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VOL. V.-NO. 4. JESSIE IN THE LANE. The fields ar? cloVer-laden, The beet are on the wing. As Jessi?., loveliest maiden, Got’S gayly sauntering Adown the breezy lane. The merry birds around her Sing, Nor warble they in vain, For Jessie’s heart is tuned to song, As through the lane she moves along. She loves th? purple clover, The drone of hurrying bees, The son i s that float above her, The blossom-scented breeze That ruffs her sunny hair; For Jessie's maiden heart’s at ease, Untouched by love’s sweet care, And finds dear Mother Nature yields A thousand joys in wood and fields. And now among the grasses, Along the verdurous way, Sweet Jessie slowly passes, And all the green array Seans keenly, if perchance A mystic four-leaved clover spray Howard her eager glance. In vain! not e'en her magic eyes Can lure to view the fateful prize! But see! one comes to greet her, In sober homespun clad. Why grows the prospect sweeter? And why, with smile so glad, Lights up her glowing face? Jfc>r he is but a rustic lad, And she—a queen in grace! Ah. that’s a secret who can tell? But Jessie likes her laddie well. Now side by side together They saunter down the lane. How lovely is the weather! How fair the bloomy plain. Swept by the summer air! And Jessie, ere they turn again, Knows why they seem so fair; For, looking for a four-leaved clover. Her maiden, heart has found—a lover —Harper’s Weekly. Agricultural Economies. The profit of the future is to conic in avoidance of wastes of the farm. As the country grows older, land dearer and immigration heavier, competition waxes fiercer in all agricultural production. A ruinous share of the hay is lost first in cutting when ripened to woodiness or dried io hardened steins; then in giving it out to sustain life and animal heat rather than for fat ami flesh. Corn is also thrown away by insufficient or in judicious feeding. There is enormous loss in keeping a poor cow that yields three hundred gallons of milk per an num instead of one that produces six hundred at about the same cost. One may bring the owner in debt, while the other affords a handsome profit on ex pense of keep. A cow that gives milk only from April to November, and runs dry when forage is costly and milk is dear, should have a few months’ extra feeding, and go to the butcher as soon as possible. That a cow is dry formore than six weeks is the fault of the owner in not procuring “the survival of the fittest, and aga'n, perhaps in not sup plying ample and succulent food at all seasons, while the milk habit of the )oung cow ;s forming. The loss in milk and meat by irregular feeding and a change from fre<h pastures to a straw stack and coarse hay during an in dem ent season, is an' irreparable waste " Inch is pro ceted into the succeeding summer without regard to the abumb ance oi its pasture. Ihe losses from negligence, or want "t skill in the preparation for market, the manipulation or manufacture from I law material, is enormous. Milk of the *ame quality, of the same cost, makes 'utter at fifteen cents and at half a dol 'ar per pound. Mixed fruits sell in market at half the value of assorted samp c S neatly put up. The pig prod cis oi a famous Massachusetts farm are ''■posed ot m New York Citv at twen ’V'lu'ee cents per pound, while similar Eiit o • I , ni ’ lO avera g e farm command '•t thirteen cents. Skill, taste, neat rehth 1 a Y, ell - ear «ed reputation for ’ xc ellence get the highest re cmii d ! Je , tler dividends than the wod,' a,l< in the 'ili,, ' on which they are expended, v''l ' SOl, o 1,1 ’! ie - v in thes « intangible avoideii but tie " astes that may be numerous in every depart m’t l .i |, nf i'" Practice, and can are idu-t- t t !l P? ra ? ra Ph- They Sellin- ‘ '- 11 ~ lie differing costs and products of adjoin am I ly rTV nei S l ‘ 1 ’orhood of the • -’.J. tribune Cats From the Hol* Land. XV hile it is a source of much pleasure fin rt s any I)eo P le maintain kennels of dogs, it has remained for Thomas H. 7’i Os p amden , ex-Consul at Liver ■n i’ ? 1 < ; a^,^ e fashion in raising rare fi„t? , V 100kiu « ca;s ’ Mr - Dudley’s son * fU i z? lUlt , ry rt ’si<lence, a few miles ti-ioii " 9 aTl ?J en » possesses many at thc '” 18 lu .^ e way of live stock, but doL^° 8 ! ln^ restiD g of all are a half lem ’A " hlch . wereb o r n ™ Jerusa “v ey i nre from the of ti •' r ’ ack *y ar d feline by the length ?be ’•MRotal color ot four innh 8 ’ in P artic nlar has fur waves "iii 1D ' en gt'b which grows in none h»v r ar i° as white as snow and Red veil ur .