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POSTAL IREAKS. Some Peculiarities of n Great City'* Mail. Mr directed bitter*, Un lid reused Poital C*rd* Mi l Othxr Imignlsrit en Tin re are •* many •« 3000 letter* re. reived in tin- New York post-office every day which are misdirected Tliiap*rti< ular branch of the service in in charge of Su[h riritemiccil E I'erry Joner, who ha* been in the employ of the government for eighteen yean. Hit Hr»t awiataot i» J. H Toll, who i* al*o a veteran »t the work. The reception of each piece of mail matter in H<qe iint< nd<-nt Jone*' de partment* recor led in a big book, and everything that i< done with it i» al»o re corded *" that a complete record of e»< h piece i* al band, and l< tier* in iy be traced for year* back. Eq>« tally i* tbi* done with regard to lett< r* containing money, nnd a groat many of these arc received, the total amount received in department beir.g about $400,000 to $700,000 a year To give mi idea of the intereating system employed and the amount of work entailed by groaa care leMueM of jicraoii* who uddrea* letter*, it i« only necessary Io give the story of a letter a* it i* found ii|hii recor I. A letter bearing the postmark “New York’’ wn* addressed to "John Smith, Jackson ville, Fla.” Mr Smith could not b' found. The letter in due time win re turned to Washington and aliened at the dead letter office. Il contained $lO in money, and was signed "Katie, —E. 88th street." It was forwarded to Su perintendent Jone*. At the number given no "Katie" could Im found. The letter was kept thirty days, ami no inquiry being made about it, it was sent to W uhi'igton. But should “Kiltie" ever desire to look up her lost letter she could yet obtain it by proving property, as it could be quit I.ly found by reference to the records. An average of fifty po-l il < ard . ire put in the Ni w York otlii i every day with I no oddroa* al all upon them. Many which are intended foi out of town are directed to New York city, the person addressing them evidently having had his mind on something else Ilian his work. A great deal of matter on which the charges have not bun fully paid is refused. Thisi lass <4 mntti r caiisi s Ihe depai tinent a gn at, deal of trouble. The most of this is mut ter sent to large linns w ho i s'iihlish n rule not to receive anything that i.s not fully prepaid. Often they icfiise letters on which there is but two or three cent* due which contain money. All this matter is sent to Washington, and the sender is traced out from there. It is seldom that a woman refuses to receive mail matter, whatever the extra charge i*. Her natural curiosty is 100 great. Cake and candy an mailable in a tin box, but not in a pasteboard box This regulation is often violated, and any quantity .of sweet tiling* arc captured by the keen-scented (aistal clerks. Fruit is also umnailable except it is securely packed, but hardly a day |siss<'S that some sort of fruit is not taken out of the mails. When picked in past! Isinrd boxes |s-i i.liable stull is liable to be < lushed and to injure other mail matter. Liquids of id! kinds are uiinuiihible, yet a great many I Hit tics are found in the mails. There is only one rate to Canada for package*. It is ten cents no matter how large or how small the package is. But the package niunot ol course exceed the maximum weight or dimensions pre * rib< 4 by Hie postal regulations. A g cat tunny package* are held under the law. Willi nearly every foreign country the arrangements is *u< h that mail mat ter will lx- forwaidcd even if it is short pai l But it i not so with Australia. Ihr result is a great ninny Australian letter* are held for prepar mi nt. Not long ago a leltci lontaining two SIOO bills camo into . the hand* of the department < terks It w.i addressed to a vi-rtiii. uuiuls t >ll Set enth avenue. A most thorough March wa* made to And the owner. I'lach carrier on Seventh ave nue took it <u Inin, but the owner could not bo found,and tin $?00 went into the treasury of the government. Num very in teresting thrugv well found m the mall •cut to the department from the w reck of the Oreg mi. 'lire gieatest part of it wa* »o thoroughly waked with silt water that it could not In forwarded, but a great dial of excellent work was done in luak ing out sii|s-i-m riptions w ith only slight clews to work upon. Hundreds of pho to; r.iphs, love messages mid token* sent from the other aide had to lie diinqied into bags mid sent on to W ashington, there to lie officially destroyed The av erage number of letter- returned to M iiliiiigton each week is from 8000 to 10,000. Au an average about SOO of the letter* relume.l to Washington weekly cannot lie delivered even aft. r they have Ix-cti o|s-iie<t at the Dead L- ltci 0:11 e.