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The Texas Centipede.
celebrated for its amiability of d.sposi
tion as for H> good looks, recommend but, at the
same time, we cannot it
either as a parlor ornament or as a toy
SoVd“™acE Scukr for.CeKfes rLh«“’»b°X'bi. Ze »v
me olf
■different raucr'after sizes but thev are all made
Ere prettv rnfde the «ame paUern
S no of ata one k rd
emreussedness one Ahid bite an d one-third gen
sied They ifard are ciseniateil
with a that is as as the bark
length o!' a boai of dinir the btjusecraoborr^' centipede vanes pii*. very Th.
SentonTn meniion id tL we C l3 room e mpe papci a “ he ne uisl to o
K m«i„red lef™ H " bod^hich is
a a succession bucce-sion of oi Hat nat joints, ioints is is not not nmeli uiucn
broader than an ordinary man’s finger,
The ane certinede ce.x.ipeae is is built puiib on ou the uie iron-clad roii uau
system, although it does not make quite
as much Alexandria noise as the Lnghsh fact fleet bom
baralino Daring Aiexaiuirm. In in iaci, the uie centi- tenii
pede is not musical at all, but if it hap
pens to crawl over a man it will make
bun verv musical immediately
bs u nr a^med hmc emnninr 3 n to an
Iron-clad, frnn ebul is is aimed with a pan W ,, ot pin- n
^ eruV w'a
th. the end oft fb an n ira. non sa s , e. . L.tcli side is
armed with about forty short legs, and
each leg is armed with a stmg l.kc that
i: iv^oi p -»= £k.'whisfLfi" m s s
eers. aie red hot, so we have been told
by t/tCilr an innocent voting man who Wlipn under
took to tfi rilolr T.ick it it nr» no hv hv ife its cfpin stem When a ti,
hiftwo o-r-f,mbn“h“n?^from tionwq Ins rear odd! n „i
and then draws its eight vodd, very
claws thehearf together, it will bring tears to
of an Irish landlordto see how
the ti f.iwinru.tt.,, lfttie pet holds. 1 , 1 -
Die bite the centipede , ni . , j
ol 1 ie
causes death, but it makes the bitten
party rime, at wish least, he and were ieaies de^, at for 11 a y short o. .
The statement that the bite of the cni
pedo does not cause death is lia >le to
conection. ‘‘remains” Ihe centipede after is very bites ao
to become a ,t a
person as there is quite a prejud.ee
against it. F 01 this reason it is vc ^>
much secluded m its habits. Jiving m
S bS™s ^ Qt ..^toi i a “Z S tis HSlv bcUmSto°beir armoS
ton £ as nS d nnd
Wh he o was
created cieated in in tlie the in first ot uImo place, and and wW "ha.
One evening of'a about^dusk aVexas min'd
gentle p-entlcman an, o a scientific suenti c turn t n of ot 1 ,
his attention was called to an extraor
circ^^^
interested in this meteorological attr'biitcifatlirst per
turbation which lie to
sssr
spout might be 'nearer than the distant
horizon. He took oft' file hat, and found
that his surmise was correct. Fastened
to the rim of the hat by its hind claws
Inches was a long. b autilul The centipede about nine
pec. liar meteorolog
icat phenomena were produced by the
insect drawing itself up and letting it
self down in its e Torts to find a nose or
some other feature to ha tig on to in or
der to facilitate its descent. As the
___________ gentleman had ______ a _ comparatively ____,___________. short ...
nose the insect was ioiled. It died
shortly afterward by tlie gentleman
accidentallj' stepping on it about adozen
consecutive times with the heel of his
boot.
—. As comparatively we have already stated,centipedes the well
are rare in set
tied portion of Texas, being usually
found _______..._________________________________ in a bottle of alcohol on the show
case of some druggist, who s’“is has a taste
«»UM- ood » «!«> those that tl« dead.— only
\'e£as ones are are
Siftings.
Filberts.
A writer in a Southern journal says:
i‘The shrub which produces the filbert The
nut is indigenous to this climate.
writer well recollects to have gathered
them, when a boy, from the wild bushes,
antly. which produced They the however nuts most been abund¬
have, exter
minated many years. the They ditch are banks, grown
in Europe entirely Worth on
and $ 1 , 000,000 or more are an
nually imported Vh thence, ? none f being marl?et cnl
au^ in i he t * teS ° r ’
All know that + they bring plant a good the , price.
It is only necessary to nuts in
the tne spi snrino-on ing,on the inc banks oanas, well wcuprepareu, creoared
and cultivate the plants, which spring
well wen one one vear \ear, ana and afterward r they incy ex- ox
tend .themselves by offshoots take en
bre possession of the bank, and m three
or four years begin to bear afford mg
an abundant annual crop, which affords
rather amusement than labor to gather,
and the busnes furnish a pretty fringe
to the fields. Thus the ditch banks,
which are usually clea'n nuisances, whether
neglected or by an be unprofitable rendered
expenditure of labor, mav
very profitable to the farmer and orna
mental to his fields.
