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JF'"i * I..C LOSS. Life knows no winter when tho heart is light; j Tho' skies are gray, ami dull the waning j year. Mid cloud and gloom the world is fair and bright; For all is summer when one smile is here. Life knows no summer when tho heart is sad; Tho' skies are blue, and ileitis with verdure grown, Can song or blossom make tho world seem glad? Ah, no! 'tis winter when one smile is flown. I. FOOD-A PLACE. fc, Marion sat thinking intently. "With one finger pressed tightly against her f lips and her eyes cast upon a small,very y\ small parcel in her lap. she might have I set for a picture of Meditation. But an anxious wrinkle corrogated the fair ^ brow, showing her cogitations to be of a different order from those usually I indulged in by maidens of her tender ' age. For indeed Marian bad been trying with all the wisdom of her twenty ^ summers?or winters?to solve the | problem of ways and means, and it was I no package of love letters on which she gazed with such dissatisfaction at its meager proportions, but a whole year's . - savings. ' By ciosc economy it will pay Elsie's expenses for the summer and leave me ten dollars. But no matter; it's blessed money that will be spent to cure my darling?'' As if to make the commendation more decided,she vigorously rolled and slapped the bills into the smallest compass possible. Then she carefully closed the shutters? a most unnecessary precaution, for the room was in a wing oti the third tloor with vacant lots on both sides. After Viofr i\\r* HfHft Vw\?irrl ivic nnf intn fi Irnif purse, the purse insinuated iulo the foot of a stocking, the stocking wrapped in an old dress skirt, and the whole deposited on a shelf in the closet, and everything done to give it an appeaiancc of unstudied cftsclessness calculated to deceive an ordinary burglar. This sacred and mysterious rite fully over, she opened the shutters and let in the Hoods of yellow sunset light to glorify her cozy room. Poor Marian had no trust in banks, and little wonder. Into the "Store House Deposit," with its plate glass windows, t-?- its marble floors, its urbane clerks and golden promises, her father had placed with some confidence the honest savings nf nn f?nr>rrrptif> nnrl flififl c:ilmlv 1 J thinking his orphan daughter above want. If the blessed dead can be cognizant ol our happenings what were his feelings when the oily president of the storehouse emptied the said store house of its contents and left for Europe? Marian was only one of half a thousand sufferers, but it made her neither crazy nor melancholy, as it did many other unfortunates, to be thus rudely jostled out of the lap of fortune. Gathering together all the little mementoes of a prosperous and guarded childhood, she secured a room" for herself and Elsie with Mrs. Allen, an old friend o! her father's, who kept a few boarders "only for company, I my dear." A class of beginners in music soon kept her busy, and no head of a family was ever prouder of his ability to cimnnrt tVif>m thiin wne \I?ii-i!in nf flip talent which earned a home for herself and the little sister whom her mother had contided to her care when Marian herself was only a child. Bravely she worked on, and was dismayed for the first time a month before, when the doctor gave as his opinion that the spinal disease developing itself in the child needed for its cure a residence in a neignuonng city, 111 a nospitai specially devoted to such compiaints. After opening the shutters Marian walked on tiptoe to the alcove, parted the curtains which hid the bed, carefully covered the feet of the sleeper who lay "there, and pressed a light kiss on the long curl which rested on the pillow. Tears were in her eyes when she came out into the room. "She must go," she said, passionately. "*''Onlv we two in all the world, if I phould lose her?but I won't think of such a thing. She'll yet well, of course. You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Marian Martin, to doubt it or feel blue. Imagine what it would be if you weren't able to send her at all. You must lind some work to do, and may it be of the hardest kind, for you will be a lonely i maid, Marian, without your baby. Come, now, you're getting doleful again. This will never do." Having been accustomed all her life ^ to treat herself as a party much prone to self-indulgence, and needing rigid discipline, she straightway shook herself into comparative cheerfulness, and, in order to waste no time, beiran to search the columns of the newspaper for the one headed "Female Help Wanted." It might give her some hint as to employment until her pupils returned from their vacations. She found the list and read with running comments between. "Wanted?A middle-aged lady to act rs housekeeper for widower." "I might wear spectacles and a cap," she said disapprovingly to her image in the mirror opposite where the dimples in clfeek and chin seemed to mock at such a ridiculous idea. "Here's another." "Wanted?A young lady stenographer, must understand the use of calligraph or type writer." She shook her head at this and set the loose, fluffy curls to dancing. "I must be dreadfully behind the age, ^ for I haven't the slightest acquaintance with either of these instruments. And fool-'ah old Madame lieaudry called me E5 * 'feenished.'" "Wanted?A vonncr. energetic busi ne8s woman with *300 -to invest in a ' profitable enterprise." "No, thap.lt you. If I had t'jOO docs anyone suppose that I'd be away from I "-Elsii* moment? I'll speak to Mrs. Al| len about it, she knows so many people. Thank heaven. I have no prestige to lose, ' and nobody would notice in what way I occupied myself 111 summer. Ah, Elsie, dear, awake already?" turning with loving smiles to the eight-ycar old copy in miniature of herself who came with painful slowness into her arms. "Here's your old slow-coach of a sister doing It- nothing, when she ought to be preparing r your supper. But never mind, dear," L taking the child's face between her rosy ^ palms, "I have news for you better than f a tray full of the nicest things in the world. Now, wish for someting splendid, the thing you want most." "The thing I wan* most, Maidee," said the little one, with a pathetic smile into the face that had never worn for her UUt 119 UUgUllTAl ^UISU, J3 IV yet ?UII. I "Oh. you little witch, to ask for the cry blessing you're go'ng to have," said Marian, hugging her and speaking rapr-? idly to hide the trembling in her voice. "You'll go away among the kindest and best people you ever saw: there will be many other sweet and lovely children getting well, too, and all so happy. And I'll be happy, too, and write such long ; letters. To morrow I won't have any I lesssons lo give, and we'll ride out to \ buy a darling little trunk and everything nice to put into it. There, now, sit in this chair and think over it while I get supper for my birdie." "Maidee," said the child, as her sister ' was about to leave the room, "that Mr. . Wallace was so kind to me to day. He gave me a ride around the porch on Min- ! nie Allen's cart, and put some peaches in ray hat when I left it in the hall. I eaved one for you, there 011 the mantle." "That was kind. Thank you, pet.'' A9 she went down to the dining room she laughed softly co herself: "They're all bound to make me like this Mr. Wal- 1 lace. First Mrs. Allen sings his praise, now Elsie has gone over to the enemy I with such rapidity it quite takes my breath away. He seemed to me very unapproachable, but I have sei n him so seldom, and that may account." James Wallace was Mrs. Allen's most recently discovered relative. She had a perfect mania for tracing kinship; the ties of blood, be they never so weak, were very sacred to her, and nothing lir>r mnr*? than tn &t.umVilr? nnon some fifth or sixth cousin hitherto unaware of her existence and take him into the benevolent circle of j her friendship. Some chance business | dealings led Mr. Wallace in her direction, and somehow it came about that he left his lodgings and took up his abode ! under the hospitable roof that sheltered Marian. There was no question of Mrs. Allen's delight at this arrangement. "It is so good to have a man in the house again, my dear,"she confided to Marian, j r And poor, dear David would have ap- i proved, I'm sure. The "boys are well j enough''?she boarded gratis her three nephews who attended an academy near by?but they are only boys, after all, not men, and of no earthly use in an emer- { uency. But just to look at James around the house ought to give us poor defenseless women a feeling of security. Marian resented this remark somewhat, oeing au independent lassie and uaver having found as yet the presence of the other i sex necessary to her comfort or happi- 1 ^ ness. But when she reached the diningwt room!