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NEWS OLEATOOg,
Tlie average life of the buffalo gnat
is said to be about fifteen days.
Steel works'to OoSt $400(000 ft re telbl
erected in Batesville, Ark., during this
year.
One man will ship 9,000 cords of ton*
bark fromtlie Vicinity of Chattanooga
this season.
Mrs. L..G. Coburn, a lady of San
Antonio, Tex., has 40,000 silk worms at
work in her yard.
There are .5)90. oqnjdptat pregpt in
the Norjfc Cafojgna |e4it&htjaly, Juf
whom are and*B(fc aft colored.
An orange tree in Orange county, Fla.
measures six feet four inches in cir
cumference three feed jfrora the ground.
An Atlanta metfchnan'say*-oi\e-foiirth
of the corn coming into Georgia from
the West is in a damaged condition.
The old Tallahasse gas-works were
sold the past week for SSO. They were
abandoned at the commencement of the
late war.
The Vicksburg and Ship Island and
Memphis and Vicksburg railroads have
been sold to R. T. Wilson A ' Cos., of
New York, for $400,000.
A tract., farming bind; -y£s
sold in Mxtotefe foiling, *'
Sheriff’s sale a few days ago for fifteen
and twenty cents an acre.
The Times says the ne
groes of that city] are accumulating
property, and several of them are bnild
inghouses to cost from $2,000 to $4,000.
Mr. J. A. Anderson, who fives near
Athens, Ga., has a gourd that has been
in use to hold pepper and spice|. .ftyer
200 years. The genealogy of dje gsjprd
is clearly traced.
A little boy at Mt. Crawford, Va,,
rad his £*n| through a crack in a hog
pen ,-wi i pks**! td)oriie ifaHiftd, dud be
fore help could reach him the flesh was
completely torn from. thy bones by tbq
bogs. (Ilrfllwkl'r ‘
Memphis Avalanche: The buffalo
gnat is worse than high water. A fifty
foot bank is no obstacle to him. With
a grindstone finder each wjng flies
over hill and dale and bores the life out
of the A*o*f£i]
Montezuma ((fa.) A man
from Drayton tells us cf a combat he
saw several days ago 'between a rooster
and a crow. The rooster was attacked
in a field while attending to his own le
gitimate business.. victory, for -a
while seemed donbtfiU, but finally the
rooster conquered and left his opponent
in the field dead.
Near Penfield, (fa., lives two ladies,
who, since the war, started to farming
with one old blind horse. Now they
own a good plantation sjell stocked, all,
paid for, and have
bales of cotton on liana. They man
aged for themselves, one attending to
the farm while the other managed the
household affairs.
The Mormon t'dd*rs hare both no
tified that they cannot teach their ab
• horrent doctrines in Morgan county,
Miss., At a meeting of the Apple Grove
Grange the following among other em
phatic resoldfihnCVere adopted-; Re
solved, that appointed
who will present to said parties a copy
of these resolutions,"and respectfully re
quest these Mormon elders who are in
truding themselves, and their vicious?
and devilish dbctriflfs JpQ thus coal
munity to desist from so doing, and
further, to leave this community im
mediately. never to return,
Carrollton (Ga.) Times: “Mr. John
R. Handley Jtyfyig niSar hercv has arc
markable with rentarknblc bis*
tory. It is made litre the ordinary rat
tler razor, the thick part of the back be
ing soiid gold, so pronounced by silver
smiths. He has been offered $25 for it,
as it-is thought that the gold upon it
would amouri'to jfull| th^ t iucljpdhe
party makiSjylfie mffer pr<q>Wmr Vrre*-
turn the razor as before minus the
gold. Mr. Handley, who was present
at the surrender of Gen. Stoneman near
Macon, found this remarkable razor in
the. road, w|i*re, Geu- <‘if <
fe'jE'rfthe Afc-fcgdqr. a1
or
irfc
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at
Humoring customers: “Yes,” saida
lady customer,; •' ‘ these are very pretty- - t
but haven’t yon something more ex
pensive ?” The gentlemanly clerk took
down another package of the same
goods, remarking briskly: “Oh, yes,
ma’am ; here is something which will
more per yar^but^^js^
it was the highest.
. Pbof. Mehan has advanced the theory
that the absence of frees hfion the Ameri
can prairies is* due to annual fires, it
being kpowfi thatsncb fires oamtd
by the Indians dhring a Weg period.-
and atmualsmay in- i
ttieii''area ' yearly', while trees
were never able to fret beyond the line
to which the annual ‘fires extended.
THffi JACKSON NEWS.
I i I
The elongated Oscar W. Ildo had
made $25,000 out of his lectures.
The asssuraneo IrtisgQiie out that thera
will be plenty of peaches in Southern
Indiana.
