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WOMAN’S WORLD.
FLBABANT LITIERATURE FOR
FEMININE READER*!
The Good Honseke .--er.
How can I tell her'
. By her cellar;
f shelves mad whitened wall.
ran guess her
By her dresser;
By the back staircase and ball.
And with pleasure
Take her measure
By the way she keeps her tiroomi,
Or the peeping
At the “keeping"
til her back and unseen rooms.
By her kitchen's air of neatness.
And its general completeness;
Where in cleanliness and sweetness
The rose of order blooms.
tester Leigh, in flood Hontekeepiny.
Hew a Woman Washes Her Face.
A woman was in disguise anil was flee
hap from some crime slie had committed.
Bb< was traveling in a staae coach, and
gtopje-d at a country inn The travelers
a tig. ;ed. and the supposed man got out
with rbo others. All went to the wash
shell at the end of her porch. A man
war string leaning against the post of
the porch. He was watchingth<- woman
in disguise h- she washetl her fa<-c and
Bands, and when she was done he at
once arrested her. He discovered her
•ex t;v the manner of applying the water
in washing her face. All men mb up and
down ana snort. All women apply the
water and stroke gently downward
Chicago Tribune.
"Canni Thole."
H a Hindoo has a daughter who re
•trains '‘an unappropriated blessing" at
the age of ten years, he considers himself
disgraced. From the day of her birth,
he is anxious to secure her a husband.
As g portionless girl is not attractive to
Bten, the father saves a little every year,
ao that his daughter's dowry may in
crease her value in the matrimonial mar
ket
The young lady is not consulted. The
bridegroom tuny be old and repulsive, but
•he accepts him as the husband to whom
her father lias sold her. Kven if he is
young and comely, her interest in him is
■far less than that with which she surveys
the jewels that adorn her person. The
wedding ceremonies and feasts which
celebrate her sale and delivery to a mas
ter, arc far more attractive to her child
ish nature than is her husband.
When she is transferred, as if she were
a heartless and soulless animal, to her
lord’s house, she begins a dull, dreary
life, relieved only by the cares of the
kitchen, the uursery, and the idols, and
broken by theseoldings of her mother-in
law
Scholars tell us that not a few of the
customs of modern civilization originated
in India. Perhaps they would assert that
the cultured European marries off his
daughter to-dav as the uncultured Hin
doc has done for hundreds of years.
Certainly, the following anecdote, if it is
illustrative of a general practice,endorses
his assertion.
A Scotch farmer’s wife was ons day ex
plaining to a neighbor how well she hud
married her daughter, who had anew
house, tilled with new furniture, and
many acres, on whicli eows, sheep, pigs
and poultry fed, to say nothing of a gig,
in which to drive to market. “ jist like a
leddy.”
The neighbor expressed her delight at
such a jjrand marriage. “ Oh, there's
uae doubt it’s a grand marriage,” an
swered the mother, “an’ it wasna jist
for ae thing. ”
“An' what might the ae thing be f”
ukt'l the now curious neighbor.
“ Weel, ye sec," answered the mother,
wif the “ae thing” was of little conse
quence, “the puir silly cratur canna thole
(endure) her uiau 1"
"DoutV for \V ivri.
Don't mend his hosiery with coarse
cotton having knots in it larger than a
pea
Don't trade off all his old clothes for
pair of china dogs and then tell him
about it.
Don't have more than a dozen of places
for the button-hook.
Don't communicate unpleasant news or
aek a favor before eating. The heart is
not easily touched when the stomach is
empty.
Don’t gather up all his reeeipts and
notes that he has put carefully away on
the sitting-room table- and tuck them in
the fire the moment his back is turned.
Don’t leave hair iu the comb, or your
neck curls where they will stick to the
hair brush. Don’t put a long hair on
the soap or in his tooth brush purposely.
Don’t put pins iu your curl papers or
let your crimping pins dangle on your
forehead. They are abominations, and
feminiuc implements of warfare that men
despise.
Dou't waste your breath in useless vi
tuperation against his favorite chum.
Cultivate the claim —ostensibly—when
your husband is not around, and matters
veil! assume a different aspect.
