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Epigrams.
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A pompous attorney, while trying a cause,
Was quizzing a witness and looking for flaws.
The witness, who owed him a personal gradge,
Provoked him until he appealed to the judge.
" I demand, sir,'' he oried, with a fiery-red
faoe,
" A little attention while trying this case."
' lour honor,'' responded the meek little man,
"Im paying as little as any one can."
The judge, with a frown,
Looked solemnly down
On the squabble, and said, from the bench
where he sat,
" We want nothing but silence, and little of
thai."
it.
Said young Komeo Butts to Miss Claribel Cutts,
(As they^stood in a parlor resplendent with
ligl" ~
With a wea^i^ome sigh, 'Oh, I cannot tell why,
Bat somehow, I feel like & fool here to-night."
Said Miss Claribel Cntts to Romeo Batts,
With a pitiless smile that she oonld not conceal
:
"Yes. your faoe would betray,I am sure, what
you say,
For yon certainly look all yon say that yon
feel."
m.
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' Oh, husband!" said Mrs. Ophelia MoMunn,
As ehe gazed at her willfnl and passionate son,
" Where that boy got his temper, I never could
ee;
I'm certain be never oould take it from me."
"No doubt, my dear wife, your assertion is
true?
I n^rer have missed any temper from you."
?Chicago Tribune.
THE STORY OF TWO SINGERS.
Ail Italian vessel bad reached the
shores of America. The passengers had
landed. The wealthy had been taken
to their hotels or their friends' homes in
carriages. The poor folk, who still had
some certain destination and some one
to greet and meet, had been led away
under friendly guidance, after many
embraces and much gesticulation, or
had taken cars and omnibusses for the
purpose of reaching their homes and
the welcome that awaited them. Some,
poor and forlorn, were wandering vaguely
about the Battery?the prey of emi- ,
grant boarding-housekeepers?and one,
noorest and most forlorn of all. sat neon
a bench ander a great tree and wept
silently. Sue was a woman. She was
young and of the peasant class. Her
husband had died upon tne voyage. {
She had not a friend in America, and ,
some thief had stolen her purse from {
under her pillow, as she slept between j
her little children in her berth in the |
steerage. ,
8he bad only a great bag. .witfi_? few- -j
shabby garments, and these two ohil- |
dren, and a pair of earrings, which Bhe j
might, perhaps, sell for a little bread? .
in ail the world. As she stared out
upon the water, which had swept away
the body of her dead husband, and 1
which still covered it, she was very j
miserable.
" If it bad been the Lord's will that I
also should be buried in the sea," she j
sobbed. "I and my children." And J
she bent her bead upon her hands; her '
eyes were blinded with tears; she saw
nothing of what was going on just then. '
.. hi v it., -ij l
" Motoer I " cnea me eiuesi oauu.
" Mother, look. The bad \pj has carried
off onr ba#?."
The poor creature started to her feet. '
She stared wildly about her. A boy was
running away at full speed with the bag .
of clothes on his back. Uttering* a 1
scream, she began to run at full speed. !
People stared at her, but did not know '
why she ran, or understand that the in- 1
terpretation of Ler cry was "stop thief." 1
The boy outran her very soon; her
breath failed her. She saw him turning
a corner of the street, and regardless of !
the wagons, cars and carriages in her ;
path, dashed across the road. There
was a cry?a crash; a policeman strode
oat upon the crossing and stopped the
vehicles, and the body of the Italian
woman was lifted from the ground ; her (
black hair fell over her shoulders, her '
eyes were fixed, her face pallid, and the
yellow kerchief abont her head soaked <
m hlrwvi No one knew anvthimr Abont
tf u ? ?her.
They carried her to the hospital;
thence to the morgue. Afterward she 1
was buried where they bury paupers.
When their mother ran after the thief, 1
the little girls sat where she had left
them, for awhile; each was playing with
something. To amuse them their
mother had given them her earrings?
two hoops of gold.
?-- They had their own little ears pieroed,
but as yet there were only threads in
them. Their father had promised that,
when he made his fortune, they should
have gold earrings like their mother's.
But their father was buried in the sea,
and their mother was poor. It did not
seem likely they should ever have my
of thoee nice things that they had been
promised when they came to America.
However, children are light hearted, and
they were on land again and not stuffed
into the steerage of the crowded ship;
and they had no doubt that their mother
? would catch the boy with the bag. They
played with the earrings and stared at
the pedestrians and at the carriages,
with no anxieties about their mother,
until they grew hungry. Then the
youngest began to cry.
" Mother stavs a long while," said the
eldest. "Let'us go and look for her,
and teH her we want supper." And
away they went, hand in hand, each
clutching her earring.
The eldest was a haudsome girl of
eight; the youngest a little six-year-old
beauty, wonderful to contemplate. They
spoke only Italian, of oouise. As they
wandered on looking for their mother,
and growing more and more frightened 1
at every step, there came marohing up
Broadway a military procession. The
bugles blared, the drums beat, the banners
w\ved, a crowd of hangers-on
tramped over the sidewalk. Bough
men and boys took no heed of the little
girls, and they were at last separated.
