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Sunset.
A ball of flra upended
Low o’er a molten sea;
Infinite glory blended
Lost in eternity.
X vivid crim on paling,
With penciling# of gold;
\ white cloud outward sailing
Foam billows, fold on fold,
quivering, radiant rapture;
JtoJ torches flaming high;
A thousand waves that capture
Palo rose tints from the sky.
A lesser glory blending
With biue, more faintly blue;
A rosy light ascending
To pierce all distance through.
Commingling tints grow fainter;
A dim tiro burning low
Ah, never skill of painter
Can mix the colors so.
A mellowed beauty lingers;
A curtain, pearly gray,
Is drawn by unseen fingers
Aoros* the face of day.
Lone the resplendent wonder;
God's glory passed away,
We stand the gray sky under,
Beside a sea of gray.
And sigh because life's story,
Like sunset’s fleeting kiss,
Tells tales of transient glory,
Lost rapture, vanished bliss.
—[Brooklyn Magazine.
A School Teacher's Story.
In the winter of 1874-5 I was teaching
a country school in Ohio, not far from
the village of Medina. I was a girl only
17 years old, and weighed less than 100
pounds, and those wtio knew mo would
have laughed at the idea of my having
say presence of mind in tho face of
danger.
It was a walk of a mile to the farrn-
house where I was boarding, and in
weather I was conveyed to and
fro in the sleigh. It was clearly under¬
that should it come on to snow
bluster during the day the farmer
to come for me at the close of school.
ordinary weather the walk was one to
enjoyed. Just after noon on the
day of January it began
snow and blow in tho most furious
while the temperature foil 20"
of two hours. We had a snug
schoolhouse, a large pile of dry
and no one know how cold rt was
school was dismissed for the day.
there were many c un plaints from
scholars, but all finally got away and
was left alone to wait for tbe farmer’s
which I had every reason to be¬
lieve would soon be at tbe door. It was
almost dark at 4 /clock, aud I got my
things on and sat down by the stove and
waited three-quarters of an hour before
beginning to wonder why Farmer Wat¬
kins did not drive up. Wc had a couple
of lamps, and 1 lighted one and began
work ou an intricate mathematical prob¬
lem. Time slipped fast away, and when
I got up it was half-past 5. I then felt
that some accident lm l happened my
friends and they would uot come for
me, and I decided to foot it home. I
had not left tho schoolhouse a hundred
feet behind when I realized that I must
return to it. Tiie wind was blowing at
the rate of fifty miles an hour, and di¬
rectly in my face, while the air was so
full of snow that one could not see six
feet away. 1 That night the thermometer
registered 17 degrees below zero,‘and
much live stock fru/.i to death.
It was a bit lonesome when I re¬
turned to the. scIiooIIh-Usc and lot my¬
self in and felt the little structure tremb¬
ling under the rising gale, but I re¬
lighted the'lamps J brought in a lot of
wood trom the store-room, and found
enough of my noonday meal left in the
basket to take the edge of my hunger
off. I had no idea of being obliged to
pass the night there, but confidently ex¬
pected to be called for at any moment.
It had come to be 8 o’clock, and I was
getting very nervous, when tho outside
door opened and I heard a step in the
hall. I jumped up to close the stove
and turn out the lights, but before I
had accomplished the latter object the
door to tho schoolroom was opened and
in walked a total stranger. He was
covered with snow, and his cap was
drawn down until most of his faco wns
hidden. He did not seem to even glance
at me, but advanced to the stove, shook
off the snow, pulled off cap aud over¬
coat, and then held out his hands to the
warmth. I was what you might justly
term dumfounded. There was no fear
of him, but his unexpected advent and
the tool manner in which he acted quite
took my breath away for a couple of
minutes. However, I finally found
voice to
“Did Unclc'-Bill send you for me?”
He looked me in the eyes for a few
seconds, and (hen walked' through to
'he outer door, locked it, cartie back to
the inner door and Ircked that, and as
he slipped the keyes into bis pocket, be
said; >
“This is going to be a bittei* cold
night.”
d faintness came over me ns he spoke,
* n 'l I had to sit down. We were on the
opposite sides of tho stove, and I saw
'hat he was a man of about 30, medium
height, slight build, and respectable
appearance. There was nothing ab ut
him of the tramp or tough, and his voice
tvas a pleasant one. 1 was certain'I had
never seen him before, and I also felt
fr om the first that there was something
"long in hig coming the way lie did.
