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THE FIRST FALL OF SNOW The enow has began in the gloaming And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine, and fir, and hemlock, Wore ermine too dear for an earl. And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was fringed inch deep with pearl. From sheds new roofed with Carrara Came Chanticleer’s muffled crow, The stiff rails were softened to swacsdown— And still fluttered down the snow. I stood and watched by the window The noiseless work of the sky, And the sudden flurries of snow-birds. Like brown leaves whirling by. I thought of the mound in sweet Auburn, Where a little headstone stood, How the flakes were folding it gently. As did robins the babes in the wood. The Trial By Jury. Percy Hay, Frank Clarke and Tom Ever ett were scholars in Old Graytop school. The school received its name from a mount ain peak that rose hundreds of feet towards the sky just back of the school building. Percy and Tom were boy's of wealthy parents, but Frank was a farmer's son, and to aid in paying for t his tuition he had charge of a class comprising the smallest boys in school. I wish that I had the space to tell you of many a good time they had at Old Graytop school, but if I do the telling must go till another day. For the present the following incident must suffice. “Oh, Mr. Clarke, Johnny Dodd’s got the dates all written on his finger nails. ” It was the little boy who stood next to Johnny in the history class Frank was teaching, and the culprit was seen to whisk his fingers into his mouth: Then he put liis liands behind him, and stood very still. He looked still, but the blackboard at the back of the class could see he wasn’t, for he was rubbing his finger nails on his panta loons. Frank called the boy up. “Hold out your hands.” Johnny held them out, palms up. “No, the other side,” The guilty nails were streaked with pale looking ink. Frank sent the boy to his seat and said nothing. But when the lesson was over, he detained the boys while he wrote the following: “Dear Pjcboy That he scratched out and began again:— “Honored and Respected Sir: “Having heard much of your wisdom, oh learned Judge, I desire and pray that you will give audience tliis evening to a case I will present. I shall furnish my own jury and I plead that you will provide suitable accommodations for the same, as well as a place of detention for the prisoner, who will accompany the jury. The details of the court 1 leave in your hands, oh transcen- tally great Judge, and 1 remain, “With bewildering respect, “F. Clarke, PlaintilL” Frank sent this down by one of the boys and received the following reply “Seven o’clock, sharp. “Ray, Judge.” Calling four of the boys Frank said, l) Johnny Dodd, you’re my prisoner, I give you in charge of this guard. And they are not to let you out of their sight. At seven o’clock you are all to meet in Mr. Ray’s room and, boys, I demand that the prisoner be on time when the doors open, for lie's going to be tried, so you see how important it is that he should be there. ” The guard marched him out, and for a while made the most of their new dignity, although before the afternoon was over, the prisoner was eating peanuts and swinging on the gate chain, while the guard was shelling popcorn in Tom Everett’s room. At seven o’clock Frank, who had been busy studying in his room, came down through the hall, pushed open Percy’s door »nd was walking in when lie was stopped by two broomsticks crossed in front of him. “Ho, guard, who comes?” It was Percy’s voice, but it sounded as if it came from the very toes of his boots, it was so savage. “It’s the plaintiff in the case, your Royal Highness,” cried Tom Everett from inside. “Let him come in. Oh noble guard!” ordered the deep, hoarse tone of the judge. The noble guard lowered their broom sticks and Frank came in. Then he burst out laughing. “IIo, minion; seize him—he laughs in court. Let the majesty of the law be up held.” It turned out that the “Noble Guard” and the “Minions” were one and the same, for they dropped their broomsticks and seized Frank. “But, my lord, I couldn't help it, you look so funny. ” “Unhand him, slaves; let him proceed with the case. But let his estates be con fiscated, and see that he dies at sunrise. ” And the Judge spoke in such a terrible voice that it set him coughing. No wonder Frank laughed. The Judge was raised on the bed with blankets flowing from the throne for robes, and with a lion’s skin over his shoulders for ermine. The jury, composed of Johnny’s classmates, were ranged along one side of the room on chairs and trunks. Some were low and some were high, and over the trunks and chairs were thrown shawls and blankets with blue bor ders. The prisoner’s box was really a box —a soap box on top of the bureau—and Johnny was guarded by two more bristling broomsticks. The court was crowded. “Ilulloa,” said the Judge, suddenly with out a cent's worth of dignity, “where are my spectacles?” “If you please, Mr. Ray, said the prisoner who, from his elevated position could take a bird’s-eye view of the scene, “they’re round behind your ear.” “Silence in the court!” thundered a jury- n an who was so small and the trunk so high that Ills heels kept catching in the lock lirougli the blanket. “Must lie speak, Air. Ray?” “Not a word, and if he does it again lie (.lies at sunrise,” said the Judge cheerfully, as he buckled on his spectacles—I mean buckled when 1 say it—for they didn’t have any sides, having been found in an old trunk in the housekeeper's room, and had to be fastened around his head with a skate strap. “Your most gracious majesty,” said Tom rising from the table, which was covered with a lot of old compositions to make it look legal. “I have a painful duty to per form—one from which I may say I shrink with more than my usual diffidence and— and—’’ (“Hear, hear.”) “Who said ‘hear, hear?’” said the Judge, looking sternly over his spectacles. “If he says it again lie dies at sunrise. ” “My usual diffidence,” said the counsel for the defendant—who had been specially engaged for the occasion by the plaintiff himself. 