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VOL. L The Treasure Ship. We are always building cistlea Of the richest, grandest kind) Where we sway imagined vassals Ih the court rooms of the Mind) Aitd down tlie Arcadian pathways Of the mind arc wont to roam, Where we'd stray in fact—not fancy— If our treasure ship came home. And wo find it very pleasant tu ah atmosphere of dreams— Quite forgetful of the present— To indulge Utopian thcines; We would climb to high ambition, We would stand upon its dome, We would claim earth’s recognition— If our treasure ship came home. So, with hand and foot inactive. Dreamy-eyed and lazy-limbcd, We can find life still attractive— While our lamp remains untriinmcd. And we calculate the pleasure In Conception’s laden tome— AVe'lI indulge in beyond measure— When our treasure ship collies home. Oh, the dormant, selfish scheming Of the idler cannot last ; Thete will he a truce to dreaming AVlieti tiie present Is the past) And there’ll Conte a dull awaking When he’ll find that life has gone; And hie treasure ship is breaking O'er the sands he built her on, — [Ui (i. lingers in Detroit Free Press. MISS MARTHA’S TRAMP, BY Cl I MILES B. KIl’I.EY. “He certainly is a tramp, or a ped- dlcv! Whichever he is, I won’t have him inside the gate!” “He looks tired, Auntie.” Miss Martha Pitcher screwed her lips up tightly, and looked at her ni ec and namesake with a withering cx- pression. “Now, Mattie,” she said- severely, “I won’t have it. Every time a tramp comes by, you get him milk, or bread, or something, ami as for those horrid peddlers—” Here Miss Martha’s breath gave out. Little Mattie, shy, timid, blue-eyed and pretty as a wild-rose, colored a little, and then said: “I don’t think we aro any poorer, Auntie, for the little we give away.” “Well, it is yours; do as you please.” For little Mattie was the owner of the farm and a very small income, al¬ though as she was only 17,. her aunt mairaged the"household;' as -she had while her. brother lived, and Mr. Pot¬ ter, the lawyer of Arrowdaie, was guardian for the small property Mat¬ tie’s father had left her. It was one of Miss Martha’s pecu¬ liarities to lay down the law to Matiie very emphatically, as to the child she had brought up from a baby, and then, suddenly remembering that the girl was really the owner of tho place, to retreat, as above described, from her position. And littlo Ma’tie, submit¬ ting in ad things to her aunt’s dicta¬ tion, took the permission gratefully, never asserting herself as owner or mistress. In the present instance she said, wistfully: “Then I may give him some milk, if he asks for it ?” “Oh, he’ll ask fast enough! He is opening the gate now. Gracious, Mattie, he looks like a brigand! Such a beard, for a civilized country'” It was a very liandsomo beard, if Miss Martha had only had the taste to admire it. The nose above it was handsome, too, so were the oven, white teetli under the heavy mustache, and the large, brown eyes, half hidden by the broad slouch hat. lie was dusty, but not ragged, and his flannel shirt had flic collar turned down over a loose black tic, hidden, to ho sure, under the curling, auburn beard. Mattie, tripping lightly down the garden path to the gate, was rather startled at the tone of the high-bred voice that asked: “Can I get some luncheon here? I cannot find any tavern or hotel on the road.” “Oh, no; I mean, yes,” said Mattie, blushing furiously under the gaze of the sof, brown eves. “I mean,” she said, recovering her composure, “there is not any hotel within three miles, and you can have Borne luncheon with pleasure. If you can wait half an hour we can give you dinner.” For that this was no tramp Mattie saw at once, though she had seen little of gentlemen in her life. Miss Martha keeping ali men, exceping tlie farm hands, at respectful distainco from her maiden domain. “Thanks! I will wait with pleas¬ ure, if I may rest on your porch. I am very tired.” He stepped weariiv and slowly to the porch, and sank ’down upon the chintz-covered, big arm-chair with a sigh of relief. “Would vou like a glass of ;. ilk now?”. Mattie asked. “I sl|pu!d, indeed, very, much.” But when tho milk came, in a pretty glass goblet, upon a dainty china plate, it was Ja::e, the servant girl, THE ENTERPRISE. who brought it. Mattie, suddenly shy, was setting the dinner-table with clean cloth and napkins, and the best china. *’G ratiioiis, Mattie I Whatever ah) voit doing?’’ ctied Miss Martha, coin¬ ing in the room; “Hush, Auntie! hd is a gentleman, tirid he is fcoming in to dinner.” Itut when dinner was daintily served, the “gentleman” was found to have fainted. Miss Martin, who reveled in sick nursing, was all energy. She got the “cainphirc” and smelling salts, loosened the necktie, helped Jane to carry the invalid into the large, cool parlor, and put him on the wide, old- fashioned sofa. It was a long insensi¬ bility; so long, that the women be¬ came alarmed, and sent Hiram, the cow-boy, to Arrowdttlo for the doctor. Before the three-mile ride Avas ac¬ complished and the doctor arrived, the uninvited guest had passed from in¬ sensibility to delirium, and tho doctor pronounced the case a partial sun¬ stroke. For two weeks Miss Martha nursed the stranger as faithfully as if lie had been one of her own kin, bringing him back from the very confines of the grave. She scrupulously refrained from any curious investigation of his small hand satchel, and only searched one coat pocket till site found a letter directed to Mr. Albert Hutchinson, box 33, Alton, Michigan. Mattie wrote a letter to the box, describing Mr. Albert Hutchinson's soro strait. No answer came, and tlicn other letterg were taken from the pocket and were found to be directed all over the country, always to “Mr. Albert Hutchinson,” who had evi¬ dently been upon an extended summer tour. It was impossible to guess where, in all this variety of location, the home of the wanderer might be, and so Miss Martha put the letters back, saying: “If he dies, Mattie, I s’pose we'll have to read some of those,, letters to find his folks, but I’m not going pry¬ ing into them until I can’t help my¬ self.” But Mr. Albert Hutchinson did not die. Very s'owly he won his way to health, and in his convales¬ cence opened a new world to Mattie. He was an artist, ho told her, and he had been on a sketching tour, sending his papers by mail to his studio, in New York, where a brother artist took care of them. He talked of books, of life in Switzerland, Paris, London, Vienna, Rome, till the girl felt stir¬ ring in heart and brain, a longing so intense as to be painful, for some knowledge of this new world of art and letters, of which she had never heard. There was nothing spoken between the two of a sentimental nature, but Mr. Hutchinson, finding this eager young intellect grasping all he put be¬ fore it, talked as he had never talked before, with the keen pleasure of im¬ parting knowledge where every word was treasured and valued. It was a great void when he was fully recovered and went away. He paid Miss Martha liberally, with most earnest words of gratitude for her care of him, but when he was gone, Mattie would not look at the roll of green¬ backs, Hushing hotly as she said: “I ain sure lie was poor, Aunt Martha. Put the money away. I hate it!” But she was restless, and craved books out of her reach, opportunities to study, and the life of travel and culture that seemed far removed from her. It seemed to her only natural when a tremendous change came. There had long been a talk at Ar- rowdale of coal in the vicinity, and about six months after Mr. Hutchin¬ son’s departure experiments were made that proved “Pitcher’s Farm” to be a great coal-bed. Mattie, who by her father’s .will was of age a 1 eighteen, found herself an heiress’ Her guardian, a man thoroughly hon¬ est, became her agent, and smiled ap¬ proval when she proposed to sell the farm and move to New A ork with Aunt Martha, who was very much elated at the idea. “I can have good teachers there for a year or two, and then I will go abroad,” Mattie said, when the plan was finally adopted. “I’ll never cross the ocean,” Aunt Martha declared, “but no doubt you’ll find company going, and I’ll keep some sort of a home warm for you till you come back.” “Now, my dear Algernon,’ Mrs. Montrose said languidly to her son, as be entered her “apartments” in I ans, “do show a little more interest in Miss Pitcher’s pursuits. It was such a chance, her consenting to come abroad with me, and she is so rich.” “But,” drawled Algernon, caress¬ ing his silky moustache, “she is so CARNESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 8.1890. dreadfully (voergetic. She tires me to death, rushing about. 1 am sure she saw everything in London, and now Rhe is ‘doing’ Paris at a most tremend¬ ous rate! By the Way, where is she?’ “She went to a private exhibition of American artists Avith Mrs. Cope and Carrie. You know Carrie is quite an artist, itnd she knows whero all tho best studios and exhibitions arc.” “Yes? Dear me, mother, I am den. cedly glad you are not forever rushing about as girls do now-a-davs. It is a complete rest to come in here, after Mattie Pitcher and Carrie Cope.” While lie spoke, the two ladies named, with Mrs. Cope as chaperon, wore standing in a large, well-lighted gallery, where a few paintings hung with wide spaces between them, invit¬ ing admiration or criticism. “But Mattie,” Miss Cope was sav¬ ing, “the face and figure aro a per¬ fect portrait of yourself. You look different, too, more childlike. The expression is not so intellectual, but l am sure you looked jtist like that when yoit were A’ery young! Now, mam¬ ma, isn’t it like Mattie?” “I think it is!” was the quiet reply. “No. 32. Why Carrie, it is one of A1 Hutchinson’s pictures. 1 Wonder if he is in Paris!” “Cease to wonder, Cousin Mary,” said a masculine voice, close beside the group. How are you! Ob Cad! what an atrocious hat!” “I won’t be called Cad!” pouted Miss Carrie. “Yes I will, too! You may call tne Cad for ‘auld latig sync.’ Matlie, let me introduce my cousin— sixteen times removed, my dear—Mr. Hutchinson.” But already Mattie’s hand bad been taken in a firm clasp, and Mr. Hutch¬ inson was expressing bis delight at meeting Miss Pitcher, and inquiring for Aunt Martha. It was a delightful morning. They sauntered through the gallery, admir¬ ing the works of their countrymen, chatting of old times, planning a thousand excursions, until Mrs. Cope gave a dismayed exclamation over her watch, and hurried down to her car¬ riage. “The Copes have really taken pos¬ session of Mattie,” said Mrs. Mont¬ rose, a month later. “She is never here. It is fortunate there is no son, Algernon,” “Yes; but there is an artist fellow always with them—a cousin, or some¬ thing. Willett says he is immensely rich, and paints for love of it. 1 don’t know myself whether it is Miss Cope or Miss Pitcher that is the attraction, but he is always dangling after them.” “Oh, Algernon! how can you let such things go on? Why don't you exert yourself, and make yourself at¬ tractive to Mattie? You are the hand¬ somest man in Paris at this minute.” “AYell, the truth is, mother, Miss Mattie seems to look upon me as about otic remove from an idiot, because I cannot talk art or books or music.” Which last remark certainly proved that Algernon Montrose bad not, at all events, lost 1 is powers of penetration. Mrs. Montrose, however, made ono strenuous effort to mend matters by proposing to leave Paris at once, and proceed to Italy. “I think,” Mattie said, “that I should like to 6tnv a month or two longer in Paris. But I need not detain you, Mrs. Montrose. Mrs. Cope has most kindly invited me to join her party, » A letter crossed the ocean, not long afterward, to Miss Martha, some sen¬ tences of which maybe here recorded: “AVe will delay the wedding until I come home, dear Auntie, but that will be in a fe\V weeks. It may be that Albert and L will return to Europe next year, but we are com¬ ing back to you now. He is anxious to see you, and be sure you are willing for me to marry ‘your tramp.’ I never thought,when be left us, that in a strange country we should meet again, and I hear from his own lips that he loved me long ago, and was heart-broken when he went to seek me at Arrowdaie and found only a yawning coal pit! But it is all right now, Auntie, and I am the happiest woman in the world.” —[New York Ledger. Strange Microscopic Anomalies. Strange anomalies exist in the mi¬ croscopic world. The monad, for in¬ stance, reproduces its kind by dividing itself, two perfect individuals result¬ ing, thus leading Wiesman to infer that it is possible for the life of such an organism to be continued for ever. The rotifers have a natural life-period of only about nineteen days, accord¬ ing to Lewes, yet they may exist as dry and inanimate dust for months, to be resurrected by a drop of water.— [Trenton (N. J.) American. Meteoric Pig Iron. A chunk of the meteor that fell in a shower in Kossuth and Winnebago Counties, Iowa, about a week ago was picked up near Ramsey and is the finest specimen yet found. It weighs an even 100 pounds and has the ap¬ pearance of incited pig iron.