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Boxwood, (he wood of Burns sent
pervlrehs, which is almost exclusively
nspa ftHT-Uto best hinds of west! engrav
ing, had been for some years becoming
more and more scarce. Wood of tbe
largest diameter is the produce of the
forests of the countries bordering on
the Black Sea. Large quantities are
prodocedjn the neighborhood ofPoti,
from Which port the wood ia shipped
direct to England. The supply, how
ever, from this port is, we learn, becom
ing fast exhausted : and it is said, un
less the forests of Abkhassit are opened
to the trade, it must soon cease alto
gether. The quantity exported from
Poti, during the year 1873 amounted to
2,897 tons, of the value of £20,621;
besides this, from 9,000 to 7,000 tons
of the finest quality annually pass
through Constantinople, being brought
from Southern Russia and from some
of the Turkish ports of the Black Sea
for shipment, chiefly to Liverpool. An
inferior and smal'er kind of wood sup
plied from t&e neighborhood of > Sam-
soon is also shipped at Constantinople
to the extent of abont 1,500 tons annu
ally, With regard to the boxwood forr
ests of Turkey, the British consul at
Constantinople reports that they are
nearly exhausted ..and that very little
really good wood can now be obtained
from them; in Russia, however, where
some little government care has been
bestowed upon forestry, a considerable
quantity of choioe wood still exists;
bat ev c n there it can only be obtainod
at an ever-increasing cost, aa the for
ests near the sea have been denuded of
their best trees. The trade is. now en
tirely in Euglish bands, although for
merly Greek merchants exclusively ex
ported the wood. In the province of
Trebizopde the wood is generally of an
inferior quality; -nevertheless, from
25,000 to 80,000 ewts. are annually
shipped, chiefly to the united kingdom.
—Nature.
Around the Dinner-Table#
A merely bounteous table is not al
ways welcome or appetizing. Two or
three dishes, well prepared and daintily
arranged, are superior to a dezen care
lessly and inartistioallv put on. Hospi
tality is often oonfounaed with prota
sion, and some of us are apt to believe
that we play the host ill unless we per-
Buade our gue8ts into eating a great
deal. This sort of entertainment is
simply material, tkongh it is commoner
than we think.
The pleasures of the table should ap
peal to the eye and mind as well as to
tho palate. Form should be consulted;
grace should be indispensable. The
savor of food gains much from its set
ting and its accompaniments. A few
flowers, perfect order and neatness,
with congeniality and sympathy about
the board, will insure what an Apician
feast might not.
The dav of uniformity in table furni
ture has-passed, the, present faney being
for oddness and variety. This, apart
for picture* quencss, is both.oonvenient
and economical, since the breaking of
pieces does not necessitate
fhe ptii chase of an entirely new set. It
tjjjtiBasl itew to see on elegant
breakfast tables each coffee-cup differ-
6bt<ftpm hi*, neighbor, and no tub of
the plates alike. Bnt it is at.tea—moat
informal of mtals—that the greatest
variety and the prettiest effects may be
produced. . ' ' . ’
Flowers have come to be mdispensa-
Ms fir aaanv table*, and thay will be,
ere long, let * us- hope,* indispensable to
ail - xney need not be raid or costly.
Uftti, even the plainest
tea, thaknoaing else
' ‘ x "A few green
daisies, a bunch
and awake in
af trace in the battles of every-day lifr.
We should reap act it, and, in its pret
ence, commend ourselves toipeaee.
The Luck of Storm Lake.
The advent of Storm Lake Brolinaka
into this world was attended by more
auspicious circumstances than (he fates
usually accord to humanity at the
threshold of life. The western brand
wHH wrtteral hundred puMtf#e,
were snow-bound at Storm Lake, tow*,
a village on the line of the Illinois Cen
tral railroad, eighty miles east of Sioux
Oity. Tho hotels of the place, as well
as the private residences, were soon
crowded by the beleagured passengers.
Or Die train was a oar of Mennonites
th ’r way to join their countrymen
in Dakota. They refused to leave their
oar,'£nd next morning it was ascertained
lhat Mrs. Brolinaka had become a moth
er. The report of the ooonrrence hav
ing become generally known, steps were
at once taken to welcome the little
stranger. The mayor called a meeting
of the council, whioh declared the day
a public holiday ; and voted the hospi
talities of the city to the baby and Its
mother. A procession was soon parad
ing the Btreets, and the mother and
baby were carried in triumph to the city
hall, where speeches Were made by the
mayor. Judge Kidder, delegate to eon-
gross from Dakota, and several promi
nent citizens. The announcement was
then made that aflve-aereplat of ground,
was to be given to the baby, who was
christened by a popular vote Storm
Lake Brolinaka. The procession then
reformed and escorted Master Brolinska
to the station, and the train moved on
amid fbe firing of cannon and the ring
ing of bells.
Hell.
The word “hell,” a translation of the
Greek word Gehenna, is a term used to
designate the valley of Hinnom. This
valley bounds Jerusalem on tho north,
and lies below Mount Zion—a scene of
sacred and imperishable assooiatione.
