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fflie pickn® Cornitg $j£t aft. W. B. MINCEY, Editor. VOL. II. sho in New ' In the largest jewelry P 3 York, where $5000 worth of gold is used in a day, the gold is not weighed out to the workmen, and nothing but the hon¬ esty of the employes prevents loss. But while the gold is allowed to be exposed, states the Atlanta Constitution , tobacco has to be locked up because it has been found that the man who would not steal a gr&in of his employer’s gold, would not hesitate to appropriate his neighbor’s tobacco. An unknown expert has caused con¬ siderable alarm in New York by the pro¬ duction of a cheap alloy so much like gold that it cannot be distinguished from the genuine article. Several jewelers and refiners have been deceived after making the severest tests. “If the dis¬ coverer of this new method of making gold works his secret for all it is worth” declares the Atlanta Constitution , “the effect will be far-reaching. People will no longer buy solid gold jewlery, and governments will no longer issue gold coin. The discovery of new gold fields will excite no interest. Why dig for gold when an expert chemist can make it?” Says a cigarette drummer to a reporter for the New York Tribune: “The con¬ sumption of cigarettes has fallen off greatly during the last year. The house I used to represent used to have a large trade in all the popular brands of cigarettes. It still sells large quantities of them, but not more than sixty per cent, of as many packages as a year ago. A great many persons who used to smoke cigarettes have quit doing so and are now smoking cigars. The result is that while the cigarette trade has decreased the cigar trade has increased. I don’t know how to account for this state of facts, unless it is due to the onslaught made during the last two years by the press and pulpit upon the cigarette habit.” The approach of a new census always stimulates the counting and adding ma¬ chine inventors. Some genius has just made a most elaborate affair in this line, which is described at length in the Washington Capital.' It is specially de¬ signed to facilitate the tallying of tabu¬ lated statistics. The method is thus described: This method consists essen¬ tially in first recording the date relating to each person by punching holes in the sheets or strips of electrically non-con¬ ducting material (paper), and then count¬ ing or tailing these data, either sepa¬ rately or in combination, by means of mechanical counters operated by electro magnets, the circuits through which are controled by the perforated cards or strips. The method is already success¬ fully in use at the Surgeon-General’s of¬ fice for the handling of medical returns from the army posts. That the United States produce tht best pork in the world, asserts the Prairie Farmer, none wlv> are familial with the product the world over will question. It is encouraging, therefore, to know that our Government will at¬ tempt to allay the prejudice that exists against it in certain parts of Europe by having the product exhibited at the foreign expositions, and the exhibits in charge of men capable of imparting to visitors correct information respecting it. We can raise pork for the world, and with proper effort on the part of our Government to stimulate the demand, its exportation may be doubled in a short time. In no other of our exports is the competition so slight or the possibilities of development so great. We should spare no effort in working for increased foreign trade in pork. Every farmer in , the country would be benefited by it. The Paris correspondent of the Phila¬ delphia Press of recent date says: Frenchmen are now killing themselves between nine and ninety in a constantly increasing progression. The figures are immensely higher, as a rule, in the North than in the South and in towns than in the country. The returns published by the Alinister of Justice show thatov^gj JASPER, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. MAY 2;!, 1880. where the battle is fought A fig for your honors and honored scars Won finely on land or sea. Though you storm the sky, aud scale the stars, Seek your soul for victory. — Lippincott. MISS GARDINER. BY JAMES C. PUUDY. Miss Gardiner, while looking through the advertising columns of her favorite newspaper, the Morning Meteor, found the following lines, whi h she eagerly scanned: “Wanted.—A young woman of refine¬ ment (employed during the day), who can sing well and play the piano, can have, free of charge, during the summer, a pleasant family home in the country. Private (mother and daughter). Best of references required. A personal interview by Address, appoint¬ ment through office.’’ correspondence. J. B., Meteor It pleased Miss Gardiner to become an inmate of this pleasant country home; and she accomplished her purpose, with results delightlul of ail parties concerned Airs. Malcolm, the advertiser, and her daughter were e very pleasant, lovable, loving women, with plenty of money, plenty of servants and plenty of kindly room. The advertisement had been a device of Mrs. Malcolm’s, to relieve the loneliness of their handsome country home, and at the same time afford a happy opportunity to some poor girl of refinement. When the device brought them companion- Grace Gardiner, they gained the handsome ship °f a young unusually SSLS^SSSSKSISS O-uZxS. SnSMSSSS? aifairs: °.ud list g.utl.. culm's business mau was enthusiastic m his praise firm of Enderby & Sons. So, for the rest of the summer, Mrs. Malcolm s car- nage brought Grace Gammer from the railroad station every afternoon, and took her o the rain every mormng But after a time a cloud of troubled mystery rose upon the summer sky of Scotland Lodge. One afternoon the car- nage returned from the station without Miss Gardiner. She had sent a note, saying that she was detained over night, but would be home as usual the next day. It was a lonely evening without her; and she was greatly missed at the breakfast table the next mormng. But in a short time her absence was almost forgotten in the presence of a great ex- household. citement which ingulfed 6 the entire While the ladies were still at break- faM et the Ob'"SStaStSS servants brought them startlin- neighborhood had been entered by burg- lars during the night. The inmates of the house, it was supposed, had been stupefied with chloroform ; for they had known nothing of the invasion until morning. Every nook and recess of the house had been ransacked and rifled, Everything of value, even to wearing apparel, had been seized upon; and a wagon-load of booty had been secured, All this was very interesting, but the conclusion of the story was strangely had perplexing. All the stolen property been compactly bestowed in bags and bundles, ready for removal, and then the burglars had gone away without the bags and bundles. Not the smallest article had been taken out of the house. Everything was found in the morning on the floor of the hall, close to the front door, which was standing partly fright- open, The thieves had evidently been ened away at the last moment; but in that retired neighborhood, Here v hat had frightened them away ? was a fine field for speculation. When Miss Gardiner came home in the afternoon she talked vivaciously about the burgiary, and on one or two obscure points made singularly apt and lucid suggestions. But she soon left the subject; and during the evening she saDg as she had never sung for them be- fore. It was noticed, however, that she was pale, and looked wearied from over- work. As they were separating Malcolm, for with the night, she said embarrassment: to Mrs. some apparent Airs. Malcolm, “You ought place, to know, and unsettled I have left my am now . although I still have to be in the city during the day.” “Oh, you poor child!” Mrs. Malcolm exclaimed, kissing her. “Of course I ought to know it, so that Mr. Fletcher and I can get you another situation at once.” But to the good Fletcher lady’s surprise and indignation, enthusiast! Air. did not spond ally when she spoke to him about the matter the next day. “We need hardly trouble ourselves,” he said. “I think Miss Gardiner has plan--of her own. It will be best to say nothing further to her on the subject.” A few mornings later, as Mrs. Alalcolm she encountered ••• The girl Bl , ' jA. 'j ' ’’ B _ * “WE SEEK THE REWARD OF HONEST LABOR." to in the city to-day; and, indeed, I am quite able to go.” breakfast-room Miss Jessie was in the before them, and seemed in a somewhat grim aud unsatfactory humor. The morning greetings had hardly startled been ex- by changed news°of when the ladies were another burglary. The houso nearest their own had been entered, and evidently by the same parties who had committed the previous outrage. As be- fore the people had been chloroformed, the house hail been thoroughly ransacked, and everything of value had been bundled up ready for removal; and as before, the property had all been left in the hall, by the open frontdqor The thieves had been frightened away the second time. This new aflair caused genuine dis- may in the Malcolm household, and Mrs. Malcolm spoke about getting special night, guards to stay in the house at Grace tried to reassure her. “I really don’t think we have much to fear,” she said, “with so many strong oh men-servants as are known to sleep they the premises. Burglars know what are undeitaken before they begin opera- tions." should “I cannot imagine why they all the finish their operations by leaving then,” said stolen property in the hall Jessie, shortly. laughed, and went her Grace way. A little later Mrs. Malcolm, sitting Jessie in her own room, was startled to see enter abruptly and lock the door. Hav- inn* d*ahter rvn o tVnci lmiKiiiil mother’s^and tlllDEr t.Tip staiS anrcruniDkd olaced in the a paper ft ‘ ‘Wc Jafd mav “Reid a wel face mother dear ” ’ ’ she that ” Mrs Malcolm smoothed out the paper andread; “Ellwood will be at Mont- E?