A Sleepy King. S
Louis, the handsozse ^‘it eccentric
young king of Bavaria, c»uii«c {,lay .vs is
well known, endure to attend a
opera unless he alone constitutes the
entire audience. A short time ago he
was indulging this strange taste at the
Court theatre, Munich, when he fell
asleep in the midst of a play. Here was
a dilemma. The play conld not go on
with the audience asleep, and nobody
dared rouse him, nor dared the actors
lor a moment leave their places, for fear
cf his displeasure, should he chance to
*waken suddenly. One impatient ac
itress threw a chair across the stage with
A crash, his and an actor repeated several
dines of part in stentorian tones; but
®till the king slept on. Thus everything
was at a standpoint for several hours,
!the until, next morning, the king awoke and
wearied actors finished the play just
lie time for breakfast.
Anecdotes of Cellini.
ofO^iMintmutanKb^uc^M ” {‘iStogtfookfrfite cls^
"if ! and £ died in “ 1570 * He abeL* trives a
S3. “ObVZtr oret t h b m Drob 1 »h?£
is that “Julius Caesar had a chief and
valorous Captain named Fiorino da
Cellino, from a castle situated four miles
from Monte Fiascone. This Fiorino
having pitched his camn below Fiesole,
where Florence now stands, in order to
be near the river Arno, for the conven
P other ‘Let
sa j d to each • us tS <ro to
Fiorenza,’ which name they ^ ^ gave the
, , nartlv
a„d partly Jm tbs abuad.pce of flow.
ers which grew _ there; wherefore Ciesar,
thinking it a hemtifn beautiful name, name ana and con con
siderinsr - flowers to be of good <° Vla augury, 7 ,..:'
... . . ,.,.,
• n
whom be had raised from an _ humble humble
station, » and to whom he was greatly t,
.. . . •. 7 i
iounaea on tnat spot.
Benvenuto was of so fterv a temper
that lie was early involved in a serious
1 Quarrel H and tied to Sienna, and then to
• he dared returned
, Fll^ceaS When he
to resumedhis work, but
soon again became angry because his
“J to his brother re^
; off to PLa where he
s«"vkfiSiii.si;S3id Meantime he had ^rioS. be
articles, -ice, „»d and »ot not only his execution but
j bis ‘tosigns were so hue that in some
1 16-’PGCtS respeows h© ue lift? nas 11G\Cl uc.ur 1)6011 oee.. CXCCtlCCl. vs™™.
When Cellini was eignteen years old,
I the sculptor Angeltfa LoiTegumo—who hadgiv
en Michael blow upon the nose
! which disfigured the Florence great sculptor for
i life-returned to to engage
I j workmen to go with him to England to
execute a commission which he had re
ceived. He desired to have Cellini
, tae nber, but the youth
5 ^ nut was
; ao ou arred ^ by Torreaiano’s f boasting of
, - deed he fused
tfae di hat re to
in gp ; te of the na t ura i desire of his
for trave ^ and variety. Dorfbtless
predisposed Michael Angelo in his
| ^ j V ° . ^ d j ed to the friendship 1 which
f ci rd ghowed t0 CeUiaL
eT ^ 1545 , Cellini returned to
Fi orenC never a»ain to leaveit for any
recededbyDuke c s j d erable time. He was favorably
Gosimo, and received
a commission to make a statue of Perseus
to be placed in the Loggia del Lanzi.
i When Cellini heard this, his ambition
s much excited by the thought that a
! Mk
^ose of Michael Angelo and Donatella,
I The Duke gave him a house in which to
wor ^ and a sa i. ivv sufficient for his sup
j I S * lne and nfcovei The eT- but
at Hm time came fw casting;
1 nines,
. 1 »’«■! was forced »«'' to » go to «" bed and believed that he
that he would soon die.
\ JVrJzS&n, ” s,r
to! your work is ruined past earthly
j remedy-” 111 as he was he rushed to
i Gie_ furnace, and found that, the fire
i was not suftictent |d tne metal had
■ cooled and ceased t<*low into the mold.
| superhumau and el torts lbs ho remedied bronze the
I disaster, again anil when was
liquid; he -bat prayed mold earnestly, iii.cd,
b® savv t his was to use
bis own words: “I fell on my knees and
, thanked God with all heart, after
j which 1 ato a hoarty meal my with my as
sistants, . and, it . , being’ . then two . hours .
•
r before dawn, went to bed with a light
heart, and slept as sweetly as it 1 had
| ! We been have ....... ill spoken in my^life^”^ of " his ^ " autobiog- " *
j rapin', which was honored by being
... - -
j made authority . the Aeeadetnta
an in
; della Crusca bn account of its ex pres
i si^o diction and rich u;e_ of the Floren
.
