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I VE DONATION PARTY OF DEAD MULE FLAT . From bleak New England’s mountains Up to the corralled strand Where fair Montana’s fountains ( Roll alleged silver sand, J A missionary, mild in / His manners and his speech, Journeyed to seek the wild in * A church wherein to preach. In the "city •• where he duly His wandering tent did pitch- It could not be said truly The good man “struck it rich.** For the people (who would gat her To hear his words with mirth) Were not earth’s salt, hut rather The salters of the earth. Of csfll* though oft spoke deacon. Or brother—l mean “ pard He found that they were speaking (See Hamlet) by the card. And t he language that they use with ,• Regard to every game The good man's face suffused with A (boh tailed) flush of shame. And to his deep dejection, When all around his hat He sent for a collection. Hut little wealth he gat. If growled the parson plucky They would satiric smile, And hint he was blamed Picky In getting back the tile. One day unto the preacher Two ruffians dbl repair; E*k;>i was the vilest creature — iCxcept t he other—there. < One was the “A 1 Terror,*’ The other "Murderer Ned ;*• And they confessed the error Of the lives that they had led The missionary ’ware was That Jesting they must be; He said In hU church there was Just then no vacancy. Rut when toward the trigger lie saw their Angers glide, H* remembered with great vli/or There was “ room for two inside. ** *' Scein’ we now air brothers,” The " A 1 Terror “ cries, " We ought to get the ot hers To come nndbe likewise. Po cock your gun, mv hearty, And, parson, fetch your hat: Hey for a donation part) For the church of Dead mule Flat!*’ Forth went the luckless parson, Retween the ruffians two, Who homicide and arson Vowed for the cause they'd do. They had their weapons handy, And used toward ail they met The modutt operandi of frontier etiquette. First, Brother "Terror A 1 " Would range them In u row. And stand prepared to slay one Whose hands should downward go. While Beacon " Murderer I’d," ho Went through them systemat ically, slid the ready Placed in the parson’s hut. The party cleaned the city Out in an hour or so. " Ioc.“ said the ‘•Terror,*’ witty, " *Tis time for us to go. TTnto the distant heat lien We mean forthwith to slide. And preach the Gospel; we, then, The plunder must divide. “The sun Is hast’nlng bod ward, No time to lose have wo Here’s half for Beacon Edward, And here is half for me ; And,my white rhokered hearty, You snail have back your hat. *Rah for the donation party For the Church of Bead mule Flat I* 4 "But. boys," the parson pleaded, “ ’Tis hardly i iglit for mo To let you, unimpeded. Take the church’s property. All preachers to their tumt are Faithful presumed to lie dust ah'tot my hut nnddu*der, That folk the holes may *ro " And think I made endeavor The church funds to retain.*’ In duster and in heaver They fired their pistol* t wain, And the parson snickered rjneerly As he two sU shooters di v\\ “Brethren, beloved dearly. I’ve got the drop on you'. * He marches to the cit y, And t here his prl/.e presents To a Vigilance Committee Of prominent residents. The pleas the missionary For his captives makes they fend off. And they give the cemetery Of his church a double send off. Anand And elect by acclamation Him Popoot Bead mule Flat; A church tax straight the\ levy, And now when the hat goes round. It* contents are right heavy, And have a chinking muiid. And hi* mother would not know’m. That young mining engineer, Who once had been to Homo, And with ii superior sneer. Where the Flatters most do (duster, The statement did dispute That the Pope wore a linen duster, And was upon the shoot. (J. T. Lanipun, in Harper'a Magiv.ine. A Typo of Imllan Territory Indians. I trotted my pony along pretty brisk ly. and in a ball liour’sride overtook an Indian rilling slowly along oil a mus tang. 1 bailed him. Ho was a friendly one. All Indians in the Territory nr® friendly. They are warm friends ii you have a bottle of whisky and a little money, and will never leave you till the money and whisky are gone. I found that he was going to the " Dig Spring," as lie called it, or Baxter Springs, in the southeastern part of Kansas, the end of my Journey. He said the reason 1 had seen no one was I had traveled between two ranges of settlements all the wav. Had 1 gone ten miles to the uortli' I would have struck one of them. Hut l was not sorry I liail not. My compan ion could speak English very nlnuily, mid very dirty and lazy. ' lie was a good type of the inhabitants of the Ter ritory. He was clad in a gorgeous waistcoat of a Disraeli pattern, buttoned with brass army buttons, and bad a blanket fastened at the hips and wrap ped around his legs to the knees, while nis feet were covered with moccasins. He said wo were within two days’ travel of the springs, and that about one hour before sunset we would striko off from the trail, and seek shelter for the night among the Indian settlements. So wo traveled along, lie being very shy, I baldly knowing bow to manage hint, till Ilb night of the whisky bottle. 