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---A ;L - o XW) Ir~ Dy D ?. RADLY & 07r GAY T D ? jf1 1t f 3 3 ~ I T R S - V T B C U ~ Y 4 F PIlkS .C f~D Y UL 018.VO.X O 4 to, bis ~ ~bouda4 line@ between ~M~yoping, it is tobser, 46 40"a of O~l O~e~I~ta0.Iith oil rgions hasa pppu. ILOANx him been now. eurgeon General of the h plac. of surgeon General ~trdou aooount of age. OArJ platforms are constructed 1to a gallows. The candidates upon it and a number of the drawn from beneath their feet, $0f 0,0 on railroad ooin for every death duo to preventible te is a New York suggestion eets with general and publio 060 haS just opened an institr fot the reformation of inebriate and e#thIgomen, called the Martha n Department of the Wash iHoine. Ore to go to war to assert the ; :q Xsrishmen to resirt English law, *WA not be choaper to buy Irelaud of *hiWitish, Government and declare its A Qpendenoe? A s TO "what'is rarer than a day in ue?" the Boston Advertiser replies, - "kin-g their nunber into considera a day in February." And so it is in other respots, for some of then are positively raw. ~ 'otly One man to every one hundred b6ety-eight-has failed ; this, in the N 4e et the drouth of last year, and the 9 arid times now complained of. ~ M iT is found that the mind of Under Secretary Burke's sister, who lived with pinhas given way. She has not shed a tar, and sits at the window, exclaim.. lng at every footfall, " He is comning." Iis impossible to divert her thoughts fom him. BArS the Toronto Globe: "Th Nlorthwest is strongly opposed to mo.. -nbpolies. The practical experience that thepope of Mlanitoba have already had Sthe wrorkings of the Pacifig Syndicate *onopoly has converted Tories to op ponents of the Government by the -thousand." - AVmW hui~~hesl by twining her arms around her husband's neck, Nrs. Christiancy should have hold oni .'until the old gentleman surrendered u'm conditionally. It is hard to understand t~ he old fellow could 'resist the ap of so beautiful a woman under such divze" pressure.intl A 'KENTUOz was sentenced i h court at Frankfort to one year in the * ezntentiary for stealing eighteen head ofpattle. Then a negro, who had stolen ,60wortly of copper, received a three s~ars' sentence, and he told the yudge sa.ld 'nothing to say except he was She hadn't stole a drove of oxen. ~ONT criminal trials prompt ~a co. (~k j temhporg.ry to remark: "It Is a great 1etedowhmin our criminal iuirisprudence ibh after a serious o1barge 1s made, anc mfacle case at least es ablished in adjury room, the indictment '~lbe sodrawn as not to cover the ~ ~ and the prisoner has to be ac T a clearing of the forest lands has ~ **obbly something to do with the late ***oe., and .It is just possible that the telegraph wires and long parallel stti of steel and iron rails, on the rail tracks may have some hand in. in tr#sifying the fary of the storms, whica, 4, without doubt, electrical in their eeyfeature. $a. W. W. SnAy, of Rome, Georgia. frun watermelons.Hehsacr thtthey containsenprcn. a~in mater erpure sugar, an1d that MRande of goladwould produce 600Ponds of utelons, from which SPounds of *toould be extracted, e t te cents. 8241.50. now,' when everghing else is so ~ !~$~a the complaining so general, it Coslto to know that .there will #I*0*aok difruit, which has so much tIIrecommend It on its own account, '~*'4~ *e use of it and less nse of meat at C hi sqason has always been urged by i$fa1Authority, and compliance with $e4910. seems now likely to be invol *tpenue of the TOnited States from isnow greater than that of and Is almost equal to the qfrom mail and telegraph T istration Is to be gta )bee wihn4t t iing" ~the tha san take hold of one man- Abaham had a lt0 of wives, and so did David. ,NoW ..avid Might a' went wrong, but the'Scrip. tures say as how ab a man a faults Is for give. That's the reason we think we have got the law of God on our side. AiamI Bar has stirred up the fanati cism of his co-religionists in Egypt to sti6h a degree that if he were to yield in the present oriasi he would have as much to fear from their resentment as he now has from the Western powers. His followers are earnestly awaiting the manifestation of El Mehdi, the Messiah, on the 12th of November, and the Sultan doubtless has an understanding with Germany. TIV widespread preparations in England are suffleient to prove that the opening of hostilities is not regarded