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PROPRIETOR.
XIio Village Hotel Veranda.
iniSME" We mwc V tli e office
“«> ourselves with poplar
toothpicks, and then all march out mid
take seats oe the hotelaiaramU „a iZS i
a convention. If visa have never taken
piit^an one of those sethesiiuraouMus
veranda of a village hotel vein have missed
» good tlung. The audience includes
c 'yy phasa of human nature.
Tlie diacussion usually opens lieMteei
the YjRage blacksmith and a farmer, and
it starts on the weather.
The blacksmith asserts that we have
had too much ra n. The farmer can’t
The undertaker, who used to
fariu it, tlieti joins in with ’the remark
tJmt he Jins seen seasons when we hail
more rain, and seasons when we didn’t
have as ranch. This culls out the shoe-
raokcr, who cuu ren.emher one year when
it didn't rain from *.he joth of M tr *h to
the 1st of • Octolvr. While ho is trrin^
to nim<*mlH*r whut y
tilts back his ehnii
can distinctly re- i
rained every dav
Volume LXV.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4, 1S81.
WAIFS AM) WI1IMS.
A REIDIMG LEHOK
the middle of ’
member it all th
Ins father lielicv
was eoinir : r . a:i*
ing to malm a v
tlie horse ham.
year without f.«
miles to chi c
but rather tea.
he would v illi
No one don his ,
down to giv • r
r-ld
three-year-
a fence-stu
the vouii.
horses, las
ala nit to Cl
when , an ol
three IhiVs i
“I don’t V-,,
if T had ",. ... ,:u.
stakeeleartlirou;
grease U. .*•<’
before i jh !’• 1 t
cant stand ei...
r it was, the cooper
i el assertw’that hi'
* year in which u
the 1st of May to
liar. He fan re
distinctly because
a seeo id deluge
two months try
■ iit Noah’s ark of
.n’t tell tile exact
* a distance of six
11is word liiipuled
lo that trouble,
■never, and lie sits
■ the man whose
i been impaled on
■ wants a cure for
■ s a discussion on
minutes, and it is
oid take up mules
over the heads ol
in’? it slightly paradoxical to call a
i with full lieard a bare-faced liar?
about bosses, hut
mid drive a foiioc-
l.i believe 1 should
■ieh off the slivers
T tell - ye. hones’
’ iT. I'fiiore’ii a ftiaii
in- ’
Whtit ver
create, i liv !
hy th
tlie tup lo
No one knot
brought hm
way from too so.
lie is discr>., ly
amount. The.'
however. He kiC
diaus, a dozze g t
lui.idred bnlfio.'S 1
that settles the qv
titled to cothmnt U t
■nssirm might lie
ssertion is barred
villagerwho made
a overland days,
v much money -he
till)ate runs all the
.,n to$2‘.i.0fH), hut
r as to the exact
■no thing certain,
pward of fifty In-
•' Is ars, and over n
lie was gone, and
■a of his being en-
parnde on the
Fourth of July. A move is about to be
made to draw him out on wild Western
scenes, when wimebody suddenly recol
lects that old Uncle Jerry is lying at the
point of death. Everybody seems to fed
bad for a moment, and then it is remem
bered how he made his wife go liareh sited
in winter, lent money at fourteen per
cent., anil whipped a' yoke of steers to
deuth, and the tide slowly turns. There
is one question, however, on which all
are agreed. Undo Jerry, during Ids
palmy days, once shouldered a barrel of
ciu-rand carried it forty rods.
‘Ties, and I coed him do it," sighs the
old man behind mo. “Fact of it was, it
was all on my account, and I: ls>at him
pretty bad. I was up to Fuller’s eider-
inill nrter a -barrd of tlm sweet, when
Undo Jerry come along with a bouncing
tlnco-year-old stesr. We got to banter
ing, and wo finally agreed that if I could
lift his steer I was to have him, and he
waste have tho cidorif bo could shoulder
it. I don't keer to brag around now in
my old ape, but I thiukl lifted that steer
without even groivia'rodin the face. Un
cle Jerry turned as white asashoet, and I
thought he'd faint away; but ho stuck to
hi - word and I took the steer hum. He
got a heap o’ credit all over tlie county
for liftin' that cider, and never let on that
I lifted the steer, and tliat’s one thing
I’ve kinder laid up agin the old man. ”
r * ■* ’’Uti.TVV VXn nnyf mnn lino oTvmf fltofim
'Th'onTKo next man liesabontthe’nnm-
ber of crows he saw in Kansas, and so we
go until it is sharp 10 o'clock and the
mosquitoes begin to hunger for evening
lunch. Then they bid each other good
night end separate to meet and lie again.
--.If. 'fund.
AN F.lGilTEEN-IXCH DEATH.
The noil Mullsimnl mid OradI; Creature
In liar World.
» | London TrlcgTaph.l
A i-ccent nrrivnl at tlie Zoological So
ciety’s Garden at Regent's Park deserves
special notice, apart from the fact that
it is the first of Its species known to have
liern brought to England. It is a snake,
called the echi* carinata, about a foot
and a half long, and of a dingy gray.
interesting nor formidable, it is the
deadliest of created things. This de
testable-little worm, which, looking at it,
the spectator might moke bold to say he
could imitate very passably in cork and
putty, is, nevertheless, one of the mira
cles and masterpieces of nature, for it is
death itself,- and carries in its tiny head
tho secret of destroying life with the
sudden rapidity of lightning and the
concentrated agony of all poisons. The
eehis comes to us from India, where it is
tolerably common, being found in nearly
every part of tlie peninsula, and feared
wherever found as the incarnation of
instant and terrible destruction. For
tunately, however, for man, it is not,
like tho cobra and tho kornit, a honse-
frcqhenting snake, for its tiny size wonld
give it a terrible advantage over human
lieings who live crowded together, as the
natives of India do, in small darkened
rooms, while its aggressive habits wonld
make it infinitely more fatal to life than
its dreaded relatives. For this king of
tlie asps, this modern basilisk, is not
only venomous beyond conception, but
a actively offensive. It doos m* turn to
escape from man, as the cobra will, or
flash into concealment, like the korait,
but conscious, perhaps, of its deadlines*,
deliberately keeps the path against its
human assailant, and, putting its own
eighteen inches of ldjgth AgtSnst his
bulk, challenges and provokes the con*
diet. A stroke with a whip will cut it in*
two, or a clod of earth disable it; but
such is its malignity that it will invite
attack Ty every devieo at its command,
staking his own life on tho mere chiuioe
of his adversary coining within the little
circle of his power. At most, the radius
of tills circle is twelve inches, but within
it, at any point, lies certain death, and
ing 1 within its rerich, the throwsits
body into a figure-of-eight noil, and at
tracting attention by robbing its loops
together, which, from the roughness of
. the scales (lienee the epithet carinata),
mikes a rustling, hissing sound, erects
its head and uwaits attack. No one hav
ing ever encountered tills tumble worm
can ever forget its truculent aspect when
thus aroused, its eagerly aggressive air,
its restless coils, which in constant mo
tion ono over tlie other, and rustling
ominously all the while, stealthily but
surely bringing it neater and nearer to
the object of its fury; ^he eye malignant
even beyond those of other vipers, and
then tho inconceivable rapidity of its
stroke. For the eehis doesnot want to
strike until it is within striking distance,
but vents its malice in repeatedly darting
at nothing, hoping, perhaps, to aggra
vate its antagonist into coming to closer
quarters, or, more probably, as a mere
expression of its own ineontrollable
viciousness.
