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0, BAD BOY AND HIS PA. STILL ON TtlE OLD FARM. pcnron Will Not Accept Hennery's m-p lie Flays a Joke and 0.*th" “Auer.” rFrjmtDe Milwaukee Sun.] “Wall I swow, here comes a walking J^siwime " the grocery man as the , fol in the store, ‘°nl 1 1)V the boy, and who he looked had sick, lost half and and tired, matter with ?” P flesh ‘ ‘ What’s the you ‘‘Got the ager,” said the boy, as lie -Jd Sflooked the perspiration around the off store his upper to see lip if 3 Sfof that would gfthe 8 “Had too much quinine dreamy out of life his of ® on oil farm, and been shaking ever esse the anyway.” since. Darn a farm, with “You see I went out to the farm chum, and I took the fish poles and Gained 0V in the the woods deacon’s, while and he he drove gave Ac horse to resignation, and the Jf deacon wouldn’t my accept it. He said he •, m resignation until after J 0 " ^id my act it. He said he f. an( j then on j 1 put me j n j a il for breach of prom JS ■t e ? f I quit work notice, and left and him without chum , lo , proper my and told me, and so I concluded to CaE or ^- rather than have trouble, and the * id y chum could work a few fvs ga m for his board if he wanted to. It **■. flint pretty poor board for a boy to work my chum wanted to be with me, ’•a stayed. Pa and ma came out tc 1 the farm to stav a day or two to help, Mas Aing going to help harvest, and ma * i 9 Anted to help the deacon’s wife, but PV to carry the jug to the field, TAcd lav u nder a tree while the rest of us lie and ma just talked the arm ofl Si deacon’s wife. The deacon and pa !e in the shade and see my chum and work and ma and the deacon’s wife Wiped'so |®j they and forgot organized to get dinner, strike Ct jay chum me a Pa we were beaten by monopoly. took me by the neck and thrashed out a Leon shock of wheat with my heels, and the took my chum and sat down on bm and we begged back. and they But gav6 us oar old situations we got even with them that night. ' chum and had got all ‘‘After my me {he chores done that night, we sat out on a fence back of the house in the or light'and chiml eating green apples in the moon trying to think of a plan of revenue Just then I saw a skunk back |<rf the house, right by the outside cellar Moor and I told my chum that it would ’ them right to drive the skunk serve shut door, but own cellar and the mv chum said that would be too mean. I jskeil him if it wo.uld be any meaner (tan for the deacon to thrash us because TO couldn't mow hay awav in,“and fast enough said So-tTO L/idn’t, men to pitch it he it and so we got on each side of if Cellar skunk and sort of scared it down [Led and them we crept up softly and the cellar doors. Then we went i the house and I whispered to ma and lied if she didn’t think the deacon had me eider, and ma she began to hint lat she hadn’t had a good drink of cider jace last winter, and the deacon’s wife mid us hoys could take a pitcher and go icwu cellar and draw some. That was loo much. I didn’t want any cider, any BT, so I told them that I belonged to a pperaiice society, and I should break ET T.Iedgo if I d’rawed cider, and she latflwas a good boy, and for me never It touch a drop of cider. Then she told p dram where the cider barrel was, ' '"1 cellar but he said he was afraid to b lown cellar in the dark, and so pa bid Cl he and the deacon would go down Ce draw the cider, and the deacon’s asked ma to go down too and look lithe ijr fruit and berries she had canned ja winter and they all went down cellar earned an old tin lantern with holes lit to light the deacon to the cider bar and the deacon’s wife had a taller He to show ma the canned fruit. I Bel to get ma not to go, ’cause ma is a Bcucl of mine, but she said she anybody guessed lie knew licr business. "When ivs that they guess they know their mi business, that settles it with me, id I don’t try to argue with them. fell, my chum and me sat there in the pclion, and I stuffed a piece of red Bile-cloth in my month to keep from periling, litli his and my chum thumb held ho wouldn’t his nose finger and so cider fort right out. We could hear the p in the pitcher, and then it stopped pd pi the then deacon did, drank and then out of they the pitcher, drawed pa pe more cider, and ma and tlie des¬ k's wife were talking about how much kar it took to can fruit, and the deacon llil pa to help himself out of a crock of ltd l*k cakes, and I heard the cover on the ■tin rattle, and just then I heard the lantern rattle on the brick floor (the Pdness,’ cellar, tlie said deacon ‘I said, stabbed,’ ‘Merciful and yelled pa am and ■ ‘goodness sakes alive,’ to there was a lot of dish-pans on the sirs begun to fall and they all tried ti > ” up the cellar stairs at once, and they L over each other, and O, my, what a F? smell came up to the kitchen from k cellar. It was enough to kill any fy Ra was the first to get to tie r' the stairs, and he stuck his head [pc- U, kitchen, and took a long breath is ‘whoosh ! Hennery, your pa siek man.’ The deacon came ■ \ b and lie had run his head into a slielf and broke.a glass jar of ^'-■■‘-•berries, -ml he said and ‘give they were all Earth’s over “desert me air. drear.’ Then ma and the s wife came lip on a gallop, and : *°oked tired. Pa began to peel off f and vest and said he was going I ;; bury them, and ma said he comil : • too, and I asked the deacon if ^t notice a faint odor of sewer gas from the cellar, and my chum Bering smelled more to him as though had crawled in the cellar and • Well, you never saw a sicker and I felt sorry for ma. But “adide to see pa. He was mad. ' ia % g°t the house aired, and my after slept cn the hay in the y we had opened the outside Y l0 °r so the animal could get out, n ext morning I had the fever S'ae^ajK] and I have pa and ma brought me neck been firing quinine ever since. Pa says it is out it is getting up before da.v- ■3 JL vg % i Si. f m m is -•d $ 1 K E WEEKLY VOLUME VI. light in the morning and prowling around a do farm doing chores before it is time to eh.res, I don’t want any more farm.” THE PLAGUE AT SEA. Slnrtlin«r Incident that took Place on a Merchant Steamer in Deep Water. In the gray light of a July morning we made a sail dead ahead, close upon the outskirts of retreating night. In twenty minutes we heard the report of firearms from her deck and saw that her flag was at lialf-mast in token of distress. A murmur of excited sympathy ran through the great throng upon 'the deck of the steamer. There was another, of disappointment, when the purser told us it w r as a Spanish brig. It was as if we had wasted out compassion—an impulse natural to the Saxon breast, born of the fierce blood of those who peered through the stormy passes of the Alps into the Elysian fields of Latin foes. The steady throbbing of the screws slackened and ceased as we closed upon the quarter of the helpless brig. In a light western air, she lay with topsails backed and her jibs and spanker idly swaying deck, to and fro. Four men were on her and as we approached, lowered a boat astern, hauled it slowly alongside, and entering it left the ship. she was apparently deserted. They rowed painfully toward our steamer, and we gathered on the port side where the rope ladder had been hung, to catch the first glimpse of their faces. This we could not do; the four wore wide som breros and bent to tbeir oars feebly but persistently, never looking up. Our captain hailed them impatiently— dippings they only waved their hands between of the oars. They were now alongside, and the bow oarsman clutched the ladder and began to climb to the deck. Two others followed him, all three hanging like spiders on the narrow way, resting at every round. The most intense excitement was visible in every face that watched them from the steam er's deck. Our captain hailed them from the bridge, and as before each man waved a hand in a mechanical way. Then the captain came to the ladder awaiting their coming. The fourth man sa t still in the boat.,, but those who noticed saw him bending forward as he sat until the broad brim of his hat touched the gunwale, and the black locks of his hair showed from behind, He seemed helpless, or asleep, hut at traded little attention as the others climbed closer to the deck, At last the uppermost had his hand upon the steamer’s rail; a few more steps and he would be on deck. A hundred hands were ready to aid him in what seemed a task beyond his power. But and the captain thrust them all away, reaching forward lifted his hat from his head. A general exclamation of horror broke from our eager group. There, not two feet from the rail, looked up the visage of Death—a yellow, shrivelled face, and eyes that burned with the weak and cruel fire of wasting life. Loi.g and matted hair and mustache sweeping down made the picture beyond fault. It was the look of the baser man, after the divine and human elements of his nature die away in hunger, thirst or bodily distress, leaving in his useless frame the reptile only, from whose depths the strict Darwinians