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ova jutexti.es. The Mft “ I,ord br*n pj, ninni, ■m. b*h prarrj *o-<U.t, “Kitty, Bon*uiold brack Whet cbt •'■!] I mj 7 I ran t Snk ot raffin' mo-h (Stoopiil work to p’ay!). •Hart' for whet ltd HVt to know, sow. You old Mnnrnii On; 7 Ain't I p'ared, ut' p’ajed, and p'ared Tima 'll time again T I'm target the way to end it- Why don’t yon tdl mo venT For whoea lake, mamma—ear ? I’m —eo—a'arpy—oh, I ’member—■ For Pity'a sake, Amen "’ Who ridden the child 7 I kina and hath Silent I Join the group doim-ataira That rent and linger by the flro To langh at Baby'e prayers, “And what did Baby nay to-night 7" Bwt low I anawer, with grave brow: “She prayed for Bone, and yon and me—” I cannot tell them now How foil the mood the child haa drawn And pressed upon a musing heart I Amid the happy household chat 1 Bit like one apart. My thoughts Ilka prayera move solemnly; ' Oh, Lord," I say, “ tho great, the wine, Ihe weak, the miserable are All children In Thine eyes. “ We take the name of Thy dear Son Baring, upon a trembling lip; The enp Thou giveet us, we lift, And shrink, and taste, and sip, “ And try to say, ‘ For Jesus’ sake; Dear Lord, the babe la wisest when, Feariees and clear, she pleads with Thee ‘ For Pity’s sake, amen.’ “Oh, truer than the sacred phrase That time from Christian years has spun, la he who prays, nor questions If Pity and Christ are one!” Elisabeth Stuart I'helps. in WOL, Awake. Hour Ralph Hade the Daintiest Pair o[ Glows Ever Seen. A reminder quietly spoken by Ralph's father hath set Ralph’s wits to work. Ralph’s father had said: “You aro 14 to-day; it’s high time you were thinking of what to do in the world.” The first thing that Ralph did was to pick out a shady spot on the creek hank and begin to fish. As he held his rod aslant, wait ing for a bite, many thoughts came to Mte Thought always made Ralph ■fckoly. .v “ I don’t see that I’m any ■L anyhow,” said Ralph; “what’s 4o d.i anything but fish? I wight a lawyer or a school teacher or or a store keeper or a printer but (hero aro lots and Mitieinns, printers, store keop ■t teachers and lawyers. *' * t* Bm>l><hU - s ••! any particular fif Bvh. If I were a calf J i vea! and do some a §5|S B come al.a.g anq hit,. 'Hrpi’.v ’■ 1 Kitij.il sat in Klia’in ' W ' I want,” HPl.’-.o ycs'dic V’t tifh-lmw 0-1 the sur- white cloud, “ what I I -~wat is to do something big, sometliing tremendous, something aw—; no, not anything awful, but something nearly awful. Tor instance, if I could invent Hy hiri machine ! See how that hawk flew! Think of it! It was won derful!” Just then a humming dragonfly, long, tapering and graceful, settled npon Rulph’s rod, that was still aslant. The machine left Ra f ,’s head instant ■Lhe watched ' insect before him Hkn infer.ot. The fly was more flower than a thing of w.-.s tile color of a blue- H .■’ t'vei'o like bits of amber scented to be woven little boast,” Ralph S * B'eif. He gave his rod to ilrown the dragon, : darted up and away rj y stone shot from the knuckle ■yGib. and other similar ones caused Ralph to think or not he could put to use any WT the fine things of the insect world. He probably would have given over the disagreeable task had not a spider swung himself boldly from a high limb to tho fishing rod. “I’ve got something, any how,” said Frank, and, though he shiv ered at touching it, he held the spider between his thumb and forefinger and examined it closely. He saw that the spider’s legs numbered eight, that it had eight eyes and that there were two arms, branching above the head, also. Then he drew his knife, and, with a sharp blade, split open the spider’s body. *’ This is what it makes its web from,” ho reflected; “it looks like glne, and that’s what it is.” Happening to have his school microscope with him, Ralph tested the fineness of some threads drawn from tho glue with the little blade of his knife. Suddenly springing to his feet Ralph exclaimed: “ Now I’ve got it! Anew hkxt i ITever thought of before ! Glorious ! I’ll make silk from spider web! ” Two or three days passed, but the spider idea didn’t cool in the glowing mind of the young philosopher. He worked himself up to a pitch of enthusi asm and then began to collect a colony of spiders. He selected an unused cor ner of the barn