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Under the Car 8hed,) ATLANTA, GA. c all the delicacies of the season furnisqed in the best of style arid -P J- any establishment in the city Dais furnished at allbours of the \\LLARD & DURAND. tmej.20 m* GLEANINGS. jonvillc, FI a., lias six papers. _fi, has 137,000 square miles desti | Inhabitants. ■richest county in North Carolina 1 is Montgomery. [largest single brick-yard in the jil (States is at Atlanta. [lessee, North Carolina and Vir [w ill nil make good peanut crops, n is offered in Jackson county, mi twenty cents per bushel, clelivs WfH n| It's coal mines at Birmingham, jure the most extensive in the km aments have proven that the ■esc seedless persimmon will grow tally in Florida. I estimated that over 1.000,000 or llrees will come into bearing in H' ' OUTity, Fla., this year. ■ said that the first orange tree 1 own to have been injured by ■ng whh struck at St. Augustine, Bframtiy, ■he immigrants arriving at Castle W' ( ' nr ine the last six months, I F r, d 2,080 more than any other pern State. r'dv more marriage and natal P filed articles of incorporation at F'lle Monday. The grand shaking Idry hones will h e a thing of the liture. r (f,IU '* 1( ' caused the death [•' persons floods and 15.000 in Texas sheep. In the N have de- 200 lives and $5,000,000 worth bperty. j 1 ,s!mids factory recently sold I Atlanta broker, for $650, Confed "' ll( k to *be amount of $ 100 000 1 fa 1 been lying , . ' in tne factory or seventeen years. [ * " <>1 leans washerwoman has in fast fifteen years raised a family of ffa'-children, given them all good L r 1 !^nr s .C Ur 00 ° hasedRhandsome laid house - away for a rainy f 1 r entire possessions were earned r wash-tub. I ^ orchard °f P erry Howard, at L p’ ; dlere is an apple tree ' U ' ri ! )p fruit is just L L p now i" 1 "’ A seoond cr op is upon l HP nip , R f' f or Ut a third half F r rown, and is still r'hamsburg, crop. [ is the oldest city in Vir s > said to be one of the quaintest, tM towns in t] South, it interest le and of be cause of its many an* e and ,(ld ‘ooking buildings. — It the ej was ffital of the State. 'Cvp Mav' S U3 m? '’ rnil,etin ' bt : F>. W. Ford, ’ rou £ into our office i 0 l hi. L ! 7 fC<t natUra ! pitCher nd , ’ uh^„ ln Texas a few A "" , elm as an excrescence on ™n\ tree i* ,,s 1 ate fixbdJ ' proportions are ac [h an b ° Ut twolve inches in diameter, is hols i*a perfect handle and spout. ■ f im'hv , rPl1 j 1 large white . r.’v |, a crane n T , ^nall 1 a pond evidently . ' v|l «t could not. They went '■'"P"' the matter and ascertained r "ne of rj,, asceriamca ! I , " • r< ,, ^ eet held by I large 8 was <n . ^ P' n g terrapin. The r s Hf,,, e crane ‘ Ut Of the water, but the ter “ kept hold. Both Kotn ured alive. were were car- cap He nrv Tai I'rid. he who lives in Poripn Si ; c Yh -loved m n in aaV/* a youth his a- \ ied and ! nh i*ft«Hfo If f l e m e ;; 'derate lion 7 ® a d S ° 6 ati nil , d f ^ armin n l g operations Aftpr , and war he • ’ the en t,,„ ‘ lumber business. He is l, xt y five years old band and ia is worth « *1 i »n n (.nod , r investments. . ]i * New Ojle ans limes-Democrat, in an article on “Cotton Mill?, North and Sout V’ sa y s the Southern mills now boast 1,237,409 spindles,’and that the consuption of cotton this year will reach 400,000 bales, or one quarter of the amount used North, This fact is the more Ratable because two years ago the amount of cotton manufactured in the South was scarce worthy of mention. The largest individual sheep owner in Texas is a woman, well known all over the State as the “Widow Callahan.” Her sheep, more than 50,000 in number, wander over the ranges of Uvalde and Bandera counties, in the southwestern part of the State* Their grade is a cross between the hardy Mexican sheep and the Vermont merino. They are divided into' flocks of 2,000 head each, with a “bossero” and two “pastoras” in charge of each flock. A North Carolina correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution writes: “I suppose Morehead City is the only city in the world without a wheel in it, I do not think that there is a wagon or a buggy horse in town and very few in the country. Everything is done in boats. [There is not a house in the county that a boat cannot get withi n a mile of. Not a doctor or a lawyer in the county owns a horse ; they practice in boats. The people go to funerals in boats, and when they arrest a man they carry him to jail in a boat. A Prussian View of the English Army. The correspondent of the Cologne Gazelle at Ramleh expresses surprise at co °l ness of the