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TELI-WEEKLY E DITION. WINS 09O S. C., NOVi)YEMLBER!7 89 O. 1.N.19 GET UP. Goet up, little sister ; the morning is bright; The birdd are all singing: The buds are all open; the dow's on the flow or: If you ihake but a branch, see, there fplle quite a shower. By the sido of th ir mothers, look, under the trees. How the young lambs are skipping about as they plegsq. And by thoso little rings on lhe water I know, The bi)hes are merrily swiniming below. The bee, I daro say, has been long on the wing, To get honey frem every flowerot the spring: For the bee nevr idles, but labors all da-, And thinks, I rudent insect, work better than play. Tho lark's singing gayly; it loves the bright Run. And rejoices that now the gay spring has be gun ; The spiring is so cheerful, I think 't would be wiopg. If we did not tool happy to hear ttie lark's son1g. (lot up ; for when all things are merry and glad Good children should never be lazy and and, For G d gives us daylight, dear sister, that wo May rejoioe like the lark, and work like tho boe. How it Ended. "Only three short years since we fur .nished this parlor together," sai MIrs. Paradox, "and now-" "Yes, now/" eclodd Mr. Paradox, reso lutely thrusting his hands deep down in his trowseors pockets, "things are altered now, Abby Jane 1" "Only three years," said Mrs. Paradox, sorrowfully. '"Three years of eat-and-dog quarreling," commented the husband, grimly. "You said the pink danask window our t ains were just the color of my cheeks I" faltered Mrs. Paradox. "And even then, if you will be good enough to recall the fact to your llemory, Mrs. P.," remarked her husband, "we couldn't agree as to the pattern of the I)ar lor carpet, nor whether the walls should be kalsomined or papered I" "We never lave agreed," assented Mrs. Paradox, with pursed-up lips. 'And never shall I" said Mr. Paradox. "tPerhlps it's better, oil the whole, that' we should separate," said the lady "Oh, altogether," acquiceced the gentle ni, rattlIng the pennies' indifferently inl his pocket. "We never were suilted to one another," sighed Mrs. Paradox. "Couldn't have been worse matched if we had triedl for it," remarked her husband. "It's a pity we hadn't found It out before we were married," t 'A Mrs. Paradox. "Better late than never," said Mr. Para dox. "You 8aid you loved me," said Mrs. "Well, I thought I did I" "I might have known then 'men were deceivers ever,"' quoted the wife. "Oh, come now, Abby Jane, that isn't fair," said Mr. Paradox. "Our first quar rol wvas whlen you turned Rover out of the S parior-thle old Newfoundland that saved lmy lfe." "No, it wa'sn't" .said Abby Jane, withl bs spirit; "'it was w~hien yeou calledi miy aunt Anastasia an 'old bore,' and "said you wouldn't take her to the Wednesday even ing pratyer meeting. My aunt Anastasia, with property in governmilent bonds, and a templier like an an~gel's." "That's all very wvell," said Mr. Para (dox, "but you seem to have forgotten that you treated my friend Dickens as If he. had been a house-breaker, whten I brought hhni unexpectedly to dininer.". "You refused to take mie to Saratoga, '5 when D~r. Dodkins said that the wvaters wvere essential to my health I" llashedl out tlielIndy. "You wvouldn't consent to' have m~y mlothler come anld live with us," retorted Mr. Paradox, twitching his mustache. "If y6ur mother's temper'was 'half as bad as yours-" began Mrs. Paradox, flushing up to the very roots of her hair. "Th'lere you go again," said Mr. Paradox, beginning to pace savagely up~ anld down the roomu. "WhVio 0on earth could be0 ex p~ectedl to put up withI tils sort of thing ?" "You'll not have to put upl with it 111101 longer," said Mrs. Paradox, drawving her self up. "Thank goodness, 110 I" said Mr. Para dox. "The lawyers will arrang4 all that," enunelated the lady. "The sooner the better," said h1er hus hand. "Of course it will make a dreadful scandal, me going home1 .to mlafmm~a, dndi all.' faftered Mrs. Paradox. "Not at all," said Mr. Paradox. "sep arations are commion things nowadays." "And I Clare say,'' cried Ite wife,'"that as son as ygu get te N~ya Scotlaa o~r wh.at. ever the hiorrid place s~th you're tgoing to, you'll be making 1eye.,to see otheri .wOmlapll" *., . - - . . "Not I," said Mr. Paradox, qulto'n *noyeod by lis spotlee's taunts. "Ijav had guiti- enough of thait soft ofs thhi g, t o'Sath, 4 fy . ra l du llttlfn, "'apd I'uad dfit. t earA said the husband, biting off the end of a cigar. I "That's no reason why you shoulel insult ic by smokiug in my presence I" "Do not be afraid, madam-you have already taken quite sufficient opporhmi ty to inform me of your aversion to my habits !" And only the entrance of the lawyer suf ficed to arrest impending hostilities. It was quite true. Mr. and Mrs. Para dox, after a union of three years, had agreed that they coulin't agree, and were to sign a legal separation. It was alto gether the best thing-in