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THE KING S WELCOME TO THnffGVALLA.
From the leetaudie of Ma||ias Jochnaiceon.
With strong foot treat! the holy ground.
Our snow-land * king, the lofty-hearted,
Who from thy royal home hast parted.
To greet these hki« that us rouudl
Our scroll toy band-hat lent us.
The first of kings whofki Ood has sent us,
Hail! welcome to onr country’s heart 1
IL
Laud's father, here the Taw-Mount .view !
Itehold God’s work in ah their vaataeafl!
Where saw’at thou Freedom’s fairer fastness,
With fire-heaved ramparts, waters blue?
Here sprang the sagas of our splendor;
Here every Iceland heart hi tender :
God hailt this uit.'.r for his flock!
n*
Hero, as in thousand years of old,
Sound the same words, a voice unended ;
As when their life and law defended
The »>>ear?nen with their skidds of gold :
The same land yet the same speech giveth,
The ancient soul of Freedom liveth,
And hither, king, we welcome thee!
, IV.
Bht how ate a thousaurl yrairs,
As in the people’* memory hoarded,
And in God’s volume stand recorded
Their strife and trial, woe* and fears;
Now let the hope of better ages
Be what thy presence, king I presages—
Now let the prosperous time be sure 1
V.
Our land to theo her thanks shall yield,
A thousand years thy name be chanted,
Here, where the Hiil of Law is planted,
’Twixt fiery fount and lava field :
We pray All-Father, our dependence,
To bless thee and thy far deoendants,
And those they rule, a thousand years!
A CONFEDERATE AMAZON.
Kxploits on Uie Tented Field of Mrs*
Bonner, Alias Lieut. Harry Buford.
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 and
done 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 tho command which she
had organized, and to which she became
so much attached, on the ground of in
eompetency, as alleged by the com
mander of that post. Determined to
allow no impediment to make her
swerve from the lino of duty marked
out 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 questioned, and she was arrested
and ordered to assume female attire.
Among hundreds of amusing adventures
perhaps iho best with which site 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
ollioer they concluded not to perform
their mission. She was taken before
the mayor, released, allowed to retain
her uniform, and at once commissioned
to perform any services for the confed
eracy which she might be called upon
to perform. As her sex had been ques
tioned, if not known, she resolved to
leave Bichmond, and rejoiced when
Gen. Winder ordered her to the western
army for the purpose of scouting in the
vicinity of Okalona, Mississippi. The
reliability of the daring young reoruit
was soon recognized and appreciated,
and General her with
dispatches as a spy into Missouri. Af
ter rendering inestimable servioein this
capacity she went to Mississippi, and
from there back to New Orleans, where
she joined the 21st Louisiana regiment,
then being organized, and reported to
General Villipigue.
Receiving her commission as first
lieutenant, she wont to Memphis, and
from there to Shiloh, where she was
badly wounded in the right shoulder on
the first day of tho battle, April 6,1862.
While recovering from the effects of her
wound her sex was again discovered to
her mortification, and Gen. Beaure
gard and others were astonished to find
out that the gallant young offioer was
not of the stronger sex. Unable to dis
suade her from participating in active
warfare, she was commissioned to go to
Atlanta, pass through the lines, and act
as a spy. Upon reaching Atlanta she
was compelled to wait several days
for further orders, and instead of stay
ing in that city, she ran up to Dalton
and Chattanooga, and participated ac
tively in both fights, returning to At
lanta a day or two before the necessary
orders arrived.. From this section of
the country, she was ordered aboard of
blockaders 'from different southern
ports to the Indies, and often was the
hearer of important dispatches to for
eign ports for the Florida and Shenan
doah. She seized every opportunity,
whether in the south, in the north, or
in a foreign land, to render assistance to
the southern confederacy. She has a
receipt now in her possession for S7BO,
which she collected from the United
States soldiers of Commodore Brissels’
fleet, then at Bridgeport, Barbadoes,
and sent to southern hospitals, although
the money was supposed to have been
given for the benefit of federal soldiers.
She was now sent to San Diego and Ha
vana for the purpose of buying coffee
and sugar for the confederacy, and from
there, after making the necessary pur
chfwes, she went to South America, in
the interest of the confederate govern
ment, with Price’s expedition. From
South America she proceeded to the
West Indies, charged with some impor
tant mission for the country which she
loved so well and served so faithfully.
