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Pfg llpjpp ~ CAaDEiTso[JJroLiSZ Wives. "A roo;1 wife Rear euow, ?\u hi wi:v *3 an 111 laiu. ?Scotch Proverb?. Oh he that gets a good, good wife, Gets gold enough and to spare ; And he that gets,an ill, ill wife, May make and may still l>e bare. For a man may ask of a wile he wds, "Can I be rich? May I be great?" k And he that mates with an evil wife, He mates with an evil fate. For a man may spc n l, and have to the end, If his wife on his fortune wait, HcYnay give to the poor and help a friend, And may still grow rich and great. But a man may spare and siill be bare, Ho may toil through smooth and rough, If his wife be naught, ill-luck is caught, He never will have enough. Oh a man that gets a good. good, wife, nas pleasure1 I'uuugu aim u? rp;uc ; Outside his life may lie full of strife, May be full of trouble aud care, But bis heart can ting-"At homo I'm king, At heme there is pleasure and rest, I've a wife to bide at my own fireside, And her love, of all loves, is best." Hut a man who gets an ill, ill wife, Gets trouble of every kind ; He's a weary part, and a hopeless heart, And prosperity's hard to find. There's a bitter drop in his sweetest cup, Tn his joy there is a pain, And through all his strife tor a broader lifo, He works like a man in a chain. Don't marry for beauty, don't marry for gold ' And on nobody els . depend; 1 For your own life, you ci oose a wife, And for your own home, a friend. , And ho that gets a good, goo 1 wife, ! May easy be rich and great, While he that weds with an evil wife, Mates life with au evil fate. i ONLY A HUCKSTER. " Three yellow crooknecks and a peck j ? of pearmains," said Miss Bella Bal- ] ^ 6amapple, smoothing down a stray | ^ wrinkle in her jauntily-ruffled pink- T plaid apron, as she handed up her wicker-basket to the broad-shouldered, * brown young farmer who brought into ? Crabsboro e-reh iuotning the village E supplier of fresh fruit and vegetables. ? ." Yes, miss?ali right," was the brisk j. r lepiy, as ne execu.ea ino oruer wim i j much alacrity ; 4 a :d b< tter crookneeks | ^ you never cooked, I'll bet a cabbage. ) L I knew you'd be v.anting crooknecks of ^ ft a Saturday, and I picked out the three r sweetest I could find and saved 'em particularly for ;ou. And the pear- c mains?I could have sold every last one v away back hero; 1 ut thinking you p might want some, I wouldn't let 'em go for love nor money." g Miss Balsamappkf grew very rosy f. ~*^-^ang._5iaiK-ei -a sparklinguttie smile I D away back in the shadow of her pro- ' a vokingly-deep sunbonnet; and the j ^ roses nndei' its criupod frills grew very j deep, indeed, as upon lifting hcr|p basket down she discovered a great ^ bunch of yellow anl white and purple e I chrysanthemums nestled - amid the tl k crooknecks and pearmains. v" . -, n . , .-wers into ifi ' You ve dropy.su ?our I -en she reof personal injury, them a minute I" " couldn't help it," answered Bellu, "unless I had shied them at his back ; and then they would only have fallen in ' je mud." "No killing matter if they did," said Miss Aurora ; "and you better take my nnd flinc tVipm nnf nnm " "I won't I" sail Bella, flatly; and Miss Aurora, being well acquainted with her sister's characteristics, shrugged her shoulders and said no more, but revenged herself by being so exasperatingly silky that Bella, after ? _ few ineffectual efforts to establish har"^^ny, fonnd~it necssary for the sake of her nerves to make an errand to a neighbor's. Miss Aurora, taking deeper and more f deadly vengeance for this by declining to cook any dinner in Bella's absence, was lunching cn pickles and cold herrings in the kitcheu, when her sister poppedin, in miuh excitement, with her bonnet-cape floating wildly in air ? Pln^ ^anner* Wj^T " What do you reckon, sis?' cried ||j^ the young lady, gleefully. "He was there! and Mrs. White introduced us. |p>y He's a friend of the family, and his name's Eobin Eusset; and Mrs. White says a better or steadier or good temgf? pereder young man never lived. He's got a farm and a lovely orchard, and is really intelligent, and Mrs. White Wy" thinks lots of him, and says?" "If you'll just have the goodness," interrnpted Miss Aurora, impressively K'ng her words with a herring, in