* - 2 — my dear, what doe. this mean?” “ ,d “"' * "“th«t ™“obbkl jut y h 0 ht But who itl the world is Ell- P Pt ? E1 lwood is t he robber,I excited suppose,” Fi tb she re- P Jeg3ie ,I s0 at h] ± This is Thursday / mo rning, her }, know> Ag t0 tbe / pap ‘ r „ mot d h allffer anytbin J ° tb an have it to y but Gra ce Q rdiner drop Zt- p e d ^ J \ between here aad Mr . M y s after 2 0 , clock this mor ning.” g .. Gr ce Gardiner , You , re cl azy ‘ •^°> niother, I am not; , and , T I am as fond of Grace as you are. Between Jand 3 o’clock this morning I heard a slight “ 0,s ®- 1 opened the d do ^ of “y room for I don t intend anybody shah chloro- form me unless I know who it is and 1 saw that there was a .ight i Grace Gardiner’s room. 1 was about t her, thinking she was sick, when she came softly „«aL«d. out into the hall. She was »nd re r or..«.t e , F obfc.o^ and a thick veil, bhe hurried down- sta:rs, and I heard . her go out , through ,. , the side door. Then, from my window, I sa ) T her run across the lawn in the di-- rection of Mr. .Montgomery s house. Of course there was no moresleep forme. I watched, and about an hour later she came in, as softly as she went out, and moving as if she were tired, “My dear, saia Mrs. Malcolm, with conviction, ‘ you dreamed it all. were nervous and upset on account of that first burglary, you know. ’ “I thought that, too. But, after day- hght I vvent out, and there were her tracks in the dew, making a straight P atb across the lawn. I wa.ked all about so as to hide the tracks, and then I t° un< t this paper where Grace had dropped it. I could make nothing of it then, of ccurse; still I thought some other woman might have gone into Grace’s room and out again, so I went there while you weie doing up her hand, and her closet I found her water proof cioak and a & old dress . a11 we t and dra S: gled around the bottom, and a pair of ber s b°es, soaked and muddy. Mother, that hand was hurt at Mr. Montgomery I s house in the course of that robbery am perfectly sure of servant it. announced, At this moment a through the closed door, that Mr. 1 letcher was in the parlor to see the ladies. Mrs. Malcolm hastily dried her tears of grievous distress, “Not a word to him of all this about Grace Gardiner,’ she said,as she hastened awa Y to receive ner guest. Jessie took some time to steady herself before she followed. Mr. Fletcher explained that he had come out with just enough of a busi- ness errand to serve as an excuse, Really, he was off for a well-earned holiday, and would stay all day if they coaxed him, and all night, too, it there was a room at his disposal. He could not have done a kinder thing, after the recent disturbing events, and he knew ; it. Of course these events were cx- haustively discussed by all. “It is a very mysterious business alto- getlier,” said Mr. Fletcher. “Every night, of late, there has been a burglary somewhere, and the same enterprising The artist excutes all the various job3. detectives are sure of that, because as you know, ‘dime are schools of burglary, ■ are :ehoois of painting, aud •• l.V- -ci.- f 1 Uppo='"l to ’ ‘rai es-ness. I -p.v,- at hA ' ilik ‘ -;V - m - e PU jfcterprise. "'.art whfea His the ex - a. in' \ And who is i^nnt asked. Bk \Ah, you A c i r:-. I see. As to your other question, his history all came out at the time of his trial, two years ago. Ho was arrested after a series of just such convicted, burglaries and as these; was tried, imprisonment. I sentenced to a long was prosecuting attorney at the time,and much of the evidence wa8 furnished by my son, who is my partner, you know, He is a very neat amateur detective, and I wish he would take as much interest in the matter now, but he don’t. Well, about a Week ago this escaped gray-lmired from man of genius, Ell wood, prison, and forty-eight hours later there was a magnificent burglary of his since, peculiar and type. He has been at it ever the police can’t get near him.” Burglary is a fascinating topic of con- versation,but after a time other subjects supplanted it, even in that interested gioup. Toward tea time Mr. Fletcher remembered that ho had writing to do, and must go at once to his room. “I won’t come down again,” he said, “if Miss Jessie will kindly bring—not send—some supper to me. And it will be as well not to mention to anybody that I am here for the night.” said Jessie,after “The plot