A lickek-iiealeu—the schoolmaster.
Tns soda-drinker often thinks of
foam.
The promises of some men always re
main shall owe.
New way to ‘‘know all aliont thy
self’—get a Presidential nomination.
Isn’t it slii
man
Fly time—when you hear your
father’s cane thumping along the hall.
Commissioner Le Dec, in liis crop re
ports, never mentions the hops at tho
seaside.
A western journal heads an article:
“A Lunatic Escapes and Marries s
Widow.” Escaped, eh? We should say
ho got caught \ ‘ .
A WniTEK^ur. man has discovered a
way of instantly turning sweet mill: into
fresh Imtter. ‘He feeds it to a goat
Pntent applied for.
A Wisconsin theorist, Says that hay
will satisfy hunger. ' There may be some
thing in this, for a couple of strawavwiU
frequent satisfy thirst. v "
It is claimed by some medical men
that smoking weakens the eyesight
Maybe it does, but just see liow it
strengthens the breath. i
Boston has a public vinegar "ttfspeotfii-
at a salary of $1,000 per year. One
would think he would get awfully tired
looking for his “mother.”
A i.ittle girl in church, after tho con
tribution plate bad been passed, com
placently and audibly said, “I paid for
lour, mamma, was that right?” - r - .
Said Jones: “Smith won’t have so
soft a tiling as he had.” “I don’t know,”
replied Robinson, “he’ll have a soft
I thing so long os he doesn't lose his
j head.”
i Bridget—“And how shall I cut tho
| poie, mum?" Lady of the house—“Cut
it into quarters.” Bridget—“And how
j many quarters wood I cut it into,
j nmm?”
You may have noticed that the flies
never lmtlier a speaker, no matter how-
dull he is, but invariably attack tlm over
worked sitter who is trying to get a lit
tle sleep.
They're high-toned in Deadwood, and
they w ouldn’t go to see tho Black Crook
until it wns advertised written by Shakes
peare, and then they Oouldn’t keep peo
ple away. '
“An heavens!” cries Nana, sentiment
ally, to her visitor, “when one is adored
by a magnificent captain like yon, noth
ing ever can make her love again—unless
it is a major.”
“My umbrella is getting decidedly
sliobby,” said a yonng man nbdut town
one evening last week. “I believe I will
have to strike another prayer-meeting
the first rainy night.”
Occasionai.ly yon find a Detroit man
who can stand having his whisky stolen
and not complain; but when the tlies
pester them during a morning nap, they
idl swear.—/fewIon Post,
Bui.i.ios is wealth in a crude form,
and after it is coined and kept at interest
a while, it becomes wealth in accrued
form again.' This language of ours is
worse than the gem puzzle, aheap.
Dei ced queer how men differ nliout
different things. When a man hooks a
lot of fish he will brag of it for three
days, and when he hooks a lot of apples
lie’ hasn't a word to say about it.
“On I thought this was a drawing
room car!” ajsilogetically observed a
Indy to a man in the door of the smoker
as she discovered her mistake. “It is,
mum,” he said, drawing on hisn with all
liis might.
A poet asks: “When I am dead and
lowly laid, * * * * And clods fall
heavy from the spade, Who’ll think of
me?” Don’t worry. Tailors and shoe
makers have very retentive memories,
and you'll not be forgotten.
A New York mnn was' challenged to
flight tv; duel tho.'other day," and lie ing at
libyrty. Ao choose his own-weapons pro-
p*d' a trip to |3k>stjon on a Sound stoaraor.
Tlio challenger backed out.' He Raid the
idea that death must attend a duel was a
relic of the dark ages.
A visitor enters a French newspaper
office and is greeted politely by the office
lw»y—“If monsieur comes to light a duel
he will have to 1m» kind enough to call
again; all our editors are already engaged
for to-day.”—Purls Charivari.
An Owego man, after a little experi
ence, truthfully and indignantly asserts
that no woman, however nervous, has a
right to wake up her husband from a
sound sleep to tell him on inquiring
what's the matter, “ Nothing, only I
wauled to know if you were awake. ”
“Nasby* takes pride in the service of
his fathe r and grandfather, in one way
or another. As for liimsolf, he says:
“Mv own military record is clear. In
the lute relxdlion I served by substitute.
I furittfilu d three substitutes, all of whom
to-day are in good health—in Canada.”
They eat In ft dnitky corner.
Turning the learea of a book,
O’er each picture fair,
Or legend there.
Bending with eager look.
Ie B bit of fiction, forsooth.
And there wasn’t as pretty a picture
In all the book, Ill engage,
As thee
By the t
Wei over Qm printed peg*;
Hie treeeaa with here so blending
Thor turned to a brighter shadq.
While the cheek of the youth
Wea in eery truth
As red as the cheek of the maid.
The printed prge was a 1
ofet be did notdoaa
A change of employment to her.
TLeir hands together bad met,
la the same warm clasp.
More than friend’.y gra*p.
They lingered and lingered yet.
‘for needed they for a moment
a t-Ai-h qGvt'm face to look.
Was at once confessed,
And each heart was an open book.
SCIENCE AND ART.
OVr mv tempUw, kindly »bno'‘twhg
All the act ing from my
Soft hands era gentlyftooSMng • •"•J
AaonJy lov.iuj otus know how.
Like cooling drops of summer rain
Fingers fall upon my hair,
Bosthig tho active, weary brain.