Don't monopolize every hook in the
closet. Graciously tender him one nail
for his very own—and then, in mercy,
hang your “Mother Hubbard,” your pal-
erine, your shopping bag and your bon
net in some other place.
Don’t be unreasonably vexed if he is
not ready for church as soon as you are.
If he doesn’t start to get ready till the bell
begins to ring you mustn’t expect the
same results as with yourself, who had
the whole morning before you.
Don’t ask him where he has been the
moment he enters the house, or where he
ifl going if he starts out for a walk. It
nettles him, and men hate to have such
pointed questions sprung upon them.
Beside that, we live under a free flag.
Don't impose upon your husband just
because he is good enough to assist you a
little in your housework. Don’t leave
the stove-handle iu the red-hot stove,aud
don’t ask him to empty the ash hod.
Draw a line oh the ash hod and don’t
run a free horse to death.
Don’t ask him to walk the floor with
the baby half the night. A man who
tramps industriously around a billiard
table three nights in the week, or buys
an admission ticket to the opera, can’t be
expected to be on duty at home the other
three nights. Have mercy on him, and
give the man a chance to recuperate.
Don’t disturb your husband while he
is reading his paper by asking foolish
questions. He may be only reading the
latest scandal, but he is just as much in
terested as though it was foreign news or
market reports. Be patient, and when
he comes across anything he thinks you
can comprehend perhaps he may read it
to you.
Don’t be inexplicit in giving directions
When you ask him to go upstairs for
your portenionnaie, tell him it is either
on the table, or In the Luther corner of
the left-hand side of the upper bureau
drawer, or in the |>ocket of your brown
dress in the closet. lie will have no
trouble in finding it- -if you can tell him
just htr< it t, especially the pocket.—
tjtmdim. II I
GEORGIA HOME JOURNAL: GREENESBORO. FRIDAY. APIIIL ‘2,IBB6.—EIGHT PAGES.
Fashion Note#.
Ecru cotton canvas is again to bo worn.
Dinner gowns for married ladies are
made of rich fabric.
The new Parisian have widei
panels than formerly.
Just now straight feathers lead the os
trich plumes-in popularity.
Delicately shaded brocaded sateens
have printed floral designs.
Brocade button boots correspond to
the dress with which they are worn.
Short dresses for young persons are j
draped from the waist in diagonal folds.
Bonnet ornaments are seen in curious
shapes, horses and seals being the latest
fancy.
The reel, gilt and copper galloons are
very effective on black or brown plush
skirts.
Velvet draperies are used on lace
dresses The bodice should be of velvet,
trimmed with lace.
Wool costumes liave panels, bodice and
sleeve trimming of coupe plush, in grace
ful uralicsque designs
The foundation of many of the bon
nets is of faille embroidered in gold and
in various beads and colors.
Quite new are the sleeves slashed in
side the arm almost to the shoulder,
showing lace or a contrasting material.
Trains for evening dresses of plush 01
; valvet are long and narrow, anil are
, lined with satin. The edges are imtrirn
; med.
Crape niching* in evening colors aro
covered with silk embroidery. Black
crape ruehings have loops of tinsel or
colored chenille.
For young ladies there are small whit*
toques of lamb's wool in pure white.
The wings at the side and osprey at the
top are all white
Silk cords are much used for lacing
basques, as in a pretty house dress of
mauve cashmere with cord lacing over a
pansy-colored velvet vest.
Ladies’cloth, tlfty-four inches wide, is
covered with embroidered Turkish de
signs, with cord-like effect, correspond
ing to the color of the cloth.
This season both slight and stout fig
ures can be accommodated; for . the
former, the draperies which cross the
figure and show no fastening have many
charms
Kuchings for the neck of white crape
\ have a row of scallops outlined with
! pearl beads, and outside this is a row of
paints edged with beads. The effect is
soft and pleasing.
Scotch ginghams have bourtftte stripes,
and arc in a variety of combinations,blue
and olive on a pink ground, and dark
blue and red on a pale-blue ground
being the most frequent.
Crinkled zephyr cloth is shown in
every variety of dark and light colors,
with stripes for the skirts, while tho
bodice and drapery are plaid, corre
sponding to the skirt in color.
Dark blue sateens have a border imi
tating Torchon lace, a tiny figure of which
is strewn over the material. Others have
a broad border of wheat ears, miuiature
ears forming the design upon the fabric.
