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ONLY A WOMAN.
HY HEfIIKB A. BKNEDICT.
Only a woman, shriveled and old !
The play of tho winds and the prey of the cold
Cheeks that are shrunken,
Eves that are sunken,
Li pH that wero never o’erbold ;
Only a woman, forsaken and jnjor,
Askiiit an alntH at the bronze church-door.
Hark to the organ ! roll upon roll
The waves of the music go over her soul!
Silks rustle past, her
l’hirk**r and faster;
The great bell ceases its toll.
Vain would she enter, but not for the poor
Seingeth wide open the bronze church-door.
Only a woman—waiting alone,
Icily cold on an ice-cold throne.
What do ttiey care for her ?
Mumbling a prayer for her,
Giving not bread but. a Htonp.
Under old laci h th< ir haughty hearts beat.
Mocking ltie woe* of their kin in the street.
>oly a woman ! In the old days
Hope carroled to her her happiest lays ;
Somebody missed her,
Homebody kissed her,
Homebody crowned her with praise;
Homebody faced up the battles of life
Strong for her Pake who was niothpr, or wife.
Homebody lies with a tress of her hair
Light on tils heart where the death-shadows are
Homebody waits for her,
Opening the gates for her,
Giving delight for despair.
Only a womau —nevermore poor—
Dead In the snow at the bronze church-door 1
THE GOBLIN TOWER.
“I Htu glad you luvo come here,”
Raid the Marquis di Doltono to the
.young knight, Gaston de Pontaille, as
t hey sat upon the terrace ot Boltono
Castle. “[ am glad you have come for
many reasons—especially because Hove
the company of a young and valiant
soldier.”
Gaston bowed and a flush of pleasure
parsed across his brow.
I’he robbers above here are very
bold, just now. They attacked you. I
believe.”
“ Three of the villains ventured to do
bo, but I sent them away with morothan
they expected.”
“ A steel ransom. Ha! Ha!”
“ It is very strange that you are not
able to discover their retreat.”
“ Very—very strange. My men have
sought in every direction.”
“ J ho country is favorable to secresy,”
said Gaston, looking round.
ft spread far away around the castle.
From the height upon which Boltono
stood, the wide plain and the surround
ing hills could be distinguished for a
great distance. Hills and crags were
near the castle, gullies and paths formed
by torrents lay among them. A river
flowed through the plain, turbulent and
noisy.”
“ Yes, it is a good place for them,”
said the marquis, in reply to Gaston’s
exclamation.
“But yet I wonder at their hardi
hood.”
“ They rob almost every friend who
comes to visit me, unless I send my
soldiers to guard them,” said Boltono,
bitterly.
“ This should be stopped. I wonder
that they do not show themselves some
where.”
“I have done all that man can do.
Let us forsake this subject for the pres
ent. See you yon tower?”
l 'Ves. It is older than the of
your castle, is it not? I have been
much interested in it.”
“It is very old and is of Roman con
struction. vVe never use it.”
“ Never ! Why not?”
“ ’fis haunted.”
“ Haunted ? Gaston was surprised
at the seriousness of the marquis, and
out of respect to him he suppressed a
rising smile of contempt.
“ Yes. It has for many years gone
by the name of ‘the Goblin Tower.’”
“ Wl y so ? ”
“ Because there are sights to be seen
there, and sounds to be heard, which
are not of this world. Shrieks are
heard at the dead of night, and lights
gleam from the turrets. All the peas
antry tremble, and the hearts of all
witliiu the castle quake with fear.”
“ But have you never entered to see
the cause of these things ? ”
God forbid that 1 should seek to
know aught of the doings of the pow
ers of darkness! ”
“They may be done by hands of
man, noble marquis.”
“Impossible! Who wouliT dare?”
“No great obstacle could prevent
them if no one ever ventured there !”
“ Men have gone there and never re
turned. In the life of my giandfa her
there was a legend about it, and a say
ing than whenever the castle was freed
from the goblin within, there would be
no more robbers without. ”
“ What ! have the robbers always
been here?”
“All the time that the tower was
haunted.”
Gaston, was sileut, aud mused for a
time.
“-1 will tell the story,” said the mar
quis, “it is not long. This tower was
built, as J have said, by the ancient
Romans, and has been in the posses
sion of many a baron. Once, about
two hundred years ago, our family
lived m Florence, and a baron who was
related to us resided here. He was a
strauge man, of dark thoughts and
gloomy aspect. That tower he made
his residence. At night lights gleamed
from it, and straDge sounds were heard
there, like no sounds in the world. By
day vast clouds of smoke poured from
it, often concealing the tower from
view. No one knew what he did. No
one could imagine what were his ococu
pations. But he became very rich all
of a sudden, and built this adjoiniug
castle. The neighbors all believed
that by the assistance of the evil one,
he had found out the philosopher’s
stone. The i eople suffered very much
from him, and robbery was carried on
to an alarming extent ia the neighbor
hood. Once they ventured to attack
the castle itself.
