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Aar ponos wkw will W*tbi at •*»
mw anbmtHbam. with $>• caak wlU b• MM ka
am ratri **b*crtptto» ftp#.
la H*r*f*t Time.
1 ut on* morning in a Mtto »wwb.
Codrr a m&onr of taambis J«*vm
I w*tch*d on th* L'i tt
Pi}_ ty.k * vith ' cheerful * (ai * th*
h( ~
^■■ 1 ,, __. ,____, ..-v *
uan a,
Ttotr mimic afaor Ui th. merry more
1 wstetad tbe utaw-iSriso, bo^teou land de
pnrt.
Ttecbildree following down thssbsdy tins:
*nd, left alone, I teked ray empty heart,
“ Where are the gathered afaeavss of ripened
grain?
Why corns* no sound of harvest joy to thee?" !
Sat my dumb heart no answer bad for m*.
,, Heart, said 1 further, thsre was good
seed sown
Deep ID thy farrows ere last wfater'a snow,
And in the fpriugtime tender airs were blown
Across thee, and O.W) save thee •amnxr'f
idowj
Where is thy harvest of good things sod true,
Tea fruit of tltia tby ground wtacb God huh
tilted,
Hie crown ot work appointed the* to do,
Tb« ibeini wherewith Hi* g vn-jr should be
fiUed ?
Whrre i» the hw cut j«, thy reepinf ««> g t
Thy bl*mfc!ff»« tr.uiuph over h«u««t ppoil i
Thy deep ooote itou iu salisfled and strong,
Thy worthy renting after worthy toil ?
f« Mill my heart do siuumc made to m«.
Bnt «, the sotumn -«lt lm! , . K rir,
rrri ,r r ...o, m y.i, 0 D,v r -
!»
Delved deepiy, .trtktsg to the inmost part
^rT’ The 10 which vli* 00 my " 'h* i.-ir^ ^n^ns* received, atly repentsat, f *| 1,
grave,
Aud brought to fruit in season duly—well—
.
And Qod the increase of that harvest gave
What though in weariness my ihreves were
bound
With faded Sonars of happiness and love,
What though within my heart- no song was
fonnd, '
A respar'* joy in harvesting to prove?
An tugs! lighted on the- osw-resped rod.
And hare the blessed first-fruits op to God !
Turn 1W0 Tmnuwi-OTif imuortant Pavuawo Papers.
--
“I don’t know what I shall do with
that ere boy, raid Fanner Long to his
morning. wife, as they “ sat He’s by the fire hsrumskarum that winter
more
than that State's reform-school hoy
««-"
“Well, ..... father, have patience with ... him
for the sake of his folks. I think there’s
something in Jim that wUl surpriad you
one “ of I dunno these days.’’ Whether he’ll •'“’P™ 8 mp
snny more'u he ha* or not, Lasl.apring
he made bTeve ho known,! all ’bout
biling burnfn’the down bottom Bap, nd surprised the me eont by
uv sap-pan
And dear me I Yetm’d rater seen him
dig pertsters last fall I TU renter be cut
every third one in tew—atrnck et ’em ez
ef he waa spiritin' rock-maple logs. 'Nd
neow he’a broke my best three lined
pitchfork tie. He’s in only some way, a feedin'the y'r old. Ef cat he
sixteen
does this in the green tree, what in
nater ’ll he do in the dry ? ’
After these to keep remarks until abont he the of boy he
had taketi was age,
the farmer started for the barn. He
was bending inside over thegreet meal-chest,
just the barn door, as a tandem
tMrh waa turning around the corner of
tiie barn. This team consisted of a wild
yearling steer and the boy, Jim Fowler,
The “team” was on the “dead ” run.
The youth hsd hold of the steer's tail
with his left hand and hold aloft a milk
ing-staoUnbis J^Long right.
was unaware of danger,
aud when something struck him, aud
immediately he found himself on hia
back m the meal-chest, his first thought
was of an earthquake or a tornado or
some other dread outbreak off, ,rces. He
emerged lime-hacked trom the chest i jnst in time to
see his steerpsss on into
the stable and Jim Fowler arifle half
stunned from the floor.
“ Veen young scamp !" he thundered,
I *• shall, yeoull if murder don’t somebody yerdumbed yet-er-er
*ork.” yeon stop
The boy did not laugh at the miller
like appearance of the man. His
face was white as the farmer’# as be
“id :
“Im awful sorrv, Mr. Long.”
"Idnnno whether ver be er not,”
replied ’nd the here, latter. Jim Fowlei, “ But Hi tell yer
neou what’s what,
When yer father died yaon hadu’tarel
ativo left,"
“ No, sir, they wan’t none left," Viroke
in the youth - aud the tear# filled his
AJ ta; • . , ,, ...
I promised him a little afore he
died, I‘d take care on ye until yeon was
old anongh ter take care nv yc’self;’nd
do well by ye—give ye a common school
eddioation ’nd so on. ’-Nd I mtou ter
do it if yer oondnet don’t become onbar
able But yeon mnst be more stiddy
nd man-like ’nd not plagoe me ter
death byyorrecklessnesB. D’ye hear?"
"if “That 8 ’} s the sorter to 4r J> talk. Mr. I Long." want
ter tor school git ter be smart ye
go an e»
ft * :i.Ty amt
.ii' w-’ I!’ nowhere
or Iknowi ;, 4 r-. I a.mt nowhere . side .. by ,
-
wRi. Jennie the fsrmeiv ••Jrinera daughter, ia, i* was a
Jmdidnof rim md not wOBd wm'l,rtl^to thal her /“?in father plnk ;
mta herware proadm e r and
f tonerenee j^r^o rtha between, 4 they
—- Tiim wL dteh®i’,, H .® khHn f Ut t h”®, 1 !“*
3?sSKd me alVof 1 0 i» fiiJS’hS . 1 TCd 8h !, , ® , S dld ,en ' 4or A*
Stands* on to 7Ti J’ ii r h 7 rok ®
underenSl Mm wTl’ii »i f had notmua
artsa Jd rerelS?^ i i - s4u P ld J*®??”,’' if “he
hsd « tasttaito h w .<? nld •- h« 8
tW'ht 1 ’
staZs wsv_«Mflismtotori Bri to- f® . r "pe“k the t c, in . - fe T
-LdehL; b«Z^,„h?Z h„to ? ^ b ?® » ‘“J* "h'* 44
not stow, r her^roiZever reoeatZ •'T®
her kept T-L» P f S®
taunt-and hadnncfmsT.t sta 0 ' gettmgtll8l8he
•■tt^“ he oontinned a 8d ,T, to hg, be th. 4 h 8 s . *m«
Ira. shZ P ^ng . hll^TT-T
But Mr edto^fh. ing ;
brash his tepref the soil rottnn h”^ 1
J°“tli fell meal romhta nrSonml
into a ram'wrtht^i^T’
ou< Of shichhe with this
hoc: ejaculs
"1’lUeitl” When
tasti-were the next term Of school h...
Longs. two sehotos from w Farmer
b „ tl „.
aSS?t~is. SSa&’wS.'ssS ,
ww»! wTTT' r rakedhim oa the firet amonT .ta* 7*
sa, tt .z'jJvI't* I. J *hst he wsntc.1 to
• 4 *« 44 ter knftw’e*
B>--w 414 he Juim.”-
* »nt? Well
•
Oglethorpe Echo.
