1 The Southern cotton mills linve in.
creased in number in six yeara from 161 '
to 310, r.nd iu production from $10,- c
387, COS to $30,720,250, or 88 per cent, t
They have weathered severj storms, re- {
suiting from a too rapid growth, have 1
sccured new markets, and nre now ex- I
|wrting goods. i
Think of a counterfeit buzzing iu tho J
head to cure a cold 1 A sensation has
been produced in the London drug market
by tho accidental discovery of a substitute
for quinine. The substitute is al- |
leged to liavo liko medical properties, |
*U? i ? r i i.
?uuu^ii uiu tusii ui pruuuuuuu 125 nut uvcr
*ix cents an ounce. |
Colorado has 890 miles of first-class j
irrigating canals, 3500 miles of second- ^
?ry canals, and 40,000 miles of smaller |
pitches, which have cost in the aggregate
abcut $11,00 < ,000, and will irrigate
$,200,000 r.cres. The operation of this '
great water system has developed con- ,
dieting claims of various ditch com- I (
jmnies in regard to the use of wntcr,
which it is very difficult to settle.
The famous shell heaps at Damariscot- |
tis, Me., are to be ground up into hen
food and fertilizers by a Boston com- ^
|>any. The largest heap 16 841 feet long ,
toy 120 feet wide, and is from four to (
twenty feet deep. The o~igin of these |
shell heaps has been a subject of much |
discussion among archmologists. The
Peabody Museum is to have all the
relics and curiosities that may bo found (
in. the heaps.
It has been deemed imnossible that i
MT ~
carrier-pigeons could rival the telephone, i
but a wholesale baker of Brussels,having
fifteen branch establishments, sends to 1
each, with tho first morning delivery, a
pigeon, which during tho day returns
with any unusual order. At the bakery I
its alighting closes a circuit through a I
vibrating bell, and announces its arrival, i
Tho entire expense of purchase and in- i
tallation not having exceeded the cost
of two months' rental of tho telephone,
tho happy baker felicitates himself on his '
happy evasion of the hello business.
Ollr pnncnl n f Plinmnito
^ l?V VUVU?UliO| VI VI tllUU ) |
writes the Department of State: "Horse I
<neat is extensively consumed by the !
laboring classes, the pricoe ranging from
four to five cents per pound. I can also
vouch for the fact that a large number of
<logs are annually killed for consumption.
Dog meat is publicly exposed for
?&le in the markets, and I am informed
that many well-to-do people frequently
eat it in preference to mutton; and the
fact that it is sold from one to three
cents per pound more than horso meat,
would seem to bear out this assortion*
"'Roastdog and dumplings,' is frequently
mdvertiscd in the papers by keepers of
restaurants, and the Chemnitz papers
contain a weekly statistical account of
*11 the horses and dogs killed for consumption
in that city. Dog meat is
supposod to possess a curative power in
cases of pulmonary complaint1, and to
judge by the number annually killed in
this neighborhood, the disease must: hn
widespread."
-Electric power has been applied in a *
very novel manner of lato on the estate 1
of the marquis of Salisbury at IIatfield> *
.England, where it has been in operation 1
for some time past in various ways and ?
works; but the last is pcrbaps the most ]
/ peculiar of all. On one of the farms en- 1
- silage has been stored in large quantities, f
a farm building being turned into a eilo *
tfor this purpose; and, it being decided <
tthat the green food shall bo "chaffed" <
tefore placing it in the silo, a chaff cut S
ter has been crectcd about twenty feet l
mbove the ground. This mnchine is not >
only driven by the electric power, but t
the same motor is employed to elevate i
the grass to tho level of the chaff-cutter, i
This is done so effectually that about i
four tons of rough grass arc raised and {
icut per hour. A sixteen light "Brush* i
machine is the generator, driven by a <
huge water-wheel, and both arc on tho e
bankB of the river Lea, a mile and a half <
distant. Nor is this all, for the same
electric power is ingeniously applied to
work the "lifts" in use at tie many haystacks
on the estate. -
t
A problem which is attracting to its ?