Governor of Missouri
is of thtWipbannstEat grraSlr is
aeao. feel pretty sure that thq
Governor hopes he is, at all events.
Toi satiate his blood-thirsty appetite,!
King Tlieebaw caused the butchery of
fifty-four persons. It is to be hoped
thjnf tins wifi last Jiim/or Jo me time.
Congress js endeavoring to regulate'
oleomargarine. It is to be sincerely
i>o r n Hint, it will succeed to that degree
that the honest butter-maker may be pro
tectee!.
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Senator Mahone, the Virginia Road
justor, readjusted his family affairs the
other day by presenting his wife with a
set of diamonds valued at $40,000. There
is no repudiation about that.
/ —a-A—
The Queen of England does not for
get thoso in death whom she held in
high esteem in life. On the anniversary
of Lord Beaconsfield’s death, she sent
two wreathes Of immortolles and prim
roses to be placed upon his grave.
Tub yonr. Ifiß2 has so far made rather
a food showing in disastrous events.'
Missouri, Kansas and Pennsylvania have
all suffered devastating' oyclones, nnd
there, hav* already been ssverpWhookuig
calamities.
The President recommends Congress
to make a law prohibiting trespass on
Indian .territory by white settlers, mak
ing the first offense finable in the sum of
SSOO, and the second, SI,OOO. Wo
rauyjfcpwtjunk the President is reaching
for Captain Payne, of Oklahoma fame.
Capt. Howgate stole $160,000 govern-,
mnt funds, and now, that he has
escaped from prison, Marshal Henry
oners sooo reward for his apprehension.’
Five hundred dollars is very clever. If
all Iris carcass is worth, the Cap
tain may feel that he is tolerably secure.
Queen Victoria, who went to Men
tone, France, for her health, has re
turned Suddenly and clandestinely to
England. That seems to be about tho
way royalty has to tcavej, nowadays to
escape rypy stray built is that may ba
flying arouncC
Tim Bible used in the United States
Senate in swearing in Senators has been
stolen. It has been in use for fifty
tliree years, and every Seuator admitted
Hbat; period was sworn in upon’ that
I&bhv nd had kissed it. Seinebody
probaby wanted a relic.
The London Spectator lias an exalted
opinou of the wonderful strides individ
ual possessions are assumingin America,
It says “that years hence English for
tunes wfll appear very paltry compared
.-With American.” THe Spectator had in
its mind’s eye Vanderbilt, Gould and
the fry who are following in then- foot
steps.
Aj Chicago firm ha%Jjjred Mason, the
] solcifer vAro tried to assassinate Guiteau,
as a salesman in their store for one year,
at a salary of SI,BOO, after he is pardon,
ed from prison. Asa salesman, Mason
being inexperienced, would evidently
not be much of a success, but as an ad
vertising card, ha jrortld probably bo
worth SI,BOO for a year or two.
There is no doubt but that the peopla
of tho Pacific States want Chinese immi
gration stopped. la voicing this senti
ment, the San Francisfeo Bulletin says :
The veto iB a unique document among out
State paper*. It reserves all its tenderness for
the Mix Chinese companies, and slaps in the
face, so to gjreak, three sovereign States of the
Union. It upholds slavery after a biobdy wat
waged to destroy it. and puts tho “lobby”
American Cosn sjejlii.
And now Do Lrsaeps is going to flood
the Sahara Desert from the Meiliterrat
nean Sea, tho French Cabinet Council
approving of his plan. Scientists say
that the great desert is above the sei
level, and this being true, and Da
Lesseps being a great man, we suppose
tlm |jme jSatt nrfyed.whsn we shall see
water running upnill.
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The President has transmitted to
Congress a letter addressed by the Mim
ister Plenipotentiary of Mexico to the
I Secretary of State, proposing a conclu*
sioitefuvnif ion; l*tjce<* flic two Coun
tries f(Jr
thafU|ifd S|at*R Wifi Melico, fr*n the!
R m QUA 4 §aeo.n, J>y Jhe
erection of durable monuments.
The expense of crowning the Czar at
Moscow wjU be ten million
almost eight million dollars. In othek
words, enough money to feed,and clothe
30,000 peasants for a year will be wasted
in gilding the ceremonies of a tottering
dynasty. The nobility of Moscow and
Petersburg ,Imvfe volunteered-their
', ] it. ctio:, to the- Trnr<rM -futiiay, and
the Czar has accepted the proffer.
1 It has been decided, and the decision
! ,r a a a hair-breadth escape—l3 to 32—i
tliat women can BOt be educated for the
| medical profession at Harvard College.
