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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER.!) BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1883. NO. 34. VOLUME XXVIL;.jJji Every-Day Heroes. Oh ! yes; they are all around us, And in every walk of life; Heroes the best that stand the tost In many an unmarked strife ; Heroes of home, of shop, of farm, And at duty's call aloue, Though unaware of honor's share, And by noisy fame unblown. From a flame-girt lofty window Wild faces and hands entreat Vast crowds, agape, that no means can shape, For aid from the icy street; When a bootblack climbs an adjacent polo And swift from its peak impels A rope of wire down the wall of fire, And the cry, "They are saved!" upswells. Hich waving his danger signal, The underpaid switchman speeds il : : ! i? - f * y ? * "* ? vy cr tut quivermg nape 01 a uroKen unugo That to death and destruction leads, To sink, as the thundering train slows up, O'er taxed in the headlight's glare, While but few can know what to him they owo j Though he should be dying there. Oh ! yes ; they are all around us, And to instance their deeds were vain, So hidden away in the crowds are they, In the paths obscure and plain; For those whose chivalry unesteemed, Through a lonely lifetime shines, To such in the route whose act3 stand out For the rest like starry signs. And nothing is lost, though hidden, That springs from heroic seed; In the larger force, and the higher course That are shaped from a single deed. The environment of a mass of men May brighten and spread apace Till the deeds shall throng all paths along To the glory of all the race. ?Investigator. TAKEN IN". Peter Buskirk was very fond of money, not so fond that he quite starved himself to keep it, or hid it up chimney, or refused himself fire or lights or a pillow; but yet so very fond of it as to he on the very verge of miserhood without having quite fallen over. Beggars reaped no harvest from his purse or kitchen, and match-makers could make no impression on his bachelor heart. Peter Buskirk saw through the latter as well as the former, and buttoned up his pockets as hastily in thti presence of bewitching crinoline as in that of a seedy gentleman with a folded document in his breast-pocket. The. men wanted to rob him, the women to marry him. The last was the wor?t. Not that Peter hated women; on the contrary, even at fifty he was romnrt'jlili? ?ii<rnvifilile* :i lirichfc PVP put him in a flutter. ]Jut the fact was, women, as wives or daughters, j were expensive. They needed clothes and were fond of dainties. They were 1 proverbially extravagant. Should he marry one, she would spend his money ' while he lived and squander it after he was dead. And with this awful 1 terror before him Peter steered clear j of the shoals of matrimony. There was one inconvenience in this J bachelorhood, however. That was the y housekeeping; for it involved a ser- ' vant?some one to make beds, wash dishes, cook and iron. In short, the ' servant-of-all-work was always the 1 bane of Peter's life?eating and drink- { ing in a manner which kept the master t of the house in a continual ferment; wasting butter and fuel, and each < change in the kitchen's incumbrance 1 being followed by the mysterious dis- '< appearance of towels and napkins, and ( such small ware. There was no rest for good Mr. Buskirk. He tried Betty 1 and Dinah and Mary and Ann, ;tnd then, in despair, flew to a certain Mrs. * Brown, the giver of tea-parties in- '< numerable, to ask advice. ' "Servants are sad plagues," she said. ?' "Eat you out of ho.ise and home," 1 saiu Peter. 1 I_ 0:1 lur "ouesiy, said Mm. Brown. 1 " Thieves, ma'am; thieves !" said " All," said Mrs. Brown, " a gentle- 1 man has no time to watch them. Now, 1 I should advise marrying, Mr. Bus- ] " Marrying !" i "Yes, sir; a wife can manage such < things so much better. Besides, if you choose a smart, capable woman, she i will keep an eye on the servant. It ? would be much more economical to marry." " Economical!" yelled Peter, " my ] good lady. Eco?I?oh, goodness! i Feathers and flowers, laces and silks, and?and ice cream and things?economical ! llow many yards do you * take for a dress, ma'am?" " ] " Well, sir, twelve or fifteen?sometiinp? when it's :l silk, von know. ; I eighteen." " Eighteen yards, at five shillings or so a yard, and not one dress, but twenty. My good lady, it would be c enough to ruin a man !" Mrs. Brown reflected. " But if you could tind an economical woman, Mr. Buskirk." " Ah ! If I could find a mermaid." " One who never wasted a penny." J " She does not exist, ma'am." " Who lives on next to nothing. The ( fact is, Mr. Buskirk, I have such a lady in my eye. She's a widow?quite . a young one-^-Mrs. Barlow, and I'll 1 have her at Peach House next week." 1 Peter Buskirk grinned sarcastically. " Economy in hoops and bonnets," he said to lumself. " They want to 1 I marry me aim spenu iny money. And he went home wroth. ; However, economy forbade him to i refuse an invitation to dinner; and ! ] when, a week after, Mrs. Brown sent! her compliments," etc., Mr. Buskirk j donned his Sunday suit and went over ! to Peach House at 5 o'clock pre- j. ciselv. Tlie parlor was full of ladies; j j ladies in silks and muslins, with crino- j line and flounces. Most of them Mr. j' Buskirk knew well, and he looked | about in vain for a stranger. Mrs. j 1 Brown's note had said: " Mrs. Barlow will be with us." But which was that economical j I widow? Probably the lady in green j1 silk near the piano, lie could not re- i member her face. Suddenly Mr. Buskirk's doubts were set at rest. Mrs. Brown ejaculated: j "Dear me, where is Cousin Betsy? j Mr. Buskirk, you must be introduced j to Mrs. Barlow." and at these words [ something small and flat emerged from | between two portly dames and stood before him. It was a very short and I slender little woman, with a remarkably ' pretty face. Her dress was or very j plain brown merino, and she wore1 neither brooch nor bow, only a white j linen collar. Peter looked approval.' Several of the ladies exchanged glances j and a faint giggle was heard; and, as J tliniwrli liv f?nmmAn nnncnnf flw* fu>a ItlJV/U^II VVlllUIV/il L, tliu U I were left tete-a-tete in a corner. " Pleasant day," said Peter, to commence the conversation. " Pleasant day, but cold." "Ah, yes; but I dislike cold weather," i said the lady. " Don't agree with you, ma'am ?" j "Oh, that's not it. Iam never ill; j but cold weather is so expensive. I Lights early, and coals dear," pro- j ceeied the lady. " Money slips j through one's finger*; and I never; waste things." My case exactly," said Buskirk.1 "It's astonishing "how things cost. Now, there is butter, say a pound a fortnight." "Oh, I never eat butter?it costs * too much," said the lady. " Ah! and sugar and tea and coffee?" "If you indulge in such luxuries, what "can you expect?" said Mrs. Barlow. M They are artificial wants alto' - v'-. ' ' / v " gether, so they arc," said Mr. Buskirk. ; " But, tlu'n, habit is second nature." j " Extravagant habits ruin many," i said Mrs. Barlow. " Oh ! I shudder | when I look at ihose llounces. Such a I waste of material." I " I've often thought so," said Peter. ! "And you don't wear them?" j " I," said Mrs. Barlow. " I have j my senses, sir. I've no wish to die in j a workhouse. I've had this dress ten [ years." "Indeed!" said Peter. "And I suppose some ladies buy one every ten {months." " Every ten days," said Mrs. Barlow. , " Oh, 1 blush for my sex, Mr. Buskirk, ; 1 do indeed!" j i'eter was cnarmeu. ne oegan 10 | think Mis. Brown right. The cost of such a wife would be a mere trifle, and J what an eye she would keep to the exi penses of a household. Ere the evening was over he had de| cided that it would be cheaper to marry than to remain single, were Mrs. Barlow his helpmate. "She'd not only be saving herself but she would check me