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ODE BY TEHNYSOn.
And may jour* forever be
That old strength and constancy
Which has mod* your fathers put
Incur Ancient Island State;
And wtore'erbsr flag may fly.
Glorying betwrea m and iky,
lab tba might of Britain known;
Brltooa, bold your own!
Uf.
Britain fought bar aona of yore;
Britain failed, and nevermore,
Carslsmof oar growing kin,
Shall wo ria our father^ nin;
Kao that la a narrower day—
Unpropbetto rotors they—
Drore from oat the mother’a i
That young eagle of the Wart
1b forage for herself alone.
Britons, hold yoor own!
IV.
BreTr- - wspo.-'.nt*- *'
" Shall not we, th.-^l good and til
Cleave to one another etOlf
Britain's myriad Toioee call:
Sons, ha welded, each and all.
Into one imperial whole;
One with Britain, heart and eoul,
One life, ooe flag, ooe fleet, one throno!
Britons, bold yoor own!
And God guard aU?
did
match, ai
I like the fangs of n rodent.
Patience is n good gal*' said Mrs.
aund. *Tm seriously think in' of
adopting Patience for my own. I've no
relations nearer than second cousins, and
there's something about the gal that is to
be depended on!"
The neighbors looked at each other in
Basement. Mrs. Osmund aewed on in
the odd. Jerky ways that she had; and,
as she sewed, ths tittle garnets and em
eralds act around the rim of ber old-fash
ioned gold thimble—more than a cen
tury old, the gossips said—flashed tike
tiny eyes of red and green fire.
“Well. T nrrrr'” mid U
the gold thimble
to this day!
Harry Lynde came to apologize to her
for h!a hasty judgment; but be new go;
further than the top of the hill. from
' ch he could see Patience helping
o Dartoa to weed the young beet-*,
iff true, then." he said to himself, a
•harp fean? piercing his heart. “They
Andiet usbopt that it will be a lesson
to him—as well as to ths reft of the
Darlington gentry—not to decide so
hastily again.—Helm Forreet Oratet.
"Wen, I new!" said Mrs. Johnes.
"Guess her mind must be goin’,”
whispered the druggist’s wife.
"Old fools is so queer," commented
Mitt Farrar, who was staring her eighti
eth birthday in the face.
The sypper served presently was a
complete success. The old ladies were
compelled reluctantly to admit that Mrs.
Osmund’s quilting bet had been to the
other quilting bees of the neighborhood
what ths sun was to mere stars. • This
waa as they went home at night.
The nett a'teraoon a sensation thrilled
through the place. Patience Meade had
been sent away from her situation at an
hour's notice, and following close upon
this circumstance, old Mrs. Osmund had
a "stroke."
"Queer!" add Miss Farrar; "and the
only two-and-seventy.”
I knew there must be something
wrong with that pretty, simpering-faced
girl," said BHhiah Willis, who seemel
Diamond Mines of Brazil
The diamonds of Brazil are aU found
in a disintegrated stratum of quartzite,
lying upon the sandstone formation.
The discovery of these important mine*
was an accident A Portuguese traveler,
in 17S7, while visiting the gold mines of
the Berra do Frio, about 400 miles north
of Rio Janeiro, noticed some bright crys
tals which the ignorant miners occasion
ally picked up and treasured as trifles,
taking some of them he showed them tc
some Dutch traders, who at once recog
nized their value. These traders im
mediately contracted with the Brazilian
Government for all the rough diamonds
that might be found, and for a number
of years controlled the trade. The
Portuguese then shared it with them tot
some time, and the diamond mines
were so extensively worked fot
a number of years, and such
abundant supplies of the gems w<
thrown oa the market, that their price 1
JOMNY APPLESEED.
An Ohio Pioneer -Who Bad a Paa-
■Ion fop Planting Apple Seed*—
Storlr, of HUQnalut Meth-
A Colombo, (Ohio) letter totheCiere-
tend PlaitultaUr cays: One o( the most
eteikiuB, end, in tact, interesting,
pioneer chuacten'of 1800 was Jonathan
Chapman, n mu who, owing to hi, odd
occnpntion, nu generally known u
“Johnny Appleeeed.” He made hi, firat
appearance to Western Pennijlraala,
coming from Boston, Mul He pos
sess td * strong pution for raising tad
Poison Antidote.
A standing utidote for poison by
dew, ro son oik, try, etc, is to take n
handful of quicklime, dissolve in wider,
let it stud naif an hour, then paint the
poinned put with it. Three or four
application, trill never fail to core the
mod aggmratid cues. Poison from
bees, hornets, spider bites, etc., is in
stantly arrested by the application of
equal parts of common tut and bicar
bonate of sods, well robbed in on the
place bitten or stung.
THE QUILTING BEE.
I «ra so tired !** sighed Patience Meade.
"Too tired even to walk down Buttercup
Hill acd bear the nightingales sing!"
Harry Lynde looked disappointed,
fit's only a sh ” [”
„ ft step. Patience, said he.
"Only a step! Vos, but every step tells
when one has fairly reached the limit of
one's endurance!"
‘Then, I suppose," said Harry, with
an air of resignation, “I shall have to sit
down here bt-sid6 you, and the nightin
gales must ring to an audience of no-
"You and the nightingales mast do as
please about that,’’ said Patience,
b old Osmund house looked weirder
than its natural wont—which was not at
all necessary—in the pallid moonshine;
the Lombardy poplars stirred in the even
ing wind, and the stars were coming out
in the sky an fast that one could scarcely
count them.