vtudy astronomers, relates to the earth as 1
a timekeeper. Wo measure timo by di- 1
viding either the period during which 1
the earth revolves around the sun, or that i
in which it turns on its axis. By the
first method we measure a year; by the |
second a day. The earth, according to ]
some astronomers, is losing time. 1
Through two causes, tho tun's attraction ,
and the friction, bo to speak, of the (
tides, the earth each year revolves more ]
?lowly on its axis. The speculative
question which these astronomers are discussing
is whether in tho end the earth
-will stop its revolution upon its axis and
will present always the same face to the
?un. When that event occurs there will
too perpetual day in one part of tho earth |
?nu jicrpciuai mgoi in another. But
there is no occasion for immediate alarm.
The rate at which the earth is supposed
to loso time only shortens the year by
half a second in a century. There are
tnoro than 81,000,000 seconds in a year.
Therefore, if tho earth ever does cease to
revolve on its axis it will be more than
six thousand million years before it will
stop.
r'''\ ? . ' ' . -
Nature's provisions arc indeed wonderul.
The juxtaposition of coal and iron
>ro has often been marked, as well as
he fact that most large streams flow
>ast large cities. And now the Philalelphia
Telegraph, points out another of
hese kind providences by noticing that
nost of the great pie bakeries aud the
pill manufactories of tho land aro centered
within convenient reach of ono
mother in New England !
Reports of two cases of recent outrages
on Americans in China have been
"orwarded to the Secretary of State,
rhe Presbyterian mission house at Kwa*
Ping was looted and destroyed, and the
Rev. A. A. Fulton and wife and Miss
Mary A. Fultou were forced to flee for
Iheir lives. A lady missionary at the
Methodist hospital at Chung King was
?toned by a mob and quite soriously injurcd.
In neither of these two cases
:ould the authorities bo induced to punish
(lie offenders or give protection to
Jie missionaries or their property.
According to the Overland China Mail
i method of suicide of an original chnrictcr
has been invented and carried into
successful effect in Iiong Kong by a
Dhiuese servant of the name of YeungJtan-Hing.
In the first place he attempted
to pass out of life by the commonplace 1
method of a dose of opium. Ho was,
liowevc, r brought round by prompt measares
taken by a Chinese doctor, who roiided
in the same house. But ho was
aot to be balked in his intention, and
two days later lie procured a heavy hammer
and a long nail, and with the former
he drove the latter so daeply into
bis skull that, although every effort was
made at the government civil hospital to
save his life, he expired the next day.
A man must, indeed, bo bent upon selfJestruction
who will hammer a nail into
bis head. It would be difficult to '
imagine any form of suicide demanding 1
greater nerve and resolution. 1
"Wiggins, who knows all about it, says ,
that earthquakes are caused by tho shift- ,
ing of tho planet's center of gravity.
Wiggins is tlie Canadian weather prophet
?or, to speak with precision, hois one of
the Canadian weather prophets. He dis- (
:overed, a year ago last March, that the
planet was about to shift its center of
gravity. Forthwith, he set his prophetic
faculty to determine what the conscquenses
of the performance would be. Startng
upon the self-evident fact that a move- :
ncnt of the ccnter of gravity one mile (
from the normal center of volume would
:ausc "the parts of the surface at the end ,
>f the longer axis to be heavier, and tho
parts at the end of the shorter axis to be
lighter, than normally," he discerned at
)nce that "these disks would grind upon
sach other," generating heat and lava that ,
would produce an earthquake in South j
Carolina when Jupiter should be near his ,
inferior conjunction, at the end of
August, 1S86. Which settles the question |
)f the South Carolina earthquake, with>ut
any help of the disagreeing seismolo- ]
;ists, to the satisfaction of everybody. j
A Spanish Plow.
