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. S. HOWARD. 0 "• volume V. I Heart of Mine. 1 r , m'ne. the io igest night " Wf' in its pulseless breast • divine, of l^ht the waytoluture rest ! ■jj night is foil ot fear, shapes, that awesome rise; Kh heart, that dawn is near, ‘ doubt and terror flies ! Bf , ■ [, e still, oh heart of mine, V* ' '"f iu st love divine ! B, 0 ; joubt. why Hotter go; thou yesterday. S ee the lieacon glow BLjtinthe west away ? da y must have a close, twilight lull of peace, K'thcirtiiguid spirit throws BLjtle ol a sweet surcease. be cal in, oli heart of doubt, § Trust love without ! Lilad earth, oh heart ot mine. Kjjen under the winter snow. EiheirJ’ l |,im * ti!!o<l the tuneful brooklet’s flow; ■ with the solt south breeze, like a sweetheart's- breath, tay the orchard’s blossomed tree-), E'cth will smile, oh, heirt ot laith ! |f ~itient still, oh heart ot mine, I Tiust love divine ! If ill E. Bt'ker, in Potter’s Monthly. lyE OLD STONE HOUSE. ■lilt: re is A lint- P” B] the old house, Charley—'A here H, np is I was going to say. But Become out for her meals, and to Kii Bowricv" Bunu tt looked somewhat Bjfod a< his sister Eunice answered E tbits. /" Ktepretty face, half averted from Hg,hnit over the needle, that she plied Hihady, trembling hand. Be looked disturbed, grieved and Br angry, he thought; and there Blwn ;i tone of offense in the words Hindered. Bltli s was new to him. Ilis sister Brf was noted, among her own girl- H friends and in her own family, for ■runtime-s of her temper and the ■Ktncfsof her disposition. Ildar their orphan cousin, Alice, no ItU welcomed her more warmly ■aEunice,when, at her father’s death, lit came to them from the West, home laud friendless, but for the home anr affection she had found with them. 1: was at the dead of winter tha l tire arrived at the burnett farm tamer would soon he upon them now adhere was Eunice, her fast friend talmost sis'or, so changed, so cold t< trdlier, after the lapse of a few happ ttks. ■lntensely happy weeks' they had beei ■ Charley Burnett. If ever he lia farm-life dul) and tame, h< it .so no longer. If ever he had •islied to leave his home and go ou B tlis w< ri l to seek his fortune, tin Htifh vas forever gone. Bioiive and die at the old homestear he craved to do; to toil each ■“ ftiid find a poetry in such toil; it F-y his pretty cousin Alice would shari ■*fiome thus won! Ijtltalf fids happiness— to which hi ■•wd forward with such simple faith- W U J* lost to him if Eunice could ■w. as he phrased it, “get along well” his wife. ■ Se loves his orphan sister as dearly ■*she loved him. ■ There were but twoof them. And on ■ -bed, his father had exacted a ■ J?!f e from dim to give Eunice a If,' home beneath the old roof, so long | 8 she should need it. f*! 1 be till James Stoughton is Ij7 t 0 her to his home. And lir marr y lor a year or two I* an ‘ ess business takes a sudden I wonder what has gone wrong l^ysay'’^ 6 gir^S? Eunice would thus, and keeping his eyes onsuously fixed on “the old house,” p .“ ' 100(1 by his sister’s side at the .-•o Pai ‘ orwwi dow, Charles Burnett stiff' , s f Artc d and leaned forward, '•ng his eyes through the window v f, ln sl°ubt of what he saw. 7 eie could bo no mistake! iU(\ stealing out at the side door of ;, V ! ‘Ouse, with a cautious, fearful ■ as the very man of whom he ,f fy foment thinking—his sister’s j ■ ns sister’s plighted husband — s tough ton himself! fjj. e Joun S man glanced keenly at the ronnf 1 ie house, where the sitting oci- f ncrally use( * k y ie famii y was d ow e V Spying no one at either win /e ,“ a t room, he turned back, said aughing words to someone in the form USe ' and sto^e awa y around the ; ( j 0 lat house, into a path that TilialflV, 1 , 16 fiol ? s to his home in the ■ • naif a mile away. as death, Charles Burnett turned 10 "is sister. A v,\m ! S ie reason why you dislke' r., * le asked, sternly. J!j lc<? b urst into tears. h er h larle y. I have tried not to hate d 0n ’ e , ut * cannot help it. We have r Pr , . y ler ’ an< * onl J s^e bow she is is '^ Dg us - She knows that Janies to me ? and for ten days, W V i e has not been here, to this bp jj Ut ever y afternoon, at this time, Alice, and spent two hours or 1 with her out there. I have been them n P Ug b to stay in here to watch iook f * new that James would never me here. Oh, Charley! I am g 0 I 1 at you aQ d I both will have Ca ' Cause to rue the day when she Sh a p t° OUr home! What can I do? 1 send for James, and ask him Wll at it all mean*?” ’ • THE FOREST NEWS. NVir ex wretch ’’’ saiH rii"****- - tl,e -Pitiful bL -r \ . Charley, hotly. “As for he., if she is keen and sharp enough to Can / on an mtiigue so she needs no advice from ,„u or me ” ’ Charlpvt - cannot endure it, Chartey. And oniy think of the scandal, any one else should happen t 0 see what we have seen!” “ I will send Stoughton a letter to morrow that will keep him away For voi 1 T° n ? meCt hira at Present your sake * 1 d °a’t wish to quarrel h and T lf 1 see him> 1 shall