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I BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1884. NO. 52. VOLUME XXVIII.- ||J|
PEBBLES.
" What are the pebbles, old Father Time,
Thou'rt throwing in the river,
Thy river that flows without a tide
For ever and for ever?"
" Pebbles?" said Time?"yes, pebbles they are,
Empires, kingdoms, thrones,
Heroes, and poets whose fame was wide
As the circle of the zones.
I cast them all in my rolling flood
That sparkles in the sun;
little splash in the mighty stream?
A bubble, and all is done!"
?Charles Mackay
NAMESAKES.
"* "Close the shutters, Kitty. What a
wild night it is, to be sure!"
"The rain is coming down in floods,"
said a young girl, peering out into the '
pitchy darkness.
A barrack ground (stiff and ugly under
the most favorable circumstances), looking
like some desert waste in the howling
wind and driving rain, was just visi-:
ble.
"Why, 'Aunt Bell," she continued, ;
pausing with one hand on the shutter, I
"here is a name scratched on this pane
of glass. I never noticed it till this j
T minute."
"What i9 the nrune ?" asked the old
lady, indifferent iy, ha-f asleep in her cosy ;
arm-chair by the lire-side.
"K-i-n-l-o-c-h ? 'Kinloch, Scots j
I Greys, 1810,'" re.id the girl; "and j
V then 'Kitty' written very badly just j
m below."
I "Kinloch! Kitty!" said Aunt Bell, |
starting up with sudden interest. "Why, |
that must be the same man!" Then she i
sank back agiin, murmering: "Ah. ;
Kitty! there wus love in those days, and
romance, too!"
"Is there no love now ?" said her
niece, coming to her aunt's side and Kneel- j
ing down on the hearth rug.
I The rud<ly flames and clow from the j
fire lit up the girl's chciitnut hair, fair
complexion and bright hazel eyes.
Aunt Bell looked lovingly down at the
piquant lit'le face held up to her, and j
said: "Now and again we meet some of i
the rignt kind; but would you like to i
henr the story of that namtsake of yours, i
on
XVXLIJ I
"Very much."
"Well, fifty years ago, as you can J
easily reckon, I was a girl of sixteen and
f was invited to spend the summer1
months with ray aunt, who then had one
of the finest houses in this county of i
Kildare.
"Several regiments were stationed at
the camp and at :i neighboring village, so
you may imagiue the girls of the party j
and I looked forward to having a gay j
time. Oh! those few short summer
months, Kitty! I grow young again
when I think of thcin. What a mad,
merry time it a\us! And the maddest,
rthe merriest, the handsomest of all, was a
*- young Scotch lieutenant, Kinloch Kin- j
lock. His mother was Irish, and had be-1
queathed her good looks and propensity !
tnr inkintr. And now forKittv. the her- I
I oine. She was the daugh er of an old
I gardener, who lived about a mile away
I from my aunt's house, and of all the dis- j
L tractingly pretty women that have made j
BE men do foolish things, I um sure Kitty |
W was one of the prettiest."
J "What was she like?"
"No description could come up to the j
original; but I can tell you that she had
the Irish blue eyes, a complexion like;
milk, hair of the bri^hte?*- and silkiest j
chestnnt. curling iu little rings all over
her brow and neck iind a slender, up- j
right figure, the envy of half our girls, j
One day a large party of us were standing j
chattering under the trees, when Kitty j
passed us with a basket of fruit.
" Kinloch for the first time noticed .
the girl and seemed struck dumb with
" He stood at a little distance and kept
his eyes fixed on her.
"It was love from that very moment'
and every one noticed it.
k "All the oilier young fellows of coursc
immediately swarmed round the girl's
basket, and began helping themselves
with not so much as a ' by your leave."
"Kitty began expostulating, but they j
i put her off.
"'Sure, Kitty,' said one, 'and you
would like us to have the best, I'll be !
bound.'
, "And another, 'Mahone, one kiss from !
that cheek with the bloom of the peach
upon it will save you from these rascally
thieves, for I will fight them all for such
& a favor.'
"But Kitty would not be bribed und :
ahrmt tn rf>?inrn h?rsf?lf to the loss
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of her fruit when Kinloch shouldered his
way into the group, and giving the lust
speaker a friendly push, cried, ' Leave
the girl alone, Grant!' And then, turning
to Kitty, took the basket out of her j
hands, saying, 'It is too heavy for your
little arms and there will come no one j
stealing your fruit now. I'm thinking!" j
" 'Thank you,' said Kitty, gratefully, j
and walked along by his side.
"' That is the first time I have seen
"my lady" allow any one to fe;ch or,
carry for her,1 sr.id my brother.
y 'Thero is no gainsaying Kinloch, !
then, as I can tell you, iiarry:* i cneu; j
!?* 'for he always gets his own way in what j
he wants.'
" 'Especially when it has to do with
pretty girls!' sneered Grant.
" 'Treason!' we ali shouted, in a breath. ,
'Kinloch is the same to us all, to every- j
body.'
" Of course,' said Grant, recovering
his temper; 'but are you not all pretty j
girls?' * j
"We laughed, and did not deny the !
soft impeachment; so the momentary
breacn was healed.
"That was the last time we noticed
Kitty coming up to our house with her
fruit.
"We knew nothing we could have said :
or done would have prevented her, but:
we were not quite so sure about Kinloch, j
> who ever since that little episode had
wandered about like a distressed lover.
"One day we met Kitty in one of the
lanes, and said to her, 'How is it you
I never come our way now?"
I "The girl blushed.
B " 'Father prefers to take up the things
B himself,' she murmured; for which pain~"fuHy
apparent fib we instantly forgave
EH "The days passed 011, and Kinloch, j
who had before been the life of our ex- J
peditions, was now generally absent.
"Where he had been was evident, for 1
we often caught a glimpse of chestnut
hair shining through the trees, or the old ;
picturesque shawl draped over Kitty's j
nead and shoulders, with her round, j
dimpled arms appearing just below.
"Kinloch's regiment had been ordered J
away to another part of Ireland; and one
morning, a few days before he was to go,
we begged for his company to a picnic we
had arranged to have with one or two 1
other families.
" 'Thanks very much,' he said; 'but I
' am afraid I shall be too lm-y.'
"'Oh, but you must come." we all j
' cried. 'We counted upon you.'
" 'But I?I have so many things to do
to-day.'
"Homi Vio rfnniwiil nnrl hllishpd.
I "We girls were looking very inquisitive, >
and some of the men had a perceptible
sneer on their faces.
" 'He has got his lady-love to bid i
good-bye to, I daresay,' suggested Philip !
Grant.
"Kinloch turned on him with blazing j
eyes. We all kept back. They were like !
globes of fire.
" 'Confound it. sir,' he cried, 'and sup- l
pose I has-e! what's that to you?'
"We all looked at Philip; he was very |
white, but he shrugged his shoulders in- j
differently and wisely forebore to answer. ;
"Kinloch's temper cooled down as nip- |
idly as it had arisen.
" 'I am sorry to disappoint you, girls,' j
he said, gently, 'but you will have to ex- I
cuse me.' And, bowing, he walked off. j
"That evening Kinloch made his way I
to the old gardener's cottage. His face [
was pale, but he had a determined look i
in the corners of his mouth, and he
carried his head well thrown back and
stepped lightly aloug.
' The girl had just set her father's supper
before him, aud had gone out to rest
in the garden and watch the still beauties
of the night.
"The air was fresh, and in the heavens
the full moon was hurrying through its
star-spangled course. The reeds in a
* .
neighboring stream rustled and shivered
in tiie breeze, and a large night-moth or
two came sailing up and bumped against
Kitty's white kerchief on their way to
the fatal candle shining in the window.
"The girl looked up to the sky, and
tears tilled her eyes.
"Was it the brightness of the moont
" 'Why do vou weep, Kitty?' said a
voice at her side.
"No need to turn to look for the
speaker! The girl buried her face in her
hands and sobbed afresh.
" 'You are goini* away?' she said.
" 'Yes, I am going away,' said Kin
loch; but you will come witn me, iviciy,
for you love me.'
'I love you, but I shall not accompany
you.'
" 'But you must. I have spoken to
the old priest, ami he is ready to marry
us.'
" 'Kinloch,' she said, looking up into
her lover's face with a sweet, serious
smile, 'you have made mo love you, for I
could not help it; but you cannot make
me marry you.'
" Oh, but you will, darling, won't you,
Kitty?' he went on eagerly. ' You know
I can marry now, because I came of age
the other day, and I have much more
than my pay now. Is that what you are
thinking of"
,;'Uow could I think about that?
Why will you not understand, Kinloch?
Your oroud old father and your silver
haired stately mother, how could they
bear for one of their sons to marry an
Irish peasant girl?1
44 4You have nothing to learn from the
highest lady in the land, my darling,' he
said, fondly; 'and younger sons are not
expected to marry heiresses.'
"But she shook her head resolutely,
" 'And is this how you lightly fling
away a man's happiness for life if*
" 4 A few days' pain now, to save you
years of regret in the future.'
" The young man looked at the girl,
perplexed. Where could she have learned
such sentiments??where had she gained
the strength to express them so freely?
44 He then said slowly and solemnly, as
if taking an oath: 4 Look yonder, Kitty!
That is the evening star. So surely as it
will shine in the heavens five, ten or
twenty years, as surely will my love remain
unchanged for you. Bid me come
back when you will, Kitty, and if I have
breath in my body and strength to do it,
I will come.'
"'Como back in ten years, Kinloch.
I will be true to you and wait till then.