British troops. “They show,” he says, “none of the excitement and eagerness which dis¬ they tinguish the Continental Rations when national fight for existence, or at least for a idea. This Egyptian war, like most wars in which England is en¬ gaged, business; is treated entirely as a matter of if the object of the under¬ canal taking it had could been hardly to make have a railway or a been entered upon extraordinary more quietly. * and * * Dbeds of to be expected energy in courage, 0 as is this wars carried on in way, are much more rare than in the national wars of Continental Eu¬ rope. It is true that the feeling of national solidarity is as strong as, if not stronger, among the English, than among other nations, and there is no lack of manliness in a race of such consummate the physical development; but cause for which they fight does not elicit the enthusiasm Which prompts men to do more than their duty. More¬ over, deficient the English, however practical, aro in foresight. It will scarcely there be believed in Germany that are not more than two or three trustworthy maps of Lower Egypt in the whole of the English camp. Even most of the stall officers have to use maps which are not much better i an those in Baedeker’s Guide Book. And yet there would have been plenly of time to get a few hundreds of copies of the Arabian map of Mahmud Bey, with tho names of the places printed in Roman characters. At the same time, it is not to be denied that the English antiquated army, notwithstanding its according singular and Continental notions, organization well adapted to is for a war of this kind. The admirable physique of the men, the wise and busi¬ ness-like way in which they are led, and the strongly-developed love of sport, whether military or otherwise, which is the national characteristic, are immense advantages in a struggle wiih a half-civilized adversary. The dis¬ cipline of the army, toe, seems very strict; for I have not seen any drunken soldiers since I arrived ” Lice on Cattle. The suggestion was recently made in this paper that our National and State entomologists could not do a better thing than to investigate the subject of the external parasites of cattle and to devise means that will insure their de¬ struction. Every person is presumed to know a louse when he sees it, but very few can identify the different varieties of this numerous family of insects, or can tell whether the kind that is found on one class of animals or fowls will live and thrive on another. Comparati civ few know how to destroy them without injuring the creature they molest. An Iowa farmer thinks that he has found a remedy that is at once harmless to the animal and harmful to the parasites. he In a communication to The Homestead it: “Take common larkspur seed and steep it,and wash thoroughly every appli- part of the body. I have known one cation to destroy every inject and egg. Two will suffice if done thorough I give in addition two remedies t hat I con - sider more efficacious than the other. mercurial ointment, kerosene and lard, tobacco smoke, a wash of tobacco.or sul-. phur in salt. These all will sometimes injure the stock. A good remedy is dry dust gathered from the road, and siiteit fVmn lemeay); P HlV n tub ruh°S it well'bf^and^s well in, ana as Thov they hatch repeat. Also pulverized charcoal mixed with dust is still better. I have heard that fine Indian meal or shorts "' ere P ood ' " sed in the «““« *»>';, 1 . ihoufi w,°" y * r ° i.o \\ i,en an animal is affected it should be immediately removed from the oth-r stock and thoroughly treated, and u *t allowed to run until the whole, herd is larks P ul I s the best, as it bears the most seed anu . is deseed all the seed y vouTill ou will or or ? ou^htTo ought to n«ed.— n 3 P J gathered^ -Herbs for winter ^Xnte use Ire should )>e w beu the in fiowe pl(iered ^, b \ th ® best time t° harvest them. The herb garden , was formerly of greater domestic, importance than it, i whether 8 u^! | h eS t this e h ?