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MOSS. Strange tapestry, by nature spr On viewless looms, aloof from s’ And spread through lonely nooks 1 Where shadows reign, and leafy rest— Oh, moss, of all your dwelling spots, In which ono are you loveliest ? Is it when near grim roots that coil Their snaky black through humid soil? Or when you wrap in woodland gloom, •The great prone pine trunks rotted reffi Or when you dim, on sombre tombs, The “requiescats” of the dead? sgF- Or is it when your lot is cast In some quaint garden of the past On some gray, crumbled basin’s brim, With conches that mildewed tritons blow While yonder, through the poplars prim Looms up the turreted chateau? Nay. loveliest, are you when time weaves Your emerald films on low, dark leaves, Above where pink porch roses peer. And woodbines break in fragrant foam, An i children laugh—and you can hear Tne beatings of the heart of home. —Edgar Fawcett, in Mail and Express, CAUGHT IN. A STORE “We might just as well have been standing behind (lie counter in New Yor a.l these ten days,” sighed Barbara Hale, “for all the out-of-the-way advent ures we’ve had “Who wants out-of-the-way advent ures.' 1 ' said Dorcas Dunn, scornfully. “Behind the counter, indeed!” chained in Mary \ annccker. “Can you breathe in clover scented air like this Lieliiud the counter; Can you get a mountain view like ti.is from Sixth avenue? What more woidd the girl want, I should like to know?” Barbara sighed once more, and shook her head. “It .sail so tame,’’said she. “Itisn’t what 1 expected at all.” The three g;rls—Barbara, Dorcas and Mary—were sitting on a side hill, under the shade of a grand old cedar tree. Barbara, who had once tui-.en a quaiter’s lessons in drawing, had a sketchboord in her lap, and was trying —with but ill Success, it must be owned—to reproduce the iovely, ribbon-like curves of the river that wound its way through the valley below. Mary had h r needlework iu her lap, and Dorcas, with her hand.? clasped under lier head, had long given up all attempt to read the p.per covered novel that she had brought with her. “The s <y and the sunshine are so much better!” she said. They were ihree shop girls—bright, ambitious, spirited you ig things, full of life and aspirations, even though they were kept down by the force of Circum stances; and they had ciubbed together their siende; resources, in order to enjoy their vacation to better advantage. Dorcas, Hie business member of the firm, had bought an excursion ticket first, and traveled out to Sckepp’s Valley to see what could be done. But it is needless to say that the hotel and board ing-house prices were far beyoud their simple means. “Is there no place,” said she, “where we could obtain one room aud the very simplest fare, for less money?” “You might try Old Alan Morris’s,” said the port ly dame who kept the Valley Bouse. “It’s a quiet place, aud Mrs. Morris she ain’t no great of a cook, but there's them as has boarded there, I’m told.” “Where is it.” eagerly asked Doicas. And the landlady went to the door to point out a slender blue thread of smoke that was curling up heavenward from a m ss of woods cm a distant bill, and once more i.orcas set forth on her pilgrimage, this time with undoubted success. 1 blie engaged one room. The board, to-be-sore, was plain, the bed a coarse husk mattress, with a blanket spread on the floor for Dorcas herself, the furniture home-made and unpainted. But there was a grove of pine woods in the rear; the blackbirds piped their silver flutes all day long, aud the bees darted in and out of the red inies by the garden wall, and our three heroines believed them selves to be in Paradise. But even as Barbara Hale thus be wailed herself, a portentous shadow crept across the sun, and looking around, they saw that a mass of livid purple mLunderclouds had piled themselves up alcang the western skv, while distant sauntering*, and now and then a sudden flashyannounced (lie coming of a storm. Do teas sprang to her feet. Barbara began' hurriedly to fold up her sketching i apparatus. Mary put her thimble and I scissors in her pocket. ■ “We must get home as quickly as possible!” cried a l three. But in availing themselves of a “short cut ’ a ross a patch of woods, they got hopelessly 10-t. The sun set behind thd* purple battlement of clouds, the dusk fell rapidly .in these dense woods, and the rain began to patter down in hu<>e drops. Barbara, the aspirant after adventure, began to cry. “We are lost!” said she. “Lost! Nonsense!” said brave Dorcas. “When I can see the railway track shin ing down below. Who ever got lost close to a railway line? Let’s make for the track. ” “And get run over,” lamented Bar bara. “Not likely, when there’s only one train a day, and that at noon,” laughed Dorcas. “II we walk along the railway line, we must come out somewhere, don’t you see?” “Aiiu besides,” affiled Mary, “there is a little ruined cabin not far from here, where the railroad flagman used to live before i hey changed the location of the station. 