— Art." i'ork Star An Kugageineiit King. Mother—Did you hear the bell just now. Daughter I thought 1 heard a very faint tinkling; let me look out of the window and aoe. I declare, it’* Tom! Mother—Ahl 1 thought it rounded like an engagement ring, and I'm a woman of experience. Bbst.wi Sedgrt. A t hinexe Hon»e. In her new book on China, -Mist Gor don Cumming gives tbi* description of a : Chines ■ house of the ln-ttcr < l ure; It I covers so mu< h ground, an I there are so 1 many open halls, consisting chiefly of i pillars and ornamental roofs, scattered J promiscuously about,among pavrd court yards, decorated with fl >wcr« in pots, and then there are walls pierced by oddly shap d portals, formed like rxtr gon*, or circles, even teapot*. and all placed nt irregular intervalnever op posite one anoth r; and then shady mor ■cl* of garden, with all manner of sur prise* in the way of little ponds, mid angular bridges, nnd qmint trei i. Ih< i somehow, quite unexpectedly, you find yourself in brightly ornamental suites of small rooms, which seem to have b n originally one great room, stibdiv.dc I by partitions of the m"t elnb ir.it ■ xvood | carving, and furnished with beautiful I polished blackwood, and hungin.. f i rich materials. Such hou:«'s are, in fact, the putri j archal encampment of a whole clan, to i which nil the sous mid brothers of the house bring their wives, and there take up their quarters, living together appar ently in very r markable pl ace. We wcr<- received by our host and half a dozen of gentlemen of the family, and for num ' time we sat in n fine open reception hall,drinking pile straw-color ed tea in its simple form and playing with a nice little son, the hop-: of the house. Presently our host (who is very friendly to foreigners, an I, from inter course with him, is less punctilio is than most Chinamen on tire matter of being seen speaking to his women folk) led us aside and presented ns to his most kimlly an<i courteous old mother, who conduct ed us to her apartments, her son nccom piinying us. He then introduced us to j his little bride, aged thirteen. His mat rimonial alvcnture* havo so far been imlm ky, two previous wives having ' died very early. Thi* one seems n nice, . bright little Indy. She was very highly ' roughed, as was also her sister-in-law. Another sij>ter, being indisposed, was not roughed, nor was the mother, and therefore pleasanter to our eyes; but the ; Canton ladies love to lay on the color i thick. There is no deception about it! : It is good, honest rod, laid thick upon the check, nnd carried right round the .' eyebrows; the latter are shaved to refine their form. They cannot understand why English ladies should refrain from su< h an emb-llishment. Only when in mourn ing do they refrain from its use, and one I notable exception is that of a bride, who, 1 on her wedding day, may wear no rouge, so that when her red silk veil is removed nnd the fringe of pearls raised, her hus- I bind, looking on her face for the first time, may know for certain what share of beauty unadorned has fallen to his lot. But. of all eccentricities of personal ; decoration the oddest, I think, is that of ; gilding the hair, which, I am told,young i ('.inton girls do on very full-dress occa- ' sions. Certainly Ido remember a time when Home English ladies powdered ‘ their hair with gold dust; but then they 1 owned golden locks to start with, whcrcics these are all black and glos-y as the ra ven's wing The Dangers of Kissing. An enemy to the kis< has appear.' I in 1 Washington, 1). in the person of Dr. SimUilS. Adams, who devotes seven i t ohimii* ol the "Journal of the American ; Medical As-o. iatioa" to exposing the “dangers of kissing." Everything has it* dark side. The dark side of kissing, as viewed by Dr. Adams, i.s both moral and physical. Among women and between children and adults it has degenerated into an insincere, unmeaning and com monplace salutation, when it should bo reserved only as an index of all ■ctionatn feeling. But the weight of the doctor’s argu- ' ment is expended in showing the possi ble < v.|s which come from the promis cuous kissing of babies ana children by adults. Tuberculosis, diphtheria, in- . fectious fevers. , auerum oris, rupture of the tympanum all are possible or actual | results of kissing. A veritable instance j is cite I, in which the drum of the ear I was ruptured by u kiss applied to the j external auricular appendage I A kiss of such suction force reminds one of 11. ne licl's, w hich had "such a clamorous smack that, at the parting, all tlffi*l church did echo." V, h.-.il li >rd. Fire Frigliteue.l the Bear. A Michigan fisherman who had cap mix'd a bear's cub, which he had run across in the w oods was pursued by the she bear. The fisherman dropped the j cub very soon, but the act failed to pla cate or divert the attention of the parent bear, which pressed him hotly. At one moment she was so close that she was enabled to sccuri l a mouthful of the fugative’s apparel. His strength was fast giving » ay, and the bear betnived no sign* ol fatigue or relenting, when the , flthertuan In-thought him of an expedient, i He had heard that the most ferocious of ! wild animals were subdued and terrified by fire, and, drawing a newspaper from his pocket he touched a match to it and dashed it blazing into the bear's face. The clleet wu magical. The lieat rolled over and over, grunted with ter ror, and on regaining her feet forsook the Geld with astonishing rapidity. fob the farm axd home. ff>»w <• Feed !