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TO THE NINETY-AND-NINE. For the ono stray soul that must \rnllc apart, Leave greatness and sadness and fame. Perohance to die of a broken heart. That the world may remember its name. ?3nt vso who are only tho rank and file, Whose fame is a life-spnn long, <V6 may leave to earth the gift of a smilo As sweet as the poet's song. ?Harper's Eazar. 20ooooooooocooooQGoooaooG? | MRS, PEABDDY'S GRAPE-JELLY. ? ooooooooooooooooocoooooooo fi HE September sunV shine was flooding the kitchen floor t like a river of gold. kitchen floor was , no mouldy, underground concern, such as you sometimes see through the iron rails of city areas. It was composed of narrow boards of daintily-oiled Georgia pine, and was the pride of Mrs. Peabody's heart. The windows* were draped with snowy cotton, finished with Lome-manufactured ball fringe; the chairs, of bird's-eye maple, had been a part of Mrs. Peabody's wedding outfit, twenty years ago; and the great clock in the corner, with its polished brass dial, and the landscape W \J ui uauj o w?.%. w?^ namesake of the Israelitish law-giver; "and 'narm wants yon to come d'reckly?right away." "But I can't," said Mrs. Peabody. "Don't you see that I am preserving grapes?" "Our baby's got a fit," repeated Moses, in exactly the same intonation; "and marm, she says tell Mis Peabody to come d'reckly!" "ThGse Higbees are really too trying!" said Mrs. Peabody, despairingly. "I don't believe there's a thing ails that baby, but I'll have to and see, I suppose. Clarence!" ^Hl^^Clarence Peabody, the farmer's l^^^^ytfuuger brother, who was under-tutor HL in St. Silvanus College, "and popularly supposed to bo possessed of superhuman knowledge and education, came out of the back parlor, where he was HRB studying out the derivation of a Greek SB word?a tall, pleasaut-faced?' y>ung WH man, with blue eyes, i\ufd decidedly auburn-red hair. .<Tir?n ti?v,oa,-0>? co Sri t\fr Pak. r>f CU, . e?p- - ? body. ^ "Would you do ine -a favor?" said Mrs. Hepsej, in nppes-ling accents. "Witli all the pleasure iu life," answered hei broth(er-in-'aw. "Just keep th<Jso gr&pes stirring o minute," pleaded Mrs. Peabody, "while I run *?ver to 2achariah Higbee's, to se-? if thai) everlasting baby L really liasyjW thiug thcnba Iter with it.11 Giviutf over the huge wooden spoon into th? hands of the tutor of St. Sil-vaaaaj she caught up her green gingliani sun-bonnet and hurried away. * Clarence Peabody looked over into b theboiliug mass. "What a lovely color!" thought he. | "How delightful it smella! But it's I. eligibly warmish here over the fire, with the thermometer at seventy odd. Mr I hope Hepsibah won't be long." Hbj; Ho stirred away more vigilantly "" " "thau ever, still thinking of that Greek w root. "Five minutes," soliloquized Mr. Peabody, glancing at the clock. "bevou miuutes?ten minutes, i^oine, this is a little too much!" Just then, chancing to look in the direction of the parlor, Clarence Peabody beheld half a dozeu sheets of his manuscript whirling away through the open window into the vegetable garden beyond. . "Confusion take it!" continued Mr. Clarence Peabody; and dropping the wooden spoon into the grapes he rushed frantically to the rescue. Page ono was easily found; page Iwo was impaled, so to speak, on the prickly branches of a flourisming gooseberry hedge; page thrco alighted, unharmed, on the shores of the duck pond; but, alas! pago four was bowhere to be found. Aud, after a long and fruitless scarch, Clarcnco re turned dejectedly to the kitchen, ouly to be greeted by nu overpowering smell of scorebcd sweets. "Great Apollo! tbe thing is burnod to a crisp," said bo, lifting bis bands. Just then Miss Middleton, tbo prettiest and most ethereal of all the city boarders, put her gold?crimpcd head into the kitchen, to beg for a smoothing-iron to press out some nowlygathored ferns. The tutor hailed her as a guardian angol. lie could not lieln knowing that, on the whole, she xras a litilo inclined to bo partial to mm. "AI'.ss >?!ddlet<">n," called lie, "you hftvo appeared Lore just in the uick k of time. Ilepsoy will never forgive ^ me for spoiling her preserves. Can't ^ou set 'em rig'ut somo way or other?" ~.. Miss Middleton opened her china-, BHfl^bluo eyes very wide. she cricd. "I haven't the RK|k idea how preserves aro made." Peabody regarded her a little HMnB^ly. nfljgBkight all women knew about ^ UQHHHfejcton. looked helplessly BBKeWKiite never allow any cll the kitcheu," said she. "I'd very sorry, Mr. Peabody' ] but I can't help you!" At the same moment tbe outer i door opened, and in walked Aurora j j Temple, Farmer Temple's cherry- | ' cheeked daughter, from the old brown j1 house across the meadows. Her dress j was