Freeing it from thought; of care.
Bet thoir touch of swoct compassion
O’er my for.-hoad mildly prt> .,
And my clu *-k cold and Hfthtu
Feel again their fond careaa.
loving hands, to us they rer. d/*r
. Sweetest service»in life, * * * • v *
Guiding us with touebee tender.
From the ways of sin and atrifd. J
Number 0.
Fi-.om tho speed of light, which has ■
lieen measured, it is proved that at least >re not acquainted with,
four hundred and fifty-one millions o.’, .xjoor accustomed walks On the street
million., of these minuto waves flow into 0*™# you faoo to face with man. vomer
tho eve and dash against the retina in each and children every day, vl
jeconi mfliar to you, butyoulimSr
Wirrri: fish less than a week old and-- • ^ Just about so far from I
looking like a pair of eyes with a tail, if
C laced beneath a microscope are found to
e transparent, and exhibit beautifully
the action of the heart in propelling tlie
blood, and its circulation through the*
tail. r m
'■ Th 0
dxed aui
toots stick to tile paper and color it soin-
Ip seeds (barley, com, etc.,) be placed
between moi st pieces of litmus paper, the
tensely red that even on the back of the
paper their oonrae can be traced in TtC.
lines on a blue ground. If tincture or
litmus be repeatedly added, the intensity
of the red color is increased.
Street Acquaintances.
Yon know a great many people you
Material Progress Since 1840.
Those of ns who have lived pur “three
score and ten” have seen many ch
morning you meet
weighted with life’
‘ “ied with the"
You always feel ,
your hat to him and offering a sympa-
young clerk, with ooshon-
steps to the minute,
ily and whizzes by
,’t move till he got
ill every departnu-
luaternd thmgs th
very.decided, and ;
t'» sums uj) souie o
j,p# them as follows:
much to Say that no g.- a
sot Ite -begi; ’ in.
Tlie Detection of Oleomargarine.
The detection of oleomargarine in
butter, when the adulterating material
A Baby Carriage in the Hall. is made, as it can he, in a careful and
A babv carriage in. the halL cleanly manner, is not easy, nor certain
The happiest piece of furniture that except l>y methods wliich only a skilled
any house nan Imast, alwavs making on i chemist can execute, JJSeveral simple,
honorable exception in ‘favor of the j tests liave recently been given in the
cradle. papers, but my own experience with
- That baby carriage means a home. j them has shown that they can be -riilied
"Without it, only a place to stay in. [upon only when the oleomorgann
It wpani a “dear little dimpled darl- | poorly or carelessly made, or when the
ing”—that makes sunshine all the time—- ! butter consists entirely of oleomargarine
when it ha m t got the colic. ' j simply flavored by . the small propqition
It means, a happy mother, . whose life cream with which it ia ohurned. Of
is fifled with all tender care, all sweet i tliese tests the following has given the
responsibilities, ‘all wondefflQ hope for j best results within my hands : Over a
the future. i bpiece of good, butter as large as achest-
ead I out, in a wine glass pour about twice its
E signal' develf^iim^S
I'tta-' appliasitons of chemistry to
manufactured and,agriculture; an enor-
^>us expansira ti oommerce by means up"amo^ r meu”with the *gr;mdest dig- [’bulk at ether ;etfi it>p until the fat is
Of railroad* and ocean^twimsuipe; the mnn may kn( f w , I all dissolved. Let it stand for a few
It mean* a father who holds his head
fly-gbntoel drees and
don expressed hy her closed
Knowledge In a Nutshell.
A cubit is two feet.
A puce is three feet.'
A fathom is six feet.
A span is ton and seven-eighths inches.
A palm is three inches.
A great cubit is eleven feet
A league is three miles.
There are 2,750 languages.
Oats, thirty-three pounds per bushel.
Bran, twenty pounds per bushel.
Barley, forty-eight pounds per bushel
A day’s journey is thirty-three and
one-eight miles.
Two persons die every second.
Sound moves 743 miles per hour.
A storm blows thirty-six miles per
hour.
Slow rivers flow five miles per hour.
A hurricane moves eighty miles per
hour.
An acre contains 4,840 square yards.
The average human life is thirty-one
years.
A square mfle contains 640 acres.
A hand (horse measure) is four inches.
Timothy seed, forty-five pounds per
bushel. ,
Buckwheat, flfty-two pounds per
bushel.
Coarse salt, eighty-five pounds per
bushel
The first lucifer match was made in
1829.
A tub of butter weighs eighty-four
pounds.
A barrel of rice weighs 600 pounds.
A firkin of butter weighs fifty-six
pounds.
A barrel of flour weighs 196 pounds.
A barrel of pork weighs 200 pounds.
A rifle ball moves 1,000 miles per
hour.
A rapid river flows seven miles per
hour.
Electricity moves 1128,000 miles per
hour.
The first horse railroad was built in
1826-7.
A moderate wind blows seven miles
per hour. .. M
The first steamboat plied the Hudson
in 1807.
Gold was first discovered in California
in 1848.
A mile is 5,280 feet, or 1,760 yards in
length.
Corn, rye and flaxseed, fifty-six
pounds per bushel
Wheat, beaus and clover seed, sixty
pounds per bushel
^ _ _ 7°“- , _ f moiiUi; tiresomely comes down the walk.
•iF E °tt' J jAWBEN ' CE -’ urrn ' of I Her face has moved you to pity every
vflle, Ky., in a paper read before the fmomin K far a year.
French Academy of Science, says that I; Wha f_ i3 this little breeze coming?
the meteorite which foU at EsUiernlle (With metallic heel-plate clicking, click-
Iowa, on May 10, 18i9, should be placed Ling on the sidewalk like the ringing of a
apart for the phenomena of ite fall es- el ^ gtep j aun ty hat to one
pecially the force of penetration of its her heo a, neat listume, and a
Iragments into tii* ground, and for the f piquant air? Meet her every day
mode of association of its mineral con- but don’t dare to speak to her.
stituents.
This little toddling girl with bangs,
An Italian Antarctic expedition is pro- [Zjzstectcd by an older brother, playing
posed by Lieut. Bova, who was one of the sidewalk with hoop and dolly. A
the officers under Notdenskjold on the yz ‘(Mim of childhood's sunshine that greets
Vega. It is to sail in the spring of 1881, cheerily.
anil touch at Monte Video, Terra del
Fuego, Falkland, and South Shetland
Islands, and, proceeding in a soutlnvesti
wardly direction, commence explorations,
expecting to be engaged for two winters
in the Antarctic region, and return by
way of Holiart Town. The expenses are
estimated at 600,000 lire.
