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THE"f0)PLE’$ HAWrt imVH LE, ti t ..... “Panamed” is now the Parisian word for anything; plucked, fleeced or shorn. A dog-clipping establishment has a sign; “Poodle* Panamed here.” r Seme of the cotton mill* in South Carolina earned a* high as forty-two cent, on their investments last vesr, and all in all it wa* the most prosperous in the history of cotton manufacturing iu tbe State. 1 Ia response to New York's official de¬ mand for better transportation f iciilt e* the Manhattan Railway Company pro¬ pose such improvements and extensions in elevated service as will expand New York’s “L” system to four aolid three track linen, two on each side of the city. ' Co-operative joint stock farming or is being conducted on a large scale in the region of the Douibe* lying between Bourg-Eabreast- aoi Lyon*, France, “i’lsntati****•, Arbitrage, artificial fertil¬ isers have in twenty years reduced the area of marsh land by two-thuds, in¬ creased the population by onc-thir.i, and in tbe tamo proportion diminished mor¬ tality.” _ Creameries are now at work in Ten nessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina, nnd North Carolina, and there is no good reason why this should not be the case in all the Southern Stales, says the Sbipimrs’ Gazette, which fur tberadda: In tbe Southern mountains the business may be carried on every dsy in the year, and butter of the finest quality may be there made for lest cost than elsewhere in the world. “Wales," says a Weitern YVeUhman, has given throe Preiident* to the United States—Jefferson, Adstns and Monroe. Thomas Jefferson was pure Welsh, ton, , end the Welshmen of New York art . now organizing a movement to erect grand monument to him. There 5,000,000 Welsh and their descendants in tbit country, and , ' 1,200,000 ' pare * Welsh and their descendants. The Welsh, Irish Hcotch are, in my opinion, all of the little band of Aryans that over from Little Brittany and settled whet are now the British Isles.” When John Jacob Aator died in 1843 worth $25,000,000 he left more then the richest American before him. But in the last ten year* at i*» two men, W. H. Vsndorbilt nn l tb* •snsaff forfi»^T#icrth*t»tae, J^nJsgibAxtor, have f tita _ and John *>. Rockefeilet is ordinarily ttUasstt I u b* also worth $100,000,000. It is as llm»ted that there are only eeven Atner can fortune* of over $33,00 >,000, Hunt iegtou, ring*, William Stanford, Mrs. Green and William A* tor; six over $20,000,000, 1). O. Mills, Amour, Bearles, Ch.rle* Crocker’s «• tats, Henry Hilton and the L. 8. Hig gins estate. Of fortune* over $10,000,. 090 there are seventeen. t Tbe report of the Government's special agent in Alaska on tne salmon , „ tuheries . . does not,in thn opinion of the S»n Fran cisco Chronicle, encours-;o the belief that the supply of Diet region will be long maintained. m According to tho state- , meat of the ngeat the men fishing on * I*n» scale and the Indians are c.nal ollsndeti against the . . tws, am . arc ap pueatly Indifferent whether their actions remit ia diminishing the supply or creasing it. Not only dees the ngent tau t#U me the .torv story of the defiance of the largo fisheries, but be broadly intimates that unless some anlutsry restraint is placed upon them in a very short time the in dian* who detrend verr * lar I relv upon the salmon ■ for . their load suppsy. wit. ettntr starve to danth or become nn expensive charge upon tbe Government. Captain Bower, the Thibetan explorer, he* arrived in London, with a mass ol valuable information concerning that little known country, whioh he has col lifted primarily for tli* benefit ot lhe 1 ailisa Govern meet, in the course of iftasn months of Ursvst acres* thn wildest part of tba country ha learned many curious and interesting facta about the Inhabitants. lit* journey was mvde Muring [was 1S»1 nnd 1S92, nnd Lis route almost due west to east, starting Leb or LoJnk end crossing the I_H of other explore** I who I had traversed the country lrom north . t> south. He erosrei, snuti; others, the route followed by M. Boavs'ot, tbs French explorer, an 1 bis companion, p_- io . i. eury .. t.rao*, , .. ,. .. * ., •• other traveiere M recent times, be found it impossible to enter Lhasa*. Hi* am rest point was si out 15) miles from T!i . cant supreme in the country, but nc whs** did be meet with ho*tile treat Horn the native.. The ftikkim nt^sk n whole*' ... effect, end the Be^ tr*vt,.a, ie Thibet is ao*» in no desger. home i its the diffi •nlLss eau hardships of tb* *V easy h of the feed from bfit feta ab »r tits i MJ t end test for weelu toget % H i* dad not <et*t »t.a* * bnsnn hidden Things, In tbs heart