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THE LITTLE RED COW They sing of the graceful Jersey, The queen of the modern churn, The beautiful cow whose butter To masses of gold will turn. We dim not one ray of glory That over her frame is shed, But hero's to the "little Eleven," The trim little cow in red. The beautiful, haughty Shorthorn, The "red and white an 1 roan,"' The elegant white-faced Hereford, Will sneer at our cow and groan, But brave is the little Devon, She holds up lier shapely head, And stands by her chosen colors, Tne trim little cow i:i red. The little red cow is modestNo wonderful master's hand Has written her butter record All ever the smiling land. Far up on the heights of honor Her banner has never led: She works with a modest patience, This trim little cow in red. The little red cow is patient. She never will fret or moan Because of the bare, bleak pastures When summer's warm days have flown; She knows that the rain and sunshine Alike in our lives are shed; She looks for a better future, This trim little cow in red. A modest and patient woman Who cares not when glory call3, Can build an annex to heaven Inside of four roughened walls, When many a stately lad}*, Who begs for the world's renown, Will find her home sunshine darkened, Her happiness trampled down. And thus does the little Devon, Untouched by tho bliuding glare Of glory, work ou, and ever Seek bravely to do her share. Then here's to the little Devon, ( This wreath for her shapely head, The beautiful, nio.ie.-t Devou, ( The trim little cow in red. . ?Southern Live Stock Journal. i MISS JANE'S HOBBY. 1 i BY LIZZIE G'. JORDAN'. Miss Jane Chandler wasawomm of ! remarkably strong prejudices. Every |1 inhabitant of Russellville acknowledged 1 that, and strangers who came to town J were speedily and thoroughly enlight- J ened. ,\o half-way sentiments originated 1 in her sctive b:a'n; her views were clear ' and decided, and she believed in them oud he.self implicitly. {] Miss Chandler was, as some one ex- pressed it, 4'a queer combination of con- ' tradictions." She ignored her neighbors ^ in health, but attended them devotedly 1 if sickness visited ilieir homes. She ) loudlv expressed her abhorrence of beg gars," and privately but bountifully' assisted every one who applied to her. j "Woe to the luckless urchin who, carried away by an irresistible temptation, dared to steal a peach from her beloved tree! The culprit was invariably pursue 1, the booty recovered aud the small sinner 1 dispatched to his friends bearing marks 1 of a dire conflict. Ilut the child who | \ ? v8t<3Tk"Nnit5!dc the little w hitc gate and ? looked longinglyat the ripe fruit, touch- 1 ing none, was generally called in and 5 permitted tolill his pockets. The rising ! genciation of ltussellvile soon discov- 1 ered ami a ted upon this lnct, and all the ( longing which the yearning of the hu- 1 man stomach can throw into the human .] eye was daily illustrated in front of Mis3 i Jane's cottage. i There was ono action of hers which ? the children discussed in mysterious [ whispers. Many of them had passed f through the ordeal?others feared it? ' none could explain it. It seemed that occasionally she would invite some small c cherub to walk into her parlor, where she i would produce a number of strange- t 1UUJXiu^ uuuaa uuu UUUUO V mi l faces," tlie children said, and then J proceed to solemnly examine the small r visitor's head, hanging in rapture over (p certain "bumps" and audibly deploring f the prominence of others. Here, in a word, was Miss Jane's j hobby?phrenology; She also studied i frtiysioguoiny, and indulged in the tirm-; s y-"rooted belief that after a careful study 1 of any persors head and features, she c could read that person's character, "like r an open book, before her." ( She was discussing the sub'ect, as she t at one p easant afternoon, on her little i front Inwn, with her friend, Miss Martha t Cummings, the village milliner. Out- ] side the gate stood several small boys, ! gazing on the peach trees with that ear- < nest gaze that had so often been the i oj>en Mxume to Miss Jane s yard. But for < once the ardent glances fell unheeded. 