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ONE-HALF IFAS BLACK.
A worthless way was Philo Freer,
vagabond ho did acute and queer,
w as little as he couid
To earn a seamy livelihood.
A laujihinjf, luckless, lazy lout,
xx no hunted, tished and loafed about,
“r ran on errands for his bread—
XX ho never had a cent ahead—
A lieiny of that curious kind
’1 h - traveler will always find
On coming- to a country town,
Before the tavern, sitting down.
One day a showman passed that way,
XV hose name was Eppanetus Bray—
Au easy-going sort of man,
Who traveled with a “caravan”—
Beneath Exhibiting where’er he went,
A two-legged a dusky horse, canvas tent
A woman wilh wondrous three-legged hen,
a wen,
A Tartar girl with fourteen toes,
That balanced bottles on her nose,
A dwarf that danced an Irish jig,
A snake and educated pig;
And other things as rare and strange,
By which he shrewdly gained his change
Great things from little nothings grow.
Like “ Bray’s Behemoth Moral Show.”
One sultry day, Freer, meeting Bray,
Said to him, in a solemn way:
■“ 1 saw about a mouth ago
A splendid subject for your show—
The A great attraction I you'll admit
A moment have told of it;
man whose face was one-fialf black,
And I can put you on his track.
And will, it you will promptly pay
A double X to mo to-day.”
** Agreed,” the anxious Bhowman cried.
The Then, follow me,” the rogue replied.
By by-ways money paid. Through highways mean,
Freer narrow and unclean—
led the way till Bray began
To wonder where they'd find their man.
At last Freer paused, and, with a leer.
He said to Bray: “ Behold him here!”
Tho showman gazed from where he stood,
And saw a negro sawing wood.
•* You see,” said Freer, with accent keen.
Both haloes are, b'aik and you are green.”
—Eugene J. Hall, in Chicago Inter Ocean.
Time.
Human ingenuity cannot make time.
It can only invent methods of measuz
ing the When hours and minutes as they
pass. the earth was young,
shadows cast by sun-beams noted the
passing sun-dial, hours. From these sprang xvhile the the
which answered
sun shone, but failed while the sky was
cloudy. dra Then water-clocks, or clepsy¬
1 , as they arc By technically known,
came into use. these, Athenian
orators were wont to time their
Speeches two thousand years ago. After
the water-clock came the hour-glass of
running sand, and for three hundred
years this was the common method of
measuring time. Even fifty years ago
it was employed in churches to inform
“the elder” when he had preached
enough. Meantime, various rude forms
of clocks had been constructed, but
none of much use. Not until the in¬
vention of the pendulum in the middle
of the sexrenteenth century, and its ap¬
plication to clocks, did they become re¬
liable. The clocks and wretches of to¬
day are so numerous and cheap, that
nearly every schooi-boy can afford to
carry' a “time-piece.” let all the
clocks and xvatches in tho world cannot
| te’.l xvith the the time They of day merely unless show regulated the
sun.
| amount of passing time. The sun
' Bhow's what time whether
it is, morn¬
ing, noon or night • made
Strange mistakes are often by
, -of relying travelers, solely on clock-time. A party their
• through not long ago, were Arriving on
Way xvest Arizona.
they at Yuma at surprised eight o’clock, railroad the dining- time,
were to find
room clock indicating an hour earlier.
-Still more were they surprised, after
■ having Itnu leisurely euiuurklilg eaten again, breakfast, Unit R to
u on was
but six o’clock. Strange, they thought;
-arrive at eight: breakfast at seven; and
leave at six! Two hours gain! But the
clocks xvere right. The first kept Jeffer
son City, Mo., time; the second was
Yuma time; and the last was San Fran
-cisco time.
t Places east and west of each other
cannot have tlie same time Only those
directly north andsouth are thus favored
Could a man continually 7 travel around
he earth, keeping with the sun. ho
r might live his allotted space of “three
f .ore years and ten” writhiri a single
day, for the sun would never rise or set
to him. It would always be day. Yet He
even then he could not make time.
! could the not prolong his life, The nor only gixre to
world more hours. way
■ to make time is to make use of it, every
j moment as it comes. Time once gone
is time gone forever, whether the clock
says so or not.— Youth's Companion.