Tho deeds of this noble woman are well
known thronghout. the south, and have
been recited on many a hearthstone by
well-scarred veterans and inmates of
federal dungeons. The starved, inhu
manity-treated prisoners of Camp Chase
have every reason to remember her who
nursed them, fed them and furnished
them with every cent she could spare,
day after day.
She is in possession of genuine docu
ments, given her ever? step she has
made, aDd from all of them it can he
> cen that she was trusted unhesitating
lv, and bore an unblemished character
from the beginning to the olose of the
£l)c ilkpnffic iluurmtl.
VOLUME IV. NUMBER 37.
war. Even after her sexhood had been
questioned, throughout the entire war
—be it said to the credit of the meu of
the south—that not a syllahlo was ever
repeated in her hearing unfit to repeat
in the presence of the most reserved
lady. Mrs, Bonner removed to New
Mexico, after her adventurous life, and
engaged in piining speculation, and has
realized a handsome fortune from her
investments. She has been well em
ployed otherwise, and has fiuished a
t>ook given a truthful acoonut of her
adventures during her connection with
tho confederacy. Site is aa intelligent
looking lady, of about thirty-five years
of age, aud has a particularly refined
appearance for one who has experience*
the hardships of oamp lite and per
formed the duties of a man for more
than four years.
She is on her way to New York, and
has a number of letters of introduction
to prominent gentlemen of many south
ern and northern cities, and other evi
dences of an irreproachable reputation.
While here she called upon several of
our distinguished oitizens, whose con
nection with the war rendered her de
sirous of forming their acquaintance,
and to many of whom she brought
letters of introduction.— Mobile llcg.
Maestro Man-Milliner.
A writer in London Society discourses
of a man-milliner, M. Treis-Etoiles
(undontedly Worth), as follows: “The
doors open wide—the maestro appears.
His person is disappointing, though un
deniably Britannic. He is a pink and
white dapper man, with fat aud shiny
race, his hair parted in the middle, his
moustache pendant and highly oleagi
nous. A thick white throat enolosod by
a lawn-colored ribbon, a tight fitting
frock coat, a chronic smile, a bow that
does not inolino liis body, These are
the deßoriptive items remarked by a
cursory observer of the great Trois-
Etoiles. His voice is strong aud high ;
his accent is boldly insular. He looks
around with an absent air, then sudden
ly speaks. He has seen at a glance
what is missing in Mine. OTempora’s
toilet The train has been drawu out
carefully to its full length before hia
arrival. ‘What aro you thinking of,
Esther? Madame’s figure must have
nothing but draperies. Too low in the
neck. An epaulette en biais. A snuoft
to the right at the hip. Take half that
bouquet at the breast away. And do
you go to Trouville this year, madameV’
His manner is easy, assured, and well
bred. He has gerniis of a certain kind,
undeniable tact, and imperturbable
sang frokl. And I tnink ho believes in
his 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 wauts her drosses t,m.i To,v.
Ho converses iu English with old, dociie,
trnsted customers like Mme. O’Morcs,
aud for her he consents to give a little
professional exhibition.”
Historic Scandals.
A remarkablo feature of many his
toric scandals is the unsatisfactory and
dubious result of them. Does the
world yet know whether Mary, Queen
of Soots, was a good woman or wanton ?
Aud has not Mr. Froude’s last volume
once more oast, serious suspicion on
England’s “ Virgin Queen ?” Will any
body ever know whether Napoleon 111.
was really a 11 uiaparte ? Victor ;llugo
hurled at him the memorable apothogrn,
“He is neither the son of his father
nor the father of his sou but some
allowance must he made for the writer’s
fierce democratic wrath. It is eomo
thousands of years sinoe the association
of Pericles and Aspasia, and we bo
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 Gen. Jack
sou 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
fierce 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 ncrt. The horrible Bvroti scandal, so
recently revived 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 we deduce
the following facts :
The Cherokees cultivate 80,000 acres,
the Choctaws 85,000, Mnscogees .05,000,
aud the Seminoles 1.0,000. These are
the four largest tribes iu 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 tho 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 Oita was, 800; the Senecas, 600.
