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THAT I.I ITl.l (Oil.
BY MUM. J. V. II. ROOK*.
There vetna a man, ’tin wnl to tell.
Lived in our fitmmm city, well
Whom none that ever knew him
Could either Jove or pity.
He van no Ugger than a mouse—
I do not at retch the story;
Ho had a tiny, old-time house,
Illumined with hi* glory.
He had a coat, thin little man,
He fit exactly in it,
No longer than a half a span,
Nor w ider than a minute; blue,
Thread-bare and okl and dirty
Yet all who \ wtMM dl DMT him
He’d bquee,/.e into tluit coat—’tia true—
Till folk a were taught to fear him.
It wa* the coat bin father wore,
Yea, father's father a father; bore,
And >et he'd worry, team* and
Annoy, vex and bother
Ail that he met about that coat
And ita eternal fttneae
Tor high and low of every note
Who could it* virtue witnew*.
How don't you wi«h he could have aeon
The folly of thin pannimi, between
And let hi* neighl*>ra chonae
Hip and ttouu* other faahiou ?
M cNC i a. In<\
A Fly’s Tongue.
A reporter of the (!inclnnati Commer¬
cial, in search of information on the in¬
teresting question whether the common
hoiisc-lly can communicate disease, was
obligingly furtrshed an inside view of
that litl.lo animal by Prof. Miekelbor
ough, of the Cincinnati Normal school.
The fly was caught, and iho reporter
tints details the subsequent operations:
The littlo captive was adjudged deve'op- stilli
•cientlv adequate for scientific
ment. having, as Ihc professor observed,
a guilty demon look, rated, although and lie wherefore forthwith win
not t was
-condemned performed to decapitation. by placing This cere¬ him
mony was small and deft
under a microscope, a
sharp instrument quickly severed li s
•devoted head irom the trunk as r.catli
as oxer the gu'llofcine of sunny France
■Cir short the career of an o noxio.is rny
a ist. The head xvas then placed under
a more powerful instrument, which Jelly
revealed its grand proportions to the
unnraetioed eye. It xvas a noble head,
evidently I (-longing to one of the mo o
on turc-d class of dies, in spite of first
impressions. It must In; i on esseil.
however, that it ran considerably to eyo
tia'I -eyes large enough in proportion to
the rest o' ti c structure to satisfy the
.roost ardent poet, although not liquid
-ordreamy, long, on (lit'contrary, very
dull and of a reddish brexvn color. The
expression, if they ever had any, was
gone likc and noth ng but, a stone, in irtyr
gam rein lined. After this exami¬
nation ttno her success til operation spl.t was
pc,- o mod, and the head was open,
revealing Ms curious and complicated the
atnjrliirc a'ter wli'ch the tongue o
insect was carefully* the ex I ruffed, application the of mo
•sins opersu li being a
light press re above the organ, causing
it to protrude its full length, being when taken it xvas
skill till removed, can- not
to mutilate it. Under the in cioscopc
the proboscis boro a dec dud resem¬
blance to a r dark, ugh, thick uneven leg. over
groxvn xx i'h mess, at one
smd < f which wen-a number of black
projection >. having the appearance of
licavv spikes driven into the log, but
which wore in realit • iutlnitol/ small
hairs. It xvas cci-t.-iinlx a formidable
looking object in its magnified state,
Tho experienced ted eye vibration of tho professor the
dele a si glit upon
Mirfa a-of the log. an I that particular
specimen of ll\ -tongue which was sought. pronounced The
one o those for xvo
tongue was inhabited, and again the
tlx had priced asm-ess. The opera
lion which followed xvas one ot extreme
inutiouamt sk.Ufol manipulation, and
cons sled in splitting successfully the organ length
xx .sc. "Ill h xvas accoru
plished under the small microscope,
with in (riimcnts of most delicate text
lire, requiring the greatest care in their
*tso. The oper.it i n resulted lavorablv,
and sure enough the •critter’" was
thore! lie had taken up his residence
tor the time being inside the tongue,
although it has lieen demonstrated that
le- poRsesse (the power of roaming at
his own sweet will either inside or out
side of his field of operations. lie xvas
oiiptureil \v thout much of a contest,
ami was iinur.soiled in a small drop of
slide water, with which xvas plat ed upon and a glass sub
a concave center,
jeeled to the searching revelations ol
tho microscope. He appeared to tako
nat •trailv to his new element, and muni
fested a surprising activity in li s liquid
quarters. lie xvas pronounced li> tho
professor to be quite a handsome speci
men. People’s ideas of beauty differ very
luaterinll .audit xvas only a decent tv
gard lor lltc proprieties of tho occasion
th it prevented tlie reporter from vent
ur'ng the opinion that ho xvas about
as ugly a reptile as ever was “untimely
brought to lightami, also, were it not
for lined-fen-nee to the dignity decided of sci
entitle judgment which xvas that
parasite is not a purveyor of disease,
t! ere would have been then and there
one more convert to the opposing doe
trine The animal looked mean and
hideous lie enough aim to be guilty of auv- had
-thing. head and was body at transparent, of
a flat the a serpent.