A Eclated or storm-hound traveller'
would have been full of remarks ana
questions, and be would not have locked
the doors on us. 1 looked him over like
one in a dream. I felt a great faintness
and a great fear, and yet 1 could not
help Lut watch him. He did not return
my gaze. Now and then his oyes met
mine, but for the ipost purt he was look-
ing carelessly around the room or at tho
stovepipe. By and by it came to me
that ho was au insane man, and for hall
a minute I shut my eyes and had the
hardest kind of a fight to keep from
fainting away. When I opened them
he was regarding me with a cunning
leer, and directly he said:
"You think you will run away from
school, but I shall have my eyes on you
all the time. School will now begin.”
He went to my desk and iaDg the
handbell in a vigorous manner, picked
up a ruler and a book, aud then, stand¬
ing in front of the desk he, said to me;
“Class in orthography come forward. ”
While as I told you, I was terribly
frightened, lhad the presence of mind
to understand that I had a lunatic to
deal with, and that he must be humored.
When he had repeated his command a
second time I went forward to a recita-
tion bench, and ho began giving out
words for mo to spell. The "lesson”
was not half over when my belief in his
insanity was confirmed, After the first
few words he began to pronouned back¬
ward. When he gave out the word
unicorn he pronounced it "cornuni.”
When I gave it the right pronunciation
and begun to spell it in a proper way he
interrupted me with:
“Stop! The world has been going on
too fast for the last fifty years, and must
stop, or be thrown off its axis. We
must go backward whero we can.”
In pursuance of his theory he pro-
nounced the word_ “fulfil” as “filful,”
and I humored him by spelling words
that way. Alter about half an hour he
laid the book down, complimenting me
on my smartness, aud during a recess of
live minutes he walked up and down the
floor, with his head down and his arms
behind him, like one in deep thought.
Thus far he had betrayed no temper nor
sign of violence, and I began to breathe
easier. 1 even calculated that it might
be possible to trick him. 11c presently
called me up to recite in geography, and
here his insanity was still more apparent.
When ho asked me what an island was,
and received the answer as given in the
lesson, he struck the desk with his ruler
and exclaimed :
"It is uot so. We hr.vs been fools.
An island is a hill 200 hundred feet high,
and these hypocrites knew it all the
It was 11 o’clock at night before ho
ceased askiug questions in geography.
Then I asked for permission to go home
and get my slate pencil. He accorded
it, but as 1 reached the locked door he
called:
“No, you ern’t go. You are one of I
the children who spit on the fl or to-day, I
and 1 shall keep you here.”
From 11 to 12 I sat in a chair near the
stove, while he pac.-d up and down and
muttered and mumbled in a strange way
to himself. Whenever the tire got low I
replenished it without objections from
him, nor did he seem aware of the storm
raging outside. Just after midnight he
made me work examples o .' the black-
board for an hour, and once or twice
became very much excite 1. According
te his theory 1 must not figure that two
and two male four, but that the total
was nothing. This was setting the
world back, After a rest we had a recl-
tation in grammar, another in reading,
and at 3 o'clock lje rang the bell, and
calmly observed:
"Children, school is dismissed, To-
morrow being Saturday, there will be no
school.”
Then, without even seeming to be
aware of my presence, he put on ids
ovprcoat, drew his cap over his ears, and
passed out into the storm and left me
alone. 1 lost no time in locking the
doois behind hi Hi, and it was not until
daylight that l got ovet the fuiu of liis
return. Soon after daybreak Uncle Billy j
came forme, having been detained the
day'before by a sick horse, and sending
me a message which was not delivered.
We had scarcely finished breakfast wheh
the dead and frozen body'of my craz f
schoolmaster was brought in. lie was,
iu tiuth, an o/d schoolmaster, and had
gone insane and been confined in un
iisylflni at Cleveland. Escaping from
... the
the place, he went tramping over
’country and walked in upon me in the
queer manner I have related.-^[New
York Sun.
