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How He Was Laid.
It was in a smoking-ear on the Hudson
river road. A New Yorker was exhibit¬
ing an indention to several gentlemen,
when an old farm-T, with a settled look
of sadness on his fa e, heaved a sigh and
said :
“I never see such a thing without
wanting to weep.” this invention
“ Nothing about see,” replied to
weep over, that I can the
inventor.
“ Wall, it sort o’ calls up old recollee
tions. Tweuly years ago this fall I
thought I had a fortune in my grasp.
Yes sir, I believed I had struck the big¬
gest thing since steam was brought into
nee."
“What was it?”
“ One day when the old woman was
flat down with her lame leg I had to
cook my own dinner. After I’d get the
pancake-batter all fixed up I cenlen’t
find the greased rag the old woman used
to rub over the spider. Sort o’ Absent
minded like I picked up a piece of it instead. rapv tur¬
nip from the table and used
It worked to a charm; no smell, no
smoke, no stick. ”
He paused here to wipe away a tear,
and then continued.
“There was the fortune. I figured
that 9,000,000 greased rags were used ki
this country five months in the year.
Fifty thousand barrels spider. of grease were
used up greasing Over §100,000
wasted and gone. One turnip would
make six greasers ; 1,000 bushels would
ifciake enough to supply the country.
All that was needed was to cut them up
into fancy style, affix a handle, and go
to supply the demand at 10 cents each. ”
“There was money in it.”
“No, there wasn’t. I bought 100
bushels of turnips, §56 worth of wire,
and hired two man to go to work, and
then I took a greaser and went over irto
Vermont to see how it would take; they
would not have it. They cheaper.” bad something
more simple and much
“ What could it have been ?”
* They spit on the spider!” repliod
the old man, as a tear made a break
flown his nose and was swallowed np in
the dust on the floor.— Wall Street
News.
Beer by the Gallon.
The Journal information of Applied Science gives
some detailed as to the pro¬
duction of beer, the number of brew¬
eries, and the consumption of beer per
head of the population in the different
Countries of Europe:
Quantity Prefeed. Xo. Jlrcie- of COM’rmji'n. Per I lend.
Gallons, eries. Gal/one.
Great Britain......1,OBO,«00.000 900,000,000 23,940 26,214 34 22
Germany.......... 270,000,000 2,448
Austria............
Belgium........... 180,000,000 2,000
France ............ 150,000,000 50,000,000 3,100 45
Russia............ 460 5
Holland............ 33,000,000 560 9
Denmark........... 80,000,000 20,000,000 440 12
Sweden............
Switzerland....... 17,000,0110 400 6
Norway. . 16,500,000 8
Of the 23,930 breweries in the Ger¬
man empire, Bavaria alone, had, when
the last returns were made, 6,524, while
in Prussia the number of breweries has
fallen from 10,000 to 7,246, though the
quantity of beer brewed has not dimin¬
ished. Berlin, which supplies nearly
all the beer drunk in that city-, had in
1876 only forty-nine brew- but they
were on'so large,a scale that they made/
■on an average, nearly 1,000,000 Saxon* gallons
each. The same is the case in
where the production of beer lias treble
during the last forty years, while the
number of breweries has diminished.
Nearly a fourth of the Austrian beer is
brewe'd in Bohemia, and the imports of
beer continue to diminish, while the
quantity exported it is seven twenty or eight
times greater than was y r ears
ft£ro '
Not Impromptu.
The day after Senator Hayne of South
Carolina delivered his celebrated phil¬
ippic against New England, and Massa¬
chusetts in particular, Daniel Webstar
answered it by the greatest speech of
his life. All over the country surprise
was expressed that such a masterly reply
should have been composed within
twelve hours.
But the fact was that Mr. Webster had
been for years preparing that speech.
One cf its strongest constitutional argu¬
ments had been written a long time be¬
fore, as a professional opinion. No oc¬
casion had called for its public utterance
until Mr. Hayne made one. Then the
great orator had but to marshal forces
already equipped, and hurl them at the
assailant of his state.
A lady artist, visiting and the studio of Mr.
Hunt, the seeing an elabor¬
ate charcoal picture, asked how
long it took him to draw it.