Lay a Fainting Person Down.
----
l It is surprising liow even-body rushes
him at a fainting up, and especially'to person and strives keep his to raise head
| .erect, iheremus.be an instinctive
I ajipiehens.on that if a peison seized
I) With a tainting or other fit tall into the i
recumbent position death is more im
minent 1 must l.ate driven a mi e to
I L is i
I ind apparently dving, and I believe i
! hat if she l would had delayed really have ten died. minutes I j i
i onger aid her head down lower level !
on a
I h«„ ho.lv. ,„.l i.umodljtelj- j
!■ JESS'I i
toup Ser of friends J said- Ahvav- fSn- ro
this fuet-m mel-- is
ef au“-d !<v •• w-.nt o blood’ in the brain- St
ef heart ceases ,o act with mffic •
to send the usual fin amount
' blood “Ihe to & the coSdiumo.l and '
[terson i
cause the function of the brain
' Restore the blood the brain
3 ases. to
I id ,nnl instantly ^ the person recovers Now :
»®o h tioLttr,
in.ii- stfn K,- tlm nf tin !
, w 'tvs it is Gravitation under tofinenee “he nMhe
of In erect posi- i I
, n the” blood asiends to the lie td i
ra nst oravi’ation and the supply to
e brain* diminished as compared
ith the recumbent i.o-ition the heart’s
dsation be n %ittin" equal who4 If then vou
a<-e a person beat” heart has
arly ceased t < his brain will fail
rece've blood while if vou lav him
ItiweimlKlioL wn w-tli the bead lower than the "y
. 1 - *l .htt iMtmontif
•
restored v theJ-Ve the recumbent thro^i S' i)o«i
'jTrna n toto wh eh 3 . are thrown.-■/«..
lJourna
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- •w few , people , are strong enough ,
i
What Shall Fanners Eat ?
The home departments of the agri¬
cultural papers have of late been criti¬
cising living, tlie and farmers on their manner of
giving them much advice in
regard to what they shall eat, tlie larg
est portion being a diatribe against fat
pork, till the reader, not acquainted
with farmers, would suppose that this
was tlieir principal living. We do not
propose to enter tlie into any hygienic ar¬
guments as to relative values of va¬
rious foods for producing strength and
health, but the xvriter hereof knowing
something of the habits of farmers and
their families, is moved to say that on
their tables will be found, on an average,
food as wholesome and as well pre¬
pared as on those of any class of people
we have; and there is no occasion for
xvasting any sympathy on them, for
they are the healthiest, strongest, and,
statistics show, the longest lived of any
class or occupation considering their
numbers.
farmer’s The voluntary diet pork advisers and say that and the
of potatoes
beans brings dyspepsia and its evils;
which would be very correct if it xvere
true; fortunately it is not, and from a
large that acquaintance this with farmers ails them. we can
say is not xvliat
One writer says: Farmers eat too
much fat meat and too little green food
to sustain the system in a proper condi¬
tion. Give a Frenchman or a German a
head of lettuce, a couple of hard boiled
eggs, with vinegar, salt and pepper, and
a loaf of bread, xvith a cup of coffee, and
he will fare more sumptuously than an
American upon roast meat of any kind.”
Now xve know what ails these French
men. Such a combination of oil, salt,
pepper and vinegar is enough to kill
them. Ask any hard-working rake farmer and
how much wheat a man could
bind on such a dinner. Another of
these hygienic writers says. “Lettuce
and onions mixed together, with only
salt, vinegar, pepper and a little sugar,
can be served at any time, with good ef¬
fect upon the health of the family.” and If
raw onions with salt, vinegar pep¬
per will not produce dyspepsia, there other is
no need to call in fat pork or any
food found on farmers’ tables. People
should remember that there is much of
truth in the adage: “ What is one man’s
meat may be another's poison, 1 5 The
farmer, strong, active, hard-working
and and always needs it, in the open fat air, eats His meat di¬
even meat.
gestive organs are strong also, and he
knows nothing of dyspepsia. Long
days and hard work, even in summer,
exhaust the muscular system, and good
substantial food is required to supply
the waste. This light green fodder is
good article as food an appetizer, will but as but the main
of not answer, eaten
extensively will weaken rather than
strengthen the hard worker, while tlie
condiments are to be used as little as
possible.