fact, the only one they mutually decided. It had been scold, scold, carp, carp, fret, fret, ever since they had walked out of the church. porch. Domestic happiness had long ago folded her wings and floated out. of the window ; love and tender sympathy had shriinik, startled, away. And at the end of these three years friends had been called in coun. cil, a solemn session of relatives had beenl held, and Mr. and Mrs. Paradox were going to separate. "You're sure you don't care for her, Louis?" Paradox's dearest friend and. col lege chum had said to him. "Oh. that's quite a thing of the past," said Paradox, with a shrug of the shoulders. "You have ceased to love him, dear?" Mrs. Paradox's mother questioned her child. "Oh, manima, long aga," declared poor little Abby Jane, with streaming eyes. So the papers were signed and Mr. and Mrs. Paradox separated in good earnest. Abby Jane went back to the maternal home, and Mr. Paradox took up his quarters at a hotel until lie could arrange for his departure to the dominion of Canada, But the night before lie was to sail for Nova Scotia the waiter came to his room and announced "a lady." "It's mily niother," thought Mr. Paradox, who was sitting staring into the red coals of the grate as if they were a riddle that ie was trying to read. But it was not his mother. It was his wife! "It's only me, Louis," said Abby Jane, trembling all over, "1-1 wanted to speak jimst a word or two before you went away forever !". "Are you satisfied with the allowance?" saud Ir. Paradox, gloomily. ''Oh, quite; it's more than generous!" pried Abby Jane, hurriedly. "Only.Louis, 1 eculd not help telling you one or two things before we part. I was wrong about Rover; lie was a noble dog. I should have let him stay, only-only 1 was a little out of temper that day. And-I've asked your miother's pardon for refusing to let her livc with us. I think, now, that she would have been a great help and comfort to mne. And I think. Lotis, that I should feel better if you would say you forgave ic for scolding you so much about your cigars. And-" "Stop I" said Mr. Paradox. "It is not right, Abby Jane, that all the apologies should be on your side. I've been wrong hayself P" . "Oh, no, Louis, no !" cried out the little wife, bursting into tears. "Yes, I was-about your aunt Anas tasia 1" dleclared Paradox. "She wvas a dlreadfully trying old eca ture," owned Abby Jane, "'amnd I kmnew it all the time." "But, J shoul have treated her civilly," p~ersisted Mr. Paradox, "'amnd 1 salmll always regret, A'bby Jane, that I did not, give you that seasoni at, Saratoga." "'Dear Louis, don's talk so! All I ask you 1s to forgive and( forget miiy horrid tem per," besought Mrs. Paradox. "If thero-is any forgiveness," said the huisbamnd wmth softening eyes, ''it Is 1 that needl it. I have actedl like a fool, Abby Jane." "We have both beeni foolish, Louis," .tlmidly atuggested the.w~ife. "But because weo have been idiots it, don't follow that we need be for the future," :said Mr. Paradox, holding out both lis hands.\ "Abby Jane, shall 1 go to Nova Scotia, or shall I stay ? Speak quicklfy; It is for you to decide." "Stay," whispered Mrs. Paradox. Ha folded heqr close to his breast. "Little wife," said lie, "let's go down to old Parchmnent's office amid tear' uip those papers of separation.". "I domi't care how soon you (10 it," said Mrs. Paradox, laughimig amid crying at the $ameo breath. -"Amid themn ?" "And then," said Mrs. Paradox, twisting the seconid button of her husband's coat arounid amid around, "we'll begin life over again--onian altogether now platform." A nd that was the end of the legal separ ation. Of coflrse .there was a general gush of gossip, about It.; people said that "It was very strange the Paradoxes didn'4 know their own mids." . But Mir. and Mrs. Paradox wore suiited undc, after ali~ that was the nmain tihing. n' 1teInhanfl as a raicetsin .. Recently, writes.acortesp'ondent, a keeph or behoanging to Orossi's Circus who. slept uiedr three elephaute was about mnidnight aroused by thieir cries, fle at first thought a cat or ui dog had gotten. into the circus, but listhhi4 Mtieifho hh4,IdI dus ~oeie o ~ a e dJark lantern, trylug to p1ktlig at~ rhoinl Inmocts in Hooks. At the recent meeting of the British Scientile A ssociat ion, Professor Westwood read a paper interesting to all possessing a library. Ile described the life history of the various insects which attack books, and suggested some remedies. The caterpillars of the moth Aglossa p)iguinalis, and alsoof a species or Depressaris, often injure hooks by spinning their webs between the vol unies, and gnawing small portions of the paper with which to form their cocoons. A small mite, Cheyletus crtiditis, is also found occasionally in books kept in damp sita tions, where it gnaws the paper. A very minite beetle, liypothenemnus cruditus (Westwood), forms its tiny burrows with in the binding of books. The small in sects (Lepisna