what under the sun you'ro jout, I will be extremely enand much obliged." he?him," said Bells, " that crooknecks and things, and re flowers." rora, dropping a pickled onioi^Kgj|i&j her hands tragically. "He ain't a huckster! Aud^K||| care if he is," asserted Bella, win*-!; tonishing logic, " he's nioe." " Oh, Bella?"Bella !" .mourned Aufnro (( fliof tl-a r?M/^A r\t 41ia Tlaloownrv. | 4V4MJ VUUV bUU jk^HU \J Ui bUU A/HtOHUlUJk/' pies should hwo falleu so low as this!" " Bother the pride of the Balsamapples !" cried Bella, stamping her foot. " Who aie the Balsamapples that they should tower above everybody that's as good and as smart as they are ? Soiling crooknecks ain't a sin! Tho Balsamapples haven't got any 6ense, and I won't be a Balsamapple a minute longer than I can help. Xow 1" " And, oh, what will Cousin Amasa think when he comes to Crabsboro," continued Aurora, despairingly, "and one of his relations losing her head about a man that peddles crooknecks? These rich old fellows are always so ultra-fastidious! It'll spoil all my cha-ances." Aurora flung her herring into a cor ner and burst into tears. " Dear sakes ! Don't cry, honey !" said Bella, who was soft-hearted, with all her faults. " It won't matter a pin. Cousin Amasa is too distant a relation to build hopes on, if we wanted to. He's got lots of kinsfolks nearer than .we are ?nephews and nieces, and things we never even heard of. Not likely he'd leave us anything, anyway." "Bella Balsamapple, are you a dunce?" asked Aurora, sharply. "Who pxpects a forty-second cousin to leave them anything on that account ? Cousin Amasa hasn't any wife. Now do you rindcrstand?" " Ob," said Bella, with a little jump, "that's the game, is it? But how do rou know you'll like him, Bo? You aever saw him." "I'm mighty certain to like his bank tcccunt," answered Aurora; "and that's he point just now. And I could help *ou to u good settlement, too, if you wouldn't encourage this?" "I will 1" cried Bella, before her siser conld pronounce the objectionable huckster." " I don't want any settleneut. I've liked him ever since we irst bought things of him, and I know te likes me. And now that we've been ntroduced he's coming to see me; and le's a gentleman, and I wouldn't treat lim mean for all the Cousin Amasas hat could be raked up, if they were so ich they couldn't walk straight." In evidence of the p'atform she had hosen Bella appeared the following reek at the Crabsboro church-festival in he company of Mr. Robin Russet. "Entirely against my wishes, conded Miss Aurora Balsamapple, to her riend, Miss Cyrilla Damps. "I very luch disapprove of Mr. Robin Russet, nd I must say I think he's a presuming, bad-mannered creature!" "What, ma'am?what?" exclaimed a ery-looking old geDtleman, with red hiskers and snapping little black yes, who, being immediately behind pe two ladies, had overheard the re-1 Lrk^l*You're Tery Mrs. White, Bailin K&xm^^her as she passed that ladj P^and, "isn't Bella the slyest litt] piece ever born ? Here she is snugl engaged to R:>b Russet, and the rest c 111A oirluorA nrrnnrr m'l/l linooncn O O "11U WVV/HUOW IUOJ ? just discovered that he's got a terrifh ally rich old uncle, who arrived th other day from some mysterious place I met him once. I'll introduce you i lean find him?oh, here he is ! Mi Amusa H iggingbotham?Miss Balsam apple." Aurora toot a glance at him an turned palo. Cousin Amasa and th peppery old gentleman were all one He appeared to Lave recovered hi | temper and was chuckling quite joviallj " I?I'm sure, Cousin Amasa," begai Aurora, with sweet, womanly meekness " you won't mind what I said to you You know?" "Not at all?not at all!" interruptec the old gentleman, with a chuckle.' "It's all right, cousin." " And you know I wouldn't have saic u word against Mr. Russet if I hac known he was your nephew. I only?' " Of course not?of course not! chuckled Cousin Amasa. "How couk you know a man that worked for a liv ing wasn't a villain? Quito pardon able, I assure you. But Bob Russet'i got to earn his liviDg while he's young Don't hurt these young fellows to worl ?the making of 'em ! But don't fee! at all uneasy about Bella's future Cousin Aurora, I shall leave all m] property?every nickel?to Bob, al last. For, of course, I ain't such ar old fool