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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBEK J. 1884. NO. 14. VOLUME XXIX.
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HARVEST.
The reapers sang 111 the shaded lane,
And the laden wagons canio creaking slow>
While the kind farm mother her table spread;
For the field was bare and the sun was low?
The Biin was low an>l the day was gone?
The toil was over and harvest done.
I looked and sighed, as the yellow storo
Was borne away to the yawning mow,
And I thought of the brimming garner floor,
And the harvester's tanned and sweating
brow,
Till I sighed again in the fading light,
While the tired world slept in the lap of
night.
I sitrhed for the tender nlant that died
When the cold north wind untimely blew;
I sighed for the grain that never swelled,
For the blighte.l sheaf that never grew;
I sighed for the harvest days that seem
Like the waking mocker}* of a dream.
I knelt in the dim sweet summer night,
And whispered a prayer of trembling faith,
That He (who nurseth the sleeping grain
Till life comes smiling from darkest death) '
Would not scorn the scant sheaves I had won, .
When life was over and harvest done.
THE LAST STRAW.
f'
"It is the Inst straw that breaks the !
w camel's back," said Lucy, bursting into <
tears. 1
The pleasant sunbeams came pcepiug i
into the cool, ?ton'.-paved dairy, where
pans of milk and cream were ranged in 1
orderly array; great stone pots stood 1
under the shelves, and a bluepainted
churn was already placed on the 1
table, for Mr. Bellenden was justly proud i
of his dairy. Not a chance guest came to .
the house but was invited down to see i
it; not a house keeper in the neighborhood"
but had secretly envied its
many conveniences and exquisite neat- i
ness. 1
"And it isn't the dairy alone," tri- i
umphantly remarked Matthew Bellenden. \
"And you may go through the house ?
from cellar to garret, and you'll never s
find a speck of dust or a stain of rust. 1
There never was such a house-keeper as c
my wife!" t
Mrs. Bellendon was vounfr.too.seareelv
three-and-twentv. She had been deli- 1
cately reared and quite ignorant of the i
machinery of domestic life, until she married
Matthew Bellenden. t
"It's very strange," Lucv had written i
to her father. "The farm is beautiful.
You never saw such monstrous old elm s
trees, nor such superb roses, and th;
meadows arc full of red clover and the
strawberries shine like jewels on the i
sunny hillsides. But nobody sketches \
or reads. I don't think there is a copy
of Tennyson in the whole neighborhood,
and no ever heard of Dore or Millais. 1
All they think of is how many dozens of 1
eccgs the hen lays, and how many cheese i
they can make in a year. And the c
woman who has. a new receipt for home- i
made pie, or a new pattern for patch- f
work quilts, is the leader of society." 1
But presently youug Mrs. Bellenden [
herself caught the fever and became a ?
model housewife. Example is all-power- 1
ful, aud Lucy began to believe that the ]
whole end and aim of life was domestic c
thrift, money saving and the treadmill t
of work. t
"My dear," said Matthew, "if you \
thought you could get along without \
a servant this year, 1 might be able to t
afford that new reaper before the oat s
crop comes in." s
"I'll try." said Lucy. ]
And alter that she rose before day- 1
break, and worked later iu the night
than ever.
What is the matter with your hands, I
Lucyi" her husband asked one day. i
"They are not so white and beautiful s
bb they used to be."
Lucy colored as she glanced down at t
the members in question." 1
"I suppose it is making fires," she i
. said. t
And then she took to wearing kid f
gloves at her sweeping and dusting aud i
digging out of asties. ]
"ily coat is getting shabby," Mat- f
thew one day remarked.
"Why don't you buy another one?" t
asked his wife.
Matthew gave a short laugh.
"What do vou think Mrs. Hiffgins i
has done?" said he. "She ripped up t
her husband's old suit and cut a pattern f
bv it, and made a new one and saved
twenty dollars."
"I could do that," said Lucy, with s
sparkling eyes. "1 will try it."
"You can do anything, my dear!" ]
v- said Mr. Bellenden, admiringly.
Y And Lucy felt that she had her rich <
reward. <
Company began to come as soon as
nice weather set in. <
All the affectionate relations of Mr.
Bellenden soon discovered that the farm- (
house was cool and shady, that Lucy's
cooking was excellent, and that the bedrooms
were neatness itself.
Some of .th'-m were even good enough
to invite their relations as well: and so '
the House was lull irom April to uecem- 1
ber with visitors who bought their carEet-bags
and valises with that faith in
uman hospitality which is one of life's |
best gifts. 1
Mrs. Hellenden's fame went abroad !
among the Dorcases of the neighbor- 1
hood in the matter of butter and 1
cheese; she took prizes in the domestic 1
departments of all the agricultural fairs, 1
and the adjoining housewives took no '
trouble to make things that they could
borrow of Mrs. Beliendcn, '"just as well 1
as not."
And one day, when poor Lucy, under
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I LIU U11^I11JU?? JuxiuuiiLC ui o. uuiiiuig
sick headache, was endeavoring to strain 1
three or four gallons of milk into the 1
shining pans, the news arrived that her
hnsbaud's I'ncle Paul was coming to the 1
^~ farm. i
"Another guest!" said Lucy, despairingly.
And then she uttered the proverb that
head* our sketch.
"Oh, it's only Uncle Paul!" said Mr.
Bellenden. "Don't fret. Lucy. lie's the
most peaceable old man in the world.
He'll make no more trouble than a
i cricket. John's wife thought she
k couldn't have him because she has uo
servant just now?"
"Neither have I!" said Lucy, rebelr
lious y.
"And Sarah don't like company."
"I am supposed to be lona 01 it:" oo6erved
Lucy, bitterly.
'And Reuben's girls don't want old
folks staying thcic. It's too much trouble,
they say," added -Matthew. '
Lucy bit her lips to keep back the
words she might have uttered, and said,
instead:
"Where is he to sleep? The Bedfords
have tiie front bed room, and your cousin
Susie occupies the back, and the four
Miss Pattersons sleep in the two garrets."
She might have added that she and
her husband and the baby had slept in a
hot little den opening from the kitchen
for four weeks vainly expecting Mr. and
Mrs. Bedford to depart, and that she had
never yet had a chance to invite her
father to the farm in pleasant weather.
But she was magnanimous and held
her peace.
"Oh, you can find some place for
him!" said her husband lightly. ''There's
that little room at the cud of the hall
where the spinning wheel is."
/ 4* i3ut it is'nt furnished!" pleaded
Lucy."
"You can easily sew a carpet together
out of one of those old pieces from the
Bedford room; and its no trouble to put
up a muslin curtain to the window and
lift in a stump bedstead; and you can tack
together a mattress and whitewash the
ceiling, and?what's that, Lucy? The
cows in the turnip field ! Dear me !
everything soes wrong if I step into the
house for a moment. And really, Lucy,
w-t? o?./? rmip UnuirwcQ nnt.
fcilCSt; lillllgj;.-' 1111; IUUI
mine!"' lie added irritably.
Lticy could not help laughing, all by
A her.-elf as her husband ran up the
IT 6teps.
But it was a very sad little laugh, and
soon changed into a sigh.
"I wonder," 6he said in a whisper, "if
my poor tired-out ghost would haunt
these stone pavements and scrubbed pavements
if 1 were to die-? I never heard of
a ghost in a dairy before, but I
l should think that it might very
^ easily be."
?ut the little bed-room was fitted up,'
1
fcr all that, as fresh as a rose, and Uncle
l'aul arrived, a dried-up, yellow complexioncd
old man. with an old-fashioned
cravat tied in many folds about
his neck, and a broad-brimmed lowcrowned
hat and line gold-headed
cane.
lie had a polite way of half a century
ago, and Lucy thought she should like
him very much, if she only had time to
get acquainted with him.
But she was churning ten pounds
of butter a day, and there was the
baby, and the company, and the
young chickens, and the baking to
do.
She was almost too busy to sleep. But
Uncle Paul was watching her quietly all
(tin tJmr.
lie came out to the barn,one day,where
his nephew was putting a new handle on
a sickle-blade.
' Pretty busy times?eh, Uncle Paul?"
said the farmer, scarcely taking the leisure
to look up.
"Aye," nbscntly answered the old
man. 4* Did 1 tell you, Nephew Matthew.
about the reason I left your cousin
Joseph's?"
"Not that I remember," said Matthew,
breathing on the table and polishing it
with his silk handkerchief.
' Dorothy died?his wife." ?
"Oh, yes,", said Matthew. "Low
fever, wasn't it ?"
"No!" bluntly answered Uncle Paul.
"It was hard work. That woman,
Nephew Matthew, did the housework for
'ight persons. Joe didn't even let her
have a woman to help her with the washing
and the ironing!"
\Tncf V?nvn Iwrtn o rnnrn 1 n r.rrrn nnr
brute,'' said Matthew, tightening the
tiandle a little.
"All the sewing, too," added Uncle
Paul?"the mending and muking. She
lever went anywhere except to church.
Joe didn't believe in women gadding
ibout."
"The old savage!" said Matthew.
"She was fond of reading, but she
lever got any time for it," said Uncle
Paul. "Shu rose before sundawn and
lever lay down until eleven o'clock. It
,vas hard work that killed that woman,
ind Joseph coolly declared that it was
ihcer laziness when she couldn't drag
lerself about any longer. And when she
lied he rolled up his eyes and called it
he visitation of Providence."
