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•«4 ■mm* Kossuth’s Despair. It was near here that Kossuth, that ardent aspirant after pofitical freedom, .and the hero of the “ War of Inde pendence,” fleeing from his pursuers, [crossed the Danube, and sought pro tection in Turkish territory. There crossing the frontier he threw himself down for the last time on the sod of ,liis beloved Fatherland, for whie \ he id risked so much and fought so card id pressed on it a sobbing, passionate iss, and planting his foot on Turkish, prritory, became, as he himself cas so touchingly described it in the memo ries of his exile, “ like a wrecked ship thrown up by a storm on a desert shore.” A Turkish officer greeted him courteously in the name of Allah, led him to a place which he had kindly caused to be prepared for 1 im to rest in for the night, under God’s free heaven, and asked for his sword with downcast eyes, as if ashamed that a Turk should disarm a Hunga rian, “ I unbuckled it,” he writes, “ and gave it to him without uttering a word; my eyes fllhd with tears, and he, wishing me sound rest, left me alone -with my sorrow. There I stood in silent meditation on the bank —but no longer the Hungarian bank —of the Danube, the waves of which were mingled with the tears of the Hungarian nation—and which, uot fur from me, grumbled and roared through the rocky pass of the ‘Iron Gate.’ ” “ I listened,” he continues, to this roaring, in rude harmony [with the storm in my heart, and as I fcomtemplated the annihilation of patriotic hopes so undeservedly extin guished, tears of indescribable grief .unconsciously showered down my icheeks.” This rhapsody from the mce Supreme Dictator of Hun . ary jay sound unmanly to the ears of the rundemonstrative Briton; but these brave, lion-hearted Hungarians, [whom few things daunt, love their country passionately, and with a love as tender as that of womau. It is sad to think that this brave man, who, ^igh disappointed in his attempts thieving a recognition of Hungary |m independent State, has yet been means of indirectly conferring ling benefit upon his country, lild—as he describes himself—still wanderer, “ arrived at the verge the grave with no hope for the ture, and in whose past there is no ".onsolatiou.” No Ionger expatriated, I could return to the Fatherland if ,e w r ouid ; but he refuses to do so, I since, by its own act, it has allowed itself t be [merged into the Austrian Eruoire. English and American Vegetables. The reappearance on our tables of eakale and asparagus—our only two atable greenstuff's—naturally raises ,nce more the perennial question, fliy have we iu Eulaud no Vegeta 'S? ^doubt the fact is impossible ^st to anybody who knows what es are like. “Sir,” said an erreail^J^er at a restaurant in Strand this is one ug you can raise in your country d we can’t raise in ours—a mutton hop; but then you never tasted green eas iu all your life.” That antithesis uts the great vegetable question in a nutshell. It is impossible in the same country to have good meat and good vegetables. For the oest beef and mutton are a product of the soft, ten der Englhli greensward,^vhich only ^exists iu a few countries along the Hptlautic seaboard of Europe, and owes ^lts origin to the constant rainfall. % The same causes whjch give us good qeat, however, deny us in England a possibility of good fruit and vege- [' tables. For while the herbage requires i copious rain, the fruits, seeds, pods, flowers, buds and other miscellaneous ■ objects which we class from the culin- I ary point of view as vegetables, all ^require copious sunlight. That is have none of them. Our only ’ good vegetables are such as very young ihubard, seakale, asparagus and celery, which are the blanched sprout ing shoots of perennial plants, IJJnese mostly come i^ spring thn|^md as they are nonj^n worse^^veven all the better, lome soak- rvive our e long run. ,es are more or e; and really one must go to America choice the first. Of hgoing fruity vegetables—such e tomato—we in England know thing. We never have sun enough ripen them properly; audAveu th till the appliances of nsr rdeners, they never get thor olt throughout in our as they do in the open air under a Canadian or Italian sky. They always have a half-green taste, and are wholly lacking iu the true rich tomato flavor. Indeed, the tinned American speci mens, though tasting of the solder o skinned squashes anti golden pump kins iu a Massachusetts market would astonish Covent Garden, and set some course, are better savored after all than our poor starved sunless English things. As to purple egg-fruit and green chow-chows, we know them not at all; wh ill the profusion of rich red fleshed watermelons and primrose- nascent Turner to work with all the pigments on his palette to try his hand at a new and many-colored subject. These things require the sun to ripen them, and we see his face here as a rule for some two and a half hours weekly, as duly registered at Glynde Place, Lewes. Then, again, there are the winter cherries, the sweet pota toes, and, best of all earl hly vegetables, green Indian corn, eaten off' the cob with fresh butter, and likest to nectar of all mortal delicacies. As for pulse generally, our beaus are all stringy ; we have neither the variety nor the tenderness of the American bean. Our peas