—[Omaha fNeb.) Bee. OUR VOLCANOES. Underground Forces Which are Not Down on the Maps. Although Quiet Now, They May Become Active Again. Examination of a geological map of (lie ltocky Mountain and Sierra Ne¬ vada region shows the entire country to he dotted with splashes and streaks of red, den ting the rocky remains of former volcanic vents. No active vol¬ canoes arc known to exist within the boundaries of the United S’ates at present ; but a number of investiga¬ tors believe that they have discovered signs that (here have been genuine vol¬ canic eruptions at several points in that region since man first took up his abode oil the Pacific slope. In fact, at one place in Plumas county, Cal., some sixteen years ago, discoveries of pumice s’one and lava wo;c made near an extinct volcano cone, so situated in connection with the trees then existing in the neighbor¬ hood as to give evidence that an erup¬ tion had taken place within less than fifty years. Traditions of the trappers also seemed to bear out this interesting supposition. in Oregon and Washington there arc numerous giant volcanic moun¬ tains, among them Mount Shas'a, Mount Hood and Mount St. Helens. These have never been in eruption within recent times. But both north and south of the United States there are very active centres of volcanic dis¬ turbance with which the California and Oregon volcanoes, though they are supposed to be- extinct, are con¬ nected almost uninterruptedly. Alaska has a number of volcanoes, the great¬ est of which is Mount St. Elias. The Aleutian Islands arc also entirely vol¬ canic, and there have been a number of eruptions in their area during the present century. Tho islands join the volcanoes of America with those of the Old World in Kamtchatka, Japan, the Rhillipincs, the Indian Archipelago and Austral¬ asia. South of the United States, too, lie the great volcanic belts of Mexico, Central America and the South Ameri- can Facific slope. There have been a number of in¬ stances where a volcanicregion lias remained dormant and the subter¬ ranean forces had become extinct, ap¬ parently, for immense periods of time; and then, with scarcely a warn¬ ing beyond a rumbling earthquake or two, the crater has suddenly br< 1 0 forth into activity, overwhelming the country for great distances around with mill and death. Thus it Was With Mount Vesuvius, which was ap¬ parently dead for ages previous to the great eruption which destroyed J’oin- peii and Herculaneum. Within the past week or two re¬ ports liaVc been received that the great sacred mountain of Japan, Fusiynma, which has exhibited no signs of activ¬ ity for over a century lias again start¬ ed in on ar. eruption, causing great consternation throughout all Japan. With these examples in mind it can¬ not be said definitely that the volcan¬ oes of tho United States Pacific slope are extinct. The subterranean forces aro still alive, though they may sleep long. That they exist is proved by tho seismic disturbances so often re- ported from the Pacific coast, When they will bl’eak forth terribly again, or whether they ever will do so, is a question which nobody can answer.— [New York Sun. A Lady anil a Doctor Fight. A Vienna letter to the London Tele¬ graph says: A recent duel between a young lady and a medical practitioner, resulting- in the latter’s receiving a wcund in the arm which incapacitated him for further combat, again brings forward the ofxliscussed “duel ques¬ tion”—a problem of immediate con¬ cern to society both in this country and Hungary, in the present instance tiic lady duelist had espoused the cause of a friend, who, it appears, believed she had cause to complain of the gentle¬ man. The latter was given (lie choice between a horsewhipping and a sword duel. He preferred the duel, went out, and, after gallantly defending himself to defensive warfare, was wounded badly enough for Hie en¬ counter to be stopped by the seconds. From the particulars that have transpired everything scans to have passed off' in a manner highly credita¬ ble to ali parties concerned; but many people are asking today whether the time has not come to put such legal ‘restrictions on single combats gener¬ ally as to render them, if not impossi¬ ble, at all events much more difficult than at present. The mod <rifling offence, a word spoken thoughtlessly after diuuer, oy an insignificant breach of etiquette is quito sufficient to bring on a duel. A short-sighted friend