4 ‘My lord, my learned friend here has thrown my client into court, and why?” “That’s just what I’d like to know,” said the Judge, with commendable patience. “I haven’t tlie least idea;” whereupon one of the jurymen started off on the story, and it took all four of the guards to stop him. He was ordered to die at sunrise, “Your Honor,” said Frank, rising and looking at Tom with withering scorn: “per haps my so-called learned friend will per mit a plain statement of the case; I submit, my lord, that anyone who is qualified to plead before your august Majesty ought to know—I repeat it, ought to know—that you can’t open it with the defence before there’s anything to defend.” Two of the audience cried “Good for ou! ” and two more deaths were ordered for sunrise. “I will be as plain and simple as possible, my lord.” “The Count grasped the idea of the gen tleman's simplicity.” Whereupon there was an uproar of laughter in court, and seven more deatlis were ordered, including the counsel for the defence. ” “Your Honor,” continued Frank, “the prisoner is accused of writing the dates upon his finger nails in the history class this day convened. “I protest, your Honor,” cried Tom. “T submit to your Royal Highness that to admit such testimony will establish a precedent that years, aye, ages can’t wipe out. Think of it, your Honor? Why, my lord, let me put a question to you. Have you ever made mud-pies? — dignified mud-pies, I mean”—said Tom as the four guards were ordered by the Coart to crush him where he stood. 4 ‘Dignified mud-pies your Honor, with only a little mud and a good deal of dignity?” The^Court grants gracious permission to the defence to proceed. What! ho, there! wake up the juryman on the third trunk.” • The juryman, who had been up most all the night before with a toothache, didn’t want to wake up, and he even went so far as to kick one of the guards. His life was spared on account of his exteme youth, but fifty lashes were ordered to take effect at sunrise. Having thus vindicated the majesty of the law, the sleepy juryman was invited by the Judge to a place on the bed behind the throne, and was soon fast asleep. “Your Honor, said Frank, rising, “your learned mind must perceive the point which the defence wishes to establish. The pris oner’s nails w T ere discovered streaked with black ; all the circumstances go to show that it must have been ink, and yet this— but I’ll call no names. I can afford to be calm. Your Honor, the counsel for the de fence seeks to shadow your mind and the minds of the intelligent jury by suggesting that it might have been mud upon the nails, and not ink, that the prisoner—whose well- known fondness for mud-pie making I must admit—is thus clear from the suspicion under which he rests. Your Honor, in a famous case in English law there was a will on trial. Everything seemed right about it and judges and lawyers were puzzled—all but one. Just as the document was going to be pronounced valid, this lawyer calmly took the paper and held it up to the light. There before the astonished gaze of all who crowded around, was the water-line date showing that the paper w r as manufactured years after the death of the man whose will the document purported to be. Thus it was proved a forgery. Your Honor, that was a very simple exposure, but mine is even more so. It was ink on those nails, and do you ask me how I know?” The court room was still as night. Noth ing could be heard save the breathing of the juryman asleep behind the throne. It was an exciting moment. “The prisoner will please stand up!” Things began to look solemn for Johnny, and his little legs were unsteady as he arose on the soap-box. Then Frank, with a dramat ic finger point ing at the culprit cried, “The glass, oh learned judge, look in the glass!' ^ And there, at the prisoner's back, in the looking-glass of the bureau, was reflected the part of his trousers which the blackboard saw in the class—trousers streaked and crossed with the hasty slashes of the guilty finger nails. Oh, how they shrieked with laughter; the Judge almost rolled off his chair, while Frank and Tom had to hold on to each other to keep from dropping under the table and to add to the tumult, one of the jury men, who was sitting on a high trunk, ac cidentally kicked a colleague who was sit ting in a very low chair, right in the eye, and it was some little time before the com bined talent of the Judge and the counsel for both sides could convince the injured juryman that it hadn’t been done on pur pose. Then came the first bell, which meant that it was time for the jury to go to bed. Later in the evening Frank went again to Percy’s room. “That was a great success, wasn't it ? I wanted ever}' boy in school to know the deception, and yet I think they’ve been told in a way that hasn't hurt the little fellow's feelings too much. I don't think it is necessary to disgrace a boy—that’s too discouraging. You can rest pretty certain, however, that it will be a long time before any more dates are written on finger nails in my class.” A True Heroine. To imitate a room which exists in one of the most finished homes of Eng land, the furniture and decoration should be Japanese in stylo and char acter. The larger panels of the door are filled in with real Japanese lac plaques of ivory and gold, which con trasts well with the general dull red coloring of the other work. Above the low paneled dado—the panels of which are filled in with dark, rubv-colored plush—the walls are hung with sage- green plush in panels, with borders of cinnamon-colored satin, on which, ap plique, a scroll pattern of green silk. Above this place a broad frieze, filled in with various subject panels repre senting earth, air, fire, water and the like. Figures and animals should be done in their natui al colors, on yellow- isli-green ground. The furniture should be of unpolished rosewood, into which various panels of Japanese gold lacquer might be inserted. The seats of the chairs are covered with sage-green morocco, embossed and gilt in panels. The general effect of the apartment will then be quaint and pleasing, giving a desirable foreign look to a domestic home. Carpets de luxe are now, how ever, almost without exception, Orien tal ones. Turkish carpets have always held their own in England, as covering for dining-rooms in all well-furnished houses, and there is no question that they are infinitely tlie cheapest in the long run. Now, however, Persian, Moorish and Scinde rugs and carpets have it all their own way. Nothing else seems to be bought except perhaps, what are called the “Anglo-Persian,” at Kidderminster, from Persian designs. They are not the same, however, by a very long way, and those who furnish well buy the real article, which is to be had almost anywhere in London at the present time. In Persian carpets there is, however, an enormous difference between the beautiful textures—mostly with light grounds, with their close, velvety surface, which seems to defy ir—and the modern Persian—made probably, on purpose for the English market. Even in these, however, is that wonderful combination of color , which the Persians understand so thoroughly, and in which we English but tyros. There is a clever way in which these carpets, woven in one piece, can be made to fit any room by means of cutting them down. The car pet is cut in two first, within the bor der, and a portion unraveled. The; threads are then taken up one by one and fastened together by the fingers, so that when finished it is impossible to ‘ discover the joining except by turning to the back. Many partially-worn car