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I UB THE FAKM ASD DOME. VIII** Harww l*-*«**r. • Oil* wbru applied to dry leather Inva rinbfa . J jure it, md if to If'nthff contain ing V* inn* h « it'-r th<’<»il <auiiol coti’t. Wet t.*» L«rw« <'<t night, rover it with bb'hkH. and in the morning it will lx* flauij ..d Mippli ; th<n apply m atJo*»t oil in rsnall qusiititirM, and with ft* iiiik h eltwtw eo’MM* a* will mwurc it* dinacmi rilibnr itM?lf through the leather. A .<4! i Hill harni'M* fa riw»v t*> handle, and a*!' longer than a neglect rd one Never u-< j,'table oih on Irnthrr. and among lh«- »u. mal oih nentafoot is the I erdlMK TO Im »lm b. An *• <«*ie»ivr amount of grain U the woml .»-wt•••••nt of mi animal put up to fatt« i and putirularlv if it fa thin in fhH Poorly kept have pr.-aiini thlv v k digestif organa, and lheac fur • •• -trengthemd by lareful evr . 'living i little grain at tirat. and »** than th' 1 animal will ••’ with gno . H lilr, i* the way to begin. 'l’he !im«»f may fa* ifiadually iiiciruard it* nc n ' hi* pul on bill < are mud be 111.-’ ol to » loy the ippetib-. Poor .|i< • • the niod <|rh'’atr of all feeder-*. <nd few farmer- will feed carefully. ||,nt • d sheep going into winter in thin '• ii li.id grinT.'illv Iwlter lie killed at to -avi fifithei i-xp<uiM- and fi - C ( y/G' -/'<-/■ !!«»«* In Tri I thr 4«r «»f Hhrrp. Aii I i vet i dock mini know* how to t. | :l- «gr id I hoi < bv il- teeth; but in ,i s ■ uh r< id'-i- may be *- I w»im tin til • it lime j■_••.. i nor.ml of the f.u I th..! age of a sir ep may be deter mil.- • in the ► one wav A sheep ha rigi ud t’M-f!) which make theii ap p« at t '• during the firrt \ear, when they ar< f mihhll *i/« The follow inj< year flu • i middle t< eth hr* *np* o-ded by «>ii - . ■ largei i/< Ihirim* the third i • • \o oilier sin.dl teeth, one on either •mb - -In-d ind theii phi* * 4 tire tilled by .. /• i one* The make- four large t«»tl, n front, (Linked by Iwo pointed me* The foipfh )<;u the large (a-eth in< in nmnbei and only two-.mall • ■ • in.till, on* at •in h *id*- 'I he lb* .j t 'luring the s’nfh year, when all 111- ' HU l.iii-- All- f I hi* I iine the !<.•« j.not !»«• di finitely determined, but lb< ■ dition »f the tri th enable* HU ex J- I- 'd per hi to make 1 . lone l|< h-ti- l w« o are t;em rally visible'lur ing It *i\th year, and during the •♦‘•venth <* It, .metimr earlier, ! lie I* th It* ill to J.,;’ it, or broken off entirely. V ban Bild Now •«» I • •«! Iloi«ea. A ' IM- might to be fed will il he fa liungiy, nut brought lobe liuiurrv even <l.*\ U hat make* him the con*! t u.i-trof the *■ v-dem. lb* mm ‘li- when brought into u*r, waste some what. r*|M*riidly e\rn i*e m l:ibm i*. h diaft * ion the UIUm-ul.ii sysf-’m—in fin ! Up- w hide ny -11 m Aft-- the s trm hlmimi t ived, and i! the (a\ fa ►utt nt to partially r\h.n. 1 or fatigue th •u» tmd, rest In mure imp-ut.int than I I In nee the hot should land and • ■ while Im fore In is hi. |>'ge ',iun d* e i flow <-! Id'iod to th<‘ • * • o'* th* work, and a th-* lihxid his been di w wav from them to u-tiiin the iuu*« .1 exertion dui-ii the lalh»r, it •«h'l; -I m»t Im« suddi'tik withdrawn nud furl -- in U|»oii the oig-ms <>f digestion. Ilei < hi him re-’, and after an hour m sob will be I mud kern and “sharp set. I herr is probably n«» lietter food for ■ ap» rating cxhaiiM- d nniM-le than g-om-mnd. hr i’ - ts. They nre easily digvst«-d, nulritioir, nu,s< )«• bindin g and bl -« i.ik ag Ihi de ; n riiv\ nre little heating, da not tend t • mnkr lmrs » sweat, and mi the whole are the 1“-t food t huixe ian have. Barley is \ri\ x mI. but nut *pi dto u t b* li in mrn ,m a p«»m substitute, imt s.» <-a ul\ digtsied. heating and t Hinting the animal t • ' I»s\ *h in, 1 hot sh ml | hav- hn\ lir t. then grai.i, mi l w. "' ■ eIH dig ■■ d , W<r Inmld b’ g.x- n b ill an hour nt h .st 1».40n- fv< d ilig. lhuw*s oftrh ha\« d\ prpsei in du,. d * \ l»cliig f«-d when w arm. < » b« Ho.- w ;k<4 after a full meal. Ihe praitn. <d 1 ■ -ng hard worked hurt's at nomi, and working them immvdiatelv after, i* of d< uhttul uti 1 ty Horses will go eight. lUi*l p -babh ten. hours without lirnd, it proprly ted nt evening and morning, 'liny should hate water more frequently, but ntvei wh<*n hot .1 I; » I >ariM wmil <«wt«<ru !