saccliarina) found in closets and cupboards where provisions aire kept, also feed on paper. A curious example of its work waf exhibited in a framed and glazed print, of which the plain portion was eaten, whilst the parts covered by the printing ink were untouched. The author has been assured that the same fact has been observed in India, where some of the Gov ermnent records had been injured in the same manner. The habit of the Lepisiw had not been previously recorded. The white ants (TIermitidte), are a constant source of annoyance in hot and warn cli mates, cating all kinds of objects of veget able origin, of which several instances were recorded by Dr. ligen, including the de struction of a stock of bibles and prayer books. Cockroaches (Blatta orientalis), are also equally destructive to books when they fall in their way. But it is the Death watches (Anobium pertinax an(t striatum), which do the greatest injury, gnawing and burrowing not only in and through the bindings, but also entirely through the vol uime, and instances have been recorded where not fewer than twenty-seven folio volumes, placed together on a book-shelf, have been so cleanly drilled through by the larvm of this beetle that a string might be run through the hole made by them, and the volumes raised by the string. The rem edies against the attacks of the Anobium upon objects of carved wood nmIst neces sarily he of i different character from those used against the book worms, which are the larva of the Anobia. In the former case, saturation with chloride of mercury dissolved in methylated spirits of wine or other analogous fluid has been found to be clicient. But with respect to books, it was necessary to have recourse to vaporization, and experiments were recorded in which objects attacked by the Anobia had been placed in a large glass case, made as air tight as possible, and small saucers with pieces of sponge saturated with carbolic acid were placed at the bottom of the case, and on the recommendation of the author it had been found successful to place the in fected volumes in the Bodleian Library in a closed box, with a quatity of benzine in a saucer at the bottom. A strong infusion of colocynth and quassa, Chloroform, spiri 8 af turpentine, expressed juico of green waha t and pyroligneous acid has also been em ployed successfully. Fumigation on a larg scahd may also be adopted by having a room made as air-tight as possible, burning brim stone in it, or filling the room with fumes of prussic acid or benzine. Dr. Iagen sug gests that, by placing an infected volume under the bell-glass of an air-pump and ex tracting the air, the larvmi wout be killed during an hour's exhaust ion. The iwantiful ciypsy and Her hing. Some time in the lifte'enth century when the monastry was in the height of its power and fame, and when high-born youths came far and near to receive instruction from thelearned monks, there was staying at the abbey for this purpose a young man of good family called Jians von Wessem. burg. There was at the same time encampied in the forest, a trilie of JBohemians, whose lawless ways wecre perhaps somewvhat of a trial to the good ;nonks their neighbors, but who served, it would seem to rolieve the tedium of those hours; wvhich young IHans of Wessenburg did not speCnd in study-hours wheii lie possibly found the society of the brown-stoled brothern slight 13y opipressive. There happ~ened to be among the gypsies a maienm of unusual and1( peerless5 beauty, the pridle aind dlelight of the tribe, a crea ture with soft dark eyes, lustrous as though the stars had looked into them, and softly tinlted (damfak cheeks, such as Correggio only could have put, on canvas-a creature that seemed to the young studlent, a very "vision of delight," whenm, one (lay, book in hand(,' lie wvas taiking a solitary ramble through the ravine, and1( sudldenly looking up lie saw Elsa, seatedl on a great rock in the centre of the torrent, her dark hair flying in the breeze, and her shapely bare feet dipped into the foam of the water-fall. Tihe young man was certainly inclined to believe that he had come across one of those fair, unearthly beings which legend had taught him hannted those so nes. Stillilhe did not turn andi fly, ats perhaps lie should, as those seized with this im p~ression'hlave done. Later on, however, lie dliscovers that the beautiful vision was no dleludilng wvater-nixic, but a' true niaiden of Ilesh andl blood, and hie felt, less inclined to turn andl fly than before. The first meeting between the youth and the gysy maiden by the romantic water..fall was by no means the last. Both were young.' ]oth were wveaving their ihrst ro manice; for doubtless in the gypsy's eyes, the fair-haired, high-born youth appeared noe less charming than (lid she in his, Both loved. Thue young man had but one dhe sire in the world-to call the lovely spirIt' nrthef ravine his own. Amiwi before long a solemn betrothal, in the p~resence of the gypsy tribe, joined1 their hands and -lans slipped on to'the slender brown finger of his future brid'. a rIng as an carniest of his his troth. "On that ring," said an old sibyl of the tribe, soon after, to the girl,. "hangs your fate. Be careful of it. If you loose It, your happiness is gone." Elsa laughed softly. "My happiness Is ip him and not in the ring," she said lightly. 