loft, plugged the holes, stopped the crevices and slipped in the spiders through a slit in the door. Once he came npon a web in the weeds that contained forty young spinners and again he caught twenty-eight in a morn ing ramble. At the end of a month Ralph had stocked his room with about 700 of the insects, and, what is strange, no one, not even hiR close friend Fnmk, knew of the soheme. Ralph reasoned that he would prove his idea by experi ment and then burst npon the world. He would send telegrams to the city newspapers announcing his great dis covery. He would receive congratula tions from the President He would lie made a “Fh. D.” by some university. “A ‘ Ph. D.’ at 14 I” said Ralph, “that’s worth working for.” But his spiders didn’t spin. They stowed themselves away in the ooroers and drew themselves up in bails when- ELLIJAY ®Bi COURIER. W. ic. COMBS) Editor >nd Publisher ) ever he approached. Then fights be came frequent Then some of the smaller ones began to disappear. Then Ralph discovered that the creatures were eating one another. “To be sure,’ thought Ralph, blushing, “I’m a ninny not to have thought of it; they must have food, of oourse.” So Ralph bar gained with his mother to empty the fly-catcher on the kitchen table every day. When the flies were let into the spider-room there was immediate change in the life of the colony. Old brown backed pirates crept oat from their hiding places and at once made prepara tions to sweep the air with their brooms of ailk. They climbed the walla, gave long leaps, spun line after line, length ways and crosswise, and with rapidity constructed their funnel-like retreats. In less than a week the room was cur tained and carpeted with webs, and at least a thousand flies had been devoured, Ralph’s success so filled him with joy that one afternoon he took Frank to the barn and described his work in detail. Frank said something with his nose that -. Minded like “hoogh” and ran down to play hall. Ralph said: “Poor follow, he doesn’t know,” and began to gather his harvest of webs. Ralph was disappointed in the har vest. He had calculated that there would be a basketful, and what he gath ered he could hold easily in two fingers. “ But it’s value is in its extreme fine ness,” ho reflected ; “my microscope shows me that every thread is six times finer than the finest silk.” He went home and astonished his mother with the request that she help him “ mako a pair of gloves out of spider web.” Tho good mother and Aunt Mary worked with him all day, and, by tho last light of the sun, Ralph saw that tho gloves were neatly stitched together. His little sister took off her ring, held out her soft hands and Ralph slipped the gloves over them, fastening the deli cate, mouse-colored things with gold clasps. • “ I’m satisfied,” said Ralph. ******* “Jim, jes’ look at dem spiders!” said old Uncle Moses; “nobbersced de likes —bress my oul ef I done seed de likes o’ dis—fetch dat broom up liy’ar.” Uncle Monos swept every spider that, he could find out at the window, crush ing dozens at a blow. An hour later Ralph, who had dreamed all night of the finished fairy gloves, climbed tho ladder into the barn-loft. Ho looked once at his spider-room, now filled from floor to ceiling with closely-packed hay, and started as if stnng by a bee. His face grew pale in anger. Ho leaned against the joists. Tears ran along to tho end of hi# nose. A hard choking thing went np and down in his throat. Then a queer smile got into the corners of his mouth. “ Well,” laughed Ralph, “it was non sense anyhow, and I guess I’ll go and be a gold-minor.” TOO MART LAWYERS AND TOO HART TEES. The rock that the legal profession are in most danger of coming to wreck on is that of excessive charges. There is a con tinual low growling in the community on this subject. The following, in an English lay newspaper, does not exagge rate the matter : “ There are certain well-known firms of solicitors who can never be got to render a statement; they are perpetually applying for cheeks on account, and generally have the faculty of asking for these at some critical time in the procedure, when they know that jhe litigant cannot help paying, in order that his case may go on. Other solici tors punish the inquisitiveness of any who may wish for a detailed hill