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Mow nnaob MaUS are Mad.. "Base balls are like human beings yon never know what's in them until you out them open," "There? What do you think of that? A great deal of hard work is required in the manufacture of - balls. For instance the ball is patented. .n the centre there)s a round piece of the best Pure gum.Then there is the best stookmg yarn. This is stretched first by machinery to its utmost tension. Then it Is wound by hand so tight that, as you see, it resembles one solid piece of material. The winding is done by single strands at a time. This makes it more compact. A round of white yarn is now put in, and the whole covered with a Tubber elastic cement. When this becomes hard it preserves the spherical shape of the ball, and prevents the inside from shifting when the ball is struck. Well. with this cement cov ering that is impossible. Then comes more yarn and finally the cover. The covering for all good balls is made of horse-hide. Long experience Las shown this to be the best. Cow or goat-skin will become wrinkled and wear loose. Why, there is so much change in the making of base balls in the last ten years as there is in the game itself. The sewing on the cover is done by hand, and the thread is catgut. No one makes a ball complete. One person becomes proficient in the first wiadiug,then some one olso tekes it; another man will lit the cover, but there are very few of the workmen who become proficient in the art of sewing the cover. A dozen men in the courso of a day will turn out about twenty-five dozen firstclass balls, and as a rule they make good wages. Sometimes unannfaqturers put carpet list in the balls, but can be easily de tected when the batting beings, becauso the ball looses its shapo. Of course, for the cheap ball, such as the boys be gin with, not so much care is exorcised in the manufacture. They are made in cups, which revolve by fast moving machmnery. The insides are made of scraps of leathei and rubber, and then carpet listing is wound around the ball. It takes a man about ten minutes to turn one out completo. The profes sional ball weighs 5 to 5j ounces, and is 9} inches in curcumnforenco. It is calculated that about 5,000,000 base balls are made each year, and these arc not extravagant figures when it is con sidered that upon every vacant lot in the large citieq and upon every village green in the country there are crowds of men and boys playing away at the ball whenever the weather permits, And yet people sasy the national gane is dyeing out. Strainge Story About Santa Anna. Judge Major, of Kentucky, reiates the following story of santa Anna, the Mexican Dictator: "Did you ever hoar," he said, "'that lhe was a Kentucian?" I confessed that I never had. "Well that is believed by many old poople about hood. It is said that santa Anna, af terward president of the Mexican repub lie, was an illegitimate son of the Nat Sanders, of this country. While a youth, he woent to New Orlean~s on a flat-boat, and was never taftecrward hearti from. When captured at S.mn Jacinto, in 1836, he was brought through this place on his way to WVashington, and was recog nized by the Banders, who recog nized haim as their illegitimate and long lost relative, lie did not deny it. He spoke English liko a Kentuckian, and with Kentucky accent. One of the Bau dors had deLtermnined to kill him on ac count of the death of a relative in the massacre of the Alamo, but abandoned his piurpose when lhe was convinced that they were biood rekhttions. The mother of Evan E. Se-ttle, of Owenton, was a Sanders, and lie bears a marked reisemblance to the pictures of Santa Amna. Larkin E. Banders, rep~rosentai tive from Carroll county to the present general assembly, belongs to the fannly, as also did the noted George Sanders, who figured so prominently in polities during the adiinistration of Pierce and Buchanan." 'Ihreo lintired .ost. [Doge. A fewv weeks ago, while X. Beoer was at Junction, wich is on the NorthI ern Pacific Road, about a mile and a half west of the Big Hornm tunnel, a lot of X, 'a people, the Crowv Indians, took it into their heads that they would like to have a railroad excursion to visit soe of their relatives down near Mandan. So X, and two or three other near friends of the Crows went to work and by a liberal use of the telegraph soon effected arrangements for railroad transportation of the Indians and two box cars were put at their disposal. Into these cars about thirty famlies were crowded, and the excursion mnove'd off. Each fannly had an averago of ten dogs, and as no means were p~rovi J ded for the transportation of the cani nes those faithful servants of the Crow ( tribc(about 800 of them) were com pelled to walk. They managed to keep up with the procession until Big Blorni tunnel was reached, and when the "IFire Wagon" darted into the tunnel the cani - nes struck over the hill with the pur pose of heading the train off on the othier sideO. When they reached the opposite end of the tunnel, however, the Indiaii excursion had already passed and gone out of sighit like an odoriferous dream. But the dlogs, siup posing thc ir masters wore still in the big hole, remained there for several days, patiently peering into the tunnel opening. Jvory and celluloid hair-brushes. Pooling the Sensles. Immerse the foretinger of one band in water at 104 degroes Fahrenheit, and then plunge the whole of the other hand Into the water with a temperature of 102 degrees Fahrenheit. The latter, although two degrees cooler, will be judged to be the warmer of the two, from which it, appears that the intensity of tlfe sensation of temperature depends not only upon the relative