*and found ?him there she felt'|in duty bound to scrutinize him more thoughtfully, for Elsie's sake, lie was helping Mrs. Allen to decide between the merits of two designs for a new monument to mark the last resting place of her family. He nodded to her over the paper and Mrs. Allen bustled arouud to assist Marian in " making a picture " of the tray. " He has kind eyes," she thought. Yes, Mrs. Allen, the strawberry jelly, I think. It sets oil the floating island better than the gooseberry ?and his mouth is a little, a very little hard looking?only a tiny piece of chicken, thank you?a most uncompromising chin?well, if you will insist, just one of those star cookies?younger than I supposed, too. I believed him quite ancient. (Jood Mrs. Allen just then went out of the room for some other little delicacv for the patient, and Marian, look ' -1. 1 i il-.- 1 ?.1 Iw.-c.tf j 111 LT il[ at*I 1UUII, - ti uviovn | wonder for a minute who would have that task when Eisie was going. Then I it dawned on her what she was about I to do, and to her own dismay, as well as to that of the other occupant of the room, a little sob, try a* she would to suppress it, welled up her throat, and her hands shook so it was almost a miracle the tiny red waiter diu "ot fall upon the floor. Mr. Wallace had heaid something about the sisters, and partly divined the cause of her agitation. "Miss Martin," he began?and there was no impertinent curiosity in his tone ?''can I do anything for you? Is the little sister worse?" "No," said Marian, responding to the genuine honesty expressed in voicc and wonls, though mortified at having lost control before a stranger; "but it is so hard to send her away, and we have been together all our lives." She said nothing for an instant while she stood there bravely fighting evidence of her emotion, though the bowed head and (juiverinir chin were affecting enough, then broke In aorupuy, in a uusmcss-imu tone: "How soon could you have the little girl ready?" "Saturday. I think," answered Marian. ' And this is Monday.'" he s*id, as if in deep reflection. While Marion wondered, he consulted a note book. It contained not the slightest reference to what he was about to say next, he never having thought of it himself till that moment. Yes. I have business along that road, and it would be no trouble to see your little sister to her destination. "Oh,'' was all Marian said, but with such a glow on the bonny face he immediately surprised himself into another fib. "By the way, you needn't purchase a ticket, I have a pass over the line, and she may use it with me as well as not." Marian was proud, still there was no resisting the friendly ofTers made in such a way, and a grateful "You are too kind" was all she aitempted, when Mrs. Allen came in and she sped up-stairs to feed her nursling. if she was so surprised at this offer from one she barely knew, how much more was James Wallace astonished to find himself performing such a youthfully impulsive action. A self-made, self-contained man, his early orphan years had been made dreary enough by the gru Iging kindness of charity, and his youth rendered deso'ate by the selfishness of the woman he had wooed but could not win by reason of his poverty. Now when fortune smiled upon him he had come to think the whole world engaged in a mad struggle for the covetcd object, whatever it might be, with every man for himself, and though never positively unfeeling nor cynical he sometimes acted on that belief. But here was a ? ? t- - t---i t : young giri who imu ue^mju^u. una lu.w taking a trip the very busiest season of the year. She was different from the rollicking, coquettish girl who had clouded his early life; different from the coarse, hearty good-natured young women who worked in his factory. These had represented all womanhood to him, for he had no remembrance of his mother. Mrs. Allen showed another type, and here was a sweet, unaffected maiden. No. he wasn't a. bit sorry for what he had done; not even when it took him from the factory a whole week, nor when it absorbed his quiet evenings in confabs about air pillows, checks, berths, and other topics of interest to Marian and his cousin; for wasn't his opinion asked iu the most flattering manner, and didn't he feel himself growing younger every day. At last the hour of parting came, and Marian's pain was eased a little when her last glimpse of the beloved little form showed Elsie, with her lap full of presents, throwing kisses with all her might, while a strong arm encircled her, and Mr. Wallace's smile was so assuring that t W1 nvor thmifrllt ?T1UI 1UU *? WUUCItU OUC UUVl V?VI his mouth anything but handsome. It is a week since Klsic was borne from her, and Marian sits in her room lonely but for the hope which lies so near her heart, and ever with thoughts of her absent one come others of the new friend who took her two hands in his to-day and related with the minuteness of a woman every circumstance connected with the child's arrival in her new home, of the thoughtful people who received her, and the golden promises of perfect cure he had from the resident physician. Now she goes to the window, being careful to see the new moon over her right shoulder, and then laughing at herself for the superstition. As she leans out suilfing delightedly the odor of the freshly cut grass a putf of smoke brings the tears to her eyes. It is smoke surely, and coming from the window of the room under hers, and when she looks again to make sure a little tonjrue of llame meets her startled gaze. Quicl? as a JiU^il 311C Id UU'Ui uuu nuvvnvu wv cach door and given the alarm. She cjuite agrees with Mrs. Allen that men arc "good in an emergency'1 when Mr. "Wallace's firm, even tones answered her call and even more than agrees when his self-possession contrasts with the feeble pipes of alarm from Miss Stinson and inertness of several of the other women who have to be taken out by main force, Mrs. Allen herself being paralyzed by fright. The greater part of the building s saved, though it is almost morning when the fire is declared ,;out." After exhausting themselves in praise of Marian the others <jo in for coffee and call her urgently. Still Marian lingers out on the lawn surveying the charred remains of the wing where her room had beer.. Only had been, for it had suffered most and none of Marian's treasures were left. She looked ruefully at the gilt fringe which, hanging so dis? ii.. r .. .. 111 i J li J? 11U111 <l ijuji, a |iaiuiiu ivimuder of the desolation within. She was joined by Mr. Wallace, and had to say something at once to keep from laughing :it the ridiculous spectacle he presented draped as he was in a blue ilannel dressing gown, his feet incased in huge arctics, all topped by a fur cap. "I ought to feel discouraged," she said, "but somehow 1 don't realize my loss yet." "You need never realize it." She bent upon him an inquiring glance, and he answered at once: "Pardon my bluntness, but Mrs. Allen told me you wanted a place: that's just the way she put it and I have found one for you if you will accept it." Marian, wondering a little at his choice 011 a subject just then replied: 'Can I fill it?' 'Fill it? It is not worthy of you, but 110 one else in all the world can. Marian, dear, the place is in my heart and home. Will you take it?" And Marian thought the face on which the light of dawn broke had not one objectionable feature. They had a ( hristmas wedding at Mrs. Allen's; Elsie was bridesmaid and Marian's trosseau was the gift ot Mrs. Allen and her boarders, who persisted iu saying, spite of Marian's contradiction, that they owed their lives to her heroism.? A. M. Dunne. Wonderful Speed on a Bicycle. Whilst scientists are striving might and main to fly through the air, our lesslofty minded bicyclists arc attaining the art of volition upon the earth. Certainly the wonderful speed shown last week on the Crystal Palace path by English comes nearer to Hying than anything else. The most wonderful record al; ways seemed to me to be the five minutes thirty-six seconds for two miles made some years agj by the Hon. Ion Keith Falconer, and I never expected to see it beaten very far. But here is a man / AnmlnfAo fkn f u*a vrtil/iC lit Cfl m l> four seconds less, and then proceeds eighteen miles farther at top speed, the twenty miles being ridden in fifty-nine miuutes six and three-fifth seconds, and a distance of twenty miles 505 yards 1 covered in the hour. English is a North countryman, very much of the Cortis build, and has risen at a bound to the top of the tree, where he is likely to remain. lie can certainly beat two minutes forty 6econds for one mile.? I oit'lon World. Dr. Blendmann, or tlie lioyal College of Berlin, claims to have discovered cities and towns in the moon, and indications of their being inhabited. AN UNCOLLECTED CLAIM. A SKETCH OF LIFE AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. The Siory of a Poor Old nan Who daunts tlir Corridors of Washington Hotels. Although the old gentleman's coat was threadbare, his shoes sadly in need of repairs, and his tall hat had lost its gloss, he elevated his feet just as high as any one else on the table of the readingroom at a down-town hotel last night, and told the reporter who took a seat beside him that the rain was a welcome sight. The old gentleman sampled the reporter's tobacco, and acknowledged that he was ahead of