of costs by making it out to an extent vastly in excess of the round sum originally de manded.” It is notorious that the charges are altogether out of proportion to. the time given, tho work given or the consideration reoauvoJ, aaA *il Kiu<i of vexatious obstacles are thrown in the way of any who seek to effect a reform in this respect. Tho fact is, that the ranks of tho legal profession are over crowded, and are being added to year by year to an extent which the publie inter ests by no means require. Yet the ex clusiveness that obtains with regard to methods of procedure, and the strin gent rules imposed upon all the mem bers of the craft, prevent that whole, some competition which exists in all ; other trades. The consequence is that the publio are robbed, and that a com parative few of the members of the legal profession obtain for themselves the chief portion of the spoil, while the great bulk of them straggle on as beat they can. Our legal exchanges are filled with discussions on lawyerr? costs. The com munity are bound to have cheaper jus tice, if they can.— Albany Law Jour nal. Conjugal affection depends largely upon mutual confidence. “ I make it a rule,” said a wiseacre to his friend, “ to tell my wife everything that happens. In this way we avoid any misunder standings.” Not to be outdone in gen erosity, the good friend replied: “ Well, sir, you are not so open and frank as I am, for I tell my wife a great many things that never happen.” ELLIJAY, GA„ THURSDAY. JUI.Y 28, 18SL too modest. The Ameriouu are aa tnartartio people, hot , Italy wilt one day take art to America. That : wiu help America to be artistic, ffiyaer O, (e an Italian journal. Oh I indeed, yon are only too modest, Signor. Italy has done it already. Mod , em Italy is doing her very best for u* now. Why, were you at this window, Signor, yon would confess that in all America we could not get np a family party like that one on the other side ot the street. We haven't native talent for it. It oomet direct from Italy. There is the Signora, a stoat woman, with fino breadth of shoulder, a yellow handkerchief on her handsome black head, and a calm and happy expression of oountenanoe, thumbing a tambourine. Now she pauses, grows in a moment di vinely sad, and leisurely walks within throwing distance of tho windows in tho row; holding the tambonrino like a bas ket, and waits for the small coin of tho charitable. Meanwhile the head of the family, the Signor, hitches along with an organ, grinding out popular airs, and casting at the windows whenoo no pennies drop glances that make one believu in the evil eye. U the Signor were on inartistio Amer ican, ho might plod behind a wheelbar row, but behind an organ never. And the Signors, with her inches and evident good health, would thumb scrubbing brush and broom-handle, but not a tam bourine. It takes srtistie Italy for that. Up at the comer stands Fahri Ven turi with a wagon-load of cripples, whom his poetical soul causes him to represent as his “afflicted family, the victims of an eruption of Vesuvius." If Fabri were John Smith, not only would it never have occurred to him to dis play these horrors and make a little profit on the afflictions of his family, but if they were actually his relatives, ho would work for their bread. Ho would feel it “ kind a mean ” to put them on ; comer in a wagon, and would not ex pect publio patronage if he did. Italy is a great holp to us in the artis tio way. It brings us charming creat ures who bestow titles ou themselves on the voyage, and aro known forever after as Ooaata and Prinoe*. It also, doubt less, pends ns brigands enough to ac count for the mysterious disappearance of some of our respectable citizens, who leave homo with money in their pockets and aro never seen again, it brings ns poor little boys who scrape small fiddles upside down, and wrinkled thieves of padrones who beat and starve them. Italy is teaching us. In time, it may be that Americans will psy their passage across tho ooean, with the intention ot sitting ever after on Italy’s church steps to beg. At present they could not poso gracefully enough. They have honest stiff backs and honest bony hands that do not tako carved shape and begging attitude well.