as any child's play or mere demonstra. tion- against an offinsive Egyptian Cabinet. Ex-BnNATOn CIIRIsTIANCY had a lu dicrous interview with Mrd. Christian. cy the'other day. Pasing her house, he hoord a tap on the window, and looking, saw the author of his domestic troubles waving a letter at him. le ednoluded to get the letter, and with that purpose in view, started for th door; but the door opened before ho reached it, and before he was able to en ter, a pair of white arms was clasped around his neck. What did he do? Well, he was stern-loosened her hold .and pushed her aside, and in reply to her "Please take me back," li told her "No; not to-day, nor at any other time," and withdrew. ALnXANDRIA, the port of Egypt now threatened with bombardment by the English and French fleets, is a city of 250,000 inhabitants. It lies flat, is well built in the European quarter, while the Turkish section is squalid and dirty. Its ancient walls are broken, but -it has two strong fortresses. It has two port. an eastern and western, the lattOr somic times called the Old Port, being the larger and better of the two. It is about a mile and a. half widerand has three entrances. The foreign war vessels in the neighborhood numbered thirty-two a week or two ago, and their aggregate haaiincreased. The period is a critical one. England has determined on ac tion, and France seems to have thrown off her fears of'~Bismarck, and will join in the bombardment of the place, unless Arabi Bey backs down, of which there ts no probability. Story of a Silver Mine. An old Colorado miner says: "While I was yet at Leadville a man cane there fromn Denver named Dexter-Jim Dex :er they cafled him-and he was full of life and hope and had some money. Dexter looked about him for a while and finally bought a claim on Carbonate Hll, which hadI at that time not been prospected very well. He paid. I think, about 615,000 for it, and set to work putting in machiner and sinking the shaft, which was aread down some hundred feet or more. He worked away on the mine, people laughing at him a good deal, but lie never once lost heart. Tta mine had not shown up a single thing in the way of mineral, and the shaft hdbeen sunk by that time several hundred feet. Dex'ter did not know what to. do. Ho had now spent nearly all the money he had and noth ing was coming in. One day in the early part of the year 1879 a party came to hm and asked him what he would take for his mine. Dexter told him, and a bargain was made between them. - The price p aid was, I think,. $30,000, some $15,00 ore 'than Dexter had spent on it altogether. He was mighty glad to get the *80,000, and thought himself well out of a bad bargain. He rushed out onto Carbonate Hilt and ordered the miners to drop their tools and quit work. This w~as about three o'clock in the after-noon. He said: 'Boys, I have sold this hole, and I don't want you to work another minute in it for me. I will pay you off right now, and you can quit.' Well,the miners had just finished a drill and were going to place a blast and uncover some rock, and they asked to be allowed to finish it before they quit .work. 'No,' said Dexter, ' come out; I don't want you to work any more; there's nothing in the old hole.' The men rehuetantly quit and reported. Dexter got his money and was happ. Well, the mine had been bought bya stock company, and in a short ime they began wor on It. Now, young man, what I am gig to tell you is the solemn truth," sadthe miner. " Those fellows went upthere to that mine and laid a fuse'to the blast left by D~exter's men and touched it off. After the smoke cleared awa they went in to see hove much rock h been log. ened, when what do you thinkP There before their eyes thysaw the richest body of silver ore whic has ever been seen sinc~e the world begn At that time hundreds of thousands of dollars met the gaze of the delighted owners of the richest kind of ore. Well, youn fellow," cohtinued Mr. Knowles, " tha mine was the celebrated Robert E. Lee, which has made everybody rich who has. had anything to do with iteince Jimmy Dexter sold it. Millions'of dollars hav. been turned out of it, and it is theuet est silver mine In the worl4." - eire potr aske the how Dexter took te it~isfortunN-. " *l,"~ he replied. tr.after wheneiier erta ~i of the mine enoe1,bdt I g~ kutM how thatis. Hebotl oit1 Shakspeafe and the Bible. There is a way that seemet right to man, but the end thereof are the ways of dt --Prov. Zvi., 21. There is no vice so simple but aum.. some mak of virtue in its outer patu. -Mrchant qf VengOe, in., 2. How can ye, being evil, speak good things. (Seeming virtues p from an evil source are not genuine) Mat, xil., 84. Where an unclean mind carries virku. ous qualities, their commendations go with pity-they are virtues and taitors too.