“Well,” answered Mr. Hunt, “I think
it took me an hour or two ; that is, I was
about that time putting it on the paper
there. But 1 suppose I ought to say
that it took me lorty years, as I've been
drawing about that length of time.”
An unenlightened public may believe
in extemporaneous efforts; but the en¬
lightened required know that the labor of years
is to make one superior effort.
The lesson is a plain one—improve every
moment by work, for the hour is not
forseen when you may lie called to
do the great duty of your life.— Youth’s
■Companion.
Convicts.
It was noted in Australia, in her con
-vict days, into that the ticket-of-leavers who
went trade were much more punc¬
tiliously honest than the average trades¬
man. They felt that and thev were the ob¬
jects of jealous notice, that numbers
were waiting to catch them tripping, and
then exclaim, “Didn’t I tell you so?”
Looking at the heavy percentage of
these men who become exemplary citi¬
zens and fathers of worthy families, it is
a matter had of profound regret that the
system to be abandoned. The con¬
vict in England to-day, as here, is contin¬
ually driven back against his better self
Into crime and breeds a criminal family.
Australia to-day has thousands of citi¬
zens wealthy, who, honored and highly having edu¬
cated, but for their fathers
been sent to the antipodes, would be
thieves and outcasts.
We sre sometimes so impressed by a
fellow-man’s estimate of hu importance
that we tremble at the mere suggestion
trf whet might have been if the Lord had
forgotten to make him.
The Drinks of all Nations.
“ Drinks of All Nations” was the sub¬
ject of President Cotton’s lecture before a
Boston temperance meeting. “Britons,”
he said, “ spend annually £140,000,000
in drink, an average of $19 each. This
does not include the sum paid for im¬
ported French wines. I have learned
that America is now exporting largo
quantities of whisky to England. If
so, God help England. In Russia the
common people drink enormous quan¬
tities of strong lteer. The brandy. nobility con¬
sume a great amount of The
Government has recently appointed a
commission to devise a scheme of nation
al reformation. But one dram shop is
to be allowed in each village, and where
two villages are in close both. proximity one
shop must do for At present
6,000,000 gallons of wine and brandy are
annually consumed in Russia. Holland
ers drink gin and beer. Germaus use
beer and wine as beverages. In 1878
oflicial reports show that there were
11,800 breweries in the German speak
ing countries, turning out 846,000,000
imperial gallons of beer. In Copen
hagen the authorities have decided to
reduce the 1,350 beer shops to eight. No
pretty liquor, barmaids and the are drunken to be allowe^^o
serve
be carried home in a cab at the
of the last man wlio sold him
Turks are the only No temperate good Mohamnia
civilized nations
den touches distilled oi malt liquors.
Jay Gould.
Jay Gould is forty-five years of age,
but looks younger. There is a slight
tinge of gray upon bis black beard, and
his high, full forehead and sharp, dark
eyes, attract notice. His friends say that
within a year or two he has changed he his
method of doing business, when vised
to manipulate stocks altogether. engaged They
say he is now exclusively in the
establishment and management of great
telegraph and railway enterprises. But
it won’t do to rely wholly upon the ap¬
parent stillness of the man who holds
the stock market by the throat, and he can
choke sheckles out of it whenever hap¬
pens to be in the mood. Some twenty
years ago Mr. Gould married a Miss
Miller, whose father was of the firm of
Dater & Go., grocers. eminently They have six
children. Mr. Gould is a man
of habits. At the close of business he
rides home, takes dinner with the family,
and passes the evening in his study. In
this room are his telegraphic Private wires operator
and private secretary. his broker ena¬
ble him to communicate with
and aids at all hours of the day and
night. No man works harder than he.
Wine and tobacco are forbidden guests.
Beading and looking at his magnificent
pictures are his only recreation. He is
a generous, open-hearted large-minded,
unostentatious man. To his family Mr.
Gould is devotedly attached. He. rarely
travels either for business ,or ft pleasure,
unless accompanied by some his chil¬
dren. They have anything and every¬
thing they want, mid do just as they
please. Mr. Gould is at all times the
plainest of men.
How Some Women Sleep.
do , sleep , lufkeujhedoc
‘ >w yon .