"Why didn't the neighbors lynch
liin?" cried Matthew, fairly aroused to
ndignation at last.
Uncle Paul took off his glasses, wiped
hem vigorously, and looked his nephew
uird in the face.
"Why don't the neighbors lynch you?"
aid he.
Matthew dropped the sickle and stared.
"Nephew Matthew," said Uncle Paul,
mpressivelv, "thou art the man! Are
ou not doing the very same thing?"
"I?" gasped Matthew.
"Your wife is doing the work of a
louschold of sixteen people," said Uncle
>?nii Clm io /Iriwlrrinif uo />r\iilrl rrnf
io stranger to drudge. Sic is rising
arly, and lying down late; she is oflerng
up licr life on the shrine of your
arm and its requirement?. I have seen
ler grow thin and pale even during the
ew days I have been here. I- have
een her carry up Mrs. Bclford's
?reakfast daily to her room, because
Jelford preferred to lie in bed; and
looking dainty dishes for Helen Paterson,
because Helen wouldn't eat what
he rest like. No galley-slave ever
vorked as she does. And you, with
our farm hands?whose board only adds
o her cares, and your array of labor- i
saving machinery, stand coolly by and
ice her commit slow suicide. Yes,
Nephew Matthew, I think it is a case for
ynching!"
Matthew had grown pale.
"I?I never thought of this," said
Jncle Paul. Matthew Bellenden rolled
lown his shirt sleeves, put on his coat
_JJ i. iU- i
inu weni liuu lue uousc.
He told the Belfords and Pattersons
hat it was inconvenient to keep them any
onger. He gave Cousin Susan to unlerstand
that her room was needed. He
nade arrangements to board out the
arm hands, and engaged a stout dairy
naid and a house-servant to wait on
!,ucy. And he telegraphed to her
'athcr to come to Silvan Bridge at once.
" She deserves a treat," he said. " He
;hall spend the summer with us."
And then he went to tell Lucy.
She had fainted among the buttercups,
picking strawberries for tea. Poor litle
Lucy! The machinery had utterly refuse
to revolve any longer.
His heart grew cold within him.
'She will die," he thought, "and I
;hall have murdered her."
But she did not die. She recovered
tier strength by degrees.
"It is better than any medicine," she
said, "to know that Matthew is thinking
jf me and for me."
And Uncle Paul?"the last straw," as
she called him- hud proved her salvation.
"I didu't want her to go as Joe's wifo
lid,'" said Uncle Paul.
A Wonderful Luminous Shrub.
There is a most remarkable tree or
shrub in a small gulch near some springs
lbout twelve miies north of Tuscarora.
[t is about six or seven feet in height,
with a trunk which at its base is three
times the size of a man's wrist. It has
innumerable branches and twigs and re
serubles somewhat the barbary tree or
bush indigenous to certain localities in
the Eastern States. But its only remarki
*- ?i 1?! .a
Lime cuurauieriMii; is us luuujjg, ut
certain seasons of the year is so luminous
that it can be plainly distinguished in
the darkest night for a distance of more
than a mile, while in its immediate vicinity
it emits sufficient light to enable a
person to read the finest print. Its foliage
is extremely rauk and its leaves resemble
somewhat, in size, shape and color,
those of the aromatic bay tree of California.
The luminous property is evidently
parasitic and consists of a sort of
gummy substance, which upon being
transferred, by rubbing to a person's hand
imparts to it the same apparently phosphorescent
light, while that on the leaf
entirely disappears. The only reasonable
explanation for this phenomenon that wo
can imagine is that the leaves possess
some quality which cither generates or
attracts phosphoric matter. The Indians
regard it with superstition and will not
approach it even in the daytime if thej
can possibly avoid it. They have a name
lor it wnicn uterauy interpreted si^nine!
"witch tree.'1 An old Shoshone informed
the writer that there were but two others
in the entire country, but the closest
questioning failed to elicit the slightest
information in regard to the localities,
lie would only shake his head gravel;
and ejaculate "bad medicine." We do
not remember having read or heard ol
trees possessing this peculiarity before,
nor do we imagine that the species i.'
generally known to the scientific world.
The specimen we have alluded to is well
worth the attention of the naturalists ol
the Pacitic coast.?Tuscurora (Ncv.)
Tintc-1-ltcriae.
Game in The Arctic Zone.
From Lieutenant Grcely's icport of the
monthly killing of game in the Arctic
regions, the following summary of what
was killed during the -whole stay at La
dy Franklin's bay is made up:
Seven wolves, seven foxes, eight ermines,
eight lemmings, 10!J musk oxen,
nineteen seals, fifty-seven hares, fortyfour
king ducks, fiftv-thrce long-tailed
ducks, thirty eider ducks, sixty dovekins,
one diver, six burgomaster gulls,
one sabine gull, twenty-one Arctic terns,
178 sknas, eighty-four brentgeese, on<
raven, seventy-nine ptarmigans, 100 turn
stones, one sandpiper, one sandling,
twenty-seven knots, two ringed plovers,
eighteen owls, two pliilaropes and on<
walrus.
The Fearless Widow.
A !Xew York widow was raKing in<
fresh air in Central park with her twc
children, when she met a former lover
with whom she entered into conversa
tion.
"I am completely broken up, Amelia,'
he said, seizing her hand. "There is m
telling what I might not say and do if it
were not for these children."
"Children," said the fond mother,
pushing them away, "run over yondei
where the goat carriages are, and plaj
until I send for you."?Siftings.
It costs annually 81,200,000 for links
and pins for the freight cars in this
country.
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
flaking Butter in Denmark.
Beginning with the feeding of the
cows in Denmark, Consul Ryder says:
A course of foddering which has,
been pursued for many years and found |
to answer lias been as follows: Four
pounds of coarse wheat bran, four
pounds of mixed groats (barley and
oats), one and three-fourth pounds of
rapesced cake, one bushel of maogold
wurzel, with a good allowance of clover
hay per cow daily. It may also be taken
for granted that the more uniform the
fodder the more advantageous it will
be, ns the milk will then be also of more
unuorm cnaracter. me guai vyuikii ?iua
to be kept In view, namely, the producing
of first and second class butter, is
not one of such great difficulty. The
same amount of labor is required
whether one pound of good or one pound
of bad butter is made, and a more favorable
return is naturally obtained from
the produce of the better article.
Great attention is paid that the milking
is carried on with all possible cleanliness;
for whenever any dirt is allowed
to be left in the milk no good products
will be obtained therefrom, as the dirt
cannot be removed by straining. The
moment the milk pail is filled it is immediately
taken from the cow stable to
the dairy lest it might otherwise receive
injury from the atmosphere of the stable.
As soon as the milk is brought into
the dairy ft is Btrained into tin vessels,
each containing thirty-five pounds, and
then put into iced water for cream setting.
Pails of this size are easy to handle
and have aiso the advantage that the
milk is sooner cooled in them tlian witn
pails of greater dimensions. For the
purpose of cream setting, the morning's
milk is allowed to lie over twenty-four
hours. When the milk is skimmed the
crcam is then sieved into a tinned, ironplated
pail, which is much to be preferred
to the old-fashioned wooden ones,
inasmuch as the cream can be heated or
cooled by sinking the pail into warm or
cold water, a9 may be desirable. The
sieve, which is used both for the cream
and milk, has a tin border, and is covered
over with a piece of butter gauze Xo.
10: such description of sieve is much
cheaper than one of horse hair, and is
better able to keep back all hair sub
stances. \\ nen tne crcam in ine morning
is put into the cream tub, it is warmed
by sinking the tub into a temperature
of twenty degrees; six per cent,
buttermilk is afterward added, whereby
the temperature is reduced to nineteen
degrees.
Toward midday the temperature of
the cream will be about fourteen degree*,
and the cream is then put into a
lined tub, so that it shall not be too
much cooled. The cream is stirred every
second hour, and when it is inspected at
six o'clock the curding should have commenced,
and the temperature should
then be kept at about twelve and a half
degrees.
If the temperature is greater, the butter
will loose in quality, and cheesy matter
will form in the crcam. If the temperature
is below twelve degrees, the
cream will not be of sufficiently even naop
stranm will Uf_
lltlU) as UUU'OUUl^U VAlsUkU Hill J 1V*V4 14V
tie, bad, and non-preserving quality of
butter. At eight o'clock the cream
should be of uniform character, and it
should then be well stirred, and when,
after a few hours, it has attained a temperature
of eleven degrees, it must be
again well stirred, so that it ma}- be certain
the souring is universal throughout.
"When the cream is allowed to lie
quietly over night, it will be found on
the following morning to have a temperature
of nine to ten degrees.
If in the summer season it i9 too
warm, it is cooled in ice water of a temperature
of eight degrees, as a too rapid
cooling baa an injurious ettect upon ttie
cream.
If in winter it is too cold, it is then
warmed up to the churning temperature
of eleven and one-half degrees by sinking
the cream pail into warm water. "When
churning temperature is reached, one half
pint of coloring is added to every hundred
pounds of cream and it is then poured i
into the churn.
It is of great importance that the churn j
should be of dimensions proportionate to
the quantity of cream which has to be J
churned. With a churn whisk making !
two hundred revolutions in the minute,
and when all else is in order, butter will
be made in thirty minutes' churning.
"When the butter begins to make its
appearance, it is washed off with water j
of a temperature of eight degrees.