“ At last there came a fearful time.
The night was perfectly dark. Sudden
ly, some who were looking toward the
tower saw dame and sparks issue from
the windows of the upper rooms which
he occupitd. Shrieks resounded from
it. The people burst into his room ;
the baron was not to be seen. A bundle
ot burnt flesh and clothes lay on the
floor, with mysterious blackened frag
ments all around.
M y grandfather had a beautiful
daughter, whom he promised to the
m in who would venture to search out
the cause of those fearful sounds and
appearances, which ever since the bar
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ou’s time have been witnessed there.
Several undertook it, but no one has
seen them since.”
Giston was not so much awed by the
legend as the marquis.
“They did well—these suitors—and
I would do the same for a similar
prize.”
“What! would yon venture there ?”
“Noble sir, you have promised to
make mo your son-in-law,” said Gaston,
with his ingenious countenance covered
by a flush of pleasure and confusion,
“but I have done nothing to win the
lovely Alvira. Suffer me to win her in
this way.”
“ What!” cried the marquis.
I am willing to enter that tower.”
“ No, no ; you are rash. This is not
bravery, it is rashness. You havo dono
enough, my dear Gaston, to win a dozen
AlviraH.”
“ Biit let me also do this. Noble
marquis, I cannot must not be refused.
Why need I fear? Ate not friends all
around mo ?”
“ Your friends cannot preserve you
from the demons.”
“ Demons ! I fear them not. With
my trust in God and the holy saints,
how can tho evil one injure me ?”
“ I implore you not to think of this.”
“No, no, permit me. Do not tell
Alvira. Promise pie not to tell her. I
will free your housfPof demons and rob
bers or die. ”
The marquis gave a reluctant con
sent.
It was mid day, and Gaston walked
outside the castle. There was a deep
gorge in the hills behind, and the Ro
man tower rose above this, while the
other parts of the extensive castle lay
further from it. Gaston walkod to tho
verge and looked down. The porter
had told him not to venture there—that
the people in the castle were afraid of
the goblins who dwell there. But Gas
ton despised the idle tale.
“ Goblins—ha ! ha ! What a strange
rnind the marquis must have not to see
that these mysterious robbers are the
goblins and the makers of all this riot.
But I must descend and examine here.”
He went down slowly and softly
among the bushes which grew thickly
enough to hide him from view. At
length he was suprised to see a beaten
path.
“Ha!” he cried, “Ihis was never
made by goblins. I will follow and see
where it leads.”
He descended carefully, and watched
the path to see that none were viewiug
him. At last he was at the bottom of
the chasm. The path before him took
a sudden turn around a rock. Leaning
stealthly over this, he looked forward.
There was the base of the goblin tower,
which arose very far on high, from its
foundations at the bottom of the chasm.
There was a small aperture here, so hid
den by bushes that none but the sharp
est and most observant eye could have
detected it. He went nearer, and hear
ing nothing, he crawled close to it.
Looking in he saw steps which led up.
“ Now were this unused, the steps
would be covered with grass and mould,
but they are smooth and are used often.”
After a few minutes the young knight
departed by the same path, and soon
stood in safety upon the top of the
declivity, well satisfied with his expe
dition.
“ Well, Gaston,” said the marquis,
at night, ‘ ‘ are you still determined ?”
“ I am, I ask only my arms. Can I
have the way shown me ?”
“ Once more, Gaston, let me implore
you not to go.”
“ 1 must go, noble marquis, for I
have said it.”
“ Retract jour words.”
“ 1 cannot—l would not.”
“ Then I must part with you. I fear
I shall never see you again. I will ac
company you to the place.”
The two walked along a desolate hall
extending entirely through the castle.
The night was dark and the wind moan
ed as they went on. Doors banged and
noises were heard through the house.
“ Those noises do not come from the
tower. They are made by the wind !
said Gaston.
“ Ah ! here we are I suppose.”
They paused before a massive oaken
door, which the marquis opened after
unlocking. The bolts sounded harsh
as they grate ! back. They entered the
room. The light which the marquis
held was feeble, and illuminated it but
in part. The apartment was large, and
the walls were wainscoted with oak,
carved in the antique. Chairs of olden
form stood around, and a long table of
massive construction stood in the mid
dle.
“ I will go into your close!; and watch
the room. I can be hidden there.”
“Do so. Do not expose yourself.
Do you waut the light ?”
“ No—Oh ! no. I will be better in the
dark.”
He opened the door of an old closet
It was empty. Theie was au opening
in it, through which any one within
could look out into the room. Here
Gaston entered. The marquis departed,
lockiug the door carefully. Gaston
drew Lis sword, and, holding it in his
hand, prepared to wateb.