Young girls were never so much con
sidered us at the present seusou in all
| sorts of garments and styles of goods for
j dress wear, and some of the goods dis
; tinctively juvenile are exquisite in style.
Some of the new sat eons have stripes of
blue, mauve or pink alternating with
white, with rosebuds strewn over them.
These will be used for skirts, the over
dress being of plain sateen corresponding
to the colored stripe.
The designs of a worn out brocade may
be cut out and sewn on another material,
finishing the edges with fine gold or silk
cord, and thus making a most effective
tablier, panel, qnilles and plastron for a
low or open corsage.
Very plain jerseys, well fitted and
without trimming, are so neat looking,
and are such au excellent substitute for
half-worn dress waists, that they remain
in favor, while those more showily
trimmed are much less used thau for
; merly.
Some pretty spotted muslius are made
as full skirts, with silk bodices poiuted
back and front, half high aud draped
with a full kerchief tucked into the
bodice; from the waist there are ten long
strips of ribbou or velvet, arrauged in
twos aud twos as to form a point near the
hem beneath a rosette.
Valuc of Lightning-Conductors.
It is laid down as a perfectly settled
fact that a well-made lightmug con
duetor, properly placed and kept in an
efficient state can never, under any cir
cumstances, fail in its action. Un
doubtedly it has happened that buildings
to which conductors were attached have
in many instances beeu struck by light,
ning, and even damaged; but it is main
tained that these cases, so far from
telling against the truth that good-light
ning conductors are infallible, only prove
to serve that they are so. A close inves
tigation of all known instances nominally
protected against lightning, shows most
conclusively that the conductors were
either imperfect in some particular or
other or did not lead properly into moist
ground—that is, the proper kind of
“earth connection.” There is no
ease on record in which a really well
made lightning-conductor, properly
placed and with its terminal in “good
earth,” did not do its duty; uud without
dogmat ism on the subject, it may be said
that such a conductor could no more fail
to give protection than an efficient rain
pipe can fail to carry the water from a
roof. Although the electric force is
neither a “current" nor a “fluid” often
as it is so described, the aualogy here
given of the rain-pipe and the conductor
;is nevertheless sound. And the reason
|is clear enough. The water in running
I down a hollow tube, obeys simply the
laws of gravity; the law is not less im
mutable which governs the movement of
the electric fores. As the water has no
choice but to govern the chaunel made
for it, under the guidance of experience
and mathematical calculation, so the
electric energy has no option but to pur
sue the path which scientific investiga
tion has shown it must always take.
Men may speak of “erratic” lightning;
but it is certain that the course of the
electric force is as subject to law, and as
immutable, as that of the stars. —Chicago
Times.
Wanted.
Humor, so rich tliat it would cause a
prisoner to brcaa out.
A farm that will raise something mnro
than a mortgage.
A fish that can be weighed by his own
scales.
A river that does not have to bo
dammed Indore it is worth a cuss for a
mil).
A few crumbs of comfort from a table
of facts.
Borne information as to thi best method
of breaking it mule without breaking bis
neck.
Borne appliance fot weighing my
words.
A rtwutf of l*m lot a iytu.—-Ar* Jit*.
FARM AND HOUSE.
MjrrrEßH of interest to far
mer AND HOUSEWIFE.
Fred .Judiciously.
If there is a time for economy in forage
and grain for stock, it is when the barns
are full. So many farmers think they
have plenty on hand there is no necessity
for saving, and therefore they feed it
with lavish waste. The northern far
mers coming here are frequently heard to
say they could keep their stock on our
waste. The charge is justified by obser
vation and experience. The best way to
avoid that charge is for the farmer to at
tend to his stock at feeding time, and
see that they have no more given to them
than they can readily eat up clean. Go
into the stalls of the average farmer, aud
it will be seen that hay is littered knee
deep on the floor, trod on, and defiled
so stock will not touch it. If only
enough was given, and the manger is
properly guarded by straps across to pre
vent pulling out, this would not happen.
Again, it is a common sight to see bits of
ears of corn, partially eaten and slobbered
over, so it is unfit for eating .-—Xathrffle
Spirit oj tbr Farm.
