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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER: BY HUGH WILSON ANI) H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1882. NO. 10. VOLUME XXVII. ' 1 - * ! - - - - __.. .... - .. I nnn nnn -r . TVTTin I ITl.. r.ll Do./I No loving message sends. The old dear friends?! One passes daily, and oue wears a mask; .Another long estranged cares not to ask ' W>.ere causeless anper ende. The dear old friends. Bo many and so loud in days of youth ! Alas that Faith can be divorced from Truti), When love in severance ends. The old o!d friends 1 They hover rot:u?i me still in evening shades; 80re y tboy shall return when sunlight fades, And life oa God dc(>:nds. ? It'. J. Lintniu t-ASMUN KtPtArS ITSELF. I, Robert Ogden, at twenty-four, was tolerably good-looking youth, with a position in "Wells & Banker's wholesale store as bookkeeper at a salary of seventy-five doliara per month. Nothing very brilliant Hbout all this, to b? i eure; but 1 think I should have felt I Tery well satis Bed with my lot in life . had I never indulged in dreams of sud- ! den wer.ith? in other words, if I had ; never beard of my rich Aunt Mahala. Now unfortunately? or fortunately, just j as vnu pWsc to consider it?I had not ; only heard of her, but she was the oriels to which our family listened on 'Jl occasions. She was a spinster of | the pevereFt type, but she was the possessor of two hundred thousand dollars in good securities, and this, as you may imagine, covered a oultitude of defects, j When I wa3 *>ix years old and my ! cousins, Bert %nd Jim Osgood, were j about the sajnae age, Aunt Mahala an- I nouncod her lutention of settincr one of I as tip in bx?.sines? to the extent of half ! her fortune when he, the lucky boy,! should become twenty-five years of j sge. Whichever one of us beet suited 1 3er in general behavior and in the ; choice of a wife should be the favored i T>ne, she declared. On that day my | trouble commenced. Of course the! choice of a wife had not yet entered my youthful imagination, but as I grew into boyhood I manifested a natural desire to have as good a time as other boys, and this was entirely contrary to /.unt Mahal a'a strict idea of propriety. " The idea of your letting that boy go off with a lot of other young loafers to ride down hill till 10 o'clock ?t j night!" Bhe would pay to my mother, j *nd for that winter, at least, my fan was spoiled, or else prooured tinder the i greatest difficulties. Ob, I hated Aunt 3Cah<ila in those days, and wished her a thousand miles away ! When I was old enough to realize the j immense help her money would be to ' me, I did, for a time, try to please her; j bnt her whims and her almost constant I interference provoked me beyond the | bounds of endurance. "Lether keep her money!" I de- j claimed wrathfaliy to my mother, who j always expostulating against my ! impatience. "If Jim and Bert want to get down on their knees tc her they can do so, but I am resolved lo be independent" Now all tbia sounded very fine and I felt every word of it; at the same time j one hundred thousand dollars was a nioo num. and nothing wonld have j suited me batter than to have it at my ! disposal. I ?Vben T obtained a situation at Wells & Banker's, Annt Mahala for the first ?iime acknowledged herself pleased. " I like to see young men get into i '"* liness," she paid, emphatically. There's nothing more disgusting than j to see a young sprig like yourself saun- j tering around wirh a cane and a cigar, trying to make folks think he's a man ! when he don't know any more than a baby." Strangely enongh, she advised all her nephews to get married. " Men are poor, miserable creatures wnleas they have a sensible woman to Hook after them and keep them from making fools of themselves," she said to me. I did not contradict this sweeping | assertion, but I might just as well have done so, for she took up her last remark exaotly as if I had. "Yep* fools?perfect fools! They i alway* will be, for they always have ! been." '* Was that thfl reason von never r married one of them ?" I ventured to ask, although I knew that my chance ! for Ibe cne hundred thousand would ?i7?k a trifle thejeby. "None of your impudence, joung i man I L refused better fellows than you j before I was sixteen years old, because they didn't know anything." This was very flattering, but I modestly refrained from making any reply whatever, and Aunt Mabala went on: " The worst of it is the women don't know anything nowadays-a shiitless, lazy set, with no more common sense than a peacock. Why, when I was a young?" But I reoollected a pressing engage_ ment. and left the room. It was about this time that I met Bay Ansdell. She was an only child, and j although her father was not wealthy he j was in possession of a good income; so Rftv rirautAri handHomelv. went in the ! best society and had every wish grati- J fled. Sbe was not a beauty, strictly speaking, but she bad a fresh, piquant> fac? that was more attractive than mere regularity of features, and she knew how to make herself irresistibly charmng to her friends. Gay, stylish and 1Dolined to flirt I found her, but beneath it all sbe was pure and true and womanly,, and I loved her as I had never even, dreamed of loving any woman. I plucked up oourage at last and told ] her so, although I knew sbe could do 1 1J. 1 1 uener tto lar aa muucj won uuuvomcu, unless, indeed, Aunt Mabala decided in ; my favor, which at present seemed very unlikely. And now that Ray had promised to be mine, and I was looking for- | ward to onr marriage, I longed for the one hnndred thousand more than ever. It would enable me to plaoe my darling in as good a home as 1 should take her from, and I could cot endure the thought of anything less. I did not want to take any advantage of Jim and i Bert, however. Once I ventured to broach the snbject to my aunt, and proposed that she should divide the money j equally among the three of us; bnt 1 was promptly told to mind my own affairs, and not trouble myself about money which would never trouble me. Bert happened to be the one to inform Aunt Mabala of my engagement to Ray Ansdell. "I tell you she's stylish!'' I heard him say in conclasion, and with malicious intent, I was sure, for the word "stylish" always goaded the old lady into' a furious humoi. "Stylish!" she snorted; excuse the verb, but no other one expresses her tone. ' Of course that's all he wants, then! ABy little fool who can mince along find look like a fashion plate will do for him ; no brains, no common sense ?but never mind, if she's only styiish ! * At this juncture I waiked into the room, and Bert, who did not know of my proximity, looked a little crestfallen, and soon took his departure. " So Bert was kind enough to inform you of my engagement," I remarked. "Oh, yes! It was nothing to me, of oourse! He cnly happened to mention it This in her most sarcastic tone of voice, and I knew she was offended because I had not made a confidante of her. " It is only a few days sinoe it was all settled, and I was awaiting an opportunity to inform you of it," I said, anxious to conciliate her, if possible. " Don't trouble yourself to make excuses, young man. Of course no one expected-you to think of your poor old aunt at such a time as tbis. She has nothing in oommon with lofty young gentlemen nor giggling little flirts, either." m * uui t-riends, Th? old old fricn Is! 8om?ch*ngcd; sorao buried; eome gono out of sight; Some enemies, am) in this world's swift fleht No time to m&ko amends. The old old friends? Vhere are they ? Three are lying in one grave And one from the far-off world on the daily wave 1 "Aunt Mahala, please 'loc't p9 judgment upon Ray ^usdell until y< have seen her and become acquaint I with her,,; I bagged, feeling the occ | ?ioa to be too importunt to lose n tprnnAr j " Well, briDg her aronnd," she co descended to eav. "I confess I'd li! ! to see the girl who is fool enough ! want to throw herself a^vay on von." It wcnld never do to slight this coui , eous invitation, so I explained to Ri soon afterward that an eccentrio o ' annt of mine desired to see her. Ri j expiessed her willingness to go and p* ! her a visit. i "I dfarly like eccentric people," el ! declared, enthusiastically, i I preatly doabted her liking Am 1 Mahala, bat I would not discourage h< ! by saying so. ! " I will come for you early Saturds : afternoon.'' I said, as I kissed her goo< ' bye at the door. "And, darling, yo must not mind if