An old chair stood here in one corner;
upon this he seated himself and waited.
The boars passed tediously away, yet
he eat in patient silence listening to
every sound. And these were of many
kinds, which came to his sharpened
ears. Low mournings sounded without,
the doors, loosened by age, rattled on
their hinges, the heavv, dusty drapery
shook and flattered.
There was a faint light in the room.
As Gaston looked through, there seemed
to come a brighter light. He was sure
of it. A strange thrill shot through
him as the room began to grow visible,
illuminated by some unseen power..
Footsteps—low, muffled footsteps,
sounded without —beneath, whisperings
and exclamations were heard by his ex
cited eari. His heart beat quick—he
held his sword more flrmly.
“ The hour is coming—the lime—the
scene is at hand. Now shall we see
whether Gaston de Pontaille will die.”
He leaned forward more earnestly.
At the extremity of the read he heird
whisperings murmurings footsteps,
but he could not look there. The light
grew brighter. Some form approached.
Gaston looked out.
It was a tall figure drested in black,
and t brought two holes in the wall which
covered its head, the eyes gleamed with
intense brightness. He came to the
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table and sat down. It was dressed in
the same manner. Two others came
in, and the four sat down at the table.
“ Wine,” said the first, in a deep
harsh voice.
One arose and brought a number of
bottles. Then each one, lifting his
vail, drank in silence. Gaston watched
in suspense.
“Comrades,” said the first one, “the
bishop has much gold. To morrow the
marquis shall give more.”
A low murmur of applause went
round.
“ He would have been unmolested
had he refrained from molesting us.”
“Ha ! ha !” said another, in a dis
cordant voice. “He thought not of
“The Golden Tower.”
“ What will be not pay for her ran
som ?”
Gaston started.
“And the young knight—would ho
not give his soul to purchase her?”
“Margo,” said the leader, “bring
her along.”
Margo departed, and the others be
gan to divest themselves of their man
tles. Each one, taking off his black
robe, disclosed the well-armed figure of
a sturdy soldier.
“1 heard footsteps here this night,”
said one. “May there not be a true
goblin—”
“Fool!” cried the leader, savagely.
“ You are a novice. A gobliu ! We
are the goblins of the tower, Antonio.
Ha ! What breath is that ?”
“ I said so!” cried the other.
The three started at a rattling sound
ed in the room. They looked at each
other and turned pale. Tho entrance
of their comrade put an end to their
terror.
“Bring her along,” cried the leader.
Gaston could see nothing, but he
heard a low moan as though from a fe
male, and the tone struck a chill to his
inmost soul.
“Good e’en, my pretty maid,” said
the leader. “ Bring her nearer, good
Margo, let her be seated.”
There was a slight struggle and Mar
go brought forward the prisoner.
Gaston started—his frame shook in fren
zied rage. It was Alvira ! He re
strained himself.
“Who are you, and why dare you thus
treat the daughter of Boltono?”
“Because we love the smiies of
lovely women. Was it not rash in you
to walk alone on the terrace at such a
time? Could we—the goblins of the
tower—resist the temptation !”
“ What will you do with me ?”
“You shall cheer us in our lonely
tower.”
“O, God!” she cried, wringing her
hands in agony.
“No iamertation !” cried the leader.
“Come, we wish you to be gay ; cheer
up. ”
Alvira wept in despair.
“Weep not! Why should you?
Come, let me have a kiss!’'
He rose up and reached out his hand.
Alvira shrunk back. He stepped for
ward. The others looked on in hideous
glee—they saw not the armed figure
with uplifted sword.
“ Come, one kiss —”
“ Villain !” cried Gaston, in a voice
of thunder. Alvira saw him—all saw
him, as with a bound he sprang forward
and buried his sword in the robber
chieftain’s heart.
“ Die !” cried the infuriated knight,
and turning upon the nearest, with a
blow he severed his head from his body.
The others rose and grasped their dag
gers. Gaston struck at the nearest and
his weapon was dashed from his hand,
while the owner was dashed to the
ground. Margo, the fourth, fell upon
his knees. With a strong hand Gaston
bound him, and taking hxs rescued love
in his arms, he bore her forth aloDg the
hall, to the great hall of the castle.
The noise had roused the marquis, aud
the inmates of Boltono soon knew all
that had happened. _____
A week after, the nuptials of Gaston
and Alvira were celebrated, and the
body of Margo hung in chains from the
summit of tho “Goblin Tower.”
The Wrasses.
Dr. Bacbelder, of Central New York,
talks thus of the different grasses with
which he has been experimenting:
Perennial rye grass he considers of no
value for hay or pasture, as it will not
endure the winters, but Italian rye
grass, he says, is hardly anywhere in
New York, and is one of the most val
uable grasses known, tither to cut for
soiling or for hay. Iu vigor it is like
orchard-grass, but is finer in texture,
and is of the “cut and come again”
kind, often producing two crops of hay
in a season, and then a rich aftermath.