as ever to get married myself.' The old gentleman chuckled mor< than ever as he talked off. And Aurora felt that she would havt sacrificed her new Bilk umbrella cheer fully if she could have smashed it or Cousin Amasa's head. Instead of complaining of the thornt among the roses, we should be thankful there are roses among the thorns, was bought it. " It wai difficult," he suy3 "for me to get fron twelve to fifteen bushels of wheat pei acre, but by saving all manure ant ' carefully applying it, I have raised foi the past six years thirty-three bushelf per acre on an average. My manner oi rotation is: Break to sod, plant to corn, follow with oats. I apply all my manure on the stubble and plow, row and drap and harrow and roll and dri'l at least three inche3 deep, and seed to timet hv and clover, four quarts of each, in March. I seldom r fail to get a good catch. Keep to grass three yea;*. Be sure and save all your farm manure, and you will need no artificial fertilizers." Seed fl'otntooi. Dampness undoubtedly favors the growth of the potato disease, and, therefore, where there is any chance at all of the disease existing in the roots, they ought to be stored as dry as possible. Those which aro to bo kept in this general way should bo especially seen to in the case of seed potatoes. Since the potatoe beetle came among us it is clear that we have had tho very best results from early planting and by the use of the earliest varieties. Now these early kinds are more easily affected by warmth than the late ones They sprout easily, and coolness' is, therefore, more essential for them. Some people think that it makes but little difference whether seed potatoes sprout or not before planting. We have known people to tear off sprouts several inches long, and cut up the tubers in full faith that they will sprout again and be none the worse for it. They do generally grow, but there is little doubt that they are constitutionally weaker and much more liable to disease than those which do not sprout until ready to go in the ground. ? Germantown Telegraph. Tin* First Full. It is oftencr the case when a heifer has lier first calf, says the Indiana Farmer, that the farmer thinks she wil not give more milk than will keep her calf in good condition and lets them run together to teach her tho mystery of being milked when she has her next calf. In this decision there are two mistakes that go far to spoil the cow for utnre usefulness. Cows are largoly th e creatures of habit, and with their first calf everything is new and strange to them, and they readily submit to being milked,[and think it is all right, but suffer them to run with the calf the llrst seasou and a vicious habit is established that they will hardly forget in a lifetime. If they ever submit to be milked quietly, it is evidently under protest. But there is a greater objection than this. The calf running with the cow draws the milk every hour or two, so that the milk vessels are at no time distended with milk, though the quantity secreted in a given time may be large. ^lialf flour, wi v-^^easpooufnl cream tartar and a ha teaspoonful soda sifted through Beat well together; add a pinch sr 5 and a little lemon or other flavor. Oi .8 loaf. Indian Coun Pudding.?Pour a qua ^ of boiling milk in half a pint of Indii ^ meal, stirring it all tho time. To tk 0 add a teaspoonful of salt. Beat t "* three or four eggs, and when the batt 6 is nearly cold stir them into it. P ; the pudding into a cloth or tin mo] and boil for two hours. Serve wil r' cream, butter, syrup or any other snu< l" you please. Maple syrup or goldc syrup is very nice. " Rice and Aitle Souffle.?Boil tv e tablespoonfnls of rico in half a pint i ' milk; add, when soft, the yolks of t-w s eggs and sugar to taste; make a wa ' with" it around tho sides of the disl n Stew some pared and cored apph ' until soft, fill the center of the dis ' with them, fill up the apertures in tb apples with candied sweetmeats c * jelly, and oover the whole with tb whites of eggs beaten to a stitF frot and Bprinkled thick with white pow ' dered sugar. Brown in tho oven an * serve with cream. Fotatoes for Breakfast?This i i tho most delicious way of preparin 1 t_i r_- i i-f-_a . cji:-- ii.. ' i. puituufs lur uituiiiU7)t . ouuu tuu pun