of tbs stone The statue is hiding; But this secret is shown From the heart of the stone To the sculptor alone, mat is worth the onfiling: In the heart of the stone The statue is biding. In the leaves of the rose A romance it ia waiting; Till the summer win! blows From the leavaj of tba rose To the page of pore pros What's so well worth relating In the leaves of too rose A romance is in waiting. in the a»r ail around A coy song is delaying; There’s a faint sighing sound In the air all around And sweet love-wort* abouni. Hidden mode betraying In the air all around A coy song i« delaying. In the heart of the sea There's a syinp'iony sleeping; There Is waftet to mo From tlie heart of the sea A divine meloiy. Mingle ! laughter an 1 weeping! In the heart of the sea There’s a symphony sleeping. in this oommonoiaco age Lives tb* hero obscurely; But the els.u ml* rage In this co nmon-piace ago And I) -nth flings down his gage, In the end quite a- sureSy: In this common-plan ago Pic* the hero obscurely. In tliia world of the mart Rises sometimes n |ioct; All men vie 1 hi* pari In this world of the mart, j For But he labors the world for art; will not know It; In this world of the mart None tin less thrives tha poet. —K. C. far loss, in Home and Country. ^ BASKET OF ROSES. BV JEAN MIDOhEMAHS. HERE!” lu a tom* half z spiteful, half tri¬ umphant, which .. &Sb fiPPtivj spoke volumes. Ti c speaker wa* a •jgft/ Wmr*?/. eft’s* girl womanhood, on the verge bru- of a nette, tall, lithe and ; mmTii- piquant As she looking, gave utter¬ i* ance to this expressive monosyllable slto set down on-tbo table such a lovely basket of rose* that tbe whole sur of the room «*i at once filled with their fra K«" co * hcir ,, ' ,v Near the table, embroidering . „ flours de 0|) a wb ite satin ground, sat another a nd a fairer girl, lar more regularly beautiful; a Saxon blonde. Nora Tre herne had none of the piquancy of the elder and more h nighty Lolla. She raised her eye* from her cm J broidery aud gazed on tbe roses with pleasure. Lolla, how lovely 1 Where did "Oh, you get them! Did oue of your nu¬ merous admirer* send them to you!" • one of vours, you menu.” “How mine!" . ^liuryovt we 3 to ’^ajteaier , ^ Mite ' » M xu« tone wa* «tt!l triumphant, even ; though Nora’s fair cheek bleached to a ' deadly pallor as sho heard it. *•!«*• and icaloiw? ,en ' ,io 8 by lo LMUI Euv? were no meant T(CCt | D which Nora habitually indulged, but the one human being she had ap preprinted for her own wa* Reggio ,ho “*o“i5 bt »»« *«»▼«'* her ’ s he dM aol ul , w . MUIU , t but tric( , | faln | y totally ply ber unconcerned. uce M though Sho would slto were not for tbe world have L illu see how troubled she wa*. , Meanwhile Lolla liad opened tho note on | b( . ox tciior ot which tbc*c w»mi« wtre written, nnd was pursuing it with such delight that she saw naught of what ws* written on ber sister’s face. j Having drunk lu with avidity every , word lho letter contained, she tossed it j jjor*. “So ha has at last asked me to be his wife—turdv haltitiL* lover thou *h he hM ' «iii not on that a( .count make a worse husband than t ,,| lrr mcn Shy men are not my prefer tU ce but to be Lady Breton, with five thousand shyness." a Tear, is something to set sesinst ' Xhrre WM n |lta te, during which she 8|uc j t (ht , rosfeJ . ’ at )a8t s j, t , turnr ,j ir0U nd “VVhatl not a word o( congratulation, Nortl It cannot be poss-bletliat you c ^ ha| , pill-fc Thlllk| clli ,j t too, what a good Huug it will be for vou. How I c*u take you out—what presents 1 can give you. Then Nota struggled with the voice that was barely at command, aud said, “I nan glad you should be happy, Lolla. 1 do not waut to go out more than I do now,or to have any presents from—" “You odious Uttie thug! How wood • T ° u are. Well, I'd keep my pretty gifts for those who appreciate them. Only I hope you will be civil to Sir Keg gie when tie cornea, and not treat him to any of yonr disn ;reenWs airs.” “I am going away tomorrow to stay with Aunt Lou, so I am not likely to see him for some time,” a most whuirered Son. “A good thing.too. I shallhave settled evmthing bv the time you eoaic back. Although Sit Reggie is a goed match, i , uppost , tbtfre a! „ t*. trouble. )>.,« U i lke you; lie ala ays maxes difBcaities where ao.ie exist, and ss you »re hi* favorite daughter, doubtless be wiO think you oucht to be married first, though 1 aui the oldest." Nora did not answer. She was ac costumed to Lolta't outbreak*, which *«e seneraiiv as unjust a* they were repoBerou* Nora's ia thu lixtancc, too, poor ,rart was too heavily wounded for her j hste the courage tu at’.ude to her am. Lc!U at:d Nora Trebvrae were ,.e t«o dv-ic utet* <*; a suiai. country *quireof limit* ! income. Their mother •pi... - . t»i e.r»wu :.