Ages of Crowing Heads.
Here, according t<>iheV‘Almanach de
Gotha,” is a table shoeing the- .ages on
Jan. I, 1887, of the various * crowned
heads, etc.: Emperor William of Ger-
many, 89; Pope Leo XIII, 76; Willufm
Ilr Ki “tf of the Netherlands, 69;
i of Monaco, no 68; xr Vic¬
Charles III, Prince
toria, Queen of Great Birttuu, 67; Peter
II Emperor of Brazil, 61; Francis Jo¬
seph, Emperor of Austria, 56; Leopold,
King of the Belgians, 51; Louis, Kmg
of Portugal, 48; Charles, King of Rou-
inauia. 47; Abdul Hamid, the Sultau,
44 Humbert, King of Italy, 42; Alex
; of Russia, 41
under HI, Emperor Milan,
George, King of the Greeks, 41;
King of Servia, 32; the King of Spain,
a few months.
ELLAV1LLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. APRIL i . 188. *
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS,
Ordinary microscopes do not admit of
distinct reflections beyond 1-500,000 of
un inch, but Professors Abner and Scott
of Jena University have perfected an I
instrument that will render 1-204,700,- |
000 of an inch perfectly visible,
An English milling engineer says that
a majority of the 8,000 flouring mills in
the United Kingdom contain machinery
of foreign make, usually American or
German, because it works better than
thnt made in England.
It is suggested by Bucholtz^.,of Berlin,
that the presence of fleecy rounded ,
cirrus clouds denotes a highly dectrical !
condition of the upper atmosphere, a j
mouthful of cigar smoke being found to i
assume (he same aspect when near a I I
charged electrophorus. j
In the extensive oyster culture expert-
menu of the United States government j
particular attention is being given to i
methods for preserving the young. Wire
baskets time feet square aud six inches
deep are used for collecting the spat,
which adhere closely to the sides and
bottom, this device enabling the ope a-
tors to prevent the accumulation of mud
the great foe of the oyster industry, by
frequent shakings of the baskets." An
average oyster is expected to yield 10,- |
000,000 young.
Eight years of almost continuous per- '
sonal experiment has confirmed the early
view of Dr. J. M. Anders that house
plants are entitled to a very high rank
among sanitary agents. In a new work
he even asserts the conviction that liv.
ingqflants serve as an efficient protection
against consumption of the lungs, besides
rendering important service in other
conditions of disease. An abundance of
flowers, indeed, seems to offer an im-
ferfect substitute for cut-door life when
in-door life is unavoidable,
With regard to glacier ice, a curious
speculation lias recently been made, ac¬
cording to which the Aletsch glacier,
situated between the Jungfrau and tbe j
valley of the Haute Rhone, if it were J
cut into blocks of the size of the Paris
side 1
Bourse, and these blocks were put 1
by side, would furnish sufficient ice to
form a double ring round the earth
along the equator, M >st of the Swiss
glaciers lire far too d flicult of access to
make it probable that they should ever
be utilized for industrial pusposes.
The fact has been satisfactorily estab-
j ef j By various scientific researches,
that many substances absorb luminous
rays during the day, and at night emit
these rays in such a manner as to impress
photographic plates, although.they may
uot be perceptible to the unaided eye.
Artists have not only succeeded in
photographing the visible night phos-
phorescence of Mont Blanc’s summit,
but have even secured an impression of
a midnight landscape — invisible to
the eye-on the terrace of the observa-
tor J at l >ra ? ue -
The Judge Needed (he Money,
I have ' just heard the following good
on chief Justice Bleckley. All
wUq knQW Jjd(re ^ Bleckley and recall hi9
^ #nd beard wlu appre .
^ Judge Bleckley was on
hjg tQ the gu court one morn _
whcn hc Wl9 nccosted by ft little
in ’ with an exceedingly dirty
{ace £ with t ho cugtomafy "Shine, sir?”
was ite imp0 ,. iunale , and the
.. bei inlpresse d with the oppress-
ive ° u ; tid i ne88 of the boy’s face, said;
"I don’t want a shine, but if you will
go wash your face I’U give you a dime.”
“\li io-ht me'sec sir”
let you do it.”
