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~ 0.~t *fl~be he i rstli
n r the Qonfede
6 l p delivered il
the aere is a coi
Vhet In .ast Tennesse
2,880,000 acres il
A decrease from las
t tIs troubled with ai
ge' fever. Five hun
epted.
ie have been sold in Geor
tap theentire cotton bel
1 ar ago.
a crop of this year, so it i
p resent appearances, wil:
'Q 00 bales.
.,korchard In Nortb Carolint
y . P. k'addisou, at Moulte
nt. It contqins over 8,000 trees
rees Monroe is the largest singh
oatn in the world. It has al
p .ot over $8,000,000 of money
6 thousand men are now em
ed in rAilroad eonstruction in Flor
Eighty thoutand people have set
St4nhe State in the-past ten years.
T last.aporopriation of $125,000 foi
~4g~4)~tr'ucting jottles at the mouth of the
- hu' -river, Fla., is nearly ehaust.
.nd it is probable the work will cease
i4~u the 4th of July.
SCharleston, (S.C.) News and Cou
~ las a proof dfi the growth of home
~.Ud ries, mentkons the building of a
.tair and the construction of all he,
~ip~~neryin that city.
V 0tthe several Governors Alabama
Ji*elected, four. were natives of the
~tOEGov. Patton was born in Lau,
,~ . erale, Gov. Winston in Madison, Gov
~ Vttian Buttler, and Gov. Cobb in St.
Ufrcounty.
ArD~slef Nelms is the oldest citizen-oj
~oroe cpwnty, Ga., being 104 years oi
e~yyet chops with an ax, uses th4
eo. inut can 'ge~t about with surprising
~~ itvy. .He has a living son over sev.
xifesa..ve years old.
v~jj ~n the seven States of Georgia, Ala.
biTennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana
.ea the two Carolinas there has been ar
" tkcreatse of'-86i1,000 in the number of cot,
a aditio tothe manufacturing
A man at Magnolia, Ark., has somq
new in the- potato line. In his
Seiabogit thirty potato bushes ar<
owng, and the potatoes grow uj
u4nog the limbs, like apples, and non<
~ ttached to the roots. The Pulask
n.) Citizen tells of similar vines i
vMcinity.
I. eney said : "If any one Ttski
~oUwy I gave so much money to th4
4eleyan Femiale College, of Georgia
1Ithem it was to honor my mother, t<
i~ j~, under Godl, I owe more than to<
'~ ~~ae orld beside. .I admire th<
women. There are possibili
'r. i4~eouthern women not equalei
lson earth."
~ a~oel but profitaible industry in th<
aof North aCarolina and Eas
~q~'~ hat of collecting root
. a,~i ledi'el). The roots are shippe<
'~.~l~~ephia and Boston and used fo:
~nut~wure of door knobs and pipi
~. The roots frequently weigh froni
50 pounds. There Is a constain
uad the prices are paid fo:
U.*Gen. George Washington
J clerk's office at Fairfax
~ %OU1t~,Va., has received s<
tvi azkd tear from strangers wh<
toeaine it, that the cler)
-fi~edesai'y to Inclose it in a glas
dto preserve' it. The wi]
$86410 heavy unruled. paprj
4~ ase, and every side is cov
~There are twenty-seven pagei
ic~l~h have Oen. Washington'
etahed except the twenty-third
ledd with the words "City c
a" and it is supposed that i3
~ o~*1#te General mistook th
*~i~ atggiture, and therefor
th pa. The entire wil
lttting, and was wri
'arhe died.
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rOZ0S 0? ThU bAY.
Akb"w government has bgin
Isming pius.______
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t P9unarrAnau, has decided tum
r a VAr at Long Branoh.
Tin French Senate has rejected th
American pork bill.
Am now it appears thMt Billy Patter.
Sol was struck by lightning.
A PMnr of whisky a day Is Sitting
Bull's govetament ration.
Tis crops in the Northwest promise
to be better than ever before.
Tus Kentucky wheat crop ls supposed
-to reaoh near 18,000,000 bushels.
BUT UoUn B. HAYUS is reported as
hoeing corn and enjoying himself.
WIarnf one week 1,000 Jews have
left Lemberg, Austria, for America.
