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A CHILD'S FANClte. THE LAND OF COCNTERPAXfc 'When I was sick ami lay alied, I had 'fcwv pillows at mv bead. And-*)*, my toys beside me lay To keep me happy all the day. And sometimes for an hour or so I watched my leaden soldiers go, With different uniforms and drills. Among the l>ed clothes, through the hills. And sometimes sent my ships in fleets All up and down among the sheets; Or brought my trees and houses out, And planted cities all about. I was the giant great *nd still That sits u(>on tJw pillow hill. And sees before him field and plain, The jilcwsunt land of counterjKinc. THE WIND. I saw you toss the kites on high And blow tlw> bints about the sky; And all around I heard you pas* like ladies1 skills across the grass? Ol>, wind, a-blowing all day king! Oh, wind, that sings so loud a song! I saw th" different things you did, But always felt yourself you hid; I felt you push, 1 heard you rail, I could not see yourself at. all? Oh, wind, a-blowing all day long! Oh, wind, that sings so loud a song! Oli, you that are so strong and cold, Oh. blower, are you young or old' Are yviu a beast of tield and tree. Or just a stronger child than me.' Oh, wind, a-blowing all day long! Oh, wind, that sings so loud a song! THE l 'V. The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream tvith all hor might. To eat my apple tart i She wnmlfrs lowinrr here anil there. And j et she cannot stray, All in the pleasant open air, The pleasant light of day. And blown by all the winds that pass, And wet with all the showers, She walks among the meadow gross Aud eats the meadow flowers. ?Robert L. Stecenson, in Art Journal. JACK. !; I. "I don't know about sending such a hardened little chap as he is.*' "That is the kind that need to go." "But what if nobody']I take him?'' "Then I'll bring him back." So said the superintendent of one of the earliest companies of children sent out by the fresh-air fund, aud so it came that Jack joined the eager little crowd drawn from allev and slum of the great citv. "He is a tough one," said the superintendent to himself, watching Jack as he half carelessly, half wilfully tripped up one or two smaller boys in the rush which came when they were leaving the steamboat in order to take the cars. "He don't look like the right sort," said one or two farmers. If they were the right sort they wouldn't need our help," said a pleasantfiinpd woman who sat in a snrini? watron. "Put him in here, please. Come, my boy, will you go home with me?" Jack climbed into the wagon, butmade little answer to the kindly attempts to draw him iuto conversation. His eyes were never raised toward her as he rode along in dogged silence, and Mrs. Lynn began to conclude that she had taken hold of a very hard case indeed. But it was quickly seen that there were some things which Jack loved. Before night he had made friends with horses, cows, chicKens, ducks, geese and cats, and lying under a tree iu rapt admiration of a pert jay which chattered above him. and almost succeeded in coaxing it to light on his finger. " Come with uic, and I'll show you something more," said Mrs. Lynn, the next morning after breakfast. She put a pail of salt into his hand, and' they walked up a little glen, thcu up a steep hdl, when she called: "Nan, nan, nan, nan, nan, nan?come nan, come, nan; come, my pretties; come, my pretties." A quiet little pattering was heard, and down along the path which led higher / up Jack saw coming a line of soft looking white tiling. f? ^"What's their names?" he cricd, in great interest. " Sheep. There arc a groat many more up over the top of the hill, but they don't know me very well, so they don't come. We must go further." Higher up they went to where a sunny pasture sloped more gently down the other side, and there were hundreds of the pretty creatures nipping the short grass or lying "under the trees. They looked at the strangers with shy, gentle eyes, but gathered near as Mrs. Lynnrepeated her call. Jack laughed and whooped and rolled - 1 ?Vw. UU iJLiC ^lUUIIU Jit kill/ v/x mo v*v/~ light at first frightening them away. But he was soon in among them, winning tllera by his coaxing tones to taste the salt ho held out to them. The boy's face seemed transformed as Mrs. Lynn got her first full glance at his eyes, and wondered at them. They were large and clear and soft as he laid his hands lovingly on the heads of some half-grown lambs, and presently tenderly lifted one which seemed a little lame. "You may take that one to the house, if you like," said Mrs. Lynn, "and I will bind up its poor foot." He did so. and when he carried it back to the flock be remained all day. only going to the house when called to dinner by the sound of the conch-shell. And every day afterward the most of his time was spent on the bree/.v hill side, perV' haps taking in the beauties of valley and stream and woodland which lay below, but finding his fill of en joyment in the sheep, lie was little seen at the house, seeming not to care for any human soci?ety, but he took long walks at his will, from which he once brought home a bird with a broken wing, and again a stray starved kitten, both of which he carefully tended. "Hear him!1 said Mrs. Lynn, one day, when she had gone out into the meadow where her husband was at work. "I believe he knows every sheep there." Jack's voic. came ringing down the hill. "Hiho ! hiho ! hiho ! hiho-o-o o-o-o! my beauties! Come, Daisy face, come, Mouu-wnne, cornc, iny i ngsy-ioes anu Hippety-hop and Hobbldelioy. Hilla, hilla, ho! my Hop-and-skip and oid Jump-tlie-fcncc! Come with ycr patterCtter and ycr wiggle-waggle. my auties, oh! Where lie you. Flax and Flinders and Foam? Come here, my jolly boys, and kick up ycr heels on the grass in the mo-o-o-o-rning." "He gets ofl some such rigmarole whenever he goes near them,'' she said; u and I'm sure every sheep knows him.'* Jack staid for a month among his fleecy darlings, and when the time c?tne for saying good-bye to them, nobody was near to hear him say it. lie allowed TWrs. Lynn to shake his hand as he t, stepped on board the train which was to bear him back to his home, or rather to his homelessness, but with little response to her kind farewells. She had tried so faithfully to impress - him with the idea that there are plenty in this wide world whose hearts the dear Lord has tilled with the tenderest pity and love toward those whose paths seemed laid in shadowed places, that she felt keenly disappointed in fearing she might have entirely failed. However, she remembered with comfort that just us the last car was passing the platform from which she watched it, she had indistinctly caught sight of a boy's face whose softened eyes seemed tilled with tears as he strained his eyes to ?;ain a last glance at her, and she believed in her heart it was Jack's face. ii. "It. is no use trying to get the matter righted," said farmer Lynn to his wife, speaking in great vexation. "This man Green's a tricky knave. Ever since the day hi? sheep broke into my field and got mixed uj> with my tlock "the fellow has been claiming some twenty or so of my best Atwoods and Cotswolds, and j-,' now he's going to law to make me give P' them up." "Weil, if you're right, won't that be best for you?" "Not with such a man as tli.it. He's ready to swear the sheep arc his, and ' v there's the trouble. I'm morally sure I 0: know my sheep, but when it comes to being pinned right down to swear to each one among so many, I can't do it." She shook her head. "No, you couldn't: sheep are too much alike, and you would run the risk of making a mistake. When is the trial to be?" "Next Thursday week." For the next few days Mrs. Lynn went about with a very sober face. She took two or three rides to the village, actually O. had an interview with Mr. Lynn's lawyer, wrote several letters, and one day the entire neighborhood was alarmed by a messenger inquiring his way with a telegram for Mrs. Lynn, it being the 1. notmxn nrst tiling ui suuu an uAtuiu^ uuiuiv, that had ever hapjitencd in the township. Hut after that evening everything weiit on very quietly until the morning of the day set for the trial. "Well," said Mr. Lyhn, "I s'pose Green'11 l?e out here this afternoon to swear mv sheep are his. The lawyers arc Coming, too.'' The afternoon came, and with it came Green, the lawyers, and half the township beside. They came, looked over the ground, WW the two flocks feeding in adjoining fields, and how, the fence breaking, they had become mingled. Then little remained but for Mr. Green to declare which of his own sheep had remained in Mr. Lynn's Hock. But Mr. Lynn strongly protested against the wrong beintr done him, sis a number of his choicest animals were picked out and put over the fence. Ilis lawyer was restless, and seemed anxious to delay the proceedings, at length saying. "I am looking for another witness. "It won't do much good, I fancy," said Green, with a triumphant laugh. Mrs. Lynn drove rapidly up in her spring wagon, and her