® Bß fhan two inches long, colors ( >f t'l" ’- ’ U ° an K reen are the inc of ti e ? eB, The most interest bit *¥ tnbeisa,ittle kitten with a cured sor 1 Mf r Dnli ye ‘ They . wcre P ro " atabiaov, ’Hadley several years ago bv thet r CaF9 “ exereised reanng fchem — Phila ‘ himvoui’i 0 Y a Quakerk new full well that vigoS ±.-" at ! e V' 0 recipient of a on the rx i | Ul ' ail W len 110 e, »barked arranged ? ?" 8 Bea ° f matrimony, so he k ei.salon a t OZen h, . ves of able-bodied knew the Ti.' 6 P. ortlco > nea r which he married th' n '^pr 18 " ould come. He be exne ■tn,] 11 ' T h e serenade came, as room window J ? an,n ß o,lt of his bed- a "d hiisii), ... ’ u b . e u P s et the bee-hives Xem h d n W - “ Thure wa sn’t er next ,| a ' , remarked the Quak- n "m under th,- lat let up on a eh/. fler three mde.”_C7u C ap o Her- Clljc IDalton Gratis. Spend As lon (io, . There is one lady irt Netv York who does not intend waiting until her death to distribute her wealth for benevolent purposes, only to have herself, like the late Miss Burr, shown up in court as a vile and dirty miser, her old clothes and broken furniture exhibited as proof of her squalid and menial existence, and her intelligent capacity to give het* money away denied by Che heirs and re lativesi who think it should come to them instead of going to religious and Charitable objects. Miss Catherine Wolfe is credited with disbursing in the last ten years $2,000,- 000 of the large estate left by her father. She has given it to a score of institutions and societies, but all of the most practicable and useful kind; to a home for incurables; to a newsboys’ lodgings house; to Union College for the education of poor and deserving young men from the South; to a school for girls in Colorado; to an enterprise of Christian socialism or communism on Long Island; Io the erection of a build ing in connection with Grace Church, of which she is a member, mainly devoted to club rooms for young men and young women, where clerks, art students, teachers and others living in lodgings may find the best current literature, music, bright, cheerful and elegant club-rooms, bakh-rooms, writing-rooms, etc., for the use of members, whose dues (25 cents a month or $2 50 a year) are so small as to be a burden to no one, and yet preserve the feeling of self-re spect which relucts at using a dole; and where, though the club-house adjoins a Church, no religious tests are exacted, nor, indeed, any question as to one’s belief or denomination asked; to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and to the church of which she is a member, by the addition of costly and beautiful specimens of ecclesiastical art and archi tecture, unexampled in this country. This has been done under her own immediate supervision; showing a broad and catholic taste; a shrewd, practical s&nse; a want of bigotry and sectarian prejudice, and securing to her the pecu liar but enviable pleasure of seeing her bounty enjoyed and the fruits of it realized while she is here and alive to gather all the luxury of being honored, loved and admired. The greatest pleasure which the ven erable Peter Cooper, now approaching a century of existence, derives from life is the love and gratitude, the deference, homage and affection shown him when he visits his “Institute” and is sur rounded by scores of admiring pupils, of both sexes, that are the recipients of his bounty, and are learning art and science and practical affairs by means of the schools and professorships his wealth long ago endowed. It is said that the sight of this spectacle so touched the sensibilities of a hundred millionaire one day that he was almost persuaded to go and do likewise. Unluckily for him and others, w r hen he got by himself this spasm of generosity and human sympa thy passed off, and he set himself at work again to pile up higher an already huge fortune. But even his momentary weakness was ample proof of the genu ineness of the scene he had witnessed. Mr. Reuben Springer, of Cincinnati, is another of the benevolent givers who get cash dividends of pleasure from their investments for other people’s benefit. His rich gifts to his fellow citizens have made him the idol of the city. Only the other day, in the pres ence of a vast multitude who cheered him to the echo, the statue of their living benefactor, chiseled by the hand of the son of the artist Powers, himself derived from a Cincinnati family, was unveiled to the public. It was a gift to the city of other citizens his example bad affected. The old man is now ready to depart in peace, for his own eyes have seen the glory to which men in their lifetime attain, as a reward for their humanity and their practical and personal distribution of their wealth for the good of their fellow citizens. It is a noble and beautiful lesson. This is the one wholsome exception to the fru gal rule, which says you should not “spend as you go.”