Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

1 mmrn Genterre, the Patricide. “Two hundred and sixty-three Rue Co- quelard, cabby,’’said to the driver a well- dressed young man who, shortly after mid night on the 12th of February, 1844, jump ed into a hackney-coach in the Rue St. Honore, Paris. “Two hundred and sixty-three, sir?” “Yes, cabby. What makes you laugh ?” “Well, sir, I never tell tales out of school; but this coincidence is too strange. ” “What coincidence?” “Just when you hailed me I had taken an elderly gentleman to No. 263 Rue Co- quelard.” “You don’t say so! How did he look ?” “He was tall and slender; his hair was perfectly white. In his button-hole he wore the ribbon of the Legion of Honor.” Tlia young man became very thoughtful upon hearing these words. “Drive on,” he said to the hackman. Fifteen minutes later the carriage stopped in front of No. 263 Rue Coquelard. That street was an exceedingly narrow one, and the police said that dangerous characters were among the principal inmates of the old-fashioned houses. No. 263 was a very quiet old building. It was evident that it dated from the time of Henry IV. It had but few windows. The entrance door was arched, and its two wings, made of massive oak-wood, were studded with heavy brass nails. The young man alighted. “Shall I wait?” asked the hackman. “No,” replied the young man. He rang the door-bell. An old woman opened the door. * ‘She is not at home, Monsieur, Genterre, ” she said. “Not at home?” he asked, in an almost threatening tone. “Why don’t you get out of the way?” “Because you shall not come in here at all!” she cried, trying to slam the door in his face. The young man, uttering a terrible oath, hurled the old woman back into the hall way. Then he hurried upstairs and knocked at a door near the landing. There was no response, but he heard a low whisper in the room. “Open the door, Finctte!” he cried. Still no response. The old woman meanwhile ascended the staircase. “Get out of my house!” she cried, as she reached the landing. In a paroxysm of passion he struck her a blow in the face that caused her to roll down stairs. Then he threw himself with his whole strength against the door. He burst it open. Almost on the threshold he was met by a very beautiful young woman. She was “en deshabille,” flushed and excited. “Finette,” he cried, “who is here with you?” She paused for breath. “No one, Alfred!” she replied, trying to avoid the piercing glances yrhich he bent upon her. “You lie, Finette!” He looked about the elegantly-furnished room. He looked under the bed; he exam ined everything. He did not find anybody. “I heard you whisper with somebody, Finette.” “Maybe I was talking in my sleep,” she replied in a faltering tone. He was reas sured. He kissed her and begged her par don. “Alfred, I am hungry,” she said, disen gaging herself from his fervent embrace. “Take me to a restaurant.” “With pleasure, Finette.” She put on her shawl and hat. They left the room. She did not lock the door. After going down stairs with the young woman Alfred Genterre suddenly remem bered that he had left his cane in the room. He hurried up stairs again, contrary' to her remonstrances. As he reopened the door he started back in dismay. An old man was there. “Father!” ejaculated Alfred, turning very' pale. The old man burst into derisive laughter. “I did not know, Alfred,” he said, cynic ally, “that we were rivals.” “Rivals!” “And by this time, my eon, I ouppoac you are convinced where Mile. Fi- nette’s affections are most sincerely be stowed.” Alfred uttered a cry of rage, and rushed at his father. A terrible struggle ensued between the two. The noise of their scuf fling and of the oaths which they uttered attracted Finette and the old woman to the scene. Finette tried to separate them, but to no purpose. In his jealous frenzy Alfred drew* a dagger, plunged it into his father’s heart, and dangerously wounded Finette in her right breast. His father was almost instantly killed. Finette died the next day. The murderer surrendered himself to the police, and the Assizes found him guilty of murder. He was guillotined with a black veil over his face, and clad only in a scanty hempen garment. nence he throws the goslings into the air. They start with cries for the centre of the lake and are answered by the old goose on the beacli, while the gander, separated from her and shut close in the crate at the rear, adds his hoarse call to the concert. The cry of the old decoys arrests their young in their flight and they whirl toward the shore, and pitch down among the wooden dum mies out in the cove. Meanwhile the dis tant thread draws nearer, and the geese be come more visible. The goslings make for the shore, but are easily called into the blind by corn fed to them through the apertures. Now the wild geese are in the water, but it is hard to bring them within gunshot. Great care must now be exercised. The snapping of a twig or the careless poking of a hat crown above the blint^by some ner vous novice has often been taken into con sideration by the gander—the commanding officer of the battalion—and that flock lost to the hunter. In an hour or so they can be brought into range, and, if they are very stubborn, the goslings can be thrown again. After a little chattering among themselves | the goslings start for the deftly-shaken grain within the stand. Sometimes the wild geese follow them to the very edge of the blind, but it is the flock and not the single ones they want * Fresh caps are put upon the heavy double-barreled fowling- pieces, and upon the lighter guns, vhich ; are set near by, ready cocked, to use after the first volley. The flock. of wild geese is now only a few rods away, and the muz zles of the guns are placed through the twigs of the blind. A dry twig is snapped to bunch the flock, and, by a never-varying rule, the right-hand man covers with his , gun as many as he can of the necks of the right of the flock, and so on down the line. Waiting until the geese are most favorably bunched together, he counts “One, two, i three,” and at the last word the large, dead ly shot from both barrels of the guns crash | into the flock. There is a crackling of i bones, cries of pain and amazement and a ; flopping of wings, as the fatally wounded spread out on the water. The gunners jump to their feet, seize the other fowlin' pieces as the remnant of the flock rises and more of them are brought down. The boats are then taken to hunt the cripples that j are making for the swamp. If not hurt too badly the fowl is kept for service as ~ decoy, and for breeding purposes. Hyurophobia. W lid Goose Shooting;. All along the Susquehanna, Schuylkill and the minor streams in Pennsylvania the myriads of wild geese, that journey northward and southward when cold weath er comes, are found in abundance. To bring down the swift-moving