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SONG OF TRUCE.
flftll the tread of marching feet
Through the quiet, grass-grown street
Of the little town shall come,
Soldier, rest awhile at home.
While the banners idly hang,
While the bugles do not clang,
While ls hushed the clamorous drum,
Soldier, rest awhile at home.
In the breathing time of death.
While the sword is in its sheath,
While the cannon's mouth is (lump,
Soldier, rest awhile at home.
Not too long the rest shall lv,
Boon enough, to death and thee,
The assembly call shall come,
Soldier, rest awhile at home.
—Robert F. Murray.
One of Cupid’s Pranks.
HE was not pret¬
ty, though her
features were reg
P# tilar, her hair
3 bright and her
£ eyes soft; for one
shoulder was
il higher than the
1 other, nnd she
r had that pitiful
look about tho
mouth that seems to accompany the
slightest Nelson deformity of the spine. But
Rutbven was very foml of her.
Ho was a cabinet maker, and livod
over the shop, with his mother for
housekeeper. Nannie Pitcairn had
the little shop next door, and there
made dresses nnd bonnets, and so
earned her bread.
It was in the aspiring village of
Doubley, and the fashionable ladies
went io tho city to be fitted ; but the
plainer folks patronized Nannie. Mrs.
Kntbven did, nnd it was while Nannie
was making that lady's dress that
Nelson found out how sweet she was.
He was in love, and his mother know
it before he did.
“Poor thing! I'x\ sure it’s a pity
she isn’t pretty !” sh« suid. And Nel¬
son answered:
“Hhe is mother;’’ and then added,
“at I find so.”
And the trouble that flits through a
mother's heart when her boy begins
to think ni.'ire of another woman than
he does of h'-Tgave her a twinge of
Pftin. Howev t V, it was in Nannie Pit
^4, ’n’s favor, as {nr n * * ,J " old lady
went «he wa ' '“•»<■ pretty. “Ho
might do Torse," i 'bought Mrs. Ruth
Ten—“marry some o uo who would try
la queen it over me, take my place,
She'd not care- 1 wou ■’t hinder it.”
And’ so she told Ntmnu, t>t .... there was
always a seat, i" their pw in ehurch,
wbeil she choose io come tli ve -
A”month or two went pout. Nelson
Rat liven', who hud not all the morn
courage of life great namesake, kept
sinking deeper and deeper mto the
slough of love, bu w dfred not say a
word to Nannie. And* Nannie, begin¬
ning to grow very foml of him, began
to wonder at last if it migbf rnt lwve
been better for her never to hr-ve gm-e
to Mrs. Ruthven’s bouse to tMte ton,
or to have takcu her place in fte
widow’s pew, or to havo done ally of
those things that had thrown her so
much into contact with Nelson.
“For,” said Nannie, looking »t her
poor shoulders pitilessly in tho glass,
— re „M»r eonld love me; no one
'■ him*.'
«*• -
.ii t ...IU,
, ,a tor pretty
.mm no need of trying to be good,
or of loving them. They give all they
have in their hearts to bright faces
and falling gbouldaw »nd taper wai»U.
What u„\ of Imping that beautiful?” yearning and
.loving, if one is not
And at that moment Nelson
•writing this little note:
you love me,« little lust « litlU f " do
bo my wife, tout let me love an<l e- .0 vou
J4.ll mv life? Tpy4o«wit yw, d*‘ ,xt» for you
my heart will brnak, I w* r .ir, or I tliiok
tine's seiut tins day. so TU'-w th*t you " ut ' 11 \tosi' Vsleiu
, lovers, «»«1 l'u say it is a lu '.ky d«j
, .omit! itoat*’ . a tittle suMmtitiuga Nklsos “ours
rr.,, RrTiiviN.
■••Leu ho put .. it into nice white
a
Envelope, Nannie and (yrto, opo,, it, “Miss
leave PiteaWb, and resolved to
it aUWFo post office next day, «<■
> that ttoNtoatman might take it
girl4L loved on Vah4iline’st*x < nine,
A ■!V ----ii would havo i----• been much - i- better for
but him to have gone to Vaunie himself* nimaeir,
Cupid loves pfitkho tb\vx his votaries,
and probably idea of writing
. into Tinto«„„v>....i
He put it'into his head also, th R „
Ahat-mgfcl to buy some wmhhm. , H >e.l
ful in «iia trade, and K .ve the house
lo *U mother, «M» Vat bought her to
4*11 downstaii* and m«raiu her sakle
before he btjS gone two hours.
