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Farm Notes.
Pnt yrur wood ashes where they will do
the most good— that is around the peach
trees. Potash is conferred a specific
against the yellows. Stable manure lead*
to an excessive growth of wood and foliage
Plant beans in a dry, light soil as soon as
danger of frost is past, Golden Wax is ft
etringless bean, deliciously tender. The
.Refugee is hardy and bears abundantly
will produce pods fit lor use in eight weeks
The Early Valentine is also valuable a* be- ;
ing early,
Maples for shade and ore a nient should,
Tike giape vines, bo pruned in the fall. L
they are left until spring, or near that time,
they will, if ent, bleed considerably. While
it does not destroy a tree or vine to have
it bleed, or tap it for sap, it does in time
weaken it. We should, if we could avoid
cutting or pruning maple trees, except dnr
ing the fall of the year.
A correspondeent of the Knn»as Farmer
■ays he has been experimenting with sor
ghum as fodder for farm stock, and finds
one acre ot it equal to an acre of corn. His
cattle eat it readily, consuming etalk and
all, and it makes them sleek and fat a* corn
fod stock. He plants in hills, about double
the quantity he would use if he were culti
vating for syrup, and when the seed is ripe,
he cuts, Ebooks aud enree, same as corn
fodder. If cut before frost, he says it wili
retain its sweetness all the winter. i
For private use, the beat and
muskmelon is the White Japan.
it is of unusual color on the outride, gat
deners do not always regard it with favor,
This variety will however surprise
the amatuer with its delictonsness. No
melon grows more vigor, mmiokee
more fruit, or becomes a belter favorite.
For a general crop of the green flesh varie¬
ty, there is nothing better than the Caaaba
or Hackensack. The white fleshed varieties
require salt and pepper to aid their flavor
not so with this.
For beets the soil should he rich, mellow,
aud deep. Plant in drills about two inches
deep, and the row* about twelve or fifteen
inches apart. I'or field culture the row©
•Viould be wide enough to admit the horse
cultivator, and the rools not neater than
one loot in the lows. The
beets grow to a very large size, are coarse
and wonderfully productive, making excel
tent food for cattle. Those who have never
tried the mangels for stock have yet to learn
of their great, va ! ue for producing both milk
and meat.
Sir Herbert Christ,son ii said to have
carefully measured the annual circles of
wood in eleven deciduous trees, excluding
•aka, with tbe view to test whethor there was
any difference between tbe growth during a
wet and a dry season. 1 he years lfl?fl and
1879, two extremes, were selected for the
comparison. Moist seasons have no influ
enoe Warm seasons, without reterence to
moisture, had more to do with the growth of
English trees. lfractfoal men have long
known that the growth of wood depend, on
many things besides moisture, and the only
wonder is this moist season ids* should over
have been made a question
MISCELLANEOUS BECIPES.
To MrKD ChockKKV Wash,- Wash the
article thoroughly with soap and wafer,
lolling it dry without wiping. The pieces
should then he fitted together and kept in
thoir places by strong twine tied firmly over
and around the article. This should be
done as Boon sa possible after breaking,
Put the article in a boiler a little larg >r
each way, aud till bo!h with sweet cold,
shimmed milk; put it to boil for ten or
fifteen minutes: remove and let it stand
until quite cold, when the strings may In¬
cut,"and the article washed, if necessary, in
warm water.
Ckhknt Foh Mindiko fni.s's Take a
very thick solution of gum arabic in water
and stir iuto plaster of Paris until the tu;x
lure become* a vicous paste. Apply it
with a brush to the fractured edges, and
•tick them together. In three days the
article cannot agaio be broken in the same
place. The wbitenes* of this cement run
ders it invaluable.
Muokkn Glass Mat H* Mksdkd -By
devolving isinglass ia just sul^cient gin to
cover it; make the broken parts quite
warm, dip then into the liquid, and if poem
ble ., tie . them , “ together , for ■ a day , or two.
T „ p„ ' '
Finn -Add , on* ounce of atom to the last .
water used in rinsing clothing and they
will be rendered inflammable.
Incombcstibls —Dip them in a solution
of the pure vegetable alkali at a gravity of
from 124 to 1J0 ftaking water at tbu giwvi
Ij of 100.