my aunt makes p< i culinr remarks; it is her way." "Oh, no! And I shall make h< I like me, in spite of your forebodings t I the contrary." "Now, Ray, I never said?" "No you never said so," interrupte Ray, "but you looked it all the tim< You imagine your Aunt Mahala and won't get on together ; well, we sha! see." " I don't know how any one can hel loving you," I cried, snatohing a doze kisses from the bright, roguish faoe s close to mine. Saturday, immediately after lunol; eon, I informed Aun* Mahala that should bring Ray Ansdell to see her tho afternoon. "Ansdell?Ansdell," she mused. " used to know a man by that name good while ago ? a poor, shiftiest drinking fellow. What did you say he other name was?" "Rachel," I replied, thankful that i was an old-fashioned name, for Ann Mahala persisted in liking anything am everything dating fifty years back. Then why don't you call her Eache instead of that silly nickname? Bu then I suppose it wonld not be stylisl enough for her ladyBhip." I kept my temper with an effort, am tried to say calmly: " Auntie, I hope you will say nothin) to Miss Ansdell about your fortune o your intentions regarding it. Shi promised to marry me believing me t( be a poor man with my way to make ii the world, and as she will probabl: have to live with me as suoh I don' wans you to say auyuimg iu jtcubo ca.pectations which may never bb realized." "Don't be alarmed " said Aunt Mahala, grimly, "It's not likely I'd b< bragging of my money to a little chi' like her, who don't know the value of t dollar except to fritter it away on candj and ribbons. By tbe way, I shonlc think it would be quite a come down foi the young lady to set up housekeeping on a salary of seventy-five dollars t month," sneered the old lady, in j manner tbat made my blood boil. "You will please be mere respectful in speaking of her and to her," I retorted. "I don't expect you to like her. If I brought down an angel oui of heaven you would say she didn'1 know anything ; but if von do not treal Ray Ansdell decently I will never forgive yon, and when I have a home o my own you shall never enter it. Nov mark my words." "You insufferable puppy!" ehoutec Aunt Mahala, furiously. "You lool well talking about angels out o heaven! You look a grtat deal mor< like mating with an angel out of tlx other plaoe, with your smoking ant swearing and your disrespectful man ner? " Here she choked for breath and I es caped from the room. I reflected tha I had been exceedingly foolish to los. my temper when talking with Annt Ma hala, for when this happened she neve failed to set the better of me: she cei tainly bad done so now, and this fac would pot her into something as near! resembling good humor as she ever a] lowed herself to indulge, consequent! now was the auspicious time to presen Bay. I hurried at once to her home an found her waiting for me. "You don't say a word about m new suit," she said, as soon as w started. "It just came home from th dressmaker's, and it is quite too stylis; for anything." My heart sank; Aunt Mahala woul hate the dress and its owner, I thought as I looked down at it. It was a plain full skirt of some silky material, with queer, gathered waist, and puffs at th top of the sleeves; nothing fancy abou it, but if it was stylish, its fate wa sealed as far as Aunt Mahala was cor L'ClUCUi "Rob, something troubles you thi afternoon," exclaimed far-sighted Raj "Do I look so very hideous, and ai you -sure that Aunt Mahala won't lik me?" " You are charming, my pet; but was thinking how miserably poor I an Ray, have you ever reflected that wit my salary I cannot provide all tb luxuries to which you have been accui tomed in your own home ?" " Rob, have you ever reflected thi so long as I have you I don't care penny for luxuries or anything else?" But when you are deprived of thei you may miss them more than yo imagine, my dear Ray," Iurged. " If you keep on talking in this ridii ulous way I shall think you are becoco ing tired of me, and in that case thei is no use going to Bee your Aunt Me hala," exclaimed Ray, stopping sho; and pulling her arm from mine. "There, there, Ray I I won't sa another word; we'll take each other f< better or worse,- and I'll work?oh, bo I will work to make a fitting home f< you I" We had arrived at the house by th time and I led the way at once to m Aunt Mabala's room. The old lad OI-AOO oa mo anil CtQ*7.ar\ ?fPQrl 11 at Bay. ' Where did you get that dress! she demanded, without paying the lea: attention to my formal introduction. " Madame Guthbert made it for me answered Ray. manifesting no surprif at my aunt's abrupt question. "It's the first decent dreas I've see on a girl in fifty long years! Why, chili 1 had one made nearly like it when was a girl; and a bead <vork bag, too exclaimed my aunt, snatching at tl dainty morsel of glistening steel whic Ray held in her hands. ' Just such one as I had given me on my eig! teenth birthday I I used to carry wherever l went, but one day I was 01 in a boat with a lot of young people ar some one dropped it overboard, at that was the last of it. I can't und; stand bow you happen to be carryir one so near like it in these days," Am Mahala said, in a dazed kind of way. "This was Grandmamma Ansdell when she was young," Rny explaine brightly. " It's exactly like the fus iocable ones now, and mamma said might have it for mine, I'm knittii lace," she went on, as my aunt co tinned to gaze at her like one in a dreai " so I thought I'd brinfc it along ai work while we talked." " To be sure, my dear I Sit rig here by me," said Aunt Mahala, drawi out the easiest chair and seating Ray it. All this time I had stood by, so 6 tounded by the old lady's amiabili th.tl hardly, comprehended what w being said. Had she suddenly lost h mind, or was Ray bewitohing her? They were soon deep in th6 mysteri of lace-making, and Aunt Main brought out piece after piece of la yellow with age. "All my own work when I was girl," she said; and Ray pronounc them lovely, and asked to copy some the patterns. Never had I seen Aunt Mahala in sn a mood as this, and I could only thankful and hope for it to last. "Rob, the poor old goose, does i seem to appreciate lace work," E i said, with a side-long glance at me. "That's so," replied "Aunt Maha ; evidently agreeing on the goose qu< ; tion. " And he can go about his bu ness, if he has any." I left, and only returned in time iss fafee dinner wilh them, rightly jud^inj that they would get along as well with ont me. !a" " Yonr annt has given me the lovelieB 27 hand-embroiderod handkerchief ?" Ra; informed me. "And she is going ti n* teach me to do the eame kind of em broidery. Oh, I've had a delightfu t? afternoon I" the went od, turning t( Annt Mahala, "and I shall come agaii l* very soon." *7 "Robert," said my aunt, as Ray wai Id tying on her quaint poke bonnet to g< *7 home, ' Rachel looks very much as j *7 did at her age." This was the worst insult of all, but J 10 bore it without u murmur, and Ray exclaimed, impulsively: ^ " I hope I shall look as nice as yor 5r when I get to be your age!" I actually thought I saw tears in Aunl V Mahala's eyes, when Ray threw lie) arms around her neck and kissed hei u good-night, and her voice certainly trem^ 9* bled ns she said: "Good-night, my dear child. God bless and keep you! ' 0 " Rob, has your Aunt Mahala any property?" inquired Ray, soou after we commenced our homeward walk. d " Yes, I believe she has some," I answered, hypocritically. 1 " Then I am sure she intends giving some of it to you. She asked me how I expected to get along as the wifo of a P poor man, and I said I should be very D economical. I told her we were going 0 to work together and make money; that I should do most of my own work, and all that She chuckled and nodded her 1 head, and kept saying, 4 We shall see? ^ we shall see!' and I couldn't help it. 1 HUtJ iUOttUb lu uu auuiovmug av> I yon. I hope she will, Rob, for your a sake. I don't like to think of yonr '? toiling behind that desk to make a bare r living for us." Then I told her all abont the one t hnndred thousand which I had not the t slightest doubt would now be mine. S " And all because you are the dearest, sweetest, most sensible woman in '1 the whole world!" I declared, t "No," contradicted Ray, "it's because b fashion, like history, repeats itself. If the old sty'es had not become new I 3 shouldn't have had my dress made in this delightful, old-fashioned way, nor I should I have been carrying Grandr mamma Ansdell's work bag, nor should 0 I have been knitting lace such as yonr 3 Aunt Mahala made so long ago; and 1 vou know very well, Rob, that it was T all this which pleased the dear old lady." 1 "Then we'll call it Providence work ing in our behalf, and be thankful ior evermore," I said. " And you will do something for your " cousins, who will be terribly disap5 pointed," pleaded tender-hearted Ray. t "Certainly," I replied. "I always intended to help them if the money r came to me " I The next day Aunt Mahala informed " me that I might get into any branch of > business that I desired, and Bhe would 1 furnish the money. 