have some good points—for English peas ; but they are not half so large, or luscious, or melting, as Amer ican peas. They take too long grow ing, and have got old and hard before they are big enough to pick. The delicious crinkly eatable-pod pea would be impossible h^re ; it would have got tough and sinewy a month before it was ready for cooking. We grow buckwheat to feed our pheasants,but never ripens as it ought, and buck wheat pancakes at breakfast will doubtless be an unknown luxury with us forever. in the matter of leafy vegetables we can do a little better, but not enough to boast about. We are strong in salads; our climate provides us with plenty of fresh green lettuce, and plenty of slugs, too, to hide in its recesses. But endive does not flour ish ; it is a scrubby-looking plant in England ; though we make up for it in cresses and the lesser salad stuffs. Our roots, too, are good; who will deny the British farmer the glory of his turnips, his beets and his mangold- wurzel? When it comes to edible flowers, however, w r e are hopelessly left in the lurch. O ir top artichokes are the hardest and poorest in the world; they contain a maximum of fibrous, uneatable bract and a mimi mim of soft, starchy pulp. In the south of France, Italy and America you can often eat the whole flower- head, choke and all ; in England you can only extract a pitiful pittauce of a soft mouthful off’the base of each great leathery scale. It would be impossible to dress English artichokes in fried butter as they do so deliciously at Florence ; one might as well eat fried boots. Our cauliflowers and brocoli are not nearly as good as the Ameri can ; they are neither so white nor so delicate in flavor. We can grow cu cumbers (under glass), because cueum- bers are eaten green ; but what a miserable farce are our vegetal>le marrows ! What Is true of vegetables is even more true oi fruits. To be sure our English hot-house grapes are the* best in the world; but for strawber ries, raspberries, currants, gooseber ries, plums aud cherries we must go to America. Our peaches are a suc cess ; our apples are a national failure; and our pears are a standing insult to the human intelligence. But we may at least congratulate ourselves that with the aid of glass and stoves we can obtain heat and light, enough to grow the best pineapples in the world at the moderate price of one guinea apiece. In Jamaica they usually sell at two for three halfpence. Notes on Barbers. About as odd a combination of dis contented “ proletaires ” that it is pos sible to conceive is the strike of the hairdressers, the imminence of which was yesterday announced by our Paris correspondent. It appears that in some districts of the gay capital the tonsorial fraternity have decided to fix the sum of twenty-five centimes, or twopence half-penny, as the lowest price for their performance of the operation of “easy shaving.” Now- few Frenchmen shave themselves, foi the simple reason that French razors sold at moderate prices are of very infe rior quality, while good razors are very dear. The working classes have become highly indignant at the enact ment of the twenty-five centimes’ minimum as the tariff'for “ une barbe simple,” and have revenged them selves by withholding the customary “ pourboises ” from the hairdressers’ assistants. Consequently these hard working subordinates, or “ barbers’ clerks,” as they used to be contemptu ously termed in England, have threat ened to strike “ en masse” unless the masters compensate for the loss of the “ pourboires” by an augmentation in the wages of the assistants. As for the master “ coiffeurs,” denounced on the one hand by their exasperated customers, and threatened on the other by their rebellious “ garconc,” their positiou has come to resemble that which, according to the old Scotch proverb, was the case of “the toad under the harrow, when every tooth gave her a tig.” The masters are deterred from lowering [their charges by the fact that by the rules of their society any employer accept ing less than the minimum rate is at once liable to a preliminary fine of two hundred francs, or eight pounds sterling. Miring in Ancient Times. The Dispensary. Felons.—Beef marrow, bound on aud renewed twice a day, is said to be the most effectual agent for the cure of those painful visitants, felons. In acute 'sickness when milk and beef-tea disagree, the French hospitals give a preparation called albumen water, made by dissolving the white of an egg in a pint of water and add ing glycerine to [sweeten, and lemon juice ) flavor. Reil tady for Hiccough. -iDv. 8. M. 1-csliJ 1 of Lexington, Kvj u says that Die lil |t remedy in ordij^ l r hiccoughs is alifl It t wrnty-TWeTi'^Bf if common tahlifl la It iibu’ciiiii^H Kiouth and swajfl ^d with a sip <>m Iter. Our] an' Ufa 10 1 >r shoes; if | O Hl| inch us, hut KJo'fl Mo stakble In England, absolute free trade in shaving has long prevailed. There is, indeed, an ancient Company of Bar ber-Surgeons, the seventeenth iu pre cedence among the City Guilds to which Henry VIII. gave a magnifi cent picture by Holbein, while Charles II. presented them with a drinking cup made from the trunk of the Royal oak, richly mounted with silver. B t tiie Barber Surgeons’ Company nevei exercised any jurisdiction out of the City proper, and from time immemo rial