They are developing the farming inter
ests "of the country rapidly. They use
gang-plows, mowers aud other agricul
tural machinery. The Sacs and Foxes
have 600 acres; the Osages, -2,000 ; and
the Affiliated Bands, 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 their 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 the 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 conrse. of the current,
and on landing recommence their de
vastations on the first edible vegetation
they find.
THOMSON, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 16, 1574.
BULL-FIGHT AT MADRID.
II«w tli© Spanish Dons Play at their Na
tional Game.
Bnll-fights begin about the first of
April, and continue through the spring
and summer months. Monday is the
day selected for these national sports—
a time which is during the season of
bull-fights a kind of holiday, or, more
correctly, a Saturnalia—called in Ma
drid tho dia dc tor os. Formerly the
prico of seats, compared with tho wages
.of labor, was excessive, but now the
government has graduated the scale of
prices to r-uit all pockets. The best
places in the boxes east about one dol
lar ; a billete d<- sombra, or ticket for
the shady side in the amphitheatre,
about fifty cents; the oommonest places,
next to the arena, and exposed to the
sun, two reals.
The poopla-of Madrid are to be 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, Yaleneia, and
Ronda no longer excepted. The Plaza
of Madrid will hold eighteen thousand
persons. This large open amphitheatre
is not a remarkable building, but 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 oentre of the re
public—a republic now, a kingdom yes
terday—where oaprice and absurdities,
virtuo and vices, reign, the fame of a
rising matador is made or marred. The
matador, or espadas, as the Spaniards
term the slayer, is the most important
personage of the performance. In the
last act of the tauromaehiau tragedy
this great artist must stand face to face
with the bull iu the presence of inexor
able judges, nnd with firm hand, eye,
and nerve, kill the hull according to
tauromaehiau precedent, else undergo
the entile vocabulary of abuse which
the Spanish tongue so abundantly sup
plies.
Here is a description of a bull-fight
which took rdace recently at the Plaza
de Toros at Madrid. On tho centre of
the west side is tho official box, where
the authorities are seated ; on the same
tier are the boxes of the grandees, filled
with fashionable speotators.
Tho commencement of the perform
ance was signalized by the entrance of
the toreros in procession, preceded by
mounted alguaoils, or office l s of police,
dressed in the ancient Spanish eostnmo
of tho time of Philip 11. After pro
ceeding around the arena aud across the
lists, the combatants bowed to the offi
cial party aud returned ; a flourish of
trumpets and drums announced that the
spectacle was about to begin. Amidst
deafening applause the president 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 Hew; open, and the hull
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 and lowered horns. Fortunatoly
the algiiaoil was mounted upon a flue
and spirited animal: quick as lightning
the steed t”rned 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 lifeloss upon tno ground,
leaving the dismounted and disarmed
riders exposed to imminent danger.
The cbulos, 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 tho bull gave chase, aud they could
only save themselves by leaping tho
barriers. The evolutions of this con
summate band were the most graceful
and exciting part of the exhibition, and
olioited tumultuous applause. Another
steed was urged on to an encounter with
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 in 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 terrifio adversary, who was standing
alone in the now cleared arena, he shook
a red oloak suspended on a drawn
sword. The bull made a violent charge,
the mantle fell over his face, tho 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
triumpn, 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 he
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,
:nd destined only to exhanst the bull’s
fury and vigor. This laceration of the
horses, which seems to excite no pity
among the Spaniards, constitutes the
c ost 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 tho largest strike that ever occurred,
both as to the numbers engaged and
the pecuniary resonres of tho 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 fonnd
its funds running low, and, as the farm
ers gave no signs of acceding to the de
mands es 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 ; fqr, 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
means left, and is extending aid to such
as wish to migrate to Canady, so that
in this way the sttike 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 1,891,032,000,
Asia being the mo(*Cr>opuh*is section,
and containing Eu
rope has Africa, 208,000,-
000 ; America, 84,500,000; anrfcAustralia
aud Polvnesia, 4,500,000.
