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[Prom th« Milwtakee Bun.l “H»re you ever boen attiu-kinl % i4b« plqg ferer ?” naked an old gen- m Ueman (ho other evening, and, without f inut|pg4or A reply, went on to relate ^' bia own experience, and to tell the result «uf hia own olwervationa. “I nevet knew a young man who, when be had ed an age between eighteen and ty-flve, but what he liad the plug hat ferer' to a greater or leas aeverity. ■ He will anller a great deal, too, l>efnre it fairly breaks out, and he gets a shiny tile «a his head. Then ho Buffers se verely for several days after he gets the hat, and he is conceited enough to lie- Here the eyes of the whole world are upon him. He will wish for the tirst *lay or two he liadn’t g<J^t, and then Again he’ll pluck tip grit enough to .wear it in spite of everything. Next to the mustache ambition, the plug hat fefet strikes to the very vitals. The llrst symptoms of the fever makes its presence t known by the victim’s visiting some lint stoce, and tryltag on half a dozen silk hats, and looking admiringly at himself in a mirror. He will put it on square, then cock it over to one side, then hang it on his lefte oar, and smile with satis faction at the imago of himself under the • hat in tfye mirror. “A young calf under a new shed could not feel prouder of itself, than the young .man with goose down on hfe tapper lip, when he first lieholds his manly brow in a looking-glass, supporting a shiny rifehat. It a too overcoming # for ai«. thing, and in a great many instances it is more overcoming than becoming. !'Bot theh they must have ’em, no matter ' about the expense. Finally the hat is purchased, put in a hat-l>ox, and con vened to the young man’s room with (life grfrtest care and fond expectations of ths ^holiness it will give the wearer in the near future. For a week, mayl»e, he will txercise the hat by wearing it in liis room for a few hours every eveumg. Fhudly he gets his coumge Jto the proper pitch, and on am auspicious Sunday evening starts for church with the hat nicely setting on the top of his head. He knew he would attract attention and! "ifie first street urchin he meets calls at tention to it by shouting ‘shoot the hat.' “Now, how did that young heathen come tft notice anything new or novel in the hat ? It is easily explained. When a man wears a plug hat on the street for the first time he gives himself away by his I'm-on-dress-parade air. He will walk as carefully as though trying to balance a pail of water on his head and expep^f ing every moment that it will and douse him. It don’t 1( new shoe to nttriict^dtentjo,,, but it - etlfftLff'Spme iu an unusual and unnatural degree. It takes several pnV lic appcartuices in the new ping to again limber up the spine to its normal con dition. Arriving at church the young man hesitates for an instant about going in, but rememlvriug an appointment to tee a young lady home, he braces up, ntifHy holds the determined-to-nttroct- uttention silk hat over hia rigid fore arm, he mentally swears vengeance on the usher who prances him np to the front pew in the center of tlie church for no other purpose than to call attention, in his mind, to the new plug- Eight out of ten tirst-tirne- I-wore-n-plug- hat young men will 1 teeomc so agitated that instead of putting the hat on the Uoor out of the way, will place it on the seat and forget to remove it when the tashcr shows some one else in for the sole purpose, in his mind, of having them sit on it and wreck it-MtV .-good thing to have the first plug wrecked in this The presence of t$je Ooreau Embassy in New York gives renewed interest to the country and its rulers. A eorre- spondeut of the Now York Herald the following: Seoul, the capital of Corea, is in the northwestern part pf the peninsula and near the Sain, at Hau, River, )>eing about sixty miles from its month. The old maf>s put it directly on the river, but recent visits have proved that a town which is near it,' and which is on the river, was fwobably mistaken for Seoul whan foreigners were not permitted to ifpproneh near enough to determine its position. It is about an hour and a half’s walking distance away from the river. The capital is a walled city, built at the foot of a range of hills, and the site was evidently selected as affording an easy and natural means for dHeucc, the hills Wing in the rear and the river in the front. It is said to contain about six hundred thousand inhabitants, bat the walls enclose several times the area oc cupied by the houses, and after surround ing the town ascend the hills and form' a barrier along the topmost ridges. The city is divided into four nearly equal fmrts by twp immense streets which tra verse it at right angles through the cen ter. Upon these two streets