d ° As for her, I cannot see her.” Charley’s voice trembled. •n ou , mu ; st teil her. Eunice. She Y ,3 ‘ to Btay here - once found out. But don t send her away penniless. Cive her that from me, and tell her al ways to apply to you if she is in need. Eet her be what or where she may I will always help her. Fori did love her, Eunice, very dearly.” There was a long, sad silence. to '? o "°, w is m y eighteenth birthday, and all the things are ready for the birthday feast,” said Eunice, burst ing into tears. “ You can’t think how I was looking forward to it, Charley.” W e can have no rejoicings now,” said Charley; “ but I will ride into the city and get the gift I promised you, all the same. Break it to her as soon as I am gone, dear; and don’t, don’t let her be here when I get back. You and I will spend the evening alone. But let us have no more of this shameful treach eiy and falsehood here in our home—our home that wis so happy before she came! lie added, wiping the tear away from his own eyes, as Eunice, quite heart-broken at the task assigned her or the-'morrow, sobbed her heart out, lying with her head upon his breast. At ten o’clock, the next morning, Charles Burnett mounted his favorite bay' horse and rode away from the farm, with a heavy heart. Alice, at her chamber window threw him a kiss, and a gay “ good-bye, Charley!” He lifted his hat and he bowed pro foundly, but neither looked up nor spoke. “ Good-bye, Charley!” Aye, it might be “ good-bye” forever! And she knew it not. He left a sealed letter with the clerk it James Stoughton’s law office for his master, and went on to the city, where iiis business kept him till the chilly evening was fairly ushered in. Arrived at home, he lingered in the stables for some time, watching over die comforts of his horse. At last he was forced to go in. He Cook a little box from his breast pocket, •ontaining a small golden locket, and >pened the door of the sitting room. Eunice was there—not in grief and tears, as he had to find her, but nicely dressed, and radiant-, with happiness, for Stoughton sat at her side: He sprang up and caught Charley by the hand. “You rascal! to write me such a let ter!” cried lie, pretending to threaten him with his clenched fist. “ What have I ever done that you should give me up so easily?” “ Yes, Charley, we were wrong, and James and Alice were not!” said Eunice, taking his other hand. “ What is this? Oh, you dear, good, generous Charley! What a love of a locket! with a revol ving case in it for four photographs. Only look at it, James! It is just the thing for a copy of the portrait; and Alice and Charley shall give me their pictures, too.” “ But you haven’t explained things lo Char—to your brother yet, Eunice,” said a sweet, but anxious voice. And the bewildered young farmer saw in the further corner of the room a life like portrait of James Stoughton, mounted on a tall easel. Behind the easel, Alice, looking love lier than ever, in her gala dress of white merino, with blue ribbons in her light brown hair, stood in the shadow, blush ing deeply as she met his ardent gaze. “That was their work in the old house, Charley,” said Eunice, penitently —“James’ portrait, taken by dear Alice, as a surprise for my birthday. I don’r know how she can ever forgive me!” Charles Burnett sprang forward, caught Alice by the hand, and whis pered something in her ear. And certainly she must have forgiven him; for Eunice now wears in her locket the pictures of her own husband ai;d child, and those of Charley and his wife. Words of Wisdom. Ability and necessity will dwell near each other. A good article is always worth the money you pay. There is nothing so imprudent as ex cessive prudence. Men may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so. By over-sugaring of all good qualities you may turn them to acidities. Success in most things depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed. No man can end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior. Blushing is a suffusion—least seen in those who have the most occasion for it. Knowledge without justice become craft; courage without reason becomes rashness. If mortals could discover the science of conquering themselves, we should have perfection. Cheerfulness or joyousness is the heaven under which everything not poisonous thrives. JEFFERSON, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1880. How Spools arc Made. Drunutondyille j 8 situated on the Francis river, an 1 the northern division of the Southeastern railway, Canada, passes through it. Several sears ago the prevailing wood which grew in the vicinity was white birch, which does not, we believe, make first , l ass hie wood, but which appears to be best for the manufacture of spools. This probably was the reason why Drum mondl vi lie wa3 selected as the place in which to locate these factories, and the farmers in the vicinity can always find a ready market for this kind of wood at about $2.50 to $ 3 per cord. Th e wo®d, alter being delivered to the factories, is