By T. L. GANTT.
went to uchool every term for three
y**r«. He *t tidied evening*, and all
taae when not at work, dor mg vacations.
By inoesaant devotion to his books
through those three years, he was able
to master all the text-book* used in that
iostitutiou. For the last two terms of
his course, he was a member of Jennie’*,
marked several points above her.
How did Jim think be crams ont ?
Going school home had with closed, Jennie that repeated last day, the
after he
word* Mr. Long had spoken three year*
before : “Taint nowhere side uv
and thought they were truer now than
erer.
Bad the “want ter git ter know”
which he began, given place to a
“want less likely to be satisfied t
If Jennie had been aware that her own
viewa concerning the result of their
rivalry—If Jim's, she it prolwbly was such—coincided would not have with
expressed herself as sbe *1 to her
mother, that evening, I when said they she, two
"» «!<»*• “ suppose,”
“ lie thinks he’s done a wonderful thiDg ;
but I don t. If I had studied and
studied and studied as he has, I should
have been far ahead of the great—great
-giant Bat of coarse I don’t care a
■ttsf-.
youth. Ww Jeame was really petite. Hhe
Sit?..^s7«2!Ss^ it ;buUt did not trouble her that
h her
.
being called” Big Jim. ‘^7^ Audit msy
have been his aversion to .that name
that accounted partly for his blushing
so deeply f.e one morning of bis last term.
when hml taken h« seatat the open
of school. Some nuschtevoms mufe
had written a stanza on the blackboard
was on thewall thrt faced the
seats—and written it in such a Urge
hand that every soholsr could read >t
from wb^ro hn Ml. This u a copy of
the lofty verse that the teacher hastened
to era^ araoon aa she dwoovered what
the scholars were laughing at:
“ But OM dares write-what everyone knows—
That several , ntUfslU«r» fre, <
k ; n a h S;S , w«n*SSto!?ns. BigJto-tb*ertrou*.
Be oom<M with her: and with her goes-.
And think, .he want, hue to, I a’pora"
When Jim’s eyes caught aa-jennie'a. that, his face
turned very red, as red
The 1 vouth that wrote that poem
“dared to write it; inown. bnt he did net
dare to make himself
Of oourso it waa nothing but “ boy’s nir
play,” but Jim felt that he was
enough maS’s to stand-^int. being a man to look at it from
a And looking it
in that light, fie thought the^ it proper to tell
j saui< , U iat night ve?y when went home
that he was sorry that some mean
fellow had annoyed her in such a way; wfio
that he would find out the puppy
oonhl no* aee wherein .lie had been
juredtosu extent that demanded any
such course as he proposed to take. And
she dissuaded hitnfrom his sanguinary
purpose. itgumenta Not made easily, in however, but by
an earneat manner,
ami urged more and more strongly, un
til he was conquered. it, perUaps,.Jeao»i«
Without meaning tW
raid father’s some things, before ralculated reached
her to, that were
to mislead Jim, as to the place he oocn
toed in her ouooutogiug; thonghts. It but was somethin! nothing
positively being that than
that came nearer to any
thing she had ever before said to him.
of course it must have been nninteu
tioual, for nothing in that line was
repeatiri ,„&*! during their walks to and from
the remainder of th- term. And
t or in closed, ra was said before
J ira Wt that she was farther from him
than ever. He saw with the eksnteasot
vision that is characteristic of yonng.
men in his state of mind, the hopeless
ness of any attempt to make himralf her
equal in any his^^circumstaucek respect, and then acted a*
# youth in nsually
does. He intended to remain with Mr.
Drug until he wasof age, for hekuew he
could be of yfars great service to tlie farmer
iu the two that intervened between
the present and that time. And he
wished to repay the late lor hia kind
nes s to him.
For the first few months of those two
aesasd in hie apparently association quite with seU-pos- Jennie,
Bnt that is all that can be said to hie
credit. He broke down—utterly sne
enmbed—before propiod; six months had passed,
and—tout Jennie he did not
blame her for not earing for him, end
hoped she would forgive him himself for offer
ing such a poor creature as help it to
one like her; that he could not ;
that he'felt he must know what he was
to Jim her, had end diftcovered now he did know. evening
Jennie the
when he asked that question, sitting on
a bench under the great maple, back of
the house. There she left him,
went into the house; and there for a
long time he remained after she had
gone, sitting in her place, with a sens*
tion at his heart unlike anything he had
ever before experienced. Not contented
to let “ well enough" alone, he had
gone from the negative comfort of eon
jeetnre into the positive pain of oer
T*ge next morning ne entered upon
his labors with less enconragement than
Jacob did upon Ins, after Laban's second
promise. less than Less byas ranch as a refusal
is a promise.
And Jenme ? If her night's rest hsd
been , l«is sweet and refreshing than
usual, she showed no signs of it. She
appeared been to be merrier than she hsd
for some time. Early in the day
when she and her mother were engaged
in n88d tee Iflboraet 4118 lR4t8r thefrooaehold, she snr
P V8r y ®W!h by a " sea
son” of laughing — a season of very
riolent langbing.
“Jennie ! " exclaimed, Mrs. Jhong. at
last, dropping into a chair, “What does
“« 4 B
“Why, mamma, it’s the funniest
tiring—I’ve been proposed.to. 3
“Propoeml to f By whom 1. 5
“ By our Jim, Jennte? , ,
*’Our Jim mamma.”
The foolish boy ! Oi course you told
, him, kindly, that yon both were too
roan « *° 4hmk ot i»“rriage. Yonr
fa4h « 4 « 8 uty-six, and I was twenty-
4 *o when we were mameil. What did
04 * JeUhim, Jennie ? "
“ “ Jto« That d was ^-oo right: [ ” only I~I hope you
did not hnrt his feelings any more than
wranccesrary; I trust he will
811 a 2? Bk !t 8000 -
“ What, mamma? ”
^re'ffWi.iratis } ma J rled - > n tho course oi twenty or
. ‘’“‘J-fireyears, ?® d I should then probably
■ ^»“5. * v8r 7 rich man ; I shouldn't
.TT 3r 81 T? 1 lb,e "huu'du’t mj-hns-hnsbund do for ;
‘ a poor man
Well, ,, Jennie, , I do sincerely wish
THE ONLY PAPER IN ONE OP THE LARGEST, MOST INTELLIGENT AND WEALTHIEST COUNTIES IN GEORGIA..
LEXIXGTOX, GEORGIA. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1878.
; that be m»y *ooo oare ms little tor roam
yon do for him.”
As the months passed away, Mm
Long, watching Jim, concluded that he
had not suffered much by the rejection
he bad received. The kind-hearted wo
man was glad to think it wasao. Con
sidering all things, the less attraction
Jennie, also, hoping as we may sup
pose that Jim, foe the sake of his pence
of mind, would outgrow bin affection for
her, after a little while, decided that be
had. She was very glad of it And yet
was a tinge of melancholy in the
diacorery. She was glad for his sake,
because he hsd suffered ao; butit was—
thought abstractly that considered—a very solemn
so strong an attachment
was so shortlived. Not that she would
have had it last longer in this particular
rase—oh. no; but there might eosae a
ties* when she should net to know that
the one who bad so great a regard for
her was to have it forever. But what
WM 8 t, e u expect? W»» Jim a fair
sample of mankind in had this respect ?
if Farmer Long been an
, n g man, duriDg these Jim’s days he oonld
have seen coming into face some
thing mind him that of oonld the time not when have failed the youth’s to
&«ssrae.««..S: is^KJsrjarfsfSsf
be was at t^uty-firat age.
