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THE APRIL FOOL . 'Twaa in the spring of *73 I first met Beattie—charming girl— Who caught me with her eyes of blue And hair of mellow golden hue That wandered into many a curl. One night I asked her for my wife While cornin' home from dingin' school— Protesting else my future life Would be a blank and dreary waste, From which all sunlight were erased— “ Yes,” answered then the pretty miss— I stole a furtive, burning ki-s, And called her, in a burst of bliss. My precious little April Fool. 'Tis now the spring of 'B3, And we are married—Bet and I I will confess, 'twixt yon aud me, She is not what she used to be— My angel of the years gone by; And when I think of that sweet tints I took her home from singin’ school, I feci like weaving into rhyme This bitter, weary, sad reflection, Uesulting from profound dejection ; When I went courting that fair Miss And begged her grant me wedded bliss And sealed her answer with a kiss, 'Twaa I who was the April Fool! tV Wife’s Lesson Pretty little Mrs. Ainsworth was in tears—pretty little Mrs. Ainsworth was in the habit of being in tears; it was one of her especial weaknesses and irritated her husband as nothing else could do. “ Eternally snuffing and blubbering,’ be had said, savagely, as he grahl>ed his hat and went out the front door with a rush and bang. “ Oh, dear! dear! How co—uld he be so cru—el?” moaned Mrs. Ainsworth, crying the harder. “To go and leave me bke tliis—and all because I wanted— twenty dollars for anew pair of curtains that we needed badly—aud then to grow so angry; he’s a be—ar! Oh! why did I ever marry him? I might have known mamma said tie was stubborn and had a temper. Oh, dear! dear! dear!” And lower sank lu r head in the sofa cushions aud the little clock on the mantel ticked the hours away until Mrs. Ainsworth raised her head with a start of surprise. “Twelve o'clock !” she exclaimed. “I wonder why Ned isn’t here ? What can keep him in the office so late at night Hark ! What is that ?” It was the sound of feet upon the pavement, followed by a sudden, sharp ring of the door-bell. Mrs. Ainsworth hastily smoothed her hair and ran down-stairs and opened t In door starting back with a cry of terror at the objects that presented themselves. There, in charge of two burly police men, was Ned, his clothes covered with mud, his face with blood, and his wild eyes and lolling attitude betraying all ti>o plainly his deplorable, disgraceful con dition. One of the policemen touched his hat respectfully to the stricken young wi r o. “If you please, ma'am, it’a nothing f-Tious. The boys at the store made a night of it and wound up with a row. The cut on his head is not dangerous and by morning he’ll be all right." “ ‘By morning he’ll l>e all right,’ Oil ! no, no !” thought Mrs. Ainsworth. “He is ruined—he will never stop now. I know his disposition, and I—Oh, God ! pity me ! I helped to drive him to it.” “Assist him up-stairs, please,” she said, “and then you ean go,” and she wondered how she could speak so quietly and follow them so calmly when her heart was breaking. Strong arms laid him down upon the lounge, and then the two policemen de parted and the wife was alone with her • orrow and shame. She wiped the blood from his forehead, imnothed back the wavy, silken hair, nd knelt by bis side and prayed. “Help me ; help me to be strong, Oh God! and to keep him from temptations,” •as the ceaseless prayer through the ong hours of the night. At last he stirred uneasily, and sud tenly started up to a sitting posture. “ Hallo, Nannie ! is it yon? And are •on through crying? Where are tlu laiys and ” —with a look of fea r crossing liis face, in his now awakening facilities —“ whero tlie mischief is that money ?” —feeling nervously in all his pockets. “What money, Ned?" inquired his wife, anew dream corning over her. “ Why, tire money I had of old Smith's. I forgot to put it in the bank, as he ordered, and went off with the 1 toys on a lurk, and-—and by Jupiter, Nannie! it’s gone! I’ve been robbed of my employer’s money ” —his face white ning like a dead man's as he sank back upon the lounge and regarded her in mournful horror. “ How much was it?” she managed to ask through her trembling lips. “Two thousand dollars!” he said with a groan, burying his face in his hands. “Oh, little wife ! I’m a ruined man. 1 never can repay i< that is, if I cannot escape; and I haven’t a dollar. What a mad fool I've been ! Hush !. isn’t old Smith in the hall? Yes; I know his voice, aid lie’s got wind of this some how. 1 ’ll never