1 remember Mrs. Mo:ris showing it to tne once.” “ hi oh!” shrieked Barbara, “I couldn’t go there! The flagman was killed on the track. There’s a'g-g-ghost there 1” • “Would you rather stay here and be drenched through with rain.” severely demanded Mary. “- r struck with lightning”’ added Dorcas. And the upshot of it was that the three fugitives took refuge in a misera ble old shanty close alongside of the railroad track, where weeds were grow ing up through the cracks of the floor, and a jilentilul portion of rain came pat tering through the leaks in the roof, while the old stone chimney, all settling to one side, looked as if no stroke oi lightning could harm it very much. “But it’s some shelter,” said Alary, cheerfully. “We’ll stay here until the shower is over, and theu make the, best of our way home.” The shower, however, showed no in dication of abating iu its vigor. The rain still poured down in sheets; the thunder still bellowed through the rocky gorge where the cabin bad been built; the lightning still lit up everything with sudden spurts of blue flame, like panto mime effects. “Oh, dear! oh, dear!” said Barbara wringing her hands: “it must be mid night!” “It an’t be but nine o’clock yet,’’said Alary. “And I’m so hungry! Oh, how I wish I hadn't eaten the last of those sand wiches! Oh, oh! what is that?” flut tered Barbara. An unusually vivid electric flash had revealed something white and spectral at the window. Ail three girls jumped at once. “ The ghost!” shrieked Barbara, stop ping her ears and shutting her eyes as tight as was practicable. “Astray white cow,” suggested Mary. | “A young man in a flannel tennis suit,”said Doicas, the closest observer : of all. “Don’t let him come in,” said Bar bara. “We shall be robbed aud mur dered I” “Not whi'e we are three to one,” said composed Dorcas. And at the same moment a voice sound ed hurriedly at the door: “Plea-e, may I come in. I know it seems intrusion, but it’s raining a deluge, aud I’m wet through. ” “Comein by all means,” said Alary. And the gliostentered, dripping like a fountain. “All iu the dark:” said he groping his way. “There are no gas jets here,” said Dorcas, ironically. “But we might have a little blaze of sticks,” hazarded the new arrival, shak ing li mself like a Newfoundland dog. “1 saw by that last glare of lightning, that there was a heap in the corner, and I’ve got my match box intact.” “Oh, that would be splended!” cried Dorcas, who was wet and shivering. “And I’ve got some tish ou a string outside, and we could have some sup per, ” suggested the gliost, cheerfully. “I’m so-o-o hungry!” wared Barbara. The stranger was evidently used to mountain camping. Tic had a tire kin dled in no time, and the fish, cleaned by aid of his pocket-knife and washed in one of the pools outside, were pres ently boiling over the coals, emitting a most savory smell. “A ou must be a good gcniu3!” cried Mary. “I’m only a tramp,” said the ghost. “And I’m ever so much obliged to you young ladies for letting me in .” “We couldn’t have kept you out if we j had tried,” said Dorcas, frankly. “You don’t think 1 would have thrust myself in here against your wishes? Even a tramp wouldn’t do that," said the young man. The sticks blazed cheerfully up; the ghost economized them to keep the names alive as long as possible. He told thrilling tales of his experience in these woods; lie made himself a most agreea ble companion. “Are you from tlie Valley House?” asked Dorcas. “No; I am camping just where itg happens.” * “,»h!” said Alary. Then you are poor, like us? We are shop-girls, on our vaca tion.” “For,” she said to herself, “I am termiued he fha.l not take us for othe* tliau we are.” “And,” observed the ghost, “I should think you were having a very jolly time of it! A little more trout, Aliss—Miss Hale? And how did you come out in these wildernesses?” So then, of course, little Barbara, who was generally the spokeswoman of the assemblage, related all her efforts to secure summer board. “Y'ou see,” said she, “Air. Archer pays us so small a salary that we haven’t much margin for luxury.” “He ought to pay you more,” said the gliost. “I’m in business myself. I know how it is. People can’t be ex pected to live on nothing.” “1 do believe,” cried Dorcas, “youare the tailor’s young man from Cut & Pitt’s, next door to Archer’s! I thought I had seen your lace before! But if you ever get to the head of the firm —and a man can achieve almost anything he pleases --do pay your employes a decent sum !”