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Anecdote* of Dueling. Frederick the Great wa so heartily opposed to duelling that he resolved to put a stop to it, at least in his army. He issued an order that the first party en gaging in a duel without his consent should be summarily punished. On the very next day after the promulgation of this order, an officer appeared before him, and asked his permission to chal lenge a comrade to mortal combat. II" gave his consent, but stipulated that In should be notified beforehand of the time when, the place where, the duel was to be fought. The hour appointed for the conflict arrived ; ami when the beligerent parti' appeared ui>on the ground they found the King there ; and, to their great sur prise, saw a gibbet erected on the spot! The challenger appealed to Frederick to know w hat that meant. “It means this,” answered the King, sternly : “ 1 intend to witness your battle until one of yon has killed the other; and then 1 will bring the sur vivor !" It may be readily believed that the duel was not fought. And, theri'-i forth, dueling was a rare event in the Prussian army. It is r luted of the lute Judge Thatcher, of Maine, that, while a member of > Vm gr.-.s, ho was challenged by u brother member to light a duel. The Judge, as nil who knew him could know ingly avow, wan not deficient in animal courage: but was opposed to dueling. To liis challenger he made answer, in his bluff, off-U. ml way : “I will go and consult my wife ; and, if ”!u> consents, bo sure I will accommo date you.” “ 110 ! You arc a coward !” cried flic other. Whereupon responded Thatcher, with a nod, and a most significant smile <>! contempt: “Aye, yon thought I was, or yon never would have challenged me I ” lu the memoirs ot the Marquis ile Domiisuu, who was most earnest in lii opposition to the duello, we find the following : One day lie overheard two brave soldiers, belonging to his cavalry, just winding up a heated and angry die. pute by drawing their swords for mortni combat. The challenge bad been given, aiul instantly accepted. “Hold I -One moment 1” tin Marque exclaimed, os he came upon the scene. “ Which of you two, think ye, will have the pleasure, of robbing himself of n friend and a brother, and, ut the r-aice ttrue, robbing mo of one of my best and bravest soldiers? Have wo no anemic , thnt you must turn your swords against one another?” For a brief space the two men looked flown, evidently feeling foolish and ..on scieuoe-stricken. Then they sheathed their weapons, and joined bauds; and together thanked their lord for the good lie had done them. Management of lUnk Brax.i. .\ vast amount <>f time and nucleus labor are spent on must farms every season in cutting lodged cra-s anil clover, it. is very difficult to cut (hem with a macliine, ami tlin uutchinc is likely to be broken in the operation. Iho hay made from Indeed grass and Plover Is hard to cure, and of very poor quality when it is made. Moat kinds of stock will reject much of it if they are not driven to eat it by hunger. Tim sod on which lodged crass arid clover rest is always injured by being covered by a substance that acts like, a mulch, brass aud clover are sometimes blown down by a violent wind or beatou down bv storms. \\ lien such is the case it is necessary to cut and cure them as best one can. In ninny cases, however, tho farmer can see by the condition of the plants that they will lodge unless they arc cut very early. The stalks are sit tall and the foliage is .so heavy that it is difficult for the plants to sustain them selves. When this is the ease no timo should he lost in putting in the mower or scythe. By rutting early, lodging will be prevented and the hay will be of good quality. This practice in volves the necessity of cutting the grass or clover n second time, but it is much easier to harvest two crops that stand upright, than one 1 hat is stretched out on the surface of jrround. With the present means for harvesting the hay crop, the labor of cutting mid curing is slight, when there is no delay in con sequence of obstructions. Heavy grass and clover should be out early in order to prevent the stalks from becoming large and coarse. By cutting twice, a large amount of bay can bo obtained, and it will be of the best quality. That obtained by the last cutting will he of special value for young stock. -Chicago 'lime.'. An invasion ny Ants. The invasion of the Island of Grenada by ants of the saoeliarivora species, about a hundred years ago, was quite Hoiperio in its magnitude. ‘•They de scended from the lulls, ’ wo arc told, “like torrents, and the plantations, as well as every path mid road for miles, were filled by them. Rats, mice, and reptiles of every kind became an easy prey 10 them; and even the birds, which they attacked whenever they alighted cm the ground in search (if food, wore so hnra-sed as to be at length unable to resist them. Streams of water opposed only a temporary ob stacle to* their progress, the foremost rushing blindly on to certain death, and fresh armies instantly following, till a bank was formed of the carcases of those which w ere drowned sufficient to dam up the waters and allow the main body to pass over in safety. Even tire was tried without effect, ‘ When it was lighted to arrest their route they rushed into the bla/e in such myriads as to ex tinguish it.” Such was the devastation caused by these little invaders that a re ward of twenty thousand pounds was offered, and in vain, for their destruc tion, aiul they were not got rid of until a deluge of rain fell and swept them awry. - / 'ftlegm/th. What He Hadn't, A certain rich man possessed of grent wealtn was wont to be proud of his jww. sessions and to refer to them often, taut, withal, be was uot a man of intellect. One day he had au old Irishman work ing for