claim as cent. An impulse of terrible sallow dread seized all who looked into the face, askant in all the fear of sudden death, The captain motioned back the man. He trembled like a leaf and spoke for the first time: “Piedad Cielos !” “Que quiere Y. ?” And the answer came in concert al most “We from the.three: dying, ’ are senor. “Of what!” “We do not know.” But the captain knew, and we shrank if from flames at the words: “They are dying of yellow fever.” If we had doubted this, the next mo¬ ment would have proved his judgment right. The man remaining in the boat rose suddenly from his seat with a quick, sharp cry, “Santo Dios !” and fell upon his back dead. The captain ordered the others back, promising aid on board their brig. They swore they never would return, and be¬ gan climbing with the haste of despera¬ tion. Never will I forget the struggle that ensued. The leading Spaniard, rail, clinging with both hands to the held back by the broad hands of the captain, seemed the active personifica¬ tion of the plague, doing battle with the lives of all on board. He was like one mad; he cursed and snapped his teeth, filling the air with bitter oaths, drawing his feet under him to the highest round he could reach, and throwing all his strength into a final effort. He made it, and was thrust down again by the same strong hands.. But his feet had been drawn as close to his body so that they slipped from beneath him—and for a single instant he hung above the others. Then he fell, striking the next man and the third, ’ and carrying them with him into ^ g ea . q^y sank like plummets, three j u a momen t more there were but broad llats floating upon the place of their descent. The captain consulted with his ffrst officer, a well-thrown pig of iron crasiieu through the bottom of the boat, and the brig stood for an instant against its. disk and*disappeared in the dazzling radiance of its later rays. In the Far West a man advertises for a woman “to wash, iron and milk one or two cows.” What does he want his cows washed and ironed for ? GA.. NOVEMBER 2. 18S3. THE POTATO ROT. A Scientific View of What Causes It* With a few Hints as to What Should be Done. [From the Scientific American.] At the time of writing,the daily papers contain telegraphic accounts of the great destruction of the potato crop in vari¬ ous sections of the country. The dis¬ ease, judging from the descriptions, is doubtless the one known as the ‘ 1 potato rot.” This is not a new trouble, and most of the older inhabitants can re¬ member the ravages of this pest in 1842 and again in 1844, when it spread over Great Britain, Ireland, and the United States, causing much distress to those who make the potato the leading article of food. The rotting of the potatoes is caused by a microscopic fungus, Peronosporci infestans, which infests the potato plant. plant By fungus is understood a of a very low order, the more familiar mush¬ mem¬ bers of which are the toadstools, rooms, mildews and moulds. Some of the fungi live only on decaying organic matter, and are comparatively hastening harmless; in fact, are often helpful in decay and preparing substances for fu¬ ture usefulness. Other species of fungi are parasitic, growing upon living things. The bread mould is a familiar illustra¬ tion of a small fungus which feeds upon dead matter, while the potato rot fungus is an equally striking example of one thriving upon a living plant. The mil¬ dew of the grape, which has caused great damage in many vineyards, They is a close relative of the potato rot. both belong to the same genus ( peron - ospord), a genus which contains a large number of species, and all are destruc¬ tive to the host plants. The potato rot fungus consists through of long filaments or threads, which grow the substance of the potato rapid plant, decay. and rob it of juices and induce a The fungus usually makes its first ap¬ pearance upon tlie under side of the leaves as frost-like pitches, soon causing tlie foliage to curl and turn brown. This frost-like appearance is dne to a multi¬ tude of spores which have formed upon the ends of fungus threads protruding from the breathing pores of the leaf. There are many thousand stomata or breathing pores to the square inch, and a dozen or more threads may come out at each opening. Each of these threads forms branches, and each branch bears a spore. This helps to give an idea of the vast number of spores formed upon a single affected leaf. These spores ger¬ minate quickly and in a peculiar man¬ ner-each spore