«tinrt to U t .-a Lot.* mad frieni of tveri sr jdy. ; in a different ~ ret t Bh* tu SIT packed op ready to go to Clifton—where Aunt Lou lived—early on the morrow. Thus, to her intense relief, she would avoid a meeting with her sister's declared lover, atom, in writ¬ ing her acceptance of her suit, Leila had liegged to come over to luncheon on the following day. Never before had she felt so thankful as when the train that was bearing her from her home glided out of the sta¬ tion. Aunt Lou lived in s pretty house near the Suspension Bridge, and there Nora strove hard to think that she liked the work she was called upon to do, and was content and at peace. If only she could get oil their wedding; if find she could go back to her home and Lolla married and installed as mistress in Sir liei'otnald'a house she wonld then be able to face life bravely. Meanwhile she had a month's re¬ prieve. Poor little Nora she hsd combative no powers; resigned to her fate she had left the coast absolutely clear, and when Sir Reggie Breton arrived at the Squire's houie to luncheon, it wai to find Lolla alone in the drawing room awaiting him, and the basket of roses, still in the zenith of their be* ly, placed in a most conspicuous position. bewildered He looked round with a air, as if he did not wholly comprehend the situation; but then he wa* so shy, wuat else could be expected? “So good of you to send those lovely roses—they are divine. So like you to remember one’s pet flowers and put tbe sentiments that accompanied them so tenderly and prettily.” tbe flowers—I “The flowers—all, yes, have seen them all grow, and Simpson knows how to arrange them,” said Sir Reggie, still looking about the room with an uncomfortable beiitation of man¬ ner. ! “Your sister,” he asked at last, “your sister like* these flowers." ; “5Iy sister thought them lovely. She i has gone on n visit to Aunt Lou at Clifton; she went yesterday.” went." “She saw the flowers and Lolla nodded her bead. “Ah!”muttered shortly by air Reggie, ami then a long pause. Even Lolla wa* nonplutscd, and began to think tncrc must be some mistake. “Oh, I sec—yes—she thought—" What she thought he did net say, per¬ haps he did not know; at all events, he wns too shy to express it. Lolla, however, was not afflicted with diffidence, and ns this big fish wa* wrig¬ gling at the end ot her line, she intend¬ ed to laud it, if possible. suppose,” she “.She thought, I went on, still laughing n little rcstrninoJlv, • that you and i could sottle arrange¬ ment* best without her.” “Exactly. Yet I do not quite see why *he should go away. Perhaps it would lie better if I came again another day.” “Certainly not. Papa expects you to luncheon, aud afterward you can have a nice long talk with him, and after the talk you cau como and sit in the garden with me." They aggressive^pospitabls went in^luncheon. The Squire was in hi* effort* to set 8tr RsggTe at his eaio, for he was well awsre of the Birouet’s proclivities, which he by no meaos lessseoed by his tremendous attempt* to “drtw'hiin ant.” Eventually, tt\two \ men adjourned>o the dt red smoking coffee uuk roj here where she L-uJ^d w|K/ et - ;i;e I ! fl pg raraWMETuat aae aopaa wouu be the result ol tletr conversation. Not that she felt, by any means, as assured about the future as she had baen before fiir Re *gie arrive! that morning, lie was so strange, so undecided, that it would not surprise her if he did not •peak to her father at all, and if he did, what would lie say* And Lolla grew white and faint lrom a sudden pain which this query seemed unexpectedly to have brought her. Coil'd it be possible after all that it was Nora he lovedf Had she, the itifal lible Lolla, made a mistake! She took out the note and read it once mare. No, it was addressed and written to her; there could be no mistake. Yot why wa* he so anxious to have Nora theret She supposed he wanted the little sister to back him up. The interview in the smoking room was a long one, and the farther it was protracted the more anxious Lolla grew, At last the clock struck 4; if she ha 1 leimd to im thought unraaldenly i ike would have gone into the smoking room and broken up the conclave, so impatient had she become, when she saw l:cr fstI,cr * , ‘ ),uin K toward the house f r»'“ » totally opposite direction—and ' “Has Sir Reggie gone!” she asked, ns soon as h« fntlwr was near enough to [ u , at # “Ye*, 1 nave just unlocked the pad dock gate lor him. It is a m uh short er walk that wav." Lolln could cintnin hereelf no longer, “You have uot refuse I your consent to the marriage, im;*!" child, “Not a bit