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Mlstalren Identity. Mr. Josiah Hill, employed ' at the lower Studebaker shops, in South Bend, Indiana, has been a resident of this place for two years. A few months before going there he was the victim of % one of the most wonderful cases of mistaken identity on record. Mr. Hill and his family lived at 21 J Grant Place, Chicago, and he followed his trade of gardening in Evanstown and adjoining villiages. He had lor- smoothed-faced miner. much to the stranger’s surprise and disgust. The scene attracted quite a crowd; and as oitr meek-eyed friend drew ounce after ounce of the yellow dust to his side of the table low murmurs of applause rah over tne room. The cards were again ahnffladj dealt and the betting began. • ‘I see your ten ounces and make it twenty,” calmly said Sweet William. “I call you, pard,” said the stranger, “and if you hold'over me* I am gone, for I am down to the hard-pan, as sure as you live.” “Very well, what have you?” said the merly resided in Evanston and was known by nearly every person in the “Four kings.” “Good, but not good enough,” said Sweet village. On Sunday morning, June William, llth, 1870, a man was run over and “What!” gasped the stranger, for once killed at Evansville by an incoming los Jf# contro1 of handsome fotnres. “ “-hour aces an—a queen ” said the win- radroad tram The corpse was at once ; neI . M he 8pread out 4 on the table four ^ identified as that of Mr. Josiah Hill, an( j— an old photograph! It represented the gardener. Word was sent to his thefeatures of a very beautiful girl; and as family consisting 01 a wife and a the gambler’s eyes fell on it his face turned daughter aged 16, and they went to Evanstown to care for the body of the unfortunate husband and lather. The wife wept aud in her almost inconsola ble grief frantically caressed the dead one. The inquest was held, and there was no lack of evidence concerning the dead man’s identity. In fact there was so much unimpeachable evidence establishing the identity that it was never once questioned. When the in quest was over the wife took charge of the remains, and on Tuesday, the day appointed for the funeral, the body was borne to the grave amid the lamen tations of a large circle of friends. That, apparently, was the end of Mr. Josiah Hill, on this earth. On the jury at the inquest was Mr. Kearney, dep uty sheriff of Cook county, who among others present at the time, knew Mr. Hill very well, and swore to the iden tity. On Tuesday, the day of the funeral, he made an official trip to Winnetke, a place about five miles dis tant from Evanstown, and was fright ened out of his senses at seeing what he at first took to be Mr. HilPs ghost at as pale as death, and great beads of cold sweat stood out on his forehead. “Do you know her?” hissed Sweet Will “Yes; but who are you?” “Her sister!” The hall was silent as the grave; but in a moment the oppressive silence was brok en by the silveiy tones of Sweet William. “I am the young lady’s sister; and you ruined us both; she died, but I have lived for revenge. I have followed you through every State and Territory west of the Mis sissippi ; but now botli of our piles are on the board and the best hand wins." The stranger sat in a kind of dazed way through it all; his hand dropped helplessly by his side, and the most abject fear was written on every feature. Sweet William looked like a devil to me now. Gone were the old sad smile, and half-frightened look in the eyes—the one was now cunning, devilish and cruel, the other steely and glaring. “Have you anything to add to my little speech, Mr. Jerome Tilford?” queried Sweet William. The stranger made no audible reply, but shook his head, and rubbed his hand across his brow as if to collect his scattered thoughts. In an instant Sweet William leveled a work in a garden, setting out celery Pjato^at strangers breast and pulled plants. He finally hailed the object, and was somewhat reassured when he heard Mr. Hill’s voice return the salu- the trigger. He gave a low, gurgling cry and fell dead. Sweet William, smiling like a fiend, gave one glance at the corpse and left the tation. Still, he could not disabuse his hall, and was nevermore seen or heard of mind of the idea that it was Mr. Hill’s ghost. Mr. Hill thought the man was crazy at first, and upon listening to a subsequent explanation concluded that this surmise was correct, and all the way back to Chicago, to which city he returned with Sheriff Kearney, he re gretted the untimele fate of his friend’s brain. But judge of his surprise and astonishment upon entering his own home to see his wife scream out and faint before what she took to be an ap parition. Kearney assured her It was her husband, that he found him work ing in a garden at Winnetka, and that the party she had just buried and whose identity they had all sworn to must be somebody else. Mrs. Hill had never doubted the identity of the dead man lor an instant. Her husband had left her only a few days before to do some work at Evanstown and Winnetka. In deed it w as some time before either she or her disconsolate daughter could be convinced that the husband and father was still alive. To this day it is a mys tery who the man was that was killed. by the denizens of Mexican Bar. Remarkable Clock Mechanism. “Sweet William.” His general appearance was that of one who w r as sad, yet sociable; heart-broken, yet facing the stern realities of life with a stTtilp onrl on offrvvt . ohnprfnlnaaa Ills name was not known, and no one took the trouble to ask; but some genius dubbed him Sweet William, and by that name he was always after known. lie appeared at Mexican Bar, on the Feather river, California, in 1852. He was then about twenty-five years of age, and a more unprepossessing‘specimen of humani ty could not be found in the whole dig gings. He soon located a claim, built a cabin and commenced work. He seemed to be in some measure successful, and he could not well avoid it, as he worked stead ily, and gold in those days was plenty all along the river. His steady habits in that land of barba rians soon attracted my attention, and I went around to his cabin one night for the purpose of extending to him the sociability of the bar. I found his cabin rudely fur nished, as all mining shanties were then and will be until the end of time, but its general appearance of neatness and cleanli ness struck me as being a decided depart ure from the general order of things on the river. I remarken this, but he only smiled a sad, sickly smile that had something de cidedly effeminate in it. I at once set him down as being “soft”—decidedly so—but still there was something attractive