degree of heat to which the parts are exposed, but also upon the extent of surface over which it is applied. From this cause a bath which is not uncomfortably warm, when a few fingers are dipped in it, appears scalding hot when the whole body is immersed. The souse of tem perature is likewise, entirely at fault when required to determine which is the warmer of two substances, say a piece of iron and a piece of wood, for if they both have the same temperature, the iron will feel the hotter of the two, because of its being a so much better conductor. A slight diflrence of tem perature, however, between two sub stances of like nature is oasi'y discerned, and we may here describe a simple but highly-entertaining trick which is found ed on the fact.. The performer, having placed his hat behind him, requests the people present to place in it three or four pen nies. He shakes it up behind him, and then asks some person to take out a penny and closely examine it. He has then to pass it to the others for examination, the last one pitching it back into the flat again, The pennies are then shaken up, and the poiformer now, placing one hand behind him, picks out the penny which has been examined, although throughout the whole operation lie has never seen it. When the experiment has been done some two or three times successfully, all sorts of unlikely suggestions are made as to the way in which the feat has been performed, but very seldom the right one, which was exceedingly simple. The people, in handling the penny which was selected from the others, make it warm, It is, therefore, easy to pick it out from the others when it has been pitched into the hat again. This sufficiuetly demonstrates the fact that at ordinary temperatures the sense of temperature as localized in the fin gers is sufficiently sonsitive to descrimi nate between soveral pieces of metal so as to say which is the warmost. But for the extremes of hot and cold, touch is thoroughly dceivod, a piece of frozen mercury giving a burning sensa, tion liko a red-hot bar of metal. The touch which attains to Buch perfection in persons afibeted with blindness is readily deceived. This is shown forci bly by tho experiment of Aristotle. Cross the indox and mddla fingers and run them over a marble placett on the on the table with the eyes shut. Under such circumstances one has difliculty in avoiding the belief that lie is deuliug with two marbles imntead of one. The ideat of roundnessj which has been ob tained by a complex judgment, founded on the coalosceneo of several sensations, is here appealed to, but the usual con ditions being reversed, we draw a wrong conclusion. The sonse of taste may be likeAiso coifiunded by altering the conditions, under whidch the gustatory operation is always carried on, Thus, ii the nostrils bo held firmly, it is im possible to dlistngtush between ap plying an oalion or an apple to the tongue. A iFiood ina Europ. The V.. coin ber floods in Gcrmnany and Austria have been of far greater violence and extent than meager cable dispatches woukt mndicato. Vihe snow upon the Alps began imelting last soon after Chiristmnas, a heavy rain stormi set in, and nlews came that the hlead walters of the Main, the D)anubo, the Rlinjo, tile 11nn, the Vistula and Oder, the FIhib, Thoiss and Weser were rising danger ously. Sooni the land biordering upon these rivers was under water for lmiles; in ]3ohuemia and Upper anid Lower Austria the torrent1.- devastated the country; great ava laches blocked the radlroads in Styria; and the Danube, fed by its several tributaries, crashedc~ through the dikes and swep1t away the bridges, inundatmlg hundreds of vii lagos upon its banuks. 'The imlmensity of the Danube flood canl easily be roed izedt when it sa known that the river rouse 500 contimotors above its normnai level at Vienna. 668 at .l'esth and 678 at Presburg. Near Liz and Pesth 75, 000 acres of cultivated land1( are still undler water, and ini many plnces herds of wild deer, roebuck aned smaller game have been driven to the iowns lhke cat tle beiore a prairie fire. In thle hino pro)vinces of Germany the devastatiou has been even more frightful. T1he great plain betwveen WVormis andi~ Mann leim is buried under 10 feet of water, in thle Reid district near theo former town 12 villages arc destroyed and 10,00 pevrzona destituito. Mainz is threatened, tile railroads at Hleidelborg are destroyed, and in many other places the dams have been swept away andt tile flls and villages laid waste. Cologne and the adjacent region is suffering fearfully, houses have fallen by the score at Frieronheim and the people everywhere aroc sutifering for food and shlelter. How mianiy peursonis have been killed is not yet known, but the number is doubtless large. The I'satow Sanm. Of course, a pillow sham asarched so stiff it will stand alone, is not a very nice thing for a man to jam his head against when he crawls into bed. But there is no question but what a woman can fInd a thousand and one reasons why the pilJowv sham should be perpet iuateid as a thing of beauty. Thle beau tirul, clean, snowvy white pillow shams, looming tip at the head of the bed, andt standing alone, look very pretty, and the lady of t he house is greatly pleaused with them. Th'le men folks also th'd them very handy to keep) the hair oil off the pillows, so their wives will not complain about their pillows being all greased oyer with oil. Men can escape all hard feelings liable to be ongeindered, by neglecting to take off the shams when retiring, and decking out the love ly linen and fine lace, uised in manutact uiring the shams, with choIce and frag rant hair oil. And whein lie gets tiredl of having his