The boy went over to the artesiau
drant and made his ablution, Return-
ing he held out his haud for the dime.
The judge said; "Well, sir, you’ve
earned your money; here it is.”
The boy said; "I don’t want your
money, old fellow; you take it and have
your hair cut.” Saying which he scam-
nered P off. — [Augusta 1 ” (Ga.) ^ Chronicle.
Left* Handedness.
A paper on "Tno Right Hand and
,
Left Handedness” was lately,read before
(lie Royal Society of Canada by Dr.
Dinicl Wilson, President of Univerity
College, Toronto. His final conclusion
is that left-handedness is due to an
ceptiona! development of the right
hemisphere of the brain. Dr. }\ ilson,
who is himself. left-i.anded, concludes
his paper with-the expression of a hope
that after his death ids own brain may
be ‘(turned to-account for the little fur-
ther service of settling this philological
puzzle.” “If my ideas are correct,” he
says “I anticipate as a result of its ex-
amination amiuHuuu that the right hemisphere ' will
°
let., „„1, but ant b. tound it Will o protabl, , b, ’• ,n„,ke<l . ’[?
A Curious Custom,
An old-time curious custom recently
occurred at the court of Berlin. Every
year the salters of Halle are entitled to
present to the emperor aud heir apparent
their vows for the new year. This year
the salters called ou the emperor and
“Unser Fritz” with the traditional pres-
ents, wliich consisted of six sausages, a
salted tart, aud twenty-five hard boiled
eggs co oked in salted water. These tra-
ditional comestibles were served up at
the table of the empero .
COTTON SEED OIL.
An Industry Which Has
Spread Rapidly in the South.
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Various Useful Products Extracted From
An Article Once Thrown Away,
In every bale of cotton there are 1000
pounds of seed and 500 pounds of lint.
As about two acres of land are required
to raise a bale of cotton, one aero will
produco about 500 pounds of cotton seed
which brings the planter $10 per ton or
$2.50 per. - acre., A ton of seed yields 70
fir al,ons of oi, s wh lch fells for about 30
cents P er K allon ' 11 nlso y ie,ds aboUt 20
P makin ouuds of cotton short 8ta b * tti P le l«’ lint etc - USeful Bt ' 9lde ,' , 0r !
S ’
there is the mea '- fo “ 1,erl y 00n8,dered
vaIuable oa,y to m1x * ith other f ood f ° r
cattle > but which U now returued t0 tho
^ the shape of fertilizer,
The WI™® «• a fertibzer e8 P ec,al ;
ly ada P ted to tbe needs of COtton > and
its P rinci P a! in S red,ent is cotton-seed
meal - or the Pulverized cake from which
cott °“- s ced oil has been expressed. As
.
the & 0SSy P iu,n {actor y is d °P endent u P on
the.oil mill for material, and the latter
find8 ,n tho Milliter works a ready
market for its largest product, the two
are often found closely connected and
®°I® rned b mutua ' ' ntcre9 t 8 -
-
lhe cotton-seed upon entering the
mill first passes through the “liuters”—
delicate machines which remove from
each separate seed every particle of its
fleecy covering which has escaped the
cruder process of the cotton-gin. From
the linter it goes into the huller, whero
its hull or shell is split open and torn off.
The meat is then boiled in huge cal¬
drons, during which operation it gives
out a rich, uuctous odor, suggestive of
culinary operations on a large scale, but
not at all unpleasant. Tbe boiied seed,
encased in small coarse bags, then
goes to “press.” Twenty bags filled
with the well-cooked mass are thrust into
as many receptacles of an immensely
powerful steam-press. Power is applied
gradually, but with a terribly relentless
energy, until the oil, flowing out in
steady streams, and finding its way to
the receiving tanks below, has been en¬
tirely expressed from the several bags,
and each contains merely a hard, dry
cake. From these cakes the sacking
covering is stripped, to be used again,
and they are thrust into the jawg of a
rapidly revolving mill that instantly re¬
duces them to meal, which goes to the
fertilizer factory across the way. ‘
The Atlanta cotton-seed oil mill pro¬
duces 10,000 barrels of oil and 4000 tons
of meR f annua lly. It is possible to so
refine thig oil a3 to produce a tasteless,
oc j or [ egg a nd colorless liquid, and its
Bphew Qf ugefulnegg ig being daily ex .
tended It js largely U9cd in aduhera .
jj ong> and it is stated upon good author-
Uy that one . fourt h 0 f all tbe lard used in
this country is cotton-seed oil.
