FARM AM) HOUSEHOLD. Plow Knrlr. J Where other work will permit it is : beat to plow the land for fall sowing ; soon after the haying and harvesting is , over. This avoids the drought-dried ; soil that is frequently found later in the ' season, besides turning under the weeds ' before they have time (to ripen theii i seeds. Thorough use of the cultivator will prepare the early-plowed laud when I sowing time comes.?American Agriculturist. Slioelnff Hornc*. j One of the most prolific causes of ; contracted heels in horses is allowing i their shoes to remain on too long. It is i seldom we hear of horses having conI tracted heels when worked regularly j every day. Few persons are aware of ! the importance of removing a horse's I shoes, which should be done at least every montii or six weeKs. At is too often the custom to allow the shoes, after having once been placed, to remain till worn out before removing them. Fifty years ago, when horse's shoes lasted much longer than they do now, it was a common practice to remove them once before they were worn out. When removed the horses' feet were pared down the same as when newly shod. If this was the practice now we should have less interfering and fewer lame horses. Thinning Fruit. Whenever we tell a friend he should thin his fruit he talks about the curculio, the coddling moth, the birds and the boys, and " guesses there will be thinning enough before the season gets through." This is true enough in its way. Wherever these troubles exist to any extent it is not much use to grow fruit at all. But there are some who do not leave all their gardening to insects and vermin; some who dispute the right of these pests to interfere at. all, and wage war, successful war against them; but even these do not appreciate the value of thinning their fruit. The evil of overbearing is particularly apparent in dwarf pears and grapes. As a general thing there is rarely a grape vine but would be benefited by having its bunches cut away and some of the free bearing dwarf pears might have from one-third to one-half. The grapes may be cut away as soon a3 they can be seen, but the pear should be left until somewhat grown, as they often fall after they are pretty well advanced. It not only helps the size of the fruit, but is a gain to the future health of the tree.?Qermantoicn Telegraph. Plant Medium-Sized l'oifitoe*. The following Enures show the result of experiments made in growing potatoes at-the experimental farm of Cornell nnivprsitv. Ithaca. N. Y.: The Earlv Rose variety was planted May 10; the soil, a sand loam, unmanured and moderately fertile. Each plot consistu of a single row fifty feet in length. The rows were four feet apart, and the seed was dropped eighteen inches apart in the row. Below is the yield in pounds: Plot Yield. Yielil. Total No. Large. Small. YieltL 1. Small potatoes used as seed, 30 33 83 2. Medium-sized whole potatoes, 83 US 128 3. Same size cut in halves, one piece per hill, 93 2G 119 4. Samo size cut to two eyes per picce, one pioco per hill, 81 19 103 5. Cut as No. 4. two pieces per hill, 90 21 120 (j. Seed end of jiotato planted, 8<i .".0 110 { 7. Stem end planted, ?8 23 113! 8. Middle of potato planted, 23 41 G4 9. Seed.planted two inches deep, 7G 46 122 10. Seed planted four inches deep, 98 33 131 11. Cultivated flat, !S4 31 vzt> 2. C nltivated in ridges, 89 29 118 Potatoes less than an average-sized hen's egg are classed as small. It appears that medium-sized potatoes, cut to two eyes, and two pieces to the hill, j give the bestresultB; that deep planting j and flat culture did the best. These | experiments, if they do nothing mo:re, I point out to our readers the advantage ! of such trials, and we hope there will! grow among farmers a disposition to make annually similar tests in the cnl- I ture of any and every farm crop. Much j can be gained in this way. Chicken Cholera. The disease commonly known as j chicken cholera is one of a contagious | character, although it will undoubtedly i occur spontaneously in a single fowl of a flock, and may spread no further if the sick fowl is removed at once to a safe distance. The disease is intestinal fever, with inflammation of the liver. It may be caused by unwholesome surroundings and by continued indigestion and malnutrition, by which the blood is brought into the precise condition in which it furnishes* an acceptable support to the germs of the disease which are floating in the air at certain seasons and under certain circumstances. These, however, are so varied that we may expect them to be present at all times, even in the coldes weather, for even then fowls are at tacked with this disease. The conspicuous indications of this disease are a yellowness of the wattles and cheeks and green and yellow dung or a black liquid discharge. When a fowl is thus attacked it should bo separated from the rest: twenty drops of carbolic acid SU0U1 CI De put lnio a pint ox wiuer iur twelve fowls, and the sick fowl should have three drops of tlio acid given in a teaspoonful of water. No food should be given for some days and only the carbolated water. Cheap Fertilizer*. Nearly every fanner goes to the nearest village to trade, visit a mechanic or obtain his letters and papers, at least once a week. He often takes a load to market, but he rarely brings one home. He can, with very little trouble, haul a load of material that may be obtained I for nothing, and which will be of great | benefit to his land. Most village peo- I pie make no use of the ashes produced j in their stoves or of the bones taken j from the meat they consume. Scarcely j any brewer has any use for the hops ; that have been boiled in his vats, and j the blacksmith hardly ever saves the : clippings he takes from the feet of i horses. All these materials make ex- j cellent manure. A barrel of shavings cut from the hoofs of