It will be best to make use of a small1
can for the washing rather than one of a j
larger measure, sis it will be easier with
tnis can to get tnc water into an 111c ;
crevices unci still avoid the pouring of!
too much water in the butter.
After this it is churned slowly, and
when the butter grains are as large as a
pin's head the buttermilk is drained by
tapping the churn. This is considered
preferable to lifting out the butter grains
with a sieve. Then on every ten pounds
of butter half a pail of water of a tem- j
perature of nine to ten degrees is poured !
at intervals while the churn is shaken
backward ana forward. When the butter
is thus thoroughly washed it is laid upon
the butter trough, where it is weighed 1
and kneaded three or four times with a j
spoon. Then three per cent, of salt is
well mixed by more kneading. After
standing twenty minutes it is again I
kneaded. Then it is allowed to stand \
un hour, and receives its final kneading i
in balls of four to five pounds. Then it
is packed closely for market.
Farm and Garden Notes.
In selecting trees from a nursery sec
that the roots are not all on one side.
A Baltimore farmer is introducing the
Japanese persimmon tree into this country.
Kight hundred thousand bushels of
what are used every day iu the United
States.
Wire' fence should not be stretched
too tightly. The contraction of the
iron in cold weather breaks many wires.
Bordeu's standard?of eight and fiveeighth
pounds per gallon?is now taken i
and accepted as the standard for milk, j
An English authority says boiled potatoes,
mixed with cut hay or straw, are
a wholesome and economical food for
horses.
Kight drops of tincture of aconite
dropped oil ;i piece 01 urcau aim uuxcu
with the food at night, and next morning
four drops given in the same manner, I
is recommended as a curc for garget.
Farmers should use great care not to
allow their hogs or cattle to nave access
to potato tops or other vines upon which
paris green lias beeu sprinkled. An ob-i
servance of this advice may prevent the
loss of valuable stock, as some have
learned from experience.
The best way to rid a horse's cars of
warts is to rub them well with a coarse
cloth and then touch them with :i little j
nitric acid every alternate day until you I
have administered three applications. A I
single drop of the acid will be quite suf-1
ticicut for the smaller ones.
In answer to a question, as to what is ;
the best grain food for milch cows, Professor
Arnold recommends four parts of
bran, two parts of corn meal and one part |
of linseed meal, as having given him
the best results in proportion to cost of
any dry food that he had ever used.
To cure obstructed teats in cows rub j
udder with spirits of alcohol, whisky or
gin. Give a fluid drachm of fluid extract
of jaboraucli night and morning. |
Give a general cow drink five days before j
and one immediately after calving. Kub
udder with the spirits long and well.
More injury is done to shingle roofs ,
from p-esent modes of threshing than is j
generally supposed. Unless the roof is |
verv steen riitch. dust and chaff from the .
threshing machine will gather under the j
edges of shingles and rot them out three
times as fast as would be the case if they
were kept clean.
It is sometimes very convenient to funce
of! a part of a lot for keeping cows when j
no permanent fence is desired. The farmer
who has lifty to a hundred rods of ;
portable fence that can be moved and set j
in half a day is more nearly independent j
about fences than one whose farm is crisscrossed
every way by fences that in four
years .out of five are only a nuisance.
The pasture system does not do away
with the necessity for mowing. The
stock eat only the best grasses, leaving
? 2S ' '
the coarse stuff and weeds to grow with-,
out check. Unless mowed At midstim- :
mer to prevent weeds seeding the pasture 1
will soon become very foul, especially j
with Canada thistles, the seeds of which ! will
be blown all over the neighborhood |
A dressing of lime often has an excel- j
lent effect in making worn-out soils productive,
and it is quite as apt to be eHec- 1
tive on land that has an abuncance of j
lime in its composition. It undoubtedly j1
makes more plant food available without j
directly adding to the amount,and should,
therefore, be used in rotations where oth- ]
er methods are adopted to maintain soil 1
j fertility. J
The Asiatic fowls have their merits in j ^
their large size, and nothing more. The j j
ncsn 01 me young is nou iiuar su uuin- ; .
tious as tliiit" of a two-year-old Dorking ;
or Leghorn fowl. Let either of the latter i
variety be cooked with that of an Asiatic i
young fowl, either as broilers or roasters, !
and then let any epicurean test them and
report. That is the true way to decide
the question, and iu a way that no
other will.
The temperature alone produces wonderful
changes among our fowls, for a
bird hatched in January will, with the
same cure and food as one batched in
June, in nine cases in ten, outweigh the
chick of June hatch many ounces; they
may be of the same sort and same family, I
the case is no different. Our fowls soem
to demand the cool temperature of our
winters to lay their foundation on for
"after greatness."
I heard an old fanner talk one day,
Telling his listeners how
In the new, wide country far away
The rainfall follows thy plow.
" As fast as they breai: it up. you see,
And turn the heart to the sun, ,
As they open tho furrows deep and free
And'the tilloge is begun,
"Tho earth grows mellow, and more and .
more
It holds and sends to the sky
A moisture it never had beforo, (
"When its face was hard and dry.
''And so, wherever tho plowshares run
The clouds run overhead,
And the soil that works and lots in the sua '
With water is always fed." C
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llnukpliolil Hints and Reclpca. [
Wet the top of a dish of mashed pota- <
toes with milk and Bet it in the oven to 11
brown. Let it slay until there is a brown
crust over it.
A handsome low screen is made by
painting a large card-board a sky-blue,
then painting a spray of daisies and
clover blossoms on it. Then set this in
a frame of plush about an inch and a half
wide, and this is to be placed in a light
ebony frame with a standard.
A good relish to take with a lunch is
made of ham. Pound some pieces of
ham in a mortar, just as fine as you can.
Season it with pepper and spice, and
moisten 11 willi uuuu. x ubtuto | j
into a mold, or cart hern bowl, and press 18
it in very tightly. Put it into the oven ^
for half an hour. Let it get perfectly ?
cold. It can then be cut into thin slices. (
It is nice if used for a lilliDg for sand- ?
wiches. J
Very rich fritters are made of one and ]
one-half pints of flour, the yolks of four j
eggs, two small teaspoonfnls of baking ]
powder, butter the size of a large hickory
nut, salt to taste, with enough milk to i
make a thick batter; fry in lard that is <
heated to the boiling point. A rule for : t
plainer ones may be wished for also. ! j
Two pcrrrs. one cud of sweet milk, a lit- j ?
tic salt, and ilou^ enough to make a still j (
batter. Theso are nice with maple syrup, i i
Eggs arc poached by dropping them I 1
raw "from the broken shells inio a pot of | 1
boiling water; lift them from the water 1
in a perforated ladle, and do not let them t
remain long enough in the water for the i
wnites to be made opaque. The beauty a
of a poached egg is the visibility of the >
yellow yolk as seen through the semi- s
transparent white envelope. Served on si
slice of hot buttered toast, aud lightly : f
sprinkled with pepper, a poached egg is ; 1
most appetizing. In the spring of the j t
year, as a top dressing to boiled greens ] s
of any kind, eggs prepared this way are i f
almost universally liked. ; ?
To cook so simple a dish as pearl hom- j 1
iny for breakfast would seem to need no *
particularity of instruction, but that thi, j f
is not the rase is proved by the half raw . i
watery and lumpy stuff that is often jc
hrrmcrht to table under the name of hom- ! f
""""O
iny. In the first place, to cook hominy | F
deliciously milk must be used?there is j '
no possibility of making it really good J
with water only. Put into a china bowl | E
the night before an even teacupful of |fi
hominy, aucl pour upon it .enough cold ; c
water just to cover it. Cover it up, and ,1
next morning pour into a farina kettle a : ?
pint of rich milk and a saltspoonful of |1
salt. Fifteen minutes' boiling will cook ; *
it sufficiently, but half an hour will 11
make it better. As it is in a double ket- i t
tie there will be no danger of burning, ; t
and it needs only an occasional stirring ! '
with a silver'spoon. If you have plenty ; t
of cream it will improve it, and a small j 1
bit of fresh butter does not come amiss.
