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rum the Lad that Follows the Plow. 1 am the Is l that jollowa the plow— liobin and thrush just whistle for me— In a hickory suit that’s pretty well worn 1 go to the field at early morn, Jhelp to scatter the golden corn— liobin and thrush juat whistle for me. Out in the meadows and woods and lanes Robin and thrush just whistle for me— jwatch the sheep and lambs at play; ■When the grass is high I toss the hay; J here isn’t a boy in the world so gay— liobin and thrush just whistle for me. with lather to shear the sheep— Robin and thrush just whistle for me Jtodder the cattle, the mangers fill, Jdrive a team, I go to the mill, milk tho cows with a right good will— Robin and thrush just whistle for me. 1 help the peaches and plums to save— liobin and thrush just whistle for me — For 1 am the boy that can climb a tree; There isn't an apple to high lor me, There isn’t a nut that I can’t see— Aobin and thrush just whistle tor me. When I am a man I’ll own a farm— Robin and thrush just whistle for me— Horses and sheep and many a eow, Stacks ot wheat, and a barley mow; I’ll be a farmer and follow the plow; liobin and thrush shall whistle for me. rTis better to stand in the golden corn— liobin and thrush just whistle lor me— To toss the hay on the breezy lea, To pluck tho lruit on the orchard tree, Than roam about on the restless sea; So, sailor boy, I’ll follow the plow. 'Tin better to bear the wild birds sing, Robin and thrush on the apple bough— ’Tis better to have a larm and a •wile, And lead a busy, peacetnl life, Than inarch to the noisy drum and file; So, soldier boy, I’ll follow the plow. GOOSEBERRY JAM. It had been a sultry day at Fern island. All the afternoon under the tree boughs of had the drooped the tropic glow sun, the birds had huddled silently in bowery nooks, the cattle stood knee deep in the delicious ripples of the limpid water, and Kitty Crawford, peep¬ ing out from behind the screen of her Madeira vines, had watched t he party of picnickers phaetons and go huge, by in their little pony covered wagon, not Without a sigh. “It’s all very well to have nothing to do but to enjoy one’s self, but I have got the little chickens to take care of, and the butter to work over, and the goose¬ berry jam to make, and my own blue muslin dress to iron, it I expect to look decent in church next Sunday. Oh, dear! oh, dear! how nice it would be if people world! didn’t have to work in this There goes Matilda Emmons, in her new lace bunting dress with the white Languedoc trimming—how pretty she looks, to be sure!” And Miss Emmons,catching a glimpse of Kitty Crawford’s violet blue eyes behind the Madeira vines, drew up her horse with a scientific jerk of the reins. tive “Kitty!” she aren’t cried, i w sweet, impera¬ “To tones, the “ you going?” “To picnic, do you mean?” the picnic, of course.” “ “But Certainly I’m not!” retorted Kitty. mons. Kitty elevated her pretty tip-tilted nose in the air. “ Because,” said she, “I don’t choose to be looked down upon by those cavaliers.” haughty city girls and their attendant “ Nonsense!” said Matilda. “You may say what you please,” re turned Kitty, “ but I know that Parke Cameron despises me, because I have red hands, and freckles across the bridge of my nose, and because I am only a farmer’s daughter. And I won’t be de¬ spised “You !” little goose!” cried Miss Em¬ mons, with good-humored superiority. “ Didn’t he dance with you, and no one else, last night at the moonlight frolic?” “ That’s because he wanted to amuse himself,” sajd Kitty, haughtily. “Do you suppose I don’t discriminate be¬ tween real, genuine respect, and the supercilious patronage of a fine gentle* man, who is laughing in his sleeve all the time? 1 ’ And t:.e indignant dewdrops sparkled on her long, curled eyelashes as she spoke. “You’re altogether mistaken!” cried Miss Emmons, with emphasis. “ But if you will be so wrongheaded, I can’t stop to argue with you. Come! jump into the pony carriage, and go with me to the picnic!” But Kitty resolutely shook her head. “ No,” said she, “ 1 shall stay at home and But, pick gooseberries for jam.” instead of picking gooseberries, she indulged in a hearty cry, when Matilda and her pony were out of sight. “He don’t care forme,” said she, to herself, “and I’m determined I won’t care for him! He shall find out that I’m not one of the sentimental damsels we read of in books who die of unrequited love.” And Kitty Crawford dashed the salt spray feed off her eyelashes, and went out to the downy little chickens, who were peeping about animated the kitchen door stor e like so many balls of yellow velvet. And there was butter to work ovei and to pack down in huge stone jars; and the blue muslin dress, with its mul titudious little frills and flounces, to ren; and then her brother Philo came in with a linen duster that must be mended before he could set forth on his daily walk to the post office; and old Mrs. Dodge sent over to see if Miss Kitty would the make a bowl of jelly to tempt failing appetite of her con¬ sumptive daughter; and the brood of young wheat-fields, turkeys and wandered had be off into the to coaxed home again; so that it was quite dark before Kitty remembered jam—dark the gooseberries with for the morrow’s electric masses of purple-black clouds piled up against the sky, and ominous rautter ings of thunder in the air. “ I do believe its going to rain,” said Kitty, despairingly, yet!” “and my goose¬ berries are not picked And with a quick motion she caught Philo's hat and duster from the hat-rack, and sped down into the cool, secluded greenery of the garden, where a neigh¬ stone-wall bor’s huge pear-tree side, drooped over ilie on bushes one and below. the hedge of gooseberry But the grew balls as green of sweetness SSpeoMciousofa rained down info her lustWfn hack** th/iS he cam console us of a rustling m t.ie pear IxmgUs besond, wfc««a Uug= hammock ‘Klnnf Uro s £ lty i are_thcre’’’said I v. on t no.ice Kitty to herself; “ but But she colored celestial rosy-red. under the broad bum of her brother s Mam.la hat, when she recognized the .sound of Parke .Uamtrcn s low and rather nmguid voice. is it ycu, lxiiio. Kitty without picked on,, word siiently and expediti ously, a ot answer. But evidently the interlocutor was not discouraged. ; “ So you’re like roe,” he resumed— preferring of your own society to the gay “Philo,” the picnic party.” said Cameron,abruptly, “do suppose I should find your sister at if I were to go up to the bouse? avoids me so systematically that I never get an the opportunity life of to speak tell to and, for me, I can’t The Manilla hat dropped lower than among fingers the gooseberry worked thickets; the away with re speed. wished Kitty Crawford herself any¬ c-n earth just then but on that particular spot. think I should the “ Do you have ghost of a chance with her, it I asked her boldly to be my wife?” said Parke heart plunging valiantly into all the the of his subject; “for, of girls 1 ever saw, she comes nearest to my ideal of perfect womanhood, and I have learned to love her deeply and passionately! Don’t, for heaven’s sake, be so silent, old fellow, unless you pur¬ posely wish to discourage my suit!” he added, with something like impatience I in his voice. “ Tell me—have any grounds for hope?” trembling Kitty was blue-bird all caught over, more like a frightened in a net- Was ever girl placed before? in such How an embarrassing predicament let Philo’s linen she wished she had duster and broad-brimmed hat alone! “Why don’t you answer me?” de¬ manded the deep voice, waxing still more impatient in its tone. And to add to Kitty’s perplexities, the big drops of rain began to patter inex¬ orably down, and a zigzag streak of lightning shot crosswise across the threatening sky, a zone of living fire. “ Discretion is the better part of valorr,” said our little heroine to her¬ self, and, catching emerald up the only half-filled basket of fruit, she prepared for an ignominious flight. But Mr. Cameron had no notion of his. With a quick movement he sprang rom the hammock acove, and placed himsell directly across the narrow path¬ way, thus effectually barricading all retreat. “ Old fellow!” said he, half laughing, half in earnest, “you shall not stir a step from here unless you tell me whether or not—” “I will go!” cried Kitty Crawford, bursting into hysterical tears. “You— you have uo right to stop me thus!” If the thunderbolts even then mutter¬ ing through the twilight sky had stricken him with their electric hands, Parke Cameron could have scarcely been more stupefied and amazed. “Miss Crawford!” he exclaimed. “Kitty, can it be possible that this is you?—that I have committed such an awkward blunder as—” But, in the selfsame instant, he com¬ prehended that his suit must be pleaded now or never—that a cowardly lover is never a successful one. “ Kitty, ’ said he, still barricading the way, “ 1 have told you frankly that I love you. You must ne equally out¬ spoken with me.” “But—but it rains!” faltered Kitty, looking wildly this way and that for some method of escape. “I don’t care if it rains a deluge!” said Parke Cameron; “ I will know my fate!” “ When we get up to the house,” said Kitty, evasively. “ Now l” insisted Cameron. “ Please let me get by!” pleaded Kitty. “ Not until you decide one way or the other,” said Parke. “But I have decided!” said Kitty, cruelly Philo’s maltreating the buttons of linen duster in her confusion. “Speak out your Cameron, decision, then, at once!” said Parke with an imperiousness Crawford that somehow didn’t dis¬ please Miss at all. “ I do love you,” blushingly confessed Kitty—“ that is, I think I do.” And then the rain came down in huge cylinders blazed of crystal, and the lightning overhead, and Parke and Kitty had to run for- their lives to the piazza of the old farm-house. “There!” said Kitty, “I haven’t picked my gooseberries for the jam, after all.” “ I’ll help you to-morrow,” said Parke Cameron. And, to the end of his days, he de¬ clared that gooseberry jam was his favorite conserve. Ah Extraordinary Creature. The following account is given of a remarkable dwarf who arrived with her parents in New York on an ocean steamer a short time ago: Bridget Sughran is the daughter of John Sugh ran and lii3 wife, and was born thirty one years ago on an island off' the coast of Kerry, Ireland. For six months after her birth the child continued to develop as seven brothers and sisters before her had done. It is said to have been a re mark ibly pretty infant. At the end of six months, however, it suddenly ceased to grow and all the intervening years of the child’s life have witnessed node velopment in its stature. Its head alone lias grown and is now the size of the head of an average adult woman. Its limbs are rather more chubby than those of an average infant of six months but its skin is as pale and delicate in appearance as that of a new-born babe, Its hair is two or three inches long, but thin and fine like that of a baby. All attempts cessful at training have been ur.suc in getting it to walk or talk or even apparently to utter a cry. malformation Though there is no of the tongue it does not give vent to any noise even under the influence of pain. Yet t is by no means idiotic, for it under stands conversation and is keenly sensi rive to remarks that may pass concern ing itself. It also appreciates and re members kindnesses . it may receive, and appears to have a very good memory for faces. It eats but little, its food consist ing of a very small quantity of milk with a pinch of bread. It is very good-tem pered, as may be presumed, and gives its parents little trouble. For thirty one years the parents have nursed and cherished it, never giving it over to a charitable institution, though often suf fering for the necessities of life. They speak of the child as an affliction sent in