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OVER THE MOUNTAINS.
“ What droam nnpillowod thy youmr hf'ad
At chill ar<d cheerless break of day?
And whore, with swift, impatient tread.
Pursiest thou thy lonely way?”
*Bec where the purple mountains lie,
T.tkr uds that catch th• rialnsr *un;
behind yon peak that breasts the sky
1 needs must be ere day is done/*
“ And lit s thy home beyond that peak,
In some, wild-wooded mnurttajn-glcn,
And. Pick with absence, and st thou seek
The s wet, familiar scene Ofrain?”
w Untroubled as the mnrnlnpr wind
That drinks the dew from grass and tree,
I leave my father’s house behind—
The broad, bright world is home to me.”
•‘ Then Fancy hath thee by the hand.
And whispers tales of import sweet—
How, uighing through a rainbow land,
Love listens for thy coming foot/’’
’Twero sweet to find love waiting me.
It love were meek aml carno unsought;
Not mine a love-sick fantasy—
-1 follow a gublimer thought.”
11 Host dream of mines and treasures rare
In yon recesses buried down,
Or seek in faerv fastness them
The bitter luuroi of renown?”
* Ash me no more; 7 cannot tell
What thing I burn to find or do;
I only’ know a wild, wild spell
Compels me to those crests of blue.”
* I warn thee, though they seem so near,
It is a weary way botweon
Through woods and wastes obscure and
drear.
And adder-haunted fens unseen.”
•* A Journey made, a danger met,
Are tales to tell when both are done;
There never was a pleasure yet
Worth t:isting if too smoothiy won.”
** O, boy, why waste the, golden hour*
In Bareliing after fancied sweet?
Tbou’lt find naught sweeter than the flowers
That die beneath thy heedless foot.”
** O, rnnk of scent and pule to sight
The W'‘eds that haunt tills homely place!
The flowers that spring beyond that height
Must bloom with a diviner grace.”
•‘On some tali clifTs aoocsglcss crown
They mock the desperate climber*a clutch,
Or httpiv. it he puli them down.
They turn to ashes at his touch.
“ lleyond those hills In other years
1. toil, sought Wondrous things to find.
Ah me! I turn again, with fears.
To seek ih<- weets I left behind.”
—C', L. H third h . in LiitpUicoU’l Mtiyazin*.
YII-I)e?elo|K'il Saxon Hoys.
If tin- Savon boys <k> not. out up the
ffiaiiks and pcf-forih (ho tricks of their
American cousins, they enjoy them
selves in a way that is entirely satisfac
tory to themselves. They have, during
the summer, in all the largo towns and
cities, largo swimming baths, con
structed like those in Chicago, where
they llock in large numbers intheeven
iiiga and on .Sundays. They can liavo
all the tun of this kind they want, in
cluding dean towels and neat dressing
looms, ior almi|t live American cents.
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well patronized. It is a rare thing to
hud a Saxon youngster who cannot per
form on the horizontal bar, on tho
rings, or on tho flying trapeze, feats
that would lie credit,‘line to a profes
sional at Idete. The boys are generally
well developed, muscular and agile,
and good health seems to take a fancy
to them.
In disposition they arc ns amiable as
flirts more amiable Ilian some girls,
i'lirir manners are pleasing. They are
|*dite and accommodating. They do
not swear, “chaw.” nor smoke. Kist
lighliug is not to their liking, and vul
garity is unknown among thorn. They
are sc late, quiet, peaceable and good
natured at all times, while in the pres
ence of their elders they observe with
astonishing precision and wonderful
judgment the laws and regulations laid
down far their guidance at (tome and in
till! schools.
The work which the small boy is
called upon to do in America is 'done
here generally by girls or full-grown
men. There aro no telegraph boys. All
dispatches are delivered oy men in uni
form. There are no rash-boys, girls
generally tilling such positions. Hoys
are not called upon to run errands for the
public. Able-bodied men in uniform,
large enongh to be trusted with valua
ble packages, stand at every comer and
ate ready to come tit. your lioek or call.
The newspapers are carried and sold
by men. There tire no news-boys. No
idle boys are seen on the streets. When
they are not at school they are learning
a trade, and after business horn's they
generally betake themselves to some
place where they can exercise them
selves, or t hey study their lessons so as
U> be prepared for the early morning
class.
There aro no street Arabs in any of
the derman cities—no ragged urchins,
no Artlul Dodgers, and no “wipe-nip
pers.” There aro no sooty-faced, blas
phemous boot-blacks, Jn' a word, the
American small boy, of high or low de
gree, would iind his occupation gone,
whatever it might be, if he emigrated
to Germany. He would pine away and
die of a broken heart— Cor. OMeaao
Mews.
A Parisian Duel,
Parisians will remember the duel be
hveoii tlie Huron de M. and M. dela P.,
in the wood of Courtly. The llaron, a
Hiuiuvyrian ollloer, ami related to Prince
Bismarck, was expelled under the Gov
eminent of National Defence as an alien,
and has uot been seen since. The cause
of the quarrel was serious, and nothing
but tiie death of one or other of the com
batants was demanded.
Ibe men met in the wood of Cotirtrv
with their seconds. Pistols were placed
in their hands after twenty-five paces
hud been marked out, and the word to
tire was given. The pistols went off
simultaneously; they were rifled, and
both gentlemen were good shots, but
somehow neither was hit. The weapons
were loaded again, but with almost-a
similar result. The seconds declared
they had bceu fired at; t)lU) Nniil ho luul
I..ii-..iiet wins tie by him. Pour
more bullets were exchanged, the sec
onds lying down in the grass, like sharp
shooters, while the doctor hopped about
behind the trees like u wild Indian. No
iKHly was hurt, and when the dozen bul
lets were exhausted, it was found that
tlie chief second, who had loaded the
pistols, liad forced the lead in with the
mallet and ramrod, causing them to de
viate, and injuring the rilling of the
weapons.