'Yet she wvore it nighit andl dag', and look.. ed at it and loved it, and caressed it in so-! cret as -though It had bep a. part. of her' hovem'. It is liit' a 100k of his -goldien hair, she thinks, 'twIsted about )1er finger', and .she leveit t6alay with it, child as, she Is, as thontgli it Were wl~ n ud ~le is an tlttle w11t61 and eldidher by one her bits of gypsy finery, her neek la'!e of beads and armlets of silver, and lays them on the big stone li the rivulet which i her favoriteseat. A little cross too, that ier lover has given her and taught her to prize, she lays amongst them. "I low pretty they are! how pretty they must look on me!" she cries in innocent vanity, not knowing it was she who gave a beauity to the trinkets far moro than they tave to tier. "But my ring Is the best," she says, "alt, let mo see hI'ow that sparkles imongst them-so tiny, but so precious." Site lays it on the stonle in the midst of lier armlets, and gazes at it adimiringly. lilt in another instant at Bound reaches her ar. She I hinks it is her lover's footst ep, And turning away her head to listen, a see md only, and she turns agrain to see her rized and fated ring carried from lier in ,he beak of a raven which had been hover ng over her head. With a cry of despair the girl leaps from lie rock to meet her lover and to pour into is ear the sad tale of her loss. To the Toutonic mund of I lans this event. s annoying as involving the loss of the ring )ut(, otherwise not overwhelming. "After all another ring can he got where hat come from," hto said lightly. Don't ipoil your pretty eyes, my Elsa by crying ifter the baiuble." Then Elsa tells him with faltering tongue mi1d white cheeks of the old sibyl's proph ,cy. "My happinesss goeswith that ring," Ihe cries passionately, looking ip at the 'aven's nest overlonting the edges of the -ock far iabove her i..ad, where the bird has -etired with his prey. "'If thatt be so," Said the young lover, milling, yet moved by the anguish of her ace, "you shall very soon have it back igain-both ring and the happiness." Before the girl is well aware of what he s about, lie has begun climbing, hand over land, the rugged face of the steel) gorge, 1linging here to a bush, and tlre to a stone mid hanging now and again over the ahyss mn the strong arm of a tree. "Stay! stay!". cries the gypsy, as she vatches her lover's progress with horrible 'ascination. "'Come back! Alas! the ring a not worth your danger to me. What inve I said?" But the young man, excited now with lie sense of w" exploit almost achieved, uends back a reassuring shont, and] pursues ds perilous way upward. One more spring Umd the prize is8 his. Ie stretches his hand over the nest .from vhich the scared bird rises support ing him ielf meanwhile on a itclump of gorse which >verhangs the torrent. .. Elsa, seized vith a sudden presentment >f evil, shudders and covers tier eyes with ier hands. A horrible spund of something alling heavily beside her makes tier start tway aid look. At her feet lies the body of her lover, the ast faint breath of life but now thittering 'rom his white lips, while in his tightly -lincihed hand lie still holds the prize for wvhich lie had striven-her ring. Three (gys afterward some of the gypsy ibe, searching for the lost Elsa, who has >een for this time missing, coming upon a ivhite-faced, scared and ghost-liko creature iitting in the roar of the water-fall, beside a lead and mutilated body, to which she is itill chattering plaintive words of fond en learment, and tonder reproach for its silent ,oldIness. The gypsies carried the body of he young man to the abbey, where lie was mried, and removing their camp froii the ieighborhood, took the unfortunate Elsa ivith them. But. the glen where ther happiness and her nisery had in turn come to her had a weird "harm for her unquiet spirit, which no dis ,ancecould alter. Site found her way back igain to her favorite haunt, and not many nontlis afterward lay (own with a child's .veariness to (lie on tile spot where her lov nr'slife and her own reason had alike left ier. Slog Oak Ornaments. Whelln taketn up this bog oak Is perfectly ,lack fronm the action of the peat or bog vater. it is very rarely obtined in a tound state, and in most eases the outer >ortions of the tree or log are rotten, and useless ecytn for fuel. When laid uip for ise, care nmat be taken I hat it is not plac ,d in the open1 air, lest it may, from the uii's rays, become open andl shattered into hips fromi end to endu. TIo preserve It,, it nuat be yul into sonic cool place and left ~o dry gradually, and