-All'a Wel That Ende Well, i. Another law in my members wai against the law of my 'mind.--Rom vii. 28. The fiend is at mine elbow and tempts me, saying: " Use your legs; take the start; run away." My conscience says: "No; do not run; scorn r"m' wth thy heels." "Budge," says the fiendV " Budge not," says my conscience.-. Merchant of Venice, ii., 2. He that increaseth knowledge, in creaseth sorrow.--Ecclesiastes i., 18. I had rather have a fool to make me merry, than experience to make me 'ad. -As You Like It, iv., 1. -, yet not I.-Gal. ii., 22. I have a kind of self resides with yen, But an unkind self, that itself Wi leave To be another's fool. -Trfu. and Creae., ni., 2. But whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one point, ho is guilty of all.-James ii., 10. That these men Carrying Uxe stamp I say, of one defect, Sh8l in the genera censure, take corruption Fm that particular fault. The dram of II Doth all the noble substance often doubt. -Hamliet f., 4. Whosoever hateth his brothei is a murderer. -John iii., 5. Hates anf man the thing he would not kill ?-Merchant of Venice, iv. India Proors. There are various ways in which de. ceptions are practised. For instance, "unlettered India proof," as it is technically called, is, from being taken off the engraving at an earlier stage, very much superior to what is called a "lettered India print," which is obtained after many impressions have been taken off the engraving, and when the plate has, consequently, become worn, and the picture lost its clearness and sharp ness of line. To turn an "India prit,'" therefore, into an "India proof" the India print is cut down all round close to the engraving.' A dlean sheet of India paper of the same tone as the India print, but of a larger size, so as to ahow. a clean, blank margin, is then mounted on a piece of still larger plain paper, and the out down India print in turn is mounted in such a position as to show the usual margin all round. Before drying, the manipulated print is sub jected to immense pressure, which so forces the mounted print into the India paper as to entirely hide the difference in the thickness of the material. A true impression taken off a plate leaves the mark of the plate all round the picture; and to add this to the "doctored" India proof, a plain steel or copper plate of the proper size is laid on the face of the print, which is again subjected to pres sure, and the deception is then so com plete as almost to baffle detection. A volume beloniging to a collector was sup posed to contain India paper impressions of engravings to the value of ?300, but on examination they were found to be " doctored " plates, not worth ?30 in all.--Chambers' .Journal. To 8leep, Eat Onions. I venture to suggest a new but simple remedy for want of sleep, says a man erho has had experience. Opiates, in any form, even the liquor opii sedat and chloroform, will leave traces of their in fluence next morning. I, therefore, prescribe for myself - and have' fre q~uently done so for others-onions ; simply common onions, raw, but Span ish onions stewed will do. All know the taste of onions ; this is due to a peculiar essential oil contained in this most valu able and healthy 'root. The oil has, I am sure, highly soporific powers. In my own case they never fail. If I am much pressed with work and feel that I shall not sleep, I eat two or three small onions, and the effect is magical. Oniops are also excellent things to eat when much exposed to intense cold. Finally, if a person can not sleep, it is because the blood is in the brain, and not in the stomach. The remedy, therefore, is ob vious. Call the blood dowvn from the brain to the stomach. This is to be done by eating a biscuit, a hard-boiled egg, a bit of bread and cheese, or some thing. Follow this up with a glass of milk, or even water, and you will fall asleep, and will, I trust, bless the name of the writer.