Two magnificent rapiers were pro
duced, but unfortunately the seconds
-iad neglected to have them ground.
They were blunt, and, as those who have
lieen out know, it is impossible to do
anything save inflict a serious bruise and
route the skin with an ungrouud rapier
The combatants fought away until dusk,
but no wound was inflicted incapacitat
ing either of them from continuing. At
last tlie seconds separated them, and Dr.
I'Etendard came forward to exercise hit
skill and examine the injuries received
He found that M. de la P. had been
lilt a dozen times in the chest. He
bandaged the wounds by covering each
of them with a two-penny postage stamp,
and the party returned to Paris. Three
days afterward the doctor called on M. de
i foa!ld him up and well—he
had taken a bath, and the postage stamps
had disappeared. —Paris Paper.
—Venor admits that he scatters hi*
predictions as he pleases and then picks
out the weather to fit them.— Lowell
Courier
Cartons Facts About Teeth.
Where teeth are extracted and imme
diately replaced in tbeir sockets they
not unfreqnently remain Arm in the jaw
forvears.
Thirty odd years ago, when I first be
gan to study medicine, I thought after
three days’ study it was high time I
should begin to practice A girl living
in my mother’s family was attacked
with a severe toothache, and, of course,
applied to the new doctor. The doctor
examined the care very critically, and
decided, after the gravest thought, that
it was a case of pain in a tooth, and at
length came to the conclusion that said
tooth must he extracted. In no other
way, with all his experience, could he
promise to relieve the patient. The
maternal head of the household was
called in consultation, and was rather
disposed to favor pulling the tooth
instead of extracting it. Hut the doctor
was firm in his conviction, basing his
opinion on the results of the thousands
of similar cases which had fallen under
his observation. The doctor had not at
that time ever seen a tooth extracted,
and so practiced, on the way front the
office, oil the end of his thumb with the
hook of the turnkey, so as to learn just
how to seize upon tho tooth, and thus
fully to prepare himself to meet with
unfaltering courage and coolness this
trying emergency in his professional
experience.
The offending tooth Was the one im
mediately behind the eye-tooth. In my
trepidation I allowed tho hook to touch
tho eye-tooth as well, and drew them
both out, the eye-tooth being entirely
sound. Immediately and without any
definite notion of what I was doing, I
replaced tho eye-tooth in its socket.
Having recovered from tho hand
trembling and excitement incident to
my acute sympathy with the deceased,
or rather with rny suffering patient, I
at once saw that it was very important !
that sho should keop hot* tongue away I
from the eye tooth, so I suggested the I
chances of a gold tooth in the emptied I
socket, and urged the importance of 1
keeping everything away from that part I
of her mouth. Tho eye-tooth stuck in |
its place and remained, serving faith- j
fully many years.
Thoro is a gentleman now living in
New York City who has throe beautiful
front teeth which lie purchased from
the mouth of an Irishman. His own
decayed teeth were removed, and in
stantly Patrick’s were transferred. In
tho case of two of these tooth the suc
cess was complete, and even the third
one the gentleman retains, though it is
loose and seems to have no vital con
nection with his jaw.
v,.i me tooth of young
animals have been quickly transferred
from their sockets to tho pared comb of
a cock and a nutritive circulation es
tablished.
I used to know a young ladv who had
a decayed front tooth. It was so ex
ceedingly sensitive that she thought it
impossible to have thoso sharp-pointed
dental instrument} thrust into tho cavi
ty, and, indeed, almost went into hys
terics when an excavation was attempt
ed. At length she was advised, as the
process of destruction was going for
ward and she must soon lose the tooth,
to be etherized and have tho tooth ex-
tracted and instantly returned to its
place. Of course we all know now there
was a much simpler plan for destroy
ing the nervous sensibility, but in this
ease the extraction was accomplished,
ami tho tooth immediately replaced.
The circulation was re-established, and
in a few weeks the tooth was so firmlv
fastened in its soekot that it boro tho
necessary forco of plugging, and has
remained a good tooth for many years.
if it wore practicable to determine
the exact form of the portion inclosed
in tlio .socket ly an examination of the
protruding part of a tooth, I havo littlo
doubt that it might become very com
mon to transfer teeth from one mouth
to another. Precious as our teeth are,
many persons could be found who for
a consideration would part with the
most beautiful ones.
The introduction of rubber instead of
gold for plates for artificial toetli is a
great improvement. A good, honest
dentist—and I think there are a great
many such—will fyrnish very good sub
stitutes for the natural teeth if you will
give him a commission to spend as much
timo as ho finds necessary in making
them.— Dr. Dio Lewis . in Holden Rule.
About Stockings.
After spun-silk hose, the first choice
are tlie I’nlo-thread stockings, which
come in all the new shades of mastic,
crushed strawberry, silver-gray, deep
orange, bronze, laurel-green, Bur
gundy, cadet blue, and claret, as well
as the more delicate shades of water
green, pearl, cameo, flesh, niaiuo, and
main other exquisitely delicate tints.
Black lvse are in great demand, as
well as those of dark green and nuns’
gray, three shades which aro in high
vogue with ladies of line tastes. Aside
from hose of a monochromo color, are
an endless variety of fancy ribbed,
pluided, striped, and polka-dottod pat
terns, which accord exactly with many
of the dress effects in color and pattern.