kindness by the will of God, and do not wish in any way to get riel of the bur den. The account they give of the origin of the affliction accords with the super stitien of the country. They term it an “overlook.” A case of “overlook,” they say is when some witch out of evil motive calls down calamity upon the object of its ill-will. The father re iates how on one occasion, about the sixth month ot the child s age, two women were m toe house and one said to the other. “See what a beautiful cuilu 1ill.at is, tDat from that time the child ceased to grow. The father suostantiates this theory of his affliction by relating an instance in which a lairv-woman ” or witch pointed to a particularly beautiful .cow among a ad % he immediately deems it fell dead. At events it an affliction from which or.l; the pleasure o! God con free him at tile proper, time. Tne child is partiy ba;d nnd has 3o3t many of its teeth. The London Graphic attributes the scream of a woman partly to vulgarity and bred partly to vanity. Itsajs but no well moibidly woman screams, wish only those who to attract attention, The ignorance of woman’s natnre ex hibited by our namesake is amazing, J Try a room loose full of well-bred women 1 with a mouse, and observe the effect.— N*w Fork Graphic. Bl’SSISW A CIRCUS. FitfUres Showing the Cost and the “After a circus is fairly on the road Washington are its Post daily expenses!” asked a for Coup’s reporter of Mr. Tillin = ’ j “In agent circus. small towns between $2,000 and 1 __ per day. The I certain extent the amount depends to charged on sums that are us ior licenses to show and other privileges. In cities the expenses foot up i to nearly bill-posting $3,000 a day. The advertising : and is about $1,000. We i have 300 persons employed. We feed 225 these in our cooktent and seventy five are quartered at the hotels. Our arrangements are admirable we serve and everything careful the best and in a quently dines in the way. Mr. Coup fre “How about the other cooking tent.” ledger?'’ side of the “The receipts? They are generally to make a good circus a paying investruent. Stilly any day our receipts may fall to nothing because of some rain-st rm, or some costly animal may die. There are many ways in which a may suffer dead los3. The worst it is! |that they cannot be guarded against.” “ What are the heaviest items of a show’s expenses?” “The salaries. The sum paid to the Japanese troupe in our combination would run an ordinary circus. Then the Indians, taking the matter of board alone at an average of but $1.50 per day each, during the season, cost $6,600 for a season, besides their salaries. A first class rider, like Miss Kate Stokes, gets $150 week.” ““ a “Still, these are ‘ fancy ’ salaries, are they not?” “Yes, to a certain extent. An ordi nary lady riders, rider gets $25 a week. For men James Melville, perhaps, leads with the highest salai-y—$200 a week. The average is $40 a week, Fryer, who has the pony circus, draws $140 a week; Carl Anthony, the French horse trainer, the same, while we pay for the wonderful Broncho horses $1,000 a week. This is exactly what we got for them in the Boston Globe Theater and Aquarium, and was offered for them a year’s engagement at the Westminster aquarium, in London. Our horses are a Mis3 study, One of them, Tom, owned by Minnie “Stokes, a beautiful black, of fiery disposition, is her particular pet, follows her round like a dog and only seems contented when in her company With everyone else Tom is particularly vicious, having maimed several of his grooms, but with his mistress he is as gentle as a kitten.” “How sweet!” muttered our adoles cent reporter. Mr. Billing looked rather hard at the quilldriver, but the latter was as sober as lie a judge and taking notes vigorously, so continued: “A circus proprietor does not ol course, pay for the wardrobes of the star performers. These must be furnished by them. Hence you see that, although they are paid large salaries, they have heavy expenses. Last season Mis Katie Stokes bought 180 dresses. The rosin used on the horses’backs soon spoils a dress, and spoiled apparel is quickiy noticed in the ring. The cos tumes used for the opening pageant are, of course, part of the circus properties, each wearer being responsible for the care and keeping of the dresses worn by them.” “I suppose the more enterprising a circus is the better it pays?” “Yes, beyond a doubt. A show that keeps its vans new and bright and its canvas clean is always far more liber¬ ally patronized than a show of equal, merit which practices a false economy in this regard; and when, in addition a manager endeavors to continually secure novelities to please the public, without sparing cost, he will certainly be successful. Take, for instance, the conveyance of a circus by railroad. I I believe Mr. Coup was the first naan to build and own a railroad train for show business. When he projected it he was laughed at by other showmen for ex¬ travagance. When he started his new show he employed an agent, who said: ‘ Mr. Coup, you can never make money with a show.’ He said: ‘ Why?’ ‘ Oh ; you run your business too aristocratic’ too when extravagantly.’ he He was surprised found that for three seasons Mr. Coup had exhibited in precisely the same towns with increasing business each year, so that now his show draws most people where it has been oftenest.” The United States and Europe, We number now nearlv or quite 50, 000,000 people. A hundred million could be sustained without increasing the area of a single farm or adding one to their number by merely bringing our product up to the average standard of reasonably good agriculture; and then there might remain for export twice the quantity we now send abroad to feed the hungry in foreign lands- No longer divided by the curse of slavery, this nation is now united by speech, bonds of mutual interest, of common tied by the iron band of 85,000 miles of railway, and is yet only grandeur beginning to truly feel the national vital power and of existence, What may be the future of this land few can yet conceive. Texas alone com as much territory a 3 the German empire, has England and Wales combined. within now about 2,000,000 German people her boundaries; the England and Wales about 67, The good land in Texas is in area to the good land in Ger and Great Britain. Kansas, and Iowa combined more than France in area and possess more land. Only twenty-five years ago Brown and his companions re Kansas from slavery. Ne was then indicated on our maps as a part of “the American desert.” and Iowa had become a State. Their popu lation may now be 2,500,000. France 47,000,OoO. The great middle section Eastern Tennessee, Northern Western Carolina and South Virginia has been hemmed in by the of slavery, and is yet almost a incognita, in but it is replete with minerals, in timber and in valleys of almest unequal climate for health and vigor. This section is equal and to tire Austrian equal empire in area, more than in re Itha3 a sparse population of one or two millions. The Austrian has over 37,000,000. The healthy upland Carolinas country of Georgia, Alabama and the contains vast area of fertile woodland, which can be bought by tne hundred thousand acres at half a dollar or twenty-five cents an acre, on which sheep and cotton thrive equally well. These sections are being slowly occupied by white farmers, and wait for immigrants who can bring them to use. In a lew short years, sheep, led mainly i upon the kernel of the cotton-seed, and ; upon the grasses that follow the cotton, will alternately send to occupied, market from as much the same wool fields, as | cotlon. ibis warm section is than ; : more equal to Italy in area; it ha, perhaps j 2,000,000 Tbe people. Italy contains 27,000, 00- fertile lands of the Shenan- I deal valley in Virginia, and along the Potomac in They Maryland, move than half eqffiSl may contain a mil million. people. Belgium has more than In the consideration of problem ot productive capacity are other factors of the greatest What are the burdens to borne by our people compared to What is the mortgage on this that we possess.— E. A. Atkinson, Fortnightly Review. LEE IVAN’S FUNERAL. How a Chinaman wal Buried ill a Brooklyn Cemetery. A . , funeral cortege that passed up in Brooklyn toward Eyer greens cemetery was regarded with curi °sity and interest by hundreds of people the on tbe sidewalk, and many of gamins were overheard irreverently ad the occupants of the vehicles, The ^ aces seen at the carriage windows T ere tb3se of Chinamen. A consump Gve Mongolian sat upon the hearse throwing The slips of rice paper into the street. handsome walnut coffin seea hearse through the the glass doors of the bore name Lee Wan upon a silver plate. The deceased was a dealer * n Chinese groceries, a native of the flowery kingdom, but of late years a tenant at No. 4 Mott street. New York, He died of heart disease. The proces sion, after turning through an avenue °* beer saloons and marble-yards, en tered Pid Evergreens cemetery at the same ra pace that had been preserved all the way lrcm the Broadway ferry. The grave was in what may be termed the German quarter of the cemetery. After the Chinamen had alighted and gathered about the narrow pit, several stalwart drivers removed the coffin from the hearse and laid it upon the trestle over the grave, after which two Germansex tons lowered it. Some of the mourners then advanced and tossed in a few liand this of earth, just as Christians do. Then began the curious part of the ceremony. hound Fagots of slow matches were together and planted in a basin of ashes and loose earth at the foot of the jiiavo On being ignited they sent up a fragrant-smoke. Red candles richly decorated with figures in gold, blue and green were placed in a row near the fagots, and quickly burned down to the httle sticks, on the end of which they were fastened. The dead man’s clothes, including for a white shirt, somewhat the worse wear, a freshly laundered col lar and handkerchief, a blue silk blouse and a straw hat were then rolled into a bundle and cremated near the grave, and fche bright-colored and gilded wrap P U1 ? S of ta e candles and slow matches were added to the burning heap. A cocoa-nut mat was then unrolled beside tbe grave, and the Chinamen, coming U P OGe after another, took a formal leave of tbe departed. This was done by clasping cbia the hands, lifting them to the > and letting them drop, repeat in 2 the operation three times. Af ter tb- .s the mourners dropped upon their hands and knees upon the mat, and heads made a triple salaam, bowing their fore¬ close to the earth. Tea was poured from a quaint little pot of blue and white porcelain into minute cups of egg-shell china, and each man, as he bade farewell to the dead, sprinkled a Three spoonful of tea upon the ground, pans of rice, a broiled chicken and a plate of mutton were allowed to 9 tand before the grave for sometime that , the dead might refresh himself man and prepare for his long journey. It is customary to leave these dishes beside the grave, but just before the cortege re turned, a Chinaman whom opium had bleached, bleared and sallowed into the resemblance of a corpse, gave a sus P lc ious glance at certain of the small b °Y s who had gathered about the place, and shuffled them back into a tea box whence ne had taken them. Cigars W(re Passed around, and tben the yellow faces were once more shut up in the carriages, the drivers their mounted to their seats, cracked whips, and the pro¬ cession disappeared rapidly in the dust. Well-Paid Doctors. Doctors with an established practice, that pays well, do not of course,want to be called out at night. These men make it a rule to refuse to go out if they are called. Some of them have a sort of staff of younger men, to whom they turn they overnight calls and others to which cannot attend. But not on the gratis