; tine manner of speech; he also wrote
Wiser nils
! to*. ». ctfmt value II. al*. wrote
1 poems and verses of various kinds,
But his association with of popes, letters, kings, and
! cardinals, artists, men
people of all classes, makes the story of
his life by far the most interesting of
all his literary works .--Clara Erskine
Clement, in St. Nicholas.
A Device that Held Good.
Overonnosite L a?Si niei the vftiaae of Elliiav
Ga ove^ “tS of groMd forked known Ml
Georgia field "be
cause G f the following nart^ incident- Many
^^bTciSzer Trals aco it was of the estate of a
” who when wdlonto -whK
«
council of ^ physicians f pronounced ‘ incur
ab]p As at do ah . s (] a ]aw .
r a enmmone.I to to ,i-,m draw up „„ lus b ,q will. w ;u
w- H]s mimerous son8 an( ) daughters
\ R( R arrowiui , rr ., wfn i group rrr ., nr . arouna nroni T d me
, 7™ The lawyer wrote clown his be
^ qTlests _ tLig farti to John, that to
UbUT th0 other to Peter, mid ao on
U!lti l he had provided for all his children,
TLeu hih wat «h and other Poice personal el
fects were disposed aa,. of, ’ the of the
. • moT J A i„„„
, 0 ,,
f . vprv nmmf ’ “Yon liav« for
?, .. ,/ thino- ft,’ Mr .mVironrii AlptuTiJor ”
p _ k “Wiw'i u v
tl/whirred , t ; s ;+r>
slo ? 1 the old man. “Yon
wig done ^
the forked held, said the attorney. A
Seamed m the dying mans eyes.
Oh. yes, said he slowly, and then with
bls vo .'ff,’ *f c ^ a11 ?.
d bat b d keep for myseii, after which
16 turned over on Ins sule and sank into
a refreshing sleep. In a few weeks he
was a well man, and for years thereafter
the forked field was cultivated under his
supervision .—Springfield {Moss) He
publican.
—The sins of “Chinatown," San
Francisco, are summed up in one
month’s record of arrests, to wit: Visi
tors agencies. to tan games, visitors 85; keeping lottery places, lottery
14; to
17; having lottery tickets in possession,
13; keeping opium places, 3; visitors to
opium places, 26; battery. 2; obstruct- j
ing sidewalk, 1; total, 161. Oi th -se, ;
41 were sent to the County Jail and 2
to the House of Corre tion Cash re- i
ceived from fines, $2,279.
Tlie Jabiru of Senegal.
The Jardin )m
been enriched recently by the acquisi
tion of various animals. One of the
most interesting of these, without doubt,
is the i^iru of Senegal, which natural
»“*«. <«*. call '’■SrVT^rf'T'.T the Mi/ctena sanegalensis.
This bird belongs the to a marabou, gen a which ieo
the one containing
is so well known to those who requent
zoological gardens and to the same
* amil y a s ? ur lt l9 %!j££. impossible
.
USSTS.
marabou, a bird of revolting voracious
«ess, which shares with the vulture the
duty of disposing of carcasses and
»P»toe m » mg** the
]at>iru the is attractive, latter living it is, in inct. and has uc,
cause eats prey
the ,,, bold ana , free , step mthc ot tne hunter nuntei.
Living m the vicinity of ponds and
rivers, • it hunts and fishes by turns. It
often Hies, which . • is sometmi Sl s mft thin<r n that that the tne
marabou rarelv does, as the latter is
kept on the ground 7 by its duty in as a
scavenger. l rh he jamru lohini lives lives in rnirs pairs,
and the male and female ot each Its couple
never leave one another. area of
distribution is quite an extended one.
From the banks of the White Nile, as
lar as Senegal, having for latitucde, northern
limit the fourteenth degree of
it lives in the whole center and south
west of Africa, although nowhere
*»»*»*■
s
head, neck, and tail are of a brilliant
^-«• are ot a beautiful white. i*,;j?wt Its red and
black bill is provided been with likened two pendent sad
wattles that have to a
die, and that have sometimes g.ven the
bird the name of the saddled stork.
In captivity it is a pleasant companion.
It respects it M neighbors, but wishes to
be respected cr y them. Like the stork ,
it has great regard for its injure dignity and
does not allow any one to it. Ac
cording to Bennett, who has madeobser
vations on Australian jabirus in cap
tivity, the habits of which arc
like those of the Senegal bird, and ac
eording to Dr . Bodiuus, who has had
several of the latter in his do possession,
they are easy to rear and not suffer
from changes in temperature. Itwould
perhaps be possible, then, to acclimate
them in our country, where they might,
while proving render an service ornament by destroying to our
marshes,
Th?ywopld frocs, field Z&w mice, and other vermin.
here ami (hero a
few fish; but, since Europe will soon
witness the death of the last heron, it
would prove a certain compensation for
pH^th-it EabU, a5d by^’bird Ueh W of more Sable
that very fact
plnn.kgi C the pJ« lint, cl
its still . yopng bird. It
does not appear to us to enjoy very vig
orous health. Wo have seen it often,
ing with a sickly air its long bill, whose
upper mandible had been mended with
a piece of tin .—La Nature.