The fashion of wearing tlie very low
cut XIV. slip) ors, or Grecian
sandals, which display so much of tho
stocking, has cause a great demand for
hose elaborately decorated in both
fanuiful ami artistic designs. Asa re
sult. there has been a lively competi
tion among the manufaetmors, and
stockings which were lint lately to be
found in a few standard dyes now ap
pear ill every conceivable shade of
color, and ornamented in tho most
novel and striking manner. Chootdng
a stocking to harmonize with the cos
tume is much followed, and in the
latest dyes am to be found all the fash
ionable. aesthetic shades noticeable in
dress fabrics, both in pale and dark
colors. In anticipation of the demand
for dainty open work and other fancy
hose, to be worn with delicate summer
costumes, unusual preparation has been
made, and besides this great attention
hits been paid to the manufacture of
stockings for general wear in the mat
ter of durability as well as lineness of
texture. Children’s hosiery follows
very closely in design and color the
styles brtmght out for older persons,
but as a rule children do not wear
elaborately ornamented or open-work
hose.—A’. )\ Keening /Vs/.
—Zeno, the Greek philosopher, be
hoved in an iron-handed fate, but he
wa good Calvinist enough to round off
a theological point very nicely. When
his servant said In excuse: “ “Master,
remember that I was foreordained to
steal the money,” he replied, as ho
brought the thoug down on the fellow’s
back, “That may be, but I was foreor
dained to flog you for it.” _
—A patent has been secured on an in
vention which will be of groat value to
to those who are obliged to go through
life on crutches. It consist* of cratches
set on rockers, which are faced with a
heavy rubber band The u*or thus
move* forward eight feet at a step, with
a smooth, even motion, which does
away with the jar experienced in the
use of the ordinary orutoh. — ,V. F. Sun.
An American Ah Sin.
A good story, one certainly that will
be relished by San Francisco sports who
may chance to know the leading actor
in it, comes up from La I*az, Mexico.
All lovers of “draw,” and all who have
ever been taken in by betting on two
pairs, will appreciate the details of this
narrative of misplaced confidence. It
is a maxim among gamblers that no
man will hesitate to swallow a hook
baited with a “sure thing.” The story
about to be related is founded on this
principle of gambling. The steamer
Sonora, which arrived at La Pazaweek
or so before the -Ith of July, brought to
that little Mexican town a smooth
tongued gentleman who represented
himself as a mining expert about to in
spect several valuable pieces of property
located somewhere in the mysterious
country back of the town. He gave his
name as William Curtis, and was, he
said, bat recently from San Francisco.
To those who met Mr. Curtis it was
quite evident that he had more money
than brains, although he might he ac
counted a very good mining expert.
He conducted himself in a manner that
would be described in sporting circles
as “fresh," a condition for which a salt
water voyage is no remedy. Immedi
ately on arriving at La Paz, Mr. Curtis
sought an introduction to the Prefector
of the town. The Prefector of La Paz
is a very dignified person, who in the
political register would rank with our
Mayor Blake, the gentlemen in both
cases being the chief magistrates of their
particular burgs. Tho Prefector re
ceived him cordially; in fact, was over
joyed to meet so distinguished a Gringo,
and said in Spanish: “Senor, I throw
myself at. your feet.” On the third
evening after this acquaintance began,
and after the Prefector had introduced
the innocent American to a countless
number of his mercantile friends, Mr,
Curtis was Invited around to the club.
At tho club Curtis met a number of his
new acquaintances, and after the usual
exchange of civilities, and after each of
the party had imbibed a quantity of i
aguardiente, a game of draw poker was |
proposed. The Gringo’s innocent ante
cedents at onoe intervened, and ho pro
tested that he not only could not play,
but lie was opposed to the game on
principle. The Mexicans laid siege to
the bashful young man’s scruples, over
came them, and Imally induced him to
“take a hand.”
The American asked foolish ques
tions concerning tho game, and gen
erally showed that, his early education
had poen sadly neglected.
liuf o' < l<" I'iiritiuf li.iinl <| nini, (..in
tfetP” ho imjuncul of one of Ins iSistH
lian friends.
“Four aces is the biggest,” he was
informed, "except a royal flir-di, which
nobody ever gets unless he has a
stuffed deck. Hut wo never wait for
four aces,” wlrspercd the Mexicans,
“wo often bet heavily on a single nair.”
Tho parly snt, down and arranged a
game at .*1 ante without limit, of which
proceeding the mining expert appeared
to havo no understanding. In tlie first
draw Mr. Curtis picked up three tons.
The man next to him bet sls, and tho
American raised him #2O. Two of the
party passed, hut the third raised Cur
tis #lO, to which the latter responded
with S2OO. Tho Mexican called, and
Curtis picked up another ten, while his
opponent, who had throe sevens, did
not improve his hand. lie looked at
tho American. ’The blank appearance
of that, person’s countenance reassured
him, and he bet $ 100. Curtis refleoted
for a moment, looked somewhat be
wildered, and raised the amount to
SSOO. The Mexican, astonished, threw
down his cards, and Curtis swept tho
money off tho table. The Mexicans
held a mute consultation for a moment,
and shuffled the cards on another deal.
Before the draw the American picked
up a jack full and lost about #3O on it.
In his next hand ho piokedup four fives.
This time tho Mexicans were laying for
their friend, and, under the impetus of
good draws, the pot. rapidly mounted
up to SSOO. At that point the Mexican
called, having prepared the deck to
swindle the unsuspecting Gringo. Cur
tis passed, knowing his nervous oppo
nent would bet.,which he did,raising the
amount of money on the table to about
#2,000. Tho Mexican then threw down
his hand and exhibited fou • jacks.