' That Governing Board came pretty
| nearly getting tied on women IhaJ timet
1 It is stated that lire Faculty docs not
'’object to the women themselves, but the "
33evoted to the Interest of J, *ksoix andi 34utts Oounty,
WEDKEgftrVY, MAfY' g, 188-2,
tfme-honorei‘principle of educating men
only must be maintained. That lets the
women out.
England made a great fuss about the
“farce at Washington’’—referring to ilia
tedious trial, of Chateau—and advised
this nation*to*make : short work of tfie
assassin. Singular indeed is it, that
right cln tlio heels of this farce one
Maclean shoots at the crown head of that
country and is acquitted on the ground
of insanity. Now, it is a question
whether Macleau is as crazy as Guiteau,
and it is self-avi&nt that Guitestn know
ho was committing "a crime against' the
law.
C?ol. R. G. Ingkrsoll has been reply
ing, in New York, to Talmage’s assaults
and at his lecture Sunday night, speak
ing of ills Ht-feat for tlio Illinois Govern
orship, he said:
They say I was defeated for Governor of
Illinois because I was an infldol, and that I am
an infidel because I was defeated. That’s logic.
Now I’ll tell you. They asked me whether I
was an infidel, and I said I was ! I was de
feated. I preserved my manhood and lost an
office. If everybody were as frank as I was,
some men now in office would be private citi
zen. I would rather he what lam than hold
any office iu the world aud boa slimy hypo
crito.
MRSf. Donnougiit’r husband left her
in PiMrirkmce and wont fortune hunting
to California four years ago. He sent hex
mutrfy oreusionally, and übw, haying acr
euwfii Inter! $2!>,005, has returned to his
old home. But he finds that his wife
married Thomas Frookletou, in 1879,
and has since had two pairs of twins.
Froekleton says that she told him she
w&3 a widow, and he is willing now to
give her up, but Donnought doesn’t
want her under anycirenmstances. Thus
between the two she falls through, and
tlio twin* come tumbling after.
fiftrfAKEß - Keifeb has discharged a
second official stenographer from the
House, the two men (discharged being
the (driest of the corps aud the most effi
cient men on the staff. In their places
have been put two others, favorites, ono
of whom has already acknowledged his
*nd his dismissal asked
for by a committee. In asking for ah
explanation the Now York Herald
pointedly says : “Do these discharges
mean that the inquiries of Congressional
conmiittoeS into alleged iniquitous tran
sactions like those of S higher and shall be
gendered nugatory and void by incom
plete and defective records?” Keifer
perhaps can answer. -
The JolinF. Slater Fund of $1,000,000
for the education of the colored people
of the South seems to have excited
wratfi in the bosom of a Malden (Mass.)
editor, who charges that Mr. Slater ac
cumulated the money as proprietor of
cotton factories in Connecticut and Mas
sachusetts, which have been notorious
for presenting Some Of the wbrst features
of “long hours, poor pay, and thieving i
truck stores.” The aforesaid Malden
editor says it should be stated thus :
“The cotton operatives of Connecticut and
.Massachusetts liavd (fiven ono million dollars !
to educate the negro, and Mr. Slater go! s tho ;
credit of it.”
It may barely be possible that this is
“conscience money” that Mr. Slater has
given. If bo, good enough.
Another blowing up of rocks at Hell
(fate will tako place as soon as the ar
rangements now being made by General
Nfcwtbn are completed. This timo the
area to be exploded.wijl be three times
as great as that of 1876. Eleven acres
of the reef known as Flood Rock ore
being tunneled at a depth of fifty or
sixty feet, and when this work is com
pleted, two years heme or so, the whole
reef will be broken up with one scat
tered charge of dynamite. About seven
acres are already completed. Ilalletts
Rock, broken up. in 1870, lias been
fished out and carried away until there
is now a twenty-six foot channel at low
water, where six years ago was one of
the barriers of navigation.
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It is Deuevei tnat even newspaper
correspondents are occasionally capable
of exaggeration. At all events they are
now telling of a boy in Paris who has a
telescopic eye. One eye is as largo as a
silver dollar aud the other as small as a
French pea. Up to a few months ago
this large eye was of no use. But after
an operation on it an astonishing change
tvamrtpir. ,~Ttta Aye became •jMemwpie
ip ft* y;*ige,' and the boy could expand
or contract the pupil at will. At night
he could sef the rings and mwins of
Jupiter and the newly discovered satel
lfif S of (Mart [f’he&f it **s discovered
lliat the sninlleb eye was diicrosoopic, a
drop of water appearing to him through
it as a wo+ld of life. The oculists, mioro
scopjsts, .and astjopomers of Paris are
said to be in a state of great excitement
over tho boy. r.J mV. •
The report of the majority of the
Gobrrrißtoe appointed to audit the ex
penses of the illness, and death of the
late President allows Dr. Bliss $25,000,
Dos Atgnew and Hamilton, $15,000 each,
and Ilrs. Reyburn, Boynton and Hunan
Edson, SIO,OOO each. The mininority,
in their report, say: - ;
We do not object to the pc.-moot by the gen
eral gr.vcrnrMO*t Sf fils ffnmat ejLpsrmesuf s!ie
late IVesi-idit; who V&V stricken 8owt) i n't he
performance of bis duties, and because of too .