1 Their bencfa tress was mounted on her < favorite hoboy, with considerable to sav < and a good listener. The boys had ? caus" to look very blue indeed. i "No, I don't s'pose you do b'lieve in ] it," .Miss Jane was saying, as she rocked ] slowly back and forth and turned the ] heel of a stocking with an accuracy and f ease denoting long practice. "I reckon ] you're thinkin' this blessed minute, that a woman uv my age ought to hev more j sense. But mark my words, Marthy, ] the day's bound to como when you'll understand jest what I mean 'n agree with me. The day 11 come when every one'll learn the value uv phrenology, ! an' know enough to judge by the shape uv his head an' the cast uv his features. | an' not by the cut uv is close or his smooth, oily tongue. An' the sooner i that time comes, the sooner folks'll cs cape bein' cheated, an' deluded an' j fooled. Then folks wou't open their arms to a friend an' find they've cherished a viper that'll turn an' sting 'em. j I've always said, an' always will say, j that life's too short to waste any uv it uu jjcuj-MI; juu uuu t unrc auuui, uuic^) you can help 'em ia some way. The j minute I see a stranger I can tell whether I want to have anything to do with him or not, an' I don't make any j mistakes, either. Now. there was that Janet Clark, the new music teacher that came here last winter. I see it je-t a j stickin' out uv the bumps on that girl's hea^l, that she was rash an' deceitful and sly. An' what did she do? Run j away with the doctor's son and got married when his folks was so set against it that it most killed his ma! Humph! I knew just what was a comin'! Ch, you can laugh. Martliy, but I can laugh louder. She dou't owe me four dollars | and a quarter for a bonnit." I This opportune reminder effectually rved to dispel rviiss Cummings' mirth i and she quickly replied: "'< ? course there always was a heap of : meanness in Janet an' I always knew | it> But I couldn't refuse her the bonnet | when she came in with the minister's ! wife and ordered it." \Xow, there's the new agent goin' | around town with those beautiful Bi- j ble resumed Miss' Jans dreamily. ! 'There's a head to admire I I noticed ' it the day he came here with his books; j UIU. i; tt> UCIIUWIUUtC, till oui/muiijj ???* t ideality, an' venerati< n all standin' out like little hills?I declare I could hardly ' keep my hand - oft his head. His percep- j tive faculties are beautifully developed, toi. lie admired mothers old silver j set an' >aid it wa< a priceless relic. I j showed him all the old plate an' I never sec a man so charmed. Before he left ! li;- asked if he couldn't come an' board with me; says Widow Brown's is too ; n >isy, an' he wants a sheltered, quiet i place, where he can read and study when i his work's done. ' Goodness, Jane, you ain't goin' to | take him,be you?" exclaimed her friend. ! ' Your house won't be the same placa ' with a stranger runnin' 'round it. You ! don't think of it, do you?" Miss Jane really had not quite decidedbut the small opposition instantly dispelled all hesitation, and she firmly responded. "Yes, indeed, I do. lie can have the spare room next to mother's, and he ain't j goin' to be any trouble. Miss Brown says he always pays in advance, an' four j (toiiars ain t to De snee/.eu at inese i times." Here a diversion was caused by small Johnny Brown, who, in despair of entering any other way, had rashly precipitated himself over the garden wall, and was discovered generously handing peaches out to his delighted companions. Miss Cummings did not forget the conversation, however, and repeated it at several residences on her way home, I Lherefore, when it was ascertained sev- j sral days later that the new agent had ictually taken possession of the "spare room" at the Chandler cottage less surprise was expressed than might have been expected. Nevertheless, when the following SunJay night, Mi>s Jane and the agent walked into the meeting hou-e together, mtercd the same pew and even gazed into the same hymn book, the congregation was so much excited that Elias Green sang out of tune twice and Alviny Brown entered in all the glory of a new white dress without causing the slightest I 'nmmnnt Things having begun in this propitious tvay. moved ou serenely. Every day Miss Jane discovered new beauties in ;heir boarder's head and fresh charms in lis countenance. They walked, talked <nd rode together. The Bible business ; .anguished, but phrenology llourishcd. The village resigned its If to the state if affairs and merely looked on with in:erest until suddenly, without a monent's warning, came a local earthquake hat shook Husscllville to its