The eldest was helplessly pushed forward
by the crowd; the little one, who
had' clang to the railings of a restaurant,
was left behind.
" When the procession and the crowd
had passed, she still sat there, weeping
bitterly. " What a beantifnl ohild,"
| said many, and one or two spoke to her,
bnt she did not understand, and could
! not. answer them. At last there came
along the street an old Italian with an
organ on his back, and a monkey perched
upon it. He paused in front of the
restaurant and held out his hand to the
child.
4 4 What has happened to the pretty
little girl? Has she lost herself?" he
asked ; and the child, glad to hear words
that she could comprehend, told him
i her story.
The old man listened kindly.
44 Dry your tears,pretty one," he said.
44 We will find your mother, and meanwhile,
you shall have supper with me
ana my monKey. oe? wnai a uue
monkey. He will shake hands with yon.
Pepa, shake hands with the pretty little
girl, and bow.""
The monkey pnt oat one brown paw
and took off his velvet cap by the crown
with the other.
His pranks amused the ohild. She
trotted along by the side of the organgrinder,
and had macaroni with him in
a dismal little room in a terribleold tenement
honse. She had no donbt that he
could find her mother for her?her
mother and her little sister Franoesoa:
for Bianca was only six years old, and
at that age we are always hopeful. But
the old man who,after the frugal supper,
went about to do what he oould to find
the child's mother,soon learned the truth.
He knew Bianca was the ohild of the
poor woman who had been killed ; and
though he kept the knowledge to hira- :
self with a dread of mysterious evil, per- <
sonal consequenoes peculiar to foreign- i
era who do not quite understand the ]
laws of the land?and scarcely to be 1
wondered at?he generously resolved to 1
take eare of the little girl, to whom he i
did not tell the truth. Bianoa believed
that her mother would soon oome back, f
until she forgot her grief; but the old i
man bought a little bifof black ribbon 1
and suspended to it the solitary earring.
" Never part with it," he said. "It i
is a memento of your mother, pretty i
one." V *
He had a little poetry in his breast,
as most Italians have, though he was
only a poor organ-grinder.
Every day when he went out with his
monkey and his organ, he took the ,
ohild with him. She held the plate,
into which the patrons of this cheap
ooncert dropped their coin. - j
After awhile, he taught her to sing [
some little songs. Italian children can
always sing ; and it w?s no loss to him *
to have adopted this little oreature, for
he Dever made half as much before. .
The ohild brought him luck. One day a ,
musician heard her sing, and offered to
teach her to sing better. Her voioe was j
full and rich. She studied oarefnlly.
She was beantifnl and attractive. As *
she grew up the old mar- began to see
that he must no longer take her into the
_ jjretty one," ,
ie stud: " Study at the acfcnibetter
fate awaits you than to sing be- ^
fore windows and catch pennies in a _
platter." 0
The girl was glad to obey. She work- v
ed harder than ever to improve. Blie 8
kept the poor place neat; she cooked
ber adopted father's meals and made j
ber own oheap garments neatly. Hope j
rose high within her, bnt, alas ! misior- ,
tone was at hand. The old man made f
eery little, now that his young singer g
was not with him. One day the monkey j
was killed by a larger one, who threw it c
from the ropes where the two dangled ^
together?ropes swung from pulley- \
lines fastened to the windows of the v
bouses. Poor Pepa was thrown to the \
pavement below, and his neck broken. a
Bread gTew scarce, and the old man, j
lamed with rheumatism, oould scarcely <]
carry his organ about; and, at last, the *
hope that had inspired both perished in s
an hour. The kind musician died ; the a
free music lessons were over forever, and ?]
Oia" for inRtmotiniL ?
One day Bianca found her father, as g
she called him, acttially ill, and their ?]
bumble means of subsistence at an end ]
for the present. i
"Forever," said Bianca to herself, f
"if I oannot earn his bread in his age, as f
be has earned mine in my youth. Surely, ]
even my little knowledge of music is of c
some avail." c
Sitting with her head upon her hands, ]
she remembered the beautiful young t
prima donna who sang at the opera, and 1
whose voice she had heard through the c
open window of a oertain great hotel. <
"She is said to be charitable," she i
Baid; "at least, she would tell a poor i
girl if it might be possible for her to
earn her living by her voice; where to
apply; what to do." And, full of that
ardent trust in human nature whioh is
part of youth, she tied on her poor little
hat, and made her way through the 1
wretched streets in which she lived to
the great thoroughfare in which stood '
V>o WKioVi Tuna nrima donna's
home. 1
"Can I see signora?" she asked
timidiy of a servant who answered her 1
timid ring.
" Well, it isn't likely, young woman," i
said the man ; " she's just going out to
ride. Does she know yon ?" ,
" No," said the poor girl; " bnt"?