Patience and Harry were sitting on.the
back porch—the front door wsa scarcely
ever opened except on high festival days
and Sundays -old Mrs. Ounund was nod
ding over her knitting-work by the light
of a shaded lamp in the mouldy back
?0 Se well palminsilthcpsrtirulsri. “rorUr, udl diamond draOcra riforerth.
“It's Ike gild thimble, sot wfth nrccious ] •«“*«" t IJ? fi SL ili ? 1 , he *£
stones, that’s been in the Osmund family t c ®*** e ®. "J
* »r a ocitnrv. She’s stole it! I could wh,cU « tb «warkingofthe mines
told how * ’ll be ” 1 as a royal monopoly and restricted the
It was true that the gold ihluble had c - S™ 3 mined. In recent years.
been missing when old Mrs. Osmund Sc mostof »Wac.Hh-che-,.
8 • • sold to private individuals. The mode
"What have you found to occupy your
time so severely P said Lynde.
Patience smiled.
"Don’t you know'!" said she. "We
are to have a quilting bee here to-morrow.
At least, Mrs. Osmund is. And I have
boiled mlxlS? ,pr f ,S chkkpn * tor aaUd '
looked through her treasures next morn-| “»™ua«. 108 ™. oae
ing. It ws? ,Uo true tbstshn bid sc- «i obtaining the dumond. is by w«hmg
cu*e<l Peticnceof thr theft, sod tint ln -nre miner, dig down Into the dismond
default of her confession end restoration ‘My*: «» quarto sand, or the
of the trinket, the girl had been on- 1 §P«eI, u.the? take itoutj. washed free
ceremoniously turnedont of doors. Four earth in .hallo Vwooden pans. The
.hours afterward the old wcmxn fell in a ff* Tell 7 d 'P t * ,t £*» “ P" 8 ® 1
t ; through a sieve, and tho diamond crys-
Patience Meade did not know where «>• 5f » D J there, me readily found in
else to go, so sbe went to Locy Lynde. Generally spedung, the
Harry 's nister. Harry himself came to d «mond mined in Brazil hare been small,
the door 1 ® ut a * ew remarkable gems have been
“Oh, Harry!” she gasped, “hare you 1 found in them. One of the most impor-
heard I Did they tell yoSf” tant of these .a the 8Ur of the South,
'I hare hranl”aaid Harry. withatern, | which waa found by a negress in the
grare eyes. “And I never wan so ranch Begagem in 18M, and which
astonished in my life. If you are really I «lshcd in Tbs rough state 254 karate. It
guilty, Patience, you should confess it at j »“ pnrcbnied. after being cut by s lew,
once. There can bo no use in equlro- el ' r , “ Amsteidam, Germany, by n
cwtinsr ** { wealthy nobleman of that country. An-
“If!” Shelifte.1 herlarg^ bluo-g«j 0 ‘ h ' r f°““ d > n
eyes to his “If!” ThSi I hare as-! Abwthc, In 1787. byeome ronriete who
sufe llr come to the wrong place. Good- 1 !“ d ” M l* d front pruon aodwerehidrag
by!” And dm waa gone. 1 “ mountema It weighed 138
From house to house she went, but and was sent to the King of Por
no one took her in except Fenny Dnrton, ‘“8* 1 . » hl '- 10 ret V™ f " 0>o treasure,
who worked in the factory, aid whose pardoned the conncte. A fesrdiamonds
brother, Milo, had chsTgi of the tele- over 100 karate in weight hare been found
graph office j ,n Braiilisn mines, and quite n number
“Get.out!” honest Milo had raid. ! overfiftykarate, but the average weight
“You may as well trr to make me believe •*« ,r °“> *® !°“ r J"***-,, ™
that I took old Mother Osmund s gold »P(n-eg*te d.smond yield in Brazil has
thimlde. PaUenee, indeed! What air fl , ut ' lu *“ d 8 rc * tl jA U . m “ r * n g‘ n S
folks thinkiog off’ i ,rom M.000 or 80,000 karate annually to
“The moat g rediculous nonsenso I ever « high m 000,000 karate. Though the
beard!” arid Funny. , ‘"J' “ diamonds is genially supposed
And it was to there true-hearted par-: to be au important part of the country’s
tiaansthat Patience carried her brokeh : rmnmerre. it is really only n email frac-
heart; and nothing had ever sounded turn of one per cent of the total truie
half so awoet in her ears as Milo's cordial it averages something over *2,500,000
welcome, Fanny's woids of cheering annually, while the yearly exportation of
comLrt sugar alouc w about $17,000,000, and of
• Mr*. Osmund died and was buried, coffee over $53,000,000.— Inter-Ocean.
The heirs flocked to he: funeral, like j
crows to the death-place of some ancient I Ballets Among the Trees,
eagle.
There was m auction sale at the old
and Milo a ked his sister
:he decorated China washed:
tho parlor curtains irorel, and every
floor In the hotuv swept.” .
Lyndo whistled an insufficient ex
pression of his thought!
“I don’t wonder thi
wonder that you’re tired,"
•aid he. "What is the old lady think-
. ing—that you are made of cast-iron ?’»