provided giving rise to hair-like several smaller spores with appendages (cilia) by means of which they move quickly around. This is a most admirable provision for the rapid and perfect spreading of the disease when it has once “struck” a potato ■ field. After the foliage has become affected the disease passes into the stems and down to the tubers, when the most de¬ structive work is done. Tlie farmer should be on the watch for this fatal pest of his potato field. Like most fungi this Peronospora thrives best in warm, rainy or “muggy” weather. In one of the recent press reports it was stated that the .decay was caused by the wet weather which has prevailed The weather in many parts only of the country, condition for the growth was of the a rot favoring much the rains plant, as popular development so as of the are aids to tlie various field crops. Weeks ago we pre¬ dicted, and with a great degree of cer¬ tainty, that potatoes would rot in many sections. This came from a knowledge of the nature of the rot and the conditions which favor its development. It has been shown that the disease is first seen upon the leaves. When the foliage begins to curl and turn brown, tlie potatoes should be dug at once, and in this prevent tlie fungus from reaching the tubers. The potatoes should then lie placed in a cool and dry place—the conditions least favorable for the further growth of the fungus should it be pres ent. All affected tubers should be thrown out and gathered with the vines and burned. This destroys multitudes of spores which might otherwise live through the winter and be ready to pro¬ pagate the rot the following season. There has been a great deal said about “rot proof” varieties of potatoes, but they probably do not exist. Some sorts i) re more susceptible than others, prob ably from constitutional offered weakness. England Many prizes have been in for the finding of tlie best sorts to withstand the attacks of the rot fungus, bnt with¬ out any satisfactory caused results. by Knowing that the disease is a parasitic fungus, the rapid development of which is favored by moist, warm weather, there is little hope of finding a variety of po¬ tatoes so abnormal as to be “ rot pr /of.” Doubling Up. I ^ yerv slight error of fact or practice wdl sometimes result iwn u ^masenousmis. ; n „ <= Pr ions mis. take. Tins was recently illustrated m a sotool _ in Nlw Yoik city, where a pupi. vvho had been impressed with the force and value of double letters, such as ,, double G ” in “fool,” “double e m ,, bee ^» e f c > was called upon to read ’ to early t juch ; ug poenl exhortatory ***<■*—*• “Up, up, Lucy ! the sun is in the sky: „... Surprise, which soon gave away to hilarity, was occasioned when the pupil read the line: “Double up, Lucy ! the sun is in the sky!” thus giving it a significance by no means contemplated by the poet. TEE JOKER'S BUDGET. WHAT WE FIND IN THE HUMOROUS PAPERS. AS BAD AS AN EXTRA SESSION. “What makes you look so serious this morning ?” asked Gus DeSmith of Col. Gilhooly. enough make three such “I’ve got to men as me look serious. You know that fine pointer dog I paid seventy-five dol¬ lars for ?” “ Yes, I’ve seen him. He’s a splendid animal.” “Well, I am going to lose him. He has all the symptoms of hydrophobia. I think I’ll take him out and shoot him as soon as I go home.” “What does he do?” “He don’t do anything. He lies around in a listless sort of a way; and the worst of it is, he won’t touch drop water. of You can’t make him drink a water.” “Is that all? Why, Colonel, some of tlie leading citizens of Austin have got those very symptoms. Before you de¬ stroy a seventy-five-dollar dog, you had better wait and see how some of these prominent gentlemen, who can’t be made to drink water, turn out. If everybody who prefers beer and whisky to water, and who don’t want to work, is going to have hydrophobia, we of are it about to have a lively old time here in Austin. By Jove, it will be equal to an extra session of the Legisla¬ ture .”