In Europe the leading nations are
credited with tho following numbers :
Russia, 71,000,000; the German empire,
41,000,000 ; France, 30,000,900 ; Anstro-
Hungary, 36.000.00Q5; Great Britain and
Ireland, 32,000,000 ; Italy, nearly 27,-
000,000; Spain, 16,500,000; and Tur
key, nearly 15,000,000. The other coun
tries do not exceed 5,000,000 each.
In 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; Burmah, Siam,
and farther India, nearly 26,000,000 ;
Turkev, 13,500,000 ; and Russia, nearly
11,000,000.
The Australian population is given at
1.674.500, and tho 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; tho Central Soudan
region, 39,000,000; South Africa, 20,-
250,000; the Galla country nnd tho re
gion east of the White Nile, 15,000,000;
Samauli, 8,000,000 ; Egypt, 8,600,000 ;
and Morooeo, 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 ;
Mexioo, over 0,000,000; 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 whioh Brazil contains 10,-
000,000.
The West India islands have over
4,000,000, and the Central American
states not quite 3,000,000.
Aooording to these tables, London,
with 3,254,200 inhabitants, is tho most
populous city in the world, while Phil
adelphia, with 674,022 inhabitants (in
1870), is tho eighteenth city in point of
population. These eighteen cities, in
their order, aro the following : London,
3.254,260 ; Sntehan' (China), 2,000,000 ;
Paris, 1,851,792; Pekin, 1,300,000;
Tschantsehau-fu, 1,000,000; Hnngtsch
an-fu, 1,000,000 ; Siangtan, 1,000,000 ;
Singnan-fn, 1,000,000 ; Canton, 1,000,-
000; New York, 942,202 ; Tientsin, 900, -
000 ; Vienna, 834,248 ; Berlin, 829,841 ;
Hangkau, 800,000 ; Calcutta, 794,645 ;
Tokio (Yoddo), 674,449 ; and Philadel
phia, 074,022. Os cities suialicr than
Philadelphia, the leading ones are—St.
Petersburg, 657,963 ; Bombay, 664,405 ;
Moscow, 611,670 ; Constantinople, 600,-
000 ; Glasgow, 547,538 ; Liverpool, 493,-
505; aud Rio de Janeiro, 420,000.
A Sea Monster Captured Near Atlan
tic City.
Quite an excitement was produced tit
Atlantic City, New Jersey, by tho ar
rival recently at the landing in the in
let of a fishing sloop, having on hoard
a veritable sea monster, which tho 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 tho top. The body is
black in color, and from tho nose to the
tip of tho tail, six feet long. It has
four flukes or flippers, aud is five feet
seven inches in breadth. Tho diameter
of the body is two feet and a half. It
is estimated that its weight is about
700 pounds. Tho 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 tho afternoon
Capt. Dan Champion and orew east a
large seine off Brigantine Shoals, about
five miles out at sea, and were success
ful in getting the animal entwined fin
the meshes of the nel. 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 tho purpose near the
New Inlet honse. There it was visited
during the day by hundreds of persons
who expressed the greatest surprise at
seeing what may bo termed a wouder,
and which will no doubt engage the at
tention of the zoologists and showmen.
—Philadelphia Press.
Religious Musical Expression.
On the most serious side of music,
the religious, the writers of hymns, and
those who select sacred verse for col
lections of hymns, err often from an ig
norance or a disregard for tho 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 religious
feeling, is absolutely unfit for musical
treatment. For example, one very
sound and orthodox piece of musical
verse I have often heard snng, bnt nev
er without temptation to laughter. It
bee ins ;
How firm a foundation, ye saints of tho herd,
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 he
to express by a triple fugue of two short
subjects and one long one, that the
square described on the hypothnanse of
a right-angled triangle is equal to the
sum of the squares described on the
other two sides. Tho thing is impossi
ble in the nature of things ; it can’t be
done. The “Gloria in excelsis” is a
model of writing for religions 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 Reoord.
It complains that its exchanges do not
give full credit when they copy its short
jokes.
TERMS—Two Dollars, in Advance.
LOCUSTS.
Their liuvagea In tike States ot lowaHiiti
Minnesota.