husband looked onnrprlv to see who was with her. "Jack!" he exclaimed. "Hut what good can he do, I'd like to know?" Mr. Green's laugh took on a scorn fid tone as he saw the new witness. "Ilo! ho! Mr. Hright, is that your witness? A heavy weight, I must saw Who do you s'pose is going to take the testimony of a little scancgrace ragamuffin like that, hey? And against me!" "I am not going to ask the boy to testify. I am going to let the sheep testify for themselves. Now, gentlemen, Mrs. Lynn believes that their sheep know the voice of this boy, and will come at his call, and it is my purpose to submit their testimony to the decision of the court. Mr. Green's sheep have only been lately pastured here. Now, my boy, stand on this fence, and let's see if the sheep will claim the honor of your acquaintance." Jack leaped upon the fence which divided the two fields, and ran a little way along it. For a moment there was a huskincss in his throat and a dimness in his eyes as lie turned to the pasture in which he had spent the only happy hours his life had ever known. lie gave oue look at his peaceful, white-fleeced pets, and thnn tnrninf his face the other wav. his voice rang out clear and distinct on the crisp air: "Hiho, hiho, hiho, hiho-o-o o-o-o, my beauties! Come, Daisy-face, come, Cloud-white, come, my Tripsv-toes, and Hobbledehoy; come, Jack and Jill, and Clover and Buttercup, llilla, hilla. hilla, ho-o-o-o-o-o. my Hop, Skip and Jump, come with yer patterin' and yer wigglewaggle tail, my woolly backs! Where be you, my jolly boys, kickin' up yer heels in the wind ? Come, Snip and Snap and Snorum and Flax and Flinders and Foam." At the sound of his voice a few white heads were raised among the gra/.ipg flock in Mr. Lynn's field; then more, and then a commotion stirred the quiet creatures. Bleating, they ran to the fence where Jack stood, and crowded about him, almost clambering oner each other in their efforts to reach him. But little V>sw,/1 woo tioiil tn tliom fr>r nil WITfl U'Jlffth ing Mr. Green's sheep. There was a stir among them, too, for nine-tenths of the flock, alarmed by the unknown voice cutting so sharply through the still air, hud turned and tied, and were huddling in a white mass in a distant corner, while about twenty had bleated their recognition of a friend, and hurrying up with a run and ajuinp, were also gathering close about him. And Jack sprang down among them, and with arms around the iicck, and face buried in the fleecy back of one of his special favorites, was sob- i bing as if his heart were breaking. Mr. Bright danced about like a schoolboy, swung his hat, and pitched it high I in the air. ] "Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah for boys and j sheep! They are the best witnesses I ever want. Mr. Lynn's case is the sound- < est one I ever carricd before a court.'' "Witnesses!" growled Green. "Arc 1 you such idiots as to think this will ' amount to anything in law?" i It did amount to something in law, however, as Mr. Green found out when < the ludirc's decision was criven. As soon as the men were gone, Mrs. f Lyon bent over Jack, whose head was still bowed. I "Jack, my boy, don't cry so. Don't i yon know you have friends all around < you ?" "Yes. Look at 'era." He looked 1 about with a smile. "Yes, the sheep, and plenty more if < you'll have them. Oh, Jack, we're all your friends. The loving Shepherd I ! told you of has sent us lu try to do you j good. He wants you to follow him just 1 as the sheep come at the souud of your i voice, because they love you and you ; love them. Do you want to stay here and take care of them ?" "Stay here, with you and the sheep ?*' Jack's eyes, beaming with joy and grati- < tude, frankly met hers. ] "I think we've found the soft place at i last,'' said Mrs. Lynn to herself, as she ] went homn lwivinr' him on the SUIlllV i hill-side. ? Young Pfjjdc. Owning a Ranch. it is now becoming the fashionable thing to own a ranch in Texas, Colorado, Montana, Dakota, Wyoming, or some other Territory in the far West. Young Hostonians of wealth and social standing were the first to take to the new fashion, and a large number of representatives of the best stock in Massachsetts may be met with in various parts of that country. A correspondent says: A good many young Knglishmcn of the same class are scattered through the territories seeking fortunes and adventures in cattle raising, mining, railroading, etc. And now the N~w Yorkers are fol- ' lowing suit. Young Roosevelt has a ; ranch in Dakota, from which he lias returned with glowing accounts. Harry i Oclrichs is another New Yorker who has i set up a ranch in the West. He is said ( to l?e doing well with his cattle, but is following the life more as a new diver- I sion, for the excitement and pleasure it 1 affords than as a serious business. The ( ordinary ranch life is monotonous to the i last degree, but Oelrichs has a grand es- I tahlishment, and entertains a good deal I of company. ; One of the largest and most enterpris- ! ing ranchmen now in the West is the- 1 Marquis de Mores, wiio married a daugh. ter of l.ouis von Hoffman, of New York In the short space ot two years he has ' made himself master of SO,000 acres of ' grazing land, has built a town, a railway station, and a hotel; has established a freight line with the lilack Hills, and ' opened slaughter houses along the line of the Northern Pacific railroad, by which Montana cattle are killed within a few miles of the plains where they are 1 raised, and by means of refrigerator cars shipped to the Eastern markets without the intervention of Chicago butchers and packers. 1 The young wife of this enterprising young nobleman, formerly Medora von Hoffman, was born and reared to every luxury and indulgence that wealth and affection could supply. It is said that she delights in the wild life of plains, accompanies her husband on his "riding and shooting expeditions, gallops over the prairies with an eagle's plume stuck in her straw hat, and a rifle slung from her saddle. Cholera. Thecholcra (says the mayor of Toulon entered that city on a government trans port from Saigon, the French capital of Cochin China. The original fountains, however, of all pcstilcnces are the sacred cities of the Orient. In those cities the virtue which held next to godlinesg, or indeed, far superior, is dirt. In India, for example, pilgrims, penniless, diseased and death-stricken, ciecp by thousands from all corners of the Empire tn the Hindoo's. Jerusalom, Benares. The result is an unapproachable filth. The fumes of some of the shallow sacred wells, where the pilgrims wash away their spiritual sins scorch the nose for miles around them. From these hotbeds of disease returning pilgrims carry those scourges, the black death, the cholera, and the smallpox, to their ports, whence they are conveyed to foreign vessels bound for Canton, Constantinople, Toulon or Marseilles. A paragraph in a number of our exchanges says: "Napoleon was bow-legged, Alexander Pope was humpbacked, Hannibal had notoriously big heels and was knock-kneed, Cicero was spindle- ' shanked and Alexander's left leg was . badly out of plumb." One migbt suppose that these old worthies were alive and running for a political office.?Nor- 1 rixtoicn Utrald. \ HUMORISTS OF THE PRESS, FUZTlfY STdEltfS BY KEWSPAPEB WAGS. Not a Musical Ear?A Narrow E*? cajic- A Manlier Routed ? The ICailroad Hop?Dog- and Crab. "My dear, I wish you would tell the servant to stop moving that furniture around in the parlor. I'm sure she has broken some of the vases and Sevres ware." " I hear no noise, Christopher." "There! She has dropped the clock! I heard the shade smash!" " Why. Christopher, how silly you are! That's not the servant moving the furniture; that's lJirdic practicing a Wagnerian sonata.?f'hiaiffo News. A Narrow Eicapc. "Sister!" cricd a little boy, running into the room, "your little pug dog has bit me on the leg." "What!'' exclaimed the frightened young lady, "lkauty has bitten you on the leg? Let me see." She hastily pulled down his stocking, and sure enough there was the impression of his teeth. "You naughty boy," said his sister, shaking him violently, "don't you know better than to tease Beauty? Some day he will bite a big lump out of your leg, and it might make him deathly sick."? I'/iilmh/jihiit Cull. A !tlnfilicr Koutcd. A lady, young and handsomely dressed, entered a Woodward avenue car and sat down opposite a passenger who had the appearance of a gentleman, but soon showed himself to be that contemptible creature, a masher. He took no notes on time, but at once proceeded to mash; he stared, ogled. smiled insinuatingly and made a second-class fool of himself at sight. . The lady was discomposed. She seized her parasol and every one present hoped she was about to mash the masher. But she simply raised the parasol and spread it in his face. Under its protecting screen she calmly continued on her way, but the chagrined masher ?ot out at the next crossing and made himself scarce. When he was gone the lady closed her parasol and said: "I have heard of frightening wild beasts by such a weapon opened suddenly in their faces, and I find it serves as good a purpose with tame ones." The passengers all applauded.?Detroit Free 1'reM. The Itailroad Hog;. ?