flock, and to entice them within shooting range after they have struck the water, requires skill and practice. The experienced hunter se lects a pond where wild geese have been known to stop either for rest, fresh water, or sand, for they must have all these, but can do without either for a long time. Then he selects a cove or small bay, backed by boggy swamps, and with a point of land jutting into the pond, so as to allow a clear range, right, left and in front. Six rods back from the end of the point should be built the blind. This is constructed by building an entire framework of boards. These should be covered on the surface to- ward the water with whatever variety of evergreen boughs the woods in the vicinity may tumish. The structiue resembles a natural growth of bushes along the margin of the lake. At the bottom of the stand small openings are left through which the lines attached to the decoys are manipulat ed. A rod to the rear of the blind is the hut of the hunters, in which they may live comfortably through the flying season, which lasts from the beginning of frost un til ice begins to form. About two dozen or more wooden dummies are scattered about in flocks over the cove. They look like living fowls at a distance, as can be testi fied by more than one marksman, who, af ter careful paddling to windward, has emptied the contents of his breech-loader into their white-pine carcasses. Wild geese that have been captured or wounded in previous seasons, and the young raised from them, are likewise used as decoys. One of them is placed on the beach at the water’s edge. A hoop like a croquet wick et a few T feet behind the fowl, through which a line passes from the fetter on its leg to the inside of the blind, keeps the de coy in place, and, should the bird squat upon the beach, a vigorous jerk of the line enlivens it. A little distance from the goose a duck is anchored, who stands, or swims, his six hours’ tour of duty with the regularity of a sentinel; and they are the best of sentinels for die sportsman, on ac count of their peculiarly formed eyes, which never fail to catch the slightest movement of a leaf, insect or other object long before the goose has craned his neck at it. To the rear of the cabin, on the shore, in a crate or box, is the gander, the mate of the goose on the beach. Within the hut are the sportsmen busy at their cards, with one watcher at the window. All are warmly clothed in readiness to creep out into a sleet storm—the best weather of wild goose shooting. The sentinel duck utters a cry, the goose cranes its neck and slants its head, the watcher at the window carefully scans the sky with his glass, and discovers a thread-like line faraway against the clouds. Guns are seized hurriedly, the blind window closed and the hunteip hug the ground closely as they creep up to the stand and hide themselves. One of the hunters has taken a basket in which gos lings are kept, and, hurrying to an emi- Dr. Edward Singley, of Kelton, Pa. writes as follows concerning the treatment of hydrophobia: ‘ ‘The chief remedy for this dreadful malady is Lobelia Inflata, which stands unrivalled in power and safety in anti-spasmodic and counter-poison; saturated tincture (that is, as strong as can l be made) of the powdered leaves and pods, or an infusion made by pouring half a pint of quite hot water on about an ounce of the powder — steep 20 minutes, strain and sweeten. Of this or the tincture, give to an adult one teaspoonful every 20 minutes, until the desired effect is produced. If from any cause the patient is unable to swallow, give by enema one teaspoonful mixed in a half pint of warm water, to be retained until the first vomiting, when it should be discharged, but if it should pass from the bowels directly after being given it will be necessary to repeat it. Its effects should be vomiting and cessation of spasms. Bear in mind that to overcome the rapid symptoms is the objective point, and when that is reached, give only a teaspoonful at intervals of several hours, to prevent a re lapse, but not so as to continue the vomiting. It is necessary while passing tlirougli this process that the patient be furnished with plenty of hot stimulating teas to aid vomit ing, and with the adjunct of hot substances surrounding the body and feet so as to pro | duce copious and continued perspiration ! there is much of the deadly virus circulating in the blood discharged through the pores, j If a relapse should take place, repeat the ! course. So much for the treatment of the disease after it is developed. If we accept as a truth the trite maxim 11181 prevention is better than cure, ’ or that which will cure a disease, will also prevent it, then we can see the primary importance of pursuing an active course of preventive measures. After being bitten, the part as soon as possible should be well washed with strong soapsuds and a compress of muslin three or four lay ers thick bound on the wound and kept wet with flie tincture or tea of Lobelia, and for the adult patient a teaspoonful or more of tills medicine should be taken night and morning, as the stomach can bear it without too much nausea, in warm sweetened water and continued for ten days. Animals can be treated in the same manner when neces sary. Lobelia grows on almost ever}' farm in this section of the country, and should ! be gathered every year, while in bloom, so j as to have it on hand when required. It is an antidote for the bite of a spider, etc. j child of mine was bitten by a spider on the j lower lip. The effect was rapid and alarm , ing. One teaspoonful was given without I repetition or vomiting, followed quickly by [ a subsidence of all distressing symptoms. The spot bitten turned black and afterward dropped off. This is not the only case of the kind treated in this manner with a like happy result. A case of lockjaw was cured in about three hours with a third preparation of Lobelia, a very active remedy adapted to many diseases. Let me here say don’t be afraid of Lobelia, when handled • with that judgment which all physicians ought to pos sess. I have used it for more than forty years in a great variety of cases from infancy to old age, without much regard to w'eight or measure, so the end was attained. I verily believe there is no remedy of its power so easily managed and none, in any of all the patliys of this progressive age, that can fill its place in that of disease where its use is indicated. Its action upon the system is all pervading, annihilating poison from center to circumference. ” Wliat a Goat Did. An English girl, near Manchester, tied a string to her toe and let it—the string not the toe—hang out the window for a gentle man friend to pull in order that she might not miss her music lessons. The rector of the church, it is further stated, hearing of the arrangement, refused the couple the sac rament. And