pets (but those mainly of the old rugs , or prayer-carpets) are now being sent to England, with the pile cut down so as to remove the soiled surface and freshen the colors. Amongst the thou sands imported by some of our large carpet warehouses, it is possible to find some of great value and exquisite tone. As these are often of a long shape, not very convenient, and therefore not so saleable as the others, they are often to be had very much below their actual value. In this w'orld there is a thousand times more pleasure than pain, and ten thousand times more happiness than trouble. Close relations—A toper’s skin and a “whisky-skin.” While the British army had posses sion of Philadelphia, and Washington’s army was encamped about the city, the following incident took place: The English Adjutant General made his headquarters at the house of a man named William Darrah. This man’s wife v> as a true friend and patriot, true to her friends and country. '— The house was in a secluded part of the city and the English officers often held their private meetings there. On one of these occasions the Adjutant General ordered Mrs. Darrah to have the upper back room made ready for the reception of the officers. “And, Lydia,” he said, in conclusion “be sure that all your family are in bed by 8 o’clock. Fearing to disobey, Mrs. Darrah had everything ready, and her entire family in bed by 8 o’clock, when the officers came. At the General’s order had been very emphatic, higher impulse than mere curiosity prompted Mrs. Darrah to be come a listener. Accordingly when all was quiet, she slipped out of her room into the hall. The room where the officers were holding their meeting was at the other end of the hall. Quickly and quietly she ran to that part of the hall, and, placing her ear to the keyhole of the room door, listened. As she did so, she heard one of the officers read an order from General Howe, commanding the British army to move against Washing ton’s camp. This was enough. After hearing this, Mrs. Darrah hurried back to her room and entered, locking the door. Soon she heard a rap on the door. She knew what it meant, but she did not get up till after three successive knocks. Then she got up and let the Adjutant Genera and his friends depart. The next morning Mrs. Darrah was up bright and early. Flour was needed for the family, and, taking the bag, # went to the mill, three miles distant. But she did not go for the flour alone. She had a great secret which she in tended to make known to Washington. After leaving her bag at the mill to be filled with flour, she hurried on to ward Washington’s camp. On her way she met Lieutenant Craig, one of Washington’s officers, to whom she told her secret. She then hurried home, stooping at the mill for her bag of flonr. On a cold, starry night she saw the English soldiers leave the city for the attack on Washington’s camp, few hours later she saw the same troops return to the city. The Adjutant General soon reached his headquarters, and summoning Mrs. Darrah to his room, he said to her: “Lydia, were all jour family in bed at 8 o’clock last night?” “They were,” replied Mrs. Dorrah, quickl . “It’s strange,” mused the officer. “We have certainlj’ been bestraj’ed by omebody. You, I know, were fast asleep when I rapped on your door, for I kuocked three times before I aroused you. When we arrived at General Washington’s camp, we found his can non all mounted and his troops under arms. So we were obliged to march back to the city, without making the attack, life a parcel of fools. Mrs. Darrah entreated Lieutenant feared the fury of the enemy. But the English never found out who betraj'ed them on the night they marched against Washington’s camp. from the attacks. The cry was given to open the gate and let the bull pass out- into the stall in which it had been kept, but the gatekeeper had be- ome too terrified to understand the order or to perform his duty, and the gate remained closed. The nerve of my guide never faltered for an instant; but seeing the terror of the others and wit nessing the fury of the animal, he drew his long knife and calmly awaited the next rush to make the fatal thrust that should terminate the existence cf the bull and the scene of excitement. Once more the bull swooped down toward him, and he stood ready to strike the knife into its Deck; but as he attempted to spring back and let the bull pass by him before doing so his foot slipped, and he was at once impaled upon the horns of the beast, and in a moment his lifeless body fell within a few feet of his dead comrade. The excitement of the crowd now reached the most intense point; it amounted to actual agony. For a moment they were spell-bound with terror, and gave utterance to pier cing shrieks and cries. Then several shots were fired at the bull, none of M'hich took serious effect, but only ap peared to increase its madness and ire. Suddenly the bull, now blinded with rage and maddened by the wounds it had received, dashed against the thorny barrier of the pitahaya, and breaking through it, rushed among the terrified multitude upon the outside of the enclosure. The crowd scattered in all directions, and the bull tossed or trampled upon all who w r ere in its way as it rushed toward the open plain. There were three others killed outright and several seriously wounded. Tlie Hunter’s Story. Horrors ot a Hull-Fight. The scene of this horrible affair was in the old town of Baydevaguato, in Mexico. After taking my seat in the enclosure I looked down into the corral, and could not but admire my guide, not only for his powerful and perfeetbuild, but also for his good-humored expres sion and calm self-possession. There was some little delay before the bull came upon the scene; but when a large gate in the adobe wall w r as opened, and he entered the corral with a rush and a bound, a terrible presentiment of an awful tragedy seemed to thrill the en tire multitude. For myself, it so pain fully impressed me, that if I could easi ly have left the place I would at once have done so, although but a moment before I had been so anxious to witness the contest. It was a splendid animal, well knit, strong and powerful. It seemed to comprehend the situation at once, for with a loud tone it bellowed forth its defiance to its antagonist, and then, with head lowered to the ground, commenced pawing the earth and giv ing demonstrations of speedily com mencing the combat. The attendants shook their red flags before it, and irri tated it still more by prodding it with their sharp-pointed lances. Our hero closely watched its every movement with keen and intense interest, evident ly aware that it might make a sudden rush at anj' moment. With a roar that appeared to shake the very earth, and that certainly threw terror into every heart in that audience, it sprang for ward, lowering its head with the de sign