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the KINO s WELCOME TO THINGVALLA.
From the Icelandic of Mathias Jochunisson.
I.
Witli Ktron foot tread the holy ground,
Our snow-land'B king, the lofty-hearted,
Who from thy royal home hast parted,
To greet these hills that guard us round !
Our Preedpm’B scroll thy hand hat lent us.
The first of kings whom Clod lias sent us,
Hail 1 welcome to our country’s heart!
11.
Land’s father, here the Law-Mount view !
"Behold Oort’s work in all their vaetnesa !
Where saw’st thou Freedom’s fairer fastness,
With fire-heaved ramparts, waters blue?
Here sprang the sagas of our*splendor;
jlero every Iceland heart is tender ;
God built this altar for his Hock!
111.
Here, a In thousand yoars of old,
Sound the same words, a voice intended ;
As when their life and law defended
The spearmen with their shields of gold :
The same land yet the same speech giveth,
The ancient soul of Freedom liveth,
And hither, knit., wo welcome thee !
IV.
Hut now are past a thousand years,
As in the people’s memory hoarded,
And in God’s volume stand recorded
Their strife and trial, woes and fears ;
Now let the hope of better ages
Ho what thy presence, king ! presages—
Now let the prosiierous time be sure !
V.
Our land to thee her thanks shall yield,
A thousand jears ttiy name be chanted,
Ifero, where the Hill of Law is planted,
Twixt fiery fount and lava field :
We pray All-Father, our dependence,
To bless thee and thy far deeendants,
And those they rule, a thousand years!
A CONFEDERATE AMAZON.
Kxploita on the Tented Field of Mrs.
Homier, Alius ldeut. Hurry Uiiford.
Saturday Mrs. E. H. Bonner, better
known throughout the south as Lieut.
Harry T. Buford, arrived in this city
from New Orleans, en route to New
York. This distinguished lady has per
haps gone through more hardships aud
tiono more for the Confederate States
during the “late unpleasantness” than
any woman within the borders of the sec
tions] designated. During the month of
June, 1861, she left New Orleans, in the
full uniform of a recruiting officer, and
went direct to Arkansas, where she soon
succeeded in raising a company of vete
rans. As first lieutenant, under Cap
tain Weatherford, she left Arkansas
with the company and went to Key
West. Here she was reluctantly com
pelled to leave the command which she
had organized, aud to which she became
so much attached, on the ground of in
competency, as alleged by the com
mander of that post. Determined to
allow no impediment, to make her
swerve from the line of duty marked
°ut by herself, she at once proceeded to
Virginia, and joined Drew’s battalion
of New Orleans the day previous to the
first battle of Manassas, and participa
ted in that memorable struggle. A
short time after this she joined the Bth
Louisiana, and for the first time her sex
was qu. stioned, and she was arrested
and ordered to assume female attire.
Among hundreds of amusing adventures
perhaps the best with which she was
connected took place during the time of
her imprisonment after this arrest. A
committee of ladies waited upon her by
order of the commander, for the pur
pose of settling the vexed question, but
after seeing the dashing looking young
officer they concluded not to perform
their mission. She was iaken before
the mayor, released, allowed to retain
her uniform, aud at once commissioned
to perform any services for the confed
eracy which he might be called upon
to perform. As her sex had been ques
tioned, if not known, she resolved to
leave Richmond, and rejoiced when
Don. Winder ordered her to the western
army for the purpose of scouting in the
vicinity of Okalona, Mississippi. The
reliability of the daring young recruit
was soon recognized and appreciated,
and General Qnantrell sent her with
dispatches as a spy into Missouri. Af
ter rendering inestimable service iu this
capacity she went to Mississippi, aud
from there back to New Orleans, where
she joined the 21st Louisiana regiment,
then being organized, and reported to
General Villipigne.
Receiving her commission as first
from naut ’ B^ie Memphis, and
i.„ 1 , ’’ure to Shiloh, whpre she was
the "f°i l i n the right shoulder on
th - first day ot v batt le, April (J, 18(52.
... 1 \ r ,‘ l ov erin £ the effects of her
u 1 i( ‘ r f J ex was again jH ß covered to
her mortification, and Gen. Beaure
gard aud others were astonished to
mu that the gallant young officer was
hot, of the stronger sex. Unable to dis-
H!la ! e her from participating in active
warfare, she was commissioned to go to
Atlanta, pass through the lines, and act
as a spy. Upon reaching Atlauta she
was compelled to wait several days
tor further orders, and instead of stay
ing that city, she ran up to Dalton
ano Chattanooga, and participated ac
tively in both fights, returning to At
-o;'a a day or two before the necessary
orders arrived. From this section of
the country she wae ordered aboard of
blockades from different southern
pints to the Indies, and often was the
carer of important dispatches to for
;! M : for the Florida and Shenan
-0 jam She seized every opportunity,
■' '' m the south, iu the north, or
'! a land, to render assistance to
ll< , s °tithern confederacy. She has a
receipt now in her possession for S7BO.