Meadow fescue he finds 10 be ono of
the most vigorous, adapted to either
meadow or pasture. It equals timothy
in the same time. It is a good grass
to grow with timothy. Bweet vernal
grass ought to be grown iu the meadow
to give fragrance to the other hay.
Cattle devour it with great eagerness
Orchard grass alone, or with the medium
clover, is valuable, but then it ripens
too soon for timothy. If cut just be
fore the flower scape opens, it rnak-s a
valuable hay, but if left till it ripens it
is no better than rye straw. Timothy,
Italian rye grass, meadow fescue, red
top, meadow-oat grass and red clover
ripen well enough to make good hay,
and arr? well adapted to the climate,
which is the great consideration. The
proportion he gives of each is as fol
lows : Timothy, ten pounds; Italian
rye, five pounds; meadow-oat grass,
two pounds ; red clover, eight pounds
For pasture he thinks June and orchard
grass the best. The doctor thinks the
Alfalfa will prove valuable in the west
and south-west.
Talking of the tight skirts which are
now in fashion, a lady who was born in
the last century said the other day :
“You call those tight skirts! You
should have seen Madame Tallien then
when she walked in the Tuileries with
a dress of an almost transparent text
ure, worn over a pair of silk tights !
You have not come to that.” “ No,”
answered another lady, “and I hope
we never shall.”
“J. Gray —Pack with my box five
dezeu quills.” There is nothing re
markable about this sentence, only that
it is nearly as short as one can be con
structed, and yet contains all the letters
of the alphabet.
Ifi God We 2rust.
THREE FISIIKR*!.
Three fishers went sa'lieg Qtit into the west,
Oat into the west as the sun went down ;
Each thought on the woman who loved him beet,
And the children stood watching them out of the
town;
For men must work and women mustweep,
And there’s little to earn, and many to keep,
Though the harbor bar be moaning.
Three wives sat up in the light-house tower,
And they trimmed the lamps as tne sun went
down ;
They looked at the squall, and they looked at the
shower,
the a ig it-rack came rolling up ragged aud
brown!
But men must work and womeu must weep,
Though storms be sudden and waters deep,
And the harbor bar be moaning.
.Three corpses lay out on the shining sands,
In the morning gleam as the sun went down,
Aud the women are weeping aud wringing their
hands
For those who will never come back to the town ;
For men must work and women must weep,
Aiul the sooner it’s over the soons-r we sleep—
Aud good-bye to the bar and its moaning.
Tlie Nail Story of a Life,
The Unfortunate Wife of Maximilian,
Once Eniptror of Mexico,
The Belgian papers announce that
the death of the unhappy Carlotte, the
wife of Maximilian, once emperor of
Mexico, is daily expected. During the
last years of her eventful life the som
ber darkness of mental night has rested
upon her, and even the consolation of
forgetting in insanity her misfortunes
has been denied her. The light of this
world’s pleasures, though not the gloom
of its pains, long since went out for
her, and that she should not follow her
brave and unfortunate husband to the
grave may be regarded as the only hap
piness which the future had in store for
her, and as a grateful relief to the royal
hearts who have watched overt lief deso
late years with constant and loving ten
derness. The daughter of Leopold 1.,
of Belgium, the wisest and Shrewdest
sovereign of his time, bles&ed with
beauty and a superior mind, grfepedwith
the accomplishments of courts and the
polish of letters, it was Carlotta’s des
tiny to be united at a very early age to
the most amiable and able of the Aus
trian archdukes. Maximilian was dis
tinguished for his virtues, his courage,
his courtly bearing and the liberal tone
of his thoughts and feelings. At the
time of the marriage no more brilliant
prospect than the luxurious life of an
emperor’s brother and sister opened be
fore them. Maximilian thought of no
loftier destiny than to form one of the
princely galaxy around Francis Joseph’s
throne, to govern a Slavic or Croat prov
ince, perhaps lend his sjvord to the glory
of Austria, or to spend happy summer
months with his lovely bride at his cas
tle of Miramar, on the Adriatic. No :
graver danger than that of a European
war or local insurrection threatened
to interrupt a tranquil and contented
life.
The ambitious projects of Napoleob
suddenly intruded upon the even tenor
of this calm existence, conquest
of Mexico by Buzaine and the necessity
of fiuding a wearer of royal blood for
the new imperial crown, caused Louis
to cast his eyes over Europe for the
available candidate, and he fixed upon
Maximilian as the prince best fitted for
Lis purpose. The Archduchess Sophia
urged him to decline the bauble. Car
lotta, with all toe enthusiasm of youth
and ambition, begged him to accept it.