him, aud he went out to oversee the job. He looked at Pat a minute, hard at work, aud said: “ Well, Pat, it’s good to lie rich, ain’t it?” "Yin, sur,” said Pat, who had tne wit of his nation. “lam rich, very rich, Pat” “ Yis, sur. ” “ I own lands, and bouses, and bonds, and stocks, and railheads, and—nd— and ” “ Yis, sur,” said Pat, shoveling swav. “Aud what Is it, Pat, that 1 haven’t got ?” “Not a bit of sinse, sur,” remarked Pat, ss he picked up his wheelbarrow and trundled it off full of dirt; and tlie rich man went into tho house and sat down behind the door. Soiling Crops. The system of soiling cattle commends itself to farmers in localities where land is high priced, on dairy farms that de pend on prize butter for an income, and on farms where manure is in demand, to improve I lie productive qualities of the land. In a word, then, the advan tages of soil-feeding arc a saving of land, the production of an increased quantity and quality of milk with the same amount of food, and the produc tion and saving of more and better ma nure than by the usual mode of feeding. The chief objection urged against soil ing is the increased expense incurred in cutting ami carting the fodder, an ob jection wisely urged by funnels located on fertile, cheap lands.' Another ob ject'on to the system is that it, requires close attention and skillful manage ment. There naturally exists some diversity’ of opinion in regard to the crops best calculated for soil-feeding. Green rye earlymi the spring, followed by oats, after which come orchard grass and clover, until the corn supply is ready, with roots of various kinds iriterjiersed, is a popular rotation. A plan that al lows twelve acres for keeping twelve cows ami requires the growth of root crops out-side of the regular operation of soiling, has beei. recommended bv one who has tried it: •‘Early in autumn sow three acres of winter ryo to be cut in the spring when dry food is scarce and the stock will most relish green food; early in the spring sow three acres to oats to be cut and fed out as soon as ready; a fortnight, later sow two acres of oats or barley; in another fortnight sow two acres oats or barley; ten tlays later put ui two acres of corn to be cut dur ing August,. Middle of June the three acres from which rye has been cut to tie sown with corn, to he cut in September. Early in July the first, three acres sown with oats tnj e’resown with barley, to he. cut from the middle of September until the harvest of roots and cabbages fur nishes a stock of green refuse which will suffice until regular winter feeding lie pins. This number of acres and cattle, it ought to he < .plained, is suited to and that is not in a high state of fertility." A cultivator well known in the agri cultural world has practised the follow ing rotation for soiling crops with ex cellent resol! In the fall w inter rye is ■own to be fed green in the spring uni 1 iL becomes too old, when the balance is made into bay foi winter feeding. liy the time the rye is too old to cut he has orchard grass to mow and the pasture affords seine feed. Orchard grass u fol lowed by red clover. These two grasses, with Kentucky blue grass, till up tin- lime between the feeding of winter l'ye and the main crop of I'.ng li-li grasses, Oats are sown as early in the spring as the condition oi the ground will permit, and (lie orop is ready to cut, after the last mowed gra -ses. The next crop sunn after oats is corn; then conics millet. Os' , corn and millet arc each sown at inter vals of a week or ten days t" bring a succession of tender feed through the season. Winter wheat makes an excellent soiling crop, coming in just after winter rye. Corn mid millet are sown to last until early frosts in autumn, when their place is taken by barley sown in mid summer. Cabbages and turnips are employed for lute feeding by many dairymen, but the authority referred to prefers feeding barley to rank llavored roots. The plan of extending the, season of feeding green foo l into November by sowing barley is in favor with it large class of Northern farmers. .Some make n succession of sowings, putting in the lir.st seed in duly and the last as Into sometime- as tin l first of September. When there is sullleimil moisture in the ground to sprout the seed this plan seems to be advisable, especially when staple crops lire short aud other pro vision!) have not been made for supply ing stock with late pasture and green fodder. In localities where perennial grasses do not thrive, as at the South, Held peas, sweet corn, lueern, Hungarian grass and millet may lie sown as soiling crops aav time after danger from trusts is over. Millet aud sweet corn are especially rec ommended to grow in the South as green feed for time of drought or short pasture. In practicing soiling it is advised to provide a liberal amount of dry early out and well-cured holder for feeding out during stonily weather and for mixing with green food when the condition of the animals seems to reqitil'o this. Of course all surplus fodder must he cured for winter use. As one becomes areus tomed to the soiling system so that sup plies for an entire season can be correct ly estimated, herds may be divided, giv ing the pasture to young, dry stock, while milch cows, that require hut little exercise while iti milk, can ho fed in rheir stalls or loom racks in the yard. Mr. 11. Ntcyvnit of Now York, provides fodder racks in yards and stables, and the fodder is brought in from the fields once a day in a wagon or cart, lie keeps a one-horse mower in the field, which is covered when notin use with a water-proof tent-cloth. The horse is taken front the wagon, put to the mow er and the required amount of fodder is cut. the lust day two rations are cut. and one only is brought in; the second day s fodder is brought in when the third day's