time. "Hut you sec I couldn't stay away any longer. Between me and you, my money gave out, and I had to come back." " Do your people live here?" "No; but this is the cheapest place to live for me. No, 1 don't live anywhere. Come originally from Noith Carolina UII IU ftfV UI11UU11 \UilI.1 i been here while Congress is in session since. Well, it's the same old story over again. I was a sightless fool, that's all," and the old man gave vent to a sigh,and after a severe struggle coughed. "Seventeen years ago I was a small truck fanner in Xorth Carolina, had forty acres and was doing well, when an aunt of mine took up and died, leaving me her estate, which consisted of $2:S0 and a claim against the government for damages. This claim amounted to about $1,400, and I came to Washington to collcct it. I came in a Pullman car. When 1 go away now its second class. I thought that all I'd have to do was to come here and get the money. Well, I got here, hunted up my member, told him of my claim, and lie promised to attend to it for me. I hung about, gave three dinners at Brown's to the members of a committee to whom my claim was referred, and awaited results. It was not long before my money begun to run low and I was thinking of going home, but that member of mine kept telling me to hang on and he'd get my claim through all right. I got in the habit of loafing around the capitol, waiting for my claim, but sbc didn't come. Congress adjourned without acting on it, and at the end of the session I found myself dead-broke. I went back home then, determined never to come back again, and would not have done so but for that member of mine. lie got mc to work for his renomination and he was elccted. Then he told me that the government wanted men like me, and that if I would sell out my place and come here he would surely get my claim through, and would get me in one of the departments. I came back, got in the patent office, and all went serene until 1874, when I was fired out, ray claim was disregarded and my member defeated. Then I had to hustle. The associations I had formed were hard to break away from, and I finally get hanging about the committee rooms, doing odd j'obs for members. Thev would give me a little money now and then, and I mane acred to eke out a living, but that was all. During all this trouble I became carelcss of myself. I had no desire to go back to my home, where I know I'd have got a start, but simply hung about and never managed to get clear of the rut I fell into. Yes. I've tried it, but it's no go, and I'm back here again. During the summer months some member generally gets me a pass and gives me a little money, and I go to some of the watering places. This year I went home. Everybody had forgotten me. My money gave out and I had to come back." "IIow do you live?" "On whisky. Yes, whisky; its easier to get whisky than bread. I hang about, get invited and work the lunch. Sleep? Oh, the corridors of hotels arc convenient, and once?but only once?I went to the station-house, I'll manage to live through until the mill gets going again, and then I'll get on to some scheme and make enough, perhaps, to go away next summer. Although you would not think it, I'm only forty-one years of age, but feel seventy. Thanks, I will go you again; and. say, you haven't got a spare quarter have you? I think I'd like to try a bed to-night."? Wtmhinjtoi: ltcpubUran, Time for Various Foods to Digest. Many people discuss and " cuss" digestion and indigestion. Vet how little is generally understood of these subjects! Great writers like Stahl, Blondlot, Payen and Deschamns have woduced vol umes of scientific argument to prove that the stomach is the great organ of the human system and must he tenderly and carefully treated. What we need, however, are simple rules. Take, then, only such food ns you believe your stomach c;ui easily assimilate. To assist in this selection we append the time required to digest the various articles of food mentioned: ONE HOCK. Pigs' feet, boiled, 1 hoir; boiled tripe, lh.; boiled rice, lh. FItO.M ONE TO TWO HOl'ltS. Fresh eggs (beaten), 1 hour 30 minutes; fresh salmon trout, boiled, lh. :?0m. barley soup, lh. 30m.: venison, broiled, lh. 35m.; brain, boiled, 111. 45m.; sago, lh. 45m.; beef liver, broiled, 2h.; milk, boiled, 21i.; fresh eggs, raw, 2h.; salt codfish, 2h.; tapioca, boiled, 2h.; sauerkraut, 2h.; sour apples, 2h. r nu.u T?W iu iiiiw'itj uu^iv^. Fresh milk, 2 hours 15 miuutcs; fresh eggs, roasted, 2h. 15m.; wild turkey, roasted. 2. 18m.; wild turkey, boiled., 2h. 15m.; tame turkey, roasted, 2h. 30m.; wild goose, roasted, 2h. :50m.. young pig, 2h. 30m.; lamb, broiled, 2h. 30m.; gelatine, boiled, 2h. 30m., hash meat with vegetables boiled, 2h. 30m.; boiled beans, 2h. 30m.; boiled bread soup, 2h. 30m.; potatoes, roasted or baked, 2h. 30m.; cabbage, raw, 2h. 30m.; Savoy cake, 2h. 30m.; chicken fricassee, 2h. 4om.; cream boiled in oven, 2h. 45m.; oysters, raw, 2h. 55m.; beef, lean, roasted, 3h.: beefsteak, broiled, 31).; mutton, roasted or boiled, 3h.; pork' raw, salt, 3h.; chicken bouillon, 3h.; bean soup, 3h.; apple pudding, baked, 3h. FROM Til KICK TO KOl'R HOI KS. Beef, boiled, with mustard, 3 hours 10 minutes; pork, broiled, I5h. 15m.; mutton, roasted, 3h. 15m.; oysters, roasted, 3h. 15m.; carrots, boiled, 3h. 15m.: sausage, fresh, broiled, 3h. 20m.; dried beef, lean, roasted, :?h. 30m.; eggs, fresh mid ct)ok<?d hard. 3h. 30m.: mutton bouillon, oh. 30m.; oysters, stewed, 3h. :50m.; butter, melted, :5'n. :50m.; cheese, old and strong, 3h. :50m.; beef, boiled wifh salt, 3h. Oin.; beef, lean, fried, 4h.: veal, fresh, broiled, 4h.: chicken, boiled or roasted, 4h.; duck, roasted, 4h. FKOM KOCH TO FIVE HOURS. Beef, old and salted, 4 hours 15 minutes; salt pork, fried, 4h. 15m.; cartilage, boiled, 4h. 15m.; bouillon from bones, 4h, 15m.; pork, salted and boiled, 4h. tfOm.; veal, fried, 4h. :50m.; wild duck, roasted, 4h. :50m.; grease (mutton), boiled, 4h. :50m.; cabbage, boiled, 41i. :J0m.; pork, roasted, entrelarde. 5h. 15m. tallow, (beef;, boiled, 5h. :50in ; tendon, boiled, 5h. oOin.?New York llerahl. The Boy and (lie Bone-Setter. Speaking of bone-setters recalls a good story which occurred in the north of Scotland, where one of them had risen to great fame, ami no small fortune by his skill. A country lad residing a few miles oir had got his leg hurt at one of the local factories, aud lm/I Iwion for unmo l\v? t)w? local medical man without any good result, ilia mother, who had great faith in the neighboring bone-setter, wanted the lad to go to liim,which he declined preferring, as he said, "reg'lar faculty." Eventually, however, his mother's persuasions prevailed, and he agreed to allow himsilf to be taken to soe Daniel R?, the bonesetter. A bed for the invalid was exterai)orizcd on a cart, and, accompanied by lis anxious mother, he was after a rather painful journey taken to the town where the bone setter resided. The leg was duly examined and it was found necessary to haul it very severely, in order, as the boric-setter said, ''to get the bone in." The fad was liberal with his screams vvhile this was going on,but eventuallv the bone was "got in," and 1- - ?, o?,l in ? f?,.. I1U Will* ium iu g\j uwuiv; uuvi jix H iv? days he would be all right and lit for his work. He was lifted up on the cart again, and with his mother seated beside him, set oil for homo. "Didn't Danny do the thinff well?" " said the joyous old lady. "Yes, he did, mother," said the lad, "but I was nasic a fool as gie him the sair leg!'' The "reg'Iar faculty" will, we have no doubt, appreciate the story. ? Whitehall Itecicic. A long cloak of modified "Mother Hubbard" fashion is of black camel's hair cloth of Escuriel design, lined with fancy striped surah, trimmed with draperies oT braided silk galloon, and finished with a wide velvet collar and wide velvet cuffs enriched with faucy bead embroidery. : ' ... ' , .-.it pK*. _ , ryrr 7' . ><*% v r-^ 7. *s^?'-* /..