And how he did squirm, tilling the on
tiro space of his miunturo aquarium
w th his xvrithings and convulsions,
let, tl xvas a relief to *>e to n ucu
w as harmless, for his appearance did
not .ndicatc. the fact, and the common
house-fly w 11 not rise in the estimation
of the general public when it is known
ihat he is capable of harboring ramiste* such a
<ii-reputable looking even
thousrli ho were “inoculated” againH
even known disease. Bv actual ntcas
nrem-ut this one was found bv Mr.
Mickelb -rough to be uinetvdhreo
thousandth of an inch in diameter. The
greatest number he has ever found on
Tim proboscis, which was also ex
outer part -..................... or oy.-nng is supported 7f* by
ribs or braces placed at regular inter
vals. and apparen lx- o great strength ,
inprot.ort.i.n z* to n> the objee . .The feat- "he |
rne in -ofixgx , A paras to feeds on
fluids | repared bv tlxe an mal on which
it exists, 1„ the .aso of the fly tho |
anguiUulu. as it n a lx is. obtain its
nourishment front the fluids w' ieh pa-s
through bil the tongue, and does not im
e iu food from tho circuiat ng
fluids in tho bodv of t o flv. T ose
creatures have no* backbone, and their
1 cation is the usual ve mi ular move
menu seen in the eel and snake.
A bill-head ot a lexas doctor, thusly:
’
The iianurr iv-ti, lain rr-ju-.usi,
Oo4 it torxuiteo, ud the iioctor shsuted.
A Would-Be Charlotte t’orday.
Recent events in Franco have again
brought to th-s notice of the world that
most, marvelous woman of modern times,
Louise Michel. While it is not wise to
take her at the estimate of her friends,
who look upon her as a veritable saint,
nor of her enemies, who describe her as
a human devil, it is safe to say that
since the time of Charlotte Corday, been who
stabbed the fiend Marat, there has
no woman in France who exerted the
influence over the ma.ssc3 that Louise
Michel does. There is no French ora¬
tor to whose eloquence the French peo¬
ple listen as oagerly as she they has do to hers,
and when speaking, control. them com¬
pletely under her By the Gov¬
ernment she is more feared than Roche¬
fort,, or any other of the communist
leaders.
This r markable woman is now forty
seven years old, though she looks to be
older. Hhe was born in the Department
of Marne, in the old Province of Cham¬
pagne, noted tor its sparkling wines.
She t of lowly birth, her be¬
was parents
ing, it is said, natives of Belgium, who
crossed over into France and sought to
improve their condition in the wine¬ died
growing regions. Lou iso’s father
when she xvus a little, girl, and she was
left to the tender care of her mother,
who was mistress of and general work at the
chateau of a titled illustrious fami¬
ly. Though ignorant, she was honest
and industrious, and these principles
she instilled into her fatherless daugh¬
ter.
Louise was comely and bright, and
curly attracted the attention of the ladies
of the family, who made a pet of her.
As she grew older she acquired refined
tastes and elegant manners, and xvas
made a companion by the noble ladies,
who taught her many accomplishments.