is carried on the principal business of the place. The King is a young man of thirty- tw<>. and it is only since the summer of 1K82 that he has actually been at the head of the State. Unlike most Eastern potentates he has but one wife, but at the same time he msy have ua 'many ns' ho chooses. It is stated that there is no limit to the royal enreubines, but that as the Queen keeps a sharp look-out upon her royal master tin y lend a life of leisure and idleness. As all the court dresses, embroideries and many other fancy articles are said to be made in the palace, it is but lair to presume that 1111*80 women find something with which to occupy themselves. One of the most curious circumstances in regard to the King « that .he has no name. He is simply known as “The King,” amt not until he dies is a name given him. He has the power to name his successor to the throne, and that Kiiccchsor need not of necessity the next of blood. He is ne»ej ^eu hisby l>eople, and only^tostfre* the palace pre cincts twice R year, and then for the pur pose of ..performing religious ceremonies temple some half a mile away. In ^ stature he is below the medium height; lias a handsome, pleasant face, jet black hair, u light mustache and imperial of the same color, a white complexion, beautiful teeth, and, the most noticeable of all, dancing black eyes that seem to Ik* overflowing with merriment. His state dress is of crimson satin, heavily embroidered with golden drag ons, and the dress of tho nobles at court is of a dork green with a square piece of embroidery on the breast and on the back representing flying storks. He is always accompanied by two immense eunuchs, who are also nobles. Up to the time of the presentation of General Foote, the American Envoy, in May last, the Kmir had seen lint one other for eigner, Mr. Von Mollendorff. Minister of Customs. It is the latter’s iutetatiou, ns a gradual introduction of new ideas will permit, to have the King appear iu public among the people. He is already prepared for it, but it. is People sometimes wonder at the sharp answers often given them by the officials of a railroad ticket office. If they should stand for years behind a window aelling tickets to people from all grades of so ciety and from every nation in the vrorld, they would find it a severe task to keep their good nature protof against the fool ish questions they would so often have to answer. A ticket seller at the Union Depot, Troy, N. Y.. remarked that after thirty years in a ticket office he won dered that he was able to return a polite answer to any question. He related an incident that occurred at the depot An old lady came to the window and pur chased a ticket for Saratoga, after which she removed her lionnet, took out her knitting, and seated herself iu the wait ing room. Soon a voice called out: “All aboard for Saratoga aud the but the old lady didn’* ' r . Lean while the waiting room liad l>een deserted, and the traiG wfcs nt>out to start. Still the lady plied her needle in the most unconcerned manner. Surprised at this, the official in the ticket office asked her if she wasn’t going to Saratoga. “Qh, yes,” said the old lady, “I’ve Inwglit my ticket,” “But the train is about"-to start,” said tho ticket man. “Well. I’ve got u good sent,” was the answer to the astonished official. She had never traveled before, and the hncried explana tion of the ticket man came too late for her to caffch the train. How Bananas are. Raised. whether the people are quite ready for snch an innovation upon their old estab lished customs. . . . wrecked, but it is generally done by some kind friend who sneaks np behind, jams it down over your ears, and is away before you fatrly undbrflTani'Tn brick block hasn't tumbled onto you. A plug hat is probably the most dressy hat, but heavens ] how a man suffers, when the fever first fully develops itsell to a head. 4 ’ Just as .the story was finished a young man with akin-tight pants, tooth-picl shoes, arms curved so as to make hi? body look as though it was in a paren thesis, with a pipe-stem cane in tin fingers of his right hand, while a shiny, latest style of plug hat was on his head, passed. “Poor fellow,” remark* d the old man as he passed into the hotel, “if he only had brains enough to coverTlio point of a cambric needle his hat would lie quite becoming. They all get the fever though, regardless of brains.” £ldebly and obnoxious snitor, w in was the first to arrive and evidently means to be the last to go—“I have for gotten most of my mathematic*, but at your age, sir, I was devoted to them.” Impatient young lover—“Ah d then you probably are familiar with the/rule ot three.” E. 8.