very founlations. Mr. George Winburne, the lew agent, lind left town! lie was not here; he had gone; and to assuage the langs of parting and as a memento of ;hat peaceful vale he had taken Miss lane's watch and chain! Seventy dolars in cash! ! Mrs. Chaniler's solid tilvcr set!!! Later developments showed that vhile Miss Jane and her mother were juietly reposing in the arras ot Mor>heus. rjeorgc Winburne, the man who personified the beautiful attributes of deality, veneration and reverence, had isen from his couch and quietly stolen iway. His perceptive faculties were ertainly developed, There was no loubt of that. * * * * * * Three days later Miss Cummings :alled on her friends with the laudable ntention of explaining that the entire j rillage had foreseen just what had oc- j urred, and could ha\e warned Miss ! ' t - - e _ _ i j c-\ ! lane weeKs ocioro it nappeueu. ouv > ang the bell, but no one responded; so, I trailing herself of the rights of an old riend she calmly walked in. Through the little dining-room she )a?sed out into the kitchen. The room vas empty, but a fire burned in the ;tove and on the bright coals lay a numjer of charred books, pamphlets, map3, :tc. As Miss Cummings stepped nearer, i tongu: of fame shot up in the center tf the doomed volume and one paricnlarly bright flash threw out in bold elief the title on a burning page, l,How :o Mead Cha-actcr; A Guide to Human 1 intercourse; by?" The door opened and Miss Chandler I mtcred from the garden. She looked ] atlier eon"u*ed at seeing her friend and | lanced* hastily at the tire. Reassured i jy the blaze, she greeted the visitor | :almly, and entered into an easy discus- | don. Only once did she lose the high crenity of her manner?when Miss Cumnings broached the sub:eet so near her iieart. Then Jane Chandler rose in her night, and with a few well-chosen remarks. so awed the gentle Martha that she afterward remarked to Widow Brown: 'Td as lieve discuss murder I svith a full-fledged lunatic in the State lsylum, as phrenology with Jane Chandler."?Arkansaio Traveler. N* umber of Farms in the United States. State. 1SS0. 1870. 1S60. Alabama 135.864 67,382 55,125 Arkansas 1*4,43:3 49,424 39,004 Connecticut 30,593 35,508 25,180 Delaware 8,749 7,616 6,658 Florida 23,433 10,240 6,568 Seorpia 136,626 09,656 62,003 Illinois 255,741 202,803 143,310 Indiana. 194,013 161,289 131,S2(f 1? '(f.1 11AOOO At 1ISQ Kansas 138,561 3-1,202 10,100 Kentucky 166,453 118,432 90,314 Louisiana 48,293 28,481 17,328 Maine 64,309 59,804 55,698 Maryland. 40,517 27,000 25.494 Massachusetts 38,400 26,590 35,001 Michigan: 1.54,008 98,780 64,422 Minnesota 92.3S8 46,500 18,161 ' Mississippi 101,772 *68,023 42,840 Missouri 215,575 148,228 92,792 Nebraska 6S,3S7 12,301 2,789 New Hampshire... 32,181 29,642 30,501 New Jersey 34.307 30,652 27,045 New York 241,658 216,213 196,990 North Carolina.... 157,009 93,565 75,203 Ohio 247,189 195,953 179,889 Pennsylvania 213,542 174,041 156,357 Rhode" Island 0,210 5,303 5 406 South Curolina ... 93,864 51,899 33,171 Tennessee. 165,650 11S.141 82,303 Texa*. 174,184 01,125 42,891 Vermont 35,522 33.S27 31,556 Virginia 118,517 73,849 92,605 West Virginia 62,679 4S.778 Wisconsin 134,322 162,964 69,270 Tctal 4,008,907 2,659,985 2,044,077 I GUNBOATS AT VICKSBCRG. A NOVEL EXPEDITION TO PASS THE CONFEDERATE STRONGHOLD. A V xx r uucrui r luiniu r uu? iu x'uttu a Passage Through Bogs and Swamps?Saved by Sherman. Carriagton Smith says, in the Detroit Free l'rc.s<, that had any Confederate in or around Yick-burg asserted that the Federals would seek to pass that point by sending gunboats through the Yazoo, Sunllowcr and Y'allabittha ilivers and a corps of men through the swamps and marshes and bogs which cover the entire country lor fifty miles in length, he would have been hooted at as a fool. And y;t. continues Mr. Smith, that was exactly what Grant planned as cool as ice and Sherman and Porter were sent to carry out. To begin with, each of the streams named m as hardly more than a creek. While they had a good depth of water, they were narrow, crooked and obstructed by sunken trees, and at that date wei e hardly known even to fiatboats. We made our start about the middle of March, having live gunboats, four or five large tugs mounting one gun each, but depended on for pulling away obstructions, and two or three floats, or flat-Aiottoms, on which mortars were mounted. It was understood by the fle.