When xve see recomendations to
food, farmers to eat reminded only light vegetable
we are of a story xve
once hired read of a farmer xvho and kept going his
man on short rations,
out one day to tho hay field saw him
mowing languidly and singing this re¬
frain:
“ Buttermilk and whey; faint all day.”
The farmer concluded he would
change his rations and gave him a sub¬
stantial breakfast tlie next day. On
going out to the field lie saw him
swinging his scythe with great energy,
and this time singing to last time.
“Ham and eggs; take care of yur legs.”
And this represents pretty fairly to
the worker the difference in the two
classes of diet.
The horseman who demands the
longest drives and the heaviest work
from his teams feeds them on cured hay
and old oats. Tlie groom never feeds
the racer or trotter on new oats, no
matter how fine they arc, till they have
been threshed for weeks and become
well dried and hard.
But the question may be fairly asked:
What shall the farmer eat? We will
SMM23?: o^tli'atontoe's/stem^ 1 rSKfe f thlS
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the The summer farmer months. doe l his l In VdV the f eat very wor J heat ' m
of dog days lie works hardest, and tor
that very reason needs good substantial
food. He cannot afford to waste any
strength little in digesting a large quantity
to get a nutriment; nor is it eon
dncive to health. Most hard-working
people need meat; well fattened,
nicely; cooked fat pork m moderate
quantities will not be hurtful. Mutton
should be used more extensively bv the
farmer. With the ice box which many
STifS
can exchange into° with each other ami
divide smaller portions. Well
cured ham—boiled is the best—with
e^cry Sr,..” makes 4- a -? o-ood foundation -a,P, for a dav
•"* 1,1 and
fruit3 in t,ieir season—green, never—
cooked or uncooked. Groeu corn and
that class of food daily if desired in its
^ason. but alwavs in'modulation.
Although in many ]a< k farmers oi !nct are ; open the
tocri ti-'«® P™ 'i
«*«-*. and M, winter IMt asking Jtt too for
8n,n ®er use. it ,s
much to require them to make these
their sole diet.
The substanthil farmer who fowl, gives his trying laborers
good not to
routine them to mush and milk for
breakfast and green sa’ad lor dinner,
wi:1 S et the best who day’s work from them. ami
The farmer eats roast beef
bath and fat pork, and who does takes a daily
in the summer, not over
work in the hot days, may not expect to
rcueh above threescore and ten, but the
yeare will he full of labor, and he will
leave behind him a farm well tiiled.—
totroit Post and Tribune.
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omtiI aioion ’question lmt there is no statute ease” <ror
™4t ernin"- the murdeJ in criminal obfectto^'waS In
a i ace,it.murde rt trial :r {" Uio
w^n atheist * and thTrefore tK his
wu hfS-SSrt not admissab'e S AnoeaET The
What Petroleum Is.
The casual visitor to the Pennsylvania
ed region, as he views the greasy lluid
gushing from its rich reservoirs, two
thousand feet below the surface, finds
himself involuntarily ashing the primal and
question, Where does it come from,
how and where was it formed? A pnz
zling question, surely, and, if propound- thorough
ed to any competent and
ee geologist, would only elicit a shake of
head, and the brief reply that he
didn’t know. But however careful the
scientitic man may be about advancing
a theory that the discoveries of to-mor
row may knock higher than a kite, the
average Yankee never allows a conun
drum of this kind to be propounded to
him without making one or more at
tempts at guessing it. The difficult
question of the origin prolific of petroleum mind has big
not seemed to his too
to be grappled with, and at present two
popular theories exist each in regard which to this has
interesting subject, of
its strenuous advocotes.
The first of these theories holds that
the rock in which the oil is now found is
the parent rock in which it originated.