thickens,” hehadgone. “Just think of it: so long as Ellwood was in prison Grace Gardiner worked quietly at honest employment; than she but. no sooner docs he escape gives up her situation, and associates herself with him in the most mysterious fashion. It is terrible!” M M alco * j « , ’ 0,dy i an8wer w “ to . ™L m S . tw ‘S* ^ hands , to « e *\ r and cry 8oft ' y ’ ‘ ? ry ™ ysclf , Je8Sle ? ent ’ hfc bU * 1 bave to SaVe my eyeS f ? r n ft kor 1 T vo ^> ab „ the sleeping I do , orTllwood hou Se bas betrrobbed 7 lias Jg* hour, iuJ'bXl””iuT duw'cjTmmS the^mornTng twoo’clock: in she ^“ i door ^ This door opened ^to a C Soor ™ ssa tndTtefrwav Xe dfninfroom and also by 7 an inner with m/ Malcolm homed noiselesslv to Fletcher s *?he“ room and softlv instance tapped “ d 00r was an keep'nir 3 P° S °: T ^ lawver a X had been iullf vigil also, and d stood d before uerore her Iuuy dressed and ready for prompt action. whispered ‘Ellwood is down stairs, Jessie. q thought he would come to-night, be ause he would suppose nobody ex- pp ted b im here after last night’s and per- fo Tiance u said Mr. Fletcher; with- , f ur ther loss of time the two went Gown stair tu wricoms P J £ Ui been left diml, bu , rning) a8 usu 1; and & by it3 ligbt r,i they L°“b.“ r zst, ™ r g the foot of the stairs, they saw that the side passage also was empty. With great care Mr. Fletcher opened, intending the main door of the dining-room, of to enter there, set the side door the room ajar, and through the narrow opening watch for the entrance of the burglar into the passage. Then, by means of a bell-rope which ran through pretty he would near- ly every room of the house, arouse the men-servants, and, as was ^ hoped, trap the intruder. As * the door moved ™ on Us binges, Jessie seized her companion’s arm m alarmed amazement. A dim light was burning in the dining room, where there should be utter darkness. Another look showed , , that the room was already , ,, oc- gether close by the side door; f I one ot i them was a woman, and that woman Was Grace Gardmer. feo, s bci had ex- ected . the visit of her a comphce^ and had already admitted him! It was a blessed^ thing; that Mrs. Malcolm was spared this sight thought Mrs Mah olms daughter. As the thought took form, Mr Malcolm stole silently up beside the wat cber3 - Sbe had heard their footsteps fowed iZ a in them 1 Y When Se °. slwGrae 8 ^ she f a8 P edher hand3 , and , ralSed her eye3 ln ■ ® r P ltlful f to see - But that was no gray-haired ... old man LbrfS,™ • w“io*.h W ‘Tl d « seemed greatly agitated and in need of p“eS BXf Gardiner Sr the young man beside Grace was George Fletcher; and she had brought his father to see this dreadful revelation! 8he dared not look at the father, and the father made no sign. No need for sign or words. They could all see now why this degenerate son took no interest in the capture of Ellwood. While Ellwood was free and at work, this young criminal could do his own guilty work unsuspected. These recognitions had not occupied a moment of time, and now there was a further development. The side door of the dining-room had been placed slightly pushed ajar, and it was very cautiously open. It swung inward, and as it opened, Grace and young Fletcher were behind it. A man’s head was thrust through the opening, and then the man himself stepped into the room. The dim light showed them that he was tall and well- formed, and had the bearing of a gentle- man. in spite of the business he was in. His hair was white, and his face was handsome. Yes; this was undoubtedly Ellwood. So there were three confed- erates. As Elwood appeared in the room, Grace stepped quickly forward and stood in front of him, straight, fearless and. silent. All at once Jessie knew that this girl was not an accomplice, but an accuser, and a pang of remorse smote her heart. The man started slightly, but seemed less surprised than might have been expected. would let alone “I thought what I you lad night,” me he after gave you $1.00 Per Annum, In Advance. said, in a low voice, pointing to her !n- jured “How hand. I let alone? I have can you given you two chances within the week to escape without adding to your guilt; why did you not take them, and go where you could be an honest man?" “Because,” ho replied, with a slight laugh, “I want to get something to be honest with. Now, you know, Grace, I’m too fond of you to hurt you if I can help it; but I’ve given up two jobs to please you, and I’m going to finish this one.” “You will not finish it,” said Grace, still in the same low tones, but, at the same time, with terrible intensity, “You know how I have watched over y. ou llni * guarded made you lrotn arrest 1 ever since you your escape. gave up m 5 work, and sacrificed the first real peace I have known since I first learned what you