this reminds us of a little story. Once upon a time a young lad}’ who desired to get up with the lark in order to go on an eloping tour, adopted the English girls plan and the lover was to be on hand at daybreak to give the signal. The string used for the pedal communication was a stout cord, and one end w'as dropped out of the third story .window into the back yard, and the other end, of course, was attached to the damsel’s great toe. And the legend runs that a healthy goat of the William per suasion arose early next morning to look for the early worm, as it were, and wandered into the yard. After eating up all the old tomato cans, barrel staves, and broken crock ery ware, he found the string and took that in as a dessert. As soon as the cord was drawn taut, the goat stood on his hind legs and gave the string an impulsive jerk. The girl awoke. The goat gave another sudden pull, and the maiden jumped out of bed with a smothered cry of pain. Then she stooped down to detach the cord just as the ridiculous beast gave another violent jerk, and she lost her equilibrium—and her toe, too, almost, the cord cutting into the tender flesh. She sprang to the window’ and called down in a hoarse whisper— “Stop pulling, Charles—I’ll be down in a minute.” Then she made another effort to untie the cord, but the diabolical goat gave his head several angry bobs, and each time the girl gave a cry of pain. Again she softly called out in the darkness: “Charles, if you don’t stop jerking that way, I’ll not come down at all!” She was answered by another savage pull, and the cry of anguish that escaped from her lips brought her mother into the room, with a-look of affright, and a lighted lamp. The young lady fainted, the elopement was nipped in the bud, and the disappointed maiden's big toe was sore for two weeks.— The goat escaped. The man w’ho is always as “ cool as a cucumber ” is generally as green. A Tiger Hunt. On Monday, Jan. 6, tw’O tigers belonging to the ex-King of Oude, whose house is on the left bank of the Hooghly, escaped from their cage, a keeper having incautiously left the door of their cage open when cleaning it. One was shortly after killed in the King’s grounds by a Superintendent of Police. The other swam across the river and landed near the ghat in the botanical gardans. Shortly after landing he knocked down and mauled Mr. Bierman, one of the European assistants. Mr. Scott and had, after first seeing the tiger, gone into a house, but came out again to look for the brute, their attention -being momentarily disturbed by the chattering of a monkey— an unusual sound in the Botanical Gardens. The brute seized his opportunity and spring ing past a native, who was in front of the two gentlemen, knocked down one; he then immediately returned to his lair, and remained in the gardens all day. Owin to the presence of Stripes in the gardens, various picnic parties had to return without landing, though one party foolishly insisted upon landing notwithstanding contrary or ders, but was soon obliged to beat a retreat. Tow’ard nightfall the bn^e was heard giving tongue near the banyan tree, and shortly before daybreak it killed two bullocks in a small clearing a short distance to the North of the treee. The bullocks were tied up in the shed; one it dragged outside, and ate one liindquarter, the other it left dead in side. Early on Tuesday morning some na tive shilkaris were in the garden trying to stalk Stripes; one of them, while peerin; into a small brake, was severely handled, and is not expected to recover. Durinj the day these shilkaris were reinforced by some gentlemen from Calcutta; but their efforts to get-near Stripes were unavailing, and they retired about 4 o’clock and left the grounds. In the afternoon a machan was erected in the jungle to the North of the gardens, near the scene of the kill, from the top of which the shikaris might have an opportunity of potting Stripes should he return to the scene of his feast the nigh before. To make matters doubly sure, an awning was improvised on the roof of a small pucka-house not far from the kill, and a live bullock was securely tied to a tree a few yards distant from the house, within full view of the shikaris on the roof, some plantain trees being cut away to give better aim. A speculation had arisen as to whether Stripes would prefer dead meat to live; in the course of the night the question was set at rest. Shortly after six four gen tlemen proceeded from Bishop’s College to the scene of the kill, and placed themselves in positions for a good shot—two on the machan, two on top of the pucka-house. It was then discovered that shooting could not be depended on without something to eat; one of the party immediately went off for materials for food and drink, and as he was returning with a chaukidar distinctly heard Stripes not far off. He hastened on with the food, which was soon despatched inside the puca-house, tables and chairs being dispensed with. Posts were again taken up, and soon after the brute was again heard giving tongue, as he was prowl ing about in search of food; this went on for about an hour, the bullock near the house showing evident sigs of intense alarm, though perfectly silent. . For half an hour after this the stillness of a clear moonlight night remained perfectly un broken ; all eyes were on the stretch, when suddenly, with a magnificent bound, a tine, full-grown tiger was on the bullock. In stantly a shot was fired, the brute doubled up, and the bullock bolted off at full speed ; another shot was now fired, and Stripes evidently received this too, for he sprung aside into the jungle about 20 paces, moaned, and all was still. The shikaris being un certain whether Stripes was really dead de termined to spend the rest of the night where they were, it not being considered safe in the uncertain light of the moon to venture in search of him, beaters being at a discount. Soon after some chaukidars arrived with lieaters and passed close to where Stripes was last seen; the men on the machan then came down and spent the rest of the night on the more comfortable roof of the pucka-house, belonging to a cow- keeper. As soon as it was light all hasten ed down to have a look, and there sure enough was Stripes, a magnificent animal, lying on his right side quite dead. One shot had caught him on the left shoulder, the other in the right flank. An Interesting Experiment. Not long ago Professor Dorermus, of the Buffalo medical college performed a interesting and instructive experiment be fore his class. A block of sand-stone, such as is usually employed for window caps and sills, and about 12 inches square, and four or five inches thick, had a panel, one- half an inch deep, sunk in each side. In each panel was fitted a block, w’hich was perforated by a piece of common gas pipe, and this was cemented about the • edges. The