“ It’s not good,” -aid the American,
“I have four aces.”
The party was struck dumb with as
tonishment, while the mining export
coolly swept the pile of money into his
poeket.
But tlie Spanish blood of the natives
was up. They could scarcely brook the
nreseneo of a Gringo in LaTnz, much
less endure seeing one of tho hated raoo
. carry off $2,000 at their favorite game,
especially when they had expected to
gather in his surplus cash. That same
evening they hunted up Don Carlos
Katnero. The don is a noted sport and
monte-dealer, and is justly celebrated
throughout the Republic of Mexico. The
matter was soon arranged, and the next
evening Mr. Curtis was again invited to
the club. On this occasion Hon Carlos
Rantero was introduced as a leading
merchant of La l’az, who often in
dulged in poker after dinner. The party
smoked a few cigarettes, gossiped a lit
tle about Amorican affairs, and dis
cussed tho prospects of another Mexican
revolution in tlie near future, finally
“draw” was proposed. Don Carlos was
backward at first, but ultimately con
sented, and they sat down. Two hours
afterward thoy arose. Don Carlos had
lost over #2,700. In all the San Fran
oisoo sport had captured over S.S,XXi of
tho Mexicans’ money. The next day he
started for tho mines to open a monte
tmnk with a notorious Mexican sport
who passes for his partner.
Yesterday a Chronicle reporter related
this story to a well-known gammer or
this city, and asked him how it was
possible to change a hand containing
four fives into four aces.
“I swear 1 don’t know.’’ ho replied;
“he must have ehanged the var'aM.
Some say you rub the spots off, but I
never saw it done. The foot is I don’t
’know much about poker. Fellows that
play it generally ought to be iu State
prison.”
“Whv so?” asked the newspaper man,
surprised at this opinion from a profes
sional gambler.
“Well, I’ll tell you. Poker presents
more ways of robbing people than any
game m me worm, tno tnioves tnat
practice it have all sorts of tricks and
machines for changing cards In the way
that fellow did at l.a Paz. What did you
sav his name was?”
“Bill Curtis, and I believe he was
known in this city as John or Bill Dunn.”
“Well, I don’t know him. I think all
such fellows as him ought to be in jail,
Why, do yon know, young man, I
wouldn't sit down to a game of draw
with the best merchant cn Front street.
He’d Wat me, sure.”
“Then you haven’t much confidence
in the integrity of the mercantile com
munitv?"
“Well, yes. But you give an honest
man a chance to stuff a deck of cards
and he’ll do it, yon bet. Just see how
them Mexicans were trying to play that
man lor a sucker; but 1 don’t think he
was justified in robbAg them, even for
that.”
“You say poker layers have a ma
chine for transferrin cards. What is
it?”
“I have heard of hem, but I never
saw one. As I told you, I don’t play
poker; I’m not grep enough for that.
They say it lies Fnsiie of the coat, and
working with the foe will snatch a card
that a man wants o get rid of. The
most usual way o/healing at poker,
however, is to ring in an outside party
to play into some.bdy’s hand. Hut I
don’t know anytlfbg about it, except
that everybody thatolays poker will get
robbed that sticks So it.”— Sun Fran
cisco Chronicle.
The Popularity of Kissing.
In former years tie practice of salut-
I ing ladies with a kiaseems to have been
very general, and nany amusing anec
-1 dotes of this social mstom arn on record.
It was, however, ccasionally severely
censured as being qien to abuse. Thus,
for instance, John Hinyan, in his “Grace
Abounding,” spearing of it, strongly
condemns it. “Tin common salutation
of women,” he ays, “I abhor; it is
odious to me in vhomsoever I see it.
When 1 have seengoodmen salute thoso
women that they lave visited, or that
havo visited them, I have made my ob
jections against it; and when they have
answered that it vas but a piece of civ
ility, I havo mademy objections against
it; I have told then that it was not a
comely sight- Soae, Indeed, have urged
the holy kiss; but then 1 havo asked
them why they made balks? why they
did salute the most handsome, and let
the ill-favored go!” In spite, however,
of tho censure poured on this old fashion
by even conscientious moralists of tho
time, there can bo no doubt that it found
favor in the eyes or most of the ladies
of our own and other countries. Il has
been often remarked, with more or less
truth, that there are few of the fair sex
who are in their inmost heart indifferent
to tho admiration paid to them in daily
life, and who would regard with disfa
vor a kiss politely offered to them from
some gallant await whom, it may he,
they have captivated by their countless
charms. History, we know, is daily re
peating itself, and it is difficult to ho
lieve that human nature is different
nowadays from what it was in years
gone by, although the manuers of socie
ty may havo undergone certain changes.
ft is easy to criticise in unmeasured
terms the social usages of our predeces
sors, but, after all,. ,L ,lUl ' a nul , ™ r *
gotten that in <>'“ l>osont age tho samo
Customs are often as popular as ever;
tho only difference being that, instead
of having public recognition, they find a
tacit acceptance. It may he remem
bered how Cavendish, in his “Biography
of Cardinal Wolscy,” dwells on this
custom when describing his visit at
Mons. Crequi’s Castle: “i being in a
fair great dining chamber,” he tells us,
“where the table was covered for din
ner, and there I attended ray lady’s
coming; and after she eante thither out
of her own chamber, she received mo
most gently, like one of noble estate,
having a train of gentlewomen. And
when she with her train came all out,
she said to mo: ‘For as much,’ quoth
she, ‘as ye be an Englishman whoso
custom it is in your country to kiss all
ladies and gentlewomen without offense,
and alt hough it ho not so in this realm
(France), yet will I be so bold to kiss
you, and so shall all my maidens.’ By
means whereof I kissed my lady anil all
her maidens.” Chaucer frequently al
ludes to this old custom, and our read
ers may recollect how in the “Somp
nour’s Tale” he notices the zeal with
which the holy father performs this act
of gallantry. When the mistress of tho
house enters tiie room where he is busily
engaged in “grouping tenderly” her
husband's conscience, we are told how—
He ns i u up lull eurtlslily
Amt hoc cmlif.icrtli in ids u'mes narrow.