Heavy Fowl*.
Many jiersons sup|s>se they cannot
breed heavy fowls unless they have heavy
atock to commence with; but this is a
mistake, as I have proved by experience,
to my own satisfaction at least. Breed
ers will always sell birds hutched late in
the season cheaper than early-hatched
fowls. Such fowls will, however, never
attain the size of the early chicks; but as
the difference in the price is an item of
importance to many, we must not look
SO much to tin- size of these birds as to
consider what they will do as breeders.
Now if these fowls are bred from heavy
stock, and the only cause of their being
small is that they are late-hatched, then
early chicks from them will grow to as
large a size as the chicks hatched the
same time from larger fowls. Of course,
by breeding late and consequently small
fowls year after year, the stock may be
degenerated, but one remove from large
stock us above stated, will do no harm
whatever. Large, showy prize-winners
do not ulways prove the best breeders.—
American Rural /fcws.
How to liaise Carrots.
A Vermont farmer has been experi
mt'i t ug with an easy method of raising
them, and writes to Our Country Home'.
In the fall when I ean do nothing else I
draw to the field intended for carrots
plenty of well-rotted stable, manure and
give the ground ,i liberal dressing. I then
plow the soil into ridges, and leave it un-
Tl spring to pulverize. Before plowing
in the spring I give the ground another
good dressing of manure. I then har
row the surface level, plow quite deep,
and harrow until the surface is left as
smooth as it is possible to make it. It is
then ready for the seed. After the rows
are marked out two and a half feet apart
I sow the seed by running the drill in the
bottom of these rows. The garden roller
will cover the seed sufficiently. By roll
ing the whole piece over I find that soil
retains the moisture better should it be
dry when the planting is done. When
the young plants begin to show them
selves I scrape the soil away from the
plants into the spaces between the rows.
This gives the young plants a start and
at the same time kills all weeds that may
be starting. As soon as the weeds begin
to grow 1 put the horseshoe and cultiva
tor to work, going through them at least
once a week until the tops got large
enough to shade the ground. Three
inches apart is about the right distance to
leave the young plants in the row. If
furthe apart it is waste of ground, and if
closer they will be crowded and grow
small. It is just as much work to top a
small as a large carrot. Pull up all weeds
that are left in the row. One pound of
seed is sufficient for an acre.
Interesting Facts About Meets.
At the New Vork Experiment Station !
were tested eleven so-called varieties of 1
garden beet, one of chard, fourteen of
mangel murzel and eleven of sugar beet, j
The see:is were planted April. 24, in rows j
ten feet long; two rows each of the gar
den beets and ehards and one of the
mangels and sugar beets.
The soil was manured with a moderate !
application of stable manure. The rows
of garden beets and ehards were twenty- j
oue inches apart and those of the mangels '
and sugar beet twice that distance, or 1
three and a Half feet apart. The plants
were thinned to six inehe> apart in the
row. A table, noting the results given
in the report of this experiment, shows
that the average height of roots is de- |
clde ily less in the garden beet than in
the sugar beet or mangel, and that in the ;
Vilmorin’s improved sugar beet, which is
noted for its sugar, the root averages less 1
in weight than in the other varieties of
sugar beet. In the beet, richness in flavor i
and in sugar, accompany small size:
hence, iu choosing for table use, one ,
should not necessarily select the most
productive variety.
It was note 1 that the more depressed
the root, or in other words the flatter it
is, the more rapid is its development.
This ruie seemed also to apply to other
garden roots as well as to onions.
By planting several samples of seed
grown in the station’s garden a previous
season, was learned the fact that the va
rieties of this vegetable cross-fertilize by
natural agencies, and hence cannot be
kept pure except when grown separated
some distance from each other. —New
York World.
Management of Heavy Sod I.and.
The popular idea aland an old sod is
that it is necessarily rich. If the old sod
is subject to overflow, or has not been so
heavily pastured as to prevent it from
thickening up, this estimate of fertility
may prove correct. But any one who
expects immediate results from it will
very probably be disappointed. It is
only the most enduring grasses that sur
vive in an old pasture, and when the field
is plowed there ensues a struggle for life
that baffles the best efforts of the farmer
to repress. The common blue grass is
first cousin to quack, and though it be
turned to, the bottom of the furrow, its
thread-like roots will send up shoots to
the surface, and unless vigorously culti
vated the field will soon be as green as
before plowing.