An instrument called the stationo-
graph, for recording the speed of railway
trains, has been invented by a German
mechanician at Csssel, and works so well
that the Prussian Government is about
you cheerily.
Those two jolly fellows coming, tell
ing Btories and langhing all the way to
their work. Light hearted, because they
were bora so. Yon feel like turning about
<md having a laugh with them, but thoy
are only street acquaintances.
The “grabbing” sort of men whom
you me« every day carrying a pipe be
tween their teeth, round-shouldered, and
having a hangdog sort of a gait perfectly
indifferent to everything. It makes a
man feel bine to see them.
The gray-hairod and much-bowed vet-
to test it on some of the State lilies. A .jeran, whose life is near adjournment.
The Largest Tree in the World.
In Nelson’s “ Scientific and Technical
Reader ” there is an account, abridged
from Hutching’s “Scenes and Wonders
in California,” of a grove of trees. This
grove is situated on the water-shed be
tween the Son Antonio branch of the
Colavgra* river and the north fork of the
Stanislaus rivlsr, ifi latitude 38 deg. and
longitude 120 deg. 10 mill, west, at an
elevation of 4,37D feet above the sea
level, and at a distance of ninety-seven
miles from Sncramento city and eighty-
seven from Stockton. From specimens
of tlie wood, cones and foliage, Prof.
Lindley, England, considered it as form-
• ing a new genus and named it “Wel-
lingtonia gigantea,” but Mr. Lobb, who
had spent several years in California,
and had devoted himself to this branch
of study, decided it to belong to the
“ Taxodium ” family, and referred it to
Ilia nil iwntia •• Runrmift flpmTwrrirfiTlx”
dial iu view of the engineer enables liim
to ascertain the velocity of the locomotive
at any moment, and the changes of speed
are graphically represented upon a roll of
paper, which can be studied at the end
of the journey.
A few years ago Herr Kolbe suggested
dringing-water used on long voyages
might lie preserved from corruption by
means of a little salicylic acid, and this
was supported by lalxiratoiy experiments.
Afterward experiments were made on a
large scale on board ships without suc
cess, and when the water was examined
not a particle of the acid could be found.
What became of the acid is an open
question. Herr Kolbe considers that the
action of the wood of the cask decom
posed the salicylic acid.
Somewhat in tliese words an English
scientific journal introduces the follow
ing suggestion: They propose to light
the whole of London by means of a great
central light-house. Suppose a circular
tower, say 1,000 feet or more, with gal
leries at intervals of ono hundred feet,
and each gallery provided with a series
of electrio lamps, with reflectors ar
ranged at suitable englo*. ThcJighi
could thus be directed aud diffused over
tlie entire metropolis, rendering gas-light
unnecessary except in the suburbs. This
isifi'e ilfguntjnn -- 'Who will carry it into
elfcet? ' .
Thb Phfloeophical Society of Glasgow
is to hold an exhibition of gas apparatus
on a large scale next autumn, and it is
intended, also, to make a display at the
same time of the apparatus which will
illnstrate the progress mode in electric
lighting, in telephonic communication,
in the manufacture of mineral oils, in
hydraulic engines, in heating and venti-
latipn, *ta There can be no doubt that
this exhibition, taking up, ns it means to
do, some of the most important prob-
IdBlS to which man's attention is given at
preacut, will prove of groat service to
those who have to deal practically with
sanitary appliances.
According to M. Edmond About there
You meet him on Saturday mornings
only, leaning on his staff, his white locks
streiuning in the breeze; a picture which
we all look upon with reverence.
These are but few types of the people
we meet every day in the street and
know, but are not acquainted with, that
are as much a part of our every day life
as are our duties that add so much to our
pleasure and opportunity for study, and
more than books or newspapers.—Mod
em Argo.
discovery of either; and the perfection
and diffusion of tome of the most pre-
fare of mankind. In 1835 only 984 miles
of railroad had been completed in th( ‘
United States; in 1840 they had beei
nearly trebled (2,818); in 1845 they had
been nearly quadrupled (3,798). In
1835 Boston was connected with W..r- God appointed til muirT£ '^nono oFali
cester, and Baltimore with Washuigton; heaven's host could do.
from Philadelphia the traveler could go , means a word of plans and projects
no farther west by rail thau-tlie Susque- w hich all center iatiiat one little life,
lianna at Columbia. In 1839, Ericsson (
brought over the propeller to these hos-
To mother it ia “Baby,”
To father it is “My boy,".,. -
rriagi) in tlwliffll
all thff'w&3t& bf^roey Tionrs'- W m(
sings lullaby songs—perhaps,
” Hush mr dear, lie rill ml dumber,
Holy aoxels gua d thy bed.”
When all the time she is the angel that
are at least 2,000 pictures in the present
French Salon’ which no dealer would
The striped bug that infests encum
bers, squashes and melons as soon os
they appear above the ground is one of
the* greatest obstacles in the way of a
profitable cultivation of these crops.
The surest prevention is to place over
each hill a frame Covered with mosquito
terfappliedtotheplanta whence dew
is«ti, serves to malic *h» sinee less pal
atable to tbepeHtti thoogbtlritiis by no
xrrJiitiitm Air iAb -X /.*.a
uilow/i"Oitub'l .'..it
A Direful Disease.
Ono of the South Lawrence census
enumerators, says tlie Magic, stopped at
a house the other day where, from the
front door-knob, hung a fold of crape,
showing tlint tlie grim messenger hail
called aud summoned a soul to the
for beyond. Had he not been a Govern
ment employe lie might have shirked his
duty in this instance, hut with due re
spect for the relatives of the departed
dead one, ho stepped lightly to tho rear
door, rapped aud was admitted. He
found there, seated in a chair, with his
head bowed down in grief, on aged man.
I; .stating liis bqaili(ss he asked the
ify wife, siff” sorrowfully replied tlie
aged man. * -•*'
“ Wlmt did she die of ?” was the next
qncktiofi.
the old genns “ Sequoia sempervirens.'