of mine received a challenge for net bowing to an acquaintance whom lie did not recognize on the opposite sido of a crowded street. Another friend was crippled for life in a duel occa¬ sioned by an unimportant diflerencc of opinion at a dinner table. A chal¬ lenge, whomsoever it comes from, must bo accepted, providing the man who sends it is satisfaktiongfahig— that is to say, of unblemished charac- ter. A cobbler may call out a courtier, and there is sure to bo a duel unless the shoemaker has a blot on his repu¬ tation. A refusal to act as second to a friend, unless some very special pre¬ text can be invoked, is in itself a cause for dueling. A man who refuses a duel with any individual admitted to be satisfaktionsfaliig at once loses bis position in society, and is looked upon as a coward. The proportion of dis¬ putes f dlowed by a challenge that arc amicably arranged is very small, and consequently the number of duels is correspondingly large. In Austria the sword is chiefly used, but in Hungary they prefer the pistol, and it is very seldom that the issue is not fatal to one of the combatants. Our Detectives. This world is getting too small to hold certain kinds of bad people. Two years ago a bank messenger in New York stole a package of bank notes worth forty-one thousand dollars. lie cunningly kept on with his work as usual for a year, and then removed with his stolen money to Honduras, where he lived quietly and in much confidence, because there is no extra¬ dition treaty between Honduras and the United .States; but all this time a detective was shadowing him, and finally got tho money from him, and will probably get the man. Last year a thief was arrested in South America, eight years after the commission of a robbery in the United S a'es. There is now a secret under¬ standing among tiic police authorities and detective agencies over the great¬ er part of the globe. They assist ono another in such ways as to render it all but impossible for a criminal to es¬ cape, into whatever part of the earth he may go. Nothing can outstrip the electric current, which now passes over nearly all lands and under nearly all seas. We often hear nowadays of default¬ ers running away, with or without their booty, and we do not always hear of their arrest. Generally, however, they arc arrested, though sometimes they escape the penalty due their crime by surrendering a great part of their plunder. The system is not yet per¬ fected, and its working is attended with too much expense. The time is not distant when the chief of police ill New York or Boston will be able to arrest a mail in Australia just as easi¬ ly, quickly and cheaply as if lie were in the next street.—[Youth’s Com¬ panion. The Sponge. Some of the interesting experiments on the physiology of sponges have been recently made by Dr.Lendenfeld, of Innsbruck, Austria. He operated with eighteen different species, putting carmine, starch or milk, in the water of tho aquarium, and also trying the eflect of various poisons—morphine, strychnine, etc. The following aro some of Ids results! Absorption of food does not take place at the outer surface, but in the interior; only for- eigu substances used for building up the skeleton enter tho sponge without passing into tho canal-system. Tho sponge contracts its pores when poisons are put into the water; and the action is very like that of poisons oa muscles of the higher animals. Especially re- markable is the cramp of sponges under strychinne: and the lethargy (to other stimuli) of sponges treated with cocain. As these poisons, in the high¬ er animals, act indirectly on the mus¬ cles through the nerves, it seems not without warrant to suppose t>'at sponges also have nerve-cells which cause muscular contraction. Business Men’s Widows. One day recently six sisters met in reuni n near Philadelphia, tho oldest eighty-four, the youngest seventy- four. Five were widows; of the s’x.li the husband is living. And this sug¬ gests something else of a similiar im¬ port. Some years ago sixteen city men, all in active life and all married, built as many country places in a cer¬ tain locality. Today only four of the sixteen men survive, There are nine surviving widows—no widower. If there is any moral to this story, it seems to be, that it is worth while be¬ ing a business man’s wife rather than a business man’s self. The attention of fiction mongers i» invited to tiie figures and the situation they imply. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. Dr. Charcot, tho great French sci¬ entist, who has written extensively on hypnotism, is reported as saying that not ono person in 100,000 is subject to hypnotic inllueneo. It lakes about throe seconds to solid a message from ono end of tho At¬ lantic cablo to tho other. It is assorted that a professor at Harvard Collcgo declares as a result of his observations that young men do not attain to their full measure of mental faculties until they are twenty- live years of ago. The effect of the electric light cur¬ rent on the compasses of some vessels is so great that it becomes necessary to dotormino how many hours tho dyna¬ mo has been running before working cut the vessel’s reckoning. A new electric lantern has boon de¬ signed in Vienna, Austria, for the use of lecturers and medical classes. By a combination of lenses llio magnified imago of an object is projected on a white screen in its natural colors. The aborigines of New South Wales show great ingenuity ill shaping their harpoon heads for spearing fish. In- s’ead of shaving the wood up and down the grain as wo are accustomed to whittle, they turn it round and round and chip it off across the grain. Dr. Lintncfl, tho State entomologist of New York, advises the importation of lady-bugs from Australia to eat up the saw-tlies that- are said to bo ravish¬ ing tho wheat fields of Illinois. The Australian lady-bug, unlike its Ameri¬ can name-sake, is said to bo a perfect terror to the saw-fly and other crop- destroying insects. Professor Gluck of Berlin, Germany, has succeeded in substituting ca'gut, ivory, and bone freed from chalk for defects in the bony structure, muscles and nerve sinews. In more than ore case lie has restored muscular freedom to crippled hands, prevented shorten¬ ing of the legs from surgical opera¬ tions, and re-established lost nervous control. Experiments have recently been made in Spain on the action of sun¬ light in maturing wines. Layers of new wine in bottles of colored glass have been exposed (o (ho direct rays of tho sun, with the result that both flavor and quality have been improved, in tho south of Europe there lias been a .practice of ripening cognac by ex¬ posing the bottles on the roof for years. Takiuc an Onlli of Friendship. The London Illustrated News de¬ scribes a curious ceremony which ro- cent'y occurred in British Burmah, while a British expedition was en¬ gaged in bringing certain hostile tribes into subjection in the Lushai country. The scene depicted is that of a Lushai chief Hiking an oath of friendship with the political officer of tho expe¬ dition, Mr. Murray. Preparatory to the ceremony, a clear space was made in tho jungle, and plantain-leaves strewn on the ground. Then tho ohio f, his brother, and attendants, seated themselves in a row, facing a young pig and a gyal or tame bison, which were tied to a free, After a short parley tho chief rose and, taking u spear, handed it. to Mr. ! Murray, and they both plunged it into ;] lc pjg. The chief then smeared some j 0 f (ho pig's and blood on Mr. returned Murray’s the , forehead, the latter * compliment. A similar ceremony was performed with the gyal. Tho chief |), CH said: “Until the sun ceases to ehino in the heavens, and until yonder stream runs backward, I will be your J true and faithful and friend.” concluded Potations tha ! of rice beer rum ceremony. An oath taken in this man- j tier is considered and they by the seldom Lusliais known most i,i, K ling, arc to break it. Uses of Straw hoard. The rapidity with which invention brings new materials and processes into the market in this country is one of the most striking characteristics ot the restless activity of American minds. I was talking with C. N. Wells, who is ono of the prominent men in the big strawtoard com bin a- lion, when lie told me that straw board is now being manufactured for fine interior decorations to take the place of lincrusta walton and similar stuff. He continued: “ We have found that strawboard, properly prepared, can be pi essed into molds so as to form any kind of interior decoration, and can he put up on walls and ceilings so quickly that the saving in time in its use is a great item. It is much cheaper than any material now used, besides being much more available every way. Wo have just put $300,000 into a fac¬ tory for the manufacture of straw- hoard for this special use.