whole was then coated with an imper vious varnish. Air now entering the pipe on either side had access to the clean sur face of the stone beneath the panel, and it was found that if the mouth be applied to the protruding pipe on one side, and a can die be placed in front of the opposite one, it could very readily be blown out by the air, which, with very little effort, forced through the stone. When a rubber tube was connected with the house gas pipe on one side of the stone, and a burner was attached on the opposite side, the sim ple pressure from the gas mains was suffl cient fo force the gas through the stone till it w’as lit at the burner on the opposite side. When by any means the pressure was in creased, a very large flame was thus pro duced. This shows the permeability of building stone. Brick walls, and the plas tering of rooms, is much more porus, and it is readily seen that unglazed tile, or stone, or brick sewers, afford but little security against the escape of sewer-gas, and that in all diseases which owe their origin or viru lence to noxious gasses, or poisonous germs, like scarlet or typhus fever, or small-pox, the septic poison may permeate the walls of our dwellings, and there remain till fa voring circumstances develop disease, un less extraordinary pains be taken to prevent it. So great is the danger from some sources that it is recommended that all hos pitals for the treatment of contagious dis eases be but temporary buildings, to be periodically torn down and utterly destroyed, that the accumulated disease spores may be thus eradicated.” Living in France, The manner of living in France is much the same as in the South of our own coun try. The early meal, which takes the place of our breakfast, consists only of a roll and cup of coffee or chocolate. The second breakfast, as it is called, is much like our dinner, which is eaten between five and eight o’clock, never consists of less than five* courses, and often of more. Wine is an indispensable article with the French man. Be he young or old, rich or poor, he must have his wine. The favorite kind seems to be claret, which may be pur chased at the exeedingly reasonable price of fifteen cents per bottle. Holding the fact in mind that a dinner in Paris is no dinner at all without its accompanying bot tle of wine, we are surprised to find so lit- e intemperence here. Even on New Year's Day, the day of the year in this country, the city was perfectly orderly and quiet, nothwitlistanding the crowds of plea sure seeker who thronged the streets from early in the morning until late at night. Giving the French people all due credit for their orderly conduct in general we cannot but deplore their utter disregard of the Sab bath. They seem to have no idea that there is a commandment, “Remember the Sabbath day,” Ac. Stores are open, and people are making purchases the same as week days; and any Sunday, by glancing across the streeet, we may see a family seated at the window engaged, and seem ingly very much interested, in card play ing, for it seems to be their regular Sunday afternoon recreation. —The San Erancisco Bulletin says that the total arrivals of Chinese at that port in I87S w’ere 6675, and the de partures 6071. “Pixun and Ki-nine. ** AGRICULTURE. She wasn t after hair dye, cosmetics, {Sowing Oats Earlx.—In few things scented soap or any of those gimcracks, have the advantages of an underdraiu but when the druggist had finished putting up a prescription to cure a long-faced boy of a hacking cough, she turned from the stove and asked : “Do you keep drugs and medicines and pizuns and so on ?” “Oh, yes, we keep all such things.” “And ki-nine?” ‘Yes. we have quinine? soil shown to better effect than in oat- growing. Light soils are not favorable to the oat, and yet it is the light soils which are the early ones. On the other hand the oat requires a moderately low temperature of least two months to perfect its root at organization. It ought to be one of the earliest crops sown in the spring, but our strong soils on which the oat does best are of ten wet soils, and very unfavorable to IV ell, I called to see about gettin’ early sowing. Those who have strong some pizun and ki-nme, but I dunno.; soils, and yet tolerably dry, have the So many folks have been slaughtered very best of oat-land, and those who by druggists’ mistakes that I’m eana- have not must watch every chance to 7 st afraid even to ask for cantfur gun,, j £ tho I suppose I can smell camfur gum thlg and yet have land for oats whicb farther off than any other woman , they feel they will hardly be able to in Michigan. Have you ever killed i seed before the end of April, sometimes anybody bv puttin’ up morphine for prepare the land in the fall, and then bakin’ powder?” 30w l ^ e see ^ on the snow in February. „ l , T p ,, | Snow in our region is too precarious , k t> evei / . j to found any system thereon. We may Been in the business long." have snow and we may not. But in “Only twenty-one years.” “Well, you orter know gum *Rabic from sweet oil by this time, but some men are awful keerless. I’ve had a brother pizuned by wrong medicine, and I’m a little shaky. Where is your ki-nine!” “This, is it,” he replied, as he took down the jar. She wet her finger, pushed it into the jar and then rubbed it on her tongue. “Tastes like it, but I dunno. Sure that ain’t morphine?” “Yes, very sure.” “Sure your clerk washed that jar out cle m afore he put the ki-nine in ?’’ “O I washed it mvsplfr”-- “lf this shouldn’t be ■’ki-nine you’d have the law put to you the worst kind. We’ve got money in the bank, and we’d never settle for no ten thousand dollars!” “I know it to be quinine.” “Well, then, gimme fifteen cents’ worth, and I want down weight, too. If I’m treated well I’m a great hand to deal at one place, but the minnit I see any stinginess or cheatin’ a yoke of oxen couldn’t pull me into that store again.** the Western States, where snow is SCIENTIFIC. Color Blindness Defined.—Mr. William Pole, writing In Nature, thus explains the true limits and nature of color blindness: In the first place we see white and black, and their intermedi ate or compound gray (provided they are free from alloy with other colors) precisely as others do. Secondly, there are two colors, properly so called, namely, yellow and blue, which also, if unalloyed, we see, so far as can be ascertained, in the normal manner. But these two are the only colors of which we have any sensation; and hence the defect has been given by Sir John Herschel the scientific name of dichromic vision. But now comes the difficulty of the explanation. It may naturally be asked: Do we not see ob jects of other colors, such as roses, grass, violets, oranges, and so on? And if w’e do*see them, what do they look like ? The answer is that we do see all such things, but that they do not give us the color sensations correctly be longing to them; their colors appear to qs varieties of the other color sensa- ^ _ ^ _ tions which we are able to receive. regular thing at that time of the year, j This explained by exam- we notice that the practice is growing P} es * lake first the color red.