>.g Imnw radidi and pr» sci\e in Maud in tl • cellar; mvv the roots f.»r planting neat spring. <»i* nmderxvl waletpi hd i»\ first woakii.g it in water until il Ix-romes mist, and th at melting it with gentle heat in Imarrd nil. Hav xmir gitndst >;ic Ivivomv hollowed frvin the grinding of small tools/ Grind Up the spade* md shovel* by holding them wquarr a< r »ss the stone at a prop» 1 level. Spadox l.k hm s, should b* ground all vu one aide. In m<rt c* c* where a vuw lose* one ot; more tcaU ahe alumld after a year or two Im* turned uvej lu the but* her. She will not give a» much from two teat* a* she did from four, u a jmn of the udder which idiQUid 'etc the milk will be un UMMi. There i« one advantage in keeping guinea fowli with other poultry, aa their loud noiae frightens away hawks and other rfK-mir Giiim’i-fowl meat iadark. but h.u* a g'Hm’.v flavor liked by thoae who have a fancy for game. A* < gg- I pr‘Mlurrr» guinea fowl* are excellent, • though their habit of roaming causes • many of th’* rgi/s t-» In lod. A farmer rerommemfa from rx|x ricm o <|iluted rarlM»li< :v i<l um ii remedy for f hirken < hoi era, for hog cholera, and for pinkeye in horn * lie give* twodro/H of < arlxib< id in drink for his hens, four drop* for each one of his hoga, and ten drop* diluted with water a* a <lom for a borne. In thi* small rpnnttiy car bolic arid will d » no harm, find the rem rdy i* worth remembering. Even firmer before killing hogs <»r other Hiimafa should have them weighed, -o that it m.r. be known how great fa the lo** in killing and dressing. In wiling by li’ e weight buycTH require farmer* to deduct a hrger ja r< r-ntage for wantage than is generaily ‘•xfx-rirnred. hi well fattened. <oinpnrtly built porker* the wa te is often not more than 20 [H-r cent, of the whole, ami xumetim- even less th.in Illi-. AH th'- paring* and fruit wastes from th* kitrh'-n should be fed out, if for nothing rfa -. to destroy the in. M-rt life th* \ may contain. Almost any cow will eat five or six quart* of good apples a day. if dm can g<‘t them, aud if store pigs are given one meal a day in place of grain, th» v will do all the better for the ex< ha’igr. Fruit i* g » »*l for human food, ami it is e.piallv valuab!” .* food for most domestic animal -. One re 1 on why hog- ire mon liable to disease is berau 1 nil illy no pains in- l iken to provide them with plenty of * lean watci. d’lu- swill tub with its dfali-Anter and other slop is no üb-titut ■ tor pice water so far * h ilt'i fa con.-. Tiled In winter. e*p •< i.dlv. th’Tc is little advantage in giving sloppy food l‘h* Log will thrive letter if given ho meal only slightly I moisten-*1 .md left to drink what clean I wiitcr it < hoo-i s from another dish. The farmer’* work is necessarily ex ' perim< ntal. Whih some general prin < *p|e ar- alv. iy* .tppli* il»l • it is imp*** j sible to provide for details without kiiowled. of at : ling cinunistances. No positive rules < in be made to lit .all < ases, and therefore e n h inu*t be derided • m its merit as it arises. To this re <pi ires excellent mid it is not unnatural that an old ami successful lariner Miiouhl regard will: some distrust the know ledge which has been derive* 1 only from book*. A et-mp-i't leap -dem I l> 1 permanent h-atiire in ronin * turn with every well managed garden. >w imp muck is the best material lor the La-»i of a comp" t heap, Im! sod or rich <»il from a road M«ir or pot'•; my be made tosr vr the p'itpo-- admirablv \il 1 fesr or offal from th* house and yard* n that will de • ,iv and i-adily drromp - .<• hould timl its w iv a: onrr on the compost heap to !•* th* •vv ith all the d»! ■ nianure, ami be j ni* *ly mix* d with the absorbing mate 1 ’ I. I his in the spring will be found to : )»<• on-' .»! the bt t investm to draw lioin lot daily Um . 11 «»««««* li ohl Hint*. I "’igo m J1 ■ ma*l tender bv Iv ing a lew min’»» -s in vinegar water. Bo\r* 1 • holding slipped m <mL|s and • nd* mav b ornam.-nteil with thin * here i cloth, revered v ith woolen la* •• tin shade | of the boudoir curtains. • I" >1 - li' ( lotlw pnxlucn chann al v m small . \\ lien tin .'l'-i. s <>f cui tahi'" ! ■ liiiishi '.l with ' tliifl. tassel', a pn'ti', .If t is pro.ln< .