A Dummy on a Colt.
A gentleman who had tried by the Span
ish H'.r-v a-.d -th.r mr t V d, to subdue a
wild colt‘tins, y tried thflndian way He
■ay*; “I mad* a complete ‘dummy’ m»n,
whose long, da' gling am* and queer, mi*
shape ! body, with its stu - -'bd hat instead of
a head, caused t'm • • * « -t-tfren , -u„„ much
amusetnenf, mingle :1 with astonishment
when I gravely itti led them that 'this
was the man that was going to break our
colt for us. Ia vain they plied m* with
question*. 1 wo in«WT»r none of them,
*&d they « further proceeding?:
with tbe gr^ Oiit Next morn ng
the ooit w'w# brooirht c = l order, |j
eeetned to have enti M od from the
exciten: \X •AT. xnd es joyed tbe
cnrTTinii, and p the ho vs c^ve it, ink
icg au app^e irr hand of one snd a
lamp ot si .gstr h piece of bread from
another, bad my ‘dummy
all readv, and w sis'noce of one o*
the lads. other £ide of the
animal. 1< t m the colt * Nick,
and betor Lg it fe ht of the
‘dummy’ I had the g
each leg of the pants 5
neath it* beLy. 11 e, whi?*!
the boy at tin off th*
bridle and got at wsv. Feeling
now, for the firet t th ardea ot? it*
hack, and anticipating a repetition of yes
terday's performance, me colt dashed off
»ato tie lot, rearing and plunging, and go
i6g through a ser.ee of equine gymnastics
to behold, while the old ‘dum¬
held securely in its position by the
around the horse, pitched forward
backward, as the case might he, with ite
arms flung wildly in the air, now Com¬
down on the horse's head, now or p
then giving a frantic lurch to .hr
or left, with head downward and arm>
between the colt's logs, or recov¬
itself wildly, as the terrified animal
ou haunches, to perform a ‘Maaeppa’
act, as it threw itself over the horse’s tail
and bung on by its fi»et«, that would have
mode the fortune of any equestrian in the
land We ell leaned over the bars, and
laughed till the tew-rs ran down our cheeks,
as we watch-si the pt rformanee of thi-
'free slow,' for our benefit, happy that we
knew the colt ecuM not harm him*elf, or
anybody else, and free from care concern¬
ing the safety of the 'dummy,' whose lu¬
dicrous proceedings we could enjoy to onr
hearts' content. The manenverej of the colt
to rid itself of ite» utterly reckless rider
were wonderful to behold. Finding that
rearing, prancing, kinking and plunging
did not accomplish its object, it rubbed
itself egaiii”' tbe fence, and finally laid
down and rolled over several limes, but all
to no purpose. 'Dummy' still held on with
the tenacity of Sinliad * 'Old Man of the
Sea.' At last, however, the loosened girth
slipped aronnd, and 'Dommj' dismounted
from his late proud perch, and wna left,
dragging anti dangling along between the
colt’s heels, who made one iast desperate
«®*t to free himself from it, but, as be
fore, the attempt was a vain one, for
though fallen, Dummy still hung on w,th
the stubbornness of fate. Perceiving, finally.
that no harm done to him, the colt
finally cooled down, and at last commenced
eating tbe grass as contentedly as tf the oh
jeet of his lato terrsr were not trailing on
the ground beneath him; for, by this time,
that Colt had been completely broken
That night, when be was rt leased from his
burden, he was as quiet as a lamb. Next
morning the bovs mounted and rode him
where they would, without the slightcut re¬
sistance* on his part, and never, from that
day to this, has he shown any opposition
to the will of the powers that tie.’ "—U U.
Cann, Santa Crux.
Spare Rib.
The bog belongs to the paebydermata,
; R!lf ) tf K y pack a dear matter of him after
he is killed.
The tail of the pig is insignificant, hardly
big enough to hack a hog; but pigtail i
tobacco, nevertheless.
When T sp*wk of pigmy, I do not rete r to
my pig. hut to a pig of another color; that
to any lie is not the pigment.