of it, not a bit of it, On the contrary, l have told hiui l shall b- proud to have him for a son in-law.” "Then why oa earth ha* he gone awavt” “Why should he star! H* is going to Clifton by the evening train, 1 belie vef” “To Clifton I” “Well, isn't Nora there I" “Nora! You mean Hut Sir R- ggie wants to marry Nora I” Tire Squire looked at her rather com i.ay, then burst out laughing. Hi* catuie wa* somewhat coarse. ‘-By Jove, and vou thought Ureiou wanted to marrv you! Bv the stars, but here is a Weird imbr .giio-juite a fam:!v drauar’ And the Squtre set up another discordant peat. “If he wishes to uwrrv Nora, why did he write to me f asxed Lolla, angrily, taking Sir Retgie’s letter from her pocket aud handing it to her father. lie read it through float end to end, becoming more seriou* aa be aid so. “A manly, straightforward letter; yes, a* l sai I before. 1 am proti l of ium. He wUi make little X.na a good husband.” “8tra.ghtforwarJ, you cull it, to write to me when he mean* Xoraf” “it ;» ail your own tsuit, Lolla, and the lens you ray about it the better.** •*My fault, mjcod! ' “Tea, yon sre a.«ays trying to aJ vu * yourself and tbrieit X >ra into tbe * is k * s-: ■ -1 ' wrsu ’ No, ■T-uvre ait, *'d tbs squire 4. * N >.» * »* *« let thss you.” l •be renew w, now. *.>j»e we-s* %;e, is foolish, thoughtless eat, she had made this false «tate «{ Wot to Sir Reggie, •ad she skulked iwa i to the house to bide her confusion httcr annoyance. She sat down to dot emplate the un¬ pleasant know .edge What Sir Rejgie wa on his way to Clifton, wiere in truth he arrived that evenin'* Art too late to cal! at the pretty house j j| Ate the Suspen¬ sion Bridge. LrArever; he He did the neat be f put up at an hotel ufese end then went out for a stroll. It might just l iMtasible that be would meet the fair; jet of his devo tion. Nor was he desti^i^ftgnia she^Jsitting to be dis appointed; reading—d.-aUi^K there under a tree, rather. She started tip when she saw Sir Reggie he7e-tciHM re'fjgfflnitnci wU»! is it? Is “You there anything wr# j home!" “What should ife- sweet Nor.? Why should 1 not wr^^Bbut to see you? There is nothing a mistake,” he went on, sitting wfo beside her. “My basket of raS'-'-^Bk given for to you." your sister, but they MjB^^Rcrne, ” she said “I am not : quietly. |V; IB I made— __ “No—that »* will you MWBWBB|BWaI fiir Reggie to im plicate Lollu, her tbqs^^HIVconversa- the men tion with * fully understood ‘ h*^ come . about. >trf4HHS* “Forgive 1 look 80 Old?” E of “No, you the younger the two, only *o ashamed of what has «* “ P ainfl11 to “Thea uoe to talkj us^^TM^niething else, let loveforii land “Of my your love for me; “If shall It will be soj n Jn| t* looked down you blush.—Nel ; h Advertiser. with a |-. The Profrewt# 1 ImtCMltiire. [growing Tbc progress of in this srjsss.?ipii'«2: tutidu Dod-e, JL k now pro ». ports of last year »Lo tlfcnty-five greater thau the aggregate product o»!d lands years jncreas- ago. The yield per acre is inir and” new culti1|on.—Oianitrc. wiifsSiwTamis are annually brought into .nUie ♦ few fields culti vaS New Enxlaud ^ Vest. aero thau the richest soils of tWt The yield dccliucs fattest in newest and rich th TCai oMbf mwle an average wixxi apparently much favorable and prosp'cM worse, giro, a field of about iourtcen bushels tier acre. With good cultivation increased and fertiUzvtlon it 4i»«>oW be to twenty report bushei% trou,Vr» individual farms m Maine acre! y to forty bushel, per some aerjlHB in York report thirty-two or many in Illi nols and North Dsl»* *»*• twenty and thirty bushels The rate of yield could reaiiiM^fliHpereased QW one half, ^according Tbe wheat croo_ to the National • it report, l* * ypio ta yield been musuium . . www—inr i area ia mtinjate. jni, i36 acre*, ! prqduciag 518.91V* #324. >ntiel*, valued j on the farm at A* The yield per acre is 13.4 bueflida, and the value per bushel 63.4 ceat*. The largest yield of the present year is 2T.8 bushels in Montana, on 1921 acres. The next in order is 25.2 bushels in the Indian Territory. The next lower is 23.9 in Nevada, and Maine averages nearly as much, 23.7 bushel*. In the West, the largest rate is nineteen bushels in j Indiana. It should be understood that there are averages oi States, ami not of individual farms, some of which are much i higher, explains the authority quoted. i The progress of wheat-growing was ; stimulated greatly by the crop failures of Western Europe prior to 1830. Twenty { years ago no crop had attained half the ! values of that of 1801. The average i production of the decade between 1870 and 1879 was 312,133.738 bushels. The average of That the next the decade three was 449,- J 695,359. of past iork years is 5)8,997,000 bushels.