first sawed into pieces about four feet iong and from an inch to an inch and a half square, according to the size of the spool it is desired to make. These pieces are put into a dry house and thoroughly dried, from whence they are taken into the factory and given to the roughers, who, in an incredibly short space of time] ' ore a hole in the center a couple of inches deep, turn about the same space round, and then cut off the length re quired for a spool. The machines used for this purpose are revolving p’aners, m the center of which is a revolving gimlet or bit, and immediately to the right a small circular saw with a gauge set to the proper size for the spools. The roughers receive one and a half cents per gross for their work, and experienced men an turn out from 100 to 130 gross per day. The round blocks pass from them to the finishers, who place them in machines which give them the shape of spools and make them quite smooth. It is quite interesting here to notice the men at work. A man stands with his left hand upon a small lever, and with the right he places the blocks one at a time in the lathe, then draws the lever toward him for an instant, and the work is done; the lever s pushed back, and the spool drops into a box below, while the right hand is ready with another block. These blocks are handled at the rate of twenty-five or thirty per minute. Hie finishers also receive one and a half cents per gross, and they each turn out from 100 to 130 gross per day. The spools are thrown loosely into a large cylinder, which revolves slowly, so that the spools are polished by the constant rubbing upon each other for some time. On being taken out of the cylinder they are placed in a hopper with aD opening at the bottom, through wh i- t hey pass down a slide for inspec ti ii. Here the inspector sits and watches closely to see that no imperfect spools aie allowed to pass, and a very small knot or scratch is sufficient to condemn them The spools hen pass into the hands of the packers, who handle them very lively. They are packed in large boxes, made the proper size, go that the layers of spools exactly 'fill the and no additional packing is needed, v These boys receive one quarter cent per gross for packing, anff a smart boy who is accumstonaed to the work can pack about 200 gross per day. One proprietor ships over 2.000 000 spools per month to England, nd an other firm ships over 1,000,000 spools to Glasgow, Scotland. A Tale of n Rat-Trap. Slie was a woman of Bloomington, li.d. Her husband was a mechanical genius with a hankering after a per petual motion machine, and her son was a live boy with a taste for hunting rats. The son one day set a steel trap in the cellar and went away to borrow a rat dog. The woman went into the cellar with a requisition for rations, and her searching gaze fell on the trap. “ Oh, dear,” she sighed, “John Henry has made another perpetual motion ma chine,” and prompted by a womanly curiosity she picked it up by the trig ger to see how the old thing worked. She saw. With hideous howls she climbed the cellar stair like a whirl wind and went wailing through the house, and flea into the street, waking the echoes with disconsolate shrieks, while the neighbors shouted fire and thronged into her house and began pitching out the furniture. Order once more reigns in Bloomington, but that woman has posted a placard on the doors notifying all to whom these pres ents may come greeting, that hereafter it is to be all perpetual motion machine or all rat-trap about that house, she don’t care a cent which, but she isn’t going to have the thing mixed any more. —Burlington Hawkeye. The curious name ‘"state” for rooms on steamers is said to have originated in this way: A certain Western steam boat captain called the rooms in his boat after the States in the Union—Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, etc. The name Texas, which fell to the lot of the pilot-house, remains in common use on our Western waters to-day. In the early days following the dis covery of gold in California, extraor dinary prices were paid for some of the necessaries of life. Eggs brought fifty cents and one dollar apiece at the res taurants; onfors sold for $2.50 each; a bunch of four carrots, turnips, beets, parsnips, etc., could not be obtained under fifty cents. One man netted $40,- 000 in one year from the sale ot tfie pro duct of a single acre of ground- London Truth hears from a pretty cer tain source that the entire Winter palace at St. Petersburg has been mined. This has been kept secret, in order that it should not be supposed that the Nihilist conspiracy is as well organized as this would go to show. FOR THE PEOPLE. FARM, SARD EX 1X1) HOUSEHOLD § > arm Nvlu. Brown snuff put into the wool of sheep and rubbed on lambs is a sure death to ticks. Look well to the lambs* for ticks will draw vigor from them which no amount of food can counter balance. Laying hens need a great deal of lime, in order that their eggs may have the proper thickness of