—Texas Siftings. WHY HE GOT MARRIED. A capitalist of this city, who does business on Woodward avenue, was sit¬ ting in his office the other day, when the door opened and an unkempt, poverty stricken man, who hail once been in his employ, entered, hat in hand. “How do you do, Michael ? Giad to see pleasantly. you,” said “How his does former the employer, world use you ?” “Badly, sorr; badly. I’m that poor as you see, sorr. I haven’t a dacent suit of clothes, nor a ruff to cover my head, sorr.” “That’s hard luck, Michael,” said the gentleman; “have you no friends?” “Sorr® a wan, sorr; but I’m going to have one,” answered the man. “I’ve made up my moind and I kum to con¬ sult you about it. Oi’m goin’ to be mar¬ ried, sorr.” “Married, man ! Why, you haven’t anything to get married with, have yon?” “No has she, sorr.” more “Then why not wait until yon are bet¬ ter situated ?” “An’ where would be the sinse in waitin’, sorr. I’m going to get mar¬ ried on purpose so I’ll have something of me own, sorr. ”—Detroit Post. BLIGHTED ANTICIPATIONS. A colored man o’er whose head about seventy summers had passed, was quietly but earnestly wrestling with a water¬ melon near the market, when he was disturbed by the appearance of a small boy of his color. The boy sat down on a box and looked grudgingly at the melon, and the old man looked up at him and queried: I reckons I could give “Young man, hab plenty you half dis mellyou an’ left.” “Thanks, uncle.” “But I shan’t do it, kase it might be de spilin’ of ye. In do fust place, de law am plain an’ cl’ar on de p’int dat what I leave behind goes to my nateral heirs. In de second place, a pusson withont antieipashuu mus’ be dreffully onhappy. As de case now stands you anticipate. You anticipate dat half dis yere mellvon will stuff me full an’ I’ll have to leave all de rest. You antici¬ pate dat I’ll git choked on de seeds, or git sun- struck, or be ’tacked by dis^ipears de colie. As de meilyon gradually won’t de you'll anticipate dat I gnaw rinds werry olus. As de rinds disappear you’ll console yerself I wid de de fack seeds dat de in seeds am left. As wrap up my handkerchief you’ll reckon on lickin’ de' bo’d whar’ de meilyon was cut an’ eaten, but if I lif ’ up dat bo’d an’ gin ye a whack on de back ye’ll anticipate better dan to crowd in whar ye ain’t wanted. Now you skip !”—M. Quad. CARRIED IT THROUGH. “ Talk about my war record,” said an Arkansaw orator at a political meeting. “ My wai‘ record is a part of the Sjate’s history. Why, gentlemen, I carried the last confederate flag through this town.” “ Yes,” replied a bystander, “ for I was here at the time.” “ Thank you for your fortunate recol lection,” gratefully exclaimed the ora tor. “It is pleasant to know that there still lives some men who move aside envy and testify to the courage of their fellow beings. As I say, gentle¬ men, my war record is part of the State’s history, for the gentleman here will tell you that I carried the last confederate flag through the town. who had “ That’s a fact,” said the man witnessed the performance. “ He car¬ ried the last confederate flag through blamed this town, and he carried it so fast you couldn’t have told whether it was a union Jack or a small-pox warn¬ ing .”—Arkansaw Traveler. An Irish lawyer having addressed the Court as “gentlemen instead of yer brother of toe bar LJnnded°him U of hri error. He immediately arose and apol ogized thus: “May it plase the Court, in the hate of debate I called yer honors KS-SS NUMBER 32. THE POOR MARRIED MAN. He boarded the St. Clair river boat yesterday morning with his wife and five children, and the family were not yet seated when he began: “Now, Sarah, I’ll bet fifty dollars you forgot to hook that wood-shed door.” “Mercy on me, so I did !” shegasped. “Just as I expected—just exactly; we’ll get home to find the house cleaned out or in ashes. Never mind, though, it would serve us just right!” The boat had not yet started when one of the boys, with who insisted on some deck gymnastics a chair, fell to the and set up a great squall. “Broke both arms or I’m a sinner !” shouted the father. “I told you he’d do it if we let him come along, and now he’s a cripple for life!” It was, however, discovered that the youngster had sustained nothing more serious than a skinned nose, and peace was restored and continued until the wife suddenly discovered that she had lost her watch. “Of course—of course !” growled the husband. “There goes one hundred and twenty-five dollars of my hard earn¬ ings ! I knew you’d have it stolen before you bad gone a rod !” “But perhaps I left it on the bureau.” “Well, it will be lugged off before night, just the same. Serves you just right for bulldozing me a whole month to make this infernal excursion. What ails that woman’s baby ?” “I declare if it hasn’t got the whoop ing-cough course—of 1” and not “Of course, one of children had it. ‘ Yen’ll your ever hands for the have business on your next six weeks. ” The next half hour passed peacefully enough. Then somebody observed that a man