horses contains more ammonia than is contained in a load of stable manure. Applied to j land, without preparation, they might i give no immediate results, but they j would become decomposed in time and j crops of all kinds would derive benefit { from them. They may be so treated that they would produce immediate re- j suits. By covering them with fresh 1 horse manuro they will decompose very i rapidly. They may also be leached in j a barrel and the water that covered ! them drawn off and applied to plants, j Water in which pieces of horns and j hoofs have been soaked, is an excellent j manure for plants that require forcing. ' It stimulates the growth of tomatoes.rose | bushes and house plants very rapidly j and emits no offensive odors. A vast i amount of fertilizing materials is wasted 1 in towns that farmers could obtain the I benefit of with very little trouble.? j New York Herald. Reclpen. Baked Potatoes. ? Raw potatoes j pared and sliced very thin, put into a j pudding dish and covered with milk, ; sprinkled with pepper and salt and a j tablespoonfr.l of flour previously mixed j with a little milk, baked until nicely ' browned, from thirty to fifty minutes, j Those fond of onions can add a fow slices. Angel Cake.?Beat the whites of eleven eggs Btiff, then add one and a half cupfuls powdered sugar, and one teaspoonful vanilla. Sift four times one cupful flour, and one teaspoonful cream-tartar lifted four "times; add the flour and cream-tartar, and beat lightly but thoroughly. Bake in an earthen 'dish with st<jm in the center forty minutes. % Brazilian Tea Dish.?Take some I slioes of bread about half an inoh tliick, cut off all crust, steep the bread in a little milk; when soaked through cover each piece with beaten egg yolk and fry with butter a light brown; tben arrange the slices on a hot plate and lay on each piece a tolerably thick covering of powdered sugar and cinnamon well mingled. Cake or Buna.?One pound of Hour, one ounce of butter, three-fourths pound of brown sugar, one pound currants, four ounces candied peel, three eggs well beaten, one-fourth ounce carbonate of soda, one-half pint of milk, warmed. Rub the butter in the flour, then stir in the sugar, sprinkle the carbonate of sugar over the mixture and immediately add the milk and eggs, previously mixed together (the milk must have been warmed and the eggs well beaten), then add the currants and candied lemon, cut thin. Beat all together with a strong spoon for ten miu-! utes. Have ready tins well buttered, I half fill them and put them directly > into a brisk oven. Asparagus Soup.?Take half a hun- J dred of asparagus, boil it in a saucepan j with three pints of stock free from fat. When done remove the asparagus, pound it in a mor;;ar and pass it through a sieve. Melt about one and a half ounces of butter in a saucepan on the fire, and mix it with two tablespoonfuls of flour, add a little sugar, pepper and salt, the asparagus pulp and all the stock in which the asparagus was boiled. Let the whole boil up, adding as much more stock as will make the soup of the right consistency. Then put in u little spinach greening, and lastly a small pat of fresh butter, or stir in half a gill of cream.. Serve over | small dice of bread fried in butter. SCIENTIFIC NOTES. Snuff is generally preserved in lead j to keep is moist. Hydrogen gas is the lightest ponder- j able matter known. Oxalic acid is found in the common | sorrel and rhubarb plants. Gun cotton is made by dipping the i fiber into strong nitric acid. The bricks of Nineveh and Babylon | were only sun-dried, not baked, as is j the modern practice. The microscope shows the hair to be ; like a coarse round rasp, bat witli tlae i teeth extremely irregular and ragged. Black and white pepper both grow on j the same shrub. The white is the berry I deprived before grinding of its outside husk. Electric lighting is in successful operation on more than sixty steamers of the Mississippi river and its tributaries. It is believed to add much to the safety of that kind of traflic and traveling. A new material has lately been compounded of leather cuttings soaked in hot water to remove the oil. The cuttings are then dried, ground to powder, pressed into molds and used for buttons, boot heels, etc. It :is said that Dr. Gehring, of Landshut, in Bavaria, by means of an enameling liquid, renders any species of stone or cement harder than granite. The process, it is further reported, ad- j mits of being applied to metal, which is i completely protected from rusl;. Smooth, strong and pliable parcli ment can be made from the palmetto of Florida and the other Southern States. It can be washed, rubbed and handled like a cloth, and the writing will not be effaced. As much as sixty per cent, of the palmetto can be utilized in the process. Major Majendie maintains that gunpowder can be exploded with a wooden tool, and cites the following instances: At Bassinghyll gunpowder factory, on October 12, 1878, two men were removing indurated powder from a mill bed by striking it with a wooden mallet, and it exploded and killed tl:.em. At Gatebeck, on June 2., 1877, a precisely similar accident, attended with the loss of one life, occurred. At the Lindal Moor mino a charge of gunpowder was ex- i ploded while a man was forcing it into | a hole in iron-stone with a wooden mal- I let. A formidable explosion, which oc -j curred at the Royal Gunpowder mills, Wctteren, Belgium, on May 29, 1880, is attributed in the official report to a man dragging a wcoden vessel full of powder over a powder-begiimed floor. The many unlikely methods by which the seeds of plants are diffused ever land and sea until they at length find a congenial spot for development, form an | interesting and curious study. It is j well known that bees carry pollen from j flower to flower, and thus act not only ! as sowers of seed but