AN unusual amount of counterfeit oin
and currency is afloat. 'Look out for it.
FRoM Hayti comes a contribution of
$225 for the Gaifield Memorial Hospital.
THE XABrr of going to Europe costs
America not less than $125,000,000 a
year.
.5I CoNolwss adjourns before the mid
dle of July the country will be fortu
nate.
Tan young people at Concord kseep
the grave of Emerson covered with fresh
flowers.
A coroy of 200 families of negroes
is about to leave Mississippi to settle in
Mexico.
SzwING thread is made from pine tim
ber in Sweden, and is coming into de
mand for export.
Foun hundred and forty-one pgunds
of tea has been raised on one acre of
ground in Georgia.
Tan losses caused by the late cyclone
in Iowa are variously estimated from
$2,576,000 to $3,000,000 in amount.
ENGrAND hangs murderers every time
-when she catches them; but they
don's seem to Qatch them very fast over
there.
THE British police have at times ar
rested as the real Dublin assassins six
teen different men, none of whom were
within 200 miles of the city that day.
A CONCERT at public cost Is given on
.Boston ommon every Sundaiy afternoon
in summer. There was opposition by
the orthodox at first, but it has died
out.
THEnE are seventy-two men now in
Sing Sing prison who used to exercise
great political influence in'their various
stations. Where else can a politician
expect to bring up?
THU only way to convince a Southern
negro that a farm i not waiting for him
in Kansas, is to let him make the trip.
In two or three days he gets through
asking which road it is on.
Evznbion'y on the continent seems to
Sknow that Don Cameron has recently
been suafering from a jumping tooth
ache-the matter going so far as even to
effect politics in Pennsylvania.
LOUmsIANA is considering whether It
t would not be good policy to stop'the lot
tery business #n that State. Louisiana
and Kentucky are the only States in the
r Union that tolerate lotteries within their
3 corporate limits.
t Two MICHIGAN men 'got into a boat
r and pursued a bear. The boar climbed
into the boat and the men climbed out.
Had they not been rescued by a tug they
wouldn't have got home to tell this little
bear story at the family hearth.
IT IS TnE~ opinion of a Philadelphia
p iditor that a family who don't know
S enough to go to church at the proper
hour, without hearing the clang of a bell,
wouldn't meet a bank note unless the
"cashier came and blew a horn in front of
,the house.
Tim Helen. independent mentions
'that two cowboys A were arrested at
Benton, M. T., and fined $40 each for
2 firing a volley at the comet. -If they
B had killed a man It' would have been
e all, right. The line is drawn at killing
I people out there.
Tan OTOrOoN which spread death and
destrrlotion in Iowa a few days ago, is
described as at times resembling a gi.
gantio arm reaching from the heaveis ;
then It took the forsn of a vast serpent,
and Again resembled a funnel and an
hour-glass. It i notable that wherever
Ustorma-cloud struck a belt of timber
spw~.eisted and took a long jump.
F e Presy Its re
ba. been sent to the
* e has mania for
tat tu
A OmIftIK -J case of lusus naturm is
N#0tded in the 1ocl oolumns of the Oig
cinati Commeroial of JIM 22, as fol.
lows:
A "omen of tbit pelarfreak of natu
&heimaphrodlt...% humn beWof~ both
sexes-was taken to the oentrl SlatIon lat
night by OMoes Gould and Altevrs. The
n is colored, about28 years of age, and
out the sign of a beard. Ue Oshedclaiu
the name of Jack 8mith and the oooupatia of
cook at a boarding-house on George attest bi
tween Rae and Elm Ho was dressed in mais
attire, but a genleman who happened Into the
station says he baa soon the same persona in
woma a cothes. He was locke4 up on a gen.
oal charge.
Tau Anu worm seems- ubiquitous.
We hear of his ravages in 'New Englanad,
New York and Maryland, as well as in
the West. -The only successful way that.
has been devised to stop their march is
that of plowing a furrow, say seven
inches deep, and continuously draggng
a log, four or five feet in length, back'
and forth from daylight till dark every
day until the worms have disappeared.
By this process the ground in the fur
row becomes thoroughly pulverized and
the' worms can no% possibly cross it be.