The latest novelty in plows is at pre- 1
>ent being used in Spain. It works the '
and to a depth of 80 inches, and turns
i furrow 2 feet wide. It is drawn by '
% 1
iwo 16 horse-power engines. The instru- 1
nent is constructed on the patent balance- '
slow principle, but of very strong pro- ^
portions. It is a one furrow plow, but (
itted with two skifes, tho first turning a 1
urrow 16 inches wide and 14 inches f
leep, tho second following to a dopth 1
>f 30 inchc? and turning over a furrow *
J4 inches wide, leaving the land com- *
jletely loosened to a depth of 2 feet 6 ^
nches. Drawn by tho steam engines, 1
he account in a foreign exchange says it
s possible with this plow to turn over '
'our acres per day. In cases where it is *
lot necessary to turn up the land to this '
jreat depth, but simply to stir up the *
indcr-soil, all that is required is to take
)ff the last skife and in its place fix a
lubsoil tyne, which will go to the depth (
>f 24 or 80 inches. '
I1
Mockery. i
Pompous Hanker?William, I'm going i
;o the Exchange. From there I go to <
he Directors' meeting of tho Gilde In* 1
turanco Company, after which I shall i
ock on my associates in the Bull beef j
Syndicate, and then go home. If any- <
i>ody calls you will know where to find 1
mo. Good-day! ?
Cashier?All right, sir; eood-dav. i
(Aside) I am going to Delmonico's. i
Prom theie I go to tho office again, afto ]
which I shali look in on tho tickct office <
of some reliable scalper, and then go to i
Canada. If anybody calls you won't 1
know where to find me. ? Tid-BiU. (
Adding Insult to Injory. ,
Never was true delicacy of consider- (
ation better illustrated than by a thief in
the French capital a week or two ago. ,
A ruffian was struggling with M. Autel
fcr h.s watch. M. Autel was proving
too much lor the scoundrel, when another
Gallic Bill Sikes camo up, and the
honest man was laid on tho pavement.
The conquerors disputed over their pray,
without much chanco of immcdiato settlement,
when a happy thought camo to
rascal number one. "Sir," said ho to
the groaning and bruised Autel, "we
beg you to arbitrate in this matter."?
New York Commercial.
{
Chimes. <
For from tho fern and moss, ,
Fluttering birch unil weo lir cross, (
A nd the pino's low murmui in?,
"Where the frightened lichens cling
To the overhanging odgo '
Of the precipice and ledge, ]
Fearlosi in their dainty g!oo, ]
Wave the harebell* ">rrily. j
From the dusky rafters hung, <
Ne'er in Bolgian belfry swung
Bells more exquisitely wrought I ,
r>.- 4i.? v. ? 1.4
ajj iuo luuuuioiu uioc/ioa uuuguirTosting,
swaying to and fro?
While beside thoin, bending low,
Breathless I wait to hoar <
Echo of thoir chiming clear. I
But the airy harmony 1
Is too wonderful for mo, f
And I cannot catch a strait
Of that rare and sweot refrain, (
Yet the tiny bells still ring,, I
And they shall my greeting bring
Till, though near so softly stirred,
Every trembling note is hoard. 1
?Marion B. Allen in the Cottag3 Hearth. <
A CASE OF BRIBER!.
i
BY LUKE 8II?VRr.
In the ccntrc companion way of most 1
Atlantic steamers there is framed a public
notice which attracts a good deal of *
attention from tho passengers on tho way 1
over. It is published by the British Gov- 1
eminent, and is ti> the cllect that any' 5
person offering a bribe to one of Her *
Mnjcsty's customs officials will be heavily s
lined. The amount of this fine i? men- 1
tioned, oithcr ?40 or ?10D or something
of that sort. The contemplation of this *
* # 1
notice for nine or ten days every time n '
person goes up the centr.- c mpanionway '
is calculated to give that person a very
great respect for the unbribability of the '
Liverpool cmtoms offices. Tli >. Ameri- 1
can Government has no such notic.R 1
posted up anywhere that I ever saw.
Whether it is because it is so well known
that the American customs officer never !
under any circumstance accepts a bribe,
or whether the government fears fhat the s
public would regard the posting ?f a no- 5
tice as a joke, I have not been able to
nscertain. 1
I have never met anyone yet who would
bribe a Liverpool customs officer. The '
penalty which has stared him in the fnce 1
during the voyage i$ apt to discourage 1
nil such attempt*. However, there tire '
few things which a person could take (
into England on which duty is axacted.