"Mrs. Osmund >s determined to have
the finest quilting bee of the season,"
■aid Patience, "and I think she will sue-
• "Wjlh ymlr assistance T
‘ ‘With my assistance. But when one
looks at the lovely branching coral under
the ocean, one never thinks ofthepa-
tknt little Insect that has toiled to form
iU beauties. So, don’t you nee, Mrs. Os
mund will get alt the credit, as she ought
to doi I am only her humble instru-
V
ar r .' y
• T slioulff like to come to this quilting
hot-, ^gravely obaemd Mr. Lynde.
••You cannot!" returned Patience,
with a nod of her p:cttv ict-laired head.
4< No gentlemen allowed."
* l \\ ell, at all events. I shall lie think
ing of you the whole time,"
Patience Meade was very happy that
General .T. A. Williamson, of Washing
ton. the former Commissioner of the Gen
eral Land Offise. was in New York re-
Fannv to attend cral band was in New zork rc-
"I ain’t aLoaetSer certain. **iid he. 1°S tho
sheepishly, "but if I could coax l'atienco
MeX to ray yet. thare’d he the perlor .*5^“
cultivating apple trees from the seed,
claiming that that was the only proper
claiming
wqy to plant an orchard. In the spring
of 1801 Chapman mode his way to Ohio,
at which time he appeared on the bor-
derf of Licking Creek, in what is
now ktfown as Licking County, with a
horse-load of apple-seed, which he
planted in various places on and about
the banks of that stream.
Early in the spring of 1800 a pioneer
settler of Jefferson County noticed a pe
culiar craft with a curious cargo and a re
markable occupant moving down the
Ohio River with the current. It was
"Johnny Appleseed** (by which name
Chapman was known from 1800 until the
time of his death, which occurred in
1847, in every log cabin from the Ohio
River to tin great lakes on the north and
os for west os th^nresent eastern bound
ary of Indiana) with two canoes lashed
together, transporting s load of seeds to
the then Western frontier for the pur
pose of planting them on the remotest
verge of white settlements. In following
h ? s favorite pursuit he always kept on
the outskirts of the settlements; cleaning
spots in the loamy lands on the banks of
streams, where he would plant his seeds,
place a slight inclosure around the
ground, and then leave the place until the
trara hod become sufficiently large to be
transplanted. Settlers began to flock in
and open clearings. To those who wanted
on orchard on their place "Johnny”
would furnish young trees. He hod no
idea of making any money out of his oc-
THE HOME DOCTOB.
Vinegar In Diarrhoea and Dysentery.
Dr. Amos Sawyer,, has the following
sensible communication in the 8t. Louis
Meiieal and Surgical Journal: "About a
quarter of a century ago, when giving
some good advice for a young practi
tioner to follow, the late Dr. B. F. Ed
wards of Btr Louis, Mo., whose action,
in the measurement of the action of
remedies, truth in statement, and justice
toward members of the prufesrioa.mode
him a shining light in the early history
of our State, among other things says:
"Never make fun of an old woman’s
remedy, for not only will you give of
fence and thereby iniare your practice
to the extent of her influence, but you
nuy throw away what would have proved
upon trial, a valuable adjunct in your
practice! He then cited this case to
illustrate the importance of his injunc
tion: “In 1889, while practicing in
Madison County, IU., I was induced by
representations of an old woman.to make
the trial ia dysentery and diarrhara, of a
tablespoonful dose of pure cider vinegar,
with the addition of sufficie it salt to be
noticeable, and it acted so charmingly
that I never used anything else." He
was prescribing it in 1870. making it a
period of forty years.—Medical and Bur•
gieal Reporter.
SOUTH STREET. j FACTS FOB THE CBBIODI
A PICTURESQUE QUARTER 05? '
AMERICA'S metropolis. . transparent that it may do
AMERICA'S METROPOLIS.
substituted tor window glare.
The palm-leaf fans of commerce are
Craft and Cargoes From all Parts lamlv imported from the Indies,
- •- f£?Pra»m», «.i otto SteS
of Central or 8outh America.
cf the Civili£.*d World-Odd
Figureheads—Romance of
the Canal boats.
The Cure or Asthma.
In a recent communication to the
Medical Record, Dr. Richard B. Faulk
ner says: "I understand by the term
asthma, the condition of spasm of the
bronchial tubes of both lungs, with,
hyperemia approaching or amounting
to inflammation, accompanied by rales
upoa both inspiration and aspiration,
or selling
old cost, or any article of which he could
make some use. In this way he proceeded
for years until the country was in a
measure settled and supplied with apple
trees.
Chapman’s personal appearance was as
striking os his character. He was a small
man, quick and restless in his motions;
his eyes were black and sparkled with a
peculiar brightness, while his beard and
hair were long and dark. He never
shaved and Uvea the roughest life, often
sleeping in the woods in preference to ac
cepting the hospitality of a settler. His
clothing was o a and ragged, being gen
erally given him in exchange for apple
trees. He invariably went barefooted,
and frequently traveled miles through
the snow in that way. Only once was ne
ever known to wear fcot covering of any
kind. A icttler win happened to own n
pair of shoes that were too small for his
own use, forced them upon ‘‘Johnny,”
who reluctantly put them on. The next
day “Johnny" overtook a poor, bare
footed family moving Westwasd, and
os they appeared in gre:ter need of
footwear than he was, he gave them the
shoes.