When Louise was about seventeen,tho
son of her master returned from school,
anil charmed by her beauty, winning
manners, intelligence and wit, spent
companionship much of his time proved in her society. disastrous This
to
i/ouise, for when ho pretended to love
her she believed him, and in return
loved him with all the ardor of a trust
ing young girl who had never heard of,
much less observed or experienced, tho
faithlessness of titled youth who seek al¬
liances with those whom they consider
beneath them in the social scale. Louise
soon awakened front her delusion, anil
within a y ear from the time when the
young nobleman became interested in
her, site suddenly left the chateau, with
her few worldly goods in Paris. a small bun¬
dle, and made her way to There
she secured a position as assistant teach¬
er in a small school in the suburb of
Montmartre, which is largely inhabited by
laboring people, where she remained for
years. While teaching she was frequently
brought into contact with tho poor, of
whom there were many, ana saw so
much of their hardships and sorrow that
all hor naturally symp athetio nature
was aroused iu their beh alf. She spent
much time among them, nursing tho
sick and helping and tho needy would as far as her
limited time means pormifc.
She was to these and poor people naturally a niinis
tering love angel, they came
to her.
Louise believed tho working classes t,o
be cruelly oppressed, and also that if
the oppression were removed they would
bo prosperous and happy. In the course
of a few years she began attending the
meetings of the Communists, gradually inspired and their her
fervid harangues
with a mortal hatred of tho rich. Sho
also acquired an intense dislike to the
church, in whose doctrines she had been
piously instructed by hor pious mother,
!V tid, like most of the Communists, is
ni>w a violent atheist,
Louise’s revolutionary spirit grew and
intensified for years. At one time she
advocated tho assassination of Napo
loon III., and wont from one club to
another offering herself and her dagger
for the purpose, but the offer was de¬
clinod.
The communal uprising of 1871 gave
her the great opportunity to appear be
fore tho worln as a revolutionary leader,
she delivered believed that the bondage day for France to
i,„ from the of her op
,lessors had come, and that it bo
h 0 oved her to do her utmost for the
cause in which her whole soul was en
listed, declaring that “This is not tho
j, our for nrotest. animal, or exhortation:
tins ts the nour tor hery resolve amt
fearless deed.”
saides When sho the joined peoplo them. rose She against fought Ver- des
peratcly and with mad daring in the
most exposed situations, and per
formed prodigies of valor, Sho was
even more influential with Iter tongue
than with her arms, and when her oom
rados turned to ttv from the trout >s she
taunted them with cowardice, and hur
rying to tho cannon whioh they had ite
sorted she loaded it herself and fired it
again and again at the advancing eno
my, refusing to surrender until finally
she was wounded and taken prisoner
while unconscious,
louise was anxious to die for her
country, and when, having been tried
by court-martial, and condemned to die,
her sentence was commuted to trans
portation for life in consideration of her
s ex, she protested against the reprieve,
S| 'd even addressed a letter to \ tutor
Hugo, imploring him to save her from
surviving her lost cause. With the
ot time she became more recon
ctled to her reprieves, and hoped that
* ommune might have another
chance, which hope she now seems to
think is possible of being realized . Upon
the eve ot her departure for New Cale
donia she said to those alxouther: "Y>e
shall come back, bo sure of that. The
** recognized as the de
i.
retaining ,* the favor of her followers in
FnMlce ^ m i when she returned with her
f(>)law xiles . she was received with the
m<wtcuthusiastic demonstrations of re
sard and affection. Her influence since
tu ’ r lo tranco has ’ * “““ 'V,?
P 0 «‘ bl * V* en “°J'J?®'
m.S the reqfn of the t^m^ne, and her
jh-nunciattons of the ( ”''ernnien t and
Gambetta, whom she styles'the Gambettmsm wowt
f«>e of the Republic have and been
the sum of all evils, uncea>-
4n ^ and it would appear from recent
evet ' ? ' h: * ve made tl.otr impression upon
during her cvent
ful lifct ; me en d U red anxiety and suffer
in*, -n; 1 P^sed through many dangers.
but the ardor of her youth is not
quenched nor her imperious will broken,
and though hdrface when in repose is
thin and haggard and her hair streaked
with gfay, when she stands before the
peoplo to speak to them hep voice is
found to be still strong and- resonant,
and her countenance kindles and her
youth appears to return. Though mis¬ all
taken, she evidently believes that
that she declares is absolutely right and
true, and while she lives and has the
power to speak, should be a constant
source of anxiety to the rulers of the Re¬
public .—C incinnati Comm ertiai.
The Women of Cyprus.
A spec al correspondent of the New
York World writ -s from the island of
Cyprus as follows:
Nicosia, the capita’, is undoubtedly
the town containing a larger proportion
of Turks than any other part of Cyprus.