■ “I will,” said the young man in the white flannel tennis suit. And he spoke as if he meant it. Aud then Dorcas discoursed still more learnedly about the rights and wrongs, the in ustices and petty trials of life be hind the counter. “We are ladies, you see,” said she, “and we expect to be treated like ladies. But I suppose you have your troubles, too:” “Lots of ’em,” said the young man, gazing absently into the fire. “Every one has, I suppose.” So that they all became great friends. At midnight the rain ceased, and the moon burst in a flood of glory on the dripping scene. “We can go home now,” said Dorcas, clapping her hands. “And 1 dare say, young man,” with a pretty air of patron age, “Air. Alorris could make you up a bed on the kitchen floor at our house, without charging very much for it.” “I should be delighted if he could,” said the young man, meekly. And so it. was arranged. The gtris m :de an extra toilet next morning, tt> meet “the ghost.” as they called him. at the breakfast table. But to their infinite disgust, he was gone when they descended. “Y r e see,” said Old Alan Alorris, “that there white Hanning suit o’ his’n had shrunk up with the wet, so it wasn’t fairly presentable, and he just cut across lots afore daybreak, an’ cleaned out.” “I told you so,” said Barbara. “He was a ghost, and being such, he dis solved into thin air at oook-crow!” “Aud I had put on my blue cambric gown,” sighed Alary. ‘ ‘And my hair was crimped so nicely!” said Dorcas. “But he gave me this ’ere,” said Old Man Alorris, displaying, on the horny palm of his hand, a gold half-eagle. “Bather extravagant for a tailor’s clerk,” 6ai i Alary. “That is ju't the class of people,” said Dorcas, loftily, “who don’t know how to spend money properly.” “I thought ho was very nice,” said Barbara; ‘.’and I thought, perhaps, he was going to be the beginning of a real adventure.” j September set in, sultry as tlie tropics I this year, and the three girls returned to Archer’s great store with unwilling foot steps. But the cashier met them with asrnil j ing face. “I’ve received instructions,” said he, I “to raise the salaries of all the girls in j this department ten per cent. Y r oung Air. Archer himself told me to do so.” “Young Mr. Archer?”- “There he is now!” said the cashier. And the next minute the hero of the rainy had come up, and was cordially shaking hands with them. “Then you are not the tailor’s young man after all?” said Alary, a little taken aback. “Did I say I was?” said Archibald Archer. At the end of the autumn little Barbara Hale had a confession to make. “Girls,” said she, “when I thought that young Air. Archer was going to be the beginning of an adventure, I was right. He has asked me to marry him, and when we go on our summer vacation next year, we shall go together!” And Alary and Dorcas kissed little Barbara, and congratulated her from tire very bottom ot their hearts. “This.” said they, “is an adventuri worth having.”— Saturday Night. Bogs as Motive Power iu Germany. Some philanthropist in Germany should send his name reverberating down the ages as the friend aud protector ol overworked dogs. The condition of these poor animals throughout Germany, writes Blakley Hall iu the New York Sun, is a blot upon nineteenth century civilization. They passed a law in Eng land prohibiting the u-e of dogs fot dragging vehicles, hut there is no such law m Germany. A customary sight is a woman seventy-five years of age har nessed to a cart with two dogs, drawing it wearily along country roads or through the streets of the cities. Very often the woman gives it up or is too feeble to bear her share, and then she varies the journey* by alternately pushing the cart aud whipping the dog 3 as she walks by their side. A cart about the size of a street cab in New Y’ork, and often loaded to