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777 7F Tr - --- -. - - - --* t- -Iv RI-WEEKLY EDITo- DNB . EMBE N YJ*. i 'r.2 I read a legesld.' 1471 A The other day, Amid the faint, Calm light of early dusk ; The story, odorous of musk. Smiled in a dut-bound, silent book, Neglected in a lover's nook. . Of couro you know it 1 h<.w be strove To shape the marble like his love y Thatraci6ut soulptor ; howhis, baxd 9 perte4 3gate the peogteous wpole Jove bresthe(4Vn it hid lady's soul. h'dilnty myth in moi6ka thee:5; . 1 Will serve to tell i careless rhyme: Our sculptor soeqrs there Ipo Jooe ; ienpo bsas p~a~le a tvth of love; Oo praetieal the race pas grown, is onl.y beauty's heart is stone. Neighbor Goodwing's Story. "Nephew Nathkn4as always g lile I doubt If 4e ever knowingly trod upon a ('Wor.,uend I'll' vetiureno word ever est caped his lips that he would wish to recall. He early'f und the: peace, qf heaven, ap4 p bool, 1}Iq days thanking God, that the blessings vouchsafed to him are sd manifold. It is, as I now call to mind, some eighteen months ago, an my .spouse stood under the maple tree that is near our porch, busy, as is her wont, with some sMiry ma'ters, that hhe heardthe clatter of a hswr6es hoofs, and looking up Whon did she see but her nephew,Nathan. He rode up to her. and without dismounting, salu ted her, bending low to do so, and after presenting her with a fat and neatly pluck ed fowl, made discourse which I will re. peat ,6 neArly as ny memory bears out what my wife did tell me. 1"The Lord-hath beew-very good to me, my Aunthirlty." 93o he hath, Nathan." "My blessings are more than I can reck on, my Aunt Charity." ITruly, you do well always to bear that In mind, Nathan." "Yet I fear that, through so many mer eles, I shall be, unhuaiadul of my ,p-tual: duties, and become ittached to the thiig,^ of time and sense my Aunt Charity." . "You must pray to be delivered from temptation, Nathan." "I have cast my eyes about, seeking some means by which I may be tried ad by the, myAunt Qh'rity." I ! # "You do wiong,' 44atha.' Thol Lord works in His own way." "Therefore, I believe tnat He hath di rected my thoughts." "What mean you, Nothian " "Toward Mrs. Polly Prentiss, my Ault Cha ityl "t I d*, if1 kI il:w nly if, secihb~ois, . said Mr. Goodwing, inerrupted1 tije course of his narrative; "and to judge by 'the flash of indignation that wps in her eyes as she told ie this,' the-aiawk that she gave Nathan was not gentld. Her words were: "Toward that shrew! Why, she hath in her to afflict a man worse than' him from whom our Lord did drive seven devils." . "Yet, knowing that I debare .Mistress Polly in marriage; surely in that *ay, It in no other, I may imake self-sacrlfice, anol be tried as by fire" "You are pleased to jest, Nathan." - "I never jest, my Aunt Charity;for every light %word we are.held to account.'. "But heaven doth not command yoU to eat bread that hath molded, nor t4 take 4 wild beast to your home, Nathan." y, t hascome upon -m wit tije ceo i~ onvicton; m Aun Charit, ttat mu have subh trialp as will me from the world, and, if .I marry this woman I shall have such trial ever pre sent.L - vf"hereupon my'%puse,i agail Mr. Goodwing s~id by way of interruption, "did call him a stupid-'fool;'abdodidpray heaves afterward to forgive her. S3he said to him, also, that to ,wed that woman wonid be to seek a grave or the inadhbuse. ' But he shook his he'ad, and without further re.. -mark rode away: and my spouse' did. not comfort herself by the thought tha.t, two. .minutes of conversation with Mistress Pol ly would drive the notion from his he$ "A week later Nathan came again. "She hath promised to wed me, iny * Aunt Charity." "She liath pi-dn~sed to wved you, Nathi ani Havo you in truth asked her handi I could o'rf With 'texationm andsorrow?~ "Ho0w else, my Aunt Charity, could - she promise to wed ime uniess I asked her hand i" "How else? Woe , the sirewd;' h/d she taken the notion-, would not hesitate to go .to yopa or qa~y map and, clemagd nqqrriage. Of course, she prbmilsed you. Little chance had she of a husband, Why, Nathan, why did you not wed the Widow Abigail " Ah, my Aunt CharIty, much did I do. *sIre to do so, but that would have been too *great a blesgig S3orol waus . tempted to ask the widoi' 1lEd~ thWti sister LydiA ~*4I44*ie. O that ovenink f hitdleiiythe wiu'do as she knitted, aud marked her grace,. of manner and comelIness; and I made meon ; 1Q46 <(la's haipmness, and when I did ithat,Abgil turrted to me with tender eyes, and cooly said: "Will you not take iity on Lydia's lone ly sister f" and for instant, even many min utes. I did have sore' temptation to woo es(o~rl judgpd by that remnirik sho might, if urged, glven men her hand.TIhen came the words of the lBeripture to m'e, to flee temp. tation, and I-made great effort and quitted her. I have not seei ler, since, except izj church, where she g '4 gqpe pun ie, pl jt sad eyes." "Yrcu are a wicked man, NIathan Ap pleby, thus t* break the heart of a good womanaptoutaig up witti a shi iid. dayAns Olahdth ~4a st~de -bfiErfth 's ria hands, and she said, e"You great seed-sowing numbeklill'6Q1 of mf' sight, you all-favored, hudeouc-mian nered clod!" 