also as fertilizers of the female plants. A curioijp instance of this kind has beea given by a scientific man, who states that attached to the skin of a panther recently shot in India he found numerous seeds, each of which had two perfect hooks, appearing as if designed to attach themselves to foreign bodies. As the panther moved about it collected the seeds on the skin and carried them wherever it went, but when it rubbed against the shrubs the seeds were brushed off, and thus distributed. Dr. Richardson has in a late lecture described the principles which should guide architects and others in designing and constructing hospitals for the reception and treatment of persons suffering from smillpox and other infectious diseases. Hu states on well considered grounds: 1. That each hospital should not be larger than is sufficient to ac- j commodate twenty-four persons at one ! time. 2. That every hospital should be constructed on the separate svstem ! for the patients. 3 That the material | of construction should be iron, in order | that the hospital may at any time be ab- j solutely purified by fire throughout! with the least possible cost. 4. To j secure direct ventilation and lighting ! from the roof, the hospitals proper I should occupy the top stories of buildings. 5. All the air which passes out of the wards should have an escape only through a vent so heated as to destroy all deleterious substances. G. Each patient should bo carried into the hospital by a valved elevator passing through a shaft so as to draw up air during its ascent, and to be capable of flushing the hospital with air, as occasion may require. Deaths by Lightning. Reports of death by lightning during the recent heavy storms are rapidly coming in, and it will be interesting to our readers to know that after all there is not much in the old saying, when a man is very unlikely to have any particular thing happen to him, that his chances of meeting it are about as good as his chanco of being struck by lightning. According to the last published census of the United States (that of 1870), lightning alone disposed of more of our fellow-citizens in that year than came to their death through yellow fever, gout, scurvy, hydrophobia?of which there is now so much dread? chorea, cancer of the mouth, calculus, Addison's disease, carbuncle, lead poisoning, or suicide by cutting the throat or drowning ; nearly as many as were killed by explosions, and about onefourth as many as died of the so-called American disease, dyspepsia. The statistics are as follows : Deaths by lightning, 202; by yellow fever, 177; by gout, 43; by scurvy, 69 ; by hydrophobia, ('3; by chorea, 76; by cancer of the mouth, 165 ; by calcuius, 109; by Addison's disease. 12; by carbuncle, 168 ; by lead poisoning, 31; by dyspepsia, 841; by explosions, 290; b>y suicide by cutting the throat, 133, and by suicide by drowning 119. Large, however, as is the number of deaths by lightning-stroke in the aggregate, yet only one person out of 246,722 comes to his death in this way. The "lightning-rod man," who does most of his business in rural section*-, and who is Jthe standing butt of country journals, may be a nuisance, yet he evidently is not without his reason of being when the number of lives and the amount of property destroyed every year by the " fluid "?which by the way is notj a fluid at all?is taken into consideration ?New York, World. iiiiii,. FOR THE LADIES. The Rent IIu(tbnud?. The best husbands I ever met came I out of ft family where the mother, a ; most heroic and self-denying woman, I laid down the absolute law, "Girls first." Not in any authority, but first to be thought of, as to protection and tenderness. Consequently the chivalrous care which these lacls were taught to show to their own sisters naturally extended itself to all women. They grew up true gentlemen ? gentlemen, generous, unl exacting, courteous of speech and kind Lof heart. In them was the protecting | strength of manhood, which scorns to I use its strength except for protection; ; the proud honesty of manhood, which infinitely prefers being lovingly and openly resisted to being twisted round one's finger as mean men are twisted, and mean women will always be found ready to do it, but which, I think, all honest men and brave women would not merely dislike, but utterly despise.? Mi's. Afuloch Craik. Tbc LntFMt Freak In Panhlon. Do you know the latest fashion? No. Well, it is for a young womon to have a photograph taken of her hand, and present it its a souvenir to her intimate friends. The great question, " What shall I do with my hands ?" seems at last to have been answered by fashion, which says, " Have them photographed." The trial of properly disposing of the hands has always been great with those who visit the photographer. To hold a fan is stilted, to rest them npon the lap is awkward, for the loveliest hands in the world look large in a photograph, and to fold them gives a white patch in the picture not at all artistic. A pretty and fashionable blonde, dressed in her black velvet suit, a few days ago went to a photographer to have a panel picture?the popalar style now?taken for the full length of her figure when standing. She wore a Spanish lace jabot from neck to toe, and this gave fullness and grace to her slender form. "Now, what shall I do with my hands ?" she said. They were perfect in shape, the fingers tapering to the waxen tips, where the delicate oink nails demonstrated the height to which the manicure's art has attained. The ar tist saw at a glance that the hands were well worth taking in the picture, and he made various suggestions. "No," said the blonde, en twining her fingers beneath the lace jabot so that they would be nearly concealed, "I will stand thus, and then I will* have my hands taken separately." The idea was a good one. After her negative was