the Londoner has been privileged to enjoy tne luxury of “a penny shave, - The upper and middle classes in England, as a rule, shave themselves, and since the custom ol wearing the full beard has been re vived the art of shaving may be said to have declined in aristocratic Lon don. In the more densely populated quarters, however, shaving goes on from early morning until late at night, and constant practice on beards oi every texture makes the “ penny shaver” a very rapid and tol rably skillfui executant. He sweeps the chin of the working man dean in a minute, and the i the son of toil ad- mitis'ers some water to his caunte nance, rubs it dry with the jack-towel hanging behind the door, pays his penny, and departs. They manage these, however, very differently abroad. The Parisian “ coiffeur ” has been already glanced at; but the Ital ian and the Spanish barbers are quite as skillful artists their Gallic confre- reu ; nor is the German at all behind the tonsors of the Latin races. It may be that foreigners are vainer oi their personal appearance than Eng lishmen are. The Americans are cer tainly very much vainer. He who enters a “ toilet studio ” in the United States for the purpose of being “barbed” or shaved must be prepared to sacri fice from twenty to forty minutes ol his time. Everything is done in a solemn, deliberate aud artistically complete manner. The actual shav ing is only one of a series of elaborate processes to which the customer is bound to submit. When the parts ot his face require to be denuded of hair have been minutely goue over with the keenest and most dexterously handled of razors, and the features have been refreshed with scented spray, and dried with “ poudre d« riz” the operation of “ fixing ” commences. The customer is shampooed, kneaded, “ machine brushed,” and “fine- combed.” “Bay rum” and other mysterious liquids are applied to his hair, “ brilliantlue ” gives his mus taches gloss, aud “ pommade Hou- groise” renders them spiky; while finally there gently meunders round l£) head the tropic gale and fragrance of the curling tongs. For being pro perly “ barbed ” and properly “ fixed” a customer at New York or at Chi cago will pay at least fifteen eeuta veu-pem^ halfpenny. The methods iu vogue among the ancients tor the development of mines were in many respects far differment from those in use at the present time. In the country to the south of us the descent and ascent of shafts were made by means of notched logs. These were from twenty to thirty feet long, extending from level to level. The logs or ladders were climbed by the eure-footed miners, the Aztecs, and more recently by Indians, who were engaged iu the dislodgment of the precious mineral. Tire ore was placed in rawhide bags containing about half a bushel, this same being rested upon the back while it was held in position by straps extending a< ross the shoulders, united in front and fastened through its own weight upon fhe fore head. “If a mine were overflowing with water the troublesome fluid was removed in these bags in the same manner as the ore by the miners, who tediously climbed the notched poles, and whose notches answered the place of wider steps. The ore was re moved in a manner almost as tedious. Fires were built against the walls of the mine, and as their surface became calcined the incinerated portions were dislodged by stone hammers. The melting was equally as cumber some ; being effected with charcoal and bellows. Yet mining was profita ble under fhese crude methods. It is not surprising, therefore, that wonder ful reports continue to reach us of the abandoned old mines of Sonora, which, with their introduction of modern ma chinery, worked by energetic aud ex perienced Americans, will soon aston ish the world with their rich produc tion.” In the early days of the Com stock we have seen these notched poles in use in the Mexican mines in this city; also the rawhide sacks. Howev er, they used picks and shovels, and blasted out the ore instead of burning it out. The ore was worked in arastras, and by the patio process—indeed the patio process was in use here or some years aud not alone by Mexicans. Horses were used for treading these patios to stir up the pulp, and in a short time the beasts presented a piti able appearance. The bluestone in the pulp took all the hairc ff their legs and covered them with sores, while the quicksilver salivated and poisoned them. It is said that horses hecama to charged with mercury that it oozed from their eyes. The Rose-Growing Craze. growing, aud I have no doubt others of the trade have had the same expe rience. I is true that many of these amateur florists will get their fingers nurnt, and will not only never realize a dollar on their investments, but will work at a loss; yet enough of them will succeed to give zest to the risk, for at present prices, when success is attained, the profits are so great as to produce the present “craze” on the subject—a“craze” that probably will result exactly as th*e Morns Muiticaulis did in 1840, or the grape-vine fever in 1865. All experience shows that, in the perishable commodities of fruits, flowers or vegetables, whenever an over-supply floods the market and brings down the prices below a paying level, less is sold than when they bring a fair price. Two years ago, in June, strawberries