<*>«■. C ktiu< ■ your trough* for f.-w Eng li<i-. . say* the Lire StocL Itrjie'rr, of Kans.ii City, »o that each hog cannot i propri ite mor..- than a foot to him-. If. Have division* by mean* of small fenced yard mi arranged thnt at least three siz. sos pig* can slip under and bo divul.gi into three grades and each have a trough toeat from. Now, by pouring swill into th'- trough* for the small pigs they will <tow<l into tlicir j>en first and lx- out of the way of the older one*, safe, : eating. Thea take the second grade, ari'l they will all be on an equality and out < f the way of the still larger ones. In this manner a feeder can regulate the feed -nid grade hi* hog* in eating, and manage u large number nnd have each get a propct share of food, and not get hint. I) i not undertake to raise your hogs on grass alone. They need at least otic <ar of corn per dtiyj to give them heart and to neutralize the acid arising from eating the grass. A full supply of ashes and salt should be kept in reach all the time. Charcoal isn great neutral iz.-r of acid*. Burnt cob* are good. I! memb'-r that clover is full of acid, and a * air stomach soon lead* to disease, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” in this case. ( arc of n n Orchard. W. A. London say* ic the Hural Mee eengcr : 1 find that 1 me, wood ashes, ! and old iron put around the roots of de clining trees, have a very beneficial ef ' feet. These fertilizers restore the trees to a healthy condition, and also greatly ■ improve th fruit in quantity. I made the application early last Spring us an ex : periment on a Winesap and Nevcrfail; about half a bushel mixed lime and ashes ; to each, and dug it in with a hoe some i six fe.-t around the trunk, and put the old iron immediately around the base of each. The trees put forth with renewed vigor, bloomed abundantly, and yielded i a good crop of fruit. An excellent wash for tree* may be made thus : Heat an ounce of salsoda to redness in an iron pot.anddiss Ive it in one gallon of water, ami while warm apply it on the trunk. After one application the m.-ss and old bark will drop <4l, and the trunk will be quite smooth. This wash has quite re <up rutivc properties, makmg old trees bear anew. I have tried soft soap as a wash with good results, and also a coat ing of lime in the Spring season, which is a line specific for old trees. The ques tion is often asked if it is best to manure trees in the Fall or Spring. I have found the Summer season to be a good time; have great faith in mulching, es pecially young trees, for several reasons, after they are planted. Apple trees have two growth.* during the season— the secondary growth takes place after mid Summer; hence it is that a topdress ing of manure and also coarse litter, fa cilitates the late growth, and often pro duce, very marked results in the habit and formation of the tree. The good effect that mulching has to young trees is that it wards off the intense heat of the sun from the tender roots, and also has a tendency to hold moisture. A good topdressing of stabl - manure in the Fall around young trees, with a good many < orneobs cast over the surface of the ■ gives satisfactory results. ilkilltf « OH «. ln s|,eaking upon this subject the Pitts burg StiH-kiuan says: Milking is nothing short of a fina art, and the farm hand who knows how to milk properly is more valuable to the careful dairyman than any other help. Some can milk u dozen cows while others would milk half that number, but the careful manager is not so anxious for fast help as he is to employ those who are careful. The operation should never be hurried, but the milk should be drawn steadily as it flows. S >me cows have tender teats and udders, and the rapid milker forgets this in his effort to make speed. A cow that is naturally impatient and fretful does not hke to sub mit to rough handling, ami her disposi tion is soon ruine I by such treatment. A* the udder be.'