when properly sea onedl it must be cut in !cnigths of from two .0 four feet, and these lenigthts be slilt again mid thie'soilid parts remnovedh froin the unm ound. It takes from four to six years to teason some sipeciumens, as in many in itanics the woodl is founo at a depth of aghit, and sometimes ten feet tuder the sur 'ace. W hln prop~erly seasoned, any por ion requiring to be glued become~s hard its utone and Is firmer and less liable to give vay thani any portioii of the manufactured urticle. Thle finished is not qitte perfect mtiu the article has been for some time ini ise, and the longer the pneir the article ueems to be, ito matter wvhether used( as a personal or table ornamnent. The men cem >loyed are all, wvithouit exception, self aught ; each one makes his own tools, and wvill not take any apprentices ; 'and each erson has a peculiha taste for a certain (lnd of ornamentS, whlich heo follows, and o whiceh ho is left .to p~rodutce tlhe best pecimens lie can. There are jewolers who nount, and embellish the ornaments with goldl atid silver and with rare aind most yrillianit lrtsh gems, sutch as the Kerry [Iush diamiond, the emerald, the garnet, imethyst, beryl, aquamiarino and Donegal pebble. T1heo Coltic ornaments are generally itudded with the above native gomp ; they ire beautiful and~tmost art istically.executed, I'lic dlesigns emibrace seine thousands, and ill of them are both classic andl historIcally llustrjitivo of Irish antiquities. Extensive :loposito of bog oak and other bturled woods tave been dilscoveredl in Glermatny, .,Wanted a Two-N orse Load. Lady to peasamt-- ''How mutch for that (ad of -peet " . Blesides, I don't watnt suich as small -64 [.vatit a twp-horse,Ioad,' T'he peanant goosto at frie3nd, orrows'ble rrlcid'e horso and hitches It to the cart be Bide his own animal atid Teturns. Pessantl.-"IIcieo is a two honrie ,load, - td-d'Ah, that Is mnore Ilk. U low Dr. Hudil's Inabellia. Mr. Budd picked i) the paper and be gan running his eyes over it, while his wife sat upon the other side of the table sewing. Without knowing it Mr. lludd got to read ing in the cohunn headed "Grape-vine Culture," and presently he exclaiisd: "'Why, hullon! Walit's this?" "What's what?" asked Mrs. Iuld. "Why just listell to this! This paper says that-wait till I read it to you: "We regret to learn that our friend Mr. Simpson, has had a good deal of trouble Withi his very flne Isabella. " 'Queer isn't it?" 0"What kind of trouble!" asked Mrs. Budd. "Why," said ihud, "the paper stiates further: '."l('inug In a very unhIiealtly condition. -*ald seeming to lack vitality, Mr. Simpson made a very careful exumination and dis covered that his Isabella was literally cov cred with small bugs." "Did you ever hear of such a thing!" ''Bugs! Covered wilh hugs! Why, what onl earth Could have been the matter with the woman? I always thought Mrs. Simpson was a scruipulously nice ersom." ''So did 1. But that's what the paper says. I hol oni; suIppose I see what, else there is about it." "Mr. Simpson was somewhat, perplexed to know what to do about the matter, but he fllily applied a wash of carbolic acid, with good results, and he is now looking every day for his Isabella to leave." "I don't exactly understand that." "Leave for where?" asked Mrs. Budd. "It dlont say. Going a vay for her health, I suppose," replied Mr. ludd. "hut there is some more still." "'Mr. Simpson tied the Isabella--" "Why the Isabella?" asked Mrs. Budd. "Tied the Isabella up to a post, and" '"ied her to a post!" exclaoimed Mrs. B1udd. ''Why, I thought you said lie wanted her to leave." "That's what t.h'e paper says. It's very queer, isn't it?" "Tied her to a post and cut off two of the largest limbs'" IH uhlloa! how's that! cut off two of her limbs. Incredible! Simpson must be go ing mad." "It's the most horrible thing I ever heard of!" said Airs. Bild. "They will certainly arrest him, wont they?" 1I should think so, of course. It's a wonder he didn't kill her. But the story is not done yet." "Iie performed the operation a little too late, for his Tsabella began to bleed aid he fearod that lie had done a permanent inl Jury." "I shoul think so, both legs and arim off. Permanent injury! I can't inagi ne how it could le anything else than permua ientl" 'It.'s dread fuIl! " saidl Mrs. Budd. ''And here's more: "3MIr. Simpson thought wood-ashes might be good, so lie put them all around and gave her ill the soap-suds she could take. Upon the whole his treatment may be regarded as judicious." '"That's the editor's opinion. He mus', bo Insane, too. They'll kill that woman, certain, if feed her on wood-ashes and soap Suids!" "If I were you I'd write to the Mayor about, it." said Mr's. iludd. "I think I will. But let's finish the ar ticle." "'Mr. Simpson declares that if lie h1as much more bother about the matter lie will ChoI) the Isabella up1) and" "Chop her up! Did you ever hear of such cold blooded discussion of a possible murder? it is a disgrace to the newspa p -r!" "There must be certainly -sonmething wrong about it." said Mrs. Budd. 