in my little extravagances," said lie.. "She would be invaluable to me. She wears one dress ten years. The fates must have sent her to earth for my especial benefit." So after due consideration Peter resolved to court the economical widow, and that lady being conveniently domiciled at Mrs. Brown's he found every opportunity. It was a very inexpensive courtship, lie gave her not a present. She expected none. lie took her nowhere X - _1 1. rt 1wi?V? SilVe fcO ClllUCU, nunc uciiuci ui luciu ever saw the plate, and* both were happy. At last he proposed. She blushed and hesitated, and begged time to con sider. At last she said: "I am afraid to say yes, Mr. Buskirk. I like you; but you are so terribly extravagant. You drink tea and coffee and eat butter, and really I should fear coining to want?I should, indeed." " 11 "Why I'm the most economical soul living," said Peter. "Extravagant people always think that," said the lady. "No, I'm afraid to say yes, unless, indeed, you were to make your property over to me, so that I could be sure you would not ruin yourself. Of course that is impossible, and it would be such a care that really I could scarcely desire it, even for a gentleman I so much respect." And the economical relict blushed and hesitated. It was Peter's turn to pause and consider. He went away to do so, and returning suddenly to his house found his serving-maid selling dripping to a man. He dismissed her at once and ( rushed back to the "Widow Barlow's. "My money would be safer in your ' liands than mine," he said, with a moan, i "Marry me, and keep me from being 1 ruined!" < "What the widow's answer was may be judged from the fact that three 1 iveeks from that day they were united, s :he clergyman receiving five shillings < from Peter, and the bride wearing her brown merino, in the pocketl of which 1 she carefully deposited the deeds ' ovolnsivnl,, I I nilll. II lllclUC tUU t'AVIUOltUJ ier own. "Xow for happiness," said Peter. 'No more thieving servants?no more ivaste?%nd alovely wife into the bargain. He, he, he ! Peter Buskirk is ho man for luck." And he took his bride home to dine m cold meat and radishes, being absoutely ashamed even to speak of his tccustomed mutton chop before so >conomical a lady. The next morning he hurried off to jusiness. "Never waste time, love," said the icwly-married dame. "Besides, I've i great deal to attend to ; bo?goodive." " "Good-bye," responded Peter. "What i treasure you are, my dear. The tvashing, I suppose? My mother always washed on Monday." aiiu away ne went, content wun liinself and all the world. ' At 6 o'clock he returned. Horror of . lorrors! there were ladders against his j louse, and men upon them. Ilad there t jeen a fire? He rushed up, breath- j ess. j " What is the matter ? "Who are these ^ lien?" he panted. "Fire! thieves? 3h! I must be dreaming." " Don't make a noise, love," said a roice from the parlor window. 'They're only the house-painters." " House?painters!" 1 "Yes, dear. Don't you know the \ Dutch proverb, A coat of paint pays ] tself?'" ] Peter breathed again. " But the awful expense!" he said. ( ' Dear, dear, you should have consulted ( ne." i He stumbled into the house ] md over the form of a man kneeling ? n the hall. ( " \\ no are you t ne saiu. . In reply the person produced a card, i >n which was printed: : i Gilt & Binder, Upholsterers.' : "And what are you doing?'5 gasped 1 Peter. " Measuring the hall for a new oil- ; ;loth, sir," said the nian. Peter staggered on. ; A woman was making up a carpet n the front parlor; another was ar- ' ranging curtains. lie rushed up stairs. There sal another woman, also at work. ! Again lie gasped the question, "Who 1 ire you ? , " Mrs. Buskirk's regular seamstress, please, sir," said the woman. " And where is Mrs. Busk irk? " "Here, love," said a voice. And there entered, from the adjoining room, a lady dressed in silk, and in expensive crinoline, with bracelets, brooch, earrings and a little laci i-ap wortli a small fortune. " The furniture is ordered, and the painters are here, and I've engaged all the servants, Mr. Buskirk" said the lady; "and cook wants to'know whether you like beef under or well ilone. In such things you shall have your choice always. There was no time to make a pudding to-day, so we must have ices. Strawberries, too, are only two shillings a basket." "Mrs. Buskirk, have you gone crazy?" cried Peter; "or atn I dreaming?" " I'm wide awake, at all events, cried the lady. "I've starved long enough, and worn that brown merino until 1 liate it. 1 alwavs was lorn I of dress?" " Fond of dress !" repeated Peter, ;< .and loved good things !" " Loved good things," repeated the spouse ; "and now I'm married I mean to have them." " But if?I had known?I?" began Peter. " Wouldn't have married me, I suppose," said the bride. "Well, my cousin, Mrs. Brown told me that, you know." Peter looked at her. The truth was plain at last. He tried to speak, but could not. He stared at his lady for five minutes by the elock, and then rushed out of the house, muttering, "Taken in ! taken in !" It is said that Peter Buskirk never recovered the shock. Against his will he lived luxuriously ever after ; and his wife astonished the neighborhood by her magnificent attire and grand parties. But nevertheless Peter himself expired in less than a year; and the hist words on his lips were said to be "Taken in! taken in I" The town of Tynemouth, England, uses salt water for flushing the sewers, watering the streets and supplying public baths, HEALTH HINTS. j The following rules for right living i are from the writings of Mrs. E. II.! Leland, author of several books, and | ; recognized authority upon such topics: [ 1. Keep the body clean. The count-1 less pores of the skin are so many drain-1 tiles for the use. of the system. If tl.ey j become clogged and so deadened in ; their action, we must expect to become [ the prey of ill health in some of its countless forms. Let us not lie afraid of a wet sponge and five minutes'brisk exercise with a crash towel every night j or morning. 2. Devote eight hours out of the | twenty-four to sleep. If a mother is j robbed of sleep by a wakeful baby, she must take a nap sometime during the day. Even ten minutes of repose strengthens and refreshes, and does good "like a medicine." Children should be allowed to sleep till they awake of their own free will. 3. Never go out to work in early morning in any locality subject to damps, fogs and miasms, with an empty stomach. If there is not time to wait for a cup of coffee, pour two- ; thirds of a cup of boiling water on two teaspoonfuls of cream, or a beaten egg, season it with salt and pepper, and drink it while hot before going out. This will ; stimulate and comfort the stomach, and aid the system in resisting a ; poisonous or debilitating atmosphere. ] 4. Avoid overeating. To rise from the table able to eat a little more is a proverbially good rule for every one. There is nothing more idiotic than forcing down a few mouthfuls, because they happen to remain on one's plate after hunger is satisfied, and because they may be "wasted" if left. It is the most serious waste to overtax the stomach with even half an ounce more that it can take care of. 5. Avoid food and drinks that plainly "disagree,' with the system. Vigorous outdoor workers should beware i of heavy indigestible suppers. Sup ; pers should always consist of light, 1 easily digested foods?being, in the < country, so soon followed by sleep, and 1 the stomach being as much entitled as ( the head to profound rest. The moral 1 pluck and firmness to take such food i and no other for this last meal of the c day can be easily acquired, and the re- i wnrrl of siifli virtue is sound slepn. n. f clear head, a strong hand, and a capital appetite for breakfast. f G. Never wear at night the under- ;i garments that are worn through the c day. j 7. Cultivate