1 pre sented it to him There was a change ns if by magic. His tongue was loosened and there was no more silence, lie told me Indian stories and 1 was regaled with Indian folk-lore. He told mo that nino-tonths of tho people were against the opening of the Territory to settlement, but they did not feel safe against it on account of treaties ao olten broken. He said if it did happen there was no telling where it would end, for the people would surely rise against them, and they would not rise unarmed or un skilled in the use of arms. It was now near sunset, and, according to his promise, we branched off toward tho settlements. In the day's ride there had been a great change in the country, for it assumed features more like those of thoStateof Missouri, but the climate was the same. It was the mixture of pla u. woodland and bluff thrown together in wonderful confusion Now and then an Indian cabin would peer out between the trees, and often theie would be ijuito a well-kept farm, but it was Indian farming alter all At sunset we reached the top of a bluff overlooking a prettv little stream that rippled along toward the south, and, winding down the bluff into the valley below, we reached the settlement, where we were to stoo for the night. —Boston Advertiser. A little hoy had his long curls cut off the other day, and was annoyingly reminded of the fact by the remarks of all his friends. Going with hie family into the country, goon after his arrival he came running into the house in great sorrow, crying: ‘ Mamma, minima, even the bens laugh at me: they all sav, M ObHWI' cut-goi-i eui-luur-eut!” " Experiments With Potatoes. Ur. K, L. Sturtevant, director of the New York State Experimental Station, located at Geneva, has published the following report in relation to the re sults of cutting and planting potatoes in various wavs'. In Commencing the series of experi ments upon the potato crop it seemed to us to be necessary to study the under ground process with even more atten tion than we should even give to the tops. The results at date seem to justi fy this method. In order to secure still further assistance in understanding the meaning of what we should observe in the field, we, as early as March, started into growth potato plants in earth, in sand, and in water in glass vessels upon the mantel in the office. In the field five varieties, the early rose, the snow flake, Burbank’s seedling, beauty of Hebron, and early Ohio, were used to form the unit of our system, and wore planted in rows of one hundred hills each on manured and unmanured soil. Tho seed used was cut in various ways and planted both for level and ridge culture. In the garden, duplicate plats were planted for the purpose of furnish ing plants to bo due at. various intervals during the growing season. In these garden plats the early rose variety alone was used. Some rows were planted with potato pealings, others with single eyes cut still larger, half potatoes, whole potatoes, seed ends, stem ends, a id potato sprouts, under various cir cum stances of lovol and rigid culture. Some portions have been left, undis turbed by the boo, others hoed, others spaded, others mulched, etc. Our fii.it observation was to note tho variation which was apparent, between the vege tating of the various plants. Some were not only earlier in vegetating than others, but were also more uniform in the appearance of the plants. As soon as growth was well established we com menced digging up hills for the exami nation of tho underground portion, and from this date until the present our ob servations have all harmonized with each other, and the conclusions at first arrived at as the record of tho first examinations have been in general sub stantiated and strengthened. We found that at no time has there boon any definate relation between the appear ance of the tops and the tubor formation at the roots. At no time could we ever feel certain that abundance or earliness of tuber or that small tops meant a de ficiency of tuber. This conclusion is an interesting one, in view of tho fact that upon the manured and unmanured portions of tho held planted with varie ties, at no time has there been any appearance of superiority of tho manured over tho unmanured portion. Judging from tho tops alone, wo might say, as many of our visitors have said, tho unmanured portion of the Held sho vs a decided superiority over tho manure portion. Our earlier diggings showed the earliest and largest formation of tuber upon the plants derived from the shoots which were broken from the potatoes and covered as seod. This fact held good up to .June 12, when growth seemed to cease and other plants took the precedence. Continued examina tion also gives origin to the following statements of results: In every case the eye cut small produced later formation of tuber and fewer and smaller tubers than other seed used. In the single eyes cut linger we noticed an increase in earl i ness and prolificacy over tho eye cut small. In the eye cut large and deep abundant supply of tubers to the stalk. In those eases where half potatoes, split lengthwise, were used as seed we no ticed a lack of uniformity in tho product of Iho different hi'ls, ami examination has shown that where tlm vegetatingoye was shortened in its depth, tho yield was markedly inferior to that produced from tho corresponding half of the po tato whore the vegetating eve was left at its full depth. These observations led tho way toward a study into tho reasons which produced these differ cnees and opened tlm question whether by the method of cutting tho seed wo could influence the results of planting. In our first search aftor causes wo spilt potatoes lengthwise and tried to trace whether the eye penetrated the tubor, and to what depth—which wo were led to tnink might 00 tho case, from ob serving that in the seed taken from tho growing plant the absorbtion of sub stance seemed to follow definite lines— but although our conclusions became satisfactory to ourselves, yet this meth od did not allow tho demonstration of our assumed facts to others. Wo, thorn fore, by soaking slices of potatoes in carminb, succeeded iu bringing out the interior structure through the staining of the tissues. This distinctly exhibited the tuber as a swollen stem, each eye being a terminal bud on a branch, the branches running into a central stem. We thus were aide to assign a difference in tho character of the seed used, whether cut with reference to the quan tity of potato substance, or whether cut with reference to securing length of the stem inclosed within the potato sub stance. Whole potatoes used as seed seemed to give us results which