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TH* OLD DINNER HORN. VT R*V. JOEL SWABTZ. fw fe?ard many a strain that has thrilled me with joy, Bat Bona I can .- ay, sine? the day I was born, Has pleased me as well as when a small boy 1 beard on the farm the old dinner horn. ftte tube was of tin, a yard or so long, And was blown for "the boys" at noon and J at morn, Itemonotone din was a "welcome, come in, Come in, my dear boys, to the call of the j horn!" With appetite keen, near the noon of the dav. Whether reaping the grain or plowing the corn, Cfr building the fence or tossing the hay. Oh, sweet to my soul was the sound of the horn! A. mother's fond lips pressed the trumpet of tin, 8he blew her full soul through the barley and corn, 1 ?eein t? hear still her ' 'welcome, come in I Come in, my dear boy, to the call of the horn!" Sat the harvest is reaped and the fences are made, And gone are the boys who furrowed the corn, And all save myself, in the grave yard are laid With the dear precious one who winded the horn. The trumpet of tin I keep in my room, Though dented and battered and homely j and old I prize and revere it?a precious heirloom? Of mother and home?more precious than gold. TURNED ADRIFT. by helen fokhest graves. "Rosamond! Rosamond 1" "Yes, Incle Phineas." 'It's nine o'clock, Rosamond. The clock's just struck." "I know it, Uncle Phineis." 'Well, take off them logs that hasn't | got fairly to going, and put 'em keerful j m the chimney coruer, and kiver up the i lest with a good coat of ashes. D'ye iear, Kosamond "Yes, Uncle Phineas," with a sigh. "Because, you know, Rosamond, nine | 'clock's the time folks was abed/' "Yes, L'ucle Phineas." "And be sure you lock the big front! ioor and bolt both the bolts, ana- put a j cheer agin the hinges, so't it'll tumble; ver ef any one tampers with the fasten- \ ings." Til not forget, Uncle Phineas." George Hand rose from his seat with t smile, as nosamoud Foster's troubled: eyes met his own. j "Perhaps I had better be going," said j ie." "Evidently your uncle thinks my wviim will Kol\oftnr tVion mv pr?mr\flnTf " ' 4WU1 U ill gi/OViVt kUHU U4J \.WIU^/WUJ . Vou won't mind him.'" said liosa- ! xond faintly. "Not in the least,'' sa:d George. "He's ^uite right. Nine o'clock is the time to go home. I'll come some oth^r evening and finish my visit." He had Rosamond's haud in his a trifle longer than there was any necessity for, as they parted, and the girl sighed softly a9 she bolted the great front door x and adjusted the "cheer" to the exact burglar-catching angle. George Hand had been very near say- j ing the word for which her heart had ; longed all these months, just when l'ncle Phineas' cracked voice made itself audi- : We over the bend of the stairway. It was rather hard, but liosamond's Bfe had been a succession of mute, self sacrifices, and this oniy made an ad ditional one. JBut l'ncle Phineas renewed the sub- ; ject next day with some acrimony. "I tell you what, Kosamond," said he, *that candlc-box is mor'n half empty!' "Yes, Uncle Phineas, it's the middle f .'anuary, you kuow," said Rosamond, gently. "I don't kcer ef it was the middle of . April," snarled the old man. "That's bo excuse for wasting caudles. Arter , this, the house has got to be shut up at: lalf-past ? o'clock at night, and all the j lights out. I ain't going to end my days J in the poor-house,not to please the shift- i Jess young fellers in the place. Kf they ain't got homes of their own to sit up : In, I ain't goin' to furnish one for 'em." , Kosamond made no answer. What; Ammonf Vinrl cVio frt nfTnr? T15/1 nnt J*. Uncle I'hiueas remind her a dozen times that day that she wu? a penniless orphan ' entirely dependent on him for the bread he ate, the clothes she wore? To be sure, there had been a hundred dollars for her, when the estate of Eliakim Foster had beeu divided, but Uucle Phineas iad insisted on her laying that aside for the rainy day. S;)mesaid it was sunsible thrift; some called it an olTshoot of thu miserliness that underlaid his whole nature. But Ihe old man deigned no explanation; he nly sniffed a jrrcnt sniff when he heard th*t Rosamond's only brother, .Tared, lad put his share into an inveution of kis own which he was trying to push through the patent orticc;. "Humph!" ; aid he. "Fools and their money are . toon parted. i To day, however, he had no sooner tettied the candle question than he broached a new subject. "Give me that there money of your'n, Rosamond," said he. "I've got a good chance to invest it, where it'll double itself in a year or two." Rosamond turned red, then white, i She did not speak. "Don't you hear?" | croaked the old man, impatiently, j 'What are you stanaiug there for? Give , jnc the money, I say!" 'Uncle Phineas," gasped Rosamond. : driven to desperatiou, "I haven't got it! 1?I lent it to Jared!" "Lent it to Jared I" thundered the old j nan. "Flung it into the fiie, you mean i ?made ducks and drake3 of it. Lent it i to .Tared." "He needed it," pleaded the girl. "And j alter all, he's my brother." "And you never asked me?" "I was afraid you would not consent, Uncle Phineas." The old ruaii snarled like an infuriated ; wolf; his wrinkled skin turned yellow, i **i?f you're so very independent." said ' fce. "you can clear out o' this house: my j Toof shan't shelter ye no longer. Clear I ut, 1 say!" l'o?atnond stood appalled. ' But, f'nele Phineas. I've nowhere to i jo," she faltered. ou'd 0'ighUr ha'd thought o' that fortrye was so free with your money," Srowled the old man, as he held the oor wide open for her to pass out. "But it's dark, Uncle Phineas. And