supply is out. so that one day’s food is always ahead. The feed is brought in in ilu: afternoon for a whole day. and the next day’s fee 1 is left on the ground. When the weather is wet. tyvo day’s feed is brought in and * kept under cover t > avoid working iu : the rain, it should be born" in mind j that wet fodder is oft on dangerous to ' feed, especially clover; which mar c tusa bloat. - ,V. f World. Slow Hut Sure, A real estate dealer in New England sold seven farms in ten days at prices averaging about #3,000 each—mostly to persons who had been in mechanical business, but who had learned (hat there is no properly so safe us land, and no pursuit promising so sure a livelihood as agriculture. It is an indicaDon of a general and wholesome tendency of the time. There are always thousands of men in these busy streets who left rural homes many rear* ago, and who, weighed down by commercial troubles, would gladly return, if it were possi ble. to some quiet country neighbor hood, feeling sure that they could at least raise enough to feed their families with less strain of body and mind than that which is now wearing out their lives. This is true also of every other city or town, as witness the following— a fair sample of letters that reach us from all quarters: *• 1 am ul >ut educated up to the point of be lieving that a small farm is about the only u dopennent and satisfactory possession a tots r abiy poor nmu can obtain in tho HVersire -t .to of trade. Jam now eUHHjrcd iu the hook busi ness, and, tike everything else, it is a source of more worry than revenue, snd It ro,|U'rrs constaut care and straining to keep one's he and shore water.” — N. Y. Tribune. A Derided Agony. A young man from the best circle* in Now Haven started out last evening to tail on a lady friend, a very proper and laudable exhibition of his gentlemanly qualities. Ho had taken exceeding pains with his toilet, wearing his extra double-reefed trousers, his wash-bowl bat, the watch-fob of bis father, and other appurtenances pertaining to what might he called the best style of the day. It was the dreamy, dusky hour of twilight that he came to the front pate of the residence of the father of his “best girl,” for twas slm he was calling on. With palpitating heart he brushed the cigar ashes from his vest, put his hand on the gate, and with his most charming smile looked up the gravel path. There stood in defiant attitude a big bull dog. The close cut of the young man's trousers precluded his going boldly past that hull dog. There was not enough “slack” in the cloth to give free play to the animal’s teeth. The young man was in a pre dicament. Somehow he never knew the old man kept a dog before, and he thought it very strange that the girl had never cautioned him in regard to the savage brute. However, he con cluded to try the power of kindness and his “animal magnetism” on the dog. bo he carefully opened the gate and advanced with his eye lixed steadi ly on the brute, “Bo.sc, Bose, Bosey; nice old fellow; Bose, Bose, Bosey;” but the dog remained imperturbable, not even a tail wag of recognition did be vouchsafe. Not exactly in love w ith the situation, and still being of cour ageous mold, lie advanced a step fur ther. “Bose, Bosey, Bose; ah, you rascal! Bose, Bosey. Bose! Nice old dog! Bose, Bosey, Bosey!" But “Bose” didn’t wince or move. The cold perspiration stood in great beads on the young man’s brow, but the dog seemingly cared not. Just as iho young man was about to postpone lids call to some other evening, the hired man sauntered around the corner of the house, picked up the big earthen pug and set it on tlm piazza out of the wet, remarking with a knowing wink: “ It's anew idea of Miss Flo's. She thought, it night soare oil' sonic o’ the fellers. And hearing a .sound as of rippling feminine laughter behind the blinds the young man walked rapidly up the stivef. -Xco //<<•••..; llnpslrr. Too Much Early Work. All the nutritive fund ion -and actions ol growth proceed more y igoroitsly and rapidly in childhood and youth ih-m in mature life, not lie rely as ivonriL the solids and ordinary fluids, but also in the production 1 tho-e impomh-rahln and interchange;)! |e [urn - which have sometimes been personified ns nervous llnid and lrmsui nr force, f-ing the latter torn) to amplify my me ning, the excess of nervous fore • i in the child most natuially and healthily reduced by it - eon e.sion into muscular force, aud at very short inlenals dining the icthe or waking period of life the child in stinctively u-'es its muscles an I relieves the brain and nerves of their accumu lated force, which passes, by the inter mediate contraction of the muscular fiber, into ordinary force or motion, ex emplified by the child's own amuse ments and by those of some object or other which lias attracted its attention. The tissues of the growing organs, brain and muscles are at this period of life too soft to hear a long continuance of their proper actions; their fibers have not attained llu-ir mature tone and limi tless. This is more especially the ca-e yy itl) the brain fiber. The direct action of lie- brain, as in the mental applica tion to learning, soon tiros; if it be too long continued the tissues are unhealth ily affected; the due progress or growth, which .should have resulted in a liber lit for good and continuous labor nl maturity, is interfered with; the child as an intell ctual instrument is to that extent spoiled by an error in the prow ss by which that instrument yvns >oughl to be improved. The same ef fect on the muscular system is exempii t cd in the racers that are now (rirtti'd to tyvo and a half or three and a half years old for the grand prizes at Don caster or Epsom. The winner of tho I’crhy never becomes an Eelip-e or Fly ing ( hilders, because the mu.