^ A sol- into favor. Those who have tried it di er ’ s coat or a stick of red sealing-wax . .. say the seed sprouts as soon as the first conveys to me a very positive sensation j made from coal. A barrel of it, costing warm days of spring come, some two color, by which 1 am perfectly able ; two dollars, has been in use at the Kir- DOMESTIC. Cuts and Sores.—Accidental cuts from knives, cutting tools, scythes, etc., are more likely to occur on the face and limbs than on the body. All that is requisite in general is to bring the parts together as accurately as possible, and to bind them up; this is usually done by adhesive plaster when the cut ceases to bleed. Nothing is so good for this purpose as paper previously washed over on one side with thick gum water, and then dried: when used it is only to be wetted with the tongue. When the cut bleeds but little it is well HUMOROUS. An’ Throw Yourself in. — The Sioux City and Pacific train stopped at Onawa and the smart man on the train% leaned ont of the window and shouted to a native: “ What is the name of this town?” “ Onawa,” replied the native. “On a what?” queried the smart man. ** Patiently the native repeated the name of the hamlet. “ Do you want to sell it?” asked the smart man. The patient native “didn’t know; to soak the part in warm water for a ’lowed maybe they’d sell if anybody ^ few minutes, or keep a wet cloth on It.; wanted to buy it bad enough.” This removes inflamation and pain, “ I’ll give you twenty-eight cents for^r and also a tendency to fainting, which it,” bid the smart man. a cut gives some persons. If the bleed- The native turned his head thoughts , ing be cupious, dab the part with a fully on one side and considered the^ rag w’etted with creosote. A good ; proposition in silence. Finally salve for sores is unsalted butter and raised his head with the air of a man^ grated carrots simmered well an strain- who had about made up his mind to ed clear. To stop bleeding from trade. wounds an equal quantity of salt and; “An’throw yourself in?” he asked l flour, put on a cloth and applied to a The window came down with a slamj wound, will stop bleeding; it may be and as the train pulled out, there was' left on days or a weeks. The best appli- laughter in the car, but the smart man cation for any and all flesh-cuts and couldn’t tell whether it was meant for * raw sores is gas coal tar, which may himself or the native, although he was be had at any gas works where gas is inclined to think it was. iUj| ii >ie M to -4 weeks at least ahead of the regular j to identity, m a great number of m- by homestead for ten years and is not ca i am ; tv threatens the countrv The * ;i stances, bodies of this hue Rut-, when i half gone vet. Coal tar. when annlied caiamil Y tnreatens mf country, ine porters are now going in for this sort thing: April sowings, and the crop is propor- j stances, bodies of this hue. But when half gone yet. Coal tar, when applied reDOrters are now ffom <r tionately increased. We mav not find ^ examine more closely what I really to a flesh-cut, shuts out the air and thus ° • • • /» i i can T am nltliararl t-A nnmo tUn nnn 1 Ctnne Cmarfimr- it nrill nlcn l>nnn /.rt" . this plan everywhere feasable, but we i see, I am obliged to come to the con- i stops the smarting; it will also keep off maybe encouraged always to sow at i elusion that the sensation I perceive is . the flies, it is very healing, and it is the earliest time practicable. not one that I can identify separately, anti-septic, that is cleansing, and will but is simply a modification of one of prevent the growth of proud flesh. To Make Bovs Good Farmers.—To ™- vother sensations, namely yellow parents who have boys Crowing up on S^ned veUowor j . it for Market.—All dried the farm, nothing should be neglected what I mK rail velfow brown I find fruits sel1 principally by color, which STr^erV"" *5?mos/commo^ hues of“ I and to obtain the fikeaa ill instructed mechanic, or in^ correspond with this description, and | h “ e , d “ drying’before dolent shopkeeper, never does much ! ln P ro P ort t lon ,? 3 they are more scarlet: PJP,P?i e ?_i?. r . a ?7i n * J*™? - - , • -r or more ten din a 1 toward oran/e the fuU y ripe. Sliced apples, if not bright, g i 00d ;,, k™ 1 "," he boys onthetfarm yellow I see is more vivid The exnlu- do not P ay for the trouble of slicing, should be inuuced to take an interest i is more viyiu. ineexpia , , nnaiitioa chnni.i snouiu oe muuceu io taae an interest j - - . T y*~*"' Vh«7'nAnA«fI ana the finest qualities should in the farm, in the stock, in the imple- ^“’ e V ur e^“ey ar^combfnatfons of ^ packed in ,le ' v bar rels, top and bottom ments, and in all that pertains to the red\vit1h P veUow • ^o th-itTsee the vel i liued with P a P er - Bright quartered business. Tell them all your P> a ns, I [owTleL’nt rthe combina^n whne' a PP le6 > wel1 “lored, uniform in cut, your successes and failures; give them , element lTinvislb"e to me ar « al « a ys more or less in fair demand, a history of your life and whatyoudid, ; !' ^1 color and a.u ofilv P. i w an( l more attention should be given to and how you lived when a boy; but do “? ®,® oIor ’ a,ld aLts0 ' ll> a a darkening them Peeled peaches should be sliced days. not harp too much on the degenerate 31 j or cut in eights, and invariable of a Mrs. Gilrooney has a black eye. character of young men of the present **"• ' light color. Dark qualities rule low,! Let us give the tribute of a sigh and age.—Praise them when you can, and j The presence of hydrogen in iron, says a and are slow of sale. Unpealed peaches a retrospective glance to the maiden Reno: a town in the far West. A maiden. A swain. Here we have the elements necessary for a romance. Cupid. Lights. Music. Dancing. 