of tossing the Mexican into the air. Two or three times the bull re newed the attack with no better result, and every time he escaped the lunge of the animal the audience shouted and cheered lustily, appearing to have over come the presentiment of evil, and hav ing full confidence in the man’s ability to win the victory whenever he chose to do so. It would hardly be credited that the countenance of a bull could vary in its expression; but it certainly appeared as if intense rage and demon iacal nate stood out upon every hair on its face, and the more it was baffled in its attempts to gore its intended victim the deeper and wilder became that ex pression of vicious propensity. One of the attendants gaye the bull a more se vere thrust than he intended to do, when it turned upon him so suddenly that, before he could evade the attack, the animal had him upon its borns, and ripping the body open with this exer tion, tossed him high in the air while the blood spouted upon the bull’s face. The man fell with a heavy thud upon the soil, and in an instant the bull was goring him again and again. In vain the others tried to divert its attention from the man, or endeavored to rescue their fallen companion from his terrible fate. In less time than it requires to narrate the episode, the poor fellow was a lifeless corpse. It was a soul- sickening sight. Some of the women fainted at once, while the others screamed in terror and horror at the scene. All this commotion, combined with the scent of fresh blood, wrought the bull into a state of frenzy, and it swept around and across the inclosure with 3uch violence and rapidity that the men could with difficulty escape “I have had many narrow escapes, and seen some strange things. I can now recall one, when I was hunt ing beaver; just as the ice began to break up, and on one of the furthest, wildest lakes I ever visited. I calcu lated there could be no human being nearer than one hundred miles. I was pushing my canoe along the loose ice, one cold day, when just around a point that projected into the lake, I heard something walking through the ice. It made so much noise and stepped so regularly that I was sure it must be a moose. I got my rifle ready and held it cocked in one hand, while I pushed the canoe with the other. Slowly and carefully I rounded the point, when what was my astonishment to see, not a moose,* but a man, wading in the water—the ice water! He had nothing on his head or feet, his clothes were torn from his limbs, and he was talking to himself. He seemed to be wasted to a skeleton. With great difficulty I got him in my canoe; when I landed i made up a fire and got him some hot tea and food. He had a bone of some animal in his bosom, which he had gnawed almost to nothing. He was nearly frozen, but quieted down and soon fell asleep. 1 nursed him like an infant. With great difficulty and in a roundabout way I found out the name of the town from which he came. Slowly and carefully I got along around falls and over protages, keeping a reso lute watch on him, lest he should escape from me into the forest. At length, after nearly a week’s travel, I reached the village where I supposed he lived. I found the whole communi ty under deep excitement, and more than a hundred men were severed througn tne woods and on the moun tains, seeking for my crazy companion, for they had learned that he waudered into the woods. It had been agreed upon that if he was found the bells were to be rung and guns fired. And as soon as I.landed, a shout was raised, his friends rushed to him, the bells broke out in loud notes, guns were fired, and the reports echoed again and again in the forest and on the mountains till every seeker knew that the lost was found. ‘How many times I had to tell the story over! I never saw people so crazy with joy, lor the man was one of the first and best families, and they hoped his insanity would be but tem porary, as I afterward learned it was. How they feasted me, and when I came away, loaded my canoe with provisions and clothing, and everything for my comfort! It was a time and place of wonderful joy. They seem to forget everybody else, and think only of the poor man I had brought back.” The old hunter ceased and I said: Doesn’t this make you think of the fifteenth chapter of Luke, where the man who lost one sheep left all the rest in the wilderness, and went after it, and when he found it he called his neighbors and friends together to re joice with him ? ‘Likewise joy shall be heaven over one sinner that repenteth.’ ” Sujjar from Corn. Salmon Fishing. The angling on Loch Tay Scotland, is chiefly done by trolling the minnow. AGRICULTURE. DOMESTIC. HUMOROUS. j j ^ ... Milking.—One would think that the The Spare Bed.— Almost every Put Me Down.—“Put me down,” Seated in the stern of his boat the subject of milking is sufficiently well family has a spare bed. It is generally he said, as the officer led him in hold- i . . - ftfiiimVatA t understood at the present time without in a spare room, remote from the living ing him up bv either arm, “put me angjer nas on eimer siue oi mm a stout any further instructions with reference i room, where it would never feel the down as Lord’ Dum Dreary, and be trolling rod similar to a I hames spinn- it, l>ut never was there a greater influence of any fire that would usually hanged to you !” ing rod, only longer and stronger. To mistake made. Hundreds of dairymen be kindled; or in a chamber with no They put him down in black and each of these is fixed a heavy reel hold- begin to complain that their cows are arrangement for warming it in winter, white, and then the}' put him in a cell, ing one hundred or one hundred and d.ying up early while they have good into this spare room and spare bed When he had sobered off a bit he hvpntv vmk nr mnrp nf ctrmt tnliino- feed and plenty of it. We were talk- company are put, frequently without earnestly inquired if there was a Son of ^ ? ,, . . . & mg with one of the leading dairymen 1 tne least thought that there is the Malta about the place, and was recom- line. A good length is requisite, as a with reference to the matter, the other slightest ^ danger of injuring their mended to Bijah. When the old janitor Loch Tay salmon when first struck will day, and his opinion coincided with ! guests. 