" Oh?begging, or something, I sup- 1
pose," said the man. " No, you can't."
" Let me be the judge," Baid a soft 1
voice ; and a beautiful lady clad in vel- <
vet swept toward her. " What have
you to say to me ?" she asked, kindly.
And Eianca was about to reply when 1
she suddenly caught sight of something 1
pendent from .a chain which the lady 1
wore that struok her dumb. It was an
earriDg?a hoop of gold?the mate to
that about poor Bianca's neck. She remembered
how her mother had given '
one to eaeh of them to quiet them on
that day when she sat desolate upon a
foreign shore. Strange fancies filled
her mind. Could this be Franoesea?
If it were, would she not despise the
poor organ-grinder's adopted child ??
an ignorant girl, bo shabby that the
servants took her for a beggar.
" Come along with me, my ohild,"
said the beantifnl young lady. "At
least you are of my country. I know it
by your accent We have that tie.
Come."
She led her to her sumptuous apartment,
and closed the door.
" Now, let me know what yon came
for," she said, smiling.
Bianca bent her head, trembling.
"I came for something else," she
~ *? ? W9"
said, but I can only think of one thing
now?that hoop apon yonr ohain. What
is it ? Where did you get it ? And yon
look?oh! you look?you are like"?
She faltered and paused.
" This bit of gold," said the lady, "is
all I have to remind me of my lost
mother. I wear it for that. And besides?I
have been told that it may be a
means of?of"? She broke off and
oovered her face with her hands. "Why
did you notice the ring?" the said, j
" Of whom do remind you ?"
" Of my mother," said Bianca. V My j
mother, who on the day of our arrival in
this country, left me with my sister r
upon the Battery. She was killed in the j
street, though I did not know of it for {
vears afterward. An old man?good and j
kind, but very poor?cared for me. I
never saw my sister again. I came to j
see you, signora, to ask you what one
oould do with a. good voice and love for
musio, but with little musical education.
I heard you were charitable, but?Oh,
signora, what does it mean ? As we sat
on that bench on the Battery, my sister
and I, our mother gave us each one of
her golden earriDgs to play with. See I j
I have mine yet." a
She drew it from her bosom.
Your name?" cried the prima ?
donna. t
Bianca," said the girl. r
I am Franceses! " cried the other, rj
She held out her arms, and the next ^
moment the two girls sobbed upon each
other's bosom. c
Franoesca hod been adopte^-by a rich
man, who bad developed her great tal- g
ent by all the means in his power. And j
dow she herself was winning fame and ^
fortune. A great joy had oome to her in j
the restoration of her sister, and she r
took her at once and forever to her heart j
wd home. ,
And the old Italian, in the comfort of r
i luxurious home and the society of his ^
idopted daughter, who soon followed in 0
ler sister's footsteps, and became a a
great singer, found himself well repaid g
or his kindness to the orphan child, a
and ended his days in peace and happi- ^
less. . . i f i
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Flax Culture* li
The oommon flax is a native of Egypt h
?r nnwrihlv the elevated nlains of Ofintrfll 0
tsia, but though no doubt a native of
farm climates, the fiber .attains its n
rreatest fineness and perfection in tern- b
>erate regions; the seed being richer in t1
he tropics. Flax is more extensively b
ind more successfully cultivated in t)
Belgium than in any other European fi
ountry, particularly in East and West d
Handera, in which the most beautiful h
lax in Europe is produoed, being em- r<
iloyed for the manufacture of the T
amous Brussels lace, and sold for this u
rarpose at $500 to $900 per ton. Im- T
a en be quantities of an inferior product ol
re also raised and exported! frbm Bus- a
ia, especially from the countries bor- h
[erin^; on.tfo.Mfci Si!
he low oountries befosa the-close* of the b
eventeenth century. Flax haB been 11
ultivated from time immemorial as a h
riuter crop in India, but only for its ol
eod, and not at all for its fiber. tl
The estimated production of flax in r<
tnssia in 1868. was 193.000 tons; in b
869, 800,000 toss. In Holland there K
;ere In 1809, 66/172 statute acres under c<
lax. producing 18,921 tons; in 1870, B
0,520 acres, piroducing 8,918 tons, ei
n Belgium, there were at the latest tl
iffioial census, 142,612 acres under flax, X
reducing 29,582 tons. In Prnssia, in f870.
throughou t the eight old pro*
iuoes 346,800 aaares under flax, while in
Lustria there were in 1871, 253,730
cres under flax, producing 44,523 tons.
h Hungary, the yield was 18,150 tons. a
["he average acreage appropriated to the ?
growth of flax in France, is 160,550, b
tatute acres, and about 15,000 acres *
,re sown with flax in Egypt every year. S;
Che entire produoe in Ireland has never
ixceeded 64,506 tons (1864), and il; has ?