were puzzling in their character. In some hills but few eyes developed, in others a multi plicity of eyes and a forest of shoots. For some time this fact seemed to admit of no explanation, but in attempting to destroy the vitality of eyes by boiling water, and observing that these injured eyes threw up shoots in groat abun dance, even to the limit of twenty-live shoots to an eyo as an extreme, it seemed to us as If the in Jn ry to the eye ot the po tatoe, either before or during planting, was sufficient to account for tho Increase in : hoots ; and it now scorns quite prob able that potatoes whose eyes are abso lutely uninjured rarely develop m >re than two to four eyes, while other pota toes whose eyes have been injured, in part, may develop a dozen or more eyes. Wherever eyes are developed in excess, while the tuber formation may be largo, vet the resulting crop of tuber, through deficiency of size, on ordinary land, seems small. One interesting fact connected with this experiment of pour ing boiling water upon a pile of pota toes is that it caused formation of stems, underground stems, and tubers within the substance of tho potato. Should the result of these studies be willed—and here let ns remind the public that completeness of information can onlv be derived from the union of the experiment and the test, and thus far, while we have the experiment, we are still lacking the test—the saving to tho farmer in seed through the cutting the seed potato in a rational way would not only be large in itself, but would also be accompanied by a probable in crease in the quality and in the quantity of his crop. The present indications are that how the potato is cut for seed is of great imiHirtance, and that this is an essential factor to be considered by him who would gain the best results from his planting. The test, carried out another year, upon Und of different ! degrees of ouridiureut, win give conclu-' sive ♦viduaoe of vbe edkfroy of our 1 experimental studies as applied to the conditions which prevail upon the farm. Advide to a Yonug Man. Get married, my boy? Telemachus, eomo up close and look me right, in the eye, and listen to me with both cars. Get married, if you never do another thing in the world, marry. You can’t a fiord it? Your father married on a smaller salary than you are getting now, my boy, and he has eight children, doesn’t have to work very hard, and every year he pays a great pile of your little bills that your salary won’t. Cfiver. And your father Was just as good aman at your age as you are now. Ccitainly you can afford to marry. You can’t af ford not to. No, I’m not going to quote that tiresome old saying that what, will keep one person will keep two, because it won’t. A thousand dollar salary won’t kep two one thousand dollar people, but it will keep two five hun dred dollar people nicely, and that’s all you are, just now, my boy. You need not wince or gel, angry. Let me tell you, a young man who rates in the world as a live hundred dollar man, all the year round, Monday as well as Satur day, the day after Christmas just as well as the day before; the fifth of July as welt as the third, he Is going to rate higher every year, until he is a partner almost before he hoped to he bookkeep er. Good, reliable live hundred dollar young men are not such a drug in the market as you suppose. You marry,and your wife will bring tact, and love, and skill, and domestic genius and wo manly economy that will early double your salary. But you would have to deny yourself many little lux uries and liberties? Certainly you wo ild; or rather you’d wil lmgingly give theui up for greater luxu ries. And you don’t want to shoulder the burdens and cams of married life? I see you do not. And 1 sec what yon do not realize, perhaps—that all your objections to marriage are mean and selfish. You haven’t given one manly reason for not marrying. If you do marry, you are going into a world ol new cares, new troubles, new embar rassments. You are going to be care ful and worried about many things. You are going to be tormented with household cares and perplexities all new and untried.to you. You are going to be pestered and bothered and troubled. You will have to walk the lloor with ten pounds of baby andabarrel fullof colic, when you are nearly crazy for sleep. You will have to tell stories to the chil dren when you want to read. You will have to mend a toy for young Tom when you ought to bo writing letters. You will have to stay at home in lira evening when you used to go to tho club. The baby will rumple your necktie and the other children will trample into your lap with their dusty shoes. Your wife will have so much to do looking after the comfort of her husband and children that she won’t lie able to sing and play for you every evening l , as your sweet heart did. Your time will not, be your own, and you will have less leisure ami freedom for fishing and shooting excur sions, camps in the mountains and yacht ing trips along the coast, than your bachelor friends of your own age. 1 admit, all this. But then, you will be learning self-denial, you will be living for someone else; you will he loving someone better than von love your self, and more than a thousand fold that compensates for all that you givo up. Why, yon want to remain single now, ray boy, just because you are seuisn. An.i 1 1.. . i,, i..y <a.,gl<. the more i>is selfishness will grow upon you. There are some noble exceptions among bachelors, I know, and some mean ones among married men; and a selfish married man needs killing more than any other man 1 know, but as a rule— just look around your own friends and see who are the unselfish men ; who it is that gives up his seat in a streetcar to a woman—not u pretty, young girl, but a homely, wrinkled woman in n shabby dro-s ; who is it heads the chari ty subscriptions; who pays tho largest pew rent; who feeds the beggars; who finds work for ihe tramp; who are the men foremost in unselfish work? I know .vour young bachelor friends are not stingy. _o.no. 1 know Jack Fast,boy paid $570 last woek for a now buggy— it is light as a match-box and has such a narrow seat that ho never can ask a friend to ride with hint; and at the same time Dick Slocum, who married your sister Alice five years ago, gave $250 for tho cyclone sufferers. 