-eular sys tem lias been overvv ought tyvo or three yc nrs before it could have arrived at full development, which (b'velopmenl i stopped by the premature over exertion. If the brain be not stimulated to work, but is allowed to rest, and if at the same time tiie muscles be forbidden to act, there then arises, if this restraint be too prolonged, an overcharged state of the nervous system. It is such a state as we see exemplified in the caged quad ruped of active habits, when it seeks to relieve it by converting the nervous into tho niuscu ar force to the extent per mitted by its orison, either executing a succession of bounds against the prison bars, 1 ke the agile leopard, or stalking, like the lion, sullenly to and fro. If the active child be 100 long prevented from gratifying the instinctive impulse to put in motion its limbs or body, the nervous system becomes overcharged, and the relief may at last be got by violent emo tions or acts, called ‘‘passion” or ‘•naughtiness,” ending in tho tit of cry ing and tlood of tears.— Prof. Owen. The Russian Hangman. There its but one state executioner in the vast Russian realm, and lie in a par doned malefactor named Froloff, who, in the pre-Nihilistio days, when the aboli tion of capital punishment was still maintained in Muscovy, committed three successive murders, and was comlemned to penal servitude for life. When, how ever, revolutionary successes rendered the services of ait imperial hangman in dispensable to the Ministry of Justice, Froloff - volunteered for the office on con dition that an amnesty for his past mis deeds should be grautod him. His offer was accepted, and for some time past he has been a busy man. For every “func tion" he receives 40 silver ruble*—about #30 —from the Russian exchequer ; but that official fee by no means represents the total emolument he derives trom the practice of his handicraft, for he is per mitted to trade upon the superstition till current in Russian society respect ing the luck conferred upon gamesters by the possession of a morsel of the rope with which a ltumeo being has U-cu strangler!, either by the hand of justice or by his own. A Hr shako living in one of the suburbs of New York brought home one after noon three red wagons and a rocking horse for the children. His wife wel comed him with delight, kissed him, and put ting her face conlidingly to his, whispered, "Darling. . you have been flirting on the train a long while. Now that the girls have seen you with tho horse and wagons they know that you are a married man!" Smiling lovingly upon her, he replied, “I bought a ticket to .the strawberry festival of old Mr. •Tones, the Sunday School Superintend ent, and he brought them along in tho train with him." SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. Explorations by a Russian party show that the eastern shore of the Gulf of Obi, in northern Siberia, is nearly fourteen miles west of the place assigned to it by existing maps. A successful operation, during which the patient was kept immersed in water for sixteen days, was recently performed by L)r. Eangenbeck, of Berlin. Among other applications, these “permanent baths ” are said to be especially valuable in cases of burns. D. William A. Hammond finds over heated apartments to be a potent cause of nervous irritability. If we would preserve our amiability and our tran tranquility of mind we' should live in well-ventilated rooms, kept at a temper ature of about 65 degrees. Of the sense of taste, Professor Mc- Kendrick states that the base of the tongue is most sensitive to bitters and the tip to sweets. A substance must be soluble in the fluid of the mouth to cre ate taste, but no definite relation has been found between the chemical condi tion of bodies and their taste. A new white metal and malleable bronze is produced by the decoloration of copper by means of ferro-maganeso. The composition gives a metal as white 'as silver and as malleable as the German silver obtained with nickel. For a laminable white metal in plates of zinc or brass is added to the composition. Another prehistoric canoe has been discovered in the old bed of the Rhone, in France. It is thirty-eight feet long, three feet wide and two feet deep. It was excavated from an oak log, which was left in its original form with the ex ception of the ends, which were beveled so us to give a sharp prow and stern. Dr. T. Htebby Hunt has calculated that the amount of carbonic acid stored in the limestones of the earth would form not less than 200 atmos pheres equal in weight to our own. This together with the carbon of the coal beds must have been drawn from the air, which he believes gradually receives its supply of the gas from interstellar space. Granular vegetable carbon, satura ted with snlpburio acid, of which it holds about seventy times its own volume, is now being tested as a destroyer of phylloxera. Buried amongst roots, it gradually gives off sulphuric acid gas, and this being heavier than air not only permeates the soil, but hangs about the surface and asphyxiates the phylloxera. Manx astronomers have held the opin ion that Alcyone, the chief star of the Pleiades, is the center about which our solar system revolves. Very curiously, an extraordinary importance seems also to ho given this group of stars by many savage and semi-civilized tribes, who have peculiar beliefs concerning it, ap parently handed down to them from antiquity. Numerous cases of fire from the spon taneous ignition of coal have been re corded. After considerable experiment ing, Mr. W. M. Williams has concluded that spontaneous combustion takes place in some degree in all cases where coal is exposed to the atmosphere, although the combustion may proceed so slowly that the rise of temperature will amount to only a few degrees. It is proposed by Mr. C. F. McGlashan, editor of the Santa Barbara (Cal.) Press, to placo moving trains in constant tele graphic communication with the rest of the world. In his method a train tele graph office would be kept in electric connection with an overhead wire by means of a truck running upon the latte* and carrying a Bliort wire loading into the car. Aside from its convenience to the traveling public, this application of the electric telegraph would seem to fur nish engineers with a considerable safe guard against accidents. Cash. The word cash is derived from trie Italian coasa, the chest in which Italian merchants kept their money, as do a* the present timo the Spaniards in their caja, aud the Portuguese in their caxa, and the French in their oaisse. The ap plication of the word “cash ” to money, 18 altogether English, it not having" a corresponding term in anv other Euro pean language. Cash having been bo inconsiderately adopted instead of cassa (ehest), entries in tho cash book (it should bo chest book) are made in count ing-houses in this unmeaning way; ‘‘Cash Dr.” aud “Cash 0r.,” whereas the chest, and not the money, is Dr. to what is put into it; and credit for what is taken out. In China cash is the one-thousandth part of a tael, or shout one-tenth of an American cent. Tho earliest public hank in modern Europe was that of Ven ice, founded in 1157. It originated in the financial difficulties of the State, which in order to extricate itself, laid recourse to a forced loan from the citi zens, promising them interest at the rate of four per cent. It is generally be lieved that the Chineso were the invent ors of hank notes, which me said to have originated about 119 years B. C., in the reign of the Emperor Ou-ti, who hap pened to bo in want of money at the time, and hit upon thia device “to raise it.” About 800 A. D., the Chineso, in the reign of Haintsoung, of the dynasty ol Thang, issued truo bank notes. They were called feytsien, or flying money. There was a frequent over-issue of these notes, aud it was so easy to create thia paper currency that the value declined. It took 11,000 min, or 15,000 of our dol lars to buy a cake of rice, aud at last the issue ceased. Two centuries later notes were issued in China, under legal re strictions, by joint stock companies, who promised to pay cash for them every three years. In 1324 Sir John Mandeville, who vis ited India, saw the described mouey mode “of lether emprented, or ol oapyre.”— Troy limes. Canned Corn. There aro over sixty corn-canning establishments in the State of Maine, and the number of cans of coru annual ly put up is nearly twelve millions. The farmers are paid about 3 cents per can for the corn, the tin and solder costs about 3 cents, and the remaining 4 or 5 cents goes to the manufacturer for putting up and marketing. The oans hold about twenty-six ounces of corn, and farmers are able to grow from T ,000 to 3,000 cans per acre, the average be ing not far from 1,500 cans, of a cash value of $45. There are several factor ies in Medway and Franklin, Ma-s., and others further south, but Maine puts up about one-third of the oorn iu this country. Oscar t\ title ran across a lynching at Bonfouca, La. A negro assailant of a white woman had boon taken out of jail by a mob. and Oscar saw the hang ing from a car window. The negro was a preacher, and his wild, eloquent appeals for mercy moved the ivsthetie traveller greatly, but did not affect the lynchers, who quickly suspended him from a railroad bridge. Gymnastics. “Say, stranger, kin I git a fight in yere?” he asked, looking cautiously around and wetting his hands in a pre monitory sort of w ay. “What kind of a fight would you like?” asked the bar-keeper, eyeing him gloomily. “Pistol, knife, fist, tooth, anything. I want to live up to the prevailin’ style. Suit yourself, pardner.” “Well,” observed the host, picking up a base ball bat, “how’ll this suit you? Like to try something in this line?” “Haven’t yergot a sword, or a cleaver, or a buzz saw, or somethin’ that yer can rely onto if we git elos- together? Ain’t there some weapon that goes more into the gore business?” “This will do me,” replied the bar keeper waltzing over the bar and slam ming the pugnacious visitor against the wall. “Don’t need anything better than this,” and be banged him across a beer table. “Got enough?” “I ain’t got started yit," said the stranger, as be lifted the bar-keeper ovt r tlio stove. “Don't git impatient. I’ll warm up in a second,” and lie hoisted his antagonist over the- bur. “.fist-in dulge these yer false starts; I'll go under the string for a heat in a minute,” and lie hauled the bar-keeper out by the ear and broke half a dozen chairs with him. "I’ll rouse up pooty quick now. Gimme a little time, ’ and lie danc-ed a hornpipe on his foe and then pitched him through the back door. “Now I'm foolin’ the inspiration! Whoop!” and lie kicked his enemy under the parch. “Hi, stranger! Ain’t this fruit? Talk about spring vegetables! What’s lamb and pens to this?" and he fired the unhapppy bar keeper down cellar. “What was your object in wanting to fight me?” asked the wolloped bar keeper, as lio crawled out and set the bottle arid glass on the counter. “Yer see, pardner,” said the stranger, filling a glass to tho brim, and holding it between his eyes and the light, “yer see, I’ve only been married a mouth, anil I haven’t been home for a week, and I wanted to be warmed up into trim fer the malinee. There’s four bar rooms hvixt here and my house, and by the time I git thar pot lids and flatirons will only he an appetizer fer mo. Married man, pardner? ’ “No,” replied the barkeeper, shoving the bottle toward his late enemy, “I’m not, but my father was. I know how it is.”