Anil lilsseth till- sweet, ami cliirketh like a
sparrow
Witli liis lippes.
Shakespeare, again, introduces tt, as
in the “Merry Wives of Windsor,”
where to kiss the hostess is indirectly
spoken of as a common courtesy of tho
day. In Lepton’s “London,” too
(1032), an established attraction of a
country inn, we are told, was a pretty
hostess or her daughter to salute tho
guests, without which, It. would appear,
there was small chance of its becoming
a popular resort for tho customers of
that period.— Belgravia.
Kicking Troubles.
“ ’Tuin’t no use to kick troubles; dat
will newer el’nr you on 'em. But l used
to do it in my young days, and so make
matters wuss pine- o’ 'better. When I
was a little chuck, down home, wo lived
in a poor cabin a bit out o’ the city, and
wo all worked in the ’baeca factory
quick’s we was big enough. In do yard
’hiud <lo cabin was a big rock, nml it was
a mighty bother to us in our play. If
we played hide-and-seek, do big boys
would doge ’hind it, one way or t’other,
and when wo play ball wo run agin it
and get hurt.
"One day somethin’ go wrong, and
I blame de rock fo’ it, so up I goes to it
mighty bold, mid l begins to kick it aid
nil niv power! And do more I kicked
do madder I growed, till T sec do blood
rminin’ down from my poor little liar’
feet. Den I run to my blessed old mam
my—she’s Won tweuty-eight year in
glory-—screamin' and hollerin’ like a
wild ingiue. She scream, too, and ax,
'Who done dnt to my boy?’ and I say,
‘Do big rook done it. ’ Don I look back,
and di-ro stood do big rock as firm as a
king on his throne. He wasn’t runnin’,
■lor liolloriu’, nor bloodin’! Ho didn’t
mind dat nr’ kickin’ no mor’u if ho
liudn t got it! Ho didn’t even run artcr
mo to pay mo back.
i “Now, since I growed to man’s ’state,
I so often called dat rock to mind, and so
I never kick troubles.
“Here's all sort o’ trials and troubles,
and some’s got to Vie treated oue way
j and some another, l’se had poverty;
j dero wasn’t no use o’ kickin' dat. I'so
| had sickness; what was de good o’
| kickin’ at did? I’so buried my three
: ftu® Ixiya, but I didn't kick back at old
! Death! If I bad he’d lia’ stood up agin
| tuo just as hard aud rough and cold as
I ray did rock in Virgiuny, and I’d lia' got
the wnst ou’t!
“I knows derc's enemies dat don't staif
still like de rock, but chases you, or flies
at you, and tries to overcome you. Well,
from all such, whether they belong to
'arth or hell, I runs in place o’kickin’!
1 runs into de strong pavilion, wh&r' He
bids my soul abide.
“Dere's one kind o’ trouble dat folks
calls ‘wexations,’ such ns lx>deration wid
unfaithful painters and house-cleaners,
flat’s de sort we's most likely to kick
agin, like I did agin de rook; but kickin'
won’t help ’em, nor make ’em more.
You jist got to bear wid ’em aud go
round cm, and do de liest you eau wid
’em in vonr way. Take my word fo’ it
—dat am an old man—you'll never gain
ntthin' by kickin’ ris ks. Go round ’em
if you kin, and if you can't, then keep
sway from 'em. If your troubles is of
de tfyinj or chasin' kind, den run into de '
great pavilion and hide 'way from ’em.
Never kick a rock." — li'uA.A Tower.
Fancy Farming.
We have never done any fancy farm
ing, and never expect to. Our expe
rience on the farm has been of the hard
knocks character, made as easy as pos
sible by the application of as much in
telligence as we possessed or could gain
by diligent observation and investiga
tion. But we have no objection to fancy
farming, if one has tho means and dis
position to engage in it. Indeed we have
great respect for men who are able and
willing to embark in the enterprise of
farming for the sport of the thing, for
their failures at least are often instruct
ive. But such farming has not been al
together a failure in point of dirtet
benefit. We arc greatly indebted to
tho men who have “squandered” their
money upon fancy stock and new meth
ods, fur what has appeared impractical
has frequently through this means been
demonstrated to be of the highest and
most practicable usefulness. I*. T. Bar
num is remembered in his earlier days
for having used an elephant vothe plow.
It was difficult to see how elephants
could be made profitable in this way,
and it is dillicult still. But there might
have been some who through all their
lives would have thought that they could,
had not Mr. Barnum's plowing been
very unprofitable. He had the means
and the disposition to experiment in that
direction, and certainly there was no
objection to it. Mr. Greeley used to
have volumes of fun poked at him in
regard to the alleged ignorance of “what
lie know about fanning.” But he knew
much more about it than he was given
credit for,and it doubtless cost him con
siderable to learn the most that he knew.
But he was a practical man, and an in
telligent one, and such a man does not
scatter his money without gaining a
good deal of information. Mr. Greeley
was of real use to agriculture, which got
some benefit from his apparently ex
travagant agricultural enterprises. And
it has been benefited by all such enter
prises, by whomsoever made.