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_
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—
The circunWnr.cea were these: A
] ar g t , firm on te prominent business
street proposed washed, to have its stove its janitor
oughly and Someth'ng so sent induced
to hjm get some -•-----*■ invost soap. : in keg ' of ‘ soft -*' v and 1
-- to — a soap,
he started to roll ife to the o/lico. The
heg was something larger than a l;c r
j ce; r and no j ba ]f go substantial, but the
olrl man got along very well with it mi
til he came to a crossing. He was
; — D B o- -------- it alomr and — got „ - to - tho .jo horse-car horse-car
track, when a dray wheel hit the cask,
and and , in in . a a minute minute . , ,, the t lie soap soap was was ,, flowing towing
j in n every every direction. direction. The The old old
gave a whoop of despair, and, while he
kis.:ss a™:s.
Tie, Ml tod ** (n» »"•
der him and he never slid two rods on
back so quickly before in his life,
Ho scooped up about a pint of
wilh eac h trousers leg and each sleeve.
When lie trie 1 fo get up he went down
again, assistance and a policeman who ran to his
went down, too. Wh n they
finnirnirm finally got nn on fimtr tiien lcet each i, was „ a
sight, and the drummer said he exuect
ed to throw away every rag bSths he had on
take two Turkish to get
clean- The officer was mad. and .said
somebody ought to be run he in, and going for
wan: of abettor person was
to take the drummer, but was distracted
by seeing 4t a fat mr.n coming afr along while and
le‘his tty into the his
head hit a paving stone so hard it was
driven an inch into the earth Then a
man with a basket of peanuts K struck
t"e . t'ooo , . ,mi . a sunc ol wild . Jd exc.tc
mente sued, the boys who jumped m
10 & L 1 , IKS j > ,n ;. - J oiled 1 J U uo J > in all 11
ways. Finally, ,. struck a l horse-car came along, ,
and when it the soap
spot the horses went down so quick He it
f ad '. tke dnvo, s bead «w,m
H,.n ically leaped . ofl the car and at
once went down himself, face hr»t, and,
gasping, got so much of the soap and
filth in his mouth that their it produced
nausea. The horses, in attempts
to rise, broke the h irness, and there
™ ‘ rouble *® ,he street-cleaning
^ 1 , haf| caine fled ^nd^dapftlie J durin ^ the early of
f officer part if
|he roceed ; n 8> but he says
h e catches the man the case'll be heard
from in court.— N. Y. Star.
. . ------
A ctEnovsiAX who enjovs the sub
Htald j a i of a tine farm was 1
* j
sli ” btlv teken down by his Irish plow
m n ’ ^.j 10 was sitting at his ptow ’ in a
toba cco field resting bis horse. The
reverend gentleman, being a great econ- !
omist, said, with much seriousness:
“ Patrick, wouldn’t it be a good plan for be 1
bobbing yon to have a stub-soythe bushes along here, the and fence !
a few
while the horse is resting?” Pat, with
quite as serious a countenance as the
divine wore himself, replied: “Sir, tub
wouldn’t it be well for you to have a
of potatoes in the pulpit, and when the
congregation are singing, to peel ’em
awhile to be ready for the pot?” The
reverend gentleman laughed heartily
and left.
A Romance of Atlanta.
Si ‘ * fZPlT'jPluZl girl. This
in i ove with an Atlanta
happens every fell day, love and. with as the also hap
Juan. pens, the girl m young o°f
Somehow or other ttojml&of the parents
- fct ' S :ri frowned»!»n tta™,
t-o hear s that beat as one. and they
continued to frown until the young peo
j, e. thrown upon their own resources,
doped, parental as young alluded people will do, instead an, (ho
frown to of
becoming a smile and a benediction m
ind’dSXd Zttt&ZttSSAFZZ lo’S
overwhelmed store bv their with daughter, grief and thov they were
when dis
covered that for the first time m her life
«ek h„ .»p for porposo of bestow
,n ineii lorgivem, ..