I believe the customs officers have a ?
prejudice against dynamite, against pirated
reprints of English books, against *
tobacco and some thinjjs of that 6ort,
but, as a geueral thing, the American
traveler carries nothing with him on which
duty could be charged. ^
Our big steamship reached Liverpool
late one evening last summer. The cus- *
foms authorities penned us all up in the s
several rooms of a building on tho landing.
Here there was a good deal of fuss (
and shoving through a passage way that '
was very narrow, and tho hand
baggage was examined as we ^
passed out. This was a very slow ^
and tedious arrangement, and
it was nearly 11 o'clock at night before
tve were through with it, and even at 1
that time the trunks had not been looked ^
it. We were then passed up into a room
which wo reached by a long incline. On !
slirabing up this inclino we entered a 1
arge building .seemingly containing
anly one immense room. It was well 1
lighted, and the scene was one which 1
:mce looked upon a person would not ^
forget in a hurry. On the right hand 1
lide were piled trunks, bags, valises,hand '
satchels and baggage of every descrip
aon. On the loit ran a long, low countcr
on which trunks were being examined
ay the uniformed custom house officers,
irhile, bending over their open baggage
were the owners, generally talking rapidy
to the imperturbable officer. All over
the room were some 100 excited passengers
running wildly hither and thither
trying to collect their luggage. Trunks
that were marked with names were arranged
in alphabetical order. The sections
of the building were
lettered with ihe alphabet painted
arge and conspicuous along thc
right hand side, but, as the great
majority of the trunks had no nainj, thc
>wners had to run about in quest of
them. Porters wero there with their
ihort jackets and numbered caps, dragging
the trunks about under the owner's
lirections, and as soon as one trunk had
been examined it was taken away by a
itahvart porter who called a cab, and
its place was filled by another trunk
dammed down by another stalwatt
porter. It was a scene of bewildering
confusion. As I always travel as light
ns possible, endeavoring to compress my
be'.ongings into a satchel that can be
carried by liund if necessary, my troubles
were over, and so I strolled along with
comparative indifference, enjoying the
strange and bustling appearance of the
place. I was able to give some asskt- '
ance hero and thero to companions of *
the voyage, and rather put on airs as 1
being an old traveler with some ex- *
porience of that sort of thing, don't you *
know, and p!umcd myself on having my 1
baggage examined long ago. 1
At tho further end of the room were a 1
couple of ladies who were travelling *
alone. One of them had a large trunk, '
and the trunk had a new-fangled lock, f
the latest of American patent. A cus- '
toms officer was vainly trying to unlock 1
this trunk, and tho owner was luoking j
>n with much concern at his ineffectual
attempts. She hud tried herself, it
icomori, and had been unable to open it.
"You are not doing it rightly," said
the second young lady. "You have to
push this clasp that way, thou turn the
key half way around, push the clasp
'ntrk and give tho key another turn and
!i 111 1 i? ?
.null 11 will UlllUUA. '
The officer looked up, smiled and
diook liis j:irred linger, and I said :
"Let 1110 try the unlocking."
I followed the directions as well as I
:ould and nearly broke my fingers, but
;he key wouldn't turn. I am afraid the
nagic words I said were not the "open
sesame" that was required.
"I am very sorry, ladies," said the
officer, "but I shall havo to break tho
io?k."
The ladies were very sorry too, bm
:hey m^de no objection and tho officer
icpartod and returned with a hatchet,
This he placed under the obnoxious
ratch and tried to pry it open. But the
lock was built very strongly und it
wouldn't give way. Tho hatchet slipped
and the officer cut his finger.
"Cau't you stretch tho law a little,"
said I, "and let that trunk pass. Tho
llldins iirn nnt imin fr* 1 3
"WW UU Ota J 111
l)Ut arc going directly to France. I am
mre you would find nothing dutiablo in
the trunk or they would have mado
some objection to your breaking the
ock."
It was now after 12 o'clock. Most of
l.hc people had claitmd their baggage,
a ad it examined and departed for their
hotels.
"Well," said the officer, "I ought not
:o doit, you know, but I will chanec it,"
ind with that ho put on the rcquisito
mark that would enable it to pass out.