— Detroit Free Press. How to Catch Frogs. The Washington Star thus tells how frogs are caught in the Potomac: lhe manner of catching them is to drift about at night in a skiff among the swamps which line the Potomac and its creeks with a bull’s-eye dark lantern. When the frogs begin their loud, gut feral conversation with each other, the hunter edges up as near as possible to his game and throws the intensely re flected light from the bull's-eye direct ly upon the frog, which appears to have the effect of completely paralyzing him. Once the light strikes them they are immovable, and will sutler themselves to be bagged without a murmur. < >ne expert stated to a Star reporter that he took a dozen from off one old rotten log in Hunting Creek, but a big moccasin snake struck out for him, and in getting away he lost nine of them. The frogs are particularly plump this year, and their saddles tender as squab meat. —A jeweler has Jong dunned a lady of fashion for the amount of his big bill, but in vain. When he rings the bell the footman says politely but firmly : “ Sir, the Countess only receives on Tuesdays.” “ I don’t care when she receives,” thunders the irate and long suffering creditor; “what I want, to ‘ know is the day that she pays on !” Paris Paper. I —A Montreal policeman has a hen w’''ch lays two eggs at e time every other day. She is to be exhibited.— Chicago Herald. DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 1882, Migration of Seals, Os the different sorts of Nor th-Atlantic seals, all but two are migratory—that is to say, the whole body of them move from north to south each autumn, and back from south to horth each spring. Upon this important fact the great fleets of fishermen depend for their success. The annual southward journey of the feStlfebs hasp-seal furnishes a vivid pic ture of these great migrations which are so prominent a feature of polar history. Keeping just ahead of the" “making” of the ice, or final freezing up of the fords and bays, at the approach of winter they leave Greenland, and begin their passage southward along the coast of Labrador, freely entering all the gulfs and bays. They appear first in small detachments of half a dozen to a score or more of individuals ; these are soon followed by larger companies, until in a few days they form one continuous pro cession, filling the sea as far as the eye can reach. Floating with the Arctic current, their progress is extremely rapid, and in but one short week the whole multitude has passed. Arriving at the Straits of Belleisle, some enter the gulf, but the great body move on ward along the eastern coast of New foundland, and thence outward to the Grand Banks, where they arrive about Christmas. Here they rest for a month, and then they turn northward, slowly struggling against the strong current that aided them so much in their south ward journey, until they reach the great ice fields stretching from the Labrador shore far eastward—a broad continent of ice. During the first half of March, on these great floating fields of ice, are born thousands of baby seals—only one in each family, to be sure, but with plenty of play-fellows close by—all in soft woolly dress, white, or white with a beautiful golden luster. The New foundlanders call them “whitecoats.” In a few weeks, however, they lose this soft covering, and a gray, coarse fur takes its place. In this uniform they bear the name of “ragged jackets and it is not until two or three years later that the full colors of the adult are gained, with the black crescentic or harp-like marks on the back which give them the name of “harps.” The squealing and barking at one of these immense nurseries can be heard for a very long distance. When the babies are very young, the mothers leave them on the ice and go off in search of food, coming back frequently to look after the little ones ; and although there are thousands of the small, white, squeal ing creatures, which to you and me would seem precisely alike, and all are moving about more or less, the mother never makes a mistake nor feeds any bleating baby until she has found her own. If ice happens to pack around them, so that they can not open holes, nor get into the water, the whole army will laboriously travel by floundering leaps to the edge of the