Tbo rt^rvunt, frigbtoneil oat % f»f ht*
.eense-, called on. t, Mi* C
'«» in to Mrs. Untilrrn.’ she
•teaed rushed doctor--ward. Mrs.iHafbvou AvfeVuuniohas
•chair, to obey. sat. j„ R
in some J pfcfa and m" rather m3 faint
l+t Nannie g ]ad i
mo worse. cushion, «hepropped tb
upon a and askvd L, fiat she
•bealddo; and Mrs. KWtbven answered Sk S
that the was ZZZ cm the it t^
Kelson’s room, and Z. U^u
of tha, 'restorative; and .
with w caudle for the bottho, saw, dev
desk—- velope^which XcferhVlTft upon hL •
“Mis» Nannie Pitcairn '
The
’ Why should be Mite to -
asked Then it came into her mind
that the day after to morrow
Valentine’s day. “He laRViug to sen-’
me » valentine.” she sank “1 m . v ,. r
had a valentine fu all m. life r- t n
a bloah stoic to her cheek andahapm
softnear into her heart. ' 3
Mra Buthven wag ih befi when Nel
«>n home, came home, and Nannie had gone
but the old ladv was full other
P r f'«».
'Did me more good Ik Ah the doc
And a “ but es ® ,d ' ‘file's » little dear ”
N^mfiwonJd for that diabolic*; h? mX; Cin.ill
have told £
Gn and tJjere what he htui whisXl written
^aie; bnt hie tormentor t
e to be condoled with.” .So he held
his He peace. office The with next morningha went
tef , d m his letter au 7 :
Kn nt ?, thebo *‘ -nd -id
BheJ,r ^ it anyhow”
W»IB fha habit of ateaiw
from letters; and Nelson Ruthven’s
liftd not been in the office an hour be¬
fore it had been transferred to Cousin
Peter’s handB, and was being peeped
into by that gentleman.
He had opened three letters, one af¬
ter the other, when one came unex¬
pectedly to tho door. It was the post¬
master for the key. Peter cried out,
“Coming. I’ll attend to it I” And
in his flurry dropped the three letters
on the floor, and left the envelopes on
the table. The postmaster departed
with a trustful “All right!” He picked
them up again, trembling with fright,
for the carrier was waiting below.
I l Mrs. Brown’s letter,” he said,
cramming it into its envelope.
“Mustn’t seal that. Ah, what’s this?
A valentine?” It was a hideous one—
“a skeleton female, with a hump back,
sewing on a machine.” Mr. Tommy
Traddles had sent it to his six-year
old sister for the righteous purpose of
“making her mad.”
T hen be picked up an envelope.
“.Miss Pitcairn. That sewing girl.
This is for her, of course,’’ he said,
scaling it up.
Then he crammed elsou’s love-let¬
ter into Annie Traddle’s envelope, and
went down to unlock his drawer.
Whereupon that Cupid, in high ecstasy,
saw hideous valentine wing its
way.
She sat at her window Watching for
it. She waited eagerly, At last (he
carrier appeared iu sight, stopped at
the grocery, stopped at tho Traddles’,
stopped at Mrs. Smith's, and then
came right to her own door. “Miss
Pitcairn,” he shouted, and tossed the
rnissivo into her hands, and was oil
again.
She flew to her bedroom and sat
down upon tho floor, and kissed tho
envelope, and opened it daintily with
her scissors, and swooned away.
“I -want to die,” said Nannie, croop
ing upon her boVl after she came to
herself. “Ob, I want to die.” But
death did not come to her—only a sn
pine (sort i»f sorrow woven in and out
of her lifo, into lier eating and sleep¬
ing—into her work and her church
going, for she went to church, though
not to -Mrs. Uuthuen’s pew. From
that day she never spoke to mother or
son, but fled their approach in n kind
of horror ; and fled the village at last,
work in a
Nelson Ruthven thought it was her
way of Haying “No,” and tried to hoar
it. Ho did not notice how little tou
year-old Annie Traddles walked past
his shop, givisig him baby-loveglances,
lie die! not notice anything. Ho
worked aiul said nothing.
If oven Cousin Peter Imd known of
the trouble he had caused I hardly
think his stolon money would have
given liim any column,
Guo day Nelson bade his mother
good-bye, bud started from home.
He only told her of a business pros¬
pect, but she suspected more, Bhe
looked after him tearfully.
, i Wind could iuivo oomo between
thntglrl and Nohou?” she said.
And just then she Haw lihlo Annie
Traddles running after her sou.
She caught, him at the depot, just as
the Otars were iu sight, and hold him
by his coat tails.
“Mr- Iluthvon,” she said, “are you
going mwayt”
“Yes, Annie.”
