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The Texas Centipede.
This interesting insect is not so much
celebrated for its amiabilitv of d'snosi
tion as for its .rood looks but at the
same time, we cannot reommend it
either as a parlor ornament or as a tov
fora child to play with, unless it is a
second-hand child that nobodv has any
particular different use for. Centipedes are of
sizes, but they are all made
pretty much after the same pattern
They are made up of about one-third
stinc-. one-third bite and one-third n-en
eral cussedness. They are casemated
with a shell that is as hard as th- bark
of a boat-din"- bouse cranberry pie The
length of The ceutip^de centipede w-a^ varies very
much, but if a to
ment on in the local Ibout paper he has inches to
stretch him=elf out to nine
in length. We have never read of one
that measured less. His bode which is
a succession of flat joints is not much
broader than an ordinary man’s tourer.
The centipede is built on the iron-clad
system, although it does not make quite
as much noise as the English fleet bom
barding Alexandria In fact the cento
pede is not musical at all but if it hap
Sim pens to crawl over immediately a man it will m-ike
very musical comnurinir'it
Its head islirmedlvitlf^rrur or bow to °t)im -tn
Ironclad besides'^ieina- of
cers which as venomous
as the editor o f n mrtv oro-an can bite
the armld end v‘thabout off-m irei sVe Faeh le^s ride is
aimeau.tn about forivshort lorty siiott le ., and an l
oftwalp" k The hoSks, ceSipode‘Sminatls
in pair of which, like its pin .
cers n-e "innouerit red hot so we have been told
bv t.^ok an ,!iek intohXm vottno- man who under
t-» it W n -1
ccntinede anaiom anchors '*1 his head beinV in the fleshy
vof human irons throws out
his two oT-ionlino- from bis rear odd!
and then draws its eight vodd. very
claws together, it will bring tears to
the heanof an Irish landlord to see how
t|.p littlp ript hnHs L
. , ‘ ,i'... ’f iV,. oiY ’.., •
be ,,-avo o ( -..
time sHP.mon’t at len t ..nil leavM nn mrlv tPeVmti' sore
The tb it him f f Ct
ri;.etom
tu heenme n timpa “rem-iina’toifim- ni,bi it L-rimlicI bip> ■ s
nit seciudlil it Ttor ri, h ! hXto a f
much ?eriremtn\ d 1m1n<r in bs iWW S in
its the recks of old
buld d'pt is l)cl ! e\id to be in
sects tlmt are not as heavily armed and
iron-clad Whv the eent.inedp was
created ' first
S in the •ilace and what
mmiose it serves are nro'm nd
mysteries to f he ordinary intellect.
gcnfleman One even in f o- alioutdnsk i Texas
of srientific torn of mhid
Wttonti(.n^was was sittino on liis front 1 o-allerv An^ Ixtriorl when
cahed to
dinarv meieorolodcal /peculiar concatenation as
circus men 11 say shaped cloud
Beemedto reach d<wn from the nkjq and
then draw itself uo ao-ain verv much
after the e manner of those cyclonic clouds
tofo wa "this meteorological
interested in attributeef per
turbation, which he at first to
atmospheric influences, when it occurred
to him that the peculiar cloud or water
spout might be nearer than the distant
horizon. He took off his hat, and found
that his surmise was correct. Fastened
to the rim of the hat by its hind claws
was a beautiful centipede about nine
inches lorig. The peculiar meteor olo&
leal phenomena were produced by the
insect drawing itself up and letting it
self down in its eTorts to lind a nose or
some other feature to hang on to in or
dor to facilitate its descent As the
gentleman had a comparatively short
nose the insect was foiled. It died
shortly accidentally afterward by the gentleman
stopping on it about a dozen
consecutive times with the heel of his
hoot.
As comparatively we have already stated, centipedes
are rare m tbe well set
tied portion ot Texas, being usually
found in a bottle of alcohol on the show
c„, of who lo„ . ,».to
for the beautUul. In this particular,
con'ipedes difler from some men. They
are much more peaceful and harmless
■when in liquor than otherwise. With
centipedes as with Indians, the only
good ones Siftings. are those that are dead.—
Texas
Filberts.