'And yet you persevered in your inten. tions Nathan?" ~ "TAruly, I did, and I had heard her say, "I bate a man, great, stupid, ill-begotten things." Then her'fathr replied "A feai yotx *111 never have op at lty to dc rghtbuthiate a %nanl"" 6 1f aId; o lbqi'd pit ai rue the day I i Andh~akn tAT"Jou did not turn awaytNathan I f n "What I beard only satisfied me, Aunt Charity, that I should find the tribulation I dW-gretly need. Mr Prentiss came to me, and I spoke my mind to him without delay. I said that I desired his daughter In mar iage." 4adfwhatdIdhe ,ly V1- ,I ~e spqred-.bat, tantee w-s welbfav 9Xed girl,,an 4,that h; culd pot dey her to meIae 9t me.. oa s tM~t lan f m am d did stare at me with a certain fied expression that'Was painful to dlook.- upon; Yhen he approached me - and &bid, that he: never heard tbat i wps imprudqst 1n nay 4rink, au 4 I hgdtrguble to pqrstage b th t his suspicio ,wropgedne. 6Thn 1i oped at me again, nd even hhta ihat rhy reason had left me. At last I persuaded him to send Lis daughter Polly to me. As he .qtdtted the rbin ig .4isj4~ my hand and said: "Nathan, I pray that she may drive you frepite hope.-; Itwould be a bless ing to you. - "Mistress ]olly cai tn the room, my Aut'ObArity, and, as-the d r closed. sheostoodWIthher back ainst it abd s'miled and I confess the smile had naught of humor but only scorn in it. I trembled at tha t1pile, fearing she would drive me thence. "l8peak up, Natbazu, Appleby," she said, "for never, since your mother boree you, did yodipeak louder than a cat mews." "It I now remember right; I answered her nothing, for my thoughts wdre In con f usion. "Art dumbi" she said. "Might as well be for aught yoa can say. Your face is like a jack-o. lantern, and your tongue as full of speech. Wiat's now I sayl" "I asked hef it her father did not tell her, "Had he told me," said she, "you would not see me here.' I would like to know what you whose ipunk is less than a worm's could have to say to me fromi your own lips. Not to give advice,l'll venture. ptry tpt. Come, ll iave iof you. Mellke you would marry me." "She said this-niy Aunt Charity, as in sarchasm; yet I am glad she said it, for my spirit seemed to inelt like an., April snow bank, and had I not taken .her .Words on the echo, I fear I could not have made 'lnown my errand. Her glance as I said this was terrible, so that 1 turned my eyes to the window as for a chance to escape violelce. .1 cannot recall all she said, but (I ,io beqr in nlad that she termed me a I eittlb.- that se said my legs;were spindle I shan%$ whichjs uOaFIFe;. .Uicke I $fiouIlli os m c tibul %aifae 12681 N s iomy face, indili ?qqd me to Bandy Banm, the Idiot'. 1I 1drediVed. however that vo oence y .h.ugil that' I Is eno Vee : called me 4 a pandora, whatever that may be, and said I that I should marry her, and right away, and a sad day would it be for me, too. She warned ne-to haie no delay, to "cause' the band to be published next Lord's day) and I as soon therehtter as the law* permits to cond for her nii slie warned me to lieep out of her sight' 'till' then. 'Other' painfuL words she said, which I will not repeat, my1 Aunt Charity, and thus has she promised me.e An"A thinil a neighbors, of suchj a Igohjg asOh GOodwing inquir ed. "b yop spouse did ,ay, rightily WOOe shc 4ala$, hiT s tupid l,' said M.Pan try. 'A "That it passes all comprehension," said Squire Whytynge. ,u-hs f eV, I ~y'A remarked Mr. Purcha, Whedonme o xperience was sad, "that ho who knowingly puts his head in such a nuoose'deserveseo wear it alwvays. Vine gary women are wont to be smooth-ton, gued durIng courtship and to make amends for it afterward'." - - . "Well, tell tas the rest, neighbor,". said~ Mr..Blain~leM,. "Th'iey .were aparried " "~Yes, they wets married, on to Lord's day three weeks, and those who saw therm sth v quitted hier fathe's house say -that: erted him A,11he w~ay to his home.'?.. "And 'did he soon wish he were dead?"' *pake$i Mr.. grchgas in such a ; aggestive tone that Mr. Jllumaejd again'slyly nudged hy.' Goodwlng. "Hi bdre'shrewishbess unbbmnfilalningly for aix months or more,though he did grow pale and lose flesh greatly; and he did cof~ pie ,upon one occasion, that he did no atn tgind when he married that. death only parted husband and wife. His silence enraged her;but never didhle speak a word in temper to her. .Now I will nar rate to'fou that w)yon is the niosi mnarvel. ous as well as amusing of all of it. ~ My spouse happened to fail in with Nathan's wife about a year ago, and I will say, neighbors, that my spouse, though usually smooth apoken, can say a thaing~ sharply, if she so dedir . Bhe Ii teil Polly Appleby ,that ivdsW grie ,if shame for her to