*<l, | A t'uoiii cr >v. .|. .| t'» discomfort with Itirnitiin and ortriim nts. no matter hoc 1 1 ’ l 4l y, i - net or re -1 fol and hoineli k<>, and I always sit .o -ts the museum or the sh e.. f • ivtitov.' th I dos of r.ni h sh > 1 pel h, < ith r : .>m w ■ a o” . ■!( >n jjo.hls, wash the spot with tallow soap ' and let it stand for all hour or so, then Wash ill clem water, and ate maids pro i .’ -d as w ith uny soil, ,| a|-e. Itr<-I|>ra. I' 'l' itt'e pound of raisins I chopp'd tine, one pound ot . .•■rants, one pmn.l of min . d n t fn ed from skin, one pound of sugar, had .. pound of bread crumbs, a sc mt halt pound ot tiour. two ounces , aiiditai p.ad and halt a llltm dialed. Mi\nel! too tiler with s< sen nell beaten coos and boil foreiijht I hours. , A .o .. I .d,eone pomnl of canned salmon and turn it out of the can on a • aland, to dr. o. this done take two forks and shred the fish very tine, reinov- ■ iiiit the skin and the bones, then to • this the sam< pro]mrtion of mashed |h> , tat.s s, ,nd a little pepper and salt, Hat I '.lp one , and add this to the mivtiire. : make this int • flat cakes and fn ; s. nd th. -<• to the table ,piit< hot. suttaldv lor < .phi |s'rsona. /ts'.p .s, . -t’.stk a slice of salt |>ork in three pints of water, and boil till all ■ |*>ssibiiity of fat i« isioked out. The i water should lx- n-diun-d to a quarter; , then add all onion < hop| M si tine and nigh* large pout ss, first Ixdlrd and mash,si. t «>k slowly for half an hour, th n add enough scalding milk tt> thin it to the i <n.isteuer of pea soup. Add salt and • while |'‘i4jxri for strain through a coar*- sieve or colander and pour into a hot tureen, in which should first be put a tables]<ootiful of melted butter. A7ez Gridjlr t'dri. —Two cuptuls cold boiled rice, one pint tlo:;r. one t"i‘pain ful sip/ar. om half t"i<j*»onful suit. ’ ,e --mid one-half teaspooiiful*i bakino jsiw'd r. om- <-gg. little mor ■ than one-half pint milk Sift together flour, suga.. salt mi l jHiiv.b-r add rice free from lump', dilut'd with beaten egg mid milk; tnix int . smooth butter Have griddle well hc-ib-d. make cakes large, bake nicely brown, aerie with maple sugar. A Secret Craft In Prison Life. It lias freipientlv b-eti surmised that in prison life there is a secret craft by means of which men confined have knowledge of what is going on about them, mid contrive to communieat • with cm h other in spite of the strict 'st pre ventive measures. The other 1.(100 con victs were nil locked in their cells at the time Dan tb Allisti-r. the notorious crim inal, es< ap-d; but in less than mi hour every convict in the prison seemed to be aware that tile daring criminal was free, and such a buzzing of suppressed talk mid excitement as •'.as manifested throughout the great cell-hottsc. usually so silent, was nstoni- hing to the oldest guard. This mv-tcrioiis power of comintini.'''- tion has been used for much more dangerous purposes than' the mere, di serninntion of news. A f"W years ago conspiracies to kill th' ir guards and es cape were of almost monthly o< e'.'.rreiice. Csually the Warden would be bored with them, A day o'- two before th- time fixed for lheir consummation, he Lad little time for any other business than hearing conspirators who were anxious to ■■give away' their pals, each believing himself to l><- the only one to tell, and all anxious to curry Invornnd get the credit. McAllister is the only life prisoner that • ver succeeded in making his escape from .I,•lii-t prison, mid his escape is the only one of any importance that has occurred in ovei ten years. One thousand eight hundred mid eighty men mid twenty women composed tin- largest number of convicts ever confined at .Joliet till.) nt one time. This was on the 15th day of March. fs7S. when the prison count reached I.'