A writer in a Southern journal says:
“The shrub which produces the filbert
nut is indigenous to this climate. The
writer well recollects to have
them, when a boy, from the wild bushes,
which produced the nuts most abund
mmated antly They have, however been exter
U many years. They are grown
Ki/ii® 7 Z b kS ’
and $1.000,000 worth or more are an
nualiy 1, imjvorted thence, none being oul
Al Ant know h that i Vi" they bring a good ° r , mar price. - Gt -
It is only necessary to plant the nuts in
^d and 8 c,dfi cultivate ? ’1 n the plants, ^ which h-T Par?d spring ’
well one year, and afterward they ex
z'ssasi&s^ssss
to the fields. Thus the ditch^'banks, ! |
which are usually nuisances, whether
neglected or clean by an unprofitable |
expenditure of labor, may be rendered ;
very profitable to the fanner and orna- I
meuul to his field,.’'
l Sleep, Kin- 5 ‘
—
Louis, the handsome Vt eccentric
young well king of Bavaria, cauuiC. Jjlay ia is
known, endure to attend a c«r !
opera unless he alone constitutes the
entire audience. A short time ago he ,
was indulging this strange taste at the I i
Court theatre, Munich, when lie fell
asleep in the midst of a play. Here was
a dilemma. The play could not go on
with the audience asleep, and nobody
dared rouse him, nor dared the actors
ior a moment leave their places, for fear
ot his displeasure, should, he chance to
awaken suddenly. One impatient ac
cess threw a chair across the stage with
a crash, and an actor repeated several
lines of his part in stentorian tones; but
still the king slept on. Thus everything
was at a standpoint for several hours,
until, next morning, the king awoke play and
the wearied actors finished the just
in time for breakfast
Anecdotes of Cellini.
This sculptor had an eventful life, and
the story of it, written by himself, is one
of the most interesting books of its class
inexistence. He was born in Florence,
in 1600, and died in 1570. He gives a
very interesting the though improbable ac
count of origin of his family, which
is that “Julius Caesar had a chief and
valorous Captain named Fiorino da
Cellino, from a castle situated four miles
from Monte Fiaseone. This Fiorino
having pitched his camp below Fiesole,
where Florence now stands, in order to
be near the river Arno, for the conven
ience of the army, the soldiers and other
persons, him, said when each they other: had aocasion ‘Let to visit
to us tS go to
Fiorenza,’ which name they gave the
place where they were encamped, partly
from their Captain’s name of Fiorino,
and partly from tbe abundance of Cassar, flow
ers which grew there; wherefore
siderin® thinking if a beautiful name, and con
flowers to be of good augury,
and ■!» wishing to honor Us Captain,
whom he had raised from an humble
station, and to whom he was greatly
attached, gave it to the city which he
founded on that spot,”
Benvenuto was of so fierv a temper
that he was early involved in a serious
quarrel and fled to Sienna, and then to
Bologna. Florence When and resumed he dared his he work, returned but
to
soon again became angry because his
best ctothes were given ” to his brother,
mriimS , where he* hJd he re
veirr Meantime be
come skillful in the making of various
articles, and not only fine lus that execution but
b ’ s designs were so in some
respects he has never been excelled.
When Cellini was eighteen years old,
the Michael sculptor Angelo Torregiano-who blow had the giv
en a upon nose
which life-returned disfigured the Florence great sculptor for
to to engage
workmen to go with him winch to England had to
execute a commission ho re
ceived. He desired to have Cellini
among the number, but the youth was
so outraged by Torregiano’s he boasting refused of
the disgraceful deed that to
g°> in spites of the natural desire of his
age for travel and variety. Dorfbtless
this predisposed Michael Angelo in his
favor, and led to the friendsiiip which
be afterward showed to Cellini.
At length, in 1545, Cellini returned to
Florence, never again to leave it for any
considerable time. He was and favorably received
received by Duke Cosimo,
a commission to make a statue of Perseus
t(> be placed in the this, Loggia his del ambition Lanzi.
When Cellini heard
was much excited should by the be thou^it placed beside that a
work of his
those of Michael Angelo S and Donatello,
The Duke gave him house in which to
work and a salary sufficient passed for his sup
port. Nine years before the
riatue was in place and uncovered; but
at hist the time came for the casting;
everything was prepared and just at
the important moment, when great, caro
and watchfulness was needed,Cellini was
With so severe an illness that he
was forced to go to bed and believed
that he would soon die.
As be la Y t03S1 Pg ia a £°"Y. some one
ran m and exclaimed: ‘‘Oh, Benvenu
to! your work is ruined past earthly
remedy!” Ill as he was he rushed to
the furnace and found that the fire
was 'i 0 * sufficient Bad tne metal had
cooled and ceasecHMow into the mold.
superhuman efforts he remedied the
disaster, and again the bronze was
liqum; he prayed earnest! v,.and when
he saw that his iiK'ld- was fuled, to use
kis own words: “1 fell on my knees and
thanked God with all inv Heart, after
which I ate a hearty meal with my a?
sistants, and, it being then two hours
before dawn, wenf to bod with a light
heart, and slept as sweetly as it t Had
never been ill in my life.