— Mary Kyle Dallas, in New York Ledger. A SERIOUS MISTAKE. The curious mistake which has been made in tho burial of Rubenstein re sembles an incident in a French novel, which, not content with portraying the misfortunes of its hero during life, represents him aa panned by adverse destiny even after Jdeath. M. Rnben stein died in Paris about the same time as a Russian Baroness. Their bodies— so the story goes—were saut to Rossis by the same train. At Berlin the coffins were accidentally changed, with the re sult that, while Rubenstein waa quietly interred at Riga, tfie body of the un known Russian Baroness was committed to the earth with all the pomp end oir enmstanoe of a publio funeral at Moa oow. The report may bq the invention of an unscrupulous French wit, but the mistake was one which, if the coffins were nut opened, might easily occur.— Pall Mall Outfits. INCRE M “ m **** ssss*s.*ssssissiira Nearsightedness is increasing in Ger many at an astonishing rate. Thirty eye doctors recently examined the vision of 40,000 pupils in schools of all degrees. They conclude that nearsightedness rarely exists at birth or at lees than 5 years of age, and in village schools the nearsighted form only 1 per oent. of the attendance. In the city schools they constitute 5 to 11 per cent; in the schools next above, 10 t 024 percent.; in the next grade of schools, 80 to 40 per cent; and in the highest, 30 to 60. A physician of Tubingen found in a body of 700 theological students 73 per oent myopic, and Prof. Virchow said in the German Parliament that ninety-five out of every 100 of the medical students are unable to see what lies before them. But the Germans are nearsighted in far greater proportion than any other nation, for which they have chiefly their barbar ous script and print to *>*"rt A gentleman, who had grown tired of a suit of alothee, said to his valet, “John, I have a great mind to give you this suit of clothes. Suppose you try it on, and see if it will fit?” John replied, in lan guage not propitious to the farther ex hibition of generous impulses, “ I nm sure it will fit me, sir, far I tried-it on the ether night and ware it to the ar cus.” THE SPIN NEK. Tsre Ml dowa ta h* naornta* Mn, On* to niix uni on* to nptn; All Uw m HntoMd to U* nna n>t fen*, Bat ao" m SataM* t* Da daßwfc. >l* t Tb* itager nk* aat In * plrananl soot And mn* of * Ut* that waa Mr at raw#; White Um arlnmr art witk*ato*Sf*t look, Matt? jttiin* bar hand* aad tort Tb* ninjKW an* oa with • WOO to tor bate. And all m*n Uetaond to tor tewt. n ; And tba -pinner -pun oa with a du'Mraptir lowa la bet brail a* aha artotao- But to! noth* room* aooo*aalS AusM f th* bUrw, ef what ab*jkac Mon wr* lug, “ ltehoM this Um “ And limit th* pntaa of Um Vink Th* wvvrtit baa forgotten tli* U*r ne ia faded, bar tonga *r*d. But far o’er Ut* n*e*o th* iftaiiwhfMM X*> la muliUtopod In :ta*n of suty Twm trade a jrvra. It would surprise many people sot engaged in trade to know wb>4 a variety of commodities that appear valueless art> important articles of oounneres. To the average boy and girl tholeisaoaiesly anything of so little wortbyoe§>t to afford a day's fun -as nnU, aid yet hun dreds ot thousands of dollar i are annu ally invested in them. During the recent year* fbe trade in foreign and domestic nuts luAuuveloped wonderfully. New York cfly haa be come the most important center of the trade, tho extent of which-indicates that jvm .pie have either secured stom achs, or that indigestion has'lost its ter rors, Wholesale dealers in evts oan now ns certainly count on a profitable trade iu tho winter season aa oan rmdy-mak ere at Christinas times—and all the boys and girls know how certain that is. Africa used to supply us with pea nuts, sending thorn by shij -loads, but our Southern States have so ssooswfully cultivated this popular nut .hat we are I now independent The Bhitr that fUr- uisli the bnlk ot the suprfy are Vir ginia, North Carolina andHTenuessoe. During tho preaent season tie crop of Virginia was 1,100,000 bushels; of Ten nessee, 550,000 bushels; am of North Carolina 120,000 bushels. , The nut probably most {popular after tho peanut ia tho pecan.) The Texas pecan is especially in deman-1. While a few yens ago several bane sof pecans supplied the demand car i loads and in voices of net uncommon at this t tu- JHP’', ' t Of the other nuts the