occnpylng that public statiwh. On* objection.
to the report grows out of the recommendation
>4B 'he payment Jvr seryiits, rf JUiu
pbysiciauH and surgeons who attended the late
President. We are perfectly willing to con
cede that a liberal compensation should bo al
lowed the physicians and surgeons, a compensa
tion in excess eveu of what it was possiblo for
Eny of those medical attendants to have earned
in their ordinary practice during that time,
lint the sums rocommendofi to be paid by the
majority of the committee are excessive.' Wo
ire of opinion there was no extraordinary med
ical skill exhibited in tbs treatment of tho case,
and nothing calling for an extraordinary al
lowance for professional services, but while
willing to be liberal we oould notonnaerrt to the
manner of payment reoommended, nor to the
extravaganed aud wanton lavishmont of tho
pubiio funds.
There *re a great many private citi
zens who hold about that same view. 1
Bail road Sociability.
“ Speaking about the sociability ol
railroad travelers," said the man with
the crutches and watoii pocket over his
oye, “I never gqt so well acquainted
with the passengers on a train, as I did
the otlior day on the Milwaukee and St.
1 Paul Railroad. We Vfcro going at the
rate of about thirty miles au hour, and
another train from the other direction
telescoped us. We were all thrown into
each other’s society, and brought into
immediate social contact, so to speak.
“I went over and sat in the lap of a
corpulent lady from Manitoba, and a
girl from Chicago jumped over nine
Beats and sat down on the plug hat of a
preacher from La Crosse, with so much
timid, girlish enthusiasm, that it shoved
his hat down over liis shoulders.
“ Everybody seomed to lay aside tlio
usual cool reserve of strangers, and wo
made ourselves entirely nt home.
“A shy young man with ,an emaciated
oilcloth valise, left his own Scat, and
went over and sat down on a lunch
basket where a briilal couple Seemed to
be wrestling with their first picnic. Do
you suppose that reticent young man
would have done such a thing on ordi
nary occasions ? Do you think if he had
beon at a celebration at homo that he
would have risen impetuously and grind
whore those people were eating l>y them
selves, and sat dowij. on the cranberry
jelly of a total stranger ?
“I should rather think not.
“ Why, ono old man, who probably at
home led the class meeting, and who was
as dignified as Rosoee Conkling's father,
was eating a piece of custard pie, when
wo met the other train, and lie left
his own seat and went over to the front
end of the oar and shot that piece of
custard pie into the ear of a beautiful
widow from lowa.
“People traveling somehow forget tho
austerity of their home lives, and form
acquaintances that sometimes last
through life." —Laramie Jloonm'atiy.
Trees and Rainfall.
It is universally acknowledged by all
scientific observers that the rainfall of
a country diminishes rapidly as its for
ests ore cut down. In Australia there
seems to be an exception to this rale.
In New South Wales, according to the
Journals and Proceedings of tho Royal
Society there, about one-half of the tim
ber laud of the colony has, during tho
last twenty-five years, been denuded of
trees by natural decay, ring-harking and
clearing for cultivation. Naturally a
diminution of the rainfall might liavo
been expected, but this has certainly
not been the case; indbed, statistics
rather indicate the reverse. Tho prin
cipal rivers, too, liavo not been dinrin
iij#eil in volume of jvator. The experi
ence of Mr. Abbott, with ring-barking
of trees on his run at Glengarry, seems
especially significant. This operation
(for improvement of grazing capacity)
ho carried out in 1869 and 1870, on most
of the watersheds of three creeks each
übout two miles long, draining well-de
fined valleys shut in by high ridges of
basalt. For twenty years previously
these creeks wore dry watercourses, only
holding water for a few days after rain,.
and iua few places in winter. But soon
after ring-barking' they became, nnd
have continued, permanent streams,
with increased flew of water and num-
ber of springs. The explanation that
Mr. Abbott offer! is that the large pro
portion of the rainfall, formerly taken
up by the gum-trees and evaporated,
now finds its way to the crooks and riv
ers. Another ruestion is suggested :
Do the Australia! gum-trees differ in
their action on tho rainfall from thoso of
other lands ?
Old Time Reformer.
It is the genernlopinion of the reform
ers of our day tint they, or at most their
immediate predecessors, wore first in the
field, and that all was darkuess before.