/ , 1 she collected from the United
• ites soldiers of Commodore Brissels’
l, ( ' , then at Bridgeport, Barbadoes,
* u t sent to southern hospitals, although
i* money was supposed to have been
gven for the benefit of federal soldiers.
™ le was now sent to San Diego and Ha
ana for the purpose of buying coffee
f, U Bn £ ar for the confederacy, and from
i\ ro 'dter making the necessary pnr
ti , lS >K J s be went to South America, in
l ' interest of the confederate govern
m, with Price’s expedition. From
W i t ‘^ merica sbo proceeded to the
' e t Indies, charged with some impor
,H!u Hussion for the country which she
‘U’ and so well and served so faithfully.
. hi deeds of this noble woman are well
■ - n throughout the south, and have
>< <*n recited on many a liearthstouo by
’ -scarred veterans and inmates of
1 "U ral dungeons. The starved, inhu
niamty-treated prisoners of Camp Chase
,iav ° evcr .Y reason to remember her who
nursed them, fed them and furnished
i-ietLi with every cent she could spare,
day alter day
, . f lj P OR " c '' , 7sion of genuine docu-
S given her every step she has
nade and f rom a n of them it can be
;‘-' n t, ' afc was trusted unhesitating
f;’ iU A1 Pure an unblemished character
oru the beginning to the close of the
Two Dollars Per Annum,
VOLUME IT.
war. Even alter her sexhood had been
questioned, throughput thp entire war
—be it said to the or edit of the men of
the south—that not a si 1 fable was ever
repeated in her bearing unfit to repeat
in the presence of the most reserved
1 tdy. Mrs. Bonner removed to New
Mexico, after her adventurous life, and
engaged in mining speculation, and has
realized a handsome fortune from her
investments. She has been well em
ployed otherwise, and has finished a
book given a truthful account of her
.adventures during her connection with
the confederacy. She is an intelligent
looking lady, of about thirty-five years
of age, and has a particularly refined
appearance for one who has experienced
the hardships of camp li:e and per
formed the duties of a man for more
than four years.
She is on her way to Now York, and
has a number of letters of introduction
to prominent gentlemen of many south
ern aud northern cities, aud other evi
dences of an irreproachable reputation.
While here she called upon several of
our distinguished citizens, whoso con
nection with the war rendered her de
sirous of forming their acquaintance,
and to many of whom she brought
letters of introduction. —Mobile Reg.
Maestro Man-Milliner.
A writer in London Society discourses
of a man-milliner, M. Trois-Etoiles
(undoutedly Worth), as follows: “llxe
doors open wide—the maestro appears.
His person is disappointing, though un
deniably Britannic. He is a pink and
white dapper man, with fat and shiny
face, liis hair parted in the middle, his
moustache pendant and highly oleagi
nous. A thick white throat enclosed by
a lawn-colored ribbon, a tight fitting
frock coat, a chronic smile, a bow that
does not incline his body, These are
the descriptive items remarked by a
cursory observer of the great Trois-
Etoiles. His voice is strong and high ;
Ilia acoent is boldly insular. He looks
around with an absent air, then sudden
ly speaks. He Las seen at a glance
what is missing in Mme. O’Tempora’s
toilet. The train has been drawn out
carefully to its full length before his
arrival. * What are you thinking of,
Esther? Madame’s figure must have
nothing but draperies. Too low in the
neck. An epaulette en biais. A sucon
to the right at the hip. Take half that
bouquet at the breast away. And do
you go to Trouville this year, madame?’
His manner is easy, assured, and well
bred. He has genuis of a certain kind,
undeniable tact, and imperturbable
vn.ng frmd. And I tuink he believes in
liis mission. He will not. dress’ every
one. He would not bestow a glance on
those clumsy Germans in the first room.
I hear he refuses to make for a certain
popular actress because she does not
share his ideas of the capabilities of her
figure and wants her dresses too low.
He converses in English with old, docile,
trusted customers like Mme. O’Mores,
and for her he consents to give a little
professional exhibition.”
Historic Scandals.
A remarkable feature of many his
toric scandals is the unsatisfactory and
dubious result of them. Does the
world yet know whether Mary, Queen
of Scots, was a good woman or wauton ?
And has not Mr. Froude’s last volume
once more cast serious suspicion on
England’s “ Virrrin Queen ?” Will any
body ever know whether Napoleon 111.
was really a Bonaparte ? Victor ’Hugo
hurled at him the memorable apothegm,
“He is neither the son of his father
nor the father of his sonbut some
allowance must be made for the writer’s
tierce democratic wrath. It is some
thousands of years since the association
of Pericles and Aspasia, and we be
lieve that notwithstanding the intro
duction of the critical method in his
tory, scholars have not yet decided
whether their relations were platonic or
otherwise. The belief that G r i. Jack
son loved not wisely but too well the
wife of Gen. Eaton, his secretary of
war, was once very prevalent, but it
could show no very satisfactory grounds
f. r its existence. The trial of Queen
Caroline by the house of lords was as
tierce an inquisition as was ever made
into the character of a human being,
yet it is not known to this day whether
that pure and upright man, her hus
band, had reason to find fault with her
or not. The horrible Bvrou scandal, so
recently xovived by Mrs. Stowe, will
probably never be settled beyond
dispute.