.HIU. Tile opening of the South ern Penitentiary at Chester, (III.) at about that time, accounts for the reduc ed number of convicts at .Joliet at the present time, yet the prison here now contains a huger number of inmates titan anv similar institution in the country, and still bears the palm of being the model penal institution of the I nited Slates. The corner stone of the prison was i.iid in 1857, but the building's and wnlis wire not fully completed until some twelve years liter, tin- finishing touches being given in 1801). -67iA> I>< Liwr.lt. Ligo Brown's Life Studies. In .lie battle of life nil have a .! aneu to win the i hampi'ouship. If a m:m don't say mm h, he can so in get (he name of knowing a heap. Smiles ure not only the most becopting ••f all adori.iiu-nts, imt also the least ex pensive. It is s.dd that I i.iwt'- . ■><■ never used an italiei.'-d word. Pcriiaii-. he never tried to put up a st >ve. Tin- first woman emnplaineil of having nothing to wear, mid her daughters have kept the sum.- old story going from that day to this. Th Nebraska girl who took a sleep of scieiuy imii', eutivi- day - and nights has filially liecii aw akened bv means of eli'i • tri. ity. 11 ■: first words w “Mother, is there any cold meat in the house t" It comes about as natural for some folks to want the whole earth as ii does for an Irishman to smoke a short, pipe, but the boy who has just licked another f How a year or two older than himself, feels tlk t human glory has mH eu'.irely gii -a him the go-by. Somebody -ays that a healthy infant, c.siiii-.; in a . i-iulle, is a sight that makes mig- ls I -all over the battlements of heav en an t .- ongingl' tuv. ant earth. Thu idea ls p. -tie, hut toe cold fa- ts in the eas, are that life is full of howling dis cord to th, ine\|H-rieueed father of colic ky twins. Away d..w.i .kep in every human heart is something that makes one lon-- nt times t.. trample th,- cares of earth under foot and pillow the head on the cloud'. Imt an opixrrtunitv to make a dollar with apparent eas.- will bring the iim rap man back to earth with, a sudden ness that nothing •in life can eclinse, 1 (7.<.-.i. A> The Vnlito of Time. *’<)ne to-day." remarks a wise man." is north two tomorrows " oh, i-it. then! Y -ii go into th* m.-. ~t with to day am! sei- how many Io morrows you <an gel fol it. You < .m't g- t cm-. Xot a *oiita> ry one; you can't even get to morrow morning for it. But if you have a to uiorrs.w that you want to put on the market you might get a whole w< -k of to-days tor it. The uuiy man ’who wouldn't offer to-day for it is the man who is g. ng to Is- hniip-d tomorrow and has conaequcnUy very little use for it What he wants to trad ■ for is about tw > months of yesterdays aud a couple of weeks before last LADIES’ DEPARTMENT. Bonntla Made of l v «prr» The craze for utilizing tissue pa[>cr in making artificial flowers and other orna ments, which has Ix-come so popular with society belles, promises to prove a b ion to the citizen of limited means, whose wife and dnughter have an eye for the beautiful. A prominent society lady has hit upon the novel expedient of making ladies' bonnets of delicately tinted pajier with the aid of a few more substantial materials for the purjmse of se curing strength ami durability. Instead of a body of magnificent plush or velvet, the frame-work of the bonnet is of tissue pujter, costing altout 15 cents, and the trimmings are of artificial flowers, with here and there a strip of ribbon. The eff .'Ct is uni<pi".— Nut Yuri. WurlJ. In Nvreet l*taor<ler« A “sweet disorder" in the arrange ment of the hair is not onlt allowable just now about the temples and upon the crown of the head, but it is considered very proper and "stylish" to allow num berless short stray zephyr locks to fail carelessly from either side of the graceful I'ranch twist, which carries most of the hair high to the front -and sides of the head. The fashionable young lady thus coiffured naturally gives the idea to peo ple not yet instructed it: ‘his art of hair dressing that sh" has cither forgotten to mr.k ■ her usual toil 't o.