I As far as suffrage is concerned, the fact
that women coaH vote in New Jersey
seventy or eighty years ago throws some
doubt upon thii claim. The suspicion
is strengthened into conviction by au
appeal to his:ory. A Masaaoliusetts
woman has discovered that Abigail
Adams, wife of John Adams, “"<1 gener
ally his wisest eouuselor, as far back as
1774 wrote to lim in behalf of woman’s
citizenship. He was at the time in at
tendance on the first Constitutional Oon
| gross at Philadelphia. She Bpeeially
a-iked him to remember the ladies in the
| new code of lavs and to treat them bet
i ter than his ancestors had done. Mercy
1 Otis, sister of James Otis, about the
j same time hit upon the ginee much, used
J phrase of “ iihefent riglrts,” declaring
f that they “ Ibe onged to' all mankind, and
1 had all been conferred on all by the God
of nations?" These aro old authorites
•according to tlie American standard of
•antiquity, ami we think Hemiramis and
Zenobir, Hjwffiv nothing of fiber ancient
| women oiT ncle, must have held very
nmolithe same idea of the equality ol
; (.hfWHii. If io utterances of theirs V
thispfte# are oxtantyTheir career® cab
still?! be tadfcd, and “actions speak
luudelfthau wirds ' ■_
jpijun in America.
It is Inflated that th of
opium coaauuers m this country lias
doubled in tin last four years, and that
they nowfuse 6,000,000 grains a year.
The ißjport Oi opium last year Was 140
]>*r cent, in esoess of that in 1876, and
that year the import was 70 per cent.
1 gllater tbarjki 1867. Physicians, drug
gists arid traders all report that the use
! of opium is krgtfy on the increase, par
i-txrmlaclY a ‘ m ’PH won J en ' w 'h° supply
• ffiur-fiWrs of the victims of opium. This
increase.i* nut due to a disuse of alco
-1 folic fntoxicSnts, but is largely attribut
il to.Ui£.growing useoiJ.behypodermic
syringe.
Forestry St all sties.
In some Aaiiftons of Switzerland there
is a law forbidding the destruction of a
tree without planting another to take its
place. This law is an outgrowth of
peoossity. It has been scientifically
demonstrated that tho increase iu violent
Bterms, inundations, nnd landslides in
Switzerland, scattering doath mid de
struction on all sides, is due to deforest
ing tho mountains.
Gradually tho timber lias disappeared
until little remains, except on tlitf high
slopes of the mountains, aud that little
is of inferior size and quality. Unless
tho process is arrested, tho mountains of
Switzerland will present as bald on ap
pearance as thoso Alps which divide
France from Italy; and nothing moro
desolate and dreary ontsido the steppes
of Asia, or tho desert of Africa, presents
itself to the eye of the traveler.
Switzerland, compared With tho area
of the United States, is but a spook, but
if we have moro acreago and wider
stretches of timbered luiklb, we are also
consuming them more rapidly.
A glance nt tho series of forestry bulle
tins issued by tho Ootisus Bureau is suffi
cient to alarm one for the future timber
supplies of the United States. Tho
maps show the original extent of tho
forest lauds and tho area de
nuded by tho remorseless ax of
the lumberman. Take Miolrigan, the
great pine State of the Northwest. Moro
than three-fourths of the land, including
the upper peninsula, has been stripped
of its timber. A Tew statistics will show
that, the amount Of white pine remaining
on tho Saginaw and its tributaries, anil
in tho basins of streams flowing Into
'Lakes Huron and Michigan, is estimated
at 29,000,000,000 foot, hoard measure.
Tn the single year ending with May,
1830, 4,068,7711,000 ’feet were cut. At
this rate the supply will be exhausted, in
less than eight years. Of the same tim
ber on tho peninsula there wore 6,000,-
000,000 remaining, in round numbers,
and of this 828,438,000 feet cut in one
year. From Mouominee and Delta
counties the merchantable pine, Bays tho
Bulletin, lias been almoßt entirely re
moved. Tho destruction of tho hard
woods has been on tho samo exhaustive
seale.
The maps show that along every navi
gable stream, and 6n the rivers of the
lakes, the timber lias nil been cut away,
anil each year tho lumbermen have to
go back further into tho interior for their
supplies, nnd the cost is increased by
the greater difficulty in getting the tim
ber to market
Wisconsin has Only 6,100,000,000 feet
remaining of white pipe. Iu the eenpus
year 540,997,000 feet were cut. How
long before Wisconsin will cease to
furnish a supply of this valuable timber ?
She has still 3,840,000 apres of hard
wood forest; hut the ravages in that aro
hardly less than in the pine lands.
Minnesota still has 17,200,0(10,000 feet
of pine, and some 0,775,000,000 of mixed
pine and hard wood to boast of, but tho
out (luring the census year was 115j777,-
000 feet, and each .year as the supplies
in Wisconsin and Michigan dwindle tho
demand upon Minnesota’s resources will
increase.