be taken alive. Never !” —and as he spoke she saw something bright and shining in his hand. She couldn’t cry out, though she thought she was dying, and nearer aud nearer came the voices and whiter and more desperate grew the face of her hus band. “Ned! Oh, Ned!” she moaned, and— “ Why, what is the matter? Come, wake tip. It’s dark and cold in here as a barn. Why, Nannie, little wife, what is it? Did I frighten you, or was it a dream ? I could not get away from th< office sooner. ” But she could not answer. She only flung her arms around his neck and sobbed so hysterically that he was really alarmed. “ How nervous you are, my darling ! But list< n: what good news I've brought! Mr. Smith came into the office to-night and smiled as he looked over my state manls of sales and profits, and he said: “ * You’ve worked hard, my boy, and merit an increase in your salary. We will make it fifteen hundred from this : She (Dinette. VOL. X “ I don’t know what I said. I don’t think I said much of anything, but lie looked siit is lied and shook my hand so kindly ami added that ‘ faithfulness found its reward usually;’ and so you can have your new curtains whenever you want them, and a carpet, too, perhaps.” “Oh! I don't care for them now. I was so foolish to fret over such a trifle. And I’ve had such a dreadful, dreadful I ream !” But she never oould bring herself to tell him of it. “I was nnloyal to even dream so wickedly about such a good, kind husband. But I’ll never forgot it or the lesson it taught me. I'll waste no more tears over trifles.”— A b bie C. AT Keener, in Arthur's Magazine. TIIE LIME-KILN CLUB. I>l! Nt Like the !>liiu’n Stile nnd Set lliia Adrift. “I would inform de club,” said the President, ns nnotlier starch-box was dropped into the stove to warm up the back townships, “ flat de Hon. Pokydemus White, of Grenada, Mies., am in de auty-room. Do gem'lan urrove lieah las’ night on top of a freight ear. His objeck in wisitin’ de Norf am to debitor his celebrated lecktur' on ‘ How to Economize.' He has offered to dehber it befo’ dis club for de sum of aovonty five cents, which am cheap 'null' fur any sort of a lecktur’ on any sort of a subject. But I has informed him dat we doan’ want it. It am plain to me dat he lias bin economizin’ radder too much. In place of an obercoot he has a yard of brass watch-chain. In place of three meals per day he seems to prefer one meal an' two drinkH of whisky. While de heels of Ids bntes am all run ober, he w’ars n glass diamond under his chin. While liis trousers am patched befo* an’ behind, he sports a galvanized watch lat probably cost $6. Gein’len, de way to economize am to save seventy-five cents by not ’ceptin’ de offer of dis leekturer. What de moas’ of us doan’ know ’bout economy no stranger wid a stiff knee kin cum along an’ tench us. When a member of dis club keeps fo’ chill’en iu skule, pays rent, has a Sunday suit, cats oysters twice a week an’ doan’ owe de butcher or grocer, an’ all on a salary of $6 per week, I reckon he has got de economy bizuess down to as fine a p’int as it kin be worked. “Do Committee on Recepshun of Statesmen will pnroeed to de auty-room an’ remark to de Hon. Pokydemus White dat we has decided not to li’ar de lectur’ at any price. Hint to him dat he had better leave do city on some of de night trains. Tell him dat his lectur’ will probably draw crowded i houses in Toledo an’ Cleveland.” J Sir Isaac Wal)xilc desired to state, be fore passing de bean-box, dat de Hon. Pokydemus had been roosting at his house for twenty-four hours, and from the way he passed his plate three times for meat and potatoes, and gob’away with bread and butter, it was plain that lie was an economist only in words. He wouldn’t board him a week for less than £!7. —Detroit Free Press. Women anil Children. The census statistics relating to “gain ful" occupations show some significant j results as to the employment of women and children. The whole number of fe males reported ies pursuing gainful occu pations in the United States in 1870 was 1,806,288. In 188:) tie: number was 1,647,157, showing an increase during the ten years of 810,860. This result | shows that the number of females en gaged in occupations lias increased at a ! much higher rate than the female pojji lation, and also at a higher rate than the number of in ales pursuing occupations, ft further appears that the rate of in crease in tlic number of females pursu ing occupations has been far higher In manufacturing and mechanical industries . that is, in factories chiefly—than in any other kind of