Sore the return of the log passing to and
ko to cr"-h . As a rule the e a
travel eastward.
Daphne McN uire.
"There is no more pie."
"God help us, then," said Daphne
McGuire, looking up to her mother with
a weary, wistful, why doesn't-somebody
buy-me-a-seal-skin-sacque expression on
her oval face.
Mrs. McGuire did not reply. Leaning
her bangless head on a tin white hand
-the hand that Vivian 0 Rourke had
called "a dimpled 'treasure that one
might risk his soul to win," that night,
so many years ago, that she had rejected
is proffered love and caused him to
wander away in wild des pair and marry
Girofie Quirk-and thought of how, had
she plighted her troth to him, life would
now have been a garden in which pretty
flowers waved their bright faces, instead
of a wind-swept waste, barren alike of
flowers and venture. She remembered
how, for the first few Years after their
marriage, every thing went well with
Percicles MecGuire, and hoW, when
Daphne was a prattling infant, 43e had
come home full one evening and told her
in proud tones that he had reached the
summit of his ambition, and was a
policeman. All these memories of the
past-the bitter and the. sweet-came
saurging through her mind as she looked
out through her tears and saw thmIue
Island avenue cars going by like ts
in the twilight.
"Why do you weep, mamma?" said
Daphne, placing her soft West Side
arms about the neck of the mother she
-loved so dearly-the only mother she
had.
"I fear me, Bridget," said Mrs.
McGuire, using the pet name by which
Daphne was known at home, " that, our
future must indeed be a cheerless one;
that the coming days will. hold for us
only sorrow and misery.".
" Do not be disheartened, mamma,"
replied the girl, kicking' the dog off th'e
front steps and kissing her mother with
a warm, lingering, I-have-.come-to-stay
all-winter-and-part,-of - the -spring kiss.
" Things may not be so bad as they
seem. We have still one hope, you
know, one resource in case all else fails."
" What is it, child?" asked the mother
in hoarse, anxious tones. "What is this
hope you ?peak of?"
"Doughnuts," replied Daphne, speak
ing the word softly, and with infinite
tenderness. "We have a jar of them
down stairs, you know."
"Then let us tackle them at once,"
said the grief-stricken parent, starting
for the pantry at a 2:20 elip.-Ch4icago
'&Wbume.___
Eufus Hatch In 'the [ndian- Territory,
Rufus Hatch, the noted Wall street,
New York, operator, took a trip to the
Indian Territory to look after some rail
road property and hisi newly established
cattle ranche. He writes the scenery on
this trip has been beyond description,
monstrously grand and beautiful. Sky,
land, prairie, grass, then more sky,
shrub, grass, small crecks, sky, dust,
sand, wmd, sky ; then more sky, clouds,
dust, grass; dust, only more so, sky
high; clouds, wind, dust, sky, prairie,
more prairie, prairie, onie short tree,
sky, drove of cattle, horses, cowboy,
buffalo skeleton, sky, prairie, dust,
prairie dog, coyote, sky, grass, clouds,
more sky, antelope, prairie, sun, dtst,
heat, sky, snake, prairie, prairie, prairie,
clouds, three or four trees, sun, sky,
sky, sky, clouds, sun, heat, wind, dried
buffalo horns, grass, prairie, more clouds,
more sky, more prairie, sky, sky, heav
ens, dust, snakes, cowboys on leave of
absence, .wolves, sky, prairie, grass,
sand, dust, sun, heat, prairie, only more
so when we came in full view of more
pririe all the time, and sky and clouds,
kep eeping over us, and more snakes,
buffalo carcasses, and horns, with con
tinuous prairiea t.nd more beautiful
scenery, until after nearly one hundred
miles of delicious driving, ina first
class open buggy, under a broiling sun,
wiih more sky, clouds, prairie, wind,
dust and grass, we landed at this Eldo
rado-known on the map as "Spencer &
Drew's Cattle Ranche," and now, amid
the crack of rifles and Colt's revolvers,
the singing of birds, the deliiois
moaning and sighing of the fragrant
breeze as it ceep. through the full
leaved greon brnhsof the trees, the
piping of the mocking bird and quail,
and the thousand heads of horned cattle
gently gazing on rich meadow lands as
far as te eye oca reach, the hum of in
sects, and the gentle titilation of the
unobtrusive mosquito t bid you l
good-by, with the gentf remark that if
the Indians should overtake and killme,
I never will forgive myself for oowyng
he~re t-Net I'or Comet 4w.