The Turkish women there are certainly
beautiful and art; very numerous, and
alihongli they wore obliged to the oonform Turk¬
to Moslem regulations during kicked the
ish rule they have ox'er
traces since the Britsh occupation.
When Cyprus was Turkish the women
were Turkish in every respect. They
hardly ever went out, and then only to
the hamam, or 1 afh, attended by old
women, servants, or eunuchs, their
faces covered with yasmaks so that
not even a Turk should see them, far
more a Christian. Whenever they met
a man and before he could approach
them they would turn their faces to the
wa 1 and pull their feretzes, or gowns,
tighlly over their heads, while the at¬
tending servants and eunuchs would
call out to the stranger to make haste
and go his way so that their “lady”
should pass unmolested. They never
appeared at their doors and their
windows ’.vero protected with wood¬
en cross-bars so close together
that, although they could see in¬
to the street, nobody could see
them. Now, however, all is changed. she
The Turkish xvoman, knowing that
can no more be punished whose by the re¬
ligious authorities, power
ceased the day the British troops first
put foot in the island, claimed lias openly
thrown off' the yoke and her in¬
dependence, and w.tli a vengance, too.
Turkish husbands, fathers, and brothers
and friends are frantic with despair and at
the turn affairs have taken,
should a Turk come here from any
other part of the Islam he would not
believe his own eyes, for this is the very
lirst time and place that “the thing.” has
as the faithful call the woman,
dared to act in direct opposition to all
that is dear to Mahometans. Women
belonging'to the harem can now be
seen at all hours of the day and night of in
the streets and on the ramparts
Nicosia, retaining their feretzes. but
not covering their faces with yasmaks—
at least the pretty ones do not—and an
officer friend of rnino has discovered
the Way to iimi out in the distance if a
Turkish woman is good-looking or not.
If she is pretty she is sure to go about
with her face unveiled, but should sho
know herself to be ugly she is certain
to have her face closely judge wrapped up,
leaving the Giaours to of her looks
by the lire of her eyes which
are always uncovered, and as it
is Turkish next to impossible without to find
a uninitiated woman will superb
eyes the at first sight
think he has encountered a hour!. If,
however, the harem beaut es would
content themselves with simply husbands walking
about with uncovered faces
and brothers would not have much to
complhiti of, but unfortunately this is
not all. They talk to the Christians,
and xvalk arm-in-arm with tho English
officers, and even with the soldiers.
They give coffee parties to which gen¬
tlemen and only, instead and they of Giaours, receiving are their in¬
vited,
x isitors in the selamlik part of the
house, where all men should be re¬
ceived, they receive them in the harem
quarters, and when their husbands or
other relatives come home they and rush are
shocked xvith what they Inter
to the harem to find the door closed
against them, and to be told that they
must have made a mistake in coming to
the sacred female entrance, as accord¬
ing to Mussuiroin usages, which they
so much love, their place is in the sel
amlik. I saw them sitting in the cafes
smoking and drinking raki! Actually
drinking. Fancy a drunken Turkish
woman! Surely the xvorld is coming to
an end and Mahomet’s wife Ayesha
must bo turning in her coffin. “Take a
seat, sir,” says the him cafedgi, dismay or and propri¬ feel
etor. I stare at in
certain that lam in a dream and squeeze
the arm of tho friend xvho accompanies
me. telling him it must be a dream.
“Dream be blowed,” says ho; “xvait
a minute”—which he has hardly
said, when a barrel organ starts up,
“Orphee aux Enters,” and the hanoums
dance—and (Turkish xvornen) alone, dance--actually with Tommy
not but
Atkins, and Tommy Atkins of the low¬
est type. They dance; understand the music,
they cancan! know the Is but Mabille, what is abol¬ this?
The this the
ished in l’aris to be transplanted in
Cyprus? be By Allah! But but what this verily 1 will can¬ and
not true say
think xvhat I may, there they were, and
there. I understand, they can be seen at
any island time. Every Turkish divorce, woman in tho
is suing for a which tho
husbands are only too glad to grant,
and if the Turks themselves over expect
to get wives or a harem again they are
very much mistaken, unless they search
for them among the Christian popula¬
tion.
l have lived in Mahometan countries
all my life, and this is the first time I
have met the emancipated Turkish
woman, and after a careful study of the
subject I have arrived at the conclusion waiting
that the harem inmate is only
for a chance to put an end to harem
life, and that if the British occupation
of Egypt and continues religious for authorities any length lose of
time the
their hold on the female population,
good-by eunuclis to and harems slaverv. and through them to
to
His Honor.