Almost everything that is new and
ox | tensive is denominated fancy farming.
When men began to import Merino
sheep and Short-horn cattle their enter
prise partook of that character, and
even yet there are by no means a few
people wiio call the purchase of a cow
for more than fifty dollars a part of
fancy farming. But very many of the
men--not all, it is true —who embark in
such an enterprise as importing anew
breed see in it the utmost practicability.
The early importers of Merinos knew
(fid, and time has verified the soundness
of their judgment. That they did not
entirely comprehend the future, because
the development of the country lias been
so astonndingly rapid, is, of ooure, the
fact. But they saw something of the
possibilities. They knew the country
was adapted to sheep-raising and wool
growing, and they knew that a good
sheep would be more profitable than a
poor one, and, also, that there was a
demand and would be a demand for lino
wool. The man who drifts with tho
current, who gets into a groove and can
not get out, thought sheep were sheep,
and consequently that his set übs were
just as good as a Spanish Merino, llis
judgment was defective, that was all.
His neighbor who paid for a single
sheep more than a whole scrub (lock !
was worth was deemed by the owner of
the latter as reckless and fanciful. But
he wa# intensely practical, as his profits
and the profits of those who followed in
his footsteps have abundantly proved.
Such enterprises do not in any sense
partake of the character of fancy farm
ing, although they are so denominated.
When the New Yorker.began to drain
mudholes and quagmires lie was both
laughed at and pitied, and about the
most frequent remark that was made
concernin'* him was that “a fool and his
money is soon parted.”
And strange as it may seem, even
after his great success, and the success
of others who have imitated his example,
there are still plenty of men who doubt
the sanity of a man who attempts to re
claim apparently worthless wet land by
dainage. They call such enterprises
as the extensive and ainage of the Pull
man farm, near Chicago, exquisitely
fancy farming. But on the contrary it is
entirely divested of that character now.
When it was first tried, perhaps it was
reasonable to thus stylo it, but the
farmer who at this late day docs not
appreciate the utility of drainage lias :
not learned as much from the fancy i
farming of others as it was his privilege
to learn. We know that on such soil as
the most of Illinois, through drainage is
the farmer’s only safety, and that it will
increase the value of his land fifty per
cent for farminsr purposes It is "no
longer an experiment—no longer fancy.
The advantages of drainage arc
established beyond the possibility of
doubt in any mind that is observing.
In England drainage, perhaps, assumed
at first more of tho character of fancy
farming than it did here. Indeed, much
of the progress of English agriculture
is directly attributable to what we would
call purely tanev farming. Men who
had capital, while having a sincere i
desire to advance the great industry, |
were quite as much impelled to experi
ment by the pleasure it afforded as by ]
anything else; and some of them
became bankrupt in the “sport.” But
they save a trreat impetus to farming,
and the whole world is to-day greatly
indebted to them. —Western Rural.
A Strange Sight.
The south-bound freight train on the
North Carolina Railroad ran over a ne
gro child about four years old, between
the Yadkin ltivor bridge and Salisbury,
Saturday. The engineer saw it would
be impossible to stop the train before it
reached the spot where the child was
sitting, and, swinging himself out of tlie
window, started to crawl along the en
gine to its front, with tho intention of
picking up the child before the cow
catcher struck it. lie would probably
have succeeded in this perilous under
taking, but a lunge of tlie engine caused
h iu to lose his balance, and fie waspre
eipitatnl down an embankment. lie
had hardly regained his feet before a
piercing scream was heard, and he
knew tlie child liad been run down. The
engine stopped within its length after
striking the child, and then the horrible
task of pulling the mangled body out
from under the wheels began Tlie
body had been cut half in two as cleanly
as if done with a knife, the head part
falling to one side amt the legs to tho
other. A shudder rati through the en
gineer when he picked up the head and
body of the child, amt the sensations he
experienced when it broke into a cry
were imie cribable. lie lux tily laid it
upon the ground, when if uttered the
most agonizing screams for full two
minutes before it gave a gasp and died.
It was a strange experience to hear a
dismembered body crying, and wa* well
calculated to make the witnesses shud
der. The body of the child was turned
over to its mother, who lived in a cabin
near bv. — Charlotte Observer.
—A geologist predicts that Montana
will become, the greate-t eoal-prodficin >•
State in the I’nion.
Some Queer Dishes.
What about worms, for instance? I
do not mean the common earthworm,
of whose agricultural efforts Mr D&nvjin
descants in so learned and interesting
a way. The earthworm, as far as Lain
aware, is not used as a staple article of
food in any part of the world, but mere
ly as a resource among certain tribes of
Indians in time of famine, and is no
more to be classed as an ordinary arti
cle of diet with them than leather or
canvas soaked in grease is with us; al
though both these, as well as other curi
ous things, have often been had recourse
to by cast away sailors in the attempt to
satisfy the cravings of hunger. Tbc an
nelid I refer to is a marine species, and
is looked upon as a great luxury by ail
the natives of tho South Sea Islands. ! i
lives in the coral reefs, and from tho
middle of October to the end of Novem
ber conies to the surface at sunrise in
immense numbers; and great is tho
commotion and excitement among tho
people on the first appearance of tho
little stranger. Its arrival is always
heralded by feasts; and during tho
Baloio.or worm-month, all the natives
wax lid and lusty on tins their favorite
article of food. The worm is curiously
punctual in its appearance, almost to a
day; and the months in which it ap
pears are respectively called the little
and big Balolo months. From early
dawn on the expected day, scouts are
pin _d on tho hills and rocks command
ing a view of the reefs; and no sooner
does the long-expected shoal appear
than all tiie wooden drums in the neigh
boring villages are sounded, and the
entire population, big and little, young
and old, sound and lame, rush to the
beach; and while the able-bodied ones
help to launch the canoes, the remain
der set to work to dig and heat tlie
ovens, or to discuss the chances of a
good or had worm season.