I will try and improve myself?make myself
more worthy of your love.'
" ' Keep as you are, Kitty?remain unchanged,
' said the young man, jealously,
'lest when I come again I shall not see in
you the last look I toctk away with me,
my life, mv love!' he murmured passionately;
and kissing her sweet brow
and mouth, folding her iu one last embrace,
he sighed and left her.
"She turned to go into the cottage. A
large, downy moth which had been
bumping against the little window sailed
in before her, circled thrice round ihe
candle and flew up into its alluring
brightness. The candle flickered and
went out. The moth dropped down
with a thud upon the table, dead.
"Kitty, with her eyes blinded with
tears, and with shaking hands relit,
though somewhat tardily, the light.
it tr/Ui,. ? * ooirl man
xviity, iuj gui, c??.? ~ ? -,
pointing significantly to the singed insect,
'don't be as foolish as that silly
thing. Its eyes were dazzled, and it had
no strength to resist the fatal fascination.'
" 'Father,'said the girl, stoopingdown
and kissing his gray locks, 'you may
trust me.'"
Here Aunt Hell stopped.
" Is it interesting. Shall I go on?"
"Oh, do! Did he comeback?" said
her niece.
'Well, the years passed on, and the girl
was joked and teased, and had many
offers of marriage; but sho was firm
and would listen to none.
"At Inst the young fellows grew weary
of their fruitless attempts at love-making
and the greater part left her alone.
"A few, more unkind, would ask when
she expected her young gentleman home,
and taunted her in cutting speeches and
insinuations.
' Nine years-went by, and then there
came the battle of Waterloo, when offi
cers and men went down in nunareus
together.
"Still no word from Kinloch, and
Kitty,# heart, which had never failed in
lightness, nor her step in its speed, now
sank and faltered for the first time.
"Early in the next year?in fact, on
New Year's night?tfye officers gave a
ball, and every <rirl and young man for
miles around was invited.
"Girls were in great demand, and I
went down to my aunt's house especially
for that night.
"I was anxious to see Kitty myself,
and to find out how the years had passed
over hc-r head.
"You think, perhaps, twenty-six was
rather old to bo called a girl?do you,
Kitty I"
"Well, I felt almost the same as I did
when I was sixteen, and quite as ready to
enjoy a dance or fiirtation, I can assure
you.
"Kate Daly?that washer name?went
to help the 'adies unshawl themselves,
and to be ready with needle and thread
when an unhappy damsel with torn skirt
or flounce should require her assistance.
' cVi/. it-.ic ?Vi 11 v-piirhf and the
young gir'ish beauty had developed into
the most lovely of women. Only when
her face was at rest, and you caught the
suspicion of an anxious heart upou it,
would you have guessed her age.
"She wore a pale tea-rose tinted gown,
with ruffles of lace of her own making
at the neck and sleeves.
"It was a wild and stormy night without,
just such a one as this, but it only
served to enhance the brightness and animation
of the scene within.
"Suddenly there was a lull; we stopped
in our dances; a chill blast seemed to
have entered the room; we turned and
saw a silent, dark figure standing in the
doorway.
"He was tall and handsome, but nis
large black cloak, carefully slung over
his shoulder, was dripping with the rain
and making large pools on the floor. His
legs, booted and spurred, were mud up
to the hips.
"Just at that moment the clock struck
12, and the year 1810 had broken. Some
of the more excitable girls screamed and
ran behind their partners.
"Was it an apparition? Was it an ill
omen for the coming year?
" 'I seem to frighten you, good people.
Does nobody know me?'
"Kitty at that moment was bringing in
a jug of iced claret at another door.
"She heard the voice and turned round,
trembling, with a wild cry: "Kinloch,
Kinlock. I knew you would come back!'
And amid a crash of breaking glass?for
she let the vessel slip from her hands?
she* bounded to his side nnd then disappeared
in the folds of the threat cloak."
"How splendid. Aunt Bell!" said her
niece, drawing a deep breath; "but if
she married him then. I do not see why
she should not have done so before."
' Ah, but she was a wise girl, little
one; she knew it would test his constancy
and prove if he really loved her.
A young man's love at twenty-one (as she
knew very well) would not be his choice
at thirty-one."
"What became of them, aunt?"
''Oh, they married and traveled about
a good deal, and finally both died out
in India within a few months of each
other. There was one son, and I believe
he is in the army also. Come, Kitty, 1
shall go to bed, and not wait up anj
longer for your father."
"There is a new lieutenant coming in
Mr. Perry's place,*' said her niece, as she
bade her good night.
"The young men are not what the}
used to be," sighed the old lady. "Some
little whippersnapper, I'll be bound,with
feet that would go into your slippers.
Good-night, child."
Kitty went slowly down stairs and pon
-1 3 !r> Kor mind thfi StOTV of th(
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beautiful Kate Daly and the faithful Kin
t loch. She went to the window and undit
| the shutter. She pictured to herself th<
j young man coming to the window anc
scratching his name on the glass, anc
then taking the girl's hand in nis own
slowly guiding it just below.
She leant in the deep shadow of th<
window-seat and strove to realize eacl
scene in the little drama. There, unde
Iho.verv door, stood the black-robed fig
ure thcv had all shrunk airiy from in the
midst of their mirth. Wuat! Was she
dreaming? What stood thereat that very
moment?
A figure darker than the gloom of the
room. The rain poured in Hoods outside,
and the wind whistled and moaned
round the corners of the house.
The figure came a little further into the
room. She saw, by the misty light, ho
was a tall man with a dark cloak over his
shoulders, booted and spurred, with mud
up to his hr*^.
She felt as if the whole scene was to bo
played again before her very eyes; but
she looked in vain for the pretty girls and
ladies in their pulled sleeves and short
waists, their flowing curls and highhceled
shoes. Kittv?where was she ?
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Ana iiere sne omsaea 10 uer&un iu wu
darkness.
There was Kitty; but not the one.
The man came up to the window, evidently
thinking no one was in the room.
The erirl shrank back as the wet cloak
brushed against har cheek.
"Kinloch!" sho said, half doubting
whether the figure would answer, for she
could hardly tell yet if she was dreaming
or no.
" Who spoke my name?" he called out,
startled and looking around.
"I did." said ICitty, feeling very
abashed, almost at his elbow.
"I am sure I beg your pardon. I
thought the room was empty. I must
have come into the wrong quarters; ar- j
riving so late I must have mistaken the
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DIOCK. 1 HOpL' JOU Will iUi^im sutsu uu
intrusion?-'
Kitty's grand castles in the air fell to |
j the ground with a crash. How commonj
place! He was only the new lieutenant,
| after all; but he did not look the whipI
per-snapper her aunt had prophesied.
" Then you are not Kinloch?" she
said, in a disappointed tone.
".My name is Kinloch," he answered,
with a pkasant smile.
"My aunt was telling me about this
Kinloch." And Kitty tapped the frame
with her finger. "I will tell you the
story some day, if you like; but you
! came into the room just as she said your
j namesake did, dressed in the same way
i and everything. Hut, there! I suppose
you are not even a relation?"
"He was my father," said the young j
| man, quietly. So no wonder we are i
j something alike."
: It was now his turn to say, in a disapI
pointed tone, "But your name is not
j Kitty, I am sure."
"Yes, it is," said Kitty, eagerly.
Then she stopped; a sudden rosy Hush
j rushed over her face. ''At least, no?it I
; is?"
i But she could not deny it, for it was !
1 Kitty.
! "These are our namesakes; shall we ;
i write our names below them, Kitty?"
; "Some day?perhaps."
Optical Illusions.
I Place a man and a dog 6ide by side at !
! a distance of twenty feet, and any person j
with an eye capable of distinguishing i
them will be able to tell which is on the ;
right, which on the left. The eye is not !
| easily deceived as to position at right j
angles to the line of vision. Let the man j
advance five feet; it is easy to tell that j
the dog is further away than the man. !
! Next, place the man at a distance of 100 ;
j feet, the do:* at 101 feet; it is not so ;
oq l\nfrvrr? althmicrh mifl
takes are rare with a normal eye. But at i
I 500 and GOO feet, respectively, it is less I
easy, although we can still tell which is j
i to the right and which is to the left.
The images formed on the retina by 1
j the same object at different distances are
very similar, differing only in size and dis- !
j tinctness. For this reason it is difficult I
j to judge of distances, requiring much I
practice. A person standing on a straight I
I strip of railroad is rarely abb to tell |
j whether a distant train is approaching or
| receding, or at rest, so slight is the chaDge
i in apparent size from which the distance
is to be estimated. Upon the sea it is ;
very difficult, without long practice, to
judge of distances.
Refraction always chinsrcs the apparent j
| place of an object, so that we seem to see I
the sun after it has gorn: below the hori- j
j zon. A more striking but less frequent j
I nlionnmonnri nf ro ft Intl i>l tllllt knOWn !
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as mirage. Refraction also alFects the !
color of an object. The media through |
which light passes has more or less effect
upon the ray.
In a fog objects are dimly seen, the effect
resembling that due to distance;
| hence objects look larger, for the eye
| judges of the size of an object by multij
plying the size of the image or impression
I received by the square of the distance,
while the latter is estimated from the inI
distinctness of the object. In tlie fog the
| apparent distance is increased, but the
' eye interprets it as due to the opposite
; cause.
On looking at the photograph of a tree,
a church, a monument or a pyramid, 11 is ,
not possible to form a correct idea of its j
| size unless a man or animal is seen in the j
j same view with which to compare it. In
I nature, especially on laud, the interven- I
j ing objects that lead up to it give the 1
I data on which to calculate the distance.