Steppins into the office of a lawyet
who prefixes “Hon.” to his name, Jones
was informed by the clerk, “Mr. Blank
was talking of going to New York,
Very likely his honor h as gone.” “No
doubt of it.” said Jones, as he closed the
door; “no doubt of it—if he ever haJ
any.”
—During the past summer the hay
used at the frent of the Northern Pacific
Railroad cost, in some instances, as high
an eighty dollars a ton. Oa’s retaihd
u high as six. dollars a hundred pounds,
Hr. Nye’s Aftcr-EIeetlu* Beffeetlens.
We hare met ihi enemy and we are
bis'n. We hare made our reai rks, and
we ere now ready to lis'en to the gen¬
tleman from Next- York. VVe could have
dug oat, perhaps, and explained about
New York, but when almost every State
n the Union rose up and made certain
•ta'ouun's, yesterday, we found thht
the job of explain ng this nratter thor¬
oughly would be wearisome and require
a great deal of time.
We do not t lame the Democracy for
tliii. We grieved. are a little surprised, intorfero howev¬ with
er. and It will
ttiir wardr be this winter. With an
overcoat on Wyoming, a plug hat Penn¬ in
Iowa, a pair of pantaloons general on
sylvania and boots on the re¬
sult, it looks now as though we would
probably go through the winter
wrapped in a Bed qu It and profound*
meditation.
VVe intended to publish an extra this
morning, bu' the news was of such a
character ihat we thought we would get
along without it- What was the use
publishing an extra with a Republican
majority only in Red But es?
Th ■ cause of this great Democratic
freshet in New Yor* yesterday—but idea
why go into details, we all have an
wliv it was so. The number of votes
would seem to indicate that there xvas a
tendency toward Democracy throughout
the S a e.
Now. in Pennsylvania, if you will look
over the returns care.ully—but why
should we take up your valuabio time
offering an explanation of a political
mat er of the past? would
Under the circumstances some
go and yield unto the soothing influ¬
ences of the maddening bowl, but we do
not advise that, it would only furnish
temporary relief, and the recoil would
be We unpleasant. arduous duties with
resume our a
feeling of extreme ennui, and xvilh that
sense of surprise and astonishment that
a man does who has had a large brick
block fall on him when he was not ex¬
pecting it. Although we feel a littla
lonely to-day—having met but few Re¬
publicans on the street, who xvere
obliged to come out and do their
marketing—we still hope for the future.
The grand old Republican party-
But unit’s what we said last week.
It sounds hollow, now, and meaning¬
less, somehow, because our voice is a
little hoarse, and we are snowed under
so deep that it is difficult for us to
enunciate.
Now. about those bets. It the parties
to whom we owe bets—and weowemost
everybody xvill just agree to take the
stakes, and not go into details; not
stop to ask us about the state of our
mind, and talk about how it was done,
we don't care, We don’t wish to have
this thing explained at all. We are not
of an inquiring turn of mind. Just
plain facts are good enough for In us,
without any harrowing details. the
meantime we are going to work to earn
some more money to bet on the election.
Judge Folgerand others, come over and
see us, when you have time, and wa
will talk th’s matter over. Mr. B.
Butler, we wish we had your longevity. find that
With a robust constitution, we
most any man can wear out cruel fata
and get there at last. We do not feel
so angry as we do grieved and sur
prised. *We are pained to see the
American people thus betray our con
fidence and throw a large wardrobe in¬
to the hands of the relentless foe.—
Ni/e's Boomerang.
Frightened.
Stage-drivers among the Rockies and
Sierras learn to be as peremptory as
they are daring—and probably lrom the
same necessity. They will itax-e their
orders obeyed. This is notsaying that in
tho instance here told the Jehu might
not have built his soarecroxv story on
some bit of fact.
A correspondent of the San Francisco
Post relates the following incident of a
stage ride through the mountains: We
xvere going to say that on this exceedingly particu¬
lar trip we passengers were
annoyed by the persistence with which
voting Foss (the driver) demanded that
stage"doors their being bo kept opened closed, caused particularly
when an ap¬
preciable circulation of air.