about him, and at once determined to cultivate William’s acquaintance. He was small and apparently weak. He was only about five feet four inches high, and would not have weighed over one hui£ dred and twenty pounds—probably not so much, but not a pound more at best. His hands were small and well shaped, but tanned and blistered from hard work in the broiling sun of California He feet were encased in a pair of heavy boots, which were evidently seveiyl numbers too large for him; while his coarse woolen pants and shirt fitted him equally as bad. His eyes w r ere large, gray and melting, with a quick, half-startled look about them that impress ed me with the idea that there was a de ficiency of brain above them, or that the possessor was continually under the fear of something—he scarcely knew what. An other thing about him struck me as being novel—he could blush. As soon as I made this discovery I hast ened down to Dutch Pete’s saloon for the purpose of communicating the fact to the small but choice band of spirits who con gregated there nightly for the purpose of enjoying a felicitous game of draw-poker, and to sample the vile liquors dispensed to thirsty souls by the dignified bartender Hoogly—a man not fair to look^upon, but who was famous for his precision with the playful pistol, and whoso friendship was in every way desirable. Days came and went; and Sweet "Will iam pursued the even tenor of his wav, regardless of the remarks his strange con duct excited. In the late French horological sec tion at the Exhibition, were two clocks remarkable for their mechanism. On the top of one of them is seated, a handsomely attired Greek lady, a figure hardly a span high, with a small barrel organ, held by a boy, resting on her knees. With the clock’s last stroke the miniature organ is set in motion and plays a tune, the boy keeping time with his head. On the left arm of the figure is a bright starling, which as soon as the piece is played out repeats the melody, accompanied by the move ments of the lady’s head. The mech anism of the second clock is more won derful. The clock Is surmounted with a figure representing a juggler in Ori ental costume, seated behind a golden table. To his right stands three large silver bells on a plate. The juggler raises himself as the clock strikes, and gesticulates with his hands as if in pre paration for his feat, takes up one of the bells, shows it to the spectators to convince them that it is empty, then seizes another bell, and puts both on the table. He lifts them up again and under each lies now a golden egg, which appears and disappears repeat- “ U J‘ - Comolinwo botlk eggo Ulsappooi sometimes they increase in number and instead of two, three or four eggs are seen. The little magician’s perfor mance reaches its climax when he turns up the third bell and displays a bronze ball to the astonished au .lienee. This bronze ball bursts immediately af ter. and a Lilliputian bird, about the length of a finger nail,makes its exit and pipes a tune. The next moment all vanishes again, and the clever perfor mer, after a graceful bow, resumes his Amstevr Printing Offices. *r D. W, CCBTI3. During the. past few years maniryouths, tempted by advertisements of printing offi ces for the [use of amateurs, have induced their papas to invest in one that they might acquire a useful trade and a plentiful sup ply of pocket-money in a short time. Visions of unlimited supplies of circus- tickets, cigarettes and pop-corn dances be fore the eyes of these deluded youths; they would be the envied of all their companions, to them would be imparted the mysteries of these tiny bits of metal whose various trans positions during the past three centuries have revolutionized the world. cessantly watched by two or three men they scarcely make an effort to- escape, but their roaring is almost deafening, while they constantly writhe and twist oyer and against one another like a handful of angle worms ixt-a.saucer. Searching a Minister. A well-known and very popular divine relates an incident which befell him manv years ago in the Neosho bottoms, aud to which he still recurs with a visible shudder. The mistake in which it originated was no doubt amusing/ but it presented no laugh able features at the time, and the good man who has spent his life in warning his fellow- creatures to avoid the wrath to come, came within ft hair’s hrpnHth nf anrlinn- The youth thus suddenly and imperfectly ^ n , a ir 8 en<bn o his life in launched into business proceeds with a zeal i ^“braces of halter. He was travel- worthy of the art for a few months. All his j ate one Saturday evening in the direc- friends in business are coaxed into giving i tl0n kttte city -^ eosbo > wben be & - b was overtaken by a party of men, and, without any ceremony, commanded to halt. He naturally concluded that he was in the hands of robbers, and made no un him an order, the jobs being done for about the cost of the paper used, the “amateur” having the advantage over his rivals in trade, of being set up in business, ha vine: no rent . . to pay, no family or even himself to sup- • i uec f® 8ar 5 r resistance to the order. Indeed, nnrt_ well hnvincr thp mn nf tho nor. felt a quiet satisfaction in believing that port, as well as having the run of the par ental exchequer for supplies. In time, how ever, such establishments die out by mutual consent, the youngster gets tired of his toy, quiet satisfaction in believing that his assailants would fiud themselves very much in the condition of the' man who sheared the hog for wool. But his surprise and his father becomes wearied of the many ma - ima S ine( I when on reaching the drains upon his purse. The office is then f^ 01111 .^ the men proceeded to make prepara- sold to another boy and the business farce swing hi ai up to a tree, is repeated. Thus they continue to flourish . j“. at 18 a - tbls about ’ niy friends?” in to the injury of legitimate trade. The fol- the good man; “why do you wish lowing is the experience of an afflicted fam-! t0 ™° me , V10 !f°f e . * ’ . - - - - They laughed jeenngly. “If this is a joke, it is very much out of place. I am a peaceable man, a minister of There resides in this city a respectable * be gospel, and have injured no one that I i i „<• t : am awnrp ” ily in the early stages of AGRICULTURE. A. Romantic Beggar. While Etheiberta De Vere was sit- ! ting at the bay window reading the lat- 'x®^®sm^-Which Abe the Best.