To her Maximilian unfortunately
yielded; he went to Mexico, accom
panied by his dauntless and exulting
wife, and bravely nerved himself to
meet the perils of his new position.
These perils were not fanciful; the long
conflict between the virtually usurping
emperor and the persistent Juarez is
well known. Its tragic termination, in
which the gallant Austrian went caltnly
to the fate of Charles of England and
Louis of France is one of the most
thrilling episodes in history. Carlotta
stood staunchly by her husband from
first to last. When his cause waned
and bid ere long to be desperate, this
•heroic woman hanstcnod to Europe, fell
at Napoleon’s feet, and begged him to
go to the rescue. Stung by thevofusal
of the one who had lured Maximilian
across the ocean, the unfortunate
princess broke into wild imprecations.
From SE Cloud she hastened to Rome,
only to learn at The Vatican tliat it was
hopeless. Desperate with disappoint
ment, Carlotta wandered over Europe,
pleading with Francis Joseph at Vi
cuna, mourning with her brother in
Brussels, Tnen the bright though
weary intellect began to fade. She
sank into alternate idiocy aud madness;
and while in this diseased fancy she
was fighting the battle over and over
again in the quiet retirement of
Lacken. Maximilian was shot at Qaer
etaro.
Ail Important Treaty Kali fieri.
In accordance with a joint resolution
of congress, approved Juno 17, 1874,
and due notice given to the government
of Belgium, through the United States
minister at Brussels, on the Ist of July,
1874, the treaty of commerce and nav
igation which was concluded between
the United States and the king of the
Belgians in 1838 will terminate on the
first of July next. In the place of it
the president sent to the senate yester
day, and thao body ratified to-day, a
new treaty, signed at Washington on
the Bth inst., by Secretary Fish and the
Belgian Minister, M. Delfaase. A ma
jority of the articles of the treaty relat
ing to commerce are copied verbatim
from the treaty of 1858. Article four
of the old treaty, exempting steam ves
sels of both countries from tonnage,
anchorage, buoys and light-house du
ties, is omitted from the new.
A provision has been added to the
most favored nation article, giving
either of the high constructing parties
the right to terminate the article and
obligation at any time by giving one
year’s notice. The following new arti
cle, in regard to trade marks, has also
been added, and is of especial interest
to American merchants and manufac
turers :
Article 15. The high contracting par
ties, desiring to secure complete and
efficient protection to the manufactur
iug industry of the respective citizens,
agree that any counterfeiting in one of
the two couutiies of the trademarks
affiixed in the other on merchandise to
show its origin and quality shall be
strictly prohibited, and shall give
ground for an action of damages in
favor of the injured party, to be pros
ecuted in the courts of the country in
which the counterfeiting shall be proved.
The trade marks in which citizens of
one of the two countries may wish to
secure the right of property in the
other must be lodged, to wit: The
marks of citizens of the United States
at Brussels, in the office of the clerk
of the tribunal of commerce, and the
marks of Belgian citizens, at the patent
office at Washington. It is understosd
that if a trade mark has btcome public
property in the oouutry of its origin, it
shall be equally free to all in the other
country.
The most favored article of the treaty
called forth a little discussion, but the
treaty was ratified without any real op
position.
Horrible Death from l lie Bite of a
Tarantula.
Mrs. Jervis, the wife of a farmer
living near Sacramento, died a few
days ago in this city, from the bite of a
tarantula. The case is singular, and is
another instance of the deadly attri
butes of this insect, not uncommon in
many portions of California. Some
six months ago, Mrs. Jervis, then liv
ing on her husband’s farm, had occa
sion to strike a light, and going to a
closet felt about for a match. While so
doing she found something in a piece
of writing paper which she thought
might be a bunch of matches, and took
hold of it. As she did she felt a sharp
pain like the prick of a needle or pin,
and found something attaohed to her
fore-fioger. She screamed with terror,
her husband roso, lit a candle, and to
his horror found that she was bitten by
a tarantula—whose poison is deadly
unless the wound be immediately cau
terized. He told his wife that she had
only one chance of her life, to have the
injured part cut out. She consented,
and getting his razor, he cut a piece
one inch square out of her fiuger. The
unfortunate woman stood the operation
heroically, but its effects were not such
as were desired. She lingered for six
months in continual agony, her blood
literally drying up, till ‘she was ' re
duced to an absolute skeleton. Three
months before her death her entire
right side became paralyzed; yet,
strange to say, the hand had a tendency
to crawl, and the fingers incessantly
moved like the legs of a spider. This
feeling she said she could not control,
and it presents one of the strongest
phases of this disease, though a usual
accompaniment, so averred, of poison
ing by insects of the spider kind.—
San Francisco Post.
New Treatment of Cancer.