We have spoken of his autobiog
raphy, which was honored by being
made a n autr»nry in the Aecadein.a
della Ciu>oa on account ot .its e\}>res
sive diction ahd rich use of the Floren
tiiio moiiuei' of .pe-oh, ho o ,o „.,«e
a art, valuable and another treatise upon the sculpture goULmith and s
upon the
bjonze-caitirig. these He take 1 and up his all writ
departments of value. arts, He also
ings are and of great of various kinds, wrote
poems verses
But his association with popes, kings,
cardinals, artists, men of letters, .and
people of all classes, makes the story of
his life by far the most interesting of
a!l his literary works .—Clara Erskine
Clement, in St. Nicholas.
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A Device that Held Good.
Ga ° Over ; is a oooosite *£ h p f iec the « of village % ^ ud of iLSJn Elliiav all
ove G ^ iai s ,. tbe rked field," be
cau(je o{ foUo ^ incident: Many
Years ago it was it,,, part of the estate of a
; x,),,,, w „ll to
T< ts , Y ra8 stricken with disease which a
council of he physicians lay pronounced incur
M As at death’s door, a law
^ unmmnnel to H»aw m his will
j s numerous sons and daughters f
formed a sorrowful gronp arouI d his
. T> Awn w
.7- ^ l
.. ♦ “ g ^pprtpriately t,. j „
att F ’solemn
j ^ b ,v,.Ho tonps “Wl,at is u ? ' »
, . , ™ „ S v
*• tok ™ •*«» *‘‘o»e y .- A
‘^ 4 gleamed m the dying man s eyes
0b , - es ’ aaid be slowly, and then with
-
^ bw VO : fY,’ ®* clal “? db
That Ill keep for myself, , after which
^, irri ?. °ver on liis BiUe and sank into
a refreshing s.ecp. In a few weeks be
r - as a 7 ?*au, and for years thereafter
je torkcu , , field was cultivated under ms
”
snpervn-ion. Springfield, (Moss) J.e
Publican.
“
—The sins of “Chinatown,” San
Francisco, are summed up in one
month’s record of arrests, to wit: Visi
agencies. tors to tan games, visitors 85; keeping lottery places, lottery
14; to
17: 13; having lottery tickets in possession,
opium keeping places, opium places, 3; 2; visitors to
26: battery, obstruct
ing sidewalk, 1; total. 161. O. th 'se,
41 were sent to the County Jail and 2
to the House of Corre tion Cash re
ceived from fine?, $2,279.
The JaWru of Senegal.
The Jardm T V des . Plante, Flantes, at at Paris rarw, has has
been ennched r® c ®^y b y l ® ^ '
tlQ n of various anunals. 0 One of te
m^tinterestmg of the^, without ^ doubt,
! s the jabiru of Senegal, which natural
»sts, m thrir not
EJW* I®* 1 * t he
This bird belongs , to a genus allied to
^ one containing the mantbou, which
18 well known to those who frequent
^logical gardens and to the same
family as our storks. make It « the impossible reflee
m examining it not to
tlon animals possess a pnysiogno
my in . keeping with their habits. Ihe
marabou, a bird of revolting voracious
“‘ !3S . which shares with the vulture the
dllt y of disposing of carcasses and
various kinds of tilth lying around, is
repulsive in its aspect as the
J abiru 13 attractive. It is, in fact, be
^use the latter eats living prey and has
the bold and free step of the hunter.
Living in the vicinity of ponds and
divers, it hunto and fishes by tarns. It
often flies, which is something that the
marabou rarely ground does by as the duty latter is
kept on the The its lives as a
scavenger. jabmi in pairs,
and the male and female another. of each Its couple of
"ever leave one area
distribution is quite an extended one.
From the banks of the i\ lute Nile, as
^ as Senegal, having for northern
limit the fourteenth degree of latituede,
it lives in the, whole center and south
west abundant. of Africa, although nowhere
It. is larger than our stork, and its
back, the upper part of its wings, its
head, neck, and tail are of a brilliant
black, while the lower parts of red its body and
are of a beautiful white. Tbs
black bill is provided with likened two pendent
wattles that have been to a sad
die, and that have sometimes given the
bird the name of the saddled stork,
In captivity it is a pleasant companion,
It respects its neighbors, but wishes to
be respected by thorn. Like the stork,
does it has great allow regard for its injure dignity it. and Ac
not any one to
cording to Bennett, Who has made obser
vations on Australian jabirus in cap
tivity, the habits of which are much
like those of tho Senegal bird, and ac
cording to Dr. Bodinus, who has had
several of tho latter and in his possession, suffer
they are easy to rear do not
from changes in temperature. Itwould
perhaps be possible, then, where to they acclimate might,
them in our country,
while proving an ornament to our
marshes, render service and by destroying vermin.