-Exchange. ,Chinese as Printers. A Chinaman offers his services to the publisher of a monthly paper in this city, to set up all the forms of his paper, send him proofs of each article, and make the corrections marked in the p roofs when returned, and convey the forms to and frona the press-room for Seventy-flye cents a column. There are forty-eight coluns in the paper, each column twenty and one-half inches long by two anid one-quarter inches wide. The offer was declined, whereupon the Ohinamian said he was doing the same work for two other periodical in the city. They learned the business in Hong Kon and Caton1 where papers are published in the English tongue, and where China men are drilled into the work on dccount of the scarcity of white labor. -San AN OLD May who was in the habit Of dle'aring, after the occntrence of any 'eem, that sije predicted it, was one day devIAl~ " sold"4 by her worthy sos wlho,.i e many others we wet ohaA atO tired of hearing her eterna "I (4 VUso." -Rushing into the house *~24' with excitement, h'e drope at, elevated his hands a x k 'ebh my dear, wh*4s a tone01" The0GI4 arqiy wait(4 g~ ~'tod tal of Xee lam. ila ashington 016t664 take meats gentlemn AM am n .o tel sofne -tre staries. - sontto bore M Lemnoaki Oaine to h country many years a, and suooeeded -in obtaieing a clerksp ix the PostoAn"' D ent. According to his ac'ount of i elf he had been a soldier under the peat Na. po19o. pleashg him better than to meet wit tnofre "evwian lprtuit ore ottinghis -Is hardly necessary to sGay7some of them wer marvelous and always excited a smile ol incredulity. At length a fellow-clerk said to him: "I emonoski, I have often heard you fiht over your old battles, now let me gieyumy sad miltary experiincoe. I w a soldie in the Black Hawk war I the very frst engagement I saw three stalwart Indiars coming in full after my scalp. I was armed wit an old-fWshioned double-barreled shot-gun. I let her loose uon the two that were in the lead, and killed them as dead as Jul ius Cesar. The third came rushing upon me with his bloody tomahawk raised above his head, and what do you suppose hppened then?" u k ild him, of course." "Not exactly," quietly replied the Black Hawk. warrior; "he killed me." A roar of laughtet was raised among thu bystsauders and poor Lemonoski's yarns were knocked clear out of him. Gen. Jackson, about the year 1832, gave Jimmie Maher the appointment of public gardener in Washington. Salary $1,500 a year and trimin rihe trim nungs, perhaps, amoute to a much larger sum. To keep the public grounds In proper order were the duties to be performed. Jimmie, when I made his acquaintance knew every body from Henry Clay down to Ephraim Frost, the colored, hack-driver. He was a warm hearted liberal Irishman, He never took a drink, save wheh he was thirsty, and then he invited all the bystanders to join him. He rded himself on his adherence to what he called " 'dimooratic" principles. $ouie hungry Whigs in 1841 wanted his* place, and Jimmie, for a while, was very uneasy. .One morning he met Gen. Harrison in the public grounds, and taking off hisliat, he thus addressed him: " I presume this is Gineral Harrison Prizident of the United States." Receiving an affirmative answer, he continued "My name is Maher. I am igooblic gardner." we, Mr. Maher I like the appear ance of these grounds; they look in much better conditIon than they did when I was a Senator." , " Och, its me trade; was fotched up to it; but, may it plaze your Honor, it's rumored about here that I'm to be dis missed." "Dismissed for *what?" "Because I was a friend to Mr. Van Buren." - " No, Mr. Maher, nobody is author ized to say that you will be dismissed on that account." " A thousand thqaphs to your E~xcel lenoy. You see I was acquainted with Mr. Van Buren. He afways treated 'me like a gentleman, and I was for him; but I have no doubt after we get a little bet ter acquainted I shall be for you." Harrison smiled, and assured him that he had no idea of turning him out. Whereupon Jimmie broke down to the place where he had some hands at work and gave them~ a rjotof his interview. He closed it with tirad exclamation: "By Jove, boys, 'rzdent Harrison is a rale Gineral Jackson of a fellowy" About three weeks after the inaugura tion of Glen. Harrison a well-dressed young man of some thirty summers walked into one of the hotels of this city with a fiddle on his arm and said: "Gentlemen (all eyes were at once turned upon him). I have