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We shall confidently expect an exodus of dentists to Chili. Mr. Clement Carpenter, formerly secretary of tho American legation at Santiago, and just home from South America, says Chili is a paradise for dentists, who live like nabobs in the fiuest palaces, drivo tho finest equipages and stand high generally. Tho Chilian ladies are wealthy and extremely vain, and as a rule do not have good natural teeth. Kawnra and Nure, tho two young Japanese cadets who are accompanying ! vuuut oiu?u, niu mmuuu ? iuiuidtur ui marine in bis tour of inspection of the ! navy yards of this country, will enter the naval academy at Annapolis this ; fall. There is a provision in the law governing admissions to the academy which provides for six cadets from Japan, who shall ho under no expense to tho government. There is a growing disposition among scientific men to discuss the "sea-serpent" as a creature whoso existence is not at all improbable. The discovery within recent years of the giant squids of the Atlantic?some of which may attain a length of fifty feet?is cited as a demonstration that largo marine animals may have escaped the attention of science even to the present day. Only an ignorant or a thoughtless individual, indeed, will dam fiKsnrt tlin.f'. flior* mnv nnf l>r? Knmn descendant of the monsters of cretaceous days even now lurking in the oceau depths. Capt. Joseph Whitridge, who recently died near Springfield, Ohio, at the ago of 83, had made thorough preparation for death up to a certain point. Thirty years ago he put away a heavy plank of burr oak, and, after letting it season for twenty years, had his coffin made of it. He bought a winding sheet and placed it in the coffin, which was stored away in a dork room. Twelve years ago lie dug a vault in a field near his house, walled ; it up, covered it with sandstone slabs, ! and placed a bowlder weighing seven j tons for the headstone. He was buried in this coffin and grave. A St. Louis correspondent writes that no city in the country is growing more rapidly, and predicts that in 50 year? it will have 1,000,000 of inhabitants at leasts Its manufacturing interests are developing very fast, and the architecture of the town shows a marked advance within a few years. It is the leading horse and mule market in the world and one of the largest beer, tile, furniture, white lead, pig iron and barbed wire producing points in America. In drugs, dry goods and hardware j it does an immense business. It now has ' population of about 500,000, which j is Bteadily increasing, and the citizens 1 expect to outstrip Chicago yet, although j that city has at least 125,000 more pro- | plo than it and has sources of increase and revenue that it does not possess. In Oregon the catching and canning of salmon employ 2,002 white men in j various capacities. It employs 2,500 Chinese. It employs 15 tugs and steamboats, and makes business for half a dozen more employed regularly in tho ' traffic of the river. It employs besides j /*\ hundreds of boaimakers, sailmakers and Tf- in (lin Kneia fVi/? rvi-no. I ?. ? ? ?- ?? 1" wo~ I perityof the city of Astoria, and attracts j much of our foreign commerce. Indi- i rectly, its benefits reach every business ; and nearly every person in the state of i Oregon. The decrease in this senson's run of salmon leads the Oregonian to Bound this note of warning: "The necessity of taking steps to keep up the salmon supply is now more than ever apparent. It is a necessity that cries aloud. We cannot go on much longer 1 reaping where we do not sow. In a few more years, if nothing is done, the annual salmon runs will cease and an industry wnicu unngs into tno state each year I nearly $3,000,000 of foreign money will die out " The system of feeing waiters is becoming as general and, we may say pernicious, in this country as it is in Europe. One of the proprietors of the Hoffman House in New York, talking upon this subject the other day, said: "The young man that can't average $7 or $8 a day in tips is not considered good. Mind you, wo are opposed to tips here, but it is impossible to stop it. It is a foolish habit. I have fine, looking young men every day who offer to work for nothing, and many offer to pay for the privilege. The other night a party from Texas sat here for AAtvavnl V A A? ? ~ ?