ears sawed off, by coming in contact with tae stiff linen, and lis check worn raw by te starch and lnce, lie can gently slidoe the shams to taie foot of the bed and jam his feet against them to keep them from getting up in the night and walking all ever him. Even the most energetic pillow sham will lose its energy and vital force afteri being stamped and crumpled at the foot of the bed uinder a man's feet. Th'le pillow sham is not in any one's way, to to any great extent; the men can got along with them and the women can't get along without them, so the pillow sham w=i not be obliged to g. DOMESTIC. To WAsa FLANNEL DREssES -Boil a quarter of a pound of yellow bar soap An threee quarts of water, slioing the soap into thin shavings, and letting It boil until it is all dissolved. Take to tub of lukewarm water, and add enough of the hot soapsuds to make a good lather. Dip the dress in and ru it ,well, but do not rub soap upon it, for it will leave a white mark. Wring it out with the bands, not with a wringer, because it creases it badly. Wash in another water with a little more soap suds, if it is much soiled. Then wring it again, and dip into lukewarm water to rinse it, and make it very blue with the indigo bag. Shake it outthorough ly after wringing it, and dry in the shade uutil (lamp enough to iron on the wrong side. it must not be dried on tirely before It is ironed, Colored wool en or cottoi stockings can be washed in the same way, and rinsed in strong salt and water to keep the colors from running, instead of blued water. To RELIEVE BoLs.-Boils and whit lows are relieved or dissipated in their earlier stages by using the tincture of camphor. Dip a finger in the camphor and rub it over the boil; do this eight or ten times and repeat every hour dur ing daylight. For whitlow, dip the fin. ger into the camphor and lot it remain ten mrnutes; this often gives immediate relief. Repeat every three hours dur ing the day until cured, eating nothing, meanwhile, but coarse bread and butter and fruits. Prepare the camphor thus: Put an ounce or more in a vial, till with alcohol shake it well; some of the cam. phor should always be seen at the bot tom; this ensures a saturated tincture, which is the strongest, How TO PaEARE YzAgr.--Take three good sized potatoes, pare them and place then in cool water. Take a small pinch of hops and one quart of boiling water, and boil in a porcelain or enam eled sauce pan and not in tin. Mix a quarter of a cup of sugar with a quarter of a cup of flour, and two tablespoons of salt. into this mixture grate the pota toes this keepis them from turning (lark, and then pour on the boiling hop water and stir steadily. If the potato does not thicken like a thin paste, put it all in a double boiler and cook a trifle till it does thicken. Strain the whole, and whei luke warm add one cup of old, yet good, yeast. Let it rise until it is toamy and bottle with care. BAKED APPLE PUDDING.--Fivo moder ate-sized apples, two tablespoonfuls of finely chopped suet, three eggs, three tablespoonfuls of flour, one pint of milk, a little grated nutmeg. Mix the flour to a smooth batter with the milk, add the eggs, which should be well whisked, and put the latter into a well-buttered pie-dish. Wipe the apples, but do not pare thern; cut them in halves and take out the cores; lay them in the batter, rind uppermost; shake the suot on the top, over which also grate the little nut meg; bake in a moderate oven for an hour, and cover, when served, with sif ted loaf sugar, This pudding is also very good with apples pared, sliced, and mixed with the batter. NATIVE .JsaED-Two quarts of sifted flour; mix one tablespoonful of sugar andi one teaispooniful of salt,; put in onie tablespoonful of beef drippings or lard; mix one half of a cupful of home made yeast with one pint of water; if comn pressed yeast is used, dissolve a quarter of a cake in half cup of water; mix with the pint of water; stir wvater and~ voast into the flour and when wecll mixed turn on the bread board and kneadl iutiJ smooth and fine grained; let rise in a warm place until it is light and spongy; cut it down with a knife and knead it again. Form into loaves and bake in rather a hot oven for forty or fifty min utes. is drops fried are nice for breakfast. One cup of sour milk or buttermilk. three tablespoonfuls of sugar; if butter milk is not used, put oine tablespoonful of molited butter in with the sour milk, one well-beaten egg, one teaspoonful of soda-inot a heaping spoonfui, either and one of cinnamaton. Make a stiff bat ter by the addition of rye flour. This is to be propierly dropped by large spoonfuls into boiling lard. .lf the spoon is first dipped in the hot fat the batter will no~t "sting" from the spoon, but will drop all at once, and make the cakes the wished-for shape. Tucy should be served while warm. A PlErY scent sachet is of satin, eight inches square; the top is of white satiin, with the initial of the owner work ed in blue; the bottom is of blue satin, on which a small bunch of daisies is em broidered. There needs to be one thick ness of cotton between the top and bot tom, oii which the perfume powder is seattered. The edge is trimmed with lace two inches wide, very full at the corners, and1 the lace has for a heading blue satin ribbon phlted in shells. POnT wiE jelly for the sick is made by molting one ounce of gelatine in a very little wvarm water; stir it when en tirely dissolved in one pint of port wine, adding two ounces of sugar, a lump of gum arabic the size of a~ walnut. and a little grated nutmeg, Mix these well, then le t them boil for about ten minutes, the strain in bowls or jelly tumblers, andl when cold the jolly will be