-t that Sherman was to koep pace with us with about 10.000 men. The novelty of the situation was such as no fleet ever experienc ed. After ascending the Yazoo for u few miles details of axmen had to be scut on ahead to cut away the limbs which would have brushed away our smokestacks in the narrow channels. The woods, as far as the eye could see, were hung with moss, ivy and wild grapes, and the ground was hidden by water. The only way to find the channel was to sound for it, and to follow the lead cfthe pilot-boat. The sight of us frightened away gieat flocks of birds, and alligators rolled lazily aside and serpents swam hissing away. We were no sooner out of the Yazoo than the tugs had to begin on the logs and stump3 and fallen trees, and our progress was slow and tedious. At one point the channel ran between growing trees for three or four miles, and threefifths of them had to be cut away before the fleet could pass. They were sawed off, the trunks hauled off,,and then a couple of tugs would hitch to tiic ' stump" aud snake it out by the roots. At this one spot we suffered a delay of thirty hours, and got our first inkling of the dillicultics of the voyage. Each day we crept-along at snail's pace, clearing away the obstructions, and each night our hawsers were made fast to trees along the banks and we turned in with bruised hands and aching bodies. As soon as the Confederates discovered the movement our troubles vastly increased. Scores and hundreds of trees were felhd across the stream in advance of us, and our working partieAwere continually fired upon by men hidden in the swamps for the purpose. "We had not only to work the vessels, but to clear the stream of oqstructious and keep the guns going. We now also bad to work by night as well as by day, for if we rested the enemy were at work agaui witn tne a*' ? \ t r &% ' On the rifth day. when the stream began to broaden and deepen, and there was a hope that we had seen the worst, we found our progress absolutely blocked. The entire bed of the river was filled with willows, bushes, canes and young trees, and a channel must be cut through or we must go back. A survey was made, and it was decided it would be a labor of week* to cut a channel. "We were even now under a hot lire, the Confederates having sent infantry and artillery from Vicksburg to head off the expedition. Sherman had found it impossible to keep the banks, and had sought to make cross-cuts. In this way we had left every Fede; al Iufantryman miles behind, and all the fighting was being done by the men of the flotilla. Uur retreat began at daylight on the morning of the sixth day of the expedition. The waters were rising and,the current increasing, and each vessel dropped down stem first and had to be snubbed' from tree to tree in the narrow places. In less than three hours this method had to be abandoned, the enimy filling the woods with sharpshooters and killing off the men handling the hawsers. Indeed, it after awhile became impossible for any one to show himself on the deck of a single craft. Our men, protected by such barricades as they coula form, were returning the fire with all possible vigor, when the licet was brought to a sudden standstill dj oustructions wnicnnaa ueeu felled in the rear. At the same moment the Confederates began felling trees a mile and a half above, and to" also increase their ririe fire. "We were nicely penned up, and nine men out of every ten among us felt certa'n that we must surrender. Every craft was short of ammunition, and the line was strung out in such a way, and one was so hidden from the other by the trees,-that signals were of little use. Howeuer, after lying under a hot fire for about twenty minutes, a detail was sent oif from every boat, making 500 or GOO men in all, and while some worked at the trees others held the Confederates at bay. We were still at work, suffering severely from the enemy's fire, when word was sent back from the front that the Confederates had received a large reinforcement, aud that a body of regular troops, accompanied by artillery, was advancing to a bold attack. There was a panic among us for a few moments, each one feeling certain that this was the end, and every boat made ready for the final struggle." After what seemed a criminal wasic of time, and with men dropping dead at the rate of three or four per minute, we received orders to return to our