1 " You have some business tact," she said, condescendingly, "and with such a I wife as Rachel Ansdell, you can't go far wrong." ) I thanked her heartily, and kissed her t to emphasize my thanks, at which she t was greatly incensed, and told me not to t make a fool of myself. i Bert came over that same morning. ' I fancied he was a little anxious to know J how Aunt Mahala liked Kay. She did not keep him long in suspense, but 1 sounded her praises until he appeared < to grow tired of listening; f " Wait until you see the girl have 8 my eye on," he saidt lightly. b " You couldn't find one like Kachel i Ansdell if you hunted the world over. Why, never shall iorget how I felt when she walked in here yesterday. She looked like some dear old pioture t stepped down out of a frame. It e brought back.the days of my youth?it - did, indeed 1" declared Aunt Mahala, r verging on the poetical. The old lady has never lost her good t opinion of Ray, but always looks upon 7 her with especial favor. She is losing - Bome of her sharpness of tongue and 7 temper, too. I think she is ashamed to t indulge before Ray, who is good nature and sunshine itself. If she keeps on i improving 6he will be quite a lovable old lady, but however that may be, Rav y and can never forget how much we e owe her. h The Blackberry Trade. j Southern New Jersey supplies a large i proportion of the blackberries that reach '' the markets of New York, as well at ? those of Philadelphia. In the township of Hammonton alone there are more than 1,200 acres of blackberry bushes, k8 When in full bloom theblaokberry fields are almost as white as a Southern cotton field in November. The long rows ol I dark green plants with their wealth oj , white blossoms are an enchanting sight ," to the lover of the beautiful. The soii e in which thev thrive best is a ligbl sandy loam, almost pure sand. Thej j are cultivated witn "the greatest care j not a weed or blade of grass being per k mitted to interfere with their growth e The slightest undulating, almost leve . fields, are inclosed by well kept anc 3~ dipped hedges or arbor vitse, spruce fir, hemlock and other ornamental ever a green shrnbs. Otner frnits?strawberries, raspberries, grapes, peaches, apples and pears? are also grown in this fertile ancl generous soil, bat the main crop is th( j blackberry. Abont 20,000 bntihels ol blaokberries were shipped from Hammonton last year, and it was a shorl ^ crop. It is estimated by the besl ^ informed residents of the township thai there will be this year, in the height oi the season, fifteen oar loads shipped j every day, The crop is " pitched " foi w 110,000 bushels or more. If th( 3r weather is favorable it will bo made. If sufficient pickers can be brought from Philadelphia and New York it will ha cathered. To shio these berries will cost in freight about $80 per car, i* Most of this crop will come to Nes y York, to be thence distributed throughput out the country. 3t The picking is done mostly by Italians?men, women and ohildren?whc ? are bronght at a trifling expense fron ' Philadelphia, lodged in rougb. quar tero on the farms, paid from two cents ,n to two cents and a half a quart, anc 3 permitted to do their own cooking 11- ?i. _ * j mi ii.. j mosuy out 01 uoorn. jLiietse wcm iui j. prices last year. It will probably be lesi 16 this year if the crop is abundant. A family of three or four berry pickers can ' at the rates quoted, frequently mak< l . moro than 85 a day. The best handi ji pick from seventy "five to one hmdrec qnarfs, and the others between lort; l(j and fifty quarts with ease. The cost o 1(j living while in the country is a men r_ trifle. The berry picking season is thi summer festival time of the poor Italiai families of Philadelphia. The Last Kiss. jj' A San Francisco man who was work j ing a soapstone mine in the interior o 3_ the State was recently visited by hi nK wife and child. They were all threi D. returning to their cabin, a shcrt dis 1(j tance fiom the mine, when the wife telling him to go on with the child turned to go back to the tunnel for shovel she wanted. As she started sh turned around and sa.d: "Kiss m first." Her husband complied. Sn reached the entrance of the tanne when the rocks and earth gave waj y burying the unfortunate woman, an 88 causing her instant death, .er ____ es A strange freak of liplitning occurre ila in the ho lse of Daniel Gay, Rocking ce ham, N. G. Mrs. Gay heard a sound r< sembling the bursting of a gun cap i a an adjoining room; and on looking int ed the room was astonished to see a blaz of of fire asoending from the floor net where two children were seated. Th ch blaze apparently ascended tc the roc be and went out. About an hour afterwar Mrs. Gay returned to the dining-roon n't when a ball of fire nearly as large as iay child's head came in the direction < her and seemed to strike her in ti la, breast, then burst in three or moi is- streams of fire, the fire quickly goin si- out. Mrs. Gay was considerably stunne< and it was several hours before she ri to covered from the shock. 11 THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. ?? | | Salt lor Grain Croi-fl. t, ! The Massachusetts Agricultural socir cty coccludes tlmt salt as a manure bus 3 the property of hastening the maturing . of all grain crops; that wheat on salted 1 land will ripen six to ten days earli?r r, than on unsalted land, all other condi2 j tions being equal; that it increases tlie yield from twenty five to fifty per cent! 3 that it stiffens the straw and prevents 5 rnst and smut; that it chech s, if it does [ not entirely prevent, the ravages of the chinch bug. The qnantity used may be [ from one hundred and fifi;y to three . hundred pounds per aero, but the greater qnantity is the better. Drilling Small Heedi. t Many persons, in the absence of a > drilling machine, and for small planta tions, drop the eeedB of carrots, tur. nip?, etc., by hand, which is slow and ! laborious, as they do not think it worth while to buy a machine for use one day in the year. A more rapid and even mode than through tho fingers is to i nail a tin cup to the lower end of a wooden rod the size of a walking stick, . and making one or two perflations through the bottom of the cup just large enough to let the seed through, walk 6lowly along the trenoh, shakiile the seed into it. which is then covered i with a steel rake. Planting mav be i done quite rapidly in this way and more evenly than wholly by hand. The cup need not necessarily be conical at the bottom, and, in fact, should have some flat bottom, so that the seeds may nlide over it and thus pass out when shaken. A wooden rabe with 6hort, thick teeth at the right distances, will make the trenches rapidly.? Country Gentleman. \ ?? To Remove Taraaltes. J. S. Latimer, of Abingdon, 111., in the Breeder's Gnz-tte, says: "Takecommon bar or soft soap; place in a pan containing a little water; then heat un- ' til melted down; then add carbolic acid orystals (carbolic acid crystals can be had of a druggist in one pound bottles nt BAVAnt.v.fivfl cents each), at least one ! ounce of acid to each, ponnd of eoap used; there is no danger if nsed stronger. To reduce the crystals to a flnid state remove the cork from the bottle, place in water and heat the water, when it may be easily poured out and mixed with the soap. When cool a strong suds made with this soap will bo sure death to all insects that live on domestic animals. It will cnro mange, barn itch, and all cutaneous diseases, and makes a cheap and effectual sheep dip. When cattle are hide-bound, or the hair does not appear healthy, a wai.h of the suds will prove a benefit, as it is cleansing and healing in cases of sores. It is valuable in the poultry house. It is a good and sure disinfectant; is cheap, eafe and effectual, and will be found useful for a great variety of purposes. If your readers will try this they will want nothing