it's snowing hard." "Whai's that to me?" shouted the old tyrant. "Do you mean to start, or must 1 take you by the shoulders and put you at? Go, I say!" There was something savage in the fight of his eyes that appalled nis niece, ?ven when she opened her lips to remonstrate still further. Without another word she glided out into the twilight tempest. Everybody in Keckerfield remembered that Janu try storm for yeirs afterward. Young people dated back to it, old in nanuanis compared it wim mo memorable storm of their youthful days. The snow lay for weeks full six feet deep. Wild creatures, like foxes, wolves and weasels, crept out of the woods, and turning traitor to their instincts, sought food and shelter near human dwellings. Roads were impassable for weeks, railroads blocked up for days. And not until the spring sun unlocked the icyehain of Plimmits' Creek (one of the deepest and most dangerous streams in the neighborhood), did they discover the scarcely recognizable remains of a human body wedged among the roots of a submerged tree. Had it not been for the red .shawl that Rosamond Foster wore when she left the farm-house, her remains could hardly have been identified. But they brought her to the old Foster home, and Uncle Phineas gave her a decent burial. From that moment, however, he never held his head up. "I know they couldn't convict me in a court of law," said he. " But it's murder all the 6ame?it's murd?r. And I didn't never know afcre how fond I got I to be of Rosamond. There ain't no hired help I've had sence as ever done a3 she done. Poor iCosamond?poor little girl! And it was me killed her!' They sent for the doctor but the doctor shook his head. "It is not aca3eof medic' e," said he, 44 The man is not sick. He has something on his mind." 44 Vou don't keep a medicine to make a man forget, do ve, squire?" said I'ncle Phineas, with aghastly sort of a smile. "If we did, our fortunes would be made," said the doctor. "No, my friend, there is nothing in Pharma[ copceia to meet your case, worse luckl" So the solitary old man peaked and pined as the days went by, hanging moodily over the handful of fire, and refusing to speak to the sympathetic neighbors that came and wont. But one day when the chestnut trees were all in blossom, a carriage drove up to the door, through weeds that had grown knee deep. "Company!" said Uncle Phineas, with a side-glance at the window. "Tell 'em to go away; I won't see nobody." "But you will set me, Uncle Phineas," cried a cheery voice. "You will see Rosamond;" Hosaruond was alive and blooming, with checks like her name-flower, and blue eyes. Uncle Phineas looked at hei with a troubled face. "Rosamond was drowned," said he. "How is this? Are there two Rosamonds^' " l.'ear Unclc, I auu so sorry!?' explaiued the girl. " But I never heard until yesterday of the girl who was buried in my name. 1 met the poor thfng ! shivering on the road; she seemed to have lost her way, and I directed her as well as I could, and gave her ray little red shawl to tie around her neck. T took the train to .-cranton, and went to Jared. I didn't know what else to do. And oh, uncle, my hundred dollars has more than quadrupled itself, and Jared's patent steam-saw is a success! He is a rich man. and we can pay you now for all your kindness to us when we we e children." " I reckon it won't take much to do that," said I'ncle Phineas, with grim sarcasm. " But Rosamond, ye've lifted a thousand-pound weight off my heart today. You'll comeback to me, hosamoud, won't you, dear?" "For a little while, if you want me," the girl said, blushing beautifully, " But I saw George Hand at the depot when I got o.'E the Scranton train. He was so rejoiced that I was not dead?and I don't quite know how it happened, but I have promised to marry him in August." So Uncle Phincas did not keep his niece Rosamond very long after all. But the fact that she was alive and near him was enough to give him a new lease of life. And on her wedding day the old man actually relented so far as to give her another hundred dollar bid out of the old green chest that he kept back of the cherry-wood bedstead. "George Hand is a smart, forehanded lad," sa d he. " And Rosamond is a good girl?a very good girl."? Yankee Blade. South American Mosquitoes. One of the pests of life in South America is the ubiquitous mosquito, which there attains such an enormous sue and venom that his victims are numbered by the svore. Not long ago a herd ot valuable cattle taken from the United States to a ranch upon the Magdalena River became so desperate under the attack of the mosquitoes that they broke from their stalls, jumped into the water and all were drowned, i Passengers intending to make the voyage i usuaily provide themselves with protection in the shape of mosquito bars, head nets and thick gloves, and when on deck are compelled to tie theirslee.es around their wrists and pantaloons around their ankles. Kven these precautions are not always e 'ective. Large os the iusects i are they seem to have tne power to creep through thj smallest crevice, and it is often neces-ary to change one's clothing I four or five t.mes a day on their account. Day and night they give the sensitive skinned travellers no re->t. I have been i solemnly assured that very ofteu when they have attacked a boat and driven its I captain and crew below they have broken the windows of the cabin by plunging 1 in swarms against them and have attempted to burst in the doors. Although I this may oe something of an exaggera- s tion it is nevertheless true that frequently i horses and cattlc, after the most fright- i ful sufferings, have died from mosquito I bites on board the vessels. ? Graphic. The Ocean Sunflsh. 