frogs, field mice, other
They would swallow here and there a
few witness’the fish; but, since Europe the'last will ^soon
(loath of heron, it
would prove a certain compensation for
the friends of animals if they could re
place that by a bird of more sociable
habits, and which effectually by that very fact
would be more protected. des
The new boarder at the Jardin
Plantes, plumagi to judge if from the pale tints of
its still a young bird. .It
does not appear^to us to enjoy very yig
orous health. We have seen it often,
and it was always seated and making a
plaintive clucking, and long partially whose open
ing with a sickly air its bill,
upper mandible had been mended with
a piece of tin.-Za Mure.
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'pj ic circumstances were these: A
] a rge firm on a prominent business
street proposed washed, to have its store janitor thor
oughly and so sent its
^ him g e $ SO invest me soap. in keg Something of soft induced and
to a soap,
he started to roll it to the office. The
keg keg was and something half larger substantial, than a beer- the
not so but
old man got along verv well with it 1111 -
til ho came to a crossing. He was roll
ing it along and got to the horse-car
track, when a dray wheel hit the .-ask,
and in a mmuto the soap was l owing
, n every direction. The old wf.il.. janitor
„„ . ,Ur, „,„1. ho
| vazed at tho scene of ruin, alono- He” came
nattily-dressed drumir-r. didn’t
observe the soft how soap slipp till he stopped in
} t y ou know -ry soft soap
j s . The clruinmer’s l'oct shot from un
der him and he never slid two rods on
his He back so quickly before in his life,
scooped up about a pint of soap
with each trousers togetVip le«- and each sleeve,
When he tried he wont down
again, and a policeman who ran to his
assistance went down, too. Wh n they l
finally sightf got on their feet each was
and the drummer said he exoect
ed to throw away every ra<r he had on
and take two Turkish baths to get
dean- The officer was mad, and said
aomebody ought to be run in, and for
"an. of a better person he was going
*» take the drummer, but was distracted
by seeing a fat mnn coming along and
{f 4 his.feet fly into the air while his
head hit a paving stone so hard it was
driven an inch into the earth Then a
man with a basket of peanuts struck
the flood and a scene of wild excite
ment ev sued, the boys who jumped in
to get the nuts being piled up in all
savwrta
gasping, got so much the soap and
filth in his mouth that it produced
nausea. The horses, in their attempts
to rise, bro'<e the harness, and there
was trouble till the street-cleaning
br 7”*«l>
g®, / J) Z25,S?S officei
t M; ngs _ but the savs if
b( , catchcs tb( . n , an tbe r-asc’ II be heard
from in court.—A’. F. Star.
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A clkboymas who enjoys the sub
K » RU (; a i benefits of a line farm was
nlightlv taken down by his Irish plow
man> wbo wa8 fitting at his plow, in a
tobacco field, resting his horse. The
reverend gentleman, being a great ecou
omist, said, with much seriousness :
“ Patrick, wouldn’t it be a good plan for
you tubbing to have few a stab-scythe bushes along here, the and fence be
a
while the horse is resting >” Pat, with
quite as serious a countenance as the
divine wore himself, replied: “Sir,
wouldn’t it be well for you to have a tub
of potatoes in the pulpit, and when the
congregation are singing, to peel 'em
awhile to be ready for the pot?" The
TevereDd gentleman laughed heartily
and lelt.
A Romance of Atlanta.