The Pennsylvania oil rocks are a series
of sand rocks of varying thickness, scat
noithwestern tered somewhat irregularly the State, over and the
part of
prolific in oil at depths below the surface
varying from five hundred to two thou
san d feet. Originally they were depos
ited by the action of water, either as
long stretches of sea-beach or immense
sand-bars formed by eddying advocates and
whirling currents. The of
the parent-rock theory maintain that
along with this saud was deposited or
ganie vegetable or animal matter, which,
by the chemical action of the succeeding
ages, has been transformed into oil and
gas, and kept stored in these hermetic
ally-sealed reservoirs until the searching
drill of the enterprising hidden oil-operator
should penetrate its chambers
and bring busy”world. it forth to light “ an inquiring
and
In confirmation of this theory deposits, its
advocates point to the coal
which originated are now generally considered deposit of to
have from a vast
vegetable matter which grew and
decomposed for ages, and then, by tho
combined action of heat and enormous
pressure, were packed away in solid
masses to provide the future fuel for
the world. A chemical analysis of the
two articles, coal and petroleum, dis
closes the fact that they contain nearly
the same elemental ingredients, in
slightly different proportions, perhaps, real
but practically the same, the only
difference consisting in the fact that
one is now a solid and the
other a fluid. As the oil is
found at a distance of from one thou
sand to two thousand feet below tho
prolific coal measures, and, if deposited
along with the sand rock in which it is
now found, must be many ages older
than the coal deposits, period it is argued that
the immensely longer since its
original deposit, and the higher tern
perature to which it is subjected by its
greater depth below the surface, may
easily account for the chemical action
necessary to make it a fluid instead of a
solid, as in the case of coal.
The second and that more generally petroleum ac- '»
cepted theory is the
formed by the constant distillation of
gas from the nndortying oarbonaceous
shales of the Silurian period, which in
the Pennsylvania oil region depth are sup
posed subjected to lie at high a sufficient and be
to a temperature to
be constantly generating gases. If this
theory is accepted, the conditions neces- de
sary for the formation of petroleum
posits are three-told, hirst, a geological
horizon deep enough below the surface
to generate gases by the operations of
internal heat; second, a horizon of
proper temperature for the purposes of
condensation, and third, a reservoir for
stonng the condensed petroleum. I he
advocates of this theory claim that these
lower shales lie at the proper depth to
fin the first of these conditions, and that
the gas thus generated, being very light
tbeoveriying rocks until it reaches
[brim, according to developments made
by.the drill, vanes in distance from five
hundred to two thousand feet below the
surface. The third condition is fulfilled
according to this theory by these sand
roc ks, condensation rvhicb, lying and within being the of horizon
ot a porous
nature, hold the condensed petrnlrnm
as a sponge holds water. These rocks
are hermetically sealed at the top by
i mperv ^ i 0UH shell, which prevents
r .- ter porti ons of the oil and ga- fr „n
\ e ^ in g to the surface until this ihe 1 is
when it »■ forth with astom-hing
1 gu dies
force. If this theory is correct, then in
is all constantly probability the operation, process of though formation
in pro
f iw .beimmen,,
The mllSbv advocate* of rtSeme“^h#t this theory fortify
the tl.e ‘ the
t - Z2,ilT^ f jp. v j )n noir^und , ail ro ( . ks j,, extend^over which the
I'n LlTdeal flil o? trritorv in which the
f "‘j to find o l and th ^roi! if the
h
ctnn -producing matter along with these
sulne deposits were true then the oil
should , be found . wherever . the 4 , rock , is .
i : found. rock On exist the where contrary, t here they are no elsnn^the under
may produce the petroleum
lying shales to overlying be
ga«es, or the strata may
upheaved to such an extent that the
ga-es vertical mave«cane figures and to the thus surface mingle through h
wi
the atmosphere and be lost. In proof
a f this they cite the fact that no oil has
i#, en di covered evtward of the line
which marks the beginning of tlie A lie
nnheavil and that the vertical
farther fact that no oil has been ais
covered at a dep’h exceeding fire bun
''-ed feet below sea level, althonehthe
.“tl has penetrated and’succeeded fa^ greater deoths
bn many instances in
tapoing the petroleum ga«e«. They
a/ gue from this that if the gases are
jst*, and this is to be found only within
the limits above described. The in
q U j ry i-i full of interest to the inquisitive
nl 'uui, and we simply present to the
readers of The Times these two popu
]ar theories for what they are worJi,
without comment or expressed opinion,
—Philadelph ia Times.
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Japanese Mowers.