quite UDlike Marcia Middleton's I paie-blue organdie, being a snbstan- 11 tial brown calieo, which had known I the interior of a wash-tub more than once; her complexion, instead of be ing all roses and lilies, like Miss Mid- < j dleton's, was browner than any i | gypsy's; and in one sun-browned painted on its door?in wiiicn a preternaturally pink-cheeked shepherdess had been tending three fluffy sheep of half a century at least, without growing a day older?conveyed a certain idea of thrift which is inseparable from a New England farmhouse. And over the well-biacuea stove a huge brass Kettle was boiling and bubbling; for Mrs. John Peabody had set apart this particular day? consecrated it, as it were?to the preserving of grapes. Mrs. Peabody had been up before daylight to gather the empurpled treasures, in a superannuated clothesbasket; for Mrs. Peabody kept city boarders, and her time was precious. She had picked them carefully from the steins, while her boarders had been discussing broiled ham and eggs, and delicious new bread; and, just as the grapes were boiling into a violent ^ maelstrom of sweetness, Mrs. Higbee's barefooted little boy had come pattering in, with a face crimsoned by tlie haste he had made, and every individual hair on his head standing up L in a different direction. "Why, Moses, what's the matter?" said Mrs. Peabody, stirring desperately away at the grapes. rtnl a flu" Bail? tVifi hand she carried a basket 01 laia peaches, as rosy as her own cheeks. "Is Mrs. Peabody at home?" said ' Anrora. "Dear me!" as she looked around her, "what is the matter?" Clarence Peabody told her the whole story of his broken trust and sore discomfiture. "But it isn't in human nature, Miss J Anrora," said he, "to see one's cher- ! ished Greek annotations flying to the j four points of the compass, without at least an effort to rescue them. Now, is it?" "To-be-sure not," said Aurora. "Couldn't you help a fellow out ol I the scrape, soiiie way or other ?"humi .nQatinnorl Mr. Peabodv. as meek | HUVJ" ly as if he didn't know a syllable of Greek nor Chaldee, nor any other mouldy old language. Aurora peeped into the kettle. "The jelly is spoiled," she said, "past all redemption!" Clarence uttered a sepulchral groan. "Hepsy needn't know," retorted Miss Temple. "Quick! Get me a pail of water?I'll wash out the kettle. And open all the windows and let this smell out." "I don't understand," said Clarence, piteously. "How catrlJaRsey help knowing thatr "I made gi'ape jelly yesterday," said Aurora, with a wise little nod. "I put it^'ll up in tumblers, with neat littlfljpissue paper caps u^der i their lids-_just as Hepsey uses. You and I, Mr Peabody, wili go over and get them. "We'll range them neatly on the 9tore-room shelves, and you shell writs labels for them in your prettiest print-hand, and Hepsey willwonder r,t your skill and ingenuity, j But you. must make haste, or she will I surprise' us in" the midst of our surreptitious proceedings." "But what will you do?" said Clarence, his'face irradiating. "There's plenty of lovely wild grapes ripening down in Willet's Glen, where the waterfall is," said Aurora. 'Til go down there to-morrow, and gather some more." "And I'll go with you," said Clarence. When Mrtf. Peabody returned, after littYlliH, DC&u lii^uwu vmvw | branch safe through "h succession of fits which would liav> killed half a dozen ordinary babies, but produced no apparent result to that s^sonei vessel, the kitchen was in ne/it order, , and Clarence was reading Browning's poems aloud to Aurora, in the window-seat, where the scarlet leaves made a screen of cool shade. "Where's my jelly?' said Mrs. Peabody, glancing nervously around her. Clarence poiuted exultantly to the shelves of tlie opposite store-room, where a dozen glasses of purple jelly were blushing radiantly through the crystal walls that held them in durance "Behold your jelly!" said he, tragically. "Well, I declare!" said Mrs. Peabody. "Who would have imagined that a man?and a bachelor, and a tutor of Greek, into the bargain?could make jelly like that?" [ . "\yho, indeed?" said Clarence, solemnly. '"It seems quite like a miracle," saili Aurora, looking exceedingly dei mure'Vbut when we come to refledt that alt joouing is a mere matter of . chemical eombination " "Book-ltpmiug is a wonderful ' thing, ain't it?" said honest Mrs. Peai body. The next morning the tutor of Greek . and Farmer Temple's pretty daughter went down into the glen to gather i wild grapes, and Aurora brought honfe not only a basketful of amethystine treasures, but a captive heart, i "1 think I've been in love with her this three months, withoui, knowing it," said Clarence; "and that grapejelly business settled the matter." But they never