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It it ft hopeful sign, indicating a de-
Wh'ftl of business, that the rev
®<ft of thirty of the prominent poet
office* during the last six month* of 188,*
increased *537,191, or 7 1-4 per cent. 4
over those *{ the previous year.
H. A. Keytar, who lectured recently
before the Boston Scientific society. ’
stated that a diamond worth *BOO,OOO is
being out in Amsterdam—the chief city I
®f the world for such work—and that
the gem is to be given to Queen Victoria
on the fiftieth anniversary of her asceu
•ion to the throne. -
A wonderful and little-known flower
has been on exhibition at the Philadcl
phia Horticultural society’s rooms. It is ,
called the moon flower, and blooms in
the evening. From a small bud an inch
and a quarter in diameter comes a beau- j
tiful flower four inches in diameter. The
development requires less than an hour,
*nd the Imds can be seen opening.
t Even the English people have woke up
to the fact that sparrows are nature’s
leathered thieves and tramps, and should
be shot and killed at every possible op
portunity. The London Arndt my, in the
course of a long article, says: “Do not
let him increase. He carries destruction
with him wherever he goes, and leaves
devastation to mark his path. From
•very point of view he must be looked
upon as the enemy of man."
From English mortality statistics ex
tending over a considerable period, Dr
William Ogel finds that the death rate
among clergymen is lower than that in
other occupations. If the mortality for
the three years 1880-82 among ministers
be represented 556, that among farmers
will be denoted by 631, among lawyers
by 841, and physicians by 1,123. The
high mortality rate among the doctors is
j]*™ to an eminent medical
authority, and is regardca demanding
the most thorough investigation.”
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The French have looked with alarm
upon the steady export of Percheron
horses to the United States,but the most
prominent breeders there now say that
he progeny of these horses, raised in the
United States, are an iinprovemement on
their sires, and that it is profitable to re
import. It is known that Napoleon 111.
used to import Percheron horses from
Vermont for the postcludscs which ho
used so much, as General Flcury, his
master of horses, found them much su
perior to the Mecklenburg horses more
generally in use.
The amount of capital invested in pot
teries in this country now is $8,000,000,
and the value of last year’s product was
about the same. Between $4,000,000
and $5,000,000 are paid iu wages, and
the wages here are about 100 per cent,
higher than those paid abroad. At the
same time with the improvement in qual
ity of our home-made crockery ware,
there has been agreat reduction, amount
ing to nearly fifty per cent., in the price
of it. Everything in the pottery line
that is used in this country is now made
here, from plain “stone china” and drain
tiles up to the thinnest and most highly
decorated table ware and the most beau
tiful ornamental tiles. The value of the
imports of lx>th the coarser grades of pot
tery aud the finer wares has fallen off
within five years.
Sacramento has been holding a “Citrus
Fair,” where were exhibited the fruits of
Northern California. There were shown
not onlylhe citrus fruits—lemons, limes,
oranges, and a curious large showy fruit
called the << j>unjftlo”™--but also olives,
grapes, fresh strawberries, almonds, chest
nuts, walnuts, pecans, pears from the third
crop grown on the same tree last year,
Japanese plum, all loaded with fragrant
flowers. The San Francisco Chronicle
says: “The tea, puinalo, ripe olives,
licorice, cotton, and other unusual ex
hibits of California products can be de
pended upon with surprising regularity
to bring forth from visitors, ‘Why, Ididn’t
know California grew that 1’ The licorice
exhibitor chipped up some of the roots
for visitors to sample, as there was a large
percentage of visitors who always asked
incredulously, ‘ls it real licorice?’ The
ripe olives were also a surprise to visitors-
The table olive is such a firm, bright
green fruit that to see a dark, purple, soft
and luscious-looking little fruit labeled
olive is a constant surprise. They are the
ripe olive, such as are pressed for oil, ami
though they look tempting, are likely to
turn the taster more nearly inside out
than anything else he could put in his
mouth.”