unk as low as 12,929 tons (in, 1871). b
Che acreage under flax in Ireland in f
.864, was 301,693 ; in 1868, 206,146, and J
n 1871, 156,883. The acreage under jj1
lax, However, io nut wwajo ?u awuiavc
fnide to the produce, since in 1871, 0
5G.883 acres produced only 13,612 tons n
)f fUx', while in 1872, 122 C03 acres pro- 7
luced 18,920 tons. In 1872 there were *
14 Oil acres under flax in England, h
righty-foor in Wales, and 1,262 in floot- 8
and. In 1870 the United States pro- 1(
luced 13,567 tons of flax, of whioh a
quantity the State of Ohio alone raised *
1,940 tons. Thirty-two States produce j!
lax in large or small quantities. J;
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Words of Wisdom. V
He who is hasty fishes in an erapty *
jond. t
He who knows himself best esteems p
liraself least. f
Applause is the spur of noble minds, 1
;he end and aim of weak ones. '
Innate rudeness, in spite of restraint, T
trill betray itself by awkwardness.
The secret pleasure of a generous 8
lot is the great mind's great bribe. r
To give good aooounts of your com- 1
petitors inspires the belief in your own t
prosperity. ?
Experience teaches us indulgence ; r
the wisest man is he who doubts his own 1
judgment with regard to the motives 1
whioh aotuate his fellow-men. t
Our eyesight is the most exquisite of 1
our senses, yet it doeB not serve us to ?
discern wisdom ; if it did, what a glow 1
of love would she kindle within us. }
True love is eternal, infinite, and
always like itself. It is equal and pure,
without violent demonstrations ; it is
seeu with white hairs, and is always
young in the heart.
Sin first is pleasing, then it growB
easy, then delightful, then frequent,
then habitual, then confirmed ; then the
man is impenitent, then he is obstinate,
then he is resolved never to repent, and
then he is ruined.
A beggar knocked at the door, and f
unexpectedly, the bead of the family 1
opened it. " Young man," said the 1
latter, "I came here twenty years ag? \
with two shillings, and washed dishes ?
for a living, and now look at me." And '
he threw his chest ont and beamed. 1
"Sir," replied the beggar, "can yon
direct me to anytwdy who has a lot of
dishes to clean ?" i
A Congressman's Funeral.
When a Congressman <H?a at Washington
while Congress is in session, it
is customary to hold the funeral services
it the capitol, as in the reoont instances
the late Repiesentatives Hartridge
?nd Jlrthlfiinhpr. To oire our readers
in idea of the manner in which this impressive
ceremony is oonduoted, we
ippend the following description of the
wene connected with Mr, Schleicher's
funeral-: ?
The government in all its branches,
egislutive, judioiid and Executive, met
n the hall of the House at 12 o'clock,
rhe House met and adjourned, and the
Senate soon afterward reoeiving the
ormal message of the House, adjourned
too.
The House met at 8 o'clock. The
Speaker, with white sash over his shouller,
fastened by a rosette of blaok and
rhite, took his seat before thronged
leaks and filled seats, and gave a single
ap with his gavel. The swinging doors
vere pushed open. A tall,'' wliite-headed
nan walked in, so often the head of this
>r occasion, and liehind him, two and
wo, came the Senate, the tergeant-at
trms, French, leading a rseette of black
ltd white for son e inecrntable reason
n his shoulder. ' Oie^oar-k seper turnid.
"Mr. Speakeir,"he;shouted, ae a ,
oan must to be heard one dranored feet:
rbe Speaker arosa. "The Senate of :
he United Stateu," said Field, aa the
tead of the prooaorion pajwe^ abreast
>f him, .. _j.- , ^
"The Senate of the UqiUti States,"
aid the Speaker, like an echo, and his
lammer fell with a single, sharp tap as
he pausing prooeesion.i^vecl on. ,The ,
louse arose, and, through its standing j
anks, the Senate passed to its seats, j
Jefoic those seats in a cm wing line, |
?ere the green chairs set to tie left and j
ight of tne Speaker fdt the federal ju- 3
liciary and the federal executive, due- <J
esaively there came the same simple j
nnounoement: "Mr. Speaker, the (
luprerae Court of the United States; " ]
nd " Mr. Speaker, the Resident of the ]
Jnited States;" and eaohtim 9 the gavel
all the House and Senate arose ; and
rst, a fil j of men in silk gowns, rusthe
somewhat, and then another of men c
a overooata, just from out doors, step- 8
ed to their seals.]