come here like thousands of others to see what I could see arnd .get what I could get; but I have been disappointed in eyerything. I got no oflce, got out of mioney, and got many miles to retrace; I am too hon est to steal, too. prounid to beg, and I concluded to come in here to-day and make a little in an honest way." Suiting, the action to the word. kie be gn to play the fiddle. This 'c5mical scene afforded considerable amusement .o the persons there assembled. They asked him how much money it would take to carry him home. He said $40. In less than ten minutes that amount was raised for him. Sitting down and count ing over his money, he found that they had given him $48. "By George!" said he, "here's a sur plus of 3. Come in, gentlemen, all of you, and take something to drink." I never saw nor heard of him after ward. I have regretted that I did not learn his name and keep the hang of him. The chances are that he has since filled some high political position.-- Washing ton Letter. A Sienator's Experlence. - One day in 1884 Senator Zach Chan dior was a passenger on the train from Owosso to Lansing- and, strangely enough, no one in the car had any udea of his identity. Two men had the seat behind him and from talking of' war they drifted to olitics, and naturally enough Chandler' name became mixed up. Both men were red hot against him, and directly one of them observed: " It's a wonder to me that some one doesn't shoot the old blood-letter I " " Oh ! he'll get hisadoso yet, and don't you for itit 1' replied the othier.. The entar turned slowly around, took a good look at both, and then said "6etlemen, please peka little lower-I am Seator Chandler myself." -He thought he had them frozen solid, but he was mistaken. He had scarcely turned his h~a when one of them leaned forwar and repJIed : "That's all righ\,m ,if you can beat ushe conductor h ; but don't try to stuff us!i We met the old chap back In Owosso not anliour~ waiting tojgoEast, and iocst me cash and a slve wachtopelhis hand I If you've got anew ro # It ou-we are not MAm the e ak spot in oar Andersonyio as It h. A correspondent of the Buffalo Courier describing -the present condition of the Andersonville prison pen, says: Passing along the memorable causeway, on either side of which the scrub oaks grow thick 17, I soon come upon the red banks of e old eSrthworks that guarded the main entrance, and t9 the line of de cayed and fallen timbers of the outer stockade. Insido of this, and to the right, are the ruins of the old bakery, now simply a mound of earth and broken -brick from its chimney. Climbing the rail fence that occupies the place of the former inner line of stockade, resting upon its piles of fallen decayed timbers I cross the "dead line" and stand within* the space where eighteen years ago, more than 20,000 miserable, ragged, diseased and starved humhan beings were huddled, burrowing in the ground, lying under tents of ragged blankets, striving to shelter themselves from the fierce rayx of the sun. The timbers have in great part rotted off next the ground and falen, lying like two great windrows, marking the confnes of the round. But wherever there was a timber of heart pine- it is still standin, its pitchy fibres as sound as ever; and there are enough of these to enable one to readily trace the course of the stockade nearly around the entire place. The traces of the old, sad days are distinctlz visible on every hand. The mounds anu cavities of the thousand dens and burrows are everywhere. It would be exceedingly perilous to attempt to cross this space in the night ; and one must have his eyes open in the day time, as he is constantly coming upon the yawning mouths of the old wells and entrances of tunnels from fifteen to thirty feet deep. - The wells toward the northern part of the ground are the deepest several of them being thirty feet deep, tle stiff red clay precluding any danger of their caving in; and in fact now after the lapse of years, there are but iew of them that *re not as perfect and their walls as hard and smooth as the day when they were completed. The very niches that were made in the walls to ascend and descend the walls by are still plainly visible. Some of tlhem are partially filled with brush and sticks that have been thrown into them, but most of them are entirely empty and open. The stream which runs in at the west side and out at the east had, at the time of my visit, a flow of fifty gallons per minute. It does not have a rapid cur rent, but it is so broad that I could not iun across it. and is about a foot deep. Bees, Mice, Cats, and Flowers. Many of our orchidaceous plants abso lutely require the visits of moths to remove their pollen-masses and thus to fertilize them. I have also raason to believe that humble-bees are indispensa ble to the fertilization of heartsease, (Viola tri-color), for other bees do not visit this flower.