Eat with cream and sugar, or butter and !"
sugar. It is very nice with a soft-boiled j rJ
egg incorporated with its melting lus- j <
ciousness, and it is perfect sliced when ' J
cold and fried. Between hominy cooked ; i
o.,rl linilod in xvntfT th(>rr* ia ! E
a great dilTerence. No breakfast cereal j <
should ever be cooked in anything but a j
double farina kettle; small ones of block 8
tin are nice for the purpose. These ket- I
ties obviate constant attendance in stir- ]
ring, and so make a breakfast dish of this i
healthful kind one of the easiest to pro- I
vide and one of the hardest for a cook i >
to spoil, so long as she follows simple 11
directions. ! *
Animal Plagues. ! j
The plague of rabbits in our Austra- !r
lasian colonies is one of which much has 1 i
been heard, and it appears that another ]
i *i... /i~? ?i 1 ,
jMiropcuii iiuiutiii, iiiu uv^, ia uwui iu ^
follow the example of the rabbit, unci : t
make himself a pest in place of a pet. ! t
It appears that the number of wild or t
semi-wild dogs has recently increased ::
largely in Victoria and New South' f
Wales, and the consequence is a great! i
slaughter of sheop by these nomads, i
The government has already offered re- \ i
wards for their destruction. In New 1
Zealand some enterprising people have t
hit on the idea of importing weasels and 1
stoats from England to keep down the i
rabbits; but it the former increase in i
their new habitat as the latter have done, 1
tiie last state of New Zealand will be j ?
worse than the lirst, for a plague of 1
rabbits must be as nothing compared to r
a plague of weasels, aud a great increase i
of the latter, from their predatory and ! i
destructive habits, must be followed by ;
a considerable alteration in the distri- I
butiou of the fauna of New Zealand. 't
In Jamaica, according to the last re- 1
port of the director of public gardens !
in that colony, the planters suffered
greatly from the depredations of rats
among the sugar-canes. The rat-eaten j
canes were good for nothing except rum,
and accordingly large sums were spent
in poison and dogs to keep down the !
rats, lait apparently without much sue- j
cess. At last an enterprising planter I
determined to import the mongoose from
India to destroy the rats on his sugar
estate. The sugar planters, Mr. Morris
says, have unquestionably benefited
inf rmlnnfinn firwl rfit./mfptl
UJ II.! V-...-.. ,
canes arc now hardly known where for- ; i
livily they were found in large quantities, i
But the new importation continues to 1
multiply and spread, not only on sugar i
estates, but on the highest mountains, as j
well as along shore, even amid swamps
and lagoons; and when the sugar-cam; 1
rat is wholly exterminated, the mongoose : ]
will still go on increasing, and what i
then? Must the colonists find something 1
else to exterminate the mongoose, and I
save their poultry,and so on ail infinitum? i
As it is, ne<jro settlers and persons not i
connected with sugar estates complain of <
its ravages among their poultry and even i
accuse it. ot destroying mm iinu vege- i
tables; anil although Mr. Morris doubts i
whether these complaints are all well I
founded, he acknowledges that the mongoose
is the cause of great disturbance in I
the animal life of Jamaica. Harmless i
yellow and other snakes, lizards,ground- <
hatching birds, rabbits, and many mem- (
bers of the indigenous fauna of the island !
are likely to become extinct at no distant j i
date.?Nature. j 1
Since 187"# the number of newspapers j
and periodical publications of all sorts in
Japan has increased from 150 to 2,000.
There are five important journals, but
nly one contains literary articles. I
LIFE AMONG THE YAKUTS.
DESCBXPTXON OF TRAVEL 027 THE
UPPER LENA.
*inonp the Natives of Northern Siberia
?CurioiiM llnbil* nnd Customs?
Bi'lrotkah in ihc Aortb<
I had a thousand miles to go before I
should reach the Arctic ocean. I found
some difficulty in first cramming myself
into my deer sled, and a few hours afterward
quite as great in getting out of it.
Ihe deer sled is a long narrow affair,
placed on high wooden runners; it is
made extremely light, of a frame work
af slender birch, and is covered with a
liood in order to protect, the head and
face of the occupant from the biting
blasts. It is, in fact, in appearance a
lengthened out cradle and I think about
fnrfol^ln At nlrrlif mm clonnc In
.a vv....?..,..v.v. ... ^ .. 1/ v..v o.vvj/o ...
it very comfortably. I remember the
irst night we were in the iorest, the
moon shone brightly, the road .was good
ind Yakut horses arc trained to follow
sne another faithfully, and only the
leading driver has any seriou9 work to
lo. When I was awake, however, I
[ound the journey strangely weird and
nteresting. You sec before you nothing
jut a mass of trees and slender underwood?no
opening in which you can
inagine that a road exists. But the
eader enters the gloom of the forest fearessly;
he darts on first to the right and
then to the left, between trunks of trees
scarcely more than a foot wider apart
V* n n in nnft/ln/1 ! /"> ll mill' olrwl
,iiuu 10 tuiuu^n ? uiuit juu* oiv,u
3 to pass. Now and then you lose sight
3f the sled in advance of you. but your
[lorse knows the road, if you do not attempt
to drive, and he follows. Strange
forms then the sled takes on in the
whitened gloom. The Yakuts do not
put sleigh bells on the harness, and you
pass on so silently, and the fitting things
in front of you, of which you catch
glimpses occasionally, seem to form pari
jf some strange, weird and ghostly profession.
So you pass on for hours through the
O'.'cst. Then a white, bleak space opens
n front of you, over which you pass in
he moonlight. It is the frozen surface
)f a lake, of which there are scores
imong the forests. Suddenly, when you
lave passed the crest of a hill, you look
lown toward the valley that seems a mile
iwav. You imagine that rockets are
)cing fired high into the sky l5y some
inknown friends. They seem to be shot
lp one after the other with great reguarity,
and you can imagine for the
noment that a company ol' Cossacks has
)een sent in advance to point out your
esting or camping place. But this is an
Uusion. The valley is not a hundred
rards awav, and the rockets are nothing
nore than the sparks from the blazing
learth of a Yakut yourte. A welcome
light, nevertheless, and you are glad to
:scape from the cold night frost, and to
varm yourself at the blazing fire. The
iccommodations offered by the Yakuts
iro not very grand, but the people share
vith you all they have,and I would quite
is soon sleep inside the hut of a Yakut
>r a Tonguse as in the fetid atmosphere
?'K?,,nnlnnnl? V.minh
)Ost house on the Siberian post road.
Hie Yakut is at least kindly and respect:ul,
which cannot always be said of the
Russian post station keeper.
Outside the Yakut yourct looks a
rery insignificant affair. It is very low, i
covered with a layer of mud and in win-1
er of snow, and has slabs of ice prop- j
icd up from the outside for windows,
ind a doorway just large enough for a
:ow to squeeze through, and much too [
ow for a man. Enter the hut and you |
eel the grateful warmth of the blazing .
ogs piled upon the raised hearth, and j
eel at once well disposed to the inhabi- ;
ants, whoever they may be. Oncc inside j
ind you see that the yourtc is built of
terns of larch trees, the sides sloping up- j
vard toward the roof, which latter is i
ilso made of larch stems laid side by side i
ind supported by pillars rising from the I
loor. In the centre of the yourte is the
mgc raised hearth, slender stems of
rees plastered with mud forming the
imokc conductor or chimney. The logs
or the fire are placcd in an upright portion,
so that ihey burn quickly and j
iirow out it comioruimu wanmu muuiiu
he room, which may bo fifteen to twen- I
y yards square; close beneath the slop- j
ng sides are built rude benches, divided
>fl into compartments, each about six j
cct long. These are the sleeping bunks, |
>rivacy being only possible when you
lave a shawl or rug to hang up before!
our division. On these benches you all j
leep, Yakuts and travelers, the yem- j,
chiks taking the floor, and you sleep j
comfortably enough in the blaze and
varmth of the (ire. There is an inner
ipartment to thcyourte, a kind of annex j
>r dependence. This is not given up to
he family, or even the ladies of the
louse, but is an unrestricted domain of
he cows, which, however have to pass
hrough the living department to get 10
heir own. But they are well trained, .
lip-tn Yakut cows, and know where thev
jelong.
In sucli a Yakut yourct family affairs i
ire made very apparent to the traveler, j
The curtained partition in the cflhier
annot prevent you from hearing the
iuny cry of the newly-born Yakut, and j
f the curlain is opened for a moment j
ind another female member of the family j
:arries oil a young two-year-old who lias ,
ust been enjoying his natural supper, j
tud the cry still continues, you cannot
)ut come to the conclusion that the
k'akut mother has a busy time on hand i
n providing for the latest before the one
ireceding has been weaned from the
lutnral mode of iraininjr its food. Then
here are the belles of the family. These i
ire nothing if not ugly. In one yourte
here were three Yakut damsels, their I
iges ranging from twelve to twenty. !
l'liey possessed but a single pipe, which
vas passed round from one to the other. ;
f their brothers, the yemschiks. are just j
joingout on a journey, they allow each
;o take a few energetic. whilTs before \
heir departure, and then go at the work
liemselves again, chatting and looking
iftcr the boling of the sour milk at the j
;ame time. The pipe is kept going
ilinost ince-santly from morning till
li^ht. The girls arc not, as I said be- !
'ore, handsome. Their faces have too,
nuch cheekbone, their noses are too llat,
;heir eyes too straight slit, and their
labits in general too peculiar for
ippreciation. Such a Yakut maiden Is
lot long fancy free. She is betrothed
jy her parents at a very early age, say
?ix or seven, when all the contracts for
lcr future life are settled and sealed.
1'en or a dozen years later they pilgrimlge
together to the nearest Greek church,
iviiich may be fifty or a hundred miles
iway, and are mairicd.
For all these Yakuts are Christians,
hough I should not like to assert that
:hey understand very we'll t he mysteries
if the^ faith to which they were introduced
*in such a summary fashion. I
noticed when we started on our journeys
;hat the mounted yemsehick in front of
ny sled invariably took oil his fur c:>p
mmediately after starting out, and with j
i long series of crosses commended himself
and the party intrusted to his care
ind guidance to the god of the Greek
;hurch. Hut all along the road otiMho
;rces were tufts of horse hair and bits of
ags. and these I learned had been placed
here by the Yakut yemsehiks in order
;o propitiate their old divinity, Shama:,
ind to induce him to <rive them <;ood
.veather and good roads. Hut neither
lorse hair nor rags wore of any avail as
cgards speed.?JVe/c York- Tcletjrmn.
A Conjuror^ Cent.