1 Recently Captain Newal Gray dis- 1 covered a little distance from Captain A. W. Gray's wharf, at hoothbay, Me., the ' big fin of an ocean sunfish. He speedily trangferred himself to a rowboat, and f in a little time caught the fellow by his nose with the boathoo't. The skin was so tough he could not penetrate it, and after a hard fight the tish escaped. He s was probably nOO pounds in weight. 1 This tiah is peculiar, in being little but a ^ head, arid two immense tins about where the neck should be, and the most of the ^ body is wanting. They float lazily on 1 the surface, and take the name from !.asking in the suu. Their food is jelly * fish, so abundant on the Ma ne coast. The livers arc very large and y^old a large 1 quantity of oil, which commands a high i price as a remedy for sprains aud burii3. ; The Healthy Beniralcsu. It is said of a Beugalese tribe, the Os walsof .uarwar, inaia, mat wnnecnoiera rages on all sides of them not one h*s j ever taken the disease, much less sucT ( cumbt*d to it, and they attribute their immunity to their sanitory rules. Ac- ( cording to the precepts of their religion \ they never touch animal food nor spirituous liquors; they dine early, and sup on, j milk and fruit. Wherever au Oswal goes he never breaks these rules. It is not added, but it is quite safe to presume, that a measure, at least, of cleanliness j goes with these other religio-sanitary o.di nances. , .if/*-, . ,\>;? .5 '.. ^ ji .; > > . . .. * BUDGET OF FUN. I I humorous 8ketches from i various sources. The Summer After?The One Thin* Needful?Only a Brief Respite?A Wife's Pears, Etc., Etc. I Btood once more on the dear old beach Where we'd parted the year before, And sitting there in the self-same spot I saw my love once more. The dress she wor? was the one I loved, A simple gown of white, And I asked myself, "When she put it on, Did shaknow I would come to-night?" The moon shone bright as I closer drew, rtnu jcneit as ner ieei< uu tuo sauu. Where I told her how I had loved her long, An I ventured to take her hand. With a silvery laugh she raised her head, And then, oh, horrible shock! I saw that 'twas only Rosalie's maid In Rosalie's last year's frock! ?Cornelia Redmond, in Life. The One Thinjj Needful. Mr. C. de Hurst?"Ah, waitaw, what did the cook use in cutting these mutton chops:" Anatole?"A. cleaver, sir, of course!" Mr. C. de Hurst?"Aw, good! Bring me one!" Only a Brier Respite. Infatuated Youth (after a three hours visit)?"Miss Maud, I must go." Infatuated Maiden?"Well, Charlie; but you will call a^ain soon, 1 hope." Infatuated Youth?"I will be back in fifteen m'.nutes."?Detroit Free Press. A "Wife's Fears. Wife (to country editor)?"Aren'tyou feeling well to-night, John?" Couutry Editor?".Not very, my dear. An indignant subscriber came into the office this afternoon and mopped up the floor with me." Wife (anxiously)?"Heavens, John, I hope he didn't stop his paper, too."? Life. Something Else. Diner (to slow waiter)?"Some roast beef, well done, potatoes and a glass of milk." Waiter?"Vessir: anything else, sir?" Diner?"i'es; I'd like it this afternoon. "?Judge. Baseball's Victims. Miss Ethel (of Boston)?"I understand, Clara, that young Mr. Mason, who was very attentive to you last month, is engaged to Miss .Racket, of Philadelphia." ijiss Clara (of New York)?"Yes; I released iMr. Mason on a Thursday, and and do you know it wasn't two days before he had sigued with that Philadelphia girl."?Time. That Undiscovered uounrry. Little Mabel?"Oh, mamma!" Where's Protest?" Mamma?"My dear child: I never heard of such a place. Why do you ask:" Little Mabel?"Because, I heard papa say this morning he'd have to go there this afternoon, sure's shooting."?Idea. Home, Swe t Home. Featherly?"Are you pretty full up at your boardiDg-house, Dumley?" Dumley?"Yes, there are two brides, three dowagers, a grass widow, a retired army officer with one leg, and myself." Featherly?"That is a lull household, for a fact. What kind ot fare do you get?" Dumley?"Warfare."?Epoch. A Slight Misunderstanding. "Stranger, I heard you say that you had just returned from a tour of the State?'' "Yes, sir." "How is the corn crop?" "Immense." "How many bushels do ycu think it will average to the acre?", j "I scarcely understand you. I am a chiropodist, and bushels have nothing to do with my business."?Nebraska Mute' Journal. What Will He Do With It? "I have nothiag for you to eat, my good mau," said the young wife, "but if you need any clothes here is a gar- , meat of my husband's that you may have. He has several others like it and j doesn't need this." The tramp looked nt the elaborate Fellow and green dressing gown, embroidered with blue roses ana red hum- i tning birds, aid walked off slowly, ; scratching hi; head in a dazed manner. ? Cliicayo Tribune. W nntci] A spark of the fire of genius that kin-' ilea enthusiasm. Feathers from the wings of the imagination. Spokes from the wheel of fortune. A drop of the distilled attar of the lowers of rhetoric. A cheese made out of the milky whey. A bucket of pure water from the wells jf despair. Cement for split sides after reading I ;he above jokes.?Life. Pat her Had an Offensive Weapon. "Willie," sorrowfully observed the ittle girl to her juvenile adorer, "papa says I'm too young to have a sweetheart, ! ind I must quit runuing out and playing with you. He says you mustn't come here so much." "I'm not afraid of your papa, Ivatie," said Willie, stoutly. "He needn't think tie can scare ine because he's