1 think the angels laughed all that afternoon, my boy, hut 1 don’t think it was because Jack paid $570 for his new buggy. II you want to shirk the responsibilities of life, my dear boy, you may; if you want to live forty or fifty years longer with no one under the heavens to think about or care lor or plan tor but yourscit, gc ahead and do it; you will be the onlj loser, the world won’t miss you nearlj as much as you will miss the world you will Imv-- a mean, lonely, selfish ea-y time, aid, unless you area rare ex oeption to v<-,i class, lb tie children wd li re von, ml the cods never yet lovec any man whom the children disliked. Muking Fees. A ease was before the English law courts a lew days ago which recalls Fanny Rumble's experience with the young law yer who persisted in calling upon l et-and l oving her to death for no ob cet that she could see until ho sent in his bill, charging for each visit as a consultation; in fact, it was rather worm than her ease, sineo there does net .-com to hu\e been any plea made that the offender was about to get mar ried and found furnishing a house very expensive. The case was that of Warn er vs. Poole, w here tho do endaut, a trustee ami a solicitor, lmd been ordered in the usual wav to tile an affidavit of such documents as were iu his posses sion atl'e tng the litigation Acting up on this order he made an immense affi davit, which contained am >ng other things about sixty-six pages describing 2. letters that had passed between the same parties, s -tting each one sepa rately. l'he cost of preparing and copy ing this immense affidavit was some thing substantial so the plaintiff moved that it should be taken off the tile as being unnecessarily prolix and expensive Mr. Justice Kav, before whom tho case w as heard, decided that the affidavit could only bo looked upon as jut attempt to make costs, the long-es tablished practice being to refer to the letters in bundle.-, and not set them out separately, and so ordeied the affidavit lobe taken off the tile, and with it all its surrounding costs out of the cause, while the demoda;.:, trustee and solicit-' o- was ordered to pay the costs e.t the application personally, whereupon the discomfited limb of the law retired in disgust, doubtless recalling regretfully the good old chancery davs. /.om/on Paver. " ' A Texas negro, who claimed to be one hundred and twenty years of age, died, recently, and had the largest turnout ever seen iff the Nate, —t, Jwrmn, Ornamenting ■Roadsides. The appearance Of farms may be greatly improved and their value large ly increased by devoting attention to tlie strip of ground that lies between the outer fence and the traveled road. It belongs to the owner of the adjacent land, rinu can be employed ijy aim for any useful purpose tiiat does not inter fere with the privileges of travelers. The laws of nearly all Western States encourage the planting of shade and ornamental trees on this strip of land, and impose severe penalties tin persons ivho injure the trees and shrubbery planted. A farm is generally seen from the public road, and its appearance can be improved to better advantage by planting trees, vinos and shrubs along the side of it tllail by placing them where they will occupy ground that cart be made available for producing crops that can be harvested. A row of tine trees may he made to a Id much to tlie value of a piaee, and the cost oi pro curing, planting and taking cu e of them is very small. Still, tlm majority of farmers derive no benefit from the strip of land that borders the public road, and many of them allow it to bo a source of positive injury. It can al ways be utilized for the production of grass and Clover, which can be har vested or fed off by sto k. The best forage crops to produce on the s del of foaiis are white clover arid.blue grass. They are ornamental as well as useful, and the peculiarity of the location is very favorable to their growth. The ground is well drained by the ditch on one side arid is kept, fertilized by the (iiiSt that rises from the traveled l 'lad. Neither Of these two plants grows to such height that it interferes with foot travel when it is desired to walk along the side of the road. They may be kept short by allowing sheep or cattle to feed on them once a week. A row of fine trees will do more to ward beautifying this strip of land than anything else. Care and judgment, however, must be taken in their selec tion. Everything considered, the elm j Is the most suitable tree for planting on the side of a road. It is adapted to a variety of soils, is hardy, does not throw tip sprouts or suckers, is cleanly, long lived, ail lof quite rapid growth. It is at once stately, majestic and graceful. It is strong enough to resist the action of tho most violent winds common to the prairies, and its branejm.s are not liable to be broken by the aecumulation of sleet and ice on them. The shade they cast is not so dense as to prevent the growth of vegetation beneath the branches. They should be planted at least thirty feet apart, and their branches will then entwine by the time they have been planted a comparatively few years. The hard or sugar maple is a most de sirable street tree, and lias everything to commend it except its slow growth, it has no bad characteristics and is rarely troubled by insect enemies. Its foliage is line at all seasons, and is es pecially beautiful when its color is changed by the frost. The common basswood or linden lias many desirable