ThO'Ibi etl setping Car.
BI~z et I ad M. E., of
freo# al no doubt, p
and car" h was
ayeror 9hario6t, was
Vresept4 theR egent of En
47 1whom it was aftsrwards sold
Buock' fo 412,500. It event
nellyfonditswa to M(adamne Tuasaud's
W03 lok mIoon,\where it.
Sconvenientof e First
;:4or was built by Symons, of Brus
SMt the Russian campaign, and is
ad td for the various of a
an a kitchen, for it had places
or holding and preparing refreshments,
whob theaid of a lamp, could be.
heatd Ithe camriage. It served also
for a bedroom, a dressing-room, an
offleet. The seat is divided into two
i a. about six. inches high.
e of" this ingenious vehicle is
of the form and dimensions of our large
coaches, excet that it hoe a projection
in frnbf .About two feet, the right
hand half of which is open to the inside
to receive the feet, thus forming a
bed, while the left hand hif mf ne
a store of various useful tbings. Beyond
the projectinA-1ront and nearv to the
horses, wa 4ant for the coachman,
.u-c-tiously contri' ,o 4 to prevent
the driver Imm i 'g ta, interior of
the carriage, aud yet so placed as to
afford those within a clear sight of the
horses and of the surrounding country.
Beneath this seat is a receptacle for a
box, about two and one-half feet in
length and four inches deep, containing
a bedstead of polished steel, which could
be fitted up in a couple of - minutes.
Over the front windowe is a roller blind
of strong painted canvas, which, when
pulled out, excluded rain, while it ad
mitted air. (This might be an advanta
geous appendage to our present car
windows as well as carriages.) On the
ceiling of the carriage is a network for
carrying small traveling requisites. In
a recess there was a searetaire, ten by
eighteen inches, which contained nearly'
a hundred articles presented to Napoleon
I. by Maria Louise under whose care it
was fitted u with' every luxury and
conenience that could be imagined. It
contained beside the usual requisites for
a dressing box, most of which were of
solid gold, a magnificent breakfast ser
vice, with plates, candle-sticks, knives,
spoons, a spirit lamp for making break
fast in the carriage, gold case for Na
poleon's gold wash-hand basin, a number
of essenee bottles, perfumes and an
infinite variety of minute articles, down
to pins, needles, thread and silk. Each
of these articles were fitted into recesses
most ingeniously contrived and made in
the solid wood, in which they were
packed close logether, and many one
within the other, in such a narrow sjpace
that, on seeihg them arranged, it ap
peared impossible for them ever to be
put, into so small a compass.- At the
bottom of his toilet box, im divided re
cesses, were found 2,000 gold Napoleons
($7,700); on the top of it were writing
miaterials, a looking-glass, combs, etc.,
a liquor case, which had two bottles,
one of Malaga wine, the other of rum ; a
silver sandwich box, containing a plate,
knives, spoons, pepper and salt boxes,
mustard pot, 'decanter, glasses, etc.; a
wardrobe, writing desk, maps, telescopes,
arms, etc.; a large silver chronometer,
by which the~ watches of tho army were
regulated ; two merino mattresses, a
green velvet traveling cap, also a dia
mond head .dress, (tiara), hat, sword,
unuiform and an imperial mantlo, etc.
ron .Age.
Adulterated Tobacco.
A pamphlet has been published, show
ing that m Germany'iliousands of tons
of beet leaves are transformed .into to
bpcco. Iu some places chiccory and
cabbage leaves mak6 the fragrant weed.
An English chemist found a stuff sold
for tobacco was the leaves of a diaphor
etic plag~t. It has been impossible to
sell the plant as a drug, and it has been
turned into tobacco to save loss.