'No the paper says: "Hle will chop his Isabella up andl bur'n it". "What doees it mean? Chop her up and burn It,? Danged If I understand such non senise." "'is that all?" asked Mrs. Buidd. "Pretty nearly." "Well read the rest.." ''Why it says, let ime~ see. Oh yes, it says: '"Take It all in all Mr. Simpson Is con vincedl that the Isabella is not the best best--not the best-" "Why lpshaw, Ihannah. we've been making a istaike!" ''Not the best what?" "Not the best, grape-vine to3 cultivate in this region." "'It was only Simpson's grap)e-vine after all!'' "'But Buidd you're a fool or' you would have know~n that in the fir'st place." "'Maybe I am! M~aybe I am!" saidl Biuddl wearily, "bhut I'm nlot as big a fool as the mani wh'lo gave such an idiot-ic niame to the grape-vine." And 'lien there wvas a long flash of sIlence in the Budd family circle. stabits of 9uimbl1e Riees. Children, dId you over stop to considler the Immense poweri p~ossesed by a bumble lbe? An insect weIghing 110 more than the eighth of an ounce is capable of "raIsing" ni man wvelghlng 220 pounds from a bench la the public park, and then have lot~s of lift ing material left. Just stop) and think of it i The stinger of a hee Is not near as lar'ge as the finest, needle, but such Is the force behinid It that It can be dIriven through heavy p~ants cloth, hacked by merino drawers, and Into the flesh about sIxteen feet. If a man could yldl~ a crowbar in comparison lie could drive It through seven saw-mills and a whIsky dlistillery at one blow. Nature could not give the bee teeth and clawvs without spoiling his b~eauity, anud, in compensation, she gave him this stinger as a weapon of attack anid dlefense. -If the bee had no weapon, ants, beetles, and hugs could cuff him around as they pleased, but, as it is, lhe Is boss of the walk, and won't take a word fronm any of them. The bum ble-bee i not naturally of a quarrelsome disp~osition, but lie can't-be sat down .on over half an hour wIthout fooling as if some &'6"was doing him a groat wrong.. If loft to -himself lie will crawtl up your coat sleeve, look around, and crawl down and -go about hIs bitsiness,.but It welcomed with a blow between the eyes lie is going to be revenged if it breaks a leg. He invariably eloscs his eyes *hnen he stinge, and you Iaeonly to look a hee square in the facOo. ldieobt' when he is feeling around, -and- wher( - 1o -nicans fourteen per cent per antuni . 'hee h1af.fldi:a fa~rito toqort of the 'i~h bo, y~ou ati d lot ainest 1 M 1 - which to carry straws, lie Cannot nest in a tree like a bird. i'fe, therefore, takes to the grass, and under the roots of an old stinup. or anidst a pile of old rails, he rears his gentle young ail gives them printed in struetions as to the difference between stinging six-inchl stovepipe and rinaway boys. The knowledge of o1d bees is wond erful. They know where the school house is. They know when school is out. They can sail miles awaty from home, get in their work on a farmer's son weeding out corn, and retirn home without missing a fence corner or in need of an aft ernoon nap. As a rule they are early risers. Barefooted boys driving lip the cows lit daylight will lid the bunnble-bee out of bed and quite ready to begin the arduous labors of the day. Along about sundown Ie quits work couilts noses to see if the family are all in then stows himself away. The legs of a I bumble-bee are very crooked 'This seems I too bad at firAt sight, but you will soon dis Cover that nature was level-headed. H1is legs were Itius Shaped to enable him to hang to the brim of a boy's straw hat. Were his legs straight lie Could not wiilk a fence rail I in a high wind, nor could lie turn around I after reaching the top of a mullein stock. The stripes on a bee look like a waste of material, but such is not the case. They furnish an extra covering over his ribs to keep the frosty air off, and they serve to stiffen li spinal colunn8 in his flights through the air. A bumble-bee can fly lit the rate of twenty miles ani hour, if he wants to, but there is no cause for hin to fly any faster than a boy can run. Ile sometimes lives to be three years old, and is somellties stricken down before Ie has traveled at all. Ills life is a prearious one. I may run a deacon out of a hay-field to-day, atin be the 1 big bee of the nest, and to-morrow i coun try school m10a'ami may knock his head oil with her uimbrella. Nothing in natural his. tory weighs more for his size than the bee, and nothing in science works easier wit hoit cog-whee.s or rubber rollers thian his sting er. It is always ready, never out of repair, m1d satisfaction (to the bee) is guaranl eed inl every case. Lasw or atitroud D1epoits. Plat fornims and stairways about a railroad station have often given rise to lawsuits where the station master has allowed them to get oiut of repair