ships. The movement was being executed when the head of one of Sherman's columns came up and struck the advancing Confederate force in Hank, and after a brief fight scattered it through the woods. The providential a: rival of the infantry certainly saved that whole fleet from capture, penned up as it was. The British Museum has one of the largest libraries in the world, and it is greatly used by students and readers engaged in special research, So great is the overcrowding in the reading-room that it is now proposed to provide an additional room for general readers. t ( \ HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. How To Boil Coffee. If you pour boiling water on ground coffee that has been heated quite hot in a dry tin coffee pot, and then do not let it boil, but draw, in a hot place, you will have excellent coffee. A cupful of unground coffee, ground and prepared in this way, should make a quart of strong black coffee, llitteruess comes from boiling, 3Iiss Corson says, and we nil know that flatness does. Founding the coffee in n little mnrfnp ftinf. is milv used for this purpose is so much better than grinding that those who once try it will not care to go back to the oltl method. A French physician re?ommends that your infusion or "drawing" of collee should stand all day and then be filtered through a cup sieve, pouring two tablespoonfuls of the coffee to each breakfast cup of hot milk. Stoves and Coal Ashes. In putting up the stoves see that both stoves and pipes are in order. If the lining is not likely to last all the. coming winter renew it before putting up the stoves. It may give out entirely and be unsafe in a vejy cold time. The stores where stoves are sold usually supply linings, covers and other parts likely be be broken. Stove pipes, especially if coal containing much sulphur is burned, will often be found weak in spots or wholly worthless. Hun no risk, but renew the defective lengths or the whole, as may be needed. Coating the interior of the pipe with lime whitewash will, in a measure, protect it, but it is safest to procure better coal, if practicable. If the pipe in passing into the chimney goes near a piece of studding or other wood work use a thimble that will provide an air space between the pipe and the wood. "Where are the ashes stored? Let them be at a sate distance irom iqd nouse ana all other wooden buildings and never in wooden vessels. During the winter coal ashes accumulate. Everyone who uses coal economically sifts the ashes and burns the cin- I ders when only a moderate fire is needed. Coal ashes are of little value as a fertilizer, but they are at least as valuable as an ameliorator of the soil as so much sand. The best use to make of the ashes is for roads and paths. A good covering, over which a little soil is thrown, will soon form a hard, solid road. To make an asphalt walk, prepare and level the bed, excavating it a few inches below the general surface. Pour on a coating of coal tar and cover it thickly with coal ashes. When this is dry repeat with another coat of tar and ashes, and so on, until there are four coats of tar and as many of ashes This in a short time will harden and make a walk as hard as a stone.?New York Herald. Recipes and Hints. Do not wash raisins, but wipe them : with a dry cloth. Red ants will never be found in closets or drawers if a small bag of sulphur is kept in these places. If a little flour is sprinkled over meat that is to be minced it will not adhere too closely to the chopping knife. "With regard to meat, says Chambers's Journal, a joint may be preserved for many days by wrapping it loo?ely in a fino,clpth wru^g ?.llt of vipegar $nd hanging it in a draught of air. If the weather be very warm the cloth must be moistened twice or even thrice a day. Young Turnips: Peel and lay, with-j out cutting, in ice-cold water for half an i hour. Drop into salted boiliDg water and cook till tender, drain thoroughly, serve on a hot deep dish; salt, pepper and butter. Or, if you prefer, cover with drawn butter. In either or both cases send to the table hot. Baked Eggs: Grease a pie pan well with lard, spread thick with bread or cracker crumbs, break the eggs over them in a circle, pepper and salt: set in the oven to bake until the whites are all set, then run a knife round under them and slip off on to a plate, and you have a dish that is both wholesome and handsome. Dried Apple