It has been said that yon can't make e
silk purse out of a sow » ear, bnt for all
that, a si-UH" oar ia not so hod. ffwe had a
»°n*» h ^"- « h<
A " tllB ,ftr 0R "" 01 T0H ' h '' w ’ v, ' r ' M
-
•«- "«*» P»- M,e * h " K,,h J" < t furlh "'
8o .™ P» r,B ‘ be An ' m&] no( ,
CoriHicler^l good lo ea out have known
'<>” P^P ,B w, ' n th ° ho «'
The whole hog, by tbe way, is not so
| as the hogshead. Two* u<«t a hog said
He wa* too pig headed,
The man who takes care of him, though
not necessarily a jhkt erestnre, is still
pt.rk reachcr.
The hog -I ti.esn the four legged
—does not atnoke until after he is dead,
he only doe* it then to save hi* bacon Co
must be taken that you do Del get too
of a hake on.
The hog * h ad is sometimes called min
igtet’s face, hut I cannot say why, and
therefore par*-on.
Hogs are sen- times felon mast Like
the pair tailor, they don't get much to eat
before tho mast
The tie which lauds the pig to his home
is the p g Nijc.
The hog gets very fat, hut no roadt r how
<at ho is, you wdl always s-e bi n
agaiust something Although ho d ies not
own h's stic he generally has a lien on it
Hp does not take fat evenly ; he alwa.i s
has two spare ribs. This is uot saying
mind, (hat lie has two ribs to spare.
Although a hog is a hog, he never
] thu cold shoulder to hi* benefactor
i life.
| The meanest kind of a hog ia the
' legged variety It makes one al-no't b/istiu
up to him to think of hint,
! He ia not a pleasant subject for comtem
plation, , and , , l will „ uoi txire you by , . .
! ' Z
in * rUi
i
He is generally a poor ahotec 1 need
I attempt lo shnw it to yoa.
j Tho Foolish Farmer.
And one day a tnsn who was of smooth
I ipeech aid canvassed for newspaper*,
‘ unto a rancher, saying: "For I
send . unto you a paper in Which , there . is
! ‘hat.* good for men to know; and
price thereof is in advance, and i
^ •»*■” A "» rancher r-vi.-l! Hi n. say
*“*■ hme. from here, for
1 • Bfor tho father ot ! K.i . -
hull dog came forth and bayed .W, an ’
ttie former reached tor hi* flint lock in
corner, saying. 'The tribulation . of he!
are upon ^ me. and he mocked me with hit
importunities. Doe* he think me a
! ^tetea mint after at> investigation that
1 Bhall do this thing ? And he spent his eight
Jo rs io whiskey and 'xinght a new hub
dog and heat the old woman with a c'ub
And one day h tejpp-sr arose im.I he ra.n
came down from the h'Mvens and there
much daroproes in the land And the hay
in the held w^s spoiled, and th© ioeks there
was nigh onto one thousand Uollara,
of the realm.
But hie neig fbvr 1 not his crops, he
he had housed three days before.
the farm* r erchumed ia the biuerne^ ot
apirtt *
How did ye drop or. ib» rain?"
And tbe other answered, saving .
i dropp^th cn rne. for I hav© the nrst
drop, 1 u*k**th a p©|K*r, and it satycth
Bew*r* ot th - ra n in the West.' an I 1
beware And the first rancher smote hie
rcinr unne ' Behold the *i«g of tool*
that's me." And his soighucr*. a X
took the papers, laughed him to scorn, say
ing. "Bag thy head in gunnysack.” And
he bagged it forthwith.
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A Hermit of tbe Sierras.
George Harper, who lives on a tributary o'
the Carson Tiver, above Jack’s Valley
would in seme places he liable to have at¬
tached to him the notoriety and romance
which generally belong to the name ot
hermit. Air. Harper, however, has proha
bly never thought of himself es a hermit
though such he >* in reality. For some
eight year* he has lived alone and appeare
to enjoy such life. At the head of a small
tributary of the Carson is a little, circular
valley, surrounded on all sides by steep
rocky hills. Against the south wall of the
bluff 'sounding the little flat or valley Mr
Harper has built a cabin and in the rotk at
tb r<ar he ha* dng out at raid times a cel¬
lar and several other rooms. In the fist he
cult)fate* a large patch of vegetables. lie
he*, a cow or two, a nnmHer of goats, a dog,
a cat and a big flock of chickens. He has
tamed i In- mountain quail and several flocks
are about as mne.h at home around hie
cabin as are the ch ckenS.