—“Tho rule of 7 three?” “Yes, that two is company and three is —one more." * /*. Fob thk puhposb op transmitting mo«ey by mail in snudi sums the new l>o6tal notes which carim into use on the first of the month, will be found much convenient than postal money orders, the purchase and payment of which is attended with" a great deal of No written application is made fgr {fee notes. They are bought at the window like postage stamps, and the t to whom they are payable is not 1 to identify himself. They sat “keg-felt want” for safe and eccvenjfent method of sending money by The Queen’s household is entirely way, because tho first hat has got to be separate from that of the King, as, owing to the customs of the country, she is surrounded by women and can only be seen by Vomcn. She has never been seen by a foreigner, but is described us lw*ing very beautiful. Before the arrival of the wife of the American Minister in Seoul,the Queen had expressed an ardent desire to'see her, but as yet she a vulgar man become* ric h and governs society, a great fuss if hi* daughter marries her ooschman, although society said girfs mother married eortse tbu lather was then sod had not struck hia is very unreasonable, lias not done so, although she sent eight of her ladies iu waiting to make a formal call soon offer Mrs. Foote reached there. So closely were they guarded wad con cealed that no one at the Legation save Mrs. Foote sow thrm. It is said that Co reap ladies, are.averst* -ttftalling, ow ing to the 4&ot that they clo not wish their calls returned, because iu that case foreigners might see the low position they occupy in tho social scale and the degraded condition of their lives. In a word, the Coreau wife, whether of high or low degree, merely occupies the posi tion of housekeeper aud maid of all work, having no social position what- <ver. Although the Coreau women exhibit a great cnri<*ity to see foreigners, andean lie continually seen peering from behind doors and shook odes, the soldiers keep an ever watchful eye an them and drive them back to a safe distance On the ride to Seoul one is often reminded that bright eyes are watching him from be hind the trees or bushes as he passes along the roed, but woe betide them if they are discovered by the soldiers, for they have no hesitation in pursuing them with the bamboo. The costume of the men is particular ly adapted to a life of idleness. The headdress consists of three parts—first, the band which goes about the head, be ing stretched as "tightly as possible across the forehead and secured to but tons or rings just behind the eats; then the inner hat of horsehair, which is merely a receptacle for the hair and top- knot, agd, Anally, the outer hat of fine bamboo, whisk resembles somewhat in width of brim the «ld fashioned Quaker As everybody kuows who has eaten n banana, the pulp is seedless. The plants are propogated from other plants, so that the stock is not likely to run- out The plant requires for vigorous growth a deep rich soil, abundantly watered.’ With these conditions present there is said to be no risk of a crop in the hot regions where alone the fruit is produced. Niue mouths after a cutting lias been planted a purple bud appears in the centre of the enfolding leaves that shoot out from the head of the parent stein. The stem efii which the bud appears grows rapidly above the main stalk. As the bud in- questionable-I creases in weight the stem bends down- yard by a graceful curve, on the ex tremity of which this bud continues to groy till, the purple blossoms falling off, liftlc shoots appp^i iis tbe enibryo fmft. Each fruit has a yellow blossom at its outward extremity. At the end of from three to four mouths ihe-fnut has grown to maturity* and is picked long enough before it is “dead ripe” to preserve it in marketable condition. From the roots of the parent stalk other thoota appear, which are trimmed out or left to grow, as the cultivator may deem beak A single stalk, therefore. Ixan only bunch or crop as its life work. Span iards have a religions reverence for the banana, believing it to be the fruit of which Adam partook. This fruit has long been regarded aa extremely nutritions. It is recommended almvo all others for invalids who are nu- nble to swallow hardier food. An esti mate by Hnmboldt claims that 44,000 pounds of bananas can be produced or the soil that would be required for 1,000 pounds of potatoes, and that the same area that would be reqaired to raise wheat enough for one man would produce enough bananas to feed twenty-five men. la the Tala*. An African diamond, neighing in tbs rough 126 carats, has recently been brought to this country, and was taken from the Custom House by a large jew •fry and diamond importing firm in Maiden lane. Appraiser O. A. Stevens of the Oustom House said: ,, "The stone passed through my offloe, but as it wea uncut, and