2^srfls5s£aKrjft A« his year drew towaul ite
^e“ hi forever
heart of hie year”' kept answering “ etav
mother He was in this state o‘f
mind t he day before he was twenty-out-,
After dinner that dav he ^£ went and * sat “ on
the 1 3
WB nt there that he mightbe aloue to de
md« whether h. -wool, 1 f<,Uoarth«dinrat^
of his reason or give way to fhe longings
of his heart. Beason at last Carried the
He urose from his seat, and said
wwTjBettS^ . Qt i Aocinurete- ^ 6 ^?a5 **t Rfeaii f^ilv ** Tt
told tte ail
ftJong thflt of he shonld He go glad awav when he
became age. was they knew
it and had becomereconcued to (twrhape
wishral) it. He was set deSmine.1 upon looking no®
straight *h«td now, and
to look back.
.£*** And he did for^?2^ndo?tao^nd look straight ahead—look »
'
then went»head asnendin? straight and fast ITi,
the ^ atiwhttv 2 L mea-lnw Zmt .n^nn Tennis
fS?'S®hinlth«1w IlJrafnrtimat.
J^, nnrening ,ufn
1", .— n _ thm Tim w«s near
S””’ ^tw^n
^.", t ?P rtSfL?" 0 !?
mrt llfm Sl Jim ’xtoth
,i “°LnS hftoe
ank .nr,wr n ^ to
rtM.Iwml.krt arisen hfSTnSw nbaatnn
feritohisarmi, “™, radborete “l.i? to “ pI
K
^ When Jennie oonld sneaki she von^ turned
What if ^
n kulod
W , i touts all, said . ^S* he, and "gw* be walked i.oggar
,w ? y ’.
Anhour later Jiminadoepreyenc . .tela , thi ..vArie
h®“ r ^to®™*to riTrertfing n * of , ; r “‘'“J"’to®* a
°LTP'"o k .‘, a ?,i “ nU ‘hen Jennies
?r;™ a!, h
ti,7n 1
.. thst votof for me "
’^““torT _ WoWBt-Th«Py!OT--awrt-fe«l . ? r to- -,
S ite WeTon'mme^' 7
I™*” tem v”
„ 7
.. wait Weli :.l ’than he °’ von mt read what I
. k “ve write" m tW* paper, but don t
P sL i.ldL*?;™ ffnauer 5d turned S
loag “ op ® a “ J g h®?"”!®’ t!, at note,
"^ ,n « :
“DkabJiH .
Don’t go away. Jkssir.
Nor did the writer of ft get a “long
way ” off before he overtook her.
When Jim and Jennie entered the
lionse together, a little later. Farmer
Long looked at them sharply for a mo
ment, and then, sa if what he saw war
ranted him, he arose and also handed
Jim a paper, tayiag as he did
“I s’hd like tor have yeon look this
ere dookerment oyer’n seeef it taker
rent, I don’t want no mistake ’bout it.
The place that jines miue was fur eaie’n
I’ve bot it. Thisere’s the deedon’t. 1 '
And so it was. And that “ docker
ment ” was made to ran to James Fowler
and his heirs .—Springfield Republican,
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meet ®r Electricity «n M .... vegetation. ......
Probably every one who has entered
a wood or forest has noticed the stunted
or scraggy growth of tbe underwood,
aud the cause of that attributed peculiar condition fact
has always been to the
that the shrnbs or smaller trees were
ones overshadowed and deprived bythe foliage of the of tight tbe larger and
air necessary to their fnll development.
A .French paper says : M. Grandean,
professor of the Ecole Forestiere, states
that his researches on the subject led
him to the conclusions that, although a
certain effect was to be attributed to
that eanae. it was not snfficient to ac
count for the great depreciation in the
vegetation. After long reflection he,
came to the conclusion that the large
trees acted as conductors of electricity,
aud thus deprived the undergrowth of
an element necessary to their full de
velopmout. he In order of to test his views
tried a series experiments on
various plants, hat we need only refer
to on*, which, although not the
pie striking, be will fully the elncidate the
advances, mesas he
and the results obtained. Iu April,
1877, he too . two tobacco plants, each
weighing three and a hall grammes, aud
having four leaves. They were both
planted Identical in boxes containing mold of
quality, and placed side by
side in a poeition favorable to their
growth. But ote'ol them had placed
oyer it a cage, consisting of four iron rods
one the meter auif fifty coyered centimeters with high, joined
at top wire gauze.
which permitted the free circulation of
ait, light and water, but completely pro
tested thepiant from the action of at
mospherie elertricity. They the were un
interfered with until middle
ssa. ^a^js.’waja: 2 s.tts,aes-R
half grammes. Similar experiments ^ive
made with maize and wheat pre
cisely Grandean analogous has results, the so that M,
come to conclusion
that the electricity of tbe atmosphere
ia equally neearaary to vegetation as
sunlight, air and water,
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**traa«e tiwHra«»«f« 3imm >■ Wto*
ntmmmrh %• kjonwi Aatmi KxMea
f#r tmssa Tarn.
In a big bottle in his house at 994
New Market street, saya the Philadel
phis Time*, Frederick Markoe has
in the big bottle, was in Frederick Mar
koe, and the occurrence* th»t led to its
change of residence have made the peo
: pie talkative. op in the Fifteen sixteenth ward exeited and
ream ago, daring the
> war, Frederick Markoe wan in the army
end fongbt during the Peninsula cam
psigu under McClellan. 0pou several
i occasions, when marching through
marshes, Markoe and when burning with thirst,
! ran to the mnddy pool* of water
that abounded abont the line of march,
- and, kneeling at the brink, .trank deep
ly of the slimy contents. After file war
i had ended and the army bad been dis
i>anded, Markoe returned to his Phils
delphia home, and for the first time in
bis life experienced symptoms of a
chronic disease. At Ireqnent interval*
a large lump would make its appearance
‘ in the region of his stomach, and in the
center of the uncomfortable ma n s he
could feel something twisting and turn
ssjsaasrtfsms
the «rpet 3t with the aid of nothing but
When .wakened he would
nights companions who wished to take a
I dive into the river, but he oonld not
swim, and no inducement oonld preyail
upon him to eater the water. About the
time, howeyer, that the other strange him,
he to developed the wharf, themselves Saturday in
went one
■ night, with some friends, and declared
tl *at he thought he He could plung«i swim into as well the
as any of them.
water, ^goronaly and, to bis friends’ e gnMjeteSy amazement, S about!
swwa and rapility
sorpassing all of them in and
endurance. It was noticed, however,
and oommeuted upon, that he did
use the ordinary stroke of ordinary wrireW peo
; motion pie, there perceptible being a in peculiar his body. When
«ked where he had acquired such a
P« :nli »’' Mark* positively de
°Ured that never before in b.s life had
he swam, and that he had just felt that
be could support himself hi the water
well aa anyone rise. No amount of
argument orbauter ever induce,! him to
depart from hia about original Markoe tale. Another
thing time wiTthe peculiar fact that while hia at this
appe- fc*
became reaUy ravenous yet
frame became more spare. What he ate
seemed to do him but little good. His
'“miiy became aimed aud sent for a
doctor. Markoe told the physician Ytonaoh,
about the lively lump in fils -
for this disorder 1 m> was ttoetoA Modi
cine, however, failed to relieve hitnof
hia trooblcs. s^ptoms and for thirteen nide years the
peculiar that first their
appearanee ifter the close of the war
have oontinned in their original aggra
vat& * “" a ' l,14 tog that long time
the bed^bambei scm.eT.aa been re-en
acted many times, be and Markoe displayed In
a he strong hope desire regaining to in the his water. health, he
t of
went to Cape Twoekor May with the Theflrst intention day of
t-o.