^' - ? ' DVT&IU1 UUUI9. All IUU Ut/'At bttUitt 8UC a well-known theatrical manager who is noted for his liberality. Every time he ordered a drink ho gavo the waiter a quarter. Tho Texans noticed this and, not proposing to be outdone, gave their boy fifty cents and $1. He must have m^de during the night at least $30 or $40\ It's got now, I am sorry to say, so ttiat no one thinks of sitting down to take ft.drink without giving the boy ten cents. \ There are fifteen boys here, and Jn the busy season you can imagine what these tips amount to. Why, there are no young men in the town, save tho sons of rich parents, who dress better or live higher than ours do. One of them, who is married, lives in a flat that ho | certainly pays $1200 a year for." Mr. R. A. Torrcnco of Chester, Penn., claims to have made the first feather duster used in the United States. This is i.:n ii\%r\ T 4.1.: ui9 ntui j n uuu x wao iiiu tut'ii ^ euro old I was working with my step-brother, George Steele, on Pearl street, New York and one day I fastened some ostrich feathers 0:1 a stick and used the appliance for <1 listing. George watched the operation and an idea struck hint, lie at once ijot to work and soon had a pattern made for a feather duster. lie had it patented and then entered into t'.ie manufacture and sale of the new wares." A couple recently married felt the financial pressure of a wedding tour, Bays th a Home steady of Springfield, Massachusetts, but conceived a scheme by which to thwart the process of custom nnd save the item of expense. They went to the station, nccompanicd by a party of friends, and boarded n train, with good-byes said all around, the friends extending the regulation wishes 1 for a safe and happy tour. Oh, no I They walked through the car and out at the end opposite, sped down Water street around to their home, wnere they remained in seclusion a week | while friends thought them away enjoying the honeymoon. They still keep up ancient traditions in it i. 11 _ J nr.-i. a a. *r I me uniramracncu >y esi. ivt luurruy, iuuho, on the opening of the term of the district court, the ease of Mrs. Peck, charged with attempting to bribe a jury, was called. Judge Buck, addressing the father of the defendant, spoke as follows: "It has come to my cars that you have come into the court room armed to-day. Have you any arms with you?" The gentleman denied that he was armed. The court, however, took the precaution to declare a recess of five minutes and disarm such as were supplied with guns. The following day, while Colonel Singleton was testifying in ihc same case, Jack McAauley called him a liar. Colonel Singleton sprang to his feet and drawing a revolver covered McAauley with the weapon. The sheriff arrested both men and disarmed them. Judge Buck, addressing the prisoners, said: "The court fines you $300, McAulcy, and you will be confined until the fine is paid." Colonel Singleton wes also fined $200 for :omine into court armed, and Mrs. Peck $200 for attempted bribery. Dust Storms, A recent number of the American Meteorological Journal contains an article on the notorious dust storms of Pekin. These occur in the dry season, especially lu winter and early spriug. They come on at irregular intervals, perhaps six or eight times in the season, and last about three days. The wind is westerly, most often northwest, and blows fresh or high. The condition of the streets of Pekin, evil as that is, would not account for the heavy clouds of dust that come down with the storm. The mouth and eyes have to be protected from the fine dust, which penetrates the closest room, and makes food to taste gritty. This abundant dust is spread over a large area. It extends eastward from Pekin to the sea, and southeastward it regularly descends as far south as the Yellow river, and sometimes Shanghai, ten de- I ~ .r 1 _ mi.. : a _ r ui iuuiuuc uwujf. l nu wruur oi tho paper says this vast quantity of I dust must come from tho great des- i erts of Mongolia. A series of observations during one of these ] Btorms showed a fall in the barometer. The clouds, which the day before had I bceu unbroken, rapidly cleared away, 1 the sun was so obscured that it could be I inspected by the naked eye, and it was also fet in a ring. The wind showed di- I urnal variations, the air was dry and ' one had a feeling of malaise and ner- i vousness. After the wind went down, I barometer remained high for a day or two, audits descent there was another, i but much less marked, dust storm. T~c | storm thus appears to have been a gale | accompanying an area of high pressure, i which came from tlio desert of Gobi and i travelled eastward. The dryness of tho ( wind and its abundant dust were in part duo to this desert, which lies west | and northwest of Pekin, and is not far , away. In his great work on China Iiichthofen discusses tho geological effects of these storms, which are observed throughout the south and west of the Desert of Gobi, and further west aro much worse than at Pekin.?Nature. What the Emperor Wanted. A visitor who has lately been staying at Bad Ems tells a characteristic story of the German Emperor. A great packet of journals arrives every day for the Emperor's reading. In order to make tho I reading as littlo burdensome as possible, a high court official is charged with the duty of looking through tho entire heap of newspapers and marking with red ink the passages which the Kaiser's private secretary is to read aloud to his august master. Tho Emperor one day took up ono of the journals, and asked the meaning of tho red lines with which it it was profusely scored. Upon the secretary explaining tho signification of these red strokes, tho venerable monarch said with a heavy laugh: "Then, my dear fcl'ow, let me beg you, for once in a w ?y, to read me everything in this journal which ha? not a red lino underneath it."