be l t phti ent Nathan." H moanis like a calf and pure like a cit, and bath less spunk than either. A calf will bunt and a kitten scratch!I' "Well, as to that, Madame Appleby, sharp speech never made a calf to bunt nor a cat to scratch. Your speech Is of no more account to him than it would be to them," said nmy spouse. "With that Mrs. Appleby became very wroth, and did call my spouse a padora. "Humph," says my spouse, 'I could tell you that which wortld make you angry for cause.. .Do you not know that the sharper spoelie $9 ade, the better does he like It?" "At this Mrs. Appleby did open wide her eyes, and neighbors, as I sit here, for theop,iw jugg eqylie, atpszered not Ab 'b \ 'hie ,auWed you?' fdt e zdit 4bh6id4 of ih M~'evious tq the wedding. He married you becuse a d eand he less he had his share. Therefore td e you." " a A .i Mr. Pantry, Ad het mblig'bjUho is head with laugh ter. $kdwMbdshido shi) fo 'that#""asl~ . $vs 4Agepepleo%1gletly,id for .,oriepepie 99 gpppe~ks she ata t~~~ with-him I'll make him another sDri of $_yffftm this hour,. fot I-4i1'not .bi a pack horse to carry my 'husband to lIea~d I" iWkeg liatban came'in,soon owr,.what lid his wife do. but approach him and kiss dthu, iAd N that trenibled; for never had ihe 496tli Xfid,alsaddr ila, and she did lovingly caress him, so that lie was as one In A trance. "Neighbors" continuell," Mi. Good Wing, 41 hs.e been their babe,as I remark d: and I sw Wathangently stroking his spouse's brow, and he did say soft words m a te ma4 lovn response, omy spouse and me, she aid: "My 'Aunt DLharity, you see what your. words have criven me to.' I am not any packhorse; ad I, my husbadd " and Nathan did even in our presence kiss ier,and If she returned not the kiss of love, then I never gave one myself," "Would that I had known that thus could she have conquered. For she was the comeliest lass in all these parts, and I would have put up with six inouths of gall, for a life-time of sweethess. Had I known what I' know now, her name would be Blumfield, not Appleby," said Mr. Blim leld sadly. .The Growth of Gardenang. It is intereattng to notice the extent to which gardening has grown. In 1408 the Dhief products of our gardens were cabba. ges, ounions and garlic. Apple, pea*,cherry, md quince trees seem to have been the mly fruit trees in England at that time. 'ke plum tree was first introduced into his country in 1580, being brought*, from Asla. The cockopur hawthorn was first muitivated here in 1692. The maple-leaved lawthorn was introduced Into England rrom America in the year 1738. A beauti Eul variety of alder was first ;cultivated in 10ngland in the year 17710, being brought from Switzerland, Biberia and other cold 3ountries. The cedar was first cultivated iere n 1604,- and the common white larch, which now convers with such excellen't iffect so many wild parts of the kingdom, )ut isbecoming diseased, was accidentally aken to 8cotland in 1787. Mr. Meuzies, LAu.)Ue,aving procured four of these plante -rom Iberia, gave two to the Duke tho, are still In full viggr at UW, ad& e Wed th parents se I kinkdopn; The al i alo feign j-Iinto a~ ~ ~ i '4*nase le $ not ppear to hk'e lieen plated- m' 8cotland Asfore the reign of Charles 11. 'The general :ultivation of carrots orginated with cer ain Flemings, who .4ed hither in the reign >f Queen Elizabeth, and settled at Band Vic!i, in .ent. Peas were a rarity in that ame reign. They were brought from Rol. i ora - t rd r Ucaie so far and oat so dear." The opinions, which prevail u respect of some flowers are curious. The inap-dragon, for. example, Is thought by he less advanced people in some countries o exercise supernatural influence-to have he power of destroying charms and baf ling - maledictions. -Bachelors' buttons were viewed as having a magical effect m the fortunes' of lovers. 11ow oddly, oo, have some plants reached us! Salfron, which was at one tiue cultivated to such in exteitin Essex as to give Its name to a n,fame' mls frfm abropd, tI liej risk J a life. Iakuyt was told at Baffron Walden that a pilgrim brought from the Lbvant to gnglAnd, IiL the reign p9f Edyard LII, the firat root of saftron, which ii had touni means to conceal 1n his' staff, made toilow for that purpose. *If he had taken, 1y jtlow of the coqimtry ferm whence it same, he had died from the 'Act." dafron difl, 11olborn, part of Ely Gardens, had iLesname from tne cropsit bero. " Sounding Fiaime. Of all prodneers of so-called mysterious sounds Dr. T1ynidall's secnsitive, or 4owel fiaic Is one of the most curious. Out of a particular kind of gas, with 'a burner of Reculiar. constructlon, the learned professor produces a lighted, jet of flame nearly two feet in hejghtr extreumely, garrgiw, and so exquleitely soingtive to iouuds that' it sngs and dances up and down, ik ye, onse to everything that is sung or . said, with 'dif ferent d grees o sns bility for different vowel uioldda. "'e slightest tap on a distant