found anid delicious. CANNED pineapple can h)e greatly im proved by cutting the sheces in small pieces, adding eugar to it till it is as sweet as preserves, and lotting It boil until the pineapp~le is clear and almost! transparent, It is much less awkward to serve and to eat ii out in small pileces, and ii prepared in the way recommn. ded no one will suspect you of serving any but pineapple of your own preserv 11ng. AN excellent recipe for mnuflins is hero giveii: Four quarts of sifted flour, one (one teacupful of sugar, one teacupful of butter, one cup of yeast, four eggs, a little salt, and two quarts of sweet milk; let this rise all night, after mixing thor oughly. Of course the quantity here mentioned can bo reduced, keeping the same propoi tioins. Bake in mullin-riogs in a quick oven, A iTANDAOM14 ornament for the parlor wall consists of a small cabinet in carvedl wood, the doors of which open downwardl and by means of movable supports form a writing desh. Frequent ly the panels1 are either painted or pie ces of embroidery are mounted upon them, Soin of the most beautiful carving by ladies is carrIed out in cedar wood. They are specially adapted for glove boxes and other smalhl articles. TiABiLis of every shape are to be had for decoration at home, and are covered with jute lhush embroidered in raised figures or simply finished off by a deep fringe. AGIOUILURBt CAUTION TO 8BEP1nnb.-A hot iicom* non errot into which many shepherds are ed, is the effort to economize in the item >f cured feed during the later fall season: rho present unusuall favorable weather ,ffers a more than average temptation to :onflne the flock to paitre graving, to the exclusion of the grain allowance that under less favorable conditions would be recog Azed as indispensable. The fact that Iheep will "get along" on grass, so long as it is not covered with snow or all nutri. ment frozen out of It, should not be mis. taken as conclusive of the economy of re stricting them to such diet. In those Jo. calities where the rigors of winter compel the owner to feed his flock through several mouths, experience has taught the more Dbservant that at no period ot the feeding season does a liberal ration "count" for so much as during the time when it laps over the full pasturage of such seasons as the present. 1ly such a policy immunity is secured from inconveniences, and some. times serious damage, that result by the sudden change from pasture to barnyard feeding, that is made necessary by the ad vent of some unexpected storm. Few perplexities overtake the shepherd more annoying than the experiences with a ilock suddenly driven from thb pasture, while accustoned to food and habits of winter life. The shyer members stand aloof, while others gorge to their detriment, thus adding the care for sick animals to a round o labor already replete with annoy ances. The shepherd first exposed tu such an experience is to be commisora ted. The one who is the second time e victim, has learned too little from expert. once to encourage a hope for success i11 any undertaking to which he may devott himself. How TO FBED COnNETALK.-The rear iog and feeding of animals are receiving, as they should, from farmers and herde. men in all parts of the coutitry gy cater at tention every year; and especially is th true of dairymen, whose only hope of gai rests in their obtaining paying yields fron their cows. Cornstalks enter large'y intc the fall iced of dairy cows, and how tc feed them is the important question. Tne common practice is to feed them in the bundle, as but few farmers feel able or willing to use a cutting machine. This feeding in a bundle without any prepara tion, I am fully satisfied, Is very waste. tul, as not only are the buits let r, but fre quently near the whole stalk. I have learned from experience that a little brine sprinkled upon stalks once eve ry day before feeding is of material ad. vantage in many respects. The weak will cause the cows to consume nearly all, even when fed whole, the flow of milk in creases, the condition of the cows improve and they show greater contentment. Es. pecially is this lust remark trle on cold, wiudy and rainy days. I find it mucb better. as a general ule, when it can boe done, to feed salt on food instead of feed ing it alone. In no case should more than one day be permitted to pass without brin. ing the morning', feed. The brine should not be strong, only enough to furaih suffi cient salt to the cows. Of course the cowi should have access to plenty of water; thii brine food will cause them to drink more and thus increase the flow of milk. Let my brothers try this and they will hereaf ter place a greater value on cornstaiks. TuE horticultural edhitor of the Coutr Genesltan says that it is welt known that wuiing or girdling grapevines, whil( it, Injures the vines, causes the grapes tC grow larger,ripen sooner and become poor er in quality. Siome experiments were made at the Miassachuse is Agricultura College in girdling surplus branches,which were to be afterward cut away. A reyel. ving knife ents rapidly a ring of the barn a fourth of an Inch wide, just below the bunch of fruit, about midsummer. This treatment was performed on twelve rows of grapes, The enlarged and early fruit sold for $36 more than the same amount of the comnmon or main crop, the labor be. ong less than half this sum. No Injury has been a'pparent to the vines so treated, the girdled canes being cut away wh~en (lone witti, If, however, many surplus canes were girdled on a vine, an obvious injuiry would doubtless be the result. There would be no barm in trying the experi ment on vines intended to he dug tip. A .NEw METNOD FOR PaushEivimo OAm. A. new method for preserving grain, re cently discovered in France, it is claimed, nas proven satisfactory. 