shell. Nothing bet ter can be given than raw bones crushed fine. They are of special value on ac count of the fatty matter contained in their cells. Moderately fat animals are the most profitable. Every fat animal lias been fed at a loss during the latter part of its feeding. When an animal is ready for market sell it; if there is feed left buy some more lean animals and feed them. The “nimble xpence” brings the profit. In making anew orekard, says a fruit grower, systematize matters by setting your apple trees so that your summer apples will be together, then your fall apples, then your winter apples, and so on. It will be much easier to gather them; you will not be compelled to haul all over the orchard. A calf will draw milk in three minutes, and the nearer a milker can come to that time the better. A slow milker makes the cow impatient, and often causes her to hold up her milk. The strippings are tiie richest part, and if a cow is milked quietly as well as quickly, there will be more as well as richer milk, be cause of the stripping. As soon as I have my poultry houses closed I take the manure and spread it over my wheat field or on a poor spot on my meadow, and a man with one eye can soon see where I put it. To put hen manure in a barrel and keep it a year before placing on a crop is, according to my eexprienee, a wrong way. In selecting stable manure for garden uses, it is best from stables where saw dust has been used for bedding. It has an excellent mechanical effect upon the soil. But it is well to see to it that there is not too great a percentage of saw dust, as there h but little fertilizing value to it. ; A'Pennsylvania, farmer cured ring bone of four years’standing on his horse by using four ounces of galtpeter in a quart of good vinegar. Dissolve well and apply by bath or mop. About a dozen applications cured this case in six months. Pigs need dry beds as well as other animals. Feed the sheep well, give them fresh pure water, and keep them out of t e wet. Soils which Are heavy and contain much inert vegetable matter are. jn Euglan.d called deaf, which is a good and "poetic characterization'.- - * :r Young steers lcs3 Ilian one year old, may be broken to a yoke by any patient boy. At first they should be yoked and tied up until nave become used to the ) oke when they may be led around and taught to drive. Ilouseliolct Hints. To Mark Tools.—Warm them slightly and rub the steel with wax, or hard tallow, till a film gathers. Then write your name on the wax with a sharp point, cutting through to the steel. A little nitric acid poured on the mark ing will bite in the .etters. Then wipe the acid and wax off with a hot, soft rag. To Remoye Iron Rust or Ink Spots. —Moisten the spot and apply salts of lemon until it disappears,and rinse well. Salts of lemon are made of equal parts of oxalic and tartartic acid, and any per son can make them for his own use. Another way is to moisten with lemon juice, sprinkle on salt, and lay in the sun. If ink is spilled on colored goods that will not bear acids, soak them im mediately in sweet milk, boiling hot. Hot melted tallow poured through ink stains will remove them. Insects in the House.—To thorough ly rid a house of red and black ants, cockroaches, Bpiders, bedbugs and all crawling pests, take two pounds of alum and dissolve it in three or four quarts ot boiling water. Let it stand on the fire until the alum disappears, then apply it with a brush when nearly boiling hot to every joint and crevice in your closets, bedsteads, pastry shelves and the like. Brush the crevices, in the floor of the skirting or mop boards if you suspect that they harbor vermin. Cock roaches will flee from the paint which has been washed in cool alum water. If, in washing a ceiling, plenty of alum is added to the lime, it will also serve to keep insects at a distance. Turnips on the Griddle.— l had seen for some time a statement going the rounds of newspapers, that a turnip used in rubbing the griddle, while cook ing griddle-cakes, would give the de sired smoothness, and do away with the unpleasant smoke. I doubted it, but a trial soon convinced me that the statement was correct. I found, how ever, that at times it was necessary, when beginning, to put a very little grease on the turnip, but this made no appreciable smoke. —American Agricul turist. “ Did you sell him anything ?” asked the proprietor of his clerk, as the door closed on the retreating form of a shopper. “Well,” said the clerk, “I wanted him t j take these boots; and, you see, they are half-soled.” Proprie tor falls in a faint, gasping for a glass of water. The clerk brings him two. Cotton Possibilities. One-half of the entire crop of the mer chantable cotton of the world is grown in-the United States. The ootton trade, is watched more closely than any other. There are daily reports of the amount of cotton received at the centers of distri bution, and how much is sold and ex ported. Great pains are taken to get at the exact facts regarding the supply and consumption