Another-writer informs everyboby, or
wants to, that chemists have an im
portant place in tobacco factories. Fif
teen factories in New York employ chem
ists to ".lavor " cigars. They can not
do much with the wrapper, but they can
"heighten and develop, "dhe fillings. It
is a relief to know on the authority of
the writer quoted that opium is not used,
although it used to be formerly, In Eng
land, but stringent laws broke the prac
tice. The substances used to flavor to
bacco are numerous. Every manu
facturer has his own formula. Vanilla
is the most common. This is employed
in the form of an alcoholic tincture to
flavor fillings. It is said that few cigars
are free from vanilla. Its affects are
not harmful if not used in axcess. The
tonka bean and balsam hr are used ini
the same way and for the same purpose.
Cedar oil is also Introduced. The. best
imitator of the tabacco flavor is valerian.
Valerian and vanilla are the most valu
able chemicals now in use by tobaccon
ists. By their use the poorest stems
may be converted into fair tobacco. Into
cigarettes enter not only valerian and
vanilla but cascarilla bat). To make
oigars burn, amwdonia is used and they
are soaked in saltpetre, Te latter is
injurious and maks 'young men old
with dispatch. The object of Its use Is
to cause the cigar to burn freely. It has
been noticed by some smokers that an
intoxicating effect has been produced by
some cigars. This is produced bydip
ping the fillings in a solutioni of sulpharic
other and bromide of potaqalim, Wen
it is known that New England rum is
used with vanilla and .valeri, it Is
nothing to wonder at that the Oigrr so
treated produce' -intoxication. We do
not riame the brand that is treated with
New England rum. It we did, the de
mand wouldexdel the ame py. To make
tobaco. or aid In Its dlteration, such
other things s iotato leaves, sugar
'potash, ta.marinds, aniseed, mn and
various oils not heretofore men ned are
uaed to a greatr or leiarextent. In
New York alone, 826,6 ~ Q iaare
nde aualbu4W 8 8000
an w~u41&t~oisad
ONS 50Ff WAYV DAI.
issed by a rose, one soft May day,
A in the garden blowiug
Sby a rose, one soft May day,
A My in the gan
Ie my brid oh U r,,!i g.
Be my bri y white ueen.
The lilly niled wi radiantai
Smiling sweetly and serene.
Kissed by a rose, one soft May day,
A o Mrnshpd was dying
IX b a rose, one soft May day,
A fo fragment ying.
My bist a oor; e rose had said,
And the air wam of ts breath;
My fair whiteqen Is li ng dead
And I, * the cause of her death.
A red, red rose one soft May day,
Was missed Urm the garden flowers;
The daivy sighed for the bright red ray,
go beautiful in the morning hours.
The towers came where the red rose lay,
Dead rtud purple, on the lily's breast,
And sad were e hearti, that soft May day
The red, r had gone to its rest.
Weary Woman.
Nothing is more reprehensible and
thoroughly wrong than the idea that a
woman fulfills her duty by doing an
amount of work that is far beyond her
strength. She not only does not fulfill
her duty, but she most signally fails in
t, and the failure is trul deplorable.
Theka can be no sadder aight t an that
ui a broken down, or over-worked wife
and mcAiber- -a -an who is tired all of
heri lif,' through. If the work of the
household cannot be accomplished by
order, system, and moderate, without
the necessity of wearying, heart-break
ing toil-toil that is never onded and
never begun, without making life a
treadmill of labor, then for the sake of
humanity let the work go. .Bettor to
live in the midst of disorder than that
order should be purchased at so high a
price-the cost - of health, strength,
happiness, all that makes existence en
durable.
The woman that spends her life in un
necessary labor is, by this very labor,
unfitted for the highest duties. Sho
should be a haven of rest to the home to
which both husband and children turn for
peace and refreshment. She should be
the careful, intelligent adviser and guide
of the one, the tender, confidant and
helpmate of the other. -How is it pos
sible for a woman exhausted 5a body, as
a natural consequence in mind also, to
perform either of 'these 'offices ? No,
it is not possible. The constant strain
is too great. Nature gives sway to it.