better." Inncct Remedies. As timely to the advent of the insect corps we present the following remedies, most of which wo have tried and fnnnd effioacious For the striped cucumber buff, bo destructive to melon, squash and cucumber vines, light sprinkling daily of fine soot from the fireplace and hand picking. The bug will be found secreted under the clods, etc., near the vines in the i daytime, and may be crushed between the fingers. Fresh gas-house lime! scattered around the hillH helps to keep ! them off. It should not be pub upon i the plants. For the little flea beetle on cabbage and tobacco plants use soot as above, or fish brine sprinkled over the plants. Also plaster and phosphato. For the cabbage worm or larvoe of the cabbage butterfly, soot, cayenne pepper, copperas water, salt, plaster and incessant hand pi-king. Also a ruthless n nn fViu Vint.farflinn rPJii? riant, in fearfully on the increase in oar midst and calls for stringent preventive or exterminating measures. For the Colorado beetle, another-very ' troublesome insect, London purple, Paris green, both with caution and afttr every rain. Cease!ass hand picking is often the best remedy: 1 For the squash bug hand picking and , crashing. For the out worm, lime, salt, thorough | drainage, swine. , For the tobacco fly, cobalt, turke)8, , hand picking, night fires. The latter , might be made very effective in cases of , hurtful inaeots that fly at night.?Rural , Messenger. | Trnkulng Tomato Plant*. There is no doubt that a greater [ quantity of desirable fruit is obtained f when the branches of each tomato plaut i are elevated on brush or frames, as the [ fruit is by thin means exposed to sun i and air; oftentimes only one stake is r employed ; any arrangement that brings ( about the required exposure and keeps . the fruit from the ground will serve a , good purpose. i The maturity of the first fruit that I sets may b9 greatly accelerated by , pinching off the> extremities of the tops nd the snrrnnn ding shoots that appear. A good rule is to stop side shoots at the . first blossom. A nrwAl method of training the tomaLo . plant appeared in a report of the Maine Pomological society: Stakes seven or eight feet long were inserted in the ground the last of May, three feet apart, in a warm, sheltered location, and , strong tomato planA were procured, whioh had been started under glass and contained one or two blossom buds. These were planted near the stakes. The plant was then tied to the stake with listing, and all the side branches which had pashed at the axillar or angles formed by the separation of the leaves, were pinched or cnt out with scissors, so as to compel , the plant to grow on a single stem; and r every weefc dnrmg ttie season tnese . branches were removed, and the stems, from time to time, were tit d to the . stake. When a sufficient number of > clusters had been formed, the remainder i were removed, so as to concentrate the . whole energies of the plant to the 3 growth and ripening of the remaining I tomatoes; and the heaviest branches , were supported by tying them to the 5 stake3. It was claimed for this method 3 that the ripening of the fruit was not l only hastened but its flavor improved , and size increased.?New York World. ^ bnm> oml (inrilrn KotCN. I No- system of farming is complete j that dispenses with clover as a rotation f crop. 3 It is the wise farmer who plants no a more than he can thoroughly till and j care for. Melons, cucumbers and squashes are cultivated in the same manner, but they should never be planted near each other. * In highly-bred and liberally-fed * animals the teeth are produced earlier 9 than in those living und# the reverse 0 conditions. Sow mangels, sugar beets, carrots and parsnips as early as possible, and ' fit the land thoroughly before putting * in the seed. e e One acre of land well prepared and e well tilled produces more than two >1 which receive only the same amount of labor used on one. d One pound of oilcake, says a distinguished French chemist, is equal to three pounds of cornmeal, nine pounds of bran or ten pounds of hay. ^ For an apple orohard select ground that will raise a good lusty crop of po3" tatoes. The soil should be well pulvern ized. Such ground will never be too 0 moist. 20 ir When cauliflowers do not head well e the blooms, if fine though small, may jf be thrown into the picklo jar. Into 3 the same jar may be put the green j seeds of nasturtiane, but they should a not be left until they aro hard, dry and 5f woody. ie It is important to spread manure e evenly and at once when drawn, so that g the entire surface of the field gets the 1, benefit. If some paits are poorer apply 5. more manure, but equally even. Then the growth will all come alike, and no t | full crop can be grown without. Always : apply a brush-drag or harrow to j even it. A farmer says: "Four years ago my j lmrn was fearfully infested with ratB. I They were so numerous that I feared I having my whole crop destroyed by | them after it was housed; but after harvesting tsvo ncres of wild peppermint that grew in a field of wheat it drove the rats from my premises. I have not been troubled with them since, while mj neighbors have any I nnonfifv nf lliom in fhoir Vvnili^in era." IjUMUUillJ w* VUVU AM WMVA* MMH'MMqwi Professor J. H. Oomstock na.ya thathe oyster-shell bark louse, whioh infests the bark of apple trees and int jures their growth, may be destroyed by thoroughly wetting all the infested parts of the tre?3 with a solution of soap made with one pound of toap in one gallon of water; or with a solution made of half a pound of strong lye in a gallon of water. Those solutions are applied by means of a garden syringe or force-pump. When.you give medicine for chioken cholera be careful that tne water the fowls drink is pure. We give a plenty of green food, chopped and made palatable by mixing with other edibles. If you see a thick-skinned fruit on the ground break it, so that the biid may get at its best part, or at least be tempted to try it. The Poultry World preficriues equal parts 01 peppermint, laudanum, and camphor?five to ten drops of the mixture every day. In growing heifer calves for the dairy the important thing to accomplish is to grow the frame and muscular Bystem without laying out much fat. It is a rangey, well-developed animal, with a : vigorous digestion, that is wanted in the milch cow. The profitable milch cow must be a large eater, and make the best use of her food in order to produce u large yield of milk. In rearing the heifer, then, she BhoulS be so fed as to give her a full development of ber vital organs, and this will necessarily bring her digestive organs into special aotivity. Recipe*. Tomatoe Pie ?Peel ripe tomatoes and slice; sprinkle over them a little salt and let them stand a few minutes; pour off the juice and add sugar, half a cup of cream, one egg, nutmag and cover with a rich paste and bake in a moderate oven over half an hour. Bbiad.?A kind of bread which is very popular at the South, and in some parts of the North also, is made in this way: Two cups of Indian meal, one cup of cold boiled rice, three well-beaten eggs, one tablespoonful of melted butter, two cnps and a half of milk, one teaspoonfal of salt, a pinch of soda. Mix the ingredients thoroughly, putting the rice in last of all; bake in a hot oven, in a round, shallow pan. The top should be a dark brown. Chili Sauoe.?Twelve large, ripe tomatoes, four ripe or three green peppers, two onions, two tablespoonf ils salt, two of sugar, one of cinnamon, three cups vinegar; peel tomatoes and onions, chop (separately) very fine, add the peppers (chopped) with the other ingredients, aid boil one and a half hours. Bottle, and it will keep a lcng time. Stone jugs are better than glass cans. One quart of oanned tomatoes may be used instead of the ripe ones. This Ohili sauce is excellent and much better and more healthful than catsup. Old-fashioned Loai Caxe.?Take three quarts of sifted (and well heaped} flour, a pint of soft butter, one quart ol' sugar, five gills of new milk, half a pint of yeast, three eggs, two pounds oi! raisins, a teaspoonful of soda, a gill ol! brandy or wine, two teaspoons cinnamon and two of nutmeg. Scald the milk, cool to blood-warm, add the yeast, then tbe flour, to which all the butter and hall the sugar have been added ; then mix together and let rise nntil light. It is better to set this sponge over night, and in the morning add the other ingredients (flour tbe