<To tints c/.nf iinnr>s>iinifw-l ?" fi !nilv tim idly inquired. Her voice was not very loud. It did not recall the fat man from his reverie nor his gaze from something interesting in the brick wall of the depot. The lady passed on as though embarrassed at the sound of her request. "Is one af these seats disengaged?" The question was asked in a firm,clear voice by a young woman, who looked steadily into the monopolist's eyes as though she understood him. His head turned slowly, and he coldly replied: "All engaged." Then he resumed his study of the wall, aud the train moved slowly out of the depot. "Oof!" The exclamation resembled exactly the grunt of a pig. It was made by a young man with a dimple in his cheek and a twinkle in his eye, ou a seat diagonally across the aisle and behind the baldheaded man. lie was absorbed in an interesting article in a newspaper. The ex* nlumotirvn woe nnf nnfWH *' " OofT OofF Oof !"""* A young lady in the scat behind the person intended to be described by the young man with the dimple, tittered aloud. The fat man with four sittings stole a wicked glance at the young mau with the newspaper, and then settled back with a determined gesture of his head and neck as if he wasn't going to mind it. "Oo-oo-oof! kweek! kwe-e-eek! oof! oof'" The passengers turned their attention to the passenger with the four seats. Flic bald spot on his head began to get red. "Kwe-e-eek, kwe-e-cek, kwe-e-eek! Jof, oof, oof, oof!" A tittering and giggling broke out spontaneously up and down the car. ru_ U..1J 11IU UUIU 't Ull lii*J 1UV II1UU O AAV/t?V?. jlazcd. Then one foot was dragged slowly oil from the front seat, then the Jther. A hand reached out carefully md set one valise on the floor. Then the other valise followed. "Scat here, I guess, ladies," he jrowled. Three women threw grateful glances it the grunter and took their scats. The jruntcr, who had not lifted his eyes from lis newspaper, turned it over to continue reading, but just at that instant the train glided iuto the tunnel.?New York Han. Dog and Crab. Some years ago my neighbor had a log of an irnjiiiriiig turn of mind, which lie called Philosopher when he was not in a hurry. Philosopher was in the habit of coming over upon my premises, md trying in various ways to win my respect and esteem; but he never sue needed to liny great extent. Perhaps lie 3id not go about it in the right way. lie same oft in the stilly night,and sat under my window and poured out his sorrow to the moon. The moon seemed to stand it. but I couldn't. I went to my neighbor with a protest, but he said he could 3o nothing; that he didn't like to hear i dog howl any better than I did; but, According to divine law, that was the snly way in which a do<? could give expression to his deeper emotions, and he thought man ought to try and put up ivitli it. Beside, he said, he believed that the howling of a dog was an omen ){death. I told him I thonght so. too, especially ivhen the dog howled under my window, ind then I v/cnt unci bought u shot-gun. But after that Philosopher seemed to reform and lead a more joyous life. He stayed home of nights, and if lie was jver sad, he brooded mostly in silence. One day I came home with a basket full of crabs, and found Philosopher sitting in my yard with a look of mingled curiosity and pleasure on his open ind expressive countenance. He seemed to be glad to see me, and when I set the basket upon the ground and turned isidc, he went up to it in an inquiring >ort of way. As 1 have said, he was of i very investigating turn of mind. He would sit by a hen's nest half an hour, waiting for the hen to get through laying and adiourn. so that he could form himself into a committee of one and investigate the. proceedings. Ami his investigation of a hen's nest was always systematic ami thorough. * When he saw something move in my basket, he appeared to grow more than usually curious, lie seemed to be both surprised and delighted that I had carried home something that was alive. He studied cautiously around the basket, wagged his tail with a graceful easy mosion, and then,growing more curious and bold, he stuck his nose down among the crabs and picked a large one up. lie did not intend to nick it up so suddenly; it was all the crab's doing, it got one of its claws tangled somehow with Philosopher's nose, and then there was a sound of revelry by day. I never before saw a dog get so excited. He lost all control over himself. His one prominent thought seemed to be a desire to go away somewhere and he went, lie went with exceeding impetuosity. lie went as nothing had gone before,except chainlightning, perhaps, and he took my crab with him. If any traveler in Europe, Asia or Africa has seen a yellow dog with a part of one car bit off, and an expression denoting humble birth, with a healthy looking crab hanging to his nose, the traveler will receive a lanre assortment of thanks by communicating with my neighbor. But I am rather indifferent. I lost a good crab, I know; but there is no loss without some slight compensation.?ikott Wav. in Puck. Sixteen Thousand Prune .Trees.' Perhaps the largest prune orchard in the world is situated on the Los Gatos road, one mile south from Saratoga, and contains Hi,000 trees. It was planted by Messrs. Huggins & Stoddard and recently sold by them to Malone & Hrown for $72,000. It is situated on a gentle slope from the foot of the mountain to the Los Gatos road, and can be taken in at a glance. Near by is the famous Kice orchard, containing fruit and nut trees of almost every known variety; also the O'Hanion & Kent orchard of eighty acres, recently sold for $00,000, and for which $110,000 advance has been offered and refused.?Los Gatos (Cal.) News. ' Acoustic canes are a French invention for the benefit of persons afflicted with imperfect hearing. HUtfOR OF TAE DAY. | Drawing materials?mustard and \va- ' t'er. ?Life. Never dispute with a woman about her weight. She's always bound to have her own weigh. A wall in the southern purt of China is said to be entirely made of fish. It ought to be an easy one to scale.?Statcsmun. A Philadelphia father makes his baby sleep with the nurse three-quarters of a mile off. It must be the second one. ? Courier-Journal. "Do cats reason ?" asks a correspondent. Certainly. Thero are two in our neighborhood that are reasoning with each other all through tho stilly night.? Baltimore Day. "Why nm I like a Wall street financier ?" asked a young farmer as he returned from the barn. "I give it up," replied his father, ''Because I have been watering the stock."?Brooklyn Timea. The old saw, "Never kick a man when he is down" is a good one, because to kick a man when he is down is cowardly. Now we give another, "Never kick a man when he is up," because it is reckless.?Ecanxzillc A nju?. Tho l?oy who seeks tho river's brim, Where he intends to take a swim, But runs away, Possesses wisdom, strength and vim; For he will surely live to swim Another day. ?Nero York .Journal. The wise men tell us that the whale livna ithmit. 400 rears. Sinco the days of the patriarchs, however, no mail has ever taken a whale from the breast and raised it to old age. A. whale would be a good thing for a man to buy who hated to part with a pet after he became attached to it. ?liurlington Hawkeyc. " It seems to mc," said a judge to his daughter, "that your young man calls a good many times a week. My court doesn't sit anywhere near as often as yours docs." "Oh, well, papa," was the blushing reply, "I am engaged to him, you know, and that entitles us to a court of spccial sessions." The scats in a "Western church arc set on pivots, like those in a dry goods store. This enables the fair worshiper, who sits pretty well up in front, to turn around and count the number of new bonnets in the house without screwing her head off almost, and going home with a stiff neck.?Norrixtmon Herald. A-nOWN TUB BAY. Slie was a vision of delight, When first she beamed upon my sight; I met her in a casual way A-down the bay. What steamer, I refuse to tell, Enough to say. she pleased 1110 well; You bet it was a beauteous day A-down the bay. She seemed so modest and disci-eel, I thought I'd asked her in to eat; It only cost mo two weeks' pay A-down the bay. ?Boston Slur. The Story of a Love Song. Upon one of the many hills surrounding this old Ohio city, says a letter from Zanesville vo the New York Sun, is a beautiful homestead which overlooks the smoky expanse of the town and the shin ing course of the Muskingum river. Thirty years ago a young preacher walked down the hill from this home heavy at heart and weary of the world. Two years before he had come to Zanesville fresh from the old collegian institution in Columbus as the Rev. II. D. L. Webster. He soon fell in love with Ella Bloxom, the