Agriculture in Indian Territory.
From the journal of the fifth annual
session of the general council of the In
dian tribes of this territory wo deduce
the following facts :
Tho Oiicri;kr7Cß ouUivfttA 00,000 llCrw,
the Choctaws 85,000, Muscogees 65,000,
and the Seminoles 10,000. These are
the four largest tribes in the territory.
The productions are such as farmers of
the west usually cultivate. They are
enlarging their farms, improving their
houses, aud giving particular attention
to orchards. They are advancing in
wealth by the increase of stock, both in
quality and numbers.
The six small tribes having reserva
tions in the north-west corner of the
territory cultivate a total area of 5,300
acres. The Wyandots, who only num
ber 275 souls, cultivate but 660 acres;
the Octasvas, 800; the Senecas, 600.
They are developing the farming inter
< sts of the country rapidly. They use
gang-plows, mowers and other agricul
tural machinery. The Sacs and Foxes
have 600 acres; the Osages, 2,000 ; and
the Affiliated Binds, made up of all
tribes, nearly, have about 2,000 acres on
the extreme border. The report claims
that if these tribes are sustained in
their rights and privileges, that in a few
years tbeir agricultural department will
compare favorably with the states
bounding on the territory.
—A visitor to Omaha writes of the
country being alive with the potato
bug, the cricket, and several varieties
of grasshoppers. The crickets move
together by tbe million, seeming to be
guided in their course by a common
instinct. In their migrations they
cross streams. Before entering the wa
ter they seem to hold a consultation ;
they follow the course of the current,
and on landing recommence their de
vastations on the first edible vegetation
they find.
EASTMAN. DODGE CO.. GEORGI A. TL L RSI VY, SEPTEMBER IT, 1874.
BULL -FIGHT AT MADRID.
How the Spanish Dons Play at their Na
tional Game.
Bull-fights begin about the first of
April, and continue through the spring
and summer mouths. Monday is the
day selected for these natioual sports—
a time which is during the season of
bull-fights a kind of holiday, or, more
correctly, a Saturnalia—called in Ma
drid the dia de toros. Formerly the
price of seats, compared with the wages
of labor, was excessive, but now the
government, has graduated the scale of
prices to suit all pockets. The best
places in the boxes cost about one dol
lar ; a billete dr sombra, or ticket for
the shady side in the amphitheatre,
about fifty cents; the commonest places,
next to the arena, and exposed to the
sun, two reals.
The people of Madrid are to bo seen
in their element at a bullfight; and
there the combats appear to be con
ducted with greater ceremony than in
any other city, Seville, Valencia, aud
Ronda no longer excepted. The Plaza
of Madrid will hold eighteen thousand
persons. This largo open amphitheatre
is not a remarkable building, bat the
effect when filled is very fine. It is sit
uated a short distance from the Prado,
and the gate of the Puerta de Alcala.
In this geographical centre of the re
public—a repnblic now, a kingdom yes
terday—where caprice and absurdities,
virtue and vices, reign, the fame of a
rising matador is made or marred. The
matador, or espadas , as the Spaniards
term the slayer, is tlie most important
personage of the performance. In the
last act of the tauromachian tragedy
this great artist must stand face to face
with the bull iu the presence of inexor
able judges, aud with firm hand, eye,
and nerve, kill the bull according to
tauromachian precedent, else undergo
the entne vocabulary of abuse which
the Spanish tongue so abundantly sup
plies.
Here is a description of a bull-fight
which took place recently at the Plaza
de Toros at Madrid. On the centre of
the west side is the official box, where
the authorities are seated ; on the same
tier are the boxes of the grandees, filled
with fashionable spectators.
The commencement of the perform
ance was signalized by the entrance of
the toreros in procession, preceded by
mounted alguacils, or office, s of police,
dressed in the ancient Spanish costume
of the time of Philip 11. After pro
ceeding around the arena and across the
lists, the combatants bowed to the offi
cial party and returned ; a flouiish of
trumpets aud drums aunounced that the
snectaclo was about to begin. Amidst
deafening appi auou tlio pieoidont from
his box threw gracefully down to the
chief of the alguacils the enormous key
that opened the toril where the bull was
kept.
The door flew open, and the bull
dashed headlong, with blind rage and
violence, into the arena. Amazed at
the novelty of his position, the animal
halted a moment; then catching sight
of the alguacii riding off at a gallop he
rushed upon horse and rider with closed
eyes aud lowered horns. Fortunately
the alguacii was mounted upon a fine
and spirited animal: quick as lightning
the steed turned at the touch, and
escaped the deadly rush.
Then the enraged animal attacked in
succession the picadors ; in a short con
flict that ensued three horses were
stretched lifeless upon tne ground,
leaving the dismounted and disarmed
riders exposed to imminent danger.