An interesting fact with regard to
damage from lightning has been evolved
from a study of insurance statistics in
Germany. It appears that during the
years between 1850 and 1880 the light
ning risks have increased threefold; that
is, out of any given number of buildings
three times as many would be struck by
lightning during 1880 as were struck
during 1850. Two causes for this extra
ordinary increase suggest themselves:
A change of meteorological conditions,
or the more common use of metals in
constructional. Investigations have,
however, failed to develop a satisfactory
explanation. Prof. Iloltz fails to find
from meteorological returns any proof as
to increase of storms, but produces sta
tistics to show that in those districts
where most metal is used about build
ings the largest number of lightning
strokes are recorded. Ou the other
hand, Prof. Bezold finds that in Bavaria
thunder storms have increased both in
numlier and intensity. An investigation
of the subject in this country would lie
interesting, particularly in regard to the
aafety afforded by lightning-rods. Me
teorological changes ure continually going
on, and whether danger from lightning
ha* Increased three fold, as iu Germany,
would las worth knowing.
Regarding the growth of cremation,
the Modem Orematut says that the Buf
falo Cremation society has erected a
furnace on the Italian plan ; that a cre
mation furnace has been completed at
Pittsburg, where natural gas will be the
6tel; that Cincinnati ha an organization
that is building a furnace; that a society
has been organized in San Francisco, and
will build soon; that Baltimore has a
live organization, embracing many promi
nent citizens; that Philadelphia's society
is several years old, and composed large
ly of German business men; that New
Orleans has one of the oldest societies in
this country; that San Antonia will soon
build a crematorium, and that Daven
port, lowa, Detroit, Los Angeles, Sacra
mento, Boston and Worcester have or
ganizations, and arc contemplating the
building of crematoriums.
The newly introduced Japan chestnut
promises to be a fruit of great value. The
\ chestnut is one of the most nutritious of
fruits. In parts of the Southern States
it has been found profitable to reserve
| tracts of native chestnut timber and to
fence them in as feeding parks for swine,
in which they will fatten rapidly and
■ cheaply and make the sweetest and best
of pork. Asa fruit for human consump
| tion the chestnut holds a high place, and
a largo quantity is imported from Eu
rope for this purpose. A grove of chest
nut trees is quite as profitable as an apple
orchard, and the Japan chestnut is
proved to be the best of its kind. It is
is as hardy ns our native species, and the
1 fruit is of better quality than the Euro
pean kinds. It is a small tree, bears at
three years old, and the nuts are large
and of better quality than those brought
I hither from Italy. It is a handsome
lawn tree, and its moderate size and habit
,of growth fit it well for this purpose. As
i an orchard tree planted for profit, too, it
J promises to be of great value. It is as
easily grown as the native kind and sue*
ceeds well on a sandy loam soil. >
In a pamphlet received from Charles
W. Garfield, Grand Rapids, the secretary
of the Michigan Horticultural society,
I has been collecting interesting informa
tion relating to the State legislation iu
the interests of horticulture. From tliiH
reliable little pamphlet is learned how
much assistance is rendered to the vari
ous horticultural societies by their re
spected States. The Massachusetts Hor
ticultural society, although one of the
most useful as well as the most prosper
ous organizations devoted to horticulture
in the country, has never received assist
ance from State legislation. The Massa
chusetts State Board of Agriculture,
however, which devotes a goodly share
of attention to horticulture, is supported
by the State. New York gives nothing
directly to horticultural societies, but
appropriates $20,04)0 per annum to its ex-!
periment station. It is very fair to add
that at the station much time and money
are expended in the interests of horticul
turalists. The New Jersey experiment
station receives SB,OOO annually, and
a portion of this amount goes to
sustain horticultural interests. The
Michigan horticultural society, while
1 accomplishing efficient work, has done
this without other direct aid from the
I State legislature than the publication of
its report. Its agricultural college has
received due support, and the horticul
tural department has received much at
tention. Vermont has an annual allow
ance of $3,500 for agriculture, horticul
ture and forestry. The Illinois Horti
cultural society has $2,000 per annum,
and Indiana from S3OO to SSOO. lowa
gives SI,OOO, S2OO of which is awarded
in premiums for growing forest trees.
The government of Kansas makes suffi
cient appropriation to cover the expense
of publishing the annual report and
forestry manual in goodly numbers. It
has also been of assistance in the aid of
forestry. Nebraska gives SI,OOO. Ohio
( gives SI,OOO. The Horticultural society
of Georgia is an old one, aud has done
valuable work by increasing the variety
of fruit products and encouraging the
| organization of local societies. The State
has not given direct aid to its horticul
| tural societies.