Mr. Harper is a great lover and a close
student of everything in nature, and ih hie
mountain home, "exempt from public
haunt," hs ' finds tongues in trees, books In
■tinning brooks, sermons in stones and
good in everything,*' it would seem. How
ever, he has other books besides those to be
fonnd in the surrounding brooks, and car¬
ries in'o his den from time to time a food
deal of solid li'eratnre of the latest date.
Also he tinkers a good deal in chemistry,
particularly as connected with mineralogy
llis eolation ofbotanica! specimens, bugs,
beetles, butterflies, etc., is probably the
largest and best on this side of the S erras
Mr. Harper once or twice a year comes
up as far as this city for books, instruments,
■ heroicab and something of the kind. He
is now i xperimenting upon auriferous
pyrites and is liable to make some valuable
discoveries, as as he has patience without
end. Jf‘- yesterday carried away from this
city a cart load of crucibles, chemicals and
the like, and for the next three months will
be as happy as a "clam at high tide" in his
den with his new acquisitions. Although
there is snow on all the surrounding tnoun
tains, ho says it is summer in his little val¬
ley and he lias not had *nov longer than
| three days this winter.
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Great Men’s Stomachs.
j The power to eat well and to digest well,
! says tbe Youth's Companion, is not. an de¬
j ment of greatness, but it is often essential
i to the sow-ess of great intellectual efforts,
involving—as in the forum—high ami long
sustained feeling, and broad and apprehen¬
ded argument. The brain is food digested;
and thought, feeling, fancy, will and ex¬
pression are possible, in their higher forms,
only as the brain is well fed, just as the well,
fed muscles are essential to a soooeM'fnl
at hit to.
L: ther had n good digestion, and
*° ,0 w Wf " ,hrou £ ** ^ d ; V,,S
,be ’ ft w "' ' " M 00 th ° houM '*° pH; and .
moreoyi r. as genial as he was heroic,
and ...... kept In* home filled ... , witn and
joy song. „
Gftlv,n *
and no gum hit e played ou the grand,
mountain* of his intellect and bis theology.
Robert Hall, tho great jtulpit orator
England, once exclaimed, "I eat like a
and I preach like a hog."
Much in the character of Pr. Johnson
exp'ained by the. fact that he wa* in
ha fit .f taking voracious stomach* to
utm out..
any
(veadi*mic education become the founder oi
modern tniasioMi, the translator of the B blc
mto forty of the dialects, of India, Professor
of Sanscrit at Fort William, and the hr t
Orientalist of his day, besido doing enough
oth« r work to imiDortali^e average men, was
urge y indebted to a vigorous digestton that
was nnver abused.
Says the Medical News, speaking of Car
y!e, who be^an early to suffer from djapep
sin, ‘'The gloom? view he took ot the con¬
stitution of modern society a reflex of
the mental depression due to had digestion
Uie railings and wailings over the degen
♦ racy of the time, his hopelessness of any
improvement, aud his mean opinion of al
the literary men and women with whom he
came in contact, had their origin in the
Stine inorPol state."
All Bat
A Wolf rout a nicP, tender Goat in a
quiet, retired , spot on the , Mountain „ one
* ’
1 ln ,h,> , 8oft 8ummer t,me . i Knd , ' m,ue -
diately picked up jjis Knife an! Fork and
^ B| „ ot Farp .
A ha; would you do ? asked the tic-at,
, with much trepidation.
"J would ‘ii-OJTer what sort of a Lay-out
this Caravan ary can spread,” replied the
Wolf.
“Are there no Fira Eecapes T inquired
; the Goat
I do j not r. Know, nor do » w I care, as * I i* Ex
pect to take but one Meal here.
“Bat—but-." stammered the Goat.
"Aw don't bnL me." •nswwed the Wolf. '
snappishly, and thenext moment the G
a I h t 1 .m am, Is ups and knocked him
over a Per.up* 200 Feet High.
mobaU
There should , be a tew against . carrying .
concealed nv..pon*.