Au estimate of tho damage done to
the harvests of lowa and Minnesota du
ring the present year places the value
of the vegetation destroyed for the
former state at ((2,000,000, and for the
latter at 83,000,000. 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 compels them to
alight upon tho first field or young crop
encountered, which they 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, Minu.,wbohas
studied tho habits of the insects with
care, describes the process of egg lay
ing as follows ;
The tail of the femato 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 tho body of the insect,
and attached to it, is the egg cell. The
grasshopper is able to push its conical
shaped tail down in tho ground, and to
leave it there with the cell containing
the eggs. Tho warm sun in the spring
causes tho eggs to hatoh, and the field
is covered with millions of yonng grass
hoppers, not as large as a kernel of
wheat, just when the tender shoots of
grain begin to show themselves above
the ground.
A correspondent of the Tribune, writ
ing irom Minnesota, states that many
farmers 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 grenily 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 tho prairie which
had just been broken, this being only
the second year that a crop had been
raised there. Some of the farmers
“baok-set” tho laud in iho fall—that is,
turned tho sod back again and covered
it with a thiu layer of earth, in one of
Prof. Humistou’swheat-fields, apart has
boon treated in this way, while part has
been sown among tho locusts’ eggs. Tho
contrast is wonderful. Tho part that
has been “ hack-set ” will yield at least
four times as much wheat to the aero as
the other. Tho young locusts that
hatched on the field appeared later and
in much smaller numbers. In fact, had
tho matured looustslet it alone, it would
have yielded more than au average crop
of wheat. Tho theory is that turning
tho oggs well under prevents many of
them from hatching, and delays those
that do hatch so long that tho-crop has
a chance to get a goal start.
The locusts generally begin to fly
each day between 10 a. m. and noon,
and alight about 4i\ nr. If they alight
in a wheat or oat field, ihey are gener
ally so thick that there aro from three
to ten locusts on every stalk of graiu.
In the corn-fields they aotria'ly 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,
rotatoes, garden vegetables, nor any
other crops escape.
One of the most effectual means re
cently employod 'for saving the grain
of Minnesota farmers was to “rope”
the fields —that is, to hitoh 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 tlie heads of tho grain upon the
gronnd, 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 aud
flew away. Some farmers found smok
ing very effectual. When the locusts
were flyiDg they plaoed 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 nt 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 tho grasshoppers roost
ing on the fence and warming their feet
by his fireß,” After that tho hotter he
made the fires and the denser tho 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; addiug rental
makes the transaction foot up $114,-
250. This was only a farm—all arable
land—while they have sheep ranges
iu that wonderful country of 100,000
acres, with flocks of 00.000 to 100,000
head. Single farmers boast of crops
of 50,000 to 120,000 bushels of wheat,
and some of enough to load a thousand
ton ship. Cattle-raising was once a
largo interest, bnt is going down. Vine
yards aro attracting more attention each
year. As an instance of the scale on
which the C difomian 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 Waterbnry,
Conn., went to a drug store and toid
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
it. I mixed a fearful dose with that
soda !” She turned pale, sauk into a
chair, and gasped—“ Immortal Jove!
I wanted it for inv mother-in-law !”
THE FATHERLAND.
A Tennesseean's Visit to the City ot
Hamburg.
Oat of the channel into tk9 North sea
or German ocean, and at three o’clock
in the morning wo find onrselves far np
the Elbe. Leaving onr ship, we take a
tug which conveyed ns 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-mi Ii with its air of great
antiquity. After two hours’ run, our
destination is readied. Amid the great
est confusion and want of system, with
luggage Secured’ and throws- into a
“ drozky” (a species of two-seated car
riage, behind a frame of a horse, so
attenuated that were the philanthropic
Bt-rgk to see him, his heart would
bleed), we start from the wharf or piers
aDd 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 ns. 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 I 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 t©
the water’s edge, raro exotics laving
themselves in the crystal water, the air
laden with their sweet perfumes, flow
ery walks along the banks, multitudin
ous cases, in which the pleasure-loving
population is sipping coffee and diink
ing beer. Ft rry 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 anythiug else. Nothing can
be more beautiful than these vari-col
ored boats, painted in white, blue and
green, which convey yon 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 shoro beautiful trees,
luxuriously leafed, arch over inviting
■promenades, along which the rosy
clieekeyl German women leisurely wallc.