'J his is done with the kindest came in the prisoner uttered three dis- often make a rush of sixty or seventy ours in this respect, and he claimed I intentions, out of respect for their tinct coughs, and drew down his right yards in length, and if you have some that more cows were spoiled by being friends, who they wish might enjoy ej'e. fnrtv or tiftv vards of line nut it rhp improperly handled than by poor food, the best they have. Strong, healthy “What’s the matter with you?” . * \ ~ ‘ To get the greatest yield .of milk the persons, in the vigor of life, might not growled the old man, who never saw a time, as is often needed, an active fish cows should be milked regularly, quiet- experience any serious inconvenience. Son of Malta as he knows of. will soon clear your reel out and break ly and thoroughly, yet quickly. Gen- Not so the leeble or aged. Many under The prisoner then whispered in a away; 120 yards, therefore, is better erally speaking, twice a day is often these circumstances have taken a cold peculiar manner, pinched his right ear, than a tw yards swivels, and terminating in a couple of near the right time.’all things consid- in winter not only becomes cold, but roared Bijah. strands of stoutish single salmon gut. ered, as any. Milking should be done also gathers moisture, and is dangerous “ Are you not a brother?” To this is fixed a phantom minnow of quietly, without any scolding or kick- t0 the most robust and healthy, but es- “ Not by a dozen jugs full!” medium size a blue or i vf-Bow one he- in g or otherwise hurting or exciting pecially so the aged and infirm. None “ And you will not respond to a cry * . ‘ ^ * . the animal, and she will then habitu- are more exposed to this danger than of distress from a Son of Malta?” ng used on either rou, so that the fish ally CO me gladly for the operation, i th e ministers who preach with two or “Not any! All I know about’em is may have a choice of color, as they stand quietly and let down her full * more churches alternately. Sometimes that one of ’em once raided my hen will often run on one to the exclusion flow. It should be done thoroughly, tbey arrive at the house where they in- coop, and I took a solemn oath to be re- of the other, being capricious in their as nearly as possible always by the tend to spend the night late in the day, venged. If His Honor lets you off I’ll rietPfi thp nr»pn wi» nnve Bpi.io- same person. There is a great differ- thoroughly fatigued and chilled : or at be round the corner to embrace you!” 1 _ . .. . .... " ence in milkers; some will get the last the close of the labors of the Sabbath All nigbt long the prisoner was cal- rejiched, forty or nitv yards ol line are drop, while others will leave the rich- I are completely prostrated. In either ling out to the brothers who heard him paid out from either rod. The rods are est part in the udder. It has been case the system requires rest and com- not, and when morning came he tried fixed at a right angle, projecting over proved to the satisfaction of all good f°rt, and is in a poor condition to be a new dodge. Alter coming before the the boat’s side. A °-ood sized stone dairymen that the strippings will yield taxed with an extra efiort to keep up bar, and indulging in unbounded as- i f i i e . ” , from ten to twenty per cent, more amma * Leat in a cold, damp bed, and tonishment at the sight of the Court,he or a lump o. lead of tw o or three pounds j cream than the rest of the milk; how the result is a sleepless night, cold cried out: weight is taken; the line is wrapped important it is then that the cow should and hoarseness in the morning, pro- “What! do I see before me the around it once, and the stone is laid up- be milked clean. Besides, if she is not tfacted cough, congestion or consump- friend of my boyhood days?” on the seat of the boar, holding the line : made to yield all that she has daily, and death. These dangers are “ I wouldn’t see him if I were you,” down When a fi<h strikes tlie «tonp ' slie will dry up sooner, and gradually ea? “J remedied. The least trouble, quietly observed His Honor. , , * ... , , . , , . " . fail in the quantity until it decreases perhaps, where it can be done, is to “ Why,we used to play together—slid shaken olt and the fish hooks itself. perC eptibly. Cows should never be tondle afire in the room or in an ad- down the same hills, bathed in the same And now \ouhave rowed for many a hurriedly driven to and from the pas- joining room, and ^ open the bed an mill-ponds and went to the same mile under the lofty shadow of Ben ture as it agitates and heats the milk, hour or two before it is occupied; or it schools.” Lawlers, but not a fish visited your rod. if before milking, and tends to make warmed by a hot soap-stone, “ J can’t help that, Mr. Dum Dreary. Possiblv for two or three days you have them wild after the milk has t>ecn water or the old-fash- At that time you were innocent and Wn drawn. We had an opportunity of ' oned . "arming-pan or bj applying high-minded; now you are a law. been out of luck, nothing but an odd seeing the res „] t5 ot a change in the heat ln :m .v. way that a thoughtful breaker, and on your way hence.” kelt or a wretched pike or a hill trout management of cows on Pleasant View woman can find out. Extra quilts and “ Didn’t I divide my apples with you ? or two have come to look at you. Old Farina short time ago. The proprie- i comforters will add no protection. The And didn’t I let you beat me playing Donald, j'our chief boatman, along with a subdued steady swing, as accident, which confined him to the if he were used lo waiting, as in truth j house for nearly a week during which met with a severe cold and daiu pness and dangers are the bed. he is; half asleep and half awake he ap- I «>own tact not unfrequently brought so debased ?” gas^Tthe - man? for action l-m m-’ . SLa-S t0 Public notice in the newspapers,that UmDed int0 the “ c0 ? r idor. and Bib Poisonous Cheese.—It is a well- known fact, not unfrequently brought marbles?’ “ I don’t remember. All I know is that you are going up for thirty daj’s.” How can the human mind become he pears, but he is quite ready for action treated kindly, still it was different occasionally a cheese is found which 'imped into the corridor, and Bijah re- ♦...* i OCC.UlOnailJ a cneese IS lounu wmen n i; p ,i r i,., r rluln’t. lrnnw hilt w/h.iltl from their usual treatment, and the it, milk pail showed a much smaller yield, and the cows themselves became rest less and refused to “give down at any instant nevertheless. You just leaving the point, and thinkin no better than all the rest of the lake and the whole thing a delusion, a snare formerly, although, as” before stated, and a swindle, when “spang” the big they were treated with the greatest stone bounds into the air. kindness and milked by experienced “There he is,” yells Donald, as the hands. But when he was able to come possesses poisonous properties. Record is made of very severe and occasionally fatal eases, where the symptoms could be attributed to no other cause than the eating of cheese—where, indeed, plied that he -didn’t know, but would look in the city directory and see. P] terrible screech of the reel heralds run at last. Down goes the novel, the cigar g^s into your pocket, or over board ; the rod is grasped upright in your hand, and is bending like a bow to the barn again, the cows soon filled OMULGATING A NEW MaXIM.