whose gaze was fixed on the water probably contemplated suicide. “I expected nothing else !” exclaimed the disconsolate husband, “but maybe he will listen to reason.” Going over to the stranger he laid a hand on his shoulder and brusquely in¬ quired “Sir, : do to jump into the lake?” you mean “Yes, sir,” was the reply as the man looked up. “Just so—exactly—I suspected as much. You’ll utter a yell as you go over and kick up all the bobbery you can, I suppose.” “Yes, sir.” young’un Andmy wife will faint Injun away and I’ll every give howl like an ! you a dollar to go over on the sly.” “No, sir; not for $1,000.” “Haven’t you any feelings for a man who has had steamboats and fish and rivers and lakes and flats pounded intc him for three months ?” “None, sir.” “And won’t.” won’t $5 bribe you?” “It “Then go ahead with your oration and death yell ! Make all the fuss you will! Splatter around in the water as long as you possibly family when can, and fix down your eyes for the on my i you go other kind last time I never had any of luck, and I’m going down to the saloon and get drunk preparatory to a biler explosion ! Good-by, old feller; serves me right, I don’t complain.” When he was helped ashore at the flats lie was weak in the knees and limber in his spirit. Gathering his family around him he counted: “Seven, eight, nine, ten, ’lezen, twelve. Why bless my stars ! I had five children when we left Detroit, an’ now I’ve got ten ! J.uss my luck—juss zi ’spectea ! Los’ watch—whooping-cough—suicide— jus’ ten children—whoop ! Sherves me rize !”—Detroit Free Press. WANTS TO HEAR. “Why do you mutter that <vay when yon read?” asked a man of an old negro who sat mumbling over a sah newspaper. ?” “How ought 1 to read, “Why, read without moving your lips.” “What good would dat sorter readin’ do me, fur I couldn’t heali it ? When I reads I wanster read so I kin heah what I’se readin’ ’bout.” FIVE CENTS’ WORTH OF AMBITION. Asleepy-looking boy of fifteen entered a drug store the other day and looked around in a dreamy manner. clerk him, “Well, sir,” said the to gazing at him inquiringly. “Hey?” I do you?” “What can for “Oh !” drawled the boy, as if recol¬ lecting his errand. ‘ ‘a man sent me to have this perscription filled,” and lie drew from his pocket a piece of paper, which he handed to the clerk. “Give this boy five cents’worth of am bition,” was tlie request contained in the note. The druggist thought the boy needed something to stir him up and adminis¬ tered a dose of salts. Those Figs. —A Nebraska thief de¬ votes his time entirely to the larceny of hogs, and with great success. He goes forth by night armed with a long stick, to which a sponge is fastened, and a bottle of chloroform. The porcine anaesthetic vic¬ tim is lulled to rest by the and then borne silently away. The other night one of the slumbering hogs roiled out of the thief’s wagon. A‘kind hearted farmer who came along the road assisted the thief to load up again, h amid profuse thanks. When the inner reached home he discovered that the pig was from his own sty. notice that almost every boarding-house is broken out all over with mottoes worked with perforated paper. The one most appreciated lay the luckless wight compelled to live m A LIST OF SURPRISES. What Volcanoes Hr ve Done to Startle AC'uriious List. For a volcano once supposed to be in¬ active, Vesuvius has prepared some lively surprises for the dwellers in its neighborhood. Its latest surprise has been to shake up a railroad and destroy several houses. The people of Hercu¬ laneum and Pompeii thought Vesuvius extinct until one day it proved in a very thorough manner that it could still be roused to activity. Since then no one has been deceived by its quietude. Other volcanoes besides Vesuvius have from time to time indulged in what seems to be the general volcanic pro¬ pensity of creating surprises. Thus no one would expect to have a mass of rock of some 3,000 cubic feet suddenly de¬ scend upon them from the sky. But people living nine miles from Cotopaxi were on one occasion treated to such a surprise. The Carthaginians, when they set out against Syracuse, were not pre¬ pared to cross the fiery river which, to their surprise, intercepted their maroh at Mount AStna. They had no boats with which to cross it. The great eruption of Tomboro sur¬ prised people for some 970 miles around, the distance at which the force of the explosion was heard. They wondered what was the matter until they learned of the eruption from one of the twenty six persons who