a big dealer in lumber." "Yes, but he deals in shingles, Willie, jig, tlat shingles " "That sof" said Willie, turning away ladly. ? Chicago Tribune. Precise. Alfonse de Beriot?"You say you are jnperstitious, Mis8 Gushington, but; tvou'd you dare to be married on' Friday?" Miss Gusbin<'ton ? "What! Next! Friday? Why, dear Alfonse, you are so I ?udden and so unconventional." "You quite misunderstand rae. I pro- ] test?I didn't propose?" "That's all right, Alfonse, you didn't propose as they usually do, but 1 like it jus: the same. Yes, dear, it shall be . tnduy." Alfonse swoon*.?Sririinj''eld Union' Mr. Bachfcllcr's Sugcestivoness. "Oh, look at that pretty bird, Mr. Bachfcller!" said Miss Nevershy, pointing to a big gull swooping in broad circles over the sea. "Yes," said Mr. Baohfellcr, with an awful effort to be jocular, "and it's not the only pretty gull I can see, Miss Nevershy. Both of them are as grace-; ful as can be, and " Isn't that bird fishing for some- j thing?" "Yes?but- but I didn't mean to sug- j Brest that you were " "That will do, Mr. Bachfeller?I see i mamma is beckoning to me." I , And they have occupied seats on opposite sides of the vessel since.?Pitttbury Dispatch. Offended. Young Mr. Banks weighs a trifle over two hundred pounds and is somewhat sensitive about it. He was calling on his girl the other evening when she said naively: "Oh, Mr. Banks, would you just as leave sit in this easy chair as in that rocker?" 'Certainly, certainly," replied Banks galiantly, as he changed from one chair so the other. 'Oh, thanks," she murmured, "you are very kind. I have an atlas full of such lovely ferns under the cushion ot that easy chair, and you " "Good night," said Banks stiffly, as he walked away, never, never, never to return. ? Time. Pat. Aug. the Great Inventor. "One of the most comical things I've overheard was told me in the Caucasus," said Dudley Winston, the young man who accompanied his father on the mission to Persia. "It was in Tiftos, the capital of the Principality of Georgia. You know there's an American store there?a big place of business where silt sorts of 'Yankee notions' are dealt out at enormous profits to the natives. I dropped in there. One of the objects of interest to which the Russian salesman directed my special attention was a patent potato peeler. "'Dees instrument,' he said, "ees medd by ze fay moos 'ouse of Fat. Aug.' "I was astonished. " 'What house did you say!' " 'Zefuymoos 'ouse of Pat. Aug.' "Never heard of it,'I said; 'I guess you are mistaken.' " 'Mee3tecken; No, sare. I have olten l heard of ze 'ouse, and I have often seen i ze name of ze 'ome* I vill show him to you now. Oh, it is a firm which enjoys great fame here.' "And with that ho looks for a specimen potato peeler and brings one out. ' 'Zere, sare,'he says 'ees ze name engraved in xe metall. "I burst out laughing until my sides ached. There was the legend: Tat. Au?. 17. 1873.' .And the "Fat. Aug.' part of it he had taken to be the firm's name. I found that this potato peelet was famous under the name of 'Pat. Aug.'all over the Caucasus."?Chicagc Herald. A Cure for S!eeplessae3s. The terrible evil of insomnia has so many different sources that the utmost we can hope from any single artifice is tc afford relief from it under one special | form. I venture to think I have hit upoD a plan which thus remedies a very comj mon (not an aggravated) kind of sleepJ lessness; and, with your permission, will ; endeavor to make your readers who maj be fellow-sufferers sharers in my little discovery. " Ti?i:? J 11 13 LIU VY, 1 UCL1C C, ucuuanji u i. u ^ l i. u . that our conscious, daylight thinking processes arc carried on in the sinistei half of oar brains?i. e., in the lobe ; which controls the action of the right j arm and leg. Ponderiug on the use ol ' the dexter half of the brain?p( s ibly id | all unconscious cerebration, and in whati soever may be genuine of the mysterie! of planchette and sprite-rapping?I camt to the < onclusion (shared no doubt b} many other better qualified inquirers; j that we dream with this lobe, and that the fanlastic, unmoral, sprite-like charJ acter of dreams is. in some way, trace! able to that fact. The practical inference i then struck me: to bring back sleep when lost, we must quiet the conscious, thinkj ing, sinister side of our Lrains, and bring i j into activity only the dream side, the | dexter lobe. To do this, the only plan 11 could devise was to compel myself tc ! out aside every waking thought, even soothing and pleasant ones, and every j ' effort of daylight memory, such as co nt| ing numbers or the repetition of easy nowing verse9, tne latter naving Deen my | not wholly unsuccessful practice for many years. Instead of all this, I saw I must think of a dream, the moie recent the better, and go over and over the scene it presented. Armed with this idea, the next time I found myself awakening , at 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, instead j of merely trying to banish painful thoughts and :e,seatirg, as was my habit, I that recommendable soporific, "Paradise | and the Peri," I reverted at once to the i uream from which I had awakened, and j tried to go on with it. In a moment 1 was asleep! And from that moment the experiment, often repeated, has scarcely ever failed. Not seldom the result is , sudden as the fall of a curtain, and seems like a charm. A friend to whom I have | confided my little discovery tells me that j without any preliminary theorizing about j the lobes of the brain she had hit upon ! the same plan to produce sleep, and had found it wonderfully