There was no announce aunt at the c
ext approach. Thr.dpon were held *
aok, and the doorreeper adcanoed and '
med and walked "before the pall- J
earers, with long white scarfs. Behind
aem men walked with.a heavy burden, ,
owex-oovered, and behind them the '
ead man's delegation, the associates of |
ur o$cial .life. The' great ^audience j
we. ooffin *aa aiowjy lowereo,
'he moaariers and thebearers sat
1 the rajKi.ltff tfiam. ihe gavel fell,
'he crowded 'ranks sat again,'and the '
haplain of tba Hooae, rising to the high <
igrblo'desk, "b^auj f'latothe resnf-"- !
vitionyAjjda^ h the !
laglafl-gj^jpie service. Atw iWQFfffl -I
opressiveness in lihe bold absence of !
insic, in the gavel and the maoe behind '
>mt the notebooks and pencils of the (i
[fioial reporters below. It waa, never- '
lelesii, the Senate and Ho ate of Rep- <
;senfcifcives in joint; session assembled. '
t was all soon over. No word was said. '
[en stepped forward and raised the 1
>ffln. Behind it the guests of the <
[ouse f ollowed in the order thev had
itered?the President and the cabinet,
le Supreme Court, and the Senate,
he House adjourned. The publio ,
ineral was over. j
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Hat Poisoning.
An " Old Hatter " writes to the New- .
rk (N. J.) Advertiser: In your paper ,
f the 29th ult, there was an artiole
eaded j' How Hatters are Poisoned."
'ho men are afflicted with a nervous ,
h'akirg of the hands and arms, and :
ometimes of the head; and I have ,
nown instances where the teeth could ;
e picked cat with the fingers. In ,
iany cases they arc unable to gat a cup
3 their lips withou t help. The afflioion
is called " The Shakes," and, as ]
tated, is charged to the " carrot"used
n the fur. It is made by saturating ,
itrie acid with quihcsilver, to one part of ,
> hich an eighth of water is used to wet
be fur on the skins, and when dry a.
>ot iron is passed over them, which (
ivoa the fur a yellow tinge called yel- .
aw carrot. This has been used ever ;
ince hat bodies have been made of fur, j
nd unlal of lata without any bad ef
Bote, aud in some c 1 tne large lactones
be men are not troubled. I believe j
be workmen on fancy oolors are exempt
rom them, although the same carrot j
9 used?only the ironing is omitted and
b called white carrot. But I suspect '
he blaok oolor has much to do with the 1
rouble. The aaltfi of oopper are all \
Kuson, and they abound in the dust ;
rom the hats; especially in t?d]y-ventilated
rooms, which are inhere the
'shakes"are found to prevail in the
rinter and disappear as the weather 1
rill permit of free ventilation in the
pring.
The writer has worked at tha?usiiflBn
mtiriT vears in the largest factories,
las made the oarrol; and used it without
>eing in the least affected by it, and
eels satisfied that some other cause
nust be at the bottom of the trouble.
Che furs are now nearly all prepared in
Surope, and some cither chemicals may
>e used, but I th ink not. I find in
7re's Dictionary of the Arts the same
ormula. The use of carrot on the fur
s to make its felt close and firm, which
aw stock will not co. I would suggest
o the doctor to see if arsenic may not
)e the cause. Examine the verdigrit
ised for it
Nearly all the hats worn in the United
itates are made in Newark, Orange,
Danbury, Norwalk and Brookline,
mounting to many millions of dollars
yearly, and employing thousands of men
Tmrnion Waw York beinc the (neat
jenter of distribution for aft the county
There is a remi rkable Jfiwieh synagogue
in the ancisnt city of Prague,
with walls so thick with dirt as to be
ibsolutely black. A local tradition says
hat somewhere on its walls the name
Jehovah is inscribed, and it is believed
that if the walls ?ire cleaned the name
will be effaoed.
The tumultuous sea of life swamps
many men with its bill-owes.
TIMELY TOPICS.
The heretofore-regarded worthless
sage barrens of Nevada are found to be
exoellent pasturage for Cashmere goats.
A single herder, near Carson, has n flock
of 8,000.
Tbe proportion of soldiers who can
read and write in the several armies of
Europe is as follows: Germany, 965 in
1,000; Sweden, 930; England, 860; Holland,
750; Belgium, 700; France, 015;
Portugal, 495; Spain, 490; Austria, 400;
Italy, 450; Russia, 115; Turkey, 75.
An Iowa paper reports that William
H. Jones, of Lincoln township, 11L,
performed the feat of husking 128 bushels
and sixty-five pounds of oorn in
eleven hours and a quarter.1 The oorn
was husked, weighed and cribbed in the
above-stated time. A Bock Island man
claims to have husked 125 bushels in
eleven hours and a half, bnt it was
guessed at
It will sound a bit funny when the
forty-nine Dakotas take their Beats in
the obapel of Hampton institute, near
Norfolk, Va., to hear the "Facultyman
" call out behind his specs: " ManThat-Looks-Around,
Frank Yellow-Bird,
Laughing Face, Man-That-Hoots, One*
Who-Comes-Flying, Lizzie Spider and
Walking Cloud." The government will
pay the institute $167 apiece for one
jrutit a luoiruuuuu.