"
“Splendidly, „ she , replied; ,. , nine • oi
ten uuur-i without a dream; but when I
awa ^e 1 llQVe a dreadful headache,
‘‘What is your bedroom like ?
1 ll!ld seen this prettiest of imaginable
ftefets . !ll “ 1 1 clnpped in with a descrip
turn of it. Nothing could declared, be wrong
a1,ont the ventilation, I for the
windows were high and broad and were
left open over night-. The bedstead was
j carved all over m solid rosewood; the
mattress was filled with freshly-curled
hair and rested on springs; the linen
was of the whitest and finest; the blank¬
ets were a gift from California, where
the softest and warmest arc made. The
recollection of tlio down pillows threw
me into rapturous praise of the undressed
silk of which their coverings were made,
and their elaborate embroidery.
“Hold on!” interrupted the doctor;
“you are not writing a fashionable letter
just now. Have you ever seen Laura
asleep in this wonderfully beautiful
bed?”
“Where “Yes, only yesterday morning."
was her nose?”
“Let rue see. Ob, yes; it was under
the blankets.”
“I always sleep that way,” said Laura,
‘ ‘I cover my bead when I get into bed,
and it stays so all night.”
“Probably that causes all your
trouble,” said the doctor. “You manage
to ventilate your breathe loom properly, air and
then manage to vitiated for
eight or ten hours every night. Stop it.
Sleep with your head uncovered for a
week, and then let mo know how you
feel.”
She followed bis advice, and at the end
of the week felt first-rate.
Small Arms Vs. Cannon.
With the improvement in small arms
for war it is obvious that there must be a
change in the construction and service of
field artillery, or this arm will lose its
importance. Infantry rifles which can
pick oft' gunners at half a mile, and
which soldiers can toad as quickly while
prone on the ground, where they can fire
them with more precision, can soon make
the gun untenable. If, meanwhile, it is
firing solid shot, the contest is very un¬
equal. Even if firing percussion shells
or canister shot, a skirmish line of sharp¬
shooters would be too much for the ar¬
tillery. It may be of service momen¬
tarily, at short range, against a charging de¬
line, but in such cases the fire is so
structive to gunners and horses that the
guns are generally lost, unless the charge
wholly fails. The loading of a cannon
at the muzzle makes the utmost exposure
of the gunners. The long range small and
quick loading of the present arms
have made the contest very unequal to
artillery. Unless a corresponding will ad¬
vance can be made in that, a battle
be a general giving away of guns. There
is no need of such exposure of gunners.
In serving a breech-loading cannon the
exposure of men is generally reduced,
and their service is in so contracted a
space that they could easily be protected
from the fire of small arms by a steel
shield. But in our army we have not yet
got so far as breech-loading rifled guns.
—Cincinnati Gazette.
Inquirer —No; that mysterious “False
Prophet” of the Soudan is not a weather
prophet— Boston Post.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
The mean depth of the sea is 1877
fathoms.
Toads, tortoises, turtles and some liz
ards are entirely destitute of teeth,
Camomile flowers are sometimes used
for the adulteration of^ smoking tobacco.
Cheese is really but coagulated milk
in a more or less advanced stage of de¬
cay.
In the swamps surrounding the “salt
licks” of Kentucky, buffalo bones arc
found packed in the soil in great quanti¬
ties.
There „ is . no appreciable ... difference, , for
, fee< *«g ot silk-worms, between the
“ e
| cax es ^ 10 osft 8 e orange and the mral
berry.
The sea urchin is remarkable as being
the only animal below mollnsks and
articulates possessing organs for mast¬
cation.
The heat of lava at the bottom of
the crater may be estimated at 2,000°,
for refactory metals melt in contact
with burning lava.
It has been estimated that the
evaporation from the soil of tha forest
jg rather more than one-third as great as
that from open soil,
OB ] ea j poisoning sulphate prescribed of aati- soda
Pp Solu siflts is the , "»fflphate
p, r.vdeivu charcoal ahb
magnesia are also used,
The exp6rime nt has been tried exten
sively in Franco of planting trees in
belts at certain distances apart, with
marked benefit to the climate.
Chloral does not act as an anffisthetio
on the sensitive plant, while ether and
chloroform have an effect on it similar
to that they exert on animals.