Wherever possible, an old sod should
be plowed in the fall, so that part of the
decomposition of its roots may occur in
winter while they arc dormant. The
heavy soil turned up will bo worked by
frost into fine tilth by springtime.
And if it lias been done in the
fall there is a further advantage
' in top'dressing with manure, which will
; thus fertilize the seed bed instead of
being buried at the bottom of the fur
row. Thera is uo danger that thin extra
surface fertility will make grata roots
more vigorously. Tho surface sown weed*
1 will indeed be stronger for it, hut they
are easily kept down. The decomposing
i mas are wilt furnish heat and help to rot
the sod more quickly thau it otherwise
would.
Two years of thorough cultivation wilt
be needed to subdue a tough sod so as to
fit it for seeding with clover. And under
most circumstances such land should not
lie kept under cultivation more than two
years without seeding. In killing out old
grass roots in a heavy sod a great amount
of plant food Ls made available, and this
wilt be wasted by washing of rains and
snows if clover is not sown to retain it.
Near cities land may be too valuable to
seed to clover every two or three years,
but this is not the location where old sod
land is generally found. No matter how
high the price of land, an occasional re
seeding with clover and grass will restore
fertility as nothing else will. hortun
Cultivator. .
Successful .Sheep Husbandry.
The knowledge necessary for success
ful sheep husbandry is of a twofold char
acter. The successful manager of a flock
of sheep must know what to do, and
when and how to do it. As the success
ful pilot must have knowledge not alone
of the deep and smooth waters of the
route his vessel is to traverse, but as well
must know the location of the hidden
rocks and shoals to be avoided, so must
the shepherd know the course in his busi
ness that is free from obstructions, and
which will, under ordinary conditions, in
sure successful results.
First of all, h ive your mind thoroughly
made up as to what particular phase of
j industry you propose to confine your
efforts. In retching this conclusion, one
■ will need to take into account the amount
j of'capital invested, the kind aud number
! of sheep he will begin with, aud the lim
-1 its to which capital and surroundings cir
cumscribe him. If the owner of land,
one can “take chances” from which
the mere leaseholder is barred. A large
proportion of the failures among men
making sheep husbandry their leading
business, have resulted from indebtedness
incurred for sheep and lands, with the
expectation that profits would soon wipe
out Iwth principal and interest. At any
t time than when a “boom” is on, more
' money will be made from a small, well
! selected flock that has been paid for,than
from a larger one from which the first
returns belong to the creditor.
When you buy a sheep for breeding
purposes be sure that it is better than the
best in your own flock in blood and
physical development; and when you
have bought it, see that it is cared for
like any valuable piece of property. Good
I live stock, like good clothes, cannot be
' cxjioscd to ail kinds of hardship with
\ out showing the effects of such harsh
treatment.
Take off the wool as soon as tin
weather seems settled and warm enough
to admit of it with safety to the sheep,
and put the fleeces in such order that the
buyer will readily give you the top price
for wools of similar grade.
Breed so as to have every lamb an im
provement upon the average standard of
the flock, and sell as soon as they can be
made ready all that come below such
standard. When the time comes for
selling animals of any age do the select
ing yourself—always keeping the best.
They are worth more to you than any one
else, so long as you are not overstocked.
Do not be tempted into keeping more
sheep than you have first-class arrange
ments for keeping-—food and other neces
sary accomodations.
Do not keep different breeds of sheep
together. The conditions best suited to
some are not the best for others, and when
mixed the result will be that all will
come short of their highest possible re
sults.
Do not abandon sheep husbandry be
cause prices are temporarily unsatisfac
tory, or be in a hurry to expand your
business when a “boom” sets in. Wool
aud mutton, like everything else, will
vary in price, and the changes in price
Will come faster than any man can change
his business without sacrifice.— Ohio
Fanner' Journal.
Recipes.
Eo Rolls. —Two cups of sweet milk,
two eggs, one-fourth teaspoonful of salt,
three and one-half cups sifted flour,
one teaspoonful baking powder. Make
in batter and bake in gem pans.