[ When none intervene, as in looking from
' peak to peak, the eye must depend on
i distinctness, and where the air is very ;
clear and transparent, as in Colorado, !
distances seem less than they are. If the j
! object is seen through transparent, but .
j colored, media, the form remains true,
! but the colors are changed.?Scientific \
| American.
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A Physician and His Fees.
| The late Dr. Parker had reached his j
' eighty-fourth year, was the richest phy1
sician in this city, and had accumulated
! a million by his profession and by judicious
investments, say a New York cor|
respondent of the Troy Times. He had
i the cream of the medical practice ana
i could charge any fee that he chose to
; name. An instance of this is as follows:
i A rich young man of this city went into
the country and brcke his leg. Parker
i was ordered by telegraph and visited the
; patient, thus losing a day. The bill was
i $1,000. Dr. Parker, like most of the
successful men, came hither from the
j country, being a native of the o'd Gran:
ite state. When he came to this city
i Dr. Mott stood at the head of the profesI
sion, but Parker rose rapidly, and when
I Mott died he took the place thus made
I vacant. He learned from Mott how to
; charge. I well remember the time when
1 the latter removed a small tumor from
I the neck of one of my friends. The tu
mor was not large1* than a walnut, and
| the operation was done in less than live
j minutes, but the bill was $;W0. Some skillful
surgeons would have done it just as
well for one-tenth of that sum, but Mott
i charged for his reputation, and that !
1 onnma tr> ho thp rule in life.
I ... ?
Sedan.
A singular stroke of irony has settled |
! the fate of the little town of Sedan. It j
I ranked high in the list of French fortij
fied places. The late emperor took refI
uge within its walls as a stronghold that
! h>td the reputation of being impregnable.
A short time ago the French minister
of war issued u list of all the fortresses
and strongholds of the country,
and from this catalogue Sedan was al>i
sent. The town was judged as being of
! military importance whatsoever. It was
not even worth while to retain the defense
it possessed. The great keep,
with its lofty walli and subterranean
passages, is in process of demolition,
and such fortifications as remain are
I cnmWl tm-ridv because thev are not
' ?!? - ?
worth destruction. The little cottage
[ on the road to liazeilles, where the em'
pcror had his memorable interview with
Prince Bismarck, and where the four
i gold-pieces which he gave t > the host!
ess, as he left her roof, still hang framed
k over the chimney-piecc, will survive one
of the great supposed national strongi
holds of France.
t
Twenty-nine per cent, 01 me atrcogo
of Europe, it is estimated, is still in tim
ber, and forty per cent, of the territory
s of Russia is in forests. Twenty-seven
per cent, of Germany is in timber, and, it
I is said, but four per cent, of Great
} Britain.
i *
1 Never bo ashamed to own you have
, been in the wrong; it is but saving in
other words that you arc wiser to-day
3 than you were yesterday.
r Electric currents are now employed to
. ? hasten the process of leather tanning.
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FARM, GARDEN' AND HOUSEHOLD, i
Celery. I
Dr. Sturtevant, at ?ho New York Experiment
station, found, averaging the '
result obtained in seventeen samples in '
v\?iich the varieties from the two rows j
are separately noted, omitting fractions, i
plants grown under level culture averaged
177 pounds per hundred plants, while '
those under trench culture averaged 178 1
pounds per hundred plants. The length
of the bleached stems was rather greater <
and the suckers were rather more numerous
upon the plants grown in the trenches: '
but, on the other hand, the bases of the i
stems were more often split and deformed <
than occurred in the plants grown upon I
the level. It appears therefore from this 1
* - * J i
trial that tnc irencn cuiuiro vieiuuu nu
advantage for the increased labor involved.
Oiling Wagon Wheel*.
A well made wheel will endure constant
wear from ten to twenty-five years,
if care is taken to use the right kind and
proper amount of grease, but if this matter
is not attended to it will be used up
In five or six years. Lard "Should never
be used on a wagon, for it will penetrate
the hub and work its way out
around the tenons of the spokes and
spoil the wheel. Tallow is the best lubricator
for wooden axle trees and castor
j oil for iron hubs, but many of the present
i axle greases are aisnrexcellent, and have
the merit of being cheaper and more con- !
venient to handle. Just grease enough
| ehould be applied to the spindle of a 1
wagon to give it a slight coating. This 1
is better than more, for the surplus put ^
on will work out at the ends and be j
forced by the shoulder bonds and nut
washer into the hub around the outsides '
of the boxes. To oil an iron axletree, 1
first wipe the spindle clean with u piece 1
of cloth wet with spirits of turpentine, (
and then apply a few drops of castor oil 1
near the shoulder and end. One tea- '
spoonful is sufficient for the whole.? {
Green's Fruit Grower.
Sulphur for .Stock.
An English correspondent puts about <
two ounces of sulphurous acid into a j I
quart bottle of water, and gives a table- <
spoonful of this dilution three times per <
day to cattle suffering with foot-and- 1
mouth disease. In addition to this, he <
burns a little sulphur three times a aay j
in the stable in which the animal is kept.
He moistens the feet also with the above
solution with a sponge. One must be !
careful not to use sulphuric for sulphur- |
ous acid, as the former would be harmful ]
in this case instead of curative. Burn-1
ing sulphur in the stables of healthy cattie
once or twice a week, he thinks, j
would ward of! disease. A New York
Tribune correspondent adds: I have long
been in the habit of giving a heaping tablespoonful
of sulphur for this purpose
to my horses and cows once
a week, in a mess of meal; also (
to large swine ; to full-grown j
6heep about half this quantity; to lambs |
and pigs, less, grading it according to j
size ana age. For poultry, once a week j
I mix sulphur with their pudding, at the
rate of a heaping tablespoonful of the
former to a gallon of the latter. This
keeps them free from lice, unless they
are much exposed to these par asites on
their roosts or otherwise. Sulphur in,
mndnmto rlncpq Jinfl not ffivcn tOO Often. I
uivuv,mw 1 c? # . j (
is healthful, and is :i guard against vari- j
ous diseases and vermin. A simple' j
method of burning it on a slip of card- '
board, or extra stout paper, a foot long j ]
and two or three inches wide. Scatter, ,
sulphur oa one end of this, light the ' i
paper and then move it about the cattle j ]
in the stable. Be very careful to set::
nothing on lire when doing this. In <
order to guard against fire, if litter is i
in the stable, it should be removed pre-1 <
vious to lighting the sulphured naper. ! j
A safer way, however, would be to put; j
some paper in a hollow dish or pan with |
a handle to it to take hold of and move
about. ,
Rhubarb Culture.
Rhubarb, like current bushes, will ?
grow almost anywhere and under any J
* ?A A J ?ViOnii?ria mnro l
treatment, uuu uuiuumui ivcvioa >uv.v , ,
ill-usage than any other "green thiug j
growing." But for this reason it should j
not be supposed that when growing under
neglect and abuse it will do its best and
produce as abundant crops of equally
good quality as when good treatment is
given. After it is once planted rhubarb
requires little cultivation, but it must
have at all times deep, rich soil, the;
richer the better. In field culture the!
roots are planted about four feet apart,
each way, and cultivated like any hoed
crop. In the family garden they should
be planted two or three feet apart, in a
single row, at least four feel distant from
other plants. It may be raised from seed,
but as there is little reliance in the seed- f
lings being of the same variety as the j
pirent plauts, division of the roots is the j
method of propagation usually adopted.
Any piece of root with a bud or crown i
will grow if planted about two inches <
deep in mellow soil firmly pressed
around it. Roots may be planted in (
autumn or early spring. Plantations are j
usuallv renewed every four or five years, | ]
yet when a liberal dressing of manure is ^
given every fall the roots will produce a <
crop for an almost indefinite period. )
Heavy manuring, clean cultivation, and (
liberal space are the essential requisites j
for raising large, succulent rhubarb. The [
varieties hist known are: j
Linnaeus, grown extcnsiveiy for market j
as well as home use. It is early, very
productive, and of a brisk, spicy flavor. |
Its principal fault is that it seeds so I
freely that, unless all flower-stalks are (
cut off as soon as they appear, the crop ,
deteriorates rapidly.
Victoria is later, has larger leaves and
stalks, and requires very rich, rather I <
heavy ground for its best development, j
Paragon. ?This is anew variety,origin- \
' * 1 n nAur m*iAf1iu>or] ! ,
atea in Liiiumuu, aim nu>? |/iuuuwv. , ;
here. The stalks tire blight red, heavy, I j
and produced in quick succession and I,
great abundance. It is earlier, of more
delicate flavor, and decidedly less acid
than any other variety we arc acquainted
with. But its most remarkable and most i
valuable qualification is that it does not [
produce flower-stalks, to which fact its i
ereat productiveness is mainly attributa- j,
ble, all the strength of the plant being j
used for the development of its leaves.?
American Uurdcn.
Harrowing.
A good deal is written and said about j
plowing, but little in regard to harrow- i
ing. But harrowing is even more impor- i
tant than plowing. Plowing cannot j
bring the soil into a good condition for
the seed. It merely prepares it for the 1
j more important work of harrowing, and
I unions tliiq ri?'htlv (loUC tllC Boil is .
wholly unfit for sowing or planting. On j
light land, by the skillful u^e of the ;
i plow, the soil may be very nearly pre- l
pared for the seed, but one indispensable j
requisite is wanting which the harrow i
only can perform, and that is, the con- j
i solidation of the ground to preserve it
j from drying out too much after it is j
i sown. But on heavy land flic soil is ut- !
terly unfit for the seed until it has been j
{mlverized and made fine as deeply as it 1
las been plowed. The plow turns over,
the furrow slices, at times h ird and com- j
pact and almost as solid, when dry, as j
stone. It is the purpose of the harrow j
to reduce this cloddy soil to a fine con- j
dition and lit it for the seed.