-me- distended with milk the cow readily submit* to milking for the relief it bring*. The constant practice of being milked at stated inter vals impresses itself strongly upon her, and she will seldom resist without cause. If a cow that has been patient nt milk ing becomes fractious the fail't can al ways lx- traced to the milker. The care less dairyman is the one who complains of his cows to keep up the flow, ami bloody milk, garget and other evils are almost always the result of his ow n mis management. Another point demanding attention is allowing cows to stand a long time waiting to lie milked, With cow* that milk large it is painful when the udders are filled to the utmost and the milker is not on hand to relieve them, and they become nervous and rest less. This causes a cow to dry up pre maturely because nature revolts at her suffering. The cow should also be milked to the last drop; if the last por tion of the milk, as claimed, is the best, the udder should be left with nothing in it. With regularity in feeding, milking and caring for the cows, and kind treat ment at all times, the cow will not only become gentle and stay so, but will give , milk longer and her season's product will be much larger. If a cow begin* to give trouble in milking proper attention in handling and management will mostly cure the evil. >arm and ddarden .Totea. Regulate the feed of your home* to correspond with the amount of work they are required to do. , Dust melon vines with Pari* green or London purple to keep off the bug. Dust with one part of the powder to twenty live part* of flour. Watch for the currant worm, nnd as soon as the leave* appear ragged apply white hellebore—a tablcspoonful to a pail of water—by mean* of a syringe. Repeat in about a week. The very best stock will not be long in degenerating, if not properly fed and cared for. The man xvho puts money into procuring good blood and then neglect* it, is excessively extravagant. Ou many farm* the pigs must be kept in close pens all summer. Such pigs should have green food delivered to them daily. Os course some grain is needed in addition to the grain food. Milk is also good. When two or three different kinds of grasses are sown together for pasture, many vacant spaces may be filled up, as each particular variety will find the kind of soil best adapted to its vigorous growth, the consequence being that the sod will be the thicker. The problem of farming consists in mak ing the soil increasingly fertile. Manure is the farmer’s saving bank, and if more of them had large heaps of it every spring to spread upon their land, instead of money at interest, they would prosper better in the end. Soiling crops demand the very richest ground. It will not pay to cut and gather a poor crop to be carried to the barn and fed while green. If the land is not rich enough to produce a maximum crop, let stock gather herbage for them selves until enough land can be got into suitabl; condition. Barnyard manure may be imitated by thoroughly composting with a cord of seasoned meadoxv muck, or some substi tute, sixty-five pounds of crude nitrate of soda, two bushels of wood ashes, one peck of common salt, ten pounds of fine bene meal, txvo quarts of plaster, nnd ten pounds of Epsom salts. A slightly acid milk is necessary in se curing cream to make butter for long keeping. Excellent as the creamery system is for getting the most butter and cream from a certain quantity of milk, it gets it too suddenly for long-keeping butter. Keeping cream one or two days after gathering, in a moderately cool temperature, and then churning, is a remedy for this defect. The best ground for a peach orchard is a light, sandy soil that has been planted for several years with general crops. Do not plant on ground rich enough to pro duce onions, peas, spinach or lettuce, for | trees will be liable to make a late autumnal growth, and produce unripe wood that will be winter-kil ed. Profitable bee-keeping greatly depends upon a gathering up of the fragments, that nothing be lost. Fragments of time can be used in caring for bees, fragments of lumber in m iking hives and frames, fragments of comb for wax; and every drop of honey is useful; even though mixed with dirt, it can be fed to needy colonics. The work of caring for beans comes just at the busiest harvest season, and this crop is therefore apt to be neglected. If delayed till after harvest it is too late, and the vine cannot be disturbed with out injury. Yet the work in hoeing beans, if done at the right time, saves an equal amount of labor when they come to be harvested, besides the advantage to the crop. The soils best adapted for the potato ar ■ sandy and gravelly loams. C.ay soils, especially if the season be wet, prtflluce poor potatoes, with a tendency to rot. An old pasture turned over or. any sod ground, is well fitted for potato growth. A little well-rotted compost harrowed in thoroughly upon such sod will usually give a fair crop even upon p< orish soil. Fresh stable manurcshould not be applied, as it results in a di minished yield and increases tendency to rot. Household Hints. Oil of lavender will drive away flies. Grained wood should be washed xvith cold tea. If meat bakes too fast cover with but tered paper. To remove tea stains from cups and saucer*, scour with ashes. Hellebore sprinkled on the floor it night destroys cockroaches. They eat »t and are poisoned. To prevent lampwicks from smoking they should l>e soaked in vinegar and then thoroughly dried. Cold sliced potatoes fry and taste bet ter by sprinkling a tablcspoonful of flour over them while frying. Cayenne pepper blown into the cracks ' where ants congregate will drive them away. The same remedy is also good for mice. To clbmT unvarcbhc 1 b ack wa.i.ut: Milk, sour or sweet, well rubbed in with an old soft flannel, will make black wal nut look new. Rub the nickel stove trimm ngs and the plated handle* and hingp* of doors with kerosene and whiting, and polish with a dry cloth. n>c«tp<*. Arroirroot I‘utlding. — One pint of milk, two tablespoonfu!