Kerosene Mine.
New South Wales possesses in the Vale
of Hartley mine a valuable kerosene de
posit. The mine is situated in one of
the most picturesque jiarts of the colony,
about, eighty-three miles northwest of
Sydney, in the Blue mountains, at an al
titude of 3,118 feet above the level of the
sea. The railway up the mountains has
aided greatly in the establishment of a
number of important industries there.
The ironworks at Eastbank arc carried
on successfully, and the coal deposits are
inexhaustible. The kerosene shale found
there is said to be the richest in the
world. Considerable quantities of it are
used in the large cities of the colonics for
the purpose of enriching gas. It is also
exported for the same purpose to Holland,
Java, and the States oil the Pacific slope
of the United States. Only the better
quality of the mineral is exported, the
scraps and inferior portions being re
tained for the extraction of oil. The
seams are from one foot to two and a
half in thickness. It is much more diffi
cult to mine than coal, and is usually got
out without picks and [minted rods. It
docs not run down readily into blocks,
but has to be separated piece by piece,
and splintered off into sharp thin pieces.
It is easily lighted with a match, and
burns with a steady flame, like a candle,
and emits a strong odor of kerosene.
The company working the mine, beside
their operations at the mine, have ex
tensive oil works at Waterloo, where
they manufacture kerosene lubricants,
parutlinc, etc. — Iron. .
A Hopeless Case.
Mother—“l think, Clara, that young
Mr. Sampson is fond of you."
Clara (hopefully)— “Why, mamma?”
Mctlier— “Because he was such a long
time buttoning your glove last night.”
Clara (hopelessly)—“Ah, yes, mamma;
but they are six-button gloves, you know,
aud when he had buttoned th<• fifth one
he usked me if that wouldn't be enough."
—Nine York Sun.
GEORGIA HOME JOURNAL: GREENES BORO. FRIDAY APRIL 2. ISS6.--EIGHT PAGES.
iC lt there ain't them hens again,” said
Elias Long, setting down the miik-]iail
on the kitchen porch with a jerk. The
stout, plea-ant faced woman to whom he
spoke paused in the doorway with her
bare arms twisted into her calico apron,
and regarded the offenders mildly.
They were straggling through one of
the numerous gaps in the broken-down
fence which separated Mr. Long’s garden
from that of his neighbor, Alvin Taleott
-—a procession of nine,‘clucking in a
crooning way and stepping high. They
came on with composed deliberation,
pausing among the cucumbers with a
contemplative air, skirting the radishes
after a dissatisfied survey, and settling
down at last among the tomatoes with a
chorus of victorious clucks.
“It ain’t going to do,” said Mr. Long,
wiping a disturbed face with his old red I
silk handkerchief. “I ain't going to
stand it.”
“It ain’t likely he's thought of it, "said
his wife, tranquilly.
“He can’t think of nothing but that
pesky croquet business,” rejoined Mr.
Long, jerking liis head toward his neigh
bor’s yard, from which the sound of
voices and the click of mallets proceeded.
“I ain’t going to stand still and get ate
out of house and home by nobody’s hens
if yon be.”
“Oh, laws, Elias!" Mrs. Long began,
in easy remonstrance; but her husband
had seized an old fin dipper from the
porch-shelf, and was making for the to
mato-patch as fast as his sixty years would
permit. There was a wild cackling and
scattering as he threw his dipper into the
midst of the scratching flock, pursued
uiern nnrelv^ijr ,f ’ the furthest possible
point, and leaned exhausted'” against
the sunken gate of the dilapidated TenOE :
It was sunken with the weight of the j
many friendly chats held across it since
the long-ago period of its erection; chats
held at all times of day and upon all sub
jects—politics, mowing-machines, fer- ]
tilizers, sewing societies, crochet patterns,
raised cake recipes, etc.
Mr. Tulcott’s croquet-ground was be- j
fore him. Mr. Taleott himself stood near, j
leaning the weight of his small and wiry j
lierson on his mullet; his hut over one ear, i
lis cheerful, round face shining with j
eagerness, his whole attitude expressive i
of watchful and profound absorption.
liis eyes were fixed upon the long fig- 1
ure of Bart Collicut, the champion
croquet - player of the town,
who stood at the other end of
the ground in the act of striking.