She loses health and spirits and hope
fulness, and more than all, her youth,
the last thing a woman should allow to
slip from her; for no matter how old
she is in years, she should be young in
heart and, feeling, for the youth of age is
sometimes more attractive than youth
itself. -
To the overworked woman this green
old age is out of the question; old age
comes on her, sere and yellow, before
its time. Her disposition is ruined, her
temper is soured, her very naturo is
changed bg the burden which, too heavy
to carry, is dragged about as long as
wearied feet and tired hands can do -
their p art. Even her affections are
blunted and she becomes merely a ma
chine-a woman without the time to be
womanly, a mother without the time to
train 'and guide her children as only a
mother can, a wife without tho time to
sympathize with and cheer her husband,
a woman so overworked during the day
that when night comes her sole thought
and most intense longing is for the resit
and sleep that very probably will not
come; but even if it should, that she is
too tired to enjoy. Bettor by far let every.
thing go unfinished, to live as b~est she
can, than to entail on herself and family
the curse of,. overwork.
A Detective's Story.
There is a story told of a lady and gen
tleman traveling together on an English
railroad. They were strangers to each
other. Suddenly the gentleman said:
" Madam, I will trouble you to lo"
cut of the window for a fe w minutca ; I
am going to make some changes in my
wearing apparel."
" Certainly, sir," she replied with
great politeness, rising and turning her
back upon him. In a short time he
said :
"Now, Madam, my change is com
pleted, and you may resume your seat."
When the lady turned she behocld her
male companion transformed into a dash
ing lady with a heavy veil over her face.
"Now, sir, or madam, whichever
you are," said 1-.e lady, "I mu-t
trouble you to look out of the window,
for I also have some changes to make in
my apparel."
"Certainly, madam," and the gontle
man in lady's attire immediately com
plied.
" Now, sir, y ou may resumo your
seat."
To his great surprise, on resuming his
seat, the gentleman in femalo attire
four.d his lady companion transformed
into a man. He laughed and said :
"It appears that we are bo0th anxious
to escape recognition. What have you
done ? I have robbed a bank? "
" And I," said the whilom lady, as he
dexterously fettered his companion's
wrists with a pair of handouffs, "I am
Detective J-, of Scotland Yard, and
in female apparel have shadowed you
for two days-now," drawing a revolver,
"keep still.".
A BnTURN ismned by the German Post
master General shows the number of
post-cards used in Europe in the year
1878 to have been 842,000,000. Of that
number 111,4515,000 were posted in the
United Kingdom, 108,74:1,000 in Ger
many, and 80,522,000 in France.
In the United States durixig the
year 1879 240,000,000 cards were
dispatched by the postoffiee, anid it
is estimated that during 1880 the figure
will rise to 800,000,006. The German
postal authorities estimate the number
of eards in use throghout the postal
union at about 700,0,0.
COmonas Mn~omr, an Ohio wife mur
derr, declared thiat~ his condemnation to
deqth. wae"~st and that he would 10
have itoupifhe could. M4
the nigat bte
the
How to Select a Cow.
Ron. H. Lewis, of New York, read a
paper before a convention of dairymen
In Ontario, from which we extract :
Again, one breed of cows will do well
on some land, where some other breed
would be almost or quite worthless.
Hence, I advice every dairymai to select
that particular cow or breed best suited
to his lands, where she is to obtain her
food, and best adapted to that branch of
dairy farming in which he is engaged.
If, for instano, your pasture lands
are rough, or on steep side hills, select a
small, active cow, and if butter-making
is your business the Jersey or Devon and
their grades from our nativo cows will
prove satisfactory. But if cheese
making is your business or the pro
duction of niLilk for market, the Ayr
shire is the cow. While her milk is well
adapted for cheese or for market, it is
better than the average cow's for butter.
Again, if your pasture lands are pro
ductive and moderately level, with but
ter-making your business, select the
Holderness or the Princess family of
Short-horns, or their grades from our
native cows. But if cheese or milk only
be your object, the Rolsteins will prove
satisfactory.
As the selection of individual cows,
suited to our several farms and adapted
to our "arious wan ts, would be too much
of an undertaking, and require so much
time and care, it can be dono best by
selections from our herds of native cows,
aid the use on these of -a thorough-brod
bull of that breed deSired. In this way,
if the selections be carefidly- made, a
herd can be built up in a little wlle
founded on our native stock and at small
expense, far exceeding in value any of
our ordinary herds. It has been a
matter of surprise to me that our iutelli
gent and progressive dairymen do not
more generally adapt their cows
to their several wants by breeding
a sufficient number each year to make
good the annual loss from old age, acci
dent and. disease. A cow reared on the
farm whero she is to remain is always
more valuable to her owner than a
strange cow.