and cabbage iu the New York markets got so low as not to pay even the cost of marketing. The re sult was that hundreds of loads had to be taken back and dumped in the manure yards, as they could not be disposed of at any price. Some thirty years ago peaches one day fell down to twelve cents a basket iu Washing ton market, New York, and would not sell at that. In those days the crop was perhaps held by a score of dealers only. They got their heads together and decided to destroy every peach in the market. It was done. A scarcity was produced, and in twenty-four hours peaches w T ent up to $1 per bas ket. The leader in the movement had no doubt been a disciple of Adam Smith, and had wisely studied the laws of supply and demand. The present excitement in rose growing is no doubt largely due to the unprecedented priceB realized this winter, which have been caused in a great measure by the unusual heat and drouth of last autumn, which weak ened in many cases, and in others en tirely destroyed, the plants that would have been used to produce the crop of flower*. This, together with a brisk demand, ha3 resulted in profits which it is unreasonable to expect can ever be long continued in any legitimate business. Jocose Clips. In consequence of the extraordinary prices obtained for rosebuds during the past two or three years, not only have the regular florists used their large profits in extending their greenhouse structures for that purpose, but the fabulous reports of the profits of rose growing have excited the cupidity of many capitalists in the vicinity of New York, Boston and Chicago, and in all probability iu the other large cities of the Union. These men have an abundance of means, and begin on a scale usually at which the ordinary florist, who had to climb his way up, ends; so we have already iu the vicin ity of New York at least a dozen estab lishments for the forcing of rosebuds in winter, owned by men who count their capital by millions. These gen tlemen, of course, know nothing prac tically about the busiuess, relying altogether upon their gardeners for success;—for who ever heard of a millionaire florist? Whether they do succeed or not in fuaking a profit of a few thousand dollars a year is not vital to men who count their income by the hundred thousand ; yet it is curi ous with what interest the rise or fall of a few cents iu the rose market is regarded even by them. New Jersey has iryore than her .quota of these mil lionaire florists. Already we h»ve four iu Madison, one iu Summit and two in Orange, New Jersey, and it is said that there is as much iuterset manifested by them in the prices at which, in the technical slang of the flower-shops, “Cooks,” “Jacks,” “Mer- rnets” and “Perles” are quoted iu Broadway as is evinced in Wall Street in “Wabash,” “Lake Shore,” “Erie” or “Central.” It is true that, one at least, of these gentlemen gives all the profits that accrue from his roses to charitable purposes; but it is feared that he has few imitators among his compeers in this particular; for the motive is the same as iu all other in vestments—to get the largest profit possible from the smallest amount or money involved. Within the past twelve months I have been consulted by at least a score of gentlemen about p embark iu the business of rose- “ I’ll feed my boarders on the fat of the land,” observed Mrs. Stuffem, as she receipted for a tub of oleomarga rine. Ft o the prices that some pby scians charge one can readily imagine that high heels are fashionable. “ Well, Mary, how do you liko your new home in Vermont?” “ Well, mum, we all like it but father, and the air is too embracing for him, but under flte canister of heaven I think there isn’t a moro beautifuller place.” School patron : “ Well, Mr. Syntax, you have a very fair school here!” Mr. Syntax : “ Yes, sir ; the school is well enough, but the curriculum is defective.” Patrou: “ What, the curriculum defective? We must see architect at once about it, and have it raised a few feet higher.” “ Gentlemen of the jury,” said an Irish lawyer, “it will be for you to say whether the defendant shall bo allowed to come into court with un- blushing foot-steps, with a cloak of hypocrisy in his mouth, and draw three bullocks out of my clients pocket with impunity.” An old gentleman finding a couple of his neices fencing with broomsticks, said : “ Come, come, my dears, that kind of accomplishment will not aid you in getting husbands.” “I know it, uncle,” responded one ot the girls, as she gave a lunge, “ but it will help to keep our husbands in order when we get ’em.” Two geese with one stone: Two young swells were making fun of a good country curate. The abbe, after standing it % pretty well for awhile, said : “ Allow me to say, gentlemen, that I am not precisely a fop nor al get her a fool, but betwixt the two, The young men departed. —IYen< Fooliahncaa. Sunlight, Daylight and Gaslif It has been proven by direct cot parison that objects which are whf by sunlight appear yellowish ui the electric light, and red whei by gaslight. “ The illusion,” Dr. Werner Siemens, “ arises ( our being accustomed to see the redly lllumiuuted after sunset, this basis forming a different colors for ourselves. Dayligt accordingly by night appear stj than Mlie electric lhht. Ti idea >Suld disappear if eiej natij^mmie £enj J