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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