employment. Similar results are shown by the cen sus statistics with reference to the em ployment of children. In 1870 the whole number between ten and fifteen years of age reported as pursuing gain ful occupations was 730,161. In 1880 thonumber was 1,118,356, or an increase luring the decade of 379,192. The rate of this increase was greater than the rate >f increase in the population between I hose ages, and it was also greater than the rate of increase in the number of adults pursuing gainful occupations. As in the case of women, so in the case of children, the rate of increase in the number employed lias lx-en greatest in factories. Nearly throe hundred thou sand more women, and about sixty thou sand more children, were employed in the manufacturing industries in 1880 than in 1870. A Curious Case.—A curious case of assumption of name and crest occurred in the seventh century, affecting the family of the present British Minister at Washington. A certain hostler, who Ijecame notable as a wrestler among the students of Lincoln’s Inn, was known (being probably a west countryman) as “Jack of the West.” Having made some money, he bought property in Hampshire, and assumed the name and arms of the Wests. The then Lord Delaware being a minor, guardian brought the case before the Earl Marshal’s Court, or Court of Honor, when Jack of the West, who had cunningly made out a bogus pedigree, proving his descent from a West “who went beyond sea and was thought to be dead,” was ordered never to write him self Gentleman any more, and to pay a fine of $2,500, equal to live times that amount in present money, SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 27. 1883. A POLITICAL STORY. IIOU Til E DEMOCRATS WERE BEATEN U Inn Tlitirloiv Weed bnd to Nny About the Nomination of Gen. (•rani tor the Presidency. “During the summer of 1866,” said Tliurlow Weed, “both of the political parties were already casting about rather anxiously for a suitable Presidential can didate for the next oompaign. The Democrats were very much iu earnest that your, and had pretty strong hope of being able to elect their next can didate, since the Johnson administration was turning out so badly. The Demo cratic party nt that time was under the management of Dean Richmond, an exceedingly wise, honest, judicious man, who had never aspired for office himself, and who had tlio confidenee of liis whole party. Richmond was a man I really very greatly admired. Another gixxl man, Peter Caggar, was at that time sec retary of the Democratic State Com mittee. “I was in Albany then, and one day 1 called at Caggar’s office there to see him about some business matter. As I en tered the room I saw Richmond, Caggar, Erastus Corning and one or two other gentlemen seated closely around a table, and overheard the words: ‘ Yes, Grant is undoubtedly th< man ;if we —’ and then the speaker Haw me and suddenly turned the conversation upon some com monplace topic. “From this and the confusion expressed upon the faces of the men I saw at once [ I hat I had interrupted a private conver sation. A few moments later, having accomplished my errand, I left the office, and then the words I had heard came back to my mind. It flashed across mo j almost immediately that these men liod I been discussing General Grant as a pos- J siblo Democratic candidate for the, j Presidency! “At that time General Grant was com ; milted to no political party, but it was known that he had been a Democrat be fore the war, and it was a not unreason able presumption that he was still a Democrat. I realized in a moment that if the Democrats should nominate Gen eral Grant, and ho should accept the nomination, they would undoubtedly i elect their candidate, for the General , was then probably the most popular man in the country, and oould bo elected no matter whose candidate he might be. As I thought the matter over I was im pressed more and more strongly that tho Democrats had this end in view. “Not long after this I mot Erastus : Corning oil the street. Mr. Corning was evidently feeling very well satisfied about something. He said to me: “ ‘Well, Weed, what are your people 1 going to do for a Presidential candidate [ next time ?’ “ ‘Oh, I do not know yet what we shall do. There is plenty of time for attending to that, and the Republican party does not lack eligible men,’ 1 an swered. “ ‘Well,’ said Corning, ‘you had Ixitter put on tho strongest man you have, oi we shall beat you pretty badly in fact, I think we shall do that at uny rate.’ “Then I felt moderately confident that the Democrats had decided upon nominating General Grant as their can didate; but if any doubt of this lingered in my mind it was effectually dispelled, an hour later, by a few moments' con versation I hail with Dean Richmond. After some talk upon general matters, I said to him: “ ‘Corning tells me you expect to tiring out a pretty strong candidate for the Presidency some of these days, and that you actually expect to elect him. ’ “ ‘Did Corning tell you who it was ?’ asked Richmond, ratlior anxiously, with a distracted ex press ion, “ ‘No; only he said that you have de cided upon a very strong man.’ “ ‘Oh, well,’ responded Richmond, ‘Corning talks too much— altogether too much, and he doesn’t know what he is talking about half the time 1’ “That completely satisfied me; and then I began to consider if we could not do something to head off this contem plated movement of the Democrats. I felt pretty sure that Richmond and his friends had very lately conceived this idea of nominating General Grant, and had not likely gone so far as to send him any communication upon the subject. It then occurred to me that if the Republicans could see General Grant first wo might effectually beat tho Demorats in this particular scheme. With that end in view, I took the first train for New York, arriving in the city late in the afternoon. As soon u pos sible I saw Abraham Wakeman, Sheridan Shook, Thomas Murphy, John Kelly, Owen W. Brennan, William A. Darling, Hugh Gardner, Dr. Van Wyck, and some more of my staunch Republican friends—all representative men in the narty—and we met together, organized and held a meeting that same evening at the Astor House, in the old Room No. 11, where so many political movements were planned in those daya. At this meeting I explained what l had heard, and suggested that we might capture the General for our own ticket by a flank movement, as it were—by seeing him nt once, asking him if he would accept the in initiation from the Republican party if tendered, and then, in case we received a satisfactory answer—as I had no doubt we should if we were iu time—we wight publish tho General's reply, committing him to us, and thus prevent the Dem ocrats from approaching him at all upon the subject. “The meeting was unanimously in fa vor of this, and I was delegated fo visit General Grant ‘at once.’ The afternoon papers of that day had chronicled the General’s arrival at Long Branch, so 1 hurried down to the Branch that same evening. Tho next morning I met the General in front of the hotel when ho came out to take an early wnlk. 1 asked him to postpono his walk for a while, and come to my room, ns I had something very important to communi cate. The General went with me, and then I told him that I had come down to obtain an expression of his willingness to Ixxiome the Republican candidate for the Presidency of the United States. 1 told him of our meeting held the night, before, without, however, referring to its hasty organization, but allowing liinn to iufer that we had him in onr mimls as a prospective candidate for a long time, 1 told him that I felt I could assure him the nomination in the convention to be hold in 1868, aud that tho uominntioii would bo equivalent to au election. “ ‘You,’ said I, ‘will have nothing whatever to do iu the matter beyond consenting to become our candidate. You have done your work for us in the war—now we will do our work for you iu the coming campaign.’ “That afternoon Thomas Murphy (afterward appointed by President Grant. Collector of the Port of New York) came down with a full account of the proceed ings of our meeting, and an ‘official’ message from the committee. General Grant seemed very much pleased with our action, and formally consented to become a candidate for tho nomination at the hands of the Republican party. So our mission waa accomplished. Tho next morning tlm report that General Grant had committed himself to the Re publicans spread consternation in the minds of the Democrats, who had al ready come to regard tho General ns their own future candidate. The hope that they lmd placed in ‘a strong man’ was now completely turned against them. “Some time after this I met Rich mond, and he confessed to mo that the Democrats had been outwitted and their thunder had been stolen almost nt the last moment, for ho had no doubt but that-, iu three or four days more, Grant would have been pledged as a prospec tive Democratic candidate. “The rest is history—how, in tho Re publican National Convention bold in Chicago, in 1868, Grant was unanimous ly nominated upon the first ballot, there being no opposition