— Brooklyn Eagle. Hunting in the Arctics. In his narrative of the experience of the Jeannette crew, Lieutenant Danon hower says: During the summer some of us used to take the skin boats or the dingy and paddle among the cracks. On one occasion Captain De Long was alone in the dingy and was interviewed by a bear, who suddenly approached out of the mist aud stood watching him in the most dignified manner. The Captain retreated in good order. During tho ■summer it was very difficult to get bears, because they could take to the water bo readily and thus cut off their pursuers. During the misty times they were very bold, and on one occasion a she bear with two cubs approached the ship to within 400 yards of the starboard quarter. Fortunately the dogs were on the port side and to windward, so they did not scent the bear. The greatest quietness prevailed, and a squad of about ten riflemen was immediately organized on the poop. I was watching the boars through a cabin air port, and it was a very fine sight to see the mother and her two cubs approach tlie ship in a wonder ing and cautious manner. I could sec better under Die mist than tho people on the poop. Heard the Captain say: “Do auy of you think it is over 250 yards?” All seemed to agree, and he said: “Aim at 250 yards, and wait for the word ‘fire!’ ” Then succeeded a volley. Tho bears reeled and made several turns, and I thought tlint wo had bagged all of them, but was astonished to see them get up and walk oft’ in the most lively manner. Of course, all the dogs took the alarm and pursued them to tho first crack, which the bears calmly swam across and thus escaped. But large drops of blood were seen, and tho she-bear lay down once or twice as if wounded. In making her retreat she drove her cubs before her, aud became impatient when they moved slowly. The bears had boon Lit, but the distance had been underestimated, aud most of tho shots had fallen short. This was not extraordinary, because it was very misty. Jakes of 1 lie Last Century. Au old newspaper, printed way back in Revolutionary days, contained" these witticisms of our daddies, showing lb at there was an element of fun iu life even in the times that tried men’s souls : A good book and a good woman are excellent things for those who know justly how to appreciate their value. There are men, however, who judge of both from the beauty of the covering. While an old farmer in Connecticut was flogging one of his graceless sons, a pumpkin-headed fellow about 18, an idea all of a sudden entered the head of young Jonathan, and he sung out: “ Stop, dad—let’s argue.” A lady who was in the habit of spend ing much of her time in the society of her neighbors happened one day to be taken suddenly ill, and sent her hus band, in great imste, for the physician. The husband ran a few rods, but soon returned, exclaiming ; “ My dear, wliete shall I find you when I get back V” A lady at confession, among otb.ci heinous crimes, accused herself of using rouge. “What is the use of it?” asked the confessor. “I do it to make myself handsomer.” “And does it produce that effect?” “At least I think so, father.” The confessor on this took his peniti ut out of the confessional into the light, put on his spectacles, and, hiving looked at her attentively, said: “ Well, nufdarn, you may use rouge, for you are ugly enough even with it.” The Dean's Thanks. Some accidents seem to have hap polled on purpose, so put are they. For instance: A certain Doan of Ely was once nr ji dinner, when, just os the cloth was r moved, the subject of discourse hap pened to l>e tlmt of extraordinary mor tality among lawyers. “We have lost,” said a gentleman “ not less than seven eminent barrister iu as many months. ” Tlie Dean, who was very deaf, rose just at the conclu sion of these remarks aud gave the com pany grace: “ For this and every other mercy make us devou‘ly thankful.” —A French paper recommends a solu tion of three-fourths of an ounce of salt iu a quart of water for testing the ages of eggs. It states that an egg placed ill this solution on the day it is laid will sink to the bottom; one a day old will not quite reach the bottom of the vessel; an egg throe days old will swim in tho liquid, while one m ire than three days old will swim on the surface. Giang and Kng. I In answer to a correspondent who writes us for information on the above “’ui have compiled the following information. Eng and Chang wereboftl r.im.dtaneoiuly, on the loth day of! Apnl, 1811, and died ut the age of TCar ; They were connected together i,v a p.J nt coupler, winch entemd the body of each in the region of the vest pocket. This connecting arrangement „c-saril v threw them a great deal in each other’s society. When they were boys their lives were rendered more or less unhappy by their widely Mfetent tastes. Eng was very fond of sour ap pies in his youth, and when at night lie rolled and tossed upon his couch with a large stock of colic on hand, Chang had to Fie awake and get the benefit. Ea'er iu life Chang developed a strange long ing for a flowing bowl, while F.ng wa a Go and Templar, When Eng went to tlm lodge, the worthy outeide guard would refuse to let Chang in, because lie couldn’t give the pass-word, and as ?