?P<Ul Mall Gazette. . . >; I Reaping. Along the east strange glories burn. And kindling lights leap high and higher, As morning from the azure urn Pours forth her golden fire. From riish and reed, from bush and brake, Float countle s jeweled gossamers That glanco unci dazzle us they shake In every breeze that stirs. A bird, upspringing from the grain, Fiutes loud and clear his raptured not' That mingles with as blithe a strain As e'er thrilled human throat. a iJ i.L_ x 11?1 *? - m * iiiin iuu ius*njiieu I im wi corn Sbo stands breast high; Ivor arms are bare; And rouutl hor warm, bro.vn nack the mora Gleams on her lustrous hair. 1 ho sickle flashes in her hand; The dew laves both her naked feet; She reaps and sings, and through the land She sends hor carols sweet. The wind broathes softly on hor brow; To touch her lips full blossoms sock; And as the stricken columns bow, They kiss her glowing cbeelc. O happy maiden 1 in her breast Gui'e hath no place; hor virgin sleep Vain thoughts ne'er trouble; she Is blest> She hath no tears to weep. She knows nor longs for prouder things; Hor simple tasks are all her care; She livos and loves, and reaps and sings, And makes the world more fair. ?James B. Kenyan. THE TURNING POINT. A thick carpet had lately been put down in the dining room at the squire's residence, which was found to prevent the door from opening and Bhutting easily, so Wedge, the village carpenter, was tent for to ease it. At six o'clock, while ho was at work. 0 - 7 carriage wheels were distinctively heard, and the squire's lady, with her children came down into the hall ready to welcome home Mr. Cary, who had been that iay to town. Wedge, who was working inside the [lining room, listened with astonishment is he heard the shout the children gave when their father stepped out of the carriage. He saw also, through the door crack, that the two eldest had caught hold of his hands, while the young ones were clinging like little barnacles to his coat taiis; all dragging him along as if, jnce having go* him into their net, they rneant, spider-like,to bind him hand and Toot and devour him, as that interesting insect would a great blue-bottle, t.t their leisure. That the squire's return should cause such delight was a puzzler for our worthy friend; for had he not with his own eyes scenthis gentleman go oil at half-past nine in the morning, no one could have persuaded him otherwise than that he must tiave been away a month, to put it at the lowest figure. He saw, moreover, that the squiro was folding tightly in his hand a little parcel, which, shaking off the children by a number of little dodges of which loving fathers only know the secret, he quickly untied, for all the world as if he were a i>oy of five years old (and not a great San of fntirfppn otnnn ... Wkwtku XV uu could not wait a moment for anything. In a shorter time than we take to write it ho pulled out the contents and ;ave them to his wife, with three distinct dsses. "Wedge could swear there wero three, tor he counted them, and wondered how nany more there were to come. This was evidently a veiy beautiful present, for the children, as well cs Mrs. Cary, expressed their admiration in the liveliest manner, and all seemed, if that wrere possible, more pleased and happy than before. Boon tlio merry party went upstairs, ilie echo of their voices died awny, and Wedge was left to finish his work on the loor, while his heart and conscience began their work on him. He, too, had a home and wife and children; he, too, had been away all day; but the thought struck him uncomfortably that his welcome home, if inleed he got one at all, would seem poor and cold after that he had just witnessed. This reflection was not so sweet as to make his work go smoothly; his saw teemed as blunt as a double-bladed sixpenny knife, and the wood of the chair, whose legs he was cutting down, as hard els bog oak. In fact he was feeling jealous of tho squiro and discontented with his own wife and children. Why were they not eager to rush out and welcome him after the fashion of tho squire's- family? He frewned as he thought how badly ho was used, and his saw grated away as though very dull. But conscience had a word to say to him, arid said it loud enough, too, for him to hear, although ho was making noise enough to prevent any one from tnrinrr tn rrnin hia fttUntinn J?ft O ? It told him the fault was chiefly in himself, for if his wife and children were not like the squire's, neither was bis likeness to that worthy gentleman particularly striking. He couldn't blame his wife for not making enough of his presents, for he well knew ho never gave her any; nor did he greet her with those kind words which would not have failed to draw the same from her. Wedge was a good husband without in lag a kind one, spending his money for the most part on bis family in a hard. businesslike kind of a way, but