daughter of Judge Bloxom, who sang in the choir of his church. He was privileged its a pastor to call upon his fair chorister at the home of her married sister, Mrs. Henry Blandy. The young, penniless preacher proposed marriage to her, and was rejected. The refusal was given 111 a kind though firm manner, and the young man persuaded himself that his suit was denied because of his poverty and the pride of the girl's family. Jle left Zanesvillc, for he could not be at peace where the woman lie loved was shining in society. In 1850 he moved to Racine, and soon afterward wrote a song and gave it to J. P. Webster,the composer. This song was the once popular "Lorena." In it Webster wrote the sentiments of his heart to mftmrtint r\f fKn urAmon V*n Kiifl lnvnrl IUUi; UiUlUUlJ \J A tuv> Hl/UIIUI UV 4?UV? iw> vvt. People who remember the songs of twenty years ago will readily recall the opening ines: The years creep slowly by, Lorena, The snow is on tho graft agnin, The sun's low down the sky, Lorena, Tho frost gleams where the flow'rs have l>ecn; But the heart throlraon as warmly now As when the summer days were nigh. Oh, the sun can never diu so low Adown affection's cloudless sky. In the days of the war the song took a firm hold on the popular fancy. Soldiers in the camps of both armies sang the plaintive verses. It was the " Annie Laurie" of America. The name "Lorena "was given to all sorts of things, and the young ladies of to-day respond to the same musical name which sentimental mothers of that time bestowed upon them. When it became known that Webster wrote the song many of his acquaintances in Zanesville remembered his love altair there, and concluded at once that Ella Bloxoin was the original of Lorena. Miss Bloxom was married to William W. Johnston, a young lawyer of Ironton, who had been educated in Zanesville, aud who is now the chief justice of Ohio and the Kepublican candidate for selectman. Mr. Webster, who has drifted about from pastorate to pastorate, was recently stationed in Oak Grove. He H18U 13 iuurricu, Jiiiwug uuw u wnu auu several children. Tcacliin? the Dumb to Speak. In a corncr of Southeastern Connecticut, near the village of Mystic river, is a school where the deaf and dumb arc taughl to speak like hearing people aud understand spoken words through the sense of sight. A very touching incident is told by the .principal, >lr. Whipple, about a former pupil, a young woman who had graduated deaf and dumb from I)r. Feet's sign school in New York. She came to l'rofessor Whipple to learn articulation and lip reading." Through the aid of an ingenious alphabet (invented by the late Zerah C. Whipple) which pictures the organs of speech in the position they assume in producing audible sounds, this pupil was soon able to speak so as to be understood. One morning she brought her slate to Mr. Whipple with something written in this alphabet. On reading he found it to be the Lord's Prayer. Perceiving her agi- J tation, he could scarcely restrain his emotion as he corrected the few unimportant errors anil delicatclv returned it to her. The next morning she came exultinglv to him, exclaiming, vocally, "I prayed last night with my voice." Her teacher then asked her if she had never prayed before. -'Oh, yes," said she, "I have thought my prayers, but never spoke them befoie," and then shes:iid. audibly, "My lips shall praise Thee, oh,"God." "Attend to the voice of my supplication, ?>h, Lord." The enthusiasm and joy manifested by this young woman in her new-found power of speaking was shared in by her family and friends, who greatly rejoiced with her.?Sjninf/fiill J{ej>ubliam. Showers on Top. It is generally believed that the discharge of artillery tends to dispel clouds and mists in the immediate neighborhood. A French electrician combats this theory, and maintains that the effect of a series of sufficiently violent detonations would be to compel the clouds to discharge their moisture. He even goes so far as to say that it would be perfectly possible to produce a fall of rain in this way. He suggests a method by which he believes this often highly desirable result might be brought about. His plan is to send up one or more baloons freighted with panclastic or some other equally explosive compounds. They are to be connected with a battery on the ground by means of a fine wire, and when they attain tho necessary altitude?that is. when they enter the cloud-zone?the spark is to be transmitted. The detonation will follow, ami a refreshing shower will be the result. Farmers and others who suffer heavily from the effects of a prolonged drought will probably be anxious that the French savant's system should be fjiven a trial, no method hitherto devised for obtaining rain having proved quite efficacious. There arc sixty Catholic churches nt Montreal. The French cathedral situated there is the largest church building on this continent. It is built of limestone, and fifteen thousand people have often been assembled under its roof. The largest- zinc-producing locality in the world is the district around Galena, Kan. Last year 70,000 tons wore mined. One of the sights of Atlanta, Ga., was twenty-two women working in the chain gang. fc?????M ['n-n-n A T?Tvn T?TOTT A rp MTnTTT \ oruAiunu rion AI mum, 8TBAHGE SIGHTS SHOWN ST THE JACK LIGHT. t] Catching a Saw-toothed TTIoiiMter?A a Diver'* Adventure with a Garfixh?Hice an Bait for Trout* 0 "He druv me clean out of the boat,' said a St. Lawrencc fisherman as the jack v light illumined a long silvery fish that he was pummelling with a patent licadachcr. n "I took him for a pickerel, and the minute I landed him he got oft the spear , and began a-snappiti' and goin' for me, ' so I jest lit out ana let him nave the hull boat to himself. They're reglar freshwater sharks." The great fish was a gar nearly lour feet long, one of the most powerful fishes a of the St. Lawrence and great lakes, unfit r: for food, with a long, slender muzzle, armed with powerful, saw-like teeth, ii The boats were rigged with braziers over d f lip. Imw. in which burned nine knots that cast a lurid light about the smooth c waters of the lake and illumined the <3 depths far below. As the boat drifted slowly along, propelled by an occasional push, all the curious objects of the bottorn came plainly into view. The green and purple grasses assumed strange ghostly tints In the ruddy glare, and the ? white sand patches that appeared here * and there glistened like beds of silver. The light penetrated the darkest 1 nooks and corners, starting the black ^ bass, which darted away in alarm. Dusky eels were outlined upon the bottom, re- c ruaining quiet until they felt the spear, as t if paralyzed by the sudden blaze of light. The chubby rock bass started upward, as j if attracted by the glow: the pickerel j moved slowly away, as if half asleep, while a host of other forms of aquatic life illus- , tratcd as many different traits and hab- , jits. "If one of them fellers ever gets hold on yo i," continued the dripping oarsman, 1 referring to the gar, "he'll make his mark. 1 They come around here by spells. Sometimes you won't see one for a year, and s then they come with a rush. They ain't c afraid of notliin'. A man by the name of Bailey, that lived down the river here f a piece, went out fishin' one day, and j fouled a long silk line. He did not want to lose it, so he stripped and went down i in about fourteen feet of water to unwind :j. r ?i.? 1 who fioViln' nhnnt. n ' It 11ULU lUU Ollilg. Jl. I*ut? hundred feet away, and was watchin' him, and it seemed so long afore he.come up | that I was just goin1 to pull up and go ' over, when up he come and gcv a yell that was enough to make your hair stand \ on end. He hollered for me and threw r up his arms. I up anchor and soon had hold on him and jerked him into the boat, -v and I tell you he Wiis a sight to look at. t He was jist gashed all over, so't you'd a thought he'd been goin' over a circular saw. The poor feller couldn't say uuth in'; I happened to have gome salt in the j boat, so I put that on and it soon stopped the blood. Then he told me how it was. When he went down he had hold on the line, and had c got most down to the hook when he J felt a jab in the side, jest as if a sword * had cut him, and turnin' he see it was a bi^ garfish. In a second the crit- * ter had shot by and come for him again, t and took him in the arm, and in the c struggle to get out of the way he got wound in the line and couldn't get up or 1 down. While he was kickin' and tryin' 1 to get away the iish jest made a target of e him until the line broke and he got r clear. "There's a muskrat's nest," said the v poler, as the glare of the jack threw a g mass of weed into sudden brightness. s "They're regular night animals," lie add- a ed. "You jest watch the water while I stir'em up." He thrust his oar down , I into the mass, and in a moment several , dark forms were seen swimming from the ' nest. One came up near the top of the , water, as if attracted by the light, which proved .a potent charm for many of the insect tribe, millions of which Hut- v tered about. ' ''Look there!" exclaimed the poler J again, pointing to a half-submerged rock \ on which the little form of a water snake J glistened. "Jest wait a miuute and I'll show you some carious tishin1." Taking \ his delicate fly rod, he put on a live min- t now from the pail and gently landed it v in front of the reptile. Hardly a mo- i ment elapsed before the latter had it and c was writhing in the air, winding about t the line, and finally dropping to the wa- t ter and escaping, as it was not hooked, its teeth being merely caught in the t bait. 8 "There's a place up here," continued i the boatman, ''about three miles,they call t 'Snake Roll,' where I've seen some queer t sights. They call it a 'roll' because the t snakes arc often seen rollin' down hill, a The first time I ever see it I. see a ball about as big as a large-sized cabbage r come rollin' down hill toward me as I ? went up. One minute it would gi kinder a fast, then hold up a bit, and almost 3top. I thought it was mighty curious, and r when I got to it I tell you it gave me a tarn There it was, a ball of snakes,the v heads a-stickin' out on all sides, and ahissin'. I was afeared to touch it, .as there was so many that if they were all r scattered I would be bound- to run over s some of 'em, so I let 'em roll on. "Hear that?" said the talkative guide, ^ presently, as we moved in toward a sandy ? shore, and severai splashes disturbed the 11 smooth surface of the lake. "I don't ? know for sartin, but that sounded to me J like mice." f 'Mice in the water?" asked one of the 8 party. v "Sartin. Mice swim jest like a duck, 1 and down by the mouth of the river t they take to the water like 'em. I happened to know this way: I went down 11 the river fishin' with a gentleman, and one day lie says to me, 'Jim, jest save the stomachs of them trout, as I want to see what they feed on.' The next day he found that eight or ten out of twenty- n live trout had been fecdin' 011 mice. I t thought it was kinder curious catin1 for ii trout, but the man I was pullin' for said g there wasn't nothin' curious in it, and a wanted me to get some live mice for y bait. He said the mice went into the a water at the spawning time of fishes, li mostly at night, and as the eggs arc laid t! in shoal water, they would dive down g to the bottom after them, and in doin' g this the trout would get 'em. Since e then I've often seen mice a-lcapin' over- y board, and had 'em swim right under t the jack light. This same gentleman a told me that lie was a raiser of trout, h and that mice hurt his business more a than anything else. Tliey would dive i< into the troughs and eat the eggs, and }) the only way to keep them off was to y cover the troughs with netting. A bass'll li take a mouse as quick as a wink, and I've f' seen 'cm take a muskrat and a duck." T The distinctively night animals cannot b be better noticed than by the aid of a li ten-jack light. Even the night-hawks ii seemed to be attracted by our light, and b darted about the ilame and through the a smoke. The sharp click of their bills, ri however, told that the insects which si hovered about were really the attraction, li Loons often swim close to a boat at g 1 ' .1 i??,,. Illgilt, filtering meir UCUIUUIIH/ luu^nni, v. und when .skirting the shore a mink will si occasionally be seen standing motionless t< with amazement at the sight of the 1 gleaming light.?New York Sun. Mexican Etiquette. ^ I was given a lesson in etiquette by a hi Mexican young lady I met in the train, is says a correspondent. 1 chanced to be o the only man in the sleeping-car when it tl drew out from El Paso, and after au iu- u troduction by the conductor, to whose t< charge the young lady had been coin- n mitted, she and 1 became (piite well ac- u quainted. "I saw you eating an orangj A on the depot platform," she said. "In Ii Mexico that would be considered uu- s< mannerly. There it is unmannerly to eat anything outside of a house, even is enndy. And I noticed when Mr. Ho- ti mero gave you a Mexican match you si threw it away after using but one end of st it. The other was still serviceable, and ir you should have returned the match with si your thanks. If you hand one a cigar st or cigarette to light with, you must take tl a whill from it after it has been returned w to you, though it may be so short as to T burn your fingers." All this I received p: with good grace, for my young lady was ai but ten years of age. hi ?? n Deaths from Cholera. In 1871 there were 300,000 deaths a from cholera in Russia; in 1873 there ]1( were 10,000 deaths in Poiand; in 1872- ^ 73 there were 140.000 deaths in Hungary; 1872-73 there were nearly 27,000 j, deaths in Prussia; in 18(15-07 there were w 14:5,000 deaths in Italy. In Paris the w mortality from cholera has been as fol- !t lows: In 1832, 18.354 deaths; in 1840, tr 19,1N4; in 18.13-54, 8,0!l(i; in 1805-0(5, ^ 12,082; in 1873, 88*). In England in tj 1H49 the deaths from cholera were 70,- rc 000. In 1 HI 7 the ariny of the Marquis p, of Hastings lost in India 9,000 men in v twelve days from Asiatic cholera. ft| " pi John B. Gough was a sincer of comic gi songs in New York before he became a U lecturer. is NEWS AND NOTES FOE WOMEN. Raw silks and foulards arc worn more nin ever. Feathery tufts of clematis are much dmired on hats. bilk gloves arc more worn t^an piain r undressed kid. Mrs. John W. Mackey's diamonds are alued at $1,000,000. The sailor hat, trimmed with white lull and white wings, is still popular. Ilich collars arc worn by ladies, fas2ned by a small diamond collar button. Red is becoming so fashionable thai ven riding habits are made of red ladies loth. Fan scabbards arc novelties. Thoj rc made of brocadc and suspended by n ibbon. Buttons of Brazilian pebbles mountec i silver arc popular on dark vclvel rcsses. Bodices of velvet or silk of any darl olor arc very much worn with lighl Iresses. Very high-peaked bonnets, devoid o trings and advancing far over the face re worn, A female custom house ofliclal is ven xpert at detecting smugglers along thi )etroit river. The woman market is down now ii Tunis, Africa. Wives only bring $20 t( 5120 a head. Harrow satin ribbons arc worn tic< :losely around the neck and in a bow 01 he left side. Satin sash ribbons, cither pink or blue irocaded with velvet rosebuds, urc won >y little girls. The square parasols have not been a ashionable as predicted; they ate pretty )ut awkward. Jackets that arc new are of brown clotl nade in the cutaway form over a pleatci est of surah. The newest earrings arc copics of th iwamp cowslip, made of bright, Etna :nn vellow cold. *! ' ' CD ~ " Shoulder knots of white satin ribbon astcned by a rose, are worn with Mothe lubbard dresses. The handsomest dog collars are o )lack velvet studded with rubies, cmei ilds or sapphires. Mrs. Joseph It. Ilawley, wife of th ,'onnecticut Senator, was an cflcctiv lospital nurse during the war. English brides wear white satin shoe vith pointed toes, embroidered in che lille and pearls, with bows to match. Belts of white Ottoman siik are won vith white flannel frocks, and to fastei liese a silver buckle is an absolute neccs ity. Lace-bordered handkerchiefs arc si rranged up the front of a high bod j... t CU as IU lunu 11 anuuiiucu nuui :oat. Porccluin finger rings in difTeren olors arc worn by New York ladies vho declare them to be the latest Pari ashion. A few years ago the women of Indi vure not allowed to learn to read. Nov here are 12C,:>48 girls attending school stablished lor them. Black lace dresses arc admissible ii ight mourning. They are made of ne ace over surah, with many rows of lac dging iu Chantilly or Spanish, ham un. Small nink and white or blue am vhite ginghams, with white yoke am leeves, blouse waist, ruffled skirt am ash are worn by young ladies of al ges. Sincc the publication of the fact tha Jticcn Victoria has a fondness for frier lominy, the London hotcis have begin o print on their bills of fare. "Friei lominy, her majesty's style." Woolen velvet stuffs, with* uncut vel et flowers and figures on prunell willed grounds, are to be worn as skirt if suits that will have polonaises or red ngotcs or jackets of plain, twilled, o erscy web cloth. Ladies who use tho tricycle in Englani vear a dress made of dark blue serge he skirt kilted or tucked, with jerse vaist and pantaloons as lor riuing nau ts. This dress obviates the necessity o oany under-garments and will not catcl he "dust. Compactness is the aim o hesc dresses. The sashes worn w ith autumn dresse ?y young girls are very broad, made o ilk or surah, not ribbon and arrange) n pleats which pass around the waist ying on one side, with the ends fallinj he full width almost to the bottom o he skirt. Red surah is the favorit tull of these sashes. It is no longer fashionable to wea ewelry in the street or in calling; noth ng but the simplest of round-lieadci ilvcr or gold pins are used at the throat ,ncl if earrings tney must oe oi me mos nodest description. The collar stui hould be of hammered gold or silver nth or without Rhine stone. " Women," says Miss Howe in he iew novel, "arc neither angels wh tand immeasurably above men, nor in erior beings whose place is at their feet >ut human like themselves, full of goo< ,nd faulty instincts, and, with all thci mperfections, the God given helpmate f man. Thus justly should they b udged; and if a little mercy be claimec or them, generosity should not deny it o few are their chances in life comparet vith those of their brothers. A womai ins but one possibility of happiness ii his world. The stakes are high oi /hich she risks her all,'and she may los t by one unredeemable throw." Growth of Human Beings. The investigations of the Anthropo ictric committcc of the IJritish associii ion have made more or less clear severa utercsting facts respecting the rate o rowth of the two sexes. The period o lost rapid growth is from birth to fiv< ears of age, and then both sexes grow like, the girls being a little shorter anc '11 Til i!..? 4.