By the way. 110 miracle claimed for
Mme. 151a vat sky, the theosophist, is
liore marvelous titan one I saw performed
by a conjurer in Calcutta. A man
brought out a dozen or more little figures
iiuder two inches high?little dolls?
and setting them on their straw-like legs
an a table, bade them dance. The man
Stood quite a yard olT, but whenever he
bade the figures move, they moved. He
Drdcred two to come out and wait/, in
the center of the table, and they did so.
rhc tiny things trooped up and down the
:able as he commanded, in me most
unazing way. Finally the conjurer incited
me to lay a penny on the table. I
lid so, and the coin instantly galloped
icross the wooden table an<l pitched itself
in a money box. And yet the man
ivas not a thought reader nor a theosophist,
but an avowed conjurer, performing
in a tent 011 the wayside.?M. 1). |
Couwat/.
Faulty grammarians should cultivate J
the parse-nip.?<louverneurllcrul<L
NEWS SUMMAE7
Eastern nnd Middle State*.
Dissatisfied with the action of the Na '
tional Democratic convention, the Tammany j
Hall wing of the New York Democrats has
hitherto remained passive in the political
conflict; but at a meeting of the Tammany !
general committee in New York,"a few even- j
ings ago, it was resolved, by 810 yeas to 87
nays, to support Cleveland and Hendricks.
William W. Messer, 74 years old, a
wealthy resident of Boonton, N. J., while at j
breakfast table, suddenly seized a revolver j
and shot his daughter Mary, :i0 years old; i
then ho shot his wife, and wound up the j
dreadful series of tragedies by killing himself.
The two women wore fatally wounded.
The old man was occentrie to the verge of insanity.
Maine's official vote, excepting a few small
towns, is as follows for governor: Robie
(Republican), 77,77'J; Redman (Democrat),
w orn- H R F.nf.rm ffrrpenhfifk). I?. 147: W.
F. Eaton (Straight Greenback), IS"*: Eustis
(Prohibition), 1,157; scattering, '.(5. This
makes the Republican plurality The
prohibitory amendment to the constitution
was adopted by 44,2iM majority.
A bio and fine apple crop is reported from
the great apple-bearing districts along tho
Huflson river.
Doctor Adolpii J. Nockix, a prominent
New York druggist, was shot dead in his
store without a moment's warning, by Thoodore
Hung, a former clerk, who is supposed to
be insane, as there was no apparent causo for
his crime.
The Bedford County bank, at Leverett,
Perm., has lwen obliged to suspend because of
losses sustained by the failure of the Kemblts
Coal and Iron Company, of Kiddlesburg. Tho :
officers of the bank say the depositors will
lm nn if 1 {,* full
President Beelye, of Amherst college,
has declined the Massachusetts Prohibition
nomination for governor.
South and West.
W. B. Connor, a contractor of tho Txjxington
(Ky.) waterworks, and It. S. Perkins, one
of tho guard*, have been arrested and lodged
ill jail for beating the two convicts to death.
The foreman of tho gang of convicts, also implicated
in tho brutal beating of the two men,
disappeared.
Colorado Republicans have nominated
Hon. Ben H. Eaton for governor.
The boiler of a tug-boat exploded in tho
James river, near Dutch Gap., Va,, killiug
the captain and fireman.
Prime Minister Ferry, after a conference
with the French secretaries of war and marine,
General Camponon and Admiral Peyron,
telegraphed to Admiral Courbet to resume
warlike operations against the Chinese
at once.
N. C. Thompson's bank at Rockford, 111.,
has suspended with liabilities of ?">00,000.
A boii.er explosion in a steam flouring
mill at Morton, 111., killed the engineer ami
two or three other men, who were buried in
the ruins, and fatally injured three moro
men.
The boiler of the Central Railroad compress
at Eufaula, Ala, exploded, killing four men
nnH in-mrinor ?nvr?rn1 ntlmrvj Ahnnf*. 400 1inlr?z
of cotton were burned. Tho total loss is estimated
at $100,000.
TnE total losses by tho recent floods in Wisconsin
reach $'2,000,(XX).
Thomas Thcrman, son of a reputable
minister of tho gospel, in jail at Barustown,
Ky., for a murderous assault on a colored
man, brained a fellow prisoner named Frank
Feustez, who interfered to stop his torture of
a boy confined in the same cell with him.
A Masked man entered the house of, "William
Jennison, school treasurer of Washington
township, Iowa, and demanded ot" Mrs.
Jennison tho school money. She replied that
it was in tho bank, whereupon the intruder
drew his revolver, shot her dead and fled.
John G. Camjsle, late Speuker of the
House, has l>con ro-noiuinatcd for Congress in
Kentucky.
The sessions of tho American Forestry congress
at Saratoga. N. Y., were well attended.
Animated discussions took place on the best
means of preserving tho forests of the coun
try.
A passenger train was thrown from the
track near Fanner City, 111., at 5 o'clock, a.
m., by a broken rail. Attached to tho train
was a private car containing tho Hon.
Thomas A. Kcndrieks and party en
route to Peoria, 111. This car rolled
down an embankment fifteen feet and
tui lied bottom side up. It was with much
difficulty that tho occupants got out. The
entire party were pretty severely shaken up.
Governor Hendricks was slightly bruised,
but not so as to interfere with his engagements
at Pfloria. Fifteen to twenty persons
in all were more or less seriously injured.
Because he had been rejected by Mm
Penrose Garmon, a widow living near Homer
centre, uino, ijuuuii rly uruw a auu
shot her, inflicting a severe wound. Supposing
ho had killed Mrs. Gannon, Fry blew
his braius out.
Wiuhlnfflon*
The report of the board appointed some
time since for the consideration of a scheme
for tho founding of a national war school for
naval officers has been submitted to the secretary
of the navy, and the recommendations
made therein approved by him.
A Washington dispatch says that Assistant
Secretary Charles E. Coon was designated
by tho President ns acting secretary of
the treasury for ten days.
From statistics just published it seems that
during August there arrived in the various
customs districts of tho -United States, 47,037
passengers, ot wuoih ?eio cuugiuum,
10,:J72 citizens of the United States returned
from abroad, and I5.517 aliens not intending
to remain in' the United State?.
Of the emigrants, came from
England and Wales, :},014 from Ireland, 10,<)01
from Germany, 1,071 from Norway, 1,!!0:{
from Russia, 1.S72 from Sweden anil
168 from the Domiuicfti of Canada The number
of emigrants who airived in the United
States during August, 1SSU, was :58,o8S. The
total number of emigrants who arrived in tho
United States during tho eight nnnths ended
August 01, 16S4, was E40,r>S:?, a:- compared
witTj -I0i;,45;i arrivals during tho same period
of the year 1S8&
The exports of breadstuff's for August,
1S84, were valued at $10,4"j5,/i:i0, against 18,875,276
in ISs:}. The value of the exports for
the eight months ended August :?1 was 1)6,000,250,
against $114,201),476 last year.
Foreign.
The Alaska exploring expedition, under
Lieutenant Stoney, in the schooner Ounalaska,
has been heard from. The explorations
are progressing favorably.
Kino Humbeut, of Italy, has contributed
SOO.OUO for the relief of tho Naples cholera
suilerers. ine American minister suuscnuuu
$1,000 to the relief fund. In two days there
was a total of 7.3S deaths from cholera in
Naples.
Mr. John M. Francis, the now American
Minister to Austria, presented his credentials
to Eniporor Francis Joseph.
A Pekin dispatch says that the reply of
the Tsung-li-Yamen to the French ultiiualuin
of July 12 deplores tho refusal of France to
accept America's offer of mediation, and
declares China is willing to submit her cose to
any friendly power.
Since tho beginning ?f the cholera outbreak
in Naples, and up to tho :.'Jst, there
were deaths from that terrible disease
in that city.
Seventy thousand people are re]K>rtod to
have been drowned by an inundation in tho
province of Kiangsee, China. Tho ilood
Listed four days, and the whole province was
sixty feet under water.
1I1K I'llOILTJl 1M UL-vll-anill,^ in nui;.
Severe Hoods liave prevailed around Go-1
rona, Spain, the rivers Ter and Ona having
risen. Considerable loss of life and property i
occurred and railway traffic was susitcnued. !
With the decrease of tho number of vie- j
tims, Naples has revived from the cholera j
panic, and busines; h;us been resumed. King j
Humbert, of Italy, is everywhere received :
with enthusiasm oh account of tho visits and j
attention which he paid to his cholera-stricken ,
subjects in hospitals.
Friendly Arabs have defeated Osman Dig- ;
ma's rebel followers in the Soudan. The reb- j
els liad sixtj- and the Arabs twenty killed, j
General WoLseley has ordered the formation j
of a camel corps to take part in the Soudan [
expedition.
Magnificent banquets were given at j
rskhtlliwiri% l imiuu, in ./? w..v
visiting emiwrors. Great precautious wero j
taken against dynamite.
The Chinese forces on the Min river were
completely routed by a bixly of 53,000 French '
troops. f
The cznr of Russia has pardoned forty- ,
two nihilist-!, who had been sentenced to Si- |
lieria, and commuted the sentences of sevoaty-tliree
others.
A noteworthy meeting of nionarchs has
just taken pla-o at Skierniwice. At a famous |
chateau in that place the emperors of <?i-r- i
many and Austria, and the czar of Itusua, j
accompunied by the three ministers?M. do ;
(Jicrs for Russia, I'rinee ISismarck for (Jerniany,
and Count Kalnoky for Austria?held j
a secret < ? inference.