The chulos, or foot combatants, how
ever, drew the attention of the animal
by dashing before his eyes a glittering
scarf. These new assailants had need
of all their practiced agility. Occasion
ally the bull gave chase, and they could
only save themselves by leaping the
barriers. The evolutions of this con
summate band were tlie most graceful
and exciting part of the exhibition, and
elicited tumultuous applause. Another
steed was urged on to an encouuter w ith
the bull, only to share the fate of his
companions. Again the bull charged
at a fifth horse and rider, and disem
boweled the steed with his fatal horn ;
the picador fell heavily on the ground.
The plaudits were deafening.
Finally the signal was given ; an ac
complished matador iu full court dress
entered the ring by a secret door, and
bowing low to the president, threw down
his cap in token of respect; then facing
his terrific adversary, who was standing
alone in the now cleared arena, he shook
a red cloak suspended on a drawn
sword. The bull made a violent charge,
the mantle fell over his face, the bright
Toledo blade entered the neck to the
hilt, and he fell instantaneously, amidst,
the plaudit shouts of the spectators. A
gayly decorated car drawn by mules or
namented with bells and streamers
now appeared and bore off the body in
triumph, which act closed the day’s
sport.
As the horses are doomed to an almost
certain death, only very lean and dis
eased ones are employed, which can be
purchased for a low price. It follows,
then, that the picadors are always badly
mounted, and their danger proportion
ally increased. To urge his steed for
ward and force him upon the bull, the
picador wears strong spurs armed with
long rowels. The wretched creatures
are driven blindfold, without aught to
protect them, to inevitable slaughter,
ml destined only to exhaust the bull’s
fury and vigor. This laceration of the
horses, which seems to excite no pity
among the Spaniards, constitutes the
most revolting part of the exhibition.
The Agricultural Strike.
The great agricultural strike in Eng
land is at an end, having resulted in a
virtual triumph for the farmers. It
was the largest strike tjUat ever occurred,
both as to the numbers engaged and
the pecuniary resoures of the union by
which it was backed up. It lasted near
ly five months, during which time ev
ery striker received nine shillings per
week, or about two dollars and a quar
ter. Finally, however, the union found
its funds running low, aud, as the farm
ers gave no signs of acceding to the de
mands f the strikers, and were con
stantly filling their places with labor
ers from other quarters, they were at
last obliged to yield. Not all, howev
er ; for, while many have gone back to
work at the old wages, many.have pre
ferred to seek other and distant fields
of labor. The union still has some
In God We 2rust*
means left, and is extending aid to such
as wish to migrate to Canada, so that
in this way the strike may finally prove
beneficial to some of its participants.
Aggregate Population of the Earth.
A report from the bureau of statistics,
at Washington, just issued, contains an
interesting table of the population of
the earth. The aggregate population
of the earth is given at 1,391,032,000,
Asia being the most populous section,
and containing 708.000,000, while Eu
rope has 300,500,000 ; Africa, 203,000,-
000 ; America, 84,500,000; aud Australia
a-'-d Polynesia, 4,500,000.
In Europe the leading nations are
credited with the following number?:
Russia, 71,000,000; the German empire,
41,000,000 ; France, 36,000,000 ; Austro-
Hungary, 36,000,000 ; Great Britain and
Ireland, 32,000,000 ; Italy, nearly 27,-
000,000; Spain, 10,500.000; and Tur
key, nearly 15,000,000. The other coun
tries do not exceed 5,000,000 each.
Iu Asia, China,— which is by far the
most, populous nation of the earth, —is
credited with 325,000,000; Hindoostan,
240,000,000; Japan, 33,000,000; the East
India islands, 30,500,000; Burmab, Siam,
and farther India, nearlv 26,000,000 ;
Turkey, 13,500,000 ; and Russia, nearly
11,000,000.
The Australian population is given at
1.674.500, and the Polynesian islands at
1.763.500, New Guinea and New Zea
land being included in the latter.
In Africa the chief divisions are West
Soudan and the Central African region,
with 89.000.000 : the Central Soudan
region, 39,000,000; South Africa, 20,-
250,000; the Gal la country and the re
gion east of the White Nile, 15,000,000 ;
Samauli, 8,000,000 ; Egypt, 8,500,000 ;
and Morocco, 6,000,000.
In America two-thirds of the popula
tion are north of the isthmus, where the
United States has nearly 39,000,000 ;
Mexico, over 9,000,000 ; and the British
provinces, 4,000,000. The total popu
lation of North America is given at near
ly 52,000,000, and of South America at
25,000,000, of which Brazil contains 10,-
000,000.
The West India islands have over
4,000,000, and the Central American
states not quite 3,000,000.