Old I)r. Blair, upon whose ball he was
preparing to operate, regarded him se
riously from his retirement on the well
stone; little Mr. McQuirk, who had step
ped across from his grocery to take a
fourth hand, and who was keeping an
eye on that edifice, fidgeted about in ner
vous apprehension and dangerous prox
imity to the upraised mallet.
Mr. Long surveyed the scene with dis
pleasure. He had, originally, strongly
disapproved of Mr. Talcott’s croquet
ground. He had not been sure that cro- !
quet was not on a level with “keerds”
and gambling; aud that a deacon of the
church and a member of the town coun
cil should countenance and encourage such
iniquity was a subject for graye reflec
tion.
From this—-after frequent glimpses and
occasional considerations of the game,
over the fence—he had softened to the
opinion that it was a waste of time and a
pack of foolishness;* falling gradually
into the habit, despite his convictions, of
observing it regularly—graduating from
the fence to Mr. Talcott’s doorstep, and
thus acquiring a tolerable knowledge of
its baleful methods. He had even been
known to manifest an interest in the
game, to tender advice in a crisis, to give
his opinion upon a disputed point, to
join in applause of a good stroke.
But he had always considered that his
piescuce was something ot a reproof and
re traint. Just now, as he stood frown
ing down the long bewicketed ground,
niitniiig could have convinced hint that
he lmd ever t'etreated in the least from
his primal attitude of rigorous disap
proval.
| “I 'declare for it!” said Mr. Taleott,
j exultingly, as the doctor’s ball came
j bowling into the corner; “we're getting
right along! Come in,” he went on affably,
j turning to Mr. Long. “It looks as though
j we’d fix ’em this time,, eh?”
Mr. Long shifted his position.
“You'll have to keep them hens of
I yourn to home,” said. “They’re spoiling
my garden jest about as fast as they can
; manage it.”
Mr. Talcott’s smiling face hardened. It
was not the first time his neighbor had
; mentioned the hens; though never hither
| to with so much decision. <
! “I don’t really know as it’s any of iny
I concern,” he said; “you can’t jest ex
, poet for me to be chasing hens everlast
inglv.”
“I don’t know but what you better be
chasing hens than wasting time over
this here," responded his neighbor, sur
veying the croquet-ground with sternness
in his long-featured face.
Mr. Talcott’s small, bright eyes snapped.
“You h'ain't no call, as I know of, to
give no opinion whatsoever,” he retorted
Mr. Long turned his eyes upon his
irate countenance. He was slower to
anger than his neighbor. “About them
hens,” he said; “I ruther guess this line
fence better be fixed up; needs it. They
couldn’t get in then unless they should
go round by the orchard, and that ain't
likely.”
“1 li'aint been calculating to layout
anything on fences jest at present,” said
Mr. Taleott, bracing himself on his
short legs defiantly.
“The laws allows,” rejoined his
neighbor “thnt a man's obliged to pay
half toward fixing up a fence that’s been
complained of.”
‘‘l hadn’t been calculating to layout
no money on fences,” Mr.Taleott repeated,
his voice rising to a sharp pitch.
Mr. Long’s thin face grew grim.
“I don’t know as I ever heard that the
law makes exceptions of people that are
a little clus,” he observed.
Mr. Taleott gasped. His hard, round
cheeks were red with resentment; his
sharp eyes blazed.
“Your strike, Taleott," said Mr. Mc-
Quirk, shortly; he had spent several
moment* in aiming for the middle wiek
et, and had failed to go through.
“You better jest think over about this
fence," said Mr. Long, as he turned stiff
ly away.
Mrs. Taleott had come out of the house
with a little bowl in her bands; a thin
woman, with pleasing reuiaius of sandy
haired prettines*.
STRIVE OS.
What though an undertaking
Reach but a fruitless end,
Wouldst thou, thy toil forsaking.
To disappointment bend!
Droop not beneath disaster,
More sternly face the gale!
Then yet mayst prove a master,
And o'er calm waters sail.
—MelviUe Milne.
A LINE FENCE.