anvil reduces cits height seven iichse.., Whepc a bunclifof keys Is shaken, the flame is violentlf agit~ted;"'and einits a loud roar. The, .dropping of a sixpence into a hafid alrL'ady contining coin, at a distance of twenty yards, knocks the flame down.. It Is not possible to walk across the floor svithlout agit'atlng the fla'me'. The emfeakinifof boots sets It-in violent doinmo tion. The cr4m~pling or tearing of 'paper, or the ruistl6 o~ a'ilk 'dross, does thisa~me. estarf ledf tlie pytter of a rain . %rop. Ihears a wa dnear then' flame, ndbody asIts ticks; but you all see -the effect ujion the flame ; at every~tiek it Jalls atzd roars.'' The winding up dki' w'ach also produces tumult. Tme twittering of a dis tant sparrow shriokaiu the flame ; the note of a cricket would do the same6 A chirrup from a distance of thirty yards causes it to fall and roar." -In reference to the power of the flame to respond to poetry, thme heo-. turer said: "The flame selects fron the sounds those to which It can respond ; It notices some by the slightest nod, to others it bows more distinctly, to some Its obeis ane is very profound, while to many sounds it turns an entirely deaf car." Tallow Viandle Visha. In the waters of British North America, as we are informed, there is a fish, an odd fish, as surprising i its way as the sea serpant, and infinitely more- useful. It is a species of smelt, and may be poetically described as an aquati'i glow-worm. We are told it may be literally used in the same way as a cmndle, by simply setting a light to the tail when it will burn with a flame at ays tha4. of',the*' dips?' which our anierg used te' have to put up wit boyeO s .as was inyented. JA is a sem l silvery 0sh, jiweragin about fouri teen inche~s ogiss edigly fat, and agerd4tn efi .~ a luable oil, and is do inflammable that the drIed 9arcase 11 lerye af togeh., Anlqug thieinatives, te 9pmI inon as) t19 .o4h .d by ~ ~mav t~edIt, Ia dut e o the'sa i fr more 11he~ a i ebL Thea fish are as much as their oily natura will1 allow. - n3avruss-ndoln Drinking. .Not. long ago a str pge scene took place in a, pretty gardea.noksi.hundred mil" rom London.. The tree4iaded lawn was -seat. tred over with seate, with'here and there a brigit-colored Pprsian-rug for the special belIQof of any guestsiwho object, to open. air ngsspments on. ant of the. "slamp grass. To some DUPadF gras is always damp. It was early .1 the afternoon, and the only tenants of tl garden -were the ser. vants, whQ were arniiging refroshiments up.on some 'tables under the trqes. They seemed full of nods said becks, and whls. pers of apparently mysterioqs import Past ed among them. A iarriage drives -up tC the gate, and two ladies, entering, look round for their hostess. The servant who .has admitted them goes in isearch of his mistress, and a few Woments afterward a young ad beautifully dressed womei issues from the hogs, her fice deeply flushed, her eyes half .cloeed and her gail uncertain. Just at this noment anothei carriage drives up, a -gentleman and lady being the occupants. k They, too, enter by the garden gate, and sdvance towards the houeo adrosi the lawn.. As they approiclh the uncertain, swaying figure of their host. e0s they look-at each eter significantly, and the lady says in a low voice: "I was afraid of this. Where can Mr. X. be to allow her to be seen in this; tatq ?" Theinterpretation .9, those wild lopk., that disordered hair, 4#d those meaingless words that Mrs. X.. isl intoxicated, thougi not suliciently so to ie quite helpless. Bhe She wanders about among her guests, her condition, however, being so palpable, sc unmistakable, that the majority laugh and titter, while the friendly few pity though they condemn her. 'the painful scene ws ended by the arrlval of her husband,, whose look of misery as he led his. wife on hi arm through the groups of gally-dressed people into the hoitse touched .,eyen the laughers with pity. S'This is no exaggesttion of facts. It 1s, unfortunately, a sceneofrom real lif, and, I fear, not an unconupon one. TiP love of strong di ink appearqd to be increasing among the educated wpnen pf our day. buring the season just. past Instances of this were so frequent As to leai to the con jecture that a lund OI epidemic of drink was pervading those cluses of .society in which culture, position, and tjie passession of every comfort of iIe would ppear to be a sufficient guaranty against so degrading a vice. "dociety ladipb" live too much upon exqitement not to suffer from the ine. vitable reactioi. For P few months of the year they endure cntinueu fatigue in tread. ing the social mill, and for the remainder they are a prey to ennul. They try the first dose hlo al as an experknent. "My eyes look qo 4u and heavy; this morning, bo-and-so Ayhlofid' is suo, . a capital tung, I tlk 11 try It." In this. case, as in that rouge, *t e not $ie "first step that costs.". It p iy e144gh. '.:ut *frin ao a practiee it