In short, unless something is done to
encourage the replanting of forest# of
pine urid.hard wood it will not be twenty,
years before there will boa timber
famine in the land, with prices So ex
travagant. as to put aa end to building in
wood and to,tho uso of wood as fuel.
Wo need not dwell on tho effect of do
forestry on climate and temperature.
This has been repeatedly dono in these
columns. It is the universal testimony
of mankind that it results in diminution
of rainfall, and the, dwindling away of
creeks and navigable streams, and an in
crease in sudden and devastating storms
and violent hurricanes. . We have the
history of the old worhU before ns, anil
if we do hot profit by the warning ex
ample. wo deserve to bo punished for
such a crime against nature, —Cincinnati
Commercial.
cats.
Your hooks say that cats are "noc
turnal in their habits,” and this state
ment will not hurt you, for it is true. It
means that cate wish to take their recre
ation when people wish to sleep. This
difference of taste accounts for the guer
rilla warfare which is waged against
them night after night and year after
year from all the hack windows in town.
It also accounts for the curious things
which you sometimes find in the hack
yard in tho morning and which the cook
tolls you arc meteorites. Nothing bus
been devised that ldllft oats, and weap
ons are limited to such hand projectiles
as inspire respect or terror. The old
Stone-throwing machines of the Greeks
and Romans were originally devised for
this kind of combat, and wore lienee
called catapults. Every adult eat has
Jiad more costly articles thrown at
it than any opera singer that ever lived ;
for, when a man’s state of mind becomes
such that he gets out of bed to serve his
country in this cause, the first article lie
touches is the tiling that goes, whether
it lar a coal scuttle, an ivory-)>aeke<3
hair-bniHli or a diamond bracelet. Man
has the right of this Conflict, and he will
surely win if ho lives long enough.—
Exchange.
Hindoo girls, says the St. James Ga
zette, are taugiit to think of marriage
almost as soon at they can talk ; indeed,
they aro often contracted in marriage at
6 years of age, and go to live with their
husbands at 12 or 13. Before thiß, at tho
ageof-5 they are taught to propitiate
the gods in order to secure a good hus
band, and their little minds are distracted
by the idea of what a model husband
ought to be. The orthodox conception
is a husband like the god Siva, who was
lioiy, austere, advanced in years, and
faitlifnl nnd devoted to one wife, tlio
goddess Doorga. Good little girls revolt
at the idea of a husband marrying a
second wife while the first is alive, and
will consequently confess their anxiety
to marry a faithful spouse like Siva ; and
they learn from their ciders to utter the
most vindictive curses against a rival
wife. But for all that, Kirslina is j
the idol of Hindoo women, and he • -s j
anything but faithful to ono wife. He
not only kicked over milk pons, and ran
away with the clothes of milkmaids
when they .went tp. bathe, hut he danced
and flirted with other men’s wives,
eloped with royal damsels, and married
an infinite number of beautiful women.
Silos and Ensilage.
Tlio now system of preserving and
feeding ensilage is one of such simplicity
that doubting minds are incredulous as
to possible results. If the building of a
silo and the subsequent process of filling
with ensilage were some wonderful
teevet, oj perhaps anew discovery pro
tected by a series of patents—if tho use
of the system were permitted only under
the payment of heavy royalties—there
is a class of skeptical minds who fatten on
nneertuin quantities, nnd who have but
little faith iu nny practice which is
within tho reaph of persons of ordinary
intelligence and common sense. It is
difficult, for many minds to realize the
facts claimed for eusilago, or to explain
to tliemholves why such results should
lie socured by processes so simple and
by apportions so economical. Yet proof
j —absolute demonstration—is within the
reach of every inquiring mind, or ol
every enterprising farmer who is willing
to expend SSO for commencing experi
ments upon his own farm.
| It is the most singular fact that the
doubting minds are those who have had
no practical experience on tho subject,
lmt whose conservatism is on parade.
It is equally surprising that no intelli
gent, practical attempt nt silo building
or ensilage feeding has resulted in fail
ure, although men of all classes and nt
taiumonts have experimented with the
new system. It would bo reasonable to
expect many failures among so many
beginners pf varying capacities, were
there anything intricate or uncertain in
the process and its auxiliaries. No
authority in this country is competent
to pronounce jiositively upon the future
success or failure of this now system ;
it is for the interest of no one to urge or
induce tho adoption of the system by
any unwilling farmer, nnd no one is to
he enriched by tho muutiplioation ol
silos, except, perilapfi, the individual
owners. Many a conservative farmer
will await the report of bis more enter
prising neighbor, who has built, or is in
tending to build, a silo, yet it is quite
certain that before many years, every
one will have ample opportunity to
judgo, in tho most careful manner, the
merits and drawbacks of the system of
ensilage.