In this Atlanta mill nothing is wasted;
even the hulls of the cotton seed are
utilized . as fuel beneath the boilers of
its 150-horse-power engine. Not only
do these hulls furnish fuel for this mill,
but half of them forced through 600 feet
of pneumatis pipe, reach the adjacent
“gossypium” works, aud there form the
onI y fuel use ^ t0 hcat lts ‘ bollers - Be “
sides cotton-seed meal, the ingredients
of the "gossypium phospho” are sui¬
P buric acid > whlch ,s manufactured on
the premises rom sulphur imported by
«>« shipload from Sicily, muriate of
potash, which comes from German
mines/'nitrate? of soda, front Peru, sul-
P hate of amm6nia ’ from Chicago, aud
phosphates, which are dug On the Stone
R'^er near Charleston, South Carolina.
In 1870 the - cdtton-seed oil mills were
only paying' the planters about eight
cents per bushel for seed, as there was
no market for the meh 1, and depending
»P° n the Oil alone' for a profit, they
could Afford too, .. , Now VT they
more. pay
*»» to cents ■ per
bushel -for the-seed. * The . fertilizer
produced fitttif it * can he "bought for
$32 per ton,- and a ton is. sufficient for
abont ten itcres. The result of its use is
to double the' yielding capacity of the
soil, ,so that the entire cost of. the fertili¬
zer is now defrayed by the cotton seed,
which was* formerly an aim st waste
product, arid the extra yielcF'of lint may
be considered as just so much clear
profit.—[Harper’s Weekly.
An Oregon 8«r,d Storm
ram9 0,1 ' ” <w ’ iern aci ral
rrCfintl : dfta,nod . betwea
roa<1 w( *'* ( * - v “
Willows and Alkab, Orb by a sand
form. The wmd blew so hard that the
locomotive head Ugh and lights,n lau-
tern* carried by the tram hand-, were
oxtiu8ui ^ ^ .„ = d, ........... «<M upon tl„
„ co „ l0
by shovelling the sand from
the track and pushing ahead
foot by foot, the sand closing in behind
the cars as fast as they were moved on.
—[New Y ork Sun. .
On a blow Road.
Passenger—What’s the matter? We’re
running a little fast, nin’t we?
Conductor—Yen, sir. The fireman’s
run ahead to chase a cow off the track,
and the engineer’s crowded ou a little
more steam to try to keep ujf with him.
—[Pittsburg Dispatch,
A Wonderful Clock.
Another great clock has been added to
the horological wonders of the world—a
piece of mechanism that will vie with the
elaborate marvel of Strnsburg Cathedral,
aud put the processional curiosity of
Berne Tower into the ibade. The latest
effort of the renowned Christian Martin
of Viilingen, in the Black Forest, is said
in its way to surpass anything of the
kind yet attempted. It is three and a
half metres high, two and three-quarters
broad, and shows the seconds, minutes,
quarter hours, hours, days, weeks, months,
the four seasons, the years, and leap ]
years until tho last sound of the year | j
99,999 of the Christian era.
Moreover, it tells on its face the cor -
rect time for various latitudes, together
with the phases of tho moon and a vari-
ety of useful information generally con-
fined to the pages of an almanac.
It also contains a vast number of
working figures representing Christendom, tho and life the of j
inan, the creed of
ancient pagan and Teutonic mytholo¬
gies. Sixty separate and individualized
statuettes strike the sixty minutes.
Death is represented, as in Holbein’s fn-
mous dance, in the form of a skeleton.
In another part appear the Twelve
Apostles, the Seven Ages of Man, mod¬
elled after thedcscriptiou of Shakspeare,
the four seasons, the twelve signs of the
Zodiac, and so on.