develops into a necessity. It is no longer a servant, bnt master. . My lady has lier half pint of champagne about an hour after breakfast, another at linch. eon, a glasi of liquor instead of afternoon tea, a regular sequence of wines at dinner, and brandy in her post-brindial coffee. Her chloral in her dressing rodm Is as perma n ent and indispensable an arrangement as her bath, aud much set missed' from its usual position than her B T le. A Biter "'I n. They were playing far on Pine street, 8t. Louis. ' It was, early n the morning, full four hourd before ybreak. There was a goodly gathering a und the board, and all went well ntil a air of visitors stepped in. One was ev ently a old cus. tombjr, for he saluted the ealer in a fami. har way. He was dresse like one of the many who secure a livelh d by- showing strangers from the count how to buck the tiger .and p lace th money' on the wrong card. is compji on looked like a pian who hasi juet arrive from the rural districts. His pants wer tucked ila his boot-tops, and his slouch bat hie wore in tie country fashipn. B the hat shaded a pair of eyes that sparki with uncom mon lustre and a pale fa and forehead that were not tanned a brown as an agricultuiset's should be Wh~en the two entered the bank, the first escrhed above appr'oached the dealer.j "Get onto his knobs." "P'm onto him," said tl e dolor; "who Is the gilly.?" "A granger from Lincoln canty. Fresh as an oyster, and with a big ad on lim. He's good for a clean thqsand if we only work him right." - r' oll, you know how to 9rk him. Let him come right in," said ti lealer. "That'saall right enough, ut he won't go in unless I do, and I e~~' because I'm broke. Stake'me?"'I The dealer spoke to t 4 roprietor of the place. ,The pi p tor said: -'Stake, biin, of course,['. the dealer h'anded the supposd roper-i 10 worth of change. The.flatter took it ut it away down in his pocket, and ding to the granger'from Lincohln count d: P'Let's go down and interview his (ba' on the corner." His ~"nibs" was corner saieo nist. When they got .d ni there the pants came out of that agri lthsrist''s boot tops, ,the labels of lia coa era thrown back, and disclosed a city and collar, and the hat pleod in its per positien revealed anything but' an soplaisticated countenance. The two .sh hands, said the scheme had worked and then stood, op to bar until mor an half thiter ill-gotten gains had passed r it. Then they went out on .the ai elk, locked arms to prevent each othe ogi fslling, and told all whom they m of the wsy they had beaten the bank. A forrid Afla Antoine Brisbois was fou urdot-ed in his trapping hut, ih Ontario is furs and money were misamngiand so his partnqr, Patrick Hennessey, upon w the crime was laid. That happened years ago. Hlennessoy was neyer dl - ed. Lately F~elix Ilaicot and Cyrus Ore er, lumber. men were crushed by a he hog. Ral cot wak told'tliat he would es that he would speedily die. He confessed that he and Greenover ered both Biriabols and Hennessoy, ing the ~se~ T o this revola their absence Greenover era tromn his uch htan erousl h an uled wounds so'as'to slmnne'hnm death b. fore the offlaial camne to writ is Ola -~ 4 An Old Orittiph Ter. There is recorded the death at Montrose, on Oct. 1, bf Coull, the old tar *ho steered the Shannon Into the memoraile, actiod with the Chesapeake, off Boston Harbor, on the 1st of June, 1818. James Coul4 was born in the fishing village of Ferrysen, nea; htontrose, on the 7th day of January. 1786, so thit he was in his ninety-fifth year. On aceount of the death of his father and the poverty of his mother, -James-started life as a cabin-boy in. one of the local vessels at the early age of six years.. He was afterward indentured as an apprentice in the brig Concord, of Mon trose, in the year 1801, and while lying at Copenhagen was pressed for the navy the same year. Janice was sent on, board the Centaur, seventy-four guns commanded by Captain Broughton, in which vessel he first saw active service, having been at the bom bardment of Copenhagen on the 2d of April, 1801. After the treaty of Aniene James received his discharge, and was sent ii board his old ship te finish his appren ticeship, wich he oompleted, and then sailed as an A. B. in another local vessel. When lyint at the Nore In this ship he was again pressed for the Navy, and again sent on board the Centaur, where he was short ly afterward appointed Assistant Quarter. master, and was present in this vessel at the battle of Trafqigar on the 21st of Octo bor, 1805. Froip this time onward lie was retained in'the service, and by the time lie was twenty-one was a circumnavigator. His most notable engagement'was the tus sle of the Shannoh with the Chesapeake, off Boston harbor, od the 1st of June, in -the year 1818, which only lasted fifteen minutes from the Bring of the first gun to the rianing up of the Union Jack over the stars and stripes. Coull, being then a setty offiger and and a