w°“ <? time ’ 1Uld “ 0t e Y., lo ^ S
a^o at that, a young man of « Atlanta
fell m love with an Atlanta girl. This
happens every day, and, as also hap
pens, the girl fell in love with the young
man. bomehow or other the parents ot
,h»» l* ".rl frownedupon that boat the union and of these
*■* 0 e arts as one. they
C on.mued t 0 frown until the young peo
p.e, thrown upon their own resources,
parental eloped, as frown young people will do, and the
alluded to instead of
becoming a smile and a benediction in
the presence of the inevitable, widened
and deepened into bitter disapproba
tion. The father and mother set great
store overwhelmed by their daughter and they were
with grief when they d.s
covered t hat for the first time m her life
she had disobeyed them. They did not
seek her out, for the purpose ot bestow
mg In th^ir the course iorgiveness. ot time a little baby was
born to the young couple-a marvelous
ly and beautiful clu d we have been told
it grew to be as cunning as H was
beautiful. One day recently n lady
aequa.nodwith the facte, amt intimate
with both families, called upon
the young mother, but found nobody
at home but babv and nurse. An idea
struck her, and she lost, no time in
cany ng it out she seized the baby and
ooie o mtiiumpli to its gi aiidnioth
er. When she rang the door-bell at
grandmothers but house the lady cool was m a
tremor, the baby was as and as
unconcerned as a cucumber. Perhaps
wLS^HandinothLImmRll^the wnen nu, ^Mnciinotnei opLi'i ii tno door uoor
,lu; 1):h ’. r laughed and crowed m her
f ace, and was as nert and as saucy as
J ou And wouldn t the lady
fomo m and rest hcrselt.’ Veil, nhc
lady duln t know, she was just passing,
21- “ w" a ll‘ S U \vere l ' U Ullilm- "
‘“-y bu grandmother in she wen I
r j sy* inu 1101 was wis aim. -ulm-r- i
mg , baby , as ,t sat be perched, the Wht lady. ami
’m’jan , 'l 1011 At
his yptic i -o the baby displayed d, tho
ke ^ ‘■limplod i', "T V'I'-to, ittle - arms ! to its .V
g^mlmot her . u motherly r, and was bosom. soon It nestling laughed
agamst .uid cuddled, and
ai " v-kum i when
somebody made a pretense of takmg it
it cuddled the closei. W hat womlorl.il
bll - ht C I°? 4 had * 40 ’!' f'Vj' ? | :lt ! J
‘'J! ' ,.‘i mil J 1 ,' re. t l’lin
, . SfiSthir,
b;li y “ the grand- n
, , , . ,
"... '
„£Vm*«h"h£ , , . . , ,
f ito
J ,.i. bb , b 1, , lbv ‘ i .Miderst-ind j‘
- Cmii
.. ,bl . , ,
1 ra’fmltri'.ihe,
fe,1 , ,• •“i.f*‘°"f ‘ ‘ arms ® ‘ ,V t and hid ‘ its
. t - . , ,
i“ l l£,o.elSs3 k .„7i ‘ i d
n wll ^ ..!.,/'; ,1, •„ s’h,
ffiof ^the herStt“Khf.nSe . 1 xSilc it ■ K ltd tLi? to
two old that ws»
dano . hler s chi ld With tills the grand
mother fell to wcepin«- pTr mid clasped this
vvo ° , 1( b., „| 1 , |, v to uenmisly bre 1 st and the
f p lju ,, wa | k(jd around
w^fU ; , S( , v ,. s Cw . ind won w hy ho
s,dv Nothm™dd
do mn-i-riant tkeseold people ior, but their daughter
ai-d and micli another re
union revival us was held over that
baby has never before been seen in At
lanfa. That .wo 1 U say and stick to.
A carriage passed in front of the Con
stitution oUice yesterday and in it were
seated ail the members of the reunited
family- The baby had a front seat, and
it was laughing and crowing and look
fog a s pretty as a pink, and os cute—
We ]i a s cuto as it could look; and if any io
reader of the Con.dilution is inclined
discredit this true storv, all he has to do
j s to ask the griftadmot her about it.
AUun lu f(la.) Con iilnUon.
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l ,, “" <» ., MW ,,, . «*•«*■
In , the . meanwhi tlic Lmpcror .
c cnjo\ s
hunseltaltui tendc i on every his side style liko at 0 c lorirc ci 10 s, > | n it
nceasionally openly showing- J he himsell hmpress to
the slowly enemy—the public. from her confine-
18 recovering (he prostratum still
ni0 " 1 ’. hut nervous
rtmiains, aivl it, is said that it is largely
f or ll( > r sak e that the coronation has
b ':en leti . m ite pivsent unocitam eondi
t ' l ! n ; * crsonally and shares she is the averse of to its
coieuration v.evv
erai l \ c Czar’s advisers that if he
ciui iuU: Lussia , without a crown as well
as with eu • why should he run the risk
™ ri ’"imst-lf ? 1 ^wiU
f”* 7 ll^, *U-t-tru-itv of late 1 a arrire.i
»” ' i V lw /- tim’c S whicli
SS / t " ; 0 sho.t “o .from t r m
X v* , 1 istmcted „,V, for
»*»;*, , »
f.!^. ivUS,„ hmain l.
j'', 1 ra anUhc prim
1,1 f, ,ulo to tlm i
,.]'■ $ VZants S , te^utoretlm‘mli^ - 1 1
u l,H < 01 , ' * 01 of th in J o-th y‘ co
ssApsp , *si yass: j
1-ire- I he ostentation that marked ev
ery movement and act of the late t.zai s
°f the navy, ana u tne e Grtnd i.rana SSKlch- uuk< .a ,n
olas, ot the army, ha-been replaced by
’<t, rSh.l 8?M.'£jSZ5!i
ing a terribly bad time of it now. No
mercy is shown them m the reorganiza
tion, that are daily taking place, and.
as might Ik* expected, their opinion
of the Czar is a very bad one and goes
to swell the popular clamor againsth.m. repair and
The \\ inter I’alaee is under
many -lifts of apartments are ordered
to 1 c furnished afresh. A few weeks
ago a deal of old lumber found in one
01 tbe garrets of the palace was sold
for 2,000 rubles to aaealerincuriosi
ties of tbe Nevsky Prospect. The rob¬
bish filled several wagons, and although
not one-half has yet been properly netted ex¬
amined the dealer has already
20,000 rubles by the sale of two valua
b l° pictures he found the first day
among it. — SI. Petersburg Cor. London
Bost.