'Theo cost of pro seivation is less than storage in a granary, and the wheat is sale iromi fermenmation, inmects and ci yptogamic vegetation. Tihe U. 8. Mi11ler in descuibing this method, says that a sheet iron cistern, which occu pies little space, and holes nearly 800 ousheis, and Is worked by an air pumip wita a pressure guage to indicate the de gree of vacuum, comprises the whole her mietic preservation. One important effect which t esulta from the numerous and con tinuous expe! iments nmade is, according to the journal in question, that the vacuum not only kills the parasitIc inuteet and pre vents vegetation, but dries the grain at the same taine. After a detention of seven months wheat and flour inclosed in the :npparatus during the experimenits at Via cennes, it is reportedi, were withdrawn in I perfect state of preservation. THE Langihaws are black in plumage, with a beautilaul beetle green lustre. They greatly resemble black Cochins, but are more active, and mature earlier. They seem to fill an Intermediate place between the setters and non-settere, as they are rathier constant layers and easily broken when desiring to set. Ini size, they are nearly, if not quite, as larmte as the Blrah mas, anml the pullets often begin to lay when six moi~ths old. The chIcks grew fast, leather from the start, and are very hardy, As a breed they compare favora bly with any of the others. Mism yielding is in rome occuilt way non .wcetd iintiimately with the cow's nervous >rgamazattion). If she is happy, contented mud comfortable she will do hmer best,while the least s'iock to her nervous system upl mets the whole business. 'I he crack of a svhip. thme faling of a board,or other shockt ,o the nervep, will reduce the yleldof milk n a her d very maateu ially. SUtlhe remnovai af the calf, or its rongh treatmeint in the llm's ptreseace; will rometimes pereinpro ily atop 'he flow of milk. This is often itiribuited to the ill-will of the cow In 'holding up" her milk, but dloctors t ell use >f similar resuits with the human race. Po'IATous, when dug mn an unripe state, nay be at times watery anti nt fit to ea', >ut if spread as thinly as p >ssible in a dry, iry plaice,they will in tmie b~ecome as mnca y as if left to ripcu on the ground. Belect the finest tubers when harvesting he crop and put thenm seide for next pring's plantlug. Following this rule for loew seamsns wdIl produce a great improve lent in the quality of your potaItoes. Alt ST animals eat In proportlin to their reight, under average conditions ci age, emneraturo andi ratnes. "ntitef- Woilds tha ours,' The cont observations made on the planet Venus during her transit across the sun appear to confirm the Impresion de rived from the last transit, Ia 18'74, that she hu an atmosphere not loss dense than our own, and aqueous vapor and cloud within that atmosphere. This conclusion would have grieved the late Professor Whewell, who, in his ingenious essay to disprove the plurality of inhabited worlds, took for granted that we "discern no traces of a gaseous or watery atmosphere sur rounding her (Venus)," and built on this ne gative evidence one of his arguments to prove that In the whole universe the earth is not improbably the only habitable globe. t'rofessor Whewell .did his best to show that the carth held a very singular place in what might be a very unique solar sys tein; that it occupied what lie called "the temperate zone" of its own sun's system, and that there is no particular resson to suppose that any other sun has planetary attendants at all. In order to make out the singular position of the earth in its own sun's system, 'rofessor Whowell was compelled to make tile miost of the intensi ty of the light and heat in Mercury and 'Venue, and the most again, of the compar ative cold of mars. In point of fact, how ever, it is probable that a very slight mod ification of our human organization-even If any structural modification at all of that organization were necessary-would enable creatures of the same general structure and habits as man to 4ivo with ease in either of the planets nearest to the earth, in either blars, which should, caeteris paribus, be colder and darker, or in Venus, which should cacteris parlbus, be lighter and hotter than the earth. We know, to some extent, the configuration of the continents in lare, and our astronon. era have at times watched the area of the polar snows of that planet increasi. g with the approach ot winter and dwidlmng with the approach of summer. Of Venus we know much less, the intense brightness of her reflected light being a very unfavor. able condition for minute observation. But the apparently clear evidence for an atmosphere of a good deal of density, and for the preence of cloud and aqueous vapor in that atmosphere, disposes completely of the late Professor Whewell's assumption that no creature resenibling man now has, or could ever have, his abode there. 