were, that I might try to keep y° u tr°ru fresh crimes. But I tolu you hist night that if you came here—to the house of my friends—I would send you back to prison; and unless you leave here this instant aud promise never to ra¬ tur “- 111 ke ?P m y ™ ord * wdl? said the man, putting bis hand behind him. 1 ve had enough of this. Now — - Before he could speak Ihe next word, or withdraw his hand, a blow from George I letchers fist had sent LG wood headlong to the floor, and the young man s hand, on his throat, was holding Ill 10. (ioW^Ils At i/ilC 8&IUC lUStBiIlt) tllC cider Mr. Fletcher, witli the bound of an athlete, was beside the Ids prostrate burg- lar, a cocked revolver in hand. Mrs. Malcolm and Jessie ran after him, scream- icg> and Graco thre w herself upon her knees at Ellwood’s side, and put her ult.t •**.«... could I » m J heart; but “Doo't distress yourself, noV, m, deutglrl. 1>11 have to be honest you know,” on their knees beside Grace ' their arms around her, their tears and kisses on her face > and their words of love and re P ent ' ance in her ears. Mr. Fletcher and «eor g egot the three women upon their feet at la8t ’ and tho clder g^tleman, takin S Grace ’ 8 hand in his > said: “ My dear ladies ’ ifc is my 8 P ecial P ride that this brave S irl ,s my friend ’ and my sti11 greater pride that she is to be my son’s w jf e _ And I know that you are still her f r ; eildg n jj 0 answer wag need « d but Mrs Mat¬ co]m managed to exclaim, with tearful emphasis: “Friend! She is my second dau"hter -‘Well’ and my home is hers, always.” not exactly always, Mrs. Mal- coim, co lm ” said saia Georce ueorge Fletcher r leicner. ^.Aft^^omcntiti was discovered that Ellwood had utterly vanished He was E'm' * The Psalmist’s injunction to the lazy man to go to the ant for an example Danbury of industry has lost its force for a (Conn.) farmer, who points to the squirrel as affording an instance of quickness and hard work. l ast f a W be stored several bushels of butter- uuts in the second story of his corn house, and recently he noticed that they were disappearing much faster than the legitimate demands for his family supply warranted. He discovered soon after- ward that a squirrel, ^ a small red one, ’. whWh tbe far ers - boys ca under u .. cbip the ’ , had found a hole « avC3 of f thc , b j,ldl .,j- °f’, „ and j wa8 _ 00 8to ckln 8 „ ber ^^eliouse , with the nuts t the f farmer had , gathered. \ As an experiment to learn ow . idl th(; S( uirrel bad worked, ; he removed all but twenty of ^ nut aud sct a watcb upon ' them. Kix hours afterwar(] evcry f nnt wasgon e. The distance from tbe c( rn bouse t0 tbc squ irrel had its nest was f rh y rod g ■ ” for a nut and eturn g with 5t t 0 s Stance rig])t l y little 5 ad to travel a of Kit rodg Compntation sbowed tbat the the twenty J nuts required just !fin miJes of tnu , flL Bu t this did not in- clude alL Several tirae3 do -' s lightened tile squirrel, and it had to turn back, and twice the family cat got after it, re quiring fe it to take a circuitous route to reacb tbe storebouse . The nest was examined soon afterward, and a big, fat, J G k.'ss ,% =r£? to supply him Vanderbilt and the Old Engineer. a good story is told in the Bangor (Me.) Commercial about one of the Maine Central engineers. Last summer, when j, bo Vanderbilt car was at Bar Harbor, the manager of tho Maine Central sent an engine down there to take the car to Portland. The run was made in very ou jck time, and at Brunswick the train stopped to take on water. While there Mr. Vanderbilt got out and said to the engineer that he didn’t want him to drive so fast. The engineer, the veteran Simpson, looked at him a quarter of a minute, and then said: “lam running the engine under orders from Payson Tucker to be in Portland at 1:07. If you want to stop here, all right. If you want to go to Portland, get in.” He got in. Doss His Work While Asleep, Joseph Robinson, twelve years of age, living with his father four miles south of st. Joseph, Mo.,is afflicted withneurosis. o D i y two cases of the kind have been known to medical science. The boy sleeps while standing and walks in his sleep. While in a hypnotic state he performs the daily routine of work to which he has been accustomed, and is perfectly under the influence of the per- son talking to him. While being operated on a needle was stuck in his arm, but he did not give the least evi- dence of having experienced thought pain. the Physicians in consultation case incurable.