' He was a follower of Swedenborg, took
no thought of the morrow, aud led a
moral, blameless life. It was his cus
tom to circulate Swcdcnborgiau works
wherever be wen^apd if »)m> t of them
a bodPmto two or three parts,
to famish and a taw thing, to git for »»■■> I>><ii»n, «ndof compiratirelytoder
the up .Lira front room.” build, .tapped up trehlnd hh. Two
* 1 long arms were thrown around the Gen-
‘Oh, Milo!" cried Fanny, rapturouslv, . w „ ^
"do you 1hiak it’s possible that—that 1 S, ra wlu e nc w*c°®? r . WM ex '
.bn could like Tour i Governor tt.rmoth of LmiUmun, rang
i?r. who
she could like you?"
“It docs rerm sort o’ presumptuous. i°“ lr, ” al '
don't Iti” raid Milo. “But I uln't going ’ 0r \ ^ h,nd ,pe *S When Uie Gen-
to let her go tar Irak of trying my lack, cral tan, '‘ l . nnd recognized hi. old
that I know " ° ’ army comrade, the Governor said: "I
All the sacreducss of home deta 1 was G f. nera J- y*>u couldn’t get oa much
turned inside out. The old cabinet-I P™ ** 1 ™ from that lookout Mountain
piano was sold for a song; the tall cherry- “P*. ”? now as you did the day of the
wood clock bronght about four times its
worth; people laug’ied at the old-fash- P !, 5* l:
Innnl fnrnitiin* uni! hnndlf.fi nvr»v Mrs : OCIOre 1
The General laughed os he rc-
! took to'a woodpile, os it was,
ioned furniture, nnd hudled over Mrs. | “?°™ w ' B ot out °' ‘ h “- B i‘ ] hav '
Osmund’, cut-off wig. ud curb with n0 ‘ ST 0 * " 10 mu ! >1 “ ** 5°“
many . jeer ud taunt. h JV rt 8^™,*»*■". The Governor
FunyDuton pnrehued n neat antique ' tejojned: “W ell, I might eraily got
rat of horee-h.lr chair, udnelaw-legged Ihuki-r than I su that d.y.
table for tbc parlor at home, and some
, evening. . She had come to Mrt. _
mond’a on the recommendation of -
friend as a sort of “genteel help/
And she had don<\ wha; ka I never been
done before in ths knowledge of mta or
woman either, su ted the' fastidous, ill-
tempered old woman. Nobody could
quarrel with Patience Meade—she was so
quiet, so gentle, so anxious to please;
■ flfl it fhm niAiih'a on,l M #>_
ulnt the moith't end, when Mre. (H-.
harl-eamnd
—ud .he
ejud given
lady robbed her
t bet .pec^dereue,
“I ."pose you’ve done ra welt u you
could. I don’t know why yon won l.suit
IVhich, from her, was extrnvagut
only known it!**' dUwir ^ d
The grand occraion of the quilting boo
.rrived .t last, and, to Mre. Osmuotf. in-
Unite snti.faction. It did not rain, lie
selnd wra msde, in gre.t.hallow platter,
ot the orthodox -Mowing blno” patten,
the jelly wu turn cl into glistening
1
n»ng
• was brewed clear and
fragrant, the blsck’.crry
: was baked, tfce waffles were
nil ready to turn Into ttop.ni atfira
minutes notice. The neighbors arrived
I and gowns, each with a
: a different pattern, and the
l jiadors were full of bumming
fu the quilt was tacked on the
old lrdy began on her
“"tion, while Patience
fro finding the scis-
; a rcfiartory needle
r. hunting the thimble of a
a some unheard of hiding-place
sofa, and keeping the while a
, and keeping
Mon the supper table in
1" was the old lady’s
pretty chintz curtains, hung over brass
poles, And a lot of odds and ends, which
comprised the verv half-finished quilt
over whi-h the old ladies of Darlington
had worked that last afternoon of Mrs.
Osmund's life.
“It ain’t worth much,” said Fanny,
"but It came with the towels and the
screen, and I goes* we can finish it at
homo some leisure time.”
The sight of the quilt brought up a
thousand reminiscences. People whis
pered the name of Patience Meade to one
another.
“I s’pose the heirs could hev her tried
for stcalm’!’’ said Miss Farrar.
"That there gold thimble was worth a
deal of money!" remark.d Mrs. Johnes.
"I dessay if her trunks was openedl"
croaked Mis. Pellett, "folks would find
lots o’ things she hadn't no business
with!"
"I really think," said Mrs. Cubcbs. the
druggist’s wife, "the town trustees ought
to look to it!"
Fanny Darton heard none of these
good-natured comments.
8he was busy, with the helpof ' eli da
Fames, in taking the quilt from it* from •*,
so as to moke a com patter bundle lor the
hind a little sapling that was shot all to
pieces. 1 stretched mv-elf up and up to
the fullest height of which 1 was able to
make myself and to the least possible
breadth. I was • never so tall before or
since as I was that day white trying to
get as mu'h of my body as possible behind
that sapling. I do remember that you
had a woodpile which I envied you. The
boys were all grabbing roots about that
time."—Me it York Tribune.
J pretty pattern! What is it!"
asked Mrs. Peck, the Methodist minis
ter’s widow. •‘Court-house Steps, or
Job's Troubles?"