therefore free of duty, I cannot speak ot tta ralue. In deed, the value of such stones while in the rough could scarcely be estimated. The gem ia of yellow hue. It is a risk to purchase stones in the rough, and if I were a dealer Iwould not like to invest much in so larfe a stone while uncut. It will lose perhaps one-half in catting, and it may perhaps turn ont full of black spots or feathers, or it may not be hard and brilliant, as a fine stone.ahould be; and then again its color ia against its having any high commercial value. “I decline, of course, to mention Hie name of the firm in the city to whom the stone was consigned,” he continued. “It came from Paris. I had a eat dia mond weighing about twenty-six carats pass through my hands the other day of exceptional brillianoe and purity, which would be worth, perhaps, $50,000; but allowing that the big Cape stone of 125 carats cutting to a sixty-carat stcoe, 1)0 cause of its hue, it would not bo worth much more than a tenth of that amount.” -y This diamond is said to be the largest ever imported. The firm will not aay how much was paid for it, nor ita prob able value. It has been sept to Boston for shaping and polishing. The Kohi Noor weighed before recutting ' 186 ouratav it* present weight being 102} carats. A number of experts have ex amined the atone, but are not certain aa to its character. While there has been no diminution in the high prices de manded and tcadily obt^ine^ for dia-, mouifs of the finest quality, a very con siderable fall in the market value of ordinary. * 4 r**v* occurred about six Jivw.ths ago. A- syndicate of London dealers tried to effect a corner in the market and some African dealers made a simibr attempt at the same time. An over-supply and consequent tumble in prices was cansed by the latter bringing over more diamonds than the London combination could buy. , These stones have since been bought up, chiefly by dealers in Amsterdam and elsewhere, who are able to hold them fora rise, and consequently there has been a rapid advance again in prices, which is still in progress. This reaction has been aided by the collapse, for the present at least, of the Kimberley Mine in South Africa, which has not only caved in, but *8 involved insomuch liti gation that it will not be workeilproba- bly for the next two years. This fact has given a fresh stimulus to diamond digging in Brazil, where, it is reported, * new mice has been discovered. ( la.Bvwr* #*rtkr st, Umm that was. It may be mentioned that some of these hate are very expensive, sad can be made toooet as high at $60. The enter gemmate oomaiat of e pair ol _ baggy trooaco stock into padded stock- turning Bp Ue nose ig the toga, the latter so large that they gxv* the v the appearance of one auffering It Didn’t Cease OC v* ./ The members of a colored Methodist church in Wmson, N. 0., projected an excursion to Columbia, S. C. Not be ing able to raise the money otherwise, the officer* of the church mortgaged the church building for eight hundred dol lars, receiving, however, only six hun dred dollars in cash. The contract price of the train was twelve hundred dollars. As soon as the Richmond and that six hundred dollars of the amount had been deposited in the bank to the credit of the railroad, the train was dis patched from Riohmond and arrived in Winson on time. The trustees scratched around industriously for several hours trying to raise the six hundred dollars, and finally failed. The railroad agent pocketed the deposit, and the train •teamed back to Richmond amid the lamehtattoos of those who bad purchased tickets and •applied themselves with grub for a three-day*’ trip. The inter* hat, though not *e large »the erownm j eating legal queatioirBow arises validity of the mortgage, and thk matter is already in the court*. Tba church Igwysm hold^s* %a contract is umu> am ; that the wximmwns era not ig the line of serving God, and tba declares that “de mortgage am co’< no way, bees, Only s Short Yarn. A friend writes as follow* to the New Orleans Timet of Mrs. Kate 8. McDow ell, better known as “Sherwood Bonner,” author of the “Dialect Tales,” who re cently died: “It is scarcely more than a year ago that Sherwood Bonner stood beside lay desk on enchantress, smiling at me with vivid brightness, aud talking gayly of trivial things. It is no^Tno betrayal of her confidence to tell why she had sought a friend. She had come to New Orleans for medical advice, at the urgent solici tation of frfrndft, but having no lean of her own. That day a surgical ternary had concurred in an opinion that was her death warrant. She had demanded of them the whole truth, and their bit ter answer had been that one little year of life wn* all that remained to her. She heard the cruel decree with Socratic courage