It is now generally known as Sequoia
gigantea, popularly called “Welling-
tonia,” and by Americans “Washing-
tonia gigantea,” Within an area of fifty
acres, there are 102 large trees, twenty
of which exceed twenty-five feet in di
ameter, and are consequently over sev
enty-five feet in circumference. The
*’ Father ot the Forest,” the largest of
the group, lies prostrate and half buried
in the soil; it measures at the root
110 feet in circumference, is 200
feet to the first branch, and
from the trees which were broken
l>y its fall is estimated to have been 435
feet in length ; 300 feet from the roots it
is eighteen feet in diameter. The “ Big
Tree ” was bored off some years siuce
with pump augers and then wedged
down ; the stump, which stands five and
show in his shop. Within the lasttwenty
years tlie number of pictures bung hns
duubled, without art reaping much ad
vantage. M. Paul Parfoit gives us an
amusing description of some previous.
Salons. That of Year IN (1801), con
tained only 485 works of all descriptions,
instead of, ns to-day, 7,289. M. Callet
exhibited a magnificent canvas symbolical
of the 18th Brumaire, of which the centre
was oocupied by the vessel of the State,
which was represented as having safely
entered port and as moored with a chain
of laurel wreaths. The British leopard,
too, was displayed on it vainly lavishing
guineas on expiring monsters, and Dis
cord was flying before the dawning rays
of a luminary doing duty for a new enx
In the Wrong Room.
Shortly after 12 o’clock a few nights
ago a Philadelphia guest at one of the
large Atlantic City hotels was awakened
by a nudge from the sharpest of his
wife’s sharp knuckles. As he opened
liis eyes he saw by means of the ex
tremely faint light that penetrated from
the hall into the room the figure of a
man, who stood silently by the bureau
and who, as it appeared, was fumbling
for whatever valuables might fall into
clutches. The wife clung to her
hand’s arm and trembled so violently
t the latter feared lest the burglar
ioula hear and escape.' Releasing his
arm, the guest slipped noiselessly from
the bed and bolding his pillow as a
shield, he reached the burglar at a bound.
In the midst of crushed chair and
broken bric-a-brac the robber went
down, with his assailant on top. The
robber struggled hard to rise, but, being
stronger, the occupant of the room soon
had the thief spread out at full length
with the pillow on his head. The con
queror’s wife struck a light as quickly
as passible and rang sharply for an at
tendant When the night clerk reached
the room he saw a thrilling tableaux, the
chief figure of which was a powerful
Othello strangling a mole Dcsdemona in
the middle of the floor. But the scene
was set in comedy after all, for when the
pillow was removed the thief’s face
showed him to be the highly respectable
occupant of the adjoining aoom, a dear
friend of his assailant and altogether
above reproach. He simply had mis
taken the wrong room for the right one
and when knocked down was fumbling
about for a match.—Philadelphia
Times.
Denmark has 1,980,675 inhabitants, an
increase since the latest preceding cen
sus.
Light-Brained W<
M. Le Bon, in rundering an aooount
of the progress of his observations on
the comparative mean weights of male
and female skulls, has explained the
precautions which he had taken to avoid
errors arising from considerations of the
differences, bodily stature, age, race,
.. half feet above the soil, is sound to!| and social or civilized status. After tak-
tlie core, and has been used as a ball- I ing all these conditions into aooount, he
room. This tree was ninety-six feet in .j (finds a difference of 172 grammes in fa-
circumference at the ground, and 302 i vor of the skull* of men over those of
feet high. The “ Mother of the Forest” women. He asserts that while a newly-
wos stripped of its bark in 1854, for ex-: j born: girl. has a heavier brain than a
hibition in the New England States, newly-bam boy-L-an advantage which
and naw > measures, without the hark, she rapidly loses—the women of inferior
«ighty-fokr feqtjin circumference ; sey- races are relatively superior to those of
enty leetfipit is thirty-nine and»h»lf high-civiUzedraces,inotherwords,wow-
feet (also without the bark); its height is j an does'not advance, and consequently,
321 f«e|. The “BuratTree,” prostrate, i the differences between her and man are
is estimated to have been' 300 reel Ugh '■ constantly augmenting. If M. Le Bon’a
when standings and ninety-seven feet in [’ assertions lie to be accepted as facts,
circumference ; it measures thirty-nine i they would undoubtedly seem to point
and E half feet across the roots. • “ Her- 1 to {he necessity of bringing the oppor-
Of improvements, sir,” was the re- r cole® ” i> ninety-five feet in dreumfer
1 * 1 a oflrt /..i nru— t* „
asked- the enumer-
tkuqpdidnat fully
■ ence, and 820 feet high. The “ Pio-
improvements, sir, ~ of improve
ments,” again was tlie reply, more em-
nllatte than before,
: , “JI6w tlwt be?” asked the enu
merator; his curiosity now thoroughly
aroused.
Well,” said, the man, slowly and
new's Cabin,”-v broken
f*t from tlie, ground,
thirty-nine feev in diameter,' bnt,
owing to its being hollow, and* its
surface uneven, its average is not quite
equal to tli*t. Fourteen other trees av-
erage 291 feet high, and seventy-edgiit
and a half feet in circumference. It is
estimated from the number of concentric
layers of wood in these trees, each layer
tunitiee of intellectual culture more
closely within reach of women, bnt the
learned doctor predicts that the abom
ination of desolation will fall on society
if women be removed from the happy
ignorance of their domestic hearths.
Nature.
thoughtfully, “the doctor came Monday I of which is supposed to be the growth
night and said she was improving, he
came Tuesday morning and said abe was
improving. Tuesday night he came and
told me she was improving, he come
Wednesday morning and she was dead.
Yes,” continued the old man, “ she died
of improvements.”
The enumerator did not press his ques
tion further.
An Tntlmn riyrno to OIL
NMB nrrMhgw Bfolher, wno Tie
said had been bitten by a rattlesnake.
-“Four quarts I" repeated thb agent, with
surprise; - ‘‘much a* that?” Y*s,"
replied the Indian, “ four quarts; aniske
veiy big.”
HLll/'.M
.1 0
of a single year, that their age is almost
3,000 years, considerably younger than
the cue an exhibition. This grave is
■Iso described in an amusingmanner by
by T. W. Hinehliff, M. A., F. B. G. 8.,
in his “Over the Sea and Far Away,”
1876. From his account, the trees oc-
enpy a belt 3,200 feet long and 700 feet
wide, which contains from ninety to 160
qmsoias of the largest size; the highest
se 325 feet, and the diameter of one
(which I (took must be the “Big Tree”)
is twenty Mverfs* -’ At six feei from
the ground, he says, the survey party
counted the ring* of this. Motion, and
foand the 1 number to be 1,255; that
tfee. be thinks, i* one of the finest in
the grove. 1 1 ■' , !