Jirxnii.Es. —Very nice. two cups
sugar, two-thirds cup butter, two thirds
cup milk, two-thirds teaspoon soda, two
eggs, nutmeg. Btir together the flour,
luitter and sugar; dissolve soda and put
in the milk, then add the beaten eggs.
Di'xiplinos.— Scrape two ouncesoffiue
beef suet very thin, mix it with four
ounces of flour, a pinch of salt, and
water to make a stiff paste. Flour
your hands, and roll the paste into balls
about the size of a florin; have ready a
stewpan half filled with boiling water
slightly salted; drop in the dumplings
and then let boil fast for twenty minutes.
Take them up with a lish-sliee, and put
them on the disli with the carrots. If
preferred, these dumplings may lie made
of drippings of butter in the proportion
of two ounces of the fat to five ounces of
flour. A small pinch of sage and pep
per can, if liked, be used as flavor
ing for the dumplings.
Chicken Pie. —Cut up two small
chickens and put them in a saucepan with
one-quarter of a pound of salt pork cut
in thin slices, adding salt and pepper.
Cover with water anil simmer until done;
then set aside until cold. Make a paste
of one quart of flour, with which is
mixed two teaspoonsfuls of baking pow
der, two large tablcspoonsful of clarified
beef drippings or butter, half a teaspoon
ful of salt and half a teacupful of granu
lated sugar. Mix together and moisten
with sweet milk until a soft dough is
formed. Roll out half the dough and
line a well-buttered tin pan with it.
Fill with the chicken and broth, adding
a tablespoonful of butter. Set an inverted
cup in the centre, roll out the other half
of the paste and cover over the pie with
it. Make a large incision in the middle
of the paste and press the sides of the
upper and lower crust well together. If
all the broth be not used at first, add
through the opening during the baking.
The pie should l>c baked iu a moderate
oven.
Household Hints.
Make your table pretty; it makes the
food taste better and refines the man
ners.
To keep tinware nice and bright scour
it every two or three weeks with finely
sifted coal ashes.
Soiled white fur can be nicely cleaned
by rubbing it thoroughly in white flour.
It should then be hung out of doors for
about thirty minutes. Repeat the pro
cess several times, aad the fur will be
equal to knew.
Avery easy way to mold meat which is
to be sliced for tea is to chop the meat
very tine, season with pep|x*t and salt,
and if you wish for spices add them;
add butter also, or “try” some suet, and
add the fat from it. Butter the inside
of a plain mold, press the meat into it
very firmly, tie a cloth over tha top, hav*
ing first scattered flour over the cloth;
stpam this for an hour; then set it away
to cool This may be served hot, il you
chouse, with uim gravy.
A RACE Or DWARFS.
PIGMY PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN
CENTRAL AMERICA.
Rained Cities that Testily of their
Existence —Dwarfs .Still to be
Found A Diminutive
Girl's Capture.
Alice D. Le Plongron writes ts follows
in the New York Tribune: Stories about
diminutive people are found in many
cou itries, not as real livings, but shadows
that come and go, and are called by
various names, such as fairy, fay, elf,
pixie, etc. Nowhere are such little peo
ple more talked about than in some parts
of Central America, notably in British
Honduras and Yucatan, where people
little more than four feet high are very
numerous even at the present time.
Whenever the natives are questioned
about the ancient temples found in their
country, they say “ The pygmies built
them," and although no -importanee is
generally attached to that answer, it is a
strange fact that on the East Coast of
Yucatan, as well as on adjacent islands,
there are whole cities, in ruinous condi
tion. of houses that could uot possibly
have served for people more than three
feet high. I have measured many of
those houses. which are strongly
constructed of lieivn stone, and found
the doorways not more than three
feet high, and eighteen inches wide,
while iny head nearly touched the ceil
ings of the largest rooms. No one can
dissuade natives from the idea that the
ghosts of those diminutive people
roam about at night. They say, “But
we do see them; they are no higher than
a child four years old, and they wear big
hats. They throw stones at its, shake
our hammocks, and hammer on the bench
where we grind corn.”