BftffP--. . T-,--
A new and wonderful application of
alcohol has recently been made in the
treatment of tumors and cancer.
Schwalbe, of Weinheim, has reported
lod Cases of various forms of indolent
glandular swellings treated successfully
by the subcutaneous injection of the
tincture of lodine. Latterly he has
used injections of simple alcohol in
fifty similar cases, and has found tbe
results equally favorable and the time
required for a cure no greater, and he
therefore concludes that the alcohol is
the essential remedial agent. He ex
plains its curative action as follows :
It establishes a state of chronic inflam
mation in the connective tissue, caus
ing it to contract by degrees, and thus
pressure is brought upon the vessels
aLd the lymphatics are obliterated.
These effects, and the consequent hard
ening of the connective tissue, he pro
proposes to utilize in the treatment of
other tumors, and reports the cure of
fatty tumors by the use of such injec
lions, to which some ether was added
in order to dissolve the fat. He finds,
however, the most importdnt applica
tion of his plan in the treatment of
cancer by preventing its extension to
tbe neighboring tissues aud lymphatic
glands. The tumor is first to be iso
lated, as it were, by causing the con
nective tissue on all sides of it to be
come shriveled Then the contractive
connective tissue, approaching the
growth itself, presses upon it, cuts off'
its blood supply, and so causes it to
disappear by atrophy. Lymphatic
glands which are already affected are to
be similarly treated. Schwalbe, with
Dr. Hasse, claims to have cured three
cases of cancer of the breast in this
way.
Norway
In its general aspect Norway presents
the most unpromising conformation of
surface for farming operations that can
well be conceived. Mountain ranges,
with plateaus whose altitude precludes
cultivation, and from which rise moun
tains that reach an elevation of eight
thousand feet above the sea, prevail
generally throughout the country. Ex
cept in the south the mountain-tops are
covered with snow for the greater part,
if not all the year; their slopes, when
Dot absolutely inaccessible, are far too
rocky and abrupt for farming settle
ments. The dt eper valleys that inter
sect these mountain ranges, and which
ramify with the contortions of the hills,
are channels up which the sea sends its
tides; above the level of these fjords
are other water-worn valleys, which
convey the overflow of the monntain
lakes, subsided by countless streams
that m varying volume leap from the
hills as waterfalls, or rush foaming
down the mountain side—the impervi
ous primitive or metamorphoric rocks
that are characteristic of the country
not permitting the absorption of the
melting snows or the summer’s rains.
There exists, therefore a very extensive
superficial area that presents physical
as well as climatic difficulties of a char
acter not to be surmounted by the most
enterprising: cultivators. With few ex
ceptions the hunes'ead of the Norsk
farmer is built on the lower slopes of
the hills, where, in fact, the wash of
the rocky surfaces, in broken stone and
silty soil, his accumulated to a suffi
cient depth for tbe operation of the
plow; or on the embanked levels of
loamy soil, the deposits left by ancient
rivers, cr when rich lacustrine alluv.um
is met with or where moraines are
spread out at the embouchure of gla
cier grooved and expansive valleys,
forming suitable sites of scattered ham
lets and little iarms.
By anew invention it is claimed that
glass can be made into building mate
rial, for house fronts, doors, or pave
ments, superior to marble in durability
and economy.
Payable in Advance.
NUMBER 10.
FACTS FKOM ALL SOURCE .
According to ihe agricultural re
turns of 1874, there has been an increase
instead of decrease in the stock of
horses in Great Britain. The total
number of horses is 367,000. The in
crease during the past five years is 66,-
000. The excess in 1874 over the num
ber returned for 1873 is 35,000. These
figures plainly demonstrate that the
scarcity of equine stock so loudly com
plained of is mainly owing to the greater
demand.
The Fultz wheat trown the past sea
son upon the experimeuital farm of the
Pennsylvania agricultural college, at
West Grove, Chester county, Pa., has
yielded at the rate of forty-two bushels
to the acre. The next highest products
were the Brittruy and red wheat, 37 44
60 bushels ; Rough and Ready, 34 52-
60, and White Chaff Mediterranean, 34
40 60 bushels.
The Alabama agricultural college and
a committee of cotton planters have
established an experimental station,
near Wheeler’s station, in the northern
part of the state. Eleven acres are to
be divided into plats of one-eighth of
an acre each, on which experiments are
to be tried with thirty different kinds or
qualities of manure, and then repeated
on subsoiled land.
A Michigan man has raised five lem
ons on a tree which he keeps in a hot
house. It took four tons of coal, and
he sold the lemons for twenty cents.
He is going to enlarge his building so
as to raise oranges and bananas.
South America is the paradise of
thistles. They are large enough to af
ford shade for cattle, and are sufficient
ly tall to afford protection to highway
men, who with their horses hide behind
them.