characteristics. The trunk and branches are covered by a smooth and glossy bark, the leaves are of large size, and the growth of the tree is quite rapid. Its disposition to throw up suckers or sprouts is almost the only objection to it. All the varieties o' the ash are un objectionable, and they have many points in their favor, The hickory is beautiful at all stages of its growth, and for those who can wait for trees to grow qpeil Oil til , vrli-rn ,i-o wanted no bettor tree ran be reuom nieiidod. It is at onec useful and orna mental. It will bear nuts and produce shade, while it will serve the purpose of ornamentation. The trees which arc. not deserving of cultivation, and whoso presence amounts to a positive injury, are ihe ones that are most commonly planted, They are willows, poplars, locusts and white maples. The lirst are nearly de void of beauty, produce a poor shade, throw up suckers and sprouts, and send out roots near the surface of the ground to great distances. They arc almost constantly dropping their leaves, vvh !e they afford nesting-places for all kinds of loathsome insects. Poplars have nearly all of tho-e objectionable qitali ties. The Lombardy poplar nia, be a desirable tree for certain purposes when produced from sea l, but, when propa gated by cuttings or sprouts, as it al ways is in this country, it is an abomi nation. The silver-leaf poplar has ev en bad quality a tree can possess, and hardly otic redeeming clinraitcristic. The native poplar is not as bad as the imported variolic abut it is bail enough to discard. The buds of the balm of Gilead tree may possess healing quali ties. but everything else about the tp'eo is worthies or injurious. The locust produces a beautiful and fragrant blos som and grows rapidly, hut it sucker-, harbors insects, and is generally killed by the borer before it atta ins a size to bo of any value Evergreens are de sirable for ornamenting the sides of roads, but the lack of success that at tends their planting prevents giving at tention to them. The European larch, horse chestnut and three-f horned actiei v are all desirable trees to plant between those of larger and slower growth, as the elm and rock ntaple. They afford variety, and help till up the space that is unoccupied. The same may be said of the dogwood, sumac and elderberry, all of which are grown iu clusters- —Chicago Times. ('rushing a Citizen. The proprietor of a Woodward ave nue store which had been finely dec orated in honor of the Knights of Pyth ias was at his door yestcruav, when an old man lounged up and began: ••Sucli ignorance 1 never saw in all my life! You see that man across there— tho ono with the white hat on!” ••Yes.” •• Well, lie was having a good deal to say, and 1 asked him who Pythias was? Would you believe it, he couldn’t an swer mo.” “C-couldn’t he!” stammered thociti zen. •• No, sir. he couldn’t. Think of such ignorance in this enlightened age! When I told him who Pythias was lie called me a liar. Now. 1 want to prove that I'm right. You come over and tell him all about it.” •• But I—l can't leave.” •• Then I’ll bring him over here.” •• No, you needn't— I'm busy.’’ •‘ I see you are, but when a man calls me a liar I want to prove that l ain't. I’ll have nim over in a minute.” He hadn't crossed tho street before the merchant slid into the store and hur ried up stairs to keep out of s glit for an hour, and it was only alter he was cer tain that the old man had departed that he slipped down and consulted Web ster's aictionary to see if lie could rind out whether Pythias was a town, a man. or a team’.e on a h .11 —Coffee is a hurtful beverage, accord ing to doctors, and yet it* consumption i' increased ten per eem. every year (or ike ittti ka 11 eeutwry. American Diplomacy in the Orient# The conclusion of a treaty between the United States and Corea adds an other tet the peaceful successes of Ameri can diplomacy in the far East. Nearly thirty years ago the American Commo dore Perrv, evercomiug obstacles which had baffled almost every European na tion, and without firing a shot or leav ing ill-feeling behind, succeeded in opening Japan to foreign intercourse'. Four years later Mr. Townsend Harris, tho American Envoy, from the seclusion of his legation at Shimoda, without the “moral” support of a single gunboat, negotiated the treaty with the Japanese, which has been the tricrdel fbr all thri treaties made up to the present moment with the people. Two years ago Com modore Schufelt, in the course of a cruise round tho world in the United States War vessel Ticonderoga, called into one of the Coreari harbors With a letter for the King, expbdssinrf the de-; sire of the President for a treaty of amity and commerce. Leaving this document, he departed, as peacefully as he had arrived. When the Cur Pans baol hail ample time to digest his request and to consult their suzerain, the Emperor of China, the Commodore returned alone, and after a few month’s stay in North China, wended his way to the United States to obtain the ratification of a treaty in which the King of Corea expresses “his earnest desire to estab lish relations between the two countries on a permanent and friendly footing, and to facilitate commercial intcr conrse:” The “solid substratum of force” on which a distinguished English diplomatist said our relations with Eas tern counties must alone rest has been conspicuous all through the American officer's negotiations only by its ab sence. y. --V- The history of European intercourse with the inhabitants of the little penin sula in Northeastern China is brief and melancholy. The touching story of the crew of the Dutch vessel wrecked on the Island of Quelpaert in the middle of the seventeenth century, who were de tained among tho Coreans for more than thirty years, as told by their “Sec retary,” wiil be found in the pages of “Pinkerton,” and need not be further referred to here. It was