During tho night time a watchman
sallies forth, and blows the hour upon j
his horn, while at sunrise chanticleer ap¬
pears and crows lustily. The cuckoo
also calls, but only once a year, on tho
first day in spring. Besides the figures
there is a whole series of movable figures
in enamel, exhibiting in succession the
seven days of Creation and tho fourteen
Stations of the Cross. At a certain hour
a little sacristan rings a bell in the spire,
aud kneels down and folds his hands, ns
if in prayer; and, above all, the musical
works are said to have a sweet and de¬
licious flutelike tone.—[St. James Ga¬
zette.
Why the Nightingale Sings.
The Westphalians have a curious ox-
plauatory myth regarding the night¬
ingale. They imagine that the bird’s
song may be rendered in tlieso syllables
of human speech; Is tit, is tit, is tit,
to wit, to wit—Trizy, Trizy, Trizy, to
buclit, tobucht, to bucht. But the last
syllables are the usual shepherd's cry to
his dog when he wishes the sheep col-
ected. Therefore Trizy must be the
name of the dog to whom the cry to
bucht is addressed, Therefore the
nightingale must have beetf a shepherd¬
ess, whom a shepherd cursed bee msc
she always postponed the marriage she
had promised. He uttered tbe wish
that she might not sleep till the day of
judgment. Nor does she, for may not
her voice still be heard at night as she
cries to bucht, to bucht, to bucht to her
good dog Trizy? The same people gi vq
a strange explanation of the faco of the
shard or flounder, which is all awry,
with its eyes on one si de of its face in¬
stead of being straight, like the eyes of
most other fish. Originally its face was
a straight aud sonsible fish face, but
one day it insulted a passing herring,
and made -a mocking face at it, for
which, as a punishment, it was never
able to draw its face back to its original
position. — [Gentleman’s Magazine.
Peat Bogs In Russia.
A Russian official report states that tbe
use of peat as fuel in factories is rapidly
increasing, and from this circumstance
the price of peat-bogs has risen so much
that a bog is worth more than a well
timbered forest. Last year twenty-eight
peat-bogs belonging to the Crown were
being worked on leases, the total area
being (1,000 acres. This year there are
thirty-three such bogs, with an area ol
50,000 acres, containing pent to the esti¬
mated extent of 40,000,000 Russian cubic
fathoms. Many manufacturers are giv¬
ing up the use of wood in favor of peat,
and this is especially the case in the
province of Valdiinir. Peat-cutting ma¬
chines are supplied chiefly from Mo cow,
but.a few are sent..from Belgium and
Germany. The fuel has been tried fu r
railwav work, but so far without any
great success.
He lTobiihly Didn’t.
- A Iramp who Called at a house on
Columbia street yesterday and asked for
money was handed a penny by the
woman.
• “Madame,” he said, after he had
looked at it for a moment, “I hope you
have done nothing rashly—not deprived
your family of any of the necessities of
life or given me money whicli ought to
have been saved for rent.”
“Ob, well,” Bho replied, as she made
ready to close the door, “we are all ex¬
pected and commanded to make sacri¬
fices now and then. I hope you won’t
gamble or get drunk with it.”—[Detroit
Free Press.
Hard Luck.
“You say you have met with hard
luck?” she queried of the tramp who
stood on the doorstep.
“Yes, indeed—very hard.”
“What was it?”
“Why, ma’am, I invested my last $2
in a lottery ticket and never drew a
blessed prize. Ah! If you rich people
only kuew the misfortunes of the poor!”
—[Free Press.
VOL. II. NO. ‘28.
THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN.
Treatment of Wart*.
., black , „ . . h
A P lMter ° f a0U P c "
ni « ht for a fortul « ht ’ accordl “K M
Vldal . wil1 soffea a wart *° that “ may
scra l* d ofl ’ trcatment by “•
Collier is to transfix the principal , wart
with the point of a pin, the head of
which is thou to be held in the flamo of
a candle until the wart is destroyed; it
will drop off in a few days. The re¬
maining warts will then usually disap¬
pear.
An Kurllcut ItUliifri taut.