Thou, mOio kissod lior, she pouted
and said;
“You ought to b« r,mod of
mH
“J >, asa W Bo •
said Nelson, stooi my wife?”
was little even MU down, for she
“Well, grow up h«r ten years
“I’ll have yout uow,V and we 11 see.’
said Auuio. “To® (»ud go along/’
I’ve never it let ho* lu>" J* your (men letter, a tease, but
Nolsou Vj, e ,i
“Wh got this’” so
« am « by the ji-'r-mau," she
< n XVleaHnn’. > fticntino h »Y, * and I’d
have Utistvefod, only W" , * write
\xir
I' 1 ” name of lieay’ j what does
this mean?” said Nel«' 1 ,' n 110
j turned away from the f 1 au "' Holnu “iin’o
Traddles and walked b,s !eM '
how Nannie had uever A ' ?5'
i TheW Was hope in '*
that, f lfl
Lent alone to his rootA‘”'*°. v '
wondering mother witbt ” . ,
and linked himself in. *
was trreat, but _____^...... he saw ligf / 1 j
____________ Nanui?\ , b eyond
ilo Hu knew knew trial that Nannie , "
New T**V and he also wu ®°“® *°
HwLoarohod for her vainly * thither.
i on g while, but ........ at last*' 0 ra lll '“»$• fa0 j
looked at him from a ’ l’ ° ®
turned away, but not lw* 11 ', w BUl * i
' Vo he knew . |
lie entered the 'l,™ H r J*d dtuvbnd
fli .Uiin-'M ,u l| a l , P t '‘ : •• -km . oread
- h, * I” { V* 1 1. ' / raise
* 2 * » f * ^ ' tH * to
. ^
‘VuL r AMift
Z Z 1 LZ *^ 5 lfcteil, . Mr.
Itnt) 1 J.o* v ' ? % bu *. h not take
' "i " L t ‘her,
and
SI t ™that his
. a i,V. , ^
cold t >v ll 1,0 so
i« ,» ''f' ' is heart,
“t * I “ h ™ oet * ' -he
H«T„lw L , „ „ Wb
and *
“Nannie." be ‘said
S' f. 1*' b '‘‘t 1 ,Ku ' kno " " " h ’“ $ '-V
£i. tZ whatl L ?***~} •
felt ever bad now, ana al-
^1; a* , .* r her ? !' n' 1 u™ u.* " i
t, antitet - i'’ T l e -”’
'' te a littla , box
“This' Its “whs, 1
is 6 ® ub .
“With e ”’'
- ■ 1
° ? e “Y. ope ’
t Au . ’’ sh<; uu
.",'ZZ 01 . valentine.
■
T* c ' r ‘ r ‘f 0 ®M»aff deserted
'fw’j,* 111 ' * eHrs pushed forth, aad, «...
“ t ° r ’ a * a ' ! ®tretched to*
ItJ ^ t,* 11 * 1 * that he wept will* "><* ***
. 'n 1 if
cm,, to pass rfant Widow
llli ht D ext day, saw Nelsonoom
i ”'">«>«>* . , hanging
one nix n
- ' sr ®» and knew before he
Sa aie told tS he
r ®nd
A" ■
»“•'« Oomgn
•aiH-.j to grief J r j
ss?: r“ isr
faint inkling of the truth at last
{SSl“8J.iaSJ£- “ <1U '‘
Buffalo Meat.
One of the features of the
displays in Helena lately has been tho
large quantities of buffalo flesh ex
posed for sale, several quarters of the
dusky meat so familiar the twelve or four- old
teen years ago to eyes of
tings of the State having been hnng
keopCTj, „f tbo Yellowrtone co.i.trj
l”»„'e’c‘™S
skill of the cook s enabled them to dis
guise the meat and palm it off for beef,
and where the art was high even pork
and mutton. Generally the effort fail- to
work it off in this way L resulted in
nre. H, common .ho me. ..
Miles City that it was sold at two cents
per pound, or in many cases exchanged
for goods at even less price.
The great hunts of 1881 an 1 1882
were for tho robes only, and the tak¬
ing of tho flesh to tho markets was hut
an incident. The hunters took only
the choice morsels- the tongue, tho
hump and loins and brain and sweet
breads—for their own use nnd left tho
rest to decay where it lay. In some
cases a small quantity of the meat was
jerked and the tongues smoked. Pein
mican was a product of half-breed in¬
genuity, and was made by chopping
up the jerked meat and after pouring
melted tallow upon it, sewing it up in
the Li les with sinews. It was very
palatable and was tho chief food of tho
hunters and voyagers.
Herds of buffalo crossed tho Yellow¬
stone below Milos Oity within two
miles during tho winter of 1880-81,
and parties were frequently made up
hastily in town to pursue them. It
was estimated that in tho two winters
of 1879-80 and 1880-81 at least $230,
000 was paid out along the Yellowstone
and Missouri for hides, furs anil pol
trioa,—Butte ( Montana) Miner.
Severe Winters in the Old World.
During tho seventeenth nnd eight¬
eenth centuries there wore in the old
world some winters bitterly memor¬
able. Iu Britain, in 1061, the Thames
was frozen to the depth of sixty-one
inches, and nearly all tho birds iu tho
United Kingdom perished. In 1692
tho cold was so intense iu Southern
Europe, especially in Austria, that
wolves were driver! by hunger into
Vienna, where they attacked boasts of
burden, nnd even human beings.