Empty oyster and fruit cans are not
of much value, but if the cap to them
be melted off, and the cans otherwise
uninjured they may be put to use. It
is a good plan to fill them with lard for
summer use.
The Kansas City Price Current al
ready has information that 99,500 head
of Texas cattle are to be driven to that
place this season, and thinks the total
drive will equal that of 1874.
Tiie Wisconsin granges already have
established 41 co-operative associations
for selling goods, and manufacturing,
and 29 insurance companies ; all flour
ishing, and representing capital to the
amount of $4,000,000.
In England the small farmers are
forming clubs for the purchase of short
horned bulls to improve their stock.
Their example might profitably be fol
lowed in this country,
MOISTURE AT WILL.
M. Parar is said to be the discoverer
of a way of domg without rain, if neces
sary. He knew that the air is full of
moisture, aud he knew that chloride of
calcium would attract and condense it
for culturing purposes. He has applied
this chloride on sand hills and road
beds, on grass, on all sorts of soils, suc
cessfully, and he has ascertained that
it may be applied in Buch proportions
as will produce the irrigation of land
more cheaply and efficiently than by
means of canals or other methods of
securing artificial irrigation. One of
Mr. Parar’s applications will produce
and retain abundant moisture for three
days, when the same amount ol water
introduced by the prtsent method will
evaporate in an hour. He believes that
his preparation will not only produce
two blades of grass to grow where but
one now grows, but that it will render
possible fields, meadows, and prosperi
ty, where now there is nothing but sand
and desert waste.
CHARCOAL KILN.
To a correspondent who asked for in
formation about building a kilo for
charcoal-burning, Tue New York Times
replies : Pale or soft brick vill not
answer for charcoal kiln. Only well
burned hard brick can be used, as the
wear and tear is considerable. The
common shape of these kilns is conical,
or that of an old fashioned bee-hive, or
as nearly as possible the shape of an
ordinary “charcoal-pit.” It is most
economical to make them of large size,
abo it twenty-four feet in diameter and
the same in height. The walls are a
brick and a half thick for ten feet up,
and a brick thick for the remainder.
Such a kiln will cost SI,OOO, with the
iron doors and bands to strengthen it,
and will hold forty cords ot wood,
yielding about 1,600 bushels of coal at
each burning. Charcoal is worth twen
ty-five cents a bushel in New York.
SUGAR BEETS.
A correspondent of The Indiana Farm
er writes: “ I have raised sugar beets
on a small scale for several years, with
very satisfactory results, as they are
eaten in the winter by almost all kinds
of stock with great avidity, and are an
excellent substitute for priss, prevent
ing costiveness, and keeping up a good
appetite. They are rich in saccharine
matter, and economical food, as they
produce enormous crops on suitable
laud, when well cultivated. The most
snitafele land for them is a rich, loamy
soil, somewhat clayey, either naturally
dry or well-drained. They should be
drilled in rows, three feet apart, in soil
finely pulverized. They should be
drilled four or five inches apart in the
rows, and when well started, thinned
out to ten inches apart. Cult.vate thor
oughly three or four times with a one
horse cultivator, after which, pull out
by hand any weeds that may remain or
that may start after the cultivation is
done. If the season is favoiable you
will get from 600 to 800 bushels per
acre.
CONCERNING CROCKERY.
When buying crockery, it is poor
economy to buy an inferior article be
cause it can be purchased at one-third
less price. A first-class article of porce
lain will out-wear many inferior pieces,
and still preserve its freshness. It
never absorbs stale odors, no matter
how many times heated. It does not
crackle by usage, thus marring its
beauty. Neither is it as liable to break
when used harshly. Too hot water
pouted over dishes, when cleaning
them, is a very injurious practice.
Dishes should be washed in suds, and
if rinsed, the rinsing should never be
too hot to bear the hand. Hard-boil
ing wat r poured from the tea kettle
over dirty dishes is a slovenly practice,
■ which will soon tell its tale in cabalistic
j characters all over the face of the
crockery.
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square for the first insertion, and 7S ceats for each
subsequent one. Ten line# er lees oonsUtate a
square.
Professional cards, *16.00 j*r an asm; for alt
months, *IO.OO, in advance.
MAYINGS AND DOINGS.
The Ohio senate has passed a bill
fixing the compensation of members of
the legislature at 0500 per annum.
Here is an instanoe of Scotch thrift:
A man sent to jail for larceny was per
mitted to write to his wife, and this is
what he wrote : “ Dear wife—if they
keep me in the gaol, make them put
you in the poor-house.”
At the trial of one Putnam, at Vir
ginia City, for leading an idle, dissolute
life, District Attorney Cambell defined
a bummer as “ aggregated, concatena
ted, conglomerated, segregated, con
taminated, d—d loafer.” This decided
the jury at once, and they found Put
nam guilty.