1 he peony m . the . stoltrd , of , . beauty, .
a® applied to the °® f “ r ***
m Japan No hxgher compliment can
«an her to a offer peony. ‘: t V. a The Japanese > csOTiapare do not
a glance and turn auay from their
tovonte flow, but w U «t far boms
contemplating not only them a ^.rdl time toynahng display. them, They
they give induigembiMsfulm
bnt appear to
mum template is a their so found beauties. here in The great ch^santht- variety,
and °J. a11 0 ^ ades °f color nnd^of enorm
» ns dimensions. The chrybaathemum
display in Toluo every year w ono if
the notable incidents of the season, and
» s visited from far and near. To be de
P«ved of this pleasure is one of the
’.'a 10 ® of bfe.. The iris is also found in
& reat ' profusion, attaining a size and
beauty unknown elsewhere. The van
et y of shades and form of flower is
almost end ess. Li lies are li lies here
putting it beyond the^ Iwastiug of *ny
o her land to equal them, ftimell as
attain the dimensions oi forest trees,
faring such a wealth of flowers that
with hesitation one won d dare to t
tempt to state, approximately, the thous
ands that may seen upon one tree. One
could as well number the blossoms on
an apple tree. The harmony of color
that is so noticeable m eyervthing tl e
Japanese make or wear _isreo doi“ bt
result of constant association with their
beautiful flowers. There must 1
[arge sale for the different flowers
their season as there are numbers of
P lant peddlers constantly perambt
m g tbe streets with different varicdies m
pote, or m covenngs for the pnitec
f, lon of their roots. At night, al g
the year, there are exposed forsaleion
the streets large <soil“
axe flower. cut floors There are offered no b, for e sde Jers on the nor
afreets. The great passion aPP®ar ®
b® to 806 the “ growing and atmehed
the mother plant. About the. 2ffih of
April roses are in bloom. The io. e
be8n abroad T f and finds aeon genial home here.
' 3 * ‘
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“Stranger, I tako it,” observed an
elderly resident the other day, as I
stopped and asked if there were anv
blackberry trees around his way. ‘‘I
jedged so. I was a stranger myself the
when I fust kim here. That was in
summer of ’49. Hottest summer ever
known in these than parts.” this?” I asked him.
“.Any f-'uinmut, warmer sunimut! That
“ summer
0 f ’49 the cedar trees melted and run
right along the ground! you notice how
red that ere dust is.”
“Pretty warm,” 1 ventured.
“Why, sir, dufin’ the summer of’49
we kept meat right on the ice to keep
it from cookin’ too fast, and we had to
pu t th - chickens in refrigerators to get
raw “ Where eggs!” did you get the ice?”
“Wo had it ieft over and kept it in
biiin water! Yes sir. The tempera
tun iff oilin’ wale' was so much Jownr
than the temneniture of the atmosphere couldn
that it kep’ the ice so cold you t
touch it with your l ngei.
“Anything else startling that sea^
son •• ;” J bat summer of 49? Well, I
guess! I he Hackensack and River ltd began
to In e an ly in June, w, tv.
the sky until October, tor the steam in
the air! find fisli! fish! 'I hey were
droppin’ all over town cooked just os
you wanted cm! There dried. wasn up!” t anything
but I’sh, until the river
“ W hat did you have then?
“’Jhe finest oysters and clams you
ever heard of. They walked drink right
ashore for water, and they’d demijohn! Yes, up
sLsr* plcjack right out of the
h " l! 1 “ 1110 “
“What is your business?” I asked
“ I’ «n a preacher’’ he replied^ “By
the way, you wanted blackberry side trees
Just keep up the thumb hand or
th is load until you come to the P'8
pasture, and there you find the trees.
Lbmb up on my goose roost, and you
I ‘’an knock down all the berries you
; want, it \ oi l can find anolelom/enou rti.
M I5,,w „. b> L-l<’h ,, , Irogs.
i The Washino-ton Star thus tells how K
fr , tr the P« omac
I ! of eateton.r them is to drift
.m
swamps which line the 1 otomae and its
creeks w.th a bull s eye dark lantern,
MMien tl.e frogs t egm their loud, gut-
1 feral < onyereat.on w th each other, the
j el Z“”i 1
! ly lie upon the frog, completely which appears to bavo
' « cot of pandyz’ng h-m.