—Bootblacks are licensed at Jackson,
Tennessee, and assigned to stands
throughout the city.
An Unhappy Island.
Poor » little ' fl4r ‘* wa v Iceland - on ® of
interesting - the ,
the most countries in
world, and a great favorite, it will be
remembered, double with affliction, Bayard Taylor, is
now ned i n a only with being but threat
e not famine with an
epidemic. A letter interesting to the London details Stand- of the
a rd gives some crowing
Rubles which are upon these
simple, happy and sturdy people. It
appears that the winter of 1880-’81 was
extremely severe, even for that region, cold
and the following hay summer which was so much
that the crop, upon
iependence is the placed, result of was this almost much a
» failure. As a
| ar ger portion than usual of the cheep
and cattle had to be killed because and mai/.e they
C ouId imported not be supported. fodder, Oats but most of
wer e for
the people were too poor to buy them,
and at last rough weather made com mu
nicati on with trading in ports impossible.
The live stock died largo numbers,
Owing to the cold weather this spring
the lambing failed. As no grain and
but very few islanders vegetables have can depend be raised
. h ere, the to on
their flocks and heids for subsistence
and for money with which to buy cloth
in „, groceries, breadstuffs and other
necessities of life, all of which have to
be imported. This fall they will have
no trade in mutton, tallow and wool,
and) wanting, as mi they lk from now their threatened flocks Lsentirely with
are
Lu.1*., ra m ; no In addition to those troubles,
which has not been known as
«n epidemic for more than thirty years,
has Eland broken out anil plague. is spreading The hardy over
tbe like a
pooplo afllicted. Ieelaml seem snrdl-pox to ho'periodic
a u / v In 1707 swept
of ono4hivd famine” of tho population. carried off In 10,000. 1759
|,he “great
1 ' 1 ! on *:’ llowc d sheep plagues and dire
volcanic eruptions. 1 he sympathy of
world will pouftjiward this people,
of whom the Standard says*.
» The Icelander is invariabl*! law-abidor. educa
ted, often learned, and a A
child of ten unable to read is not to bo
found from one end of the Island to the
ot conditioll | 101 . a ot peasant ' Arran hardly ‘earberry’ above the
an languages eapa
bl(! jty. of speaking All them two is no
rar of possess an amount
of general information which ‘men of
education’ in more southern latitudes
might envy, ami the Copenhar-nn pub- sell
Ushers can calculate with safotc on
ing an edition of any good popular sci
and cnt { ,! fishers „ c , w, ’ rk of ‘Island. ‘{‘V '‘Tl’’ I hi le-foniths af’n-Ih"
of incapable its lava-covered, glazior-w .rn suriace human
is of supporting any
bcin p- ) on tbo scantily-herb orderly iged
portion 71,000 woll-educa! id,
sub ^ 3t ’ the island is
overpopulated. Of late there has been
some emigration to America. The lee
lander, however, clings to his Northern
waste, and feels a natural dread ofleav
m strange, a ^7 and where 'T'’ trees, Wh roads,plows, °1 ^
vico and ab i‘‘ ct Poverty must bo among
tho least familiar y^luc.a sights which moot his
wondering a Q o Tnbun*.
---- -
New S PoblloBuHdl Public Bulldlmrs iffS.