showing no affection toward his children, who consequently did not love him. As "Wedge walked home, liis tools on ^ back, he cime across an old friend, carrying carefully a dainty bunch of enowdrops in his big, rough hand. "Here, Will," ho said, walking along by the carpenter's side, "I've just given a triflo for these flowers?pretty bits of things, ain't they?for my wife mnkes so ^ much of any little present I take her home, she never minds what I bring ner, 'P so long as I'give it her myself, for to bo sure I always tack on a little something, in the shape of a few kinds words, which ' makes the thing seem valuablo in her DC eye*. I don't know how I should get on sometimes, if it wern't for having flowers ^ pretty handy; you can get them for littie or nothing at any time, and yet they are more beautiful than anything wo can C? make. Perhaps that is what God gave J ^ flowers for?in part at least?that tho a. poor man have within his reach the means ^ of showing kindness and giving presents, which, without them, ho might seldom or never be able to givo at all." ^ Wedge's road now lay in a difEercnt direction from his friends. so thev I 01 J I El parted company, Joe Sparks putting a ' ? couple of sqow drops into Will's hand, ^ supposing he would know well enough what to do with them. Wedge turned the snowdrops over in ^ his hand and looked after Joe, who had ^ nearly turned the corner; what could tho ^ man mean by giving him the Bnowdrops and never saying a word? He couldn't have known what had just happened at the hall; yet it seemed strango that ho ^ shou'.d come up and say all this about presents just when Wedge was thinking about that very subject and enjoying the excuse, too, "thatho couldn't afford ^ to buy his wifo anything." But now ^ having tho snowdrops, and having heard so much about them, it seemed as if \ Btl nothing else will do but that ho must as give them to his wife, and this proceeding would be such a new and cxtraordi& I nary one that tho very thought mado him ^ feel sheepish. Wedge's wife was a nice woman, but ^ family cares were weighing her down, so that the light was fast dyinu: out of her a Jo I ca eyes and the color fading from her ^ cheeks. She would not havo minded them half nor even quarter 60 much if, when Wedge came homo, she could havo told him all about them?for, ten to one, mi he could have set things right. But he ^ had always pooh-poohed when she ventured to begin tho subject, so that she had loft off looking for help where there was none to be got. It seemed to Wedge that if he had paid down hard cash for clothing, feeding and schooling the family he had done his share towards tfcfeir bringing up. Such being the state of thing-?, you may well imagino how surprised was Mrs. "Wedge when sho heard a cheerful voice cry out: ; 1 "Where arc you, Maryl" L But greater still was her astonishment j"1 when, on going to the door, her husband presented her with tho snow-drops, declaring as he put them in her hands,that e "beautiful as they were, he thought tho rose-bui on her arm beat them out aud an out." Wedge had done many a handy bit of of work with those tools on his back, but he did a neater job now with those snow- da Hrnrw tlinn nvor lift linrl flnnn with nil r\f a i 1? ' ? """" " *" * * *' V4 " 1 them put together, for he, so to speak, cil sawed Mary's heart right in two, and got to the very inside, and planed down no lis end of knot* and rough places, and ty French polished her off as if she was tei some choice piece of cabinet work to bj lia sold for nobody knows what. ti( That day was the beginning of brighter av times; Mary's heart having been, as we Ba' before said, sawed right open, never dc closed up again, by reason of her bus- Hi band's continually putting in one little th thing nnd another on purpose to keep it ex open; and warm streams of affection Hi came gushing out that nobody knew AI wero ever there at all, they were hidden ho down 90 deep. an And a3 to Wedge, be never knew be- hs fore how many pretty little speeches he pi could make. Without any notice before, at hand whatever, they seemed to como of from somewhere inside, all ready made, packed and directed, ready t:> be de- ta livered "with care, this side up," to his co wife, while the contents of these said Ct parcels, or sentence-, generally brought mi a smile on Mrs. Wedge's face, and made "W hor as lively as a cricket for some time W) to come. lai And if this state of thing3 brought w, happier days to Mary, Will was no lesi w, benefited by them. Not only did his ie, wife return his love with interest, but it prompted her to do many loving deeds, I the fruits of affection, which can make th the humblest home a littlo paradise. th Had Swallowed the Bnttons* The following is related of an E:ist ... ~ CM Bridgeport man: He went home a few nights ago, and, not feeling -well, took what he supposed to be four pills and then slept the sleep of the just. When as! his wife awoke in the morning she began la] a search for four shoe buttons which sho th intended to sew on baby's shoes before go the little one awoke. She could not find them, and the husband joined in the dc search. Finally he remembered whero he had found the pills and said: "Good heaven 11 swallowed them buttons."