of h<» visit, while bathing in the surf,
a breaker took him unawares, threw him
, lpOQ bU b „ ck aD1 , foroed him to swal- i ;
low a quantity of ~dt water. He in
atafitly became very siok, womiting
and retching aomiTwhat severely, bnt a swig of
inandy ^ re atow .1 h is s toiu a cln
fme - Djrac „ torwan ] in speaking
40 * _ Wend of the occurrence, Matk.1
«*<» that while sick he had distinctly
*«» • movement in his thro# as though aud
"rmethmg had dropped wae luwk trying to erawl effort. up The
at every
something [rimJ in Markov’s tUat pnssibly stomach there that was
should not be there, and Stott it would
be an excellent idea to take another !
,i ran rfd ght ,g gg| t wat e r aud see if be could
not Markoe said himself would of the follow foreign the matter, advice,
he
That night he did not awaken his bed
companion by crawling over the floor.
The following mor. ing he again went in
bathing shd pnrpos fly swallowed some
salt water. Again ne waa taken siok.
He declared that he suffered so much
that he was determined torotnmhome
and see liis physician. Ho came hack
Philadelphia and sent for Dr. Mcr
ton, who administered medieine to him.
For fifteen hours his sickness, accom
panied by 'At very frequent end vomiting, time
tinued. the of tlfat a large
object loft his month, and Markoe
said he felt very much better. When
the doctor came he. carefully ptoaotmeed examined it
the object aud at once to
be a large water lisard. It waa four
and three-fonrths inches inleugthand
as thick as a man’s said forefinger. “this is
“Ton see," the doctor,
« fresh-water lizard, couldn’t aud the salt fresh- water
killed it. You ex; ..-et a
water lizard to live iu salt water. That's
nonsense.”
“ What I want, to know," said Markoe,
who hail been locking at the thing with
eye* into wide open, “ is, how did that thing
get me?”
The doctor, in order to reply to this,
examined Markoe closely as to all the
happenings the of years drinking past, of marsh and finally
came across water
during the Peninsula campaign,
“That’s it,” raid the doctor, triumph
antlv. “ We’ve bitit, now. You swal
lowed that lizard when it wae smaller
than a. pin, in the marsh water. For
fifteen yens it has been growing insido
of yon And fattening upon f what yon
should have fattened on.’
"And thaV’ said Mrs. Markoe. “ex
pUins your stmnedi big appetite aid and crawling the lump
the yom floor.” your
“ And my swimming so well without
a lesson," thik said Markoe i ; “hut still I
don’t that thing is lizard.”
“ rtl consult high authority,” raid the
doctor, and so the aloobol thing was placed in a
bottle containing apd taken away
to the University of Pennsylvania. Thi
professors fond there said that nothing heaYd of the
bad ever Vieen seen or of by
thembefore. The smanfsaUhe Franklin
Institute were also
not giye. the thing auame.bat they all
agreed S that it was anything hut a lizard,
Dr. Morton took it up to New Market
street again, intending, however, as
soon uponite as possible identity. to have Markoe’s Dr. Lei.ly uei^hb™ pass
beard ot hie remarkable experience 4nd
were incredulous until theydmd Joekad
sss^-sajcaasa
exfafii'assft
which heds ihst now recovering.
Seen the other .tay in the big bottle,
Markoe’s late impassible companion pre
seated truly a rerrartabie sight It is
suspended in the alcohol- with a cord
drawn areand what might be termed its
ttriji. Its tail, pointed and rounded,
iraa broken off mod im lying on
bottom of the bottle. Tb* creature
almost six inches m length. Its
is round, smooth sod of a very
brown color—approaching a dun. The
head is sot clearly defined, but eyes,
month and nose can be dteaMd upon
a dose examination. It l* difficult to
tween that of an impish-looking Feet has baby
and of a terrier dog. it none,
nod in no respect doea it resamble n
'lizard, It eannot be compared to any
| thing known to ordinary mortal* here
about*. jp
to The qneereet part of mght, the story after remains going
be told. The other
i with a few friends up th« river ro Pea
Shore, Mr. Marked, only after ooneklers
ble entreaty on the part of his oompsn
ions, entered tha water ani found to hia
ama aina —a t ha t b» amid oat swim. His
appetite, normal condition, however, has resumed it*
the uncomfortable
lamp has left ins stomaelj, and he save
he haa never enjoyed such good health
since before he entered the army, fifteen
years ago.
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,
Primitive Malm tf Striking Fire. ’
** T . „ J* . h * n ... . ,
SfSnSSS
The primitive mode of strik
j? tpiey rf^d ry
* ^ i?
j* a P*® JMj a quantity of ?*** dry, to*ks reacily-iaflam- directed i
mahle fibrous materi^oh-ried.
procuring and preparing materials. In
k“““ tomily remamed in^itate^f m s sttde of
“““P"* 1 ?™. b lJ-tortsm till a period
almost within .the reobUeotoon of sonny
I 011 **™ oldest inhabitant” Our
b J oWinff placing 1 ahlock a Wock^f of
n P <m **• packing it ^wrih small
co ** 04 J? ** sllow lttosmold
™“S“ rf* « ^amlSd^ieure" »« ■*.... ^ ™
sinking ‘bght to* lU* 004 * 4 ?
b ***» tinder, flint and st^, and
bnmatooe- tipped wood matches or
“ ^“kV. Thettuder « toey wasusually weresomet.me, adomw
‘>c production, th. totder-boxes and
stoei*, or totem®*- were made u 4 ® 14
mmghamaod Wolytrhsmpton, England done
fbwe a oonaiteable busmess was ^
“
from whe re it c ould be picked up, and
4h “““**■ * munufachtreraand were chiefly poor vendors old women. of^the
The steel waa of the form
0 etonmrted^and »e mtovb
tinder, which in Auil tt#ts%tS . toebrtoa.
.tone-tippednmteh. Tbe lighted tin
extinguished by a ctose fitting inner
m,” tb f k
^o^-a^ W‘' a D ,f ate* t^uta used w for 1
paper ttait had been dipped tn a solution
of aidtpeter and afterward dried The
**nt, with S“£L its edge d J??S! at the pomt of tin
P«t*'to bnraed the freely,’^bu^^withtmt steel, ltignitodreadily flame.
» nt >
Am»dou, or Oermwi tinder, and tonoh
w-kI," being woody tissue m a certain
J 4 *** of deM J> »*” sometimes used m
theesme way asjmateb-paper.
The methods of initiating fire, ** baa
were , np to tin s pan t, tor.
rude mechanic#] laet expedients. that It is only
dnnng Ithe half century eoien™
“V wnl***** be raid to have rnatohes. been applied One oj to the
earliest novelties was the
?«» lighting box ’ which .-ontameda
fihrpns « 44l « ch rabestos. “ r «^ » 4 * Tht " a4 i tipped phuric match acid and was
1b4 ,Bt “ 41 with »« bottle, and caught revolutimi fire m its
contact the acid. The
i“ mstch-maAing, and the origin of the
match maunfacture, a* a large and mt
porta# mdnstry may be said to date
from the^nteodnetion applied ofphosphorusia*
•« mgmhnfl “gent i» vanons
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A . M Strange Shark. _ .