I There are two ways of harrowing, good i
and bad, and the bad sometimes appears j
to be better than the good work. Let us j
first consider the <rood work. The harrow j
j should have sharp, long teeth, and be !
I hitched by a chain suHicientlv long to :
I nsrmit the harrow to be dragged level j
and to avoid lilting up the* corner by I
which it is drawn. It then works its I
way through the soil, diverging from a
straight line at every obstacle met by
each tooth, and is thus forced through ,
the furrow slices in all directions, nnd \
quickly redures the comnact earth into a
fine mellow condition. The lumps which
it cannot break it brings to the surface
and there leaves them, and in so doing
j it works the fine soil down to the bottom.
This is very quickly done in light,
! sandy soil, but requires more working to
1 effect it in hard, stiff land. When the
[ work is done, if the soil is stiff and
j clayey, the surface will be covered with
I lumps all the harder and larger if the
j harrowing has been delayed until the
| soil has become dry, and all the smaller
if it has been done on the newly-plowed
) land. But down below the toil is fine
NEWS OF THE WEEK. I
Eastern and niddle States
Charles Fenno Hoffman, many years ago
a prominent poet and novelist, has just died
at Hurrisburg, Ponn., aged seventy-four years.
For years he had suffered from a mental disorder.
The fishing schooner Fanny Fem, of Gloucester,
Mass.,while on her passage home from
the Newfoundland banks with 20,000 pounds
of fish on board, was run into by a steamer
and sunk. Four of the ten men on board the
schooner,including the captain, were drowned.
Salem, Mass,, has lost ono of its largest
business blocks by lire, tho damage to various
firms aggregating about $100,000.
During a discu-wion about Blaine's nomination
by a number of men in a saloon at Liverpool,
Pcnn., a quarrel arose, knives and pistols
and mellow and in good condition to
receive the seed and cause it to sprout
and take hold with its roots and make a
vigorous growth. This, however, cannot
be done with one or two strokes of
the harrow, but it requires repeated harrowing
and even cross-harrowing to d >
it well.
Bad harrowing can be done very quickly,
as other poor work may be done. Tlr*
harrow is hitched short, and rides on a
few rows of the hinder teeth. The teeth
ire short and blunt, and penetrate but a
very little ways into tiie ground. It '
scratches the surface and docs not work [
its way tortuously through the soil down
to tne Doitom. u leaves uie iup uu?,
perhaps, but it also leaves the bottom
ioosc and open even in light soil, while
in heavy soil the furrow slices lie upon
znch other unbroken, with vacant spaces
it the bottom. An inexperienced man
walking over the field may think it well
harrowed, but if he tries to push a cano
into the soil here and there, in one place
it will go down suddenly of its own
weight in a vacant space six inches or
more, and in another it cannot be pushed
iown more than two inches. The seed
sown upon such soil is cither barely
:overed, or it falls down into the spaces,
where it lies and rots, while the other
sprouts, but soon fades and dies, because
there is no soil for the roots to penetrate
ivith sufficient ease.
Perhaps the farmer has a roller, and
:hinks the roller will make up for these
leficiencics. But this is a mistake.
Where the harrowing has been good the
roller will do sood service. It will crush
;he lumps left on the surface and finish
the good work of the harrow. But on
the badly harrowed land the roller merely
packs the surface over the arched clods
jelow, which are not crushed, because
She weight of the roller does not reach
them, and makes the matter worse, bemuse
the thin skin of soil packed by the
roller soon dries und bakes into a crust,
md the young plants rooted in it very
ioon die.?Neu> York Times.
Household Recipe* and Hints.
Old-fashioned tea cakes are made of
me cup of sugar, half a cup of butter,
:wo-thirds of a cup of sweet milk, one
;gg, one-third of a teaspoouful of soda
lissolved in the milk. Mix enough flour
with this to make a soft dough, which
;an be rolled out; cut the cakes out with
i smooth-edge cooky cutter. Serve fresh
for tea.
Excellent soft gingerbread is made of
jne cup of sugar, one cup of butter, one
;up of sour cream, one cup of New Oreans
molasses, four cups of sifted flour,
me tablespoonful of soda dissolved in a
ittle hot water, one tablespoonful of
jinger, three well-beaten eggs, the rind
jnted of one lemon. Raisins may be
ldded, if you please.
Mock cream pie is made by beating
lalf a cup of butter until it is foamy,
hen add two-thirds of a cup of sugar,
,he yolks of three eggs, well beaten,
lavor with lemon or vanilla. Make a
.Tust lor the bottom of the pie; fill and
jake in a quick oven. When done make
1 meringue of the whites ol the eggs and
wo tablespoonfuls of powered sugar.
Brown delicately, and send to the table
while hot.
Veal requires more cooking than any
neat except pork. It is too dry to broil,
ind is best fried and served with nice
jravy. It should be fried slowly, and
f there is not enough of its own fat to
fry it, a "little fresh suet will answer.
When it is done, remove the meat to a
platter and pour some milk into the pan,
idding a small piece of butter if you
:hink it will not be rich enough.
Moisten some flour with a little milk,
ind stir it into the milk in the pan. The
jravv will be colored a beautiful brown
from the juices of the meat that have
Ined on the pan, if it is well stirred.
Beat up an egg and stir it into the
jravy just before taking it up, and then
jour it around the meat.
In roasting meat have the pan hot when
fou put the meat in. If it is beef put it
n the hot pan and let it stand a moment
ind then turn it over, thus s?ariug both
rides and preventing the juice from runiing.no
quickly. Do not put the salt and
sepper on the meat, but put it in the pan
,vith the water, and then baste the meat
:very three or four minutes. You will
ind tiie meat ro ue inorougniy sensmicu
md will be much more juicy and teuder
nan by the old way of rubbing the salt
)n the meat; putting the salt on the meat
Iraws the juice out and toughens it.
Roast fowl9 in the same way; also fish;
lot nutting any butter orgrease near them
intil almost done; then rub a little buter
over them to give them u nice crisp
>utside.
Dame Weasel and Her Husband.
When Dame Weasel's son was born,
she called her husband and said: "Qo
ind the swaddling-clothes that I want
ind bring them to me."
The husband listened attentively to his
wife's words and said: "What swad- i
iiing-clothes do you want?"
And iJame Weasel replied: "I want j
m elephant's bkiu."
The poor husband was stupifled by this
request, and asked his better half if she
kvas not a little out of her head; the
jnly answer Dame Weasel made was
:o toss the child into his arms and dislppear.
bfce went to sees uuj eunu-nuiui, auu
jiid to him: "Gossip, my grounds are
full of turf, help me to shake it up a
little."
As soon as the earth-worm began to
burrow, Dame Weasel called a hen:
"Gossip," said she, "my turf is full of
;arth-worms, come aud help me get rid
af them."
The hen hurried to the spot, ate the
ivorm and began to scratch up the
soil.
A little farther on Dame Weasel met.
the cat. "Gossip," said she, "there are
some liens in my garden; while I am
away suppose you take a walk in that
[lirection."
The next moment the cat had eaten
the lien. While the cat was regaling
herself, Dame Weasel said to the dog:
"Good, sir, will you leave the cat in
-?Qiir-ti H wirlfi domain?"
V* O..W.
The clog, furious, rushed to kill the
cat, not wishing any one bat himself to
be lord of ttie country.
The lion now passing by, Dame
Weasel saluted him with profound resect.
"My lord," said she, "don't go
near that lield, it belongs to the dog."
Whereupon the lion, full of jealousy,
fell upon the dog and devoured hi in.
It was now the elephant's turn: Damo
Weasel begged his support against the
lion, and the elephant entered as a protector
on the grouuds of the suppliant.
Hut he did not know that the perlidous
weasel had dug a deep hole in her gar- j
den and covered it with underbrush.
The elephant fell into the snare and
killed himself in ths fall; the lion, who
feared the elephant, fled into the forest.
Dame Weasel now had the elephant's
skin, and showed it to her husband, saying,
"I asked you for the elephant's skin,
here it is."
The husband of Dame Weasel had not
known before that his wife was cleverer
ili-in nil tint lip-mis nf the eiirtli. and still
less hud he imagined that she could be
cleverer than himself. But he found out
at last, and that is why we say, "A.s
sharp as a weasel.? Wisdom of Aid ions.
A Fortune for Lifting a Fallen Man
Some months ago as an elderly gentleman
was stepping out of the t;ain at the
Esbly station, France, he slipped ami
fell. He was helped to his t'.rt by a
railway servant, who, before leaving him,
ascertained that he had sustained no injury
worth mentioning. This trivial incident
h..s made the fortune of the civil
employe, who, on the death of the passenger
he obliged, which occurred a few
weeks back, learned that the latter had
bequeathed to him the whole of his fortune,
amounting to four hundred thou
sand francs. In return for this generous |
legacy lie was enjoineu 10 ruuuci ?
service to tho remains of his deceased
benefactor?namely, to see that his body
was cremated, to accompany the remains
to Milan for that purpose, to bring back
the ashes with him and scatter them over I
the gravel walks of the gentleman's garden.
These last wishes having been
scrupulously carried out, the railway servant
enters into possession of his fortune,
the eccentric testator having, it appears,
no disinherited relatives to dispute tho
validity of the will
were drawn, th; lights were extinguished ana
a desperate conflict took plncc in the darkness.