of this great staple. Asa gentleman once expressed it, a cotton statistician would chase a single bale all over the country to see what finally be came of it. The figures that express the growth and use of cotton are astounding. The best authorities place the production annually at from 4,500,000,600 to 5,500,- 000,000 pounds, or from 2,250,000 to 2,750,000 tons. There is no surplus. What is produced is all used from year to year. Mankind uses an average of fully three pounds of raw cotton every year for every man, woman and child on the face of the globe. When, however, we inquire how much land is needed to raise this vast crop, the reader will be surprised when we say that there is land enough, ex actly suited to the production of cotton, in the State of Texas alone, to supply the whole world. The average production of cotton in Texas is about one-half a bale to an acre. The highest estimate of the world’s crop is 12,000,000 bales, of 480 pounds each. An area of 24,000,000 acres is therefore all that is needed, and that is but 37,500 square miles. The area of Texas is more than seven times that number of miles, and the part that could be profitably devoted to cotton-growing is many times greater in size than would be required. The cotton that is used fer manufac ture is the wing of the seed. It corre sponds to the light Ailment th it carries the seed of the thistle, that pest of the farmer. There are about two and a half pounds of seed to every pound of cotton fiber. How much cotton seed, then, is raised every year in the world P Be tween six and seven million tons! The uses of cotton seed are many, and yet it is only lately that the great value of the article has been recognized. When pressed, the kernels will yield about one-eighth of their weight in oil, which can be used for many purposes. Indeed, it is more than suspected that a large part of the “pure olive oil” from Leghorn, is either pure cotton-sced oil, or a mixture of cotton seed and other oils. What is left after the oil is expressed is “seed-cake.” This is sent in vast quantities to Europe, where it forms the best known feed for cattle, and no better fertilizer is known than the manure of cattle fed upon it. The hulls of the cot ton seed have usually been thrown away, but now it is known that they are as good for feed as the seed itself. We are just beginning to use economy id the cultivation of : cotton, and in the se of the ©ther- Tproducts the plant. The production of cotton is increasing from, year to year. The crop of 1879 was the.largest cver gathered. But the consumption of the staple is also in creasing In the United States we consume more than thirteen pounds of raw cotton a year for every person in the country. The average amount for each person in Europe is only four and a half pounds; in Asia about three pounds; in Africa less than one-third of a pound. As en lightened civilization extends and wealth increases, the consumption of this article of trade must also grow; and it is the mission of America to supply it to tbe whole world.— Youth's Com panion Warts. As much as warts and corns may be thought to resemble each other, they are quite different in origin, character and means of cure. A corn is simply a thickening and hardening of the scarf skin, or epidermis. It is always caused by pressure, and is removed only by the iemoval of the pressure. And we may here state that, so absolutely are they thus removed, a protracted period of sickness will gradually lift them wholly out of the flesh. A wart, on the contrary, belongs to the skin proper—the vera cutis—and consists of an abnormal growth of one or more papillae, in which the nerves and blood vessels terminate. For this reason, while the substance of a corn is as insensible as that of the finger-nail, the substance of a wart is peculiarly sensitive beneath the scarf-skin which covers the head of the papillre, and which these carry with them as they push upward. In most cases, as the equalized action of the parts is restored, they go off by themselves. They can be speedily re moved, however, by touching them re peated nitrate of silver, or by ap plying nitric acid to their extremities. Care should be taken not to touch the adjacent skin. Many superstitious notions prevail re specting the cure of warts among the people. They have been handed down from the remotest times, when supersti tion had more to do with medical meth ods generally than true science. In the aged, when the cuticle is hard, the epithetical cells, instead of develop ing upward, develop downward into the tissues, and give rise to painful tu mors, which the physician alone can eradicate. Sometimes moles tend to enlarge and become painful. A little nitric acid ap plied to them a few times will arrest the tendency.