not tiritil the treaty of Ticn-tsin had opened NortU China and Manchuria to the zeal of lloman Catholic missionaries that Corea was again visited by Europeans. The Jesuit fathers seem to have made their way there about 1802-63. We have now only their own accounts of what took place. Their efforts to make converts were, they say, crowned with success for a few years. But in 1865 commenced a persecution unparalleled even in the frightful annals of religious persecution in the East. It is said that 150,000 Co reans, men, women and children, lost dieir lives on this occasion. Of the French priests, four alone escaped in disguise and assisted by some of the faithful of their flock. An attempt was made by the French fleet in the China seas to take vengeance for this slaugh ter, but it was unsuccessful. Until the history of modern Corea is studied by our scholars in the native works them- selves, we can not correctly ascertain the cause of this persecution. Meantime, the student of the historv of other Oriental nations who finds analogous events will probably look for analogous causes. The subsequent attempts of the Jesuits to cross the Corean frontier, and the success that attended them, will be found recorded in the armals of the “Missions Kidel, who evaded the frontier guards and en tered the country in 1878, has ieft us an account of his adventures. He pene trated Corea, he tells us, in the hope of attaining the crown of martyrdom. In this he was disappointed, for he was promptly discovered and imprisoned, to be released a few months afterward at the intercession of the Governments of China and Japan. But tens of thousands of wretched Coreans, who were sup posed to be tainted with Christianity, suffered death, many of them with the most horrible torture, because of this gentleman’s ambition to be a martyr. An American naval expedition sent to punish :m outrage on a ship which sailed up one of the Corean rivers met with little more success than its French predecessor. In 1808 a steamer manned hv American and European filibusters set out from Shanghai to rob the tombs of the Corean Kings, either for the sake of the gold coffins in which Mendez Pinto says they were inclosed, or be cause the .Jesuits reported that the b idy of a dead King could be held for almost, any ransom. In lSiio Ignatieff, then Russian repre e itativo aiiVkin, , akiuo advantage of the Chinese difficulties with England and Frtinec, obtained the cession of a vast traet of Corean terri tory lying in the Amour region. These are a few of the salient points in the history of Corean intercourse with the civilized nations of the West, and it hardly seems a matter for great surprise that Corea should have prefer red exclusion to more intercourse of this description. Nor is it difficult to believe the tales told by Japanese trav elers of pillars erected* over the whole country calling down a curse on tho head of him who should first propose friendship with the hated foreigner. Political considerations have ultimately prevailed. Chinese and Japanese states men have long been persuaded that the only chance of preserving Corea from absorption into Russia and their own countries from a standing menance was to open it to foreign intercourse. Fol lowing their counsels, Corea has now entered the comity of nations. Com mercial advantages she has few to offer. Her total trade with Japan during 1881, at the three opened ports, hardly ex ceeded a quarter of a million sterling. There is said to be much mineral wealth, but this must be mere surmise at present. Trade or no trade, it is to be hoped that the little kingdom which has just come among us will present an instance of at least one Oriental nation with which England can continue to live without violence or bloodshed.— Pall Mah Gazette. —Representatives of the most fash ionable families in Van Buren County, Ark . recently met in a small village "to indulge in a hunt after horse thieves. Owing to bad weather, there were no ladies in the party, but their absence was forgotten in the pleasure and ex citement of the chase. After a lively gallop over fences and rough fields the hunters bagged three thieves, two of w hom, however, were killed before the spectators arrived in a coach and four. The chase will be renewed as soon as a general meet can be arranged. These sportsmen say that the sport was far bet ter than fox hunting. — -V. Y. Sun. —Josh Billings' two springs in the White Mountains are now in excellent condition, and over the cup of the one near Emerald Pool is the legend: •• Tak a driuk. mi trend, but don't tak tho cup. Yurs, without a struggle, Josh ttOliugs." Failures in Savage Education. What Cetewayo is brought here for it is hard to say. He is understood to be weighted with the sense of some great wrong done him, and is anxious to clear himself to the Queen and win the re ward of a recovered reputation. In ad dition, he comes with a view of being passed through the usual routine by which savages are supposed to be taught how good it is to be at peace with peo ple who have many guns and make much powder. He will be taken to the Yower and the reviews, and will be softened by inoculation with the waved "society” in the drawing-rooms of the amiable ladies who have constituted themselves, his Envoys Extraordinary and Agents in Advance. Then, we pre sume, he Is to go home a better and a wiser man, and, profiting by the lessons learned in his “respectable lodgings” in the Fulham Road, resume his reign on reformed principles. But, in truth, it must be admitted that the experiment of impressing savages with the stamp of Civilization, and then send ing them back as missionaries of this •multure in six lessons,” has been tried often, Cud often failed. Sir Ghorge Simpson tells us that he took “Spokane Garry,” a Columbia River Chief’s son, educated him in Eng land, and sent him home. But all that lie preserved of his exotic civilization was the art of playing cards and manu facturing them out of bits of cedar bark. llole-in-the-Dav, the Sioux Chief, was -o “civilized” that he lived in a brick house in St. Paul’s, drove] a trotting horse, and was made a citizen of Minne sota by special act of the Legislature. Yet “H. Day, Esq.,” as he was officially styled, proved the leader of the massa cres a few years later, and one of the most ruthless of the fiends who desolated the frontier. 