— “ 4 Give a beggar a copper, and it shall __ . , come baek to you again,’ would make every individual partaking thereof was as good a maxim as any, and a more more or less affected. Some time ago truthful one than most of them,” re- almost the entire Legislature of the marked the philosophical lookiug young r i .v . . State of Vermont, on the occasion of an man of the crowd, the pails as usual, and that, too, with entertainment offered to its members at “How so?” inquired the more ven- no enange oi ioou. adjournment,were thus made sick,and, turesome member. albeit some sport was made of it at the ‘‘You give him a cent,” gravely ex- Photecting Trees From Animals.— time, it was by no means a laughing plained the first speaker. Many years ago, when we employed matter, though all who were affected “Yes.” as the strong fish hurries off at top swine to clear our fruit garden of’the by the poisonous cheese recovered. The “And immediately he bows assent in speed for the middle of the lake, while eurculio and other insects, we found symptoms of this cheese-poisoning are: return!” Donald carefully reels up and lays 110 difficulty in protecting young or nausea, followed by violent and pro- Then he looked all around, and they aside tlie other rod so as to he miite smooth-barked trees from their attacks tracted vomiting; pain in the bowels, looked all around, and one of the com- . - 1 by tying around the stems a few strong purgative action,and great pros- panv with a more bulging brow than clear ior tne piav. rorty or nity yards branches oft’the sweet brier. The ani- tration, with fever. When the patient the ’ rest leaned against a pillar and are run out when the line seems to lilt ma ls had a special dislike to tlie sharp recovers there remains for some time a groaned as if in agony. in the water towards the surface, and prickles. The trimmings of Osage soreness and tenderness of the bowels, the next moment a huge silver column hedges might answer as well. Coarse indicating continued inflammation. The ( ~ " almost three feet and a half long, shoot? " ire netting would be neater in ap- ; attack, to the inexperienced eye, very ^ , , ®’ pearance, and if dipped in oil or cover-: closely resembles one of cholera mor- ness ue was trying to badger recently, out of the « ater a good yard or more, ed with paint would not rust. An Eng- i bus; while to the physician it hears “ suppose I shouid tell you that 1 could and falls hack with tremendous splash. i; sll p i anter adopts another mode. He some of the marks of arsenical poison- brln S a dozen men of your town to this “Mon, but lie’s a proper lusshe, von,” plants a thorn bush at tlie base of each in g- These facts have very much mis- court-room who would say they would says Donald; “canny wi’m canny;he’s free as it is set out, and finds these an led the public, so that in one case the not beueve you on your oath, what ' 1 ■ 1 idea lias prevailed that no real poison- "'ould you say i And calmly the wit- ing occurred, but that tlie symptoms n . ess ma<Ie reply: “I would say you ,,, : simply indicated tlie over-eating of in- " ed - ’ A gentle smile diffused itsell , , ,, ... , . 1 is “ digestible food, or the indulgence in all over tlie eourt-room, and the unruf- nte- to tlie National Lire Stock Journal unaccu9tome d beverages; tvliile.on the " e <l witness stepDed down. other, tlie attending physician has been led to suspect carelessness in the Giddv (to ol d ge nt)—“ Please help a U1 use of Paris-green, or 111 tlie applies- poor woman with sivin small children, This Mon °f arsenical fly-poison to the out- a u t0 —” Good-natured old gent (who side ol the cheese. knows her)—“Yes. hut I say, don’t 3a miy lepper”—and out dashes the fish again with another wild but futile leap for liberty. Then he plunges down, down, down to the very bottom of the lake, forty fathoms down. How do you feel now? No more laziness no days to three weeks old. We cut despondence? No, indeed; excitement slit, about one and a half inche: is wound up and turned to top concert fength, just forward of the bag. fi i i is more convenient than in the si efficient guard against cattle. Mr. A. Tilden, of Morri follows in regard to spaying heifers : , oth the atten di„g We spay when the call is from three K _ pitch as the mad fish bounds over the jo not think there is aiiy more risk to! The Right Way to Brush Velvet, i F ou th;1 *? k T our femHy- increasesrather wave, or cuts the depths in forty or run in spaying a heifer at that age than —The art of removing lint, dust ami J. 00 r, apidl L ? Last wee - k - jt . wa ® onl F fifty yards rushes time after time, till in eastrating a bull calf of the sameage; | light matters adhering to velvet, con- f,vo w v : his strength mdiir- my calves, the heiters do i in the prnpor mode of n aging five.’’ Biddy (not a bit abashed)— __ _ Sure, and isn’t that all the more rea- ince. But everything must have an not mind the operation so much as the J the brush. Take a hat brush (no”too son . w ^,T >' our honor should help me bulls lifter the second day. Sew up j soft, but having the bristles elastic,and I a & am • ^ through the hide and j returning at once to their original state *1 i. .i w hen pushed aside), hold it firmly un- ; j twenty min end, and after fifteen utes he begi er and shorter stout stick of some three or four leet long, with a bloodthirsty-lookin. ith stitching to slacken and run short, all that you cut through, using deep , and Donald takes up a stitches like a letter x.” Regarding borers in peach trees, Within the last two weehs two men tier the palm of the hand, in the direc- " i ! ve , bee “ kiI , led b - v K th « explosion of- of the arm, and with the bristles * hlske - v barrels - , In ^stances tlie downward, and pressing them first harrels wereempty. rhesefatal casu- gently into the substance of the velvet, altles teach tbe importance of always then twist around the arm, hand and ke . e P™£ - vour barrel at least balf ful1 of brush all together, as on an axis, with- " lls * out moving them forward or backward. _ The foreign matters will thus be drawn „ , E " atl one advantage over tlie girls up and flirted out of the flock without the present da Y M lien her mother injury to the substance of the velvet, e aHed her to set the breakfast table, all and the brusli must be lifted up and *1® her hangup in a butchers’ hook tied to it, yclept “the says the Country Gentleman, it is useful gaff.” He takes oft' the cork, feels the t0 * ,ea P a °* d . r y slacked lime . - . „ . ,, about tlie peach trees alter the grubs point, and bides his time, watchfully had been p picked out and be f or f the directing No. Mho takes the oars, earth is drawn back to the tree. The Once or twice the huge fish come3 roll- hme kills any grubs that may be lelt. over near the boat, but he manages If a live grub is thrown into tlie dry to wallop off again to