The owner was very grateful indeed, and
ivhilc he was stamping the trunk she
said to me:
"I would like very much to give him
something. II >w much do you think I
should offer him?"
"Well," I replied, 1 'as a general thing
in England it's safe enough to give a tip
svhcre a service is done, but the penalty
lere seems to be very high. I don't
>hink I would risk it. Yet I don't suprjoic
lie would object to a sliiling
if it could be given him so that no
jue could see it."
"I will give him half a crown," sho
laid, "if he will take it."
"All right," I cautioned, "but don't
lo it very publicly."
The lady approached and said in her
kindest voice :
"I am very sorry yon have hurt your
3nger."
"Oh," said the officer, "it don't matter
in the least, I assure you ; a mere
scratch."
"Well, I am very much obliged, inIced,"
she whispered, "I hope you will!
let me give you this, not as a compcusa- j
tion. vou knuw." '
' - I
'A ! miss," lie returned, smiling and I
bowing very low to her, "glad to have
been of any service to you, but really,
?'c are not allowed to take anything;
it is against the rules," and he waved
txis hands up and down as ho said this.
"But," persisted the lady, "it is only
i very little, and don't at all come under
the head of a bribe."
"I assure you, miss," he said, "you
ire not indebted to me for anything, and
is I said before, I am only too happy to
have been of any service. You see,
niss," he said, as we walked away after
tho porter who had shouldered the trunk,
"officers of the customs are never allowed J
.o take anything, no matter how small, |
jnder any circumstance* whatever." |
A.nd with that he again bowed very low j
to us, and I walked with the ladies out
to their carriage.
"Well," said I, "it is refreshing to
see a customs officer that will not take a
jribe 1"
The young lady laughed merrily.
"I am glad to hear you say so," she |
,.!J llf? T I ?*
>uiu, jur 1 tvuow now we uiu it very
jleverly." I
''"Why, you don't mean to soy that you
jave him the money?" |
8he held up her hands. They were
rnipty. ;
"I slipped half a crown into his hand J
;he first timo I spoke to him, and ho con- j
;ealed it with a deftness that convinced
ne he had done the like before." I
"Then you urged him to take it aftei '
to had it in his hand, and he refused it '
vith such a Ghesterfleldian air while he !
vas really in possession of it!"
"Exactly," sho said. "Wasn't it neaty
done on both sides?"
"Neatly done? "Well, I should say so.
iut wnnc a pair 01 Hypocrites Docn oz
,-ou aro I"?Detroit Free Press.
A Wise Eel.
In the summer of 1808 Peter Kern of
Washington township, Pennsylvania,
caught a small eel and put it in a well in
lis yard, where it still is. It is four
eet long and about five inches in diameer.
It keeps itsolf concealed at the
jottom, except at irregular intervals,
vhen it comes to the top, and these ap
>earances aro alwavs followed by rai
bVithin a day or two. During haying
ind harvest and other critical periods of
urm work the farmers for miles around
lend every dity to Korn'd for intelligence
>f the cel. It will havo no other kind of
ish in the well, and kills all that oro put
in.?Philadelphia Record.
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CUUIOUS.
It was not until the curly part of the
present century that whipping posts nn?1
stocks were abolished in Massachusetts.
F.ics have been employed as sanitaiv
inspectors and used for detecting the location
of causes of disease from decotn
pesed substances.
There are two families of the name ol
Dodd in Barton county, Gecr^in. Tlu-}
arc not related, and interest in their
JiriC<?Q frAm ~e * 1 '
..V.... villi mub II1IVU OIIU OI I lie ianulies
is composed of nine girls, while the
other is made up of eight boys.
In the reign of William III. of England
those who received parish relief had
to wear a budge. It was the letter P,
with the initial of the parish to which
they belonged, in red or blue cloth on
the shoulder of the right sleeve.
J. M. Means of Liberty, Mo., has a
forty-yenr-old clock that is a perfect barom
ter. Just before a rnin the bell,
usually of a clear and distinct tono, tells
the hours in a tone so dull and muffled
as to be hardly audible. It never makes
a mistake.