When order was restored and lights produced
threo men were found on the floor weltering
in blood and probably fatally wounded.
General James Watson Webb, for many
years a prouinent journalist and politician,
died the other day in New York city, in hia
eighty-third year.
A man nnmed Quillan was killed by the explosion
of a barrel of beer in a Newburg (N.
Y.), brewery.
Noah H. Swayne, ex-justice of the United
States supremo court, died the other day in
New York city, age 1 eighty years. Ex-Justice
Swayne "was a native of Virginia, of
Quaker parentago, but moved in early life
to Ohio, irom which State he was appointed
to the United States supremo court by Lincoln
in 18U2, resigning in 1831.
The California delegation to the recent Republican
national convention at Chicago came s
on to Augusta, Me., and were presented tc
Mr. Blaine, together with a crowd who had {
accompanied them from various Maine cities ]
in a special train of thirteen cars.
A number of prominent Eastern Republi- j
wui papers, among them the New Ycrk t
Times, Springfield Uepub ican ana Harper's
Weekly, announce that they will not support
Elaine anil Logan.
Five Italians, while walking the railroad f
tracks near Leetsdale, Petin., met two trains,
and being unable to get out of their way two .
of the tramps were killed and a third fatally >
injured.
Frank Dively and his wife, while stand
ing in their doorway at Harrisburg, Penn.,
were struck by lightning and killed.
Four hundred delegates, representing aU
sections of the country, attended the annua)
convention of the American Society of Civil
Engineers at BuHalo, N. Y.
TildenG. Abdott, the defaulting cashier J
of tho Watertown bank, Boston, has been sen- *
tenced to eight years in State prison. 1
Five acres of ground over a coal mine near 1
Wilkesbarre, Penn., suddenly caved in with a
roaring sound like that of an earthquake.
Fifty dwelling houses stood on the ground, 4
and they sank from one to three feet, many of 1
them being completely wrecked and tho in j
mates narrowly es.viping with their lives.
A flood caused by heavy rains and freshets
swept through Spriiigtield, Vt, undermining
houses, displacing streets and ruining the
crops. The damage is estimated at $;"0,000 1
to business interests and many thousands tc
roads. |
Samuel J. Tilden has written a letter to .
the chairman of tho New York Democratic 1
State committee positively declining a nomination
for President. Mr. Tilden reviews his j
official service and states that he "cannot as- .
snme the labors of an administration or of a
canvass," and that owing to advancing year*
and declining health his public career is forever
closed. I
A disastrous flood, the second in three
months, has done great damage at Curwinsville,
Penn. A large dam gave way, setting 1
adrift thousands of logs, and a number of ]
houses and barns were carried away. (
Jonx C. E.vo has been indicted by the New ,
York grand jury for unlawful conversion of
the funds of the Second National bank while 1
president.
Brooklyn put on a gala appearance in
honor of the fifteenth annual reunion of the i
Army of the Potomac. Bunting and fla^s
were conspicuous everywhere, and 1.'0>,0jU
people witnessed the parade of veterans, Phila* 1
delphia, Boston and other cities being repre- <
sented bv grand army posts. Generals Grant,
Hancock. .McClelian, J?ewton, Governor Abbett,
of >ew Jersey, and Mayor Low took a
prominent part in tho exercises. At tho business
meeting General Grant was unanimously
elected president of the soeiety. In the even
ing a reception was held at tlio Academy of
Miwi/r
South and Went.
Reports from Delaware say that in the
great peach belt tho outlook for a very large
peach crop is favorable.
General, II. B. Beard, a prominent
mining man and resident of Denver, Col., was
shot mid fatally wounded by Samuel Derry, <
near Leadville, in a quarrel about a mining ,
claim.
A fire nt Des Moines, Iowa, destroyed the
largo round-house and repair shops of the j
Wabash St. Louis and Pacific, and the St.
Louis, Des Moines and Northern railroads, <
Nine locomotives were destroyed, and damage
to the extent of about idi!~>,UOO was inflicted.
Great damago to property in Texas hns resulted
from a rapid rise of the Kio Grande. ]
A TRAIN filled with Italian laborers was
wrecked by jumping the track near Akron,
Ohio. Seven laborers were fearfully mangled, >
two dving soon and the others not being expected
to live. i
General Auk Buford, a prominent 1
ICeiilu ki:ui, committed suicide at Danville, i
Ind. Family troubles, notably the killing of ,
Judge Elliott ai Lexington, Ky.. by t e
suicide's brother two ytar.j ago, led to the
act. * '
Eleven men were crossing the river in a
small boat at Thompson's Falls, Montana, '
when tho cable parted and the boat was swept t
over tho falls. >'ine of the eleven men were t
drowned, and two other men on shore in an f
attempt to rescue them also lost their lives"
Two brothers named Kennedy, laborers at I
Louisville, Ky., have just fallen ueirs to about c
$1,000,000 each, left them by an uncle in Australia.
Andrew Adams, a boy, killed his mother
and eight-year-old sister at their home on
North Creek in West Virginia. Neighbors
who visited the house found the mother and
daughter dead, tho former's head being almost
smashed to a jelly, while the girl's z
throat was cut from ear to ear. In a corner
of tho room wus crouched the lad, who said
that the Lopd had told him to offer bis relatives
as sacrifices, and Ho would bring them
to life again. 1
Isaac A. Stanley, paying toller of the National
Bank of Commerce, of ('levoland, Ohio, '
has been arrested for embezzling -ji00,000 from
the institution. He used the money hi grain i
speculation.
A negro l?oy of fourteen was lynched in j r
Russell county, Va., for kilJing a young win La j
boy.
c
Washington. I
The funeral of General O. E. Babcock, t
drowned oil' tho Fli >rida coast, took place froii'
his late residence in Washington. The pall- 6
board's were Secretary Lincoln, General
Sheridan, Gi-nerai Drum, General Mac Fee- I
ley, General Horacc 1 'oi*ter, Colonel Benjamin r
and Major D. 1'. Heap. s
Criminal proceedings are about to be commenced
against John Hall, lato United States c
marshal of tho western district of Pennsyl- \
vania. Witnesses l>efore a House committee |
have testified that Hall has failed to account
for from *:MI,000 to *4011,000. ?
President Arthur has transmitted tc t
Congress a communication, accompanied by a c
letter, from the board of managers of the
coming World's Industrial and Cotton exposition
at New Orleans, relative to an appropriation
for making a complete collection of r
tho articles and materials deemed desirable to *
place on exhibition in illustration of the resources
of the country, methods of governmental
administration and means of offense and j
defense. The amount asked by the board of f
managers is $.WS,0 K), distributed am >ng th? 1:
various departments as follows: For the war 1
department f 135,000; navy department -5110,OiJU;
State department, treasury do- p
partinent, $20,1)00; interior department (not '
including bureau of education), $70,0 M; bu- ?
reau of education, $40,0)0; postotlice depart- ii
ment, }2J,00); department of agriculture, t
$10,01X1; department of justice, $i,0.M; Smith- t
sonian institution, including national museum
and conimLssion of fish anil fisheries, $1)0,00J;
incidental expenses, $ JO,000.
Reports to the department of agriculture
show a generally favorable condition of the
wheat, cotton and other crops. ^
Mr. G. De Wkckiikrmn', minister resident
at Washington for the Netherlands since lHfW,
has presented liis cre<lentials to tho President
as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipo- n
tentiary, n
The House committee on elections, in the .
contested t.'lection case of Campbell vs. Morev,
of the seventh Ohio district, by a vote of eight j
to four nirreed to report in favor of unseating
Mr. Moroy, Republican, uiul seating tho con- A
testa nt, a Democrat. '
The secretary of war having learned ofTl- S
rially of tho action of Colonel A. P. Morrow, p
Sixth Cavalry, in duplicating, triplicating, M
ami even quadruplicating his pay accounts, I'
has orderiAl a court-martial for tho trial of
that oili .'cr. ^
At a mooting of the House committee on p
appropriations a resolution offered by Mr. 13
Randall was adopted as an arncuulmunt to tho V
general deficiency hill by a party vote of six ,
to three. It provides tliat no Senator, Represensitive,
or Delegate in Congress, or Senator, j;
Representative, or Delegate elect, and no o(!icer,
clerk, or employe of tho United I
States or any department, branch, or bureau H
thereof, or anv person receiving any salary or J'
compensation from moneys derived from the J,'
treasury of the United States, or any con- f.
tractor under the United Slates government, />
shall give or hand over to any person *>r persons,
directly or indirectly, any money or S
other Valuable thing on account of, or to bo
applied to, the promotion of any political ob- ^
ject whatever. Violation of the provision Is
made a misdemeanor, to bo punished by a tino /
not exceeding 85,0 :0 or im irisoainant not ox- J
ceeding three years, or both. A
Foreign*
The new treaty between France and An- c
nam, lately at war with oach other, has b?en 8
signed. t
Henry D. Venwor, the well-known weather
)rophet, died a few days since in Montreal,
iged forty-three years.
Frvs persons were killed and several mora
voundea at an election riot in Miedspell,
luugary.
The foundation stone of the new German
parliament building was laid at Berlin with tic
mposing eercmoiies.