Three years later many persons were
frozen to death in various parts of
Germany. Tho cold wiuter, as it was
called for distinction, occurred in
1709, when all tho rivers and lakes in
Europe were compactly frozen, and
oven and the tho sea sovoral roilos from shore,
earth itself from seven to
eight feet deep, Birds and beasts
fell dead, and thousands ot men, wo
mun and childroq perished iu their
houses. 1“ Southern Franco nonrly
all the vineyards were destroyed, nnd
havo not yet recovered from the dis¬
aster! milch of The thii Adfiittid Was frozen, and
neighborhood of Mediterranean ii) _ r the
Genoa and Legh ora
dod tho lemon and orange groves
blighted in many part* ,,f Italy,
W4 on im ice, and
iifcf u toT V. foot .Pager's, likewise. BnoW
(doop in Spain and Portu¬
gal during 1740, the Ztiyder Fee was
covered with ice thiok enough to boar
a multitude of people, and four years
later, snow measured on a lovel
twenty-three feet iu Portugal. In
1771 tho Elbe was frozen to tho bot¬
tom, and in 1770 tho Danube .showed
ioo below Vienna eight to ten feet
thick.—Detroit Free Press.
A Furious Fuse of Combustion,
]>r. Lindsay Johnson writes to the
Hntish Medical Journal regarding iv
ijatjout for whom ho ordered ordinary
pW6 * a1 0"^ Tiobwli, Jo^oqges, which
»’ero kept loose in the waiscoat
pocket for convenience Without
thinking what he was doing, he put
an unopened Swedish saf-*-*■ • oox Of ..
mat.•• • tnesamd pooket. —■-J While
________
bendiug down to pick up something
on the floor the lozenges rubbed
agslnM the friction paper on tho out
sid- ’ * f the ■* *■* t‘ox. ’ Tliie set the entire
>
box box aiigiii, alight, and ami the mu heat im» kindled aiuiuvu m all
the matches in the box. The lozenge
added , fuel , to the , flames. , 1 he result .
was that the gentleman was instantly
iu flames, tho combustion being of
explosive violence. He was severely
bura01>r . Johnson thinks that
it, might pi4«ited.hti bo well if .bottle a caution were
tivbe th'A or box iu
w'> ich the lozenge* a-o sold to tin' eL
feet that they shouhtmno case be oar- I
‘ With
ricdloo.se. this recommenda
tion wo entirely agree. Thi. is not
the first occasion wo haw recorded
accidents like the above, and Mr. Al
den’s alarming story about tho diaap-.
pearanee of two m^n who used ehlor
ate of potash lozenges is enough to
make all druggists haryile^s regard these ap
Ftf, paroiitly ..uLn and (bin nastv sweets
^ they do.
Scientific American.
--
i A Blind Person's Senses,
' TU roU8hout “J. ^
blindness , , Imj 1ml this remarkable
1 slways hate before
>uj *;?«. » brilliant light, so that tho
whole air around me seems, as it were,
( incandescent. I be walk
j appear to
1Ug ll ?, ht Iu,lns h « bt 1 °“ u i' 1 *’ 1
up at will all , 1 sortsof beautiful colors,
whwh I see mingled with the radiance
and forming part of it. thus, my
has ahvavs been for me iu a
ccrtaiu way brightness.
As 1 grew ol Z T there esme to m « '
other , abnormal peculiarities, which
have been mercifnllv sent as compcn
sations. Yuan always tell when others
are looking at uu, auU .an neneraiW iZ
tell whether they J « r .» I“kifig sly at i£S
in kindness w e
thrS?t t htaritt .3 wnm K* , t >v > . p \
canto
ltinfi!, me
j-... . f r ”' '['*''
ciminLlunlorwh.chl' lv in the toich f
haven r-^ke
exact name which
mate.—The of toneh and smell a^oea2?elvk 4
Argosy, ^ v
weather winders
ES?rfS5?&*T*r. T------- , Wf , fT
m
Cold Waves and R trds Are Cn
known In Knro Extremes
( u *
of Temperature
Artificial Clouds.
-■
\ _._ A / E ^ kinds o/
V V weathcr j* the United
States that are
£ 8 J Lr» k , lh , recent cold
*«?». JS ‘r; SSShK
. , . f, sixty years,
, ' . . „. nr ; a red Pent 000 000
'
,h cola he
on ^,he trees The
^eighteen
low the lowest point over noted. At
SS5
liable accuracy. j • p...
Cold waves do n >> that t
rope; they are unknown in part
of the world. We may jusuy jirme
blizzards. Who em'he»M 6f a bhz
zard in Europe? The thing does not
exist over there. ,
“In a blizzard the jair w filled, ... , not
With snowflakes, but with actual
needles ful!}’ wherever of iee, which they,?strike [sting mdSk the flevh. pain
These ice needles afi'i a phenomenon
peculiar to blizzard^; but yet the latter
have another eccenuieity more
remarkable. The wind seems to blow
all ways at once, ai^r whatever direct
tion yon may pursnb, it b always in
your face. Huoh fli thing ns a real
!LW»J?XSKJ13S
M.rob, 18M. nol tt.Su.