Civil. war prevails in Peru.
SevkiiaI, inches of snow have fallen in i
parts of Can/Kin ami Now Hrunswiek.
Admikai. CVh*bbet, commander of tho
French navnl force in China, estimates that
his 1 h>tul>ar< 1 Micnt of tho nrsimnl near Foo-j
Chmv and of the forts along th>? Min river did I
damage to the amount of $10,(/JO,000.
Setting apart differences of muscular
capacity and adaptation, a man, says Mr.
Riclnrd A. Proctor, in order to fly ;
would need wings bearing tlie same pro-1
]>ortion to his body as we observe in the
sparrow or the pigeon. In fact the wings
commonly assigned to angels by sculptors
and painters would not be so disproportior.cd
to the requirements of
flight as lias been commonly supposed, if !
only the muscular power of the human j
frame were well adapted to act. upon
wings so placed and shaped and there
were no actual inferiority in the power
of human muscle* (cross section for cross i
section) as compared with those of birds. |
LATER NEWS.
Official returns givo the following complete
figures of tho vote for governor of
Maine: Robie; 78,01:2; Redman, .V.I,(X?l; H. B.
Eaton,.'!,i:i7; Eustis, 1,l!i0; W. F. Eaton, 97:
scattering, 10. This shows a Republican
plurality of 19,851, ami a majority of 15,411.
President Seelye denies that he has refused
the Prohibition nomination for governor
of Massachusetts.
A statue of General John Fulton Reynolds,
who was killed at tho battle of Gettysburg,
was unveiL'd in front of the city hall>
in Philadelphia. Tho Grand Army paraded
in honor of the event and an artillery squad
tired a salute.
Ex Speaker Blaine, on his trip to tin
West, was received at New York with an
-jvation by a crowd.
Edward Redden*, a horse thief, was son
tenceu .at \\ liimngton, uei., to pay me
costs of his prosecution, $100 restitution
money, $-00 fine, one hour in the pillory,
twenty lashes, and to undergo eighteen
mouths' imprisonment.
A "Washington dispatch says that "Judge
Drununoud, of tho United States circuit
court, whose resignation has been in the
President's hands for some time, has written
urging its prompt acceptance. He will be
succeeded by Postmaster General W. Q,
Gresham, formerly United States district
judge in Indiana, who, although he at one
time was glad to retire from the tench, will
gladly resume its functions, which he lind?
1 In Ilia lintiite 1111(1 tflslfu. Hie
(11u1c iuu(j<;niui ww ?.*<? ?
successor will, it is believed,be First Assistant
Postmaster General Hatton."
General Gordon has sent a cipher dispatch
to the British representatives at Cairo
in which he says that he is awaiting the Uritish
forces in order to evacuate tho Egyptian
garrisons, and that he will surrender the Soudan
to the sultan as soon as 'JO,000 Turkis''
troops arrive.
The island of Jamaica, West Indies, want?
to be annexed to Canada,and the proportion is
urder consideration.
Fire has destroyed tho greater part of ths
business portion of Papaote, in tho Sandwich
islands. Loss, $120,000.
Heavy floods have destroyed the crops in
nmny parts of Spain.
THE "NATIONAL GAME,
Tall pitchers are becoming tho fashion.
P. T. Barnum has presented a fine lot to
the Bridgeport (Ct.) club.
Great interest is token in baseball in To"
ronto and othor largo Canadian towns, Montreal
excepted.
At Galena, 111., a couple of woeks ago, a
voutb, while at bat, had his right arm broken
below the elbow by being struck with a
pitched ball.
Davis, the successful young pitcher of tho
St. Louis Browns, is said to owe much of his
effectiveness to a wonderful down curve,
which is very deceptive.
LORKHILL, right fielder of the Ciucinnatisi
has only dropped three fly bally this seasonTwo
of the muffs were made in Philadelphia)
his old homo, during the last Eastern trip of
the club. He had a sore hand at the time.
Boston leads the League in fielding, being
followed by Providence, Buffalo, New York,
Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland and Philadelphia.
Chicago leads in the batting, followed by
Buffalo, Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
Providence, Cleveland and Detroit.
In Savannah, Ga., a lad named Roberts,
about fourteen years old, while attempting
to throw a curve ball, fractured his right arm
between tho elbow and shoulder. A doctor
was called and attributed tho accident to the
fact that Roberts, in attempting to give the
ball the curve line, brought into play tho two
muscles of the arm at the same instant, when
the bone of the arm being remarkably brittle
for a boy of Roberts' age it was fractured.
Umpire Bob Ferguson is the oldest professional
ball player before tho public this
vear. He ha-i wrestled with fortv-thrce con
tie summers and as many tou^h winters. Joe
Start, lirst basoof the Providence nine comes
next iu point of service, and is forty years old.
Nelson, of the Metropolitans, is not a spring
chicken, and has been a voter for the last
nineteen years. Dave Force and Deveon,
Jim White, of the Buffalos, Cassidyand Remseu.
of the Brooklyn*, York and Barnie, of
the Baltimorcs, and Ftilmer, of the St. Louis
Americans, also played ball away back in the
sixties.
At the end of the twentioth week the record
of the League clubs in the championship
race jvas:
Club*. If'on. Lout. | Chtbt. Won. Lost.
Providence 73 21 I Chicago 49 40
Boston.. G5 281 Cleveland .31 C4
New York 84 40 I Philadelphia 31 Ct
Buffalo 53 40 j Detroit 2t 74
The record of the twelve American Association
clubs at the end of the twentieth week
was as follows:
Clubs. Won. Lout. \ Club*. Won. Loft.
Metronolltnn 6'i 34 I Baltimore 47 37
Columbus 61 23. Brooklyn 35 S3
Lotiieville 51 30 | Toledo 31 56
Cincinnati 56 35 I Indianapolis... .27 (8
8t. Louis 53 36 | Pittsburg 2t! 65
Atlantic 53 311 Virginia 19 G7
NEWSY GLEANINGS,
Frosts have visited Connecticut every
month this year.
China proposes to adopt postal cards on
and ni ter January 1, 1883.
It costs the United States $5,456,389,31 to
take care of tho Indians this year.
This year's crops in the United States are
estimated to be worth $3,000,(WO,000.
Leadvili.e has now a population of about
12,000, a decrease of 2,000 within the last
year.
A prayer hospitul for the performance of
faith cures has been established in Erie,
Pen n.
The year 18S4, according to present promise,
will have distinction as thy year of great
There nre now about 325,000 pensioners of
all clasaei, and of those 2i>,000 are tho t?oldiers
themselves.
Petroleum has been found in Palermo so i
pure tlmt it can bo burned in lamps without I
artifical refining.
Since ISsu tho increase of deposits in the '
State and savings banks of the country has
been nearly ?cj00,000,000.
The Uhio penitentiary has discarded tho
striped convict- suits, and the prisoners uow I
wear 110 distinctive clothing.
The colored race in tho United States is
estimated at 7,00l),0.)0 strong, and their prop- !
j rtv holdings exceed ?100,000,000.
The Navajos of New Mexico are said to be |
very rich. These Indians own largo droves j
of "cattle and horses aud about 1,000,000 I
sheep.
American milk and cream have been sue- |
f-ll 1 < _ V..,.. V.^-l. I /Miflrin !
CCSSlUUy I1UIU lie. lum lu ,
by sti-nmers, arriving in a perfectly fresh and |
palatable condition.
The grund total of appropriations for the '
coming fiscal year is $lfc0,lfi(i,470. That is, it i
takes over $500,0:10 per duy to greas-j tho j
wheels of government.
Is Southern Mexico and Yucatan, thousands
of families, it is said, will have to bo !
!iip]K>rtcd by the government, on account of 1
damages to crops from locusts and drought, j
A New Mexico paj>cr, the Santa Fo Review,
gives this instance of l>ig betting on the !
presidential election: V. C. Place, general ;
manager of tho 1'inis Atlas Gold and Silver j
Mining company, at Las Vegas, N. M., and |
Charl_*s M.Shannon.of tho Hughes and Shan- .
11011 Copper works, at Clifton, have made
the largest bet on the result of the presidential
election thus far on record. Mr. Place
bet a new mill recently erected at a cost of
$40,000,and all the company's mines and property,
including the mercantile establishment, !
all"valuei at $5(0,uufl, against Hughes & [
Shannon's copper proi>erty. valued at$i>00.
000. The necessary i>ipors have been made |
out anil placed in the lmiul* of an escrow |
pending the result of the election.
fI10M1NENT PEOPLE.
Ex-Speaker.J. WakRk.v Keiker will do?
i.: . C..?? Intv it* WTficliiticrfw^tl.
VUl?* III"* UUflltluii n/ ??? " *?4
Senator Dawks, of Massachusetts, has J
l>een linking liis annual visit lo tiio Indian I
agencies of tiio far West.
Tiiiuty years ago General Phil Sheridan |
was n lieutenant and known ns tin" best song- !
nud-dunce man on the Texas frontier.