%*? FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Grape Culture. The best vines are those grown from cuttings having two eyes, in which a single system of roots radiate from the lower eye like the spokes of a wheel, and the vine grows out of the top bud. One-year old vines are to be preferred in all cases, if first-class, even if two years old, root pruned and transplanted vines should be offered at the same price. In planting vines, the single tier of roots should be set as low in the ground us may l>e and keep the upper node, from which the vine has started out of the ground, so that new roots will not grow from it. Unless this precaution is taken, a new upper tier of roots, thus encouraged to grow, will, after a time, usurp and displace the others, and the action of frost in clayey soil will gradually, and sometimes in a single winter, throw the vine out of the ground and expose these upper roots in an injurious way, and this condition remains permanent. The best time of the year is that which occurs first, always premising that the soil should be mellow and friable, and if in autumn, a shovelful of loam should be used so as to completely bury the two or three buds only that (ire left upon the vine above the surface. The earlier in autumn or spring that the work is done, the better, providing the conditions are as stated. The distances at which vines should be set will depend somewhat upon the strength of the soil and the mode of training adopted. If in all respects as before advised, the best distance is believed to be primarily, in rows eight feet apart with the vines six feet apart in the rows which perfectly run north and south. It will be a matter of great convenience to have the rows consist of but twenty-five vines, thus occupying 144 feet in length; then by omitting one vine, a space of twelve feet will be left for access between two vineyards. If circumstances favor, or rather, if they seem to require, as the vines get age and strength, each alternate vine, including the two end ones in each row, may be rewoved, tlnis leaving twelve vines in each that will stand eight by twelve feet apart. Almost any hoed crop may be grown in the vineyard if an equivalent amount of fertilization be given, but after this time grape vines only. Many and various are the implements that have been tried for cultivation and discarded. The plow is here inadmissible. Cultivation should be shallow, perhaps two inches is ample, and this should be done in a way that will not disturb the larger roots,the great body of which lie from three to six inches deep. The last summer's experi /\nn V? ^ CI1UU 11U9 piu vuu luu uug'uvioo uvuiu harrow to be exactly the thing. It is an implement that disturbs the soil from one to live inches deep, at the will of the driver, or in hard ground the rider, and never cuts off the larger roots even if lying at the surface. Cultivation should begin each year as soon as the ground will pulverize in the spring and be renewed after every packing rain, or in the absence of rain, before a crop of weeds has time to show the third leaf.? Farm Journal: ' Farm and Garden Notes* No matter how sloppy the food is given j to pigs, they should have dailv n good i supply of clean, fresh water. This is especially needed in summer for pigs kept in pens and with little green food. Dogs troubled with mange should be washed with warm water and castile soap. Twice a week sprinkle on the parts affected a tcaspoonful of dry sulphur and ' rub it thoroughly in through the hair. It kills fleas. A writer in the Prairie Farmer pro poses to have a bed ol clean, snarp sano, twelve to twenty feet square, enclosed and roofed over, for his horses to roll in. Rain and snow, he pays, should be excluded at all times, and the bed should be raised to prevent water from running into the enclosure. The grazing of land by a mixed stock of cattle, sheep and horses results in the land being more evenly grazed than where one kind only is kept. "Where, however, many sheep arc grazed with cattle, as they pick out all the finest of the grasses and clovers with their narrow noses, the cattlf will not thrive so well. The injury that the crow does to corn, lur iiullinrr it nn iu nnt (rpnprfilIV rri'Pflt. IM,4,,"5 *w Mi'i r> ? J o ? nnd can be easily guarded against. A more serious indictment is found in the fact that the crow is the great enemy of insect-destroying birds, whose nests it robs and whose young it' kills. The squirrel is also open to the same charge. Potatoes are not often intentionally grown as food for stock, partly because they sell too well in market, and partly because they arc less valuable than other roots more easily grown. The best use of small potatoes is to boil them and mix in meal for fattening hogs. They arc excellent for that purpose, and their virtue is by no means all in the meal. To insure a good catch of timothy seed it should be sown in the fall with wheat or other winter grain. It is rather better to sow a few weeks after wheat seeding, else it might get growth enough to injure the grain crop the subsequent season. If clover is desired the seed should not be sown until spring, as young clover is very tender and will all be winterkilled. "When a very wet time comes about the season that corn is in blossom, many of the ears will be imperfectly tilled. This results from the washing away of the pollen from the silk, preventing it from fertilizing and producing grnin. Each silk has its embryo grain attached. The very latest ears are commonly only partially filled, because they arc formed after most of the pollen has been shed. It is not advisable to feed uncooked sour apples to nigs that are fattening on corn. The acid in the fruit injures their teeth, making the pig's mouth sore and preventing regular feeding. The unripe corn, if fed in excess, often lias the same effect, as it sours on the stomach and thus injures digestion. Apples may he fed in small quantities with nieal, and if they are cooked together, no better fattening fcod need be desired. Bad weed as is the Canada thistle, the young seedlings, when lirst started, arc as easily killed by a scratch of a hoe as any annual weed. Probably on wellcultivated farms, millions of these little i thistles are annually destroyed. It is only when the thistle gets its horizontal root running underground, with bads every few inches, that it possesses its greatest vitality. Then it has as many lives as a cat. and some farmers think it has even more. In some places it is desirable to get rid of hedges. This may be done while the leaves are in full vigor by piling brush or straw on each side and burning it. Leave the burned hedge plants standing until the second year before cutting down, and if any sprouts appear, repeat the operation next season. The land for one or two rods on either side should be left in grass two years, as, if plowed, sprouts might start from the ?,,t off iiuuyv ..v.v, J It is a mark of negligent farming if the boundaries of fields are unchanged for many years in succession. In some places permanent stone walls make the removal of fences practically impossible, but it is extremely unfortunate where this is the fact. Plowing over old fence rows is often the means for eradicating weeds. "Where a roadside fence is easily j removable it will generally pay to plow ] up and crop the side of the road, except j what is needed fur vehicles passing, until j weeds are cleared out and the roadsides can be properly reseeded. If land is fall plowed it is essential J that it be properly furrowed out for the passing away of rains and melting snows. If there isagood fall the water will cut channels, but will do it unevenly and with needless wasting away of the soil. The plow alone is not sullicient to furrow properly. The loose earth that the plow leaves in the furrow should be thrown out by the spade and evenly spread on either side. If left entirely naked there will still be much washing. On low, level lands the furrows should in addition be provided with flullicient outlet at the lower ond to allow surplus water to ruu off. A great deal of corn fodder is wasted yearly, because not cut and housed in time. That which is sown exclusively for the fodder is more ditlicult to cure than that which has grown a crop of grain. As a rule it is greener and more succulent and really less valuable than I larger corn stalks whose juices have more sugar. The fodder from a good corn crop is worth nearly as much as feed for cows as an average crop of hay. In fact, as most farmers understand, hf.y is not good feed for milch cows, cxccpt occasionally as a change of diet. Corn fodder in some shape must always be the staple cow feed in winter in this country. Direction* (or Removing- Spofn from Clotlilnir. We give herewith further recipes for the removal of spots: Pure water, cold or hot, mixed with acids, serves for rinsing goods in order to remove foreign and neutral bodise which cover the color. .Steam softens fatty matters, and thus facilitates their removal by reagents. Suijihuric acid may be used in certain cases, particularly for brightening and raising greens, reds, yellows, etc.; but it must be diluted with at least one hundred times its weight of water, and more in case of delicate shades. Muriatic acid is successfully used for removing ink stains and iron mold on a number of colors which it docs not attack. Sulphurous acid is only employed for whitening undyed goods,straw hats,etc., and for removing stains of certain fruits on silks and woolens. Sulphurous gas is also used for this purpose, but the litjuid acid is safer. Oxalic acid is used for removing ink and rust stains, and remnants of mud stains, which do not yield to other detergents. It may also be used for destroying the stains of fruits and astrin gent juices, and old stains 01 unnc. However, its use is limited to white goods, as it attacks fugitive colors,and even light shades of those reputed to be fast. The best method of applying it is to dissolve it in cold or lukewarm water, to let it remain a moment upon the spot, and then rub it with the lingers. Citric acid serves to revive and brighten certain colors, especially greens and yellows. It restores scarlets which have been turned to a crimson