The R'.-v. Robert Cushman preached
the first sermon in New England. It wa?
delivered at New Plymouth, Dec. 12,
1G21, and was "On the Sin and Danger
of Self Love." It was printed in London,
and is believed to be the oldest sermon
extant preached in America.
An English writer remarks that th
recent successful attempts at balloon
steerage in France have led many
thoughtful persons to believe the day not
to bo far distant when we shall see balloons
plying in well-paying passenger
traffic between England and the continent.
In an Indian mound near O.ikland,
Ind., was unearthed recently a stone
wall ten feet square. "Within were five
or six skeletons, three copper vessels
filled with fifty pounds of rich silver ore,
a copper axe weighing eighteen pounds
attached to a stone handle, and a number
of stone hatchets.
Chns. Leroux, an athlete of this city,
earned $500 on Jtlmday by jumping from
the roof of a Philadelphia museum, 100
feet abovo the pavement, with a parachute,
lie went down fast, just missed a lamp
post, struck a spectator on the head, and
cut his own forehead slightly but was
otherwise unhurt.
St. Augustine, Fia., is the oldest town
in the United States, a fort having been
built by the Spaniards there under Menendez
in 1505. By some it lias been contended
that Santa Fe is the oldest. It
was first visited by the Spaniards about
154*2, wheu it was an Indian pueblo. It
is not known exactly when it was settled
by the Spaniards.
Gallantry.
O'.d Mr. Snooks is an inveterate wag.
He lives at a large boarding house on
West 14th street. In the same h? use
live a couple of young dry goods clerks.
They are both of the genus dude, and
affect an air of extreme and feminine
languor which Mr. Snooks declares makes
him sick at his stomach.
The other 'morning, ju: t after Mr.
Snooks had taken his seat at the breakfast
table, the two young exquisites
lolled into tllfi rnnm nnfl ?!??;
chairs.
"Geawge," drawled one of them to
the waiter, "wait on us immediately."
"But," said the waiter, "Mr. Snooks
was in ahead of you, sir; I'm waiting on
him."
"Wenh in a huhwv, Goawge, and must
bo waited on1"
In despair, George turned to Mr.
flnnnlra * * W l\of cVinll T /1a
Ulivvikwi TV UHW Oillill JL V* Wj OAK I
"George I" said Snooks severely and
audibly, "always wait on the ladies
first I"
.The dudes now express tho opinion
that Mr. Snooks is a coarse, brutal man?
' sells potatoes on Chambahs street,
y'know."?Life.
In formation for Ills Father.
"Father," he said, as he sat on his
parent's knee; "have we got lots of
money ?"
"A pretty fair sum, my boy."
"Did we make it in Canada ?"
"In Canada? How could we mako
it in Canada ?"
"That's what I told the Smith boy;
but ho stuck to it that it was the same as
making it in Canada. He said you compromised
with tho bank for half, and was
allowed to return. Father, I?"
"You go to bed, sir," exclaimed the
indignant father; "and if I ever hear of
your playing with that Smith boy again,
I'll have your hide on tho lenco."?Wall
Street New?.
Onion Tears,
Crocodile tears aro things of
ancient history, and tears produced with
the aid of onions arc equally well known,
but it has remained for modern science
to find a way to produce onion tears
without betraying tho presence of tho
aggressive onion itself. In fact, the
aggressive onion need not bo proscnt at
all. An essential oil is extracted from
it which. hns all tho tear-compelling
qualities of tho solid vegetable itself.
One drop of this oil on a handkerchief it
good for one flood of tears, two drops
produco a persistent fit of sobbing and
threo drops an appcaranco of uncontrollable
grief.
A QUEER SOCIETY.
The Wor*k of a Cigar.?TipSaving
Association.
Collecting and Disposing of OgarEuds in
the Interests of Charity.
Not long ago the average American
citizen bit oil or cut c IT the small end of
h:s cigar, before lighting, and threw it
away. Since an internal stamp duty
was placed on cigars, and thoir price has
advanced a3 a consequ -nee, he does not
generally dispose of the ends in ttiis way.