Tho Federal C-vernment will soon be
expensive supplied with a variety ia of all handsome of and the
stn.cture. parts
Union. authorized Thirty-three be begun new at buildings ihe last
were to
session of Congress, tho location, ulti*
mate cost of the same, and present
available following appropriation table: being given in
the
^coSf*
Ainn^ou, Va...............f fco.ooo |
, -o..k'vn, .v. Y............. soo ooo iw.om
roiicovl"'^N.mow
Coimc IJiJnv.V 1 rn.ufs, Iowa........ 100,000 iS’ono jo.wjo
{> i^| uoi.................. uii!.'.*!! odinoSS mm ifio.ooo
m
Fm..khfrt, Kv‘.lflolnoo K jSojoo
(i:iiv*v*fon, Tex..............vw.ooo cwoo
i.v e.isnoi-oiigh, N. 0........ 6<)»ino *.vn<io
BSftt-SJS SS
JucVsnn, Tcnn ............. fto.'imi K.ooo
l^ivcnjvorti.^ Km........... mm 10 ,m
ijY'i'iimniuv Vti ioo’.ooo roioov
Maniu.-ti.-, Mioti............ lw.ooo rsi.ooo
M)nr,.;u P f .i n, Minn.......... m.m es.ooo
. a ,'hi , ria!!!'.!!'.'.!!!!'.'. m.m
,ji.................... 2 av*>o joo.ooo
[Yum'v'Tira Y’ y.............iw.ooo lwlooo fc/A 00
1{w >iester, n.
8t. Joseph, Mo.............. W,jioo •
t 1 .^'."'.'.'.'.'.':'.'.'. m,m jooSoo
Tprre Syr ,q. 1 ante ind............ Y ............wo.ooo mm J 29-222 7*,m
Wiuia ..sport, 1 a............ m.m
Total......... .......pi,7i.\oo° lz,7.rJJloo
In addition to this, appropriations
were made for continuing buildings in
course of erection as follows:
Amount.
Montgomery, Ala. .$ 00,000
Little Itoek, Ark... 0,100
VVnshinrloo, 1>. O. 40,Oto
Hurl fori), Ot..... 20,000
K'-y West, Kla.. 4,000
Cairo, 11)........ r/>,#oo m,too
Chicago, HI..... Ro.ooo
Topeka. Paducah, K Ky..,. uis... •r 27,000
Now (irloan La 180,000
Halt lin'd Md.. «oo,ooo
Boston, it ISM. , 170/K10
Kail Kiver. M iss 10,000
Kansas Cite, Mo 70,000
Mn..„ 1SO.OO*
...................... 4,000
»«:.=== 20,001) *5,000 H7,000
7,500
MO.OOO
4 50, IKK)
100,000
j ntt .i,, ir/ j, i .......................... 200,000
■■.!.’* 7"V:::.'."';:::::::.':: 400 Of'O
75,000
Na . hv ;,....................... 8,000
v . ........................ 30.000
IB,000
70,000
..... an a io
*“ 0
...... 140,000
Total..... ........
This in ilies a total of >80,357,000 to be
expend'd in building during tbe year.—
A r Y. Graphic.
.
—Tbe (ins fUe Maritime de Com
mcrciale, in its news following regarding curious ocean
disasters, relates tbe
example of the formidable l ower of
molecular forces: 'ihe Italian ship
Francesca, loaded with rioo, put into
port on May 11, at Last London, leak
ing considerably. A large force of men
was at once put on board to pump out
the water contained in the ship and to
unload her; but, in spite of of rice all soaked the actiy- in
ity exerted, the bags and swelled 1
water gradually d, May 13, up. the ship wo
days violently afterwa burst on asunder by tha
was
•wailiag of bar cargo.
HOME A5D FARM.
—A farmer in Maine reports the ar¬
rival of an insect that feeds upon th»
eggs of the potato beetle.
of —Cottage and milk, Pudding: One three cup table* each
spoonfuls sugar of one egg, pint ot
melted butter, one
flour, two teaspoonfuls |of baking pow¬
der. Serve with sa nee.—The House¬
hold.
—It is a singular fact, though not
generally known, of that the juice of the
seed stock the common parsnip is sa
poisonous as to raise water blisters be*
tween those the fingers and geed on the .—Detroit arms of
who cut off the tops
Post.
—Setting hens can be cured by put¬
ting inch, water putting in a vessel to hen the into depth it, and of
one the
covering tho top of the vessel for about
twenty-four hours. The vessel should
bo deep enough to allow tho fowl ta
stand up.
—To secure fine tomatoes for next
year evenly thoughtful shaped fruit gardeners select smooth,
this season for seed.
The requisites are medium size, thick,
solid flesh, few seedt, rich, bright red
color, and a perfect outline perfectly
free from protuberances. Lay them in
the sun until decomposition sets in. then
wash out tho seed and dry perfectly.—
St. Louis Globe.
— Baked Egg? are sometimes relished
by those who find fried ones greasy and
indigestible. bZil1he\XlKnyZi Butter a deep earthen ...
n Uu , c | ump ‘ of bitter on each [ftheoven egf/anc!
t
. ,s hot . ’ U,e °™ s w, will “ be 1,6 oooked oooked suflioient- 8un,clent
ly in four firmly minutes. they As soon done. as tha
whiles are sot are
—A pretty chair back is made of an
antique lace stripe put over silk. Have
tho lace in tho center and on tho silk
stripes of the same width at each side;
embroider a pretty vine. This is lovely,
made of the laoo and blue silk, with
sprays of small daisies nink buds, or of cardi¬
nal satin with and butter-cups
embroidered on it. The top is turned
down and hemmed, and tho bottom
may lie finished with lace, or be mado
in points with a tassel on each point.—
A r . Y. Post.