- From experiments which I have lately tried, I have found that the visits of bees are necessary for -the fertilization of some kinds of clover; but humble-bees alone visit the' red clover, (Trifolium pratense), as other bees cannot reach the nectar. Hence I have very little doubt that if the whole genus of humble-bees became extinct or very rare in England the heartsease and the red clover would become very rare, or wholly disappear. The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Mr. H. Newman, who has long attended to the habits of humble bees, believes that more than two-thirds of them are thus destroyed all over England. Now the number of mice is largely dependent, 'as every one knows, on the number of cate, and Mr. New man says : " Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice." Hence it is. quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a dis trict might determine, through~ the in tervention- first of mice and then of bees8 the frequency of certain flowers in that district. -Darwin. Appearances of Arsenic Eaters. "Whenever you clap your eyes on a woman as plump as a partridge, with a milky whiteness of complexcion, puffy eyvehds and swollen skin, you've found a nictim of the habit," said a physician to a reporter, in alluding to the growing use of arsenic among l ad ies. "If there is a delicate tinge of red on the cheeks, don't be deceived. Paint, not Nature, is responsible for the bloom, made hideous and ghastly by contrast with the corpsoy whiteness of the rest of the face. The artsenic eater is seldom downcast or de spondent, come what may, for thme drug not only affects the skin, but produces mental exhilaration. The plumpness produced by arsenic is not natural plumpness, but rather a dropsical condi tion of the skin. Cessation of the habit causes this w ter-distended skin to col lapse, and wnkles and sallowness are the inevitable results. Of course, no woman is willing to submit to this ordeal when it may- be prevented, at the mere sacrifice of health and intellect, by a continuation of the use of tho drug. The inevitable results of the arsenic habit are hideous and incurable cutaneous eruptions, loathsome diseases of theI scalp, falling out of the hair, dropsy, and oftentimes insanity. But what care the footlight favorites or the society belle for those trifling after-inconven lences so long as they can borrow illit-I .Jve charms and fictitious beauty 1y the use of the deadly drug ?" -A Tenant-House League has been organized in olw York. Its object is to "abolish h'- dlord6." We don't quite understand Its modqs operand!, so to speak, bufif, wheni a tenan6 owes a landlord three or four months' back rent-say *100--tiis league can be hired, for five or ten dollars, to abolish the lnlrthe or anu on must All xtermaating Rat a4 Aie Mioe and rats seem to increase very = inthe haunts of oivlisati, es in large cities. Seaports are particularly infested with them, as NOw Yorkers know but too well. These ver min have grown to be a supreme nui sance there, notably in old houses, which are fairly overrun. They multiply every year, appearing in numbers whore a 'short tune ago they were hardly seen. How to get rid of mice and rats is a se rious problem with householders, who are often forced to move on their ac count. Even an -entirely-new house in apt to be invaded after a few months and to be seriously hurt as a place o' residence by the ravages of the nox ious animals. Traps, however ingen ious of contrivance, do little. or no good after a brief while, as the cunnin dreatures detect their purpose, and either avoid them or secure the bait without danger of captivity. Cats get lazy. A good mouser will in a ow months become indifferent to what has been its favorite pursuit. And any or dinay cat is afraid of rats, as well it ma be, and will seldom venture, to at tack them. They are generally too wary for a terrier, which, with all hi) vigilance and ferocity is deceived by them.