principle. They have an under¬ standing they shall with the younger men that get part of the fee, though they do none of the work. If the fee is three dollars, they take a third; if it is five dollars, they expect two of the five, and so on up the scale. But these are small matters. # We have number of a doctors in New York who never go out for less than ten dollars, and some who demand of twenty to fifty dollars. I have heard of cases where the fee for a single visit was $100, and where operations are performed it is sometimes as high as $500, though doctors these instances are rare. There are in New York whose income runs from $25,000 to $40,000 every year, and they do not work very hard either. Their hard work is ail done before the income grows large. Usually it takes a doctor about ten years to build up a paying practice. He may make a living from the start, but he can’t lay up any money till he has spt ent a de cade in making a place for hi mself in the profession. When the place is once made, all ahead is smooth and easy. On the other hand we have scores of pretty good doctors here in Gotham, who never get ahead at all. They are just as poor and just as fangbehind at fifty or sixty as they were at thirty. But you will find the same kind of men at every calling. They but fill a certain place well enough, can never rise to a higher one, and happen though all their duties, such as they to be, are faithfully performed, they slip out of the world at least with¬ out ranks being missed. Ail the professional are well supplied with such men, and a good many are to be found even in the church. —New York Letter to the Detroit Free Press. Illusive Visions. On the occasion of the fire which de¬ stroyed winter part of the Crystal Palace in the of 18641-7, part of the menagerie ^The had been sacrificed to the flamer. chimpanzee, however, was believed to have escaped from his cage, 'endeavoring and was presentlv save" seen on the roof to himself by clutching in wild despair one of the iron beams which the fire had spared. The struggles of the animal were watched witlT an in tense sympathy curiosity for*the mingled wit horror and awaited the unfortunate supposed fate which the surprise of monkey. What was the spectators of an imminent tragedy to find that the object which in the guise of a terrified ape had excited their *fears, resolved itself into a piece of canvas blind, so tattered, that to the eye of the wind,” imagination and when moved by the it presented the exact counterpart of a struglm** animal! Such an example is of espec ial interest, because it proves to us that not one person alone, but a large number of spectators may be deceived by an ob ject imperfectly sepn—and aided in the illusion by a vivid imagination—into fancying all the details of a spectacle cf which the chief actor is entirely a myth, A singular - case has been °iven on stri<t medical authority of a lady, who. walk ing from Penrhyn to Falmouth—her mind drinking being occupied with the subject of fountains—was certain she saw in the road a inserfftlci: new’v-erected tTy fountain bearing the II man thirst, let him come unto me ana drink.” As a matter of course, she mentioned her interest at seeing such an erection to the daughters of the gentle¬ man who was supposed to have placed the founta'n in its position. They as¬ sured h^r that no such fountain was in existence; but, convinced of the reality of her senses, on the ground that “see¬ ing is believing,” she repaired to the spot where she had seen the fountain, only to find, however, a few scattered stones in place of the expected erection. Journal t “Feel o’ My Pulse.” “Feel o’ my pulse; feel o’my pulse, quick,” looking gasped a he seedy, staggered cadaverous- into the man as Eagle's local room yesterday afternoon. with The city editor eyed him sus¬ picion. and then told one of the reporters to accommodate him. “Find it weak, eh?” whispered like, she thin tramp. “ Find it fluttering eh?” “No,” responded the reporter, “ It seems all right.” “Take my respiration,” moaned the tramp. too,” “That seems to be strong, re¬ marked the reporter, smelling at it cautiously. Fetch of water,” “ me two ounces sighed the tramp. “Fetch me two ounces Haven’t of spring water, quick.” water,” joined “ the got any spring what’s the re¬ reporter; “ matter with you, anyway?” “I’m a faster. Haven’t eaten any¬ thing for forty months and forty ni “Well, what of it? What do you want.” “Hire a hall and have me watched. I’m on my forty-first month and I’m lia¬ ble to eat at any minute unless I’m care¬ fully guarded. Watch me till my time’s “About when will that be?” asked the city editor. “ I’m going a hundred months on a bet with the chief of police. Say, you fel¬ lows want to make some money?” “How?" “Just bet that I don’t do it Bet that you dassent set a meal before me without my cleaning it up in forty seconds, and then set up the grub. You can win any amount you want to.” “ But who are we to bet with?” “Chief of police. Bet with him if you want to win wealth, I tell you.” “He isn’t here.” “That’s so; I forgot that. Bet with me. I can afford to lose. I’ll bet you dassent set a meal before me consisting of steaks, and chops, and turkey, and chicken, and eggs and ham, and mush and milk, and bread and coffee, and hard tack and pie, and pudding and rolls, and bacon and clams and lob¬ sters. Bet you half a dollar. Bet you anything I you like.” “ reckon not. Don’t care to bet.” “ Then I’ll bet yon five dollars I don’t eat it. Bet you either way. I want to lose some money somehow. ’ “ Rather not. Reckon you’d better go away.” “Don’t you want to have me watched in a hall? Big gate money. Divide square. “ No, I Only got sixty months to go.” reckon I won’t touch it. You’d better go somewhere else.” “Let me have a couple o’ ounces o’ water, “ Haven’t spring water?” “Want got it, I told you.” to take my respiration again before I go?” “No, I got all I want.” “Feel o’my pulse once more, just once?” “Get out, will you?” “ Got any old papers you don’t want?” ed “ the Somebody city put this fellow out;”howl editor. “ Haven’t got the San Juan Fernandez Blo w Pipe of three weeks ago Thursday, have you? I want to see the news from heme.” And then he rolled down stairs and picked Icalled himself up in the counting-room. “ for ilie money for that article o’ mine,” he explained to the cashier, “but as it ain’t printed I’ll take four dollars on account. It’s a thing about science, and the man upstairs said it was worth half a hundred. Gimme four cases and I’ll call for the balance.” And then he fell out through the door, and a tall man, dressed in blue, took him up to his friend, the chief of police .