the height of five or six feet by mercliaudi.se, is the usual load for an old woman and two dogs. A cart of smaller dimensions is often dragged by the dogs aioue, and sometimes one poor beast is seen struggling along under a load that an American would consider up to the powers of an average horse. The dogs are of all sorts of breeds, but invariably large aud strong. They are muzzled—for they grow savage under their harsh treatment —and are harnessed a good deal after the fashion of a horse. The faithfulness aud industry of the poor creatures are wonderful. They will toil along the dusty roads straining every muscle iu their bodies until they drop dead in their tracks, and dead dog by the roadside in this county are by no means uncommon. At night in the streets of Berlin are countless venders’ carts displaying fruit, and to every one is attached a dog or two. As soon as they have dragged the load into Berlin, the woman who is selling the fruit takes a small square of carpet out of the cart and ,places it on the pavement. The dog then Tolls himself up on it and is tenderly covered with another rug to protect him from cold. He sleeps there till it is time for him to begin his journey home. Very often the poats of the animals exhibit Aiig sores where the hagness has chafed them. A Crab’s Antipathy to Dirt. Habits of thorough cleanliness are not only required by good taste and good breeding, but are essential to health. Those enemies to life aud health called “germs,” are always found in connec tion with dirt. Alost animals instinct ively avoid uncleanliness. Tlie bird takes its morning dip in the lake or stream; the elephant treats himself to a shower bath as often as he likes; dogs love to bathe and swim in the water, as do many other animals. Even so hum ble a creature as the crab, which does not receive credit for much intelligence, has a great antipathy to dirt. These curious creatures have a singular habit of tearing off tlieir legs on sundry occa sions. Lor instance, if a crab gets badly scared at a thunder-storm or a loud noise in the water, it straightway tears off a leg or two. A crab often loses one or more legs in combat with other crabs. A still more curious thing is, that wffien a crab’s legs are lost in this way, they grow on again in a few week’s time, or, rather, new ones grow out in place of the old ones. Perhaps this is why the crab values a leg so little; he can get a new one just as good as the old one by simply waiting for it to grow. But we said that crabs are extraordi nariry neat in their habits. These creat ures have such a dislike for dirt that if, by chance, one of them happens to get one of his legs soiled in any way, he im mediately pulls it off. A missionary in the Samoan Islands tells a story of a crab that was going out one morning in ! search of food, when it accidentally soiled one of its legs. It immediately wrenched off the leg, and hobbled back to its hole, to rema n in solitary confine ment until it should grow again. It is claimed that crabs have been known to pull off all their legs in the same man ner, and then laboriously drag them selves home by their nippers to wait for new legs to grow.— Farm, Field and Stockman. A Polish Father’s Curse. There lived at Shamokin, Penn., some time ago a Pole named Limbski, who by the industry of himself and his five sons accumulated considerable property. Recently an appeal to the sons for money to pay a debt caused a serious dispute between father and sons. The old man sold the property and prepared to sail, accompanied by his wife, says the Bethlehem (Penn.) S‘ar, to the home of his childhood. Before leaving he expressed a wish that the boys might all be killed in the mffies. A few days ago, Thomas, his youngest son, was killed at Cameron colliery, and at the instance of the other brothers the crushed body was photographed as if lay on the cooling board, and the picture sent, labelled “Son No. 1,” to his father in Poland. Spelin is the rival universal language to Yolapnk. _ MAKING MERRY-GO ROUNDS THE GROTESQUE WOODEN BEASTS IN A MODERN CARROUSEL. A Popular Form of Amusement that Originated in tlie Teuth Century —Skili'ully Carved. Lions, unicorns, tigers, hippogriffs, camels, dragons, elephants, and elks, as well as horses and jackasses, are made right here in New Y 7 ork, says the Sun, iD a factory over on the East Side, every working day of the year. They are of the excited, rampant, startling, unique, and