— Youth's Companion. There are forty-six rolling mills in Ohio, thirty-two of which are in opera tion. - TIMELY TOPICS. • The recent decision of the United States circuit coyvt holding that a State may impose :* tax op commercial travel ers without violating the Federal consti tution is one of no little interest to the commercial world. The case arose under a statute of Nevada, passed in 1877, which requires that “every travel ing merchant, asrent, drummer or other person selling or offering to fe’l any goods, wares or merchandise of any kind to be delivered at some future time,” or carrying samples and solicit ing orders, shall get a license and pay twenty-five dollars a month for it; and provides that whoever sells or tries to sell in violation of the statute shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and liable to a fine of not less t&an fifty dol lars nor more than five hundred dol lars. The latest discovery intended to pre serve butter is the production ol the continent of Europe. 11 is called ozonia. It is vouched for by Dr. Cameron and Prof. Sheldon, British cheraists. It is said that there is no other known sub stance approaching it in efficacy and utility. It is also stated hat the utility of ozonia is not restricted to butter. It is claimed that it is equally applicable to milk, eggs, bacon curing and fish pre serving. As oversalting in the instances of butter, hams, bacon and other articles in which salt is used as a preservative is the chief cause of their depreciation, such a discovery as it is claimed ozonia is must lie an immensely valuable one. America is especially interested in it The great objection to our butters and meats in Great Britain is in their over salting, and the great point with our packers is to obtain what is called a “mild cure ” that will at the same time preserve the meat: Henry H. Hadley, secretary of the New York city business men’s modera tion society, has made-his first annual report, and the following figures show some of the work done during the year: Number of public meetings held, 39; number of letters written, 1,003; num ber of circulars distributed, 135,000; prominent gentlemen visited by invita tion, 56; inebriates visited, 70; number of pledges distributed during the year to applicants, 22,616. The pledges were divided as fellows: The red pledge, or total abstinence, 5,661; tbe white pledge, not to drink during busi ness hours, 4,100; the blue pledge, not to treat or to be treated, 12,855. In addition to this many were distributed at meetings and otherwise, probably bringing the whole number signed to more than 25.000 during the year. The society is free from debt. No salaries have been paid, the labor as well as money having been cheerfully contribu ted . Letters from clergymen and others, encouraging the.- movement, e ap pended to the report. • A short time ago George L. Taylor, a well-to-do citizen of Denver, Col., be gan to feel a weightiness in his cheeks. The muscles appeared to be growing stiff and the skin certainly had become hardened. Mr. Taylor’s friends made jocose remarks about his “ cheek ” when the hardening began, but the sufferer himself was in no mood for fun. Before the expiration of a week both sides of the man’s face had assumed the solidity of marble. He was unable to hold up his head. His eyes took a stony glitter. One side of the neck also grew hard, and in another week the victim died. The Denver physicians pronounce the case one of decided petrifaction. Mr. Taylor was eighty-two years of age, and just before the appearance of the singular disease weighed sixty-five pounds. After death the petrifaction continued, so that the weight of the old man’s body i3 now six hundred pounds. Mr. Taylor had the use of his tongue until the hour of his death, and, realizing the oddity of his taking off, requested that his body be sent to the Smithsonian institution. “INeyer Take Medicine.” During the short administration of President Taylor, a young man visited Washing on to sell cholera medicine. Thinking it would aid him in his busi ness, he called at the White House while a public reception was being held, to present the President with a bottle of the medicine. He had rehearsed a little speech with which to preface the presentation. But when he found himself face to face for the first time with a live President, his nerves were too much disturbed for him to speak it. He, therefore, mumbled ew words, more amusing than elegant, about the medicine being “ a dead shot,” and pulled out the bottle —only to hear the President say, in a tone loud enough to be heard through the room: “ I thank you; but I never take medi cine, cholera or no cholera.” The young man almost fainted from mortification. But in less than ten days General Taylor died of cholera, caused by his own indiscretion in eat ing. On a very warm fourth of July the cornerstone of the Washington monu ment was laid. President Taylor par ticipated in the ceremony, and drank freely of icewater. On his return to the White House he complained of feeling hungry, and ate freely of cherries, washing them down with iced milk. At dinner, against the remonstrance of a physician, who was present, he again partook heartily of cherries. In an hour’s time he was attacked by cholera-morbus