by the action of alkalies. Acetic acid or tartaric may be used instead. Liquid ammonia is the most powerful and useful agent for cleaning silk stuffs and hats, and for neutralizing the effect of acid. In this latter case it is often I onmiirh to nvnnsr> the snots to the vanor I I of the ammonia, which makes them disappear entirely. It gives a more violet tone to all colors obtained with cochineal, lac, Brazil wood and logwood, or topped with cochineal. It docs not injure silks, sensibly attacks woollen tissues at high temperatures. It is also used for restoring black silks which have been damaged by damp. Carbonate of soda (crystals) may be used in many cases where ammonia is employed. It is good for silk hats that have been injured by sweat. Soda and potash (caustic) only servo for white linen, hemp and cotton goods, for they attack colors, and injure the tenacity and flexibility of wool and silk. For the same reason white soap is only I used for cleaning white woolen good^t. Mottled soaps suit lor cleaning mucK tissues of woolen and cotton, such as quilts, which ate not submitted to friction. For such tissues, when they do not require much suppleness or softness, the action of the soap may be enhanced by a slight addition of potash. Soft soap may be usefully employed in solution, along with gum or other mucilaginous material, for cleansing dry goods, and especially self-colored silks It removes spots more easily than white or mottled soaps do, and injures the colors less. A soap bath serves for thoroughly cleansing whites and fast colors. It may be employed in washing machines, like the solution of soda crystals, and often after a passage through the latter liquid. It is prepared by dissolving thin slices of soap in boiling water, and should be kept in stoneware pans or wooden troughs. Soap powder is chiefly used in cleansiiiir kid crloves. O u # Ox gall has the property of dissolving most fatty bodies without injuring the tissues or the colors. It may be used in preference to soap for cleansing woolens; but it cannot be used for very light colors, for it sometimes gives them a pale greenish-yellow shade. It is occasionally mixed with oil of turpentine, alcohol, honey, yolk of eggs, clay, etc., and in this state is used for cleaning silks, (Unmixed galls may also be used with perfect success for dark silks.) To produce a satisfactory effect the gall should lie very fresh. A simple method to preserve it consists in tying a strong chord round the neck of the membrane containing the gall, aud immersing it in boiling water for some time. When this is done, take it out and dry it in the shade. Yolk of egg has about the same properties as gall, but it is too costly for general use. It must also be employed as fresh as possible, as it loses its efticacy on growing old. Sometimes it is mixed with an e<|tial volume of turpentine, and employed lukewarm.?(lultitutor. After the Solan (?eesp. A sturdy cragsman fastens a rope of hair, bound with sheepskin, round his body. About twenty fathoms of this cable he keeps uncoiled in his hand. The cord is held by two comrades standing on the brink of the abyss, lie then adroitly ilc-ccnds the sheer sharp side of the precipitous rock. The sen boils below in the dizzy hollow. There is a mist above. The lisherman grasps his stanch cord. Such an equipment is bequeathed by the possessoras a treasure to his descendants. <4If a father leaves his rope to his daughter the young woman is reckoned one of the best matches in the island." The English party follow with eager eye the cragsman's dramatic but daily exploit. Ilisim[ plementisa long stick with a nouse at the end. Attached to his body is a bladder, lie snatches the unwary fulmar or garnet by its neck. The bird in his tfrasp is frightened and vomits the oil from its stomach into the bladder vessel of the man. The bird is then killed for the value of its feathers, which fetch 4d. per pound. The spectacle is a ''Jithery'' one to men of unflinching nerves to face, but to the courageous cragsman the enterprise seems an easy diversion, lie ascends the face of the cliff with the same alacrity as he was let down. Daring as may seem this method of capture, mishaps seldom occur. The St. Kiklians are men of steady nerves and wonderful powers of endurance. While the men ensuarc the fidmar the women find their quarry in the puffins, which arc taken in their burrows by small dogs. The "nine hours' movement*' has yet to reach St. Ivilda. When they are not fishing, cultivating their garden ground, scaling the rocks for feathers or c<fgs, the islanders are spin ning and weaving seventeen hours of the twenty-four. Mr. Payne supplies a pleasant picture of their politeness. They never forget to greet one another morning and evening. The men raise their bonnets with the left hand and hold out the right. All remain seated in church until the women have departed. Family worship is held in every cottage morning and evening. Every meal is preceded by a grace, nor will they take a drink of milk or water without uncovering the head. The men meet nearly every morning in front of one of their dwellings to discuss business. They all talk in the loudest tones. A stranger would fancy they were coming to blows. The subjects discussed are, ''Shall wc hunt sheep, or mend nets, or catch solan geese ?'"? /j/ih/oii Stn-ie/i/. A Climatic Marvel. Although the vast territory of Alaska measures 1,400 miles one way and 2,200 the other,audits furthest island is as far west of San Francisco as that city is west of Hath, in .Maine, few people have any i lear idea of the country and its people. Within the 1,-100 miles between its .i i ,i II Oil lie 111 illlU SUIIIIICIU uumnimira iuvii. is chance for a great range of climate, unci while the northern part of the mainland lies within the Arctic circle and is wrapped in the snow and ice of polar regions, Southern Alaska rc jo ices in winter that is not as severe as that of .Maryland or Kentucky. The isothermal lines make strange curves on the Pacific coast, and, inllucm-cd l>v the warm .lanan stream or Kuro-Siuo, a mild, temperate climate is given to the shores and archipelago of Southwestern Alaska. As in California, temperature and climate depend more upon the distance from the sea coast than upon distance from the equator, and Sitka summers arc quite as windy and foggy, but hardly cooler than those of San Francisco. Sitka itself lies in the same latitude as Aberdeen. Scotland, and in all the islands south of it there is much the same climate, accompanied by the corresponding ocean current. as prevails 011 the west coast of Ireland. My the records of the Russian observatory maintained here for fifty years, the thermometer fell to zero only three times during that period. The reports of the commanders of the United Mtotsici cliiitu fliiriinr tilt! oast f 0111" VCai'S confirm this climatic marvel and show I many other strange things in meteorology. The eucalyptus tree, in addition to its antagonism to malaria, is said to possess in its leaves a remedy for the incrustation of steam boilers, which often causes fatal explosions. Kxperiments show that the consumption of fuel is also lessened. "Do you know what the board over that cow's face is for?" asked the colonel. "Xo," responded tho major, "unless it is to keep her blushes from being seen when the milkman works the pumphandle." The Indians ol' .Nevada esteem as a great delicacy an owl cooked with sauerkraut stuffing. *\ s. N :i.V; v.- ^./ _;J UTAH'S GREAT SALT LAKE. PHEHOaEEITA OF A WOSSZBFTTL BODY OF WATER. The Lake a* a Bathing Kc*ort? Scene* During the Bathing Hour ?Difficult)' of Swimming. About 4 o'clock during the summer afternoons an immense cosmopolitan caravan makes its way from Salt Lake City to the bathing houses on Great Salt lake. The city and the lake are twenty-four miles apart, and the distance is soon annihilated by means of open cars, which reminds one of .long cattle trains, so crowded are they with every kind of humanity. Any one who has regarded Chicago as the point where the world assembles, can easily disabuse himself at the bathing-grounds of Great Salt lake. Here are no great caravansaries and amusement grounds,such as one meets at Coney Island. There are no restaurants, no docks, no promenade, no hotels, nothing that one considers absolutely essential to a summer resort. There is just one great, unparalleled, delightful, fascinating (and the i. iL. \ ruse 01 uie vucuuuiai uuuujmuuu, ?un that ia bathing. No one wishes to do otherwise than bathe, not even to climb the mountains that rise abruptly from the lake shore. Arriving at the railway station one gets of! the train at a long platform. An old, barn-like structure connects, where bathing-dresses, towels, poor whisky, bad beer, and dreadful cigars arc sold over one counter by any one of three men who stand behind it. It is also possible to get a flint-like sandwich. The barn, or rather shed, where these purchases are made, contains a number of long tables, scats and a dancing floor. A long pier leads out from it, with a double row of bathing-houses, extending