raisins) and let rise again. When light, fill the baking* pans and let rise again. Bake in a moderate oven. This recipe makes three large loaves, and is a standard economical loaf-cake. lloD*ehald (Hut*. Lime sprinkled in fireplaces dnring summer months is healthy. To clean black cloth dissolve one onnce of bicarbonate of ammonia in one qnart warm water. With this liqnid rub the cloth, using a piece of flannel or black cloth for the pfirpose. After t.he application of this solution, clean the cloth well with clear water, dry and iron it, brushing the cloth from time to time in the direction of the fiber. To isoften bard water, add half a pound of the best quick lime, dissolved in water to everv hundred gallons. Smaller proportions may be more conveniently managed, and if allowed to stand a short time the lime will have united with the carbonate of lime and been deposited at the bottom of the receptacle. Another way is to put a gallon of lye into a barrelful of water. flnlw'nPH and other colored fabrics j can, before washing, be advantageously j soaked for a time in a pail of water to which a spoonllnl of oxgall has been added. It helps keep the color. A teacup of lye to a pail of water will improve the color of blaok goods when necessary to wauh them: and vinegar in the ringing water of pink or green will brighten those colors, as will soda for purple and blue. Odd Happenings. In Elberton, Ga., during a recent rain, a large turtle fell from the oluuds into the fitreets. In Grant county, Kentucky, a horso ?? ? ~ I iI?a ?"? ri rl aiv nri/1 r\ irt/1 f Watt ULLttJU ujr a ixiau. uups uitu ui hydrophobia. Over twenty-five dogs I feasted on the carcass, went mad and j had to be killed. The liquor drank in Louisiana costs ! $17,000,000?$2,000,000 more than its combined cotton, sugar and rice crop. Virginia drinks up her entire wheat crop annually. A toper of Carson, Nev., boasts that he has not once went to bed sober since 1854, and that in that time there was not a single day in which he did net take fifty drinks of whisky. The ball that put out Peter Vandemark's eye came out at his shoulder a few days ngo. It was sent by a Confederate Bbarpshooter in the late war, bnt was supposed to have glanced off. He has enjoyed good health since then. S. H. Bobbins,, of Greenville. Ohio, aged twen.t\-nino years, previous to the Uth of April last was perfectly white. Since then he has been turning black, and is now the color of a full-blooded negro. His disease is said to be melanosis. The most astonished man the clerk of the O'Brien county (Iowa) court ever saw was one who applied for a marriage licenRe and nearly went crazy when he found that just twenty-four hours before another follow had secured a license to marry the same girl. When Charles Waltera, of Helen Fornace, Pa., was struck by lightning it ran down his body, cutting open his coat, tronsers and one boot, as if done with a knife. The beech tree under which he was standing gave no evidence of the bolt. Alter a Smith county (Va.) well digger dug 300 feet down he went through with a plunge into a subterranean lake, the distance between the eairth and the water being Beveral feet. A small boat was let down and he sailed over five miles, when he found the outlet to be a spring in the side of a hill. As Mrs. Sophia Mervine, of West Philadelphia, was replacing the spout of the tin leader that ran down outside of her house lightning knooked it from her hand. The bolt then paBsed into the water of the receiving barrel, completely deluging her with water. The most Bingular part of the whole ooourrenoe is that neither the woman nor the house was injured in the least. "The ocean's roar V Of course the ocean's roar. You wouldn't have it cooked, would you ? FISHING FOB GREENBACKS. How a Too InsrenlouH IJnnk Janitor Condueled Systematic Prcalntion?Directors l'uzzlert, Dc ectlvpH Bullied?Tbe 1'Inn Discovered by Accident. As far back as January last tha National bank of Elizabeth, N J., of which Mr. John Kenn is president, sent for ex-Chief of Police John Keron and instructed him to discover if he could who had been systematically robbing the bank since the previous July. Chief Keron worked hard on the case and associated with himself the present chief of police, William D. Jenkins. The only conclusion the two could arrive at after most thorough sifting was that the robberies were committed by some one connected with the institution. The bank being a solid one, and not in tho slightest way incommoded by the Iops of the money stolen, the officers and direotors weri much disturbed at the po-sibility of such things happening, notwithstanding every precaution, and nothing seemed to be left them to do but quietly dismiss the clerks upon suspicion. These two young men were Edward Sherwood, the paying teller of the bank, and Joseph McGuire, the bookkeeper. Mr. Sherwood was an estimable and very pjpular young man, who, thrown on the world when a mere boy, had worked his way up from office boy in the bank to the place he then held. Mr. McGuire was brother to James McGuire, who was then and is still the cashier of the DanK. xne two youag mun woraeu almost side by side, and in the temporary absence of Sherwood MoQniie for the time being alwayB took his place. They were on the most friendly terms, and thongh between them stood the dark mystery as to who was robbing the money drawer, neither was over known to throw a donbt upon the other's character. Mr. Sherwood had, of course, from his position as paying teller, charge of the moneys of the bank for each day's business, and these moneys were placed as they were received in a large drawer beside the paying teller's window, and this drawer, for the o erk's convenience, was separated into several compartments, beginning with one for one dollar bills and running up progressively to fifties and hundreds. It was from this drawer that the money was stolen?always in fifties and twenties? and the robbery was always committed daring banking honrs. At no other time was there money in this drawer, and at no time dnring the day was either Sherwood or MoGuire absent from that portion of the office. The two young men protested that they conld not explain how the money was abstraoted, and declared their innocence of all knowledge of it Sherwood was under bonds for a considerable amount to secure the bank, and after the first occasion he failed in being able to balance his accounts for the day he notified the cashier of that fact, expressing his own wonder at the occurrence. The cashier could make no better hand of the acoonnt. This was ou the 18th of July, 1881, and the first money that mysteriously disappeared from the drawer was 8200. Sherwood's bondsmen promptly made the loss good and expressed their willingness to stand by the young fellow, believing him not to be guilty. On September iy, 1881, it was found at the close of the day that he was 8340 short; on November 28, 1881, he was 8320 short; on January 9, this year, he was -l a, aloh j t - 1 o 1 Buuri/Oiou, aiiu on jauuurj xu uo waa f hort 8480. His bondsmen made all the lostie') good, lb was at this jnncture that cz-Obief of Police Eeron was called in and the private life of Sherwood and McGuire was watched and scanned with close3t scrutiny. Keron. and Jenkins knew every dollar that the two bank clorka had in their possession, how much they spent of it, and where and with whom, and, in a word, " kneff as much about them as thf-y did themselves." But they failed to find a flaw in the daily lives of the two young men, and so reported to the directors of the bank who had employed them. Then a change was made by the bank management, and FLT n/ln i i*n mna a nntinrt iu.ly\^uuu TT no lldUCHCilOU VU VUO A r> teller's desk and Sherwood to the bookkeeper's. This arrangement was only to last for a few weeks, however, nntil a reasonable time was given both to find other employment and in order that the two should not leave at the same time. Strangely enongh, not a dollar was taken from the money drawer while McGuire was paying teller. The robbery was then in a very complicated condition. Mr. Oharles Halsey, who was then a member of the common council of the town, was made paving teller. And then, from January 16 to June 10, there was not a ruffle on the bank directors' faces. Everything had now quieted down, they thought, and not very much harm had been done. But again the mysterious agency was j at work, and on June 10 $350 wae spirited away, and nobody could even begin to