In the course ot time alittle baby was
born born to to the tiie joung vonno-counlc___ couple a nvirvelom- maneious
ly beautiful child we have been told—
and it grew to be as cunning as it was
beautiful b . utitu . tne One d «•) iv rccentlv lece a a bi.lv ,u v
acquainted with the facts, and r intimate . . -
with both families, called upon
the aie vouno- \oung mother mouiu, but out found iouuu nobodv nouoqy
at home but baby and nurse. An idea
struck her, and she lost no ti ne in
carrying it out. She seized the baby and
bore it otfiu triumph toits door-hell grandmoth
er. \\ hen she rung the at
grandmotlier s house the lady was in a
tremor, but the baby was as cool and as
unconcerned as a cucumber. Perhaps
«* >° ?»>•.■..........
sst^laws,^ lace 1 elt a,1<l
> au ' Wits as P .‘ vs ‘ IS
■OfTLA c E":;v 1 ,
Jdr » J tl.dn frhc t know; J®w she was ,. st , passing cetflng •
^L- all were went," Si
^ but in she
! ' grandmother h “ UUUj was adm-r
mg baby , . ns it the sat lap porehod, the , , bright lady. . , . am ,
,uo .'' int ’ 'pan ot At
juncture the baby displayed it boldly the
“‘jf ox.jmsite u.ploiniicy. J
{? ra ' n'imat^l.er, ^ ,u !*'’ t lln and P, e was 1 so< ^ ‘ n ’ n ncstlm^ f 9 ,Jo 19
against her motheilj bosom. It laughed
an< ^ crowed and cuddled, anil when
? oni °“ ade il P rete ““ ? l tak !^. 1
^ f fuddled the closer. , What wonder ul
bi'^ht ‘■Tfsjt h.ul, to be Sfvc. 'Vliata
P 1 ’ 11 ' 1 '.”" * U e cu r "'.li'
^ a X a "KS . K SW J- 1 a
^ ; ! tV,,,, '; -,‘n, ^.A m
- "
Z 1 l i' cntical lri r-' moment, mVmiLi the the gi wind and
“S-.SStabv , J® 1 M ‘'J4 ~ b A louXv" S.d'i'o'mdSllmd
1 | ® ‘.j Tt ' cooed ...‘1 nn
tlowc ‘! at t tlio gian d llatlici, > u , , found a ,
[ SdfeTthTfiy U ‘ k ‘ faCe hl his . coal t °® 1Ul fomfk’dTt l r l ' 1 ' h<> S™ in"! d :
i r'"7r\ and
«W ..... ..
sition" w'a,’pmbarnmsin- ^dm'iuld” Wa she^had'no I,“id Z
j Ml t)u , two o!d pcop]t; ' l)int . it was their
; d , t „ i . • , 1 v\ in, ,hiq the irrand
■ ir;±n;! 1 Z7;:t £■£
rrttnd .. walked nervously around,
\ v ; |jiiix i, 8 tnesaml won cring why ho
was , fooi shiv happv. Nothing would
j do ;hcs ‘ old people but their another daughter
must bo se tt tor, an I such re
j union anti revival 1 s was held over that
babv In; never before been seen in At-j
( lant'a. That'we’H say and.stick to. j
A carriage passpl iii front of the Con- !
■ slitulion office yesterday, and in it were
1 seated all the members of tho reunited
— family. The ’ baby ' ' had ' a front seat, and '
it was Iauo pretty^as , hin< r and crowing and look- I
. vng as a pink, and as
1 vvcil as cute as it could look; and if any
reader of the Constitution is inclined to
discredit __________________________________________ this true story, all he has to do
jg jg to to ask ask the the Conduction. grandmother grandmother about alxmt it-— it. —
Manta ‘__— ■ e(Ja.)
How n.w tk the ...... (V.ir r,w Enjoys t„inr< ' j J' Himself. flinseir •
.> <*
E'™'i Pncni) 1119 tL A. ”mpra° '
18 siowiy recoieiing fiom her confine- , ,,,
meIlt ! but llicne^ous prostratmn still |
remains, sake and it tha- l.s^aid the that it is largely has |
{ 01 her coionation .
beon ,( ' f 111 Piesont unt« ta.n con h- ,
U '\ n \ ' , c,8tm:d F ’’ !l ® av «®“ I
celebration, and shares the view of sev
eial , °V . . ? .. a .i v - 7’. s .,.. q that “ J if he ‘n
can rule Russia ■ without a crown as well
a; w th m-■. 1 why should he run the mk
« { eo•onatioii^ Jhc Czar Jwb
emus „g himself of late w t, a slmp
p ,< !j"' d ';. 1 tV ' 11 ‘Trnjty,,^ v ■ > *'
al a shoit tune ag > a -
^ 11 had been const need for
th J •u-apparent. Quite a flotilla of
«">**»’ jl.^V'r','L7rc '•••; ^'rhoff Jo ^dthepXel
1,1 - 1 “v”-. 1 -, bemg -p made ' 1 ' m Urn
por iiiid m the Imperial . household, ,, and ,
11 - '' lal . > f 101 () , tneituui the future the uie mam main
........ . tho servants of the palace
.. PV , :i fir Pot , v 000 'i a oar instead
f” n , W £ 00 m.eir 000 as in the time of
‘J® chma-torize F For,nomv ai d
"™P kc ^litoa PeterLfl ot butTlso onv tic
enmc ^ ingnti ^ aom m usir.t nr oa >n 11 C o
l ,ire - I lie o-t.ntatin ,.iat marked ev
ery movement and act of the late vz.u s
brothers, the Grand lnke ,ons an o,
olan, the ® navy, and the >iand ^ Sif u e , jeh
"aU VlLlimi, present
and
The parasites of the late court are hav
b.g a tornbly bad time of it now. No
mercy is shown them in the reorgarnza
tions might that are be cxjrected, daily takiim their place, and,
as opinion
ot the < z.ir is a very bad one anil goes
to‘well the popular clamor against him.