whatever. And from that time the Republican party has been in power, as the result, in the first place, of our having beaten the Demo crats in securing the. consent of General Grant to accept the nomination.” Mr. Weed told the story with the en joyment of an old soldier relating the incidents of a mid within the enemy's lines. The maimer is lacking, but the actual words are closely preserved. —The Continent. Underground Rmn Shops. Neal Dow says, in u letter to the bun, that wherever officers in the State sus pect liquors to bo sold, they search tin place carefully ami thoroughly. On the 29th they searched one of those places, a low den occupied by low people. The cellar was surrounded by planks instead of stones. In those they discovered what scorned to lxi a dixir, but tliero was no appearance of hinges or lock. After acareful search they discovered a spring, on touching which the door opened. Tt gave access to a small cuve, with bo window, and no meaiiH of entrance but by this door. In the cave were two jugs partly full of whisky, and an iron gas pipe, coming from and leading to— nowhere that they could perceive. On pulling this pipe, a piece of rubber hose was found to be attached to it, the out let of which they did not discover. On cutting this hose, whisky ran out, only a Hmall quantity. The whole stock in trade was not two gallons, lint the keep er is one of the 1,102 who pay the “special tax.” The penalty in this case is SIOO fine and costs and six months in jail. In another place the entire stock was contained in two junk bottles, fas tened to the belt, ono each side, under the outer skirt of tho woman who kept the place. In another place the entire Htock was in a flat tin vessel, containing about two quarts, fitted to the person and worn by the “special tax” payer un der liis vest. His Major. General Sherman recently had some shirts madeata furnishing store in Wash ington, and the cutter, a few weeks later, met the General with a friend, walking down the avenue. The General remem bered the face, but could not locate him, and the cutter greeted him with: “Good morning, General. How are you to-day?” The General stopped, shook hands, and the cutter perceiving that the General’s mind needed refreshing, said quietly: “Made your shirts.” “Oh 1 I beg pardon,” said the General quickly, and turning to the gentleman with whom he was walking, he said: “Ah 1 Colonel , allow me to in troduce you to my friend, Major 1”' The Towers nf Silence. “ The Towers of Silence " in Bombay are five in number and stand within nil inolosure measuring about eighty thousand square yards. There are also within tho iuclosiire a house of prayer for persons attending a funeral, a temple in which tho sacred tiro is kept always burning and from which its rays, escaping through apertures in the wall, fall upon the towers, and a well laid out and well cared for garden. In tho garden is an excellent model of a tower, which is explained to visitors by the attendants. The corpse of a deceased Parsec, clothed in white, is carried up the hill on an open bier covered with white cloth; the malo relatives and friends, all clothed in white, following in pairs, each pair holding a handkerchief between them. Some prayers having been said iu the rest-house, the bier is again taken up and tho body convoyed to one of the towers. These towers are round, massive looking buildings, with white plastered walls, the circumference of tho largest of them being 276 feet and the height of the wall twenty-five feet. At a dis tance of three feet from the ground there is a door iu the wall, through which the corpse-bearers push the body, and then, entering themselves, place it in its appointed place. The interior of each tower, which is open to the sky, is covered, ut a height of twenty-five feet from the ground, with a circular flixiriug, which slopes downward on all sides to the center, and contains numerous open grooves or receptacles for dead bodies. The outer ring of this flooring is set apart for the bodies of men, a second ring for those of women and the third or innermost ring for those of children. AI regular distances, radiating channels in tersect these rings. Tho body having been deposited in its place, the bearers retire, and immediately a swarm of vul tures, which birds of prey may always lie seen sitting in dozens on the top of the walls, swoop down ami strip the body of every particle of flesh in less than two hours. After a few days the corpse-1 x'lirors return, and, collecting the bones, which are then perfectly dried, place them.in