sunlight and fresh air. t Farmers' wives "fade" sooner than ) city women, not alone because they i work harder and take no care of them- I selves, but because they stay so closely r indoors, and have no work or recrea- ) tion that takes them out into the 1 spen sunlight. It is a singular a fact that women in the crowded F cities generally get more sunshine and pure air than their hived-up n country sisters. s 8. Have something for the mind to n teed upon?something to look forward s :o and live for, besides the daily round <' )f labor or the counting of profit and h oss. If we have not any talent for o writing splendid works on political s ?conomy or social science, or the genius s tor creating a good story or a line )oem, the next best thing?and, in act, almost as good a tiling?is to possess an appreciation of these things! I1 so have good books and good news- !' lapers, and read them?if only in 1! matches?and talk about them at ? linner time or by the evening 11 ire. Cultivate choice flowers and J? ruits, and help some poor neigh- 11 >or to seeds and cuttings; or take an ^ nterest in bees, or fine poultry, or '' rout culture. And study always farm : ind household science, and take ad- 1! . antjurf. nf the new and helnfnl thin<rs l' hat are every little while coming to J ight. 9. Live in peace! Fretting, worry- 0 ng, fault-finding, borrowing trouble, l1 jiving away to temper, and holding v ong, bitter grudges?all these things 11 ifleet the liver, poison the blood, en- ^ arge the spleen, carve ugly lines on 0 he face, and shorten life ! Try to be s lalf as wise as that little creature, the 1 >ee, who takes all the honey he can 0 ind, and leaves the poisons to themlelves. * _ c c Prowess of Captain Myle9 Staudlsh. ^ Dr. Edward Eggleston describes the t famous rurit;m soldier in an article \ n the Century?'"The Planting of ii Sew England"?as follows : The iron \ liand of the colony in dealing with the g Indians and with evildoers along the c loast was their intrepil c.aptain-gen- t jral, Myles Standish, a small man, who a ivas sneeringly dubbed by one who t lad felt the weight of his authority, t ' Captain Shrimp." He was agile, in- j rlomitable and hot-tempered. A York- e shireman of a gentle family, lie had i been a soldier in the low countries, v where he fell in with liobinson's con- r gregation. Liking them, he settled in t Leyden without joining the church, f lie came tfo New England in the May- c [lower, and led in all the military ope- , rations of the colony, going foremost c in every dangerous undertaking. He r was quick of decision and prompt to s iict. He terrified Courbitant's hostile faction in Massasoit's tribe by surround- . inga village in the night and taking all r the inhabitants prisoners. A merchant j named "Weston having planted a col- ; ony of reckless English on the side of r Weymouth, who had rendered them 3elves hateful to the Massachusetts f tribe, some of the latter conspired to t destroy Plymouth colony and "Weston's j settlement with the same blow. Massasoit gave information of the plot to c the English, and even directed who j f must be executed by a sudden surprise,' in order to cut off the heads of the conspiracy, and so prevent the attack, j The danger was imminent, and Stand- j ^ ish set out for "Weston's colony under i color of trading, though some of the j j Indians reported that the little cap- i tain was evidently angry inside. In j' the insulting carriage of the Indians |! Standish easily saw their intention to j, surprise and cut him off. Pecksuot, a !j stalwart chief, had sharpened his! knife on the back as well as on the i edge. "This knife," .said he, "has a! woman's face on the handle. I have j another at home; it has a man's face ' on it, for it has killed an enemy, j After a while the two shall get married." Standish and his men , fell suddenly on some of the deliant ringleaders, whose names Massasoit had given, and killed them with the knives which the Indians wore about their own necks. The little captain, with his own hand, stabbed to death, after a desperate struggle, the power-1 ful and insolent Pecksuot. The j measure was a harsh one, but the j peril was very great, and Standish had I' few men. The mode of execution was 1 that by which the Indians were ac-1! customed to deal with such offenders; I it was what Pecksuot intended, no j' doubt, for Standish and his com-1 panions. It is to be remembered, too, J, that the slightest reverse would have j brought the whole power of the savage j tribes upon the English. Robinson, in | Leyden, was deeply grieved at this I; slaughter, and wrote: " Oh, that you 1 had converted some before you had j killed any." Standish carried the head of one of the Indians back to j Plymouth, and stuck it up as a barbarous trophy. In extenuation, it is necessary to remember that, more than a hundred years later than this, Temple Bar, in London, was decorated with human heads. Hens soratch up flower beds only when they are barefooted. Our agricultural editor says that is why women run out and " shoe " the hens to keep them from doing damage. Moorish Slave Girls. A correspondent of the London Standard says : By the Mohammedan law no man is permitted to have more than four wives, hut there is no limit but that of the purse to the number of female slaves who may be added to his establishment. The sultan's ladies are, numbered bv hundreds, if they do not, indeed, reach the four figures, and in proportion to his position or wealth the well-to-do Moor in like manner has a large or small harem establishment. The sultan has the privilege of conferring the honor of entering his harem upon whom he will, and any frirls in th? nrovinces who are more D I - thiin ordinarily pretty are sent up to the court for his inspection, or sent to him as a complimentary present. Men in high positions, as the vizier, arc also often presented with ladies, and, being frequently very wealthy, complete their establishments bv private contract, paying, perhaps, $1,000 for a girl they may admire. The ordinary well-to-dQ Moor, of whom there are a large number of the merchant class, have to content themselves by buying in the open market, and, consequently, the slave market is a highly prosperous institution. The court in which this is usually held on three days in every week opens out of ri labyrinth of small, narrow streets, which form the bazaar or general market of the city, a place in which the higher class of Moors would not on ntiier occasions deign to be seen. As the afternoon wears on, however, they may be seen ambling down on their nrivl1 viri?nnnrl mulps. with a slsivn I V ?? walking behind them, to the entrance of the court, where they dismount and recline in picturesque groups around the Enclosure. About the same time arrive by twos and threes those who are ;o be sold, being placcd by the salesmen in some small recesses or stalls ?pening on to the court. There are about fifty or sixty persons for sale of both sexes and of all iges, most of them black as jet, and 'roni their features evidently natives >f the Soudan, some of whom were to je sold only in lots, with two or three ,'hildren. These were the drudges for louse and field work, the price of ivhom is always moderate, and strictly :ominensurate with the amount of ,vork they are likely to be able to perform. But beside these were two female ierures. who evidently excited no small imount of interest in the gray-bearded >ld Moors who formed no small pro)ortion of the purchasers. One of hem was a closely-veiled Moorish girl, vhose features were revealed only to nquiring customers, but who, from a >assing glance, did not appear to be emarkable for her beauty. The other vas a really pretty girl from the provnce of Sus. whose rose-colored cattan nd green silk' head-dress contrasted leasantly with her olive complexion ] nd long black hushes. They were all ] leatly and tidily