I saw a shark of a strange sort
day when we were a thousand miles from
land. It had fallen a dead calm. There
was not a sign of a breeze anywhere be
tween could the north tell. and It sooth poles, the so day far
as we turtle, and, was just sighted
(or sure euougU, we
a brace of them sleeping on the surface
half a mile lowered, off. The starboard went quarter- off and
boat wad and w©
picked them up. Mter that, we caught
three more, bnt a breeze springing up
theboatwaa called in. When we were
hoisting it up on the davits, it got a
little jammed, and, through theclumsi
ness of the man who was minding channels tbe
falla^ft also little caught under the Well, the
and got a strained.
evenmg was as glorious a night Atlantio, re ever the
was seen in the North
moon at tbe full lighting up the sails
that loomed like great ghosts against along
the with stars, and the bsrk jogging
a six-knot breeze jnst abeam. deck, look
The captain’s wife was on
tag over the rail called and enjoying officer the of scene, the
Suddenly she ine
watch and asked him if that was a shark
nuder the quarter following like the shark ship, ;”
He Mid it looked “mighty a big fish
in fact, he though looked it was some the side, and
orother. 1 over
oertamly locked there was fish something eighteen there
that like a or
twenty feet long, following the vessel
as sharks often do, and vaguely seen
near the surface in the light of the moon,
was below, waa now
summoned. pronounced On looking over, bi he im
it to a shark,
hirpew andaronser at that, and called for a
wife"he To quiet the anxietv of hiz
stood to-board sa he balanced
the murderous weapon to hurl it into
the Monster quivering flesh of the bloodthirsty
" All reads f arid he to the men who
were at toe fine attached to the hsrpoon, ,!
IrVnlir ttttff A -— 18 AH resd^mirl
replied, titting a firmer gmsp of
the line, as the harpoon the shark. was plunged I’ve
with accurate sim into “
got him! "cried the captain, pulled with en
Qrasiasm, and flat the men their backs with tt* a
vim, mdfeU perfectly on slack. as They
Bn* same bom* il,
had was^-besrase not got him Met and this was
the there w«# no shark
swra ssxssstst
asrfes boat's shadow,
drop by drop in the would jnst
about wherethe gills of the fish
have been, which only ^Theydid made the shadow
seem more life-like. notg-t
over taoghmg tri tire f«eesatie about
that shark for seme days.—Appleton’*
Journal.
A
TIMELY TOPICS.
A New Bedford (Mass.) minister has
preached d,000 sermsos. He is nearly
ninety years old.
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Boys under T
sixteen who smoke in the
streets of Goblants, Saariouis and Tre
The Chinese is Nevada are becoming
can” as good nwsnh stock gamblers as any "Mali
a rs at the fraternity.
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The Cincinnati Ommercial s»ya ;
'* L»s* ye*r a family of aeveo persona,
Kwing cesr Wilmington, Ohio, by actual
count eonsnraed 1,165 pies. Th» is a
fact and can be substantiated."
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In the “Court News " of an English
item: paper reoentlysppeared " Til, drove this remarkable
queen two oowt yes
terday Denmark to visit the the king and queen of
at Usbnrne House." For
“ two oows," read “ through Cowes.”
Miss Boe, of Dublin, had a wedding
cake eight feet high and weighieg 300
pounds. It was ornamented with the
arms of the Boe and Gordon families
and six bannerets with arms and mono
^ ram8 k strewn wifli orange blossoms
js which The all celebrated the seieutifle “ Keeley journals motor,” We
tWUBlUied afranfffiomthebeginning,
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driven ^asoedtoto by rewnp y — ad «i> mwrewi iy
treduced into strong iron tubes, which
" the “■
to uumK he accorded *££££*% exhibitors %£
to in the
Paris exhibition is definitely fixed at
^000. They trill comprise 2,600 gold
^ & jaa „.-i— -«a * -«
of exhibitara U 63,006. '__
A Persian populace * is not like a Enro
p^,! one _ i n Europe a monarch return
j nj , hia people after a lengthy voyage
i *. Wn'wC^ l v t... j oav»i« 1£*fiZh
**°**tlj jji J landed f in his j,i own dominions,
OQ B roturn rom 8 E ar( ,pean tour
^epoophi of the towns through which
heslsmtilenoe ^ passed merely 1 bowed down their
.
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Frank elo^dwiththe Harrington of Springfield dauS
Ohio, pretty
0 f Colonel Dolts. One of the first Elf(L>r per
|Kmn KnighTthe thew mot on the train form" was
£ young man’s he“lder^t Mate
MavCTille. Franktold
him and the clergyman ^“there volunteered S^ to
do & “nductorc^esonghe 0 ] 0b th™ wra’puhd when
“to the toa^ssY^taS’^SSekhe
tra "“re- , u wag th^ epeediug ^Twer.made Ufirty-fiye oak miles an
4 0« tw t o were mad e
i a „ nnse of robbery tried mw£rtS at Aberdeen
Thbl vitk^Tuw.r rntime of «wij
Add auu ssrt w« i away away wun reuway .pred.
An exchange -fi states that Haohette A
^ ft* !Mgeg t pnblishiug
iu tb * *'ortd. U employs, ' .-W five
tilonRail(i ,, n biiness torns ont a
day, aud dies a of *3,000.000 a
J r _
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A cable dispatch J* recently sent from
A°bimN.T., to *. Australia Audita, oonsistod wnrart^
rtKhe me^e to’^NewYork- W ra fob
Hrart'sfCtentlf From Anbnrn to
F- to Valencia- ’
Lo ndon toVladiwoodstock . through Germany a^poiut Russia
Siberia ™ L P on
‘“c coast PI MMtehmuia . ti tnenre
.
torough the Japan .Sea to Nagaski on
^ ^anghae. to^Haigon Oh u^, to^ingk dhence
Siam • Sie
P'*re. MsUy. themre to Batavia, on *®
“f 4 ”* ?"*
4 “ » 4 As Ansrshsmol I , d to
J- _..
A mon m ® a nment ”“! n t has h“U™Lflrira recently been erect-
1 4 v , h SMgft
« „
by^BUrtlrtre Coutta of London, to
tm^og follow*! ms mrator s
interred took Ida nosition by the side of
the iL, grave Ji and Could not be ocrsiimled
* 0 fourteen years ho re
Mined in the churchrard ids favorite
r —,i.™, Jrsve Cm thefoot of his
ter’* furnished him hv ;
.,members of tlic there^lving family and r ,p 8
_ _ h fcmnd dead
hiahistorv heingwell kuownhewas Miss!
, h hV • uMstm-’a side sineiilsr
' i.—.ino hi« t.is
.
b ordered the erection of a monument
— 9 pl ^] ' bl u. —
nnimai ;
• ’
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Of the eight .... hundred . . persons . suddenly .. ,
submerged the Thames by the ;
in river :
Prmoeea Alice disaster, scarcely a dioen |
saved their hvea^by swimming. The !
f““*on i* that st that plaee the river » ,
little better than a mass of sewage. It j
r «g“larly carries away the hqnid refuse
ta IhfreityofLondon, oollwon‘there and sttbe poured instant
? 4 th* wasbeing
jute It near the fatal spotthe contents of
two gnwt cesspools. The immediate
effect of immersmg a person in sewage,
“J 4448 chemists, is asphyxia, »nd the
eight hundred excursionists must.have
become nurnln and incapable of bad anv
effort. The bddws, when recovered,
undergone^trange tion was difficult. Clothing chong*#._^eatifiea- had changed
color, and the decomposition had been
“w* 44 - Everythingpomted ta,the action
of some powerful chemical substance.