According to tnese tables, London,
with 3,254,260 inhabitants, is the most
populous city in the world, while Phil
adelphia, with 674,022 inhabitants (in
1870), is the eighteenth city iu point of
population. These eighteeu cities, in
their order, are the following : London,
3.254,260 : Sntchan (China), 2,000,000 ;
Paris, 1,851,792; Pekin, 1,300,000;
Tsohantschau-fn, 1,000,000; Hangtsch
au-fu, 1,000,000 ; Siaugtau, 1,000,000 ;
Singnan-fu, 1,000,000; Canton, 1,000,-
000; New York, 049,202 ; Tientsin, 900,-
000 ; Vienna, 834.248 ; Berlin, 8Q0,3i1 ;
Hangkau, 800,000 ; Calcutta, 794,645 ;
Tokio (Yoddo), 674,449 ; and Philadel
phia, 674,022. Of cities smaller than
Philadelphia, the leading ones are—St.
Petersburg, 657,963 ; Bombay, 664,405;
Moscow, 611,670 ; Constantinople, 000,-
000 ; Glasgow, 547,538 ; Liverpool, 493,-
505 ; and Rio de Janeiro, 420,000.
A Sea Monster Captured Near Atlan
tic City.
Quite an excitement was produced at
Atlantic City, New Jersey, by tlie ar
rival recently at the landing in the in
let of a fishing sloop, having on board
a veritable sea monster, which the old
est fishermen and watermen are at a
loss to define. It is of the turtle spe
cies, with a head similar to a cow, with
white spots on the top. The body is
black in color, aud from the nose to the
tip of the tail, six feet long. It has
four flukes or flippers, and is five feet
seven inches in breadth. The diameter
of the body is two feet and a half. It
is estimated that its weight is about
700 pounds. The monster had been
seen in the neighborhood for two or
three weeks past, and numerous fisher
men had at different times pursued] it
with darts and spears, endeavoring to
capture it. One day in the afternoon
Capt. Dan Champion aud crew cast a
large seine off Brigantine Shoals, about
five miles out at sea, and were success
ful in getting Uie animal entwined in
the meshes of the net. A rope ad
tackle were slipped under its body, and
it was raised into the sloop and deposit
ed in the hold, and afterward the mon
ster was transferred to a large batteau,
and finally placed in a tub, which had
to be built for the purpose near the
New Inlet house. There it -was visited
during the day by hundreds of persons
who expressed the greatest surprise at
seeing what may be termed a wonder,
and which will no doubt engage the at
tention of the zoologists aud showmen.
—Philadelphia Press.
Religious Musical Expression.
On the most serious side of music,
the religious, the writers of bymus, aud
those who select sacred verse for col
lections of hymns, err often from an ig
norance or a disregard for the cardinal
truth as to the nature of music and its
capacity of expression. Three-fourths
of the hymns in our hymn books are un
fit to be sung. Their motives are not
within the range of musical capability,
All doctrinal religious verse, all that *is
narrative, in fine, all that is not emo
tional, giving rythmical utterance to
praise, or to prayer, or to some religions
feeling, is absolutely unfit for musical
treatment. For example, one very
sound and orthodox piece of musical
verse I have often heard sung, but nev
er without temptation to laughter. It
be--ins :
How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord,
Is laid for your faith in his excellent word!
Now it is as impossible to express, or to
illustrate, or to intensify the idea, in
those lines by a melody, as it would be
to express by a triple fugue of two short
subjects and one long one, that the
square described on the hypothneuse of
a right-angled triangle is equal to the
sum of the squares described on the
other two sides. The thing is impossi
ble in the nature of things ; it can’t be
done. The “Gloria in excelsis” is a
model of writing for religious musical
expression. So are most of the Psalms
chanted in the Episcopal service.—Rich
ard Grant White.
—There is a paper in Wisconsin which
calls itself the Trempeleau county Week
ly Messenger and Journal and Record.
It complains that its exchanges do not
give full credit when they copy its short
jokes.
LOCUSTS.
Their Ravages in the States ot lowa ami
Minnesota.
An estimate of the damagj done to
the harvests of lowa and Minnesota du
ring the present year places the value
of the vegetation d.stroyed for the
former state at $2,000,000/aud for the
latter at $3,000,000. It is also said that
about 4,000 people in both states will
require help to the extent of some SBOO.-
000.
The present belief is that the locusts
originate in the great prairies, and,
when fully developed and able to use
their wings, become carried off by the
wind. Their instinct cornels them to
alight upon the first Afield at voting crop
encountered, which tl*y speedily strip
of every leaf. If they remain long
enough to deposit eggs) the following
year will see the plague resumed with
even greater severity. Professor Hu
miston, of Worthington, Minn., who has
studied the habits of the insects with
care, describes the process of egg lay
ing as follows :
The tail of the femate locust consists
of a hard, bony, cone-shaped substance,
capable of being thrust into the ground
from one-half to an inch in depth.- Just
above this on the body of the insect,
and attached to it, is the egg cell. The
grasshopper is able to.push its conical
shaped tail down in the ground, and t©
leave it there with the cell containing
the eggs. The warm sun in the spring
causes the eggs to hatch, aud the field
is covered with millions of young grass
hoppers, not as largo as‘a kernel of
wheat, just when the tender shoots of
grain begin to show themselves above
the ground.