— e« novel last week,a bronzed thick-vet ^G^^forlb"^* man entered the gateway, walked up , Agriculture, Is engaged with'-his as- to the window and tapped gently on sistants in making analysis of various the pane. He was very common in kinds of grasses from various parts of appearance; he had on a coat which country. The object of these in- 1 VOOfrirgrinno ia f/v ...1. • had faded to an original color, his shoes vestigations is to ascertain which among 1,000 varieties of American stayed on his feet by accident, and his grasses contain the greatest amount of hat which was several sizes too small nutritive substance. If the work for him, he kept in place by means of a piece of hay rope, which was tied in a hould prove successful, definite and strictly reliable results obtained, it will hard knot under his chin. As the lady P owe r of every farmer to looked up from her hook he waved his h^ae™^ Thlsls hand in inelo-dramatic style, and said: a new work, and its results will be “I Just wish to have a few words looked for with interest. Up to this with you. I am an extensive traveler; ^“e none of the analyses have been yea, verily, I have been over every j P er f? cte .^’ grasses now under in- • t r.w i • ’ vestigation are twelve varieties of na- square inch of this glorious country on j tive * Kansa3 grass . The foot. I have smoked cigarettes at the j first burned in order to reduce them to Golden Gate; I have seen the buffalo a mineralstate, and these inorganic re skip fandangos on the boundless prai- : ma’ins are then resolved into elementa- ries; I have written my name on the r ^' bodies, which art; weighed and meas- °itet e maje :.te Mis fi s T ; js 7 -"s a peripatetic gazetter, and I should be tests. Subsequent tests are then made greatly obliged to you if you will fur- for the purpose of determining the uish me with a pair of superannuated varying proportions of sugar, starch, moccasins, a pair that you contemplate etc., contained in the grasses. depositing in the ash-barrel shortly.’ “We have none to-day,” she replied, and went on reading. These results are also carefully record ed. From all these data tables will be made which will demonstrate the place and worth of each kind of grass to the THE PRINTING FEVER. family, the head of which becoming amored of the “art preservative of all arts,” am aware. At this one of the men declared with an “I see,” he continued, “you have farmer. If the plan succeeds, it will, some rare exotics. I always had a vve think, remove the doubt which at characteristic weakness for exotics P r ? sent harasses many of our practical myself, and I should be happy to step in, make an examination, and give you some valuable advice. I am a skilled dairymen and feeders. A Stove for Farm Stock.—We have a room in an outbuilding that has a was seduced by an advertisement entitled “““trtrf 1 ” 6 b Pianist and floriculturist, and can teiii stove in, where we can shelter any ‘Eveiy man his own Printer,” into pur- P er }cnce that he ever heard a horse-thief chasing an amateur arrangement for stick- c ^ a * m to be a preacher. : ... rm.„ r : ! “A hnrsp_thif>f *’’ vton Be Independent. Don’t hang round and wait for somebody else to go ahead. Break your own path. Do what you want done yourself. Don’t put off to-day’s work until to-morrow, in the hope that it will be done for you. If you want to succeed, take off your gloves and callous your own hands on the plow- handles. If you are a woman, and Bridget goes off in a huff, be independent, and wash your own dishes, and scrub your own floors, and laugh in her face when she comes back, expecting to be received with open arms. There is nothing like showing fate, even if it be fate in the shape of an ill-tempered Bridget, that you are independent of it, and can get on without it. When people find you don’t want any of their help they are always eager to help you. Things that you do not stand in need of will be offered you freely. When you see a duty before you, do it, and don’t stand shivering on the brink, for fear somebody will sav some thing about it. What matters it if‘Mrs. A says you are a fool, and Mr. B. expresses the opinion that that there is something wrong in your upper story? What she says and what he says does not alter it. Don’t ask everybody’s advice about every thing. Have pluck enough to decide for yourself. If you want to buy a bushel of corn, don’t spend a day running about ask- ing X., Y. and Z. where you had better buy or if you hadn’t better wait until grain falls. Don t be a slave as to what anybody else is going to say about you. If you have enemies, and of course you have, unless you are a bom idiot, let them fling out at you. Show the world by your daily life that your enemies have lied; live lying slanders down. Lift up your head and be independent of them. Have no confidants and go-be tweens. Human Labor. ing type. The fever growing stronger!. every day, the would-be typo invested m ^ ones °f indignation. “A horse-thief! largely in specimen books and other works Have you taken me for a horse-thief ?*’ of like nature, which he read for the edifi- The spokesman replied that they had, and cation of his wife and children, while the furthermore that they meant to hang him family Bible lay neglected on the shelf. tben a °d there. Every card and hand-bill thrown into the * n 8uc ‘k circumstances, it is natural that a house was critically examined and put away P erson should be confused. The preacher as a “specimen,” until the premises resem- protested, begged and entreated, but to no bled a waste paper warehouse. The dis- j ava ^- The proceedings for his execution ease soon spread throughout the household, | went quietly on. Finally, he bethought all becoming worshipers at the shrine of bituself of some letters and linen, which he Guttenberg, and everything savoring of the cam ed in his saddle-bags. These were pro - printing office. When unwell, they were duccd and shown to the men. He exhibited “out of sorts,” when convalescent, they watch with his name engraved in it, a were “set up, ” the dishes were “distributed” present from his congregation. The men after being washed, and the youngest girl hesitated. Finally, the minister begged hearing so much about “pie” and getting { hat he be rigidly searched, as he had no none went crying every night indignantly doubt something else would turn up that to bed. “Pearls, agates and diamonds” ; would further confirm his story. The men were familiar words in this family of mod- assen ted and the good man’s effects were erate means; they were peaceably disposed, subjected to a rough overhauling, and hap- yet “shooting-sticks” were often talked of, P^y enough was found to show to his rude they were moral, yet “hell” and the “devil” captors that he was not as they supposed, stared them ever in the face. The head of j a horse thief, but a veritable minister. With the family expressed himself forcibly in man y apologies he was permitted