The Winter i’alace is under repair and
many oitts of apartments are ordered
to be furnished afresh. A few weeks
ago a deal of old lumber found in one
of tor the d/ed) garrets rubles of to the a dealer palace in was curiosi- sold
tie3 of the Nevsky Prospect. The nib
bish filled several wagons, and although
not om--ha!f has yet been properly ex
amined the dealer has already netted
20,000 rubles by the sale of two valua
ble pictures he found the Cor. first Isjndon day
among it— 81. Petersburg
Pod.
_
—Bootblack* ar* licensed at Jackson,
Tennessee, and assigned to stands
throughout the city.
An Unhappy Island.
Poor, little, far-away Iceland, one of
the most interesting countries in the
world, and a great favorite, it will be
remembered, with Bayard Taylor, is
now in a double affliction, being threat¬
ened not only with famine but with ad
epidemic. A let ter to the London Stand
ard gives some interesting details of the
h%ii)les which are crowding upon these
simple, happy the and sturdy of people. It
appears that winter 1880-’8I was
extremely following sevore, even for that region,
and the summer was so cold
that tho hay crop, upon which much
lependence failure. is the placed, result was this almost a
» As of a much
larger and cattle jxirtion had than usual killed of because the sAeep
to be they
could not be supported. Oats and maize
were imported for fodder, but most of
the people were too poor to buy them,
and at last rough weather made commu¬
nication with trading ports impossible.
The live stock died in largo numbers.
Owing the to the cold weather this grain spring and
lambing failed. vegetables As no
but very few can bo raised
’.here, the islanders have to depend on
their flocks and herds for subsistence
and for money with which to buy cloth¬
ing, groceries, breadstuffs and other
necessities of life, all of which have to
bo imported. This fall they will have
no trade in mutton, tallow and wool,
and, as milk from their flocks is entirely
wanting, they are now threatened with
famine. In addition to these troubles,
measles, which has not been known as
an epidemic .. . t for more than thirty .... years,
nas broken out and is spreading over
Ihe island like a .plague. Ihe hardy
pe.ople ot Iceiand seem to be periodic-
11 ly allltcted. In 1 . 0 , small-pox swept
off one-third or the population. lnifo9
the “gre it famine” carried off 10 , 000 .
Then followed sheen plagues and dire
volcanic ‘i" ............ eruptions. The sympathy of
oi whom the Simulant says:
“ The Icelander is invariably educa¬
ted, often learned, and a law abider. A
child of ten unable to road is not to bo
found from 0110 end of the island to tho
other. A peatant hardly above the
condition of an Arran ‘car berry’, /'pa- is
i,le of speaking two languages no
rarity. All information of them possess which an amount
of general southern latitudes ‘men of
education’ in more
might Ushers envy, calculate and the with Copenhagen pub- sell
can safet' on
U.g an edition of any good po: ..lar glaziers sci
entifio work among the hinnV, j
and fishers of ‘Island.’ Th.oe-fdurtht
° j l incapable its l^’a-covercil, of glazior-wern Mtrf.use human
s supporting .'ho my tab«,
V* on aoaa.il, d
P° rtion 7, - 0 .°° wcll-educat-d, orderly
people subsist, though the island H
0 Ver p 0 p U |, d ed. Of late there has been
lamlor, ^to/und however, clings to his Northern
feels a natural dread of leav
v V Cf! an *J khjpot poverty must In. !«,,
iA'i'S w ° • duin ” *)*>•—A*une.