toes moderately thin. Put into a put ding dish a layer of potatoes, sprinkl with a very little salt, cut up butte into little bits and lay them over th potatoes, then add another layer c potatoes with salt and the bits of buttei ' repeating the process until tho dish i ^ filled. Now fill tho dish with watei place in the oven, covering the dis ! with a pan until the potatoes are almof done ; then remove tho cover and le 5 tho potatoes brown on top. Serve i the pudding dish. > . . Coffee.?Wo see it stated in Dt [ Footers Health Monthly that a Frenc physiologist, after experimenting upo: dogs, is convinced that coffee retard t *- ? ?l 1.1 j ingestion, out is out ub oujft.iuuttui . on this account when well sweetened n when taken without 6ugar. fe OF THE pasis of ft German statis cate tbafc the service c hat leaves his country i 00, the emigration from th 1 hMH last year added 8000,000, j 000?He wealth of the United States r An buttjeak of the Hindoos agains ' Britifji rul|i in Nepaul, a small Stato ii f the nortbdastcrn part of nindoostai > and just sdutli of tho Himalaya moun! tains, has jist been put down iu a sum [ mary maiiner. Twenty-one military oflicers of Wive troops were summnrih ' executed, and a large number of tk< most influential Xepanlese were at onct arrested. Tho vineyards oftho Pacific slope art being more Und more employed for tlu manufacture'^ raisitis instead of wine Tbo Kirenifle rrrss, of San Bernardino county, California, is authority foi tbo statehien, that the raisin crop oi that Stat< s tbs year will nggregato more than 150,! )00boxes. This new industry has gr owi in three ypars to an annual prod actijn of a half million do!lars^SMB^L is rapidly increasing. just issued by sec^m^^^^^ntfiners' National Union it appears tUxt 31,000 persons have been killed in various ways during the past tbirty-ont years in English mines, "Our modernized mode of working mines," writeeiVtho secretary, "is rendc-iiiy^ahjfchci of this kind of a I hugo^HM^HTSomething needs be aono ic mus: ue by legiT^^^^MBiients. To do thi tbero mus!^HBfltive trade organization, seekinfl^^P trying to enforce neceftsary cha?Ks in the law." William SB*ft, the son of ex-Judge Taft, who lit 'Ben appointed collector of revenue a^A/nnnati, is only twenty-four yem ,v.jHje, He was graduated at Yalo in lSTSBfrere ho was the best boxer, tho best ^Busker" and the most popular man in^| class, as well as the class orator and^salutatorian. He was gradnatcd from the Cincinnati law school in 1880, finding lirst. lie theu Dogan tne practice 01 ms proiession, and was appointed c.ssistant prosecuting attorney of Hamilton county. He was also the Lw^porter of the Cincinnati Times for about a year. He weighs 225 pounds, and is about five feet, eleven inches in height. Underwood's C&futfo-ft it Titledor an nounces the appearance of a photographic counterfeit silver certificate of the denomination of twenty dollars, reported from Missouri ? No. 675,114. Tho counterfeit is much paler than the genuine. Tho Detector says: We wain our subscribers to examine all silver ftprtiflpatps with ?rn^at care, as the nho ?OT- T tographic process iiliv having been adopted in the proiB 7yon of counter fcits on them, no d^^^/wany counterfeits will be pu^j^HH^Uon. The ten 0H3^B|fl?sHH9^K$session, ha: [^Bx^S^^^H^^BH^^^scrvico nUHQinNnnHn^Bpnrn; cr; Hu9jBMBS3^P^)tealing those of th< m^HH^^emus of tlio Farrallom ^^^^HFwas underken, and it provec SB^ffcessfnl and h ever since beei ^ maintained. The.rdsare too plenti u' ful to count or testimate, a3 may bi inferred from th fact that the eg) P" gatherers bring i often or used ti gather 500 dozen j a day; and a grca mnnv of the nrs t'e inaccessible 3e while a great manylhcrs are devastate* hy the rivalry of 10 birds. The eg| season is from Ma to August, and, i . even 400 dozon istlie rule, the liar j ^ vest would be prett near 500,000 egc.< cr The quarreling beVcen the gulls am ^ the rnuhrs causes thloss of a good man U muhrs' eggs, whickhe gul's at ever chance destroy, die cggji business i Je conducted by a coipanyJ whicli ha tho right. It pas egg gatherer five cents a dozen and sells tliei J0 in San Francisco I a cousiderabl ^ advance. *o Webster DccriLe;!. 