^ iglitcr man me uuys. rrum uvutuici ho boys grow a little faster than thi iris, bat from ten to fifteen years tin iris grow the fastest, and at betweci leveil and a half and fourteen and a hal ears old, arc actually taller, and fron welve and a half to fifteen and a hal re heavier than the boys. The boys owever, take the lead between fiftcer nd twenty years, and grow at first rap ily, but afterwards slower, and coin lete their growth at about tweuty-threi ears, while girls grow very slowly aftc: fteen years of age, and attain tlici nil stature at about the twentieth year 'he tracings and tables show a slov ut steady increase of stature up to tin ftieth year, and a more rapid increas* 1 weight up to the sixtieth year in men ut the statistics of women are too fev fter the age of twenty-three to deter tl.n ufnfnrn .inri wniirht. f)f thni] nil W bllb OUUVUIV l???w ? - -- 2\ at the more advanced periods o fe. The fact that man continues t? row in stature up to his fiftictli yen 011 tradicts the popular notions on th< ubject; according to which he cease: 3 grow before reaching half that age Making Ice in the Tropics. In the tropical climate, far distan rom high mountains, as neither natura now nor ice can be obtained, recourst i had to the cold generated by cvap ration and the comparative coolncss oi ic air a little before daybreak to man facture ice in large quantities, and thin i supply a most grateful luxury at n loderate price. Ice is thus simply manfactured in a large way at Benares, .llaliabad and Calcutta, in the Jinsl idics, where natural ice has never been jen. On a large, open plain an excavation i made about thirty feet square and ,vo feet deep, on the bottom oi which ngar cane or mai/.e steins are evenlj rewed to the height of about eight ichcs. On this bed arc set rows of nail, shallow, tinglazed earthen pans. ) porous that when filled with water ic outside* arc immediately covered ith a thick dew oozing through them, oward the dusk of the evening, the fins, previously smeared with butter, re tilled with soft water, generally oiled, and let remain there during the ight. In the morning, before sunrise, the icc lakers attend and collect from each pan crust of ice, more or less thick, that aderes to its inner side, and it is put into aflkets and carried without loss of time ) the common receptacle, which is a deep it in a high, dry situation, lined first ith straw and then wit h old blanketing, here it is beaten down and congeals into solid mass. The crop of icc varies cxcmcly, sometimes amounting to more lan half the contents of the pan, at other mes scarcely a pellicle. Clear and seme weather is the most favorable for its roduction, whatever may be thesensible cat of the atmosphere. Theco'd gener;cd by the rapid evaporation round every irt of the pan is the cause of this conelation. In this way ices arc secured >r the table, when the heat in the shade very commonly above 100 degrees. A DAY AMONG THE BEES. HOW K0ZTEY-MAXEB8 ABE TAKES CABE OP AT AS APIABY. Bcc Culture om n Sciencc?A BeeKeeper*' Association's .TIeetinsr With an Old Bee Farmer. The Philadelphia Time* describes a , visit paid by the Bee-Keepers' association of that city to the bee and poultry farm of their vice-president, Mr. Arthur Todd, at' Germantown. Mr. Todd, . says the Time*, ia from the old country I and has only been in America a few years, but has already identified himself ^ with the apiary interests in this country. In his yard are arranged more 1 than eighty boxes, some of them three stories in height. These arc the I hives t Each hive contains a family of from thirty to forty thousand bees. These : arc supplied with a sheet of artificialt ly-prepared wax comb, on which to build their cells at the rate of about f twenty-five to the square inch. In each box from five to eight of these combs 1 are placed and in each comb the busy little workers store from three to five [ pound of honey. 2 "Now, ladies and gentlemen," said the bee-farmer, "if you will step this 1 way we will look into some of my hives. > Put on your veils if you have them. I do not think it will be necessary, but 1 you may be nervous, and if you should i be rough with the bees they are apt to get angry." Mr. Todd, without any covering to a face or hands, lifted the licb of the hiveboxes, took out the combs swarming s with bees, handled the little creatures, nllnwnrl fhum tn rrawl nvf>r him find ' showed no trepidation of any kind "Do they never sting you?" he was J asked. ^ "Very seldom. Sometimes when the stock of honey runs short and they are c hungry, they are not so quiet and amiai blc. But they arc exceptionally goodhumored to-day. You see, I blow a t little smoke into the hive. That frightr ens them; they gorge themselves with honey in their terror, and they are thus f rendered quiet and comparatively harmless. Ah, there is the queen," he continued, poiuting to a bee much longer than the rest and with smaller wings. "See, there are some eggs. It is all c right. She is fertilized." At this statement there was considerable excitement 3 among the enthusiasts assembled. The apiarist took two frames of comb into the house and showed how the 11 honey was extracted. He first shaved a the covering from the cells and' then i- placed the combs into a kind of a churn, which he turned very rapidly. The 3 honey was all ejected into the receptacle . and the comos, once more empty, were ready to be again filled by the industrious little collectors. Mr. Todd then t took his visitors to see his three-acre sunflower plantation. ? "This is an experiment," he said. "I have heard that in Spain and Portugal the green leaves of the sunflower are used a as fodder for the cattle. I have tried it v with perfect success. My bees will ob9 tain an immense supply of honey from the flowers and the seed Is good feed for i the poultry. I shall in that way obtain t three crops from ray one outlay. It is e also possible that out of my abundance 1 of blooms I may send some to market for sale, as they arc a beautiful flower, and I i may also make the experiment of making i bread of the seed flour. That is done in 1 Spain, where the sunflower receives the [1 title of 'the gift of heaven." The party thence returned to the bee j. village and resumed the inspection of the I tenements. They were shown colonies ^ of Italian bees, blacK bees (wnicn are iae j insects indigenous to this continent) and hybrids. The various qualities of their honey-storing abilities were descanted upon and the safety of handling thepureA bred, civilized Italian was extolled, while 3 the fierce nature of the native black bee was vigorously proclaimed. Mr. Todd r exhibited a thoroughbred Italian queen bee and her young brood. This queen 3 was sent over from Italy in a little wire !i covered cage, supplied with saccharine Y provision for her long ocean voyage on * two little bits of sponge. She is very f healthy and is rearing a prosperous young \ colony in her new quarters with all the 1 mateni.il energy ana pnac oi wnicu sue is capable. They make a very good s living out of the highways and byways f of the district, often carrying their pick:1 ings and gleanings many miles in huge packs about their persons. g Dr. R. H. Townsend, president of the f Philadelphia Bee-keepers' association, c called a meeting on the hill above the house, under the shade of some fine r chestnut trees, and spoke of the increas_ ing interest which is felt in apiculture. ] He bemoaned the fact that more interest in this useful branch of productive art is .. nnt tfilrnn in t.hr colleges and schools of j learning in this country, saying that he thought in every college tncre should be ' a professor of apiculture. r 0 Early American Coinage. " The earliest coinage that can be called j American, in the sense of Anglo-American, was ordered by the original Virginia r company, only five years after the found8 ing of Jamestown. The coins were minted ? at aomers islands, now known as the Bermudas. For a long while