—Brooklyn Eagle. A Curious Disease. Under line name of narcolepsy M. Gelineau describes, in the British Medi cal Journal , a rare form of neurosis, characterized by an irresistible desire to sleep, sudden in its onset, lasting but a short time, and occuring at more or less prolonged intervals. Thi 3 neurosis has some analogies with somnolence and catalepsy. It was described for the first time, in 1862, by Doctor Chase, who referred it to a serious and passive con gestion of the meninges and of the brain. The persons suffering from it fall asleep any moment; their sleep lasts for a few minutes, and they then recover their consciousness. The patient whose case is reported by M. Gelineau fell asleep this way four or five times during his dinner, letting his knife and fork fall, and breaking off in the middle of a sentence he was utter ing. Up to the present time the most varied kinds of treatment have failed to give any good result. We have encouu tered two cases of this sleepy disea-e. One was a lieutenant of cavalry in the Confederate army. Before the war he was a dry goods merchant, and since the war he lias returned to his store. His narcolepsy dates from childhood. He is a very fleshy man, of more than average mental strength, and the father of several vigorous children. While selling goods in the midst of a conver¬ sation, and even while drinking a fall whisky toddy, we have known him to asleep. he In a few seconds or mo ment3 would awake, apparently un conscious that he had slept. A Con¬ federate general of great intellect, an enormously obese man, was the second case. If talking when the sleep came on, these gentleman would, on waking, re¬ sume, where they had left off.— Louis¬ ville Medical News. A Stranger In America, Nothing surprises me more tban to see tbe parks of New York, abutting Broadway, without a fence around the greensward. A million unresting feet passed delicate by them, and none trampled on the grass—while in England, board schools put up a prison wall around them, so that the poor children cannot see a flower girl go by in the streets; and the back windows of the houses of mechanics in Lambeth remain blocked up, whereby no inmate can look on a green tree in the palace grounds. In Florence, in Northampton,where the Holyoke mountain looks on the ever winding Connecticut river,as elsewhere, there are thousands of mansions to be seen without a rail around their lawns. Acres of plantations lie uninclosed be¬ tween the beautiful houses, where a crowd of wanderers might rest unchal¬ lenged. sky. In and watch mountain, river and derer England, down if an indignant wan¬ sat on house ground or way side, the probability is a policeman would come and demand what he wanted, and the relieving officer would suggest to him that he had better pass on to his own parish. Every man in America feels as though he owns the country, because the charm of recog¬ nized equality and the golden chances of . ownership have entered his mind, He is proud of the statues and public buildings. The great rivers, the track ies3 praries, the regal mountains, all seem his. In America, there is no crown, and the people are kings, and they know it. I had not landed on the American shores an hour before I be came aware that I was in a new nation, animated by a new life which I had never seen .—Nineteenth Century. Our people are putting in the winter’s supply of coal, and we observe that those who have the greatest number of grown-up daughters are Transciipt. buying the most fuel.— Middletown A Gorgeous Festival. A gorgeous festival at Venice was tne marriage of the city to the Adriatic sea. It was celebrated every year on Ascension day, and this, too, had its origin in an historical event. In A.D. 1170, Pope Alexander III. was driven from Rome by the Emperor Bar barossa, or Red-beard, and he took refuge in Venice, where he was received with great respect and affection. The emperor demanded that the republic should give him up; but the request was refused. Barbarossa then sent a fleet of seventy five galleys, under the command of his son, Otho, with orders to destroy all that came in their way. The Doge had only forty galleys; but he was an expert seaman, and drove the emperor’s fleet off the coast and took Otho prisoner. After this battle, peace was made, and Frederick consented to come to Venice to be reconciled to the pope. To reward the Venetians for their ser¬ vices the pope bestowed on them the sovereignty of the Adriatic sea, and presented the Doge with a ring, saying: “Receive this as a symbol of your sovereignty, and celebrate your espous¬ als with the sea every year.” This fete holiday. on Ascension The day was a universal poor and the rich put on their gayest dresses and went to witness the marriage of the Doge with the sea. The bells of the city rang from the daybreak their thronged most joyful gondolas chimes, ornamented canals were with ban¬ with ners. In one of the largest harbors, called La Piazzetta. was anchored a vessel, called the “Bucentaur,” which belonged to the Doge. The crew were chosen from among the strongest and handsomest of the Venetian seamen. The prow of the ship was gilded and ornamented with figures, and in the center was a