to pursue “Italics” or “caps” whenever a “job” was way- ^ ut one °f the men remarked to him “put up” on him, and the children showed incidently, “old fellow, you have made a their delight in “exclamation points.” His P re tty narrow escape, for we thought we eldest son, re-named Benjamin Franklin, had you sure. for whose benefit the office w-as established, ^ tunied out that the pursuers had mis- revelled in lye-eaten shirts and an inky face taken him for a noted horsethief, who re- six days of the week. Type formed the ® em bled him in almost every particular. It basis of conversation, and was found scat- noti °ften that a preacher makes mch a tered in all imaginable places throughout c ^ ose shave with the halter. the house, between the sheets and in the —^ sugar-bowl. The baby showing symptoms An Old-Fashioned Dinner, of lead poisoning, it was discovered that it ^ too desired to be a printer and was serving . F niladelphia was never gayer than) an apprenticeship by sucking some “leads” * n the winter of 1795-96. The city had j under the impression that they were some ■ already a population of fifty thousand ! new variety of candy. Visiting cards and souls. Congress was in session, vis;- ! labels were printed for all the members of tors from all quarters flocked to tlie i the family, baby included, as well as fortl.t- coramou centre, and everythin- was neighbors and country cousins; small ac- ! counts made at surrounding stores are now to make their stay agreeable. Din- j being settled with bill-heads and dodgers at ner8 were given by all the head fami- j low prices to the disgust of the regular es- * ies ? ant * they were attended by all the tablishments near by, and the whole system notable persons of the city male and the peculiarities of any plant un- y° un S or sick farm animal. W hen our der the sun, from the sweet-scented ar ® dropped we take them and L„ nn . . their mothers in there, and it is sur- hyacinth to the night-blooming cucum- prising how quickly they will get ber. IV hat do you say, shall I step in around, and how they enjoy the fire, and regale your sensitive soul with a verbal history of flowers?” “You cannot!” was the emphatic re joinder. etting as close to it as possible. One night last winter when it was cold and stormy, one of the himbs was so chilled that it was stiff, but less than an hour ., r „ .. , , after the fire was built it was seeming- » ell, if you won’t let me say it to : ly all right; without thorough warm- you, will you let me come in and sing ing it could not have lived. One of it in Italian? I have a tine baritone ^ur neighbors, who does not use a fire, oice!” “I don’t wish to hear it, you filthy thing!” she screamed, angrily. □as lost four lambs out of eight, while we have lost only one ot seven, and that was one of triplet that I do not tnink could have been saved. Two “Filthy, filthy! that’s always the years ago I had a Jersey calf that had way. When a man travels around in the scour3 bad, One cold day it seern- the cause of science and polite informa tion, he is snubbed and rebuked in this ed to be dying, but we thought we would see what a fire would do for it, , T . , . . and in less than an hour after we built unseemly manner. I was just hinting che fire it was up and eating, and in around at what you have now given me • two weeks it was well. The next Fall the opportunity of asking. That is, it took the first prize at our county fair; that you will leu me go up stairs and \° 1 thought it paid for the two weeks take a bath. I’ll be satisfied with cold water and common soap!” “You’ll get no bath here!” “Then will you let me lie down on the sofa and take a nap; just a little nap—a kind of siesta, as it were?” “No, sir!” tire. If farmers once got in the way of keeping a fire for their stock at such times they would never give it up. Selecting Breeding Turkeys.— While all breeders like to have and breed “heavy weights,” and customers buying turkeys all call for large birds, . it is a fact that for market purposes, ‘Will you let me bring up some coal moderate sized and even small turkey from the cellar No, sir!” “Will you let walk in and tune youi piano?” “Itdoes not need tuning!” “Will you give me an old shirt?” “We have no old ones!” “Well, give me a new one!” •oramand a more ready sale than do arge ones. We have watched the narket for a few days past and know .his to be a fact. However, we do not wish to discourage breeders from run- DOMEST1C. For Chopped and Rough Hands. Take three drachms of powdered borax;' three-eighths of on ounee of glycerine six ounces of rosewater; mix' well to gether .and apply .frequently. It will make the skin smooth and white. Sec ond—Take two ounces of glycerine and one ounce of rosewater, mix and rub your hands well with it before retiring to rest. It is pleasant, agreeable and cleanly and its effects are truly wonder ful. Three—Our readers need not suf- fer from having their hands affected by water or soapsuds, if the hands are dipped in vinegar water or lemon jniee immediately after. The acid destroys the corrosive effect of the alkali, and makes the hand softand white. Fourth. Sweet oil, one pint; Venice turpentine, three ounces; hog’s lard, half a pound; beeswax, three ounces. Put it all into a pipkin, over a slow Are, and stir it with a wooden spoon till the beewax is all melted and the ingredients sim mer. it is fit for use as soon as cold; but the longer it is kept tbe better it will be. ijpr chaps or cracks, rub on the hands when you go to bed. Five Five cents’ worth of gum camphor, the same of sweet oil, and white wax: place together in a cup thoroughly mixed. Wash the hands clean and wipe dry; apply before retiring. Sixth. Apply pure glycerine in the evening, after the hands have been thoroughly cleansed with castile soap and rinsed with lukewarm water. Sometimes it is beneficial to wear kid gloves during the night. Seven—Take three pounds of common yellow soap, one ounce of camphor dissolved in one ounce of rose water and one ounce of iavendar water: beat the above in a mortar until it be comes a paste; make it into balls to dry, and place it in a cool place for the. winter. Eighth—Take equal portions ot glycerine and alcohol; before retir ing at night wash the hands in warm water, and rub well with the lotion. Xinth—A salve for chapped hands is made of two parts fresli lard, oue part white pioe pitch, melted together. Floors lnd Carpets. — There Is a trollg protest offered, in different ways and from various sources, against our long-established practice of making poor floors, with the design of keeping them covered with carpets stretched and fitted to every part and carefully tacked down. Carpets in daily