made, she rested her arm upon an upright support, and held her hand against a black walnut background while it was photographed. it mac e a oeanuim picture, wmcum uuw for saJo in a Nassua street store among pictures of actresses, actors, divas, tenors and impresarios. This seems to have started the fashion. Now young ladies may enjoy the pleasure of giving their hand to many beaux, while reserving the flesh and blood reality for the one they love best.?New i ork Letter, Fnnhion Notes. "Dawn" is a new shade of pale gold. Yellow, red and olive green guipure lace has appeared. Stylish evening wraps are Eastern in texture, color and design. Tea-gowns made of glace-surah, shot with gold, are among summer novelties. Lavender gloves are slowly taking their place by the side of mastic, a3 a favorite color to wear with white. Crape dresses trimmed with pearlbeaded lace and garnished with trailing wreaths of flowers are the most beautiful dresses worn this season. Sets of duchess lace are Berious matters nowadays, for they include' a kerchief, a Stnart collar, a cascade and cufls. and. nossiblv. flounces. New ficlitis are very elaborately made, with box plaited ruches and a fall of rich lace around the edges and shaped and tied in the direetoire style. Duchess lace sets are much worn this season, the entire set including tablier, vest, jabot, handkerchief and i broad Stuart collar with deep cuffa to I match. Small parasols and very large fans j are carried, and the most expensive of j them are covered with peacock feathers, j The fans are circular in shape, having ' richly mounted handles. Pretty evening dresses for young girls j are made of white summer cashmere, over which are worn shirred silk tunics ! and pointed Hungarian waists, laced ; down the back and cut with extremely : short sleeves. White satin costumes are popular; even with quite young ladies, and some J of the most elaborate of these toilets are | embroidered with seed pearls or have i the tabliers exquisitely haud painced and edged with duchess lace. There appears to be a very strong tendency to return to the wearing of crinoline, as dresses continue to grow more bouffant?the tournures of imported dresses showing a constantly I increasing fullness in the skirts. Montespan point, a new imitation lace, is light and cheap, but not so pretty as the real Breton, which is now sold at absurdly low prices, considering that it is really hand run. The very j finS imitation Breton kerchiefs come in j very thickly wrought patterns and are j very cheap. A pretty fashion of wearing a rounded, j sleeveless jacket, a la Zouave, has been j revived. Theso jackets are made of a ! color and material differing from the I dress, and the handsomest of them are J made of Etruscan or Smyrna brocade, j densely covered with cashmere beads;! others are covered with beads of steel : or jet, and for wearing over pale-col- j ored evening dresses are jackets of j heavy silk net, woven in diamond pat-' terns' and covered witJi pearl and crys-; tal beads. There is also the "Sabran" jacket, a scintillation of beads, a shin- j ing cuirass, that is worn over any skirt, ; and that is especially pretty over light ; muslin dresses or those made entirely \ of lace plaitings. RcadyOIade Clothing Among the strange things seen by I Humboldt on the slope of the Cerra ' Duida, he records the discovery of j " shirt trees." They grow to the height > of fifty feet, and to obtain those gar-j ments the natives cut cylindrical pieces j two feet in diameter ; through the upper | opening peers the wearer's head, and j through lateral slits the arms are thrust. I These sack-like garments are seamless, i and greatly resemble the ponchos and j manos extensively used in New Granada ! and Peru; as we may easily imagine, I these comfortable coverings of native , growth are extremely coarse in texture, j but if travelers' notes are to be relied upon, are regarded as very stylish j "business suits" for that section of! country. What easy times the house-1 mothers of those regions must have, if-. | in addition, "a thread-and-needlo tree" j should chance to spring up near their j simple dwellings?useful adjuncts when rents appear and " patching season" ap- j proaches; their "ehining steel," a siui- ' pie thorn growing at the end of a leaf of a maguey tree ; the " silken thread," ' poetically speaking, a fiber which is at- j tached to the thorn. The fortunate ; seamstress deftly plucks the thorn, ! warily draws forth the delicate line of ; thread, and she is ready for her labor of love. In New Zealand may be found a strong drapery mafte from the fiber of trees, and when covered with "impressed patterns," as is often the custom, a firm and even beautiful stuff for parments and house ornamentation may be obtained. The lace tree growing in the Indies, is utilized by the negresses to furnish | material both rich and delicate for pleas- j ant, comfortable garments. Whenever one finds the cork tree, a , curious process may be observed, for the natives of those regions have deft fingers, and can, by distending the bark of a little switch of the size of a quill, bring into shape a jaunty little cap, a convenient bag, or a useful whip, all of them possessing the wonderful flexibility of articles manufactured with the finest oortL ? Ice-Yachting ou tlie Hudson. This exciting sport is described an< | illustrated in Scribner, from which w I quote: You go on down the river now with j good wind on the beam. Tho playfu breeze freshens in flaws, as if tryinj | to escape you; but still you follow it i wayward motions; you start when i j starts, flit over the ico with its ow; i speed, turn and glide with the lightnes [ and the grace of its own whirlinj dance. The ice-yachts darting abou i look like white-winged swallows skim I ming over the ice; as they cross am ! recross your course, you hope that