Daring the year 1878 forty-eight
American railroads, with a mileage of
1,902 miles and an invested capital of 1
^811,681,000, were sold or passed into
the* hands of receivers, the totals for
three years being 182 roads, 11,628
miles and $728,168,000 of capital. In 1
hat period one-seventh of the total 1
mileage and considerably more than one- ,j
leventh of the total capital investment
lavepassed through the final stage of '
?&nkruptcy. '
Indiscriminate kissing does not gen- \
srally have the very best results, as (
tome of America's sensational oourt ,
ecords go to show. The physicians of
he late Princess Alice have serious j
barges against kissing. They have in- j
restated the cause of the peculiar (
rirulence> of the diphtheria which at- (
acked her fa*uiy with such fatal results, ,
ind have agreed ^t the rapid spread i
>f the infection was entirely due to im- ,
j 11' ? a .Lfi^ y ... 1
jraueui ju*?mk. a uiuiu a sore ,
hroat ought not to be permitted to kiss
my of its companions.
The proceedings iaf. the brigands in <
Macedonia are such as to cr,?^<--*aj5mne
lictricts a panic among the inhaDfrawi~. _
it MonaBtir the alarm, it is stated, has
cached such a pitoh evfifo .
U'lMj wilnin doors from an
lour-'before sunset. The number of out- i
aws and brigands, who are the terror of i
he country side,it? estimated at not fewer
hau 1,600. They spread far and near 1
>ver the district, and not a single place
- " *- ^ 3-ir im.Aly?
a iree irom rneir aepreuauuuc. nuuro
rillages have been brought to ruin by
iheir levies of ransom money, and they i
>eca8ionally commit atrocious crimes, 1
,
Skating on Artificial Ice.
The whole interior of Gilmore's garlen
is to be floored Besides the Inmber
>0,000 ioet of iron pipe have been oorried
nto the garden. These are to be grid- \
roned across the whole floor and filled
with a freezing mixture. Then the floor
sill be flooded and the whole snrfaoe
;ransfonned into a glassy sheet of ice
;or skating. '
Mr. T. L. Rankin, who for many 1
pears has been making ioe artificially at
;ho South, has the enterprise in charge,
rhe large steam engine, now in the
building, will pump the freezing mix:nre
from a tank 250 feet long, now
building under the north gallery. The 1
plan is to cover the wooden floor with a
water proof material or tarpaulin which j
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LiiBy Dt) reauijjr iuacu ul?, v/^vu vuio
the pipes will be laid, ice, pipes and f
tarpaulin may easily be removed at any
time, leaving a ball-room floor soon
fried by steam. Professor Gamgee's
rink of artificial ice in London measured !
14x23 feet. The ice lake in Gilmore's
trill have a surfaoe area of over 16,000 feet.
The first cost will be large, but 1
Mr. Rankin thinks the cost of maintenance
will be little. The garden will
i)e wanned as it is now, and so rapid 1
is the congelation from the use of the
Freezing mixture, that one of the features
i>f the exhibition will probably be the
upraying or flooding of the surface each
livening and the freezing of the water
in twenty minutes. The plan is to
throw the garden open daily for ail who
may -wish to Bbate, reserving seats for
nnch aa may wish to look on. Frank
lilwift haa been engaged to attend daily
und give lessons in skating, and he ana
others will give exhibitions of their
nkilL It is intended also to make a
speeding track " nine feet wide on the
present coarse, on which long-distance
libaters may show their speed and endurance.
Before Mr. Vanderbilfc would
consent to this new enterprise he insisted
upon a trial experiment. A tank
thirty-two feet long was built, in which
the pipes were placed. By forcing the
freezing mixture through them with a
hand - pump water was turned to
dry ice inside of ten minutes, and when
a fresh surface was asked for two buoketfuls
of water thrown upon the ice
became dry, hard ice in the same number
of minutes. Daring the holiday
week this pond was maintained, and so
well satisfied was Mr. Vanderbilt with
the test that arrangements were at once
made with Mr. Rankin for the use of his
appliances. Mr. Rankin says the lake
will be ready for use three days after the
floor is laid. Next summer Mr. Rankin
will remove a portion of the piping to
Coney island and establish there a
skating rink, while another section will
do dnty at Long Branch.? New York
World. _____
When Johnny was questioned as to
^hy his engagement with Miss H. had
been broken off, he rolled his eyes,
looked very muoh j-ained. and groaned,
"Oh I she turned out a deceiver."
But he forgot to mention that he was
the deceiver whom she had turned
out
CLAY ON CROWS.
Caaalaa M. Clay Balm Ilia Voice in Behalf
f the Blrda?What Keep* From l ? the
Plane* of Egypt.
Cassias M. Clay writes to the Richmond
Register as follows : I was pained
to see in yonr journal lately an account
of the slaughtering of the crows,
withont protest.
Nature seems to have provided for
the greatest sum of animal life. First
vegetables, then inseets, and then high
er animals, man standing at the apex.
All insectivorous birds are the allies of
man; without birds the human race
would have a hard struggle for existence,
and would perhaps be exterminated.