Ktefory Repeats Itself.
Down at the Kimball House !iw»! Sunduy,
one ot & party remarked :
1 see that Gath hat discovered the cu¬
rious jaet 'Hat at the end of th#* rcvolunon
ary war the were very few mules in this
c»runL T y.
* Is th** s n ‘xfked an old ex Confedorate
“So ir ?‘4y - here in the p^per.”
' H t l'i, row, do you know I discovered the
js»oie sort thing at V ckyburg about tbe
time the sti ge was on erf
“1 believe you 1 %& tu eat mules out there? ’
•*Y* *, wtiti that was one of the worst btew*
*rer d»a!t to S tihern progress ?’
Why so?
V*use hrra mule steaks started a
ol k^ckcrt that we will ccver get riu
of intide oi Here generation*. Andithon
'he censr of uinsictooT'
"How was that ?"* :
‘ The mule ehan's soup rutned every tenor
voice in the army
After thst tbs meie question w*s drop
pea from the coavwr*ation. -Georgia Mgjor
A Moat Ingenious Jook.
Near, in the opinion of the Greek poet
Enpbron, are the poet and the cook. Both
he says, attain by an ingenious audaci't
apex of their art. And to show the in
tellectnal daring of the cook he tells tht
following story: Nicomedes, the great kins
of Bithynia, being once on a time sums
twelve days’ journey from the sea, had a
sodden longing for a loach. Some lexico¬
grapher'a explain the word used by Lu
pbrnn as ‘‘smelt’ but thegvneral concetiMi>
is in favor of the former interpretation Hi
cook served him up twenty minutes this ver y
fish. Everybodv wondered, for the season
to add to the difficulty of the exploit, W if
midwinter. It is said that once while Sel
ten sat in the assembly of Divines at We-.t
■ninBter, a warm debate, arose about the di
ance from Jericho to Jerusalem, Thoe
who contended for the longer distance were
about to yield to the argument of their ad
versaries that fishes were carried from one
to tbe other, when the celebrated lawyer
cried out, "Perhaps the fishes were salted,'
upon which the dispute was renewed with
increased vigor. But the loach in the pre
sent case was quite fresh."How, then, whs
it procured? French cooks can, it is well
known, make a delicious soup oat of an old
•hoe, bat the carions device of the cook of
Nicomedes will he found equally clever
He took a turnip and cut in into the figure
of a loach, added a certain quantity of oil.
salt, and completed the dish by the sprinlt
ling of a dozen grains of black pepper
Nioomedes, devouring the disguised turnip
with a good appetite told his friends it was
the finest loach he ever ate in his life. It is
snrely but a just reward of merit that
ptjsssessed of such powers as these should
receive those high salaries we read of in
records of Imperial Rome.
A Contrast.
“Who would an old bachelor be?" asks
the old song. They are a not,-to be envied
set of beings, assuredly. Comparisons are
odious, yet here they are in order, Think
of the superiority of the old maid over the
old bachelor in point of usefulness Old
maids are usefnl. They can cook, sew, and
take care of the children, and nurse sick
people, and generally play the p : ano. But
old bachelors are useless. They do not
even know how to drive nails or split wood.
Old mnids are amiable. If one wants any¬
thing done that requires patience and
kindness of heart, a single lady is Bure to
fie the one to do it. Old bachelors are ill
natured. They snub children, despise ha
hies and hate young mothers, and are al
ways to busily employed in seeing thu'
other people take care of them that they
have not a momeHt to give to any one else,
Old maids are nice looking and young for
their years. Old bachelors generally hue
red noses, rheumatism in the knees, bald
heads, and mouths that turn down at the
corners. Old maids can make a home o:
one little room, and they cook delicious
meals for one over the gas j>-t, in cunsirig
little tin kettles, besides making ail their
own wardrobes. Old bachelors need an
army of tailors, waite rs, cooks and distant
rela'ives to keep them comfortable. Old
maids are modest. They think their yo tl
is over and their beauty gone. If, a' et
■while, some autumnal love is given, the'
they take it as a sort of miracle, and bopi
peopte will not laugh at them for "mar- j
ng so late in life." But old bachelo
think they have only to "pick aud c.hoo
from all womankind (or a wile, and bon,;
ol their callousness of heart..