-- tw Bridgeport Pott, fl ^ ROADS TO WEALTH. omo Odd. Ways of Realizing Large Fortunes. an Who Have Bscom<j Suddenly Kicli by Means of Trivial Inventions. A recent Long B.nnch letter to the liladelplria Press says of two curious i u ronfnt-a n /\f I /*<?/! 1* ???/> l\?? lUkUVVVtO UVblV<VU 111UI U WJT I Alt? l/UIIC* ondcnt: They came in a private palace r, in which they had been traveling out the country for the past six months. 5th are men of great fortune, though >t yet in the meridian of life. One is a liladelphian, the other a Jereeyman. ive years ago neither of them dreamed : hiring a private car, yet a single stroke j good fortune brought them out of the immon-places of life and gave them j >sitions of prominence in the world of ; fairs. One made his money out of glass ; 5ns, and the other from a patent mediae which he compounded in the seclusn of his Jersey home. Nino out of ten business men would ugh at the idea of making a fortune it of bits of glass two feet long with It lettering, and many would hesitate ; ifore giving up even a moderate income i risk his time with a patent cure-all medy. But now the life-work of these ro men is done so far as the accumula jn of money is concerned,and they live ! r the sole purpose of being amused by e world. They came down here with car full of the many good things that ealth commands?a hamper of chamignc and a larder in which a Dulmonico yef would revel. A stable of horses had cceded them, and when they were not xuriating in their home on wheels they 2re spinning along tho bluff behind a am that took dust from no one. Yet ey tired of all this in two days, and, st because a slight rain storm set in, irtcd down to Cape May for a change, one of them said. U :fore going, however, they picked up companion who has been struggling in e beaten path of commerce for a lifone,and had not reached the goal which ey touched in a few years. He could terest them by the stories of his busy reer, and they took him along with em for the one purpose of listening to m. Thero is a man here the Inventor of an ster-opener and of an arrangement for iking coffee in a minute. He told me at he had already formed t\v.> compass for the purpose of putting his inntion upon the market, and thereby ving an opportunfty to every man to his own oj'ster-opener and coffeeiker. "Who can help smiling at a man 10 builds his hopes in this way? "You see," said he, "every one likes a p of coffee as soon as he has gotten out bed.' Now, I propose to sell my apratus for fifty cents apiece. All you ve to do is to jump out of bed, pour as ich water in it as you want, a teaspoonl of coffee, and then light the lamp derneath. Y'ou can then go back to d and take a minute's nap, and when u jump out again your coffee is made d waitinir." "And you expect to Bell a great many these coffee-makers?" I asked. "Well," confidently replied iny lattery Mulberry Sellers, "there are nearly million coffee drinkers in New York :y alone; that is enough for mo." The world always finds amusement in toning to the plans of these living pes of John T. Raymond's great cliaracr,but there nrcj any number of them who ve made nu?nfty out of 8eeming triviale8. I not'ced a man driving on the enue to-day, who twelve years ago w a fortune in the sale of needles, if ho voted his attention solely to them. 3 has reaped that fortune now, and u e only man in the country who trades clusively in these little bits of steel, e controls the house on this side of tho tiantic to which all the needles in usq >ve to be sent from abroad. There is other man stopping here whose wealth is come from the invention of a scarfn, and one of the handsomest cottages Seabright fs occupied by the inventor a patent suspender. The person who first thought of atching a ball to the end of aa elastic rd, so that it would return, went to ileb Gushing, years ago, to have him akc out the application to bo sent tq ashington for a patent. Mr. Cushing is busy at the time with an important iv case, and wondered that the man is willing to pay the large fee he al? ivs demanded for his work, when h? lrned the nature of the patent. "I will have to charge you as much aa imagine you will make out of this ing," he suggested to the inventor. won, l'vo rureaay made a contract at will net me $5,000," was the sur* ising reply, "and I can see my way jar to ten times that amount." An Example In Addition. "What are you doing. Reginald!' Iced Reginald's wife, as she saw him f down the two-year-old, and take up e twin babies who w*re crying lik? od ones. "Only an example in addition, my ar," ho responded, wearily. "I don't understand." nr 1 ? i [jut. uuwu uqc, una am carrying 'o, that's all," and he began the midjht walking-match. ? Tid Bit*. V:>v>. i ... h ? in. Tlio Smallest Kingdom. "What schoolinastcr, to say nothing of 4'overy