Over all the world the great
breeders of famine?the locusts and
grasshoppers?are ruinous only where
birds oannot exist.
The swarms of locusts, which the
Bible tells infested Egypt, exist yet,
and will exist until trees shall be
planted or caused to grow in all places
where grass grows; then. the
birds will have come and destroyed
the locusts. So the same law prevails
in interior Africa and in
iDe unitea states, ah aiong me
Platte river for hundreds of miles,
wherever I saw a few trees and shrnbs
there were hawks hovering over to
ponnoe down upon and destroy the
birds. The prairie ohickens are destroyed
by man, and between those two
allies the birds are lost and the locusts
spread ruin; every green thing is eaten,
and men fly for life to other lands or
perish!
The phylloxera in France, a small insect,
has inflicted, by the rain of the
vine, more loss than the German war I
In early years our State was fall of
woodpeckers and kindred birds. They
ate some apples and other frnlt; oar
fathers destroyed them. Then our vegetables
were .fine and perfect; after the
birds have been killed we are overran
with insects; perfect fruit and vegetables
are now almost unknown.
I believe that the quails or par-,
bridges, though gramnivorous, also destroy
many insects. Whilst all our
3ther birds feed mostly npon insects,
every bird has his special habitat
rhe swallows, several species in Keni
1 ? * L _ ii il 1
mcay, ieea on ine wing; me owib upon
the tips of trees and leaves?pinching
}ff insects, often unseen by the natural
aye. The wren and sparrow are veiy
votive feeders near and upon the ground.
When the peas are sown I have observed
the sparrows following the lines and
picking ftp the pea bugs as they emerge
from the ground. There are many birds
which peck the rose bush and grapevines.
All the woodpecker and sapmaker
tribe eat bugs and not sap.
For many years X have kept a box
hominy >
rrrfflTTftft varletfes^2ir^ii?tti. i
other*, the beautiful red-birds, which,
though naturally shy, hare become
almost as tame as the sparrows. I had
rather a sportsman would shoot down,
and carry off a pig than one ofjtttese
beautiful songsters 1
And now withj?iig-pref&ce I come to
the crows. -Ptfflong years I have
oeased~my early war upon the crews.
They are eminently insectivorous. The
crow, when the weather is very cold,
will eat the eyes of weak, prostrate
lambs, other birds' eggs and young;
take corn from the ground when it is
first sprouted, and follow and eat the
soft, half-digested oorn from fed cattle
in the fields. Bnt for all this they
should never be killed. In many lands
the buzzard, as a scavenger, is protected
by law. The crow is also a most active
scavenger, bnt, as I said, is mostly insectivorous.
I dissected young crows
in the nest, and never found a seed or
grain of oorn. I found bags, beetles
and, above all, caterpillars. This morning,
all over my blnegrass pasture, the
mercury standing at twenty-eight de
grees nanrenneit, ana a wim umat ui
frozen earth and a fine scow existing,
there were thousands of crows feeding.
They were eating grass and the eggs of
grasshoppers.
In France the government pays a
prioe for the gathering of these eggs.
Here the crows do the work mnoh more
effectively for nothing. I have in my
lite seen whole meadows stripped of
blade and seed by grasshoppers. Who
can say that the orows do cot keep ns
from famine? The announcement by
your paper of the destruction of the
orows struck me with the same sensibility
as if one had boasted that he had
dried up all the wells and all the springs
of the county 1 Should I arouse the
State to pass efficient laws for the protection
of orows and other birds, I
will have done more for my country
than all the politicians and warriors so
justly made illustrious.
A Chinese Beriew.
A Chinese review has just been witnessed
and described by a correspondent
of the Shanghae Courier. The men,
clad in uniforms of red and bine, were
ranged in two ranks, every tenth man
hclaing a bright scarlet flag, while a
sergeant in the middle gave the time to,
the advance by waving a hnge crimson
standard. At the sound of a horn, which
resembled the humming of a gigantic
bee, the battalion prepared to receive
cavalry. Out popped a soldier brandishing
a pike, which he poked at an
imaginary assailant, then uttering a i
shriek like an owl, he flourished his
* ** * 3 " on/1 fn'n.
shield, rurneu a Duiuctoauiv, auv.
pinglj retired to the ranks. When
everybody had popped out, brandished
and poked his pike, shrieked like an
owl, thrown a somereanlt, and retired,
the big horn hummed once more, the
soldiers formed in square, and one of
them danced gravely but energetically
forward, throwing out his right leg with
a graceful jerk; then bounding backward
he again danced foaward, this
time throwing out his left. Then he
jumped, he waltzed, and capered, he
pranced, he turned head ever heels,
rolled himself well in the dust (which
rose in olouds), stood on the back of his
neck while he flourished his legs in the
air, reoovered himself, grasped] wildly
with his arms at nothing in particular,
made a grotesque courtesy to the viceroy
and retired. With this martial
spectacle the review concluded.
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Items of Interest*
The national game?Turkey.