“I want you to take In some of my ris
ing to Hannah,” she said. They had
known each other by tbeir first names for
some fifty years.
When Mrs Long opened Hie kitchen
door at 6 o'clock the next morning, and
stood looking out at the early August day
in the moment before the fried pork had
sizzled itself quite brown, and tne coffee
come to altoil—her faculties cencentrated
themselves upon an unexpected ••m um
stance just beneath her eyes.
“Elias,” she said, “lie’s tearing down
the line fence. He’s got Job Dwyer
helping him.” She was devoid of sus
picions concerning the fact; her voice
was me,rely inquiring.
Mr. Long came to the door rather siow
! ly. He stood there rubbing his chin
doubtfully; and then went down the
; steps, and toward his neighbor’s yard.
Mr. Taleott was working energetically.
A pile of worm-eaten posts, pulled up by
the roots, and broken pickets, lay before
him. A little further down Job Dwyer
j was amassing a similar heap.
Mr. Taleott appeared unaware of Ufa
neighbor’s presence. lie snapjied off an
other picket without -peaking. He wore
a forbidding look which set strangely on
liis ordinarily good-huaiored face.
“I thought likely you’d think better of
j it,” Mr. Long observed, with his eyes
fixed w arily on the other. “This fence
lias been wanting fixing for quite a spell.
1 1 don’t know as it's worth while tearing
;it down; I thought, mebbe, a little fix
ing up’d do it. But I'm w illing to do
my share, if you be calculating to build
anew one.” After an unresponsive pause:
“you're calculating to build anew one, I
s'pose!”
“Yes, I be," Mr. Taleott rejoined, with
acrimonious promptness. “Jest fetch up
that crowbar, Job. This jwst seems to a
took root."
Something in his voice shook his
neighbor's composure. But he carried
off his discomfiture creditably.
“Well," he said, “it'll be a good thing.
I s’pose it ought to have been done be
fore.” He pulled a grass and chewed it
undauntedly for twoftir three minutes be
fore he went into the house.
“Well?” said his wife, as she set the
dish of [Mirk ou the table.
• 'He’s set out to build anew line fence, ”
said Mr. Long, taking his scat and shov
his knife up 'and down between the
tines of his fork."
His wife turned to look at him. Her
sharp intuition rooted out the dark side
of the statement.
“You liain't had wolds with him
Elias?” she said, a quick alarm in her
pleasant face. “Now you didn’t have no
trouble with him yesterday about them
liens?”
“I told him,” said Mr Long, reaching
for the coffee pot, “his hens had been
making tol’able free in my garden, and
the fence better be fixed up. If lie’s a
a mind t*> flare up like a fool, I don’t
know as it’s any of my concern.”
He took a swallow from his cup. His
wife watched him wistfully. She looked
dazed.
“You h'ain’t ever had no trouble with
him before,” she said. She did not eat
any breakfast.
Mr. Taleott and Job Dwyer worked
fast. By night the old fence had been
demolished and carted into the wood
house, aud new boards stood leaning
against the well stone. By noon the
next day the posts and scantlings were
np and a yard of the fence done.
Mrs. Long got up from the dinner
table to look at ifc, and tnrned a blank
face upon her husband.
“Elias,” she said, “he’s got it inore’n
two yards high.”
Mr. Long stared at her. Then lie re
covered himself.
“It don’t make no sort of difference to
me how high he’s got it,” he snapped.
“I don’t know what to make of it,”
she said, coming back to the table, anx
iously. “I don’t know why a little low
picket like the old one wouldn’t done
jest, os well. You could look right
through it jest as though there wasn’t
nothing there; and it was handy to
hand things across.”
She went about the house that, day
with an uneasy apprehension in her face.
“I don’t know what to make of it,” she
kept thinking, in a troubled way.
She knew by the next night. The
new line fence was done. It was seven
feet high. There was nothing to be seen
across it except the upper half of Air.
Talcott’s house, the tops of the trees and
the barn-roof. It rose tall and stern and
forbidding. And there was no gate. It
was a hostile, uncompromising barrier.
It was an effective monument to Air. Tal
cott’s wrath and resentment .
The summer passed on into the fall,
and the fall became raw and windy, and
eventually snowy.