field ; and they show an astounding sagacity in discern ing the proper direction. It is supposed that they can smell the water at a long distance. Sometimes great storms come, break ing the ice floes in pieces and jamming the fragments against one another, or upon the rocky headlands, with tre mendous force. Besides the full-grown seals that, perish in such gales, thousands of the weak babies are crushed to death or drowned, notwithstanding the daunt less courage of their mothers, in trying to get their young out of danger and upon the firm ice. And it is touching to watch a mother seal struggling to get her baby to a safe place, “ either by trying to swim with it between her fore flippers, or by driving it before her and tossing it forward with her nose.” The destruc tion caused by such gales is far less when they happen after the youngsters have learned to swim. Does it surprise ypu that seals, which are constantly in the water, have to learn to swim ? Well, it might stagger the seals to be told that men have to be taught to walk. The fact is, a baby seal is afraid of the water; and if some accident, or his mother’s shoulder, Dushes him into the surf when he is ten or a dozen days old, he screams with fright and scrambles out as fast as he can. The next day he tries it again, but finds him self very awkward and soon tired ; the third day he does better, and before long he can dive and leap, turn somersaults (if he is a bearded seal), and vanish under the ice, literally “like a blue streak,” the instant danger threatens. But he had to learn how, to begin with, like any other animal.— Ernest Ingersoll in St. Nicholas. l’rof. Henry A. Ward, of Roches ter, has taken a contract to purchase tor the American Museum of Natural His torv, in Central Park, New \ ork, the specimens of two valuable collections. One is to be a complete collection of the mammals and birds of North America, including some seven or eight hundred specimens, and its cost, to bo defrayed bv Morris K. Jessup, will be $10,000; the other will be a collection represent ing all the quadrumana of the world. About 300 mokeys will comprise the latter collection, the expense of which, $7,000, is provided for by Robert Col gate. It, will take Prof. Ward upward of two vears to make the collections. — N. Y. Times. —Jordan Perkins was plowing with a mule near Eufaula, Ala., and, when in the act of turning the animal at the end of a furrow, made it mad by striking it, when it kicked him on the chin, shat tering it and his teeth, and cutting his tongue nearly off. A Comstock Hero. The reporter had an interview with Mr. Van Dusen. Ho is a rather slim man, about five feet seven Inches tall, with a thin, dark beard, prominent nose and lantern jaws. Indeed, he could stand very well for a reduced photo graph of Brother Jonathan. But Van Du-en is not a Yankee. He is a native of Michigan, and 47 years of age. The reporter found the hero of the day in the washroom of Fitzpatrick’s board ing-house in Lower Gold Hill, rubbing soap on his hands, and wholly absorbed in the occupation. He looked up with some surprise from his basin in the wooden sink when the reporter spoke to him and said he wanted to interview him. Van Dusen is not a talkative man, and it was only in response to the jour nalist's constant questions that the story of his adventures was drawn from him pieceme d. While giving a bit of infor mation as to his perilous journey, Van Dusen would pause between splashes in his basin, turn up his dripping counte nance for a moment, and then industri ously resume his ablutions. He was rather amused than otherwise that a newspaper should think it worth while to send a reporter to ask him about such a tr isle as going into a drift 1,400 feet long 2,150 feet below the surface, filled in part with almost scalding water over three feet deep and loaded with poison ous gases that had slain two men who had made the attempt before him. There was no affectation about his un con ciousness of his having done any thing heroic. It was absolutely real. “Oh, no; I’m not exhausted,” said Van Dusen, as he rubbed his face vigor ously with the towel on the roller. “ I’m feeling chipper—never better in my fife.” He encountered the bodies of Bennett and Callahan. Both were lying on their backs. He merely paused as he came to each corpse and passed on. “ Then,” said Van Dusen, “ I got to the cooling house and saw the boys.” He seemed to think that the statement of this fact furnished all the information that was necessary. “ They were glad to see you, of course,” suggested the reporter. “Yes, but they*were a darned sight gladder to see the ice in my machine.” He had to leave his lantern out in the drift, as there was a tremendous draught in the cooling-house. “It was pretty dark in the cooling house,” said Van Dusen, “and when I went in the first thing I asked was how many of them were alive. They said the whole seven, and I said I was mighty glad to hear it. ‘What do you fellow's want most?’ I says, and they said grub and ice. They did go for my ice. [Mr. Van Dusen chuckled at the recollection.] One chap—it was so dark I couldn’t place him—laid his arm across his breast and began hauling it out of my machine and piling it up on his arm. i guess they knew what had happened to the two boys that went down in the morning, for they asked me if there were any dead bodies in the drift. I said there wasn’t, for it wouldn’t have done ’em any good to know. They had seen the lights that the boys carried, and they went out kind of sudden when they fell, of course, so it wasn’t hard to guess what had happened. “They had fixed things in the cooling house and were pretty comfortable, man aging to get tolerably cool air and water. They wanted all the air they could get, of course, and one of ’em sings out to me as I was going to tell ’em on top to work the compressor. I thought, perhaps, that there might be one or so in the crowd that was near giving in, and I asked if anyone wanted my knapsack to try to make the riffle for the shaft, but they wouldn’t hear of it, so I started back. Bennett walked down the drift a ways with me. He had his head on him and wasn’t scaled or anxious a bit, so far as I could see.” On the return trip one of the rubber air tubes of his knapsack got loose, and he had to depend upon one. Then the foul air put his lantern out, and his only guide as he floundered through the last 800 feet of hot water was the faint gleam of the candles of the men at the station. One of the doctors at the mine said that not one man in a thousand would have achieved the feat accom plished by Van Dusen, and that it was marvelous that he should apparently suffer so little physically and mentally from so terrible an or I ■ al. Va:i D.isen at 6 o’clock was back in the hoist ing works, standing around with his hands in his pockets, taking a keen but calm interest in all the work that was being done toward the rescue of his fol low "miners.— Virginia Citg (Nev.) En terprise. Jay Gould’s Timo. Several weeks ago, when Jay Gould was in Little Rock, he was visited in his special ear by a st range-looking, oddly dressed man. “ Mr. Gould, said the visitor, “will you be generous enough to ,r ive me ten minutes of your time? ’ “■fes,” said the millionaire, in a dry, last-year sort of voice. “ Ten minutes, thank you, sir; write the check?” “What cheek?” said the millionaire, in a kind of last month voice. “ Perhaps Td better explain. A noted mathema tician has calculated your income to be .■?! per second. W ith you, of course, time is money, face value. Now, you have given me ten minutes, amounting, you see, to #6OO. Have you got the money about you, or will you give me a : check'?'’ The millionaire looked at the I man in silence. “ I’ll do the fair thing. 1 Make it #SOO, Hanged it I den tbe ease with yon. make it #IOO bl ame >t. s n .-'2i»o.” Mr. Gould looked long and | inquiringly at the man, but didn tsmile —Arkansas Traveler. Chasing a Lion in South Africa. During the night lions have beet* prowling about and keeping up a hideous roaring, so I hurry away in front with the prospect of meeting one stroll ing home in the gray ligiit of the early hv,;rs. The air is raw and cold, so 1 march at the double-quick and reckless ly thrust mv hands to the bottom of my pockets in the happy consciousness of not being in Regent street, Aly two usual attendants in my hunting expeditions have considerably shriveled up, and have developed an ashy complexion un pleasant to behold, and they slink around shivering with the cold and doubtless envying me my pockets. We soon get a considerable distance ahead of the caravan, and begin to keep a sharp look out for game. Several herds are described at a distance; but, not caring to go far out of the way, we leave these unmolested. Matters, however, do not become more promis ing, and we begin to conclude there is to be no sport this morning. Just as that thought shapes itself down sinks the guide in a crouching position, while he excitedly whispers: “A lion! a lion!” Instinctively we follow his example. Alter a hurried glance at my rifle 1 cautiously raise my head. Looking in the d re.