h>rfJ?i the most popular. While, in Aaiy localities, especially in tho Eastern BtM, they are becoming scarce, they plentiful in the Western Btries to ship to Now York half a dozen' jamload i a week when demanded. That delicious nut, thn rhjstnut, is l>eooming lesa plentiful nvsnwear, and there is much difficulty in obkUmng them sound in large quantities. Their great popularity will probably pnftvbt their total disappearance, for they toe already being successfully aud it ia expected that in a few yea# thn cul tivated nnt will ba equal ig quality to the high-prioed Italian ehestfeuta. Black waluuta and bntternftU are re garded as too rioh and oily foi table use, Tho American hasel nuts arejpot-an im portant article of commerce, the filbert largely taking their place. Only a few English bawl nuts find tbeiriway to the American market. It is stated that grower# in California oa*tom|g*t<> intro ducing a number ot varieties *ef nuts native to Spain and Italy. S I EE PROM BODT-SN 1% HUMS. Twenty miles south of W$ ken burg, on tho road to Phoenix, theiefc* buried a l\rtnguese in a grave 150 jlet deep Eleven years ago the snhjoe* 'f theae remarks conceived the hleaofjiiigguis a well and starting a station point aliove mentioned. When ttwkwelt was down 150 feet, and while ihgfisi g away with a vigorous will, bis vesidiiit, VMox ican, iu lowering some poles wSith which to lllTiUSr Hie well, let thie <4|eWa fall, killing him instautly. y/rs V<*>t was never removed, but allowed tej sl.-ep in ; jv-Moe far beneath the tio earth, in the sepulcher he bid built. Time has caused the well to et#w until the remains are covered to ajjjtapth of 5 over forty yards, and tho Porttgoes* is proltably the Ivst-buried man t fcArizouM. i - —ErcsooU Miner. 3xk Wkbstf* and Oabe met on Galveston avenue. Jim wnijd r v**ed in the height of style, and upfc cross examination explained that bo £4 just been attending his brother’s Wing, ••Who did he'marryf agke^k.Gah*. | “A ’ooroan,” responded Jim. * Well, I reckon I knowed dat ar, as an > er at course.” “ Dar ain’t no matter of xawe about it in our family,” replies' Jim, ’• for, when my sister MatiWy ge 'Mar ried, I hope I may bo shot if she In’t marry a man. Hit’s a fact, tod r w to it*—Oafseatws News. Arm useless misery ia certainly Idly, and he that feels evils before thr£-uie may be deservedly censured, yet em Jy to dread the future is more reaseuabie than to lament the past, Thu worst education that tawaa self denial is better than the battintlußiio everything else and not that. Riff, is, at best, bat a questioiMßop j portunity. r OLD-TIMM OAMDPLATMMS. fL the early history of LsfayotU card playing waa more than an amusejnenb— with a good many it was "business.” Th* founder of Lafayette, "Old” Dig •VT. *as for many years the most noted ■ card-player on the Wabash. There are ! many anecdotes ot him that have been handed down and are worth preserving. If the old settlers are to be believed, “ Old Dig ” and the late Judge Pettit had many a lively tussle at the card table. On one occasion the two sat down early in the forenoon at their fa vorite game of “ old sledge,” *5 a game. Ahoutio oleck in the afternoon, when Pettit waa about S7O winner, he an nounced to Digby that he must quit. “ What are you going to quit for ? ” inquired Digby. “I want to go and take ear* of my horse,” replied Pettiti In those days every lawyer kept a horse to ride the circuit. “I can go without my dinner,” the Judge continued, “but Pm not going to abuse my horse just to accommodate you at this game.” Pettit retired with Digby’s S7O in hm pocket. The next morning, bright mid early, they were at it again. Digby lind a liig streak of luck, anil, before 12 o’clock, had lagged $l2O of Pettit’s money. Raking from tho table tho last $lO put up, he announced to Pettit that he was going to quit. “Whst art' you going to quit for?’* inquired Pettit. “ Why, I must go and feed my horse, John." “Why, yon,” replied Pettit, “ you haven’t got any liorso I ” i “Well, John, if I haven’t got any horse,” slapping his hand on his breeches pocket, “I’v* got tho money to buy one!” The game was closed. Digby, who was a bachelor, bad a small, ono-story frame house put up on Main street, close to where tho canal now is, ns an office and sleeping appartmont. After it was finished, but tho plastering not enffleiently dry to be oocupicd, Digby and Pettit sat down to play their favorite game of old sludge. Digby's money waa soon exhausted, anil Pettit declared the game closed. Digl y proposed one "!