use can not be kept clean except by very fre quent shaking and beating, and they do much toward corrupting the air by re taining impure gases, hiding the finest, most penetrating dust in llieir meshes and underneath them, and by giving off particles of tine woof into the atmos phere, with other dust, as they are swept or walked upon. There is a de mand for better floors, not necessarily ! inlaid or mosaics, of different kinds of. precious wood, but made double, of I strong seasoned wood, that will not shrink or warp (spruce, however tveli seasoned, is sure to warp), and then carefully finished so as to be durable and easily cleaned. Carpeted floors seem a relief to the housekeeper, when once the carpets are procured and fitted to the rooms and tacked down, because they do not show the dirt as the bare floors do. But oil! When they do get full of dust? And when housecleaniug time comes and they must be taken up mTMOBOTO. Mark Tw arc’s '-Gentlemso. this horse of mine was J#ugh-bitted,and he went so fast that I had to guide him by electricity—had' to haVe wire lines and keep a battery lir tbe wagon-aH tbe time iff order "16 stop him,-” “ Whydidn’t you stop him by holler ing whlPa7 Tr I lnqutceirr “ Stop him by hoi wring whba? Why, I couldn’t holler loud enough to make that horse hear me, He' traveled so last thav no sound ever reached him from behind. He went faster than the sound, sir. Holler who-a! and he’ll be in the next town before the sound of your voice reached the dash-board. ‘ Travel last ?J^ I should say he could. Why, I once" started fTonY^Virginia City for Meadow Creek rightin' front of one of the most dreadful rain storms ve ever had on .the. Pacific Coast. Wind and rain?’ Wh^, the wind blew eighty miles an hour, and the rain fell in sheets. I drove right before that storm for three hours—just on the edge of that hurricane and rain for torty miles.” “ Did yon-get ffrenehetW-J’- “ Drenched? No, sjx2 -What did I keep a fast horse for? Why, I tell you, t drove right in front pf that rain storm. I could lean forward ancf let the sun shine on me, or lean backward and feel rain and catch hail-st9nes. When the hurricane slacked up the horse slacked up, too, and when it blew faster I just said :Git up.! ’ to the horse and touched the battery, and away he went. ■Now, L ddn’t want to lie about my horse, and I don’t ask you to believe what I say, but-when I got to Meadow Creek my linen duster was as dry as powder. Not a drop of rain on the wagon seat, either, while the wagon box was level full of hailstones and water.” IIe Didn’t.—The woman who doubts entered a Detroit fish store the other day with hesitating step, and after looking around upon various kinds of the finny tribe, she turned to the pro prietor and asked: ‘ Do you keep fish here? ,? » ‘ No, madam,” was his pnentpt reply. “We keep hardware and groceries here, hut you will.finda^fisj^itore four doors below. Come to the door and I will show you.” She looked from him to the fish and back, hesitated, and he continued: “Can I sell you anything in the line of stoves, to-day ?” She shook her head and walked out. She didn’t call at four doors below, which is a tobacco store, but she looked into the windtfws at the display of pipes, then back to the fish store,and somehow or other something puzzled her. ningup the weights, even it they attain i UIlc j shaken aad whipped as well as the much desired weight of a o0 pound ., ley deserve! With warmly-made obbler at three or four years old for long as there is a lively demand among She took no notice of him. hut in a , “ & few minutes later, he whimpered : ; secure the best results in that direction, “Can’t you give me something? I’ll select an early hutched, strong and take anything, yes, anything. I’m not vigorous gobbler of tins year’s hatch, “Yes,” she said, reflectively, Sea Lions In Alaska. What’s that,” he inquired breath lessly. “Why that ice around the edges of the flower-beds!” , Then he walked off, utterly disgusted and crestfallen. is unanimously voted as intolerable nuisance, female. One of a more than usual bill- j IS tk j n ^ y 0l J ma y kave *” What the finale will be it is not hard to riant character came off in June, 1796. " ’ ’ ^ Ue8S ’ The dinner hour was three and a hall | o’clock, and a few minutes before that • time the guests arrived and were re- A singular method is annually em- oolv<><1 111 drawing-room on Aroi. ployed by the natives of St. Paul’s Is- stree ^* ^ ne °f the first to arrive was land, Alaska, for the capture of tlie Justice McKean, who was ac- sea lion. Here is an island which, in- com panied by his lovely daughter, Miss stead of presenting an almost unbroken McKean. They were followed line of bold, abrupt cliffs to the sea, ^ Hobert and Mrs. Liston, and like its fellows in the North Pacific, of- almost at Gie same moment Mr. and fers to the landing seals a low, though ^ rs * ^H er s Fisher and Miss Francis gradually rising ground. Taking ad- were ail l}° un ced. A moment later a number of other guests came in to other. Among them were Mrs. Hen- and which is of fine proportion, long in . i | the body and properly marked, and ro mate him to as many two-year old liens as you intend to keep—from two to tive hens, if properly handled, will produce a tine crop of young birds each season, and you can not help but be ab solutely satisfied with the results. ho Croaker. To Kill Moss on Meadow Land.— The mossy part of tbe meadow should ae well manured with good, well-rotted stable dung in the autumn; and it After he had been on the bar a couple of months, another stranger appeared. This person was a very different sort of charac ter from Sweet William. He was a tall, dashing man, with keen, villainous but handsome eyes; a regular practitioner at the bar (Dutch Pete’s), and a remarkably lucky gambler, as quite a number of us soon discovered to our cost. He had an off-hand way of betting liis ounces that was decidedly refreshing; and he soon ac quired an enviable reputation as a sporting man. One night I entered the “Wing-and- Wing,” onr leading gambling hall, when, much to my surprise, I saw Sweet William and the black-eyed stranger seated at a ta ble together playing poker. I felt like re monstrating with the latter, as it looked like sheer robbery for him to win the hard earnings of gentle Sweet William, and I remark'fed the same to a friend, but the latter surprised me with the rejoinder: “No need to interfere l for Sweet William is skinning the black-eyed pilgrim scandal ously.” “ vVhat! Sweet William beating him ?” “You chance your ducats on that, pard. Jest look at him.” I did look, aud in all my experience I do not think I ever, saw so skillful a poker In the