efficacious. I should be very glad to hear if other sufferers can obtain the precious boon in ' the same way. The evils of prolorged I wakefulness and of the drug-takiDg to | which its victim4 are too often driven are 1 alike so tor. ible that I make no apology j for offering ray humble contribution ol j one more harmless remedy to obviate there1.? '.oadt n Spectator. Tin Diagnosis of Leprosy. "Leprosy, "said a doctor to the Chicago New*, " is roughly divisible into two great tpyes: tubercular or 'black,' aud , aniesthetic or'white.' In the lirst, spots | of a pale rod or dark-brown color appear on the back, hands, feet, palms, soles, forehead, and cheeks. The face lirst becomes livH,|then swollen and discolored. The 'white' leprosy is characterized by water-blisters, at first, wh ch break and leave a whitish scar. rJ he scar is lirst the seat of stinging pain, afterward succeeded by complete loss of feeling. The disease lasts a long time and the patient dies in the 'white' form from simple exhaustion; in the 'black' death is usually causcd by blood-poisoning. The disease is due to a bacilla, or minute, hat, liecuic-.irvo ljcilli. imo ijiuai/ uuu i its way into a cut surface to become con- | tagious. The disease, hencc, spreads slovvlv. Leprosy has always existed in the U l'ted States since the Louisiana ] puchise." ( i Itinerant Rostanrants. I J|Itinerant food supply is a new feature j of Boston life. A large wajron train , carrying complete dinners, or viands a la carte, goes uLout the streets supplying its customers. Nothing is easier now than to takeiin apartment, or a room, as j , m;iy be, aud order whatever one may j j ckoo?e, ser ed ut such hours as he shall ; , desire, and the arrangement is the j > apothcosia of household joy. No more i rooks, no more marketing, no more j , kitchens, and no more going out to res- i . taurant, hotel or private boarding house. , The itinerant food supply cuts the (Jor- ! . dian knot. The food is said to be excel- j j lent, and furnished at rates far below the . cost of marketing :ind having it pre- | ' pared, or of restaurant or boarding house i , rates. It offers a solution of many dilli- ! . culties for an increasing number of peo-; j pie to whom domestic life on the old) | t plan has grown impracticable or unde- ^ sirable. ? Tiviei-Democrat. t '.vvi /V ; . ^ ; 4\ : ' rcV'VV .. * - 'Vf.V H " " .'V * . . ?* 1 " ' ' 1mm ANTIQUITY OF THE PISCATORICAL CALLING. Orlirin of Fisheries In the Old worm and Tbeir inception and Wonderful Growth in American Waters. The calling of fishermen, from the earliest records of the world, whiiehumble and lowly, has made for itself a history rep'ete with interest and incident, while its members have won both fame and honor on the page of history. 'ihe fisheries are identified with the earliest records of commerce. The Phoenicians called a fish sidon. According to some authorities Sidon, the most ancient of marit:me cities, derived its name from the abundance of fishes that inhabited the waters near its site. Tyre, which has been termed the '"daughter of Sidon," was founded by Sidonians, and became the greatest commercial mart of the ancient world. From a particular kind of shell fish the natives extracted a brilliant purple dye which formed one of the most extensive branches of its trade and wealth. Its value waa placed ou a par with gold, and the skill of the natives carried it to the highest degree of perfection. Genoa grew rich and powerful from her fisheries, and not content with her own property undertook the conquest of other iiihing grounds in the Bosphorus. Amsterdam, from a village of herring catchers, cabins and odd shaped huts, rose by the skill of the natives and fame of their commodities in foreign countries to a'.iluence and grandeur. Two centuries ago the sayings were everywhere current that 'Amsterdam is founded on herring bones," and that "Dutchmen's bodies are built of pickled herrings.'* The Komans, like the Egyptians, carried the art of rearing fish to great perfection, and almost every rich citizen had a lish pond. At some of their feasts a thousand of the choicest fishes were set upon their tables. It was a custom at one time to carry the dolphin to their banquet rooms alive in order to glut their eyes with its changes of color when dying. Cato, in complaining of his countrymen, said: "It was a hard matter to save Rome from ruin, when a fish wa# sold for more than an ox." The mins of Roman fish ponds have been found in modern excavations. About the year 1000 there was but one quay or wharf in the city of London. The first was a Billingsgate, the great 6sh market. The wharfage was a halfpenny for every boatload of fish landed. The first dry dock constructed in the same city (now so celebrated for its immense docks and warehouses) was used by the Greenland wha!e fishers. Liverpool also was once a poor fishing village, and its first step toward wealth and importance was toward the clo3e of the twelfth century, when Henry II. used it is a station for the embarkation of troops to Ireland. Glasgow in the reign of James J. was a small village, and owes its first impetus to the wealth derived from the fisheries. The first fishers in American sea9 were Frenchman, and there is a tradition among the hardy race of Biscay that their forefathers had found the way to Newfoundland before the advent of Columbus. It is a matter of fact, however, that the fisheries of Newfoundland were known to,the Biscavans and Nor mans as early as the year 1501. Cabot, when he returned from his voyage of discovery, reported that the waters of America contained an