*7hRn«£^ftn™d^anSe change is ‘ - b to health may wed be questioned, them lodiv small herbs it is best to tie in bundles and hang them up in an any gbed . Washington Tribun*' ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE TRUTH IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT CONYERS, GA„ FRIDAY OCTOBER 13, 1882. TOPICS OF THE DAT. Oregon is now called the Webfoot State. Evangelist Moody is trying to stir up 1 religious feeling in Paris. Prince Bismarck has been[in dan Ministry twenty years. ---- ♦ »-- The com acherage is greater this year than ever before owing to the tooth-pick ioed boots. «*• A tunned is projected under the Elbe, oetween Hamburg and Steinwarder Island, to cost $5,000,000. It wild cost over $ 100,000 to replace the bridges swept away by the recent floods at Elizabeth, New Jersey. Seven citizens of Delaware were pub¬ licly whipped a few days ago, and three more stood an hour in the pillory. A gentleman who has made recent observations in Utah claims to have discovered internal dissensions in the Mormon Church which may work its ruin. Cincinnati is organizing a swell cav airy company, to be known as the Cin¬ cinnati Horse Guards. It takes $300 and a “passable” moral character to become ft member, The great Newburgh poker game has At last been settled, by Hedges and Scott refunding to their victim, Weed, $20,000. This makes Weed’s loss, in round figures, $70,000, Each of Garibaldi’s children is to get $2,000 a year for life from the Italian Government. Yet their late father was in 1834 con lemned by grandfather of the present King of Italy to be shot. The Queen of Madagascar has ordered that a prohibitory law shall be framed, prohibiting the manufacture of brandy or its importation into her territories. The penalty is the forfeiture of ten oxen and a fine of $ 10 . The fruit crop in Scotland has been a complete failure. It is the worst season for the last fifty years. At one well known orchard in the Curse of Gowrie, which is rented at £ 200 , the crop consists of one barrel of apples. Rumor has it that the wedding of Mr. Chester A. Arthur, jr., and Miss Crow¬ ley, has been appointed for the early part of October. The bride and groom elect are extremely young, their com bined ages not exceeding thirty-six. Tiie London Truth says that a specu¬ lator in New York has resolved to tempt Prof. Huxley to cross the Atlantic by the offer of £100 per lecture for a series of 200 discourses on popular science, to be delivered during 1883 and 1884. Mr. Gladstone wears ready-made clothing, and while crossing a street always acts on the principle that the hypothenuse of a triangle is less than the two sides. In place of using the cross¬ walk, lie cuts off the corners, or crosses diagonally on the cobbles. The Washington Critic says: ‘Star Route juryman John B. McCarthy, who voted for conviction all the way through, has been appointed to a position at the Government Asylum for the Insane. Mr. McCarthy was simply an honest cobbler before he got on the jury.” Bacon that used to sell in the South for from five to eight cents per pound is now worth from fourteen to seventeen cents per pound. Cotton has depreciated largely, and it does not pay to raise cot¬ ton to buy pork with. The Southern farmers are beginning to find this out. Mr. J. G. Bigelow, the counsel for Sergeant Mason, states that when he visited the Albany Penitentiary a few days ago, to obtain the execution of the petition of a writ of habeas corjius, Mason was looking bad and felt quite discour¬ aged. They have him engaged in mak¬ ing shoes. _ _ num ber of acres " in rice in the Lmted . Q States , m 1QSA 1880 was 114,113; nin q num her of pounds produced, 110,131,373 clean rice; an average product of 632 pounds per acre. Number of acres un cultivation in 1881, ’ nearly / twenty \ d . . &80, and product , mnsa ^ ss aan ,J U . 18b 1 eleven million pounds m , greater khan that of the previous year. -- — The London Truth ridicules Gen. Wolseley’s • dispatches f from Egvpt as sentimental , , twaddle, ,,, „ and , attention is . called to his account of an engagement j n which there was “heavy firing for several hours,” the troops “behaving admirably f under a hail of bullets,” and the result was one man killed , and twelve , wounded. A bachelor " "T" of . Oregon, “ * whose death lately occurred in the East, while on a visit, has given the most valuable . ^ , . , r 1 The Ti, buildings * T for ?b the school b T”n will be erected soon. This farm contains 8 Tr m T rl r ^-f ,iepro - eeeds from the sale of fruit are some ? 