- has recently en countered a gal?. The straggling wisps, nevertheless, are noticed upon every other “society" girl one meets just now. They are fashionable, and we know what fierce, violent objections may quickly be cruehed out and overruled by that magi cal assurance. Critica'lv, however, the latest style in hair-dressing is an untidy one, but no more so than the wearing with the most carefully made and hand some toilet of a dingy and soiled un dressed kid glove—a fashion which still obtains with many best-dressed people. Zulu Mnrringr*. The most refined sentiment of love is unknown among the Zulus, writes a cor respondent of the Springfield l{e]>>ililican. The period of wooing is brief. A young girl may have taken a liking to some warrior. Unknown to her family, or if known, unrestrained, she will leave her father's house, and at dusk will station herself before the hut of the favored one. She will remain perfectly silent, neither asking nor answering questions. If her attentions are favored she will be asked into the hut and remain a week or more. Then he returns with her to the father’s home, taking a few cattle along. These are presented and invariably accepted, a sign that the parents are willing to enter into negotiations. The price is fixed and the couple return, and thence forth are regarded as man and wife. If. on the other hand, a young warrior takes a liking to a girl, he will induce her to follow him, and, like any common buyer of cattle, inquire into her good qualities. Or he will lead to her father’s home some cattle. If these are accepted the bargain is further discussed and finally closed. Eigiit or ten head of cattle : the average pric, for a girl. Trtangrnfar Mirror*. “ Women, as everybody knows, are the hardest to please/’ said a wan, pale face*! clerk in a large jewelry establish ment the other day. just after wrestling for an hour and a half with a fat girl m a red hood, who had bought onlv a ’ silver bangle bracelet fora dollar. The pale-faced clerk sighed and then contin ued, in a dull ami listless sort of way: “ But 1 think we’ve got something now that even the prettiest ami meanest female in the world can’t complain about. You know tor mebbe you don’t know-: you don't look as though you were mar ried s.r.. I've been married two years), every woman would rather see the back of her head just after she has put up her hair than anything ••!*«• on earth. Well, they’v* been straining their necks and using hand glasses in front of their mir rors for a long time. and the result has not been particularly satisfactory. It has at length occurred to somebody to invent something to remedy this. There is a thru sided gl.i>*. It’s rather expen sive you see. French plate, with ivory 1 backs. The sides are movable and ad- , ju*table. A woman can arrange that ' thing so that she can sit in front of it ! ami see her back hair without turning her head. The advantage is simply be yond < al* ulation. She can catch her dres*ing-inaid in a lie regularly everv morning.’’—/*’. ; ’h7»7 / oZi/<7 The t nin llj’ I*lll*4l*. Tin- money question between husband ami wife is one of the most serious draw backs to the happiness of married life, and it is time that it was adjusted on a more just and equal basi.s. The life of utt'-r de|x-n«len< e which some women lead i- crushing ami degrading. Men do not realize the utter helplessness and vacuity to which the system reduces «am u. Now, does anybody believe that it is m- -s-ary for the welfare of the family that the wifi should go to the husband for five cents every time she needs it for a S|>ool of thread, postage stanips. n-.xsties. pins, or any other neces sity Is it right or just to take for granted her imbecility in money matters before she has been test.all bi* not freqeuntly the ease that just such women, left to their own resources by a failure i„ Home HjM’eulative scheme with the burden of a family on their inexperienced shoulder-. often i ( play wonderful powers of energy an calculation, in addition to thrift and per 'ivering industry? Examples of this sort ought to put all such men to shame. Women, as a general rule, can make one dollar go as far as two in the hands of men; and many conceited individuals who now consider that the social system bounded by the four walls of their dwell ing would cease to revolve if they were taken out of it, would find great happi ness and great pecuniary advantage l>y putting the control of all the interior details of their homes into the hands of their wives, with a division of