Good-natured Melinda unrolled the
gorgeous moss of colors to let her look.
In the some instant something shone
with a kaleidoscopic glitter, and dropped,
clinking, on the floor.
"Lor*? * said Miss Farrar, fumbling for
her spectacles.
What on earth is that!" screamed
Mrs. Cubebs.
Fanny portoa rescued the glistening
fugitive from under the leg ox a rheu
matic bureau.
"It’s old Mrs. Osmund's gold thimble."
said she—"that's what it is-*-rolled up
in the quilt! And now," with a defiant
Hew Travelers Write Their Names.
A veteran hotel clerk who has yelled
"front" in every prominent tavern in this
country, told me a story about the man
nerisms of travelers in registering. The
man from Boston writes the name of his
town first. "In case of sudden death,
before he puts down hIVname, he wants
you to kuuw where he hails from." The
New York man is always in a hurry,
he can abbreviate hi& surname he will do
k. and after that he writca "N. Y." A
Philadelphia man is just the other way.
If hqhms three given names he will spell
them all out in the register, and after tbc
name is completed he writes: '.‘Philadel-
E hia, Pennsylvania." He Is never in a
uny, and generally misses his train. A
St. Louis man comes in, bolds on to his
gripnek, dips the pen to the bottom of
the inkstand, lays down on the book,
grabs the pen staff as if he thought
somebody was going to take it away
from him. sticks oat his tongue, and,
having written his name in a serpent’s
trail fashion, writes after it "Mo.." with
out the name of ths town. "Then ht
asks what time o’day we have the first
." "A Chicago man comes in and
tells Ills name to the clerk, who writes it.
The cl^rk do?«n’t ask him where lie is
i. He knows. You can tell a Chi
cago man as far as you can see him.—
Chicago Herald.
upuu uu.u IU8|)IIBUUU nun wipuaviuu,
with great difficulty of breathing, and
the term is applied to the paroxysm
alone, which returns at regular or irreg
ular periods. Disturbance of function
or disease of structure of the pneumogas-
trie nerve is always present.
To cure the paroxysms 1 originated a
method of treatment nearly live years
ago; and repeated observation has con
firmed its great utility. ^ When called to
case of asthma, with a camel’s-hair
brush I make a streak of Churchill’s
iodine over each pneumogastric nerve in
its course in tho neck, from the upper
port of the thyroid cartilage to the upper
Dordcra of the clavicles. By counter
irritation thus applied, the capricious
and abnormal exercise of nerve-force by
the pulmonary filaments is controlled,
and bronchial spasm promptly relin
quished. Such is my original method—
simple, certain, quick. Churchill’s
tincture is the best counter-irritant, be
cause, first, it is convenient; second, its
action is easily controlled; third, it does
the work. To permanently cure the
paroxysms, it is usually necessary to re
move the underlying morbid condition
upon which they depend or are osso*
nated.
A "Parliamentary Sharp.”
There are always several letters await
ing Speaker Carlisle’s eyes, which show
how completely some people are willing
An obaerrer standing at Fulton ferry
and gazing down Booth street toward
the Battery sees one of the most pictur
esque scenes of this great city. Along
this little stretch of river front, scarce
half a mile long, are crowded ships from
every part of the world. A veritable
forest of mast* reaches up into the sky
from amid a maze of spars and rigging.
Some of the slender mast tops seem to
•crape the dome of the sky itself, while
here and there the red and black smoke
stacks of ocean steamers thrust them
selves into the yfrion of span and ropes,
emitting spiral clouds of sooty smoke
that twist away skyward, where the
breezes blow them over the East River to
the windows of the rich dwellers on
Columbia Heights in Brooklyn. The
row of long jibbooms that thrust their
noses across Booth street almost into the
windows of the warehouses and ship-
chandleries opposite, suggest nothing so
strongly as a regiment of infantry pre
paring to receive at the point pf the
bayonet the attack of a column of charg
ing cavalry. A walk among the wharves
and under the slanting booms is a study
of naval architecture, figure-heads and
geography. Queer names confront the
beholder on all sides.
Some of the ships were painted a deep
red; others green, black, white, and still
others an mdeQnsble lead-color. The
finest vessels in the collection by far were
the splendid California clippers. From
the wharves the sailors at work on the
•ails of these ships resembled spiders
crawling "along under the edge of
Heaven,” as a spectator observed to the
reporter. From the deck of the Samaria,
which lay at Wall street, a mate shouted
hoarse orders to three sailors toiling up
aloft relative to stowing away the "lor'ty
gallan’-s’l” and other bits of canvas* n-
known to land-lubbers.
Not the least interesting of the sights
of this busy street wss the miscellaneous
merchandise lying in heaps on the piers
or being hoisted out of the dark holds,
representing truly the four quarters of
tho earth. There were the barrel-shaped
black steamers of the Mallory Line, built
for the sltort and tumbling waves of the
Gulf, lying next to Fulton Ferry.
Stacked up on the wharf were the pro
ducts of Texas and the South, bales of
cotton, hogshe ids of molasses, piles of
cotton-tics and crates of early vegetables
from the "truck" gardens oP Florida.
Noxt to these signs of the South lay a
"round-the-Horn" clipper,her pier laden
with boxes of drv goods aud tons of ma
chinery and hardware, all preparing for
the 120 days’ voj%ge to San Francisco.