In this valley Moloch, the national god
of tho Amorites, was won biped with
the horrid and inhuman rito of sacri
ficing cliildren in the fire. When
Josiali, in his conquests, overthrew this
idolatry, he poured contempt upon the
infernal practice by casting into the
valley the bones 'of the departed. In
the estimation of the old Hebrews
the bones of the dead caused
the greatest of oil pollutions. What
ever person, plaoe, or thiogs they
touched were forthwith considered
“unclean.” Hence this ville/of Hin-
nom, this “ hell,” having been the re
ceptacle Of the human remains' which
Josiah throw into it, was considered
a place the most polluted and ac-
cursed. From this circumstance it be
came a common receptacle for all the
refuse of tho city of Jerusalem. Here
large quantities of decomposing veg
etable and animal matter were con
stantly tjhrown. This putrescent matter
generated ah abundance of worms; the
worms here never died. To prevent
the noxious effluvia, springing from
this mass of corruption, poisoning the
atmosphere and breathing disease and
death into the.heart .of the oity, fires
were kept burntogday and night. This
valley, therefore, was literally a place
where “the worm never died, and
where the fire wax never quenched.
Rev. Phelps,
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A Lo»t Game. * .,
The §oane occurred in a railroad oar,
ou~the Union Paeifiq road, in Which two
men were gambling while tbe tost of
the passengers looked on, One of (be-
gamester’s wail the type of the profes
sionals who “wbrfc**the road-ra des
perate trickster, sleek, and ugly ; the
other was a rough griz^ed miner, tosh
dance of mODey^ n %jte g*me^drawpo-
Th« GANADIASPACIFtC.RAILROAD.—
The preliminary surveys for the Cana
dian Pacific railway are rspiply ap
proaching completion; and the actual
construction of various sections of it
ll very shortly he in progress. In
e government estimates for next year
ere is an item of $6,250,000 under the
head of “ PaoiftoRail way," aud on the
occasion of its discussion in committee
of-XuppIy. the premier Indicated what
- •' * ‘ do in
k*r^-vm\1ai large stole* and played th^BOtorinnent ^propos^ to d
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be no;*•■**■-
attempt
is on the table
it There can
of the senses un-
-
. precursor of indi-
are, invited tcfdin-
>, Mid tabs fewtto anxft*yifi><flty
content defraud the host of a pepper
return /or his hospitality. No one has
socially where he does
some sort of oompensa-
e right to go i
tobkdoth should be the flag
A contbst, novel in this; country,
however common abroad, has just beta
derided at Paterson, New Jersey.
There a number of English mechanics
out of employment have been amusing
their leisure in roaring and training
earner-pigeons, and the first match in
this country was flown the other day.
Seven birds were entered tp fly an
average, distance of toree miles. The
time made was not considered fast.
The winner of the first prize made tho j navigation,
distance in something over three min- !
ufces, and one bird was over eight min
utes in reaching its oote.. The first
prise, under an old English -custom,
was a large oopper kettle of little value
luniarily, but greatly esteemed —
silently and watchfully.
pot accumulated. Each man had evi
dently a good hand and was resolved to
stand by it. Each man raided the other
until finally the miner “called.” The
gambler showed his hand—three aoes
and two queens—at the same time cov
ering the money with his hand. The
miner uttered not a /word-; he merely
took two of his five oards and laid them
down; they were aoes. This meant fire
aces in the pack. The gambler had
dealt. Th<n the miner reaehod back
like lightning, drawing a hnge navy re
volver. He cocked it and placed the
muzzle between the eyes ot the gam
bler. Not a word was spoken, but each
of the two men looked steadily into the
eyes of the other. Soon the gambler’s
hand upon the money began to draw
book, and the gambler’s form as well.
The revolver followed. The gambler
stepped into the aisle, and at this point
passengers in the oar seemed to lose
their interest in the game, most of them
trying to get un.er the seats. The
gambler backed down the aisle towards
the door, anl as he passed out themuz-
z'e of that huge revolver stared him in
the face. Then the miner put up his
pistol, pocketed tho money, lit his pipe,
and was as other men. Not a word had
been spoken from the time the “call”
wa3 made. It was merely one of the
rare occasions where a gambler on the
U ion Pao fic mistakes his man.
Some New French Aphorisms.
It is right to despue fools; it is wrong
not to fear them.
Love descends to friendship ; friend
ship never soars to love.
People who injure us always say they
do so for onr good.
Women do not like to remember;
men do not like to forsee.
Nothing shows happiness more than
tear?. Tears are the extreme smile.
An honest man never abandons a
woman, bnt he knows bow to make
himself forsaken.
By their fickleness women escape
mnch misery. Birds save themselves
only with their wings.
A woman never is deceived by the
love she inspires, but she deoeives her
self through that which she experi
ences.