told Mrs. Peabody of the innocent deception that had been practiced, upon hur housekeeping nature. "" ., ^ livuin 3In<le Himself at Iloiue. i Bears, which were unusually nu- | merous in Pike and adjacent counties j in Pennsylvania during last winter i and spring, are again making them- i selves obnoxious to farmers, and are venturing iuto the clearances, and in i on3 instance took possession of a farm- i bouse, as is evidenced by the terrifying experience of Mrs. Picot, an aged j : resident of Dark Swamp. While engaged in her morning : duties about the houec she was startled by soft footsteps advancing up the ' walk. Turning, she was confronted by the bear, aud before she could close the door Bruin barred the way. Although terribly frightened, she retained her presence of mind, aud began to shy various cooking utensils o.t the beast, which, instead of retreatiug, dodged the missiles and walked into the kitchen. Mrs. Picot hastily ran to the upper portion of the dwelling and locked the door. Bruin, evidently thinking the I kitchcn a nursery, began to toss the j furniture about the room and eat a | portion of the v.ctuals remaining in i the pantry. Tiring of the sport, the bear took a short nap on the floor, I and then scampered off into the woods. I Statistics of Business (U, S.). i Architects.. 4.8DS j Banks nail baukers 11,676 j j Shoe stores 22,606 ' Carriage makers 15,880 Clothing stores ' 14,100 Drug stores 35,867 Dry goods stores 14,850 General stores 104,426 Grocery stores 109,133 Hnrdware stores 20,887 Harness store3 14,715 Jewelry stores :. 44,308 Millinery stores 5,661 Physicians \ 120,486 Auctioneers 3,301 Barbers 43,352 Meat markets 41,933 Carpenters ' 55,367 Cigar stores.... 22,459 13,918 1,415,650 s' | - AGRICULTURAL - j Mixing of Squash and Melon. The probability of squashes and muskmelons growing near together becoming mixed or hybridized by sross pollination is infiuitesimally small, as they belong to different genera, the squash being a cucurbita and the muskmelon a cucumis. Rye Should Not Follow Potatoes. As a rule small grains do not grow well on a field which produced potatoes the previous season. Experiments have demonstrated that this ia due, not so much to the mechanical conditions of the soil as to tne tact that the potatoes have used large amounts of available nitrogen. Applications of nitrate of soda greatly benefit rye crops grown after potatoes. t Exercise and Digestion. A cow let alone and having room to move about freely will usually take all the exercise she needs and at the time she needs it. All attempts of her owner to force her to take exercise will prove not only useless but injurious. Some people have the idea that a cow that has a full atom?, ach requires to be driven arouqji tq work off the surplus food. That may', be a partial remedy when the cow : is bloated and lie3 down. She is then full of gas, and some motion of iier body and limbs is useful tc allow jhe gas to escape. But in any ordinary digestion, when an animal has a full stomach which is being disposed of normally, rest and sleep are bene-; ficial rather than otherwise. Some exercise to maintain health is necessary, but there is no danger that a \^$ll-fed cow will not take all that is godid for her if iet alone. She will take-it when, it will net distress an ovei\loaded stomach, or an udder that is dist^ded with milk which needs to be drawnfi\2?1 it. Dlstlnga^l?l?B Sick Fowl*. When a bird il^ick the comb and wattles usually cha*^g? color, no matter what the ailment mfty be, for which j.i ^ ura the reasuu vue cumu uuu wanwt^- _ parts of the fowl to examine^^ftse sickness. In health they shouM^beof a bright scarlet color. When tt& comb looks -white or pale or black something is wrong; even lice will canse the comb to change color to a certain extent. When there is a refusal of food the birds are out of condition, as no healthy fowl will refuse to eat if fed on a yariety of food, unless already full. Thirst to a great degree is another sign, and a nervous, nneas'y look is a warning. A sick bird oft?n drinks to excess, especially when attacked by cholera; but again at other times it refuses both food and drink. k . u Som^dBp a hen will be moping abM^^^Parooping wings, showiug no oth^^gns the comb, howler, does not show a bright scarlet, and the fowl is not lively, it should be examined and treated immediately. Delay is dangerous to the fowl, for sickness in a flock is hatd to eradicate if not driven off early. A fowl may suffer for want of certain food which it cannot get in confinement, and unless gratified will show signs of sickness. For this rea Bon a change of food often will ettect a cure.?Farm and Fireside. Ventilating it Farm Hnlldlng;. Barns should have means