dressed, bearing no < igns of ill-treatment or scant nourishuent, and were treated with all conideration both by salesmen and pur- ; hasers, though the examination made y the latter of the teeth, arms, etc., ] f those they bid for was very repul- . ive to those unaccustomed to such The Grtat Chinese Encyclopedia. The celebrated "Chinese Encyelo- i edia," which was purchased pome lonths ago by the trustees of the Britdi museum for fifteen hundred pounds terling, has been safely lodged in that \ institution. It forms the most imortnnt acquisition to the great national ] ibrary which has been made for some ] ime past. The work is remarkable as . aving nothing parallel to it extant in ] he literature of other countries. It < > comprised in 5,020 volumes, and | onsists of a vast thesaurus, into rhich is digested the entire mass of Ihinese literature extant at the date f its publication, classified under apropriate headings, and accompanied i'ith illustrative drawings, plans and 1 naps. It includes treatises ranging j rom 1150 B. C. to about the year 1700 ; f our era. and it professes to repre r?nt everv branch of Chinese litera- ' ure, with the single exception of works f fiction. ; It was compiled in the early part of ho eighteenth century by an imperial 1 ommission under the orders of the ' ;reat Emperor Kang Ili So, well nown to us from the accounts ot | he Jesuit missionaries, whom he faored and assisted, and who were his 1 nstructors in European art and leaning. This emperor was himself a ;reat writer, and he was struck in the ourseof his literary investigations by he alterations and corruptions which re gradually being introduced into he texts of standard works. lie lierofore conceived the idea of reirinting from the. most authentic ditions the whole body of Chinese iterature then in existence. A com. nission of high officials was ap>ointed to select and classify the exts, and its labors extended over orty years, terminating in the publiation of the work in 172G. For tlie iurpo.se of printing it a complete font ?f copper type was cast under the diectinn of tlie Jesuits, who probably uperintended the printing. Only one hundred copies were trinted, a number which has been nuch reduced since the time of the ssue by various casualties. The vholc impression was distributed as >resents among the princes of the rnperial family and the great state ifficials. The type used in the producion of the work is said to have been nelted down shortly afterward and onvcrtcd into money to meet the xiliencies of the government during a inancial crisis, ;ind in this way the neans nf producing a second edition vas destroyed. 'I he copies which still xistare in the hands of the families of he original recipients, from one of vhom the copy just happily brought to London has been purchased. So com>letely private is the ownership of opies of this " Encyclopedia" in Jhina that no copy is known to be iccessible for reference to the general >ody of students of that country.? Vaptr World. Wealth. A curiou.i ? iAi*. uf affairs exists in Puyallup, in the State ot Oregon. The listrirt is esneciallv favorable to hoi) ni It lire. The farmers have heretofore >een a plodding, industrious and iioderately successful set, but last year hoy struck a bonanza. Tim crop has teen immense, and the prices have >een high beyond any comparison. iVs a consequence they are all rolling n super-abundant money. Men who never had a surplus dollar before now Ind themselves incumbered with large unounts. It is not a rare thing for a farmer to have $40,000 or $50,000; Amounts which they do not know how to handle at all. The effect has been curious. One old farmer took his wife, and went down to the neighboring village of Tacoma. They spent an entire week in buying each of them a gold watch; when that job was completed they had attained the highest possible state of glory. Another determined that he would dress for once like a gentleman, lie bought a high hat and a shop-made suit of clothes. lie stuck his pants into the top of his boots, and strutted around the town in an ecstaey of selfsatisfaction. Another, better balanced than the rest, hunted up creditors from whom he had long ago fled in his poverty, and drew dignity and delight in paying them in full. An old bache-! lor found he had $40,000, and at once hunted up a wife to share it with him. The effects, resulting from changing a poor neighborhood into a rich one must necessarily be to give prominence to every peculiarity in its midst, THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. Amcrirnn Dairying. In Harper's Magazine a writer says of American dairying and i's possibilities that the 15,0U0,000 milch cows in this country should and may be easily made to give ^7,000,000 tons of milk per year. To reach this desirable result ensilage might be made to perform an imiuirf'inf-. niirt. Tim :innn:il yield of corn stover in its various forms is not less than 120,000,000 tons; if this entire product were converted into milk, under proper conditions of feeding, it would amount to 00,000,000 tons per year, or 2,100 pounds for each man, woman and child in this country. Facts and figures given show that even with a yearly milk yield of less than 5,000 pounds per cow the average product of butter may be 200 pounds. Experience has shown that two cows can be kept on an acre, under full feed throughout the year. With a milk yield of 5,000 to (5,000 pounds per cow this would make the product 10,000 or 12,000 pounds of milk per acre. That such results have been obtained encourages the hope that the general product ol' the farms will be greatly increased. Ketrardincr the merits of the several breecis of cattle ;is milk and butter makers, the article says the Ilolstcins clearly outrank all others in inilk, and the Jerseys are no less supreme in regard to butter. It mentions nine llolstein cows which gave a total yearly yield of 144,317 pounds, or an average of 16,118 pounds per year. The quantity given by each ranged from 14,164 to 18,004 pounds. Comparing this the milk yield of Short Horns, Devons, Ayrshires, natives and ,Terseys, it is found that five exceptionally good cows, one of each of the breeds named, produced 56,960 pounds, or an average yearly product of 11,400 pounds, ranging from 12,870 for the Short Horn, to 9,517 pounds for the Jersey. "When a similar comparison is made of the butter yield of the Jerseys, the following figures appear: 77R nmirwls nor vparis t.bfi record for Darling's Eurotas. 746 pounds for Kennerson's Jersey Queen. 704 pounds for Jersey Bell, of Scituate, C. 0. Elms. 600 pounds, reported in the Country Gentleman, for Jersey cow Eflie. 574 pounds for SutliiFs Pansy, Bristol, Conn. 546 pounds for cow of Professor Alvord. 511 pounds for Motley's Flora, Jamaica Plains, Mass 500 pounds for best cow of Goodman's herd. 506 pounds for grade Jersey of William Dupee.Ontorio county,New York. 500 pounds reported from Delhi fair, by Edward Edgerton. Here we have an agregate of 5,965 pounds of butter for ten Jersey's, making an average of 596 pounds per cow. T ? ii'ifVi fliuOO ffrriirnu fof Ill (JUIllJlill lOUll n 11/11 uuvov U|^||11?1 11.11 us now take the following butter | yields for other breeds: For Short-IIorns, 513 pounds, reported for Maid of Athol in American Agriculturist. For Ilolsteins, 509 pounds, for Colonel Hoffman's Jufrou, Chemung county, New York. For natives, 485 pounds, for the Oakes cow, of Massachusetts. For Devons, 480 pounds, for cow of W. Wilton, New Hampshire. For Ayrshires, 380 pounds, for IIolton's Daisy, "Western New York. This shows an aggregate of 2,307 pounds of butter for five cows of different breeds, making an average of 173 pounds per cow, being 120 pounds less than the average of ten Jerseys and 300 pounds less than the product of the best Jersey. FfirtH About Feeding. The editor of the Massachusetts Plowman contrasts farmers of his acquaintance m respect 10 tne liupurLint matter of feeding all animals. 