a more respectful lime it will soon die ; this may be tried \'Y “ v ““ v '‘ " l ' ““ v ‘ W ad wash her face nut on a seraohic 1 .... ° t .. to satisfy any inquiring mind. Having placed in a similar manner over every "au, wa&n ner iace, put on a serapnic distance, till a dextrous turn of the ? n t i»;« wm? in 1877, the writ- part required to be brushed. By this smde ,and skip down stairs. means velvet will be improved instead ♦ of deteriorated, and will last for years. Man may be the noblest work of creation, but he de doesn’t think about His Sad Mission. it, and he doesn’t look it, on hearing Mrs. Nichols is a wealthy lady. She his name called in the street, he turns is the wife of an invalid. The other and that U is 0!lI >' somebody call- , . ,. .... . ^ used lime in this way oar brings him within reach. Donald er f ound no borers at all in his trees in leans over. There is a flash in the wa- 1878, and therefore lias confidence in ter, a splash, and a mighty flopping as this means of repressing the depreda- the noble fellow is translated from his tions of this pest, native element to yours. A tap on the head soon quiets his struggles, and Scratches in Horses.—A writer in lovely fish not forty-eight hours in the the AtlanU ,. Constituti0 n says a very lake and weighing thirty-two Pounds d remedv is t0 keep the lower part by the steelyard, !s placed to your cred- - fthe , ; vashed clean with castile ir “VV hfinn'” rpsminds Hip ° . Whoop!” resounds across the lake, and a solemn libation of the liq uor m hieh cheers and inebriates too, it taken in quantities, is poured out to his day she was summoned to the parlor to see a visitor. “Good morning, sir!” she said, as she swept into the room. “Good morning!” he replied, very Some time ago it was announced that the United States Commissioner of Agriculture was experimenting on the possibility of ex tracting sugar from the stalks of common Indian corn, although it was said the results attained were not satisfactory. Another an nouncement is now made by a Mr. Drum mond, one of the secretaries of the English Legation at Washington, who says that in a short time there will he made public.p-newly discovered process through which sugar of the best quality can be made out of corn it self. Every one must have observed the reetness of our common corn, owing to the sugar contained in it, but until now no one has been able to find out a process where by sugar could be economically extracted from the grain. By tliis discovery it is al leged that a thousand pounds of sugar can be made out of the corn grown on a single acre, which, of course, would give the fanner far better returns than he now ob tains from that crop, or, indeed, from almost any other now grown. Besides, tlie extent to which it can be grownis practically un limited. It grows in every State and Ter ritory in the United States, except Alaska. Should this announcement prove well founded, we M ill be enabled not only to pro duce all the sugar we need ourselves, hut to supply half the outside world besides. Sugar cane and sugar-beet are at tlie present our only reliance for the production of sugar, but as the groM'ing of the former is confined to certain territorial limits, its quantity must alw r ays be restricted. The sugar-beet has a more extended growth, but its productive ness is not nearly equal to that of the cane, and its growth and manipulation is far more difficult besides. Should the new predictions be realized it M*ill prove a most fortunate thing for our farmers. In certain portions of the great west it is so abundant and cheap that it is used for fuel, realizing scarcely anything for its growers. Tlie vast field of prospective profits opened up before the agricultural interests of this country by this alleged discovery are almost incalculable, and bid fair to work a revolution in tlie sugar- making industries of tlie world. —Matthew' Crooks, the San Francisco millionare, who died some time ago, desired to witness tbe nuptials of his daughter and Edward Barron, which had been fixed for a future day, and the marriage ceremony was performed n the chamber of the dying man. oap, ana apply a mixture of lard and gun-powder. Another is to wash the sores thoroughly with warm water and castle soap, then rinse off with clean politely. “I understand you have an water; after this rub dry with a cloth, invalid husband?” Then grate some carrots and bind them bave >> , —:— . , , i on tlie sores. Repeat this every day A . , An officer of the Russian service, Colonel for four or five days. W hat seems to be the matter with Prjwalky, lias published an account of an ,. him?” inquired the caller, with pro expedition made in 1877 to this almost un- 5 fessional gravitv known lake of Central Asia, and although Diamond Cut Diamond. “Consumption.” Baron Richthofen, one of the highest geo-1 ~ ’ , , . , craphical authorities iu tlie world, denies " a " ere la T JD S ofl some mlles a ’ va - v , Be f n tr « ubled Idn S- ba "' ellt on > that he reached the true Lobnor, the before Madras, on tlie steamship Su- as he drew' Ins handkerchief across his Colonel's story is sufficiently interesting . oiatra, wriiich had broken her shaft just f ace a couple of times, “or is it hasty ?’ and important to secure attention. Russian as we left Madras for Ceylon, when a She told him in a very dignified man- and Chinese troops are, as our readers are boafput off from the shore with a party ner ^ er husband had been a suf- awnre face to face with one another in of natives t0 se) i us f ru ;t s , und among ferer for five years. lately^in^nibe/fion against^the Cliin^se^but tbeni "' a ‘ one of their most famous 1 “Five Jears-five years!” he rnur- now reduced to submission. With the men of niystery. lie came on board, mured meditatively, as he drew <5ut a prospeets of peace and war in that quarter audit was suggested that he should memorandum book and began to figure, we have not hingat present to do. In 1871 perform there. j ‘‘Well, I guess another year will settle ing his dog. Somemthere on the ragged edge of Michigan there is a town called Bad Axe. The picture papers have sent for cuts of it. It is not necessarily true that a woman is a thief because she hooks her sister’s dress behind her back. Mrs. Smith says her husband is like a tallow candle, because he will always smoke when he is going out. A dandy on shore is disgusting to many people, and a swell on the sea sickens most everybody. Colonel Prjwalky left Kuldja and traveled j southeast and he struck a great river, the Tarim, which drains a wide tract of country to the north of Gobi district, and finally flows southward, losing itself in the sands of tlie desert, or at last collecting such Improved Platform Scale.