often preposterous kinds seen in the “carrousels” at Coney Island, in the Central Park and many other places. When the carrousel was first invented, in Italy, in the tenth century; when it was popularized in France a few hun dred years later, and in fact until recent times, people were satislied with wooden horses, or jackasses, to ride on their merry-go-rounds. But modern genius, particularly the American kind of it, has utilized most of the animal forms found iu the menagerie, and the fancies of heraldry, to give a grotesque pictur esqueuessto the carrousel. Inform, the wooden animals generally approximate as closely to their original models that one has no difficulty in recognizing them. The elephant’s trunk prevents his being looked upon as a lion; the camel’s two humps render it perfectly easy to distinguish him from the jackass, and anybody who will take the trouble to observe the antlers upon the deer will not make the mistake of confounding him with the horse. But there is a point in their production when differ ences are far from plain. That is when they are built up for the carvers. Each animal is made up of a scries of pieces of two-incli poplar or bass wood plank, firmly glued together so as to leave plenty of room for chiselling and goug ing away for development of the desired form, yet keep the inside of the body hollow. Very heavy bass wood planks are glued on the sides of the built up pile. Legs, ears, and heads are sawed out in appar ently shapeless chunks of wood, aud are attached to the built-up bodies, either before or after carving, according to cir cumstances. The carvers are skilled workmen, deft in wielding mallet, chisel, and gouge, and under their rapid manipula tion the clumsy pile of angles is speedily rounded aud shaped. But it is not every carver who can do this work. In fact, j those who can are very scarce. One i must have a natural talent for it, some thingof the sculptor’s genius, to develop by his keen tools the figure of an animal front the clumsy mass of wood laid be fore him, and to give its features expres sion. Expression! That is where they just turn themselves loose. Their em ployer does not interfere with their giv ing free rein to their fancy, aud such ex cited, startled, and enraged expressions as they put upon these beasts are ofto»u both amazing and amusing. The bo.ss is proud of their achievements iu this line. He says: ‘‘There is a drowsy, con servative tone about the English ani mals, while others are sharp, animated, vigorous, vivacious.” Oh! yes, they are; very vivacious, indeed. And even if you have some doubts whether the lion is roaring with laughter or with rage, you at least have the delight of knowing that he is doing something, and doing it very earnestly, too, with no “drowsy, conservative tone” about him. 1-rom the hands of the carvers the animals go to the paint shop, where they first receive a heavy coat of brown body color, aud then are tinted up with as free and untrammeled fancy as animated the genius that gave them their vivacious expressions. The results may well rattle the mind of a child that has precon ceived ideas based upon observations in the menageries, but perhaps nature would have made the world much gayer and more gorgeous if she had had theciiance to take some points from these carrousel animals. Strict fidelity to nature may obtain in the blue, or even the green, unicorn, for aught that anybody knows to the contrary, and possibly the hippo griff is born with all that gilding on him, but what shall be said of the carmine lion or the rose-pink elephant? Finally the animals that should have hairy tails are provided with them—portions of real ones cut from cattle —and then they are all boxed up for shipment along with tlie awning and the hand organ, and the sectional platform, and the central pole from which the whole machine is to depend, and the cogwheels that are to make it go round, and the guys and braces that are to prevent it front fulling down, aud the boxing to hide the perspiring man who turns the crank, and the little swords to jab at rings with, and the iron rings to be jabbed at, with the brass one that gives a free ride next time to the boy lucky enough to seize it. Carrousels are only made to order, and it takes two or three months to get one up. according to its size. A little one, supplied only with eight horses and two chariots, can be got complete for from SBOO to #350, according to finish. From