I Once tlie ligiit strikes Uiem themselves they are
immovable, and will si.: er
I to be bagged without a murmur. One
expert ,',k slated to a Star reporter that he
t, . M fm. old r loo
in Hunting Creek, but a an.l big nim^asin
sm.ke struck out lorl.im, m get-mg
away [ he lost time of tin m. J he frogs
arc )art C i.larly plump this year, and
.
tl eir saddles fi-mb r as s uab meal.
_ An Iowa Quakerknew full well that
h e would be made the recipient embarked of a
vj ,, wrou8 t . b arnari when he
;1 -i; 0lis w a of matrimony, so he
amiI1£r ,; d a dozi , n h ves of able-bod ed
b e<'« along the portico, near wh en he
I kliew j| 1(; serenade!s would con e. He
nmrr icd then. The serenade came, as
j,e evpe ted. Lean ng out of liis bed-
1 room window, he ,v! upset the bee hives
an.ll,»Oywitl,.I re -Tl.on, ,Wt
| —A jeweler has long dunned ; lady
. a
of fashion for the amount of hi# big bilf
; but in vain. When he rinsn. the beU
the footmen says politely but firmly :
“Sir, the Ouutess only receive* on
Tuesdays.” “ I don’t care wh-n she
ss£si’«s
Letters of Introduction.
People who write letters of introduc¬
lion should be careful how thev word
them. A merchant of this city, who
knows more about invoices than elegant
diction, was asked by a wealthy resident
to give him a letter of introduction to a
capitalist stopping over in the city and
with whom the merchant was acquaint¬ the
ed yyhen the missive was ready
^ gentleman took it and, ’. instead of send¬
lt to the 8tran er and waiting
liverpd t;u hc himself,following reqUGsted to see him, he heels de
it ’ f on the
f h 8ervant wh 0 nshero him in. He
always p i a i„-looking semi-respectable man and busi- his
dreis j s r a
ness suitf a nd as ho ^obtrusively
handed the letter to the stranger, who
was reclining at his ease, he waited anx
io ^ l t0 .^ open the business about which
fae (1 ed
H(]t the ]fitter b egan w ifc!i the usual
formula> .iq' bo bearer of this,” and the
capita J„ ji st rftad that far, ^patiently;-‘My folded it up, re
t ed itf and 8aid>
* ( m j can real , do nothing for
nQ dmlU it » tb e old slotv-Urge
tami ly._been unfortunate, etc.; lmt you
)n nst excuse to-dav, me from really giving must!” you any
thing you ensued, and the cha
Explanations had good lauph two the
mGn a over
affair, ’ and the capitalist ^ ordered liquid „lore
refres hment8i w would cl , c03t nluch been which
than the charity have
h d;d , fc propose Granger. t0 bestow on the un¬
/()rU]nate
a more annoying mistake occurred to a
youn g mftR> t h e nephew of a well-known
fr ew York official, who went to a town
th0 inter -, or 0 { lbe State to idle away
a vacation in fishing and hunting. Pre
vious to his departure his uncle remem
h(>rpd l)ulJt the clergyman e f the place
v ,s an old college friend, and he gave
,, young B man a line of introduction,
whjoh he dutifully took> but did not in .
; n tend to present. The clergyman,
however J ’ had a very /bethought pretty daughter,
a the oung ma him of
h{g j e tt er and armed with it made a raid
QQ tho parsonas , e where the pretty
daughter * entertained him charmingly in
J , r , J while tho servant took the
let r to tI e fRther . In a few moments
word wag gent down t h a t the roverend
KOn f t’oman excused himself from receiv
ng his visitor . The daughter hastened presumed
there was a mistako, and to
hor father, * only J to be Informed that Iiis
resolutlon wg infloxib i e _ho had laid
the letter away—and he would give no
further explanation, but the young man
must be peremptorily dismissed, and
the mortification of the visitor at this
unexpected rebuff may be imagined, but lie
He wrote at once to his uncle, as
was absent from home for a week did
not got an answer. He received occasionally only
met the young and lady, but uncle’s letter a
cool bow, at last the
camo. He was highly indignant at the
slight put on his nephew, and demanded
of his old friend the reason. The bewil
dered theologue read the letter sent for
the young man, apologized, and said:
“I suppose it was a joke of your un
ole’s, but I must say it was in extremo
]y bad taste, and—I took it literally—
here is his first note,” and he read slow
ly through his glasses these words:
^[uietfer °*\li tntroauoo one! mv nephew. lie
u, a tramp. Treat turn as ute.