First, she is acclimated; second, she
is acquainted with the herd with which
she inudt associato ; third, she !s fa
miliar with the lands from which she
obtains her food, and can tratvel over it
with greater ease than a strange cow.
Out of Ills Year.
While talking with James Milton
Sherrod, the other day, the letter-carrier
pulled out of his pocket a very hand
some agate, rounded and worn smooth
by constant use as an car ornament. It
had a hole drilled through the iop and
by a deer's sinew this trinket - hai for
merly been suspended from the ear of
some Sioux brave. The work on the
stone showed the crudo and patient
efforts of tho untutored red man, On
being asked how he secured the agate,
Mr. Sherrod, whittling otf some black
tobacco with a butcher knife, rubbed it
in the palm of his hand a while, and
then, after putting it in his pipe and
trying ineffectually for a long time to
light it, said:
" I got it up in the Black Hills in '76.
A lot of Siouxc Indians ambuscaded me
one evening in thme form of a horse-shoe,
and I had to cut my way through. I
killed several of them ar~d the rest lit
out. When Ii come to assess the dead, I
fouind a big .fellowv wearing this here
agate and lied on with a deer's sinner,
and I just yanked it oute of his year.
There wvas another one in his other year
that I got, but I lost it. It was the exact
fact similar of this here one."-L4ara
nmic B~oomeLrung.
Dr. Johnuson's Partiality for JIea.
In his review of Hanway's " Tea and
its Pernicious Consequences," Dr. John
son p~roclaims himself as "' a'hiardened
anid shameless tea-drinker, who has for
many years diluted his meals with only
the infusion of this facinating plant,
whose kettle ha~s scarcely time te cool,
who with tenm amuses the evening, with
tea solaces the miidnight and with tea
welcomes the morning." Boswell says
that he supp)oses no one ever' enjoyed
with more relish the fragrant leaf than
Johnson. The quantities lie drank of it
it all hours wero so great that his nierves
must have been uncommonly strong not
to have been extrem(ely relaxed by such
an intornperate use of it. If, is related of
him, but not b~y Roswell, that, while on
his Scotch thur, the D~ownger TLady Mac
L~eod, having repeatedly helped himi un
til she had poured out sixteen cups,
then astked him if a small b~asin w~ouild
not he more agreeable and save him
trouble. "' I wonder, madam," he an
swered( roughly, "' why all theo ladies
should ask mJe such questions ? It is to
save themselves trouble, madami, and
not mne." Oni another occasion he said:
"What a delightful beverage mast that
be that pleases all palates at a time when
they can take nothing else at breakfasi, 1"
Croker mentions that the doctor's teapot
held two quarts..
Pawning liuman Flesh.
According to a writer in the Lagos
Times, a human pawn system exists in
that colohy. It appears that many
persons whose necessities compel thorn
to borrow money are in the habit of
pawning their children or other relatives
to the money-lenders of the colony,
who, instead of being paid interest in
,the usunal manner, are able to use these
unffortnnato, creatures as slaves until the
loan is refunded, which may net be for
a seories of years. The inhabitant of
L oswho makes this statement says:
'I1he pa.wn receives not a fraction of
payment for his toil. Should he die be
fore ,payment of the loan is made, ox
sherd he desert his master, a substitute
is to be provided. This wicked slavery
is practiced under the eye of British
law, and sometimes by prsons calling
thetnselves Ohristians." Te same writer
states that there are British subjects re
~ijg i who serve onuie n
eduties of c
eamong the large 5
tonsw
Tx A~~tt
Europeans, a
footion.
Smaau 18P5 the
been greater in the
than any other part of
A LA8N whale oo tied
hanging himself wth t.
ble laid aross th e
AN Examsa superstition
ear-lobe hwg below the
mouth, its possessor will be
A swa&M of locusts 9
Boulder City, Colorado ## se
six miles to eastern 3ans -
souri.
FALmoNs are the swiftsg
One sent from the Canaries t
turned in six hours, the distanc
780 mile3.
Tin folloWng sentenoebof on
fourletters contains all th. letters
alphabet: "John quickly extena
five tw bags.