gigantic works of antiquity we have the results of an enormous con centration of human labor. With re gard to some of them, as in the great obelisks, and sphinxes of Egypt, the highly-conventionalized art of the times has preserved a record of the mode in which^this labor was applied. With regard to other, as in the case of the megalithic walls of Tiryns or of My cense, the question has been raised whether they must not have been reared by races of greater streugth and stature than any now existing on earth. But the most wonderful of all these eviden ces of mighty toil, as shown in the size and position of the enormous masses of stone reared in the air at Baalbec, have been the work of known tribes of men, within historic times. The great mas ses of mankind in Egypt, in Greece, and in Syria, executed an amount of sheer human toil to which modern time can show no parallel. And yet the might iest works of ancient times, such as the raising of the entablatures of the Temple of the Sun au Baalbec, are but child’s play when compared with the construction and fixing in place the great tubes of the Menai Bridge. vantage of this topography, the naiives of St. Paul’s Island secure every season hundreds of sea lions, with but a tithe *7 Clymer and Mrs. William Bingham of the labor and exposure by which beautiful daughters of Thomas their capture is attended in other places, billing and leaders in society. Mrs. Eleven miles northeast from the village ! C1 y m er had been married two years on St. Paul’s Island is a point upon before t0 Henry Clymer, son of George which a large number of sea lions an- dynmr, 0 ne of the signers of the Dt- nually repair for the purpose of breed- i clara tion of Independence. Among the ing, &c., but as this animal is timid and otber guests were Gilbert Stuart, the sure to take to water when brought into P ainter > Marquis d’Yrujo, the Spanish the presence of man, it’s capture re-! Ambassador, ConntVolney, Counsellor quires much discretion and boldness Hunn, and Colonel Rutledge, of South on the part of their captors, who are Carolina. The dinner was superb, hosen every season from the village The fillet of beef was served with mush- people with especial reference to their room8 » an d the tame ducks were gar- physical qualification for the work. u * s hed with boiled mint chopped fine.* The “sea-ritchie,” as the natives name. delicacies of the season were them, cannot be approached success- S ree u goose, spring chickens and a fully by daylight; so the hunters ten hin d’quarter of lamb; the latter from or twelve in number, rendezvous in a tbe g rass lands of Virginia. The wild hut near by until a favorable night P^eon squabs were from the great comes on, when the moon is partially I P^g eon roosts in Pennsylvania, and obscured by drifting clouds and the j woodcock were brought from the low wind blows in from the rookery. Then * an ds of New Jersey. The gentlemen they step down to the beach at low remaned sipping their wine after the water and proceed to creep fiat on all la dies had left the table. Soon there fours over the surf-beaten sand and was a sound of music from the drawing- bowlders, up to the dozing herd, and j room » a °d the Marquis d’Yrujo, at first At Princeton a venerable granger practicable, the grass should be fed oil' .jets on the train and sits down beside x?.® following spring w ith sheep. Nitrate of soda sown on the mossy me. After a few moments he opens the conversation by informing me that the orange crop in California is a dead fail ure this year. I say “ah!” and then he tells me that cwt * l )er acre all the wheat in Illinois and Minnesc- 5=5 ta has been winter killed. I say “indeed!” and looked concern ed. And in a moment or two the old raveler goes on to assure me that the parts of the field will soon kill the moss, and is au excellent manure for the grass, but this should not be sown at the rate of more than one and a half “Wouldst piay me false? Ah, yes! 1 see it in thy furtive eye! How now?—unhand me, villain!” said a lady on a street car the other day, look ing very hard at the young man who sat next her. “Great Ciesar! I ain’t a-touching yer!” said the young man, much sur prised. “ Sir!” “I say I didn’t do nothing. It’s fearful crowded here, but I haven’t laid hands on yer, miss.” “Ob, do be quiet, yon rude thing! Can’t you see I’m just going over my part?” and the popular leading lady hey deserve! With warmly-made got off ina huff, doors and large warm rugs, couldn’t j ° we do Without tnese abominations even | A charmi.ng young thin- at a Xew m winter? Certainly our rooms would | York school examination, in reading J . e .. C °.°? r a " d . 6 " ue :® rwlt ' 0lK th<J ‘“ 1,1 ! her exercise before a large audiene of we yj USt p arentSj changed Keats’ line, “A thing floors and vve of beauty is a boy forever.” She is * "" ’ younger than she looks,..b.ut feexp^efed shortly to be engaged. Hints.— VVhen going lroin a warm “ Come now, stupid,” said the school- atmosphere i*ito a colder one, keep the j master, “you don’t know how much mputh closed, so the air may be | two and five make. Now listen. In warmed by its passage through the ' one pocket I have $2 and in the other nose, ere it reaches the lungs. $5. Now how many dollars have I got?’ summer. But in that case vve must j take more pains with must have something better than the common .unpainted ones. How to Make a Tailless Kite. The shape of the kite is what the boyt all diamond. The cross-bar, which in . tail kite of the diamond pattern is traight, should be made of hickory and cold snap last week killed all the peach bowed by connecting the ends with a bud3 in southern Illinois and Michigan, aut string. It should then be placed as I say *Sho?” And he says, Yes, and he had exam- j right angels with the perpendicular tick and fastened securely, the bend of between them and the water. In tbi way a small body of men creepiu inattentive to the conversation at the table, and then uneasy, slipped away along in Indian file may pass unnoticed au( * J oinet * tlie ladies. Miss McKean by the sea-lion sentries, which doubt- ' vassi »gingand playing her own accom- less, in the uncertain light confound payment, and when she had finished the forms of their human enemies with there was no one more urgent than the Spanish Ambassador that she should sing again. The other gentlemen had ined one hundred and thirty-eight treet the bow being backward from the in- in various counties in Iowa and Kansas, tersection of the sticks. Run a string and his part of Illinois, and there around over the end of each stick and wasn’t enough life in the swelling bud 4 j cover the frame with light tissue paper, to develop a bloom, let alone a health} For a four-foot kite the perpendicular set. And lie had a letter from a iuai stick should extend three feet below tbe in Indiana, and he said it was the sami point of Intersection with the bow and way there. Every apple in the Stan jne foot abGveit. The bow should be winter killed. And, he said, we were j one and one-half feet long on each side going to have some-stinging cold weatb er and the biggest snow storm we had had this winter, along about the 17th of April. Then I became conscious of a certain touch of familiarity in the old man’s voice and appearance and manner. 