At ^Picr No. 18 the Bristol steamer
Warwick wSs discharging a cargo con
sisting principally of the square flat boxes
of tin from the Cornwall mines. Next to
her lay the Norwegian ship Professor
Nordcnskiold, engaged in hoisting on
board a miscellaneous cargo of Yankee
notions, the chief part of which, strange
to say, was shoe pegs from Connecticut.
"One would think that there was wood
enough in Scandinavia to manufacture
their shoe-pegs at home," said a specta
tor. A large gilt effigy of the Arctic ex-
S lorcr after wh«fc the vessel is named
ccoratcd her bow. His hair was brushed
neatly back from his high wooden fore
head ; his mouth was ornamented by a
It is believed that the first circular saw
rer wed in this country waa put into
Iteration in Worcester about the .year
$30. It was brought from England by
le Messrs. Button, wheelwrights . and
wagonmakers.
The Maluvmtree of Central India beam
flowers which are now being exported to
Europe for their sugar, of which they
contain more than naif their weight.
The tree resembles the oak, nnd a single
specimen sometimes beers n ton of
flowers.
Dry ports of plants take up water with
great force. In 1888 a steamship with n
partial cargo of peas went ashore and
decks were thrown apart. The
same extraordinary force has been ex
hibited frequently by cargoes of corn
or wheat
An Italian professor wishing to find
out whether the miasm-of malaria existed
in the dew and soil, experimented on
himself by having infusions of dew and
soil collected from unhealthful places in
jected under his skin. He experienced
no evil results. He and his f riends made
fifty-two similar experimonts without
into a wide glass bottle which contains a
few drops of olive oil of the finest^qual- v ...
ity. More oil is poured on instantly,"’
until the bottle is filled and the i
dead. In its strugles to free itself it
ejects all its poison into the oil, and this
poisoned oil forms a sovereign remedy for
the sting of ‘a scorpion.
The ordinary colors of mourning gar
ments ore block and white As is the
European custom, black nrevailed among
the ancient Egyptians, Hebrews, Greeks
and Romans, and the native races of this
continent. White is the color among tho
inhabitants of China, Jauan, Oceanica,
and largo portions of Asia. So also in
parts of Greece, and anciently in Ger
many. Blue is the color in Arabia, and
among the Tutks and Egyptians*, and in
Catholic Upper Germany it is prescribed
by the Church. Yellow was used by tho
ancient Celts, and in some of tho king
doms of Asia.
In China corpulence is considered to
be one of the most important qualifica
tions for the holding of any public office.
It is regarded os a physical virtue which
imparts dignity to tne appearance, weight
to the judgment, and solidity to tho
mind. In China the thin man is always
moody and disappointed; he sees him-
to make use of the public servants of tho j mustache that would create envy in the
would tear
giving each part to different pcr>oi
this way he supplied a neighborhood
with religious literature, although those
lo whom he gave the la*.ter part of the
book to read first must have found it diffi
cult to comprehend the author. He was
very careful not to injure nnyauim:d,and
thought hunting morally wrong. Among
the settlers he was always welcome, and
he was treated with great kindness even
by the Iudiuns, who regarded him as a
"great me Heine nr.n."
Chapman was peculiar and eccentric in
the extreme, as the few anecdotes which
I give below will illustrate. On one cool
autumnal night, while lying by his camp*
tire in the woods he observed that tne
mosquitoes flew in the blaze and were
burned. "Johnny," who wore on his
head a tin utensil which answered both
as a cap and n mush-pot, filled it with
water and quenched the fire, and then re
marked : "G«d forbid that I should build
a fire for my comfort that should be the
means of destroying any of Hi* creat
ures." Another time he made his camp
fire at the end of a hollow log, in which
he intrnded to pass the nigh/, but finding
it occupied by a txar and her cub.*, he
removed his fire to the other end and
slept on the snow rather tlian disturb tho
bear. An itinerant speaker wns.holding
forth on the Public Square in the present
c ity of Mansfield, and during the course
of his remarks exclaimed: "Where is
the barc-foated Christian traveling to
heaven?" "Johnny,” who was lying on
his bark cn some timber, taking the
question in its literal sens*, raised his
bare fret in the air ar.d vociferated:
"Here he isT
In 18*38—thirty-seven years after his
npj-emnee at Licking Crcelc—"Johnny"
observed that civilization and wealth
were fast transforming the wilderness of
Ohio into a densely populated State.
Churches were making their appearance
and the stage-driver’s horn broke the
silence of the forests, and as he had al
ways kept just in advance of tho wave
of settlement, he found that his work
waa done in this region in which he bod
labored so long. He visited all the houses
of the ncttlen/tonk a solemn farewell
of every family, and turned his steps
further west, again to pursue his eccen
tric vocation. In the summer of 1847, at
the close of a warm day. after traveling
twenty miles, he entered the house of a
settler in Allen County. Indiana, and
was. as usual, warmly welctmed. De
clining other accommodation, he lay
down on the floor for the night. Id the
morning he was dead, and thus ended
the mission of a man who was both a
benefactor and a hero. Cl tampan is un-
country. These letters are communi-
cations requesting the Speaker to decide
somtf parliamentary point which is
troubling some organization. Occasion-
something in Cushing’s Manual ana agree
to refer the settlement of the whole dis
pute to the Speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives. Mr. Carlisle usually hands
such letters to Mr. Henry H. Smith, the
journal clerk and author of the book of
over 300 pages containing the manual
and digest, and rules and practices of
the Houss. Mr. Smith is wnat the boys
call a "parliamentary sharp." ^^tsin
front of the Speaker’s desk ag(JH^ws
the course of legislation more *ciose\y
legislation more "Closely
than any member upon the flior. When
the House is in a tangle, and a dozen
men ore upm their feet making this or
that parliamentary inquiry, Harry Smith
is the coolest man there. Not only does
he know the proper rulings, but Ids
fingers fly over tho leaves of the reference
books, and in half a minute the Speaker
has l>eforc . him all the precedents by
which ho can justify his position.—New
York Telegram.