the stand' ard currency of Virginia was tobacco, as in many of the early settlements of the 11 Northwest it was beaver skins. The ac1 counts of the fur traders and pioneers in 1 their dealings with the Indians were e kept in beaver skins instead of dollars until some years after the opening of this century, and in some parts of the Domin ion of Canada they arc still kept so. in 1045 the assembly of the Virginia col" ony, after a preamble reciting that "it hiid maturely weighed and considcredhow ' advantageous a quoine would be to this 1 colony, and the great wants and miseries 1 which do daily happen unto it by the 2 sole dependency upon tobacco," pro' vided for the issue of copper coins of ^ the denomination s of twopence, three1 pence, sixpence and ninepense; but this K law was never carried into effect, so the J first colonial coinage of this country was 1 that struck off by .Massachusetts under f the order of the general court of that 1 colony, passed May 27, 1305, creating a f "mint howse" at Boston, and providing > for the mintage of "12 pence, 0 pence 1 and ;i pence pieces, which shall be for forme llatt, and stamped on the one side with N. E., and on the other side with 2 XI Id., VId., and 11 Id., according to the r value of each piece." In 1002, from this r same mint, appeared the famous "pine tree shillings," which were two-penny ' pieces. This mint was maintained for 3 thirty-four years. In the reign of Wil ' liam and Mary copper coins were struck 5 in England for New England and Caro>' lina. Lord Baltimore had silver shil* lings, sixpences, and fourpenccs made r in England to supply the demauds of f his province of Maryland. Vermont > and Connecticut established mints in r 17Nr> f?r tlic issue of copper coin. New 3 Jersey followed a year later. But Con5 gress had the establishment of a mint for the confederated States under advisement, and in tlus same year agreed upon a plan submitted by Thomas Jefferson, and the act went into operation t on a small scale in 1787. After the 1 adoption of the Constitution of the ! United States in 17N!> all the State mints were closed, as the constitution f speciiically places the sole power of coining money in the Federal governi nicnt. i " "" ? A King of the Cowboys. An Ogalalla (Neb.) letter contains the ; following: The presiding genius of this 1 town is Tucker, who runs a combination saloon and gambling-house. When any 1 of the cowboys get hard up they go to see Tucker. He gives his money liberal1 ly and freely to his friends. Tucker is a ' tall, tine-looking man. with an intelligent countenance, lie alTects long hair, a h Buffalo Bill, and prides himself on his lighting abilities. If a drunken cowboy is disposed to have a shooting matinee or rough-and-tumble exercise he can always be accommodated by applying to Tucker, who guarantees to do up the anxious individual in short order. When any disturber of the peace tries to invade the sacred precincts of the Cowboy's Rest, as Tucker's saloon is affectionately called, the gentlemanly proprietor gives him his advice to cither light or have a drink. The festive and belligerent cowboy adores Tucker on account of his generosity and <;rit, and he would stand by this popular border gambler through thick and thin. Any other man than Tucker would be liable to have his saloon completely demolished two or three times a week, but he always remembers his friends; no hunirry man was ever turned from his door, and the cowboys, who have had substantial evidences of his good-will, never forget the kindness. Tucker has many imitators, but he is the typical border paradox* of gentleman and rutiian, and no man can compete with him in shrewdness or popularity. Novel objections?Those urged agains fiction.?Philadelphia, Call. ' Popular Cookery. Among the immense majority of man* kind each household cooks for itself, the work falling mainly on the wife, who is never taught except by her mother, and in the most traditional way. Improvement. if any is ever made, is exceedingly slow; and among some people, the English for one, popular cookery has probably retrogaded, owing in this instance to the chasm of years which, so to speak, broke or interrupted the popular knowl- 1 edge of the way to prepare meat. The , women found flesh meat difficult to procure, and failed to hand down the need- i ful instruction for preparation. Half mankind ;it least knows nothing of boil- ' ing; of those who do know, another half | will eat their vegetables in a sodden condition. Among the races which eat meat only a limited percentage of persons try to make meat tender?we believe the flesh- ' eating Mongols form an exception to this ( rule, and some of the Polynesians?and 1 among those who eat grain there is a distinct preference for the undercooking alike of-flour, rice and millet, under a j belief that such food is more fully satis lying. 1 WUUb LU ICCl 111 J IVUIUVII 'tiff," said one of Charles Reade's characters, and he exactly expressed the view of the indistinguishable millions. Separateness in cooking is pushed everywhere to preposterous limits, till it is probable that the preparation of food for mankind, which is the second great expense in feoding them, costs three times what it need, and till in many* countries a proper supply of fuel is wholly beyond the reach of the poor. In Asia, entire people burn dung, and even in Europe firing is never quite sufficient. And, finally, cooking does not advance. A new article of diet is occasionally added, like the potato, or a new condiment, "like pepper; but it may be doubted if a European laborer's dinner is made a bit more palatable than the dinner of an Israelite was when the lawgivers promulgated the curious notion that roast meat was more acceptable to the superior powers than meat boiled or stewed. Indeed, the way to make a kibab, which is known to the humblest in Asia, has been lost here, and only the gypsies are aware that meat covered with damp clay and placed among the hotushosis not only delicious, but much more nourishing than meat either baked or boiled. The natural way with civilized people, if they cared for nice food, would be to kitrust it to professionals. who would learn their trade by apprenticeship, and incessantly improve, but, except in Tuscany and South France, this is liardly done, though it ought to be the easiest of arrangements. ?Spectator. In spite of the efforts of foreign modistes to make the low-pointed corsage de riguer on till house toilets and street costumes, the majority of American ladies wear white lawn and wash dresses, made with full puffed waists and yokes, and a belt at the waist. Yon Can't Make 8300 by Reading Thli? even if you have chronic nasal catarrh in its worst stages, for although this amount of reward has for many years been offered by the proprietors of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy,for ativ noca r\f fafhov SHLnnnf*. nuro. Vof.nofc withstanding that thousands use the Remedy they are seldom called upon to pay the reward, and when they have been so called upon they have universally found that the failure to cure was wholly due to some overlooked complication, usually easily removed by a slight modification of tho treatment. Therefore, if this should meet the eye of anybody who has made faithful trial of this great and world-famed Remedy without receiving a perfect and permanent cure therefrom,that person will do well to either call or write to the proprietors, the World's Dispensary Medical Association, of Buffalo, N. Y., giving all the particulars and symptoms in the case. By return mail they will get good advice free of all costs. Decatur county, la., has a girl who captured and sold fifteen wolves during the last season. PVirrmVlnno nttwrHha T.vHta E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound. * Br. Louis claims to be the leading bardware market of the country. * * * * Pile tumors, rupture and fistulas, radically cured by improved methods. Book two letter stamps. World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. A man in Adair county, Kentucky, lost 1,400 chickens with cholera. {. Throat and Lane DImum ; a specialty. Send two letter stamps for a large treatise giving self-treatment Address "World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. Louisiana is promised the largest rice crop this year she ever had. Mod arc U Potato Digger. One of the most valuable farm implements la the Monarch Potato Digger. It will dig 800 bushels per day, in a clean, perfect manner. Immense shipments have been made by the manufacturers,MSfiarch Manufacturing Company, 206 State street, Chicago, 111., to every State and Territory in this country. They are sent out on sixty days' teart: trial to every farmer, and no one raising potatoes should fail of sending for their full elegant catalogue in six brilliant colors. The company is an old one, and perfectly reliable. See their advertisement in this issue. Heart Pain*. Palpitation, Dropsical Swellings, Dizziness, Indigestion, Headache, Sleeplessness cured by "Wells' Health Renewer." For years I have been afflicted with HayFever. I gave Ely's Cream Balm a trial. The relief was immediate. I regard myself cured. ?fl S^hreihfr Sunt of Cordfifi'e Co.. Eliza beth, N. J. Price 50 cents. Hav Fever. I have used Ely's Cream Balm for Hay-Fever, and have experienced great relief. I recommend it as the best of all the remedies I have tried.?T. B. Jenks, lawyer, Grand Rapids, Mich. Price SO centa. Color Yoar Butter. Farmers that try to sell white butter are all of the opinion that dairying does notpay. If they would use Wells, Richardson & Co'a. Improved Butter Color, and market their butter In perfect condition, they would still get good prices, but it will not pay to make any but the best in color and quality. This color Is used by all the leading creameries and dairymen, and is sold by all druggists and merchants. "Buchu Palba." Quick,complete cure, all Kidney, Bladder and Urinary Diseases, Scalding, Irritation, Stone, Gravel, Catarrh of bladder.