- It is thought that the introduc tion of ferrets into houses would miti gate the annoyance. They are often employed in Europe to destroy such ver min, and were so employed by 1h old Ioinans. If kept from the cold .thy are readily taken care of, and, al. though not docile or affectionate, they are ranked as domestic animals. They are natives of Africa, and dependent on man, both here and in Europe as with out his and they would perish. eiy wilI soon rid a house, it is said, oi mice and rats, which have a natural dread of them, and have been Iown to desert premises that they occupy They are a terrible and unrelenting foe. They are 200 turnal, sleeping nearly all day and very watchful at night, when the household pests commit most of their depredations. Their smallness and slenderness enable them frequently to follow rats into holes and kill them in a tice. - The' general belief that they destroy life by sucking blood is erroneous, notwithstandipg the statements of naturalits, from Buffon to Cuvier and Geoffrey St. Hilaire. After death they, like other members of the weasol tribe, doubtless suck the blood of their victims, but they kill too quickly for so slow a process. It has been shown, by repeated experiments that they often inflict but a single wound, which proves almost instantane ously fatal. They then, as a rule, quit their victim at orice and kill another in the same way. The simple wound is under or behind the ear, and may or may not pierce the largo blood-vessels. The canines enter the spinal cord be tween the skull and the first vertebra of the neck,,destroying the victim as the. matadore destroys the bull. They pierce the medulla oblongata, the very center of life, and immediately extin guish motion, consciousness and sensa tion. This is one of the many instances in which the instinct of animals has an ticipated the tardy deductions of sci ence. The ferret is so masterly a rat slayer that thero seems to be every rea son for introducing him into our domes ftic economy, as lie will accomplish what trap, poison, cat and dog have not and <annot. How to Say It. Say "I would rather walk," and not " I had rather walk." Say " I doubt not bunt Ishall," and not " I don't doubt but I shall." Say " for you and me," and not " for you and I." Say "whether I be ,present or not," and not " present or no.' Say " not that Iknow," and not " that I know of." Say "return it to me," and not ":re turn it back to me." Say "I seldom see him," and not " that I seldom or ever sec him." Say "fewer friends," and not "less friends." Say "if I mistake not," and not "if I am not mistaken." Say ".game is plentiful," and not " game is plenty." Say " I am weak in comparison with you," and not " to you." Say "it rains very fast," and not "very hard." Say "ini its primitive sense," and not " primary sense.Y Say " he was noted for his violence," and not that "lhe wvas a man notorious for violence." Say " thus much is true," and not " this much is true." Say "I lifted it," an?1 not "I lifted it up."'last, but not least, say "I take my paper and pay for it in advance." rearl Fishing on an American Coast. "Pearl Fishing on the coast of Lower California is an important industry, no less than 1,000 divers being employed in bringing up the costly black pearl, 'which is found in a great state of perfection in I the deep waters of Paz. The pearl ovsters are found from one to six miles off shore in water from one to twenty. one fathoms deep. Merchants provide hats, diving appartus, etc., for the pros ecution of the business, on condition1 that they can purchase all the pearls found, at prices to be agreed uon. These boats, which are usually of about five tons burden, sail up and'down the coast from May to November searching for treasures. The product of a year's work is about $500,000 estimating the pearls at their first vaiue.-..