—New World. - » Despised “.Slone Coal." At the beginning af the coal," present cen tury anthracite or -stone as it was called, was not used at nil except by blacksmiths and Iron workers in thsdis tricu where it was touad. It was be lieved that it could no; bo made to burn «cept by an arUfierel current of air, such as a bellow, supphad. In 1803 two great host loads of it were floateJ down from Mauch Chunk, Fean., to Philadel phia. Not n lump of H could be sold, because people did not consider it of any use for fuel. The city authorities tried to use it for a steam engine at the water work*, but it would noT burn. Finally they gave it up, declare 1 the coal worth less and caused what remained ol it tc be broken up and spr 1 in*read of grave! on the footpatbn otgfrftpstblic grounds. Tais failure put s sVo the mining at Mauch Chunk, by as renewed m 1813, and in tbe ‘ F J*?* ioad Lehigh <> f River * he to “ ' * ■?* )s,bywayoi i the D.'laware. up stoves in conspicuous public pioce* ini the cit ies. built coal link ’-bom *ad iavited the people to nop sad inspect then. They went to private boo*** and pre vailed on the iamates to be allowed to kindle anthracite fires in the grate* which had been built for »be use ot sort can!. They even bribed jonrunymen in blacksmiths' shops to five ww ereta > f*>r trial in the ; organ. — t* a»sun, .oa Star. ____________ """" *nklaf _ . A genUeman traveimg in the counhy »t Sto-Usrd, N. H.. wnmw it is sU rocks ; and bowlder*, saw a ssy sf twelve or fourteen hoeing in s c ren&eld on tbe side of wha’ would be pastnra land oa any body eiese's farm Tbe corn ws* rather poor looking. Ttm trevslsw reined in ; his hone and spofc« to tbo boy. He said to -i *Y '«ra looks father *'. » ■ “'Ve.' ' assd lit b*y, ••we p.aated dwsri core ’ * Wmi, it lv*S yoUetr, pul, and tb*n.’‘ “Weil, w# planted yeiiow cos*.” • WeM,"said the ■to*.! ' i dot 4 retM lb* 1 It don't te ak o* tf }0* weoi l fst more than half s crop ” “I don't exparet to. Iptaateii tt on tiaras. ” Argwwre*. — : HAWAII’S CHARMS. ISLANDS OF PERPETt’Ab SUN¬ SHINE AND FLO W CltS. A Iteantilnl Land Where Vegetation is Luxuriant—Iticn ness ot the Soil—The Large-t Apple Orchard in the World H A WAIF, the land of luxuriant vegetation. Hawaii, a coug try where summer and winter (. have no other meaning than a convenient division of time; where the frosts, blizzards and cyclones of the North are unknown, and the typhoons and hurricanes of the South never mc'i; where the grass and trees are always gre en and flowers always in bloom, the climate a perpetual spring. Such is the COU ntry in the Pacific Ocean, which, owing to recent events there, seems de? tined soon to become part of the territory 0 f the United States. j 0 Hawaii there are no light summer clothes to use in the morning, with win ter wraps brought out before sundown. No such unpleasant climatic changes take place, and the thermometer never varies more than thirteen degrees from one year's end to the other. At anv time of the year foliage ot endless variety covers the mountain sides, and there is always a picturesque production of nature in any of the valleys that cau be appreciated only by those who have visited the mams of the late King Kalakatia. Xhe royal pa i mt (j ste painii travelers' an ,j w ine palm are as luxuriant in Decembor as in May, and the rapidity of growth ol ever.' k.nd of vegetation in Hawaii is something marvelous. Five Tea- a „ 0 the lawu in front of the hoUJe 0 f Samuel Parker, the ex-Prime Minister of Forei , n AtIairs at Honolulu, was as Urren a , a pl8in> To-dav it is M luxuriant as is shown in the lllustra tions. Tim wine palm is a beautiful tree, length ol ei.-ht feet. 1 lie si-bt of one another curiosity. It generally grows in barren parU ol tlio islands, some dis tance from streams, ami is called a “travelers’ tree” because each branch of the fan-shape I tree holds about a quart of pure "rainfalls water. It catches toe moisture at and retain, it for a long time, or until another .bower comes along. The branches are soft, like all Sy'tr.