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K ™
The Federal Government will soon bo
expensive supplied with a variety in of all handsome of and tho
structures parts
Union. Thirty-three now buildings
were authorized to bo begun at the last
session of Congress, the location, ultl
mate cost of tho same, and present
available the following appropriation table: being given in
Pretent
in 'cvHt!* JpP tZ‘nt! a '
AWna;<’om Va.. .$ fsi.ooo $ fo^'ioo 2 .xjooo
*j f, o o Mv n ^•^ r o$o
* » '.
runooVli 1 ,^. li! .'. 25 ',»ne loo'.oofl
’itliilTs, 200
Council DnJJas, Toy. Iown. " loo.doo S2'2!S
Doiroit’Mtoli i> l!liv ,, r .1 soiijnoe i.vi!ooo
ooivooo
Erie, Fort Wayne, r*a...... In<l..... ” loolooo { 00 ,’Iwo M
Frankfort, Ky........ loo.noo
(Jaive.sion, Tex....... :: K
Grcengboroiigrli, N. 0. 75,000 uw 37.000
”vh V. ,.
ifiuuSsouimrjT ■ • Z!um 25 *oo
100,000 10,000
’ ioo'ooo
pio.’ooo t>o!ooo
SrpffiX’JSr i'"n ii.'uh, Fla....... ‘ • qoo’ooo lyo.iwo cijj’ooo 00.000
H iu ............. 2 a\m toojooo
Y - ,. 75 00!) 7 7,000
y 175,000 81.500
U(K .i„. teri N . Y . .. 800,000 1.50,000
S',. Joseph, Vt' Mo., . 75,000 75,000 ....... 87.500
£ 4. r'.a.'. V* , . 100,000 loO.OOO
Syrac, Haute,lnd ,, Y . 200,000 150,000 100 75,0*0 000
Tw . 60*00
Wiilia nsport, l’a . 100,000
Total....... .......t5,775,000 $2,732*00
In addition to this, appropriations
were Blade tor continuing follows: buildings in
course of erection as
Amount.
Montgomery, Ala.. .$ 00,000
Littlu Rock, Ark... 8,TOO
Washington, l). 0. 40,000
Hartford, Cfc....... 20,000
Kny Cairo, Went, Fla..... 60,000 4,000
III...........
Chicago, III........ 61,000
Topeka. K 80.000
Paducah, Ky...... 25,000
N©wOrlcan< I^a.. liUi.000
Baltimore. Md..... 350,000
Boston, Mass.,.... 175,000
Fall River, M t m... 15.000
K«nmi,s Citv, Mo... 75,001
St. I .oil l m. Mo...... 180.00#
Jersey City, N. J... 4.000
Alhany, A. 1 25. WO
Xcw Vork , N. V........................ 20.000
Buffalo. N. V............................ 87,500
Ctioa, N. Y.............................. 7,500
(?1 ‘VClillifl, f> ............................ 150,000
CfoolnnuU, O. ........................... 450,000
Toledo, <»............................... 100,000
Plttdmrgh. I'a ......................... 200,000
Philadelphia, Pa....................... 400 75,0 0 Ot *0
MctnphiM, Nashville, Term........ I t im .............* .......... 0,000
• ............. 3o>*i
T>:tnvil-c, Va............................
Char Port Ttm <•«,town. osJ'-ii W. l W. V*.................... T. - .............. io oo*
Building* under tho War and/Intoilor
Buddi Dcpartuion**....... tlm control ol ...... tlio
itt niiiN-r
TreiMnr\ i>;-i>urttnent................ hojx*
Total...... ........$:l,OMgfl00
'J’his in ike4 a total of #6,357,000 U> be
expended in building during the year.—
N. Y. Craphic.
—The Gazelle Maritime de Corn
mcreiale, disasters, in its news following regarding curious ocean
relates the
example of the formidable power of
molecular forces: The Italian ship into
Francesca, loaded with rice, pnt
rorton May 11, at East London, leak
ing considerably. A large force of men
was at once put on board to pump out
the water contained in the ship and to
unload her; but, in spite of all the activ
ity exerted, the bags of rice soaked in
water gradually and swelled up. Two
days alterwa-d, on May 13, the ship
was violently burst asunder by
■weiliajc of k« carga
HOME AND FARM.
—A farmer in Maine reports the arw
rival of an insect that feeds upon th*
eggs of the potato beetle.
of —Cottage and milk, Pudding: On® three cap table¬ eaob
sugar melted one egg,
spoonfuls of butter, one pint of
flour, two teaspoonfuls fof baking pow¬
der. Serve with sauce.— The House*
hold.
—It is a singular fact, though not
generally known, that the juice of th*
seed stock of the common parsnip is s*
poisonous as to raise water blisters be¬
tween the fingers and on the arms of
those who cut off the seed tops .—Detroit
Post.
—Setting hen 3 can be cured by put¬
ting water in a vessel to the depth of
one inch, putting the hen into it, and
covering the top of the vessel for about
twenty-four hours. The vessel should
bo deep enough to allow the fowl t*
stand up.
—To secure fino tomatoes for next
year thoughtful fruit gardeners this select for smooth, seed.
evenly shaped medium season size, thick,
The solid requisites flesh, few are seed?, rich, bright red
color, and a perfect outline perfectly them in
free from protuberances. decomposition Lay in. then
the sun until sets
wash out the seed aud dry perfectly.—
Si. Louis atobe.