$1. Druggists. I.ots of People get bilious, have heavy he adaches, mouth foul, yellow eyes, ect, all the direct result of impure blood which can be thoroughly cleansed, renewed and enriched with Kidney Wort. It acts at the saino time on the kidneys,liver and bowels and has more real virtue In a package than can be found in any other romedy for the same class of diseases. An Editor's TtntlinonlnJ. A- M. Vau^han, editor of the Greenwich Review, Greenwich, 0., writes: "Last January I met with a vory severe accident, caused by a runaway horse. I used almost every kind of salvo to heal the wounds, which turned to running sores, but found nothing to do me any good till I wa3 recommended Henry's Carltolic Salve. I bought a box. and | it helped me at once, and at the^end of two months I was completely weu. n is ine oesi | salve in the marker, and I never fail of telling ray friends about it, and urge them to us? it whenever in need." "Hough on Uats, Clears out rat*, mice, roaches, (lies,ants,bedbugs, skunks, chipmunks, gophers. 15c. Drgta So (I'tits Will buy a Treatise ox the Horse and His Diseases Book of 100 pages, valuable to every owner of horses. Postage stamps taken. Sent postpaid. New York Horse Book Co., 134 Leonard Street. New York city. A natural oil, cleanly, one that will not become rancid, ono that Is penetrating, one that combines nil these qualities is Carboline, the most elegant hair-dresser and restorer. Try it. Do it yourself. With Diamond dyes any lady can get ns good results as the best practical dyer. Every dye warranted true to name and sample. 10c. at druggists. Wells, Richardson & Co., Burlington, Vt. "ltoiiali on Corn*." Ask for Wells"'ltough on Corns. "15c. Com- I pletecure. Hani or soft corns, warts bunions. Piso's Remedy for Catarrh is a certain euro i for that very obnoxious disease. The full strength of England's armed force ; in Ireland is 45,000 men. Delays are Dangerous; Delays often canses serious loftes, and neglect in attending to one's own physical condition frequently cauBts much suffering and serious illness. It you ha?o spring debility or are weak from any cause, take Hood's Sarsaparilla immediately. It will givo you new life anl strength, anil enable you to enjoy Rood health ohco moro. Thousands testify to ita reviving and toning influences. "I know Hood's Sareaparilla to be Rood by the trial I gave it for eruptions on my face. I had a bard time to cure my blood, but auccoeded at last with Hood's Sar- | saparilla-" Haiiky (j. Pabk, Champaign, HI. Purify Your Blood "I have used Hood's Sarsaparilla, and gladly give this testimonial. It lias helped me moro for catarrh and impuro blood than anything else I ever used. If any one wishes to inquire about my case, I will gladly give thom all information desired-" A. Ball, Syracuse, X. Y. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists, fl: six for $5. Prepared only by U. I. HOOD ?t CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. 1OO Doses One Dollar H Lying Apnti cant SELL and tct) th? truth abuut Jonis. Put your lies OD ^ap?r and iign if you dara. S60 5TGN WAGON SCALES. I Hrarn Box. Tar* Beam. FrttrM ' Paid, i'rtt Pric* Lilt. Ertry Siml i ddrsss JONIS OF BDJOElkTWl : BtNOHAMTON.y. C ; A A samples large prsttyohromo reward, merit, credit, xy diploma, birthday, friendship, gift and school aid carda. liq. Price list Fib* Art C*.. Warren, Pa. A Great Problenu . ~ ?Take all the Kidney sad Liver Mrrffir ?Take all the Blood purifiers, ?Take all the Rheumatic remedies, ?Take all the Dyspepsia and indifottali cures, ?Take all the Ague. Fever, andbfllloni speciflet, ?Take all the Brain and Nerve foroe r&vivefMj ?Take all the Great health restorer*. , -H ?In short, take all the beet qualities at ill these, and the ?best I ?r^.rtHtSma nt nil tVm host miyiMn? In the. vorlri, and you will find that ?Bop ?Bitters have the best curative qualities "? md powers of all ?concentrated ?In them,and that they will core when any >r all of these, singly or ?combined ?Fail. A thorough trial will give positive jroof of this. / Hardened Lirer. Five years ago I broke down with Iddnev ind liver complaint and rheumatism. Since then I have been unable to be abcat it ftlL My liver l?cume hard like wood; ixj . limbs were puffV*ri up and filled with water. All the best physicians ngroed that nothing' ' .. could euro me. I resolved to try Hop Bitters; I have used seven bottles; the hardness has all gone from my liver, the swelling from my limbs, and it has worked a miracle in my case; otherwise 1 wouiu nave oeennuw m wj gravo. J. W. Mobkv, Buffalo, October x, 1881. Poverty and Suffering:. "I was dragged down with debt poverty and suffering for years, caused by a sick family and large bills for doctoring. . f\ "I was completely discouraged, until on* year ago, by the advice of my pastor, I commenced Using Hop Bitters, ana in one month we were all welL and none of us have seen a . sick day since, and I want to say to all poor men, you can keep your families woll a year with Hon Bitters for le"? tliau one doctort visit will cost I know it"?AWoannoMAX Uf None genuine without a bunch of green Hops on the white label. Shim all the vile, i>oisonous stuff with "Hop" or "Hops" In their name. N T ITU?35 * . - v A THRILLING STORY. Aa Told by a .llrrrliatt in Tray, K< T?-i Surgical Operation A voided?How a Ftdh ,v er? Wire and DaufXiter Eacaped an Awfnl Doom. Of tb? hundred! of account* of renuuUbl* csrM wroosht br Dr. KENNEDY'S FAVOJUTB REMEDY, none have appeared ?o purely Mtonkfe Ing m the following: The poisons jaeationed an arnons tho most highly respected InffljiWttMSray,. and the atory m told by the father wiflprtw-intere?ting to all our readers.?Ed. "VfiA hat ,X. T. \ Or. Kennedy, Rm<1outt iT. T.l Deab Snc?BIy daughter wm afflicted with fttmM frowth of Fungu*. To remove It we had reaortad M almost e\ery remedy and consulted the moat proaiavnt surgeons and physicians. Dr. ?, of Troy, Hi tliat a surgical operation would be nacasaary.Mt frariDg fatal rwralts I heniuted. Some of tba phfm 'lans claimed that it was caused by one thin* and <ome by another. The Fungus waa Drominentanf disfigured her look*. Having neardoi Dr. Kennedy* FAVORITBREMEpV working so thoroughly am the blood I determined to try it, to Me if this nwt cine could do what doctors had failed to do and mm geon* had hardly dared to undertake. I can say tl truth that the result of thin triifl waa the complete cure of my daughter of thin dreadful malady. Dr. Kennedy's FA V?) RITE REMEDY alone effected it. We used nothing else, for other things hadMm> i'letely /ailed. My daughter to-day enjoys vigorous health aud to Favorite Bemedy alone la the credit duo. My wife also was in very poor health, due to sorao liver diffleulty with whlcn she had Buffered a -* long time until she became verv much reduced ia flesh. A trial of Dr. Kennedy's FavoriteBemedy has -esulted in the complete restoration of her health. xhich she had not enjoyed for yean. She had caiaed . ~ in fle?b andotrentith.and thus secured perfcct health, anrt this Is DUKENTIRF.l.Y TO Dr. KJBJfW lirn FAVORITE REMEDY. As for mvMtf. being ongaged in the grocery and commission bosfc ueer, which makes it uccewiary for me to tetttfca' quality of different articles, like butter, etc., my sen** f fa??a an/1 mtf atrtwiflfh ufimt naHnnilv ifftimvul. lh wythinff aeemed to n*u*eate me, und fearful otjtn*P?is in its most sovere form. ItriedDr.KBN> .VEDY'M FAVORITE REMEDY. The flat bot. tie afforded immediate relief, and from that da/ to this I can say that Favorite Itemed v has restored tos to perfect health- Theao are lacti which I claim )irove that Dr. Kennedy's Favorite Kemedyiathebest medicine in the world for those afflicted with the above difficulties. If any one in the dty of Troy doubts the truth of these atntements let him come to me and I will prove them. I have recommended Favorite Bemedy to hundred* and with the same goo< *e8,UU' Yours, etc., WILLIAM WfflOSOB. Cornet Canal and Mount Streota, Troy, Y? 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