of ventiIation, but it should be ventilation that can be controlled One of the best plans isf by a window in each gable end of the building, up near the f > ' Iff1in I I V f SPLENDID TYPE OP WINDOW. peak of the roof. Have these windows arranged as shown in the cut, aud they can be opened and closed at will from the ground floor. The triangular pieces nailed to the sides of the sash hold the window a little inclined inward, so that it falls open by its own weight when theoord is loosened. The same result could be obtained by the usual sash that closes to a perpenr) i a 111 n v rvrvoi'l! r\ii Imi f linn *-? ? <1 viAisUitii. |/uoinuu, uui uan u ocuuuu cord running from the outer end of the iron rod down to the floor. Fulling ou this cord would open: the window, while pulling on the pulley cord would close it, when the line could be fastened below.?New York Tribune. When to Fatten Hogg. Fatten the hogs before the mercury drops to zero. Better start in August, even if a little grain must be bought until the corn is ripe. It will pay. The weather for the next three months is as a rule moderate. If hogs are fed as much as their stomachs can digest and utilize, about thirty-five per oent. is first used for heat and body energy in temperate weather. In extremely cold weather they will use about sixty to fioventy per cent, for heat and energy. This will depend much upon the ago and condition of the animal. We also learn from experience to fatten with rapidity. Diflerent feod stnfl's aro required. Corn is the principal one for the solid ration. Shorts, bran, cottonseed meal is very good for the protein it contains, and a small portion of rye will fatten rapidly if fed arirjht. * Ne ver feed liquid and solid feeds at the snme time, for the animals will swallow the solids unmasticatocl. Feed at least an hour apart. oome aurocato giving tne leeas separately, ir.it one directly after the other. This is a safe rule for hogs which are not being fattened, but for hogs that are to be fed to their fall capacity, the practice is wrong. If hugs ato ,^iven their fill of solid feed, then slop itnmodiately afterward, they can d?iak unt very little slop without GvorloiJics thoir stomachs and cau? * ( \ ing disordered si^inachs for a few days. It will take careful feeding for perhaps a week to bring them back to a normal condition. Keep the pens clean, not allowing filth heips to produce disease germs. Also avoid damp sleeping places. Do not care for the hog according to its name, .but give care as though it were the h/irse, and if attended thus it will raurn the greater profit of the two.4-G. W. Harlacher, of Pennsylvania, in Ameri can Agriculturist. \ Ladder on AYheels. . I have often thought that a Wider | like mine?call it a stepladdty?on J wheels, should be in every orchard of any importance. A man can mYe it around the outside of a tree auc?yget| the large, nice f^WaalPis ^.frarc^t? get with a coan be backed into a tree^^j^WBWIIays tc it, or with Bome,;flitf^^jro^feyi8tingv can be worked in ' atribngvWe outei branches. There ia no j&tent st>n it. I had one twenty yee^ago'' aao^ ve, one now. ' Jrjig This is really a handy der, andif properly mad? use where another ladder haftxw.isdj^ port and can't be used with, safety^?. Cunningham, in Rural ^ - clover roots the leaves, is very injur 18Jine treesi If they ace ptet^wJ^^clov^C sod in spring, noTnatfci" how carefully | they are tended, most of the tree3 will i be dead by fall. The trouble with plowing clover in orchards i&$hat the! clover must grow until near midsum^ mer before it is much good for plow-! ing under. By that time most of the mischief to the trees has been done. *As the trees are then in fall leaf ft this time all growth is checkec^U| suddenly by cutting off the rootsTn plowing that fruit buds are often formed. It also reaiiHs in A greal Ll. ~C 1 l*braa gru W tu Ul SU.Un.CXO UiiUCl Uil W+m jgvvi The surplus sap, cut off from ascend^ iug to the branches of the tree, findt au outlet iu small suckers, which are often very difficult to eradicate. Strine Notes. , A variety of feeds is more desirable for hogs intended for' breeders than any one feed. Do not sour your feed for the pigs. "Vinegar will not produce , flesh.'1 Feed is sweet. Each family should at least own one sow to eat the waste from the orchard, garden and table. < Registered or high gradetr-jtre preferred by all would-be ^Kohasers, either feeders, breeders o^Prckers. Don't allow your sows t^go through the season covered with rze. Use grease or cotton seed oil and ri'd'^heja of the pest. \ Remember the boar is half the her..1. He should be kept in a healthy, thrifty condition to get such pigs as you desire to own. Give the brood sows the feed anc care that will keep