Driuxo the three yenx-s' stay at Constan- |
tinople of Consnl-(!ein;ral Lew Wallace he I
only saw the American flag on two vessels, j
H. 1!. C'oMEHis the richest of tlw Alabama
cotton planters. He runs plows 011 his
lands near Spring Hill, and hosts of hands
pick iiou bales of cotton every year. [
15KN: 1'khi.ey Poohe, as the life-long friend
of Henry H. Anthony, received by will from 1
the late Senator the* Charles Sumner silver |
pitcher and ctip and $2.;"iOU in money, making [
l'oore less poor than he was.
James I'ay.v, the novelist, savs of his |
brothel's und sisters of (lie ]?eii: "ilyexperi- !
ence of men anil women of letters, which has I
been continuous and extends over thirty
years, is that for kindness of heart they have <
110 equals.''
The Into Sirs. Caroline E. Brown, of "Waterford
Mo., loft ?500 to lie expended iu the eree- I
tion of n monument to her son, Clmrlc-) F.
Brown?the whole world's "Artemus Ward." |
The little grave is now marked liya bit of i
moss-covered slab.
General W. S. Hancock's wife has composed
n piece, arranged for an orchestra, to
be dedicated to .Sir Mosos Montofiore, the Hebrew
philanthropist, of J.on Ion, in honor of
his coming centennial birthday, when also
the entire .Masonic fraternity, of which Sir
Moses is an honored member, will take appropriate
action commemorative of the day.
Spirits of camphor and starch applied
to a burn will extract the fire and give
speedy relief. The starch should be kept
| moistened with camphor.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Herr Rubenstein, as London Truth
makes noto, lias engaged to give twonty concerts
in America.
Mme. Janauscjieck's new play, "My
Life," is said to be an adaptation of ychiller s
"Love and Intrigue."
Miss Maud Banks, the daughter of General
N. P. Banks, is not to go upon tho stage.
Kuinor had it contrariwise.
Mme. Carlotta Paxti is to star at the
head of a concert company during the coming
season in tho English provincial cities
and towns.
Maude Stuart, who played tho blind girl
in "Young Mrs. Wintlirop," has recoverednei
Bight, which was injured by fixed gazing tc
simulate blindness.
An American prodigy, Ernest Schelling,
aged eight, has,by the help of Ambrose Thomas,
entered the Paris Conservatoire to learn
pianoforte playing.
The Philharmonic society of London lias
odered a prize of twenty guineas for the best
concert overture. Foreign artists are admitted
to competition.
Augustin Daly's New York Comedy
company made so favorable an impression in
London, that all the papers coll upon l^r.
uuij iv iuvuiu itcab acaojii.
Vienna has given $50,000 for the erection
of a monument to the memory of Mozart?a
sum greater than tbo aggregate amount received
by tho composer for all hi3 productions.
The company supporting Mme. Ristori
during her lour of this couutry will not be
from England, as heretofore announced, but
will be carefully selected from tho best
American artists.
Amono tho new projects in view in New
York is the building of a large theatre, which
it is tho intention of Messrs. Mai lory and
Palmer to render as perfect in every respect
as a theatre can be.
Berlin lias produced a novelty in the
shape of a Lilliputian opera company. The
artists range from twenty-two to thirty-?even
years of age find from twenty-three to thirty
??a mnfiuo in ImtfrKf
"Lee-li-nau," the new American opera,
written by Karl Marble and composed by
Richard Stahl, is already in rehearsal by the
Wilbur Opera Company, by whom it will be
given at tun Academy ot Music in Baltimore,
November 10.
McICee Rankin has introduced women
ushers at his Third Avenue (N. Y.) theatre,
and, according to the local press, his innovation
has turned out a success. They are
neatly unifonned, treat people politely and
take visitors to their seats quickly and without
any noise or fuss.
Nilsson says Patti'a voice holds out remarkably
well for a woman of hor age.
Patti ouly hope3 that she may be ablo to sing
as well as Nilsson when she is as old. G'erster
remembers the pleasure both theso singers
gave her when she was a little girl.
Speaking of the decadence of the taste of
Shakespeare, Edwin Forrest said: "When
there shall como a time when an aotor can
look and act 'Antony,' and a woman who can
IrtnL' nnsl oof If'larmqfm ' nnH tha nlov trnf. tin
with the same care of detail ana expense as
the 'Black Crook,' it will run a thousand
nights.'
THE GALLOWS.
The Came of the Cincinnati Riots
.TIocls hl? Doom.
Ben Johnson, the negro burker, was hanged
in the jail yard at Cincinnati in the presence
of 600 people. He made a few rambling remarks
on the scaffold, declaring his innocence
and requesting all to meet him in heaven.
He was baptized by a Methodist minister on
tne previous evening aud passed the night
nervously smoking a clay pipe, praying and
singing hymns until 2 o'clock tliis morning,
n'lian Vm trnnf. +r* Ho nrrtCfl nt*. flVA Anrl
ate breakfast, broke down completely and be.
gan to howl and cry in a craven maimer.
After bis baptism, however, he expressed
himself happy and not afraid to die, but on
the scaffold lie shook like a leaf with fear.
Johnson's crime was the most fiendish ever
committed in Ohio. The story of Johnson's
work, as a partner of Allen Ingalls, made a
great sensation throughout the world and
precipitated the great riot in Cincinnati On
Friday night, February 15, 1884, a small
cabin'near Avondale was burned. It had
been occupied by Beverly Taylor, an old
negro, his wife and on adopted daughter,
Eliza Jane Lambert, aged eleven. On Saturday
morning the charred ruins of the old
hut suggested to people in the vicinity the
death by lire of the three inmates during the
night. A week later Marshal Brown, following
on intuitive clew, found the bodies of the
miuci'nrr .vxuiIa in t(ii> i]iiseniinir room of the
Ohio frcdical college, on Sixth^near Vine.
The bodies were found as brought to the college.
The skull of each was fractured. There
was unmistakable evidence that each person
had been murdered. Subsequent investigation
showed that they had been brought to
the college on the night of the lire by two neSroes,
who had been paid for the bodies by
r. Cilley, the demonstrator in anatomy.
Marshal Drown at once aiTested Allen
IngalLs and Ben Johnson, in Avondale,
charging them with murdering the Taylor
family. A flame of indignation against the
medical college passed over the country, and
for nine dnys the prevailing topic of conversation
everywhere was on the murder. A
month later came the baptism of lire and
riot upon the jail and court-house. Johnson
was sentenced to hnng on Friday, September
12. He stated when on trial that he
was about thirty years old; that he had been
born a slave in Trumbull county, Kentucky,
and had served a year in the army. From
confessions, which both men made during
their stay in jail, it Ls certain that for years
Johnson, IngalLs and others were making
"stiff " raj&uuz their busiaais.
A Monkey Oilrl.
Recently a reporter called at the residence
of Alexander A. Baldwin, at NewOrleans,
where a curious child was said
to have lately arrived.
"This curious child,'' said Mr. Baldwin,
"was in the house, but being accustomed
to live in the open air, the
room seemed too close for her and we
have placed her where she can have
plenty of space." Preceding the reporter,
he passed through the garden into an
outhouse, where a sort of bed had been
arranged upon the ground, and upon it
lay what appeared to be a bundle of
clothes. "She is sleeping," said Mr.
?,wi in nnt. wflll. Not know
jjuiu.rr *uy uu>? *w ..v. _
ing yesterday whether she required a
special food, I gave her a piece of ham
aud it made her sick.1'
He approached softly and removed the
covering. There lay, gathered in a bundle,
this curious being, with her knees
drawn up against her chest and an unusually
small head, with large ears bent
forward and resting against the knees,
in a position usually taken by quadrupeds
when cold. Mr. Baldwin gently
cried out '-Rose, Rose!" Hearing her
name cried out the child opened her
eyes and looked around. She tinally
aroused herielf, and. being stood up by
Mr. Baldwin, gave the writer a full opportunity
of examining lier.
She is about thirty inches in height,
with no noticeable deformity in the formation
of her body, with the one exception
of having the right leg larger aud
louger than the left, and her breast protruding
somewhat like that of a chicken.
The striking feature is the extraordinary
small size of the neck and head and its
shape. It is formed more like that of an
ane than a human being, and is only ten
inches in circumference. At the summit
of the he:id there appears to exist 110
bone, and a constant pulsation is visible.
In stature she is very small, aud Mr.
Baldwin thinks she is about ten years
old. All her movements are quick and
monkey-like, and she is particularly fond
of biting and pinching. She appears to
enjoy caresses, and when Mr. Baldwin
speaks to her she clings to his neck and
tries to climb into his Ian and hug him
closely, as if seeking protection. She
also appears very fond of music, and
when any one begins to sin<r her face
brightens up, and she at once dances and
jumps around on one leg. Iler eyes are
very black and unnaturally bright, and
her teeth remarkably fine and strong.
She delights in biting at everything
looking like flesh, and once, when tin
observed, seized a little puppy near tier,
and almost bit a large piece of its skin
off.
This strange being was born in the
piney woods in the rear of Bay St. Louis,
her parents being Indians. Her mother
died when she was an infant, and shortly
afterward her father again married.
Some months ago her father aud
mother died, and 3Ir. Bonr
geois, of Hay St. Louis, took her un.icr
his care. Hose?for such is her name?
is mute, but uiidcrstnuds when spoken
to, and without hesitation obeyed Mr.
Baldwin and did all she was told to do.
Setting apart diirercnccs of muscular
capacity and adaptation, a man, says Mr.
