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Ti OGLETHOSPB BCBa Sufe«erip«f0n **f*i <WTm .... IM flreafmttoitaMi. rewt'-eyrapsbw htatA. r— i ! , tbe p*p«r is at omaa 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, *---------------- 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, j THE DOCTORS Pt'ZZLED. — **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. — - , 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 W “J S - — ——— 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. - 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. - 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." - 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, ______ ." „„ 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 . ___ 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 _ -- 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 ; • ’ _______ ■ 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 - -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. - 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. ------ --- 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. T ® mmm echo, B— »“» : i » ;i.i<w■!— sSSi -« lapiil * »'*••• «eksa?*-l71!irL ..... - 1 4 -®““ l Advertisements." - ^ - l4Ck ftddiao&ApwiQu* f -o ^sjssErs^yr.....H 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.