The existence, of rays beyond the
violet end of the spectrum, though al¬
most invisible to our eyes, has long been
shown by their chemioal action.
What has been commonly knows as
the fat of an eel is seen, under a micro¬
scope, to consist of egg cells, of which
a single fish may oontaiu 9,000,000.
It has been discovered that the venom
of the Lacheeis rhttmbCata, a species
of snake, possesses the power of digest¬
ing albuminous substances and emulsi¬
fying fats.
Trees, during rain storms, retain vast
quantities of water. The soil covered
with forests receives six-tenths the whole
rainfUll, the trees having intercepted
four-tenths.
The light which falls upon the earth
from the satellites of Mars is about
equivalent to what a man’s hand on
which the sun shone at Washington
would reflect to Boston.
To despond is to lie ungrateful evil.
hand. Be not looking for Often evil
tliou drainest the gall of fear while
is passing tliy dwelling.
A man’s yes and no, so bis
A prompt yes or no marks the fine,
quick, the decided character, and a slow
the cautious or timid.
The man or woman whom
caution holds back from striking the
vil with the earnest endeavor, is poor
cowardly of purpose.
What would be the state of the
ways of life if we did not drive,
tthOTTgTit-Hpiiniiiers sometimes. through them,
valve open,
A man need only correct himself
the same rigor that he reprehends others,
and excuse others with the same indul¬
gence that lit) shows to himself.
Tiie greatness of a victory may
estimated from the severity of the con¬
flict. A man never has to struggle more
desperately than to overcome self.
The only true way to deliver
is to lie thoroughly delivered myself;
long as I am in the fire it is quite
sible for me to pluck another out of it.
We must get at the heart of the
if we would know what is best for
government. It is the breath of the
people that purifies the blood of the
nation.
Deep feeling is contagions. hearts
poured forth from burning
sure to kindle the hearts of others.
Hearts that can stand everything
often melted by a tear. Let the
palpitate in every line and burn in every
word.
If you hope for what is
and then work, you will probably get it.
But if you expect die impossible, pair like the
man who wanted to buy n of spec¬
tacles with which to got a bird's-eye-view
of the city, you urj b >und to be disap¬
pointed.
The Reason He Wauled to Sue.
Some time since an Ohio paper got
after a manufacturing conoom, and gave
it such a showing up tlurt the President
went to a lawyer and said be wanted to
begin a lilx;l suit.
“Wliat has the paper said?” asked the
attorney.
“Why, that we have never paid a divi¬
dend.”
“Well, have you?”
“N-o, but it said wo couldn’t pay am
hands.”
“And you haven’t for the past two
months, have you ?”
“I can’t say we have, but it said our
stock was down to 14, the concern
mortgaged, and bad management would
soon bust us. ”
“Isn’t it all so?”
“Confound it! Yes, and that’s what
I want to sue. for!” yelled the indignant
President .—Detroit Free Press.
Every Prince of the Royal family in
Germany is taught when young some
useful trade for the purpose of sobering
the mind and bringing it face to face
with the material world and the realities
of life, and among the profusion which of crowd cun
osities and artistic relics
the Emperor William’s private cabinet
may be seen specimens of book-binding,
carving, carpentering and other handi¬
work performed by liis sons and grand¬
sons.
—Although Kansas has for eleven
▼ears had a capital punishment law, no¬
body has been hanged except by lynch
en. Under the statute a person sen¬
tenced to death is first imprisoned if, a
year in the penitentiary, aDd at the
expiration of that time, the death war¬
rant ia signed by the Governor, the exe¬
cution takes place; but otherwise the
imprisonment continues.
AT THE LEADING HOTELS.
IVhnt a Hotel Clerk lilts to soy About
CellowM \Vlto Co to lint DruttU
iv'ver.v Nlttlit.