'I'lere now seems no reason to doubt that in Venus the conditions of physical exis-ence are sucn that either there now may be there, or may have been, or may be in future, a beig whose physical existence might, like that of a man and the animal natures nearest to man, exist under soine thing closely approaching to those of ter restrial life. The length of the (lay in Venus is nearly the same, the weight of any given mass is nearly the same, the at iospheric conditions are probably not very different froni our own; the. only material differences being probably the length of the year, which Is not very much above the half of ours-or, say about seven months instead of twelve and the amount of light and heat, which unless mitigated by special atmospheric conditions, as they easily might be, would probably be twice as intense as terrestrial light and heat. We insist on this analogy, however, only for the sake of those who like the late Dr. Whewell, made the argument fr->m analogy so all-important, though in relation to a question on which, as it ap pears to us, the argument from analogy has really a very slight bearing indeed. There is no reason in the world why spir itual beings, much more like to us in their thoughts than it is at all probable that birds and tortoines are like to us in their thoughts, should not exist everywhere in the pure ether, In the hottest Ilamies of the sun, in the dimness of the darkest re ceases of apace, in the heat of Lhe volcano, o" in the depth of the ocean. Ignore the reasoning from analogy and we can hardly have a less secure basis for reasoning, where observation is limited as it is in this case, in one minute corner of the uni - verse, and we shall find no more rcason why we should confine the Creator's power to working within conditIons closely re sembiling our own than there is why we should assume that He will work at all in regions where we have no evidence of that work. What Tripe Is. Occasionally you see a man order tripe at a hotel, but he always looks hard, as though he hated himself and everybody else. lie tries to lo:k as though he enjoyed it, bt he does noit. Trp,'.. is indigestibl and looks like an indiarubber aproni for a child to sit on. When it is pickled it looks like dirty clothes p~ut to soak, and when it is cooking it looks as though thle cook was boiling a dish-cloth. On the table it looks like glue, and tastes likce 8 piece of oil silk umbrella cover. A atom. ach that is not lined with corrugated Iron would be .turned wrong 81(de out by the smell of tritse. A man eating tripe at a hotel table looks like an Arctic explorer dining on his boots or chewing pieces of frozen raw dr .. You cannot look at a man eating tripe, but he wvill blush and look as though he wanted to apologize and con vince you he is taking it to tone up his system. A wuiman never eats tripe. There is no't money enough in the world to hire a woman to take a corner of a sheet of tripe in her teeth and try to pull off a piece. Those who eat tripec are men who havc had their stomachs play mean tricks tricks on them, and they eat tripe to get eveni with their stomachs, and then they go and take a Turkish bath to sweat it out of the e3ntem. Tlripo has a superstition handed dlown fromt a former generation of butchers, who sold all the meat and kept tripe for themselves and the dogs; hut dogs of the present (lay will not eat tripe. You throw a piece of tripe dIown im front of a dog, andl see if lie doesa not put his tail between his legs and go off and( hate you. Taipe may have a value, but it is not as food. 1t may be good to f1ll into a burglar proof sate, with the cement and chilled steel, or it might answer to use as a breast-plate in time of war, or It would be goodi to use as bumpers between cars, or 't wouldl make a good lace for the weight of a pile-driver, but whieii you come to smuiggle it Into the stomath you do wrong. Tripe I Bahi I A piece of Turkish towel cooked in axce-grease would be pie0 compared with tripe. One by one, the more precious metale are found deposited in this country, and in some caseP, as in nickle, the iinsuspec ted supplies peove greater in voiume thani the previous yel of all other countries combined. Tihe latest of these dliscoveries is that of vaniadiumi, which h as betn taktn from ani Arizona mine ini larger paying quantities than ever before known. At a hotel'in the Adirondacks, where the E~disoni eke'ric light is used, the biu er for the diynamos is fired exclusively with wood, which coats twenty five centa a cord. The comnp any asserts the first night the hum pa were h htedi, one hundred and twenty-nfve lamps were ruin six hours with only onic-quarter cerdi of wood, at a cost of six and one fourth cents for fuel. Do you never look at yourself when you abusenothe pnrson. The liousoy when Alone, When the house Is alone by itself, Inox perlenced persona may believe that It be haves just exactly as It does when there a are peoplein it: but that is a delusion, as al yuu will discover if you are left alone in it o: at midnight, sitting up for the rest of the family. At this hour it Is true disposition U will reveal Itself. To catch it at its best, N pretend to retire, prit out the gas or lamp, w and go up stairs. Atterwards come down si softly, light no more than one lamp, go f Into the empty parlor, and seat yourselt f at a table, with something to read, No sooner have you done so than you will T hear chirp, chirp, chirp, along the top of p the room-a small sound, but persistent. 1i It is evidently the wall paper comiug off; lj and you decide, after some tribulation,that it It does come off you can't help it, anti 1 go on with your reading. U As you sit with your book in your band tl you begin to he quite sure that some one 7 is coming down stairs. Squak-squak- ti squakl What folly! There is nobody up there to come down; but there-noI is 1 on the kitchen stairs. Somebody is coin ing up. Squak-snapi Well, if it is a e robber, you might as well face him You o get the poker, and stand with your back 1 against the wall. Nobody comes up. Fin ally you decide that you are a goose, put the poker down, get a magazine and try h to read. b rhere, that's the door. You heard the i lock turn. They are coming home. You 0 run to the door, unlock and unbolt it,peep out. .Nobody therel But as ou linger. the door lack gives a click that itakes )ou 