Yours, etc.
But th0 daugh tor reached out and
took the paper . “Let mo read it; there
must be some mistako; your read eyes fol- are
not good, papa,” and she as
lo ws : ’
^X^t^Vtntroduce my nephew. He
i 8a trump. Treat him as oae t etc.
“Well, well,” said the old gentleman,
laughing merrily, “why don’t people
write more plainly, and how was I to
know the difference?”
But the young lady evidently aul.—
Detroit Tost and Tribune.
~
Agricultural Economics.
Tho nrnflt of the future is to come In
^jgXon^eTvie^, Soussh^e competition ^fosf'first waxes
of ripened the hay woodinoss in
cuttinffwhen S 1 to or
, f , . . ^
| t 0 u t l £ ” sustain life and animaf hea°t
rath r han for fat and llef)h Corn is
a j g0 thrown away J bv insuflieient or in
i udJoJoug feodinj 'There is enormous
j oss ; n keenimr gallons a poor cow that yields
three hundred of milk per an
num insteed of one that produces One six
hundred at about the same cost.
may brhnr affords the owner in debt, while the
o her a handsome profit on ex
r™».^ only from Su Aprd to * November, an.1 ins
dryi should have few mont
dear, a o. a
feedinpr, and go to the butch r as s n
k-u,,, li S
mm* <*«»
fittest,” and aga n. perhaps food in not all
plying ample ami succulent at
seasons, while the rmlk hab.t of the
young cow is forming. The feeding loss in and milk
j and meat by irregular a
change from fresh pastures u> a straw
j M, and co„r,o hoy
, ent season, is an jriep.uaolt w. Me
, winch is pro e-ted into the ^-4
summer without regard to tho abund
at ie of its pasture.
! j of 'i skill lie losses in the from preparation negligence, for market, or want
the manipulation or manufacture from
raw material, is enormous. Mi .k of the
same quality, of the -ame cost, makes
butter at fifu-n cents and at bail adel
*r per pound.. Mixed fruits sell in
market at ha.i the value of as oiled
samp < s neatly put up. I lie pig prod
nci- of a famous Massachnsetlsfarm are
disposed of m New York Lity at twen
ly-three centsi per pound, wh le sun lar
tho „jr, I,m ,«mm«ml
capital and labor represented expcnled. m the
product (here on which they these are intangible
is solid money in
valuables. But the wastes that may be
avoided are numerous in every depart
m cnt, f agricultural practice, and can
BOt j* himed at in a paragraph. They
POPULAR PHRASES.
Gawkie. —From the German word
rjauch, Many meaning Word .—The a fool. following well
a
known quotation (generally rendered
incorrectly) is from Walter Scott’s
“Lord of the Isle,” canto v., stanza 18:
O! many n shaft at random sent.
Films mark the archer little meant.
And many n word, at random spoken.
May soothe or wound the heart that’s broken.
“ Excelsior .”—The title of one of
the best known of all of the short poems
of the late Henry W. Longfellow. That
one word happened to catch his eye on®
autumn eve in 1851, on a torn piece of
newspaper, ination took and straightway it. Taking his imag¬
fire at up a
piece of paper which happened that to day be
•the back of a letter received
from Charles Sumner, he crowded it
with verses. As first written down,
“Excelsior ” differs from the shows perfected arush
and published version, but
and glow worthy of its author.
Yank er-Doodle .—In a curious book on
the “Round Towers of Ireland,” the
origin of the term Yankee-1 loodle is
traced to the Persian phrases, Yanki
Doonitt, or inhabitants of the New
World. Layard, in his book on “Nine¬
veh and its Remains.” also mentions
Yanghi-Duniu as the Persian name of
America.