Young fellow, if you have been
burning up another man’s fuel and
coal oil all winter, without yet arriving
at a definite understanding with his
girl, you may expect to be chalked down
as a light and pithless fraud, and may
look to have the scathing finger of
scorn and the black muzzle of a bull
dog pointed at yon if you attempt to
take up your swing on the gate where
you left off last fall.
At last here is anew fancy in the
prestidigitation line. He borrowed a
bonnet from a lady ki the audience, aud
as he was about to return it it caught
fire iu the gas, and he had to stamp on
it with both feet to extinguish the
flame. Misery of the lady !It was her
best bonnet. Then he fired a pistol, and
a bonnet just like it fell frern the chan
delier in the middle of tho theatre.
Talmage is back in his favorite role
again. In his last Christian at Work,
he offers a last word of gratuitous
advice to theatrical people : “If you
will only stoop down and look through
the cracks in the floor of the stage,”
he says, “ you will see fire and smell
smoke. Better fly for your life. It is
hard work getting to heaven from the
American theater. You will have to
spring seventy-five feet at the first
jump !”
A clergyman, at a recent teachers’
meeting in Ohio, said that teachers are
too often selected in the wrong way.
“Examiners make an intellectual re
quirement iu straight-jacket style, and
pay no attention whatever to the par
ticular natural, innate adaptedness of
the teacher for the profession, ad thus
men and women are found at the head
of our schools who are no more able to
develop the human mind than a Modoc
is to draw a picture of the heavenly
Jerusalem with charcoal.”
“ Here are the rules given for recog
nizing a person’s character from his
manner of laughing. There are as
many kinds of laughter as there are
vowels. People who laugh in A are
frank, variable lovers of noise and
bustle. Laughter in E belongs to
phlegmatic and melancholy people. O
indicates generosity of feeling and bold
ness of movement; be your guard if it
belongs to woman. I, I, I, is the
laughter of children and artless people;
it denotes a kind, devoted nature, but
timid and irresolute. Avoid as you
would the plague, those who laugh in
U; they are misers, hypocrites, misan
thropes ; pleasure has no charm for
them.”
Two children still and stark on a
snowy slope—the girl wraped round in
the coat of the boy, and both young
faces fixed by frost in the calm repose
of death—was the picture presented to
the eyes of wearied teachers near
Mount Ayr, lowa, the other day. This
winter’s cold has taken many a life, but
none of the unfortunates were found
in so touching an attitude as this. It
was not in the heat of the conflict that
the boy died ; there was no rattling
drum to stir his thickening blood, nor
comrade’s eyes to mark his heroic fall;
nothing to rouse his young enthusiasm.
But the little coat folded carefully about
the girlish form, and his own naked
breast, told of the quiet courage and
self-sacrifice with which he had met the
pitiless blast that blew as cold on him
a8 k er *
A Bonanza Slice Coming East.—A
small slice of our bonanza, in the
shape of a million dollars in silver bul
lion, will bo sent, east to bo coined at
the Philadelphia mint during the month
of April, our S-n Francisco branch
mint not having sufficient capacity to
coin this amount (in addition to its other
necessary business), as fast as is desir
able. The bullion sent to Philadelphia
is to be coined into five and ten-cent
pieces. Our Branch mint will com
mence shortly turning out the new coin,
the twenty-cent piece, which wiil soon
be put in crculation. We may, there
fore, look hopefully to a speedy abate
ment of the “bit” nuisance, arising
out of the difficulty of making proper
change where ten-cent purchases are
made and twenty-five-cent or five-cent
pieces tendered in payment. —San
Francisco Chronicle.
Appropriations Made by Congress.
—The following are the totals of the
appropriation bills passed by the last
congress for the next fiscial year, taken
from the official copies of the laws.
They are absolutely exact:
Post Office •$ 37.524,361
Pensions... 30,000.000
Sundry civil expenses 26,622,682
Army 27,933,860
Legislative, executive and judicial. 18,886,228
Rivers and harbors 6,662,078
Naval 17,001,306
Indian 5,074,554
Consular and diplomatic 1,374,985
For ti ficat ions
Military Academy 3*4,740
Total for 1875-76 $172,294,766
Deficiency for 1874 and former yeare. 3,009,468
Total $165,304,265
Total for 1874-75 177,118,719
Total for 1873 74 201,389,186
Reduction this vear, about 2.000,000
Value of the Leaves —An intelli
gent lady stripped her grape-vines of a
portion of their leaves, in order to let
in the sun and ripen the fruit; but, to
her surprise, where the leaves remiinel
as nature had disposed them, the grapes
were the earliest, and every way the
best. This led her to investigate the
%natter, when she was delighted to learn
that the leaves were not only the pro
tectors, but the caterers of the fruit,
constantly elaborating and supplying it
with the pabulum it required to bring
it to perfection.