A oENruamx, havin gg t-d
iore blow on the head, found th"
that he had lost his knowldo 4bf
but had not suffered any
memory.
TiGins are said to be plentiful
out Siberia, where they rean
the winter. They are said to
than the Himalayan specim
have hair five modaes in len
AT THE present time in 8
place of dating a letter should be1fo*
"this your house ;" one must ApveriA s7.
from "tis my house," as politenes
requires him to place it at the disposi
tion of his drrespondent
IN NEW YonK and ChIogp
wires are being put under gro and
it is possible that the time is
when the underground method
graphing will b'e in vogue all
country, as it is in Germany.,,
OsTnICH farming, is, next tg woR a
diamonds, the most importaih idustry
of Southern Africa. It was net sneoeus
ful until the eggs 'were hatbdya
patent incubator, the parentbr
performing her duty well In onie
ment.
IT Is suggested that the derlyti o
London is from the Celtic L the
moon, and a dun, a city onea hilL. Tat
it was " the city of the maan"al Rthe
more probable from the tradition th~at
the site of St. Paul's was formerly that
of a temple of Diana.
Tmc greatest flood ever know n RZth
Mississippi was that of 1844, .which
swept away the levees, overflowed the
entiro country, filled up the swamp and ~
romained at high-water mark for months.
It was due to the unsoieniocosr. -
tion of the levees.
Napoleon's First Abdlcation.
France, in the latter part of 1818 and
the beginning of 1814, was id a very sin
settled conditionj. Napoleon had osried
on brilliant but weakening ~naps
and even the dazzling glory o te
commander's exploits In theal
Europo could not dispe the dw
which had begun to gather bot lmat
the capital and throughout Fran& Nor
was the prospect beyond the-ra~ n
more encouraging. Bernadotte,
Prince of Sweden, and late compado
of the Emperor, was coming down f'dte
the north with 100,000 men; and Mur
King of Naples, Napoleon's own broth
in-law, had entered into a secret treat "
'with Austria for the expulsion of the
French in Italy. The gloom around Na- ~
poleon deepened, . until the allies sue
coeded in reaching the exterior defenses ~
of Paris, and the capital, which for so
many years had dictated law to all other
capitale, was obliged to capitulate, and
the allies entered Paris amid the aoola
mations of the people. The Senate -I
turned their back on Napoleon and de-.
clared that " by arbitrary acts and vlo
lations of the constitution " he had for-.
feited the throne~ and absolved .11
Frenchmen from their allegiance. His
own generals insisted that he ought to
abdicate, and he signed the surrender of
his power. He was allowed the sover
eignty of t.he Isle of Elba, with a reve
enue of 6,000,000 francs (*1 200,000).
Ton mon ths later he was invited to re
turn to France by a eonspiraoy of old
Republicans joined by Bonapartists. He
escoaped from Elba '5'ebruary 26, 18515,
and landed at Cannes Marob, 1with an 2 '
escort composed of about 1;000 -of his
0O(d Guard. And 100 days after he had
resumed power huis last act on the stage
of Europe was played oat, and the soo
ond and last abdication was signed.
"For Your Brother's Sake." '4
A good story is told by the Providence
Journal of a gentleman's mistake while a
on the way to the. inaugura on at Wash
ington, in March, 1881. Dtween N~ew
York and Philadelphia he took a seat
beside a portly gentleman, and conver
sation began.
Polities .were mentioned, aund '
Rhode Islander said he was a ~pbt
can, and thought last fall that 1 would
not be well for the countr to have a
change, but that he had a btheo wbo
was a Demoorat,
Soon the train stopped at a stai,
and the Rhode Islander ste dto th
platform d met an aoquain eiwho
after a little space, remarked: -
"Gen. Hancock' Is on this tale,
as I am acquainted with him,
;you would like an introduction~
Of couse he would;- soth7ende*
the car, and approached the -~~
tleman just left; the Bhode -8ap
introduced to the Generi). wth
twinkle of the e e, Geni. Ebno4u -~
"I will shake .with 7# W0i~ ,/
brother's sake."
"As ras AmArid y-t
David Swing, of Ohi cage
(hew and out-spit and oub-alk
of the worlj can ho
residue of 3C*1y
two oee fr