^lwis'frequcntlj'iLde^d wUicU he i,ua ued ti «LZ°z::r ry " The elevation to the country gives universal variety to Us Hors. There arc 844 species of (lowering plants on the UUnds, anfl the unusually large tion of 15i» ferus or vascular crypto grams. found Of the IK>9 spec.es. 653 are only on the islands. The proper tion of shrubbery plants is large, and lo me representatives of low-growing genera of other regions grow to an im meuse size in Hawaii. There is a dock tlxat occasionally reache* the height of forty feet, twenty-five feet being the average size; a plantain (pilantago) that forms a stem six feet UBktr e branching; a ium with a stei fcWto lve feet high mote from ti.econMnorFcUiflrweetrThat »re busby shrubs. ' Oue of the featuresof Honolulu life is about sea-bathing four miles at Wail^^a froflPTVonoluIn, seaside where resort there is a fine beach of coral sand. The temperature of the water the year through is from seventy-three to sev enty six degrees. through the The roads most of coun try district* are better than the average country roads of the United States, u,nolulu has about seventy miles of streets and drives, about thirty miles be ing macadamized with crushed volcanic rock, pressed dawn by steam rollers. It ; 9 8ai ,t that no other city of its size—the population being about 24,01)0—does so much riding and driving as Honolulu, Besides having aboui sixteen miles of street railways and a large number of well-equipped livery stables, the city supports about 600 hacks, and nearly every family has its own horse aud car r j age . lu the wild district between liana and Kaiku during July a’ud August the most beautiful and largest apple orchards in the world can be seen. The Wilderness of Kooian, as the district is called, cou tains a foicst of native wild apple trees, countless in number, stretching from the sea far up the mountain side. 1 he trees vary from forty to fifty feet in height, and in the harvest season, trom July September, are loaded with fruit, some white, but mostly red. A person stand ing in the mtdst of this orcrerdcan look around him for miles, up tue mountains and toward the sea, and the only thing i a fie w will be one vast grove of apple trees, literally red with ripe and ripen ln g fruit,the branches of the trees bend i Ui! to the ground with the bounteous harvest. The crop of this extensive apple orchard, which nature planted in the solitary waste, would fill a fleet of 100 steamer*. l'he orchard stretches over a country from five to ten miles wide, bv twenty miles long. Tue fruit is delicious for table ure, and will sp pease both thirst and hunger, but as yet commerc. °“ e _ ^ si ute u *'” of ,be theapp.es. trou *> le t0 When “* ke rlpe they will not keep more tuan a week, but they rnaie excellent je.ly and jam, and simply for the lack of a little enterprise thousands of barrels of app.es are permitted annually to fall to the groU nd and rot.—New York Tr.buae. -- — - l aw* f. r Bakers. Special laws for ba.ers have been in ex is, ea ce since early times. In parts of Asia, whenever fiintne threateaeii, it has been customary for the rulers to proclaim a fixed price called s Harsh, or uar*v, (as it if pronounce t in India ) Or this ac count diauocest bakers were aa led to u^ir doorposw by their ears in some parts of Asia, while the more polite French have contented themselves for 6 JO years and at the prerent time with nail fag their prices ia their shop*.—Nation ai Her lea. —— 1 A I’' ,n » Bis.' _ T <* *«r- to t, >• % . • vaaB * to wtibdcaw ;tom « rculathm ait rbetwo-oout -eo pieces which they re * to e«>.i « tka eota ***. .a vounr, *.* , c«a time*. Battling Under Water. The greatest q i.stion in sava! warfare to-day is not about the big battle-ships or saucv torpedo-boats, but how to get a boat that wilt safely dire below the keel of a hostile vessel and blow her t# destruction with a charge of dynamite or guncotton. This mode of attacking an enemy is not entirely new, for, nearly twenty-five hundred years ago, divers were lowered into the water in a simply constructed air-box, to perforate the wooden bottoms of an qdvesary a war JChU®? 5 ) * Q o r ^ er to sink them and drown or capture their rowers and fighting men. The diving warrior and his box did not outlast the great ga leys tueyhal t r!ed SInk . and the history of these boats passes over two thousand years to the American Captain Buihaell, of the Revolutionary army, and his diving-boat. This was a tiny, walout-shaped vesse’, sculled by a single oar, and h iving a crew of one man. Toe boat sat low in the water while on the surface, emailing it at night to get near its intende d vie ti® without detection, raca tne hatca closed, shutting in a.r enough to 1®** * n hour, and by letting in a little water and turning an upright s;rew bladed oar, the boat was s in a to near the keel-level of the enemy s Vesse', an 1 sculled under the hull. A torpedo out side the boat carr e l a heavy coarse of gunpowder, and .vas prev.ded w.t i clociwork to fire t ie c large a.ter the I' 1 ** 15 torpedo-boat should h ive re.