form a suspicion as to how it had been done. Not a vestige of the track of a thief was left behind. Watchful energy was redoubled. There wa? nothing new to be seen around, and everything was again quiet as it had ; been for several months. On Monday afternoon last, however, a very strange scene occurred in th? bank and ex-Chief Keron and Ghlei Jenkins were summoned. It happened in this way: Mr. Halsey was attending customers at the paying tellers desk, when suddenly his attention was called to a slight noise as if somebody waf knocking lightly on tJaecounter outside, and thinking it might be the child oi the gentleman in front of him he looked over to see, but there was no child there. Ho had occasion to open the monej drawer just then, and to his astonishment he heard therein a feeble noise ana sometiung line a rustle or a note, He cloBed the drawer quickly, coming to the conclusion that a mouse bad gone into it. When he disposed of the business he had in hand he began to think I the mouse might gnaw at some of the not es. He opened the drawer quickly and a very thin line snapped before his eyes, and he beheld lying on a twentydollar note, which seemei partly r ised up from the others, a small piece oi lead, about an ounce in weight. Examination showed that on one face ol the lead was a coating of gutta percha and over this again was a coating ol shoemaker's wax in a soft and pliable condition. The cashier was scmmoned, the directors were notified, and the twc detectives, Keron and Jenkins, were soon on the spot. The cash was counted in the money drawer and it was found that that little piece of lead had that morning carried away to some place un known thirteen bills, or 8260 in all. ExChief Keron then followed the thin fishing line, and found that it had been run through two screw rings, or what Bailors call "deadeyes," one intheundei surface of the counter and another be bind tho rear of tho drawer. There waE a space between the top ol the money drawer and the counter, concealed, of course, in front. In t he floor there ;ras an old gaspipe hole, left there after some alterations in the nrrrangement of the offioe furniture. This was in such a position relative tc l.he cash drawer, that lines reeved thruogh both the screw rings could be fio worked as to drop in the lead by one movement and carry it out again by a reverse one, a bill being attached, oi course, during the latter movement. II was plain that tho work was done from underneath tho ofiice, and to this place nobody had access but tho janitor, George Washington Bennett, alias Aokerman. Through the flooring here was also found another hole, carefullj dug out from the ceiling, with a space cleared away between the ceiling and the flooring above through which the lino could pass. The two police officials at once concluded to arrest the janitor. Thej waited until after tho bank was closed and then quietly took him into the directors' room, where at first ho stoutlj denied bis guilt, but after an hour'* talk Bennett confessed that he was guilty and explained how he had bm long eluded detection. A searching inquiry revealed that ho had earliar in ' the day hidden away $832, $260 ol which he had stolen that day before tiie line snapped. This money has been recovered. The prisoner admitted that he felt " all was np with him'' when lie found that tho line was brokeD. He told the officers that with tho stolen money he had bought u jacht for 86w, a Rnn for $4u, an interest in a lishing business for S100, and sr.me Hociety emblems, including a gold ring He denied that he hud hud an fcceom- j plioe, and explained the long lapses between the dates of some of the robberits by saying he never took any money except when what he had already stolen was spent. The prisoner received no compensation for his services as janitor of the bank beyond the free nEe of his apartments. Daring the war he served in the navy nnder the name of Ackerman, but in Newark he has always been known as George W. Bennett. Though a painter by trade, he rarely if ever worked at that busmepp. He has a wife and three ohildren. ?New York Herald. SCIENTIEIC NOTES. Seasoned wood, well saturated with oil when put together, will not shrink in the driest weather. l t? 1.1.-1 - n A xtUBBiaii {taper reports a vjar* man has sucoeeded in producing petroleum in a solid form. At the distance of Neptune the solar attraction is 900 times less than at the distance of the earth. The temperature required for kindling matches varies from 150 degrees to 160 degrees Fahrenheit. Sap is water with sugary, saline, albuminous, mucilaginous and gummy matters dissolved in it. The microphone'has been successfully used in studying the noises of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. It is said that there are upward of 8,000 eteam plowing maohines now employed in England and Scotland, Steam at ordinary, pressure, when sent into saline solutions, raises their temperature considerably above its own. An estimate of the quantity of sedimAnf AAwind ^AWYI V??r P.hinoDfl uiouu VMiicu uunu *~rj VMAUVUW AIT WAD indicates that if the deposit continues at the piesent rate the Yellow sea will be converted into dry land in 36,000 years. . MM.'Grehaur and Quiquand have determined by a series of interesting experiments that the total weight of blood in the system of a live mammal is between one-twelfth and one-thirteenth of the body weight. A process for making gnm from Atlantic and Paciflo alga has recently been devised from Prance. The resulting product is said to be useful in (the arts, especially in the manufacture of eather substitute. After a cruise of a few months in the South Pacific, a French man-of-war was Tecently found to have specimens of living coral growing upon her hull. This interesting discovery has thrown some light on the question of the rapidity of growth of corals. The evidence tends to show that the vessel on passing a reef of the Gambier Islands, against which it rubbed, had picked up a young fungia, which adhered to the sheathing of the ship, and grew to the size and weight it had when observed, a diameter of nine inches, and a weight of two and a half pounds, in nine weeks. Chronic poisoning by arsenio has received the experimental attention of Doctors Oaillot de Poncy and Livon, on/1 +tia raanlfa r\t fhnir nVioorvaf.inriB may be of value to certain ladies and cot a few medical practictioners. Small doses were given to cats at intervals. Under the inflaenoe of the arsenio tbey were able to take more than the normal quantity of food. For a time they increased in weight, and presented every outward evidence of good health. Byand-bye a change occurred. The cats had diarrhea; they lost appetite; they became languid, and they died in an aneemio and lean conditiorf. TJae Heaviest Drain ever weigaea in this country was taken from the sknll of James H. Madden, who died recently in Leadville. The doctor who attended him dnring his last sickness had observed the immensa frontal and lateral development of his head, and determined to weigh the brain, bnt his astonishment was great when it brought down the soales at 62J ounces. Clavier's brain weighed 64i ounces?considerably surpassing all other records?but the brains of Napoleon, Agassiz and Webster, though phenomenally he^ry, were much lighter than Madden's. It is an interesting fact that Madden was not a naturalist, a soldier or a statesman, but , a gambler. Farms in the United States. A census bulletin gives the following 1 table, showing the number of farms in 1 each State and Territory. Superin1 tendent Walker in a note says that the 1 returns of 1870 from Massachusetts 1 were undoubtedly defective. He also ' says : " The great increase in the num1 ber of farms from 1870 to 1880 in the Northern, Western and Pacific States ' and the Territories is of course satisfactorily explained by the rapid settlement of those regions during the past ! decade. The great increase in the late 1 slftvp States, esneciallv in the cotton ' region, is readily accounted lot by the > sub-division of the large plantations | of ten and twenty years age, by r* ason of social and industrial changes conee1 quent upon the war, and also in the ' case of Florida, Arkansas and Texas by [ emigration.'' ! Rate I i per cent I t of i 18S0. 1970. ! increase, ! , | 1870-1S80. The United States..! 51 4,003,907 2,659,958 ' Alabama ! 102 ! 135,864 67,SS2 ! Arizona 346 767 172 . Arkansas 91 94,433 49,424 , California ; 51 35,934 23,724 ' Colorado..., j 159 4,50C 1,73S ! Connecticut! 