and dignity, and bore herself with calmness. Then she arose and girded herself for what was to come, and unflinchingly faced her tragedy, intention of elaborating and completing some literary task newly begun, seem* to have failed of accomplishment. She said rhe had outlined some work which held the results of much close observa tion, and that she intended to conse crate a part of her one year of life to the task of patting it into lasting shape, that it might stand as a witness of what she bad hoped to da But tho grip of disease grow tighter, and her wonderful vitality surrendered.” The PopalatieB of this a. European statisticians are gradually reducing their estimates of the population of Chino. It used to be put at over 400,000,000. Behm and Wagner reduce their estimate for China and Corea from 434,500,000 to 379,500,000. Peterson reduces his estimate by 75,000,000, mak ing the present total 350,000,000. Dr. Happer, missionary, believes this can safe ly be reduced another 50,000,000. Mr. Hipgisley, acting Commissioner of Cus toms, thinks 250,000,000 more nearly than. mmm The losses Mohammedan rebel- rowers who practice the plan of making tits most of the summer season by regular feeding testify to the decided advantage of this system. In very cold weather, unless the hogs can he wef Her piteh of hoaeer and kept at a temperature ot sumption,and who proposed to go to the (ions, aud by the famine and peatOenee which swept the province* of Chili, Shantung, Shansi, BheUai, and Honan are variously «*tfm«ted at from sixty- one to elghty-one million. Yum ago, when David Crockett was a member of Congress and bad returned home at the close of tba first rrr—. wvenl of bis neighbors gathered around him one day sad ssksd quattfeas about Washington. “What time dbthey dine UUm that la 'left* [Front tl»Dstroii Vlns Pr**a.) “If Clarence Da Melville Bangs am preaant *4d us to-qight, I should like to spoke to him,” said Brother Gardner aa the meeting opened. ( Brother Bungs was on the bade row with a looking-glass in his hands and a new brand of hair-oil on hia hair. He rose np with a scrape and a bow, madea great spread of a blue silk handkerchief, and finally stood before the President’* desk. “Brudder Bung*,” resumed the old man, “I reckon you am de purtiest member of de Lime-Kiln Club. You puts ile on yea* haY, wax on jet mous tache, an’ de perfume on yer elother reminds me of de wild roses of Yarginny. Yea, you am de purtiest an’ sweetest one of de lot.” “Yes, sail, repaea tae urotaer, wniie his face betrayed the fact that he was tickled half to death. “But—by de way, Brudder Bungs, what am your present bizness ?” -'Tie out of a job jiat now, ash.” “When you work how much do you aim?” “As high as seben dollars a week, sah." - / “Jist so. Am dat suit o' clothes all 'paid fur?” - “No, sah." “An’ yon am how many weeks behind on yer board ?” “Not ober six, sah.” “An’ you owe dia lodge $3 dues?* “Yes, sah.” “An’ you owe members here aa much as $20 fur borrowed money." “Ize borrowed some, aril.” “Brudder Bnngs r I’ze had some ’ape- rieuoe wid purty men, an’ I nebber seed one yet who wasn’t a fraud on do word manhood. When** man sots out te be purty all de boss sense leaves his head. No man' kin labor and be purty too. He darfor' "tot* wm* rifibc. & freria fill board, bis tailor, his shoemaker, an’ all hiafriends. He looks killin’, an’ smells like a cologne .factory, but he doan’ pay up. Ebery smile beats somebody oijter twenty-five cents, an’ ebery giggle costs somebody half a dollar. Tze had my eye on you for some time.” “Yes’ sah." “Six months ago you hod steady work, good pay, respectable clothes an’ was outer debt. You aot out to be purty; an’ to-day you wouldn’t sell fur ’nufi to pay yer debts. You smell awful nice, but yon owe a twenty-six-dollar board bill Your h’ar curls beautifully, butde tailor am whistling far his money fur dat suit. Your form am elegant, but you has borrowed money until no one will lend you anoder cent. You smile like a buttercup an’ raise yer hat like a Ches terfield, but yer butes ain’t paid fur 1” “Ize gwine to squar’ up, sah." ‘Maybe you is, Brudder Bungs, but it am too late, so far os dia dab am eon- sarned. Secretary 1” “Yea, sah,” — “Scratch de name of Brudder Clarence de Melville Bongs off de roll!" “She’s dun scratched, sah.” “Janitor!” “Yes, sah.” “Escort dis pusson to de alley doah ! He am too party to remain heah wid us~ He am gwine out owin’ us fur dues,' an’— wall, nebber mind.” There was no need to poet the Jani tor. Every one couldjpicture him aia he cleared a apace to swing hia right leg, audit anybody doubted that Clarence de Melville Buugs was -“lifted” into the alley he had only to listen to the labored of the Janitor as he returned In traveling from aheep-ranch to sheep- raneh