<ag couldn’t go in and leave Chang in t.m ante-room, he had to go homo and wait till another meeting. Eng was a Mason and Chung was a Knight of I vthins, and they used to give each other away sometimes, and Lave lots of fitu, Eng was a Half-Breed and Chang was a Stal wart and that made it bad about attend ing cancur-acs. Chang joined the Epis cbpal Church aud believed in sprinkling# while Eng was a Baptist, and not only got immersed himself, but fixed it so that Chang had his sins washed at the Bamo time. Once in ft ifliil© Cha.ng would get au invitation to a private party in a set to which Eng did not be long, anil then they had to settle the question by putting Etruican noses on each other as to whether they should go or remain at home. Chang died fhst, and Eug died a few hours later as a mat ter of courtesy. Eng was not prepared to die, and regretted that he was not con sulted by Chang before this important step was taken, but he said it would ft l VO the expense of two funerals, and he wanted to do what was right. The lives of these two men were somewhat peculiar iu mmy respects. There were many lit tle nameless annoyances to which each were compelled to submit, and which would not at first occur to the student. Tor instance, Chang had to get up and go for the doctor in company with Eng whenever Eng’s children had tho croup; and whenever Chang’s wife thought there was a burglar in the woodshed, Eng had to get up iu liis night shirt, and go with bis brother in search of the villian. They could ride tho festive velocipede, and when Chang got Piling drunk, Eng had to go to the jug with him, and stay tin re till the fine was paid. Among the many blessings which cluster about us, and are ehowered down upon us through life, wo are prone to lose sight of the fact that with all of onr sorrows and disap pointments, we are not born Siamese twins. —Laramie Oily Boomerang. Men Who Influenced Their Age. The course of history is not a mere game played by a few great men ; nor yet docs it run in an inflexible groove which no single man can turn ae ide. The great man influences his age, but at the same time ho is influenced by his age. Some of tho greatest of men, S3 far as their natural gifts went, have been useless or mischievous, because they have been out of gear with their own age. Their own age could not receive them, and they could not make their age other than wliat it was. The most use ful kind of great man is he who is just so far iu advance of his ago that his age can accept him as its leader and teacher. Mon of this kind are themselves part of the course of events ; they guide it; they make it go quicker or slower, but they do not thwar t it. Can we, for instance, overrate the gain which came to tho now-born federation of America by find ing such a man as Washington ready made to its hand ? Or take men of quite another stamp from the Virginian de liverer. The course of her history for the last 800 years ho3 been largely fd fected by the fact not only that we un derwent a foreign conquest, but that we underwent a foreign conquest of a par ticular kind, such as could be wrought only by a man of a particular kind. The course of our history for the last 800 years lias been largely affected by the fact that, when English freedom was in the greatest danger, England fell into the hands of a tyrant whose special hu mor it was to carry ou his tyranny under the forms of law. English history could uot have been what it has been if William the Conqueror and Henry VIII. had been men what they were. One blushes to put the two names together. William was great in himself, and must have been great in any time or place. Henry, a man not without great gifts, but surely not a great man, was made important by cir eiimstances in the time and place in which he lived. But each influenced the course of events by his personal charac ter. But they influenced events only in tlis sense of guiding, strengthening and quickening some tendencies and keeping others back for a while. Neither of them, nor Washington either, belong to that class of men who, for good or for evil, turn the world upside down, the great destroyers aud the great creators of history.— Freeman, in Fortnightly J.cvicw. ff riling. A careful reading of good authors gives several distinct products—facts, style, readiness of expression, and a cer tain temper or frame of mind conducive to good writing. Before writing a pro duction one must gather together an abundance of material. Facts, style, and vobulary must nil be in readiness; must be saturated, as it were with the subject. And yet, if the peculiar power is wanting, if feeling is cold or absent, these are like the brick, stone, and mortar without the architect and mason. It may be established as a general rule that no speaker gets worked up into much greater fervor before his audience than he experienced when he was prepar ing the production in his silent room. This indt finable mood moves in wavs my; t -rious, so much so that men have impersonated it in a goddess, and called it a nv'.sc. She is said to linger along the banks of rivers, in the leafy woods at twilight, and along the pebbly shores of the o< can. But she can be wooed in imagination in the writings of others, ad cirefttlly reviewing the paths in win h she lias flown iu the past, we can more rea lily obtain her aid. And so the suggestion is offered, that, after the matt rials are gathered for a production, the m xt preparation, of equal importance, is to g< t the spirit as well os the facts; and this is done by carefully reading the wotks of the best writers, and when this is obtained, give fnll rein to the inspira tion, ir afflatus, till its force is spent.— Boomerang. —lmitation pink pearl* are now carved out of very pale-tinted coral, and these fo closely resemble the real pearl that the e e of an expert iz needed to detect the tliderence. WIT AND WISDOM, —A sensational report is calhl . aril because oue i anardly lielievc n C&O, —“1 should think that you would badly about leaving this pl-i e ,. >i .' the housemaid to the departing oTj; don’t: . mghvl logo. 1 ain't sot,, to leave any ui you—except tins • Poor olil Tiger, he always washed tif plates for me!” ' Ua —The United States Fish Commission has recently placed in the rivers of a kanxas and Te as 1,500,000 shad, pcf' statement may lie believed, it's not tlm mini! er of fbh they put into a river, bm tho number they take out, that men r. about. —Boston Post. —A Denver Chinaman, who has g ori . into the ice cream business recently has the following sign near the door " You catch ’em lieezy telly two bitten all same Sian Flancisco." 