“ I saw a western fellow the other
day,” lie writes a Washington correspondent >
“ as came out after a spree and a con¬
sequent week in bed, and I asked a clerk
bow lie managed to get along with
fellows who go to lied drunk every uiglit
until they are laid up with delirium or
some other resulting malady. He said
he had little trouble, as the fellows who
go in for a good time until the g ood time
goes in for them, we generally of the
sort that makes no disturbance. He
said the most trouble came from tlie men
who go on a spree just because they are
away started from home, and after they got well
again, ordering drinks sent to
their rooms at all times of the day and
night. Of course this leads to delirium,
and generally ends iu putting a colored
boy j,n the room as nurse and attendant;
though sometimes, Mr. Burch told not',
the clerks are simply ordered to pay no
attention to the rings from a room where
it is known that a solitary, soaking spree
is in progress. it If tho man gets thing mad for and the
goes nay is not a bad
hate] ad if he has to get np and coxae
dovq i*ir» every time he wants a drink,
he <( aska him**l{ and tapers
thinkers at the hotels are
nor JWFVho wlio keep around among the
gellf| non frequent the house, but
thus-' who have the drinks sent to their
root It all hours. In a room adjoin
ing lo, last winter, there was a frontier
trad who was ‘out of his head ’ for
two ®eks, Ad and ho talked to au imaginary
girl witlaBads. he fancied ‘There, he little was presenting girl,’
he
won say, ‘ go behind the counter and
take 1 the pretty beads you want, I
bon them on purpose for you.’ Then
he ii Id ask an imaginary merchant if
he and \v<|i “» Id lie cash would a check for day ten and thousand, night,
go on, well
until tho whisky was out of him.
There is one good feature about the
hotel; , they take good ewe of a man,
however sick be may be, and manage a
gentleman on a spree with rare diplo¬
macy.
worhHor “ Washington is the worst plnoe in the
iprees. There are so many
idle day- >r those who come on depart¬
ment bu ess, and so many phenomenal
clerks an accountants in the various
branches of publio service, that the
phenom than inti 'sting. 1 drunks Tlie are more frequent officer’s
ignified protracted; army the
drunk and
Congres an’s drunk is wild and free,
like tho jean and the oratory oa the
House tl r; the department clerk gets
drunk iv t great oaution and secrecy;
tho nava idetgets on aspreo in platoons
and sing all the songs lie knows; but
tlie dran’ i drunk of all is that of the
politioiai ho oomee for office and fails
to Ita He then—if ho is of the
drinking i t—makes a break for some¬
thing he oi get without appointment
or confirmation, aud ho proceeds to get
drunk anl tliat give Washington his identity. a view There of
himself will fix
is, though) as little drunkenness hero as
menti'onJ in any c4| ; 'the phenomenal drunk is
Cor its interest to expori
menyj(§ (hero is one ingenuous old
*■
snuJIFTJPKV* Otuiforxiafwlio 111 n forty-niner feels right from
says he never
in the morning unless he was drunk the
night befvre.”
Great lee Bridge at Niagara.
nn; gorge fifty feet iiron, and f,x
TENjy.NO two mii.es from the foot
OF THE FALLS.
Those wlio visited Niagara Falls Sun¬
day witnessed a scene never lx-fore
known in the winter history of the great
cataract. One of tho best ioo bridges
ever known formed in the gorge imme¬
diately wind drove below the falls, down and the the lake high
the water into
the aver. The water began rising, and
just after 4 p. m. the deep and increas¬
ing would rumbling disrupt indicated the that glacier. the pressure
great Soon
the middle portion broke away and
dm l majestically down tho stream for
about 500 yards, until the muss in the
narrower part of tho gorge below
brought it to a sudden stop with a crush
whi‘ . re-echoed from side to side of the
chasm.
As fir as the eye eouid reach the vast
ma*' s of ice were being crushed to
atoms, while here and there miniature
vfdcenoes of water and ioe spouted higl,
into i lie tir. By (lark the ioe gorge ex¬
tended from the foot of the fulls to just
below the railway suspension bridge,
some t vo miles, and it seemed to be
solid from the bottom of the river to n
height ;>f more than fifty feet above high
water nark. During the night huge
tn.TssM|,flf ice went crashing over the
eat.iVH -i, and were thrown high on either
shore, i ud at about midnight, some two
hundred feet of the famous inclined rail¬
road a! Prospect Park were carried away,
while die stone observatory and dressing
ro oms i d the “ ■Shadow of the Rock, ” ho¬
twee?) UleToot of” the railway and the
Aii'iiidtn full, were crushed to pieces.