Air. Taleott and Air. Long did not
speak to each other when they met iu
the street or the postoffice or the black
smith shop; they passed each other grim
ly. AVhen Mr. Taleott was appointed to
the school board, of which Air. Long was
already a member, he sent in a resigna
tion. AVhen Air. Long was put on a
church committee of which Air. Taleott
was one, he refused to act.
It became rapidly known that the two
old neighbors were “not on speaking
1 terms;” and the causes and circumstances
of the rupture were not a mystery. Peo
j pie came on varying pretexts to look at
I the fence, from one side or the another,
and hear the story in detail. Often they
went thence over to the other side, and
j listened with interest to the complemental
version. The whole affair, perhaps, was
welcomed as a break in the monotony of
| the general amicableness.
It was known, too, that Airs. Long
and Mrs. Taleott were not active partici
pants in the quarrel. Their old pleasant
companionship seemed virtually ended;
their backyard intercourse was necessa
rily cut off, aud they had ceased to run in
of an evening. But this was because
neither felt “free to enter her neighbor’s
house, as matters stood; and because, in
their timid womanly submissiveness,
they obeyed the unspoken commands of
their husbands rather than face the dis
pleasure which would have followed a de
fiance of them.
They smiled when they met each other;
they lingered in the church vestibule to
exchange good-morning. Once Mrs. Long
sent in a dish of fresh fried cakes by a
neighbor’s boy. He told her that Airs.
Taleott had burst out crying. She had
emptied the dish, and sent it hack full
of apple sauce.
The autumn days filled the air with
the dim blue vapor and not unpleasant
odor of bonfire smoke. Air. Taleott was
late with his. He had put it off till his
full clearing was done —the garden freed
of the drieJ and empty bean vines, and
raked off; the weeds pulled up which
laid flourished powerless for harm during
the lost month or two, und which now
stood black und frozen; u few dead
bushes cut down, und 'the fruit-tree*
trimmed here and there. It was lute in
November when the pile lay ready, low
down in the garden in a corner of the
plundered potatoputeh. In some
of it* rough hollows lay the remain* of a
thin snow.
Mr. Taleott lighted it directly after
supper. Now and then ha
replenished it; at 8 o’clock it was
still burning. He sat down on an old
stump to look at it a- it leaped and flick
! end itself out. lighting up a broad space
around it aud shining on the high fence.
Hi* wife had come out with a shawl over
her head and watched it a few minute*,
and gone in.
A -park from the subsiding fire snap
ped into a little pile of dried stalks half
a rod distant, and they flamed up. A
twig took lire from them and burned tc
its end, and a loose splinter blazed ic
! its turn. He watched the eurious little
line of light as it ate its flickering way
along. Tin re was a small deposit oi
dead leaves drifted up against the tall
| fern*: they took the alarm, ami glowed
aud crackled smartly. And then the flames
mounted up, and grew broader aud red
j der—the fence had caught fire.
Mr. Taleott got up and walked over to
it. Then he turned, with scarcely the
haste which might, have been looked for,
and started for the pump. He seemed
i rather to linger on the way; when he
( reached it, he stood for a moment with
out doing anything in particular before
he filled a wooden pail, which lay near,
and went hack with it. The fence was
flaming brightly; but he stooped to pick
out a chip which had got stuck into the
sole of his boot, and tied the old woolen
muffler he wore around his neck with
hands which were not quite steady.
Then he peered all about him, in an
oddly guilty way, emptied his pail of
water on the ground, and went and sat
down on the stump again. He looked
cold and cross and uneasy, and anything
but heroic; but there was anew-found
warmth within him.
There was quite a crowd about the
place half an hour later, looking at the
blackened remains of the lino fence—
several men, attracted hy the flames, and
a few women hastily wrapped up.
Mr. Taleott had a good deal to say
about the way it had happened. He
said a bonfire was a plagued thing—you
never knew what it was going to do;
you couldn’t feel safe with one if you
didn’t watch it every minute. He dwelt
on the inefflcacy of water when once a
fire had got started, and pointed to the
empty pail, where it lay on the ground,
in conclusive proof of the point.
Mr. Long had come out and watched
the conflagration from a discreet distance.
Hot he had drawn gradually closer, till
he finally stood poking over the warm
cinders with one foot. Mr. Taleott stood
near by. They did not look at each
other for a moment. Then the latter
spoke, in a voice made high and sharp
by the greatness of the effort.