10,000 a year. -» * Prof. Boss, of the Dndley Observa ^ torv, at Albany, ‘ says the<4omefc was 10 - ^« ^ mi^leg mdee from m tba t m sun «sun SeDtember beptemUr 1<, and 2l,G .IKK n ■• n tbe former date it 103,0(KJ,000 miles , j was from the earth, and on the latter 107, 000,000, It is thns going away both from the sun and the earth. It is plainly visible in the early morning in the Eastern sJi y> and is beautifully brilliant. ■** * - The woman suffragist movement seems to be advancing in the East. Says the Massachusetts’ Democratic platform: dens, Equal rights, equal powers, equal bur¬ by law equal under privileges the and equal protection izen oi tiie republic, government foF limitation every cit¬ without of race or sex, or property-qualification, whether it he by a tax on property or a poll tax on persons. Says the Republican platform of the same State: We invite intelligent and candid consid¬ eration of all propositions in aid of tem perance and good order, for equal rights of suffrage irrespective of sQx, and for the en¬ couragement of industry, frugality, con tentmenq and prosperity among all the peoplecf our honored State. Some one has found in one of Ecker marm's books a record of a conversation he had in 1825' with Goethe on the sub¬ ject of ship canals. Goethe, he says, showed a special interest in Humboldt’s idea of piercing the Isthmus of Panama, and further said : “ It is a necessity for the United States that American mer¬ chantmen and men of war should be able ip set sail Straight into the Pacific from the Lay of Mexico, and t feel sure that they will accomplish it. I should wish to live to see it; but that will not happen. Secondly, I should like navi¬ gation from the Danube into the Rhine to be rendered feasible. And thirdly, I should like to see the English in posses¬ sion of a canal across the Isthmus of Suez. To live long enough in order to witness three such great events it would be really worth while to put up with existence for some fifty years more.” Goethe’s fifty years, it will be observed, were completed in 1876 . Causes of Typhoid Fever. A severe outbreak of typhoid fever which occurred last year at Nahant, a rocky during peninsula near by Boston, inhabited the summer a small number of very rich cottage owners, was fol¬ lowed by an investigation, of which the results are made public in an article by Mr. E. W. Rowditeh, in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. In such cases contamination of drinking-water is usually the principal cause of the spread of the di-ease, and the wells and cisterns which supply the houses were first examined. Water was taken from one hundred and ninety of these and pronounced analyzed. Eight “excellent,” of the samples and were others seventy one “permissible,” or “good.” One hundred and eleven were classed as “suspicious,” “very suspicious,” or “bad.” About eighty eases of fever occurred, nearly all of which could be accounted for by the actual condition of the drinking-water used in the houses inhabited by the patients. In a few others probable the fiithy surroundings furnished a source of infection, although the water appeared pure, as, in one in stance, where analysis failed to detect any serious pollution in water taken from a well situated within ten feet of one leaching cesspool and fifteen feet of another, both overflowing, and of course ready to furnish an occasional supply under to the well during dry seasons or other circumstances. One or the two fact more were probably ice used explained by that the in the house hold was brought from a foul pond in the vicinity; and only one seemed quite inexplicable, unless perhaps the infec tion contained might have been brought by milk in cans which had been rinsed in foul water. Mr. Bow ditch’s suspi cion, that the infection was communi cated in certain t cases by contaminated , ice, is strengthened by the fact that a very severe and fatal epidemic of tv pnoid this fever was unquestionably caused in way not long ago at a seashore hotel in New England; and it is worth asking whether the public authority might not be employed with advantage in exercising some sort of surveillance °X which e . r ^ ie may codec become, ^ on and and sale perhaps of an already article is, far more dangerous than the tnchi n< v^ S u^° r ^ ° r imma ^ ire vead against which so many precautions are taken. In one place that we know of, says the Amer tcan Architect, thousands of tons of ice are annually gathered at the very edge of an extensive and well-filled cemetery, wmch slopes somewhat rapidlv toward the water; and we have seen the winter P rod “ ct °f a I^tl© pool formed by the overflow of what was practically the drain of a cluster of squalid houses regularly sold to customers.—Science American. ---——-—— • Driven From a Valued Home. —— A will made in a mad-house, of which the testator has been an inmate during doc the greater part of his life, is not a very likely, one would say, to pass muster in a court of law ; but such a paper has just been declared valid m Dublin. The testator was arrenchgen tleman, who in his youth became insane from excessive dissipation and was con fined in an asydum for two years before he recovered his mental health. Being then at liberty to go, he refused to do so, but having acquired a likmg for the place, he remained there until hi& death, twenty-eight years later. Only ‘and once did go out into^ the world on this occasion he returned to the asylum 80 drunk that he declared he woual nev J e ru n in l° ^ pta t’.