volunteer from the Acthoon, had the, honor of steering the Sahon' Into aqion, and while doing so he received a musket-ball in his loft wrist, which traverse4 his arm and came out at 'h6blbow. Coull, hdwever, stuck to his post, and after the vessels had got entang led by the Shannod's anchor catching hold ofthe Olhesapeake, he formed one of the boarding party led by Captain Broke, re ceiving a severe scalp wound while seramb 1ing on board, The scalp wound was qickly patched up, but owing to the bullet wound Coull was ihvalided in 1814, and finally the'arm was taken off at the elbow In 1816. Coull was then discharged on a pension of $10 per annum, which was augmented some fourteen years ago by ?18 1Os., so that he had been a pensioner for the unusually long period of sixty six years. Although thus disabled, he sailed for twen ty years as cook In tfid whalers -belonging to the port of Montiose, besides acting in the same capacity for. fourteen voyages across the Atiutl In saplug vessels. The Anxious Passenoger. The Union Pacific engineers are very wicked fellows, especially those on No. 4 train. The passengers no sooner get com fortably seated at ihe table in the dining room or elbow room In a good position at the lunch stand at Cheyenne Depot than the engineer starts the train without warn ing. Then the male passenger rushes out frantically and waves his hat wildly with one hand to let the train know thai there is a passenger aboard that is left behind, while in the other hand he balances a quar ter section of apple pie or a vast ham sand wich. His mouth Is so full he' can't speak plainly, and he curses himself for lis own foolish mutterings. Probably the 'acking of the pie fringes his mustache andwhisk ers, making him look as If apple.sauce had been poured out of a pail into his mouth. A small pebble causes him to slip and he nearly chokes in gulping down a big bite. Then he swears some and madly dashes the balance of his meal to the ground. Hie reaches the train by this tine, but lie is so blinded with rage that he misses his calcu latlon in jumping on the car steps and lands fairly on lis shins; but he holds on to the railing for dear life. An~d he never forgets to swear all the while. Finally he0 scram bles on the platform and assumes a safe po sition just as' the Pullman conduct or in. forms him thiat the train has merely back- 'I ed down to take in the baggage 'and- will1 not start eastward for fortymilnutes. The train suddenly stops and the passenger jumps off muttering, "What a dod blasted fool I was not to see that the train was merely backing down and going slower all I the time. Trhen he goes back to the din Ing room or the lunch stand, but his appe titeis spoiled; he is forced to take a rest aiid wait his time and wrestle with the divine ly mysterious hash of Sydney whichi is0 conceived by the Furies, mixed by astanm and served by the devil. And the passen ger spends the balance of the forty ninfutes In cxplaining to the platform club why he ran to a train that was only backing down a Dig Fatm. on tihe Paolfia Coast. al Th'le "aiammoth IParii)," of the Blacklock Wheat Growing CompAny of Washington I Trerritory, comprises 60,000 acres of wheat land, of Which 25,000 adres are fenced. 0 Ground has beoin broken for a crop .whIch Is' expeted to foot up bet ween 800,000 arndr 400,000 bushels, Another large farm is c that of Dr. Hugh J. Glenn, of California. RIs in thes Sacramento Valley, and com- i prises 05,000 acres, of which 48,000 acres were in wheat this year. The owner had provIded 880,000 sackd, each holding 140 h pouinds, but At, last reports they promised . to be unecfual to the task of' holding the' ordip. D)r. Glenn has his Own machine t plops, blacksmilth shops, satw and planingt jlls, etc. Ho manufactures his own wagons, separators, hesders, harrows, and. nearly all the 'machlney and Implements' 18 . , Ho has employe fifty men in seed Ilag 'and 156) ia harvest, 200 head of horses had mules, fity-five grain headers and other ~ wagobs, 159 sets of harness, twelye-twelye. root headers, fiye sulky hay rakes, twelve ill eight-mnule cultivators, four Gem aced , lowers, eight Buckeye drills, 'ight mow- so. rs; one fortyleight Inch separator, thirty iii feet long and tiurteon and a half feet go iggh, with a capacity of ten bushels per ninute; one forty-inch separator, thirty-aix 'eat long; ;'two forty-feet elevators for self- an eeder, one steam barley or feed mill, and .ti we twenty horse power engines. .The 'ortyheight inch separator thrashed, on the ab 4lo August, 1879, 5,779 bushels of ml t l o ong, Witl Jor dust -~ 4gt for, apd whqo ot apt t ~ Di away tnawares-5$ he cuativatloM of the samae. There are thousands of people who wan der through the woods in autumn picking the beautiful scarlet and yellow leaves of the sumac bush to decorate their rooms, without knowing that there is any other use for the plant. Yet the importation of the sumao into this country this