them in a healthy, thriving condition and your services will seldom be needed at farrowing peu. If there is hog cholera about, enclose your hogs in a small lot, one thai is dry and drains well, receiving nc other drainage,11 and disinfect}frequently with air-slacked lime and carbolic acid solution. Selection of Seed Wheat. Like begets like in the wheat fielc as well as elsewhere. If we sow seed that is not sound, well developed, weli ripened, or that has imperfections oi any character, we cannot expect t satisfactory growth and harvest. II is a good deal of trouble to separate the largest best grains from the smaller and inferior, and that no doubt is the cause of so much poor seed being sown. X>Ul WB uuuuut gci auuickuiuj; for nothing, and well directed effort* on any line will prove profitable. II is true that the fanning mills of today will grade, and the seed from them is much better than it was before the introduction of such mills. But no mill will do this work as it ought to be done. .. . As.a matter of fact only the grain that 'grows on the lower > half of the head should be used for. seed, but that simple statement will bje all that will be necessary to disgust the average farmer with the subject of seed selection. He will not do it and we know it. But because the average farmer will not. do it, those who are enterpris:ng enough to do it can build up a highly lucrative busiuess by grow' ?? ?1 ? ^ "AA/1 A At* r\f Ann lli^ iVIitUt iUl occu, iaimci vi vui acquaintance adopted this plan, and he Writes that he not only largely increased the yield but that the heads are much longer and heavier, and the grain* much larger. An authority once jrrote that by a persistent selection of seed a pedigreed variety could ' be obtained. He said that every farmer could do this, but that few w/.uld, and that, therefore, those farmejs that chose could make a large and profitable business by making the pnjduction of seed wheat a specialty. J-William Pringle, in Agricultural (?pitomist. Onk Turkish flags are allowed in ConsIkntinoole. . \ THE GEMS OF NEW YOEE. VARIETY OF THE PRECIOUS STONES FOUND IN THE STATE. Gem-Bearing Quartz Underlying Manhattan? IU'<! Garnets In Abundance?Lake George .Diamond*?Agate as Stained GlasK?Pearls in Fresli Water Brooks. Residents of New York customarily look to the West and South and to foreign countries for precious aud semi-precious stones in their natural state, but in the Empire State arc to be found some of the most beautitul known. Underlying New York Uity are gem-bearing quartz veins, but these vaults are now locked and inaccessible. The seeker after precious stones long ago gave up his place to the real-estate dealer, who has made more money in building up than the other could have by digging down. An idea of the variety and beauty of the precious stones found in New York State may be gathered from a visit to the Tiffany-Morgan collection of gems, belonging to the State Cabinet atjAlbany, and to the Minerallogical Club's collection in the Museum pf National History. On Manhattan IslVnd arefound^the yellow aquamarine, lr berylj the pale-green beryl, and no small, transparent red garnet, the Jkartz veins bearing them traversing fie archaan rocks. The same veins *cur elsewhere in the State towards if Adirondack region. In LewiB t^zn^ however, precious stones are But abundant. Here are found, in ypflticjalar) great quantities of purple ^w|fl|?&rnet?. At Newcomb, in the Jj??jpnnty,' beautiful crystals of KwBKparmaline are found. Profes|P|nBeecher, of Yale, made this disTo?y some" time ago. In Bichville, to. tapown&hip of De Kalb, the,finest jryjJBflof pyroxene are picked up irolfifiihe to time. Cut into gems ^eig%ig from three to thirty carats iaoh,lhey possess a peculiar charm. 'Eheyi:e of a rich, oily green, differing fitaitlte tourmaline, peridot, or \ OseWt^ni o s t valuable of the nastones is the titante or jpKei^phich is found in the "'Tilly FoBtermiae, near Brewster's, in PatjfaMOL^'iGdttty/ This crystal is of a Jorilliaabiblden substance, and & great iarorita.Mth lapidaries. Cut into gems, if%ows a greater play of color than the^l&mond itself, it is said by . Mi*. Kuuzthe Government expert. It./" wopld bo lie of the most remarkable i geina butlr its softness; in beauty md ooloril it is unmatched. A sin- 1 gte stone, its natural form, brings hotn $100 4S300. In excavating for 1 fobfo.Bhip cat! on the upper end of ! ;Kfew York iand, crystals of smoky vquartz werifoua^1 in- blasting the < o^&gnesium Jmestone. So exquisite j crystals are tnuparent euo^Sgl^f i| ford gems of frfone to fiviS|Bi?i|?jy sex, on the Ne^Tersey line, crystgffla much v^i^jRStly they have^SwS ^ referred to in cet*1 scientific articles j. ! because their c^veace in a lim'e[ stone, such as i ?n whioh they are I here found, is i f leal with the ooi currence of the {$ ruby in the valley * I of the Mogok, Bq\4? where the most :: I highly prized pip .pjblood rubies are j found. All the wt *im Lewis County to Coney Island t^4are boulders ol F chatoyant, iridesc Jeldspar, known as Labrador spar, ^pses have been a broken from the deposit at Keeseville and sci^d during the ^ ^glacial period, unt>?