-Alta Cau. (at nian. Recognislag the Cook. The paperskare making a great ado because -Queen Victoria has the name of the cook written beside every dish on the bill-of-fare at her dinners, so she knows who cooks every article on- the table, and can compliment or oeriture, as she pleases. That Is nothing F or Zfteeun years we have adopted tne seine PEand when th. Hiver .oomes ga a a o th* oodhah is underdonca Iherae sole ooi4 bleofa yer have" he name-a abd faf beinma Oooaa toni ngly like the Xate is made into hosiery, colored - k Iextile fabrics. Jute - ootton crop, and sackA and it is subtly entering fabrio .invented for the kind. weed of unce 1Q, found a quotation i market, and adapted aeeds. No oodl promises juht now to Dlose a race; none does so and for so little, as does [ndian plant. Its P" Oftnit for dyes gives f, Face 1f some fabrcs, hesive, clinging qut valuable for the b familiar facts are i by the present or lute on American now shown of Lo 4 growth are claimed ness and finish the best" Dundee and Scotland vet Trader Density of New York is the most populous v oz States, containing bout one-ten thie entire population of the Unioi, it has not the densest population. Th., census Bureau reports that the numb "' )f square miles In the Republic, not in 3luding the Indian Territory and some inorganized tracts, -s 2,900,170. The 3opulation in 1080cwas '0,165,778, or L7.29 per squareniile. But o hde [shmnd Liiie po lon in 58 p* square mile, in husetts217,n New Jersey 171.7, In Conneot*# 128.52, anid 'in New York 108.74. w State, therefore, rants fifth in devds~ f population, and there is an I3iet tion of a future greatness of which bU% fewv have probably thought.1n the f$ ~ thiat it has room for so many m r~~ habit ants. The populat an of thepm trit of Columbia is b2,960.40 per squake Maen ulay's lugubriansprediction, that wheni we have a popu1htion of 200 ge square mile our Governmenit will go tg p)ices, is not genera yregarded weitl1 / cother interest thian osityby Anterl. oans; but wvere It sdemionstrable fact, it would have no immediate terror for this 1people. The were 00,019 imml grants who arriy at Castle Garden last month, but wore te .rate of immiigra-. tion to remain th sm, It would re qmjre more than*5(1yeai's to give the country a populatiotrof 200 per sqears mile. The poplulatl of Germany l* now 205 per square Uo. It conveys a vinid hdeh of thle fu re magnitude Of ' this nation to say that when itsd densIt of populationi Is equal to that- of Ger. rnteny, the United Statgs-will have 594.-., >3I,850 inhabitants, not- Including the [ndian Territory and some tracts now ~ mfoccIJied.--N. Y Mail. Frauds In Brandles They are chiefly pract~o with in erior spirits in orer to mak e n -id or cognac. It is many yeart w s w K ho smaller growers began t Id 1e heir wines before distilling a luantity of inferior cognao or ipirit, such as Montpelier bran arley, beetroot, molasses, rice, or :ato spirit. Such 18 the richness Lroma of the pure and true cognac th t has enough and to spare for these litions of insipid alcohiols. This fren -andl many maintain that it Is no frat -18 undiscovered except by a very exo erienced taster indeed, gifted with.a nost sensitive palate; detection is sasier when the foreign spirit Is add. id after instead1 of before distilla ,Ion. ~'Then the biting liarshness of 1ew brandy Is taken off with two drops oJ; iquid ammonia to the bottle; the alkk icutralizing a portion of the essential? ils which are chiefly given out -by tWe grape-skins. Cream of .tartar and mandied sugar are also used for this pukwt :~ pose. 'rho color of ageis got expedi Liously without molasses, either nat' , ' >r burnpd; and this last is emlodt ' roduce the brown brandy of teEn ish. But more elastic consoci " rieiped on br the soientific chemis ave doscen ed by little and littlef naking cognac out of beetroot, ma )otato spirit, or any other alcohol urns up in the market. FoY th &hole laboratory is required, embrsig mech matters as grape-sirup, buraI ugar, infusion of bitter-almond shells: anille, tea, the root of the Florenda ris (which we corruptly call orris4'oot) mngelica seed, lemon-r1ud, wahlnt ma~ks, liquorice, demomlieg t ~atechu, and Tolu bal'sam.--St.Jae JIazette. A I4 T~iA Mr. Ed Good writes thiat he 1o ad wild boy " last week at the ujn 3prings, Tex., about fourteen na~s41 orth of Jasper. He deseribes him rppearing from his size to be about t~ >r twelve years old .hair rather a $ solor and hanging lyelow hisebO2lt* mid his body in a perieotly ned 4s not a particle of clotbing of -A about him. He was picking #d berries when seen. Mr. Good7a within a few rods of him, - stealthily, before the byp~w The Jatter fled Popltep leves it to be a verit~l - If that be so be might bo --- the mystery of his 1( Detroit 16 ee Press - Narbie 'eads iiV Dr;(&sry Oos hia a okeenunty. Teo~ wereosinking ashaftg4 belne the1smaa