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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. ■ r "'" - -...i 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.