“Went down jest like paper,” lie said.
“I guess there couldn’t anybody a-stop
ped it. I couldn’t do anything against
it —nothing at all!” He felt that he re
gained by this some of the dignity
he had lost in his own conception; he
looked relieved.
His neighbor did not reply directly.
The darkness hid his softened perturbed
expression, and he was not the per
son to make it manifest, Histone, when
he spoke, was composed and even con
descending.
“According to law, ” he said, “I s’pose
I'in called on to put up the next one. I
s’pose I might do it any time; I ain’t
so terrible busy jest as present.”
“Well,” said Mr. Taleott, looking
down the garden, ‘‘l ruther guess you
better build a picket. I guess a picket ’d
do full as well. You h"ain’t heard how
old Lem Pearson is, have you?” —Emma
A. Opper.
The Peasant in France.
Judging from the outward aspect of
the well-to-do peasant proprietor, and
from his mode of life, no casual observer
would ciedit him with possessing sur
plus pence, and cortainly would never
dream of his keeping a banking account.
His daily fare is of the most meagre de
scription. For breakfast he and his
family usually partake of bread, with the
magnette, a preparation of small salt
fish, such as anchovies, etc., sometimes
varied with a species of baked batter,
made of oil and flour, called la castag
nace. For dinner he often has stockfish
(a staple article of food) or vegetable
soup and salad; and for supper a prepa
ration of lentils, beans, or other vegeta
bles, which later, in summer, are fre
quently eaten raw. During the hot
months dry bread and some raw toma
tatoes often form the entire meal of many
a family. Macaroni and other Italian
paste, though much appreciated, is seldom
partaken of except as a treat. But onions
and garlic supply all deficiencies iu the
peasant’s menu, and he and his dwelling
literally reek with the powerful odor of
the last named esculent..
Coffee is too expensive to be used ex
cept most sparingly. The good wife
roasts as well as grinds the coffee beans
herself, and the steaming cup is not un
frequently made perfect for his palate by
the insertion of a clove of garlic. His
drink, when it is not water, is an exces
sively thin, sour wine; but it must not be
supposed that such a luxury is indulged
in every day. AVhen he comes down into
the town he will permit himself to be
convivial with a friend to the extent of
a glass of wine costing one sou.
Rabbits are most extensively kept, and
during the summer (a period of compara
tive leisure for the farmer in this part ol
the world) visits are exchanged among
the peasantry on their champaignes, as
thei>- holidays are termed. Then are in
augurated the fetes au lapin. At these
dinner parties one rabbit is slaughtered
by the host and serves to flavoi
the macaroni and vegetable stew
with which the company is regaled.
These entertainments are usually paid
for by the richer guests from town, or,
if not, there is sure to be a formal re
turn. Meat, such as beef and mutton,
is rarely eaten, and it may be doubted
whether it be tasted, upon an average,
once a month by each member of th
community.
Pigs are kept, but not commonly.
Bacon and pork, which is of an inferioi
quality and not well cured, is not eaten
to any appreciable extent. The averagt
expenditure of the peasant freeholdei
upon his food has been accurately com
puted. It amounts to the astonishingly
small sum of only four sous (twopence]
per diem. This sum must be under
stood to refer to a family, say, of four
or five, and where the children are under
the age of seventeen or eighteen years.—
National Review.
A Nevada Borax Field.
Teel’s marsh, in Nevada, is the mosl
productive borax field on the Pavifit
coast. Its deposits cover ten squar<
miles of surface, and it is said to include
chemically pure common salt, borax is
three forms, sulphate of soda and carbo
nate of soda. The basin of Nevada, is
which it is situated, is covered in many
parts with dry, effervescent salts, washed
in course of age* from the soda feldsptu
of the volcanic rocks aud ridge* of yellow
lava which cover the country for miles,
The water* of the lakes sre heavy, appeal
like thin oil,*mcll like soap, possess greu)
detersive qiislitie*, are cuustlo as potash,
aud easily mpouify.— Wtimemuca SiUti
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At the Old Stand, Opposite Georgia abroad Bank, 704 Broad St., AUGUSTA, G\.
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