Just as xve xvere rounding a particu¬ the
larly narrow turn in the taco of
cliff; Foss noticed that the inside door,
to to speak, was being held a ar.
Promptly putting on the brakes and
bringing his horses to a halt, he desoend
ed. said,
••Do you see that rock?” he
pointing to a huge boxvlder ahead that
barelv left room for the stage to pass.
“What of it?”
“Only this. Last season a somebody stage was
passing that roek when
opened the door. The door caught on
the roek, and :xs it opened further the cliff. just
pried the whole business over
That little speck way down there is one
of tho hind wheels caught on shut?” a tree.
Now xvill vou keep that door
It took half an hour to get that door
opened when we got tol'ahstoga. every
individual on hoard having separately
tied it shut with his handkerchief.
Our Bodies After Death.
Within a very near approach to truth,
the hninan family inhabiting the earth
has been estimated by death at is 1,000,000,000;^the 18,000,000. Now,
annual loss
the weight of the animal matter of this
lmmense body cast into the grave is no
less than 634,000 tons, anil its decom¬
position produces 98,000,000 cubic
feet of matter. The vegetable produc¬
tions of the earth clear away from the
earth the gases thus generated, and de¬
composing and assimilatiug them for
their oxvu increase. This circle of changes
has been going on ever since man l>e
.'ame an occupier of the earth. He feeds
on the lower animals and on the seeds of
plants, which in due time become a part
xf himself. The lower animals feed upon
the herbs and grasses, which in their
turn become the animal; then, By it>
leath again pass into the atmosphere,
aid are ready once more to l>e assiinil
ited By plants, the earth or bone sub
-tance uloue remaining where it is de
posited. ______
All praise wrongly directed, or sug¬
gested by selfish motives, is an injuri¬
ous element in society. It perpetuates
much that ought to l»e repressed, it fills
silly minds with vanity and egotism,
j panders human character. to some of Insincere the worst flattery features
[ does this.
peciaiiy
A Bride to Hand,
The Hart'ord Crnrant p-ints the fol¬
lowing extract from a letter received
by a Hartford lady ;rom one of the re¬
turned Chinese studen s: “I went
home to see my relations the last of
March. When I first reached home
you can imagine how gad my looking lather
and relatives were to see me so
well and rob ;st. They all flocked
around me and asked me many ques¬
tions. My little nephew, sent and by his
mother, came behind ine pulled
my cue to see if it were real or talse.
I am going to tell you something landed which
will surprise you. W r hen I first
• in Shanghai my lather wrote to me that
while I was away a great raauv of his
friends had o i'ered their daughters had to
be engaged to me, anil that he at
last, without consulting me, selected
one for me from a mandarin. You
know that it is a ci atom here for the
parents to contract marriages without
consulting the wishes of those who are
to he rniied. On hearing of my en¬
gagement I tried to break it off, but
without success, as the Chinese con¬
sider an engagement of marriage the
most sacred contract. If it is once made
it can never be broken. According
to the Chinese custom, the yountjpr
brother cannot many before the elder
one. I hare two younger brothers who
have to wait fo/ me to mat ry before
they can. Therofo e I was urged very
strong y bv my relatives to many right
away. I did not like to displease my
father by opposing his wishes, so I con¬
sented t ■ be united on the first of April.
Of course it is not a love affair, but I
shall try to do my duty. A month after
mv marriage I came back to resume my
studies. Alter studying four months
ten of us have passed the examination
as midshipmen, and we are now await¬
ing to go cn board the training ship,
which has gone to Canton for repairs.
The navy-yard is situated on the Foo¬
chow River. he place has about four
thousand inhabitants, and has cne prin¬
cipal street, each end resting on the riv¬
er, forming in shape a horse-shoe. We
sometimes go to the Chinese theater.
It is very mountainous here, but is
everywhere cultivated, even the top of
the mountain. We often climb the
mountain and ramble among the rice
fields; sometimes we go through a vil¬
lage where we meet village maidens
wearing ear-rings measuring four or
five inches across. Another country
girl dresses her hair with so many pins,
stick- and toys that it protrudes head. about a
foot and a half from the
To Teach a Horse How to Haek and
to Lead.
Take him to the top of a rather steep
piece the of ground, slope, throw stand the his bridle hind reins feet
down
over the neck, place yourself each in side front,
and take hold of them on of
the head close up to the bit. Now press
the bit against the sides of the mouth,
and speak gently—“back, back”—and
the horse will soon learn to do this.