Fleets of canoes swarming with people,
all armed with nets, at once put off,
and scoop up the worms in huge quan
tities; they are then taken ashore and
handed over to the cooks, who, after
adding a certain quantity of cocoa-nut
milk, .specially prepared for the pur
pose, tie them up in young banana
leaves, which have been previously
passed over tho fire to toughen them,
and then hake them for some time in
an oven, when they arc ready for Con
sumption, and are often sent; round as
presents to friends, just as game is
among ourselves.
Dr. Stradliug mentions white ants.
—mfP —rtrvr.— iiitVJ "W TlWtx, , ( ;
them; allow me to tell him that
they are “dear little tilings” when prop
erty fried in their own fat,; plump,
sweet, and satisfying; blit curiously un
like ants in appearance. They are gen
erally much esteemed as food by the na
tive} of most of the countries in which
they are found. 1
Porpoise and whale are also edible. I
have tried both, and found porpoise
liver excellent, and not to he distin
guished from that of pig. Of the flesh,
however, 1 can hardly speak so highly,
:is it requires boLh good cooking and a
10-'g abstinence from fresh meat to
make it at all palatable. Our ancestors,
however, were of a different opinion, as
in olden time} it was highly esteemed,
and wo generally find the “porpuss”
figuring as a distinguished dish in most
of the great banquets of middle ages.
Dot if the flesh of the porpoise is coarse
tend indifferent, that of his big cousin
the whale js still more so; and tiie only
time 1 tasted it I found the meat ex
tv ediugly coarse and tough, ns well as
permeated with a nauseous taste and
smell of train-oil. The tongue, however,
is said to bo much better, but it never
h t■: c one under my observation. Whale’s
milk is by no moans to be despised.
Shark, the full-grown fish, is detesta
ble-tough, and of a terribly rank smell.
11 is rarely eaten by white men except
under pressure of extreme necessity;
but the natives of the South Seas view
it in a different light, and look upon the
monster as a soecial luxury. Moreover,
a New Zealand Maori knows no greater
treat than a shark that has been kept
uiril high enough to he unapproachable
within twenty yards of any one but a
na'ive. But with a young shark of the
brown variety the ease is different, and
1 well remember, during a live months’
re-idence at Ooara, having many a good
meal of fried cutlets cut from young
sharks about four feet long; and at last
vo cam'* to look upon it as the best fish
there, in Taste and appearance it re
minded one more of sturgeon titan any
thing else. li likewise resembled the
latter lish in having gristle instead of
bone ; jiini was much superior both in
lb .it.m-s and flavor to the British dog
li -'ii, which l afterward tried. — Cham
bers' Journal.
Sleepers* Discomforts In Germany.
One of the first complaints heard
from Americans on arriving in Ger
many is against the beds, for German
beds, as a rule, arc short—so very short
that a man who is unfortunate enough
•'to measure six feet has to double him
sell up between the head and foot board,
j like the letter A in the alphabet. The
in scry of this uncomfortable position
Would not be necessary were the' beds
ot a decent width, for with a wide bed,
even if it was not of sufficient length,
he could lay “cornering,” or he could
tu in over on his side and doubleup
w tlnmt projecting his knees and his
feet in n the cold air outside of the mat
tress. German beds, almost without ex
ception, are < ngle Acs, very single—
so much so that the occupant if he at
tempts to deviate an inch or two from a
horizonl nl position finds hiinselfsprawl
ing on the floor. The sheets, bed-blank
ets, etc., are made just to lit the beds
and are never wide enough to “tuck
in. They are seldom 1 ut an inch or
two wider than the mattress, and it re
quires the sk 11 and experience of
an acrobat, especially with a foreign
er. to keep the bud-clothes evenly
balanced over him. And then the
grumblers grumble at the pillows, which
they declare are e.tlier too large or too
small, too hard or too soft, and that tho
ofily people who know how to make
com,enable pillows, and who have
them, are the Americans. Many of the
hotels and boarding-houses here adopt
the French pillow, which is about half
the size of the mattress and stuffed out
so hard and plump that the only bone
lit the tired traveler gets from it is to
have it servo as a rest for his back while
lie s ceps in a sitting position. The
majority of pillows, however, found in
Germany are made wedge-shaped, of 1
the same material as the mattress, aud
come to a point near the center of the
bed. On these, the sleeper, if he sleeps,
rests on an inclined plane, and looks
like a body on one of the narrow planks
in the morgue at Paris, with a sheet
thrown over it. I think it would bo
difficult to lind a bed in this country that [
would measure over live feet ten, or six
feet at most between the head and foot
board, and as fora wide double bed!
lucre n probably none in .■vll Germanv, I
without it may be the one f saw at the I
nms um in -Munich, which is said to '
have .. longed to some King or baron of J
o cn time. Dresden Cor. Sp-inyfield j
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY,
—During the past year about 4 noo
patents applying electricity in AZ
shape or manner have been granted
—lt was reportedat tho Nurseryman’,
Convention recently hid at Rochester
>'■ * • nearly all & pear I
out in the Western States are raised in
New York. *“
—Machines are now made which will
cut from a roll of wire, pins of the right
length, head them, point them, pob h
them, sort them out with their points all
one way and stick them into papers 0 r
rolls, faster than one can count Jo,
Louis (Robe, ' ' '
—lt is said that very fine effects are
produced on unfinished cast-iron by a
mixture of petroleum with French yel
low, the result being a fine bronze yeb
low, not liable to ordinary wear, ami
if applied hot, filling tho pores of the
me!.-il, defying anything short of the file
or planer tool to obliterate it.