Richard A. Proctor, in order to fly
would need wings bearing the same proportion
to his body as we observe in the
sparrow or the pigeon. In fact the wings
commonly assigned/*'" angels by sculptors
and painters / ] not be so disproportioned
to ' pquircraents of
flight as has been c*, >nlv supposed, if
only the muscular t -:r of the human
frame were well a icd to act upon
wings so placed s> . s-haped and there
were no actual inf. lority in ths power
| of human muscles (cross section for cross
1 section ^ as compared with those of birds.
| A CHINESE DEFEAT.
Frcnck Troop* Land and Utterly K out
(he Enoray?War Xou ii
Two thousamfFrench t.-ooiis landed at the *20
Kinpai 1'aas, on the Mill rivor, below FooChow,
nnd attacked the Chinese. The latter
were deflated with heavy loss and retreated.
Vessels belonging to Admiral Corn-bet's squad- ,
run have boon cruising about the Chusan
Islands, which lie just off the coast, some dis" ' ^
tam-e to the southeast of Shanghai It Ls
thought that Admiral Courbet may make
thexj islands his headquarters during hii . .
if?-.*ations m the Yang-tso river. The islnnca
tre of groat strategical importance, but the
uiaiaria there is of a deadly din racier.
At Pekin the peace paity is ia bad
repute. A nominee - of the war
party has been appointed to act in conjunction
with Li Hung Chang, Viceroy of Feo
Chi Li, who rests under suspicion. Li Hung
Chang has thus to share liis oiflco with a
hostile colleague. This action, it is believed, K
indicates the not very remote downfall of the
great leader of the peace party.
The Chinese have stopped, the supplies o?
coal for the British gunboat Merlin.stationed
at Sharp Peak, near Foo-Chow, where the
cable lands. At Foo-Chow the public are
agitated at the condition of affaire, and
meetings are being conveuod to urge
mediation or a French inarch on
Pekin. Complications are occurring
daily which are certain to involve
the neutral powers. The weakness of the ' 1
armament of th'j English fleet a; compared
with that of thy French squadron ia commented
on at Foo-Chow. The French, it is , - cm
an{/1 n flmiria fn Ti1 ?irrl{.li Ann ?
DUiMj VUI1 ClJjltU kV KUW VUV| ' . X/fH
and their crew3 number ten to two of the
English. EnglaiM, whoSe interests in China
are eighty per cent, of all the foreign possessions
there, is, it is remarked, the only .power
that is not making preparations to defend her
property in the event of war. The British . J.
foreign office has written a letter to the
chamber of commerce of Glasgow stating 1
that the British consul at Shanghai has for- fiSHW
mally advised the Chinese authorities that it
would be to the interest of commerce to reconsider
the contemplated blockading of the
river at that port.
GREAT INUNDATION. jf|
A. Cliincsc Province Sixty- Feet Undo I
, Water?70,000 Llvea I.ent. " ^
The steamer Sin Pablo arrived at San |wH r*iij
T7Vnnr?lCfr\ ilia nflini* airnninrp Vkf^n/vinrr a/lvfrtAfl
* kUU vvuvi V ? UlUi^Uig OUTIU^) 1 'yTPi
from Hong Kong, and from Yokohama. yjl
Information has reached Canton of a fright"
ful inundation in the province of Kiangsee.
Tho news is dated at Hong Tek, the chief SB ~
center of the pottery manufacture, and one ^
of the four great markets of the empire. The ' " ifi
floods lasted four days, and the entire coun- !?*8
try was submerged to the depth of sixty feet Z.&BSffl'J
TV hole towns were swept away. It is believed
that fully 70,000 persons perished. It was
feared that a pestilence would follow. Cholera
had broken out at Amoy. ~.\p.
The province of Kiangsee has a popula- '
tion variously estimated at from 19,000,000 to raSHtfi
23,000,000. The chief city on the lake is NanChan?.
King-te-Cbing is reported to have
from o00,000 to l,00j,000 people. Kiangsee
is noted for its porcelain, teas, gold and silver
mines, grass cloth, hemp, paper, tobacco
and tallow. It has a large export trade in
these. ______?? AftaBfl
A Sin?alar Industry.
Singular to say that while St. Louis ' r
has not a single gold or silver beating.
industry and Chicago but three, Cincinnati
has four. An hour in one of the H
rooms of the establishments revealed a
fund of curious iuforraation. The method
of the Cincinnati gold-beater is a unique
one. A sign over the door declares that .
"old gold bought.1' This "old gold"
usually consists of pieces of jewelry,
such as brooches, old watch cases, signets,
rings, bracelets, obsolete coins, and
so on. Upon the purchase of tho stuff,
it is lirst melted into a bar, then it goes
through a process of ocigenation, which
usually takes from six to ten hours, in v ?|S
order to free it from copper and silver. H
"How fine do you have to make the M;
gold before it is fit for leaf?" was asked
of one of the oldest gold-beaters in the "J9
41 ttt - mnlra if + txrnnr.v.fniYi"
VT U ixavc IV rnaaw *v
carat before we can do anything with it. Pis
It can not be used otherwise, as it would jfl "- Oh
be too hard to work. We buy the most
of our old gold from the pawnbrokers. aa
The fine gold we buy from the East,
Newark or New York." -:; &
"Any new process of smelting?" .
"No, the gold is put in sand crucibles- j?jja
of various dimensions and melted. The fl
crucibles come from the old country and
it usually takes from ten to fifteen min- jj| 'j?
utes to melt, when it is fit for the acid. JrH '.|s
We use about oue^ part nitric and two mM.cSS
parts muriatic. Affer it is refined, it is "flf |ji
put through a rolling machine till brought
out to the thickness of writing paper. It |9 , r^j
is then cut into strips one inch square ;>!
and then put into a cutch, made out of SB L
French paper, in order to beat it to the
proper consistency. It is then cut and < %
-put into a shoder, and beat out into
sizes four and a half inches square. It j
is next put into a mom live menus syuuic.
and beat out the size of five inches, then
finally given to the girls to cut and put
into books." ,
"It is sometimes put to some very
novel uses?" ? |||W^
"Yes; pieces of the very goia1
probably once sparkled iu the earrings ? '-"itff
of George Washington's wife may be seen
glittering on the sign-board of some
milkman's wagon or attached to a circus
calliope car. ft is curious what a passion
some people have for using it?not merely
for the gildiug of statues, or the edging
of mirrors, but it even finds its way into
the epitaph letters on the cold tombstones
of the cemeteries."
" How long does it usually last, say
on church steeples?" qjfi|
" Oh, from ten to twelve years. It de- 'fflMffijS
unn/ia nf rmirsG. on the exposure. The
tarnish is due to the damonessmorethan
anything else. The sunliguc n"? l>ufc 2
little effect on it." ~~j?i
" Actresses use it very plentifully, I jjnHH
" Yes, it is used by actresses for mak-. ^
ing gold hair. Forty cents worth will
cover three girl's heads, and leave some
for waves. Some women go in for cjl ' ?
golden curls. It is usually put on by an ,.'s2
artist. The hair first has to be oiled, and
then placed on in layers. Of course it
doesn't stay on any length of time, prob- tjjBB
ably for only one or two acts, and is then
washed of! with lukewurm water."
' IIow much does it take to gilt a circus
car?"
" Oh, from ten to twenty dollars. It * ' vj
depends upon how much you put on."?
Cincinnati Times. ~X
Gretna Green.
The nursery rhyme regarding Gretna
I Cri-pon has been chimed in the ear of al
tnoM; every American child, until it has
become indelibly impressed upon their
memory, and yet there are but few who _ know
Gretna Green does in reality exist,
and is not a creation of the whimsical
mind of the rhymester. Gretna Green <
is a Scottish town just over the English J
boundary line, and became famous for
the marriages celebrated there, which
bound together runaway lovers, who do- N
tied stem parents, unrelenting guardians I
and the strict marriage laws of England. ^
The English marriage act which required
the consent of parents and guardians,
publication of banns and the presence of
a priest, was a source of considerable inconvcniencc
to anxious lovers, who in
preference to waiting would fly to
Gretna Greeu. where it was only neces- ,
sary to avow themselves man and wife in
the presence of witnesses. They would
then return to England and live as such oUJjjH
un:noicatud.?ILidlh.auiLUomc?
Large Investments in Horse Flesh.
"Caspar," in one of his New York r
loiters to the Detroit Free Pren, says:
Mr. Bonner's investments in horse flesh
have been pretty large. His first was
$:),000 for a team that he wanted for exercise.
He had no thought then of becoming
an owner of famous horses, but
the passion gradually grew upon him. He
paid $10,000 for joe Klliot, $1<!.000
for Edwin Forrest. $15,000 for Lady
Stuart, $20,000 for Edward Everett and
the same for Startle; $&>,000 for Pocahontas,
and the same sum. 1 think, for
Dexter: $:W,000 for Rarus and $10,000
tor Maud S. Had any man talked of
paying $10,000 for a trotter when Honucr
made his first purchase, he would
probably have been set down as a lunatic
A mail passes for what he is worth.
Very idle is all curiosity concerning other
people's estimate of us, and idle is all
fear o( remaining unknown. If a man
knows that he can do anything?that he
can do it better than anyone else?he
has a pledge of the acknowledgment of
the fact by all persons. The world is
full of judgment days, and into every
assembly that man enters, in every action
he attcnijitSj he. jg. gauged and stamped. flj
? *" ""