—A platform scale in constant equilibrium has been invented in France. On a stand next to the piattorm are placed the register- ing cylinder, the clockwork, ;wiiich rotates slowly, and the double wheel- work, which determine the state of “Spreading some sand on the deck, trim. I suppose you’ve had him in constant equilibrium. The principle raters as it lias left in a shallow lake < tlie 90th degree of Most longitude and the lied rolled in the cloth about bis loins, trickled down her cheeks, which ( 40th parallel. The lake lies in a southwest concluding M'itli a very clever trick, in her caller to remark: and northeast direction, about sixty miles which two pigeons, one black and one “Yes, I know it is sad; but then long and fifteen wide. It is nearly covered wb fte which were made to vanish at there’s no use of taking on. Death is Math reeds, and appears to be subject to .... , periodical changes of level. Its waters are " 1 ’ 0 ian = clear and sweet excepting near tlie shore, by M'hich tlie equilibrium is restored, as soon as it has been disturbed bj' some cause or other, is this: If there be placed on an ordinary balance a glass full of Mater, counterbalanced by a he planted it in a mango-seed from Florida, but that amounts to nothin which he raised a mango tree some Consumption is aM'ful uncertain; you eighteen inches high. can’t tell when it is going to yank “Then he did some surprising things you.” with a venemous cobra, M'hich he car- 1 The lady made no reply, but tears weight, and if there be dipped into that iused glass a mass, whatever it may be, hang ing from a thread, the equilibrium will be destroyed,—in proportion as the plunger penetrates more or less into the liquid, it will more or less disturb from one basket to an- inevitable and can’t be escaped. Now, the equilibrium. It is such a plunger tlier. The Captain urged Robert Hel- then, say we’ll give him till next May.” that has been resorted to to establish the and it is alive with" fish and wild fow 1 i er who M as on board to do something The lady sobbed audibly, state of constant equilibrium on the Its inhabLl are its most strange characG to bother the man, who was very eon- “Yes, 1 suppose he was a kind.indul- g™"™ eristics. They seem to approach tbe an- conceited about himself. gent husband, and it will be hard for cylindrical vase, three-fourths filled cicnt lake-dwellers_in tlieir habits, for they “g 0 Robert suddenly asked to look at j you to part with him; but you must with Mater, and a cylindrical plunger live on the lake itself in dwellings con- one 0 ? the pigeons, lie took the m'bite : brace up and face the shock with he- of M’hich the supporting thread is roYled structed of reeds. The whole region is un- Qne . wkh a moveiDent like lightning roic fortitude.” O' er a pulley, is lowered or hoisted by P^lsk3° has tough? Jiigl/many facts be P u ' led tbe . bead f tbe bird \ 1 Still no reply from the lady, whose wholly new to modern geographers. After held the head in one hand, the quiver- face was now buried in her handker- menta tion or diminution of weight, reading an accouut of the Colonel’s adven- ing, struggling, dying bird in the other, chief. The equilibrium restores itself inmie- turcs one is inclined to lose patience M’itli and then threw them overboard. “I didn’t come here this morning to diatelv, and the motions of the pulley a stay-at-home geographer, however emi- “The commotion was frightful. The star U P your feelings aud make you feel transmitted to a Had pencil, which pas- nent, who questions the accuracy of his native shrieked aud cursed and sad. Death is awful solemn, but busi- se s over ihe surface of the registering conclusions. Colonel Prjwalkv has left St. 1 . . , . , ’. nOBa h.idinoaa Petersburg to make another trip iu Central f ve '' ent to bls ra " e m the cholcest i 18 bu » lnes3 ‘ Asia. He will proceed by Orenburg, Omsk '^"Salese. He then paused and drew a card and Semipalatinsk to the Chinese frontier, “The mighty white magician looked from his pocket, and presenting it said : thence to Hami, Ilansu and Lassa. From writh merry eyes at ilie juggler’s dis- • “Perhaps, after you are a widow you , _ Lassa he intends to reach the Himalaya by tress. Then when the row was at its " ill have no use ior your husband’s nad oome into use with such remarkable nin # cl 1116 ™n t0 } height and 1 begun to feel uneasyatthe garments; if not, I should be pleased grinding is an indispensableol^eratioiK . , . ’’ Ka sogar, ana pran k, ’ Robert suddenly raised his to make a bid on them. I keep a sec- but artificial means have of course to be cross the intervening plateaux to Russian bands _ ob t h ose beautiful, white,won- ond-hand clothing store, aud I just resorted to, in order to force the coodi- Khokand. The journey is to occupy two - years. While reviewin: Russian exploration in may mentiou also accounts cities, Mistorian and Meshed, prouaoiy re- waru. mere was cue wmte uove cir-j ywu n ucccnt xuca oi wuat tuey n a eoil ot pipe or corrugated cylinder lies of Khowrasmian times. The former of cling round in the air; in one moment j fetch.” the interior of which steam is applied, those cities must have been one of the most it alighted on the piece of carpet before Then she summoned the coachman The application of the heat is recom- important in Central Asia. Its aqueducts j tg despondent owner, unharmed, but he didn’t arrive in time to get a kick , mended just before the wheat enters cover a great tract of country, and one of Otl ,. 00= „ QTTO =.,ioom 0 th** rinthtor the millstones, a separate heater being used for each pair of stones. The result cylinder, leaving on the unrolled paper traces of all its movements. In the new process of milling which the Brahmapootra. Returning Lassa, he Mill visit Khotan, despondent them was traced some forty miles (sixty- Curses gave way to profound salaams at tlie clothier five verts) to its Bourse. The budding ma- aad prayers that the great white magi- terial appears to have been for the most part cian might never die. brick, M’hich are still in perfect form and uninjured by the passage of untold centu- —Mrs. Lunsford, of Auglaize county, ries, bearing carved work and inscriptions Ohio, who lost her husband and six and sometimes colored decorations and ara- children by the burning of their resi- besques executed M’itli considerable skill dence, several M eeks ago, died of grief and taste, i afterwards. Phosphide of calcium on becoming of this arrangement and operation is wet Mill give off spontaneously com- found to be the driving of the moisture bustible phosplioretted hydrogen, thus contained in the inner substance of the emmitting light. This is the principal wiieat more or less into the bran, which ingredient used in the distress anp is thus toughened, while the flour is guiding signals thrown into the water left to dry, its color being improved, from a sinking ship, principally to and its condition more favorable for guide those iu the \yater to the boats. packing and shipping.