^w they lie all a the way to the . tetf$ u moraine in h Prospect Park, B'rc^J. The spai" k ! exists in such quantity? one of the1 a rivers in Lewis Couipe^pd the colors a^e so beautifully bp^it oat, that V tne river has been c^ouOpal Eiver, s; Labradorite shows a p*vot red, green, b' 1 blue, purple, and ye Uikeapea- si feather?where i^Tacttired or cl cut, 4f. the light strike^i* a'certaiji ol way. d^Jv y Although, strictly sp.ev^Tt ia not hi a precious sioue, the i$\\ba3 been found in mauy;'of tio^h w-nte, - brooks and rivers in thi%e- P?earl River in Nvack has v. id sv'nmlvfli-q w as have also several 01 --^vers) iu St. Lawrence County. 1* ped^rls re bring from 31 to ?100 e& G6n- 01 erally they are not white.v^ much co interest attaches to the tir0?i_pin^ re violet, purple and browned, peajl ^ being always the color of ^\ell ia *ri which it is formed. TL&\*Wlle<J ^ "Lake George .amonds' cSmor<? fo beautiful than valuable. A?^ound? Pa in their natural setting of \cCYrous er sandstone, they are moreA \tiful Ity} than the diamond of thA ?Can mines when it is first biA V to light. They are found in giA vrofusion in Herkimer County, ontey are usually set in pins and.nvba;/ 8h Jewelers say, however, that ieVre do they look so well as iu theiaUural state, and mineralogists d^Ar 8(> them always with delight. ThryL Se 3tals, when they are fine, are white, like Carrara marble, and eA n0 free from flaws, very beautiful. ?e:. Pr( times they are found so minute ,t? ^8 when carefully sorted from the H it takes from 70,000 to 400, OO^-"" weigh a single ounce; and each . I' stal is as perfect as the largeet, j1! ' ing eighteen perfect faces. Uener I v the so-called Lake George diamond sold in cities are no more crystal ,T-{ quartz than are rhihestones bou in Pari,-} cnt from Rhine pebblj0t|L The name is merely a catch-^er^T 0n?* M ' ol Rose quartz is the funeral Bedf^l contributes from it*r coarse gf?xi^ 1 It is a shade'of piak^ut expelrtd^ t| equalled, by any found elMwnerej^ 5 mineral resembling jade i? the mod tve stone peristerite of Jefferson QounfyA This is a white substance, with ft bit play of color. Wollastonite ia foun'^ at Bonaparte Lake. Through life'en tire terminal moraine pebbles of biack , jasper nearly a foot across pan, be found. They are an intense black, .~j i . i :l~ T ? iuu uie nuuwu ua uuauuiuu ur uvuiuu tc chstone. Tliey are used'-by ]ewlerb to determine the carat of the gold. In his report to the United States Geological Survey on "Gem Production in the United States," just issued, George F. Kunz says concernfjatt another semi-prec^axtfcfitone. and 5^*, ' -,; 'v-,'" V \ ' . ? a I \ its use iu tbe making o! stainedglass windows: "Plum Island, one o: tbe broken line of morainal islets reaching from tbe northeastern point ' of Long Island across tbe Sound tc Watch Hill, Pi. I., abounds in peb bles of variously colored quartz, derived from tbe dibintegrated rocks ol tbe Connecticut sbore and carried southward to tbe upper or second moraine by the ice-sheet. Many ol these pebbles are very richly colored ?red, yellow, purple, etc.?and havt been locally called agates, and col lected, both here and on tbe neighbor ing Goose Island, by parties from Connecticut. The pebbles are used for the same purposes as stained glass?that is, leaded together-^thf uuu otttiumg ouuwin^ ueauuiuuy oy transmitted light. This form of window effect was introduced by Mr. Louis C. Tiffany. The pebbles are very abundant, and are continually rolled, washed and polished by the surf, and sometimes piled on the beach in windrows. One or two persona make a business of visiting the islands in a sloop and gathering the best colored and most attractive stoned."