■•C.u ........
nomena. Kobe
tainty where tl ime from or how
they nre tori' They are formed
soraowhere i n f the far North
tvest, in the 1 greatest cold,
whi(;b, as yc le w good wav
sontli of the ft \ft e. At the Kofth
Pole it is pi eomnarotivolv
warm, and tb, emity of the
earth’s axis .-J pc. surrounded by
an open and unfrozen % sea. As for the
typical cold wave. belief is that it
is composed of air drawn down from
the higher nnd man* ifkoend frigid regions of
tho atmosphere, to an alti
surface tude of thirty mile, nrffh» above find the rarefied earth's
and you a
below air at a tempera?ute o\ much of 100 lower. degrees
even
“The body o/ of frigid cdld formed by the
starts dewprush On a lonrue/ this eastward «jr from across shove
tho continent, traJ^Ugg 'train, at tfie speed
of a fast raflwa saV,
five of forty mil< » hoar- As it pro
oeeds it spread * Obviously the
cold Swing air theta? would aduallv warmed
s tiie wave were
repleni.’ r in some fad
‘V
• • V ... . :iu
there tially dra where
<» a! supply oi
Riyir^ate sir n f an W temuerature *E5S
turn Alle
ocean. Ip some manner the
gheny Mountaiha' oold‘ 6ovm to interrupt
tho passage of • ■.wVd to'ft’Certain
extent, as if the cold air'Was Banked
lip against that range of hills, pirn! its
passage thus impeded. On this ac
Couut.it is very difficult to predict
cold fngtoi. waves for the reBou about Wash
“I have spoken of tEe extreme cold
The of the Ligber layers of the atmosphere,
temperature of outer space is very
low, ol course—perhaps as tow as 300
degrees below zero, Fahrenheit. Jf it
were not for the Atmosphere, which
slioubi ap a blanket for the earth, wo
npt pe all elpOSfil io thatflWald this fearful be cold, kept
and the firep Jr<M&
burning frozen stiff would at short notice. % Tpc king
cst natural temperature ever recorded
was taken in a balloon at an altitude
of ten miles. It was 104 degrees bo
low zero. The balloon was the Aero
bhile, which appended from Paris,
nude thd gnidanw 8 of Gustave Her
mite. ;
•• e - .
“The lowest temperature ev.e'r to,
corded on the earth was taken at Wer
cbojansk, in tho interior of Siberia,
January 15, 1885. U was ninety
grees and a fraction below zero.
Werebojansk is in the latitude of the
pole of cold; There the earth is frozen
to a depth of about JOfitasatotv ftml in
the warmest season it never thaws.
The highest temperature recorded is
124 degrees and a friction* taken in
Algeria, July 17, 1876. The lowest
temperature on record in the United
States is sixtv-four degrees below
zero, at Tobacco Garden, X. D. Oree
ly, the arctic explorer, has probably
experienced a wider range living ef tamper
hture than anv oibet man, He
recorded s.xtv-six degrees below zero
at Fort Conger, iu Lady Franklin
Bay. On another occasion, m the
mZuw Mn^J 1 to IU
a bove. 4 A lncifer match dropped sLLara upon lill
the ni «g ol the
catch fire. lt is very difficSH etefi
W1 th the finest thermometers to gel
accurate records of extreme temper
atores, and on that account such ob
nervations, iu general, are to be re
carded as onlv apnrox mitelv correct,
AYhefi th» heavens are covered with
? i b uds there is little dr fto danger of
killing frosts, because the blank 4 ! M
vapor bangina overhead prevent# the
teat ftcm radiating from e ** r,b '
and tliu< keep the plants
Z when the skv is clear
1" J* ZllZr "“idly, and
'
fML «» ..
time fpf the fanner to - look ‘ ‘ ^ Quite
commoal T ' ?*-* *}*?*: * rUt * ar “f, B
-
tect the growing S • , cold, , ,
night premises to be clear an,
they place ,himpened in various stra^or P*. - chips . to *0
h ?P s of
wbich th f ^ the
1 ,, r ,ds
S to.iteH toertte a btlete, a
lta« «f straw ia laid (»a tb* windwarfi
^StarSThL asimple F |f!52■ tegument
|^32x , &nJS1*2 thor
■ only $2. By means of this, togt
ft printed table furnished or
the purpose, he asewtatna the *
poivit. ’ The dew-point is - -' .
ture at which dew forum■ .
ration is made at o ( ^ ;
^““w^ure Ifthfe
* is forty-four degrees ant
he dewpoint oint twenty-four wen y degrees
^ it
ol™**.”_. —-
solntely Tk.-f-i««f*'Ew"li: wrong on the I
, , , :
ing; they think that riCu j
ons people, feeding on the
most luxurious foods, people. are J
fortunate and healthy tt”
insurance company am 1
future lives, and if one be rich and
luinricms and the other be competent
_ frugal evyu toa b 8te mi 0 us
*.,,11 vn i nf) *v, e i;f e 0 f the
Jj vetmn .