_T The present , -- German parliament ,. ; is, .
composed of one field-marshal, one lieu
tenant-general, one colonel, one ambas
sador. seven ministers, councUors eleven presidents of
of goveramenta, soven gov
eminent, forty-one judges, five crown
prosecutors, twenty - four barristers,
three directiws of provinces, fifteen
landrathe (directors of circles), thirteen
professors, eight burgomasters, four
directors of gymnasiums (schools five phy
paratory for the uutversities),
eicians, tbirtyfour elergymen, officers of vanons
ranks, twenty, four
six persona living on landed their proprietors, incomes or
their fortunes, 106 jonmaUrts, thirty
thirteen authors and
four mannfactnrars and merchants, one
bookseller, one turner, one brewer, and
one photographer. Among the members
am one dnke, eight pnnoee, nobles. twenty
seven counts, snd 126 petty
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-The “ telegsstrogreph ” is * hypothet- t ^ ,
sss=sri;sa*Kf£Js
aaggaarfess f^rastta fflag g
ceptadeommected attached, with a oorreeponding powerful bat
tery. Wires are
to the number of guests invited, and of
safficient length to reach ttetr
tive abodea. At the sppomtei-t-inner
hoar eecb guest places the wire in bis
mouth, and uatacdiAtely the lei) flavor
VOL. V. NO. 5.
of the dish i* transmitted fc? him. More
orer, a sense of repletion is experienced
proportionate to the quantity of food
consumed—or rather the length of time
the wires are held in the month. Bat,
disconnected unfortunately, from as soon the .battery, as the wires the are
feast
remains only a pleasant memory, and
viands and wines are consumed or not in
this process ia not os reeori. Snob is
the inventor's dream.
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Moitere plsvwytoti. mi ik.w wstcfc for
a new sensation could hardly ask one
more dramatic or mare dire than the
catastrophe long that happened African at sea Two sot
ago, on the coast
dozen boats full of Greek sponge fishers
were getting water at Mandrouka, when
a party of Arabs tried to make them pay
tribote of money an d, toad tor the privy
lege bloody They were driven their off after a
fray, with ammunition
gone f but just then s contraband
seller of powder came on the scene with
his veesel. The fishermen hurried to
him, and got his promise not to sell
powder to the Arabs till after their own
pledge, departure bnt next morning. reflecting ■ what He gave good the
then, a
thing he had loot, broke his word, and
.gyat voluble struck his revolver him.- with and reproaches, Thtt fired euraged into an
barrels, ftreTirclirtlirr koilgTh wh en a terri hto expjtjwion bn tnsfi torn
ttrsh e Tcmial v e—a Gr«U l irod and xll all on Set board.' T~
Ol Of the the seventy seventy Greek fishermen fleheraeu thst so <w
-five were from the Isle of
others were inoetly Rho¬
dians and Bailors from Caly Bines,
'
, ^ , ® a T,ke# lhp R ^ n * lhlll
‘humous The following anecdote Robert is Dale from a pos
in fSr*riKn*r'i paper Maaazin*: by Owen,
»
, 8 well knownthstjacksou, on hi.
aooresion Van Buren as president, appointed Martin
secretary of State, and that
Mf. Van Bnren, in April, 1831. resigned
ed ‘hat htm offioe. minister Thereupon England, Jackson aud api»int- be
to it
2* SafiSST^- neeesaarv to enpnlv BOpply his hl8 niece plft<5e in 1,1
At that time there was in the United
States Senate, from Louisiana, Edward
Divtugstou, ready ft geutleraftn etnriable repntation who hail al
won on as
author of the code which still bears his
name—s work which has had its in
fluenco on the jurisprudenoe of succeed
‘»K time*. Livingston at that time
stood very high, his not only as jurist, bnt
“« »i°»g statesman; name bad come up,
*«b ®»nv others, and he had
beenspoken of State. ss one eminently flthxi
for secretary of It so happened,
»I«o, that the Senate was then nearly
equ;dl y< liv,dedbetv.een the two existing neeS
b“*dly Whig and Democratic; it
be added that the president had
b* Now, on e, ee‘ed whenrumors by the latter bcWrife party. that
might be finally selected by
Jackson '“ti™ as cabinet Democratic officer, a leaders small depn- and
of the
him. that They barely began Domoorstio by adverting majority to the
fact a aafsly^tol
^ twooonldatthat time be Livfngaton
ed on in the Senate; that if
An influential Democrat, was appointed
secretary of State, one of these votes
would lm lost; then and that If of fas parties waa prob- in
able in the stale
Lonisiana) a Whig was appointed to take
hia place, it would result in a tin They
rep‘««itod would seriously that such embarrass a contingency the presi
dent, very of thwarting
perhaps iu the way
his pohey, more certainly by endanger
in g the confirmation of his appoint
An<1 th ey fln#U y Mr -
Tri * 4 to btk® an early opportunity of
ckevessing to the general their enrnest
d.-sire, both for his own sake and that of
tu , tbat bo wonK , Rivp such
couaidPra , jon8 (llel - r (luB wejffht Mo „
calling Livingston from his place in the
Mr - T,i “ 4 <*»«"«> *? ««•
dertakingof would this task, alleging hw finally belief
t Until tie frmtlcs; but was
»«* reconsider his i efnral. Ac
eorfingly one evening when Jackson,
after a hard day’s work, was seated m bis
his head sunk on his breast
and his attitude betokening repoae attd
reflection, Trist-with great reluctance,
„ f md suitable apology
the fears uud wishes of
^ A t the first broaching of
41,6 efihjeet (so Trist informed me), the
old “ Bn <ir *® himself bolt upright, ac
eotding to his military wont, fixed his
thoroughly awakened eyes full on the
"praher,-and. as tne latter weut on with
his report, the flash from those stern
eyes sufficiently indicated in advance—
40 °“® fa® !i i« r wW» bis manner as
8 secretary was—the probable result,
He listened patiently, however, until
t,le conclusion. Then, after a pause, all
said, in his usual brief and unfliuoh
ing manner, was: “Air. Trist, my
friendsought of to kind know that influence no considerft
that can my
choice of a secretary of State, It is my
duty to select forthat important office
the man best fitted to fill it, and to leave
the rest toGed. Tall these gentlemen
go.1 And the very next day chair Livingston in tbe
wastaepointed to the vacant
cabinet.