Sheets should be three-quarters of
yard wider than the bed, narrow aBeets
being almost aa bad as none.
It was dinner time in a select hoard-
iug-liousb when the new bearder arrived.
lie was a venerable-looking gentleman,
with silvery hair, aud his face beamed
with a sweet repose betokening a pure
and holy life. As he-joined the table the
landlady said;: ** Would you oak a bless
ing?” The venerable stranger shouted,
-‘Youffl hereto talk louder, nun; Fm
so d—d deaf.
pitable shores. Ill 1840 the CftuiirJ line
of ocean-steamers was established, but
for a long time only “side-wheelers”
were tolerated. The first regular ship,
the Britannia, reached Boston after a
trip of fourteen days and eight hours
Morse’s telegraph, after ■ vain offers on
both sides of the Atlantic, was at last
subsidized by our own government, and
in 1844 communication was, opened be
tween Baltimore and Washington.
“Wliat hath God wrought!” signaled
Morse at the capital to Alfred Vail at
Baltimore. Tlie news dispatches to tlie
press “by electro-telegraph" or “by mag
netic telegraph” were meager, while
jiublic patronage was so timid that tlie
wits of tlie dav made fun of a delighted
father in Baltimore who “wired” the
news of the birth of a grandson to a
postoffice official at the Capital—“as if
the mail were too slow" at twenty miles
an hour. In April, 1840, Goodyear was
in the debtors’ prison (a lodging almost
as familiar to him as his own home) in
Boston; lie had the year before fouud the
clue to the vulcanizing of rubber, but
the process was not reduced to" a cer
tainty till 1844. At aliout the same
time (1845-47) the McCormick reaper
was confirming tho independence of the
New World of tlie Old as a granary. (As
late as 1836-38 wheat had been im
ported into tlie United States from Portu
gal and the Baltic.) Tho sewing-ma
chine devised by Elias Howe in 1841 wns
patented in 1846, but the imjioi-tanee of
tliis invention was not fully realized for
more than a dozen years afterward. The
daguerreotype dates from 1839, and in
1840 the enterprising Mr. Plumb began
taking likenesses iu Bostou—with siiiail
suceess for some months. Five years
later his “galleries” wore to bo found
not only in that city, but in New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington,
aud even Dubuque, Iowa. Finally,
July 24, 1847, tlie patent was issued
for Hoe’s lightuiug-press, with its “un
it means n father that studies his bank
balauce with wonderful diligence, for
“ My sou must liave a good education,
and a good start iu life,” you know.
Aud lie. goes home aud catches the
langhing tod'llor up, aud reddens the
dimples with i.is whiskers, and then put
ting sturdy little twelve-month’s old on
his feet, sets him at his a, b, c of walk
ing, addressing him with comical dig
nity, “Well; Governor, where shall we
go now?”
And although he only calls him “Gov
ernor,” the mother’s heart says—and the
father wouldu t deny it were she to pnt
it hi words—licit more likely it will be
President, in that dim, lieautiful and
certainly very grand future.
Her chi
should be
Betweei
liis mmi.i'
worth the aw
That bal y «
a good deal, d
It means ev
mother.
It means more than c m lie told.
If you have such apiece of furniture in
use you know all about it.
If you haven’t, it's a waste of raw ma
terial to bother with you.— Wheeling
Leader.
though, would be that he
;ond man aud u happy one.
iciu both they pared out for
- years all that makes life
‘ .
o rriage iu tlie hall means
lues it not?
lythiug to tho father aud
minutes till the undissolved. (alt hns
itttod' to the bottom, pour th* clear
* '
’ether bos.entirely evapor ..
tlie same operation with a piece of
mhrgarino,' and, on compBnag'ftfce two
fatty residues, toe latter .will be found to
have a more orless distinct tallowy odor,
which may become' more 'apparent il
the spoon is held for a moment in the
hot steam from the boiling ’ tea-kettle;
tlie residue from good butter has no’such
odor; but genuine butter may be adult
erated with half its weight of oleomar
garine, and the adulteration cannot be
detected by this test. When genuine
butter is heated to a temperature several
degrees above the boiling point of water
it foams much more than oleomargarine
does when treated in a similar manner
I have found that this test enables us to
distinguish genuine butter from genuine
oleomargarine, but it is no more service
able than the other for detection of
adulteration of the one with the other.
No one should place much dependence
on cither of these teste, without going
through with the same operation with
genuine butter at toe same time, or at
least not until thoroughly familiar with
the different results given by the two
substances under the conditions of the
test.—Prof. G. C. Caldwell, in New
York Tribune. ^
How Ohl is Glass!
The oldest specimen of pure ghess
bearing m. i< g like a date i» a little
moulded Von > head, lieariug tho name
of an Egypt t-' tag of the eleventh dy
nasty. in tlie Slade collection at the Brit
ish Museum. That is to say. at a period
which may be moderately placed as more
than t.vu thousand years ii. CL, glass was
not only mmD, but made with skill,
which shows that the art was nothing
new. The Invention <5f glazing pottery
with w film of glass is so old i it among
tie- ! meuts which Vicar inscriptions of
1 fh arts 'V' ptian monarchy are beads
lK.ssibly t tlie first dynasty. Of tlie
pression cylinder” (the type revolving on < latter clas - there are numerous examples,
a circular lied) and a printing capacity
of ten to twenty thousand impressions
per hour.
Senator Hamlin’* Endurance.
Ex-Senator Lot M. Morrill, of Maine,
leaking of toe present venerable United
States Senator from that State, said:
Hamlin is the most remarkable man I
ever knew. He has never known sick
ness, and has been most careful aud at
tentive to his public duties of whatever
character, of any man in this country.
He never wore a piece of flannel or un
derclothing of any description, a pair of
gloves, or an overcoat Even in our cold
est weather, Mr. Hamlin, even at his ad
vanced age, plods along, dressed in the
coldest of costumes—tlie old-fashioned
swallow-tailed coat—without wraps of
any kind, while his fellows are almost
frozen to death beneath big overcoats
and the heaviest of underclothing. His
power of endurance is wonderful and his
capacity for work great”
The Rochester Democrat tells of
“Three cases in which careless peopli-
lost their property. ” Now if those care
less people had simply had simply had
their case checked, or even plaiuly re
marked, it would doubtedly have saved
heap of trouble, as well as property.