1 looked at him more closely, and fully recognized him. I “Ab, ha!” I said, “I remember you Man is made—tier upon tier—of fac ulties, the nature of every one of which points toward happiness. , * , Ripe tomatoes will remove ink and player as that same Sweet William. He other stains from white cloth, also bet recklessly, but almost invariably won, 1 from the hands. _ those of seals. When the creeping na tives have all reached the strip ot beach which is left bare by ebb-tide between tb * s ^ me f° un d their way to thg the water and the unsuspecting ani- drawing-room, aud Stuart, ever ready rnals, at a given signal, the hunters j t0 do his part, ran his fingers lightly leap at once to their feet, shout, yell 1 over the harpsichord, and in a fine and brandish their arms, while the as- vo ^ ce sang an old Irish song he had tonished and terrified lions roar and Iearne d in Dublin. Coffee was brought flounder in all directions. If, at the ! m > an d after that the guests took their moment of surprise, the brutes are leave * Tbe Marquis d’Yrujo handed sleeping with their heads pointed to- McKean to her carriage. It was ward the water, they charge straight love at first sight, and he followed it up on in that way, directly over the men; a vigor and persistency that car- but if their heads have been resting rie d the citadel. Ere long he led her pointing landward, they follow that to the altar. The bride was distin i course just as desperately, and nothing ?uished alike for her beauty and ac-l will turn them at first, either one way . complishments, and years after herl or the other. Those who charge for j death her portrait, preserved in Phila-| the water, are lo9t, of course, but the j delphia, was engraved to embellish thel natives promptly follow up the land- j “Republican Court.” | leaders with a rare combination of hor rible noises and demoniacal gesticula , . , . , . , .i a. . , . , A . An old man was leaning againt a 1 amo tions until the first frenzied spurt and ; r*i *i , . \,l . . , . _ , . ^ , post m Chatham square coughing himselfl exertions of the terrified animals com- ; almost out of shape, when a young fellow Wliat Ailed Him. pletely exhaust them, and then, pant in g» gasping, prone upon the earth, I they are extended at the mercy of their j cunning captors, who gently urge j them along up to the hut in which they j have been keeping watch during sev- ) eral days past, for the night in which throat? to make this effort. Here the natives have what they call tbeir pen or cage, I stepped up to him and inquired “Got consumption, mister?” “Thank Heaven, I have not! “Is it bronchitis that makes vou cough so?” “No, sir, it is not bronchitis?” “Have you got a fish-bone stuck in your of the point of intersection, with the perpendmular^ stick. Xil£ Jtelly cord sh'Tuld be united at the point of inter- se' tion and at the same distance down *h perpendicular stick as the arms of e bow extend on each side of the per pendicular stick. The band is attached at only two points, the point of intei section and at a point below, in the four oot kite mentioned, one and one-half feet below the point of intersection. Tie these two strings together and at tach the captive cord, balancing it so | chat the captive cord shall be exactly [opposite the point of intersection, or at right angels with the perpendicular frame. The face of the kite is then con vex and the back, of course, concave, if at first you don’t succeed try again, ft is fun for all sorts of boys. This form of k:te is sometimes very eccentric and ris game as a wily fish. Salt as a Preservative of Wood. After exercise of any kind, never ride in an open carriage nor near the window of a. car far a moment. It is dangerous to health and even rife. Never take warm drinks and imme diately go out in the cold air. Merely warm tlie back by tbe lire and never continue keeping tiie back ex posed to the heat alter it has become comfortably warm. To do otherwise is debilitating. Never omit regular bathing; for un less the skin is in an active condition cold will close the pores and favor congestion or other diseases. “Nary a bone!” “Did you swallow some dust mixed up in which the lion-like seals as they are i a March hurricane?” he went on, persis captured from night to night, are col- ! tentl Y » ■ * ’ • • -* — I “No, I didn’t!” “Well, now, perhaps you have a cold?” The man could stund his questioning no lected and retained until sufficient numbers or a drove of three or four hundred has been secured. This cago ; longer, so, with a frown,‘he yelled sarcas- is nothing more than a succession of “ ” «mall poles stuck at wide intervals over a circle in the ground; these poles are decked with fluttering strips of white cotton cloth, and light, ropes are loosely stretched from one to the other. With in this flimsy circle the sea-lions are securely imprisoned, and though in- tically: “O, no! I have no cold; I am just cough ing for fun—just for my own edification and amusement. What do you suppose I’d cough for?” Never arrest the attention of an ac quaintance by a touch. Speak to him. Never answer questions in general company that have been put to others. In the salt mines of Poland and Hun gary the galleries are supported by wooden pillars, which are found to last unimpaired for ages, in consequence of being impregnated with the salt, while pillars of brick and stone, used for the same purpose, crumble away in a short time by the decay of the mortar. It is also found that wooden piles driven into the mud of salt fiats and marshes, last for an unlimited time, aad are used for the foundations of brick and stone edifices, and the practice of docking timber after it has been seasoned, 1m mersing it for some time in sea water, is generally admitted to be promotive of its durability. There are some ex periments which appear to show that, even after the dry rot has commenced, immersion in salt water effectually checks its progress and preserves the remainder of the timber. We add to this that along the sea coast of France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Northeast ern Germany, and Denmark, the cus tom prevails of immersing the^ logs in salt water before sawing, wherever this conveniently can be done, it being a universally acknowledged fact that salt-water soaked lumber is harder and uch more durable than lumber soaked in fresh water. This is especially the case; with hard woods, such as oaks, elm and ash. The character that needs law to mend is hardly worth the tinkering. The faith of the child is always tha ork of its mother. TnE Sick Room.