'I he history of America is studded with the story of such failures—from that of thd University of Henrico for the instruction of “ye‘Salvages,” to the rosy colored data in the latest report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs'. No doubt examples of an opposite charac ter might be cited; but history shows that the instances of failure are as nu merous as they are conspicuous. In 1059, “John Beauchamp,” a Virginian tribesman; Was educated in England,but profited little by his opportunities. General Oglethorpe took another savage youth to London with him, and did not send him back to Georgia until he had acquired ail the polish and accomplish, ments of the fine gentleman. Yet within a year this dandy vagabond had laid aside his laced coat, his periwig, hia clouded eane and his jeweled snuff-box, and returned to his primitive habits and former life. Louis XIV. took promising Indians to Versailles, educated them, and then, after mating them With well dowered ladies, sent them back. Asa rule they got intoxicated on the first night of their arrival, divided their finery among their untraveled relatives, whip ped their deluded brides, and then ran wild in the woods, “the noble savage” of reality, though not of romance. General Lafayette took a son of Corn Planter, an Oneida chief, with him to France, trained him in the first schools and the most brilliant society, and mar ried him to a beautiful woman. But he had scarcely returned to his tribe before he abandoned his wife, who was found wandering through the forest in misery and hunger by Aaron Burr, during his memorable journey from New York to Canada. A Brizilian Bolocada gradu ated in the University of Bahia, and practiced for a time as a physician. But in a few Years he deserted civilization and, bereft of clothes and culture, took to the jungle and roots again. Admiral Fitzroy’s Jemmy Button, who in Eng land had worn gloves and boots, revert ed in Terre del Fuego, a year or two afterward, to a naked, unkempt, un washed savage. Bungari, the Australian —and instances might unfortunately be quoted almost without end—took prizes at college and spoke Latin better than the Governor himself. But he soon es caped to the bush, declaring that edu cation had been of no use but to make him conscious of his misery. This, it is by no means unlikely, may be the only result of Cetewayo’s visit. Like Bun gari, “the Black Fellow,” and young Djammel-Eddin, Sehamyl’s son, who died of weariness, after exchanging the gay society of St. Petersburg for the rude life of Circassia, he may discover wants he never knew, and return to Zululaiid or the Cape having learned that “where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise.” —London Standard. How Tarantulas Fight. 1 here was recently received in Den ver, tor store exhibition, two full-grown tarantulas, one of the brown and the otlicrof the'black variety. The brown fe low was raged in a common e : gar box and tlte black one in a glass jar. A- they could not be exhibited to ad vantage in contrivances of this kind, and as they were not very pleasant company to have running about 100-e, a box almost two feet square with a glass top was procured, on the bottom ot which a layer of sand was spread to make the animals feel at home. The cover was then drawn and the two sj> ders pitched into it from their sepa ra e cages. No sooner did the one dis cover the o her s presence than they rudnd a! each olh; r as viciously as two panthers, and immediately closed in deadly embrace. Trey came together w tli a bound, and then twining their lung hnlry legs about each other rolled o'er amt over in the sand, biting each other savagely, and then tugging with all their might as it endeavor.ng to crush each other by sheer muscular power. Incredible as it may seem, this sort of war: are was kejit up for six hours, during most of which time it could not bo seen that either was gaining the si glitest advantage, as neither showed any sign of disposition to end the light except by tho death of his adversary. At lust tiie black one rolled over dead on the sand while the victor immediate ly proceeded to reap the spoils of his long battle. Seizing his vanquished enemy in his stout horns, or pincers, or whatever contrivance ho has for that purpose, he rapidly tore him limb from limb, and eoollv proceeded, in the cannibalistic fashion to make a meal of hmv. In a very short time nothing was left except a little pile of legs and pie es of shell to mark the spot where one taranmla had fallen and another hml dined. —Pen ret Tribune. —The annual production of Canada malt is about 66,000,000 pounds. Of this nearly 23,000,000 pounds are ex ported to the United States. The im ports—almost wholly confined to British Columbia—bat ely exceed 150,000 pounds. In Toronto alone there arc 1,800,000 gallons of beer brewed, while the capital employed amounts to (00.000. —A Hartford (Conn.) man has in vented a machine which is to revolution i29 the printing business. It sets the type, distributes them, ami in fact Uuj everything but furnish the "cuoy.” HUMOROUS. —Paris husband and wife -He: •• j^ s _ surediy you were born to marry ;ln idiot!’' Sho: “ Yes, and I made no nro_ take!” —‘•lsn't this shirred bonnet just too l sweet for anything?” asked Mrs. Smith of her husband. “ I shirred think it was,” answered Mr. Smith, as lie in spectcd the bill.