80 30,593 25,503 I Dakota 914 17,435 1,720 1 Delaware i 15 8,749 7,615 I Dlst. of Columbia... 103 435 209 Florida 129 23,43S 10,Ml Georgia. ! 93 138,626 69,950 Idaho 355 1,835 414 f Illinois 26 255,741 202,$03 Indiana ; 20 | 194,013 161,239 ' Iowa 59 135,351 116,292 ! Kansas 263 | 138,561 33,202 Kentucky < 41 ' 166,453 113,424 Louisiana 70 1 43,292: 23,431 : Maine I 9 j 54.309; 59,sOO i Maryland i 50 ' 4.1,':.-1 nT.O1* Massachusetts I 45 I 33,406, Michigan j 56 | 154,003) 93,7S6 i Minnesota j 99 I 92,3841 46,500 , Mississippi : 50 101,77. 63,023 Missouri | 45 215,575' 147,323 . Montana i 73 . 1,519 351 , Nebraska I 415 I 63,337, 12,301 | Nevada. | 36 1,404- 1,036 ' New Hampshire, | 3 | 32,181 j 29,640 New Jersey '. ...1 12 34,307j 30,652 New Mexico j 13 5,053! 4,4S0 ' New York 11 24l,05S| 216,203 I North Carolina. OS 157,009: 93,565 Ohio | 26 247,139. 195,953 1 Oregon I 114 16,2l7j 7,537 i Pennsylvania I 23 213,542' 174,041 . Rhode Island | 16 6,216 5,3i? South Carolina 81 93,364! 51,3S9 Tennessee 40 165,6501 1 IS,141 I Texas I 135 174,134| 61,125 t Utah ' 93 9.452, 4.9<>S 1 Vermont 5 35,522] 33,327 Virginia I 60 ll"i,5l7 73,349 Washington ; 109 6,529; 3,127 West Virginia I 5S 62,674: 39,778 Wisconsin ; 31 134,322 102,904 i Wyoming ; 161 457 174 What " Dead Drunk" Jleaiis. i " Dead drunk" is described by sai vants of llie Paris Biological society to i be a condition in which there is a prof portion of one part of olcohol to 195 ; parts of blood in the circulation. , Should the proportion ever come to bo ! one part of alcohol to 100 of blood, , death wonld en&ue. This might bapt pen, and, in fact, has happtned res peatediywhere a very large quantity of ' acoholio liqnor is swallowed at one ? time and quickly. In ordinary drinkI ing consciousness is lost, and with it s the power to drink moro before the proportion of alcohol in the circulation . inbecoea fa'_al. Johnny, aged twelve, ran into the ' house and exclaimed, in well-feigned astonishment: "Oh, ma! I saw u little i baby out here with only two ear.s and i one nose!'' "Good gracious!" exclaimod the startled mother, in a single breath, throwing up her hands. 11 Good i gracious! yon don't tell me the poor 1 little dear however did it happen !" t un THE liAUlES. W PT" Kewi oiid Notes for Women. Tho bnsy fingers of women in the United States nse up 25,000,000 spools j of cotton thread evjry year. j Alice A. Freeman, president of Weile&loy collece, has been awarded the At ' degree of Ph. D., by Michigan nnii TTOI'tl f XT 4 . - Al The newspapers of Oregon stand on the pending snffr&ge amendment twen- D ty-three in favor, Ave opposed, and fonr ' neutral. Mrs. C. M. Raymond (Annie Louise Oary) has given two hundred and fifty dollars to establish a free bed in the Maine General hospital. Miss Helen Gladstone, daughter of i the premier, Las acceptad the vice | principt}lship of Newnham college, in place of Mrs. Henry Sedgwick, who will resign in October. te President Andrew D. White, of Cornell college, denies the statement that ci the number of male students in that university had deoreased because of the m admission cf women. ri Edward Pumphrey, of Indiana polis st a young man over twenty-one years o age, has never voted, and has vowed es nnf fn wnffl nnfil Vi ia oiafa> on/I mnfVi at* U. wv/v wu fwww uuvii uw uwvv* uuu auvvuw* |jf can accompany him to the polls. Albert Morris and Jennie Adams were k< airily married in the olonda over To- ol peka, Kansas; but tho balloon landed them in a forest and they had to make p] a honeymoon pedestrian journey of ten ^ miles to get back into civilization. Miss Fletcher, who has spent some time in Washington and awakened much jE interest in her studies among the Indian tribes, will go with the Indian girls and yoang men who have finished their ** course at Carlisle, Pa., and are to be returned to their respective tribes. w Mrs. Jackson, the "H. H." of maga- . zine literature, has been in the country around Los Angles, Oal., for some ? months, gathering material for descrip- n< tive articles. One of her subjects will be the old missions of Southern Cali- ri fornia. She is being assisted fy two special artists, as well as by her hus* i& band, William S. Jackson, a wealthy banker of Colorado. tu How rigidly the rules of the court of ai Queen Victoria are enforced may be in- sc ferred from the fact that at the last. t\ levee held at the Crystal palace gentleman tconrincr tnfflaa nt nM ldp.o a. Ann. _i torn which, it appears, has become quite ^ in vogne again in eome oiroles in Lon- w don, were oondneted by an official to a ^ side room, where the obnoxious decorations were ont from their wrists before ? they were permitted to appear in the presence of royalty. * Faabloa Fancies. 4 Lace is worn on everything and with ? everything. New French dresses are exceedingly a] short in the ekirt. tj Mnslin embroidery is seen upon new 0j bonnets of Parisian make. A Pretty morning wrappers are of white ft nainsook or plaid mnslin in Mother o: Hubbard style. n Pongee never goes out of fashion. 1< The newest dresses in this are em- J* broidered in silk. e Black grenadines and Spanish nets are made up over dark colors, such as garnet, olive, old gold, etc. , J* TTconnVi (inofnmoH ornv mnrn hnnflFant. while on the other hand sesthetio Sidresses becooe more and more olinging. ~j A new fancy for plaited skirts of fine 0 woolen dresses is to pnt wide box-plaits <j alternating with a group of knife plaits ^ the whole length of the skirt. tl Festooned bias soarfs of silk edged I with lace are called Marie Antoinette t: flounces, and are the trimmings on French dresses for balls and parties. j Tarkey-redcalioo dresses for children, i made in Mother Hubbard style, and trimmed with Medici lace, are very ? fashionably worn for morning dresses e at the seashore. p One of the prettiest costumes for the country is a shrimp pink satine with ii ecru embroidered rnffleB, and a large r manila hat trimmed with white roses ii and red currants. a English women use many old-fashioned fabrics that have long been out & of market in this country; these are ^ chally, mnslin de laine, painted muslins, 8 taffeta silks and the handkerchief 6 dresses. P Moire this year very seldom forms the whole of a oostume. It is only n used in combination with other mate- S rials, such as satin, foulard, taffetas, P lawn, silk or oashmere. It quite fre- 8 quently forms the skirt or bodice alone, * tho other portions of the toilet being of a contrasting material, or it is frequent- If ly employed .for facings, collar, sash, ? pelerine, cuffs and vest in the formation e of a new costnme or the reuovation of n one of a past season. tj Many summer borftiets, following Ihe 8i style of the "Langtry" bonnets have the crowns completely covered with g broad lo ps of satin ribbon. One p nrohtv orvnflAv hnnnet in this fashion is V rvv,j o j r~~j made of white cactus-lace straw, the t< brim being covered with a passemen- a terie of white pearl beads. The crown o is covered with broad, flat loops of V criam-white satin ribbon. Inside the te bonnet is faced with pale lilac surah, c< and the strings, which tie at the left b side, are of white satin, lined with p lilac. The new buttons are small and great j numbers of them are used. Steel and brass buttons are for the military furore, but small, round and nail-head shapes ]? appear among the more expensive styles " of the Jay. Enameled in colors on 0 metal these are dainty little affairs. n j Colored glass buttons, with a satiny a( | sheen, come in all the new evening e I nhndnfl for trimmine nun's veilings and a: cashmeres and are very effective under ? gaslight. Round pearl buttons with 11 opaline tint, are a wise purchase, since * they last indefinitely and are always (' handsome, A high novelty in buttons J' is in bell-shape in tinted metal, with j u small flowers painted on the closed j ? month of the bell. j , , 8; American Millionaires. j Before the war there were few men j e | in the United States worth over 85,- ^ j 000,000. Most of Stewart's property I p was acquired during and afcer the war. e Most of the men now worth ?10,000,- | 8, 000 and upward were considered poor i e and honest twenty-five years ago To j j day W. H. Vanderbilt lias 865,000>000 ^ in United States bonds; and he is re- h ported to hold some 850,000,000 in Nefl j jj York Central and Hudson river stoak, 850,000,000 more in other railroads in i c this and other States, and a vast amount j of valuablo real estate in this city. His j] property cannot amount to less than 8200,000,000, and probably is nearer 0 ?300.000,000 than the former sum. He 8, is without question the richest man on j| the plobo to day. He could buy any of | the R ithschiids, and still bp the richest j man in tbe world. And unlike the rich I $ aan of England?the Dukes of Bed-j ford, Westminster, Argyll and Buc- j cleueh, who inherited their estates? H Vanderbilt's property has been accumulated in two generations, and most of it within thirty years. The case stands g without a parallel in history. c It is a singular list of names that fol- t. low that of Vanderbilt in this catalogue, g We take each at his reput *d valuation : t Jay Gould, 8100,000,OiH); Mackey, r $50,000,000; Crocker, 850,000,000 ; John ? R jckafeller, of tho Standard Oil Compaov, S40.000.000; C. P. Huntington, t 820,000 000; D. O. Mills, 820,000,000; d Senator Fair. 530,000,000 ; ex-Governor Stanford, 840.000,000; Russell Sage, u 815,000,000; J. R. Keene, 815,000,000; S.J. Tilden, 815,000,000; E. D. Mor- t gan, 810,000,000; Samuel Sloan, 810,- ? 