the central well, forty-live feet wide, where they remain to bo de composed by the air and the rain. The moisture runs off' into the ground through filters of charcoal and sand, nnd leaves nothing of tho human body in tho in side of tlm tower, but the dry, crumbling bones. Manufacture of Apple Jelly. The editor of The. Maine Fanner visted during last season a small apple jelly factory “in tlio town of Halifax,” and gives these particulars of methods and results, ft is certainly a better way to utilize tho refuse fruit than sending it to the demoralizing cider mill: “A water power mid building used part-ions of the year for the manufacture of short lumber mid chair stuff, is changed to drive a cider mill of sufficient capacity to grind 100 bushels of ujiplos in twenty minutes. From a tank be neath the press it is pumped up into another on tho floor above it, from whence it is conveyed in a pipe to an adjacent building and into an evaporator such as iH used for evaporating sap or sorghum juice, except it is of copper in stead of iron. Tho evaporator is 12 feet long, mid by working the day and mak ing a long evening, 30 barrels of cider can bo condensed. Apple jelly issimply condensed cider, the bulk of tho water being removed by evaporation, and all other substances lemaining. No sugar is used in this manufactory, though it can be added if desired. As here manu factured it takes the place of the old fashioned cider apple sauce, only it is purer and better. We prefer it without the addition of sugar, and manufactured without it, it is much cheaper. “ The jelly as it comes from the evap orator is about the consistency of good thick syrup. It is drawn off into buck ets or boxes and soon assumes tho jelly form so that the box can bo turned top downward without disturbing the con tents. The cider must be evaporated before fermentation takes place. The apples we saw were native fruit, and of no value except for feeding to stock or conversion into cider. The proprietors paid ten cents per bushel, delivered. Ten bushels of such apples will make a bar rel of cider, and 7 barrels of cider one of jelly. Tho apples for a barrel of jelly cost the manufacturers $7, and the jelly made from 7 barrels of cider of 32 gal lons each, at 7J cents per pound, the present wholesale price, iH worth $26.40. At this rate the jelly men are getting tho lion’s share of the profits, after reckon ing expense of manufacturing, boxing and marketing. Tho boxes hero are cheaply made and each holds 61 pounds net. Six of these are put into a cheaply constructed crate and the product is thus sent to the market.” “Hawkeve” Burdette, who is a fond Bire, remarks to American fathers: “A boy always wants to go with older men, and if you make yourself his companion, liis elder brother as well as his father, it will do you as much good as it will him. It will make your heart younger, until at last you will lie the grandest thing in the world —an old boy sixty-five years young, whose fife and body have outgrown his heart by thirty years.” It is good consolation to seen plumber compelled to buy something at a retail drug store. NO 23. GAMBLING IN NEW YORK. The Police Oil I lie It lulu Truck >o NupprcM t• >imillii>M In llint City* A veteran sporting man, whoso faco has lioeii a familiar sight at every sport ing event for the past twenty-five years, was met in the City Hail Park: “Law or no law,” he said with warmth, ‘the police have treed tho gambling coon at last. All they have to do now is to worry it a little more and it will be theirs. The only way to rid New York of gambling is to rid it of gambling places, by raiding every place that- has the reputation, however slight, of being a gambling plaoe, and breaking and burning every Bt-ick of gambling furni ture that is found. Tliero is no other way. By this wholesale destruction even flic boldest gamblers will be panic-strick en. No man wants to put $2,000, $3,000, or SIO,OOO out for furniture or fixings that he has good reason to believe may be seized and destroyed within a week, before there is time to recoup. Gamblers will flee from Now York like rats from a sinking ship, if this kind of thing is kepi up. Seo how defiant and prosper ous the dealers in Louisiana and Ken tucky State lottery tickets were for sev eral years. Why, no one but themselves ean tell how many hundreds of thou sands of dollars they took in in their year or two of impunity. But the police raided them steadily, destroying their furniture as fast as they established new offices, and to-day if you want to buy a ticket in one of these