—Haf/'. —Coal is cheaper in Cleveland than elsewhere in the country. Two and a half loads oi it were recently sold there for seventy-five cents. But then the old woman was away on a visit and the soli wanted to go to a circus, ami he had sold everything else about tlie house N. Y. Herald. —Something awful will happen to tho bad boy whose sister Minnie was tho young preacher’s sweet-heart. He pinned up a piece of paper in the parlor, worts; *• Minnie, Minnie, tickle tho parson!” ou it, and then wanted to know if she had • seen the handwriting ou the wall.” —Detroit Post. —An old hag, while begging in front of a gentleman's house on Walnut street, was told by the owner to '-move on, " when she turned upon him and dramatically uttered the following t,. r . rible curse; "May y’re daughters kindle fires with kerosene and y're sons play with toy pistol g."—Philadelphia Act vs. —There is a man in Norristown who invests ltc faith in the sign that if you “make a wish when you see the new moon over your fight shoulder you will get what you wish for.” A year ago lie saw the new moon over his right shoul der. and wished for ten thousand dollars, and says he hasn't got ’em yet. There must have been something the flatter with the moon or his shoulder thatnight, and he shouldn't let one little disap pointment discourage him.— Norristown. Herald. —The committee appointed to collect metal for cannon for General Beaure gard’s army, applied to a planter of Adams County, Miss., for his bell. Not having such an article, he mentioned it to his wife, when sho very patriotically offered her brass kettle. The little ones rather demurred to tho sacrifice, and one of them, with a sweet tooth, said: “La, pa, what will we do for pre serves?” “My daughter,” said the wag of a father, “our whole duty now is to preserve our country.” The kettle was sent.— N. Y. Post. FOREIGN GOSSIP. —The highest military rank in the" Swiss army is that of colonel. —The village of Lachen, in Switzer land, has been almost destroyed by a waterspout, which washed down im mense stones from the mountain. —There are still in existence proof sheets of an old Russian newspaper which Peter the Great helped to edit, with the Czar’s own corrections on the margin. —At every station on the Russian railroads is a grievance book, in which the traveler may inscribe his wrongs in any language he likes, and which is pe riodically read by the authorities. —The largest diamond-cutting house is in Amsterdam, employing 400 per sons, where the Koh-i-noor was c'Ut. The trade is difficult, and the wage's are from $7 to sl2 or even sl4 a day. —No marriage is legal in France ex cept with the consent of the parents of both parties, but a man or woman over 25 may “respectfully cite” his or her parents to show cause why they refuse consent. If they fail to show good cause, the marriage may proceed in spite of them. Such proceedings are rarely resorted to. —The balloon Reliance made a singu lar flight fron the Alexandra Palace the other” day. It rose gradually to a height of 1,500 feet, drifting in a north erly direction, then, when ballast had, been thrown out, rose 1,500 feet more. At that point a current carried it to ward London, and through a thick mist it descended at the end of an hour upon the very place from whence it had risen. —Over a grave in Brompton Cem etery, London, has just been set up a beautiful cross, on which appears the following inscription: “In memory of Elizabeth Jones, who died Mav i;i,]KsJ, for fourteen years the faithful servant and friend of Alexandra, Princess of Wales, by whom this monument is erected. Life’s race well run, life’s work well done, life’s crown well won. Now comes rest. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.” —Etiquette in Germany forbids the carrying of parcels, no matter how small, by a gentleman. Under immense pressure of necessity a lady may take home in her own hands a small pur chase, or carry a book or roll of music to the house of a friend, though she takes also in doing so terrible social risk. And when a dressmaker comes to try on a walking-jacket, a small boy must needs walk behind bearing the garment on his arm. An officer pan not under any circumstances carry anything when in uniform —The gold annually taken from the Siberian mines is estimated to lie worth #6,000,000. The first discovery of the metal in that country was made at the beginning of this century. The average cost of an expedition in search of gold is estimated at $3,000. 'Therefore, only capitalists can indulge in tho luxury of experiments. One of the principal operators is said to have spent a quar ter of a million before finding any ore. The miners are paid only a month, xvith board and lodging. The sale of liquor is forbidden within twelve miles from each shaft, that discipline may lie maintained. The number of minus has largely increased sinco the second quar ter of the present century, but that pe riod was the most prosperous in the his tory of Siberian mining. The labor of the serfs then cot next to nothing, though the pay of the workmen is now pitiably small. One of the most terrible diseases with which the Italians are afflicted is pel lagra. It is attended by emaciation, of the stomach and bowels, with terr:bla suffering and convulsions. It chi lly afflicts the poorer classes, who live mainly on Indian corn, After pat nt investigation, Dr. Lnmbroso bos u covered that it is caused by dir. ! corn, which forms an alkaloid resembling strychnine. Arsenic counteracts the disease. He advises a careful and w hole sale investigation into the species of corn so affected, and the methods of cul tivation. —lt has been demonstrated that it is not nect-sssary to keep land in cultiva ton many years or even to break the s-'.d in order to introduce the most valuable pasture-grasses. The virgin sod of many pastures that produce luxuriant crops of orchard and blue gra.-- and white clove? was lie' bf tou- bed b) the plow.