° n again, a resolu tion t to which he always thereafter ad h T"'' f»' d oo„ld not remain any longer and diedmeighteen whereupon he went butn weeping mo ? 8 eo - - -A cnnouS and serviceable device for the protect! n of the tobacco plant is a porcelain field, flower placed on sticks through j the witn a poisomms substanee in ’■ " lde * ? b ^. fcobacco mrstaaes the : flower for that u o* the jimson, or James town weed, and dies almost immediately ueforejt lays the egg which produces the tobacch worm, A Parisian Artist’s fieteiig#i One of the most eminent painters of Paris was lately commissioned to paint the portrait of a lady beauty, who but was who some years ago a famous is now nearer hfx 'fiftieth than her fortieth ^he wished the portrait to jc ex habited , itt this year s Salofl, and avfi the artist endless trouble over its dm tads. When it was finished howev-L-G she was far from contented, and de clarecl that she could not recognize her own likeness m his eonsciehtious piece SlifnM have ?ho P & ““he'd‘d think it to be a faithful one, and it re¬ mained in his atelier as his own unsold property; Meanwhile he was deter¬ mined to have hiS revenge for the insult done to his pride as an artist and thS loss to his pocket as one who lived bv resolved to traBsforn, it froa, a oortrait private Shtitiot the in question Was informed byawell-instn.cted friend that the artist Mad UtrOdMced a number ofac-e^m-ies ot accessones into into ner her norfcnlt portrait %hi«h wnien plfif^ Sh« y TLwJhw dro«”?Mn‘B sindio arid ip?dm iisked re arhMte 4 to seethe To the nainter’s ?y 1 ?lH 9 lied. There she stood upon the canvas, life-like and life-size; but the cruel artist had thinned her hair to scmi-baldncSs, l“ and v in ttesL one of oTlal« her hands rile held two table side, which hair he had Upon changed the at her into a toilet-table, were ranged a mini her of bottles, labeled respectively ’’ with the words- “ Milk of Lilies “ Beauty Water,” “ Elixir against ,r “ Golden-hair Dye. The lady cried out that such treatment was infamous. madame,” “You have said really no “Youhave complaint, the artist. already declared that the picture is in no sense a portrait and, of yourself. I accept your opinion, as I cannot afford to lose so much hard work, I have treated it as a fantasie piece, and as such I shall introduce it to the public. I mean to call it “The Coquette of Fifty Years.’ ” “What!” exclaimed she. “You mean to exhibit it?” The lady immediately begeed him to accept the stipulated sum for the portrait and, after she had seen the compromising accessories ob¬ literated in her presence, took out her check-book and bought the picture on the spot .—London Hcho. Western Stories Outdone* have Newspapers in the West and South of late enjoyed a monopoly of i'o markable stories of snakes and other desirable specimens of natural history, That the North may not be left behind in this respect, let us consider the moral teachings Summer Boarder which are and presented the by the Freshwater Clam. Three years ago the boarder iu question, while straying along the bed of a stream that had been left partially bare by excessive drought, discovered, lying bivalvuiar upon mollusk— the sand, vulg. a conchiferous, clam—which seemed to be in the last gasp from ex haustion and thirst. The kind-hearted stranger, pitying the sore strait of the unhappy bivalve, at once took it up and cast it into a deep part of the stream and then went his way, speedily forget ting the incident. A week ago, how ever, as he was enjoying his vacation, and sitting near the spot where the above described event took place, he perceived a clam laboriously climbing out of the water and dragging itself over the sand. Arrived, with niuch ex ertion, at the feet of the amazed ob server, the clam opened its shell and disclosed a pearl as large as a hazel nut, which the gentleman did not hesi tate to appropriate. Thereupon the clam, smiling clear way around to its back hinge, returned to the water and disappeared with a gurgle of satisfac¬ tion. This affecting incident, besides showing that even the humblest works of creation are capable of noble emo tions, teaches us the fine moral that we should, v n always 1 v be land , . . to . animals, ... m which respect it is much to be pre ^rred to the Southern and Western yarns referred to, which seem devised simply