— Chicago Herald- NO. 31. SELECT SIFTINGS. Tarpon fishing is growing in popu larity. Thirty years ago bald heads were a curiosity. The greatest height ever attained by an aeronaut is 37,000 feet. Ann Arbor, Mich., has suppressed the sale of Sunday newspapers in its borders. German cavalry officers hereafter will have to include steeplcchasing in their studies. The rarest and costliest of precious metals is gallium. It is valued at $3250 an ounce. H. Monk, of Lewiston, Me., has in¬ vented a machine that will starch eight shirts a minute. Sponges belong to the animal king¬ dom, although they were formerly thought to be vegetable. and Squashes the price are is now constantly $85 a ton advancing. in Boston, In former years the price has been about $25 a ton. South George Chicago, Swift, a boy wasiefuseil of nine, living cookie at Ill., a by his mother and lie went out and flung himself uncier a train of cars. At a Floridian fair a pretty Chinese pagoda booth was one of the sensations. It was entirely covered with oranges, more than 5000 boing used upon the roof alone. Blackbird oil is almost as expensive usually a for product $80 as gallon, attar of roses. about It $5 sells pound. a or a A. great deal of it is manufactured in Connecticut. Buckwheat buche, is beech-wheat, a corruption of called boc, German so because it is triangular, like the beech¬ nut. The botanical name is fago-pyrum (beech-wheat). The “wine of years” is wine which is reputed to have been made in the years in which comets have been seen in the heavens. The wines of 1811, ’26,’39, ’45, ’52, ’58, ’61, ’81 are thus known. At a political, patriotic, or social gathering, composed York, Americans of men only, usually any¬ where in New come in singly, Irishmen five together. two at a time, and Germans four or There is superstition rich among diggings miners will that every ten years be discovered somewhere. The record so far is California, 1849; Pike’s Peak, 1859; Nevada, 1869; Leadville, 1879. At an extensive factory in Detroit, Mich., machinery cuts from a log of steamed wood a thin sheet large enough for a full-sized barrel. This new method of cooperago is called the “veneering process.” The great canal of China connecting Canton with Pelcih is 1000 rnGes long and is tbe longest in the world. The Erie, 363 miles, comes next. The Albe- marlo and Chesapeake is -between eight and nine miles long. At Bombay, India, a young worshipei of the sun has recently confessed to the murder of three persons simply foi robbery. The crimes were atrociously committed and without any accomplices. sadness The young Parsee stated with that he had only realized about thirty cents from the threefold atrocity. Caro of the Eyes. Shades on lamp or gas burners should be of “milk” or ground glass; never ol colored glass. Never sleep opposite a window which will throw a Rood of strong light on your eyes when you wake in the morn¬ ing. bathing the do When face not open the eye under water, as this is apt to be injurious to the epithelial covering ol the eye. children, In all institutions, particularly required foi where the eyes are to do close work, the proportion of the square surface of the windows to the square surface of the floor should never fall below one to four. The short-sighted eye is essentially a diseased eye, and should be treated as such. It effects by preference those who use their eyes constantly for fine or neat work, and is almost unknown among the uncivilized nations. When children work they by light which bend falls in their faces are apt to the body forward so as to shade the eyes by the head, or else twist it around so that the light shall fall ou the page. Both of these positions are pernicious. There is great danger of the chest be¬ coming narrow aud contracted and of the spine becoming curved. To bathe of the eyes properly, bend the take head a large basin cold water, close over it, and with both hands throw the water with some force on the gently closed lids. This shower-bath, has something and of has the same effect as a a toning-up influence which water applied in any other way has not. A Unique Plant. The gradual extinction phenomenon, of a species In is not an uncommon most cases many individuals of the van¬ ishing species are known to exist. One plant, however, seems to be perfectly alone in the world—the last of its race. This unique specimen is on the island of St. Helena. It is a tree about twenty feet high. Formerly this species island, seems to have been common on the forming large groves, but the wood¬ man’s ax and the ravages of goats have left only this single specimen. and of It is unique in another respect for bears flowers great botanical interest, it like those of the aster, being, in fact, the only known tree of the composite, a family which, with this exception, com¬ prises only herbaceous plants. It is to be hoped that an attempt will be made to propagate the species from the seed of this plant. for Boston the ventilation spent something of school-houses like $42,000 last year, and is preparing to spend a still larger sum the present year.