fat the northern country, says Frank Wilkeson in a letter to the New York Sun, the attention of the travelei ia attraoted by large tanka that stand at almost every sheep corral. These tanka generally made of boards, tightly fitted. A slatted gangway leads up to one end, aud another away from the other. These tanka are dipping troughs, and they are necessary adjuncts to suc cessful sheep raising throughout the pastoral region. The scab prevails cm the highland pastures. It ia the only serious disease that troubles th^. sheep that toed on the high, dry pastures of the West. The scab is a most serious dia ease if not treated promptly. The parasitea burrow under the skin. The wool covering the neck and on the upper shoulders and back falls off The afflicted animals grow weaker day by -day, and finally dia The manifestations of the disease are shedding of the wool, the polling of the wool by the afflicted ani mals, that bite it out-aud drop it on the ground, and in bad cases by a persistent and violent scratching of the irritated parts. I have seen a scabby sheep ntond by a poet and rub its back by the hour. The remedy for ucri> is to wash the sheep in a solution of poisonous water. This •olution ia sometimes made of cheap to bacco, another of sulphur and lime, and others simply arsenical solutions. No matter what they are composed of, the fact is that no flocks of any are free from the disease. Many sheep owners loudly assert that their flocks are clean; but no one believes them. The sheep are generally dipped immediately after ■hearing, and again iu the fall if it ia necessary. It sometimes happens that a flock becomes so badly diseased in the winter that it ia absolutely necessary to dip them to save the clip of wool. The danger attending the dipping of full- ooated sheep in the middle of w inter, in a country where Arctic storms are liable to sweep out of the north without any notice, can be easily seen. The anxious sheep owner waits for a fair, mild day. HeraAnes tne we.u of ' , * then deyotired by anxiety until the sheep are dry. A vision of a flock ef •beep inclosed in a layer of frozen wool, stand like gray atones over the prairie, de stroys his appetite for pork and broad nt dinner time/ If, when the sheep are wet, the mercury modestly retires into the bulb, the loss of sheep is spall ing. The scab~is ever present iu the flocks, and so long a* the sheep are grazed on tho open prairie I do not see how the disease can be eradicated. One infected shefep, escaping from a diseased flock and entering a clean tlock, would infect the entire flock. Under proper management the disease w not dreaded in the West It is token as a matter ot course, and the expense of dipping is aa, regularly colcul u^d in the estimated expenses of keeping a flock as salt would be in Ohio. Properly handled, the lose resulting from scab is trifling; improperly treated, entire flocks disap pear from the ranges. Tho fact of the scab being* among the far Western sheep keeps many people from using mutton as food. I should look with a cold eye on mutton that I knew came from any "of -the Rocky Mountain or adjacent ranges. It may be that the parasites do not injure the flesh for food; but the idea of eating scabby mutton is revolt ing. - , Iks Oei filsaasA Bfrt. tram goat in the feet; above these a cotton jacket, and over ell e robe ot gown whisk resembles e lady’s morning wrapper as much ee anything else, al though ft might easily be mistaken for n nightshirt.- , This outride wrap ia tied about the waist, end the Ooresn i* dressed, except •* to the articles that he earrics with him. Frst of all cornea the pipe, end this is an article that no ttip* Coreau j* ever without. Next he has attached to his girdle his chow knife and chop sticks and two bags. In one of these he car ries his tobsoeo, and the other contain* his poeketbook, if he has one, and sev eral articles for the toilet. He may also carry an oil paper cover for his hat, in case it should rain. If he owns a watch t hat is also carried stilus girdle in a fob. Nearly all of the bettm-class wear glasses of some sort, and these being very large and set in tortoise shell frames of cor responding dimensions, they add an other dutinguahiug mark when in their box and attacked to the t>elt The United States steamer Despatch, now at New York, has been placed at i lie disposal of the Coreau Embassy by direction of the Secretary of the Navy. The Coreau law provides for the pnnish- mc-nt by death of any foreigner enter ing the government territory, bnt die of the happy results of the re cent treaty Will be to accord special rights and privileges to Americans. She Had Never Traveled Before. seat A Little Mistake. A pretty young woman in Topeka got an anonymous note the other day, signed. “Admirer.”