At the present time disinfectants are
iu order and ought to be used freely in
households where measles, sore throats
and like diseases are in progress, also
when these are. anticipated. It is also
an excellent .plan to use disinfectants
now and then, even though the family
be In a good state of health. The fol-
i ow lng recipe is vouched for as an excet-
lent disinfectant by a French pharma¬
ceutist : four pounds of crude sulphate
of iron or two pounds of sulphate of
copper are dissolved in hot water, to
whicli two ounces of sulphuric acid are
added. Mix with the solution while
still hot eight ounces of carbolic acid,
filter and fill in bottles. When this
powerful remedy cannot be applied in
its fluid state, dry sawdust thoroughly
moistened with it may be scattered over
the floor of a dark room or other places
to be disinfected.—[New York World.
■ I. niili Hlnta.
A teaspoonful of granulated sugar
moistened with pure vinegar will gen¬
erally remedy thnt annoying complaint,
hiccough.
Sick headache may generally be cured
by the administration of the juice of
half a lemon iu a cup of strong black
coffee without sugar.
Put live drops of chloroform on a lit¬
tle cotton or wool In <lie bowl of a clay
pipe, then blow the vapor through tbe
stem into an aching ear and instant re¬
lief will be afforded. A
A capital method of administering
castor oil to children is pour the oil into
a pan over a moderate fire, break an egg
into it uud stir up. Then flavor with a
little salt, sugar or current jelly.
It is claimed that if persons liable to
the effects of poison ivy will take a dose
of pure olive oil after an exposure to
such ivy, they will escape anuoyance.
If the eruption has already begun, a few
doses of o'.i \k oil will neutralize the
effects of the poison.
Urolection of Fish.
Seth Green, iu the American Agri¬
culturist, makes this forcible appeal for
the protection of fish :
The matter of protecting our fish is a
subject which should interest every good
citizen, whether he be a fisherman or
not; it is a question which concerns the
food supply of tho country, which is
of vital importance to every man, woman
and child.
Tlip class of fishermen who do the
most damage are those who take tho
fish during their spawning seasons. It is
at this time Hint tho fish come into the
shallow, water to complete their task of
pri creation and are then easily captured.
All fish have certain localities, to which
they resort at the season of the year when
their eggs are matured and ready to cast.
Different varieties sock different locali-
ties. Those localities are well known to
poachers, and where the fish cpngregato
in these places in large schools, they
draw their net around them and fre¬
quently capture the whole lot at a single
haul.
Another method through which our
iuland waters are deprived of hundreds
of thousands of young fish annually, is
through the means of the murderous
spear and jack light. Tho depredntors
approach the spawning beds of the sal¬
mon trout, bass or other fish at night;
the strong light of the jack, as it is
called, thro,wn upon the water, enables
the spearman to sec down in the clear
water for several feet; the darkness of
the night serves iu the same way as a
cloak thrown over the head in the day
time in looking b low the ice, through
which, ns many of your readers kuow,
objects can be seen for a considerable
distance down. The fish have appar¬
ently little fear of the light, and the boat
is easily paddled up to within a few feet
of the fish, when the deadly spear is sent
into them. Not only are many captured
in Ibis way, but many are injured which
are not brought to the boat, so that they
die by being pierced by the tiues of the
spear, and death is the result in a few
hours or days,according to the injury.
There are also; several other way3 by
which fish are destroyed while on their
spawning beds, as by shooting, snaring,
etc., but 1 think I have explained the
matter sufficiently, and'trust it will make
au impression on the minds of my read¬
ers, so that they will exert their influ¬
ence to protect the fish from illegal modes
of capture at all times, and their whole¬
sale desti action, particularly so when
they are on their spawning beds.
A Full Day’s Work at School.
“Did you have aii your lessoas
school to-day, little boy?”
“Yes, sir; an’ more too.”
“More than all your lessons?”
“Yes, sir—a lickin’1’’—[Harper’s Ba-
zar.
Expectation.
Between the sunset and the sun
Night slumbers on the sleeping liars,
Aud through Its curtain, one by one,
Gleam tender glances of the stars
Between the sunset and the sun.
And so between my love's lips lies
An untold message meant for me;
Whether ’twill bring mo sweet surprise
Or dole or doubt or paradise,
Is known alone to destiny.