ever . Trnrtwa liia linairtoaa n/nrl tPi 1 | v>apu?iu nuuno vuwi^vuw hmm Tf avoid collisions. Tho ice-yachts hav | anticipated your wish, and flown awa; ; to various points of the horizon whil i your thought drew its slow lengtl | along. The ice seems to oe running under you with great speed, and yoi j sometimes feel that you might easil; : drop off the open, spider-like frame o i the yacht. By such rapid motion thi ' bubbles, crystal and lines of the ice ar all woven into a silky web of prismati { hues. You distinguish only the crack : that run with the course, and whei j they deviate from it they seem to jnmj ; from side to side without conectirij i angles or curves. The mounds and th< ! windrows seem to come up at you sud 1 denly, and dodge past. You begin t< ; hold on to the hand-rail, and lie clos< i down in the box. If you are steering 1 you feel that your hand is the hand o: i fate, and the keen excitement nerves I you to extraordinary alertness. Th< ! breeze sings in the rigging; the runneri hum on the ice with a crunching sound and a slight ringing and crackling; anc ! a little spurt of crushed ice flies up be hind each runner and flashes like ? spray of gems. The jaelit seoms mor< I and more a thing of the art, he. motion! | are so fitful, wayward and sudden. Th< 1 speed with which you approach a distani | scene makes it grow distinct while yot i wink with wonder. Things grov ; larger, as if under the illusions o J magic; you feel the perspect ve almosl as a sensation. You turn toward j j brown patch of woods; it quickl] I assumes the form of headlands; thes< | are pushed apart, and a gorge appeari j between them; while you stare a strean ; starts down the rocks, behind the trees a mill suddenly grows up; the rocks ar< now all coated with ice; statues of win i ter sculpture are modeled before youi eyes, anl decked with flashing crystals j just as you turn away to some othei i point of the horizon. So you seem t< be continually arriving at distant places j A regatta is to be sailed over thii ! course, and you arrive in time to see th< I start. The yachts all stand in a row ! head to the wind. At the word th< 1 first in the line swings stern around til! her sails fill; she moves off at once anc I the crew jump aboard?one man stand | ing or lying on the windward runner plank and holding on to the shrouds, j and the helmsman and another mai lying in the box. Then the othei yachts successively swing around, anc i in a moment the whole fleet is undej j way, gliding in zigzag courses among i the windrows and mounds. They al diminish in apparent size with aston j ishing rapidity; they seem actually tc i contract in a moment to a mere whit( speck, skimming about the river inilcf , away. You join the crowd of men anc boys stamping and slapping to keep warm; you exchange a few words wit! a friend, and when you turn arounc . a<min behold the yachts sweeping dowi : upon you! They grow as they come flying at you with a wayward, errati< ' co ar.se, and you feel the wonder of em bodied speed. The ten-mile race of th< ic5-yachts is lost and won in as main ! minutes. But for those who sailed i these minutes were filled with more ex ' citement than is found in many a long , lifetime. How Japanese Fans are Marie. I As in many other branches of ir ! dustrv, the piincipal of division of labo] [ is earned out in the fanmaking trade 1 The bamboo ribs are made in Osakf ! and Kioto by private individuals ir their own .houses, and combinations ol the various notches cut in the lowei part are left to one of the finishing eTTi-vwlj-Wkrt** rrrl^n f/MWa fllu VOMAIlfl r?of. M \Jl IVUiUU) UilU AV/lJUt? vuv tuulavuk; j>juv terns of the handle according to plans prepared by the designer. In like manner the designer gives out to the engravers the patterns which his experience teaches him will be most likely to be salable during the ensuing season ; and when the different blocks have been cut, it still rests with him to say what colors are to be used for the two sides of each fan. In fact, this official holds, if not the best paid, at any rate the most important, position on the staff in ordinary. When the printed sheets which are to form the two sides of tho fan have been handed over to the workman, together with the sets of bamboo slips which are to form the ribs, his first business i.?. to fold the two sheets of which the fan is to be composed so that they will retain the crease, and this is done by patting them between two pieces of paper well saturated with oil and properly creased. The four are then folded together and placed under a heavy weight. When sufficient time has elapsed the sheets are taken out and the molds used again, the released sheets being packed up for at least twenty-four hours in their folds. The next process is to take tue 1'lUS, AV111CU lire temporarily arraugeu in order on a wire, and "set" them in their places on one of the sheets, after it has been spread out on a block and pasted. A dish of paste then gives the woodwork adhesive powers, and that part of tho process is finished by affixing the remaining sheet of paper. The fan has to be folded up and opened three or four times before the folds take the proper shape; and by the time ^he fan is put up to dry it has received far more handling than any foreign paper could stand; indeed, foreign r\n-nnn l^oa lin/vn t.riorl find Imd to be given np as unsuitable for the work; but with great care the Osaka fanmakers have been able to make some fans with printed pictures which have been sent over from America, though they were invariably obliged to use one face of Japanese paper. The qualities of native puper now used are not nearly so good as those of which the old fans were made, and, in consequence, the stylo of manufacture lias had to be changed. Instead of first pasting the two faces of the fan together and then running