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Bears la Northern New Ysrk;
Bears and squirrels _ are more plenty for
this season than they hare been
many years; ana from this fact it is a-J
dnce«l that an early and severe winter is
before u». Those who have mtAe ob
senafaons in nature say that the near
approach of those animals to the dweU
ffig of man, hr eartyjril, ts an almost
infallible sign. In the neighcrhood of
Norwood they are mere numerous than
ever before, rays the Router, and #1
most every farmer in the township of
Hummer has seen s hear. Onefollowed
„ farmer who had honey in his buggy
some distance, 4ouae,— and even^approachedthe Dai
door of the ITaterfotra
paW A
Monday afternoon Mise Oora „ Harter
saw a bhtek bear crossing a lot near her
father’s residence and immediately household. com
mnnicated the fact to the
Her father and brother gathered consist- to
get ber their munitions of war
m g of two shot-guns, and sending Cora
were to summon soon imned the by neigbors’ O goj rgn And assistance Fran k
toibesr
ship. They^ soon had him treed, snd
Frank blazed away with an old ‘how
itser” sndflBed tbe b ea rs mouth with
buckshot; bnt he merely shook hia head
at the introdnetion. He then reoereed a
hke-dose from oneiq, the party fathe
back, vttxoh eaased him to seek another
tree.. “ d T®£‘
I»anng shot mtotos earcara «*bl : h*.
showed signs of f stiga*. *»a .tunny
pjsjzzsss&A?;
»d eleven md me-h^ poanus—toe
had lodged m hie body. This is the
that has been seen m this
seetton within a suort time, ami wc may
hear of other eajitnre* ere long. Farm
(Gticryo county) Mirror.
FARM, BARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
The great variety of valuable proper
hes pecislly belonging to the sunflower, es
to its seed, entitles it to far
greater attention than has been awarded
it m this country. The sunflower has
***** saeaswSEa?B££ lately taken up the cultivation
on
an extended scale. Th* plant grows
readily stelka of in thepiant most climate*. From the
the Suasions manu
faetore a raluable potash, and the reei
due of the seed after extracting the oil
M made into cii-oake for feeding cattle,
while the leaves form part of the eom
post heap fsnners for manuring that the soil, plant gcro
P 8 *” state no pro
dnoes such fine hooey and wax, mid
wh*“ the flower is in blosncn be*
atminJ on tt. The refuse of fifty bush.
8,8 seed, after the ori has been ex
prised, I.S00 pounds, made into while cakes, the stslks, wiM produce
when
burnt for allab. will yieldten pet cent.
the r ' f Pptash. leave* of An the English snnfiower, cattle feeder and barns dries ,
* h * ro 40 ela'mmg the latter
makes excellent /odder for rotleh cows
* r ^ ea Mixe d with braa.__ Thi p w a n a e
tawrvorTS^y years, Cultivated
M l " l “** 1 tn auv other. It increases the
quatitity of eggs from poultry fed ^ with
SiJTlfftol ttaSS
toe ,h e “? hands t, f | \ 1 * uid 0# j\ face. p, rtM";]arlj»otteDiDg The seed vanes in to
ro'atton of husk to kernel from fifty^rue
sixty per cent, of the former to forty
and fifty-nine of the Utter, and the per
ty-fight per cent. On the average,
may be obtwned f 1 ?* by 1 **! expression. “ AC
cording to Boussingault, the produce some experi- of
ments gave ponndaftiie per awe
teed aMbotii 1,800 oil per
and tbe c *J e e, 8 bt f Pf r oeDt : J,ext .^°
p°PPI' w ® l ‘ sunflower boras, tbs
»«ed»’'»>7»ncolor^be longest of any in equal quantities. either whttih The
ktnped black. 1 ng
gw. From or seeds expressed
sunflower is a
paUtable clear and flavorless oil. the
demand for which in Bassis ta very
g 1 ** 4 - It is exported from 8t. Petr rs
bnr <? “bout fiftyrtwo dollars per
gross & tim, and it u raid to l» extensiTe
used, like oottou-aeed olive oil, after
^ung, for adulterating or salad oil.
A considerable quantity is grown in
Bussiaforo.1 cnlbratoa prea«ng; the planet be
P odalia }^F alsojeaatwariloii in the »els blackaoil and
, forfuel
bm*'..thc HTSlkAbemg used
to » “f ej* town in Saratov there are at
least thirty oil presaee. The produc
honofaoediu Kusma ten Tear»*sq was
hytreating it exactly bke fl«, it wUI
produce We a fiber sa fine *s silk, and in
quantities. The stalk maybe
•“£»€? «JW» 40 a PS”*«ton'“ certain extent • P
P-oda English °f*eedj«« enltivatoreByefonrto therequtremontfor five
toe gtqund eighteen , the inches; distance .plants from row to be to
»*
to toinue.! plant. otit At to^ttorty tlua flistauee mofira the from-plant number
( ,
•”*>*^*htoen P'^^.T?*^ inrties he ab out betTOin 11,0 00, plaute per
^ In.u 5?’A rSEfuiluwbi 1*, Jon 1 ‘
duco varics .-otisu soil, erahly the elimato ^rdiug and the to
the state of the
W^JSSL cultivation tbftt is “ employed, *".FS? , \ b k “
average qnantitv of seed mav be taken^
at fifty bushels per aena and the yield
ofoil at a gallon per busliel. Every
single plant will praluee 1,000 or more
fteede, kbemnin bend while generally yielding
fiOOto 1,000 collaterals seeds, that there are fifty us to j
ually ftmr give
sixty seeds each. The qnaufctyof seed
is much increased by dwarfing the ;
mortar'hroke*uu'fic?- L U TbeTlautsTced wcids
should to to ha're , 22S£*JE% f from beti^I! fc I
them fur exposure to the and, as nuder
and “"tolirs^^Uh" more s4ored »> th 16 ^ “e® 1 -
Jmerican Cultivator.^
liowaetoolft Hint*.
To Bbmovz to* rnox, a Bnus
sziAOARrE T .--Usea Uean,cff»bro..in,
make rt wet; then "hriietteloose water
from forthweU it, and with rnb the 44,8 broom. ^P® Thcthresda 4 h“J*
will ooUeot on tte brtom.or roll in wads
on the floor, ana are easily picked np. . j
Fob Wabktsg 8iijVEh.—P ut ooe-half
teaspooufu! vvao^vv«.«. of# hartshorn into ----------i the sn<t« j
in which the silver is washed, have the
water hot; wash hot quickly, water, using and dry s small with
brash; rinse in then rub dry
a clean linen towel; very
with a chamois skm. Washed in thia ,
manner, silver beoomesvery brilliant,
and requires no polishing with any of
the powders or whiting usually em- j
ployed, aud the silver does not wear ont.
To Rziiovz Iiton spin Rost ob Irrz Spots.
—Moisten the sod apply salts of
letnou nntil it disappears, and rinse well.
, l( i Bn ion are made of equal parts
of oxalic and tartaric acid, and any per
m Mn make them for his own nse.
juke, Another aprtntta way i*to citTsatt, moisten and withlemqn lay in the :
Jmn. If ink is spilled on coloreil goods
thatwi n not bear acids, soak them un
mediately in sweet milk, boiling hot. ,
Hot melted tallow poured through ink
stains will remove them.
A Ones Fi-oor,—T he other day I
went te w friend Mrs. Cook She
bad jnst finished mopping her kitchen
floor . r noticed it looked very nice, and
M ked how she kept it so well. ofl “ Why,"
she said, “ don’t you know I it abont
every six months?” “Oill’ I said,
.. do yon do that?" So then she
told me, as follows: “I take a quantity
0 , tbe cheapest and least offensive oil
( ]i n seed) lean seeure,and apply all smooth
!y , *o that it will stnkeequally Over.
md ye t not stand i n| spota on the ear
fMe . wwk I dotoisrtnigbt ITTIone, aniT ,sfter fa th* < place
.tug* e«dy for the next morning,
r nse again
Of conrpe, it would not injure the oiled
8a rf a ce itself to track upon rt at;onoe,
bnt is babe to be tracked tern.
iti , t mat, to adjacent parts of the
hotl9e . A new coat of oil apphed once
IB *ix months or even once ft year,
aometme* » enfltoent to ktup • floor m
P**«* order. One may m this way
prepare to great advantage the floor of
intchen N pstitr 1 e. > summerdining-ro.-mis 1
is gta- "”
&££$t&gs£
!|T.V
ly 6,9X1,000 gallons. h* For therametime, f
8 * I?“‘
9 imi^erae , 4fi O,OOOh arteta_toj),98LOOO of 46(,000 barrels, or tmrreta- 1,371,
000 gallons.