-citcd t” * s “F e distance, lhe torpedi on I a pointed screw stem, by whie.i it ;sa»to be attached to the dj .ineI vetse , the screw being turned from tnsi ie toe to: pedo-boat. Except for l ie ’.ire.i^ ii; <i this screw, it is possible that tue dritisn admirals flag-ship m gut have . ocea blown up as sue lay at am: nor m Ne v York Harbor; but tb it is m:ie gues-; wor.. - for, as General IVashiug o i sit i of , the boat, “too mnav things were neccs sery to be combined m it. Vet it was ingenious, a credit to A nencaa sail, and daring and its arran enmts are s ill studied by those utere, e in .-u • to". t't,.'fvJl'.t.ell let. 1> .at foe a m > the iiull of a ‘thec^ilhu/ ..S ' ~ oar 1 nio a paddle wuetl w r a . K • n .j • He ■■ forced into ,i coppe .. • supply a crew o ho our me hor a ^ ^ iile ^ M water for s,x irs. u-e « ‘he sur ace. the boa- was ^ «-A remova de masts and sans, iiu.ex,K.r. meQts :4 ^ te s« »»e twuveyeir-s l _ wher* scouted1 the ^ ™an y tret* *c a ^:z - ’■ was ’ unloved .* witnout • 1 . V ? , )m „ of u , 0 . Wa! , th _ v w l “ n, ‘ coasts in th ><- c oFlSl ' Though , do setual damagc ‘be block advr, were badly ingUtencd by tbc at tftin i ,ts ' St ‘ ^ c ‘ ' _ . . A 1 o1nl ' ,,nel ’ One way of combating an evil pr.ic tice is to make it lo >k ridiculous. It was by this means that duelling was stopped in a certain district of Kentucky some forty years ago. preacher At this time a traveling -was conducting some services T7 Kentucky. At one of his meetings, a well-known desperate character created a di-tubance, and being publicly re Imkea by Bowman, sent him a challenge to fight. the challenged party, had Bowman, as selected the choice of weapons. He a halt bushel of Irish potatoes ns big as his fist for each man, and stipulated that his opponent must stand fifteen paces distant, and that only cne potato at a time should be taken from the measure, The desperado wa, furious at being thus freshly insulted, and made an in dignant protest, but Bowman insisted that he was the challenged man, and bad a right to choose his own weapons, and threatened to denounce the desper ado as a coward if he failed to come to time. As there was no way out of the fix but to fight, the desperado con seated. Almost everybody in the place was present to see the fun. The seconds ar ranged tbe two men in position, by the side of each being a half-bushel measure filled with large, hard, Irish potatoes, Bowman threw the first potato. It struck bis opponent in a central spot, and flew into a thousand pieces. A yell of delight went up from the crowd winch flurried the desperado, and his potato flew wide of the mark, Bowman watched his chance, and every time his opponent stooped for a potato another one hit him m the side, leaving a wet spot on his c.othes and then scattering to the four winds of heaven. He hit the desperado about hvo times, and then the sixth potato struck him in the short ribs, knocking the win l completely out of hiui, and doubling him up on the grass. Tue people were almost crazy w j tb laughter, but Mr. Bowman looked as sober as if he had just finished a funeral sermon. The desperado was taken stayed home for and put to bed, aud tuere he more than a week before he recovered from the effects of the Insh pouto duel, That was the end o due. mg m ua. region.—kankeeB^de._ * Origin ol h , _ . , . ame o . Richard SchiefH n. of Lo* Angcle*, Cal., was at the Palmer tbe other day and attracted considerable attention by bis peculiar Western attire and long flow ing hair. Mr. Schieffltn was famous a few years ago as the discoverer of Tomb stone in Anions. He was a poor pros pector on the Anz»na desert in searciof gold, which he believed was located it the southern part o. theTerntory. After getting a “grub stake at a store in Yuma he started out alone to cross the srid waste lying west of Y'uma. Ashe left the town he was told th*t :n«aad oi finding gold he would dad his tomb stone. For week* the daring prospector struggled on until hi* provision* were nearly exhausted. One nL’ht whiic camping out beside a small, dry stream he was rrtHignd t# di g in thfi swd ®f the river-ired to get waur, and white thus .ye t . t -■-■*' ». ..... > A _■ i Ia • . F. -.e -•. . . a. u *rt* 1 t • » i .:••.** ported that be had found hi* toattHtoae, bui that it wa* line 1 with golden nog I - >'umbel*— aysaog, nasi to day "Dek" ficb ieM lin 1* a— of tbe wealthiest men la L» Angels*. — 1 Cbtca»<9 tribune. A WHITE WORLD. I never knew the world ia wb'ts So beautiful conli be. As 1 have seen it here to-day Beside the w.ntry sea: A new earth, bride of a new heaven His been revealed to me. Tfce sunrise blended wave anj clou I In one broad flood of goH. But touchei with rose the worl.’s white robes In every curve and foil; tvhile the blue air did over all Its breath in wonder hold. . ... b . " Seninfcor’s mJLt hant ovr * bonds with lova Above the , worz „ He plannei. . ... u, oa sue a av, To feel and understand.