-tion indicated by the guide I am mortified at seeing a line lion lei-urely bounding away through the long grass. Rising erect I fire pre cipitately. The lion, unharmed, simply pauses for a momentary stare and then continues its course. Grinding out an expression of intense vexation, and yielding to tl e impulse of the moment, I rush after the animal in hot haste. Aly servants, less eager and more wise than I, remain where they were. It never occurs to me that 1 have only the re maining cartridge of my double-barreled rille for a possible encounter with the enemy. 'The movements of the lion can only he traced by the shaking of the grass, and with eye intently fixed on that I dash on pell-mell, tripping, stumbling and gasping for breath, while my heart palpitates with the excitement of the chase. We thus keep up the race for about 300 yards, when all at once the shaking of the grass ceases, reminding me that I must proceed with much more caution lest 1 rush abruptly into the fervent embraces of his leonine high ness—a consummation most devoutly to be depreciated, seeing I have no ambi tion for the world’s reprobation and a warning epitaph. Moving on very stealthily for some time I suddenly emerge into an open space, and as sud denly halt transfixed; for there stands the lion at a distance of a little more than fifteen yards, with its side toward me, and evidently awaiting my ap proach. The momentary shock gives place instantly toastrange feeling of ex ultation. With such a splendid oppor tunity for a shot I am sure of my game! Alentally, as by a flash, I picture my self exhibiting the trophies of the encounter to an admiring troop of friends. 1 level my gun, and bang! it goes: To my infinite mortification, and, as I think, against all the laws of reason, there is neither the grand death spring nor the last tragic roar. Un wounded and undaunteii, there stands my dangerous antagonist, “staring upon the hunter!” It takes one or two seconds to let the grim realities of the situation dawn upon my imagination. Only too evidently are the tables turned upon me. 1 have no ammunition, and I dare not flee. To “fix” him with my eye unfortunately does not occur to me as practicable. On the contrary, I have a very distinct consciousness that he has “fixed” me, and that I should not be ungrateful for some convenient tree from which I might try the fasci nation of the human gaze. Thus for a little space, which to me seemed hours, we stand face to face. The lion seems uncertain what to do, but finally re solves to treat me with contempt. Turning with dignity, he gives one or two powerful bounds and disappears in the jungle, while I, limp and be draggled, return to my men. Good IVora's. The Japanese Coolie. Short in stature, compact in build, with well expanded chest, limbs of shapely mold, with muscles of iron en durance, small extremities, delicate an kels, they are a marvel of strength, Some of these men have a mass of mus cle in their lower limbs such as are seen delineated in the cuts of the gladiators of old Rome. And it must be remem bered that these men are from necessity the least able to indulge in unlimited quantities of their peculiar food of all the people in the land. They illustrate the lesson that strength and endurance may exist on a light and scanty diet of rice and vegetables, together with fish. The Rikisha men are not so heavily molded, being of much slighter build, but they are also full of muscle, though not so prodigally developed. The fa tigue these men undergo and withstand can be partially estimated when a it is remembered that it is not considered an extraordinary feat for them to travel forty miles a day with their seated pas- | senger. No matter how hot it may be; while the passenger is complaining of the heat he is being whirled along and i protected by his umbrella from the rays of the sun, the motive power never flags. The Rikisha man keeps up a pace like a deer, his body generally bare to the sun, being guiltless of clothing that could I inconvenience the free movement of the body or limbs. He takes but the shgh - est Juantity of refreshment wlu e on the rice being the exte repeat TERMS: 91.00 A. YEAR. POPULAR PHRASES. Gawkie.— From the German word gauch, meaning a fool. Many a H ord.— The following well known quotation (generally rendered incorrectly) is from Walter Scott’s “Lord of the Isle,” canto v., stanza 18: O! many a shaft at random sent, Finos mark tno archer little meant, And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound the heart that’s broken. “Excelsior."