! The ifriter protected his ardent affection, and requested the young lady to meet him at a certain corner that night. She handed the note to her mother, who was roused to a high in the value of live stock Illinois •tends ahead of all the other States, ba* fug put down at $182,437,762. Iowa domes ‘ next with $124,715,103, New York is third with $117,868,283, and Ohio fourth with $103,707,730. In the matter of miloh oow* New York takes the lead, with 1,437,855; Illinois next, with 865,913; Iowa, 854,187; Pennsylvania, 854,156; Ohio, 767,048; •nd Texas, 606,176. In sheep Ohio excels with 4,902,486, followed by California, with 4,152,349; Texas, 2,411,633, and Michigan, 2,- 189.889. . . , .. For hogs Iowa takes the cake at the formidable figures of 6,034,818; Illinois close behind with 5,170,206; Missouri, 4,553,123; Ohio, 3,141,333, and Indiana, 8,186,413. New York make* the most butter, 111,922,423 pounds; Pennsylvania next, 79,336,012[ then Illinois. 63,657.943; Iowa, 55,481,958; Ohio, 67,834^563. New York excels in cheesemaking, 8,362,590 founds against 2,170,245 of Olfio. In 1860, however, New York prodacod 48,548,389 pounds of ohCOSC, showing an immense falling off in the business. _ Illinois has the most farms, 255,741; New York, 241,058; Missouri, 215,575; Ohio, 247,189; Pennsylvania, 213,542. ’ New York raises the largest quantity of potatoes, 33,644,807 bushels; Penn sylvania, 16,294,81; ^Ohio, 12,719,215; Illinois, 10,365,707, and Michigan 10,- 924,111. \ . / Illinois carries off tho palm for its number of horses, 1,023,082; Ohio, 736,478; Texas, 805,606; New York, 610,358; Iowa, 792,322; Missonri, 667,- .776, and Pennsylvania, 533,587. Now York produces 231,965,533 gal- ions of milk, which is more than all the other States put together; Pennsylvania, 36,540,510, and Ohio, 40,801,537. New York has 42,739 manufacturing estab lishments, with $514,246,575 capital, . employing 500,000hands; Pennsylvania, , 31,232 establishments, with $474,510,993 V Fattening Swine. It is generally conceded that there should be no standstill penod iu the cor rect system of feeding, but that growth ought to begin with young pigs and 1« steadily and continuously increased nuti! the animal is ready for the butcher’s block. While everybody nearly accepts the “no standstill” system as correct ii. theory, most farmers in reality keep their pigs during the summer months on very poor and meagre rations, waiting until cold weather to begin feeding with * view to fattening. Gr people, such as we have hers, dine at L The big one* dine at 8; weBepresenta- «•****; “Old Hickory?” ex- “well, he don’t appointed trysting place herself. She waa on time clothed in her daughter’s dress and veil A fashionably dressed young man was there before her. He was leaning against the fenoe,. and oc casionally looking down the street, as if expecting somebody. Without wasting any time on preliminaries, the fond mother seized the young man in an un relenting clutch, and lashed him merci lessly with a “black-snake” whip which she drew from the folds of her dress. What might have happened had a police man not arrived cannot be guessed. Explanations followed, and it was soon made plain that the mother had terribly whipped an innocent man who had mere ly pansedfdr a momant to wait for a friend to join him from a neighboring drug store. The real letter writer arrived on the scene before the whipping was over, but wisely disappeared before the situation vma cleared up. A private nr thb 17th U. 8. Infantry In giving some details of kfr inthe^army relates an incident that ia somewhat •musing, if not ludicrous. To illustrate, he says: “My company waa on skir mish drill one afternoon (in which near ly all the movements are done in double- quick time), and as the captain •bout to dismiss ns, his wife the parade grand, and walking np to the captain said: 'Please trot them uonnd again, they make the baby laugh.’" A Mown*.—The largest oow in America, so termed by th* Western press, belongs to J6btl Pratt of Chase county, Kansas. She is three yean old sad rrighs 8,000 pound* ANroriRU TOUft oo* of" thirty-eight ohildsaB. The between thie lady and ha* about sixty degrees, what the eats, goes to keep np the heat, and the, food fails to produce the same amount ol fat it would in warm weather. There remains no question bnt that it pays to- provide warm, comfortable bouses for swine during the winter season iu rigor- oos climates. The excessive -fat gained by excessive feeding of fat : prodncing food is objected to by many consumers, who prefer a larger proportion ot lean with the fat. Thd Live Stock Journal says on this subject that the hog is naturally a grass and root-eating animal, bnt in its domes tication, being fed almost wholly in this country upon concentrated food, has come ttte habit of depositing this excess of tot. If young pigs are kept upon food that will grow tho muscles and bones and develop a rangy frame they will, in toe opinion of the authority re ferred to, possess so much muscle when half-grown that 4 moderate length of time in fattening, even on corn, will not pile on an exeeesiye amount of fat. Pigs fattened in Canada partly npou barley, bnt largely upon peas—a highly nitrogenous food, yielding a large pro portion of muscle—produce more lean meat than do swine fattened almost wholly upon corn—an excessively starchy and fattening food. A Wbxck.