its entire distance. Alongside a hnrrrn is moored, and used for excursion and dancing parties. The latter are very infrequent, owing to the unalloyed delight of bathing. To this enchanting spot of nature adorned by the uncouth structures of man, every class of society wends its way. Without regard to rank or possessions, all pay their quarter for a felonious-looking garb, towel and bathhouse key. Arrived at the stairs leading into the water, the newcomer begins one of the thrilling experiences of his life. As he goes, step by step, along the white sanded floor of the lake, he has a sensation that he must either hold down his feet firmly or be shot out of water like a cork. When he lies down fiat to swim, his legs are forced out of the buoyant water, and in working his arms he finds that only by plunging them in, dogfashion, can he make any progress, and then but little. The least wind blows him along on the surface at an alarming rate, lie tries to get on his feet, but he cannot sink them. In a spasm of terror, he makes desperate plunges with his legs, all to no avail. A drop of brine flies in his eye and renders it useless for some time, or he gulps some water in his throat, producing the agonies of almost strangulation. In this critical situation he seizes a rope or a pier-pile in desperation and regains his feet. The first thing to do is to rush for fresh water, cleanse the injured eje and gargle the throat. lie looks out on the water and sees hundreds of bathers, all lying on their backs, some with tlioir arms under their heads as pillows. smoking or reading, some holding parasols over head, and others with tneir arms stretched out. gently paddling themselves over the surface and steering with their feet. Among the latter are experts who fairly skim over the water. Surely, thinks the beginner, he can lie on his back easily enough. lie tries it, paddles a short distance, and stops suddenly as he has a sensation that perhaps he has reached deep water. lie attempts to sink his feet to ascertain, but they are not of sufficient weight; not even if he be an influential politician from Chicago, Oh, if he could put one foot down to ascertain the situation. In despair he determines to make a full breast of it to an expert near by, and ask help. Some kind Mormon, who has enjoyed the bath all his life, offers him suggestions like these: " Place your arms at an acute angle with your body. Now make a scoop of your hands. Thrust them under the water and keep them under your body. That's right. Now, see, every time you dip, your feet go toward the bottom. Here you are sitting up as if you were on a chair. Stand up now. Easy enough, isn't it?'' The good Mormon gives a few instructions, and soon you are idly floating or spinning around on your back, bumping against people, riding on the smooth surface or over the waves in the wildest glee. The ocean is very good bathing; Colorado and California arc helpful to consumptives; but here is the most novel and untiring amusement in the world. The atmosphere is so dry and salty that no consumptive need despair. Brcathing the air, and bathing in the morning in * V? /-> !?/?< nnlnkim ot\r!nnra nnfl in f ho off'nr. LUU LLW 01U|;UU1 (IU14 1U I.UU uibvinoon skimming over the lake surface on one's back, will cure the generality of cases of lung troubles. Two weeks here will so effectively cure catarrah, that one need not be troubled with it again for two years. Usually at sundown an object is 3ceu whirling down through the mountain passes from the southwest. There is haste to let down the car curtains and shrill warning to hasten into the bathhouses. A sand-storm is traveling with cyclonic energy and the rapidity of a whirlwind and hurricane. In an instant, down rolls great whirls of sand that bury i the cars up to the sills, beat with tremendous force against the rocks and hoards, and riddle the surface of the lake. The storm usually lasts but one or live minutes. As it travels over the lake, one can watch it for 150 miles, with its whirling banks 3,000 feet high, which i roll over and over until all seem precipitated into the lake. These storms come I with terrific fury, last their brief moment, and sweep on, leaving the world as calm, ! as bright and as cool as it was previously. They tell the great story of the American and other deserts. As the rocks wear away in the mountains, the sands are caught up in whirlwinds and driven down through the passes to till up the lakesand lay a sand floor on the plain until it becomes indeed a desert. These storms account for the white sandy bottom of Great Salt Lake. They account for the admixture of sand with the alluvial deposits of the Great Basin, whereever the lake once spread. They account for the trackless wastes of Sahara and show the disposition nature has maile there of the former mountains of Nubian sandstone of Africa. They tell us that mountains crumble and decay, that the whirlwinds aid the waters to disperse them over contincntsto make prairies of rich soil or trackless wastes of deserts. Herein is a field which has escaped geologists and writers so far and which they may find rife for research. At its highest stage. (ireat Salt Lake covered about :}5,UU() square miles of j I nn/i lmil im nntli't through the I north .shore, emptying into Snake river, thence through the Columbia into the Pacific Ocean. At that time it extended from the southwest corner of Utah through that Territory into Idaho, over ;!">0 miles, a distance not differing from that between Chicago and Cairo, of | Illinois. This great body of water is generally supposed to have disappeared by evaporation, or, in plain terms, an approximate evaporation occurred of about 110 cubic miles of water. Suppose the lake lowered at tin: average rate of one hundredth part of an inch per year (and that supposes an evaporation of 1 .."500,000 cubic feet annuallyi, then it was at its greatest height 1,200,000 years ago. The present body of water has barely o,000 square miles of surface, ir tlin ni'nnnratinii nonfilings in the future; * "'"I"" I as it has in the past, there | will be nothing but a thin i sheet of water during each spring where | Great Salt lake mow is in 1, *?()() i years. Now is the time for business and I industry to make salt while the sun shines. About ten percent, of this water is pure salt; or, in other words, there is | [ about oiiecubic mile of salt in (treat Salt | lake, awaiting enterprise and capital, i enough to supply the world for.(IO,ODO years. This estimate is made on the j basis tliat the amount of salt consumed annually is approximately one pound to j every individual on the globe. Animal life does not thrive in (ireat | Salt Lake, according to investigation, i Chief Kditor Hamilton, of the Salt Lake j Tribune, informs me that several attempts j have been made to introduce some ocean ' jut,, tlintiit iv?ifi?ra luit \iiHmilt ' success. It possible, however, that j there are unknown lislies and organisms j which live in this lake. It is known j that there are inimcn.sc springs of fresh i water which bubble up in different parts j of the lake. In the southeast quarter a j fresh water spring is said by the residents | to have surface of several square inilts, j although no one has made survey of it. It is possible that within these springs are unknown organisms which thrive i under peculiar conditions. Will'mm II. I Ballon. y-. . .... .... : V, - >. - TWO GRAY HEADS. Two gray heads at the gate: Lingering kisses, clasping of hands? The granddaughter there with her baby stands! The horses prance, and the travelers wait; The driver shouts, "We are late!" The hour-glass stays not its sands For the old man and his mate. They wave "Good-bye!" from the door Hung over with morning-glory vines. Her soul through her aged features shiness And the sun-streams over his white lock, pour: They are lover and bride, as of yore, In their cottage under the pines, Although they are full fourscore. The eyes that look up to his, And meet half-way his caressing glance? The beautiful, heart-fresh countenance? Nothing therein does the bridegroom miss Of her maiden tenderness; And the thoughtful years enhance Unto her his nobleness. For three-score golden years They have shared life's homliness and its gruue, Time's plow-mark furrows the wrinkled face But, deep in the channels of long-dried tears A blossoming glory appears; Unfading faith in the place Of transient sorrows and fears. A steady life-time through Soul has been unto soul a guiding light; They have lived in a realm where there is no night, Where love is eternal, because it is true: And heavy will be hardly new When it breaks on their fading sight Through celestial morning dew. Two gray heads in the sun; Each in its halo of silvery light: Fairastho mountain-forehead white, Their brows in the pureness they have won; Some love tales in telling are done; But the story these old lovers write Is a story forever begun. ?Lucy Larcom. HUMOR OF THE DAY. A slow match?A long engagement.? Citizen. Love is blind, very blind?when the girl is rich. The price of writing paper is going up. We always thought it was stationery.?Pittsburg Chronicle. -n , _ il.I _..n JJClween ulluk's mill jiuu wuiaitcis uuu wives that pull hair, it is a wonder that some men have any capillary appendages at all.?Philadelphia Call. A young man by the name of Sweet was recently married to a Miss Knox. She gets the sweet, and he will get tbe knocks.?Burlington Free Press. Visitor?" Mercy me! What are those horrible sounds upstairs?" Lady of the House?"Oh, that is nothing but dear George. I suppose he has lost his collarstuu again." Xative?"Well, how do you like our town?" Visitor?"Very nice .place. Just consider; there are twenty-two trains on which one can leave daily.'"