5onie with sixteen pounds of hay and four quarts of corn meal per day to each cow keep their dairy herds in better condition ,than others on a ration nearly twice as large. Regularity is of great advantage and the proper supply is the point to be most carefully considered: "Overfeeding results in the derangement of the digestive organs, the loss of appetite, iind finally the loss of flesh. An animal thus injured cannot be brought back to as good condition as can one that has grown poor by feeding half rations. A hog that has once been overfed is rarely ever brought back to a good, healthy condition. In fatting hogs great care should be taken to never give them more than they will readily eat up clean. Whenever a hog fails to eat at once what is placed before him, it should be taken away. While it may not be as important to make other farm stock eat up clean all that is fed out, it is never good policy to permit food to lay before any animal, after it has satisfied its appetite. We have always noticed that successful feeders of cattle are particular to clean out the cribs as soon as the cattle have done eating." From the (Jermantown Telegraph we take this advice about feeding horses, many of which are irreparably injured by mistaken liber.dity with rations : "At times horses are habitually overfed, and their systems become take enough good food into it to last I her twelve hours, and we have long been of the opinion that food is more thoroughly digested when but two meals are given." 1 i Fnrm and Garden Nntcn. ( If farmers in general treated their 1 orchards with half the respect that ( they show to their pigs they would be ( richer. The New York Herald says: We i have successfully used phosphates for 1 pejus. It should be well mixed with the soft soil of the drill. i Almost all orchards grow away from ] the prevailing winds. The general j direction of old trees should be' noted 1 in setting or pruning young orchards, j Frozen roots are of little value for feeding. Their effect in scouring such c animals as are fed with them offsets the value their nutriment would other- 1 wise afford. a If a cow's hind feet are tied together f she cannot kick. It will make the ;i cow some trouuie ior a ume, nui me mind of the milker will be secure and c undisturbed. After a few weeks a i slight cord on each leg will be enough, t Dear as corn has been, it well pays 11 to feed it moderately to cows giving c milk. Butter is proportionably ;is dear . as corn, and a feed of the latter affects 1 the butter product, both in quantity and quality, even more than it does a the flow of milk. s Some of the nut-bearing trees can be safely transplanted, especially if they have once been changed in the nursery row. Their growth, however, f will be much more satisfactory if left, a with due protection, where the seeds were originally dropped. c Professor Goodale in a recent lecture settled the important question of v whether the poison put upon the plants is to destroy insects is absorbed or not. t lie said most emphatically it was not, 1< thus easing the mind of many of the ti audience, who had hitherto been afraid a to eat potatoes, because they thought ti the paris green put on the plants to kill the beetle was absorbed. h By all odds the cheapest and best 8 way to eradicate common hard wood stumps, says the Practical Farmer, is Sl to work the ground with a shovel plow, sow buckwheat or plant com tl until seeded to timothy, orchard grass b and clover; and pasture until the h stumps so far decay that they can be :i pulled out by hitching a chain around tl the top when the ground is wet in the s' winter or spring. a Where the lloor of the poultry- " house is of earth it generally gets hard 11 in winter. It is a good plan to spade 0 it up with a fork once in a while. The birds will then find exercise in scratching it up and so mingle their droppings with the soil. In the . spring the soil can be taken out to a 1 depth of three or four inches and will make very good manure. It should be replaced by loom or dry muck. ? There are in the States many thou- c| sands of acres of low land covered with small wood, that if cleared up would r 1-- i.1 ? 1 L 1 A ,1 ,.,^..1,1 L iiniKe me ucsi* ui griws i<uiu, ?uiu w uuiu pay the farmer to do it much better than to work on stony hills and elevated plains, which have been cultivated so long that the humus of the soil is n nearly exhausted; better let such land come up to wood, and clear the low e' lands for cultivation. The sccret in profitable winter feed- r' ing of pigs is to keep the pen dry and . well bedded. Feed liberally, but do not stuff with meal. Keep no more pigs than you can fairly supply with ^ milk. If other feed is abundant, two pigs may be kept growing satisfactorily n on the skim-milk of one cow, but if the milk is the main reliance one pig to a y cow is enough, and the cow needs to be well fed and have a good How of j, milk at that. j, No kind of slock takes naturally to i.-itinrr linfinu nncQililv PYPpntinir J, ^ ?iug(uuuiu| ! D ? r. i, In some cases even sheep have to be A taught to like them. Beans, however, are too nutritious and valuable as a n food to be thrown away. Discolored v beans unfit for market may be ground and mixed with corn meal for hogs. These animals will soon learn to relish n a nearly full bean ration "Where v beans are boiled soft cows and horses will learn to eat them if mixed at first Si with oats or corn. v v Recipe*. Beets and Cakkots.?When small 0 beets are boiled and cut in slices and a served in saucers at dinner, a great ad- j. dition may be made by slicing some boiled carrots with them. Do not cook the carrots and beets together, but in . separate kettles. Served together each ' gains and neither loses. This is a novel ' way of serving them; try it. Stewed Liver.?Cut up into slices P half a pound of calf's liver and the . same quantity of fat bacon; put first a 1 i.f 1rtAn of fl*r* nni nf o T\\L% Ail^ CI U1 ircii^uil tIU bills I.'utvvm v/a. tv jr*v? dish, then one of liver, sprinkle with * pepper and salt and one medium-sized I1 onion and one apple, both cut up; 11 cover down and let it stew gently in r the oven for about one hour and a quarter. No water is required, as the li liver makeffii flic lent gravy. p Rye Drops.?Rye drops fried are r nice for breakfast. One cup of sour c milk or buttermilk, three tablespoonfuls of sugar; if buttermilk is not 1j used, put one tablespoonful of melted f butter in with the sour milk, one well } beaten egg, one tablespoonful of soda o ?not a heaping spoonful either?and one of cinnamon. Make a stiff batter j, by the addition of rye flour. This is to bo dropped by large spoonfuls into ?? - * ?i Tf r.