?New York Post. CURIOUSJ-ACTS. Laplanders drink smoked seawater. The landcrabs of Cuba run with great speed, even outstripping a horse. The wool on the back of a sheep is a shepherd's barometer. The curlier the wool the finer will be the weather. Cannon are said to have been in use 1 as early as 1338, while artillery c-'P" structed of brass first appeared iD 1635. f . A club is now being formed in Paris, the members of which swear q'ever to shake hands with any one unless wearing gloves. The Malay language is spoken by more than 40,000,000 persc/ns. It is said to be easy to learn,/as it has ftlmnst no Grammar. / A small pa^k?t of pepper was considered a handsome present in the Middle Ages, pepper in those 'days being a very costly,''condiment. Mummy photo^aphs is the latest form taken' by French fad for gre.wsomenessvvTlie faces of pretty women are placed onk mummy cases. ' [OmnibaseliVwere \ntroducied into Paris in 1820C aQd eacft was drawn by e horses. They wwe introduced into London in 1829 by\ Shillaber, a Frenchman. \ One of the longest ]live<^birds on record died recently in LoWd^n. It was a parrot named Ducky, Vie proparty of the Prince of Wales, a^d was 3aid to be a century and a quail^r old. Thd-gravestoneover the buria\place ^fjp||feeennson kepl$is head above rat^lipigntfo shore, still smoking Being dared by a girl acquaintance, Villiam Crow, a young man of Louisille, K^(jlived from the Big Four ridge, ninety feet into the Ohio liver and was uninjured. A week be- I ore Thomas H. Havey made the ! lunge and was killed. A New York man dreamed he was I | ttacked by burglars, and that he de- | jnded himself valiantly, but received | rounds from his assailants. He < wakened suddenly to discover that : e had badly slashed himself with a nife, which ho had seized while sleep to defend himself with. j ( Complaints were made in Seattle, t fash., recently^ that the fire-alarm i c pstem of the city was working very . \ adly. Investigation of the boxes : lowed that "vgUaw jackets* had c logged many [of them by deposits of ( ay, whjohJiad hardened. The wasps t ^cr^wT^a'ihrough the keyholes and liir'ytf-^.re-proof houses. t Goiuff For XLost Treaaarc* T "Treasure Islan^'Sis a romance i liich is not likely in tfrejie days to c id a counterpart^ in the ST^fld of aiity; but an intimation Drougst--^ p ir notice that an expedition is in j urse of preparation to endeavor to a cover the gold' which was lost in ; a e ship Geneial Grant, under ex- j aordinary circumstances, in May, : e (66, seems to promise exciting times j t r the adventurers who may particiite in if. The story is that the Gen* I al Grant was on her way from Mel- n il^rne to London with a number of j f, infers returning from the Ballarat ' a ggi'ngs when she was becalmed ofl fj e Auckland Iglauds, and a heavy j f< ell drove her on to the shore, where ]j e entered a rift in the rocks and was ( 0 adually driven into a cave. Here [ t( e sank, and of more than eighty j gj uls aboard not a dozen were saved, j ii \yeral unsuccessful attempts have I kn made to recover the gold. The ! w w expedition of which we shall i a! abably hear more later, has made up j d inind to succeed.?London Chroniy al A Qaeer TVazon. A.n up-to-date florist from New Jery, who has quite a business in both tted plants and cut flowers, has a ique wagon with which he visits j ai 3 customers on the upper west side m town. It is a miniature green- s* use on wheels. The frame, with its P3 aked roof, is of iron paiated white, ^ cirloa onrl rnnF fll'A m^flp nf I ^ iall panes of glass. In the rear of ) w I wagon is the door tlirough which j jpts are removed for delivery. Just | CD Ide this door is a toy stove, not ; ejj Ih larger than those used in a c* Is house, and leading from it and " ting its nose out through the solid ?* M panel of the house is a bit of ** j fcipe, from which a small cloud f(^loke trails away in the rear as J 'Q ^Vgon moves along the street.? b( Work Times. w Vanity of Youth. 'l\t|thing rtn eighteen-year-old girl . kslieye, aa^ that is that her 1 was 'jikst as good looking at *.a Ve age.) As a matter of fact, ^ J Vce3 arii even that she was bet liflr.? Altohifloa Globs. _ fa I to POPULAR SCIENCE. The late discovery that aluminum 2 leaves a mark on moistened glass is "a i claimed to furnish a sure test for the diamond. If the stroke with an alu- " minum point becomes glossy the stone is paste. .; ? The Uuiversitv of Michigan is t? have a new two-hundred-thousand-dol- * lar general laboratory and science ' -& building. The plan is to have it the ."* largest in the country and to-combine 38 within it ten laboratories that are now la I scattered about in cramped and insaf- |gj| | ficient quarters on the college campus. || j Jt has been found that an apparatus Wk for killing animals with chloroform iti <9 England would not work in India,' be- I'iS caufce the hieLl temperature prevented ' m the concentration of the chloroform vapor. That this was the case waf ,j proved by the fact that by placing rS ice jn the box the animals were reacu* ;|J ojie of the minor, but yet very conX 'Jm siderable, demands for iron and steelrufl oi relcent origin, is that entailed by the^H use d)f metal tubing iu mine shafts. Moss of the new pits now being sunJ?*^B id England use a greater or less quan< city of iron for this purpose, and thf ase c f iron in mines in this countrj is ali>o expanding. 