abundance of fish, creating an intense excitement, and vessels bearing aloft the flags of France, England, Spain aqd Portugal came annually in search of cod for nearly a century before a European colony was founded in America north of the limits of the United States. The Englishman who made the first direct voyage across the Atlantic was Bartholomew Gosnold, who explored the coast in lti02, and, catching codfish near the southern cape of Massachusetts, gave the name which it still bears. Close upon him followed the celebrated John Smith, who took "40,U00" fish, which he dried, and "7000," which he "corned," or pickled, in the waters of Maine, and purchased a large quantity of furs from the natives. The profits of his-voyage were upwards of seven thousand dollars. Nova Scotia, down to the commencement of the revolution, was hardly known and rarely spoken of, except in connection with its fisheries. The proximity of the fishing grounds to the numerous harbors combine to make Nova Scotia the most valuable spot in the world for cutching and curing fish. Mackerel fishing takes the lead, receives more attention and is far more popular than the other branches. The reasons aje apparent at a glance: it is the least laborious and most profitable. The fisheries of Cape Breton. Prince Edward's Island, Magdalene islands, and th3 Hay of Chaleurare all more or less important and invested with interest. The Bay of Chaleur was explored l>v Jarjues Cartier in 1 ">34. He called it the "Bay of Heat." and on its shores are some of the oldest settlements in North America. Many of the fishermen are Acadian French. The women, like those of the ancient fisheries town Dieppe, from which their ancestors came, wear calico caps over the head, short petticoats of woolen stu:f striped with red, white and blue, while the men wear short jackets, scarlet waistcoats and blue pants. The fishing grounds off the coast of Labrador are comparatively of recent date, and but few cod were caught there previous to the revolution. In the Pilgrims' time the subject of fishing had become an important one. The Dutch had at the time 2000 vessels engaged in their herring fishery. In 1?12 British whalers went armed, and the British- Russia Company had received a monopoly of the whale fishery The year following, Holland received the same privilege, and in 1018 the contro Persy culminuted in a general war. In the Pilgrims sent a vessel to England laden with hsh, cured with salt of their own manufacture, and in ltii'J opened \ trade with the fishing vessel at Mou- ! began. Fifty years after the settlement af Plymou'hthe profits of the mackerel, bass and herring fisheries at Cape Cod were granted to found a free school. Maine and New Hampshire were early 1 jngacred in fish ug, deriving 'arge profits ! fro?? the industry. The settlement of Massachusetts can be traced directly to :he fisheries. In 1U24 the Pilgrims at Plymouth and merchants iu England Ijuilt a fishing stage and provided other iccoinmodations at Cape Ann. Fish were exported from Boston for the first iime in 165W, and Governor Winthrop was interested in the voyage. Iu iil4 ;he first schooner was built at Gloucester jy Andrew Robinson. "When she was aunchcd a bystander, looking on. exjlaimed: "Oh, how she schoons!" and l \obin8on replied : "A schooner let her jo," and thus the popular type of fishing md coasting craft had its origin. At ;he breaking out of the revolution there vere mere than six thousand men enraaed in the fisheries. The Orchid Fad. ' There is an orchid establishment in Jersey City, N. J., which is a branch of an establishment at St. Albans, England. l<are and costly orchids of hundreds of different kinds were seen there by a New York Tile /ram reporter. "What is theprce of this one?" he asked, as he pointed to a large, yellow flower with ru.f.ed edges. "That one is worth $250." "Why are they so costly?" "That variety is quite rare. You will notice that it has an extraordinary dark shade near the centre of the blow. Here is one that you might think more bcauti Jul than the other, but it is much more common, and we can sell it for $75. "The prices of orchids range from $1 to $1U00 each. Their cost depends on the rarity of the variety, the expense of collecting them in remote parts of the world aud the difficulty with which they are imported. "Then, too, they are very slow to multiply from bulbs, and it takes from ten to twenty years to produfce flowers from the seed." Why were not orchicU introduced sooner 1" "Attempt* have frequently been made to do so, but they were failures because their culture, which in reality is very simple, was not understood." "What kind of treatment do they require?" "The orclrd is an air plant. If planted in earth its roots will immediately strike out for its favorite element, and the plant will not do well until air is I reached. They grow finely on^ pieces of | wood or bark, and, in dry atmospheres, it is well to put them in pots containing damp moss.7' "Ls the orchid trade very large in America!" "No; it is yet comparatively email. Perhaps the finest private collections in this country are owned by Mr. Kimball, of Rochester; Mr. \ aoderbilt and Jay Gould. In England they are rapidly ! becoming famous, and it is probable : that they will in time entirely supersede the rose all over the world, ai they are i more beautiful, fragrant and lasting. ' The finest bouquets ever made were i entirely of orchids. They were, from the j Queens of England and Saxony. Many men were employed several days in coli lecting the flowers, which, fof. the two ! bouquets, cost about $3000. They were ' gathered from all parts of the world." Religion In the Russian Army. The Rmsians have strange ideas ol j religion. A writer for the faris Figaro : has been visiting the barracks of a regi1 ment of the Imperial guard at St. PetersI burg. Arriving at about eleven o'clock ! in the morning, he fouud a batalion in | the dining room enjoying their breaki fast, consisting of bread, oatmeal, and a kind of drink made of grain steeped in vinegar, and diluted with water. The room was clean and comfortable, filled with tables, each large enough for six soldiers. The oatmeal, dark in coloi and cooked in water, was served in a | dish placed in the middle of the table, : and each soldier, armed with a wooden 1 j: j I*r , sp'tiun, uiuueu n? iui uiujscii. } who tasted the oatmeal, confesses that he could not help "making a wry face" ' at it. The bread was pretty good, but ! the drink was so horrible that "nothing ' but long pr.ictice could enable a Frenchi man to get it down." , The meal being linished, the sergeant in charge of the 100m rose to give thanks. 1 All the soldiers rose, took of their caps, i and stood attentive. The grace having been said, the whole batalion responded with a simultaneous "Amen." Not to ! say "Amen"' would be regarded as a j breach of military discipline; but in Russia such an omission could scarcely occur, for the whole. population except 1 some of the educated class, accepts with1 out question the orthodox faith. Three time3 a year the whole Russian : army takes the Communion, one company at the time, and all are requirad to fast rigorously for one week previous to the ceremony. Every comp?ny in the : army possesses its own holy image, which- is placed conspicuously in its tjuartcrs, and before it burns unceasingly a little lamp. In every barrack there is an altar, before which the chaplain says , mass once a month. All the religious services and usages have the same character of military discipline, something required of every man, to wh ch no one thinks of object! ing. The Kmsians, in their own way, i are prob.ibly thi mo3t universally relic! ious people in the Old World. Even the | few sceptics practise the prescribed re: ligious observances. In no part of the great empire, however, ia there complete religious freedom. i Petrifactions in a German Church. j It is a most surprising thing how inS different the Geimans are about their 1 churches, says a gentleman writing from ' Bremen. Here in a prosperous, rich 1 city, is a cathedral 700 years old. around which most of their history clusters, and one of the towers lies in ruins, and has j so lain for many years. The bricks and : mortar crumble at their feet, and the citizens pass l>y unheeding and careless, while opposite is a beautiful new "ex: change," and fine stores are seen in all ! directions. As we push open the door 1 of the rathedral a burst of melody pours | forth; hundreds of children, led by a J splendid organ, are singing some grand : old German anthems. Their clear, pure voices awake the echoes high up in the : roof and touch the heart, as children's j voices always do. After the little ones have srone away a peep at the interior is enough?bare and cold, aud white: wa-hed as it is, so we follow the prettv i fraulein, who has opened a door in the | south aisle and ushered us into the blik el lor, where, for some unknown reason. I nothing ever decays, but supers a sort j 1 of petrifaction. A Swedish general I j killed in the "thirty years' war"' lie* there perfectly preserved, with his aidde-camp by his side: a Lady Stauhope i of three hundred years ago has her teeth and her figure, and a gentleman killed in I a duel centuries ago shows the wounds I in arm and neck, and holds up hands | with pointed, polished nails to our gaze. , Against the wall leans a pu?sy cat ol 1 unknown ag<> and playfully curled tail, and overhead are birds and game, with their feathers quite intact, and under neath lie heap* of bones and skulls?a very nightmare of a spot. Storage of Life. T- - loAtni-a (n flit* S>ir,itflrv Ill U I I'UCU w igv/i'll V " W ? ? - J Institution of 'ire??.t Britain, Dr. B. W. Richardson considered the power the human body has been proven to possess, of storing up life to a prolonged period. He stated ihe conditions favoring sucb storage, in the following order: Hereditary qualification, maintenance of balance of bodily Junctions, perlcct temperance, and impurity irom implanted 01 acquired diseases. Temperament has its influence, the bilious and sanguine temperaments being best Jor long life, and the uervous and lymphatic the wor*t. What he termed all-round tcmperance is the avoidance of everything tnac stimulates the heart beyond its natural activity, such stimulation being an unnatural tax that reduces the storage of life. ' y CURIOUS PACTS. A small town in Michigan has seven brass bands. A horned snake five feet in length hat been killed in Georgia. "Left-handedThunder" is the nam* of an Indian chief in Dakota. A New Jersey coapie were rocentlf married after a courtship of twenty-four1 years. An apricot tree nt Orange, CalM hat' yielded 1000 pounds of perfect fruit tfrW season. s The king of Uganda has over his royal hut the only lightning rod in Central: Africa. , <?i&k TV* A woman of Visalio, Cal, has two pat humming birds that will alight on her hands4 when called. j London now has several lines of half-j penny "buses," which connect withthqj various norse-car lines. | Helen of Troy had a long nose, ending in a good deal of a tip, and nnH ning down in a straight line front berj forehead. Jj An artesian well sunk under the 4fffl waters of New York Bay on the Je^Ht side, produces pure fresh water w abundance. A London expert gives this as an Hi failing remedy tor sea-sickness: "Hob your breath and contract your abdooti nal muscles." j The Circassian beauty is a young wd man with dark, piercing eyes and kin# hair, standing out straight around lii| head like an electrified mop. Melville Dennon, a Dakota man, I said to be the homeliest man in thq United States. He possesses a handsonui fortune of $5,000,000, however. 