The Indian commissioner throws a
the trouble about the Black Hills busi
ness on Gen. Ouster’s expedition last
fall, which he says was utterly uncalled
for and unnecessary. He farther ac
cuses the war department of having
little or no respect for the rights of the
Indian», affirming that nothing would
have been done toward keeping intrud
ers from the auriferous reservation, if
the Indian bureau had cot made the
most strenuous appeals for justice to
its oharges,
—M. ceguin is dead. He built tbe
first railway in France (from Lyons to
St Etienne); he invented iron wire sus
pension bridges and the tubular boilers
of locomotive engines, by which in
vention railway trains have been able
to attain their present great speed, for
the tubular boiler generates steam
rapidly enough to Bupply the vapor as
fast as it is wanted. He lived to attain
tbe age of eighty-nine years. His mind
had decayed some years before his
body. Hie was a pupil red a nephew of
Montg lfier, the paper maker, so wril
kuown by his connection with »ri*l
the emblem of victory. The tori was grance of mimosa andorange blossoms.
merely a prelude to a grand match m Chicago Jbtfrnal.
whioh some two hundred pigeons will.
be entered to fty too miles. Borne of
the birds to be entered have a,record,
having distinguished themselves in (ty
ing between London and Paris, t
Mm Twain denies that his Gilded
Age wss s failure. He says it gate a
poor, worthy bookbinder a job.
one has^ttitten Coi. Forney,
at Nice, asking if (Kb vile stories about
his pocketing that $25,0C0 have any
foundation ip fact, and the Colonel in a
very gentlemanly manner, replies that
“the very air is heavy with the fra-
—— m-.marm *m4'Auansm ViiASSAtvis ”
Ah rid Jarmar talks thus about his
boys; From lfliej20 they know more
thsnAedid ; st 25 they know as much;
at 30 they were willing to hear what he
hadtossy; at85 they ask his advioe;
and when they get to be 40 they will
aotually acknowledge that the old man
does know something.
telegfitph service ft to b6 established
akmg.the entire rontoitt advance of the
railiri&'snd $1,000,000 is asked for that
purpose; The, contracts for this are
alreadyriet. Two mfllfcnb of dollars is
for the pavment'of the Itege purchase
of steelVrils recently made- in England
by the government; 50,000 tons of the
best steel-rail were secured At the av
erage rate'nf $49.30 .per >tOn, which is
claiffied tobp a lower ratd fhan iron rails
were sold fri during 1873, and a little
more than,MU the price of steel rails
during the same period.
A Savage Headdress and Shield.—
We were shown this morning, by Mr.
Tom O'Brien, the paraphernalia of an
Indian recently killed on Devil's river
by a party of stock men, Mr. John
Patterson being the man who assisted
the Indian to shuffla off his mortal coil.
The trappings consist of a head dress
of feathers, beads, etc., to which a trail
of red flannel was attached, adorned
with eagle feathers, and long enough to
have swept the ground. It is a gor
geous piece of architecture. The
shield has several buckskin coverings,
very artistically arranged^ith plumes,
staffed birds, and a liltle buckskin fig
ure of a man, which is supposed to be
an idol. In the middle of the shield
dangles the flaxen scalp of a white
girl, worked in with beads and tied up
with blue ribbon, like the brai 1 o? a
school girl.—»San Antonio {Texas)
Herald.
A grange in Virginia has just buried
a lady member with original and pecu
liar ceremonies. The ccffin was borne
to the grave by members of the grange
dressed in white baldrics, and the
brethren of the order followed in pro
cession; Each participant bore a Bou
quet- of flowers, and these all, at the
conclusion of the services, were thrown
in the open grave. The words of the
grange ritual spoken at the grave were
touching and appropriate. The only
incongruous element was the parting
salute of the master, in these words:
“In the name of Fisherville grange. I
pronounce the words Sister Calbreatb,
farewell.” Fisherville grange was not
an absolutely awe-inspiring invocation.
The bonds of the Suez canal com
pany are on the London stook exchange,
with a statement of the financial condi
tion of the company. During 1873 the
receipts were £1,000,000, and the ex
pense s £225,000. The dividend of that
year was three and three-quarters per
cent. The cost of the canal was $95.
000,000, of whioh tbe Egyptian govern
ment paid $32,000,000. The business of
the oan&l is constantly increasing, and
far-sighted people use its success as an
argument for the building of a ship-
canal across the isthmus of Panama.
Kangaroo Lbathhb.—In Australia
kangaroo skins bre becoming on import
ant article of Iraffio, and experts deolare
that they make tbe toughest and most
pliable leather in tbe world. Boot up
pers of this material ate said to be both
oomfortable refi durable. It also makes
the best of morocco whips, gloves, etc.
Of these skinB some are exported in
their raw state, and others after being
manufactured. The kangaroo is widely
distributed throughout the ooloniea.and
great numbersare slaughtered, yearly,
for their skins. ‘ **- -
The Indianapolis Herald has been
watohing iho t)hio 'fcempemio* mova.
meat longer than any other paper, and
it says: Jtn Washington, Ohio, where
the whisky ernsade first took shape,
there are now fifteen drinking houses—
two more than when the movement was
organized. The paroled barkeepers are
all selling again except the famous Van
Pelt, the noble proselyte, who knocked
in lifs own keg&'pne evening, to ths
ringing of bells ahd the praises of
women; aadAhen took tbe field for tem
perance. He is in jail for getting
drank.
A “ knocker-tip and window-tickler
from three to seven ” advertises that he
will wake London people cheap.
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