schoolboy," knows that there 13 n European kingdom,named Tavolurn,lying in the Mediterranean, or rather Tyrrhenian, waters, the king of which, Paul I., died only a few months ago, full of vein's si nil 1ir?nr?r?? Off the northeast coast of tli?j Island of Sardinia lies the much smaller Island of Tavolura, five miles long and one broi.d. Its possess'o l and absolute sovereignity were formally granted by King Charles Albert of Sardinia to the Pa tolconi family, and f. r more than half a century Paul I., king of Tavolnra, reigned ovei it in penes. Oil the 30th of May last, King Paul was compelled to go to the m linl: n l to seek treatment for heart disease. Finding that science was powerless in his case, the king returned to his island to die in the midst of his subjects, who are forty in number. lie died sitting in his chair, like the Etnpiiror Vespasian, vainly endeavoring to write a will. lie was seventy-eight years old. The forty subjects of IIj Paolo, as they called him, lost in him a benevolent and industrious monarch; his family lost a kind father, and the wild goals of the island, more numerous than the king's subjects, lost?we will not say they mourn the loss _ r ? i ? vi?jiii iniropiu nunter. Tavnlara is a smaller State than either the Republic of San Marino, lying east of Italy, which has twenty-two square miles ancl eight thousand people; the principality of Monaco, on the French const of the Mediterranean, near the Italian frontier, which has eight and onehalf square miles and eight thousand five hundred inhabitants; or the Republic of Andorra, lying between Franc.* and Spain, which issix hundred square miles in extent and has seven thousand people. ? Youths' Companion. Rimlan Church Mnsic* An American correspondent, writing from Moscow, says of church music there: '"The ordinary bass voice is often little better than a growl or huskine-s of the throat. No one thi-nks of calling it musical. Rut I never heard tenors that thrilled and charmed me more than the basses at the Temple of the Saviour. 1 This is{ perhaps, the costliest and most splendid church in all the Russia's. Its outs'de is marble and gold. Its inside is a lavish display of the precious metals thickly set with gems. Every quarry in the empire has contributed its best tocompose the tessellated floor, the wainscoting and the columns of the marvelous structure. It was built to commemorate the defeat of the French invasion of 1812, snd whs only recently completed after forty-six years of consecutive work. As one walks about this stupendous church, and transfers his admiration from one object of beauty and richness to another, his attention is suddenly called oil from everything by a burst of' musical thunder. It floods the interior like the crash of a great organ. He looks all around and cannot see what causes it. Somewhere in an elevated and hidden choir or behind the massive gold altar-piece are the singers. The voices aro all basses. There are three ; or four distinct "part*," some pitched so much higher than others that they seem relatively to be tenors. Each note?even the lowest?is clear and firm. It has the sweetness of a flute with the sonorous volume of a bassoon. The concealed performers are uttering responses to the gorgeously attired priests, whose own voices aro deep and melodious, and worthy to take part in this noble choral i n Bcrvice." A Senator's Nulmrg. Senator Gorman tells the following story on himself: For many years he has been a sufferer from regular attacks ol neuralgia. On some occasions he has been confined to his home a day or two, so intense was the pain. An old lady friend once called upon him while he was suffering from one of his attacks. She displayed so much sympathy that she almost forgot to name the request she had to make?but she did not. Upon learning that the Senator was troubled with neuralgia she volunteered to give him an infallible remedy, provided he would promise not to laugh at her or accuse her of being a believer in conjuration, spells, etc. The Senator, ia good-natured way, informed her that he was under treatment from nn eminent physician, who sometimes afforded him temporary relief. The old lady finally prevailed upon tho Senator to give her remedy a fair trial, whereupon she suggested that ho should get an ordinary nutmeg, such as is used in cooking, drill a hole through it, attach it to a piece of string or ribbon, and wear it around his neck continually. Tho Senator, while suffering ono day, determined to give the nutmeg remedy a trial. He followed the old lady's directions, and in a few hours felt greatly relieved. He has worn the nutmeg ever since, and is seldom, troubled with neuralgia. He has consulted several physicians on the subject, and they state that the nutmeg posses'*} certain virtues which may have effect on neuralgic pains.?Baltimorj Sun. Figures show that the cornfields of the United States covsr a territory as large as England, Scotland and Belgium united, while the grain fields surpass Spaiai la territorial extent.