crimson-velvet tent em¬ broidered wit h gold, above which floated the flag of San Marco. When the hour of noon sounded the door of the church was thrown open and a grand procession moved forth. First came eight standard-bearers with the flags of the republic in red, blue, white and violet, and six men with sil¬ ver trumpets; then came the officers in the service of the Doge, dressed in their state robes. Next followed the musicians, and a deacon carrying a large wax taper sent by the pope, and men Doge. bearing The the throne and cushions of the city magistrates made part of the procession, and, lastly, the Doge mantle himself, in his ducal robes, his of ermine fastened with gold buttons, his robes of blue and cloth of gold; of his Venice, head covered with the ducal cap over which was a crown The of gold sparkling with precious stones. procession advanced slowly up the quay and’embarked on the “ Bucentaur,” with the admiral of the - Venetian fleet at the helm. As they’ - drew up the anchors all the bells in the city poured forth their most joyful sounds. The large vessel went slowly on, surrounded by filled numerous with people barges and gondolas, After all the fleet had advanced gayly dressed. distance some into the Adriatic, the Doge rose from his throne, walked to the prow of the ves¬ sel on a raised gallery, and threw into the blue waves a gold ring, saying: “We espouse thee, Oh, Sea, in sign of real and perpetual sovereignty.” Then the Doge and his suite attended service in the church of San Nicolas on an¬ other island, called Lido, and the fleet returned to Venice, where the grand personages attended a sumptuous repast at the ducal palace.— SI. Nicholas. A Mongol Encampment. first A correspondent in China says: At a glimpse a Mongol encampment ap¬ pears to be a collection of gigantic ant hills with smoke issuing from the tops. As we get nearer, the forms of human beings, of a multitude of camels, dogs, sheep and ponies are visible. The Mon £°, ls have an Instinctive knowledge of ^ I s f° found. A pure, moa n tain br °ok was running at tb e ba9e of tbe u L w j ie re tbc ^. Gts were ffitclied. ( . A . beautiful . stretch . ot pasture } and upon winch the animals were graz lay at our met Our approach to tent ofths cbl f was heralded by the deep growls and barking of the dogs, Wli ° soon brought out the occupants to ^certain who the intruders were. Our guide informed the man that we were traveling to could Suchowfoo on service, and asked if we rest ourselves Hos being one of the few virtues a Mongol possesses, we. were speedily welcomed. Hie t nt into which we f a ^® d wsa composed of a frame of light trellis work, covered with thick felt, madc from.goat s hair, circular in form, a conical shaped roof. A hole in * he roo f le t out the smoke from the argol dre w l lC . i\ u bl ? ra ? al day ir the ceater of ’ “ the tent. At night this - aperture is . closed. The door is about five feet high, and cannot be entered without stooping. In diameter the rent is fifteen feet. A piece of felt hanging serves to close the en trance at night. No seats were visible, so, who squatting on the ground, our guide, wished spoke something Tangutan, asked us if we glimpse of the dirty to vessels eat. lying Catching a around us, we deemed it advisable to use our own tin plates and cups, Their usual which method they of cleansing their wooden cups, carry upon their persons, is to scrape them with their linger nails, while the plates are cleansed with the tongue as a dog licks a platter. A large iron pan was over the fire,together with a teakettle, which is boiling all day, an l from which we drank to our host. Into the large pan one of the women poured some sour milk, and taking a handful o barley meal stirred it with her finger until the mass became the consistency of pa3te. We, on our part, produced some cold mutton, which, with the por ridge, proved acceptable. A Joke on the Custom House Officers, A number of New York and Brooklyn officials were nicely sold a short time the ago. Among the cargo discharged from nerio, steamship Gienlogan, from RioJa were three mysterious-looking packages. No one came to claim them, and the custom house officer in whose charge they were, took off the wooden cover of one of them, when a printed circular in Portuguese appeared, which, with the exception of one word, was That wholly unintelligible to the officer. word was “ dynamite.” A thrill of horror ran through the officer and th persons standing near as soon as they ascertained what the packages held, and they soon put a safe distance between the explosive and themselves. The custom house persons in turn notified the police, the police gave the dreaded packages a wide berth, and after much negotiation placed and trouble they were finally on the custom house d^ek and the fire department authorities in¬ | formed. For two days and nights a fireman’s guard watched the dangerous stuff, and at last the packages were gently carried to the nitro-giy cerine depot off tbe Jersey flats. Witn all this shifting of the backages no explosion fortunately took place, and everybody was thankful. That it did not happen is due to the fact made plain by the eon signee, who at last put in an appearance, that the dangerous packages than contained’nothing quantity more a of insect powder, which the circular stated “ to be as ifficacious as dynamite.” The truth of the matter has just leaked cut, after the “narrow escape ” of the Gien¬ logan Had been telegraphed all over the country, and New York was in a broad grin at the joke. If I Were a Little Baby I III were a little baby I know what I’d like to do: I'd nealle in mamma’s arms, And dimple, and laugh, and coo; I’d never try to bo brilliant I’d never wish to be wise, But I’d look at you all so fondly With a pair of big brown eyes. I d tumble in papa’s whiskers With a dear little pink-tipped hand. And speak to little sister In a way she’d understand; And whenever a brother came near me With something sweet to say, I’d show him how much I loved him In my own little baby way. N o matter how dark the weather, No mattor how rain might fall f cl be like a bit of sunshine. lo brighten and cheer you all; And if mamma should ever bo wean,-, Or tired and fretted with pain, I d help to make her forget it, And warm her heart again. I’d be such a perfect darling With my innocent, smiling lace, So dimpled, and sweet,and precious, So full ot delight and grace, So near God's beautiful angels That I’d bring you near them, too— And I think I know a baby Who is just like this—don’t yon? — M. E. B. in the Wideawake. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The poet Tennyson is seventy-one years of age. A letter goes over one post route, a telegram over a route of many posts. Ashland, Henry Clay’s Kentucky homestead, has been rented at $8 pet acre. A London magistrate sent a man to prison for three months for cutting off a cat’s tail. It is an old adage that the tongue cannot be easily bridled. But it is easily bit. The Nova Scotia gold mines are said to have produced more than $6,000,000 in eighteen years. There are some men so talkative that nothing but the toothache can make one of them hold his jaw. When a man and woman are made one it is usually the man. Sometimes the fight is long and severe, however.— Rochester Express. have Twenty-twoof less the thirty-eight States city, and fifteen population than New York States have a less popu¬ lation than Philadelphia. Thomas Sherlock, of Bedford, Ind.. killed a spotted snake in his garden that measured six feet seven inches in length and four inches in diameter. A murderer under sentence of death was Texas. baptized by immersion at Dallas, stood During the ceremony holding the sheriff on the shore a rope at¬ tached to the prisoner. He was sitting in the parlor with her when a rooster crowed in the yard, and leaning over he said: “ Chanticlear.” “I wish to gracious you would,” she said, “ I’m sleepy as J can be.” He took his hat and left, and hasn’t been back since. A Western reporter records the fact that the defeated candidate “ took his way to the train, wrapped in gloom and new store clothes. The gloom was an elegant fit, but the store clothes were too short in fche legs and very baggy around the shoulders.” Another battle was fought in South America last week. It lasted two hours, and then a truce was asked for and granted to look after the wounded, be¬ cause an awkward fellow in one of th 1 armies had dropped his musket on BQ friend’s corn .—Oil City Derrick. ations Poker-playing ot is one of the recre¬ Americans on the ocean steamers, and the captains not unfre quently take a hand. Sometimes the play is for very high stakes. Tho gvatuituous distribution of claret on the steamers of one of the lines cost $25,000 a year. circus Chicago now exacts $250 for every $50 performance given in that city, a day for each side show, and $25 for the concert in the teat after the regular entertainment. Thus a circus open afternoon and evening, with say five side shows, must pay $675 daily into the citv treasury. Curious are the means of self-defense with which animals and insects are pro¬ vided. A butterfly, when apprehend¬ ing shrub danger, never lights on a green tree or but iiies into a clump of dead leaves, where it so adjusts its wings on a twigs, leaf, as to look exactly like a shiveled and defies discovery by its foe. The death rate per thousand in foreign cities, at last reports,is as follows: Mon¬ treal, 21.5 in 1,000: Havana, 60.9; Queenstown, Ireland, 41.7; Dublin, 30; Liverpool, Frankfort, 25.8; Paris, 25.5; Berlin, 52; hagen, 18.7; Brussels, 19.8; Copen¬ 29.6; Cadiz, 23.2; Rome, 26.6; Stockholm, 100.9; Calcutta, Spain, 44.3: Langier, Mo¬ rocco, 19.7. Harris county, Georgia, contains many 3nakes. A gentleman living near Hamilton killed sixteen grown mocca¬ sins within a few hundred yards of one another. Another person killed an old moccasin and left it on the Hillside. On his return a few minutes afterward he counted thirty-four little snakes crawl¬ They ing around and over the large snake one’s are supposed Lo have been the old young. In England the cost of raising a bushel of wheat is in round figures $1.50 From a number of records kept in Min¬ nesota and Kansas the average cost per bushel, counting all material, labor and j? bve lteres cents f on per investment, bushel. was Allowing about lorty- forty e •cents for carrying the wheat to Eng laad , tbe ca) sc would be ninety delivered. * Those cents and speak for figures are significant themselves, An exchange drives the following of remedy for earache: Take a small piece cotton wool, make a depression in the center and fill it with pepper; gather ft into a ball and tie it up; dip it into sweet oil and insert it in the ear. In¬ stant relief will follow. Another remedy is to dip a Chinese firecracker in nitric acid, put the cracker in tbe aching ear and explode it. The acid will prepare the ear for tue fireworks.— Picayune. It is exactly a, half century since the first locomotive was built in the United States the first which were used being imported. The locomotive in question, a upright queer looking, trunkless affair, with boiler, no cab, six inch inclined cyunder of sixteen inch stroke and four driving V wheels, was constructed at tbe esfc Point foundry. It was named the “ Best Friend of Charleston,” and ship¬ ped there by sea October, IS30, for use on the Charleston and Hamburg rail¬ On the other side of Jordan is the town of Salt, ascertained to be the ancient Ramoth Gileand, containing a population of about 8,000 nominal Christians and Mohometans. There are upwards of 1,800 vineyards Jin this town and neighborhood, and also large fields of corn land. It is a singular fact, a? credibly reported, that these people know nothing of intoxicating dnnks, and make their grapes into meat cabed honey and a kind of a sweet¬ milban.