year wil amount to about 11,000 tons, costing about $1,000,000. The leaves of the sumac, dried and ground, are largely used in tan. ning and dyeing, and in Sielly and other parts of Italy the plant is carefully culti vated and treated. In view of the faet that the American sumac contains from six to eight per cent more tannic acid than the Italian, and, remembering that the plant grows wild in profusion throughout this country, it seems reasonable to believe that it might be made a very profitable crop. At the present time the amount of native sumac brought into the market does not exceed about 8,000 tons yearly; and its market price is only $50 per ton, just half the price of the Italian product. This large difference in the market value of the foreign and domedtic article is due to the fact that the American sumac, as at present prepared, is not suitable for making the finer white leathers so muoh used for gloves and fancy shoes, owing to itS giving a dis agreeable yellow or dirty 'color. - Thp many attempts that have been made to avoid this difficulty by care in cllecting and grinding the leaves have not resulted in success, and it has long been supposed that this objectionable quality was inher ent In the Amerlan plant; l?ut Mr. Win. McMdrtrie, in a report to the United'tates Commissioner of -Agriculture, showa that this difficulhy can be surmounted' an'd the American product made even superior to the foreign. P Mr. McMurtrie made anumber of testfth learn the relative amounts of 'tannic acid found in the leaves at different periods of their development, ano while the amhount was found to be the greatest in the. leaves gathered in July, he found that these gath ered in full development in.June were even then more than equal to the-best. foreign leaves. In this respect. but fuither,' h found that the doldterious coloring, mattet (due to the presence of quercitri and quercetin) was not yet developed, andtpat. therefore the American leaves gathqred in June were saperior to the Itall a for q)i' purposes: The importance of thi dlscov cry may be seen by the fact that the culti vation of the plant may be carried onmost profitably in this country as soon as manu facturers and dealers recognize the improve ment thus obtained In the domestic article, apdby classifying it according to its per ceptage of tauio acid od its relative free dom from coloiing matter, advance the price of that which is early picked and carefully treated. In Italy the sumac Is planted in shoots M the spring in rows and is cultivateA in the -J . ,4 6a; 2Z un eua Atnu, as corn. It givesa crop the second year after setting out, and regularly thereafter. The sumac gathered In this country is taken mostly from wild plaits growhi4g o4 waste land, but there, is no reason whjr it should not be utilized'and cultivated or land not valuable for other crops. Antiqaity at Table. . At first the Greek, as well as the Roman, at at table; but as his manners softened he trad ually came to use .the couch, p piece of urniture of more or less costly construe ion according to the style of the dwelling >r the wealth of the owner. Four or five mersons managed to accommodate them elves on tee dinner-beds in a way we hould consider very awkward and uncom ortable. The tables, like the couches, vore often of great value, being of dear voods, anid sometimes plated with gold or ilver. Probably Alcibiades prepared for he daily meal much in the manner of the odern "golden youth." The Greek gen leman and, for that matter, .no doubt, the Ireek bourgeois washed, aninted and toessed for dinner; a white robe, which ras also the wear in Rome, corresponding the "claw-hiammer" style of our day. 'he "curled son of Clinias'' sported, in ad Ition, a garland of flowers, where his coun iAtype appears in unadoraed beauty or aldness of brow. Theli rose-emblem of lience-frequenatly appeared above the ta lc in that discreet suggestiveness 'which as crystallized the etistom in a living base. When feasting hadl grown to be a >rt of sacrament amnong the Greeks they ined with a ceremony unknown in our ay. The various ministers of the table igmnated a special nomenclature. Thervj as the host, or the persons represetltng ae host, pompously distlngufr.hed in mc sonorous tongue of Buripides and Pla ~. There was thme master of the ceroemo los, whose business was to .see that ;the we and rules of entertainment wore ro >oted. Next, we reckon the carver, an sport ant personage, -to whom partacilar lson is made in many passages of Gtsek j keratdro. There is nothung hewy underth in, and we may indulge tho' hirakileso. if that Plisstratus the Tyreht,.thphe ayed the role of Amp1hitryonLwes see aded by a kaife Ma brilliant as that of t1he nouwned Marquis d' 'Argrifellit, the or iment of the table of Arch'-chinoellor unbacores. Of 'this conpuampate dpw ,r, it ia recorded th4tt "he -carved sto a iracle amnd was espsciallyOleve'iin tet ag fall, as if by socident 'if W&%rnerf e dish, the choicest hio alio*th'e jQp hlappenedi to bdecuttidk; U' 'this,tt9 94 ough served the lastadebtding te the quetto of tho table, he 'Al~agys'-anaged save the tidbits fdr hiinself.' ',. -liolgium .had ni gold celia~ni -A ndover has sa y- vp the ogical i~ adenits. ' -The Atiglican Bishops in tlie wid Ianber 102. --There hro 188 mfiionaries ,of be h ces in Japan.