-of h so disordered by it that their health suffers and the power of digestion failing, they lose llesh instead of gaining it, and will recover condition only by diminishing from one-fourth to onehalf of the quantity of their allowance. Frequently old horses become thin on account of their teeth wearing unevenly, so that it is not in their j power to masticate their food. In such | cases a farrier should be employed to i (ile them; or the owner, if he possess j the particular kind of (ile used, can j file them himself. In this case, much ; less food will restore the horse to a ' proper condition. Hock salt should of i course be ever present in the manger,! {is a horse was never known to take | too much of it." Mr. A. W. Cheever cites, in his New ' England Farmer, an incident in I roof of the fact that " a great many j nimals are seriously injured by over-! feeding" (and of course abuse), . and he refers to a point in | his own successful practice: "We knew of a barn full of cattle | that were fed almost nothing the past j winter but good, merchantable upland I hay, grown by high culture and liberal manuring. The cattle were kept warm, I were nieelv bedded, the stables were '< denned often, and water was freely j provided, yet the cattle came out thin j in the spring and made but little growth. The difficulty was that the good hay was given far too freely, or certainly too much at a time. There was plenty of hay in the harn, and the attendant wanted to make, a good showing of his skill in stock feening, so he fdled the racks and mangers full at each feeding. At lirst the cattle, coming in from a short pasture, would eat heartily, hut, with little or no exercise, there was less food called for, and the quantity given was greater than the system required. Of course, a portion would he left uneaten after the whole had been picked over and the choicest portions taken out. The rest i was breathed over till nothing would eat it, when it was hauled under foot, trodden upon and wasted. We have for many years made it a practice to | feed cattle hut two meals per day, one in the morning, the other in the afternoon, aiming to divide the twentyfour hours as nearly convenient into two equal periods, though the time between night and morning is usually a little longer than the time between morning and evening. A oow'b stomach in fce constructed that sh^can easily IJOlJing liini. JL II1C SJJUU11 is mau ^ (lipped in the hot fat, the batter will ^ not " string" from the spoon, hut will drop nil at once, and make the cakes the wished-for shape. They should be ! served while warm. Compote of Apples.?This is hut v another term for apples stewed in ' syrup. A compote of fruit is under- v stood to he different from stewed fruit, it being richer with sugar and the * fruit being either whole or in large c pieces. Five ripe apples of a kind r that have proved to he good to cook {.' make a delightful sweet disli for tea in 1 this way : Four large apples, one cup- * fid of sugar, one-half cupful of water, piece of orange peel or lemon peel, or i cloves, or stick cinnamon for flavoring, t Put the sugar, orange peel and water (i on to boil in .a deep saucepan. Pare 1 the apples, cut each one in three and e cut out the cores. Drop three or four f pieces at a time into the boiling syrup, c and let simmer about Jifteen minutes, ^ or until done and almost transparent; i take them out with a fork, and cook l some more in the same syrup, and so on till all are done. Serve in dessert saucers. The apples can be colored pink by adding red fruit juice or cur- 1 rant jelly to the syrup. \ Iloanrholtl flint*. 1 Haw starch, applied with a little 1 water as a paste, will generally remove 1 all stains from bedticking. Spirits of ammonia, diluted witn water, if applied with a sponge or , llannel to discolored spots of the ear- j pets or garments, will often restore the color. j .Soot falling on the carpet from open . chimneys or carelessly-handled stove- , pipes, if thickly covered with salt, can lie brushed up without injury to the j carpet. I To make stove blacking, mix half a i ; pound of black lead with the whites of ; three eggs, well beaten; dilute to a thin paste by pouring on sour beer or porter. Apply with clotli or brush and polish with a dry brush. To clean porcelain saucepans, fill them half full of hot water and put in the water a tablespoonful of powdered borax, and let it boil. If this does not remove all the stains, scour well with a cloth ribbed with Boap and borax, FOR THE LADIES. Uenutifiil Curl*. When a reporter was told that the adies were having their heads shaved n order to cultivate curls, he was not mtirely overcome with surprise, hut lad sufficient strength left to prosenite his inquiries concerning the new :raze. Visiting a number of fashionible tonsorial parlors the reporter soon an down his man and cornered him for an interview. "Oh,yes," said he, "short curly hair s becoming very popular among the adies. It makes them look young and )retty, and you know .all ladies like to ook young. Curls are all the rage ust now." " Ilow and when did this craze for :urls start?" "I can't give you the history of it, : nit if vou will take the trouble to look : it the latest fancy pictures and photographs, yon will lind the hair is short tnd curly. Langtry looks far more icautiful in the pictures where she has urly hair than in the otliers. In the llustrated papers you will find that all he beauties have short curly hair. It , s simply a fashion, and you can ac- ' ount for it as well as I." " To what extent has it grown here n Louisville?" ' " I first attended a lady about a year .go, and since that time have shaved ^ letween fifty and sixty heads. I shaved , ix l;ist week, and as many more the >resent week." " Do you use the razor and lather?" " Oh, yes, the same ;is on a man's 1 ace. The hair is generally cut short * ? .1 il AU ? 1. ,.1.., ?|no? >> < uu tiieu tut; m:au oiiuycu muoi:. " How is the hair cultivated into < urls?" < "]iy brushing it reversely, and i t'hile it is growing a wig or fancy cap \ i worn. The hair is brushed up on i lie top of the head until it becomes so 1 jng as to crowd the disguise out of < he way. The wig is then thrown ] side and the natural hair curls beau- ' ifully." i "After the head has been shaved, ow long does it take for the hair to row out?" < " About six or eight months, though \ ome hair grows quicker. You see i hat the hair has to reach a length of j liree or four inches before the wig can \ e safely discarded, and afterward the j air is regularly shingled to be kept at bout that length. I saw a lady on < lie street this morning whose head I < liaved eight months ago, and she had , h/i!irl nf <?c niY't.t.v fMirlvh.iir as fiver a . lan saw. It was wondrously becom- j lg to lier, and I know she felt proud j f it." " Is it very expensive?" "Well, they have to wear a wig for jveral months, and that will cost , lem $25 or $30. They generally j ave these wigs made out of their own j air, and when it is thick and long the l air-dresser will take it and make a i rig for $15." \ "And for shaving the head you j liarge??" ] " One dollar."?Louisville (Ky.) , 'OSt. < 1 Fnfthlon Motes. 1 House aprons of lace are among late j ovelties. ' The contrast between plain and i laborate costumes is great. i The demi-train remains in vogue for jception and dancing parties. Nothing is more offensive to taste ' lan an overdressed young girl. ] White marabout ruches make exquis- I e trimmings for tulle dresses. j Plush trims everything and forms j lany entire costumes and wraps. White and tinted laces trim house ( Tappers and house jackets admirably. : ]Jirds are used to a ridiculous extent ] 1 the ornamentation of bonnets and I ] ats. 1 The crinelated basques now so much < 1 vogue are a revival upon the Middle < 'gos. I: Long gloves with loose wrists re- j lain the first favorites of fashionable : romen. Collars made of the new chenille : larabout trimming arc stylishly worn ; ,'ith street suits. Box-plaited plush pokes, large fur nilors and Turn O'Shanter crowns ,-ith sliirred s.itin brims are the pre- | ailing hats for little ones. The Gretchen tunic, caught up on ! ne side by velvet ribbons that suspend ' n almoner's bag, is new for young ulies' casnmere ami wuoi ureases. Designs in silk are still woven upon >'ool fabrics; for instance, plain blue as large medallions of pale blue with subject of old gold for the center The latest style for infants' double irculars is a figured flannel with from hree to five plain bands of satin in lie same shade stichecl on by machine. 1 For neck lingerie the box-plaited , eather-edged silk ruftle, with side laiting of lace from each side, is the iiost elegant and rivals the Langtry \ ufT. The moon with a face in it, a Gorgon lead witli snake-like hair, fox-brush ; latterns, feathers and rings are the i lewest designs for matelasse sntinsfor loaks. Fine white blende, stitched with j tlack silk and in double box-plaiting ' or the neck, and down the basque in { /"-shape, is a handsome linisb f?