—-The title of one of the best known of all of the short poems of the late Henry W. Longfellow. That one word happened to catch his eye one autumn eve in 1851, on a torn piece of newspaper, and straightway his imag ination took fire at it. Taking up a piece of paper which happened to be the back of a letter received that day from Charles Sumner, he crowded it with verses. As first written down, “ Excelsior” differs from the perfected and published version, but shows arush and glow worthy of its author. 1 anaee-Doodle.— ln a curious book on the “Round Towers of Ireland,” the origin of the term Yankee-Doodle is traced to the Persian phrases, Yanki Doonia, or inhabitants of the New World. Layard, in his book on “Nine veh and its Remains,” also mentions Y'anghi-Dunia as the Persian name of America. Clincher.— Something that effectually settles a point or argument. This ap plication of the word is said to have arisen from two notorious liars being matched against each other, “I drove a nail through the moon, once,” said the first. “Yes,” said the other, “I remember the circumstance, and I went around to the back and clinched it” Draw It Mild.— This term was origin ally used by the leader of a metropoli tan orchestra to violinists, rflien ha wished them to play softly: “Come it strong” was another term used by the same party, when he desired the orches tra to play loud. Coming to the Scratch.— This was originally a phrase used by boxers. In the prize ring it was usual to maxe a distinct mark or scratch in the turf, di viding the ring into two equal parts. “To come to the scratch” meant to walk to the boundary to meet the an tagonist. Loot. — This word frequently occurred in the dispatches detailing the plunder ing of Alexandria, during and immedi ately following the recent bombardment of the forts protecting that city. It is an East Indian word, signifying plun der. robbery, pillage, etc. It was intro duced into the English language at the time of the mutiny, 1857-8. Hiahcr Than Gilderoy's Kite. — Gilde roy was the Robin Hood of Scottish minstrelsy. He infested the Highlands of Pertshire with his of whom seven were executed in lb3B. To re venge the death of his companions Gil deroy burned several houses, and at length, after a reward of £IJX)O was offered, he was himself captured, and suffered, with five of his followers, for his crimes at Gallowlee, Scotland, July, 1638. The origin of the saying, “Higher than Gilderoy’s Kite,” is supposed to have come from an old Scotch poem, in which the executioner is represented as hanging Gilderoy “high above the rest” of his companions: Seme New Arithmetical Problems. A Wisconsin school teacher had nine teen scholars and she figured up at, end of three months that she b'“ stowed 128 lickings on the SC V- OM lowing that one boy received . * of them, and that three of escaped entirely, how many i**tho Kr eaeh of the others receive. Dalton, G*. The average fisherman c bles to one bite, and thrNlN, fish, and half his fish a« r _ T earn ing home. At this iMTTSF, will it take a fisherman to . supply of sheep-heads and oppo||H l he friends of a certain ma four cents apiece and purchasouoinm. to present him on his bit in-day— ——- blcmatical of his daily life, rnclje.. tain man lets himself loose on the donors and damages each one’s head to the amount of $3.47. How much is each donor out of pocket ? Ayoung man wagers fifty cents that he can put a b'lliard ball into his mouth, and he wins the bet. A surgeon charges him $7 for four hours’ work in remov ing it. What was the exact ga nin be ing smart? A man pays fifty cents extra to take laughing-gas while having a tooth pulled. The dentist could have pulled six as well as one, and without any further cost How much did the patient lose by being so stingy of his molars? The candy eaten by a school-girl costs just as much as her school-books; the peanuts she devours cost more than her singing lessons; her ice-cream costs more than her French, and the gas and fuel she consumes while sparking foot up twice the cost of learning her to paint landscapes on old jugs and pitch ers. Therefore, how many daughters must a man have to be rich? > An Aiderman pays a reporter $5 to write him a speech favoring the erec tion of a new school house, but alter de- f liverin ,r eleven cents’ worth of the ora tion he is informed that there is noques- 1 tion before the meeting, and he fall* 4 back and breaks a pair of suspenders worth thirty-five cents. How much is 1 the great man out of pocket? I Excitement was made in Boston by a newspaper item which said tfint the Xrateilßunker HR! 1.,. right word being I’een mortnr has ia 1 ‘art " "J. x