'it j s mor and more cv.dent that wo are ruined by Chinese cheap labor— Boomerang. ' —Philadelphia has a professional man who affixes celluliod noses with patem, suction springs; reproduces lost ears provides aluminium, gutta-percha or ccliuloid cheeks; reduces protrudin. jaws: permanently cures facial redness pract ces plastic surgery in all Vts brandies; and thoroughly disguises the ravages of time, disease and accident Oh, would that he were here to pm a whole head on a friend of ours Chica go Herald. —An enterprising looking country man with a creel full of fine brook iroiit was standing in the doorway of a rail, road station. A passenger accosted him and admiring the fish remarked: •• Go ing to take t hem home for supper, I sun pose?” “Not if I can help it.” said tlia ru-tic, with a grin. “There be a party of city bloods as went fishing from here' this mornin’. They’re ’spected back soon, and I’m sorter lyin’ round waitin’ to save their feelin’s.”— Brook lyn Eagle. —A man undertook to parnt the de struction of Pharaoh’s host in the Red Sea on one of the walls of a room. After a very short time he much sur prised his employer by asking him to come and view- the finished picture. On going to inspect it he found the walls covered with red paint. “Where are the children of Israel?” ho asked. “Gone over.” answered the painter. “Where are Pharaoh’s host?” he next inquired. “All drowned,” said the painter. HOME AND FARM. | —Silk lacc may be cleanrcd by wash- ■ ing and rinsing it in benzine. When I clean, hang it in the open air till all odor ■ has left it. ’ Hess between folds of white I paper. Delicate silk ribbons may be I cleansed in the same way. As benzine I is very inflammable, care must be ussd I to let "no tlamo approach it. —Spiced Vinegar: For every quart of I vinegar allow three ounces of grated I horseradish, one ounce each of pepper, I cloves and allspice (whole)," two ounces I nl white mustard seed, two onions I chopped line. Simmer all together five minutes, aud when cold pour it over boiled cabbage or bests.— N. Y. Tribune. —A pretty mat intended for the top of a small table is made of drab felt. Tne edge is out in sharp points; between these points are placed soft little tassels made of high-colored crewell. The border of the mat is made by working with gay embroidery silks any pattern which suits the fancy of the maker. The old-fashioned cross-stitch, or some modification of the feather-stiteh, is pretty.— A r . Y. Post. —Ten-minute Cakes.-—Take two tea spoonfuls of cream-tartar and mix it with one pint of dry flour. Dissolve one teaspoon fill of soda in a teacupful of milk ; rub a piece of butter tne size of an egg into the dry flour; then beat up one egg and a teacupful of sugar; mix all well together; and bake immediately after adding the milk and soda. Have your o ven ready heated before you be gin, and you can make and bike this cake in ten minutes. —A decision of considerable import ance to farmers and hired help was ren dered by the Supreme Court of New Jersey the other day, in the case of Mather vs. Brokavv. Mather contracted to render services to Brokaw for a cer tain period, but before the expiration of the time agreed upon left hi3 employ ment without the consent of his em ployer, and without any good cause. Being refused wages for tho work done, he sued for them, bat the Court decided that, the employee could not recover for the work which he had done under the contract, for, having broken the con tract, be could not maintain an action under it.— Chicago Tribune. —Dairymen of the southern part of Wyoming County, New York, are agi t vted by the presence of anew weed, known as “Long John,” believed to have been brought in Western grass seed. It grows three feet high, has the appearance of a species of mustard, and blossoms with a small yellow flower. Cattle are extremely fond of it, eating it in preference to grass. The milk from cows feeding upon it is rendered worth less, the butter made therefrom being worse than rancid, and utterly valueless for anything but common grease. The managers of cheese factaries are watch ful lest a batch of this milk shall spoil the whole make of cheese. A shipment of butter made to New York by one farmer was returned by the retail dealer as worthless.— Chicago Times. Bntterlne. The subject of food adulteration opens np an intinite field of discussion, and there is muoli to be said for and against it. The butterine factory in this city, which baa just declared a dividend of 10 percent., reveals the fact that an extensive business has been carried on the past year in the manufacture and sale of an imitation of butter ; but while butterine can not be called an adulter ated article of food, nevertheless there can be no doubt that thousands of peo ple are daily bnying the article under the impression that it is genuine butter. And in this connection we will say that from practical knowledge of the mode of manufacture, we would infinitely prefer oleomargerine to rancid batter, and will readily concede its superior healthful nesa; and yet the business—although the company sells its product an bnttor ine—supplies the retailer with dmiii sf deoeption, and practically resxts in giving to the consumtr, perbajs in a majority of instances, that which ho did not bny. —New Orleant Sugar Planter. CotTLDK’T keep np with the procession : Ragbag and young Symonds were moving out of the melon patch as rapidly as they could, not caring to see what it wa that the bulldog wanted of them. Symonds was the most fleet of foot and began to forge ahead of Ragbag. Not disposed to desert his friend, he cried : “Ragbag, why don’t you run faster?” And the almost breathless Ragbag re torted : “Do I seem to be hanging back to kill time and let the dog cahSi np ?’’