A Chinaman's Moral Ledger.
Tl"i i'lea of poitiiin one’s good and bnfi
i tl. ed in a ledger, so as to be able to str.k.
a ba anoe now and tig tin with a view !<
•1 ter lining otni’s chances in the next wo I i.
Is one that would b - hardly likely lo ocrut
t.> » y one but a C-ine-;e. In the last
number of the Chinese Record r, Mi- Scar
boro-i ;h, the author of the interesting wort
on "Chinese Proverbs,” gives us an extr.ict
frotu the running account kept with the
gods by one Li-Chun Tsung, which we tnai
aih-ly s.iy is unique in the annals of book¬
keeping. On the debt Ride we fi id the en¬
tries: “For being at variance with my
brothers through lis'etiing to tny wife's talk,
1.000; lor undutitul treatment of tny wife's
parents, 100; for smoking opium ten times,
10." The numbers indicate, of course, so
many in ..„ v black marls ia ss, /Vr i er ennirn con ra, we find
or. the credit side ot the account, "F.it
hurvine bur > a Dior P friend nd at at inv exnense Xp ‘ 1 Ot)0
for carclully nu r sing my sick mother, 1-0;
j or making my wife join me in meritorii us
works. 100."—St. James's Gazette.
H .v v t so regard to his antecedents, tilt
R '* ht Ho “- W H ' Sm,,h 18 P erh: ‘P s th "
Knginh pub c man of to
dav Ins lather kept \, » sro^U news
cure am , d e-tabislti-ig'-, r „,. t . ,, e gtreet bm
rose ro»e in lit the the world world t.jr v e. tab-.slt n* a new. , pa
P|“ r J * a‘^ 0 "”.”' n’ow wonT
Th*»u .‘J. acquired a com
rnt^n school edu dutt a.on .. icn and v d - . 1 - . - -
er in me ou.-inen. a -,e. ns. g a'lncs-i n
“ '°‘ .t, ' ne »apap r sel,ing w^l intr bn«ire** bus ness 11 it
LoI " ion Bod ®» k »* *««« U usetu! « ^
ochial and local maters he stood for Parlia
roent in Westraii ster and was defeated.
But on a second trial he was successful. He
sooo roads kirrself promiceat in the bouse
bs a roan of business, and Disraeli made
retains h'» p.ace in the news agency and
is a popular member of society in London,
snd in Buckshire, where he owds s firs*
country e*-at.
Eli Fe-kiof walked into a grocery ctore
th * d »- T » ud for a dcien eggs
"Ha-en't got acy." said the merc'nsn-,
"they re very scarce about now." "Well;
said E>i, "when all other resors fail I k-r-w
bow 1 c *" thf T m : ghn’t he
tresb. ’ "And tba is V queried the
very 1
®*«**ot "By onder aking to lecture it
a town where I re been before 1" quotb 1
Eli, esdly.— Yotikw* Gazette
One may be betrayed into doing things.
by a eomkiBatiom of circumstaaoee whieh
might aarer hare doae etharwlea.
The Elephant s Task.
An ivory handled knife to the ordinary
diner out is simply a piece of table cutlery,
useful at meals, but dev-fid oi ali romance.
He wonders not. at the ingenuity that made
the steel and fashioned the blade with its
keenly-cutting edge Seldom does he be¬
stow a thought on the haft. In his eyes it
only a knife handle, and lie does not al
i.iw its antecedents to interfere with b s ap¬
petite. But through what an experit nee
this bit of ivory, so smooth and shining, has
pissed! It once forced part of an tle¬
iibant'g tusk, and was probably dug out of
the desert or found in some dense Afrit an
I rest, while the jackals or tbe vuitntes
1 ere feasting on the animal's carcass. It
1 as most likely carried hundreds of miles
ver a trackless country and through a ter¬
ritory by hostile tribes to
-bed blood for its possession. Like fame,
ivory is frequently very difficult to get, and
when, by the exerc'se of ftrengtb, endur¬
ance, watchfulness and cunning, the dusky
natives have brought it to the shore, they
deserve a substantial price f< r the preciot s
oad that has fatigued their limbs and made
i heir shoulders ache. A tu k sold last wet k
at Liverpool weighed not tss than one
hundred and forty pounds, and it can
carcely be said that the African's yoke is
* asy and his burden light when he has to
toil along, in tropical heat, with an ele
phant’s tooth in his grasp.