A Swiss doctor who killed himfl3lf makes cr
he thirty-second victim to the gambling
nania this season at Monaco. ^
Wholesale arrests of alleged nihilists are ^h
ccuring in Russia, 100 persons, including nc
orty army officers, having been taken into ^
:ustody at KieiE and 200 more at Charkow. cjl
Joseph Tompsett and George Lowder were re
langed together at Pictou, N. S., for themur- "t
l;rof Peter Lazier. Both asserted their in- tic
locence to tho last. Robbery was tho motive te
>f their crime. th
Reports have reached Cairo that the Arabs
rnve massacred Hussein Pacha Khalifa, com- cc
nander of Berber, in tho Soudan, and all his ar
'arnily, the garrison and tbo European tra- PL
iers.
Election riots have occurred in Brussels, ^
Belgium, on account of the defeat of the lilx-r- w
Us. Great damage was done to property and a,
nany persons were wounded. 1 he members ot
>f the Belgium cabinet tendered their resigna- y
;ions.
Suakim has again been attacked by Osman al
Digua's rebel forces. The men-of-war and the
"oils replied vigorously. di
Russia is planning for international action st
igainst dynamiters. at
A tunnel in the course of construction on
i new railway lino in Spain caved in, and
iwelve workmen were killed.
Aleppo, Turkey, has beon shaken by a u(
sharp earthquake shock. ^
The French pohce, at the request of English c<
letcctives, are searching suspected premises in b(
Paris for dynamite. w
Two young officers of the insurgent forces to
n Cuba, liave been captured by the .Spaniards n<
ind shot. u<
The Spanish cabinet has decided that seven
)f the fifteen members of the Blark Hand an- u'
irchist society found guilty shall be executed
md the other eight suffer life imprisonment. ^
A FISHING vessel with a crow of fourteen
nen was wrecked in Trinity bay, Newfound- ^
and, and all on board were drowned. w
r ' W
LATER MEWS.
A fire in Boston partly destroyed a large
ubber warehouso heavily stocked with goods,
musing an estimated loss of more than $400,XX).
Sixteen firemen were injured more or ^
ess severely by an explosion in the burning a
juilding. b
Hiester Clymer, ex-member of the Penn. a
iylvania State senate, member of Congress y
'rom 187.3 to 1881, and Democratic candidate s<
P. {.. lOllfl V
AJi gUVUMlUl" ill iOWj UiUU OUUiLCLiljr Ui jjcu (u;ou
it Reading, Penn., aged 57 years. ;
Two lumberman?brothers named Haddock n
?while cutting timber in Gilmor county, W- t<
Ta., got in the way of an immense log, which ?
rolled down upon them and literally crushed ^
:hem to a pulp, broaking every bone in their
bodies. &
The bill providing that newspapers weigh- ?
ing less than four ounces shall be sent through w
the mails for one cent has been signed by the a
President. P
The President nominated James Bartlett to a
be coasul of the United States at Santillo. p
The commissioner of pensions has obtained,
through the Grand Army of tho Republic, a ^
list of more than 300,000 names of Union sol
iiers, from which he is enabled to give appli- p
mnts for pension information of the where- ^
il>outs of their comrades, who can furnish the a
testimony required in their cases. lc
Russian ollicers are planning an expedition a
to the north pole in sledges. J
A waterspout in Akubsig, Russian Turk- si
L'stan, drowned forty persons and destroyed u
nighty houses. jj'
LATEIt t'O.VGKESSIO.'VAL NEWS.
Senate.
The Senate passed the consular and diplo- ^
rnatic bill with all the committee amend rc
mente, which add $300,000 to the appropria- a<
tions as they were made by the House n
The Senate then entered upon a debate on the "
Mexican pensions bill, which lasted until th< tv
adjournment without any action being taken
Mr. Ingalls urgod that his bill, pro- ^
viding that all pensions shall {?j
commence from the date ol hx
ileath or discharge, be substituted for thf ^
[lending bilL He read the pensions plank it
the Republican platform atlopted at Chicago, $
and demanded that the expressed declaration $
i)f the party thus made should be carried out
in Congress. Mr. Sherman said a pension 3;
should commence when the application for it C
...<.0 fl W1 onrl flio rlnflnrftHnn of a nolltical ^
platform would not change his views. Ti
Ilonae. oi
The House passed the river and harbor bill fi
by a vote of 157 to 104. The only changes of ^
moment made in it were the striking out of G
:ho Hennepin canal appreciation of $300,000, tl
ind the insertion of amendments P
prohibiting the dumping of refuse p,
n New York harbor, and providing m
Jiat nothing in the bill shall be construed to H
imit the powers of the commission appointed Pi
;o supervise the erpenditure of the appropria- ci
ions for the Missouri river. The appropriaion
for Burlington harbor, Vt., was increased ?!
rotn $.5,000 to $25,000. The total of the ap- ^
>ropriations is about $12,350/01....Debate tb
in the electoral count bill was begun. A
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MUSICAL AND DKAilATJC, ?=
Mme. Modjeska will summer in Poland.
Mr, Edwin Booth is now established in his
lew house in Boston.
Jenny Lind's oldest son has just married c
m English girl name-'. Daniell.
John McCullougii, it is said, has mado $
iver $80,000 the present season.
Fanny Davenport has cleared $80,000 with tl
'Fedora" during the past season.
Mrs. Lanotry has invested #07,(X0, earned b
n America, in New York real estate.
Mlle. Nevada, the Western prima donna, tl
low in Paris, sends all her lloral gifts to the f(
lospitals.
Patti is said to have the most unique' 'crazy je
luilt" in existence, It is pronounced "awfully "
uuidsome." p
There are eighty people on the stage in ol
The Pulseof New York." It requires twenty tt
pecial stage hands to work tho scenery. 11
The Madison Square theatre (New York)
las had as many as twenty companies on the C
oad at one time, including both regular and O
hort season ventures. !{,
Mlle. Nevada, the American prima
lonna, will sing in three oratories at the Nor- T
_;_t. r ?.' 1 r? l 1 -1
VIC II lesuivm III ?.ilglUU<t. out; IUH.1 nuiu
;oes to Madrid, Barcelona and Lisbon. ^
This year thero aro three "Silver King' ji
companies; next season there will be but two;
71 lis year there are four "Lights o'London1 B
tympanies; next year there will be but one.
A Worcester firm is building a special
ar for Dion Boucicuult, which will accomuodate
his entire company of twenty-five t.j
icrsoas, and give Mr. Boucicauit and his >(
laughter each a state-room. (
Mary A.ndersox is making an even greater ;f<
nipression in the British provinces than she did
u London. At Manchester, for instance, she \
s said to have taken in one week more money
lian was ever before known in that city.
Charles Mitchell, tlio prize-fighter, is (V(
;oing on the stage. lie says ho wants to '
'begin at the lowest round and work up;" | (
ight his way to the front, so to speak. His ^
Hen oi Dcgmnmg ai me uouom seems lu uo tu ,
acklo Orlando in "As You Like It," and this st
10 will do iu England tills summer, Hi
AI
FOREIGN LANDHOLDERS, ?
' r
N
.mount of rnnil Ownoil by Foreigner* .vi
in tho I'nitoil Males.
Congressman Lorn, of Delaware, in his
?cent spoecii on the Oregon Land (5 rant Rail- u',
>ad bill, gave this table of the leading for' Ai
;gn holders of lnnd in the United State;)'
ith the amount of their holdings expressed
l acres:
n English syndlcnte, No. 3. in Texas? 3,000,00 1
he Ilolland'l ami i ompany, New .Mexico 4,500,00
ir Edward ltcid and a ayitfltcatc, in Hor- .
Ida. 2,00(1,00
nclls'-syndicate.in Mi>?:B-ip|>i l,8rte.OO ni
tarKiiii" of Tweeclale 1,>5ti,iw
iiillipg. Mar-h ill X Co , London 1,3(KI,? i ec
e-inan syndicate l.tno, ? ,
ii,'lo-Aniericftri HymJcate. London 75 .0 i J'1
yian II. Kvnno, of London 7'iO,(i<>< til
'tike of Smln r.an l 426,0.0
riti-h Lan ' company, in Kansas 320,000 w
William Whaliey, .\l. f., rcterooro, tug- ltr
land 310,000
lissonrl i.and company, Edinburgh, Scot- I"
land 800,000 st
tobert Tennnnt, of London 23i.'0u
Mmclee Land company, Scotland 247,oo j
nrd Dnnniore l'2i,0c. ,
Icniamin Ncwgae, Liverpool lOo.OC .
,ord Houghton, In Flor'da sn
,ord Dtinniven. in Colorado C0o < frj
!i:?lii*li Land company, in Florida 6u,oo J]
nulwh Land company, in Ark?n?as 60,u>0 jj,
ilbcrt reel, M. I'., "Liiccslerohirc, England
10,00
ir J. L. Kay, Yorkshire, England 6,0 ii) st
licsander Grant, of London, in Kansas.. 35,00 K
:ngli?h eyndicato, WUconrin 110,Wj'j nj
I. hlliThauser, of Halifax, in West Vlr- p
ginia ?co,nof ,
l Scotch cyndicale, in Florida 5n0,0 '? 8|
i lioynen, Daninh Consul,In Milwaukee. 60,00 St
lissouri Land company, of Edinburgh... 165,00
Total 20,C4;,0Oii ^
Mr. Lore says that in some cases these or ti
ither companies have also, as "leviathan W
quattera." enclosed and appropriated vast ir
nets without right. rx
SAMUEL J. TILDEN.
moptU of If lit Letter Declining' a
Nowlnafi >n.