—[New York Press. NO. 31. Nature's lesson. Oil, yo that love, nn<l deem love returned Is treasure cast, away, The lesson ye have never truly learned lty Nature’s taught each day. for see the flowers that have gracious bloom In forests lone and far, Yielding unstinted largesse of perfume, Where none to love them are. They are content with giving; full and free And royally they give. They look not for reward; oh! thus do ye Unloved, who loving live! HUMOROUS. “Givo us a rest”—Opiates. Governed stationery—Ruled paper, is a telegraph operator who reads by sound an ear-sighted fellow? Cotton may be king in its native Southland, but when it gets into Northern dry goods stores it is only prints. Edit,h(who has been givenonoof tho Edison phonographic dolls)—I am so sleepy, mamma! Can’t Dolly say my prayers for mo ? Groat Ciosar crossed the Rubicon, A river small, though wet; Great Osar now is dead and gone, The Rubicon's there yet. Acquaintance—You say your littlo eon is a prodigy among children? Parent — Acs. “in what wav?” “There tire several tilings lie can’t do.” First Trunk—Say, Saratoga, I'm full, and want to go home to Chicago. Lend me a dollar, will you? S.cond Trunk—I would, old Sole-leather, hut you sco I’m strapped. Broiron: What a heavy shower! It is raining cats and dogs! Amy (quizzing!)’): What kind of dogs does it rain, Mr. Bronson? Bronson: Skye terriers, probably. “Maria, you will please start tho him,” called out the parson from the stairway at eleven p. in., and young Doodely, who had accompanied tho parson’s daughter home from church, took tho hint and left. Drowning a Herring. Forest and Stream is just now circu¬ lating a legend of the sea, whirh may or may not be true. Readers must judge for themselves. The legend is as follows: Henrik Dahl of Aalesund, Norway, was a reader and follower of Darwin. Wishing to apply his theory of tho limit of adaptability of a species to its environment, lie procured a her¬ ring from a neighboring fjord and carried it home in a tub of sea water. Ho renewed Dio water daily for some lime, and gradually reduced tho quan¬ tity, with so little inconvenience to the herring that ho concluded that the fish nigh , in time, learn to breathe air undiluted with water, like the cat and the man. it turned out as he expected, and the water was finally turned out of the tub of tho herring, never to be re¬ placed, even for bathing. Henrik next removed the lish from its tub and placed it on the ground, whore it Hopped about very awkwardly at first, but soon learned to move freely and rapidly. In a little while the herring was able to follow its master without difficulty, and then it became his con¬ stant companion about the streets of I lie city. On a certain unfortunate day Henrik had occasion to cross a dc- lapidatod bridge which spanned an arm of the harbor. The herring com¬ ing gracefully along, heedless of dan¬ ger, now and again springing at the ephemera, for which it had acquired a special fondness, missed its footing, slipped through a crack into the water beneath and was drowned. A BnhaeU Plantation. Tho work of gathering and drying the bubach blossoms is in full blast at tho buliach plantation, says the Merced (Cal.) Star. About one hundred men are scattered through the fields picking the blossoms. As fast as they arc picked they arc stowed away about two inches deep in wooden boxes, the boxes being two nud one-lialf feet square. Wagons are employed in hauling the boxes to the drying house. ‘Probably it is called a drying house because it is alongside of tho spot whero the drying is done. Certainly no artificial heat is needed at the bn- liach plantation to dry anything at this time of the year. The sun’s rays enme down within the inclosuro of big poplar trees with a force that makes it pleasant to stand from under. The trays are allowed to lie there, the blossoms being stirred up by a force of men until they, the blos- soms, arc fairly cured. Afterward they aro placed or. a large platform about 00 feet square, where they re¬ main until dry, and then aro sent to the reduction works, whero they are ground into dust. This is done by men who arc proof against sneezing, otherwise it could not be done at all. Whether or not it makes flics and mos¬ quitoes sneeze wc don’t know, but it Is certainly (lie best preventive in uso to keep those insects at a distance.