But the obstacles to be overcome in get¬
ting the ivory to a civilized region are not
entirely responsible lor the present 1 igh
prices in the English market. The ele.d ant
is defunct in Egypt, and tusks arc only < b
tainable thtre by dredging in the sand; 1 u
he leviatnan of the woods is by no mean.
extinct in Africa and India, ai.d would
possibly yield an abu"dance of ivoty it 1 1«
demand only grew as slowly as his teeth.
1’he extensive use to which ivory is put is
really the secret of the advance in its value.
It is no longer looked upon merely as a
material out of which to fashion the b. an
tiful chessmen aud exquisitely carved fL
urea that stand as curiosities on quai t
sideboards. It is utilized in making tu,h ;
■ ast number of articles in daily use, from
the dainty ivory-backed hair brush to tie
■t ost Lilliputian pocket-knives, lrom tb
ti tiversal.'y demanded billiard ball to tl <
- x-head scarf-pin, that the price cf lie
elephant’s lusk mn-t go up. So dear his
ivory become, indeed, that one doui Is
whe.thtr Solomon, with all his wea th,
ouhl have ventured, had he lived in three
days, to make "a great throne of ivoty
overlaid with the best gold.”
At the Liverpool sale last week, j£ 1,20< 0
a ton was the sum obtain'd (or tusks from
■ ngola and Gaboon, and Nigo- ivory is
almost as dear. In three yean the prirt
iias actually doubled. In 187!) it wa' p' -
b!e for hr- ken to buy a; fhiOO per to
and since then nearly all kinds of ivor
have lit-en at I nst 100 percent, iti valm
Stocks are now vi r> low in the ivory >vat
houses throughout the country, nnd tl
fifty torts offered in the Livi rpi oi mark,
I were eaeer y put chased, only bangles an
balls going a little cheaper.—Loudon Niw
Beai;tie3 of Nature.
How many impor'ant It ssons would r
m ain learned if we were not surround- d
te bcautie* of nature ! First, let O' ce
s di r the flowers; take one of the sitnplt
yon find and examine it. Do you not, o’
over marvels of col r and tdia^e. In i;
iost common wb fi« d izrent room I rsfii
•Vhat a different aspect would this w >
present complt tely devoid of fl wers!
1 places and seasons llow- »•* ar- h i
itb delight L»y lovers of nature. Many •
ur llowers are not natives of our u
I he hyacinths are broiiiiht from Syria, u
ulipa from Turkey and Persia T he l ug*
(lower ever discovered was found in th ’ -
and ol Sum •«fra. It has been named i
magniticent Titan of ihn vegetab'e kii
dom.'* When in bloom it is more than nil
feet in circumference, it holds a q iart <
nectar, and iu petals are aaout as large t.
a cow 8 horn.
Next the birds call for a »bare of atte
tion. 'Ihe Dightinga'e, found only in L;.
rope and the Briti.-h Isle, has excited
vast amount of interest and admiration 1.
its delicate shape and the beauty of i
song The birds of paradise are lrom Ne
Guinea, and include some of the most bt-n
lilul of the leathered races. The cun ia
bird ol paradise is about the size of a dov
i d is said to excel ail other bird- in brie
tints ot its leathers The sun birds ot A
and Africa are so named from their glos \
t- a hers; but they are not singers N.itur
has denied some ot the brighest birds tl
gilt of songs which she has bestowtd up..:
the more phynly ciad inhabitants ot ti
c lder countries.
We cannot fail to note the arrangerne*
of the seasons. T( Before . we . have an oppor
'■ r,, ty to ji.et lirej of on<*, another coni€
, VV inter, spring, summer and autumn, em
, has its lesson which serves to enlarge an.
I The years bleBsiugk .oT bv a
Ncarcely atop to note their
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by the othersex w.thout breach of the conve
antes. Hence, careers being opened tt
have much wider opportunities o. di.cn,
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