9 Priestly words. The maiden becomes a wife. Y^ears pass. Domestic joy. Children are granted by Heaven. A cloud—the size of a man’s hand in the beginning—in the end the firma ment of life is blotted out. A demon enters Eden. The demon is drink! Blows. Police Court Michael Gilroonv goes up for twenty encourage them to do better. Let them writer in the Comptes Bendas, appears should be selected for halves,size being that was' dress up in the evening instead of sit- to modify greatly its magnetic proper- a consideration in them, while the Behold her now ! ting down in their dirty clothes as is ties. A platinum wire, coated with smaller fruit is fuliv desirable to cut God help Mrs. Gilrooney! too often the case. Provide warm and ; galvanic iron, was placed in the axis of for quarters. They should be kept en He weighed out the drug and labeled nicely furnished sitting rooms, and a magnetic needle, oscillating on a ; tirely separate, as when mixed they; “Sing me mv own ” he whisnered jj- rrj*g a t care and then she said * brilliant liclits. Thanks to kerosene. \ noint or nivot. and at a fived distance i will nr>t ironoruiiv a<»n at nvor tiw» nrina • *- ’ - - - * * “Now I want ten cents worth of pizun to kill rats.” “What kind?” •’Why the pizun kind, of course, Pizun is pizun the world over. Don’t seem as if you was used to handling ’em.” “Do you want arsenic?” “Certainly, bat you want to be pow erful keerful! I’m a woman of fifty- to read good agricultural 'papers and that the magnetic forces of the iron in ! drying, the price ruling usually low. nine, and I’ve nuss’d the sick ever j books. Provide these without stint: these three states were to each other as | " , ~s nn o t n o-d hut T never handle I reatl " them, and give them the ben- the squares of the number of oscillations j ... * ’ i eflt of your experience and criticism, and taking as unity the magnetic force To Bone a Turkey or Fowl.—Cut pizun witnout a cm.i creeping up my ; Fi na iiy y cause them by pleasant sur- of hydrogenized iron not magnetized,' through the skin down the centre of the back. Where is it?” 1 roundings to grow day by day more in the result is 2.609 for the magnetized ! hack; raise the flesh carefully on either He handed down the jar, and she love with home and duties belonging hydrogenized iron, and 1.610 for the ' side until the sockets of the wings and smelt the stopper, shook her head to their gloiious occupation, and there iron deprived of hydrogen and mag-j thighs are reached; next disjoint and turned the jar around and whispered: I *» •no doubt but that they will stick to netized. ; bone,after which the whole of the body i in. n ! the farm and make farming a great sue-| ! may be easily separated from the flesh lhat looks,a powerful sight like cesg> The Combinations of the Kaleidoscope.' and taken out entire, only the neck- cream-a-tarter.” | —Some curious calculations have been ; bones and merry-thought remaining. “Oh, on—that’s arsenic and no mis- ; Re-grafting Worthless PearTrees made oi the number of changes which The fowl may be restored to its original t a k e> ” I —The old butter pear often cracks its the keleidoscope is capable of produc- j form with a dressing of bread or force- what it feels like. Give it voice,young ive it voice.” l’vp o-nf tn fairp thp phanoes so ba( By> and other kinds are i n g. Supposing the instruments to con-j meat, or the legs and wings may be T , ’ T ,.. “ . , ’ found desirable, that it is worth re- tain 20 small glass, etc., and that you ; drawn inside of the body,and the fowl. 1 spose. l u take ten tents worm membering that they may all be re- make 10 changes in each minute, it first flattened on a table, covered with down weight. Any person that will ; grafted with other kinds in the spring, would require 162,880,899,576 years and force-meat,rolled tight and bound with be stingy sellin’ pizun vill be stingy ! Some fancy that budding in summer is 3G0 days to complete the number of a tape. If necessary steam before in other things, and I do hate a stingy | preferable to spring grafting. It might changes it is Capable of producing, roasting. To serve cold. , . s a. - : Even with 12 small objects, at the rate j — i Itf A.., h noKoa j „ r . lc ! he of interest savs a correspondent in person. My first husband was power- ~ 1 e F J ^ - 1 the Gardeners Monthly, to some of your ful stingy, # and he was struck by light- j rea ders for me to describe a method ol ning.” over-working some Flemish Beauty When the poison had been weighed pear trees, upon which the fruit cracked and labeled she careful y took up the I s0 badly as to render them worthless, package and said: Last summer in the budding season 1 .. , . budded all over the trees into all the ^Now, then, write oa tfcjs that it is 1 dm p s which I tliougnt would form a to be kept in the old china tea-pot, on perfect head. The buds all “took,” and the third shelf in the pantry, and that the present season havegrown remark- it’s for rats. Then write on this ki- i ably- To he sure this is no new dis- qine that it is to be kept in the old cof-; coyery but very many fruit growers , . . .. , f ,., a- * a- , a- ! think th it there is no way to work fee-pot in the cupboard, and that it’s lor , , t , , d f j over a large tree except the old fash chills.” j ioned mode ol cleft grating, and which The Druggist followed orders, and often produces unseemly gashes upon the old lady put the pizun in her poc-i the tree, and which it olien takes a ketand the “ki-nine” in I.er reticule, number ot years for the tree to over- . * come. Hence I speak of this method and went out saying: budding into the limb, and think it “It may be all right, but I dunno If may be of service to some, who like me my old man is took off instead of the are troubled with several worthless rats, I’ll begin a lawsuit rext day after varieties of the pear that are rendered the funeral!” I 50 b y cracking^ Endless Gold. Grain in Orchards.—My long expe rience is that an orchard should never be sown in small grain or let run in parts of leaves when one part was ex of 10 changes a minute, it would con- To DISC0URAGE rat9 tliat burrow sume J1 years and 11 days to exhaust: under walls, don’t stop the holes with its variations lhese statements may broken glasa bottles, which merely in- seem incredible at first, but they seem incredible at first, but they have been proved correct. M. Cornu one of the highest living authorities on the subject of light, has been studying the spectrum of the new star which has made its appearance in the constellation of the Swan. He re ports to the Paris Academy of Sciences that the light of the star appears to possess exactly the same composition as that of the solar envelope known as the chromosphere. The chromosphere is a border of red light surrounding the disk of the sun; it was first distinctly recognized in total eclipses. It would appear that in plants it is the leaf alone that is electromotive. In the course of late experiments made by Dr. Burdon Sanderson he found that by shifting the needle points to different Brown always declared that he would grass or clover if thrifty trees and good hausted, and would produce no effect, marry an heiress, but being next door crops of fruit are a desi.ed. No crop can other parts w ould, thus indicating to penniless himself, his friends didn’t grown in an orchard without de- that the excitability of the plant is a *—“ e a* property possessed independently by been known to tell an untruth. One A pet lam bate up his mistress’ pail of yeast in Iowa the other day, and when the stuff in him began to get up on its hind feet it liked to have lifted the lit tle sheep’s lid off. “ Cutter & Fitts ” are said to be the names