Cake: Two cupfuls of sweet dried apples, soak over Digbt and chop; two cupfuls of mola-scs, and let it simmer over hours; when cold add one cupful of j^par, two eggs, one-half cupful of sour^ream, sour milk and butter, two teaspoonfuls of soda, four cupfnla of flmir fntir tonsnnnnfuls of cinna mon. one teaspoonful of cloves and one nutmeg. The canned goods when opened, should be immediately transferred to glass or earthenware receptacles. Recent investigations show that cases of poisoning from eating canned goods have arisen from the acid of the canned food attacking the solder of the tins, and sometimes from decomposition accelerated by an electrical action between the solder and the iron of the tin. Never leave canned fruits, meats or tish in opened tin cans. This way of pickling cabbage is recommended : i-'or two quarts of finely shredded cabbage allow one pint and a half of minced bell peppers, the seeds removed, onetable poontulof fine salt, half a small qiAul of mustard seed, one small tcaspctonfu! of ground cloves and the same amount of ground cinnamon. Mix well togetner, put in jars, ana pour over inc mixture enough boiling cider vinegar to saturate it, but not to rise above it. Cover securely and keep in a cool, dark place. To Crystalize Fruit: Pick out the finest of any kind of fruit, /leave in the stones: beat the whites of three eggs to a stiff froth, lay the fruit in the beaten egg, with the stems upward; drain and beat the part that drips off again; select them out one by one, and dip them into j a cup of finely powdered sugar. Cover j a pan with a sheet of fine paper, place the fruit on it, and set it in a cool even. When the icing on the fruit becomes firm, pile them on a dish and set them in a cool place. Little Annie, four years of age, threat-, pnnii 1110 -with a 'Tirotraeted crvincr- I spell." Several times she seemed inclined to stop in response to my reprimands, only to resume "business" with new vigor. At last she made a great1 effort, dried her tears, looked at me slyly, and approached me with a determined "Mamma, I guess I won't finish my naughtiness." Queen Victoria is sixty seven years old j and has reigned forty-nine years. Only two other English sovereigns?Henry i III. and George III.?have reigned so long. I I NEWS AND NOTES EOlt WOMEN. Everybody wears bracelets now. Black silk hosiery remains fashionable. Wraps are either quite short or very long. Green, blue and "suede" are a favorite combination. Lace pins arc made to resemble tiny violins or guitars. House dresses made of French cashmere continue in favor. Kensington embroidery is simulated in many of the new fabrics. The tendency to tight-lacing again is becoming painfully evident. Imported wraps, like imported dresses, show many rich combinations. Juivc sleeves of the dress material have close-fitting sleeves of lace beneath. Some bodices have several crests of contrasting colors opening one over the other. ine majority ot mrca giris in <janaaa earn but $3 a month, so says a Canadian authority. Gray gloves with broad embroidery ol black silk on the back are worn with black toilets. An Ohio woman went to bed one night, and woke up next morning to find hoi jaw dislocated. Epaulets and "ropes" of beads, or delicate passementerie, are used upon woolen dresses. Tailor suits are made in striped, also checked goods, with habit basques and drapery lull at the back. Minnie Wilson, a rosy-cheeked maid of fifteen, drives the stage between Milnor and Hamline, in Dakota. In 1840 there were only seven occupations opeti to women in the United States; now there are three hundred or more. There are at present over one hundrod Indian girls under the guardianship of the Lincoln Institute, near Wayne, Penn. Entirely new and very graceful are flower pins that represent bunches or sprays of flowers with long flexible stems. Ottoman and tweed are used for au-1 tumn wraps, and are trimmed with ribbon or velvet about the sleeves and collar. Bodices of velvet have panels cut in one with them and form an exceedingly handsome combination with striped wool skirts and drapery. Dr. Mary F. Thomas, of Richmond, Ind., and Dr. Hannah Longshore cf Philadelphia are sisters and were the pioneer women physicians of this country. Miss Mollio Garfield, who is living with her mother in Cleveland, has grown to be a ^andsome young woman, and is taller by several inches than her mother. One of the most