On the counter of nearly every place
where cigars are sold is a little machino
for cutting off the end beforo the smoker
places the cigar in his mouth. The tips
fall into a recept-iclc, from which they aro
collected at the cose of each day. In
some cases they arc disposed of to persons
who smoke pipes, and in others they
are sold to manufacturers of fine-cut or
granulated smoking tobacco.
Stockholm is the headquarters of a
benevolent cigar-tip-saving association,
of which the King of Sweden is president.
All members of this society provide
themselves with an apparatus for
cutting off the ends of cigars, with which
is combined a box for holding the fragments.
This is carried in the pocket
find run if rlnoirofl !?/> ?- 1 -
I ?.? >) ?v>o.IUMJ VJ abvuuiiuu IVJ U1 II1H 1U
a part of a cigar case. At convenient
times the contents of the little box aro
emptied into a suitable rcccptacle, kept
at home, and toward the end of the year
the entire collection of cigar-tips is forwarded
to Stockholm. There they aro
sold at auction and the proceeds employed
in providing a Mimptuou? banquet
for poor children. At this banquet,
which usually occurs at Christmas or
New Years, there is an illuminated tree
on which presents for the poor children
are plnced. Branches of this association
have been established in Germany and
Great Britain during (he past few years,
and the revenues of the society are now
I very large. It is now proposed to form
a similar association in the United
States.
In several European countries charred
cigar "stumps" have a commercial value.
They arc bought by shepherds for making
a decoction for killing insects ou
sheep. Florists also buy them for the
purpose of burning in green-houses or
for steeping in water that is used for
syringing plants infested by ants or other
in-ects. Some Hardeners employ them
for making nicotine water, which is said
to hasten the growth of certain flowering
plants and to causc them to put out
"cry largo blossoms.
In Paris, nccording to Lo Temps, collecting
the "stumps" of cigars and cigarettes
is an industry in which several
hundred persons of both sexes are regu
larly engaged. To be successful in this
business it is necessary to be up early and
late. Late at night, discarded rolls of
tobacco can bo seen by the fire on
them. The collectors accordingly
throng theatres, opera-houses, concert
saloons, restaurants and wine shops,
ready to pick up the fragments of cigars
nnd cigarettes that the patrons of these
places throw into the street. The boulevards
and parks are visited early every
morning long b Jore the sweepers make
I their rounds. The remnants collccted
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uiu auriuu uunug inu uuy :inu spread OUC
on paper to dry. Some of the fine tobacco
is murlc over into cigarettes. A
portion of it is converted into 6nuff. The
leaves in cigars, deprived of the ashes
and burned portions, are sold for smoking
in pips?. The waitersfin restaurants
Bave the cigar and cigarette ends left on
plates and sell them to dealers or manufacturers.
Thus hundreds of people provide
themselves with the necessities of
lifo in saving the remains of the luxuries
of the rich.? C hicigo Times.
productive Roughness.
If we seek for the pi.ices where men
have gained least from nature, and are
most degraded, intellectually, morally
and spiritually, we shall generally find
them to be the places where nature has
been most profuse in her gifts, most
lnvnrinnf". in linr nrnrl nofitmnnca T?
these favored regions thu savage eats and
drinks and bleeps liis life away in lazy
sensualism, while in less kindly lands
where a substanco has to bo forced from
the barren soil, and whero tho forces of
nature war continually on human kind,
man arises ns a king over nature, makes
her forces subject to his own .purposes,
and wins from her her most jealously
guarded treasures. So true it is that
tho most promising fields of human effort
are not those which arc externally
tho most attractive. ? Sunday School
Times.
He Left Haatilj*
Suitor?Mr. Boggs, I have come to ask
for your daughter.
Boggs?Very welll When do you
wftit her?
Suitor?At oace. I do not want to
wnit ut all.
Boggs?Well, I suppose you want all
that belongs to her, too?
Suitor?Of course. Everything that
pertains to her is sacrcd in my eyes.
Uoggi?All right 1 llcre arc her bills v
for the past month. Milliner, $97;
dressmaker, $220?
?But the suitor had melted away.?*
Jiavibler.