Clincher .—Something that effectually
settles a point or argument. This ap¬
plication of the word is said to have
arisen from two notorious liars “I drove being
matched, against each other.
a nail through the moon, once,” said
tlie tirst. “Yes,” said tlie other, “I
remember the circumstance, and 1 went
around to the back and clinched it.”
Draw It Mild .—This term was metropoli¬ origin¬
ally used by the leader of a
tan orchestra to violinists, when h®
wished them to play softly: used “Gome by the it
strong” was when another he desired term the orches¬
same party, play loud.
tra to
Coming to the Scratch. —This was
originally a phrase used by boxers. In
tho prize ring it was usual to make a
distinct mark or scratch in the turf, di¬
viding the ring into scratch” two equal parts.
“To come to the meant to
walk to the boundary to meet the an¬
tagonist.
Loot .—This word fre piently occurred
in ing the of dispatches Alexandria, detailing during and the plunder¬ immedi¬
ately fo'loxving the recent bombardment
of the fori s protecting that city. It i#
der, an East robbery, Indian pillage, word, signifying It intro¬ plun¬
etc, was
duced into the English language at th®
time of the mutiny, 1857-8.
Higher Than Gildcroy's Kite. —Gilde
roy was the Robin flood of Scottish,
minstrelsy. He infested the Highland# whom
of Pertshire with his gang, of
seven were executed in H>i58. To re¬
venge the death of his companions Gil¬
dcroy burned several houses, and at
lengih, ottered, after he a reward himself of captured, £1.000 was and
was
siF’ered, with five of his followers, for
his crimes at Gallowlee, Scotland, “Higher July,
lfiHK. The orign of the saying,
than Gildcroy* Kite,” is supposed to
luix’c come from an old Scotch poem, in
which Hie executioner is represented rest” as
hanging companions: Gilderoy “high above the
of his
JfOlineeu. ,
A practical love case of occurred paternal interfer
enee in a affair in a tony
neighborhood, says a Louisville paper,
between ten and eleven o’clock last
night. mentlonable, The names but the are positively herewith un¬
facts are
presented in full: A certain masher has
for some time been insisting upon being
emnloved as the son-in-law of a certain
yveu-known gentleman who has por
Bi8t ently refused to appreciate the young
m all ' s desires The girl in thecas®
continued thought differently from her her father, lover’# and
to encourage
hopes, and clandeitinelv frequently received visit#
fmm him Pridav nii/ht
he came once too often for the usual
blissful adieu The old man had not 5 re
happening to look from an open winl
Jms around hi^/a^htori^waiSt, **5
the act of kissing her. Ileforthwithre
solved to take time bv the forelock and
bring through matters the to a of orisis. tho house Passing and yard, out
rear
hecarnearoundandsuddenlycon'ront- ed his unwelcome visitor, lie caught
| him by the front lock and by the rear
as well, before the thing was over, lie
• seized him by his exquisite goatee and
; musta 1 be, and, holding life him at artn’a
length, went for him an infuriated
Scotch terrier in a dog assssns fight, and ever
Se ■ iS^iniTto“# 1 fW ’ .
^
came
■
> .. flic ogncwed .
t >ullin<r governor ofl* b™k° tl o .wl, visit
kicking the masher mm, c.ear a. out m. of the yard *
j into the middle of the street. Ow ng to
, the lateness of the hour, the governor
succeeded in without summarily dismissing the th®
young man rousing entire
neighborhood, 1”'“ £ or thecommot.on getting
“™ol SiTuH
in They spite or ail enorts to Uie contrary.
may do so yet by way of a suit for
| damages.
; -Prof. Henry A. Ward, of Roches
, ter, has taken a con’ract to purchase for
| ■ the American Museum of Natural His
tory, in Central I’ark. New Y-rk, the
s -eriraens of two valuable collections,
. One is to be a complete collection of the
, mammals and birds of North America,
including some n-ven or eight hundred
spe.nm-ni, ant 1 - o t, to be defrayed
by Morns K. J ksoo, will be *U»,WX>;
, h , qto .iL, |» , ............ j™*..
g a i e . It will take Prof. Ward upward
„f two veirs to m ike the collections.—
N , y. Times.
,
— Kitchie was a-ked he fired at
am! k l ed a brakeman on a tram enter-