It is affirmed that very diminutive
people still dwell among the hills in
Houduras aud Guatemala, but no one'
seems able to put liis fingers upon them,
which would lead to the belief that if
there are any still living, as so many
assert, they must be very few, and suc
cessful in hiding. Nevertheless, it is
credibly related that one day, in the
year 1825, some woodcutters, wandering
along the banks of the Moho river in
British Honduras, in search of mahogany
trees, was startled upon reaching a
place called Meditation Fall, by a strange
little being that suddenly emerged from
the bush, stared wildly at them, then
turned to flee. The men pursued, over
took, and brought the odd creature to
their camp. It was a dark-skinned girl,
not quite three feet tall, and with no
other covering than her hair which fell
in thick black masses to her feet,complete
ly covering her. She was very wild, but
not stupid, and finding that no harm was
done to her, she talked to the wood-cut
ters in the Maya tongue that they also
spoke, that being the language of the In
dians in those parts. As the weather
was cool, one of the men gave her a red
flannel shirt, whicli clothed her from
head to foot. For a day or two die re
fused to eat, but afterward seemed con
tented. She said her people were all the
same size as herself, and that they were
then living near Meditation Fall, where
they had planted a cornfield, but that
they generally dwelt three or four miles
away in a deep valley. After she had
been in the camp about ten days, some
of the men proposed to go and see her
people. Slie manifested delight, and
offered to guide them to the spot. Reach
ing the place where they first met her,
she led them into the forest, then made a
sign for them to stop and be silent. A
: liub-bub of voices, as of many people
i talking, reached their ears, and
the girl whispered to them that she
would go and announce their coming, as
otherwise her people would run away
and hide on hearing footsteps. Away
she went,and soon not a sound was heard.
The men waited patiently,Jbut their di
minutive guide did not return. Con
vinced that she had very cunningly
eluded them, they went forward, and in
two minutes found themselves in a corn
field. There were embers in two or three
places, and small piles of corn, as if pre
pared for transportation. The ground
was much trodden,but no living creature
was in-sight. They searched in vain,and
remained some time in the field hoping
that the. owners would return for the corn,
but they never saw the girl again, nor
any of her people. One of those very
woodmen gave me this account, and sim
ilar stories have been told by others; but
all such stories might be doubted were it
not for the cities of diminutive houses,
j which any traveler may examine for him
self.
Fish That Beg. •
'Through the last “defile” about half
way below Sampanago, on the borders of
the Upper Burmah,is a small rocky island
which in the dry season is connected
with the shore by u narrow spit of sand.
In the bay thus formed lie enormous dog
fish which are perfectly tame. Dr. Will
inms. in his book called “Through Bur
mah tp Western China,” relates: “As
we drew near the island, I asked the
boatman to call the fish. He hesitated,
until assured that we had something to
give them to eat, but at length slightly
ruffled the water with his outspread fin
gers, and called with a coaxing voice:
‘Tit-tit, tit-tit" when, to our extreme as
tonishmeut, in less than half a minute
large mouths from ten inches to a foot in
diameter rose to the gunwale of the boat,
gaping for alms. They were a kind of
dog-fish, some of them at least five feet
in length and very broad at the shoul
ders. Twenty or thirty crowded to the
side of the canoe, and. though nor clam
orous, were ludicrously energetic in their
begging, some of them rising so far out
of the water as to .lose their hahiuce and
topple back with a splash on their neigh
bors. Bo tame were they that they al
lowed us to stroke their backs. Some of
them had patches of gilding on their
heads.”
Rats Will Leave.
A correspondent of Chamber #’ Journal
says that chloride of lime will drive rats
away. lie first made this discovery on
board ship, and says also: “On my re
turn to England I took a house and fur
nished it. After being in it a short
time I found that it was infested with
rats. They would get through every
part ou the ground floor. On examina
tion I discovered that a drain ran under
the house emptying into the hirbor. I
here again used the chloride of lime free
ly, and in less than a week every rat had
taken its departure. I have recommended
this remedy to many ship-m isters and
friends on ihore; and in all causes it has
proved a success. I have occupied my
present residence for five years, and we
have neither rat nor mouse on the prem
ises. I attribute this to the free use of
the above mixture, which is also effective
as a deodorizer and disinfectant."
Dr. Susanna Rubinstein lias received
at Leipsic the highest diploma in philoso
phy it U in the power of the univeniity
to bestow.
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