000,000; Commodore Garrison, 810,- ? 000.000; Cyrus W. Field, 810,000,000; " Hugh J. Jewett, 85,000,000; Sidnf-y r Dillon, ?5,000,000 ; David Dows, 85,- !. 000,000; J. DeNavarro, 85,000,000; 1 John W. Garrett, 85.000,000; W. W. Astor, 85,000,000.?New York Star. ?? t A foreign journal states that chemi- t cally pure glycerine, when taken in 1: large quantities, exerts a pcisonous t effect on the system, comparable to that t produced by alcohol. t me icuun xouo hen overhead the gray clouds meet, And the air ia heavy with mist and rain, le clambers up to the window seat, And watches the storm through the 'yellow pane. , the painted window she langhs with glee, She smiles at the clonds with aaweetdisdaia id calls: " Now, papa, it's sunshine torn*, A a olio ni-Miaoa Ytnr fa/?n tft tllfi VfillflW tian?. sar child, in life should the gray clouds roll, Heavy with grief o'er tby path amain, ealing the sunlhht from thy soul, God keep for thee eomewhere a yellow pane I ? Walter Learned, in St. Xichoku. HUMOR OF THE DAY. It is a barren kind of criticism that Us jon what a thing is not. The way to treat a man of doubtful edit is to take no note of him. Why does the tight-trousers young an practice economy by walking upght ? The answer is: Because by not ooping he saves rent There ought to be a great many red \rs in the corn crop this season; it has TCU M1ACU ttUUUU DV iUUUUi It takes 6.000,000 miles of fence to 3bd the neighbors' cows and hens oat ! the gardens in this country. As between the cheese press and th< rinting press, the former is the strongit, but the latter is the more rapid. Perhaps the reason why the voice of nth is so rarely heard is beca-se, livig in a well, she is apt to have a cold. "Does the world miss any one?" you ik, Julia. No, it don't miss any one, alesshe takes somebody's money along ith him. " Don't be discouraged, my son, but ke heart." "Should be delighted, ther," was the reply; "but whose sart shall I take?" Nothing makes so much noise as a okety wagon with nothing in it, un At- - 1- - !._ X- It. 88 is Do me man wno moists on ibikig when he has nothing to say. Sharks on the Atlantio coast are unsually stupid this year. They grab at i old suit stuffed with hay when a shool ma'am is kicking the water not ro rods off. "Do you believe in signs T asked the lopkeeper. "Well, yes, I used to," lid Fogg; "but since you plaoedin your : . indow, "Selling for less than cost,*' " aye weakened considerably." At a hotel in Olasgow a gentleman, nding that the person who acted as aiter could not give him certain injrmation which be wanted, put the uestion, " Do you belong to the estabshment?"?to which Jeames replied, No, sir; I belong to the Free Kirk." She was decked In flaunting jewelry, ad as she sat occupying double room in le car she looked the perfect picture t self-sufficiency, selfishness and cneex. . bluff-looking gentleman, evidently ,4 om the rural districts, halted abreast ( her seat, bat she did not deign to love. He gave her a searching glanoe, >oked at the rings, aod then remarked > the nearest gentleman, "They wear im in the snout out in Ohier!" An old man with the palsy went out ) shoot squirrels, taking his son with im to carry the gun. Spying a halfozen in a tree the boy tock aim, fired ad missed several times in succession* 'he old man took the gun in his baking hands, put in a fearful charge f powder and shot, fired and brought own three. 11 There! That is the way D'shook squirrels." "Well," answered tie son, '*! might have done as well if had fired all over the tree at the came ime." HEALTH HINTS. " Dr. Foote's Health Monthly asserts bat an orange eater> before breakfast nrbs the craving for liquor and imroves a disordered stomach. There's despondency and degeneracy a musty eggs. Think of their semiotteanees cooked and eaten, and made ato blood and coursing through the ysteai I Arsenic poisoning is not always to be raced to green coloring. One oase was ue to red wall paper, and the subtance is found abundantly in white, : ay, bine, mauve and brown wall apers. A nnmanviniljint. nf fcho T)*rttnl Ortt. ios says that the best treatment in re ard to offensive breath is the use of ulrerized charcoal, two or three tableponfnls per week, taken in a glass of 'ater before retiring for the night The cultivation of a powerful muscuir development does not of itself in are health and long life. It may even tail a certain danger. The man who lakes an athlete of himself must coninue one, or else drop his exeroise with lowness and caution. A remedy, which is recommended by ood authority as excellent for the com-, laints of children at this- season of the ear, is made by boiling for six hours a jacupiui 01 wneai noar uea cioseiy in cloth. At the end of that time take it at of the water, and let it dry and cool. ?$ 7hen yon with to use it grate two iblespoonfuls of i<^ mix with a little aid milk, then stir into one pint of oiling milk. S weeten to the taste with owdered sugar. How Stie Got Eren, They tell a story of a would-be funny roker, who last season adopted a most endish method of Retting evea with ne of the cfaronio flirts who are said to lake the piazzas here lively later in the jasop. He obtained half a dozen enrgetic orabs from the fishing beach, nH watahinc for an nrniortnnitv whan o one was in a particular tank except ae inconsistent fair object of his Teneance, he dropped in the crustaceans way up term for crabs). The young idy continued her natatorial exercises jam up term for paddling) a few linutes longer, when she sudenly uttered a blood-curdlin? hriek, and was helped up the ladder 'ith a crab hanging on to her pink little De. She had several consecutive pileptic fits while the marine cornoctor was being removed. The Mehistophelean glee of the broker, ho^- 3$ ver, gave him away, and for fear of ome counter-.trick he decided to bathe arly in the morning thereafter. A few -1: 'r ays after that the bath-house keeper * 'as startled by some terrific yelis, and astily entering the tank-house he beeld the broker floundering out with a ig, jagged-toothed spring rat trap leno^ed on hie heel. "Who the deuce put thi6 horrible tiinf? in the water?" roired the broker. "I did, sir," sweetly replied the * rabbed young lady aforementioned, tepping out of a bath-room. "I put ; there to catch those horrid crabs, you now." The broker w^nt home on a crutch.? an Francisco Post. low the Two Leading: Parlies Balance. According to the ceaaus bureau the otal voting population of the United Itates in 1880 waa 12,830,349. By omparing these fiaures wi*h the elecion returns. for 1880. we find that 619,370 votes, or cc tisiderably over wenty-five per cent, of the voting iopulation, took no part in the choice f President, although the cauvass was n unusually txeitiner one. Of the otal popular vote the Republican canlidates received 4 448 053, the Demoratio candidates 4 442,035, the Green lackers 307,306 and 12,596 were scatter Dg. Garfield's popular vote ove lancock was 7,018. The Republican o?e was 48.26 per cent, of the whole, ,nd the Democratic 48 25, whioh shows , remarkably close division of the lopular vote between the two great aities.?Buffalo Express. One of the latest facts in natural hisory which does not appear to be known o many is that the cuckoo is in the iabit of sounding its peculiar note at light, unlike the great majority of birds hat retire at decent hour* and raise heir own young.