Grave doubts have been expressed by
some authorities of repute as to the
effect of feeding ensilage upon the but
ter product. Though many accounts of
successful butter mnking have been
recorded yet our self-imposed critics
have wisely shaken their heads os if
oxpcctiug disaster without being able to
trace the cause or advise tho cure.
Tho value and disirahilitv of eusilago
is callable of practical demonstration,
and tlio intelligent farmer who desires to
make his business profitable will not fail
to investigate for himself a simple pro
cess which will onahle him to nd<l
largely to tho capacity of his farm in
feeding live stock and thus enriching his
soil. —A merican Cultivator.
Flora and Fauna of the Desert.
Bunch grass, ns gray as the sand it
self, dwarf evergreens, nearly black in
color, and cactiw, .with a few wild flow
ers, are almost the only botanical con
tribution to the changing picture. No
trees grow on the desert. The cactus
ftmrijy, the mo At eccentric of plants,
makii this region its homo, The first
to lie scion coming from Tho Eftstlsof tho
variety most familiar to Eastern hot
houses, shaped like mittens upon ex
tended human hands, tliumbless, and
fiOrdered with sharp spines. A com
moner variety in the desert is of a vine
like character, clinging somewhat closely
to the ground and putting forth branches
nt augios as eccentric as tboseof tic* let
tors of the CJiiucso alphabet. East of
Tucson this variety takes to itself a
flunk or stem as odd in appearance ns
itself, black, leafless, branching much
like a stag-horn, anil bearing its vine
like burden upon each terminal point.
Tho most, singular variety of the oactu*
grows near Tuceou, where a grove num
bering several hundred individual plants
is seen upon a barren, stony hillside.
It shoots up round and straight like a
telegraph pole, tho largest specimens
attaining nearly two feet in oiroumfer-
cnee, by twelve to eighteen feet in
height, often without branches, but
generally putting forth two shoots like
tho elbows and connecting links of a
stove-pijK), It hears upon its upper end
a small tuft or flower. So great a dis
proportion between stem and flower is
probably found in no other plant, Tlio
trunk is covered with regular rows of
warts and spines.
Tho Spanish bayonet occupies thou
sands of acres and lias its share of ec
centricities. When young its long
tough bayonets point in every direction
as if guarding some-precious fruit with
in its worthless stuiup. Later all but
thoso pointing upward and downward
fall off, leaving a hand in its middle,
giving it the apjiearauce of a small bun
dle of straw tied up and ready for the
harvest wagon. Individuals of the
variety send np a shoot from tho center
four or five feet, like a bamboo, bearing
at tlio top a pleasing cluster of Hrnall
flowers. —New York Tribune.
Great Expectations.
Every day some new suggestion is
made as to the probable use of electric
ity. A Han Francisco professor thinks
the timo is coming when swamps and
sewers will be deprived of tlieir nnwholo
sorneness by strokes of lightning, or, in
other words, by electric currents which
will kill tho germs and spores which
communicate disease to the human sys
tem. This is based upon the germ
theory of disease, which is to tho effect
that malarial and other foul air conta-
gions are duo to animalculse, orinfu9ria,
which multiply in the victim’s body
after inoculation. But would it not be
a miracle if all atmospheres were ren
dered wholesoiuo by electrical discharg
es ? The electric light Iran made one
change in cities which may I’.vl to im
jKirtaot results. It has enabled build
ings and other public works to be con
structed at night as well as day. Labor
er# aro employed eight and twelve
hour shifts, and edifices aro >completcd
in less than half the time required
when ordy day work could be employed.
In summer laborers rirefer to work at
night. Scientists tell us as yet we only
dimly appreciate the marvelous changes
that will be wrought by electricity in
human conditions.—Deworesf’aA/oufAfy,
IEUMNj $1.69 p#r Aaa.
NUMBER 34.
HIBTOIUCAL.
The Christians of Egypt burnt buttei
instead of oil in their lamps, in the third
century.
The first admiral of England was
Richard de Lucy, appointed by Henry
HI. in 1223.
It was not till after the ninth century
that copyists began to leave spaces be
tween words in writing.
The revenues of the 190 abbeys which
were dissolved at the Reformation
amounted to over £2,000,000.
Caligula, not satisfied with building
ships of cedar with sterns inlaid with
goms, had a poarl collar made lor his
favorite horse.
Br a statute of George 1., buttons
covered with cloth were prohibited, that
tho manufacture of metal buttons might
bo encouraged.
According to contemporary author
ities, from 50,000 to 100,600 persons
were put to death in the Netherlands
during the reign of Charles V., on ac
count of their religious opinions.