—Baked Eggs are sometimes relished
by those who find fried ones greasy and
indigestible. Butter a deep earthen
pie-plate, then put in yolks the e<rgs, taking
care not to break the of any; put
lilUo , £ of buUe r ou each egg, and
little pep Vggs er and salt, too. If the oven
j hot)(ho ’ Tuinutos. will bo cooked sufficient
j ^ in four As soon as th*
hiteg aro fmnl get they are done,
“ A . .. c * ,wir b f k is rnade °* ar »
ant, !l uo ac® strip* put over silk. Have
the lace in the center and on 1 the i silk
rStoSyss and blue Sbffsfk&i silk, with
made of the lace
sprays of small pink buds, or of cardi
; nal satin with daisies and butter-cap*
embroidered on it. The top is turned
down and hemmed, and the bottom
may bo finished with laco, or bo made
in points with a tassel on each point.—
! j N. Y. Post.
of -Ginger pound of Pop white :_ Take three-quarters of
a sugar, one ounce
cream of tartar, one ounce of ginger,
and the juice and grated together rind of on*
lemon. Put thosea I in
an 1 pour over it all four quarto of toil,
ing water; let . stand until it taluk*.
warm; then add one tablespoonful of
fresh yeast, and nearly one «walra,M tablespoon
lid of »ln»W» orol
( this stand^ for twentyTour ho' 1 ™. toe»
( put in bottles, oork ti„ y, , I
, will be ready for use in a few days.—*
I j -Old Orchails: It Is not best to
renew the orchard by planting ^oVZ“oii young
m
on». Jc » oertkin Mtep, IrcmkXi th.NUrld
woo *d has m « tonuMLl rom tlhe soil,
ana many 01 ttio enemies witu wmou
i£E^hl^h£rii.i u lia!*
f 1
‘’““y—"• v » ueraia. ,, ,,
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY*
—The Isle of Wight News gays Victoria
Woodhull has been for two years th*
wife of one of high England’s noblest in the beat sons, of
| and balds a position
English society.
' —The youngest bride 011 rocord in
, this country is Mrs. Thomas I’avne.
1 She is eleven and otio-lialf years old.
j Her luis'iii id is a South Carolina pap
son. —N. V. (Jraphie.
—Genoral Songer, tho editor of th®
Key West (Fla.) Democrat, is twenty
J is cars old inches - h gh. thirty-live He rounds born and
forty and sed was in FI rid*. 1 *
1 Ibnn'ngo was ra
—An debut American Opera primadonna in Paris—Mis* has made
ber at the
j I-iliau Nordica, Norton, obtained who, under the name of
, lias some surcoss at
Roma, Y. Uraphic. Milan and St. Petersburg.— N.
i —Captain Cpbleigh. under whose ad¬
ministration Fresident Garfield served
Canal, as a boy on the commander tow-path o' of the Miami Eria
is now an
canal-boat, the James A. Garfield. — Ds
troit Post.
—Mr Henry G. Venn nr, the Cana¬
dian weather prophet, is described a*
i the possessor of a striking countenance,
pale, with d;irk, brilliant, restless eyes,
lie is tall himself and tfith well-proportioned, half-mart a! and ;
carries a a r.
•—Captain Mayne Reid is described a®
wearing odd kind of clothes, peculiar
both iu fabric and c it. He lias been
seen wearing a re reaching I vest, a high striped and
collar, with points h seves,
coat and trousers of equally grotesque
appearance.
—Mr. George K. Go dwin, the late
theatrical manager of I’hilade Ward phia, $10,000 at
on* for time lecturing paid Art emus I’e
a season. once was
tho owner of more panoramas than any
man in the world, at a time when they
were a great novelty in Amori -a.
—While working as a blacksmith, tho
Rev. B. Hurst, who lately died in En¬
gland, studied the languages all his
spare time, writing the conjugations of
Latin, Greek and French verbs on tho
® ame stone of his forge. Besides those
tongues, he stu lied Hebrew, Arabic*
Sanskrit an 1 Svriac.— N. Y. Sun.
-
—In her brilliant lecture on “Idols
and Iconoclasts, ’’ at the Concord School,
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe remarked as to
idols o! the a lie tion, that falling in lovo
is a th ng which has gone so entirely might out
oi fashion that a woman of her age
be excuse 1 for asking whether any one
of those present ha l e’er dreamed what
toe idea of such an experience could b*.
-- ti -ston Po tt.
__A Philadelphia crank, who wears
a lbe n exceedingly from high strikingh hat, “to m," prevent places
lightning the roof of his house day
npon every a
] ar ^,, " quantity t.' of fru t for an iniag who nary ha*
~ r to ea a small boy,
R-nucd of the eccentric conduct of the
0 » d gentleman, cl nibs to the roof daily
i on a j ghtn ng rod and d»es much to
c*nlirm the old man’s belief in tho
mythicid female - - Philadelphia Press.