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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.