bosom of a New York Alderman; and
bis right hand, stretched forward with
tho forefinger pointing ahead, completed
the image of the distinguished traveler.
Tho Professor Nordenskiold hailed from
Stavanger. Side by side at the Coenties
Slip lay a “blue nose," three-masted
schooner, unloading lumber and potatoes
from Nova Scotia, and a queer little ..Id
brig with slender masts and black yards
that tare the name of Durban, of London.
The figure-head on the stem of the lat'er
vessel was a naked Zulu chieftain, with
thick, red lips, coal-black body, knotted
hair, headdress of feathers and a barbaric
necklace of tiger claws.
At the foot of Wall street, a strong
smell of sugar and motoses is wafted at
all hours into the noses of the people
who are crossing the ferry. It proceeds
from the holds of the Havana steamers
that berth at this point. Near here the
ships that load with salt, coal and oil
for Calcutta can be seen wedged in be
tween coasting schooners and the steam
ers that bring cocoanuts and bananas
from the Mosquito Coast. Hundreds of
peddlers’ wagons, old rattle-traps drawn
by equally dilapidated "crow bait*” of
horses, flock to the piers and block up
Life Bnoys on Sailing Vessel?. . r
‘This matter of sailing vessels being traffic in South street, whenever one of
J :,L if#- «... tt - l -|5 - thr>.4i‘ ‘•frilitt-rit’' rntno* in Vnf
provided with life buoys,” said an old these "fruiters" comes in. Not the least
shipmaster and an official of the Ameri- : interesting of the miscellaneous collec-
can Shipmasters’ Association, "has often j tions of vessels strung along South street
been seriously pondered by me. The law ! * re the hundreds or more canalboats that
should compel them to do so. There is ! ** so and fall with the tide between Piers
no reason m the world why such pro- * 8 - Little tug* puff in and out,
vision should not be made to save tailors 1 som ® 8wa T and towing others in.
that accidentally fall or are washed over-} On pleasant evening* the families _of tta
board. Some might not be saved if there “ “ ~
were scores of life buoys tossed after
them; but that is not any argument.
Pav-engcr steamboats are required to be
provided with life-saving appliances,
and why not soiling vessels! One life
may not be as valuable as another, so far
as matters run in this selfish world of
ours, but even that isn’t any argument,
and, in my opinion, the government has
long neglected this matter. Every sail
ing vessel, big or little, should be pro
vided with life buoys. It should be mode
just os compulsory as that of life pre
servers on steamers, and there shoula be
capable and honest inspectors appointed,
whose sole duty would be to see that the
law in fully carried out.—New York
Herald.
sturdy boatmen sit out on deck. Pretty
girls flit from boat to boot chaffing with
sunburned Ipvers or forming little
dancing parties by moonlight on the deck
to the music of half-cracked accord eons.
Most of these canalboats have in their
narrow limits all the comforts of a home.
There are carpeted parlors, where the
captain and his wife receive their com
pany in simple state. Many of these
parlors boast of upright pianos, while
cabinet organs are numerous. Thu* are
combined the practical and the poetical,
and while the plodding mules are drag
ging the heavily freighted boats, with
their loads of apples, coal, grain or flour,
along the placid Erie Canal, the echoes
of the Mohawk hills are awakened, and.
possibly the tired mules are cheered, by
sweet melodies from the cabins.
Weather-beaten and tany-fisted sailor-
self easily outstripped in the race of life
by his stouter contemporaries, and, en
raged at the unjust distribution of na
ture’s gifts, he retires usually into ob
scurity and shuns the gaze of his fellow-
citizens. The most ponular gods in the
Chiii&e Pantheon are those remarkablo
for their obesity.
A Neglected Article of Diet
nitherto, and mainly, American cheese
has been largely of two kinds only,
whether made in a factory or in a far
mer’s family. One would bo what we
know ni whole milk cheese, and tho
other as skim milk, or partially so.
There are kinds, to be sure, that get a
flavor from an imperfect following of
the primitive process by which most
cheeses are maac—such as the overdo ; od
rennet variety, and the variety which
has the taste of soar milk. And there 1
is the so-called Dutch or cottage cheese,
which is not Dutch at all. This requires
no press. Beyond these varieties, nnd a
few pine-apple shape, which sometimes
have special care in the making, we have
nothing to offer.