A correspondent of the TriSune, writ
ing irom Minnesota, states that many
fanners knew last fall that their land
was full of these locusts’ eggs, aud an
ticipated that unless they could be des
troyed, the crops would be greaily in
jured again this year. Professor Hu
miston and others conceived the idea of
plowing deep and thus covering the eggs
with a layer of earth so thick as to post
pone, at least, the time of hatching.
Much of the land in which these eggs
were deposited was the prairie which
had just been broken, this being only
the second year that a crop had been
raised there. Some of the farmers
“back-set” the land in the fall—that is,
turned the sod back again and covered
it with a thin layer of earth. In one of
Prof. Humiston’s wheat-fields, apart has
been treated in this way, while part has
been sown among the locusts’ eggs. The
contrast is wonderful. The part that
has been “ back-set ” will yield at least
four times as much wheat to the acre as
the other. The young locusts that
hatched on the field appeared later and
in much smaller numbers. In fact, had
the matured locusts let it alone, it would
have yielded more than an average crop
of wheat. The theory is that turning
the eggs well under prevents many of
them from hatching, and delays those
that do hatch so long that the crop has
a chance to get a good start.
The locusts generally begin to fly
each day between 10 a. m. and noon,
and alight about 4p. m. If they alight
in a wheat or oat field, they are gener
ally so thick that there are from three
to ten locusts on every stalk of grain.
In the corn-fields they actually cover the
corn that is three or four feet high, and
in many cases bend it down to the
ground with their weight. Neither flax,
r otatoes, garden vegetables, nor any
other crops escape.
One of the most effectual means re
cently employed 'for saving the grain
of Minnesota farmers was to “rope”
the fields—that is, to hitch each end of
a rope 200 feet long to a horse and drag
it over the grain. This disturbed the
“ hoppers ” and brushed many of them
off the heads of the grain upon the
ground, where they would remain un
til the swarm got ready to fly, and do
ing little damage. Others would re
turn to their work of destruction, but
would be allowed to remain but a few
minutes before they were again dis
turbed. This “ roping ” was continued
until the locusts became disgusted and
flew away. Some farmers found smok
ing very effectual. When the locusts
were flying they placed damp prairie
grass on the windward side of their
fields and set fire to it. The locusts
either did not alight, or, if they did, did
not stay long. But this was not always
successful. One farmer who tried it
states that at first he thought the “ hop
pers ” about to leave; he went away for
a fresh load of grass, and when he came
back he “found the grasshoppers roost
ing on the fence and warming their feet
by his fires. ” After that the hotter he
made the fires and the denser the smoke
the better they seemed to like it.—
Scientific American .
California Farming.
A California farm has recently been
rented for five years at an annual rental
of forty thousand dollars. The farm
consists of twenty thousand acres,
stocked with one thousand nine hun
dred head of cattle, one hundred horses,
fifty mules, one thousand five hundred
hogs, which, with crops, cost the lessee
the sum of $74,250; adding rental
makes the transaction foot up $114,-
250. This was only a farm—all arable
land—while they have sheep ranges
in that wonderful country of 100,000
acres, with flocks of 60 000 to 100,000
head. Single farmers boast of crops
of 50,000 to 120,000 bushels of wheat,
and tome of enough to load a th msand
ton ship. Cattle-raising was once a
lanre interest, but is going down. Vine
yards are attracting more attention each
year. As an instance of the scale on
which the Californian does whatever he
undertakes, there are vineyards of 90,-
000 vines in bearing and many of 100
acres in extent, and companies which
have 400 acres. The dairy interest is
also growing in importance, and dairy
men count herds of 1,500 cows, with
ranches of 15,000 acres.
—A fair young lady in Waterbury,
Conn., went to a drug store and told
the man to fix up one dose of castor
oil, and to mix it with something to
take the taste away. The man told her
to wait. In a few minutes he asked
her if she would like a glass of soda.
She accepted the invitation and drank
the beverage. Presently she asked the
roller of pills why he didn’t give her
the oil. The man smiled triumphantly
and said: “Madame, you have taken
Payable in Advance.
NUMBER 33.
it. I mixed a fearful dose with that
soda !” She turned pale, sank into a
ebair, and gasped—“ Immortal Jove !
I wanted it for my mother-in-law !”
THE FATHERLAND.