of the fashionable dressmaker in New York. cite them to dig new, holes, but put a shovelful of dry sand over each hole. The rats soon come up through this,but in doing so let half the sand into’ the burrow', which, unlike earth, they can not either force or carry up again, and by repeating this at every fresh opened place their runs become quite tilled up, females begin to squat continuouv and they make up your foundations over their eggs, along by the end of again. June and the first of July, the males regularly relieve them, taking turns in The Arrie: The egg bird of the North Sea is the arrie, while its southern cousin supplies the people of San Francisco with a lib eral number of its gayly colored eggs, taken from the Farallons, indeed the arrie is the only sea-bird of real econo mic value to man throughout our whole northwest and north. It is probably safe to say that the numbers of these birds which assemble at St. George are vastly greater than elsewhere on the globe. As a faint but truthful state ment the following maybe said : When White Mountain-Ash Cake.— One i, . T1 pound of white sugar, one teacupful of ^P 1 "* the warm * rhus butter, one-half teacupful of sweet tee( * alternately, going out to sea for milk, whites of ten eggs, one-half of a that purpose. This constant going out small teaspoonful of soda,one teaspoon- and coming in during the day gives ful of cream of tartar, th^ee cups of rise, at regular hours in the morning flour; flavor with vanilla or almond an(] eveni tfJ a dark gil ^ le of thege Bake in jelly-cake pans, with icing and ... _ . . . B coooanut between .-Icing for Cake.- b,rds fl r ln S J ust above . tbe water ' One pound of fine white sugar, and the around and around the island in an whites of three eggs. endless chain more than a quarter of a mile broad and thirty miles in length. Varnish your rurnlture once a year, This great belt of flying arries repre- and it w ill give it a new look, and it is senta j uat one-half of these birds breed- also a great saving. | orchard, the pea crop is the least inju- the protoplasm of every cell in the excitable area. The Sermon a evening at a political meeting lie made rious—some variety like the East In- the acquaintance of a great cotton lord, dia, which w ill not draw’ on the trees. Sir Calico Twill, and happening to say And then it is best to have the crop “Hear, hear!” in the right place several gathered by the hogs on the ground. I’mes whilst Sir Calico was speaking, Where cotton is grown, I have found the old gentleman took a fancy to him, that this crop does not injure the trees atltl cultivated. And asked him home to snpper. There much for the first year or two—in fact, he met his host’s daughter, a charming the thorough culture of the cotton crop young lady with eight thousand a year, helped the trees to some extent. But, fell desperately in love with her, pop- after this, it is better to cultivate the ping tne question in the conservatory, trees alone^^^^^^^^^^^ and was referred to her papa. While on the subject of sermons, I ,, , cannot resist repeating a conversation i between a friend and his farm servant, ti-scorbutic purposes from the island of ... , , . Montserrat, West Indies, where limes { "'t 111 -'' 1 illustrates the remark made, ing on the cliffs, for only those arries are in the circling column that are oil' or relieved by their mates for the day, from the duty of incubation. Old Maids and Old Bachelors. Old maids are useful. They can cook, Thev do Before I take the matter into con sideration,” said Sir Calico, when | An Island in Mid-Ocean. In the summer of 1S3S the Third j United States Artillery, commanded! grow in marvellous abundance, Doth that an Irishman is rarely at a loss for ?ew ^ an(J take care of children, nurse a reply or an excuse. ! s j ck people, and generally play the " | “That w’as a good sermon, was it not j A Mysterious Spring;. i that we had last Sunday?” said the: gentleman. j no t even know how to drive nails or “Ihrue for you, yer honor, an illi- | sp xit wood by Colonel Gates, was encamped at the I K d ° De mea P°" CT g °° d ! Old maids are amiable. If one wants In 1815 the English government foot of the Missionary Ridg e ; engaged .. rm glad of that . Can yon tell me an >' tbin f done / ba ‘ requires patience Dill" U mu 111. )»« "'«»* placed , on Tristan d’ Acun- in the removal of the Cherokee In- i t particularly struck you 9 What and kindness of heart a smgie lady i» ?n n Sne” e0neq WlUlU ^ OUt ha, in order to guard more securely dians. One day the Colonel ordered | wL itlt a“’ ; sure to he the one to do it. “Well, I don’t exactly know.” an- their royal prisoner at St. Helena, Ilf- out a fatigue party to clean out the ’ “Oh, well,” scratching hi a head, “I de ®’ d ^be ^ysoblig^^ possMe 1 swered Bro^wn,being uncertain whether I te® 0 hundred miles a wav. On the death spring, a beautiful fountain bubbling rightly—not just exactly know. . iiPcnicrhahiAc an H h»tP that was a three penny or four penny ; of Napoleon, in 1S21, the troops were up at the foot of the Ridge. Shortly j a j a where’.- the use in telling ’ P under his tobacco jar at home; but let j withdrawn. One of the number, Cor- after, the sergeant reported to head- i; es y Sure I don’t remember one sin- ’ your daughter become my wife, and I poral William Glasi nrnmisp r!i#» shall hnvp pmllr»ss ^rol^l. ,, _ . promise she shall have endless gold. | ooorv , Q „ .i 10 1 ° two seamen ol tne ot, “Endless gold is rather an exaggera- ! young mothers, and are always so busi ly employed in seeing that other s, with his wife, and quarters that his men were all drunk, i gle individual word of it, good or had | Z nn!\r» ™ nftLm twVhVv St. Helena squadron Says the Colonel: “Y'ou should dcl y 0 rra a bit of it me knows what it was , . J* t t . t ‘ tion, eh,” remarked Sir Calico. ~~ j with their wives, obtained leave to re- have let the men drink whisky.” “I about at a:l .„ haTe not a mome t0 glve “ any ° “Scarcely in my case,” said Brown,! main on the island and occupy the quar- did not,” replied the sergeant, “they | “And yet you say it did you ! else. “as let my wife and 1 be as extravagant j ters left vacant by the departure of the drank nothing but water from the j (KK j n, as we might, we should never be able troops. Glass was at once chosen chief, spring.” The sergeant and men were; to get through it. _ i an d was habitually called governor, ordered into the guard-house a new de- 1 He became the father of seven sons and tail sent out and a lieutenant placed i power , Old maids are very nice-looking and did sir. I’ll stick to that.” Are vouleilin^ me the truth?” I “““ UttU,lua,1 J * I *— “ I “I don’t see how.” The truth. I swow.” - r j He became the father of seven sons and tail sent out and a lieutenant placed j „ Well; noW) yer bonor> look here . Then take her, my boy,” said Sir eight daughters. What with the proge- in command with orders to not let «>c There > s my ?hirt tbat the w if e is after Calico, grasping Brown’s hand, “and ny of the two men-of-war’s men, and men have access to any spirits. Not ^.