>r sec-1. nd mourning toilets. Verv elecrant costumes are made of j tf ~ u ?roche velvet combined with Sicili- ( nne. The broehe velvet forms the kirt and the long pelisse is of plain licilienne with a border of sable or , itter fur. The neatest dress for the neck in uourning is a plain crepe leisse plait-1, ng and a tie in fine folds laid length-1 vise and shirred near each end, with I ilaiting on the ends to correspond with vhat is worn in the neck. Some prefer for the baby the Mothcr Iubbard style of cloak in satin bro "'? Usinnfl. and trimmed witii satin ibbon bows and white lace; with these ire worn the little collar ami muff, knit n one piece of Saxony wool to match lie little cap. Flower fichus for evening w;-ar are ncreasing in popularity. For some iine past they have been made partly f lace, with llowers as a bordering or leading to the wide lace ruffles at the 'dge. Now they more frequently brm the whole fichu, which almost overs the shoulders and curves to the vaist, narrowing olT in front in trailng ends of delicate vines and halfdown roses. Married Oat of IMque. High social circles in San Frnnciseo lave been excited. Miss Bella House v*s lavishing her afTections upon a oung man who was playing false to icr, and she rowed to pique him. she ,vould marry some one else before a ,veek was out. Circumstances threw icr into the society of a young man i lamed Fellows, a brakeman on a rail- { :oad. lie fell in love with her at sight, j ind proposed an engagement, looking ,o a marriage in the future. As a compromise, she said she would take him is her husband if he would marry her it once. Fellows agreed to the proposition, and they were privately married. The next day they returned home, intending io keep the marriage a secret: but it leaked out, and war was declared in the palatial mansion of the young bride. She sent for her husband, who, not knowing how much had been told, denied the marriage, but finally owned up. At last accounts negotiations for peace were hopeful. The bride is a handsome brunette, I about nineteen years of age, and the grojm is twenty-two. New York rag-pickers are said to do a business of (30,000,000 annually, FACTS AND COMMENTS. During the last few years the habit of opium-eating has been making terrible progress in Denmark. The Dansk Nationaltidende states that there are only here and there families in which the consumption of this drug and morphine is not habitual with one or more of the adult members. Great Britain and the United States are reported to consume one-third of the world's production of sugar. Great Britain consumes seventy-four pounds per capita and the United States forty-two pounds per capita. Germany consumes nineteen pounds per capita and Russia only seven pounds per capita; ninety per cent, of the sugar used in the United States is imported from abroad, and forms oneseventh of all our imports. Tn fV\ A n/?n n aP rt trAOwa lir* I Aii tin; luuioc ui u ivn jk:uio cuv Northern Pacific railroad will run through an avenue of shade trees hundreds of miles in length. This extensive tree planting is being done to protect the road from storms and snow drifts. In addition to having a large uang of men at this work between Fargo and Bismark, in Dakota, the sflicers have distributed immense quantities of seedlings and cuttings to the farmers settled on the land grant, and offered prizes for skill in forestry. A Montreal man sent several barrels of Canadian apples to Queen Victoria, Gladstone, Lord Dufferin and jeneral.Wolseley. He received letters )f acceptation from all except the queen, whose secretary wrote: "Her najesty commands me to say that she fully appreciates your kindness in sending the apples, but it is a rule that favors of this nature shall not be accepted. However, on account of their perishable nature, the apples cannot be ? WKnf fKnrv> urna Lcbuiucu. vv nai> ucvauic \ji tuuiu nao not explained. It was asserted in the recent Misiissippi cane growers' annual convention at St. Louis the other day that the sorghum industry would keep ?60,000,000 to $80,000,000 in the country if its culture proved to be successful. Director Sturtevant, of the New i'ork agricultural experiment station, jays that " the ease with which jorghuin cane can be grown, the large irops which can readily be raised, the ibundance of sugar and the value of the refuse for feeding, all indicate the mportance it may assume, and that, perhaps, right soon, in our husbandry." Those who have been close observers of emigration to the United States for many years think it has reached its naximum. It is believed there may je an influx of Russians in the present fear, and they are said to be the most mterprising people who come, going .immediately to the West and establishing new homes. Their powers of jndurance are wonderful. The tide of ?migration which has set in from the mountain districts of Hungary is occupying the attention of the Hungarian government. The emigration from Germany showed a material falling off in 1882 as compared with the arrivals n 1881.. It is not in America alone that the locking of the stable door is postponed until the horse is stolen. They have been doing the same thing in London. Ten years ago the chief engineer of the fire brigade in that city estimated the necessities of his depart ment at yuu nremen, sixty-six meant engines and 264 hand engines. But although the city lias increased twenty per cent, since that time the equipment has never been brought up to the demand then made. At the time at the recent fire Hie force numbered only 500, with fifty st< am engines and 120 hand engines. The loss by that fire would have paid for the necessary increase many times over; and now that the loss has been incurred there is serious talk of putting the brigade in such a condition of efficiency as to men and machines that a repetition ttfill tin itnniwiaUiTp, The distinguished American dead of the year 1882 are Henry W. Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Geo. P. Marsh, minister to Italy and a scientific and philological author, Thurlow Weed, General Governeur K. "Warren, General Casey, Admiral Iiogers, General Fitzpatrick, General Ilurlburt, Clarkson X. Potter, of New York, and Godlove S. Orth, of Indiansi, Senator Ilill, of Georgia, Josiah Quincy, of Boston, llichard Ilenry Dana, Dr. John W. Draper, historian and scientist, and his cousin Ilenry W. Draper, also a scientific man, the liev. Dr. Bellows and Henry James, Sr., President Lincoln's widow, Daniel Webster's widow, Adelaide Phillips, the singer. In Europe among the distinguished dead of the year are Charles Darwin, Dr. a af Panfprhnrv. i'uauj, LIIC jiiniuiouuj. j , and Louis ]31anc, the historian and a leading French liepublican, and Leon Gambetta. Luke Sharp says in the Detroit Free Press that the London rullian is the most rullian ruflian in the world He has a great de;tl of sympathy from philanthropic societies and philanthropic people. Lately, however, the judges have c.