The Buffalo Courier has this heading
over au article: “From Buffalo to
Heaven; suffering and death of Jacob
Terwilliger, the kick of a mule and its
final results. ” That settles it. The mule
that can kick a man from Buffalo to
heaven, is the cliampiou long distance
kicker.
Newspaper Borrowers.
An exchange recently published a let-_
ter from a lady subscriber iu which she"
complained bitterly of the annoyance
she experienced from the habit her fe
male neighbors had of constantly Iwr-
rowing bet paper. The exchange failed
to advise her on the subject, and, as tlie
matter is a serious one, we have our
selves looked about for some method of
relief, and now think we can offer the
suffering lady and all others similarly
situated an adequate means of succor.
Here is our plan : Let toe lady imme
diately upon receiving her paper care
fully cut from it some item—it makes no
particular difference what it is—most
any item will do, only let it be neatly
and carefully removed from the paper.
Then toe following proceeding will be
sure to eusue: In a few moments toe
neighbor’s boy will come after toe pa
per—he will take it home—within three
minutes he will emerge from toe house—
he will scoot down street and very short
ly return with a folded newspaper of the
same date as the one just borrowed. By
the time toe clipped paper has circled
round among all the female borrowers,
the streets will be lively with hurrying
boys, and toe revenue of toe newspaper
wifi be materially increased. Not one
woman among them till would be able to
deep a wink without knowing just ex
actly what that cut-out item was. Tie
next day the lady must pursue the sam
A Device to Save a Child’s Fare.
Speaking of the desire of some people
to rule free, reminds me of a little inci
dent which occurred on a Canada Soutu-
ern train, a few days since. At Detroit
a fleshy German woman, with a little
girl of about 6 years, boarded tlie train for
Toledo. When the conductor came
through, the woman was sitting on the
edge of the seat with hex elbows on tie
one in front of her,, aud the child, oh,
where was she? That was the conun
drum ; but it was too easy a ono for tlint
Canada Southern conductor. After go
ing through the train, he returned t-
our heroine, who still maintained hei
uncomfortable position, and appearc
much interested with the passing
scenery. Laying his hand on lu-i
shoulder, tie conductor asked where tin
child was, but only received for au an
swer: “Too shmall, too stimuli!”
Again repeating his inquiry, aud again
receiving his “Too shmall” answer, lie
decided to investigate tho matter. Com
pelling the woman to sit back in li<-i
seat, he found the little girl doubled no
in a heap in the corner, where she lout
lieen obliged to keep as quiet as a mi® '
for nearly half an hour, covered by tli
not too-clean garments of the inhumn
mother, who was trying to save her fare.
All tlie time the investigation was go
ing on the woman kept up her plea of
“Too shmall, too slimnll!” until tin
conductor, becoming disgusted, re
marked: “If alio is too small to pay
fare, she is certainly too small for you
to sit on. Faro, please. ”—Railroader.
such as the benil found at Thebes, which
hastlicnan:-of Queen Hatasoof Hashep,
- f I.i "ii/Htet■;.tli dynasty. Of tlie same
p- riod :iv van—w slid golilete and many
lragmcits. It can not be doubted that
the story prepared by Fliny, which as
signs tlie credit of the invention to the
Fliauticians, is so for true that these ad
venturous merchants lironght specimens
from other countries to Egypt. Dr.
Schliemnnu found diskB of glass in the
excavation at Mycenae, though Homer
does not mention it as a substance known
to him. That the modem art of the
glass-blower was known long before is
certain from presentations among the
pictures on the walls of a tomb at Benni
Hasson, of the twelfth Egyptian dynas
ty; but a much older picture, which
probably represented the same manufac
ture, is nmong tlie half obliterated scenes
in a ehhmber of the tomb of Tliy, at
Sakkara, and dates from the time of the
fifth dynasty, a time so remote that it is
not passible, in spite of the assiduous re
searches of many Egyptologers to give it
a date in years.—Saturday Review.
The Horse and His Rider.
In the history of Romo, says Joseph
Ct ok, it is related tlint in 331, B. C., a
great chasm opened in the middle of the
forum, which it was found impossible to
fill. The sootlisaye^said it would close
wlien it contained wliat Rome possessed
of most value, and tho state would lie
jierpetual. A noble youth named • M.
Curtius demanded if Rome hnil anything
of more value than arms and valor. He
mounted his horse, richly e iparisoned,
and, ■ amid ’ the silence of the’ people,
spurred.him. oyer the brink ft.tfif tre
mendous precipice (vtije liv. I," vii.‘ 6i.
I liave seen a (drilling■'picture'Of this
somewhere. It represented', horse
and rider after they had passi I tqe brink
aud were descending to the unknown
depths. There was a remarkable con
trast between tho fright of the finite and
tlie mirnfiled,self-possession of.the-man.
The limbs of tlie horse were tightened to
liis lwvly and the muscles of hi* heck
drew liis head to his client; anil a shud
dering terror expressed itself in the dash
of his starting eyes. .The- rider ’was
serene and calm, witii-a solemn «xp;es.
sion of majesty on liis fafce, tut- of one
who lived with hjgh thoughts.' If, I
were to spiritualize this picture I should
say that it wns no mean representation
of a ripe Christian departing this life.
The horse is tho body and tlie rider is
the spirit Flesh shrinking, spirit
steady and calm and solemn. Flesh
dreading the terrible shock, and spirit
wrapt in the glory of action, descending
that it may ascend.
YFfhking Photographs.
Winking photographs are said to be
produced in the following manner: One
negative is token ’ with tine sitter’s eyes
open; another without change of posi
tion, witir tiie eyes shut Tlie two neg
atives are ; printed on opposite sides of
the paper, “registering’’exactly. Held
fiefote a flickering lamp, or other vari
able source of light, the ctnnhihfd .pho
tographs show rapid ^alternations .of
closed and open eyes, the • effect being
that of rapid winking. ■■ ’ -i-.tl <"
.> A Gigantic Rock Story,
A gigantic rock fell into the narrow
canon between Rock Creek and Cham
berlain Flats, Klickitat County, W. T.,
recently, from a ledgo one thousand
seven hundred feet high. It struck a
band of seventy-live, sheep, killing nearly
all of them; then bounded and struck
the mountain on the opposite side,
breaking in twain, one part flying into
tlie swamp and imbedding itself out of
sight, while the other ground itself in
pieces against a ledge of rock, making
an unbearable sulphurous smell and
great heat.—Idaho Statesman.