9| Th a obse: rations at the' Magnetic Obsa vatorv at Vienna have had to be iig^^itinued on account of the eleo-v^H >;i:ic ti amways and electric light wire*; rerrestial Magnetism states that the. lirectorof the observatory, Professor JH Pernt'er, has submitted a plan to the \ustr?an Government for a new ob- 2jS jervatorv, to be situated some dis! "-ance from Vienna, and to be provided . ivith [instruments of the latest oon- M I itruction. Several vessels of the United i States! Coast Survev are beinj; fitted ' J jut with special forms of observing ,$jj md recording apparatus, for the pur-^v? pose <4f determining accurately the ' 1 leviation of the compass at sea. The' : fu ;r?at value of this kind of wurk that 1 aas been accomplished by the Survey 1 5n land lends particular interest to J this latest undertaking; and as several < J recent marine disasters have been at- j| iributed to previously unsuspected 1 magnetic variation, the results to be J obtained will be awaited with eager inticipation. 1 An extraordinary power of observa- M ;ion and a memory quite unlooked for B aave been observed by M. Semon in ^^ che Eicheineis remora, a fish tnat -*-} jometimes clings to vessels by means -Jf }f a sucker on the head. Off the Aus- Jm cralian coast many of tLese fishes were seen seizing fragments of a crab that^H aad been thrown overboard, and baited hook dropped into the wa^Hfl ivas at once takeu. For the rest^BBSj I the day none of the fishes would I fragments or {hook. On othea flj jfl fs it was easy to capture one eSRD , but a second echeineis jite oa the same day. nove|- aud economical metj^^^^^S rnvirffr a Inrrra hvirtlr sni ,as\eeently described in ind I^QQ- The stack was 2fi'j fl I ieightVQ^ twenty-one feet in <jH H ;er, andWts removal was accompM I in the ffcUo*ing manner, The? H ffAs remBve^ from one sida^KKKSK^m weight ofmfboat three feet Jfl I ground, ancK#16 opening tb ailed with iSfcilt-up wooden bl? H iween which?'?1'6 packed tar, tnd paraffine.^L material was^^^^^H set on fire and %cau9ec^ the chimn^^^^^f srack and fall wW^in a space that^^^^J preriously been rA^ked on the grt^^^^H Not only wa.j the dk03fc much less^^^^f if the brick had bew11 torn down^^^^M -here was also recovwre(^mac^ tl in good condition Wor future Science Can Use OroS" Kat Professor E. L. Jon'Sfr of and, Md., has disco ? ^~^Hfl^Bfll --- ? ?re nrod^BH .Lie tuna ux r;iu>, 01, \ speaking, a use for tha^BP? tenaol^^^ vith which the rat tail is^K*lPPe ' J These he employs as EU'^M^ie3' ue :M :atgut is employed for sew??? 1. idges of wounds or deep iuciaM^118 m he flesh after surgical operatio?^9' , For many kinds of surgical ; he ordinary catgut has been fou^^^^Btg >e too coarse, especially for rhich entails the delicate operatioSHH n the region of the eye, and at tim^^^H if the eye itself. _ .^Eio'easor Jones has found by >erimeti* that the rat tail tendon ilH^fl iarticula>?y useful for eye work. He^^H ays the tendoDs furnish a fine andHHH troQg absorbable suture. &Afl He has found it a comparativelj^^^B asy matter to get an abundance ol^^Hj endons, six or seven inches long,fl^V rom each grown rat. They are easily secured in this man-' TOt-jfS r%..A. i it i- xt. _ _? er: tu; arouuu luiuugu xue bkiq a \ ew inches from the tip of the tail, . nd strip oft' the skin like a glove rom the finger; with the thumb and )retinger nails pinch between the ist joint and its neighbor, aDd pulffl^H ut a nice little skein of four or six ;ndons the length of the tail; if de~j ired each of these can be unraveled lto two or more. I ? With clean hands and a preliminary, I ashing of the tail the sutures will be m aeptic to begin with, and can be kept ry or put in alcohol. . There seems to be no difficulty iout their absorption and they thread C isily into the finest needles. J A Wonderful Family. There are living to-day six brothers id sisters whose descendants are alost numerous enough to people a nail town. The father of these rolific children was a man of the ime of Webb, the first settler in the umberland district of Kentucky, hich is now almost entirely peopled y his offspring. The youngest child ,n boast a total of 166 who owe theii :istence to him. He has eleven lildren, seventy-five grandchildren, :ty great-graudchildreu and thirty the next generation. By blood V id affinity there are 110 fewer thaD !,000 people in Kentucky who are eluded in this family fold, which is, jyond dispute, the largest in the orld. liuAh For a Poor Office. ^ H Some indication of the emolument? H English literature is given in the 9 ct that there are nearly 900 candi- H ites for the Secretaryship of the S ambridge University Library, the H ilary of which is $1000 a year, rising $1500.?Loudon Letter.