1 jump. By daylight neither loek nor ri stairs make any uf those noises unless they f are touched or trodden on. You go bacc to the parlor In a hurry, with a feeling that the next thing you know somethinA u may catch you by the back-hair, anid you w try to remember whre you left off, Now, a it is the table that snaps and cracks as if N all tte spiritualistic knocKs were hidden in its mahogany. You do not lean on it heavily without this result; but it fidgets 0 you, and you take a easy chair chair and 4 put the book on your knee. Your eyes fc wander up and down the page, and you W grow dreamy, when, apparently,the book cases fires off a pistol' at least, a loud, fierce crack conies from the heart of that c piece of furnitur'-so loud, so fierce, that V you jump to your feet, trembling. b You cannot stand the parlor any more. t] You go up stairs. No sooner do you get there than it seems to you somebody is walking on the roof. If the house is a b detached one, and the thing is iipossible, b that makes It all the more mysterious. t Nothing ever ma'-ned in the chimnicy be. fore, but soietbing moans now. There is a ghostly step in the tathi-room. You i find out afterwaras that it I the tap arip- e ping, but you do uot dare to look at that n time. Ard it is evident that there is some- o thing up the chimney-you would not. liae to ask what. If you have gas, it bobs up and down in a phantom dance. If you a have a lamp, it goes out in blue explosion. c If you have a candle, a shroud plainly en- a wraps the wick and falls towards you. 3 The blinds shake as if a hand clutched them; a'id, finally a doleful cat begins to d moan in the ceilar. You (ho not keep a fi cat, and this finishes you. o You pretend to read no longer, and, sit- fi ting with a towel over your head and face, and hearing something below go "Show I shewi show!I show!" like a saw, you be lieve in the old ghost stories. Ten minutes n afterwards the bell rings; the belated ones a, comes home; the lights are lit; perhaps something must be got out to eat People " talk and tell where they have been, and si ask if you are lonesome. And not a stair ii creaks. No step is heard on the roof. No click at the tront door. No bookcase nor table cracks. The honuse has on its com-c pany manners--only yt u have found out how it behaves when it is alone, tJ e The buildings and p'ersonal property of d farmers are much loss liable to be dcstroyed U by fire than similar properly in cities aind c. villages. Occasionally fires spread through a the country as was the case in Michigan a year or two ago; but suich inssances are tob rare to be taken Into the account of coin mon farm risks. The calamity in Michi- fi gan was not, in fact, a fire spreading fronm ri one farm to another, but a forest fire, - whIch incidentally took such farm buil. " mngs, crops and othier destructible prop!'r- t ty as lay in its path. Such cases as this td hardly constitute a good argument for as farm iusurance, since in so idiespread a conflagration the company mnsuring, unless .t( iargely sup~ported elsewhere,mziay go down, while the liupposedl insurance becomes wvorthless when it is most needed. Th~ere can be no doubt, that farmers arc andl have been tax( d much too heavily for insurance ci in proportions to their risks. TFhe exf.cri- aa ence of the Grange insurance companies prove~s this. From the reports of their secretaries we learn that while the rate is only flity ((nts per hlundired dlollars for w five years as compa~rred with ifixty to sev. C ently-flve cents per hundred for t'mrce ti years charg'ed by stock con panics, yet the , Grange comiprnins aire COt stantly accumu lating a surplus. To lbe sure these Orange companies take only the best rIsks; that is, none except miembiers of the order can be ci insured; but the fact tnat at th'e low rates ol chiargedi they are adding to their reserves shows that In times past, farmers have a been taxed far too high in this respect. In 81 one one town it Is reportedl that an insur al ance agent in twenty years collected $12,- gi 000 in premiums from farmers, and In all fe that time less than $200 had been returneld for property destroyed, while this sum was much less than the local agents' comt. is sion for collecting premiums and making dl disbursements. Statistics just puilstiett show that South si Carolina now has 27 flouristilng rotton Ic mills, with 4,120 looms and 180,721 spindles, and~ that the busIness yields an average net profit of twelve per cent. In v( 1880 there were in the State 18 mills, mi with 1,933 kcoms and 95,938 apindles. pl These figures show an extraordinary yi progress in this Important indtustry, and w the fact, that nine new mills were chartered! ot at the recent session of the Legislature in- 0! dhicates a striking growth of the business 15 in the fluture. in undertaking to manu- (hl facture its great staple insateadl of sending e( it to English and1( New England mills the b)1 South ha~s entered a field of industrisl ac- It tivity which promises'to prove a most Im- wV portant souirce of prosperity. Nearness Of r( its mills to its cotton fields is an advantage t' which in time must tell strongly In favor at of the 8>unth in the competition with its hJ dietant competitors. hii -t Sik Orowing,. 10i Hungary is becoming quito a silk- 'r growing country. From statistics pnb- thi hished a short time ago, it appears that Ic in 1861 there wero 2976 producers, who W turned out 41,587 kilogrammies cof co-il coons, which realized not less than 41,. 