Next, take him on to the top of the ground
not quite so steep, and pursue same
course. When the horse has learned to
back readily down hill he can be taken
on to level ground to do it. As soon as
this lesson is well taught, harness him
to a light, empty wagon, and go through
the same eriurae. When completed,
jump into the wagon, take the reins in
hand, pull on them, at the same time
speaking to him, “back, back,” and
thus keep up the discipline till the ani¬
mal is perfected in it. If he has a mate,
after both are well instructed, they can
be harnessed together and drilled till
perfect in backing.
Three things, as above stated, must
be strictly observed: First, to place the
horse with his back down descending
ground; second, when harnessed, let it
be to a light, empty wagon, which re¬
quires the least possible effort to back
it; third, be perfectly kind to the horse,
speak gently, pat it on the neck, stroke
down its face with the hand, and on no
account strike it. As soon as the horse
understands what is wanted of him, he
will do it with alacrity. It is not from
ill-temper or stubbornness that a horse
does not back at once when spoken does to,
it is from sheer wanted, ignorance—he how do not it
know what is or to
till gently second taught. method Is harness the
A to
horse alongside of another well broken
to back, and set the hind end of the
wagon on a sloping piece of ground,and jump
follow the directions above, or in¬
to the wagon and take the reins in hand;
but it is better to discipline alone at first,
as above.
To teach a horse to lead, let a man or
boy take the end of the bridle in hand
and gently pull on it, while another
holds out a dish with grain or meal in it.
The horse will then advance to it. Now
let hitn nibble a small quantity, then
move with the dish a little further in
front, and so keep on till he is taught to
lead well. He can also another be taught by
putting him alongside of horse
which loads easily. He ought to be
rather hungry when thus drilled, so he
will come up eagerly to the dish of grain.
—Rural Ne w Yorker.
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A man is astonishing the people of
Milwaukee by walking on water. He
wears shoes resembling coffins, and goes
three miles an hour at a swinging gait
The Presbyterian Church of Canada
reports 740 pastoral pastoral charges charges and 659
ministers. The em¬
brace 1,350 churches and stations. Con¬
nected with the ohurch are 63,843, mak¬
ing a population of 300,000. There are
107,871 members. During the year 10,-
748 were added to the fellowship of the
church, the net increase being 3,619.
The entire income for the year was 31,-
162,154
The Memphis (Tenn.) Avalanche
throws out this suggestion : “ Every¬
where in the Mississippi delta are to be
found traces of the engineering skill of
the mysterious race vaguely called
•Mound Builders.’ Artificial elevations,
miles of canals and long stretches of
low protecting levees are to be seen in
nearly every oountv bordering on the
river from Cairo to New Orleans. Would
not modem engineers do well to study
carefully the system which these ancient
people no doubt found to be an efficient
remedy for devastating floods ?”
—Negro minstrels claim that they get
a majonty of their jokes from the news,
papers. This is rather rough on the press
but if the public can stand it, we can.—
N. T. Advertiser.
F0RE1GX GOSSIP.
—Sarah Bernhardt is going to Brazil
next spring, to fill an engagement of
fifty representations, for which she is to
receive $165,000.
—The English Nmtical Gazette -says
that during 1881 the vessels lost at sea
avesaged about one every foOT hours.
In 1879-80 there were 400 steamboat
coLisions in the North Atlantic Ocean.
cal —A curiosities Scotch speculator has theory in that philosophi¬ strong
a a
smell is nothing but a silent noise; and
that a loud noise is merely an articulate
smell, perceptible only to the ear and
not to the nose.
—It is said that the late Hans Ander¬
son was in perpetual fear of being buried
alive, so thtt, when he went to bed at
night, tie always placed by his bedside
a piece of paper on which was written:
“I am only apparently dead.”
' —A tree called the traveler's tree of
Madagascar yields a eopious supply of
fresh water from its leaves, very grate¬
ful to the traveler. It grows in the most
arid countries, and is a good proof of
the wonderful prevision of nature.
—According to Dr. Haltenhoff, Pro¬
fessor of Ophthalmology in the Univer¬
sity of Geneva, there are in Europe 311,
000 blind persons, who cost about
£4,000,000 a year, and 75 per cent, of
whom have become blind through neg¬
lect and carelessness.