concerns yon have to solid your money by mail, stealthily, to Chicago or Louisville. “Ihave played, probably, in every gambling place in New York, on both sides of the table. Earlier in fife I used to be a part of tho game myself. Bill the old times of fair play are gone. A lot of hungry sharks have got into the profession, and there are only two places in New York, old-timers, whore a man can find fair play. The backers of flic game don’t care who deals or rolls. At tlie worst they know that the game will win iu the long run. But in nine-tenths of the other places a man is robbed by means of every device that human in genuity can put in the hands of men as merciless as sharks. A mail stands as much show of winning as he would if he encountered a band of Italian brigands iu one of their native passes. If over there was a time when the police should be helped by the public approval in dealing with gamblers in the spirit, if not tbe letter, of tho law, now is the time. God only knows how many homes ire broken up, how many promising lives are blasted every year, iu the gambling places of N. Y. city.” The Return of a Jack-Knife. The Lewiston (Me.) Journal tells this story:—A gentleman on Listen slice Saturday was talking of flit: wonderful return of a jack-knife that lie lost twenty live years ago. The gentleman has been visiting the clerk of courts iu Lewiston during the past week. He made liis jack-knife himself upon liis own forge, and iu liis leisure moments covered the bone handle with his initials and a num ber of mid ih vices. A year after, in tho deep snows, on the road to Kingsbury, Mo., he overtook a man attempting to tie up liis sleigh Unit had broken down. He jumped out to assist the man, lent him the jack-knife, and, forgetting it, rode off without it. He never saw the man again. Fifteen years afterward his daughter married, and her husband, struck with the western fever, took a trip west and brought up in Minneapolis, Minn. Among the people in that State with whom ho came into contact was one who was proverbially hard up. Reduced to straits ho had pawned everything. Coming along one day, with a peculiar looking jack-knife, he offered it for sale. The gentleman bought it, and came home soon after, and a day or two after his arrival he took tlio knife out of his pocket. His wife pounced upon him. With a thousand rapturous expressions of surprise, sho demanded to know where ho got it, He told her he bought that knife in Miuneapi 'is. She said it was “ father’s.” “ Fat/ jr ” was brought in, and the knife m identified as his. No explanation con! i be offered by the gentleman as to how liis own identical jack-knife, lost on a country road in Maine, should bo found by liis son-in law in the western country. Tliis was 1,.,, years ago. Tho gentleman lias the jack-knife now. Baby Farming in Connecticut. The Legislature recently passed a bill which strikes a blow at the baby farming system in the State of Connecticut. During the past year several distressing cases were exposed in Now Haven and vicinity, and public indignation was aroused. The bill provides that any ]>er son engaged in the business of taking in fants under three years of age to board in any number exceeding two at the same time must, upon the reception of any in fants in excess of two, give written no tice to the Town Selectmen or City Board of Health. Each house shall bo in spected by the health authorities at least once a month, and they are given power to direct and enforce sanitary measures. The penalty for refusing to give notice as above, or for refusing admission to the premises, is from SSO to SSOO, or im prisonment for one year. Now is a good time to recall the old rule: “Stick to your flannels Uljtil they stick to you,” I’roducts of Florida. “ Orange culture is tho furor or Flori da,” says Jo. Moilill, of tlio Chicago Tribune, “ but it takes eight or ten years to bring an orange grove to the profit able bearing stage. lam of tho opinion that it would lie far wiser and more profitable for Northern settlers to devote themselves chiefly to producing what thoy coll ‘ truck’—-that is, vegetables, including strawberries aud potatoes—-for the Northern market. Vegetables will grow all winter in nearly all portions of tho State, aud I saw early Rose potatoes dug last month that were finer than those wo import from Bermuda. I was told, too, that where tho soil is favorable, and by a moderate use of fertilizers, gropsof from 150 to 260 bushels per aere oan easily ho raised, which readily sell for $2 per bushel on the St. John’s River. Relow