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BouratredWotMathn* u>wrt»re is
Salt SlttV mchiwrtios J (s
per Klaus, i.es
A Retells.
In the golden gUnt of tbs r’s
In tbs crimson glow of s day nigh d«m
On tbs tanks of a stream, with da waters
At tbe side of on* my heart bolds dear—
How beauteous ti this life:
In tbe silvery sheen of the pate-moos a tight—
On thevnowy tank. of avtresm kwbotmd
Bereft of my loved oae-aU aon
How nd, bow drew—tbi< Iff *!
Ia tbs future with promises golden bright—
la tar morn test fallows tbe darkest night—
How tarts on tbs dark stream—new searing
tbs s hins
To port from my lovsd one—ah! nevermore—
How dear—otarnsi Ufa.
Items eMaterest.
A sham SZ poo—affected e„.ZZ!I contempt
wn.. J. v: ___.
CT, 0 io™ile* bmn
Aaetrot aoUUera were trained to flgbt ...
with either band.
The common schrxil system may be
traced back to t he year 600. _;-
are over twenty tiionsand
gtitehes in a well-made shirt.
menX >> n ua drunk.
Beecher’s first frmr l^ur« mS»u
aw^.* 2 ' 800 ' * a ' 160 *
“““
Bh'ndman’s bnffis a game thatglvo*
opportunity ^, to show human sympathy.
% (el feeling for a feilow-crta
tore.
McKeeman nm'teMt! of Vorristo«
ara., has nas fnvenwM invented a a wagon ueBtgueu to
Mwer’audhas ap^t»ton h
P“ > made PP fOT*
The glacier* of . the Himalayan _. far ,
wrpaaa anything hitherto known ont
{ meLnnd^naf neasnr ®^ f, t^^^Sirtv^Iw ent L;SI mile
long and one to three . wide.
^g* How is it, Miss, yon gave twenty-five, your age
to tha census tftkeras only
when you were bora the same year I
was, aud lam thirty-nine? “Ah I you
have lived nmeh farter than I, sir.”
oh the corn, the horrible oom.
BorDiag at night and aching at morn:
D ndm ramatmd y’. fort balfof tkegms ,
TUrobbu^ rtthmwery aloort rahhmc,
lu&ming. Bigasyourfist—
Hhow m. the «gu of to..- ob. rop^-dbrt!
inquired ..Anything new f with hia femnd you to-day?” who
a man o wac
suffering Trom inflammation of the
, a n g g. ..i 9 u 0 «ld think so,’’ replied
Ulc „ u{ f e rer. “ What is it ?’’ said the
fl t ,t speaker. “ Pneamouia,’’ answered
the victim.
t.Jeti»k it towsrd the snore m.1 he
toetoP, R , M^inride hefo he found WU live live baby babe
a
hrtoS hZt half touSmUk rmi of muk. wUb
W toSih»Mrtlu? , Aim?tho , wS '
AtaUte ZZTt
Doth ptati. botom. chrer,
Wtato ratting fur thswmtOT wind.,
•
And^iSb ttic tatotal tow'
"pon vonng man wno thTwinter na. areiaM
a full to.rd for
-,v« York tira,M-.
pmjt oulture ia making rapid progress
|l: the United States. According to re
cent offioial statements the land appro
P r »*ed to this hrauoh of industry w
4,500,000 acres. Upon this there flourish
u2 0 OO.nOO jj 2 ,270,000 apple trees, peach 28,000,000 and 141,- pear
trees trees
MO.OOO _ trait'm^* grape vines. ____ gWt The total ___ value __ of
t hi on ti ta Urtted
Stota , to , et Jown at $138,210,700, an
nmonot equal to half the value of the
the wUoftt ofo of lh e country. Toward
that large §nm appleft are neldto con
tribute $50,400,000; jicara, *14,100,000;
ptaohe * 4fi ,135,000; graj.es, 82,118,
poo strawberries. 85.IX10.000. and other
frlli( *10,432,000.
The sleep of winter snd that of night
are different in those animals which are
^s T Xmot‘the h 8
I»>g. the .** w "e» p “"f 04 - > b ® h» '““T' m
K , flira, w
badgers, etc., retire to their closed holes,
and, in various degrees, Th^ undergo a
£ jT'
; ^ y rfl [[ themselves up, but bats suspend
enU ei Te sju caves. Those who lay up.
provisions use them before they become
*^,1 on reviving ir before they
e abtQa g T b e temperature
iowors . the(r respiration is less fre
q aPu t and atintervalstb^ci^calatiou in
red nxiuutsu need , ; they imj lose nme their wcu feeling, iwuuijt ««» the di- «
gewtive orgau* are inactive and they
suffer loss of weight. The confined air
in wb j„h they shut themselves, added
to the cold, is a cause ol their torpidity. birds
isafi to the belief that some
hibernate,
A Royal Indian.
rv, M ", Mer»hle inieresi baa of late been
u8 fj . ,. injj.,,. oolorado chief’
«> J , “ ' 1 ^. ^ “y «hmit 1 * their head b
0l “*y> * 4u> ^“ Q e x ^P""?“.y 1 rT'
Wd bm rn^er - of Iffe, raunot failto be
4 ^ *ten^fine
«»™ iae ta^ retita 8 u “ 448n h“ n to hta b snmmd a
Sg*’,,., 4 ^* .V nl«^ ?
J«“had bmlt for i, him at_tbs tto, ^1 ,
*^ t4 ™™ta Y“™^“gre fr ™ 4 Hh^ nver, r by *“ 088g the ®“J gov
^tore 8 ^-Mta > SMm™ aSS
«“»«"•»“ «d **'£“*• He “* h« T 8 8 48 ™
,
“if retail w^k ta dmi
hvtPdiaas aht r-;t am ers. Hta His trite e
«£ Jtab »“ *» d Joe’her fu.1 sh«e of Ute^St the ,n
S^ho^He “o™ 8 "' to*™ iJZ g
*tufand . ,
!^e “yg °e ha. WLi so me cattlean my
f mf* 22K,f^SriS J." ? S/
8t td f™ rf’ the^Test
fh!t fl he ^rehfLl a JEuTwitb oresint from
U°» 8 ™« *,.1. McLooZ, wmen, a a
> cogsp tOTioa* tern mti luefarmopfr
u
4 T r “/ bT aatoewd^-omii'
F"r 8 tomto ''' “ » he s irurewd .m,pe Nnt ’
h“ 8m ® * |' Ltout ^.
SrSSSSriifss n th him that l.«
SffSsSsw “■:«
r) l r,vT,»t7,rts!roToI a hich and
acr in managing his J f ubj«is
^
i™*vf»wmmiwior! Hi' wifcaud "’•"‘J
forty-flye, b e h» but one
child.