Until the seventeenth century neither
glass nor soap were manufactured in
Scotland. In 1620 the art of tanning
leather woe introduced there, and paper
was first made about the middle of the
eighteenth century.
The influence of John Knox in promot
ing tho Reformation was greater than
that of any one man, though Ilia sanotion
of the murder of Archbishop Boaton, to
gether with various other cruelties, leave
a stain on his memory.
Two of the assassins of Capo d’lstria,
I’reaideut of Groeoe, were sentenced to
ho immured in brick walls, built around
them up to their chins, and to be sup
plied with food, in this species of torture,
till they died, in October, 1831.
Ferdinand and Isabella issued a decree
expelling from Spain every Jew who re
fused to deny his faith. To make them
Christians, or, failing in that, to extermi
nate them, was the business of the In
quisition, established in the same reign.
Neither Columbus nor Oook ever dis
covered more degraded and brutish be
ings than wore the aboriginal inhabitants
of Greece. When Solomon was in all
his glory and the Hebrew nation in its
unity and greatness, tho Greeks were
divided into moro clans than aro our
North America Indians.
A Southern Case of Witchcraft.
“If the town of Salem, in Massachu
setts," said Bob Billingsby, “ thinks she
has had the onlicst witches in this coun
try, all I got to say about it is that she
is simply mistaken. Now, there was old
Brother McGraw and old Sister Hut
ton—”
Bob’s story, in short, was thus : Old
Brother McGraw and old Sister Hutton
were members of Philip’s Bridge Church.
Brother McGraw was a consistent mem
ber, but old Sister Hutton, to say tho
truth, was regarded somewhat as a
heathen, and ovou addicted to witch
craft. A calf of Brother MoGraw's, of
uncommon promise, dwindled in spite of
uncommon pains, and finally died, and
the good man, persuaded in his mind
that his neighlxir, although a spiritual
sister, had bewitched it, set out in his
jwrath for lrer house, and, taking her by
the blind, gave her a violent wrench.
Sister Hutton reported tho case to the
church, and, at the conference one Sat
urday, Brother McUraw, being mildly
remonstrate ’ with, went so far as to say
that he would have to think about it.
The moderator blandly suggested to him
to withdraw for a few moments, retire
into the woods, reflect and pray over
tho matter. Ho did so. On returning,
tire moderator and tho brethren were
gratified to observe the calm regret that
was visible upon his.countenanoe. This
moderator was a man of power, both as
to intellect nnd character. It was Silas
Mercer. Then this dialogue ensued :
Mr. Mercer—“ Well, Brother Mc-
Graw, I see you’ve returned, and I think
you’ve cbfne to a just conclusion in tho
matter about which you have been re
fleeting.”
He looked inquiringly at the aged
brother, nnd tho aged brother answered
his inquiring look with meek silence.
“I think you feel sorry, Brother Mc-
Graw,” suggested Mr. M., in a kindly,
leading tone.
“Yes, Brer Moderator,” answered the
aged brother, “wery sorry; I’m wory
sorry.”
Yet there was some gruffness in his
tone which led tho moderator to doubt
the nature of his regret.
“Brother McGraw,” said he, “will
yon let the church know what sort of
sorrow it is you feel ? Is it a godly sor
row, Brother McGraw ?”
Then the aged brother lifted high his
head, looked the moderator full in the
face, aud answered: “ Brer Moderator,
I'm sorry—l’m sorry—that I didn’t
break her neck.”— Editor' Drawer, in
Jlarper’s Magazine.
Wood Taste Among the MightyT
Tho more I think about the elephants,
tho more wonderful they seem to be.
The great clumsy creatures are so very
knowing, so very loving, and so like
hnman being# in many of their qualities.
They know their power w'ell, and they
also know just, when they must not use
it Deacon Green tells me that keepers
and trainers of elephants often lie down
on the ground and let tho huge fellows
stop right over them; and that they feel
jxrrfectly safe in doing so, because they
know the elephants will pick their way
carefully over the pogtrato forms, never
so much ns touching them, still less
treading on them. Yet the mighty crea
tures can brush a roan out of existenco
as easily as a man can brush away a fly.
And what delicate tastes they have—de
lighted, I’m told, with strawberries,
gum-drops, or any little dainty of that
kind. They are fond of bright colors,
too, and travelers tell wonderful tales of
seeing elephants gather flowers with the
greatest care, and smell them, apparently
with the keenest pleasure.
It is true they eat the flowers after
ward, but dear me! I’ve seen girls do the
same thing! Many a time I’ve watched
a little lady pluck a wild rose, look at it
a moment, sigh “how lovely!” then
open her pretty lips and swallow the
petals one by one.
Why shouldn’t an elephant?— Jatlbin
the-Pulpit, St. Nicholas.