‘ the f side, •7? h , " MoCloy, w rt . ferryman,
on ( mind a alwut 75 feet above
the iwit.1 ioe level w«spartly overturned
and t »o occupants hod a narrow escape,
The lift te ferryboats were crushed m
their he ises and several of the guys of
the net- suspension bridge were tom
from ?L ir foundations. I he damage
will l ( veral thousand dollars. II all
tile it--.- midges ut the fills during the
past», other it a is ears said were piled on top of each
that they would hardly
equa ill height and length of the one
which jr v spans the chasm.
Rj r;r. For a quarter of a century Mrs.
Lydiu \f ri« Child and her husband lived
without e s-mint, in their bumble and
pleasant relates lome in Way land, Miss. One ,
’/• -n s J[crat/l, when he said to
her, I sh for your sake, d-ar, I was
ssrich *■ Croesus, ' she responded, “You
are Crow us, for you are king of Lydia.”
Tr v. J. W. Gmbbs officiated at
whst » intended to Ik: a mock mar
riage, declared at Springfield, that the knot Mo., but legal, uin i <urd and
was
tnade a h mal record of the certificate-.
The covq’.c were clergyman indignant at this action,
and had toe prosecuted. He
«aa fined #25 for making a false return ;
but ha lw- appculc-J, and for mouths the
pair will not know whether or not they
are hu* lei fid and wife.
JO HEATH’S FIFE.
Slntinlnr iUode ot (IcttliiK Proof for a Pen
91011 .
Clerks, of course, are often required
to give certificates and affix tlieir oflicial
seals to documents which are to be used
at a distance. Many years ago tlie
writer was clerk in one of the counties
of Mississippi. He was called upon to
make the proper attestation to prove the
right of a very old man, named Joseph
Heath, to a pension as lifer in the Revo¬
lutionary war, from 1776 to 1781.
The old soldier could find no one who
knew him in the army, and liis circum¬
stantial evidence had not been sufficient
to justify the disbursing agent of the
Pension Bureau iu making an allowance.
How he succeeded will now be related
as be afterward informed the <-lerk.
When ho came to tho office, which was
more thau once, he would remain some
time, and was very chatty; generally
alvout the old war, and what he did and
saw. “He would tell and show how bat¬
tles were lost and won.”
He always offio&^Mkunmg bad t wo good hearers in tho
clerk’s clerk and tlio
old .-AdHTH^^^Rwho repeated, interested
-
the handrwHi tin™
It chanced Air. Heath heard of
an old man wlio was one of the numerous
set tlers in the Choctaw purchase between
Big Black and Pearl Rivers.
The name aiul old age of this person
pressed Mr. Heath with the thought
that ho might bo an old army comrade;
he could but go and find out.
Having nothing to do, and his son,
with whom lie lived, being comparatively
poor, the old soldier walked tho distance
to the home of the supposed fellow sol¬
dier. Coming to tho neighborhood and
getting directions, ho easily found the
residence, made of split, logs, having a
rough shed in front, without floor. It
was Saturday evening, gallery. and the family
was sitting on this front
The visitor, iu approaching, saw at a
short distanoo an old man and woman,
another children. man and woman not so old, with
several He chose to come to
them from behind the top of a tree
wliioh had been out down near tho
house, the brush and leaves hiding the
visitor from view. He then took from
liis pocket a fife which he lmd with him
and commenced to play tunes of fifty
years ago. ■„ “The morning tattoo, the
evening reveille, the battle trill,” and
the notes to lead the drum in its beat for
marching.
Those who heard him were, of course,
surprised. Tho old man remarked:
“Wife, I reckon my time has oome to
die; I hear Jo Heath’s fife in tho air,
which I have not heard for fifty years,
except in dreams. ”
Having he played from as long his as ho thought
proper, came concealment,
and was snom among tho household of
him whom he had been seeking.
Tho fife had established the identity
of tlie two eld soldiers to oiwh other
more conclusively than could have been
probably done in any other way.
The writer had the pleasure of certi¬
fying to the proper proof of tho witness and
who was thus strangely discovered,
the old lifer roceivod Jus pension for life.