Yet as I wait a dream of tears
Between her eyelids and her eyes,
A mystery of mist appears,
That bints of hope and flatlers fears;
And on her lips a burst of sighs,
And on her lids a red that dies
To slumberous shadows that fall and rise,
Till as I seek some sign to see,
Between her eyelids and her eyes
Love lights his lamp and laughs at me.
—Francis Howard Williams.
HUMOROUS.
A noticeable feature—A crooked nose.
Many a man seeks a girl for her pa
value.
Bread is never made until it ig
kneaded.
One of the latest serenade songs is,
"O, tell me love is the dog tied up.”
A new solution of the time-honored
conundrum, Why do poor people marry?
is that misery loves company.
Charity, tiiey say, covers a multitude
of sins; but au exchange thinks there is
not nearly enough of it to go round.
“Can February March?” asked tho
punster, with a sickly smile, * ‘Per-
haps not,” replied the quiet man, “but
April May.”
I)r. Johnson once, speaking- of a
quarrelsome fellow, said; “If he had
two ideas in his head they would fallout
with each other.
Ending of a boy’s letter from board¬
ing-school; “I can’t write any more,
for my feet are so cold that I can’t hold
a pen. Your affectionate son Tommy.”
A professional plamist says a person
can never tell a lie with his hand shut-
We know people who can tell a lie with
both hands shut and tied behind their
backs.
Queen Victoria has ordered from a
Lyons firm 2,800,000 pocket handker¬
chiefs with her picture ou them, for tho
occasion of her coming jubilee, thus pre¬
paring the way for the hardest and
most extensive blow her dynasty has yet
received.
Alaska's Wonderful Scenery.
From the northwest corner of Wash¬
ington Territory, along the coast line of
British Columbia, and as far north as
the city of Juneau, Alaska, nearly a
thousand miles, a picturesque panorama
of towering, precipitous mountains and
broad rivers and bays is spread out be¬
fore the ever-devouring gaze of tho
traveler. Nature’s noblest efforts in
scenic effects are here displayed. It is
as if the Yellowstone National Park or
the mountainous regions of Colorado
were partly sunken into the sea until
their gulches and valleys were converted
into waterways. A grand salt water
river (the Inland Passage) in places
hundreds of fathoms deep, with waters
as clear as an Alpine lake, whose shores
in places can be reached by a pebble
thrown from the ship’s side, reaches
from Puget Sound as fur up the coast as
Chilkoo, Alaska, about 100 miles above
Juueau. An impenetrable wall of cedar,
spruce and hemlock timber lines either
shore, reaching from the water’s edge to
timber line on the mountain sides, and
as far inland as the eye can reach, Tak-
ing our trip in the month of December,
arriving at Juueau on the 23d, we were
agreeably-surprised to find the weather
only moderately cold and not at all un¬
comfortable. The valleys above the sea
and lower mountains were entirely free
from snow and covered with vegetation
not yet turned brown by the hard frosts
of winter.—[Aluska Free Press.
The Work of a Moment,
Did you ever write a letter, and just
as you were finishing it, let your pen fall
ou it,or a drop of ink blot the fair page?
It was the work of a moment, but the
evil could not be effectually effaced.
Did you never cut yourself unexpectedly
aud quickly? It took days or weeks to
heal the wound and even then a scar re¬
mained. It is related of Lord Brough-
man, a celebrated English uobleman,
that one day he occupied a conspicuous
place in a group to have his daguerreo¬
type taken. But at an unfortunate mo¬
ment he moved. The picture was taken,
but his face was blurred. Do you ask
what application would he make of
these facts? Just this: It takes a life¬
time to build a character, it only takes
a moment to destroy it. “Watch and
pray,” therefore, "that ye enter not into
temptation.” Let him that thinketh he
standeth take heed lest he fall.
Splitting a Hurricane.
A boro of of an owertruo tale in tho
Fairfield (Me.) Journal succeeded in
splitting a hurricane. Seeing it com¬
ing straight towards his barn, he took
two boards and holding them with his
best hold, before the barn, the ends to¬
gether in front of him so that they
formed a sort of wedge, he spread the
hurricane apart, so that it only took off
two corners of the barn. For preserv¬
ing barns or serving yarns, there’s noth-
ing like ingenuity.—[Boston Traveler.