■ u stuttng my hijiib.) ag;d.>t a certain 4um ui rnouey. The game was played and Pettit was the winner. The next morning he made a bargain with a house-mover to remove the house to a lot he owned on the south side of Main street, a lit tie east of the 1 publio square. The wooden wheels were 1 put under, and in the afternoon it was started np Main street with a lung team of oxen before it, and at dark had just reached tho publio square. That night ; Digby and Pettit had another game, ! and in the morning there was a readjust ment of the wheels, and the house was j started on ita return toward the river. It reached ita proper place in the street, ; and was left to be pnt baok in its old po sition on the morrow. But the next morning it was started up town again. The next day it took the other direction, and by this time the whole town came to understand it. Finally it remained in the public square over Sunday, and on Monday continued its way up Main street and was wheeled on Pettit’s lot He soon moved his books into it and for many yean ooonpied it as a law office.— Lafayette (Ind.) Times. /•ROOF or ANIMAL LINK IN OTUEU NLA NETS. Two interesting problems which have long perplexed the soiontifio world ap }>ear to have been at last definitely solved by the eminent geologist, Dr. Hahn. These questions are, first, whether or not celestial bodies, other than the earth, belonging to our solar system are inhabited by animate beings; and, secondly, whether the meteoric stones from time to time cast upon the '■ sariaos of this globe emanate from in* candescent comets or from volcanic ; planets. That they at no time formed a I part of the earth itself, has been oonclu | aively demonstrated. Dr. Hahn has recently completed a j series of investigations upon some of the I huge meteorio stones that fell from the j skies in Hungary during the summer of | 1866. Thin laminae of these mysterious ; l**lies, subjected to examination under 1 a powerful microscope, have been found 1 to contain coralline and spongeons for | matrons, and to reveal unmistakable | traces of the lower forma of vegetation. All the organisms, animal and vegetable, discovered by Dr. Hahn in the delicate stone shavings he has thus dealt with ' indicate the condition of their parent world to be one of what is technically termed “primary formation.” Bnt the presence of water in that world is proved 1 by the test that the tiny petrified creatures revealed by the magic of the lens one and all belong to the so-called subaqueous classes of animals. They • could not have existed in comets, at iast if the assumption be correct that tL-se are in state of active combustion. —1 k/o* Telegraph. ’ was fond of singing revival hymns, ! 9 i his wife named their baby Fort, so U, he would want to hotf it HtJBsciUPTWN \7fkl A7l IVYt no 31.r>0 pot-Annum V Uli, V 26* atom uma nr at nr bvmmkm* Canes of sunstroke become more fre quent in town and country with eaoh suc ceeding summer. Prostration from the effects of tho heat of the sun is not limited to human beings. During the past few seasons cases have been com mon among horses and oxen, and even among milch cows. There is also a large inoreose of sickness and mortality, aside from sunstroke, that are plainly attribut able to the effects of the heat of the sun during the hottest portion of the day. Travelers observe that less out of-door labor is performed in most other j countries during this period. In all tropical and semi-tropical regions it is ss common to rest for several hoars dar ing the hottest portions of the day ss it is at night. Farm laborers generally sleep after they have eaten the noon meal. To make np for the time lost, they commence work earlier in the morn ing, and continue later at night. Even in those countries in Europe where the climate is noarly similar to ours, and where tho mass of tho people arc in poorer condition, lees labor is performed dining tbo.se portions of the day when the heat ia tho greatest, Tho desire for gain is less, or tho people are possessed of a greater degree of prudence. As