11 His personal apparaueo, bis voic 3- and manner, then, .a always, gieatl ?s enhanced th? effect jf everything h h said. The slender loy, unlit for th to labor of the farm, hai developed into >r man of large and cimpanding pref '0 ence. Mr. Webster vas less than si h feet in height, yet ev;ry artist has poi trayecl him as o? alrnoit heroic stature Tho fact was that bcinpressea iuos who saw and hoard him is of gigauti s mold. A Liverpool ncvvv is said t g have pointed at him oa [he street, an i- cried out, "There goeda king!" an 1- C-srlyle is said to havlreported tlui e ho looked like "a walklg cathedral, jr His head was very larg<| of fine nhapi e and with a most noblabrow, beneat >f which great eyes lookfd out full < :, du3ky light when in epose, and glov s ing like Cre3 whon t was excitci , His massive features black hair an h swarthy complexion, together with t manner oxtremely gr nd and solemi it all contributed to rent ;r him impresi n ivo to an extraordinary degree. H voice was ono of criit richness an w 1 . compass, in its highest pitch novi ^ shrill, bat ponetrating to tho lowe: corner of hill or senate-chamber, ar 8 in the open air to tho very outskirts < G a vast crowd.?AVa-?tir Vnnthly. s Au-elacked lime jm an excellei I polish for eilver and tinware. w *? w The Horned Frog. The horned frog is a native of Texas }' and louver California, where ho is found inhabiting the sandy soil of the prairies 3 and the pockets of the small boy. 0 The horned frog is really not a frog at all, but a lizard traveling incognito. ' He is shorter and broader than the orj dinary lizard, gray in color, with bright a spots ahd horny spikes all over his j back, and on his head two real horns aoout iiau an men in lengin. neisnot as big as a bull, but you can take him - by the horns all tho same. . Although the horned frog docs not ; live in a restaurant he eats about as ; many flies as if he did; in fact, he lives on flies; that is his principal pursuit. When he eats a fly he knows what heiB : doing, and that iB where he has a great > advantage over the regular restaurant , boarder. We have seen horned frogs used as fly-traps in grocers' windows. The fly that succeedi in attracting the i attention of a horned frog can never be i used afterward. The horned frog is a d>y, cleanly little reptile, and seems to have no vices. As ho never gets drunk, cor eats hot biscuits, nor rnns a newspaper, ho is hard to kill. He will live six months without fcod and be goodnnfnrwil nil t.liA time. 1 He travels a great deal, but never brags about it. We knew one that left Texas, and three weeks afterward was registered in a town in the south of England, in the enjoyment of fine health. He traveled cheaply, too; and although he did not go on an editorial excursion, jcc Jhis traveling expenses, including hotol bills, fees to waiters and other incidentals, only amounted to ten cents, this being the value of the postage stamps pasted on the paper collar box ho was mailed in. Large quantities of him wero formerly exiled to tho Northern States and elsewhero, through the medium of the postoflice department. The postoflice authorities did not object much to tho homed frog, but after awhile they found that tarantulas, centipedes and an occasional rattlesnake were to bo found among the letters and other mail matter. The paper boxes in which these little playthings wero forwarded frequently got broken, and tho foundling ar antula would occasionally bear away j a postoflice clerk to tho silent tomb. , 1 The consequence was that the clerks , ' took to distributing and assorting mails ( with long poles. This occupied too j much time, and when they found any specimens of native Texans, instead of ] picking them up, placing them in ( the boxes and re-addressing them, they ] killed them in their tracks. About 3 this time life insurance companies , began to put extra clauses in their poli- j cies, requiring the policy liohlors , to abstain from working in powder ' mills, from stealing ponies and from i handling the mails from Texas All of f which caused the postoflice department i to pass a constitutional amendment re- 1 insects to I kilHhemnofor^imffl^Tl^jJl3. Jh* 1 labor of attending to the matter took i up too much of the timo of the em ployes. The horned frog- iu, there is no more malice thurT there is in Iauliflowei?had