* of arrowroot, two egg*, half cup of sugar, half tea spoonful each of cinnamon and nutmeg ; br.il the milk and stir in the arrowroot, which ha* been dissolved in a little water; take from the fire, add the oth r ingredients, and bake in an earthenware dish in a quick oven. Tomato Soup without Meat. One quart of stewed tomatoes, one quart of milk, one rolled cracker, one teaspoonful of soda, a small bit of butter and a little salt. When tomatoes arc sufficiently cooked add the soda, then the cracker, butter and salt. Heat the milk in a saur■ ■pan, and pour into the kettle, and as soon as it boils remove it from the fire, and setve it at once. Hui. for Cooking Cabbage. Boil the cabbage gently until cooked, and drain it; put two ounces of butter into a sauce pan, set it on a good fire, and, when melted, put in the cabbage, xvith some salt and pepper, add half a pint of cream or milk, and cne teaspoonful of flour, stirring constantly with a xvooden spoon. Simmer until the sauce is reduced, and serve hot. Cold Slaw. Put three teaspoonfuls of of vinegar in a saucepan, xvith a 1 ttlo salt ami pepper; beat two eggs very light and mix with a tablespoonful of floor, a teaspo >nful of butter, a teaspoonful of sugar, and half a teaspoonful of ground mustard. Set the vinegar on the stove, and when it boils stir in the mixture, adding half a cup of milk. Cook for two minutes, stirring constantly. Pour the sauce over the shred cabbage, and let it become cold before serving. Longfellow’s First Poem. An orator may feel a sense of satisfac tion in the oration which makes him the voice of a nation, but his success docs not thrill him as did the declamation when he was a boy which first made him the hero of the little red schoolhouse at the cross roads. Even the poet’s latest volume, though the publisher announces its tenth edition, does not so stir his soul as did the sight of his first poem in the country newspaper. The poet Longfelloxv had this thrill ing experience in his thirteenth year. Near the farm of his maternal grand father was a small lake, known as Lov ell’s Pond. It was the scene of a famous event in New England history, “Lovell’s Fight’’ with the Indians. The story" made such a deep impression on the boy's imagination that he wrote a poem of four stanzas,entitled, "The Battle of Lovell’s Pond.” With a trembling heart he ran down to the printing office where the Port land Gazette was published,and dropped the manuscript into the letter-box. The evening on which the paper was printed he went again, ami stood shivering while watching the working of the press, and wondering if his poem would appear next morning. His sister shared his confidence, and they watched their father when he picked up the paper and dried it before the wood fire. He r<.ad it slowly, laid it aside, and said nothing. They picked it up, and 10l the poem was there in the poet’s corner. The delighted boy read it over and over, and again and again, and each tirfic he felt the thrill of pleasure intensi fied. In the evening he went to visit hi* friend Frederick, the son of Judge Mel- I len, his father’s intimate friend. The conversation turned upon poetry, and the judge, taking up the morning’s Gazette, asked: "Did you see the piece in to-day's pa per? Very stiff; remarkably stiff. More over, it is all borrowed; every word of ! it.” It was the boy’s first encounter with a ' critic, and that night his pillow was I sprinkled with tears. The judge was i correct in his criticism; but poor a* | were the verses, they gave the boy his | first sensation of the pleasure of seeing ' . oneself in print.— Youth's Companion. Shower Clouds. A paper recently read before the Royal ■ Meteorological Society in London gives ' the results of a series of observations to determine the connection between the “blackness” of a cloud and the heaviness of the shower which falls from it. The | writer found that from clouds the thick ness of which did not exceed 2,000 feet ; the rain is always slight, while the rain- t drops are rather minute. As the shower I clouds increase in thickness the amount 1 of rain and the size of the raindrops proportionately increase, and the clouds from which hailstorms come reach a I thickness of over 10,000 feet. It is very noticeable also that as the cloud thickens the raindrops which fall from it are colder. It is suggested thnt condensa tion begins on the upper surface of the ' cloud by the cooling of the liquid cloud particles. In this view it is easy to see how hailstones (the formation of which is still a mystery with many people) can i be found in the middle latitudes.