—An invalid requires something beside physic. Good nurs ing and common-sense rules, gently and pleasantly enforced, do more toward recovery than the doctor can. Heat the sick-room, if possible, by an open-grate fire, or wood upon tbe hearth; the latter is the best for all inodes. Royal Cream.—One quart of milk, one-third of a box of gelatine, four ta- blespoonsful of sugar, three eggs, van illa. Put the gelatine into the milk, and let it stand half an hour. Beat the yolks well with sugar, and stir into the milk. Set the kettle into a pan of hot water, and stir until it begins to thicken - like soft custard. To Cure a Stiff Neck.—Apply over the place affected a piece pf black oil cloth, with right side to the skin: then tie up the neck with a stiff handker chief In a aLurt uEC the ^art will grow moist, and, by leaving it thu.-* for twelve hours,the pahi will be removed. ■ “Only Waiting;.’ Let me see them and I will tell you.” School was dismissed. A Western woman has lost two hus bands by lightning. She ought to marry a conductor. On TnE farm hen’s cackle early and cackle late. Yet man holds that ani mals do not reason. What is that which is neither flesh nor bone, and yet has iour fingers and a thumb—A glove. The day after washing is one of sad irony. The musquito, like charity, begins to hum. The last thing out?—My bed-candle. A Cat-Astrophe. The man who was selling a decoction for the cure of headache, sore throat and hoarseness, left Detroit after one day’s stay. He opened up on the Campus Martius in a voice full of silver melody, and drew a crowd. He grated powder from a root into a cup of water to make liis “cure,” and to prove to the spectators that there was noth ing poisonous in it he drank heartily at in tervals, and the more he drank the less in clined seemed the audience to invest in the remedy. People with bard colds stood back and barked, and coughed and doubted and the people with red rags around their throats winked at each other in the most solemn manner as the old man warranted a cure in fifteen minutes. Not one salo did he make up to noon, and when he opened up after dinner he said: “Great heavens! but can’t I convince even one among you that I am not a liar and a thief. I have drank exactly two gallons of this decoction before your face to-day, and yet you seem to fear a poison. ” His speech fell upon an old man and woman, man and wife, who had been wan dering around in an aimless wav, and they at once stuck to the spot. Every time the •doctor” drank the old man chalked it down and when the hour grew late his interest and anxiety increased. It was a hard crowed around the barrel, and no one could be pre vailed upon to drink. The “doctor” talked and sipped by turns, but it was no go. As the shades of evening began to fall, and he ras making one more effort the old woman slowly turned to her husband and said: “Come, Sam, let’s go home.” Sam rapidly figured up his chalk-marks, put down the total and replied: ‘Hold on just a little,-Sue. That ’ere feller has drunk jist six gallons of that stuff to-day, and ’twont be over five minutes longer before he’ll make a sale or bust all to pieces. Let’s stay an’ see her out! " And they were there when the man sor- tion, but all at once they were renewed rowfully stepped down, packed his roots, • • • ... - ’ and disappeared in the twilight in the direc tion of Toledo. The man who calls for tea at an ordi nary eating-house, “a3 strong as the kick of a mule,” complains he got it as weak as a good resolution. A queer old gentleman being asked what he wished for dinner, replied, “An appetite,good company, something to eat, and a n^pkjn.” • Organs were first introduced into I .hurdles by Pope Vilalianas, In 1730, Old Mr. Squilkins’ big black cat was locked out the other night. The old couple slept directly qnder a roof win dow which was open a few inches by a short stick. Old Thomas tried to get in through the small aperture, but the stick was too short or his taih was too long, or the unfortunate feline got his back up too high, either of which con ditions would have produced the same unhappy result. After getting his body partly through the opening, do tv 11 came the window with a bang, and old Tho mas was suspended by his enuda 1 ap pendage, a..d began to kick an<% : flaw and howl in the inost frantip manner possible fora cat to do under such con ditions. ■‘Lordy massy! Father, .father!” shrieked Mrs. S. in her shrill, croaking voice, as she was awakened by the tu mult, at tlie same time nudging old Mr. S. vigorously. The old man sprang up In bed, but he sought his pillow again almost im mediately, taking in the head-board with his cranium as he went, and he howled with pain and fright. “There’s suthin’ over the bed,” gas ped the old ladjj froni under the bed clothes. * ■ I J. e t! . “Wal, I should say ttmr was,” howl ed the old man, as he drew his hand across his lacerated and bleeding face; “and I do believe its the old sarpiut himself.” “Oh, lordy, massy, see his eyes!” said the old lady, quaking with terror, as she summoned up courage to look up; “they look est like two coals of fire, and I ’spect every minit he’ll be pouncin’ onto us. Oh, father, father, what shall we do?” “Idunno; but I ain’t goin’to get up in bed again, jest vitYthe varmint nigh scratched mr eyei'butr afore. But I ain’t skeered, Hannah, an’ I never was ” u / “What, never, Josiah?” “Well, hardly ever, Hannah; but { ain’t agoin to be'skeared now,anyway, for 1 begin to think taih’t' nothin’ that will hurt good people, if they keep away from it,” and the old man tried to crawl betwern the ticks. There had been a ^{i»rt lull in the unearthly noises, andthe frantic vi brations and gyrations.. had subsided somewhat during the above conversa- with redoubled fury, when something gave way (either t. e cat's tail or the window,) and the big)cat dropped upon the bed. But he gas off again like a flash and out of the open door, before giving the old'fudy "timeto be ‘skeered clean to death.’ “Oh, lordy.-siassy/what was that?” “EPush, my-d'eaf/ tc but the cat. I told you so. I war»St sheared; so less ge to sleep again.” And so they did. One should seek lor others the happi ness one desires for one’s self, •