a' consequence of avoidance of the rays of the Bun when they fall nearly directly on the howl, there nro very few cases of sunstroke and other injuries produced from tho same cause. If men work less hours daring tho day, they are able to work moro years during a life, and the like is true of all animals that are trained to labor. Custom lias much to do in tho matter, and the custom set in this country is productive of very injuri ous results. During the past few years several ap pliances linve been introduced for the purpose of affording protection from the rays of tho sun. Among them may be mentioned canopios that extend over the scats of mowing machines, harvesters, riding cultivators, sulky-plows and bay rakes drawn by horses; small shades for the bonds of draught animals ; linings for lmts that will bold a considerable amount of water, and sponges saturated with water and placed on the top of the bridles of horses. All of these ltave been highly for llie purpose for ' which they were designed, and thoir subsequent em ployment should beoomo moro general. The condition of animals in pasture could be rendered more comfortable by providing more shade on farms that ore situated on open itrairies. Trees afford the cheapest shade, and every pasture should contain a sufficient number to af ford ample protection to all tho stock it contains. Boss or linden or cottonwood trees grow very rapidly and have a large amount of foliago. Elms make a slower growth, but are long livers and produoe much shade. A cheap protection against the rays of the sun may be made by erecting an open frame of light materi als and covering it with hardy vines. The American ivy and wild-grape vines are admirable for the purpose. The . branches of trees and the foliage of vines not only protect the stock from the rays of the sun, but they render the ground beneath them cool. Cattle and sheep that have no protection from the sun during the hot weather of July and Angost often suffer and greatly fall off in condition —Chicago Timet. Mr. Smuuraby Hunt showed himself determined to enforce discipline, whom soever might bo hurt thereby, quite early in his oareor as Secretary of the Navy. He has a son in the navy, Hidge ley Hunt, named for his mother’s father, Commodoro Hidgeley. The young man has been on a three yoars’ cruise on the ! Alaska in Asiatic waters. The ship | reached San Francisco on her homeward | voyage about the time Judge Hunt was 1 modo Secretary of the Navy, and his ! son, hearing of his father’s appointment, jnmpod to the conclusion that he would be so specially favored, telegraphed for permission to come to Washington by , rad direct instead of going with his ship, 1 wliioh was ordered to Panama, where the officers were to be changed, and ! coming home by sea on the ship which takes the officers who are to relieve them. Young Hunt was considerably surprised, probably, when his father, the Secretary of the Navy, instead of granting his request, telegraphed him briefly to stick by his ship and go where it was ordered until relieved with the 1 other officers. j Some of the Chinese similes are said to i boas pointed as they are sarcastic. ' They call a blustering, harmless fellow |“ a paper tiger.” A man who places too I high a valuation npon himself they com pare to " a rat falling into a scale and 'weighing itself.” A hunohbaok making a bow is what they call overdoing the thing. A spendthrift they compare to “a rocket,” which goes off all at once, and a man who expends his charity on remote objects, negleoting his own fam ily, is said to “hang up a lantern on a pole, which is seen afar, bat gives no light below.” __ Last year California produced over 10,000,000 gallons of wine, and nearly 100,000 boxes of raisins. W*x wouldn’t Pbebe a good name fee a lawyer’s vile? Anon* the only lores some people have u the fqroe at habit It is the wife of a bridge-builder who should be Bridget No riim how acidulous a Joke is, the cream of it skoald‘never be soar. A wmow mookary—The ooooannt without the milk inside of It It is supposed that the skirt of a for est is a becoming drees for the bare earth. A XbSdt, joking about her nose, nidi “I had nothing to do in shaping it It waa a birthday present," A child, being asked what ware the three greet feasts of tks Jaws, replied: “ Breakfast, dinner and supper." SmuL of a party of tramps insulted a lady, and one of them took her part Ha waa the noblest Boam ’on of them alt A sOHOoirznaoHXß of a Western town, who has a habit of pinching her pupils, ia called a “lusher” because aha takes so many nips. Thh meanest giil in the universe livea I in Philadelphia. “Pa," she said, “X j <k> wish you would lend me your lovely rdd nose to paint my cheeks with." At the of family (reading)—“ There is e cat %jpin cinnati that drinks beer.” Daughter '(.sixteen)—“Fa, aha must be a malteae oat" It Is not true that the heavy men of the opera strengthen their voices tty eat ing boss. —Bottom Courier. Tenor a doaen might assist them through the difficult passages. A ooBBESFcmDXKT send* us the follow ing soul-harrowing oonnndrum t Why do pigs thrive better on sour milk than they do on sweet? And the answer is, because they get more of it. “ Tablb Bear Sold Hear,” was the sign over the door of an ale-house, and a wag, on seeing it, said that he “thoughtthe bear must be the land lord’s own bruin.” in xxrniNixioN. Hr Up* war* ao near m Tilt— whit 1m Mold I do T ff Ton’ll ba angry, I fair, J But har Ups win ao nr— iSf Wall, I cant malu It tlma, Or tipliln It to jrou, But bar llpa wan ao sear 30 That—vhatalM could I do? 9 “ How things do grow this weather, W said tho deacon to Brother Ames. “ Yes* thoy do,” replied the brother. night I heard you say you ouught fo . fish, and this morning I heard you tH|§ Mr. Smith it waa ICO.” wM “Tuekb’s my hand I" he exclaimdfl in a moment of coorago and “ and my heart is in it.” She i at the empty palm extended toward heir, am* wiokedly-replied, “Just Jwt I sup posed ; you’ve got no heart’™ and uiqurs Milubk : ** How would a lee ture by me on Mount Shasta suit the citizens of Boston t” “ Vary well, sir | exceedingly well I They would be much better satisfied to hare yon lecture on Mount Shasta than in Boston. ” —Boston PotL Mepram etnas eqj fa perfqiqxs n* P®<*WB lujwpuaji eqx -sesi* a sjueo eeiqj ioj xepp finqiwpi sail pna ‘paeqeßoq srq jo pue real etft peddaj paq eoquax Bunrudrajue ua *aq punoj nqaep eq -boawi Of puuox ButoQ -pie* eq jo qoaq eqj oj Brnpqod ‘jAoqej oqj puss ~‘eioq puuox oH.. ’iaisep oqj peqao „ i „ ,/sjueo eexq* ioj rji jo Xjaajd Xnq two i pua ‘ejueo xw am eßwqo M.OX ‘BupdaQ ‘exeq qo<xi„ ‘uopsorep -xo oqj pesnaa qotq* *mtq pepuaq sau eßuaqo sjueo xtg •eouedemu a mao pepuaq pua ‘saafS a quaip ‘dn peqpus M°nj a ‘lajimn eqj xeao Bmxepuod enuM *urtq pepsrad Xpaexß qoiqn. ‘xeuuam ua mduqoap oj msßeq epwj stq Xprappug *ssßfß u tquao xui ja ssemsnq Buuuqj a pnanauj -moo *jj punoia juaj sbaubo a dn Buttynd ‘pua ‘eprjw eqj jo peoqsßoq a ppg eqj no jqßneiq ALogej Bmsudiajua enO Mopio jo ejas eqj oj soApsmeqj ourpioo oj pofirjqo e.K>4L spropitutps ui siopisp ‘maqps(X jo u&oj Snuoq -qßreu eqj m isjsnm jeionaß aty *ssßs -joAsq oipqoofa ui weprep eqj JJvioms wounj Snrgoxe £mm Buts two ‘iqjes -nqoaseapi m joepe ojux yioM. u javj uoj -I0 nocqpj,, psqaiqejeo eq? 'inuuno/ maqSniH aqj jo juepuodseiioo uojsog eqj sXas *6OBI P> VI ® T B no •vain* aim THE CUSTOM ON THE COUNTS!. An English lady, accustomed to trav eling abroad, and able to converse fluent ly in the languages of the countries she visited, found herself alone in a railway carriage in Germany, when two foreign ers entered with pipes in their months, smoking strong tobacco forionsly. She quietly told them in their own language that it was not a smoking-carriage, bnt they persisted in continuing to smoke, remarking that “it was the custom el the country,” upon which the lady took from her pocket a pair of gloves and commenced cleaning them with benzo line. Her fellow-passengers expressed their disgust at the nauseous effluvium, when she remarked that “it was theons-/ tom of her country. ” Sho was soon ley in sole possession of the carriage. / EBIENOLX ESOTLE. / The inflacume of genuine irienjßneas is wonderful We have met who were so kind ami ooraial in manner, so responsive in look and greeting, and so swift in doing and saying c/urteoo* and gracious things, that that seemed to diffuse s sweet atmosphere around them. How beautiful ihey were, tren though sometimes they had plain fanes and rough hands 1 No face is ever hopeless ly plain through wmuh a friendly soul looks out upon the world.