—Ginger Pop: Take three-quarters
of a pound of wluto sugar, one ounce ot
cream of tartar, one ounce of ginger,
anil the juice these and all grated togothor rind of jar, on*
lemon. Put in a
hlg mg water® water, let lei it it, rtLSdl si.vmi "untflTt until it °fa is lukol iuko
warm; then add one tablespoonful of
fresh yeast, and nearly one tablespoon
fu| of wintergseon or of sassafras, let
this stand for twonjy four hours, then
put bottles, cork tightly, and seal; it
will be ready for use m a few days.—
Boston Transcript.
—Old Orchards: It is not best to
renew the orchard by planting young
T'? tho decay ^ and **5 U destruction | e P lac « “ade of vacant the old by
ones. To a certain extent the material
needed for tho growth of the appto
f" d 'nany of tho enemies Zh with wMoh which
| he a PP le ba3 to ®“ n tead hav “ found *
h.cation tliere It , is better t , to suppf
Ihe vacancy with a tree of some other
fru,t ; or P orh aP 3 leave it vacant and
P^ 414 n « w 8006 ^orl®
La i Y- B. I. lie ahl.
PERSONAL AND LITE BARI.
—Th® of Wight News says Viotori*
Woodfmll has been for two years tho
vvife of one of England’s noblest sons,
wid holds a high position in tho beet or
English society.
_xho youngest bride on record it}
this country is Mrs. Thomas i’avno.
she is eleven and one-half years old.
Her husband is a South Carolina par
son. — N. Y. Graphic.
—General (Fla.)’ Songer, tho editor of the
Key West Democrat, is twenty
‘ i i obr!,« iliirtv-five nounds and
J , 0 ( v V
a. Sl'Zo. n Ji ft, rlt.l 11 .. fn Korldi! b ., rr .
—An American priinadonna lias made
b,,r debut at tho Opera, in l aris Miss
Lilian Norton, who, under the name of
Nordica, has obtained some sik co«s B. at
Home, Milan and St Petersburg.—
Y. Graphic.
—Uaplain rohleigh, umler whose ad
ministration l resident Garfield served
as a hoy on the tow path of the Miami
Canal, is now commander of an Erie
canal-boat, the James A. Garfield.— B»
In jit Post.
--Mr Henry G. Vennor, the fnna
d j an weather prophet, is dew-ribvd a*
(be HM( , KHor dark, of a striking countenance,
, ia | u> ith brilliant, restless eyes,
He is all and well-proportioned, at and
carries h ; inself with a half-mart air.
—Captain Mayne Held is described m
wearing odd kind of clothes, has peculiar been
both in fabric and cut. He
seen wearing a re 1 vest, a high striped
collar, with points reaching h seyes, and
coat and trousers of equally grotesque
appearance.
— Mr. George K. Godwin, tbe lata
theatrical manager of Philade'phia, .^lO.CWQ at
one time paid Artemus Ward
for a lecturing season. I'.e once was
tho owner of more panoramas than .-uiy
mtin in the world, at a time when they
were a great novelty in Awcri -a.
—While working as a blacksmith, th»
Kev. B. Hurst, who lately died in En¬
gland, studied the languages all hi»
spare time, writing the conjugation- of
Latin, Greek and Ireneh verbs on tha
f ume stone of his forge. Beside? tkesa
tongues, he stu lied Hebrew, Arabio,
Sanskrit an I Syriac.— N. Y. Sun.
—In her brilliant lecture on “ Idols
and Iconoclasts, ’’ at the Concord School.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe rema -ked as to
idols o r the affe tion, that falling in lovs
is a th ng which has gone so entirely might out
of fashion that a woman of her age
b ‘‘ es'-ut® 1 for asking whether any on#
of those pre.-sent had e°er dreame i what
the dea of such an experience could h*.
- - Heston Po iL
—a Philadelphia crank, who wears
a n exceedingly high striking hat, “to h m,” prevent places
t fi ( . light ning from
upon the roof of his house every day a
y quantity of fru t for an imag nary
- r to eab A small boy, who baa
p-a -ned of the eccentric conduct of tho
0 !d gentleman, cl mbs to the roof much daily
on a I ghtn ng rod and decs to
confirm the old man’s belief in tha
mythical female - - '.‘tniadelphia Press.