Hamburg resembles more ill its busy
commercial aspect an American than an
European oity. We must not infer from
its Alster and other placos of amuse
ment that, like Paris, it is solely a city
of pleasure. The city is wholly and
■essentially cosmopolitan in almost every
particnlar, 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. O wing to heavy dews the vege-,
tation and foliage is very luxuriant. All
around are elegant oonntrv seats, with
grounds iu that ornate condition of cul
ture, only to bo fonnd in European
oonntries.
Public gardens abound, offering to
the plensnre-seeker the best of music,
the shadiest of retreats, the neatest and
freshest of smiling waiteresses, who
bring great foaming tankards of beer,
which iB always refreshing in Europe, as
the water is simply disgusting and nn
drinkable.—Cor. Nashville Union and
American.
The Freaks of King Louis, of Bavaria
King Louis, of Bavaria, is said to
have lost the slenderness of figure which
once distinguished him. He has become
stout, and is now a finely-proportioned,
handsome pian, 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 Priuce
Frederick Garl, who is grand niece to the
emperor of Germany. He has 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 ho
meant, in imitation of Lohengrin, to
sail a boat drawn by swans. The areki
teet 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 s .ow
the azure tint. Then an infusion o■' in
digo was tried, and the lake looked blue
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. He
takes a ball of thread and fastens the
end to a twig of gooseberry or currant
bush, and then crosses the thread from
twig to twig in various directions. Or
trees may bo 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
bo blessed with a revolution about ev
ery two weeks.
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FACTS AND FANCIES.
—Now’s 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 es which sbe has
heretofore raised a revenue es 850,000
yearly.
—The London critics say that these
Humerican hactors kam’t pwononnee.
Hinglisk, 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 tkau gold mines.
. —All through the German Empiro
they are taking statistics q the com
plexion, color of the hair and eyes of
the children in the schools.
—JThe St. Louis custom-house pari*
nearly 810,000 a year for gas. The best
government the world ever saw is net
seen to advantage by gaslight.
—Coggia’s comet is now visfjlq 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 tlikd toe of tkq,
bride’s left 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 iu oolorf
having large square check, and “bag”
as gracefully as the slack of a schoon
er’s main-sail.
—Two firms in Richmond, Va., arc
under contract to supply $8,000,000 and
$6,000,000 worth of tobacco respectively.
The first contract is for Franco and the
second for Austria.
—A Bridgeport man has made a kito
ten feet high by eight feet wide wkiok
lie intends to put to the use of drawing
him aoross 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” he adver
tises a fine lot of images, one of which
is described as “a very, fine idol, with
six arms. Tt is fifteen feet high, and.
was cast at Sheffield.”
—An accident has just happened to
Rubens’ “ Assumption of the Virgin**
iu the gallery of Dnsseldorf. This pie
fkte. of colossal dimensions, is painted
on wood, and- two largo cracks iiago
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
oompany had not shown that there wasn’t
room enough in the neighborhood tor
the train and the fool both, the dam
ages would doubtless have been much
heavier.
—Among the visitors at Santa Ontz
(a California watering-place) is a San
Francisco lady, the wifo of a prominent
stock-broker, who has made herself con
spicnous by wearing a hideous-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 b*y Gen. Custer’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.
—Conoha has been •compelled" to
modify his decree that STOOD was as
good as an able-bodied mas, so far as
it extended to the cavalry and colored
militia, and now only the substitution
of a healthy soldier wilt relieve a
Mrafted man from actual service. Re
inforcements are called tor f-rom all
sides, -and the chief of staff of th»
island has taken command «f the
troops in certain districts in person.
—The chaneel ot the parish chureh
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 ©f
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 ftken 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,” says the
Rev. Sidney Smith, “ and what I really
have lived upon, I fonmd that between
the ages of ten and seventy years I had
eaten and drank forty-four horse wagon
loads of meat and drink more than
would have preserved me in life aud
health 1 The value of this mass of
nourishment I consider worth seven
thousand pounds sterling! So by my
voracity I mnst. 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 Os mor
phine and water, he gradually increased
tko proportion of water, without letting
the patient know of it, until after a short
time he used nnty the pure water. Af
ter each injection she would gently tall
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 intended that for months She
had not been under tho influence. of
opium at all, and was greatly rejoiced
to find herself cured o! any desire lor
the drug. : * **