to suffer for tho sins Rao tarantula, the centipede, the r.itpuake and other representative charera. [Vo out of every possible three 7 schoolboys in Texas carry a few horned f frogs alive in their pockets during the - spring season?for what reason or pur 3 pose I am unable to state. But who 1 can givo a reason for half tho things i that a small boy treasures about his - person??Texas Siftings. e ^ Poison lor the People, a It would appear from tho following t extract from Food and Health that food , adulteration is more general than is I usually supposed: Committees of cxg perls tell of adulteration in food that is ^ simply appalling. Were the ingredients which are mixed with focd innocuous it would still be a yevy great hard? ship; but when it is known that the Ll moit violent poisons are employed it is " a marvel that the whole country does 'V not rise up and put a stop to such practices and punish all dealers who sell poisonous articles of food. If confirmation of those startling statements were needed ono has 0 only to read the facts recently brought to light in Chicago, where it is impos sible to find pure sugar and where not e ten per cent, of the milk is good. In y that city the bread, without exception, o is unisonous: tho teas were never im ? x o ported, but are made of leaves "faced' a with Prussian bine and cbromate of lead. Seventy-live per cent, uf the s cream of tartar is white earth, and the coffee is coated with lamp black. But j. Chicago is no worse than other cities, e Baking powders are largely composed c of alum. Pickling fluid is diluted with o sulphuric acid, alum and verdigris to d give it a peculiar flavor, d The manufacture of a great deal of it our confectionery should be pnnished " as a crime, for much of the candy sold ?, to children is simply a Jump of white t- ?iu aftva/tfirn t.n the eve with II UHJTIU) LUUUU awiuv??.v v >f arsenical paint, and sweetened with r- glucose. Costly spices aro counterfeited 1. in a terribly grotesque manner, the d flavoring being given by the rankest a poisons. In theso and other adnltt rai, tions arsenic plays the largest part. 3- We import annually two million pounds is of this deadly poison?one cent's worth id of which would kill 2 800 people?and *r Mi#* bnlb of this import is used in the 9t repparation of food and clothing. id . When a man brags that he can tel a person's character by the color of hit hair, it is deuced rough to swindle him rit by stpering him up against a man whc ' wears a wig. CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS. The Egyptian physicians of old were paid by the state. The fruit exports of America have increased a hundredfold in five years. The flesh of the manatus or sea cow is used for food and resembles beef. | Tlio whalo fishery first sprang tip in the Bay of Biscay, in the twelfth century, Great Britain has 30,750,000 cotton spindles, the United States about 12 000,000. The cat was first domesticated in Egypt. The Greeks and Romans did not possess it. In the columns of Berlin papeisave frequent notice J ofl'cring children is presents to whomsoever wishes to adopt them. ' The elevated roads in New York now operate 3,250 trains per day, running or.ly one minuto apart during the bnsiest Lours. The demand for water is so great in some portions of California that its price in some ditches has recently doubled in value. On the Laramie plains of the Rocky mountains there are, at an elevation of ( 0,000 to 7,000 feet, fresh and abundant , pastures, often well watered. ( In Peru, as soon as death occurs, ashes are strewn on the floor of the j room and the door fastened. Next . morning the ashes are carefully examir.ed for footprints and the soul of ' tho dead is said to have passed l'ntn flio l-mrltrnf Tplmtomr oni'mil t.Vio imagination traces in the marks on the j ashes. Dreadful Fall from a Balloon. A girl had a terrible fall from a balloon at Cuantla, Mexico, recently. The aeronaut was Senorita Catalina Gongara, a pretty miss of seventeen years, whose feats of daring had made her known throughout Mexico. Placards announcing that she would mako an ascent from the Cuantla plaza on Satur- 1 day drew a great crowd from the sur- v rounding villages. The senorita was punctual and at 2 o'clock in the nitsrnoon of