In his letter to Daniel Manning, chairman
the New York Democratic State convenm,
Samuel J. Tilden begins by referring to
s letter of June 18, 1880, to the Demoatic
National convention, wherein he re unced
the renomination for the presidency,
r. Tildeu follows this reference by saying
at in the four years wluch have elapsed
(thing has occurred to weaken but everying
to strengthen the convictions which iniced
his withdrawal from public life. He
views Ins past official career, asserts that
,wonty years of continuous maladministram,
under the demoralizing influences of instine
war and of bad finance, have infected
;e whole governmental system of the United
ates with tho cancerous growths of false
in: tr.ictions and corrupt practices,"
id concludes by taking a final leave of active
irticipation in public affairs as follows:
"At the present time the considerations
hich induced my action in 13S0 have become
iperativo. I ought not to assume a task
hich I havo not tho physical strength to
irry through. To reform the administration
tho Federal government, to realize my own
oal and to fulfil tho just expectations of the
x)ple would indeed warrant, as they could
one compensate, the sacrifices which tho unmaking
would involve. But in my contion
of advancing years and defining
rength I feel no assurance of my ability to
:coniplish those objects. I am, therefore,
mstrained to say. definitively, that I cannot
jw assume tho labors of an administration
of a canvass.
"Undervaluing in nowise that best gift of
javen?the occasion and the power sornemes
bestowed upon a mere individual to
>mmunicatean impulse for good; grateful
jyond all words to my fellow countrymen
ho would assign such a beneficent function
i me, I am consoled by the reflection that
jither tie Democratic party, nor the repub2.
for whose future that party is the best
mrantee, is now or over can 6e dependent
son any one man for their successful process
in the path of a noble destiny.
"Having given to their welfare whatever of
>alth and strength I possessed or couli bor>w
from the future, and having reached the
rm of my capacity for such labors as their
elt'are now demands, I but submit to the
ill of God in (leemiag my public career forrer
closed."
SUMMARY OF CONGRESS.
Senate.
The consular and diplomatic appropriation
ill was reported. It appropriatea$l,78.r),.'i76.
n increase over the appropriation provided
y the bill as passed by tne House of I >01,866,
ud an increase of $205,975 over the estimate
... The minority report regarding the Danille
election troubles investigation was pre;nted....
The Mexican soldiers' pension bill
as taken up and several amendments were
ibled....Tne chair laid before the Senate
ie message of the House of Representatives,
on-concurring in the Senate's amendments
> the bureau of labor bill. On motion of Mr.
'lair the Senate insisted on its amendments
nd ordered a committee of conference on the
isajreeing votes of the two houses.
Mr. Cockreli reported adversely from the
Dminittoo on military affairs and recomlended
the indefinite postponement of a joint
solution, which originated in the House and
'as favorably "reported upon by the military
ffairs committee of that body, in March
roviding for the granting of the use of can [
on, tents and muskets to ex-Union soldiers
nd State military organizations for reunion
urposes....The Mexican pension bill was
irther debated Consideration of the con- 1
ilar and diplomatic appropriation bill was 1
egun.
In discussion of the river and harbor appro |
riation bill Mr. Holman attacked the appro- j
iriation for the construction of the Hennepin 1
inal, first by an unsuccessful point of oraer,
id then by a motion to strike out, which was
st by the close vote of 94 to 92. Many j
mendments adding hundreds of thousands ol (
jllars to tha appropriations of the bill were
otcJd down....-On motion of Mr. Dorleimer
a S.-nate bill was passed exten ling ;
ntil August 8, 1886, the time to begin laying :
ie cable as provided in the act to encourage '
nd promote telegraphic communication bo
iveen America and Europe.
K9ouse?
A bill to determine the jurisdiction of |
nited States circuit courts was passed....
he general deficiency appropriation bill was
sported B.ll* to repeal the civil service i
:t were reported adverstly A bill was
sported authorizing the retirement of Gen al
Pleasonton The consideration of the (
Ill repealing Lilt) piocuipuuu auu liluisui \ ur
ire laws began.
The House began consideration, in coramit?
of the whole, of the River and Harbor ap"opriation
bill. Mr. Willis, of Kentucky, (
1 airman of the committee on rivers and hardps,
gave an analysis of the provisions of the
ill, as follows: 135 rivers, $7,(584,000; 104
arbors, $3,812,100; 12 channels and inlets,
?.K),000; 5 ice-harbors. $61,000; 4 breakwaters,
105,000; 1 canal, $300,000 ; 4 special surveys, 1
>7,000; examinations, surveys and contingen- 1
es, $125,000; total amount recommended, j
12,619,100. The amount appropriated was
J1-3 per cent of the estimates submitted to
ongress.... A bill was introduced to amend
ie national banking laws.
A concurrent resolution was adopted pro- i
[ding for the final adjournment of Congress
i June30....The river and harbor bill was
irther discussed The House struck !
om the bill the appropriation of
250,000 for the improvement of
alvcston harbor. It was represented that
ie people of Galveston believed in the Eads
lan of improving their harbor, and thought
ie plan of the goverment engineers, for the
rosecution of which the appropriation was
itended, was entirely worthless. Mr. A. S.
ewitt tried, unsuccessfully, to have the ap-opriaticn
for Hell Gat; increased from
$000,000 t) $420,000. Many other proposed
langes were vctjd down.
A resolution providing for an investigation
' the national banks of New York city was
Fered The consular and diplomatic bill
as further considered The Senate passed
io House bill authorizing the National
cademy of Sciences to receive and hold trust
inds for the promotion of science. It
ithorizes the academy to receive bequests (
id gifts and hold them for the promotion of 1
ienca
THE NATIONAL GAME. !
Base ball is becomiug very popular in ,
uba. ,
The Baltimore salary list foots up about <
il,( 0). ,
Philadelphia has been Llanktd f .ur tiu:e
lis season.
Radbourn lea/Is the pitchers so far, both ir !
atting and fielding.
The Bostons made but thirty-five errors ir
leir first nine games, an average of less than '
)ur to a game. <
A rural debating society has a lively sub- <
(ft for discussion al its next meeting. It is: (
Resolved, That the position of base ball um .
ire is attended with more danger than that 1
f the L'z u- of Russia.*' There will lie somt 1
oubli- to induce members to speak on the .
rgativo side. ,
a lament.
ur left fielder is sick and our catcher is lame; ,
ur short stoM is playing a very poor game;
wo pitchers are used up, the other is wild; '
he basemen can't play when the weather ain't <
mild; ]
he man in the right field is suffering from ,
,.>,iiic *
lie "sub" has a strange complication of ills: 1
.1st wii it bothers our captain the doctor can't 1
tell? I
ut in other respects we are feeling quit.' s
well. j
?Chicago Herald.
A t the close of the sixth week of the League ,
mmpionship campaign the record of the eight '
intending clubs was as follows: i
Hub*. Hen. Lout. | Clubs. Won. Lost. 1
j.loll '.'4 7! Ii 1 XT 11 o 13 It r
o\ id. nee -3 6 I Clt-vel.iiul 10 1 'J ,
uw^oik 21 10 ] i'itila <?!|>h:a 9 2
13 16 j Detroit 7 !U f
The twelve clubs of the American assoeiu r
du stood as follows at the end of the sixth wk's
play: 1
ubi>. Won. Lost. | C ubi. Won. Los' s
ui*vi:ie....9J 7 | <.'?n?:innatl.... 15 in t
firopol.tan.19 8|Biookyn 12 1 ,
iliimliiis 17 10 Pitmbu ?h ... 9 is .
. I.oui.s 16 10 I I O do 7 20 1
iliim.no....16 11 I Indlan;ip?ll<.. 6 1 j
Ni lotic 16 11 I \Va?..inj:;oii.. 5 iu ^
The Eastern League record was as follows:
Club*. H'o/i. Lot'. | Club*. Won. Lou' "
ilmltl^tOl).... 17 7 j VI fjinia VI 11 i
vutoii 14 6 I AIImntown 9 1,
waik 13 11 | llarrieburc,. ..6 i
:tive 12 10 | .Monumental...! l-hnnd
In the college race the record is as f< Hows
Clubn. H'uit, Lout. | Clubs. Wun. L?*t I
de 6 1 | Brown 3 3 |
trvard 5 2 I Irinc.ton 2 6
nhcrst i 4 1 Dartmouth 1 :> 1
I
LIGHTNING FREAKS,
A cowthat a son of L. Helmer of Poise- '
lie N. Y., was milking was killed by light I
.ug. The boy was not injured. I
Lightning stnick a rail under a moving lo- |
>motive at Sherman, 'JVxas. The occupants (
the cab wore paralyzed tor some time, but
n> mnrliinnrv was uniniured.
Dn. Blood ami his wife, of Ashby, Mass., 1
ere riding by an oak tree just as it was sliiv
ed by lightning. They were stunned. and a
cture of a branch of tho oak was indelibly
amped upon their bodies.
Mrs. Tillie Fear and her sister stood un;ra
tree near Toledo during a stonn. A
iby lay in a carriage near them. Mrs. Fear's
sterhad her shoe town suddenly from hei
iot by lightning, but she was not injured,
rs. 1- ear was killed, but the infant was noi
11 rt.
Dr. Wilbur J. Rogers and his wife were
anding ill the doorway of their home at
parta, Ga,, during a thunder storm, Light 1
tng struck the doctor, killing him instantly. (
is collar button was melted and one of hi?
toes was torn to pieces, llis wile was only
-unned.
A LIGHTNING bolt struck tho gable end of
10 house of Mrs. \\\ S. Jackson, of ;it. Louis
nocked out the entire south wall of one room,
irew the marble top from the bureau across
[rs. Jackson as she lay in tied, set the bureau
i the middle of tho room, and dashed the mirir
and the burwu drawer? Into splintera.