— Chi cago Newt. CUI-HAGS FOR THE ClKll'ls. A method of weighing freight c »r, while in rapid motion has l»een contrived by the use of an electrical apparatus plied to the scales. The Borneo tree toad has a slender body and broad webbed feet that act like a parachute, enabling the animal to leap from a tree top and float through the air ■ like a flying squirrel. The Senoia (Ga.) Sentinel says that a man in Campbell county had thirty-sii boys old enough to fight in the last war and twenty-three of them were killed* He been married nine times. Belmont was erected in 1754 in what is now called Fairmount Park, Philadelphia It wa* a favorite resort of Washington Lafayette, Franklin, Jefferson, Taller' rand, Louis Phillippe and other m t ' n known to fame. To kill infants was thought an abom inable sin by the ancient Teutons, but among the Romans and many other na tions it was quite a common practice and hardly blamable to kill them, especially girls. In a Chinese village, during a time of drouth, a missionary saw a row of idol* put in the hottest and dustiest part of the road. He inquired the reason, and the natives ansxvered: “We prav our gods to send us rain, and they won’t- so I we've put them out to sec hoxv they like I the heat and dryness.” In order to enforce some kind of re-’u larity in barbers’ shops, which were once places of great resort for the idle in Env. land, certain laws were usually made the breaking of which was to be pun ished by forfeits. Like a good many laws of the present day they were laughed at and not always obeyed. The employment of negro slaves was j begun through motives of humanity. Seeing how cruelly the Spaniards worked I the poor natives in the silver mines, not long after the discovery of America, a priest named Las Casas, out of pure be nevolence, recommended the employment of negrccs because they were stronger than the Indians. A Norwegian writer has made some remarkable statements concerning the jumping of herring out of the water when frightened. He affirms that be I he has observed whole shoals of this fish, ; in their anxiety to escape from pursuing i whales, piled up above the surface of the sea to a height of from three to six feet, | and on one occasion about fifteen feet. Parrots in India* We xvent to India, and I was com pletely fascinated by the crowds of green parrots we saw on the plains. It was i I never-failing source of delight to me to ! cee them flying in flocks, often hundreds ' at a time, with the rays of the descend ' ing sun glistening on their emerald green ! plumage; or to see a tree destitute of i leaves made green by reason of the mul titude of parrots that had settled on its i branches; or again, at sunset, to seethe I green parrots flying about the xvhite marble minarets of the glorious Taj-Me hal, or darting about, frolicking in the expiring rays. To me they were the most lovely of India’s birds. One connected with parrots is, from its per fect beauty, often present in my mind. At a certain residence, one of the finest in Northern India, there is a fountain constantly playing, and in the early morning the parrots gather together in vast numbers to drink and bathe in its I running waters and basin. To see their graceful curves and upward flights be fore dashing through and just skimming the surface of the water, with their un bounded joy and delight in so doing, was a picture of ' ecstatic, ideal, living I happiness difficult to surpass. The par rots at this residency are almost tame, for every morning four or five caged ones are let loose to be fed, and down come all the wild ones to share their feast. The early morning is the time to see these birds at their brightest and ! best. At the first glimpse of the rising | sun they forsake their night’s resting places, and fly shrieking forth in search ; of food, and on many a tree they may be ; seen pulling off the precious berries and . fruits. Alas! the madhi’s (gardener's) i heart does not warm to parrots, for their i nature is to work destruction wherever j they go, and they pick off and destroy I far more than they eat—as the unripe | mangoes lying at the foot of a tnang* | tree will testify. Cornhill. The Demand* of Business. “Why that cruel, relentless look, George, dear,” she asked; "have you i ceased to love me?” “Hush!” he whispered hoarsely, “th* nature of my business demandsit.’’ “Oh, George, does opening oysters re quire such a cold, unpitying expression? 1 ; “I am no hanger an oyster-opener,” replied, and the cruel, relentless look be came still more cruel and relentless; I “I’m a baggagemaster.”— Life, The Race for Wealth. “Yes,” said the old man, “my ,oa ' are very ambitious, and they are getting along well. One is the captain of* tow boat and the other is a physician, each is trying his best to see which am make the most money.” “Ahl” said the listener,j“a sort of heal and two match, as it were.” — Courier.