j) iYg9 eB i n plenty, Lazarus in
^ poverty. Do not die like Lazarus if
f« crt ^ he]p it) « n d do not die like
eB « yon ca(n bave the
ft nc f the happy condition—easy
h . t f im j if you determine to
, „ rn ^ least food you can do
. g ^. alj4 j ) >eg t work. Never eat
^ , flr0 gatiated; never eat in
heavy meal, but divide
{ , ^nto three light meals,
. * . }j . ". -k nted as to time and
. ,’*>wly, take small
SJS. 12
^
MU lime
orange, the golden fruit of the lies
perides, might find its way to the
Queen’s table, but such fruit was in
deed scarce, Jmnts of meat were cut
with tho frill Of paper round he
eil( i the joint to iiO'lci oy, forks be
ing unknown, and her loyal subjects,
a s hPrt lived race, knowing little how
to make the most of life in the matter
°* feeding and drinking ^fferedfrom
d«e»«» w ; ,ch ™\° l “ ’
as well as objectaonab'e character
We, fortunately, hve m a different
reign J we have frmt galcnre and havo
clean forks instead of d.rtjr .ngers.to
raise our food ynth, two advantages
equally sweet and wholesome though
so different in kind.-Longman s M N ?
azme -
A „ Amcrican , !anaiia Farm .
, It . , interest . , , ,
is ot
showing what tan be done m tropical
cnierpwrtfes, to know that tho largest
banaae plantations in Jamaica arA
owned by an American corporation,
the B^tcm Fruit Company. This
oompemy was formed in 1877 by Cap
• renzT '4jP0““" II. Baker, A. W, Preston, And
seve al other enterprising Boston men
fur Lo purpose of growing bananas
in Jqmaieo and shipping laker them to- tins
Captain was tbb lead
ing spird in the new enterprise (end
has stood at its head ever since, being.
its President ami the manager ol its
tropical division, while Mr. Irestou
manages the Boston division. Ihe
capital of the new company was $200,
OOP. Land was purchased, two steam
ere, the Jesse II. .Freeman and the Lo
renzoD. Bakst, wero built for trans
porting the fruit, «*1 operations were
begun. ... of ,, the great
This was the negmmng
business which the company trnssaets
to-day.- The company has now a cnpi
tM of ^.«.000, with a surplus of
$1,0OU,BOO, 28,C0O acres of land
and leases some , o-. rnore, unp ojh
twelve steamships ^V 7^ ....
about 3,000,000 buneh.s o - immas
J 1 M ' < ocoamy, t. v c e
sidefuble quau i ,0 ® ° pimeu o v
spice), plantation co.-.y a .« fa done by both At- ,
on the
rican and East Indian coolies, some
400 of tho latter being employed and
another r importation of ffeem being
“uou • t0 be made. Upward of 600
.
»«'«* f,f ^ ft .j ]Q harness to carry
tne inuy rom v ‘ ‘he plantations ^ to the
,^ r
«««> r 8 ’- . work> mA
*- ftt tle is
large addUiv : . ,
a -- - be
the grazn.- aua .
kept on ‘ ’ d
longs to the company. u -
shipsj of the company numberGweive
in all and ply between Port Antomo
and the port* of Bostou ( 1 im e
and Philadelphia. They are all iron
vessels' attd are brfiM for speed, w
,s a very necessary pmn m ransporG
ing fruit. Until recently the Carry
ing of passengers was a side issue , uu
two new vessels, the Barnstal e ant
the Brookline have justbeen added to
tLe fleet, each possessing large and
elegant jaeger accommodations.
Chicago N ews.
__
One Oyster Enough tor a Meal.
riiny mentions that according to
historians of Alexander’s expedition
oysters a foot in dumetor were found
its the Indian seas, and bir James E.
Tennent Was unexpectedly able to cor
roborate the frorrectn-M of his state
meat, for at Kottiar. near Tnncom
alee, enormous specimens of edible
oTsters were brought to the r-st house.
One measured more than eleven lnojes
inf length by half as many in width,
Dot this extraordinary measurement
« beaten bv the oysters of Fort Lm
evil’; ^’"th Australis.which are tho
largest eilimC oysters* iB the wor.„.
They are as large as a dinner pi»t<3
and of Mfc'ffi the same snape. 4 hey
are «ml. times rfio to than a foot across
the shell i and iil e oySUtt fits h l < hab
tatton weH that'be d,.?r leave
«hen ™*™ a friend asks you to iunen kt
‘ fried in
haTe one breadcrumbs OJttel set
butter buttor or eg M -s and
^ peasant
experience, for tho flavor and delicacy
U'toverbis! even i 11 that land of luj.
j uik» — Fhiladelp t* ta Pre»i
FUN '
I H™ 0t ™V* ' fOHES FROM
RCK8
——
rhe Fiett< tst A Lofty Stand—The
Tramp’s y-Exi rente tens/, V r—The e-AV?hteh Best Hurts Qual-
1 ' Etc>
| ' But the fla fl t^day. “ d gay
* the po ft* book of
-luter-Oeean.