in pointed ribs, the ribs are sqnare, and are pasted in their places in the manner described above. The outside lacquered pieces and the fancy work are all clone in Osaka and Kioto, and some of the designs in lacquer on bone are really artistic; but the demand for the highly ornamented description of fans is not sufficient to encourage tho production of large quantities of first-class work. When the insides are dry tho riveting of tho pieces together, including the outer covering, is rapidly done, and a dash of varnish quickly finishes the fan. ? Public Opinion. How Raisins are Made in California. In Mr. Blower's vineyard, Yolo county, the grapes are allowed to remain on the vine until of a golden color aud translucent. They are then picked and put on wooden trays two by three feet in size, placed between the rows, sloping to the sun. When half dried they are turned by putting a tray on top, and by inverting them both are transferred to the new tray. When the new grapes lose their ashy appearance, and after removing the green ones, the rest are put into large sweat-boxes, placing sheets of paper between every twentyfive pounds of raisins. They are left there for two weeks, when the stems are tough aud the raisins soft. Tho packing follows, in which iron or steel packing frames are iised, the raisins being assorted, weighed, inspected aud made presentable. Two largo memorial brasses, with carved oak frames, have been placed in . St. James Episcopal church, Chicago, ! in memory of Bishops Chase and Whitei house. Each is inscribed "In memoi riam" with appopriate names and dates, St. James is the pioneer Episcopal A JUAMJ1M* JfitUVfiSMUil. 3 Gn | Mrnnge 1'crpctaatlon of St. ?ltn?' Dudcp In Germany. Yoi a A Berlin letter describes a curious 1' spectacle as follows: Not far from these ! g i places of rendezvous for all nations of! g ' the civilized world a spectacle has been t attracting the curiosity of thousands ! Die Q ! which leads us bar1; lo the depths of j t, i a ; the middle ages, although it is repealed I i* 5 g | year by year. I am speaking of the i d0, 11 village of Echternach and its far-famed J dancing procession. ; 3 From 15,000 to 20,000 pilgrims?I y I could not obtain more accurate informa- Oh, I j tion about the numbers?assemble on e j some meadows within the Prussian ter- Mu y ritory, but close to tne connnes or tne ur 0 Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The in- ? . 1 habitants of different villages?men and e , women apart?collect behind their a clergymen, and a band of music is y placed in the front. As the clock strikes To f five on Tuesday morning in Whitsun- Aui 9 tide, a priest walks up the steps of a 0 rude wooden pulpit and thenco ad- j bu Q dresses the multitude, then already i gin s swollen to an incredible extent by sight- Wo j seers, who come by special trains and .j every imaginable vehicle to be present Iu . at the performances. 3 The community which happens to be . nearest the road stands fortli, preceded Wt j by their priest, who, however, does not 3 dance. Two men or two women hop Thi ' away first two steps in advancs, and f then one backward, the band playing a Tin 5 most monotonous tune. "Abrahamhad } seven sons, seven sons; seven sons had Th; 5 Abraham," are the words to this terrible melody, which each successive set, as | they join the procession, take up with increasing vigor. Hour after hour passes t away before the last people have started j on their miles of way to the foot of the i j Church of St. Willerod, whence they < j go up fifty steps. Nothing can exceed chj [. the excitement and exhaustion among , , the dancers, old and young. Great are ' 7 the numbers of those who, in spite of J j an occasional draught of water offered r [. by charitable bystanders, sma aown on l for grass or on the dusty road not to rise the hours. The question is naturally of } asked: What does all this mean? The on< answer is: It is intended to perpetuate ' the remembrance of a frightful epidemic He . of St. Vitus' Dance, which carried off An ' hundreds of victims in the neighbor- Ca . hood referred to some tiiLe during the To ' fifteenth century; to offer up prayers [. j j and vows to the patron saint; to recog- ha* ' nize a miraculous cessation of the epi- He demic, and it is a fulfillment of vows wo then that, in gratitude, there should be en< ' yearly dances performed?two hops for- pri j ward and one backward, as closely resem- j da bling the visitation from which heaven ! 1 [ had delivered them as rhythm and good j g0 | taste would allow. ; <?^ j During ihe French occupation in; ^ 1793 the procession was forbidden, but try " the easy-going Dutch govtrnment of p>0 Luxembourg have allowed i'; to be re- jor ' vived. To judge from wh?vc could be ^ , seen this year of the drunkenness and I debauchery in the nameless public " . houses frequented by the pilgrims after \ their long fasting and exertion, I am ? ; inclined to think it would have been better to have continued the prohibition. ^ ) \ { > Oporto, Portugal. ^ 3 In an article in Harper's Magazine, en- Be [ titled "A Neglected Corner of Eu- r > rope," the writer describes the city of acj i Oporto as follows: ^ I Seen from across the Douro, from the ! heights of the Serra Convent, the ir- <t. regular line of its river frontage comes ^ \ sharply into view. Oddly gabled and an, . balconied facades, bizarre in coloring, g0 > incongruous in form, stretch before us BC1 i as far as the eye can reach; high, nar- , I row houses shouldering each other steeply up the hill, crowding, overhang- ^ t ing, and grudging every foot of the tor- *4 : tuous streets that zigzag amongst them or plunge precipitately like turbid tor- ?ni rents into the river. It is a city of con- t?T i tracts. Rickety, toppling structures 1 swarming with l'ife look enviously into r the spacious arched corridors and shad ' ed gardens of a handsome palacio; ^01 1 smart modern buildings ablaze with . 