or into had condition and a traveler ls been hurt in conse quence. While Andrew .Johnson wasl'riets ident, lie made a trip over the Pennsiva nia road, and wherever the train stopped at inly way stations, the people galiered to 1 look at him aind get a speech. At Johns town the station broke down under othe 2 weight of the uinusual crowd. (hne of the perrsonsi that was hurt11. Su1ed I he comipniy, an(d proved that the plat form was old and I the timbers decayed. The court, inquired I whether lie had come to the station to take the train, and lie said "No lie was only there to see I lie President." The court said 2 if that were the case lie had no ground to tile, for Ihe company was not bound to keep at strong phat form for a crowd of sight-seers. Buit. le said if any passengers were injtred by tile defect, or even any person who had I come to imeet a passenger or see one oil, lie could recover damages. A Station master i oin the New .Jersey railroad allowed 21 hole in the floor of his station to go unmended, I uiltii on1e (daly ia lady passenger, onm uilighting I from the cars, caught her foot in it an1d fell and was badly hurt. At Wells River de- 2 pot there vas at flight of steps to the plat- 2 form. The depot master did not. keep the steps properly lighted at. night, and 2a lady passenger who had come to take a night. train, in groping about in the dark to feel her way, fell down the steps and hurt her hip so 21s to become 21 Cripple for life. 'I'le I court said in both these cases the company must )a1y. At one of the stations of the . New Yora elevated road the people in char'ge allowed the steps and1( platformR to get icy, fromi ralin and1( snow fallinmg and freozig; and1( a passenger slipped, fell 11nd( was permanenicitly3 hurt, so badly that lie< jury'3 gave himn $19,000 damnages. Thel e jludges sido that this wa''is right. The agents 1 of '1rlra comp~anies mtust takeC more thni miere orinary11'3 carie in keeping thleir 11loors < lind( plat forms in a safe c'ond(itlin for' pas senigers; they3 are biouind to use "al1l such: reaisonablle p~reautions againsiti njuiry ais, humiian sagaucity and1( foresight cani suggest."' And so iln a variiety oif ot.her ins5tanices, thle I companIes hav's 1had( to pay heavy dama2I~ges to passeniger's, because the pilatformis were neglected. D~anli H144)(O" 51nakec. A writer in a W~ester~n plaperI tells ho(w he was blasting with gunpowder 80ome large anidtough logs. From one1 (of the logs thus wplich opencraledl 211 eniormiious serpent. wihwseasily kIlled. Th'le man11 whlo tells the-story co)ntinues irom) this plnlit a18 follows: "'On stretching it, ouit 1 foud it to be thirty-one feet two Inches 1in length, and( the thickest p~art of its b)ody mieasured twenty-ino Inches in circumfllerence. It was a dilffenit species of serpent from any I had ever seen before. Its tail was armed with a sharp-pointed and( cuirvedI horn ; its1 body wr variegated with alternate brown and1( dlirty yellow strIps, airnd on close ex amninationl 1 discovered that It had been to t ally blinid, its eyes seenuing to have turned Ito a reflectloni si, hard, bone line sub stanIce.. 'IThis eSxplamedC~ its umndecidled, heitating movements when it first came froml the log. A strange crease ap~peared1 aibout the neck just baick oIf the head, which I fond to be0 causedI by a stoult thong of leather, about which the flesh of the serpent had grown until It, was sunk al most oult of vIew. Cutting this thong and remnoving It, I found attached to its uinder side a copper-plate which had1( been hereto frhddnby the body of the snake, ittid onroe hideof whIch was scratched : "ID. H oone, April 15, 1779." 1 split the log in two, and near the lowver end of the hollow I foiund whore tiore had once been an open ing, but long years ago It had boeen closed up wth a pn mado of oak wood, about and ovei- which theo maple had growin until it was almost concealed. . The (load apJ) poarance of the small portion vIsible of the oak plug was all that called my Attention to its existone. My theory of the muattor is this:3 Daiiel Boone, luaiy' yearS ago, on the date recorded upon this piceoof ce por, caught the snake, themi young and small, fagtened the copper plate aloz his neck, and imprisoned itwi*thin the. <h916 of tne tree by means of~t~ieal yllug,awv~o ~ti- snak#eshp had rpftialte4l nt the~a~ 4ivere~I hhid (the free Min.a41 stuIh A Ravenous Eagle. A few days ago while little August Burr, aged seven years, was playing #1th his slsters-one five and the )ther three and a half-near his fath ,r's house, Beaver Bay, Lake superior, lin enormiouis1 eagle pounced down up )in them, throwing the two girls to the fround. It immediately %ttacked the omunger one, grasping one of the :hild's arms with the claws of one foot, vhile the claws of the other foot were leeply buried in the child's face; and t attempted to carry the child oft but vas prevonted by its struggles. Little Jugust, seeing that he could do