The fellow who picked up the hot
penny originated the remark: “All that
glitters is not ould.”
Asking for Money.
Few wives enjoy asking their 1ms-
hruds for money, particularly if nig
gardliness is displayed. Intrusted with
a regular income, her position is niu
more independent and dignified. I r sh
ims a genius for managing, she will tai.
pride and pleasure in making 100 cent.,
go a great away—much farther than
man could make 150 go. She will aJs
make calculations about the expel 1
tures of the weekly sums ; will lay by
eertain amount toward buying such a’
such supplies hi quantities; will lr .
that there is no eeouomy in buying i .
by tlie bar, starch or sugar bythejxuv.o
She will systematize her affairs, keep o r
books—a day-book and a ledger—and
exliil 'it her well-kept accounts with prill
aud delight. The very fact that the ex
peuditure of tho money belongs to her
will sweeten tier life, give new zest to
her occupations and make her a Imp].'
uml more-contented wife. This qu
ion of domestic money supplies opei
next oay ine may must pursue me sam- field for thought for the aJemg
course, and surnlar raults wiU surely ilusUul(L
follow. In an extremely-obstinat -
neighborhood these proceedings have to
be repeated three or four days, but no
longer. By that time the lady will be
able to read her paper in peace, and the
newspaper finances wfll be the gainer
through several new subscribers. This
role is infallible where the borrowers art-
females, but it can’t be vouched for in
the case of men. There isn’t that inhe-
A young man who was pleasantly
gaged in dealing oat taffy to his^irl c
the telephone wue,’ was much disguswm,.
athaeneg ^2y»ee i .ftW»»thec«»tod™“®, rent curiosity to work upon, you know,
remaA;, . Ftoaae hurry up lf you have 1 —y, u t perhaps we are getting a
s^Udngto say jtoerei* abnsin— hms-J utffetobdatnL ‘ ™ «
The Topophonc.
■The Scientific American describes the
Mayer topophone, on instrument to de
termine the exact position of any source
of sound. It consists of two resonators,
i or sound receivers, supported on a-
shoulder-rest. From these resonators
i flexible tubes proceed to the ears, but
t these tubes are united in one for part of
the length. “When the two resonators
face the direction whence a sound comes
so as to receive at the same time the
same sonorous impulse and ore joined by
tulies of equal length, the sound waves
received from them will necessarily re
inforce each other, and the sound' will
be augmented. If, on the contrary, the
resonators being in the same position os
regards the source of sound, the resona
tor tubes differ in length by half the
wave length of the sound, the impulse
from the one neutralizes, that from the
other and the sound is obliterated. Ac
cordingly, in determining the direction
of the source of any sound with this
instrument, the observer, guided by the
varying intensity of the sound trans
mitted by the resonators,, turns until
their openings touch the same sound
waves simultaneously, which position he
recognizes cither by the great augmen
tation of the Bound when the tube
lengths ore equal, or by the cessation of
souud when the tube lengths vary so
that the interference of the sound waves
is perfect.” One of tlie tubes can lie
lengthened or shortened liv means of a
telescopic arrangement., For navigating
in fogs this instrument will uo doubt be
found of great value. I
- ' A Fire-Red Aurora.
On t!ie morning of Nov. 13, 1837,
there occurred one of tho periodic re
turns of the meteorio show®, such as
had been annually witnessed tor the ste
preceding years. The next day* fell of
snow, at the north covered the fece of
tlie country with a mantle of the purest
white. In tho evening, about 6 o’clock,
while sky was yet thick with, the fall
ing snow, all tilings suddenly, appeared
os if dyed in blood. The entire atmos
phere, the surface of the earth, the
trees, the tops of the houses, etc., were
tinged with the some scarlet hue. The
alarm of fire was given, and our vigilant
firemen were seen parading the streets
in their uniforms, which) mumming the
general tint, seemed in excellent keeping
with the phenomenon. Such was the ap
pearance exhibited over a large portion
of the country where tho cIouob were
not so dense as to obscure the auroral
display. The false alarm of fire was
not confined to one place, and super
stitious fears, of some impending
awful conflagration generally prevailed
■tnong the ignorant ’throughout the
country. It is remarkable e< toss great
' heavenly exhibition that it waa observed
over (he whole-eastern portion of the
conntiy os far south »a>TCtilloden,-rn—
Georgia, and also in Ohio and Si. Louis,
Mo. At the North, as observed
particularly in New York, the exhibition
ceased after having been seen for an
hour, again appeared at half-past 7
and lasted more than half on hour, and
returned a little before 9 o’clock in in
numerable bright arches, shooting tip
from tho northern horizon, of* the most
brilliant-colored light resting around the
horizon upon on obscure bank, all the
more dark - and mysterious from the
vivid display above. At half-past 10 all
this disappeared; but after 1 there was
another return of the phenomenon, last
ing for more than on hour. At Staten
island, in New .York torbor, to* specta
cle is described as the most magnificent
over beheld , The flluminetion waa so
great that the objects outside of Sandy
Hook were seen as clearly as at midday.
• And the City of New York appeared to
be only a mile or two distant—Chris
tian pt Work.
X Hawk Steal* a Hat. The best feed for yonng. chickens is
A few days ago, as a son of Mr. Nich- oat meal and corn' meal mixed, wheat,.
olasNorrish, of Nassagaweva, was pass- cracked corn and other small grains,
ing through the woods on his farm, he They must have .fresh (water before
noticed a hawk hovering around near them always. Green food is good for.
}iim Thinking nothing about the mat- them in small quantities. The. game
ter, be walked on, when all at once, and hen is the best sitter and mother—she
before he had time to make any defense, can cover thirteen to fifteen eggs. Games
the lard dived down and caught liis hat ' are good forager* and vey healthy fowls,
iu its claws'and carried if aloft. When' All diseased fowls'should be kept from
the bird got about the height of the trees . the flock. A bran, mash mixed .with
t lot the bat drop.—Montreal Witness, meal is a good morning feed.
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One of. the.richest most famous
monasteries in Italy is. that of Monte
Casino, on the line of railway between
Borne and Naples f it **» founded in
1629, and lias continuously existed ever
sinoe. It* library is-wonderfnlfy rich in
writteiFand printed documents, and the
rente of the domain are adequate to
maintain tlie institution. Its abolition
and confiscation are now urged by the
Italian ( r
Tot small boy who can rids a time-
wheeled velocipede in the hall, and beat
a; drum at the sagm time, ha* qualities
calculated to make home happy when ha
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