A Tennesseean’* Visit to the City of
Hamburg,
Out of the channel into the North sea
or German ocean, and at three o’clock
in the morning we find ourselves far up
the Elbe. Leaving our ship, we take a
tug which conveyed us to Hamburg,
along the green turfed shores of the
river, with here and there a beautiful
suburban seat with a highly cultivated
and interesting country beyond, now
and then a wind-mill with its air of great
antiquity. After two hours’ run, out
destination is reached. Amid the great
est confusion and want of system, with
luggage secured and thrown into a
“ drozky” (a species of two-seated car
riage, behind a fiame of a horse, so
attenuated that were the philanthropic
Bergh to see him, his heart would'
bleed), we start from the wharf or piers
and rattle along the cobble-stoned pave
ments in the narrow streets, and look
wondering at the quaint, old-fashioned,
small - windowed, dingy houses, and
vainly endeavor to read the signs which
are all “Dutch” to us. “Hotel de
L Europe,” sings out the cabman. We
get out of our cab and modern Ham
burg bursts upon us. What a metamor
phosis from the dingy, dirty streets
that we have meandered through from
our ship landing. The Alster is the
pride and joy of Hamburg—and well
may the Hamburgers be proud of their
enchanting, their charming Alster, which
is an immense and beautiful lake in the
very heart of the city. I have wandered
a little in foreign lands and at home,
but never have 1 seen anything which is
exactly like the Alster. A large, beau
tiful clear, limpid lake, divided into two
parts by a light, graceful wiry bridge ; it
has splendid hotels, magnificent castel
lated private residences all along its
shores, ornate gardens sloping down to
the water’s edge, rare exotics laving
themselves in the crystal water, the air
laden with their sweet perfumes, flow
ery walks along the banks, multitudin
ous cafes , in which the pleasure-loving
population is sipping coffee and drink
ing beer. Ferry boats in miniature, ca
pable of containing not more than fifty
people, dash here and there with the
shriek of a whistle, which seems more a
toy than anything else. Nothing can
be more beautiful than these vari-col
ored boats, painted in white, blue and
green, which convey you for a sum of
two cents to any part of the lake. Long
necked, graceful swans float about on its
placid bosom; white-winged sail-boats
flit like swallows across it. At a short
distance from the shore beautiful trees,
luxuriously leafed, arch over inviting
promenades, along which the rosv
cheeked German women leisurely walk.
Hamburg resembles more in its busy
commercial aspect an American than an
European city. We must not infer from
its Alster and other places of amuse
ment that, like Paris, it is solely a city
of pleasure. The city is wholly and
essentially cosmopolitan in almost every
particular, its people, from the merchant
prince to the small tradesman, speaking
fluently several foreign languages.
One of the features of the place is the
Zoological garden, one of the finest in
Europe, containing specimens of almost
every known bird and beast.
The surroundings of the city are mag
nificent. Owing to heavy dews the vege
tation and foliage is very luxuriant. All
around are elegant countrv seats, with
grounds in that ornate condition of cul
ture, only to be found in European
countries.
Public gardens abound, offering to
the pleasure-seeker the best of music,
the shadiest of retreats, the neatest and
freshest of smiling waiteresses, who
bring great foaming tankards of beer,
which is always refreshing in Europe, as
the water is simply disgusting and un
drinkable.—Cor. Nashville Union and
American.
The Freaks of King Louis, of B avaria
King Louis, of Bavaria, is said to
have lost the slenderness of figure which
once distinguished him. He has become
stout, ahd is now a finely-proportioned,
handsome man, instead of an elegant,
poetic looking boy. He is said to be in
treaty with the royal family ot Prussia
for the hand of the daughter of Prince
Frederick Carl, who is grand niece to the
emperor of Germany. He ha3 not yet
outgrown his mania for whimsical fol
lies, though he has not equaled, of late
years, his notion of having a lake con
structed on the roof of the royal palace,
where it still exists, and whereon he
meant, in imitation of Lohengrin, to
sail a boat drawn by swans. The archi
tect declared at first that it could not
be done. “But it must be done,” quoth
King Louis ; and the “ must ” of prin
ces being potential, the lake was con
structed. Then a difficulty arose. The
waters of the lake were not a pretty
color. The king wanted them to be
blue, but still the water refused to show
the azure tint. Then an infusion o. in
digo was tried, and the lake looked >lue
enough, but the unhappy swans got dyed
by sailing upon its bosom. So the mod
ern Lohengrin had the tank refilled with
pure water and resigned himself to the
idea of a colorless lake. This odd con
struction was at one time shown to
strangers, but a Frenchman wrote to
the Parisian papers a highly ludicrous
account of it, which coming to the
knowledge of the king so incensed him
that he forbade the guardians of the
palace ever to show his cherished lake
to strangers, and so the public is shut
out from all prospect of ever again in
specting this marvel.
—An English writer says that his
plan has proved successful in protect
ing all kinds of fruit from birds, ne
takes a ball of thread and fastens the
end to a twig ef gooseberry or currant
bush, and then crosses the thread from
twig to twig in various directions. Or
trees may be treated in the same man
ner. The birds come to settle on trees
or bushes, strike against the slender
snares, and fly away in haste.
—lt’s awful lonesome in Mexico just
now, and tears trickle down the father’s
cheeks as he takes his son on his knee
and tells him how the country used to
be blessed with a revolution about ev
ery two weeks.
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FACTS ANDFANCIES.
your time to buy a govern
ment gunboat.
—As soon as a young woman gets
some steady employment, she stops
fainting away at the sight of a mouse.
—England has abolished the duty on
race horses, by means f which she* has
heretofore raised a revenue ef $50,000
yearly.