1 A radish weighing three and a haU pounds and measuring twenty inches in circumference is on exhibition in DublinJ It was crrown bv Dr. Buchan. of Beeflll Springs, Ga. Some big peaches have been grown & Oregon this, season. The record wat beaten by an East Portland fruit grower, who raised a freestoue peach that men sured eleven and a quarter Inches in cir cum fere nee. A. remarkably attractive lobster wa caught at Norwich, Conn., a few day ago. Its uppe.* parts wore of the deli cate tinge of old-fashioned bide china and beneath the color was a beautifn bluish white. There are two sunflower stalks of natural growth at liochelle, Fla., one of which has 10C0 aud the other '13G blooms and buds. The stalks are about ten feet high, with branches reachingout about six feet. A well-to-do citizen of Macon, Ga.,] uses for a bathtub a zinc-lined coffin boxJ It was intended to . contain ?the<codinvo|| his neighbor, but proved to be too lartfl to enter the grave, and was bought by it? present owner for a song. J San Francisco newspapers are disease ing the wonderful strength of Hansen, a seaman on the re venae cutter Oorwin, For raising a disturbance on board a ship he was put in. ironi, hot giving his wrists a sudden wrench & snapped the tough steel bracelets a* U they had been made of paper. , x A queer incident took place at A. Lower's home at Griffin, Ga. A colonj of black bees had been living peaceabla near a tribe of Italian bees for years unl til Tuesday, when the black bees sh tempted to rob their yellow neighbon| A fierce fight was the result in whka hundreds of the black robben werl killed. . - 1 Chilian Soldiers. ' We know more, perhaps, of th< progress of Chile than of any other of the Spanish-American countries, through its overwhelming triumph over Fern in the recent war. Ko orher country haa been supposed to be endowed with ao large a share of the pushiog, grasping ana arrogant spirit which is regarded as characteristic of the Yankee of th? North. Air. Curtis's account of the Chilleno character is extremely interesting. He /rives them credit for great bravery and endurance, a Spanish tenao ity and an Irish wit. He finds muck resemblance between the Chillenos and the Irish. They are aiike in their patriotic pride, their reckless bra.ery'and the.r vanity. The Chilleno will not endure 4 siege nor fight at long range, but as soon as he sees the enemy he lire* one volley, drops his gun and rushes in with his curvo. This is a long curved knife, which he carries as a dagger and uses to cut throats. lie never fights with his fiits and never carries a revolver, but in a quarrel springs witll thin knife at the threat of his enemy like a bloodhound. At least one or two throat-cutting affairs are to be found in every day's paper, and on feast days or carnivals they fill columns. The awfal scenes that took place on the battlefield! during the war with Peru are said to have been without a parallel in modem! warfare. Nine-tenths of the dead wera found with their throat3 cut, and tho Chillenos took no prisoners except when a whole army surrendered. They ask no quarter and give none. The fear of tha Chilleno knife had much to do with tha subjugation of thb more humane Peru* vians. ' " It follows that the Chilleno soldier is not easily disciplined and has a great talent for devastation. Everywhere in Santiago is to be seen the plunder of the late war? statuary ana fountains, ornamental street lamps, benches of carved stone in tlie parks, and almost everything that beautifies the streets. The ships that carried troops to the war came back laden with pianos, pictures, furniture, books and innumerable household articles stolen from the homes of the Peruvians. They took lamp-posts, iron fences, images from the cemeteries, altar equipments of silver from the churches, even steeple clocks? every, in fact, they could reach. The/ stripped the eftigifc3 of the sRints of their embroideries and jewels, and even carried off statues of Washington- and Lincoln to set them up in the courtyard of the Postofficein Santiago.These tilings have done much toward the adornment of Valparaiso as well, which exceeds any city in the United States of thesarat population (125,000) in the beauty of its shops and the display of luxury.?Neto York Tribune. The " Topsy-turvy " Railway. The latest amusemont at Brussels is riding on "J,e Chcmin do l'er de l'Armour," or the "Topsy-turvy" railway. It consists of an enormous barrel opeued at the end, and grooved so as to run unon a set of rails wnichsloDe in th? centre, on each side of the barrel is a seat, aud on each seat three passeogers sit, being strapped round the waist, and having their feet in straps, while with their hands they hold on to the seats. The barrel is set in motion, and goes down the incline and up the other .ride, pa^ssngers turning round and round with it. The journey is a short one, the barrel rolling completely over only four times, and then stopping with its passengers seated right side up a^aia. Th? fare is 80 centimes. Many women ride in it, their skirts fastened by a strap at the ankle.?New York Sun. J