1 ' gaudily colored tiles press the crenellat[ ed wall of a time blackened line of for- 1?E tifications. In the background towers 8i? ' the slender campanile of the Clerigos, th< ' and the pretentious dome of the Crystal th? ' palace. The suspension bridge throws "I its delicate arch across the gorge of the lay Douro, and the shipping fills in the mouth of the river. Crowds of gayly hai dressed peasants swarm the quay, and form splashes and glints of bright color i*01 as they press to and from the little ' boats that ply from either shore. It is ask a scene of infinite variety and anima- citi tion, a kaleidoscope of changing light at i ! and interest* I thr i Oporto is essentially a commercial I one t city. Its palaces are those of merchants, and and have an air of newness and of mod- wai ern improvement. Enterprise is the enc order of the day, and paint and white- the wash are not absolutely unknown. New ex^ buildings are constantly springing up, put and we can scarcely find a quarter where mal the clink of the trowel and sharp blows the of the hammer are not heard. Jhe_citi- cqd j zens have & busier and more energetic -llie air than those of Lisbon. The spirit of arc/ trade pervades all classes; the children barter their toys, and boast of their good bargains; the old women haggle and wrangle over the exchange of a i piece of salt codfish for a handful of wae plums. The beggars will defer the en- jncj i.oyinent of a pinch of snuff already half su^ way to an appreciative nostril, or pause ma] in the midst of a mumbled Ave Maria, he to follow you down the church steps and across the square, insisting, on a reward apifor their trouble with far more persist- few ency than their lazier brotherhood of cov the south. apr A "quaint old town of toil and traffic," wji: it attracts the sympathies of the average oro American more than the proud idleness BjZ( and languid elegance of the capital. j for ? | his Chinese Pirates. : few i 1 A I OA11 The towns contain a aue amount ui; tamo cheats, bat the bold hectoring j sim highwayman, the truculent sea-robber, j awa must bo sought elsewhere. All along hot the Blue and Yellow rivers are found wea retail buccaneers, who hawk at 0 trifling thrt quarry and flatten on slender profits. Thi These poor rogues do not aspire to a trai ship of their own; thev come paddling eno out of muddy creeks in the smallest of wes tampans, ill-armed, ill-clad, but plenti- the fully smeared with fish oil. If manfully moi confronted they fly; if grappled by froi the crews of the fourth-class junks, wo which they select as prizes, they slip aga like so many eels through the hands : in t that grasp them, and their swimming ' intt makes amends for their lax courage. | the 1 Seldom do any very sinister results fol- onl; low one of these attacks. If the fresh- the water pirates prove victorious they are dea mild conquerors, and only too eager to had be on shore again with their booty of C?m rice aud corn, stray garments, odd fragments of chain, bits of copper and brass coa. hastily ripped from the poop and cabins, ?asi and perhaps the glorious trophy of a few rattling strings of cash. The dollars and silver bars are generally too well A hidden to be detected by such hurried gettt searchers; food rather than fortune is bly the object of rare oases of remarkable ten ti-mptation, no life is attempted and no apo torture resorted to. With these am- to s phibious petty-larceny rogues the mag- pre istrates deal mildly, according to the gre: traditions of Chinese justice. Three pen hundred strokes of the bamboo may be on ] endured by the human frame. Four shei ! sleepless weeks in the "cangue," or the ! bamboo pillory, may fail to madden a ent< j stolid, unimaginative coolie. A few and I minor tortures need only to be added the | to these two first-named inflictions, and mai j the culprit is thought to have been per most tenderly dealt with. Pilferers in this a fair or the streets of a town are con- moi sidered as still more venial offenders, she A vigorous bastinado and a week of the this pillory is the law's award in such trivial stai eases. Petty assaults are as leniently any I disposed of, but fire-raising is a sin of j deeper dye; and the malicious piercing C 1 of a neighbor's dike, to let in a devas- All i tating flood, is punished with extreme Da rigor. Murder and treasonable prac- ha\ tices, wholesale piracy and armed tov brigandage all cry aloud for death, pei more or less slow and painful, and par- ant . ricide evokes the sternest chastisement wo I of the Chinese, as it once did of the life Roman law.?All the Vercr Round. by ' jMt' . :'v;'-Vr. lilt? UI U33HU|?pt;i isshopper, grasshopper, dressed all in green; tl scarlet, and eoppet, nnd ultramarine, ' } i're the g a vent grasshopper that ever Fr? seen. ' p lere are you going to? Where have job been? 1 the hot sun from a dewdrop create yon 7 here a brillianter being to mate you? . laturo pledged with her last ?on fet<? you ? J. ca all the joy in the world await von ? king of creation 1 Small bridegroom ofv June ! , white spark thrown off fromjthe white heat of noon I sician who findest the whole world in com /' j drinker, good fellow, pray grmt meabooa", 1 me, if I in the fields were to live, now, X' leap over leaves and 'mo"? lilies to dire, now, revel, and take some gay girl to wive, aoir'j il give up all thought how to study andstrive, now, fc lie in the grass, on the brink of the river, A flnA Ufa !?of frtMifiv? ?/%& nuuiu cuvu a UU? lltU MNV ?U4V>V* * T'vtr^ ul J Bummer ne'er go ? Would 1 ne'er h?Tfr. * to shiver the winter's cold blasts for my lack of endeavor? tat ? You say that the summer is not yii ; a-going? it you do not feel winter*# breath yet 'J a-blowing; ^4 ?