B«tk»r-" Wtat do yonthiak oftte
JCca bluff."-Puck.
^he best oualitv
*» «, ■ v, <‘T l >, ° a f, ab Ut
e °
th, , ^ 8h f 1 ne tbe
five -o clock tea of which I read so much
" **
thi : tramp’s terror.
A SUM IN RELATIONSHIP.
' '‘Your broi J\ her 9 I did DOt not kno i.„™ *
tllat vou h , brother . -
, , .
same
L‘* e -
L/ TDONT EXEliGV.
Parker—“Is there any life at all in
your office-boy V lif« He
Barker—“Any Wait ■ s only rest¬
ing fo.r a spurt. ten minutes
and you’ll see him c nose the office.
Puck.
-
expensive..
old Million—“What, anarry him?
why, he can’t buy tkts clothes you
W ear ”
r,ir ^^Z 4 L£*zss$i
"“
ON TnE RIALTO.
Benvoliio —“Wherefore dost thou
hoist thine’ umbrella upon soseffulgent
„ ,h.,
Malvolio- -“To keep yon sum from
niching the color from this, my two
dollar derby.—Puck,
WHICH HURTS WORSE ? —v
“Going to a fashionable dentist’s
ch?” ,
“Yes, to get my tooth pulled.,
Where are you fashionable goiag?” physician’s
“Going to a pulled.”—Life.
to get my leg
HAD NONE .”t> GIVE.
Cholly OkumpleigL'—“Yes, subject Miss
Coldoal, Theosophy is a'Me A to
which I have not been to give
any thought.”
stand Mies that, Coldeal—“I Mr. Chumploigh. can read.lly ’ —Life. under
TOO MUCH FOR HER.
Belle— “Why did you quarrel with
Jack/
hlora ‘Last night he proposed
again. that?
“What harm was therein
“Why, I had accepted him only the
licfoE®.—
EXCITEMEHX IN BOSTON.
Friend—“This must be bargain day !
j neve r saw such a crowd in . your store
before.”
Dry-Goods Idan- I should say it
ls bargain day. We are selling Ho
mer’s Iliad, in the original Greek, at
, ninety-eight cents f —Puok,
HK nKEADFun threat.
j Mildred——‘G wouldn’t have accepted
| b j la }£ jip had not made such a per
fectly (jreadiu! threat.”
Blanche—“Whiat dnl he threaten to
do? Commit suiciJc?”
Mildred- “Worse .‘ban that! Ho
threatened to marry som'« aae else.”
_ Puok .
op.ttf.h left unsaid.
^ Jadv ha'd been looking for a fr.iend
f or n long sh/came time without success.
FinaHy upon her in an un¬
es te(J p]ace _
“Well,” she exclaimed, “I’ve been
© u a perfect wild goose chase all day
long; % but, thank goodne- J . I’ve found
von t la st/ -
5 .
calculation.
Parker—“I met Lyon, rhe English
author, the other night. He iswrit
ing a book on this country, and he
see nw anxious to get information from
everybody.” “Yes; he figures that the
Barker
people he asks for infournatior will
read his book to see if the information
jg “ j n it.’’
POOR MAN.
g Been to the concert, eh ? What
dn you t• • ith five
“ I'^Woni bat w
ostrich feathers a aw>' buck
and m = .,V' trem
'devo t ., T iri „ m v , nee
° ‘bought
bled), once, ror one moment t -i U
,
I saw half of a sofa at the extreme
of the stage; but I cannot be sure.’’—
Life. ■
_
a sinecure for the cook.
Mr. Nawedd—“What! No cook
stove in the house? I gave you money
to buy one.”
Mrs. >ewedd-“les, my love, but
I found I hadn’t enough to buy a stove
and hire a cook, too, so I let the stove
go# But tie cook is here, and she s a
treasure. She has just gone out to
us some crackers and cheese. —
New York Weekly.
a oovUIwablE raoxt.
ji a ks—“From what you told me of
?onr mother-in-law, I should think
soil'd have heard enough from her m
^ rs0 n, without having cared to in
*, her to talk into your phono
grapu .“ the
Fiikiira— 4 ‘Oh, L you can t imagine the
pleasure it give* to start ma
^ m idst of a sentence.
Kogo ^ is the legendary Em
^ who fa slid to have
ner ed ffcrea many centuries ago.
^
POPl'LA K SCIENCE.
■**« * ft, „*«* ^
been adopted as s tandard.
£
vented.
A Boston electrician asserts that
the common poplar tree is a natural
lightning rod.
A recent indusfc ial innovation in
Switzerland is the m. mufactureof floor
mosaics from wood j-ulp.