to entertain the minds of the mvolous, and convey no edifying lesson at all. —Bos tonJo u r nal. __ Hogs. _ If you have hogs running in your pas tures, now is the time, when the grass is low and the heat oppressive, to feed generously, once or twice a day rvith corn> wheat and oats screenings; with bran, shoris, rotten or fallen apples, and other fruits, jointly or separately made 5 b It y boiling into a mush, and or even a swill, costs something it causes some labor and trouble, but all will be well repaid in the quantity that before Christ mas will go into the lard tubs and pork barrels. It is perfect nonsense to raise pork on the old plan if you wish to raise it for less than twelve or fifteen cents a pound. If you follow the old plan, which was turning Out shoats at “kill ing time,” and starving them all win ter until clover comes, and then sav, “root hog or die,” until with dogs and negroes you hunt them down and place them in a pen for fattening, after they have worried you all the year as out laws, breaking in the fields of corn or other grain at night, and next day run aimoskto death and torn by dogs, until they escape through their holes in the fence, and a man or more has lost a half a day to drive then) out and stop the hole,'for the same thing to be re peated the next day-von will have pork at a cost far beyond what you can buy it for in the market. But if you can get a good breed, keen the hogs dry and warm in winter, give a good and pasture in summer, round, plenty with ot water wood, food the year rotten ashes, salt and sulphur what you can should raise pork costing Should not half you receive for it vou cho'ore to sell The hog is naturally lazy and if well sup phed with food he will not wander far the tavern that lfrgest gives him his food and drink in the quantity for the least exertion on his part. But stow his meat .ruined and drink, and will no idle marauding Vagabond or roue turn rover, chicken-stealer or sneak-thief, bold highwayman or whether he be as will the hog. stock.— Maryland high-bred or common Farmer. A Down-East Clam-Balce. To thoroughly appreciate a New Eng !and c i am _ ba ke one must eat it in New England, and to make it entirely enjoy able one must assist in preparing it, hr at least be present at the oven when the „ rand funeral pile is lighted. The writer was present at a feast of this kind in the i itt le town of Westport, Mass., last week, and a f tcr “flxins” partaking heartily of the clams and the is prepared to deposition t0 the fact that the 6 genuine ia » r#rp traat i»Wni, {t PW one to travel many miles Ha to enjoy. Cadman’s Neck, where the clam-bake was prepared, into is a the small point of land jutting 6Ut Westport River, about four miles from the town. Under the large trees “ovens” and near had been the long tables two constructed by excavating two holes about fifteen feet long by three broad and two deep, and “«» !K“ f * e ! 3 ,“ f °, lam5 *™> h had •»«■> d a >>!? t! >.» night before . on the shores , of the Provi d River Thev werp not the laro-e repnlsivd-lwWhg made do clams which are so often to service m bakes for figntoNewEngland 100 King bivalves, whose, but small shells luscious fairly shone as the* came Close from the na.nds of the cleaners. by stood twelve bushel baskets full of lobsters, all greee and shining and all wriggling ». they came from the water, about ai l hough tho Y foresaw the fate in store for them, and wei *« struggling to escane. Near by Was another gang ot men dipping high r spiced and placing dressing from two large, clean Uihs it in tin pans just from ^\ e store, which were nicely covered with clean, white cloths securely fas t eaed around lhe rims * Others were husking corn for the grand bake, and still others were washing sweet potatoes ai ? d Wing them securely in canvas bags, The preparations were observed by the hungry crowd, and appetites were whetted by the sight. There was noth¬ ing to repel, but everything all waiting. to attract to the feast for which were Finally the great mass of food was ready for cooking, and then the grand event of the day,the closing of cleared the bake, the began. Men blazing with pitchforks logs, and ovens of the the stones, which had been raised to a white heat, were carefully swept clean of ashes and embers. These country folks are fas¬ tidious in the matter of cleanliness, and obj'ect to eating clams garnished cleaned with the carbon. The ovens onee work of filling them with the edibles to be cooked was quickly performed. Into each was first poured 100 bushels of clean, shining clams. Very gently they were deposited