816 florins. On the profits there has been established, wiith Slante aid, a model hfool, which promises to give a Well-(directed impetus to the silk grw en Lulinber Statistics. Dtiring the year of 1882 the lumber anufacturors of Williamsport enjoyed season of great prosperity. They be %n the present year with every. promise increased business. - ftellent prices revailed last year and as the floods in Le river came at the right time and ere of the right height all the available ook of logs in the woods was suocess. illy floated down to the boom and man etured into boards during the summer. he shipping books of the railroad com. mies show that 202,881,000 feet of tmber were sent to market from Wil awsport during the year. The traffic the entire West Branch Valley foota p a total of 882,008,000 feet. To carry 2e Williamsport lumber to market 20,. 30 cars and boats were required, and io entire trafil of the valley called Into )rvice 20,108 cars and boats. At the opening <:.q 1882 a careful ao, Lunt of stock showed 157,587,888 feet pine and 27,831,437 feet of hemlock a hand in the lumber yards of the WiF amsport manufacturers. The stock on and at present has not yet been taken, ut the best informed lumbermen be. eve that it will not vary'wuch from that f the previous year. The stock that will e out in the woods this .winter and oated to the boom in the spring will mu from 270,000,000 to 800.000,000 of ovt. - Thie highest carried over by the man. facturors at any time in twelve years as in 1874, when it was 220,962,922 feet id tho smallest amount was in 1872, hon it roached only 50,550,603. In 1882 the boom company raftea tit and delivered to their owners 1,808, 33 los, which measured 220,120,959 iet. As the season was favorable it as entirely cleared of stock. While i1 boom and the mills are inseparable, )nstant war is going on between them. 7hon first established years ago, the oom company was allowed $i.25 per iousand foot toll on pine and $1 on emlock. - This was considered too high y the manufacturers, and, after much ard work, the Legislature was induc3d ) reduce the tolls to $1 all around at hich figure they now stand. The venty-flye saw-mills of Williamsport riploy an average of about one hundred Len each, at an annual cost of about oc million of dollars. The season lasts ight months in the year and the aver go pay per day is $1.75. The mills it an average of 250,000,000 feet per amum and the largest has a capacity of ,000,000 annually. The entire pro. act of the season is worth $18 per thou mud on an average, which give a total E $4,500,000 for the raw lumber manu ictured. . atheurly Adviec. One of the veterans on Wall street as the other day giving some fatherly ivice to one of his clurks, about to be Larriedi, andl in closing his sermon hie uid: "Directly after the ceremony iore will be a banquet, of course. When our wife turns her plate she will find a tck for $50,000 under it." '-Do you mil~y think so?" "Oh, I know it; that's mc prevailing style now-a-days. The Lieck will be passed around and finally iven to you to pocketa'' "And next ay I will drawv the money on it." ''Oh, o, you won't." ''Why not?" "Be muse there wou't be any. Don't make dolt of yourself by rushing to the siik." ''But I thought--" "No matter hat you thought. Bave the check to amoe and hangp up. When 1 was mar ed thirty years ago, my wife found one aidor her plate. I've got it yet. I aoughit too much of her father to mor fy his feelings, and I know be has at ays respected me for it. That's all, y son). If run you short on'your bridal ~ur, telegra ph ime."' A Temple or solia Rock. The temple of D1ambula, Ceylon, is rved enitirely out of stone, and there o seven eaves hollowed out of the ck, stairs roughly hewn up the side of These cav.s are grotesquely p~ainted ih the chief incidents of the history of Liylon. Ini the first one there Is a sta .0 of Buiddah, rep:osing full length, hioh is sixty leot long, and all carved it of 0110 blot'k of stone, Before it on to table are placed offrings of flowers, mlca, campllhor, incense, etc. in the her caves there are immense figures of icieint kings; they are larger than life i.e and are painted in the most variedl Ladles of yellow, slashled with red and 'el. Their faces have much the same ritures as are repjresented on wooden ntah dolls, and have about as much ex ession. The walls and ceilings are corated with ,rough paintings repre nting battles, tournaments, elephant muts and religious processions. The >or of the temple is looked with a mnas ye silver key, which must weigh at ast twvo pounds. A recent correspiondient of Nattire is ry much worried about the earth's at ('sphere, which 'he says lias become so >llutedl by the burning of coal that in the ar 1900 all animal life upon the globe ill cease, killed by carbonic dIoxide. An her co'rrespondlent, loIlng this pirophet evil, shlows that, while most of the gas washed( out of the air by rain, seime pro icts of combustion (or rather inconmplete nibustion)as hiydrog~en and the hydrocar ,ns, remain. 01 these unburned gases )0,000,000 tons have escaped into the air hina thirty years. What will be the suits of th s accnumularuon? According k'rofessor Tyndalt, hydrogen, marsh gas 1(1 ethylene have the property in a very gh degree or absorbing andi radiating at. Fromn thIs we may conclude, says e correspondlent, that the increasing pci tion of the atmosphere will have a mark I influence on the climate of the world. tio mountainous regions will be colder, c arctIc regions will be colder, the trop Swill be warmer, and~ throughout, the >rldl the (lays will he warmer and the ghts colder. In the temrerate zone thme mter will be colder, and( wInds, storms dI rain fall greater. In his selar researches Prof. Langley da that the absolute color of the photo tere Is blue, and that the muxlmum orgy in the visIble spectrum is In the lion of thme orangre.