and died within four days. PRICE—B 1.50 PER ANNUM. NUMBER 51. The Happj Season. The seasoii'that I lore the best of all, Is when sweet April sobs her life away, And weeping dies upon the breast of Miy. When luscious cowslips bloom and oxlips fall; When mated songsters warble, coo, and call, From greening hedgerows all the lengthen' Ing day; When frisking lambs 'on daisied hillooks play, And oattle bask where genial sunbeams fall, Flash the bright streams, valleys and woodlands ring, All naJore’s levels then in life’s excess, Her cop o’erflows with new-born happiness, Spring’s glamour falleth upon everything. Blossom lair dowers in every sunny spot; Ah ! sad the spirit t rejoiceth not. —John Jlikham . ITEMS OF INTEREST. It is in a bass drum that two heads are better than one. —Saturday Night. The cattle exports from the United States in the past six years were of the value of nearly $23,000,000. The Union stock yards at Chicago occupy 350 acres of land, and will ac comodate 136,000 head ot live stock at one time. Tobacconists say it is injurious to smoke a cigar more than half its length. It is, very injurious—to the cigar trade, —Hawkey e. A man living at Rimmersburg, Pa.„ is the father of thirty-iour children, twenty of whom are living; nine were burned to death at one time. It costs from $1 to $1.25 to produce a bushel of wheat in England. In Min nesota wheat has been produced at a cost of forty cents per bushel. The Hudson river tunnel, whose pro jectors propose to take passengers from Jersey City to New York in six minutes without changing cars, is making steady progress. An elephant has 40,000 muscles in his trunk. A man was once struck by one of these trucks. He estimated that it had 9,000,000 muscles at the very least. Elmira Free Press. A down-East circus has a cannibal among its attractions, but the foolish reluctance of women to give up their babie3, deprives him ol many opportuni ties to show off. —Chicago Times. The skull of Confucius, captured with the loot at Pekin in 1860, stripped of the $75,000 worth of jewels with which it was decorated, seeks unsuccessfully for a purchaser at a London curiosity shop. A scientist sajs: The skulls of the African negroes are dolichocephalic, mesocephalie, prognathous, plathrine and mesoseme, while the Adamese are brachycephalic, microcephalic, mesog nathous, mesorine and megaseme. The hats of natives of British Colum bia are adorned with figures resembling tattoo marks. These marks all have a definite meaning, being in fact records of the, events which have taken place in the lives the wearefs. Each indi vidual thus displays his history upon his head . M. Seguin, about 1850, placed several toads in an equal number of vessels and inclosed them witli plaster of pans. After an interval of several years the vessels were opened and one of the im prisoned toads was found still living, although the extremely hard cement had become exactly molded on .the animal, leaving no vacant place between them. On liberation the creature crept out into the light of day. Audacity of Spanish^Bandits. Recently a band of robbers entered Rodes, a Catalan village in Lerida county, Spain. It was Sunday. Nearly all thi inhabitants were at church. The curate was in the pulpit preaching a sermon. Three of the robbers boldly stalked into the church. They (as in deed all the band were) had their faces smeared with soot. Rifles were slung over their shoulders, revolvers were in their hands, in their belts were bowie knives. Elbowing their way to the pul pit, they went up the steps, knocked down the curate, bound him with ropes, threw him on their shoulders and went with their burden to the parsonage. As they quitted the church they warned the congregation that whoever budged would be shot down. Their companions appeared at the door to show this threat to be no idle meance. Nobody dared move. Once in the parsonage, the poor curate was seated, still bound, on a chair and ordered to surrender the fif teen hundred ounces of gold they knew were in his possession. He declared he had no money. They thrust bowie knives fifteen times in his legs and arms, and as he persisted in his declara tion, they put him on his feet and be • labored him with a cudgel. He there upon confessed that he had six hun dred reals, but that this sum was all be possessed. The robbers lighted a sheaf of wheat and held the poor curate’s head over it. His hair, eye-brows and eye-lashes took fire. He shrieked with pain. These screams brought his ser vant, and she ran to ring the alarm bell. The robbers felled her to the earth with a bowie-knife. Furious at being baffled of the 1,500 ounces of gold which they knew were in the curate’s hands, they ordered him to kneel that he might be shot. They were about to execute their cruel de sign when oue of their companions en tered with the 1,500 ounces of gold which, after long search, he had found together with some very valuable arms. Thereupon they left. Such was the terror they inspired that nobody dared give pursuit.