^jjino- • and clean and w’hite it is, by happy I am that my child has been the settling among them of four or five long after, the lieutenant reported the reaS on ot all the water and starch that’s fortuimhunters 01 ” eS r ° gUeS whaling men, and the marrying of the men all drunk Tne men were order- through it. But not a drop o. °w“u daughters of Glass and his first com-, ed to the guard-house and the lieuten- ; * all _ w ' ter . or aoaIK or afarrh or very “young foi their years.” Old bachelors generally have red noses, rheumatism in their knees, bald heads, and mouths that turn down at the corners. Old maids can make a home of one little room, and cook delicious meals lor one over the gas jet In cunning little tin pans, besides making all their own , , . _ , t same, just like my Sunday shirt, ! - . - « I the wants of the inhabitants. Of the j should be no getting drunk this time. rm the better and the cleaner after it.” I fortabIe - helors need an army of tail- cooks, distant relatives and hotel landlords, to keep them com- her papa. “VYHat’s this?” said Sir Calico, stumped? What do you mean, sir?, Whore’s the endless gold you promised, .present population, all but five men ] But behold . in a short time his men, There was more philosophy than he eh?” and two women were born on the ; were all drunk. He was certain they ; waa a ^r a re of in the quaint reasoning, I’ve kept my promise,” answered island. Peter Green is the schoolmas-! had drank nothing but water, which j of the man An j mpreS sion for g 0od homeo P athlc P^t 3 out of tae twp “Kpnt vonr nromise and oan’t find 1 ter and reli ? ious instructor of the , they frequently did, getting down on or evil is often left upon the mind and ! bottles, alternately, and get well again, e monev to pay a paltry milliner’s | voun £* *be death of Glass he be- their knees and drinking from the ; b ears fruit, when what has caused the j MTien old bachelors are ill they go to When old maids are ill they tie up their heads in pockethandkerchiefs, the came governor, not by election or ap- branch just below the spring. The j i n fl uence has passed away from our i bed and send for four doctor; have a t- pointment, but simply by general rec- Colonel was at his wits’ end. The men memories — ' consu i tat i° n i a mantlepiece full of bill. Why—you—you—” Calm yourself, old boy,” interrupi ed Brown. “I promised to give your ognition as the oldest man and longest were ordered to the guard-house, and daughter endless gold, which both of resident in the colony. He was born in i he repaired to his tent to think. After us, be as extravagant as we might, Holland served when VO ung in the should never be able to get through., . ,. Was it not so?” American navy, and is now over seven- “Yes, and you ” ty years old. His position as governor “Don’t flutter yourself now*. I’ve is merely an honorary one, since there kept my promise.” are no laws to execute, and the little ? V , .... colony has thus far existed without any ‘>V ell, I gave her a wedding ring— - - r P . OT . Q .. that’s endless gold, isn’t it? And, my form of government. There are hve dear,” added Brown, turning to his hundred cattle, two hundred sheep, '* * numbers of goats, pigs, geeSe and wife, “do you think that both of us could ever get through anything w hich only just fits one of those taper fin gers?” Sir Calico looked as if he was going have a fit, but a timely remark of his daughter’s probably averted the catas trophe. “Well, papa,” she said, “there’s still one thing in our favor. No one can say that I’ve got a fool for a husband.” So the storm blew over, and now Brown and his wife, though they do have to manage on eight thousand a year, are the happiest couple in the two hemis pheres. It took three men. tw’O boys and a weighing the matter pro and con he | brindle dog an hour and a half to drive had to give it up, and repairing to the a sandy pig a distance of two blocks guard-house he told the men if they down to the Burlington lerry-boat. v’ould show him how it was done he would release them, otherwise he would punish them severely. To this When the w earisome drive was ended, the dog was bit in three places, the boy had sprained his ankle, broken two windows by throwing stones at the pig, chickens on the island, and fine crops jug partly filled with whisky, the they agreed and taking him to the ■ one ol the men was tired to death and spring; just below the spring in the j theoibertwo were drunk, and the pi, branch they unearthed a five-gallon was tw0 m ^ es back i black bottles; all the amiable married men who belong to the club to sit up with them at night, besides a liired nurse; they telegraph to their rela tions, and do their best to impress the world with the idea that they are dying. When an old maid travels she takes a sandwich, a piece of poundcake, a bottle of lemonade in a hand basket of potatoes are raised. These consti tute their wealth, and the vessel in need of such supplies is their market. They will exchange their products for money, or clothing, boots, shoes, flour, tea, coffee, sugar, etc., and know how to make a good bargain. They also en gage in seal hunting, and dispose of the oil and skins thus obtained to vessels engaged in the same business. The island is said to be remarkably healthy, and there is an abundance of fish to be had for the catching. mouth of which was stopped with a cork, in which was inserted a quill that reached to the bottom. When buried in the sand the upper end of the quill was just above the surface of the water, and when they wanted to drink they stooped down, inserted the quill in their mouth, and while appar ently drinking pure water were drink ing pure whisky, and the Colonel, sit ting on the stump in plain view, was none the wiser for it. . . river and lunches comfortably in the car going west, and sarcastically asking . people it met if they could tell it where j ria ffe* the Burlington ferry crossed the Mis- I When an old bachelor travels he or- sissippi. , ders a dinner In courses at the station, * 1 and raves because he has not time to eat A little boy tumbled into a barrel of before the “fifteen minutes for refresh- molasses. He was fished out by a gen ment” are over, tleman who said: “ Boy, what is your name, and how do you feel?” The When an old maid leaves this sphere lad’s reply was, “ Short and sweet.” action she straightway joins the The gentleman remarked that he was white-robed host, but with a crusty old in a hurry, and could only stop long batchelor—its a little mixed, enough to assure the lad that he stood i ■ a fair show of being President some j A good beginning wanes a good end- day. i Jug-