that the sale for choice goes up to the mammoth concern forty feet in diame ter, with eighteen arms, carrying thirty - five horses, two camels, two elephants, two deer, two lions, two jackasses, and three double-seat dragon chariots, which may cost as much as $2500, independent of the steam engine to drive it and the much machinery. The organs range in price from SIOU to $2200, and the extra cylinders accompanying them from $35 to $l2O each. Some years this establishment turns out forty or fifty carrousels. It will do that much this year. And they are sent all over the world. One has been sent from here to Alelbourne, Australia; an other is just being shipped to Port-au- Princc, and an extraordinary vivacious set of animals are now being created to go to Kingston, Jamaica. Single figures are frequently supplied, to take the place of broken ones, or to stimulate,by novelty, the flagging interest of youth. They range in price from sl4 to SSO. The camel is most expensive, aud the lion, at S4O, comes next. A Chicago woman makes more money out of lettuce and radishes than any common farmer in Illinois out of gen eral crops, and one who raises nothing but mushrooms banked S3OOO last year. An order to an encampment of British volunteers is, “all hair to be cut quite short, and where possible the igustache only to be worn.” „ , SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Pittsburgh gas-making machines arc being sent to France. Dr. Hall, of Japan, has successfully triated opacities of the cornea by means of galvanism. The master car-builders have decided that if railway cars are to be heated bj steam the pressure should be very low. In France specially prepared wood pulp is rapidly supplanting plaster-of- Paris in me manufacture of all kinds of building ornaments. A remarkable photo-engraved chart ol the Pleiades, showing 2326 stars from the third to the seventeenth magnitudes, has been produced at the Paris Observa tory. Grubbe is experimenting upon tele graphing by the clouds, using the rays of an arc lamp reflected by the clouds and interpreted by the heliographic code. The railroad being constructed from Buenos Ayre3 to Valparaiso, Chili, is 211 miles ffing to the east foot of the Andes, and without a curve ora bridge. The tic 3 arc metallic. An Englishman has invented an elec tric gun. There is a small storage bat tery fixed in the stock, from which a current strong enougn to explode the cartridge is communicated. It is said that one charging ot the cell will ex plode five thousand cartridges. A patented material said to have all the properties of good lignum vit;e is prepared in Leipsic, by M. Stockhardt, from ordinary soft wood. The wood is first impregnated with oil, then sub jected to great pressure, causing a con siderable increase in density. A new patent candlestick keeps the caudle perpendicular, no matter liow the stick may be held. The main principle of the invention is a ball joint of the simplest kind at the bottom of the socket, the latter, being fixed to an arm from the side of the base aud extending to the center. The comfort aud safety of the contrivance is apparent. Alilk is altered both in taste and ap pearance by the character of the food supplied to the cows. It is colored by madder and saffron, scented by plants of the onion tribe, and changed in taste by such article as turnips. Certain food may give it medicinal properties, and milk thus medicated is proposed as a method of treating disease. “Anaesthetic revelation” is the name w'liieh, according to Air. Xetios Clark, has been applied to the sensation of re covery from the anesthetic effects of sulphuric ’-,er. For one brief instant, just before the complete return of con sciousness, the subject invariably has an intense perception of what seems to him at the time the true explanation of the universe. A process is described by M. Doelter by means of which the author has arti ficially reproduced the chief minerals of the mica group, as well as of natural scapolite. It is said that mercury salt acts as a preservative of the constituents of tanning liquors, and that leather pro duced from skins that have been pre viously treated in this manner is supe rior to that tanned in the ordinary way. There are now being constructed in the Canadian Pacific Railway shops at Hochelaga, Canada, forty locomotives, which will have an average weight each, with tender, of 157 tons. The cylinders are 18 inches in diameter, aud