- ' -One ward ini Nashvie'fenn., ,has- t .arteen twins. -Patents ntumbering between 8,000 d 7,000 expire this year by Ilimita n. b -Tle demand for silver dollars Is out equal tothe .supply ,from the nts, t -The total ntsniber of colored Bap, h t in the' 8oshera hstats is givenim 1,974. ~he 6*:1 f of o aopt gtopl a te get. $1h 0olat .BRIEE8m& - I-V ',Li -Out of 7,450 DupIls i4. Charleston publio schools 6,444 are coloreq, -The Wealeyans of "ng ave lost 37,000 members by r"ngov nd backslidings alone. 1 1e ' -The average age of MasstehtNetts ministers during the last thirty years was fifty-nine years. .. -The amounp of ,gpld in tpe Vited States at the rese t tiMe ts in i und numbers $575,0,000. -The mniigration in't th'l*fited Strtes -during the year whIolfilded June 30th was 45T,206, AA --The Baptist, now hove 18,924 Weem bers In Sweden, of whom 3,484jwyero baptized the past year. -The University of Bafai,. 8, recently established, is 'm6delle&d'fter the University of London. . -It Is believed that the number of Christilas n3 India,Ceyloo and Purmah,' increased 200t100 last year. -One hundred and' eigby uild ings were erogted' i Pa, during the season just closed. -Germany anfiually'obnsumes 300- ' 0 tons of ryA; the staple food. of the wor~king.clageq bejpg rypibrpad, --The, ag reWpost ~heUpted States at yar o e a Of E1jr(Kland njerebd .X847 0U0r0 ri the week ending.thOd9thoz Otober. . ,4. recentep9Nt,)AOWs tIithe in. crease In the .99nu n=I lot and 1,r'ieauyt fiolc ;i. 4mte the amount of foreign gold that has arrived ini this. bountryesincerdulpl~gagf,00, -Over 12,000,0009'buifl1#b-f rainu 0~~lPi4 Nw of thisr 'ihe late ii! 8ai'ordi 9 1 left ItiehlA studIo at the'thne 4iis eath pictures, sketched ind dludW'*UIued At t30,0.90, -The Pzresbytorians, as the pesplt of .el htgeafs' Work In bqis, ave 3, 76i d ts, kdy hav also 1,089 in 8outh Ahe'rlea. -Gold is found in fifty-six- counties in Georgia, copper in thirteen, and silver in three, iron In 1ffty-taree, and diamonds in twenty-six. --It Is estimated that the sea''swol lows up about 24 yards a year If part of the Yorkshire consti and aUou, 3 fet a year of part of Lent. -Within the last eighteen yeafs the Catholics of Irela'nd expended- $4300, (00 on churches, $16,09000., ol con vents, and *1,500,000 on colleges.t --Italian army offledrs ore exer ised In the practical runiii rail road trains, so that in time of ' they may know all about novi.A tr as by -1'rice'GoTts'chakofis 1fafId to feel the hi'eIlasiess of his '6l0 n 'so much that he has asked to be uite ly relieved from the qutlo" tho Chancellorship. -A military g6ard A4o bartes every train on the Me~xico o Vera Cruz Railroad, and at ever$ ) on a guard is drawn up under nr1 thle arrival of every'train. -The Recorder of D f land says that of 9700 dw'e *ih tene ments in that city, 230' a occu pled by abbut 8O,OOOpe . re uiit for human habitation. -Three thousand five htundred square miles of timber' weo gold at Quebec recently 'for $ ' the largest sale of timtielr ligp)e took place li Canada.er -It is gratifying to k:&ow 'tht the pennut orop of the Uaaited $~s Is a svavess, and 2,220,000b bh0l have beena harvested, an incereasp Qf about 300,000 bushels ovoer 1879. -The Crown Princess of ca man wias so much pileased last WvinI widt Pegli, near Genoa, that sle Wrill eturn tk pass the coming WiLt'er therA with her husband and childiren~ ' Two tonman CathoIcioges are to be established, 1~he dr9jno the Ppe', In the ISld 'ter~I nder ~he con~roL of the B ahtop ,efIgjers. 1hey are to educate dhI iei a$~ for, africa. -The Chief Justicf' of Ejand is aid $40,000 a year, the''Chip ustice (the Comrpo, Pa. a2h e Chief Baron, $85, 000 each, atd h~ tator of he .ll (who has not to go opi cirout), ~f Netr York -a $1,0' veas a to~ ia1 tA1'6soi dangerous malady'ita h tne he g'est actor's #410e. -Great'f I i nn'~ i' uced - 'fpigiroil duiii to fcoal. Thee are # 77 nol~ s In he'United Rttg lify~RJic only4 ro inr Itelandi" n a og .e1 M M e Ro'raiild 1 fund ni e of Ate t~na of * effe'alhc thd4 &0utti d@14 of the 'dso hiriWesnh Ay r'l-vory.) Sipi anhbd BZ7ars, of orkj Mainze>irds .'bdea the)fiiier' of Welve.hidenvAj0y~ -tndM, girls, igi of whotousfQ l'OsR9~~a vat 4.itof1gi4eepp . lie 99 ~rnt iib -and K apdg a ye qp L reada - -oitaOealbste many dat t, sA es qo tim le W "eyertan94 uiteraf y agora, L~wy, Aik on Mr.A, - bauld, nsrles Lamb, Edo tt, &o., az(1 Where iey died, Joanna'in lubl, inl r nine stn year, and Agnes In Ap 1), 1801, her one hundredth year, )d out tu - sold. -Boston grows $ . er she rows olaer,. In 180i t hoe - '4 ha e