? Minnesota Bazoo. The wife of a Kansas man thought her husband was dead and had him put on ice; but he awoke in the night ana yelled out, "Why don't you put some more wood in that stove!" "Well," said Dumps to his wife, in dignantly, "I guess I know a liar when I see one." "Ah, indeed!" was her calm reply; "been looking in the mirror, have you?"?Merchant-Traveler. When Fogg came into the room unexpectedly, Mrs. F. gave a scream and exciaimed: "You frightened me half to death!" "Did I?" was the unfeeling reply. "Suppose 1 try it over again."? Boston Transcript. A young lady in St. Louis recently doused a young man with a pailful of water, while he was down on his knees begging her to be his bride. It is always the custom, we believe, in some parts of the West to wet a new suit.?Barlington Free Frets. A young lady, in reply to her father's question why she did not wear rings upon her fingers, said: "Because, papa, they hurt me when anybody squeezes my hand." " What business have you to have your hand squeezed?" " Certainly, none; but still, you know, papa, one would like to keep it in squeezing order." BALLAD OF THE BABY. He'd come where he'll have to scratch Tor his grub, Ancl reach out for everything he gets; TT_1H /Inttoa Kim l'nfrt flin ito 11 WCt'jl ? UUU LllCjr u4du UUUOT* uiui imuv vuv tub, And he'll get shaken up when he frets.' They'll think he's smart wheu he first learns to crawl, And they'll go into fits when ho talks; And he'll have the most fun when he's very, very small, * For he'll have to go it alone when he walks. First we bawl, And then we talk, And then we crawl, And then we walk. And from that time ou we are prone to get into trouble as the railway cinders into the human eye.?It J. Jiurdctte. " Taken at the Flood." Every reader of history knows the story, how the gallant Sir Walter Kalcigh spread his cloak beneath the royal feet of Elizabeth and was rewarded with his sovereign's smile and speedy restoration to favor. Potemkin, the favorite of Catherine II. and the founder of the powerful liussian family which bears his name would doubtless have re"? -- -i ?iJ: ? maineu mi ousuuiu soiuiui uuu uui <> trivial incident?a chance, in fact? changed his destiny. After Catherine had deposed her weak husband and herself assumed the sccpter, she was accustomed to parade the streets of St. Petersburg, sword in hand, at the head of her troops. One day Potemkin noticed her sword bore no knot. He boldly stepped forward, braving the knout for his insubordination, and offered his. The czarina accepted it, and struck by the handsome young lieutenant asked his name and regiment and if he would not like to serve in the palace. Haul Pasha, the sultan's chief of artillery and most trusted adviser was a tanner. Employed in the palace, he offered to mend a valuable Frcnch clock, as no clockuiaker was available, ana did the work so well, the sultan bade hira lay aside his tinner's service and serve him. Robert Wilson, one of England's best generals, owes his elcvatiou from a desk in a solicitor's ollice to a chance meeting with the duke of York in the rain. George Stephenson, the inventor of the locomotive, was born with a taste for mechanics. At a very tender age he was compelled to work as a pit-boy at two pence a day to help support the family. Deep in the mines, shut out from everything that cheered the senses, yonng Stephenson found much to stimulate his mechanical bent. He mastered the hoisting machinery and longed to be allowed charge of it. One day the engineer chanced to stumble and in iurn himself. Youmr Stephenson promptly offered to supply his place and proved his skill so well that the mine superintendent gave him permanent charge of the machinery, and thus gave him an opportunity to observe and think and build until the Rocket appeared as a result of his labors. Foinl of Prison Life. There arc numerous instances on record of people who have grown fond of the life of a prison. Comtc dc Lorge was confined lor thirty years in the bastile, unit when liberated July 14, 178!), declared that freedom had no joys for him. After imploring in vain to be allowed to return to his dungeon, he lingered for six weeks and pined to death. Goldsmith in ''A Citizen of the World.'' says when Chiuvang the Chaste ascended the throne of China he commanded the prisons to be thrown open. Among the prisoners was a venerable man of eightylive years of age, who implored that he miirht be suffered to return to his cell. For sixty-three years he had lived in its gloom and solitude, which he preferred to the glare of the sun and the bustle of a city. .Mr. Coghan once visited a prisoner of state in the king's bench prison, who told him he had grown to like the subdued light and extreme solitude of his cell: ho even liked the spots and patches on the wall, the hardness of his bed, the regularity and the freedom from all the cares and worries tf active life, lie did not wish to be released, and felt sure he should neve be so happy in any other place. A woman of J.eyden, on the expiration of a long imprisonment, applied for permission to return to her cell, and added, if the ropiest were refused as a favor she would commit some offense which should give her a title to her old quarters. A prisoner condemned to death had his sentence commuted to seven years' close confinement on a bed ol nails. After the expiration of live years he declared if ever he was released lie should adopt from choice what habit had rendered so agreeable to him. Getting out and grinding hemlock bark for adulteration of bier is quite an industry in some parts of the country. t ' ** ... ' .. . . y > *v *$ ?' \Vv \ WISE WORDS. . Without earnestness no man is ever great or does really great things. Experience is a trophy composed of all the weapons we have been wounded with. The truly grateful heart may not be able to tell of gratitude, but it can feel, and love, and act. Genius is only entitled to rcspect when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind. In the literary world as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb. A plain, genteel dress is more admired and obtains more credit than lace and embroidery in the eyes of the judicious and sensible. The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need. Remember, th-t if thou marry for hejiutv thou bindest thvself all thv lite for that which, perchance, will neither last nor pleaso thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to "thee of no price at all, for the deaire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied. Somebody has been collecting figures giving the distances to which sound is conveyed under favorable atmospheric conditions. J. J. Strauahan states that the whistle and the noise of the train on the trestle at Erie were formerly heard at a distance of nineteen miles. "W. J. McC., of San Pablo, Cal., writes that on calm, clear days, especially in the fall, they hear the rumble of the cars on a trestle located eighteen miles distant. J. H. S. says that he frequently heard the railroad shop whistle at Grand Island, while living at Orville, a distance of twenty-eight miles. C. V. Swarthout, Cape Vincent, N. Y., frequently hears the whistle at Kingston, Ont., twenty miles. An English aeronaut says ballooning has saved his life, and he believeB that the pure, unadulterated oxygen which exists about a mile above the surface of the earth would be of immeasurable benefit to invalids if they would make the ascent. One Hundred and Thirteen Miles or Organs.?In numbering the organs of their manufacture, Mason & Hamlin have reached No. loO.OiX). Arranged in a line these would reach 113 miles, or would fence the railroad on one side from the J rand Central Station in New York, to within twentymilesof Spring-1 field, Mass. Not only does this show the great popularity of American organs, but it illustrates what was declared by James Parton to be a general fact that he who makes the best artftle in his line always has the greatest success. We understand that the Mason & Hamlin Company's new Upright Piano is now commanding a large sale, and is, in every way, up to the standard of their unrivaled organa. We predict a large success for this piano, which is constructed on a new system, saia to be a decided advance over the prevailing wrest-pin system.?Boston Journal. The round trip expenses ot an Atlantic pas senger steamer run from HO,000 to $70,000. No woman can live without 6ome share of physical suffering; but many accept as inevifc able a great amount of pain which can be avoided. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was invented by one who understood its need, and had the rare skill to provide a simple, yet admirably effective remedy. An eight weeks' trip to Europe may be made by an unmarried man for $520. Hmnnn Calves. An exchange says: ''Nine-tenths of the unhappy marriages result from human calves being allowed to run at large in society pastures." Nine-tenths of the chronic or lingering diseases of to-day originate in impure blood, liver complaint or biliousness, resulting in scrofula, consumption (which is but scrofula of the lungs), sores, ulcers, skin diseases and kindred affections. Dr. Pierce's " Golden Medical Discovery " cures all these. Of druggists. The cocoanut bug has appeared in the Island of Cuba,and threatens tne crop. How Women DlfTcr From men. At least three men on the average jury are bound to disagree with the rest just to show that they've got minds of their own; but mere 13 UU UiaOKlCTJUlCUUillllUUg WQ rrumcu no to the merits of Dr. Pierce's " Favorite Prescription." They are all unanimous in pronouncing it the best remedy in the world for all those chronic diseases, -weaknesses and complaints peculiar to their sex. It transforms the pale, haggard, dispirited woman into one of sparkling health, and the ringing laugh again " reigns supreme " in tbe happy household. The Celestial Empire says that the King of Siam has 263 children. He is under thirty. * m * * The worst pile tumors cured in ten days, rupture in one month Pamphlet two (3ct.) stamps. World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. The large Italian ironclads are now pronounced utterly unseaworthy and unwieldy. Do Not Be Discouraged even if you have tried mauy remedies for your Kidney disease or Liver complaint without success, it is no reason why you should think your disorder incurable. The most intractable cases readily yield to the potent virtues of Kidney-Wort It is a purely vegetable compound which acts on the Kidneys, Liver, and Bowels at the same time, and thus cleanses the whole system. Don't wait, but get a package to-day and cure yourselt Heart Pains. Palpitation, Dropsical Swellings, Dizziness, Indigestion, Headache, Sleeplessness cured by "Wells' Health Renewer." Fon dyspepsia, indioestion, depression of spirits and general debility in their various forms, also as a preventive against fever and ague and other intermittent fevers, the "Perro-Phosphorated Elixir of Calisaya," made by Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York, and sold by all Draggists, is the best tonic; and for patients recovering from fever or other sickness it has no equal 25 Cents Will buy a Treatise o.vthe Horse awd His Diseases Book of 100 pajjes, valuable to every owner of horses. Postage stamps taken. Bent postpaid. i\sw 1 uk& quiue uuun vu,, 134 Leonard Street. New York city. "Koujjh on Kats. Gears out rats, mice, roaches, flies,ants, bedbugs, skunks, chipmunks, gophers. 15c. Drgts. All ladies should know that hoods, scarfs, ribbons and all fancy articles can be mado any color wanted with Diamond Dyes. All the popular colors. 10:. at druggists. None equal them. Wells, Kichardson & Co., Burlington, Vt "Buchn Palbn." Quick, complete cure, all Kidney, Bladder and Urinary Diseases, Scalding, Irritation, Stone, Gravel, Catarrh of bladder. $L Druggists. G'urbo-llnes. The clouds may darken o'er the sun, Yet rivers to the ocean run. The bald and gray may live serene By using the famous Car bo line. "Housb on Corna>" Ask for Wells' "Rough on Corns."15c. Complete cure. Hard or soft corns, warts bunions. A good specimen of the polar bear is worth $900 in New York. Catarrh in the Head Originate* in scrofulous taint in ths blood. Hanc? the proper method by wbicb to core catarrh ia to purify the blood. Its many disagreeable symptom*, and the danger of developing into bronchitis or that terribly fatal disease, consumption, are entirely removed by Hood'* Narsaparilla, which cares catarrh by parifying the blood and also tones up the syitem and greatly improves the general health of tho*e who take it. A Lucky Accident "Having been a sufferer from catarrh for liz or eight yean, and having tried nearly all the wonderful sure cures, inhaler-), etc., and spending nearly a hundred dollars without beuofit, I accidentally tried Hood's Sarsaparilla. The discharge from my nose was greatly increased tho first bottle; then it gradually became less, and in taking less than three bottles I find myself greatly improved. Hood's Sirsaparilla will care c*tarrh."?M. A. Aubly, Worcester, M&ad. Hood's Sarsaparilla Bold by all Drugsriiits. $1; elx for 85. Made only by U. J. HOOD Jt CO.. Ap >th?oario?, Lowell. Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar BOoSrfHEl This valuable work, by a thoroughly erinary Surgeon, should be in the HORSEMAN and FARMER, as it c< how to cure a Horse when ill, How a Cood Horse when you see one, and have this 100-page book fon NEW TUKIV nur 134 Leonard Street, Loss and*Gain. CHAPTER t, "I was taken sick a year ago 'M With bilious fever." "My doctor pronounced me cured, bat I got rick again, with terrible pains in my back and sides, and I got so bad I Could not move 1 Ishrunkl From 228 lbs. to 120! I had been doctorfa* for my liver, but it did me no good. I did not expect to live more than three months. I began to use Hop Bitters. Directly my appetite returned, my pains left me, my entire system seemed renewed as if by magic, and after using several bottles, I am not only as sound as a sovereign,but weigh more than I did before. To Hop Bitten I owe my life." R. Fitzpatriox. Dublin, June 0, '81. CHAPTER U. "Maiden, Mass., Feb. 1, 1880. Gentlemen? I suffered with attacks of sick headacha* Neuralgia, female trouble, for years in th* most terrible and excruciating manner. No medicine or doctor could give me relief or cure, until I used Hop Bitters. "xne nrst Dottle Nearly cured me;" The second made me as well and strong as when a child, "And I have been so to this day." My husband was an invalid for twenty years with a serious "Kidney, liver and urinary complaint, < "Pronounced by Boston's best physicians? "Incurable!" . . Seven bottles of your Bitters cured him and I know of the "Lives of eight persons" . In my neighborhood that have been saved by your bitters, And many more are using them with great benefit. "They almost Do miracles ?" Mm. E. D. Slack. How to Get Sice.?Expose yourself day and night; eat too much without exardse; work too hard without rest; doctor all the time; take all the vile nostrums advertised. and then you will want to know how to get well, which is answered in three wofds?Take Hop Bitters! paTNone genuine without a bunch of green Hops on the white labeL Shun all the vile, poisonous stuff with "Hop" or "Hops" In their hame. a yhp-45 ____ ^ ?Jl!i?{,?l'JtU(JTlU JN" q IJ OLA88 FOUNT , A[ 4 STUDENT LIMP, HI gg [Pit. If or. S3, W.] II Combining with cor S*lf-AotII] Valm and Uon-Healit:? H Barnar, tha on* thine B?aw 9* JL TH tomakaan ^p] Absolutely Perfect Laap W Ho ronnln* or?r of tha oil *w not leakin* oftha fount, Am for the Perf*etlon_GIaae ?ount Student Lut. anatactarad and for nla, ak | ' wholatala only, bj tha , Manhattan Brats Co., rintjv. and 28/ft jr. r. Stndfor IllaitraUd Explanatory CimJar. DR. DAVID KENNEDY'S REMEDY For the Cure of Kidney and Ilnr Coat* plaint*, Constipation, nud all 4fmdin arising from an impure itate of tba BLOOD." To women who sailer from any of the i11?pw liar to their mx it ia an nnfnilinj friend. All Draniiiti. One Dollar a bottle, or aildx? Dr. David Kennedy, Bondout, N. Y. Complete Cure of Hccoad Lieatenut Key and Wife, of New Jersey. The wife of Second Lieutenant Key, Company G. third New Jersey Regiment, say#, under date or March 1st, 1854: "Two years ago myself and hnsband wen taken * down with Haiarifl Fever. After cons a] tins oar family physician, ana finding no relief, we tiled DR. DAVID KENNEDY'S FAVORITE REMEDY, and It has completely cared ns of thij disease." MASON & HAMLIN too n DC A MO 422 to 8TYLE8 U it O M II 0 S900. HIGHEST HONORS AT ALL GREAT WORLD'S EXHIBITIONS FOK SEVENTEEN ?EABS. Only American Orcaaa Awarded eack at U7i For Cash, Easy Payments or Rooted UPRIGHT PIANOS presenting very highest excellence yet actmlaed in auch Instrument*; adding to all previous improve menu one of greater Taluo than anj; securing Mat pure, retlned, musical tonei and increased durability; eapsolaliy avoiding liability to get oat of tone. DIm tistsd Catalogues free. Mason & Hamlin Organ and Piano Ca, Boston, 164 Tremont St^N.york, 46 B. 14th 8t.| Chicago, 149 Wabash Ave. PATTERNS OF ANY SIZE, UNPARALLELED OFFER! PNE MORES T'S "T1 V i n k u k w Or all the Magazines. Illustrated with Original Steel JEngram* ings, Photogravure* and Oil Pictures. Commencing with Norembor, 1884, each Mizizlne wfll contain a Coupon Order, entitling the bolder to the election of A$Y PA TTERN Illustrated is that nam** and In ANT SIZE. 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