that day shot upward in the midst of bravo.sand the waviug of baud- o kerchiefs. The balloon was inflated a with hot air and the onlv support for e the aeronaut was a trapeze, upon which I s she performed as she sailed 6kyward t directly over the head3 of the rnulti- i tude. Cheer upon cheer came from the <j spectators as the senorita went through j tier usual feats upon the trapezo until t the distance became so groat that sho r looked like a bird. The balloon had fc reached an elevation of about [three- ] quarters of a mile, when a sharp cry ^ rang through the plaza and hundreds f covered their eyes with their hands. n rhe air-bag had collapsed and the girl p ivas falling as swiftly as a meteor j, itraight to tlie earth. When s^me men r immiit rpnr>liA:l (lift arint WiWU? l-V ? C - - | g vhero the body hailstruck^lijq^f^jJl-i l^R^irl dead. At'ltho fanerar it was umonueed that th#j jjolica woald \^| prO'>>-",rt<-d 'cr poi/caittiug the. ascension re Halting from Sheep Ii it rail*. A California paper tells of a new industry lately started at Oakland, in that Stat1, for the production of belting from the entrails of sheep. The process' of manufacture is as follows : The entrails, which will average about fiftyfive feet in length, arc first thoroughly cleaned aud then placed in a vat of i?inn. \vliftP3 thev should remain for some clays. When thus prepared they arc not much thicker than a piece of common cotton t.rine, and will sustain a weight of about ten periods. The next stage in progress of manufacture is to wind the prepared material on bobbins, after which tho process is ho same as in miking common rope. This method is used to produce a round belt, but where a wide, flat belt j | is to bo made, a loom is employed, and the line strands are woven together, as in ribbon manufacture. The flat belts arc made any size, and the round 6izes varying from one-sixteenth of an inch and a half in diameter. Tho round bt-lts are made cither in tho form of a smooth cord, or as ropes with from three to five large stands. Tho three- j quarter inch rope is said to stand a strain of seven tons, and is guaranteed to last ten years. Hemp rope will last on an average not over three years. Three eighths round cord, containing 150 strands, will endure a strain of over four tons. Tho f-augliing Plant. This is not a flower that laughs, but one that creates laughter, if tho printed " A 1 \Ck stories 01 travelers ?ne ue ev, A boy friend writes mo that ho has just been reading about it. It grows in Arabia, and is called the-laughing plant, because its seeds produce efl'ecfs like those produced by laughing-gas. The doners, ho says, are of a bright yellow, and the seed pods aro soft and woolly, while t!io seeds resemble small black beans, and only two or three grow in a pod. TIjo natives dry and pulverize then), ami the powder, u uif.eu ju small doses, makes the soberest person behave like a circus clown or a madman, for he will dance, aing unci laugh most boisterously, and cut the mo6t fantastic capers and bo in an uproariously ridiculous condition for about an hour. When the exitement ceases the exhausted exhibitor of these antics falls asleep, and when lie awakes he has not | the slightest remembrauce of his frisky doings.?St. Nicholas. The luminosity of the sun is SOO.OOO times that of the brightest light of a 1 anil moon. i ?i ? Earth worms have no eyes, but are quickly affected by a strong light. A Valentlj^. Ah, dear the fond conceit that now, While bitter chilla delay the blood, While the ice sheathes tho neit year's bud, While earth is frozen stiff and dead, And tho heavens show a frowning brow, f The flower of love uplifts its head, And blossoms with its white and red; Blossoms upon a damask cheek, *" In warmth and fragrance spicy sweet, Where some one stays, with lingering feet, To read the burden of my line? To read tho words I dare not speakThen lifts a dewy lip to mine, And takes me for her valentine PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. A brilliant idea?Selling paste fcr diamonds. A whaling expedition?Going afler a bad boy with a hickory switch. If the blind people were to hold a convention, could a motion bo carried by the ayes ? Tho hands of a clock are genuine bummers?they are always going the rounds. A