the in come equal to the requirements. lT<w»«m’« Juurual. Fashion Xo.ti. Straw fans are shown. Velvet is worn, plain and frise. Pointed shoes are being imported. Tulles offer as much variety as any ma terial. Sleeves are still tight, but must soon give way. The new lace aprons are exquisite and expensive. Crush hat' for ladies are made of corded silk. Fur brims arc fashionable, also gold lac e bonnets. Clasps for beaded dog collars corres pond with the beads. Brocaded grenadine is used for draper ifs for evening dresses. Oxidized silver and gold filigree balls are used for trimming. * *■ • Cloths of rough surface have the vest, collar and cuffs of velvet. Jet panels have designs of wheat with ■ rich cut jet pendants like wheat ears. Pearl embroidered fronts in all the evening colors have laces to correspond. Some of the new brocades have great fl ewers in natural colors with shaded effects. When aqua-marine, which is becoming fashionable, is set in silver, the effect is very brilliant. Gold and silver glisten everywhere, in every part of a full-dressed lady’s cos tume from top to toe. Wrinkled gloves have gone by, ana although the long gloves are worn, yet they must tit the arm smoothly. Plastrons and vests of cashmere corres ponding to the dress have bands of velvet or are trimmed with woolen lace. Broad red felt hats for little girls are trimmed with a mass of black velvet loops placed a little to the right of the front. The new Khedive satin is to be had in small Oriental designs or plain. When draped it falls in peculiarly soft, rich folds. Floral fans are always worn, and art being made on a bramble foundation, showing leaves on one side aud flowers on the other. A bonnet of dark red embroidered vel vet has a jet bird on the crown. On the top of the bonnet are dusters of jet grapes with velvet leavesand tendrils. Hygienic corsets have buttons and hooks on the edges by which the petti coats are secured, keeping them in posi tion and producing the coveted slender ness of figure. Bearded galloons of all colors are var ied in design. Some of them are cov ered with alternate rows of large and small beads and ure finished with arrow head pendants. A novelty in unbleached hosiery is an- ; nounced. It consists of lines of open work, two to three inches long on each side of the toes, which afford relief to those troubled with corns. Hie Samoan Islands. The history of these islands is rather interesting. They are eight in number, and they contain an aggregate of 35,000 ; inhabitants. Their chief value consists | in the fact that they are on the direct ; route to Australia and that they have I several good harbors which serve admira- ■ bly as coaling stations. The exports are I cotton in small but increasing quantities, and copra, or dried meat of the ripe cocoanut. Os the latter over 30,000 tons are sold annually. This trade has in former years been practically monopoliz ed by one or two German houses. The people are not savages, but Christians The London missionary society, the In dependents and Presbyterians, the Wes leyan* and Roman Catholics are establish., ed in force among them, and the pure barbarian has long since disappeared. In 1872 they indulged in the luxurv of a ■ civil war, which was brought to an ami cable settlement in 1875 by Co], Stein- j berger, who was sent out by Gen. Grant with presents, consisting of arms, ammu i.ition and a handsome flag com[x>sed of seven alternating stripes of red and white, with a white star on a blue field. A ! constitution was accepted at that time ith a senate ami assemblv. In matter* of dress, however, the people are so prim itive that it became necessary to pass £ law fining a senator SIOO if he appeared naked at any session. CLII’PI.WS FOR THE A resident of Los Angeles, Cal., sffection of the eyes by which ho is to see the same object multiplied j| times. Seventeen thousand Hessian sohli crß i a all came to America. They had the? own officers, the chief of whom er> Generals Riedesel, Knyphausen and b Heister. In 1059 two Quakers were hanged Boston. A woman had been sentenct-j to die with them, but was reprieved m condition of her leaving the colony. name was Mary Dyer. Next year