-nised, as Colonel Sellers remarked, "th<* hand or affliction to come down heavy" on the ruflian. T.wi,.o ctnnhon sf>nr. two vouncr men. J l?.?SV ? o Regan and Trowbridge, to penal servitude for fifteen years for robbing a lady. Trowbridge knocked her down to prevent pursuit. This was an exemplification of " The Vagabond " by Trowbridge. The judge said: "You are not only a vagabond and a thief, but a cruel brute, and since you inllicted grievous bodily pain on this lady I will give you a taste of what bodily pain means." So he ordered him to receive thirty lashes from the cat. In the second case where a man was knocked down three times and robbed, the same judge sentenced the criminal to twenty years and thirty lashes. Making: Sure of the Kent. A landlord who was around collecting rent in a Western city found a ten* ? a. : ?? i _ ant who keeps a saioon paueim* working at the edges of a pack of cards. ""What are you doing?" said the landlord. "Fixing 'em," replied the tenant. "For what?" was the next question. "You see," said the saloon-keeper, " my customers have an qual chance in a square game of cards when playing for the drinks. By fixing the edges I have a big advantage in cutting. I've got this pack about fixed so I can lift a faoe card for a trump about every time. See?" And he lifted, showing a king; he lifted again, and up came an ace. "You s^e," lie continued, " the percentage is on my side now, and you are sure of your rent." The landlord took his cash and walked off, without arguing with his conscience as to the right or wrong of taking money got in this way. These are the conclusions of Professor E. Wollny on the physical properties of the soil in a dense and loose state. When it is desired to increase the proportion of water in a soil density is to be aimed at, but a loose condition should be maintained when the contrary state is found needful, The more densely the particles of the soil are piicked together the more such soil will vary in temperature. The Nebraska man who drove hii wife out on a cold night, causing hei to freeze her feet ?o badly that thej had to be amputated, was tarred an< feathere^^^Mtahborai^^^^ i, :y< Kin? Winter. Now in the crystal palace, Far in the frozen North, King Winter blows his bugle, * And sends his couriers forth. They rush, a mighty army, In fleecy garment* dressed? And every hill and valley They claim from East to West. They hang their icy pennons On shrnb and bush and tree; , .;3 They spread a snowy carpet Far as they can see. And under this soft carpot The flowers will sleep till spring; So let us warmly welcome The snow-flakes and their king. I ?Youth''a Companion. - - JS HUMOR OF THE DAY. I Invariably shown up?Banners. I Always open to conviction?Tho penitentiary. I The cheapest way to purchase coal? Buy the yard. 1 Whenever a dentist takes the stump : ne uraws wen. s Men should keep their tempers like } their shirts?Unruffled. ' I Even a wagon wheel can't go on '^3 forever without getting tired. j There is this difference between J money and tannin: Money is stringent J and tannin is astringent. I " As we charged," says a war cor- " I respondent, "the bugle blew." It must ' J have been a trumped-up charge. I It is now in order for the youth wlro smoke cigarettes to form a league re- 1 fusing to kiss the girls who chew gum. I The old saw "line words butter no J parsnips" is now rendered " elegant Ml diction oleomargarines no pastinaca I edulis." I A millinery house ifl~ Ton.. I afailed for $1*50,000. How the concern J came to have two spring bonnets left -j on its hands is not known. I "Thebest conductor of electricity .J at present known is silver." The best|g9M conductor into "society" at present ' .1 known is gold. It used to be brains. ;.f$| When a cowboy goes into a Western' ; newspaper office to demand satisfao- j tion the editor always explains that .J the assistant who. wrote that article " has just gone out to kill a man, but ; will be back in a few,' minutes." The cowboy never waits. Mary had a little lamb With mint sauce on it, oh; j And everywhere that Mary went - ^ The lamb was sure to go. I It went with her to school one day -3B Within a sandwich white, Which made the children langh and say, ' :%?m "Oh, give as all a bite." A good-looking young lady has been. 4^ confined in a New York State asylum \f i for a long time because she labored j under the delusion that sevcal men j desired to marry her. If all the goodlooking young ladies who were afflicted ;'1|H with that particular delusion were incarcerated a very large increase of asylinri arnnmmodations would be re- ."<? Tho following explains the differ- ^ ence between "luck'' and "chance." You take a girl out to the theatre and discover that you haven't a cent in .**|g your pocket. You are, of course, com- j pelled to invite her to an oyster saloon j after the performance. She refuses for - j some reason; that's "luck," but the "chance" is a million to one that she will accept. SELECT SIFTINtfS. ^ In 1760 the various religious societies of tho United States protested against the use of alcoholic beverages at funerals. A recent trial has clicited the fact that many German girls cultivate their hair for sale. Really fine hair fetches \ some $5 an ounce. xSSty'* Under old European law the' crew and passengers of wreckcd vessels could be imprisoned and enslaved, their property reverting to the lord of the coast or to the crown. 4^4 During the reign of Ilenry IV.,which 2?|| lasted eighteen years, 4,000 French, gentlemen perished in the duel, and tho king gave 14,000 pardons to those who CM had broken the law by dueling. The granddaddy of all the sweet potatoes was on exhibition recently at a store in "Waco, Texas. It was a yam, and, when dug, weighed thirty-two pounds. Sweet potatoes weigh about sixty pounds to the bushel, so that this , one was a little over liatf a bushel of solid potato. " High French authorities have found i *jj by experiments 011 animals that while ^ small doses of arsenic seemed to do , yfc* good at first, they resulted idtimately ;\'J| fn poverty of blood, and that a postmortem disclosed in the liver, lungs and kidneys the characteristics of fatty degeneration. ./.vgjj Some years ago there was a cat-con- -'/-j? cert held in Paris. It was called " Concert Miaulant," from the mewing ^ of the felines. They were trained by having their tails pulled every time a certain note was struck, and tho un- -V; pleasant remembrance caused each one ? to mew each time that he heard tho sounu again. , The servile war in Sicily was Ja brought about by the inhumanity of J-i the masters, who, slaves being very abundant on account of the great num- , ber of prisoners taken in war, found it easier to exact the most strenuous toil * f\from them and to exhaust their * strength quickly rather than treat them well. The revolt which ensued in consequence of this policy lasted two - years, and four Roman armies-were defeated by the insurgent forces, bcfdf&^\ Publius llupilius conquered them in 132 B. C. There are authentic cases of simu lation or deception which animals have worked out to save themselves from labor or to procure some advantage. A military surgeon tells of a horse which was accustomed to preten^ to be lame on the days wnen ine nurses *- $ were drilled, in order to avoid that duty. Coste mentions a dog which, in the winter, when he found his comrades lying around the fire in such a way as to prevent his getting near to it, would make a great noise in u.w yard. At this, the other dogs would run out; while he would slip into the house, and, securing a good place for himself, leave his comrades to bark as long as they pleased. He tried this trick quite often, and always succeeded in it, for the other dogs had not intelligence enough to find it out. A Pointed Fable. A Peasant took great pains to sharpen up his Knife in anticipation of an op- ! portunity to strike down a Doe which ! came every day to drink at a certain spring. As he crept through the Forest the Knife was accidentally thrust into his own leg. Dancing around with the pain, anrl angered at the sight of blood, the Peasant cried out: " Base ingrate ! You have stabbed me!" " It is true that you have been stabbed," replied the Knife, " but had you not sharpened me for the purpose -* -4-?nr(n<T Hnnri this would not have U1 Uirt" -?? happened." 1 Moral: Lies and scandals sent out of the kitchen may come back home 1 through the front door, i ? Practical Piety. ! An old story is being Revived of a 1 prayer meeting being held for a poor fellow's relief vrtio had broken his leg,While Deacon Brown was praying a i tall fellow with an ox-goad knocked at r the door, saying, "Father could n^hL, r come, but sent his prayers in the caij^^Hl 1 They were potatoes, beef, pork