in the glowing fur¬ nace that their they shells struck might the not be broken, and, as stones, a sizzing noise was heard, as the thous¬ ands of clams apparently breathed out loud sighs of agony, and a dense cloud of salt-smelling steam arose, which tickled the nostrils and served to whet appetites which bad already been sharp¬ ened by rides of from five to twenty miles in the fresh morning air of the country. The lobsters were next sent to bear the clams company, ” and as they struck the bed they wriggled and squirmed in a manner which would have torn the heartstrings of the good Mr. Bergh. Next came the corn, with pans of dressing judiciously distributed from one end of the great bake to the other, and the apex was crowned with a score of long and shallow baskets, in which were layers of bine fish and tripe, and the bags of sweet potatoes garnishing pile. the outer edges of the great A heavy canyas was drawn over the whole, and on this was thrown a moss of wet and dry seaweed, until every crevice from which steam could possible then escape left was closed, and the bake was to cook itself in the steam of the clams and the heat of the liery furnace. It takes a bake thus judiciously read* pre¬ pared about half an hour to be for the table, and at the end of that t; bTeaten mp ti 1fl xrnmiaehnek hake was readv to The sea weed was tossed as i de , the canvas raised from one end, and ttie ba k e opened by degrees. dipped A bundred fleet-footed waiters their pans in the mass of steaming food an d placed upon the tables before the hungry crowd the results of the experi mer r t . Everybody set to work with a will, oneninn the clains and nickinu them out with their fingers. The srrounh beneath the tables afforded a convenient place for depositing the shells, and little mounds of these soon appeared by the side of each eater. The clams were tender and luscious, and large pansol them disappeared in a twinkling. Float ino” in melted butter—butter churned th< da y before on the farms of Westport— tbev oresented an appetizing appear ance which could not be resisted. The cleaners and £0 sorters had done enfere^thi their work wd snoif sand mouth to the taste of the delicious bivalves. The lobsters were warm and juicy and impregnated just enough with the flavor of the steam in which they hflH h nib>d tn make them a delicate morseb The fish too, was marvelously improved in flavor by this same steam, hall j n which it had been confined for an hour wb i] e the potatoes and corn tasted as notatoes and corn never tasted before, to one individual who was en j -£——" u:. \’ ow I’nHqnH pkm.Kiikn -. - ~„ Gne seems never to tire ji at tT g at a tab)e spread witn sue a luxuri esa^tnese, S bodtatelfntil'foreed > to > de 0 sistfromDnre Cor^N. u stton. r > J XY * ^ —The Indiana Bureau of Statistics, estimating drainage, the benefits to. be land derived which f roni t j le erlge show that yie i ded an aV of nine and a half before drained nf wheat r»er P yieS oere feu- five vears and on e-halfbushelsforflvevearsafter!e ■ drained. With corn the increase ^Hodthenu Sness w^^ dtaitoiSS er of case^of mafS from U840 ca Indian* « ea t 0 400 eases after drainage — Stale Sentinel. . .U . .* ^ ! f tlnrteen-year-old girl, .. living —A near La., has a ligbt-brown beard ;wo inches long,— N. 0. Picayune. $150 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE NUMBER 39 . PITH AND POINT. —^ you can ’t trust a man entirely let him &k) P ? ^na trying to get an avera<m Josh on honesty has always been a failure Billings. -It is said a cornet trying reaver in Berlin burst a blood-vessel to sound 1 ing Wagnerian double note. It is comfort to know that Wagner’s is to be the music of the future .—Lowell Citizen —Professor herring?n Huxlev N?rih estimates J «non® i t of T. before i the wie n.n Sea at o, 0 G 0 aaa aaa relymg , . timate we would like to on know‘ Huxley he the fish whether saw or took the statement of the fishermen.—Boston Post. ■, ^ t-. ouglass 1 Autz, , , ot Norwich, fell un Tra,n ie was tl 7 in g to b )ard * Vfli® n the tram . passed , Douglass Umi h | S Clgar in bis mout h * A ' et t iere ! ' rfi ” pnn , a ^ *«• forltaTmlT appearin“in’th°nnXvX Tj ohn W T W Sressed aduiessea i“ Master Mas er T Leech: eeeh VA- “Nurse, " S papa says I am one of those children .f " 4 111 iron “ ie y uU 10 letch some sponge «“«? ■» ouee.-’-CUfa*, tA salt . has , just . ,, been discovered 1 mine . Australia which believed w is to be more than two thousand years old. It’s would a good thing have it half a salt mine, or it tbere nt kept so long Now, are some silver mines in America, for instance, that fatten t lasted more than three months alter the assessments gave out.