have a 22-inch stroke. Each engine will have six driving wheels, and the steam pres sure will be 180 pounds. They are lor use in the Rocky Mountain section of the Canadian Pacific Railway. A Alillionalre’s Run of Luck. R. P. Hutchinson is one of the best known among the Chicago Stock Ex change operators, and has a good deal of a reputation for shrewdness even here in New York. He is financially known as “Old Hutch,” and is rather noted for his economical principles, although a millionaire several times over. About a week ago a life insurance agent called upon him. At the very first intimation, “Old Hutch” stopped the agent with the stereotyped excuse: “I don’t want to go into no scheme or game where I have to die to beat it.” The agent was a peristent and plucky fellow aud at once met the objection with the reply that the beauty of his in surance was that a man could beat it by living. This attracted “Old Hutch’s” attention and he made inquiry of the agent, who explained that his insurance was against accidents. “If you meet with an accident you get so much a week a 3 long as you are kept from business by the accident.” Mr. Hutchinson said he would take a policy for SSOOO, and the agent went out among the members of the Board of Trade to proclaim his triumph. An old-timer up there checked the agent’s enthusiasm in saying. “Don’t you crow too much. That old Skeezicks is too lucky. He never went into any thing in his life that he didd’t win. He’ll break a leg in less than a month.” > And, sure enough, the next day “Old Hutch” did meet with an accident that laid him up, and he commenced drawing $25 a week from the company. —New York Graphic Crawled 300 Allies in Four Years. An old colored man was recently car ried to the Roll Home, who had just completed a most remarkable journey. He lost his toes by frost bite, is a para lytic, and so badly crippled that he can scarcely crawl. He was found on the Houston road beyond Gilesville, and has slowly been moving into town for two or three days. He was taken up and placed in a wagon by Superintendent Harmon and carried to the Home, where he told the story of his travels. Four years ago he left Jacksonville to come to Alacon. He was without any means, and he undertook to crawl the entire distance. His strength and con dition would not permit him to cover more than a quarter of a mile a day, and, crawling over the ground as he did, he was often compelled to remain off the road for days and weeks by reason of rain and wet weather. He lived on what was given him, and sometimes, being a great distance between habitations, he suffered much for beth water and food. The entire four years w r as consumed in making the trip Horn Jacksonville to Macon, and his first ride in all that time was in Superintendent Harmon's wagon from the Houston road to Roff Home.— Macon ( Ga ,) Telegraph. . - HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS A Pretty Plaque. r ’fkc a piece of stiff pasteboard of a cabinet photograph, aud on onesiOo place a layer of wadding. Cover with dark blue velvet, being careful tohave it lie perfectly smooth, and fasten on the wrong side. Take another piece of paste board a little smaller than the first and cover with black cambric. Sew or glue this to the wrong side of the larger piece of cardboard. Buy a small bunch ol field daisies, and around their stems tie a bow of dark blue satin ribbon. Fasten this to the center of the plaque. This makes a pretty ornament, and be placed on a wire easel or hung on the wall. If the latter way is liked, attach to the center of the back a tiny brass ring, through which run a loop of dark blue satin ribbon by which to suspend it. —A merican Cultivator. In the Kitchen. Several things are indispensable for convenience in the kitchen. First a small keg of soft soap will be found more economical and do its work better than hard soap. Should the latter be preferred though, it should be bought in the green state or newly made, so to speak, and placed in a dark cool place for two or three months before usinsr it. It can be bought hardened but will cost a trifle more than in the fresh slate. Next comes a tin can of washing soda for cleaning greasy kettles and pans, for sweetening sinks, for scouring out all dark corners aud closets that do not get much air and light, and for washing off dusty and dirty brushes aud brooms. Some people forget that the toois they work with need cleaning very often. They