^ XjIrc;)m ' PITH A \ P .. 01 . , } „ " |J t ___ A love knot—No. A dog show—Teeth. Stone blind—A cat’s eye.—Puck. Open to conviction—Penitentiaries. Every man is a hero to his imagination. —Life. A question of identity—“ tVhat's your name ?” A cash balance—The scales of justice. —Puck. “That is another story,” a* the builder said when ordered to run the walls up higher,—Troy Pres*. Truth may be stranger than fiction, but in literature it hasn’t as high a mar¬ ket value.—Boston Courier. When a man unexpectedly step* into a fortune he can not be upbra.ded for having put bis foot in it.—Puck. Fin not your faith to any man Who feels no throb of joy. Whan to the circus he's a caanci To chaperon a boy. —Fuck. People finally get onto the man who is always volunteering to oblige his friends, but who never does it.—Atchi¬ son Globe. You may freeze, you may bust the gas meter if you will, but at the end of the month just the same, there's the bill.— Williamsport Republican. “What is pillage, papa?” “It is charging a dollar for eight cents’ worth of pills, my son. It is a very lucrative business.”—Harper’s Bazar. Procrastination steals our time, The sages gravely he but say. takes •> It is in justice; throw The lime we away. —Washington Star. •‘Death loves a shining mark,” said the man who was engaged in selling mythical fortunes ia ore, “but luckily it’s different with a mining shark.”— Washington Star. Edison is quoted as declaring that the man of the future will be able to do without sleep altogether, This im plies the extinction of the policemen.— Washington Star. Solitude builds up the strength; so¬ ciety pulls it down. It is tho necessity of having to meet so many people that turns the able-bodied lemon to circus lemonade.—Puck. Magistrate—“Your hand was found in the prosecutor’s pocket. Havo you anything to say a‘lawyer, I" Prisoner—“Oaly that I u-ed to be your worship, and^, Gilgal—“If you want anything well done, do it yourself, is a good rule.” Mullins—"I know a better one. If you want anything well done, tell the waiter to bring it rare."—Elmira Gazette. Ltt dark-frowning plunkity rub-a-dub-dub. And the snickersnee pizzle-te-bu blubberty-blub n; We'll guzzle the muzzle of To the eott-wailiug rum-a-tum-tum. Truth. —Harold Fayne, in Primus—“Why does Boswell wear that monoclel" Secondus—“Ob, there’s an English girl uptown who is the apple of his eye, and he’s trying to cultivate her under glass.”—Kate Fic.d’s Wash¬ ington. Visiter—“Are you going to be a shoe merchant, like your father?” Johnny— “Naw. I’m going into some business where I can afford to give ray little boy a dime whenever he wants it.”—Indian¬ apolis Journal. “Johnny, you have left the door open, and arc letting the cold air into tho bouse." “I can’t help it, ma. I’m playing this room's a street car and I’m the conductor. It would not seem real if the door was not left open.”—Buffalo Express. “Who is that man with the loud voieo and tbe loud clothes and the loud man¬ ners?" said the commercial tourist whose efforts to sell goods hail been ruthlessly interiupted. “That,” partner.”—Washing¬ was the reply, “is the firm’s silent ton Star. Allred (rapturously)—“Now, darling, please name the happy day.”—Minnie ^blnshingly)—“Three weeks from neat Thursday, Alfred." Norah (through the keyhole)—“If you please, miss, that's ray day out. You’ll have to git married in tbe early part of the week."—Tit-Bits. Walking Mania or a Woo ichopper. Brick MMuirc a brawny woodchop wag Emitted to the County Hos recently suffering from locomotor ^ ^ j, de . . cr jbed as a disease of the spinal cord, which causes a patient to lose all control of his gait. When the fits come on the sufferer Farts walking. He must go ^ itr;li .,h: ahead, he can turrf neither way, ^ ^ ftopped by eoma p^-^n M obitacle or he will walk himself to death, M j ^ lire ha , tUe disewe in its wor?t o A few davs since a fit came bn, be walked full tilt into s tree with force eoou?h to stun him. When be . va * revived he escape*! from hi* attend notl au( f walked into a deep pool of wat , r> At the hospital he walked .j,reuxhtbe dining-table and collided srith a hot stove. He is now kept fir ,nped to a i»unk to prs vent him f tom wl : k in k through the wails.— Hoiitster , c . , Advccate. An Odd Fish. O'* of the oddest fh’ae* that * w bat* air. under in any sex the it unattractive that known Mail to n^H _ a .......si.- " A es o’ . f . i ;s t .*• -• % of Oi ve. « ere ■ i t n«*-. • * ol ea^H d siga and elegance of workmanship tbe efforts oi tne majority of feata^E ing S*iu aa old root “t toek under tbe water, and th* mseon* slits of seaweed, k ra*s and Isov**.— itxhastst Tim**