Ordnance officers r eport that a bol¬
let from our new arm y rifle will pene
twSn P«”»°SV£o“d«.f miU^”
SI .j„ a ”
It appears from available statistics
that the birth of undei'’’ 5 ' 1 ^ childr.-n
is of ™re frequent occurence tha.n
that of boys and girls who a'O abnor
mally developed. J
H„„ „ „ „„„
here is infectious disease in a house,,
Petroleum for fuel has been tried'
satisfactorily Reading by the Philadelphia and
Railroad. In a teat a train of
coal cars weighing G01 tons was hauled
with an average steam pressure of 170.
pounds.
One of the best known Paris pho¬
tographers is in possession of a mova¬
ble studio. In appearance it resem¬
bles a railway carriage with glass sides
and blinds, and it runs on a circular
track, the idea being to get the proper
rays of light at the proper angle om
the person inside.
Experiments have been made in.
feeding bees with alcoholized honey.
It has the carious effect of causing
them to lose tlreir hierarchy instinct,
and to revolt Against their queen.
When put in a hive with sober bees.
they begin to pillage and are soon
driven out and killed.
The dangers of ballooning are to be
slightly mitigated by the invention of
a Frenchman, which, provides for the-,
equipment of a cylinder’of membrane
to the car, so arranged that by the
pressure of a button it may be auto¬
matically inflated with air in the un¬
fortunate event of the balloon falling;
into the sea.
Commodore Melville, United States.
Navy, expresses the opinion that not
only speed but maximum economy ini
1 fuel wiH triplVscrewia"Ste2.“ bg^attained through the use-
X>f the 8bi P s ’ each -
ao ling independently of 'tiffrrltllS?**
the centre one alone being used for r
slow Cruising. Other expert naval en
gineers concur in this opinion.
The ke/s that ara used the most for
musical coxupositions are C major, G
major, containing one sharp, and F
major, containing one flat, the reasons
being th.M those, keys are easier to
play on k-^d instruments, such as
piano or orga.’ 1 * fln d because keys with
few sharps or flu ts «ro better adapted
for instruments in ah orchestra.
Superintendent of Motive Power
Garstang, of the 'Big ^our” Railroad,
has experimented carefu By with com¬
pound engines for twelve months and
finds a saving of twenty-tw 0 P er cent,
in fuel over tho simple typ e - Com¬
pound engines cost from $700 4o $1000
moro than the ordinary type’- No
claim is made for them except th e sav¬
ing in fuel. They are not faster 'ftad
cannot haul heavier loads.
Ah Ingenious Process.
Harnessing the forces of nature to
one’s chariot is by no moans a new ’
thing, but every now and then there
is some new application of existing:
methods that awakens our enthusiasm
and enchains our interest. It became
necessary to sinK a shaft in a coal mine
in Belgium, but the existing difficul¬
ties seemed almost insurmountable.
Directly in this way there was a very ad¬
thick and heavy quicksand, and iu coiJkt
dition a great body of water that
not be controlled by ordinary meansfi
It was therefore diecided to freeze a>
large bulk of the sand and water, and
in this way prepare a medium through
which to tunnel. This was accom¬
plished by the use of large pipes,
closed at the lower ends. These were
sunk to the required depth, and wero
ulaced sufficiently close together for
th‘i purpose and iu a line surrounding
the space to be frozen. Inside of
these, smaller pipes, open at both
ends, vere placed, .and into them
chloride of magnesium was forced.
This ran through the low'er end of tho
inner tube ana 1 rose in th s space be¬
tween the two Gibes. Gr. 'dually the
surrounding quie.ksand an d water
froze until it could be cut aa’ay like
rock. The circumfer ence of the frozen
space was about eighteen feet. --New
York Ledger.
Opening Court With Prayer.
One of the learned Justices of the
Maine Supreme Court, than whom no
man better knows how to appreciate a
really amusing thing, was holding
Court at Ellsworth, and, according to
honored custom, called in a local
clergyman to open the session with a
supplication to heaven. This worthyr
gentleman came, and after a chat with,
* the Justice, proceeded to address the
Giver of all good and perfect things:
v “Almighty God, beseech
— • . | we
Thee to bestow upon the presiding
Justice t>^isdomwhch whicU he e60gre „ e at 1 y y
needs!” a*'
Judge wlncn began once op^ed^ure this i ■ after 1 prayer *
we pray Thee to y ^
sions of the Court to i. une o
and glory. - Bangor Com t-erc
•
Sculptors Working in Snowv
A novel and beautiful winter chan4>*
festival took place tho other day iir
Brussels. A company of Brussels,
sculptor* got np in the public park au
exhibition of works of art executed in
EIlow , There were scenes and groups
an a single statues in the greatest va
riety from portrait statues ofwell
known persons to the figure of asleep
j Q g ° t irunkard, from a learned elephant
to a fight between a lion and ahorse;
scene of a well spread table with its
attendant cooks and waiter-. Thera
ere all possible combinations toad-.
mir c or to laugh at. Bands of music,
colored fountains au 1 skiting matches
wand and music.-Loudon Ktwa.