will scour their knives every day, but forget all about their brushes. From the hair brush to the scrubbing brush, from the dust brush to the broom, all need to be frequently cleaned with soda and ammonia. Dish-cloths are quickest sweetened by being boiled with soda. Borax is a convenient and safe article to strew about where there are roaches. In the laundry it is also useful. For washing the baby’s flannels use two tablespoon fuls to three gallons of hike warm water, and no soap. The garments will be found soft and cleau aud will not shrink. —Detroit Free Frees. Pickles of Many Kinds. Pickled Pepper : Take large green pep pers, take out the seed, soak in strong brine for two days, stuff with chopped cabbage and green tomatoes, spiced; tie up, place in jars and cover with vinegar. Pickled Onions—Select small white onions, and skin. Put them in strong brine for three days. Boil the vinegar with mace, red pepper, cloves and mus tard seed. Pour over the onions while hot. Cucumber Pickles—Wash and wipe one hundred small cucumbers and place them in jars: cover them with boiling brine and let them stand twenty-four hours. Take them out, wipe, place in clean jars and cover with best vinegar, spiced with cloves, mace and mustard seed. Set away for two weeks, when they will be ready for use. Spanish Pickles: Take two dozen large cucumbers, one peck of full grown green tomatoes, stand in brine three days; cut the same up and sprinkle with salt; take half a gallon of vinegar, three ounces of white mustard seed, one each of turmeric aud celery seed, one box of mustard and ten pounds of brown sugar ; simmer half an hour, pour over the cucumbers, put in ajar and seal. Green Tomato Pickles: Slice a peck of green tomatoss and a fourth of a peck of onions. Put a layer of each in the bottom of a jar; sprinkle with salt, and continue until full; let stand over night; in the morning drain and put in a kettle with vinegar to cover, in which put two ounces of black pepyer, one of alspice, three of ground mustard; let simmer ten minutes. Put away in stone jars. Indian Pickles: For one gallon of vin egar put four ounces of curry powder, four of mustard, three of bruised ginger root, half an ounce of cayenne pepper, two ounces of tumeric, two of garlic, and a quarter of a pound of salt. Putin a stone jar, cover and keep by the fire three days, shaking occasionally. Take cucumbers, put in scalding brine three days, drain, and drop in the spiced vin egar. Pickled Cauliflower—Cut up and throw in boiling salt water, set on the stove until they come to the boiling point, take up and drain. Put in stone jars; boil sufficient vinegar to cover them, seasoning with one ounce of nut meg, one ounce of mustard seed and half an once of mace to every, half gallon of vinegar. Pour hot over the cauliflower, adding a little olive oil. Put in jars and seal tight. Chow Chow Pieklcs. —Chop in large pieces one peck of green tomatoes, half a peck of ripe tomatoes, hair a dozen onions, three heads of cabbage, one dozen green and one dozen red peppers. Sprinkle with a pint of salt. Put in a coarse bag and drain twenty-four hours. Then put in a kettle, with two pounds of brown sugar, half a teacup of grated horse radish, one ouneje each of black pepper, white mustard, mace and celery seed. Cover with strong vinegar and boil until clear. Alustard Pickles: Take two gallons of vinegar, two large cupfuls of mustard, two tablespoonfuls of salad oil, a little salt and a tablespoonful of tumeric pow der. Alix together and let stand for a week. Then take three hundred small cucumbers, six cauliflowers, half a gal lon of small onions, one quart of nastur tiums, six heads of celery, and soak them all over night in strong brine. Steam all the vegetables, except the cucum bers, until tender. Put all in the mus tard, aud let stand one week; then put in a kettle, add two cups of brown sugar and half a cupful of Corn starch. Boil well; skim; add red pepper;,let the vinegar boil, and then pour over the pickles. Watching the Heart. A novel case has been brought to the notice of the Paris Academy of Aledi cine. A man’s breast bone was nearly all removed, with parts of several ribs, in order to stop the progress of bone disease. The experiment resulted not only in saving the patient’s life, but lias given several physiologists an opportun ity for direct investigation of the living heart and great artery, parte of which, have been made readily accessible.