X
Germans Who Dream of America,
I was sitting in a lecture room not
long ago, listening to a profound Ger¬
spondent, man professor, when says a newspaper fell corre¬
my eye upon two
words ent in bold characters into the top
nf tlio table before me. They were
“Auswandcm" careful (emigrate) pah-<graphical and exami¬ “Grot
clien.” A
nation revealed the fact that they were
made by ono and tlie same hand. Tho
conclusion is inevitable. Here was some
young German philosopher, knowledge equipped
with a vast, store of and with
a fair Grotchen, paterfamilias, who was planning to
become a but who saw ob¬
stacles in (lie way which could only be
set aside by the “Auswftudern,” that is
to say, by marrying bis Grotchen and
starling off at once to America with her.
Be this particular deduction as it may,
the fact is that many of them feel that
way. Many a German student al amt to
finish his university course, or already in
possession of a doctor's degree, has wist¬
fully asked mo wlnvt tho prospects in
America wore for a young man of learn¬
ing; and many have assured mo that
they would not hesitate a moment if
they were only sure of a tolerable posi¬
tion on the other side of the water. The
current of emigration setting toward our
shores, though already authorities, strong enough to
alarm the German would
surely be niueli stronger if the poorer
people, only bad enough money The to carry
them Across tho oe- an. truth is
that the unmlwr of Germans who are
dreaming of America ns of a land of
promise is legion. This is plain to any
one wlio lias taken the trouble to discuss
tlie matter with the ordinary peasant and
laboring man.
Our BndleM After Da/ith,
Within a very near approach to truth,
the human family inhabiting the earth
j„ w been estimated at 1,000,900,000; the
amiI)a ] !„«« by death is 18,000,000. Now,
the weight of the animal matter of this
immense body cast into the grave is no
j es8 than (434,000 tons, amlitedoeom
potion produces 98,000,000 cubic
foot of matter. The vegetable produc
tions of tlio earth clear away from the
earth the gases thus generated, and fic¬
composing th.-ir increase. and assimilating circle them for
own This of changes
j liui been going on ever since man he
came an occupier of the earth. He feeds
ou the lower animals and on the seeds of
plants, which in due lower time become a part
of himself. The animals feed upon
the herbs and grasses, which in tlieir
turn become the animal; then, by it?
death agidn pass into the atmosphere,
aud are ready once more to he assiniil
-Red itancc' by plants, the earth or bone sub
alone remaining where it is de
posited.
A lady stood patiently liefore the re
oeiving teller’s window in a Broadway
bunk the other day, but no one took any
notice of her till she attracted the atten
ii .:i of the money-taker by tupping “Why with
h i parasol on the glass. don’t
yon pay attention to me?”shesaidpet-
1 -..fily. “I'm sorry, ma’am, but we
fit puv anything here. Next window,
,1 a-,,-, was the polite response .—New
York t'ornmercial.
THE CARE OF HORSES.
A Lew Timely Hlutir -Itnrirrillntr the A ill—
■■■ills That May be Useful.
Give horses salt frequently.
Returning from an afternoon drive lefc.
yonr horses cool off before entering the
stable.
When light shoes are needed, par¬
cast ticularly liiiul ones, have them made of
steel.
Don’t hook yonr horse to the sleigh,
the same ns to your wagon, but give him
more trace.
Horses wearing boots shonld have
them loosened while under the shed at
the road home.
If your horse should pull on one line
or throw liis head up and down and fight
and pull on the bit have his mouth and
teeth examined.
The hand-pieces of driving reins fre¬
quently ing the become hands smooth from use, caus¬
to shift. In such cases
rub the lines with powdered rosin.
If you wish to drive your horse with
an open bridle have him tried with one
before putting him to vour top wagon,
otherwise he might get away with you.
When horses overreach lengthen the
hind shoes; when they hit the front of
the liind feet have the toe of the front
shoes made narrower and concaved on
the inside.
Some horses when trotting, in putting
their liind feet to the ground, strike
principally should on the toe. Such horses,
have the heels lowered, and
should wear shoes without heels.
Skunk cabbage is Raid to be good for
heaves in teaspoonful doses, night, and
morning. Be. careful with Moisten the hay and grain.
the diet. Never work
a heavy horse on a full stomach.