We ore not unmindful of the fact that
our best American factory cheese is now
an excellent article, and that it is offered
at such a price that large quantities of it
are shipped annually to Europe, much of
wh:ch goes to England. But our scale
of variety is, as yet, narrow. When we
thihk of the Cheddar, Stilton, Edam,
Parmesan, Gruyere, Neufchatel, Sweizcr,
Roquefort, Fromage de Brie (we omit
Limburger out of deference to delicate
olfactories), and the many other kinds*
which can be had in Europe, we can see
how far in its infancy the cheese manu
facture still is in our couutry. The fact
that in New York, New Jersey, Ohio,
Wisconsin and Illinois attempts are now
being made to imitate some of these
varieties, gives us hone for the future;
but these attempts, if successful, will
not by any means supply the demand
that can be created by them. For the
best foreign chee-es we now have to pay
from twenty-five to forty cents and up
ward per pound, and while milk can bo
produced at so small cost per quart as it
can be on vast tracts of fanning land
here, there ought to be an untold
profit coming to any farmer or company
who will fairly or reasonably reproduce
at home an article that will take the
S lace of any prime foreign variety.—
Jew York Hour.
men, with the spray of the salt sea still
clinging to their clothe*, throng Booth
phasethe assembled brigade of goa-
were gathered around, “what
do yon all think about Patience MeadeP
And she gathered up the quilt and de
parted, witn unutterable triumph.
There came very near being a litigation
about the gold thimble.
The Osmund heirs, of course, claimed
it. Equally, of course, Fanny Darton
declared that when she bid in tbe quilt,
•arsA
r who i
The Tae of Sheepskins.
Why is it that our people have never
utilized sheepskins in the Russian man
ner! The pelisses of the Russian moujiks
if better tanned would be ideal gar
ments in harsh winter weather. I only
wish I could get some Australian skins
with silky fleeces to provide myself with
a Russian snrtout of pistich. T
ery side being turned out, and
forming when buttoned a bell
off like water from a duck's
the temperature inside doe
A sheepskin will take any
' '—it can be
doubtcdly entitled to tbe fame of being
'the earliest colporteur on the frontiers <5
Ohio.
Net That Kind of a Cow.
"Does your cow cringe and curl,” asks
the New England Farmer, "and appear
doesn’t. She isn't to kind of » cow. I 111
She ten’t one of vour rfty. timid, brohfnl, ^ SSfSSAS!-
cow«. She just fixes her eye* on racancy ^
with ■ gUre to will raize * blister on ! j™VJJSAJwS'EJili
an oac knot, sticks her tail atraight np
DelH ud Credit.
feet firmly on the ground and then feel* —iftw jvt r ^z_„
around with the other for the milk pail n 8* ““ and ahape.—New T-rrk Tnhuu.
milk stool milk maid; finds them; fires I The i*nunie (Wyoming) Bomtrmg
them op aomewhere into the bine empy- 1 has an acconnt of tome lakea in the ricin-
reu, ud remarking “Ha ha,” amid the j ty that eity ao charged with aoda that
•hooting, jnmpa over n aix-rad fence and it accumulate! in great quutitiea. around
I gave s diamond ring,
For tender looks, the newest books
And latest songs to sing.
I'm in a hundred letters
tramples down an acre of young garden, the edges, whence it is only necessary to
Don’t talk about cringing and curling to haul it away and work it up Intocom-
a cow that has to be milked with a pipe mercial forms. One of the lakes in the
line and a pumping station.—Burdette, immediate vicinity of Laramie has been
drained, and the soda is now being
r dressing it <
supple. The
Be-innin? “Darling Love,” '
nd noM| I think, a withered pink,
A wore, though tiny glove.
pelisse of the s
The angler to the brooklet hies;
Pats on his hook the tempting ’
worked up by a company, but the sup
ply in other parts is practically inex
haustible, and has as yet hardly been
touched.
A firm at Vienna did a thriving busi-
-ibyaeHing
A Big Potato Farm.
A Lawrence, Kansas, paper says: The
ease, dispatch, and clock-work precision
with which the labor of planting pota
toes is now done on the farm or Mr. P.
Underwood,one mile north of the bridge,
forciblv reminds ns of the primitive
methods of planting and cultivating that
crop. In bygone years, after all bands
haa spent the greater port of a day in
cutting ten or nfDfcfc.bushels of p:tatoefc
for sera, the boys and hfeu went to tho
fields with hoes, and there, with, meas
ured stroke, dug holes in reasonably
straight Hnes across the piece of ground
•elected for the potato natch. In the^e
excavations were deposited two or thre^
pieces of potatoes, which were then cov
ered with the hoe, making the work
planting even a small patch quite a f
midable task. But Mr. Underwood has
i cov-\
»rk of \
• for- \
d has V
_Iis potato field embraces eighty
ninety acres. To cut the seed for this
i
Taxt acreage would accm a great labor,
accomplished by one
but it ia easily a
who with a machine can cot from fifty to
aerenty fire bushels per day; This pota
to-cutting machine, by ttrnway, is an
invention of Nr. Underwood. Theground,
instead of being marked out with a hoe,
hill at a time, S now nicely and quickly
marked off with a plow, oonatrnctcd
especially for thatporpoae, on which tho
driver rides at bia ease, marking out two
rows at a time, and at required depth.
Then four boys follow and drop into
erery sixteen inches.'
team, with on implement (also
nvented by Mr. Underwood) and cover
the seeds, two rows at a time, thus plant
ing eight to ten acres per day much
easier and better than the work wgs
accomplished bv the old-tfme mttl