—The uncovering of an an cient wreck on the Herring Cove Beach, Maine, ty the washing away of the sand that has of late yean covered it, revives ■peculation. It is known to have been there more that a century, and ia be lieved to be twice that age. The model ia obeolete, and there is no, iron in its fastenings. 4' capital, employing 350,000 hands; Mas sachusetts, 14,352 establishment*, with $303,806,185 capital, employing 330,000 hands; Ohio, 20,699 establishments, with $188,939,614 capital, employing 182,000 hands. There were 91,997 insane people in the United State* in 1880—65,651 native^ 26,346 foreign. Of these 14,111 belonged to New York, 8 304 to Pennsylvania, *_ 5,134 to Illinois, 5,127 to Massachusetts, 7,286 to Olvio, 3,530 to Indiana, 8,310 to Missonri, 2,405 to New Jersey, 4 to Wyoming and 16 to Idaho. Pennsylvania has one public school more thai New York. Her figures are 18,616; New York, 18,615. The former spends for education $7,126,827 and the latter $11,035,511. Ohio has 16,473 public schools and spends $11,085,315^ Iliinois, 15,203 schools, spending $9,850,- 011; Indiana, 11,623 schools, costing $7,267,700; lows, 12,635 schools, $6,288,- 167; Massachusetts, 6,604 schools, 81,■* 696 612, and California, 3,446 schools, $3,525,527. Wyoming, where woman suffrage prevails,, has the fewest schools— 55, at a cost of $36,161. The total num ber of pupils in the New York schools were 1.027,938, and in tho Pennsylvania-. 950,300. It is estimated that in 7,500 of the 9,000 lamrooms of—Philadelphia free luncheon is provided. The quality of the food varies according to the location of the barroom, from the soup made of a half-picked beef bone, a few scraps of fat aud lean meat, a small measure of potatoes, turnips, and tomatoes, and two gallons of Schuylkill .water, to the spread consisting ot Boston baked bean*, boiled and baked macaroni, broiled reed birds in season, choice breakfast bacon, "and a variety of other dainties that would probably cost from forty to sixty ^ents were the patron to got the same ~ thing in a regular restaurant. H The daiiy cost of providing the luncheon first described is only a few cents, while toe barkeepers who go to the .other ex treme expend about ten dollars a day for food which is free to their customers. The hotels generally refrain from in fringing on the domain of the dining room by barroom any food more tempting than stale crackers and dried-up cheese. The Children. .It has been particularly noticed that the danghters of the Princess of Wales are always dressed with great neatness, and with a charming simplicity,. As the London papers remark, “It would be well if the mothers of many of the other children, and what Lord Beaoonsfleld — termed nnfledged girls, who are con stantly seen about, were to imitate the Princess in this respect and array their offspring in a qniet style, which wonld be more in accordance with their years than the gaudy costumes which their distempered fancies lead them to think beooroing.” The same remark in an in tensified form applies to our mothers and children. Thb bio timber raft that was towed from 3t. John’s, N. B., to New York by two tugs was 800 feet long and 30 feet wide. Itdrawterer eight feet of wriwr. . It is divided into eleven cargoes, or sec tions, of about 500 sixty-five-feet spiling logs each. The cargoes are crib* into which the Iqgs were rolled and atored. Over and around the sections great chains were wound. Between each cargo there is a wide space to allow free working of toe raft ins rough sea. The cargoes weigh about 250 tons each, and it wonld have coat about $25,000 to bring them to New York city by ■•n»ng vessel*, a* the host* engaged in thk kind of trans portation demanded extrit pay on account of toe riae of too raft. Captain Flifr •aid that the plan of tug towing will be “If you zttexfipt ti generally employed next Mason, and, *quea*e way solid body, ft will always he thinks, vflT eventually succeed tbs lerisipreasorei” Clasa (biles and sailing vessel trade, bat vassal owner* oitM example* of exception whieb ‘ say that the trip k dangerous, and oos prove the rule. ] toet raft will discourage toe work.