were saved out of a popu tation of 12,000. Surprises of another kind, fearful del¬ uges, are the first indications in many South Americau districts that volcanoes whose peaks are in the region of perpet¬ ual snow have suddenly become active, the deluges being caused by the melting of great masses of snow. It must also be a surprise of a beauti fnl, though fearful kind, to see a fiery fountain play to a height of seven hun¬ dred feet from the side of a mountain. Such a fountain on Manna Loa in 1852 was a magnificent illustration of volcanic fissure, the pressure of lava at the crater being relieved at this new outlet. The cracks often seen on volcanoes, which form dikes radiating from the centre, are created in this manner. Small ex¬ tra craters, volcanoes on volcanoes, which gradually become cone shaped, are found along these fissures. Another surprise. There is no flame in volcanic eruptions, as is generally rep¬ resented most graphically in chromos. The supposititious flames are simply a reflection of the lava on the cloud of ashes and cinders. How great a volume of the latter is ejected can be we 11 under¬ stood when it is stated that enough ashes and cinders were ejected during the Tomboro eruption to cover the whole of Germany two feet deep. The islands which have occasionally surprised the inhabitants along the coast of the Mediterranean by appearing suddenly under their very eyes are the results of volcanic action. But probably the greatest surprise connected with this subject is the formation of volcanoes. A volcano is originally nothing but a hole in the ground, formed often at no eleva¬ tion by the swelling and breaking of an earth bubble. The mountain which, springs up around this opening is formed by accumulations of successive eruptions. The great ago of volcanoes which, like Mauna Loa and Mount TEtna, are 14,000 and 11,000 feet high, *an be readily ap¬ preciated from this fact, and from the further fact that jEtna had attained al¬ most its present height when it was observed by Greek writers 2,500 years ago. volcano is magnifi¬ A a furnace on a cent scale, the lava which it ejects being molten rock. This rock is so thoroughly fused by some volcanoes that the lava is as thin as honey, and flows with a ve¬ locity of fifteen miles an hour. Some¬ times it is spun out in long, glassy threads by the action of bursting gaa bubbles. While there are two kinds of eruptions, the quiet and explosive, there are many theories regarding the Many heat which think fuses that the rocks into lava. the interior of the earth is in a liquid condition, but the better opinion seems to be that the lava occurs in subterranean lakes. But the theorists agree that the proximate cause of volcanic eruption is the contact of \rater with molten rock. A Chinese Visitor. The United States steamer Richmond when at Shanghai, China, was visited by Li Hung Chang, an official of great power. The visit was in return for ona paid the official by the officers of the steamer. An officer, in writing of tho visit, says: “He came to tlie landing with a body¬ guard of about 200 men, a large number of whom were horsemen; for they about lined each side of the street two blocks. We finally gave him a drill, at which he was delighted, ashore and when said ho left the vessel on file way he that he shouU be very much pleased to send to the Admiral, for the use of the men, a slight token of his esteem and of his appreciation of the efforts to entertain him on board that day. In a short time orders upon the grocers and market-men began to come off, and when they ha/1 finished we found that hia ‘slight token’ consisted of—12 live sheep; 2 bullocks; 200 fowl; 1,000 pounds of bananas; 1,000 poi nds of fruit; 8 cases of English beer, in pints (8 dozen each case): 8 cases of English beer, in claret quarts (4 dozen each case); 8 cases of (I dozen quarts in each case). “The men of the Richmond said that they Chinaman would be very glad to have a like that come onboard every day.” “Did I ever tell you about Pinch, the shoemaker?” askedFqjg. “No? Well, he got shut into a little, dark closet in his shop—spring-lock, you know—no air—couldn’t live long, ;■ ;ou know. The boys heard of it, rushe: 1 in, pried open the door; but, alas! pool man—” “Was he dead?” cried a half-d >zeu men. “Not dead, but he was breabhing his last— that is to say, he had it mth him.” The fellows felt like booting Fogg; but as he hs a strapping fellow, they awl kept still, t a welt one of th sse days. Fel tot Hke to bo ooled tot w»j.