NEWSY GLEANIN3SL r%
John L. Sullivan, pugilist, baa cleared
$175 ,000 in the last eight months.
Over 400.00J,0'X) gallons of petroleum, >
valu<*l at iWJ,ut'0,00o, were exported last
Utah has now 10,(K.0 small fanns averaging
twenty-five acres, and the whole must be irriTHEREare
112,412 miles of railroad track
in this country, of wliich 107,158 are in opeOver
30,000 Polish Jews, who fied from
Russia because of persecution, are living in 9 SB
The railway system of Prussia covers
about 9.000 miles?a little more than that of
Canada. " 'iffifijl
Toe world's tin production last year reached 8
45,770 tons, ono-thircl of which was consumed B
in the United . tates. "^SUB
Wooden sailing vessels are being rapidly
superseded by iron steam craft for even coast- H
wiso trade iu Great Britain. '
Thirty States and territories have moreffi
men than women, and seventeen States andH
territories liave more women than men. 9j2gK
Cuba is now undergoing ono of the most
remarkable droughts 011 record in that favored
island No rain has fallen in six months.
There are more colored people in Georgia
than there are Indians in the whole country.
Georgia's negro population is about 725,000. The
United States supremo court has just Vsl
decided that a life insurance policy holds good ?
if the person iusured commits suicide while .
insane.
There are now thirty-nine circuses traveling
through the United States, and a large
number of them have the only sacred whitp ;
elephant. .
The steamship Great Er stern, which is to ..
be used as a hotel at the New Orleans exposition,
leaves Liverpool is September, loaded
with exhibits.
Fishermen say that this is a great lish year. ' "&m
All kinds of fish ore uncommonly early inan
appearance, and they are big in size and .
very abundant . I
There are fully 20,000 people between
Nat.'hez and Vicksburg who are destitute,
and have no prospects mat they can raiie a k^IHS
decent crop until next year.
South Carolina has 1.568 flour, grist and
rice mills, employing 4,379 whites ana blacks, |wH|
requiring a capital of 12,755,750 and turning WtwXmmt
out annually 40,-^3,600 worth of flour, feed, S/^rojHM
etc. /yjSflBB
Ume. De Dczie v, long known as the most 9 1
eccentric inhabitant of Lyons, France, died
recently and left her fortune of $3,000,000
to benefit in various, ways the women H&?|
of that city. ... -i'HBH
PROMINENT PEOPLE. H
Ro well has mada upward of $80,600 out ' wSSjfiH
of the various walking matches he nas enteied.
w. w. Corcoran, the Washington banker.
his shaken hands withevery President except H[^H
Washington.
Senator Palmer, of Michigan, has the
icpuiouuu UL ^ivxug iuc iuwu ?*w uur : vva
ners in Washington. ^
James Rubens, a full-blooded" N"ez Perco "
Indian, is in the East making addresses on the : V-sSbH
wrongs of his race. He speaks English treO, ' ,'kW
and is eloquent.
W. W. Corcoran', who founded a homo . v\/$|
for aged women in Washington, supports it ;*?
entirely from his own means, and the women
who live in it are his guests. ffifjuB
General Sam Caret is to travel ova* MM
Maine this summer and urge the adoption of ^HwEHj
the constitutional amendment prohibiting the |H93H
manufacture and sale of liquor.
Ex-Secretary Elihu B. Washburn* er MM
poets this summer to carry out a long-cherislied
purpose of making a carriage tour
through old Oxford county, Ma
MarSsal McMahon lives very quietly in
Paris, with a few months every summer in |Hg|9|
tiis chateau near Autun, where "he has a large r^j3KM
collection of Lrish relics and curiosities.
Captain James B. Eads, of Mississippi
jetti&i fame, received ?2,0JJ for an hoars H&jcjB
speech before a committee of the house of .
lords against the propped ship canal between H&?|H|
Liverpool and Manchester.
David Davis appears in public in a full ^**5
white beard and a black slouch hat, and '
claims that since he left his easy seat in the <
Senate to mingle in the turmoils of the busy
world he has lost exactly 1(X) pounds.
Ex-Governor Stanford, of California, ?-5SH
Is about to found a coliege for working peo*
pie iu that State, to be splendidly endowed at v'/B
the cost of several millions, which Mr. Stan- '''
ford can well spare, as he is worth more than
120,000,000. _____
GOLD AND SILVER.
The Production Lut Fear In the . ^3
United States*
Secretary Folge^ fcai transmitted to Con- ?
gress the fourth annual report of Mr. Bur- ?
L'hard, the director of the mint, on the pro- ,' tluction
of the precious metals in the United r^|$9
States during tho calendar year 1833. The '
director estimates the production for the year ''vvS
at, gold, &M,000,000; silver fat its coinage
rate), f4<5,200,000; total, $7(5,200,0.0: anddtotributes
it among the States and Territories
as follows:
Slate or Territory. Quid. Silver. Total. iy'vA
Alaska fS0'.V*W. $300,000 .Z&fm
Arizona 850,000 *6,200,000 6,150."?0
California 14 12?.000 1.460, two 15.530.000
Colorado 4,100,000 17,370,000 21,4 0,000
Dakota 8,2.0,000 I8O.11OO 8,880,000 <...52
Georgia 19'J.oOO 1A-0 200,060 . A
Idaho 1.4110,000 2,108,000 8,1500,000 .rjjM
Montana l,S"?,.i00 6,0"?,000 7,?-0,000
Nevada 2,62","HO 6,480,000 7,550,000 -JZpM
New Mexico 2S0,n00 2,846.000 8,126,000 ' -j
North Carolina.... 167,OnO 3,000 170,-00 X'.-<g
Oregon MO.NiO 2u,"i0 680,000
South Carolina..... 6J.0(?0 600 67,0)0 - ,
Utah.. 140,^-00 6,620,000 6,760,000
> lriiiaia o,uvu u,"w
Washington so,'oo 600 aywo
Wyoming 4,0"0 4,0'0 r"'
Oth.(Ala.Tenn.etc.) 17,500 17,500 ".^vj
Total 130.000.000 H6.200.000 $7M<>oioOO
The Home of the Lodflsh.
What :i marvelous influence upon
Mviliza'.ion and human progress the I
bumble but nutritions codfish has had. * - -qg
He has been a mine of wealth to a vaat <??
population. It seems that good Mother . ^
Nature, foreseeing the needs of human* -'-is
ity, has made special preparations for a - jj
[food supply of this very necessary *-^1
lrtinle of food for body and brain, and - jj?
floated her icebergs, which were tilled , "
with the sandy bottom of Northern seas, . ^3
Jown to the Gulf Stream, where the
melted and deposited their debris, fdrm- * ing
the Grand Bank pr -tite\vfoundFand. L.
[t wis the work, the slow ana cotfsome
work, of nges. Kvery spring thousands Sjj
if these bergs, one-third above the water 7J
ind two thirds below, the upper part
ilear, sparkling and translucent, reflect- I
n?r the sunshine and giving it back to 2
lie enraptured eve with that prodigality
md brilliancy of coloring which
jnly nature can afford, the lower Vffiia
>ar*t mixed with the coast botoni
of Greenland and Labrador, to
he extent of thousands of cartloads, *
:;ime tloatingdown majestically through
Davis' Strait, and, meeting the warm air
ind warm water of the Gulf stream ???
iielted and distributed their contribu- -.Jjj
ions until those immense s'loais were
'ormed, where the cod and haddock
iwarm. And it is said that these sandlanks
have huge depressions like vast
.'alleys, which serve as aquaria, and
hat when a vessel is lucky enough to
inchor over one of them, it can till its
lold and deck with as many as it can
:arry. For generations, the inhabitants of '
Newfoundland, and the venturesome
oiks who live nil along the New Engjland
coast, get their daily bread or lay
ic?!i r-(imi>ptpnfv from this never failing
lourcc of wealth. Whn: a vast number
)f people on the globe get their living
>ut of and sul)si>t principally on the
nvaluabie cod. and what vast <]iiantities
iave been lainic?I by the fishing fleet of
iloncester since her fishermen first enraged
in the business.?Fisherman's Own
>aic:ssii8 Farming. ^
The Scilly Islands are being devoted ij| ;%
o the cultivation of narcissus, being
'ound particularly favorable to it. A
vriter in the St. .f<twc\ Gazette, describntf
a nirci.-sus farm in one of tho>e
,slJl 11 cis, SIIYS; ixuic t?i^
11\urian11\- in long rows of beds, and,
iv he re the shelter is most complete, the 39D
(talks are sometimes nearly a yard in
enirth. Nothing is mucn plensanter for |^sKj|
hose who care for flower gathering then
:o spend an hour or two plucking the ^ShS
risp stalk. They arc set side by side in '-^Ula
leep, round gathering baskets. This ^fagg
collected they arc conveyed to the farmlouse,
sorted and tied in bunches. A
lozen stalks go to a bunch, and some
little experience is necessary to atta:u fl
perfection in the art of tying them up
satisfactorily. Fiftv or sixty, or seventy ?pCp
bunches make up each basket, which is
then ready lor Co vent Garden. A prettier
fanning iiuiumi> h.
agin<\ An additional charm lies in tho
fact that all these fair flowers are bloomi
11 ?r when the days are shortest and
dreariest. Then there is something of a
charm in the r< flection that so much
floral beamy flourishes within a stone's,
throw of the Atlantic, wheu in its wildest
and stormiest moods."
Since 1SG.2 the United States government
has collected from distilled spirits
taxes amounting to the enormous sum of
*1,017,000,000.