An unpleasant boy ? A plumber's
"BilL"
A useful boy ? A congressman's
"Frank."
Hush-money ? The money paid a
baby's nurse.
Miners' wages are among the things
that are made in vein. i
More horses are lamed from bad shoeing
than from all other causes together.
In six years in Italy there have been
15,982 homicides and 14,568 arrests
therefor*
The close of the day is too light a
garment for this oold weather.?New
York Star.
Gold is still found in quartz in California.
All you need is to have somebody
to pint it out.
The Chinese use orange flowers to
scent their tea, also rose leaves, jas- mine,
and the blossom of the sweet
plum tree. In
the office of the department of the
interior at Washington, there are ninety-six
clocks, 657 spittoons and 61h
washstands.
; In this age of pedestrian fever the
most fashionable performances would
appear to be walking away with other
people's money. <.
The residents of New York oity contributed
during the last fiscal year, to
benevolent institutions in private gifts^
over $2,000,000.
The Esqnimaux are afraid to die on a
windy day, lest their souls should be
blown away. They believe in the actual
resurrection of the body.
A Milwaukee astronomer says the
earth is lop-sided. This is doubtless
because of the unusual size and weight
of the Milwaukee man's ears.
V. WESTERN EDITORIAL. , ,
We do not belong to oar patrons;
Oar paper is wholly our own. >
Whoever may like it may take it.
Who don't may last let It alone.
A bankrupt was condoled with the
other day for his embarrassment. "Oh,
I'm not embarrassed at all," said he;
"ifc'amv creditors that are embarrass
ed. " ^ " 7 ' v V
Corner loafers the New Orleans
Picayune proposes to utilize by labeling
them with the names or the
streets they infest, for the convenience
of strangers.
Skating is a very healthful exercise.
It not only pats in play all the muscles
of the legs and arms, bat it creates
lumps for fature phrenologists to feel
of and report on.
An official return shows that the number
of condemnations for crimes in
jamwf. iMPn.sti> i
Tntfr^&ii'e much differeno&Tir^^.^-- ? _
ing "hero" and "zero," but yon see "? ?
how m slimiyon
disosfer that your ears are resdjMo -?
<W5p off on the slightest provocation
A sailor on board a vessel in the harbor
of Zante having been struok by
lightning, there was found on his
breast the number 44, being an exact
copy of the same figures on a part of
the ship's rigging.
*What's vour oooupation?" asked a
viator at the capitof in Washington of
a bright boy whom he met in the corridor.
The boy happened to be a page in
the Honse. "I'm running for Congress,"
was the reply.
Jennie Jane says girls should* betaught
to help themselves. We sat opposite
to a delicate, blue-eyed, spirituelle
creature of sixteen, at the boarding-house
table, and saw her help her-,
self to & plate of soup, a sirloin steak, a
chicken's wing and drumstick, two
baked potatoes, three, plates of corn, '
two pickles, four hot rolls, a dish of
macaroni, a quarter of a mince pie, a
wedge of apple pudding, with sauce,
and two dishes of vanilla ioe cream.
They do help themselves,?Rochkind
Courier.
Dumas as a Duellist*
One night at the theater of S n Carlo,
Naples, Dumas the elder (the celebrated
French novelist), found himself chatting
familiarly with a stranger who,
When the-play was ov:r, said to him
patronizinglyT"
" I have greatly enjoyWy&u^mjersation,
sir, and hope to see m jre ofyows, ^
If ever you visit Paris call on me. I "" ' "* ~
am Alexander Dumas."
44 The deuce you are I So am 11" re?,-'-J
Tirtwaitat with a roar of
pueu we uvr.v?., __
laughter.
By the way, Dumas left Naples under
peculiar circumstances.
One fine morning he printed an article
in which he haifdled the Italian
people in a manner more vigorous than
courteous.
At eight o'olook the paper came out;
by ten Dumas received thirty challenges
; by noon, sixty. At one p. m. he
called a meeting of tne 120 friends of
his challengers, and said unto them :
" Gentlemen, I leave Naples to-night,
and therefore have not time to fight all
your principals singly. Nevertheless I
am anxious to give them all the satisfaction
that is in my power, so as I have
the choice of weapons I propose fighting
with pistols; your sixty principals
will be collected into a group, and on receiving
the word fire a volley at me and
I'll blaze away into the crowd."
The proposition was not aocepted.
"Pith and Point."
Why don't some venturoup barber ol
the right stripe open a shop at the North
pole ?
How strange it is that a plain, blunt
man usually makes very pointed remarks.
Ice cream will be cheap next summer
if the milkmen are willing and the cows
liberal.
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If a race-horse Hadn't iree use 01 an -j ,
four feet, its owner would more than
likely forfeit the stakes,
A mail-carrier's protest against his
wife's scolding: "Oh, madam, letters
have peace 1" she stamped on him,
Cultivate modesty, morality and mnstaohee.
None are expensive, for
fertilizer are required.?New
News.