noth ng with his own hands to help his sis e*, ran quickly to the house, got the >utclier knife and came out and whack Id away at the eagie's legs, cutting me of them severely near the foot, vhiereupon the savage bird let go of he little girl and attacked the boy, Liocking him over, tearing his pants, Lmd giving him some severe scratches, nt the nicantine, thc screams of the hlhtren brought out their mother, vhereuipoii the eagle flew off to the >arn, on which lie sat and looked as hough It. would like to renew the con est should a favorable opportunity of er itself; but he stayed there a little oo long for his own good, as Joe Butz er, a neighbor, was called, who took lown hies gun and shot this great "em-, >en of Aurican freedom," and his agleshuip, when killed, was found to neasure seven feet from wing-tip to ving-tip I The little girl who had this emarkablo encounter is very badly crtihlie(l, but not seriously burt. A Gold Min, li i Cow. One of the most remarkable cows on re ord is the "110th Duchess of Airdrie," wned by the Ilon. Mat. Cochran, of Nova tcot ia, which lits just given birth to her uinlh calf, a red heifer, to be named the '11h Duehwss (if Ililliursit" by 3d Duke of )neida. Of the 10thi Duchess, and her lauglter's calves. Mr. Cochran has sold he following inialHi at the prices named: n the witer of 1875 the bull calf, 4th )uke of I fillhu1rs, at $7,000 ; at public auc ion in Toronto, Jime 16, 1875, th bull alf, 'tl Duke of lilillhurst. twomonthsold t $8,000, and the heifer Airdric Duchess th1, eight m1ontihs 11ld at $18,000 ; at auc ion side in Toronto, June 14th, 1876, lie cow Aidrie l)uchiess 2d, at $21,000, nd the heifer Airdrie )uchess 3d, at $28, 100. In August, 1867, privately, the helf r 6t.h Duches of lillhurst, at $12,000 ; and t public salefs at BIowness, Windmere, Cigland, Se)t. 4, 1877, the helfer 3d )uchess and 5th Duchess of Hlillhunret at '3. 100 and $4, 300 guineas each, or $20, 100 and $21, 50 respectively, making a to ill of $1,11,600 for eight animals sold. Jo has still in his possesion, besides the Oth Duchess, ;Airdrie Duchess 4th, 7th luke, and 7th 11and 8th lDuchesses of Hill mrat, live animals, and has lost four ani nals by death. The above result has iev(er p~e-haps been equaled by any one an ma] at thUe same age. In December, 1875, mt olTer of $25,000 for the 10th Duchess, vas refused, and the same forher daughter irdrie Duchess 40th. Since then the old ,ow has brought three helifers and one bull; wo of the heifers have been sold for $33, 100, and there still remains the bull and he heifer just come besides the dam, vito will )robably breed a number of calves let. Orilin of Oroquor. Croquet players wvill be interested in the >rigini of the game. Croquet is not, as natty suippose, of mioderni birth, but may >e traced through its yarious stages to Per Ia as far back as the eighth centure.-Its >rigin wvas 1)o10, with tihe Persians played vith a long-handled mallet, called chsugan. n the ninthi century the game made its varn into the Easternm Empire, tihe original nallet changing its form to a long staff end ng in a brona bend( filled with a net-work >f gut strinigs. "Thus," says a writer on ,he subject, "there appeared in the East as lelonginig to the great sport of ball play on orse-back, the first shapes of two imple nents which remnodeled thme whole play life >f miedlItval modern Europe, the ochugan >eing the ancestor of thme mallets used in 3roquet, and1( of an endiless variety of other >laying cluhs and bats, while tile bent staff, vith its net-work, wasm a prhnitive racket." We find that the or'iginal bali gamnes in ,vhich sticks were used were played on torseb~ack, and instead of polo being an mutgrowth of these sports played on' foot he latter are the changes maIde in the Per tian game of chiug/an, which, as has beeji iaidi, watf the parent of all our games in ,vhich artificial means are uised to propel the' >all. The translation from tihe chuganof P'ersla to the short-htundied mallet used en 'oot wais easy and1( natural, and thesubstitu lop of a club camne by gradual stages, the tand being priobably thme original, imrple nent, wvhicht was superseded by a rounded stick. IDoston in 1780. - . Boston, town containing about 18,000 nhabitants, is built on asemni-meland, which s greater in length than breadth, I think' hat it is larger than Geneva; there ar@ zardlens, meadows and orchards in the cou .rc of the town, and each family has god. >rally a house to itself.' Th:' houses ar teldom higher than one or' Men t~i r'hey are of brick or wood, cover~'wl boards8 and slates, having fiat :odfs, tidJ ~Y many places .lightning conductxa ill of which are throe-pointed~ Tir ne or two sitraight streetsj thetd*n miarkablo public buildings y there lipacious harbor, . proiected 's~s&4* which leave only two naird~o itate of things rendering h~* i~ble If fortified tbis 10ais~ a tell yoi about Blostoku 'le devoid of delicacyfl Q~ nd there i0s1h t1h a d