—Engraved wooden blocks for print¬
ing IBooks, the mariner’s compass and
rockets, the use of movable types, and
the prototype of the printing press were
all known in China in the tenth century.
Pi Sheng is the name of the man who
invented a mode of making impressions anything
with separate characters before
of the kind was done in Europe until
five centuries later.
—Dublin once boasted a magistrate,
one Justice O’Malley, whose eloquence
and erudition made him the pride and
delight of the city. “So. sorr,” he
thundered at an old offender who had
often escaped what the Jndge always
spoke of as “the nutt end of the law,”
“y’arre about to incurr the pinility of
your malefactions. Justice, sorr, may
purshue wid a leaden heel, but sho
smites”—here the quotation eluded him
—“ she smites ”—triumphantly—“she
smites wid a cast oiron toe!”
—Lady Edward Somerset was the
first to greet her husband and the Brit¬
ish troops returning to England from
Egypt in the Lydian Monarch, but the
feat was accomplished friends amid great peril.
She and her put out from Grave¬
send in a small boat to intercept the
passing steamer, but. were soon tossing
about helplessly at the mercy of the
waves. Their signals of real distress
were happily seen by the captain of the
steamer, and he sent a boat to their res¬
cue, and took them aboard.
—In Germany, in 1881, a census was
made of the condition of trades. From
an abstract published statistical recently inquiry, it of the re¬
sults of this appears
that women are taking a more and more
active part in trades and industries.
Most of the female working branches, people are
engaged in the textile in vic¬
tual trades, and in leather and paper
manufactures. The age of those female
workers is between twelve and twenty
seven years, In all 345,763 female la
borers are which engaged also in give the 93,554 manu¬
factories, employment
to 1,636,099 men. There is no manu¬ i
factory in which female workers are not
engaged.
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.
—Celery can only be grown to ad¬
vantage on very should highly be applied, manured if land.
The manure pos¬
sible, in the fall, and plowed under.—
American Farmer.
—Two-year-old trees of the apple,
plum, pear and cherry are the best size
for planting. Peach trees should be
one year old. Stocky, low-branched
specimens will give the best satisfaction.
— N. Y. Herald.
—According to Prof. Beal, of Iowa,
the bat, instead of being an object of
aversion should be regarded as a true de¬
“friend of man.” as it is a great
stroyer of insects, and nnlike many of
the tropical species, doe3 no harm to man
or beast.
—’I he Gardener 1 s Monthly says: “It
t recently been clearly demon¬
has only
strated' that a dead branch of a tree
makes almost as great a strain on the
main plant for moisture as does a living
one. This is one of the most important
discoveries of modern botanical science
to the practical horticulturist, as by this
knowledge he can save many a valuable
tree. Any dead branch, or anv weak
one, should be at once cut away.”
—A writer in the National Farmer
says: “A half pint of sunflower seed
given to a horse with his other feed,
each morning and night, will keep him
in better health and better spirited hair than will
he will be without it, while his
be brighter. When a saddle horse is
re mired to be particularly sprightly, seed he
may be given a pint of sunflower
with his oats at night, and half as much
in the morning; he will be found more
antic and sprightly through the day,
and consequently be more pleasant to
the rider.
—All kinds of poultry and meat can
be cooked quicker by adding to the
water in which they are boiled a little I
vinegar or a piece of lemon. By the I
use of a little acid there will bd a con-
6iderable saving of fuel, as well as
shortening of time. Its action is bene- *1
ficial on old tough meats, rendering I
them tion. quite Tainted tender meats and and easy fowls of will diges- lose |
their bad taste and odor if cooked in
this way, and if not used too freely no
taste of it will be acquired.— Cincinnati
limes. _______
—In the pockets of a curious-looking
unfortunate individual who was ran
over by the cars and killed at New
Brunswick, N. J.. were found papers
showing that the deceased was a Dan¬
ish poet. Christian Jansen, and a letter
written in Danish to President Arthur,
stating that the bearer did not seek an
office, ""but desired when he visited the
White Hou;C to pay his respects to be
courteously treated. In another pocket
was a small piece of ( a-t ie soap, a
scrap of ha m tat and some la rd.
The London medical journals report of |
the case of the daughter of the Mayor *
Gramoke, near Bremen, who has slept al- J
mos t uninterruptedly for six months. |