Steel bits shonld bo kept in a warm
place until they are placed in the horse’s
mouth. Any person can realize the sen¬
sation of placing a cold bit in the horse’s
mouth by first touching it with his own
tongue. excellent
An remedy for mango is :—
Oil of turpentine, one pint; add cau¬
tiously two ounces of oil of vitriol, stir¬
ring the mixture cautiously; then add
eight ounces linseed oil; to be rubbed in
with a brush twice a day.
If yonr double team did not work to
suit yon to-day, one crowding to the polo
wliilo the other would pull his head to
one aide, seo that the reins are right and
in hooking them to your wagon to-mor¬
row put the off horse on the near side.
Tar is one of the most useful articles
to bo kept about a stable. Internally
use a tenspoonful coughs, night externally and morning for
elironio it is par¬
ticularly wounds useful tlve in thrush Mixed and all diseases
or of foot. with fish
oil it is one of the best remedies for
hard and brittle feet.
Whon heels shoes, and instead toes are roquired on
a horse’s of having tho
shoe turned down for heels have (ho
heels and toes of oast steel and welded
on. The heels should he put on half an
ineli from end of shoe and placed length¬
wise.
For a horse that “pulls” use tho over
check with strap attached over tho noso
and under the lower jaw. For an extra
hard mouthed horse use a four-ring bit.
Have a slide loop on the front of the
and over-check, down, so that it can be moved then no
us may ne required;
have the cheek pieces and oyercheek at
taobed to the loose rings and tho driving
linos alone to the large rings.
Influenza Is ono of the most prevalent
diseases at this time of the year. Tho
first stage of the disease is generally
mild anil will readily yield to careful,
nutritious diet, such suitable as wo* clothing m mashes, and
oatmeal ventilat gruol ( If the respiration is
proper ion.
troubled and the extremities cold give n
sedative medicine, rub tho legs with dry
mustard, bandage with flannel and send
for an export.
Russian Courage,
I should rather incline to Ihinlr (lmt
mere courage is more general among
Hussians than among any other people
nowadays. I mean the unreasoning,
irresponsible liberty readiness of a dog to risk
life and upon provocation. Not
more volunteers lush out, when a
desperate enterprise is mooted, tliau
from on r own ranks; more than all is a
mathematical absurdity. life But the
Englishman stakes liis in another, a
grander spirit. He feds, and reckons!
with the peril. Before examples, nn eting he it, so far
as I have s< eri is quiet,
thoughtful, contemplating the worst, and
making his arrangements. A Russian
scorns all that, does not even think of it.
After assuring himself, ruth r roughly,
that the needful dispositions have been
made, he becomes the lightest-hearted
of the company to which lie hastens. £
do not say affects to become, for it may
well be that, deadly danger stirs equally him to
mirth, as it stirs another man,
brave, to self-commune. J cannot forget
an instance on Riulisove Hill the morn¬
ing of the great attack. An infantry
regiment stood at ease in the ruin, wait¬
ing the order to descend into that valley
blind with smoke, echoing with thud of
gnus and angry crackle of musketry.
The Colonel and a staff Captain ap
proaehed and asked us to accept charge
of letters for tlieir wives, to he forwarded
in ease of accident. Then they stood,
chatting of London and Paris, ivitli
the warmth of men whose hearts were
there, though the battle raged closer,
and a bull now and then musically spun
above our heads. They asked the precise
story of a scandal lmlf-forgotten now,
and their shrewd comments told they
were attending closely, when an aide
cam galloping through the mist. Three
_ afterward the doomed regiment
minutes
filed away down toward the valley of
death .—AU the Year Hound.
A gentleman, while bathing at the
sea, saw his lawyer rise up at his side,
after a long dive. After exchanging sal¬
utations, bays lie, “By the wjy?, now
about Gunter?” “He is m jail,” re¬
plied the lawyer and dived again. The
gentleman thought no more of it, but on
getting his account he found: “To con¬
sultation at sea, a!am t the incarceration
of Gunter, S3."
Wr mortals, men and women, devour
many a disappointment between break¬
fast uixl dinner time; keep back the tear*
and look a little pale about the nothing!’' lips, and
in answer to inquires say, “ Oh,
Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad
thing when it urges us to hide our own
hurts—not to hurt others.