baby in Ohio that was fed on elephant's rail k gained twenty pounds in ono week. It was the baby elephant. A Brooklyn man has just" found his sister, from whom he has been separated fifty years. She was the cook in his boarding-house, and he recognized the style of her hash. "Custer county, M. T., is about as l uge as the whole of Pennsylvania." STcs, but it will never have as large a population. TuatiR, so long as it renains in an M. T. state. Quito an outcry is being made about ho alleged dangers of the electric lgiit. twos always tuns, xne wise non of a few years ago were afraid to iso gas, for fear the gaeometer might >!cw them up as often as a shrewish vife. Others thought that applying a natch to a gas-jet would be analogous 0 firirig a train of gunpowder. Tin ight, it was argued, would run along he pipe and cause an explosion every imc. Such, however, was not the case. Che explosions occur only quarterly, vlien the bills are brought in. How False Teeth are Hade. A leporter of the<SY?r recently visited 1 factory in this city where false teeth ire made by the million In the proess of manufacture the silex and feldpar in their crude stale are submitted o a red licat, and then suddenly thrown ? i? 1 rtflToof lsainnr fn rnn ULU UUiU WUIC1, luo cuooi uo.M6 !er them moro easily pulverized. Havng been gronnd very fine in water and he water evaporated, the two materials nentioned are dried and sifted. The ;aolino is washed free from impurities, i^iese materials, with feldspar, sponge, datina and flux in proper proportion or the enamel, are mixed with water. nd worked into masses ^resembling >nfcty. This done, the unlocked porce>aino masses are ready for Ithe molding oom. The molds are in tw\ pieces and re mada.of.Kwafftrp-uire'-n&if the teeth or . sections being on eithgt_side. The colo^^uB^pfi?aT3"^aro first placed in xu^xact position and quantity required, and the bodj of the tooth and the gum ts inserted in lumps corresponding to the size of tho tooth. The molds are then closed, and they are dried by a slow heat. "When perfectly dry they are taken out and sent to the trimmers' rooms. The trimmers remove all imperfections and send them in trays of tire clay to the furnace, where having remained for twenty minutes they are complete.? Wilmington [Del.) Star. The Hare and the Fish. The Hare and the Fish, having borrowed tobacco of each other for seveial months and agreeing perfectly well on pobtics, set out to make a journey together and see the sights of the world. They had not jrroceeded many nmte when a Wolf was discovered in pursuit. The Hare at once started off at the top of Lis speed, but the Fish called out: "Do not leave mo thus?I cannot run I" "A Fish who cannot run has no business to make a journey," leplied the Hare, and away he flew to save his bacon. The Fish hurried after as fast as possible, and both found themselves on the | bank of a river, while the Wolf was yet a furlong away. The Fish at once rolled into the water and darted away, but the Hare shouted after him: " Do not leave mo?I cannot swim!" "A Hare who cannot swim has no t 1 U* business to make a journey, uuu no sailed away and left the Ilure to be eaten on the half shell. MORAL. An Owl who hnd overheard the affair from his perch in a persimmon tree drew down his left eye and softly said: "Yon don't know a man until yon have traveled with him."?Detroit Free Press. Chinese Methods. The Chinese Six Companies ka7e a monopoly in the laundry business in Montana, and it is charged that their ngc-nt blackmails any enterprising Celes| tial who attempts to open a competing establishment. Sam Yek commenced washing clothes at Walkerville a few days since, in defiance of the agent, but was horrified the next moment to observe a placard offering 81,500 to any i one wbo would kill himself and assist ants. He has appealed to the courts I The Steubenville Derail says : "Two j oruployes of the Dallas (Texas) post| ofilee, on returning from a hunt in the I country, cut dowD a telegraph pole, i mistaking it for a beo tree. The hum| ming of the wire deluded them." Tho j soit of "wiro" that "doludori" tnem is j sold by the pint in Dallas, and a coil of it is strong enough to make a man take au ax and try to-split vails oil the end of an artesian vrell. f t