successful breeders ol fine horses in Colorado is Mrs. Annie D. Clopper. Her yearly sales are attended by purchasers from all parts of the West. A lady dentist in Hartford, Conn., employs some five or six assistants. She examines the patient, does the filling, and leaves the making of the teeth to the assistants. Bertha Wolf, a German girl living in ' gouthwest Colorado, is announced in the Western papers as the first discoverer ol . *gold in the San Juan mountains. She it worth $100,000. Rose Terry Cooke says: "Never mind ' "whether they are your own children, | your step-children, or your children by adoption, see that they mind when they j are spoken to." Mrs. Jay Gould is a dignified, refined i woman of domestic tastes. She is well I educated "and a great reader. Her [ daughter Nellie, a bright young Miss of 1 sixteen, is her constant companion. Polonaises arc vefry fashionnblc, but bcjng rather difficult to get into, the effect of a polonaise is produced by arrangiug the draperies over the basque both in the back and front, so that one can find no ending to it whatever. A girl employed in the coal mines in Belgium says she works from five o'clock in the morning till between nine and | eieven at mgm. ouc iuuus nuui to seventy cars a day and earns two i francs, or about forty cents, j Donna Cousino is the richest woman in I Chili, the owns vast plantations, which | she manages herself. The town of Lota | has seven thousand inhabitants and she l owns every house there. Iler own i palatial residence there cost $1,000,000. Theresa Kelly, now superintendent of a bookbindery in Cleveland, O., during the war entered the hospitals as a nurse. Her services were so valuable that she was sent to the front and received a commission as orderly sergeant from the lifth Ohio infantry. There is no record of any similar honor accorded to a woman during the war. Alas for the birds! They are still seen upon bonnets and hats. It is to be hoped, however, that the charming arrangement of ribbon or velvet bows and the timehonored ostrich plumes will prevail, so that there will not be suicide among the ******* * i' "> a# +Vi n I "ilttie romtlis iur lUU sa&c ui mc luaio | wantonly slain to disfigure the hat of some thoughtless woman. The village of Ladis, in the Tyrol, has for generations observed the rule that its maidens must not take husbands out| side their own village. Nevertheless, I lately Catherine Scluanz, regarded as I the most beautiful girl in the district, 1 accepted the proposal of a suitor from a | distant place. The youths of Ladis ! resented this as a personal injury. Six I ..e *1. Vi,.r tif.rJ tior on a curt \JL UilCUt uv.?) ?*v%% MW. j and led her through tho village, the t other youths and boys jeering and singing derisive chants. St Jacobs Oil Is proaonficed a most extraordinary care for rheumatism by Hon. James Harlan, ex-Vice Chancellor, Louisville, Ky. an oak that was cut before Shakespeare's day famished a bit of timber now In use aa a bench in an English farmer's kitchen. The timber did duty as a roof beam in achurch for 664 years. It is still as sound as can be. Mr. J. Howard James, manager Stuckert's Livery, 619 N. 5th street, Philadelphia, Pa., says:. After trying ail other remedies without I relief, for a heavy cold on the chest, accompanied by a severe cough, I used Red Star I Cough Cure, and in a very short time was entirely well. It ls'estimated that 200,000 pretzels ore devoured in New York City daily, or 720,000,000 a year, costing the saloons and stands over $1G0,000, and the public twice that sum. I Hall's Hair Renewer never fails to check falling of the hair. Gives universal satisfaction j As a remedy for throat and lung troubles, wo I recommend Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. A GREAT ENTERPI# The Century Magazine,^with iav*. mous circulation (edition of NovembeA.. ber is a quarter of a million) and "4 \ resources, has never undertaken a gra V., work than the one which will be its impont 4 "^Hj feature during the coming year. This il history of our own country in its most critil time, as set forth in . \ THE LIFE OF LINCOLN,!' v 9 BY HIS CONFIDENTIAL SECRETARIES, JOHfi Q. NICOLAY AND COL. JOHN HAY. This great work, begun with the sanctionV^r^. V t authority of his son, the is tlie only full and au- ^ thoritative record of the life of Abraham Lincoln. 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