she te. turned to Boston and was executed. A fruit-grower in Pomona, Cal., hajj dozen apple trees upon which are to l x seen three distinct crops of fruit, first crop is ripe, the second as large » hen's eggs and the third as large ae ( marble. The trees blossomed for a fourth crop, but did not fruit. The food of Burmese peasants include almost all kinds of reptiles, the grub of, ball-rolling beetle, a kinds of ant which constructs nests of leaves in treetopj (eaten in curries), and hill rats. The hat named exist in such hordes that their consumption is almost a necessity to pr fr vent the rats from eating the Burmese A wonderful and little known flow7 I has been on exhibition at the Pliiladel. ]fliia Horticultural Society's rooms. It H called the and blooms in the evening. From a small bud one inch ami a quarter in diameter, comes a beau tiful flower four inches in diameter. The development requires less than an hour, and the buds can be seen opening. , At Pau, where many men and women with light hearts and heavy purses go hi winter, it is not unusual to see a person with a pair of skates in one hand and a sun-umbrella in the other. The ice is found on a small lake that lies deep in a hollow, and there is good skating on the lake, while round about Pau people are promenading tn sunshine as warm as Hint of October. A French writer has described a curi ous phenomenon observed in a very in telligent parrot, the bird's eyes invariably becoming red by the contraction of the iris on the appearance of a little boy for whom an extraordinary affection has been acquired. Flashes of red appear in moments of anger, but the noticeably lasting effect is only produced by the joy of this particular child’s presence. For the Orphans. A Detroit poultry buyer was in Macomb County a few days ago on business, when, just about dark, his horse became fright ened at some object along the road and ran away. The man was thrown out of his vehicle, but not badly hurt, and after he had pulled himself together he started on after the horse. Pretty soon he en countered three stalwart tramps, each one of whom had a club. As they ob structed the road he was forced to halt, xvhen one of them said: “Being as you are a nvell-known phil anthropist, mebbe yotfd like to donate a couple of dollars toward an orphan asy lum.'’. “Where is it?" “Out near Chicago. I don’t just re member the exact dimensions of the building, nor the number of little kids as is cryin’ their blessed eyes out fur their dead parients, but 1 know they is sadly in need of money. Ain’t it so, boys?" “You bet!" replied his two compan ions. “If I give you $2 will tire orphans ever see it ?” asked the Detroiter. “Will they! Won't we purceed right there and give it to ’em afore Saturday night? You don’t take us fur a passel of gents without feelin’s, do ye?" “If he does," said one of the others, as he spit on his hands and gripped his club afresh, “I must clear my reputashun. I've alius been known as the friend of the orfans, and I can’t ’low nobody to throw out hints that I'm a liar aud a hypocrite!" “Audit's the same with me!” added the third. The Detroiter handed over two silver dollars, aud the tall tramp received them with; “Now, that’s right. When a man won’t give to the orphans you kin sot nim down as too mean to live. On behalf of the leetie angels, many of which can’t remember their paw nor maw, I thank you. If you ever come our way stop and -see the children and hear them bless your name. Tom, you and Jim git out o' th road and let the public philanthropist pass on. I'm surprised that you'd stand in a gentleman’s way! Good night, old fei. Heaven will surely reward you!”-' Detroit Free Pre**. A Valuable Invention. Yon are a stockholder in the Cross Cut Railroad, sir; he asked. “I am." said the stockholder. “1 have a new device for registering up ney re. i-ipts that lays over any ” "Y'- ', sir, l.r.t our present system perfectly satisfactory. Our conductor’ cannot——" “Excuse me. but my invention has nothing to do with conductors. It's a protection against presidents and supcr int-adent’. Shall 1 taken chair and ex plain it to you!" “If you will be so kind," said the vtockholder.— Life.