—The London critics say that these
Hamerican hactors karn’t pwononnee
Hinglish, you know, to save their hize,
’ang ’em.
—A Galveston paper says that Texas
will produce this year between 500,000
and 600,000 bales of cotton. This is
better than gold mines.
—All through the German Empire
they are taking statistics o* the com
plexion, color of the hair and eyes of
the children in the schools.
—The St. Louis custom-house pays
nearly SIO,OOO a year for gas. The best
government the world ever saw is not
seen to advantage by gaslight.
—Coggia’s comet is now visible in
the southern hemisphere, and the Chi
nese are in a terrible stew about it,
considering it a harbinger of evil.
—At a recent marriage ceremony at
Jevington, England, the wedding-ring
was placed on the third toe of the
bride’s left foot—becauso she had no
hands.
—What sublime courage was that
displayed by the Nevada woman, who,
when the stealthy savage approached
her, just pulled off her hair and gave it
to him.
—Dr. Mary Walker has got into her
fall pants. They are greenish in color,
having large square check, and “bag”
as gracefully as the slack of a schoon
er’s main-sail,
—Two firms in Richmond, Va., are
under contract to supply $8,000,000 and
$6,000,000 worth of tobacco respectively.
The first contract is for France and tho
second for Austria.
—A Bridgeport man has made a kite
ten feet high by eight feet wide which
lie intends to put to the use of drawing
him across Dog Island Sound in a boat.
It requires one hundred feet of tail.
—lt is nothing for Arizona girls to
own 5,000 cattle and 10,000 sheep ; but
pause, young man. She stumps around
barefooted, spits through her teeth,
and plays a “ lone ” hand of euchre.
—The Mikado of Japan is developing
into the practical business man. In a
recent number of his “organ 4 ’ lie adver
tises a fine lot of images, one of which
is described as “a very fine idol, with
six arms. It is fifteen feet high, and
was cast at Sheffield.”
—An accident has just happened to
Rubens’ “Assumption of the Virgin”
in the gallery of Dusseldorf. This pic
ture, of colossal dimensions, is painted
on wood, and two large cracks have
made their appearance, and one of them
is across the face of the Madonna.
—An Ohio woman has just obtained
a verdict of SII,OOO damages against a
railroad company, one of whose trains
ran over and mashed her foot. If the
company had not shown that there wasn’t
room enough in the neighborhood for
the train and the foot both, the dam
ages would doubtless have been much
heavier.
—Among the visitors at Santa Cruz
(a California watering-place) is a San
Francisco lady, the wife of a prominent
stock-broker, who has made herself con
spicuous by wearing a hideons-looking
mask of chamois leather. It is said she
envelops herself in leather to save a
singularly beautiful complexion. She
is alluded to in town as “the woman in
the yellow mask.”
—A glowing description of the coun
try traversed by Gen. Cusp r’s expedi
tion to the Black Hills is furnished to
the New York Tribune by special cour
ier. The correspondent writes that the
country is beautiful beyond descrip
tion, the land well adapted for stock
raising and agriculture, water and tim
ber good and plenty, and gold in pay
ing quantities has been discovered.
—Concha has been compelled to
modify his decree that SIOOO was as
good as an able-bodied man, so far as
it extended to the cavalry and colored
militia, and now only the substitution
of a healthy soldier will relieve a
drafted man from actual service. Re
inforcements are called for from all
sides, and the chief of staff of the
island has taken command of the
troops in certain districts in person.
—The chancel of the parish church
of Horton, in Buckinghamshire, con
tains a monument, to, as well as the re
mains of, Sara Milton, the poet’s moth
er, who died in 1637. This portion of
the edifice is being restored in stone
entirely at the expense of the rector of
Horton, the Rev. R. G. Foot. For six
years John Milton attended the church,
Horton being the residence of his
parents. The place has long been cele
brated for the nightingale—hence Mil
ton’s sonnet to that bird.
—“ Having ascertained the weight of
what I could live upon, so as to pre
serve health and strength,” savs the
Rev. Sidney Smith, “ and wbat I really
have lived upon, I found that between
the ages of ten and seventy yeers I had
eaten and drank forty-four horse wagon
loads of meat and drink more than
would have preserved me in life and
health ! The value of this mass of
nourishment I consider worth seven
thousand pounds sterling! So bv my
voracity I must have starved to death
fully a hundred persons; a frightful
calculation, but irresistibly true.”
—The Druggist, a London paper,
states that a young lady who had long
been addicted to the use of opium ap
plied to an eminent physician to make
hypodermic injections of morphine.
Beginning by injecting a mixture of mor
phine and water, he gradnallv increased
the proportion of water, without letting
the patient know of it, until after a short
time he used only the pure water. Af
ter each injection she would gently fall
into a refreshing sleep. For several
months the treatment was continued,
the patient’s system being gradually
renovated by tonics. At length the
lady was informed that for months she
had not been under the influence of
opium at all, and was greatly rejoiced
tc find herself cured of any desire for
the drug.