the 29th degree of lati tude, which is supposed to bo tho 'frost line,’ lemons are grown much more profitably than oranges, being a surer growth and much less liable to injury from worms and insects. Bananas and pineapples, however, are bound to be come tlm popular fruits of ceutral Flori da for large profits and quick returns. I was told of men who made SI,OOO an acre iu 1882 on the Indian River with their pineapple fields. Pineapples are planted like cabbages, and will produce R),000 heads per acre. The fruit is mar ketable in eighteen months from the time the ground is cleared, broken nnd planted with sprouts. The banana is ready for market in less than throe years, while oranges take from seven to eight." Entire Confidence. The other noon as the owner of a pea nut stand at the Central Market, in De troit, says the Free Press, was making ready to go to dinner he called to the boy who was acting as his clerk : “ Henry. Bee hero." “Yes, sir.” “I am going to dinner, and you will bs left in charge here for an hour.” “Yes, sir.” “I have unbounded confidence in yon, lint I’ve taken all the change from the till except then cents.” “All right.” “And while your honesty is above question, I have also taken care to measure the peanuts. There are just six quarts on the table.” “Yes, sir.” "And while I may say at the risk of flattering you that I would trust you with every dollar I have, it is my duty to warn you that I have asked the pop-corn man over there to keep an eye on you and see that you do not run off with the roaster.” “Yes, sir.” "Always be honest and upright, Henry, and I mav ns well say right here that I shall count the peanuts upon my return and in that way discover if you have eaten any. Now then assume a business air aud take charge.” Don’t lie Afraid or Work. Don’t be afraid of killing yourself witli overwork, sou, is tho facetious way the Burlington Hawkeye lias of counsel ing young men to thrift. Men seldom work so hard ivh that on the sunny side of thirty. They die sometimes; but it is because they quit work at 6 p. m. and don’t get home until 2a. m. It’s the intervals that kill, my sou. Tho work gives you an appetite for your meals; it lends solidity to your slumber; it gives you a perfect and grateful appreciation of a holiday. There arc young men who do not work, my son—young men who make a living by sucking the end of a cane, and who can tie a necktie in eleven different knots, and never lay a wrinkle iu it; who enu spend more money in a day than you can ourn in a month, son; and who will go to tho sheriff’s to buy a postal card, and apply at kbe office of tlm street commissioners for a marriage li cense. So find out what you want to be and do, son, and take oft' your coat and make success in the world. The busier you arc, the less evil you will be apt to get into, tbe sweeter will be your sleep, the brighter nnd happier your holliday, and the better satisfied will the world be with vou. A Washington Story. The story comes from Washington that a few days ago, when a $1,200 employee of tho Senate died, Sergeant-at-Arm* Bright received an application for the vacancy. Colonel Bright read the recommendation, and said at once: “Very well, you can have tho place.” The applicant was evidently astonished, and asked, “When can I take hold?” “You can begin to-day,” began Colonel Bright; “but let mo explain the situa tion. You see, when Mr. St. John was buried it left his $1,200 place vacant. Tho next man to him, a very capable ono, receiving S9OO, was promoted. A latxirer next below him at $750, stopped into the S9OO place, and a man under him was then lifted a little, aud ho on through the whole lot, until] the place really left vacant by the death of Mr. St. John is a in the stable to curry horses at $1 a day. You can have that, and begin work at once.” The applicant withdrew. A Shocking Story. Mark Hcutheote, a police officer of Salem, was a witness before the Tewks bury Alms House investigation in Bos ton. He took Mary Ann Welch and a foundling child to Tewksbury in 1977; the baby was sick, and when he was looking over the institution, about an hour after his arrival, ho saw the infant crying in the arms of a nurse aud saw the woman stuff tho babe's mouth with soap to stop it crying; he did not see the child afterward. On cross-examination witness said that he mode a record of tho fact übovo stated at the time and submitted a diary to prove liis statement. This is the season when the saloon keeper scatters a pound of sawdust and n few old cigar stubs in his back yayd and calls it a beer park,