$aP it roses can only be sipped whilo they*** growing; it, in harvest, 'tis bettor be reaping than sowing. ?Roger Iiiordan, in Scrihiur. Jg HUMOR OF THE DAY. i marriage at sea is an ocean tied. .||| 'Sleeping out loud" ii the lid definition for snoring. rhe yonng man who gave up drink- <, r to propitiate his girl wisely oon? ided that a miss is as good as a smite' ;' rhere is going to bo another comet lold on, don't dodge yet; it's the comet 1744, and it is only expected arwiuid-* se every 122,683 years.?Hawkei/e. 'Brutus was an honorable man i never mixed hair oil with- Marc ' tony's salid, nor did he borrow isar's wife for picnic company.?Jtfae rk News. St terrible adulteration in" ice croam^i i been brought to light in Ihe East. ; iwever, the only feature of the fraud rthy of note, is that one plate isn'tj/ 3uirh for two vouncr souls and'tfcjSE ice remains the same.? Whet ling SuniP y Leader. "When I have prepared a remarkably. od sermon," said Rev. Mr. GufehwelL, ; generally happens that I have a VeijPk all congregation to Men to - it" Hiat a memory yon have!" exclaiaxed^ gg, in tones of astonishment; "how 5 ig ago was it that you prepared 1 you say?" in exchange prints a long recipe , plaining "How to perfume a dwell*; f." It's too expensive. The cheapest 1 quickest way to per/ume a dwelling | to fry a piece of codfish or roast s^s v onions. They go right to the spot-;md linger around the spot for a eaagSf erable length of period.?NorriUoans The great excitement anion c the t. 100I children of New Haven juat nowj vaccination. "See here, my ji," said tho attending phydciflJ8?:,| rou were vaccinated yesterday. Whafc.i I you come again for to-duy V " Ohj?^ a he shuffled his toe around on th? > or, "I wanted to hear the gaW^ eech."?Nero Haven Register. xsg Nothing can reach out further ihaajp igh at church. It may come frogjs|j 5 remotest corner in the rear, but ib^ 10 tickles the throat of those in fronts 1 tnen creeps aown me suuir ug iches the ushers, and floats from th?C sir to the minister, and never releases^ hold until it has wrung a sympathetic-. plosion from every victim. Perhapijwj a've noticed it.?Meriden Recorder.^ ;4j in engineer examined not long lino*-i an arbitration case was asked: "flow tg have you been in your profe#-.^ n?" "Twelve years." "Are y<ar^ >roughly acquainted with your worifc^ ioretically and practically?" "Yea." ; )o you feel competent to undertake . go constructions?" "Yes; mostcer-^ aiy." "In what engineering works $ re you been engaged during the hXtig ilve vears?" " The manufacture Ojffl q bedsteads." ' What kind of a house do you wantf*-;; ed the architect. "Oh," replied Jkjp& zen, wearily, " I don't want a house * ill. I just want you to build mto ee tiers of closets, like jail cell^J- 5 > hundred and thirty closets in ft tier, I [ pat a roof over the top tier. Xt'Z it to put up a house that will contaM^ ?agh closets to satisfy my wife." Ma architect, who was a man of broa$i?; erience, told him he would, have .Ins a thousand closets in a tier and ie the edifice six stories high, ands* n his ^ife would say when it wafe^j iplctc^that there wasn't a cloeeti^g housed?# enough for a cat to turn itnd in.?Hawkeys*. vCraJJ A Smart Weasel. 'he remarkable sagacity of the weasel i well illustrated the other day by an ident which actually occurred in the tubs of Santa Barbara. A gentle* i's barn was infested with rata, and 35 was greatly annoyed by their depre- . ions. They have been gradually dia* ^ earing, however, during the weeks. The gentleman finally dia^ ered the cause of their probable diafi^i learance in a very wide-awake weasel** ich was engaged at the time in a vig- 3 us combat with an unusually larm&j id rat. The latter proved too mttOMg his adversary, and finally chased:^ weaselship out of the barn. A mornings later the gentleman again m nd the same animals engaged in a j ilar battle. The weasel at lasi tan iy as before, and the rat followed in pursuit. Tins time, noweyer, me .sel ran into a hole it bad burro wed,/-', Dugh a pile of hardened compost < s hole was quita large at J^e eilr^ ice, but the outlet was scarcely large:^ ugh to admit the passage of the isel's body. The weasel darted isto-f hole with the rat at his heels. f&M oient later the weasel eih?rgtf-3l n the other side, ran quidut-f: and the compost pile ana ? in entered the hole, this tfsur^ he enemv's rear. The gentleman,^ rested in the proceedings, watched place some time, and found v th e weasel came out. Digging into.; \ compost he found tho rat quit^vQ d, and partly eaten. The weasel^*! arranged his trap bo that the 1*1^ Id enter, but becoming closely V Iged in the narrow portion of the hole* ^ Id be attacked at a disadvantage and 3 lv killed. :dwS Black Sheep Turned White. ^ letter in the Colorado Springs Go- ? > says: "As most of our readers probaknow black wool brings from five cents a ponnd less than the corre- ~*i nding grade of white wool. In order ; ecure the separation of the infftri/w "vJ 3uct, as our shearing operations proved, we placed the biack sheep in a by themselves. There were thus ^ last Tuesday night sixty-three black ?p and some lambs alone in one of { corrals. Dnring the night a coyote ^ ?red and killed a ewe and two Iambi ^ we were greatly surprised to findin g morning that the wool on the re- * ning sixty-two sheep had turned fectly white from terror. Happily ; \ increase in tho value of the wool ; re than balanced the loss of the , ep that were killed." The author af^ i story is a church member in good*iding and would scorn to exaggerate thing. - ?? Jueen Victoria has conferred the >ert medal of the .first class on Df. vid Lowson, of Huddersfield, fat:'-* ring, while attending a child in thti ^ rn who was suffering from diphtheruj? formed the operation of tracheotomy, ' 1 afterward applied his lipa to tne and, and at imminent risk tolus own ij > afforded relief to the suffering ohild 3 suction. - >? ' : .