—A new use for glass has recently
been developed in its substitution for
marble tops of tables and dressing cases
A i’ittsburg, l’a., firm has turned out
slabs of glass that are said to be a per
foot imitation of the latter material
whiip they admit of decorations of var
ious designs, both in form and color.
-The genius of tho Yankee has come
to tho rescue of the horse suffering front
a galled stmiilder from the heat and ill
sh iiie of hard collars by inventing a col
lar from catkins, or flags, which grow in
■swamps. The cost is trifling, and it is
said not only to prevent galling but will
cure it, by adapting itself to any neck
or shoulder, and is light,cool and cheap.
—Detroit Post.
—A new explosive called “dynamo
gen” is claimed by its inventor, Dr
l’etrie, of Vienna, to be superior in
nearly every respect to gunpowder—it
is cheaper, safer and more effective
while it contains no substance that can
injure the guns. In view of the an
nouncement of so many new and great
ly superior explosives it seems a little
singular that the old-fashioned gunpow
der—first used at a period so remote
that its origin can not be traced—should
be the chief dependence of modern ar
tillery.
—The proportion of salt in the water
of the ocean varies greatly in different
localities. M. do la Grye has made a
series of observations on the subject, in
which—among many interesting results
—lie lias found that the saltnessj digy^-
JfVtliV iFiUUlJljTyj to tfie freshening by riv
ers discharging into the sea. The salt
also lessens on the approach of icebergs.
These facts would seem to have an im
portant bearing on navigation, as in bad
weather lests of the saltness of the
water might enable the mariner to avoid
running into unseen coasts or icebergs.
—lt is thought that the demand for a
cheap insulating material has been met
by a discovery of a method by which
wood, sawdust, cotton waste, paper
pulp, and other fibrous substances can
be converted into a material perfectly
impervious to moisture and acids, easily
molded under pressure into any shape,
and capable of being worked into any
form. This material is an excellent
non-comluctor of electricity, and can be
used for all forms of battery cells, tele
graph insulators, supports for electric
light leads and telephone work. It affords
the means of securing perfect insulation
at a very much less c ist than ebonite or
gutta-percha. —Chicauo Times .
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
- -The number of insects destroyed by
birds more than balances the loss of
cherries and other ripening fruits.
• —Alter coloring, currants will hang
on the bushes many days, and improve
nil the time. For jelly pick early.-
Prairie Fanner.
—ln a recent effort to smoke out a
woodchuck, a New England farmer
burned over an it re of land and de
stroyed fifteen rods of fence, lint lie
got the game, aa<l the ashes.— N. Y.
Tribune.
—Dry Sweet Corn; When the kernels
are plump and juicy, boil the ears long
enough to set the milk, then cut the
kernels from the cobs and dry in the
shade. Dried corn, if well cured, is ;i
wholesome, cheap and salable food. -
Prairie Farmer.
—A feverish thirst that cannot ho
quenched by water indy be thus allayed:
'1 brow a slice of bread upon burning
coals, and when it is all aflame lbrow it
into a tumbler of water and drink of
the water. This remedy lias been tested
and proven good.
—A very appetizing salad is made by
chopping coarsely some cold boiled po
tato s; then season well with sa'l. pep
per and mu-tard; line a salad dish with
fresh lettuce, then put in a lavcr <>f po
tatoes; on the top put a layer of cold
boiled heels, also chopped and seasoned,
garnish the dish liberally with Jctluee,
and just before sending it to tlie (able
ail l l vinegar, plain, or with ordinary
salatl dressing. — N. Y. Tost.
—London Purple: To use it for de
stroy ing potato bugs, take a quarter of
a pound of it, make a thin paste with
water in a small cup, and then stir this
into twenty gallons of water mid sprinkle
the plants the satnc as if doable the
quantity of Paris green were used.
Never use but half as much of the Lou
don purple to tlie same quantity of wa
ter. It is equally as efficacious and not
so dangerous as Paris green. German
luira Telegraph.
—Mr. Rice, at a meeting’of the Wrst>
eni Now York Farmers’ Club, raid farni
civs often do things without. thinking or
considering what the results instv he.
lie knew a man once who had a .steam
saw-mill, and a large pile ot ashes and
sawdust had accumulated. He hired a
farmer to draw them away in winter,
who drew (hem on an old orchard,
spreading them three or four inches
thick. The orchard became very pro
ductive, and for seven years bore heavy
crops of very fair fruit
—To make apple fritters peel threo
large apples, core them with a column
cutter and cut them across in siii es rath
er less than half an inch thick: put them
in a tint dish with half a tumbler of
braudy an i strew plenty of powdered
loaf sugar over them; let them remain
covered for a couple of hours, then take
e cb piece separately, dip it in batter
no tint' it is weil covered with it mid fry
a gel !cn color in pleutv of hot lard.
Lay the fritters in front of the lire, and
when all are done pile them up on a
na| kin. shake plenty of p ordered loaf
stipa, over them and serve. -V. K
Ihrul t.
—lt is proposed to practically abolish,
by cutting a canal 20 feet wide ami 20
feet, deep, the narrow isthmus which,
dividing the east and west lochs of Tar
bert, Scotland, unites the Mall of Kin
tyre to the mainland. Such a canal
would give a direct passage from the
Clyde to the Atlantic, saving about 115
miles in the vovage to the west and
north of Scotland.—X. Y. Hun.