—Burlington Hawkeye. —Some men have tact. Said the bridegroom offend who bride didn’t wish either to his or die of internal disturbance: “My dear, this bread looks delicious; but it is the first you have ever made. I can not think of eating it, but will preserve it to show to our children in after year's as a sample of their mother’s skill and deftness.”— Bos¬ ton Post. —Plantation philosophy—Remember, young man, dat de best frien’ yer’s got on dis earth is a better frien’ ter himself den he is ter you. Pay no attention ter a man by de boasts what he makes. Thunder doan all de time tell ob a corn¬ in’ rain. . . Doan turn a man outen de ranks of spectability case he’s a cow¬ ard. A hound dog ain’t much on de fight, but he’s a mighty useful animal. . . . While Nature was a foolin’ away her time paintin’ different colors an’ stripes on de horns obde Jack snappers an’ odder bugs, 1 doan see why she didn’t contrive some easier way fur a chile to cut teeth .—Arkansas Traveler. The Koran. Perhaps the chief distinctive mark co be noted in comparing the Moslem’s Koran with the Christian’s Holy Bible is that the Koran is believed to have nc element at all. Nor is it ever, held to be a record of what Mohammed said or did; for that is recorded in the traditions. The Koran was a wholly objective, not a subjective revelation. It was revealed to one man only. It did not pass through many men’s minds during successive generations for nearly 2,000 years like the Christian revelation. The continuous subjectivity of our sacred scriptures, pi*otracted through so long a period, and the fact of our acknowledg¬ ing a human element in them, causes the Musselman to place them in the same category with his Sunnah or tra¬ dition. According to his view even our Gospels are not a direct revelation, but only a record of Christ’s words and ac¬ tions compiled by his followers and handed down to others. Though admit¬ ted to be inspired, the inspiration is of a very different kind from that of the Koran. It is an imparting of ideas, not of words. The very wrris of the Koran, on the other hand, andmdeed the whole complete book, not a mere portion of it, descended from God in a fixed and un alterable form on one particular night, called “the night of power,” though happily for Mohammed’s purposes its descent was arrested at the lowest of the seven heavens. There .it remained treas¬ ured up, or, so to speak, stored away in reserve, portion after portion being de¬ livered as successive declarations of doc¬ trine, law, or state policy became needed. Then an audible voice commu¬ nicated each word in a low tone to Mo¬ hammed, or, as some say, whispered every sentence into his ear. This ac¬ counts for the constant repetition of the word “say” before each very important factor in the success of this wonderful book, which, notwith¬ standing its unequal merit, utter want of system, and the adulteration of its sub¬ lime ideas by a frequent admixture of puerile and false teaching, is still revered as a direct emanation from God by about 150,000,000 of human beings, was without doubt this disjointed and frag¬ mentary delivery. It was never in fact either written or composed like any other book. It grew like patchwork, little by little, piece after piece, patch added to patch. Even ’he,^ Koran s warmest admirers must admit that it has often the appearance of being clum¬ sily botched. The Koran’s own account of “itself is that it descended in a succes¬ sion of parcels. Some of these paice.s were delivered at Mecca, some at Me¬ dina, during a period of twenty-three years, the angel Gabriel being the sup¬ posed medium of delivery. About ninety of the 114 chanters, or more than two thirds of the whole, are thought to have been the nroportion assignable to the Mecca, period; and of these the eai !er portions, delivered at a time when Iio hammed really believed himself to be stirred by divine impulses, though spok¬ en in plain prose, are full of poetic fire. They are the utterances 01 an en¬ thusiast wrought up by an intense co p* sciousness of the truth of his prophetic message, and often rise to great sublim¬ ity .—Nineteenth Century • —The Agricultural Colleges of the various States that have a farm attached should begin a systematic and continu¬ ous effort to develop new hnd different kinds of fruits, and by interchanging find out what sorts have the most ex¬ tended field of usefulness; one new sort of any kind of fruit, especially the apple, will alone pay the expenses a millio n fold.— -Si. Low* Globe*