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BANGING CUSTOMS. „ I Form* Observed nt nn Execu- ; tion in New York. Dn‘.hi D vu'ving Upni th» Sheriff.—Hl» Slavs* of Ofii and the faaqinin. A great manv <-ti*'.oi:i* surround h hang ng <» N •«» York. 1 li'y have b 1 » molillcd byhw, which allow* 01' t• • •In riff and •*»i*t»nt», twenty G ” y ■ln riff*, a ahoriff » jury, th, jud"' ■ "f I higher cou'ta, the district attorney, t u doctor* and the hangmen to be p>' "*■ Form’ r.y the coroner coul I br.ti; a party of li a friend* • < juror*, an 1 the ah r IT gave out card* of inv t ition *« he W 4i'd to a IntU. That ha* Is-en *t'qqicd; „nd j Sheriff (Inuit ke-p* tin-i urn *r of »p'-<. Lalor* down to the low “t legal numb ;. Tho reporter! acted a* both a'ncr h * an I coroner'* jury at (,’h u r.ii'a hangin It ia i iHtom try for the sheriff to p > .-. it the man to be hang I, when he ia p or, with a black Mill to be hange J in. Tho . car of the ci’y for hi* burial go** no further than to *co he get* to Po ter'a Fold. It ia the duty of the aheriff to in per sonally pn ' lit nt a hang.ng. One •her.ff dodge I thia duty once by going to I. mg ll..meh. 1.1 II r i like tint the under aheriff liaa < hnige. The hanging ia at down for a* early an hour a* possi ble in die morning to avoid a crowd. Tin aheriff and hi* deputies, dr,-s -e d in mourning, gather nt tho aheriff’* ollie i •nd innrch to the Tomba. Each bear* hia ataff of i,fllee. At the bunging they take off their hats as toon a* th, weight! fall, and put them on when tire body ia ’ rut down. In a caae on the wall in tho aheriff'* are a acorn of staves and two ■word*. Tho staves have I* anpi , sent nt every hanging since u lime that no em ploye in the office can recall. They arn about thirty inches long, and are made of dark hard woo I. Tho middle i* covered with thin, dink velvet. On cin hend ha bra«a tip »ha]>c<l like nn Indian arrow bend Tho aheriff’* ataff haa a crutch ut on,'end instead of a d irt, and the under aheriff'* lias n crook. The two swords have not been taken to n hanging for a longtime. No matter whore m thestnto a hanging may be the atave* me mint for •nd the aheriff'* men curry them. They would na aoon think of trying to have a bunging without a rope as without their •laves. They area relic of colonial day.*, when a hanging would draw an large an •sM'inlilago ii* a circus, mid the officer* who had clinrt'e of it appeared pompously in their official robes. Tint Minn gallows, rope, noose, and weight* are used time after time or until they are lost or wear out. Tho gallows now in usu is about four years o,d. The upright* arc about five inche* mpinrc and fifteen feet high. The cross piece ia the came air.e. The construction ia simple, and it i* easy to take the gal low* apart and put it away. Tho only trace left on the gallows by n hanging ia the mark of the axe where it cuts through tho rop ■ that keep* the weight from falling. Two men do all the hanging in New York. Ono ia a short, loun man, w ith Hebrew feature*. Ho haw a thin, full beard that < urla, dark hair, mild eyes, •nd a shrinking face. Ho was in tho box at Chacon's hanging when the rope was cut. The other man, who pulled the cap over Clim ou’* head, is a short, •tout German, partially bald, w.th a black gray moustache. Ho is in charge. Those two men have a number of name’. They do not want to be known, and tho •hvr.ff himself has nothing further to do with them than to give them charge of the nrraiigc'iients mid to pm the bill. Tim one man is commonly known ns Isaacs, mid lhe other ns Min? sheimer The bills are made out to Joseph B. Atkinson Toe cost of a hanging varies from |3OO to SSOO, Tie m m uro haug nicn, not only in New York, but they travel around over tho State mid country. Hanging is their tiado. Yer lori A'ua. The Imiiiunll) of Physicians. It is a prevalent yiopulnr impression that some special providence surrounds kite physician with protective agencies, ari l that, although daily exposed to dis ease iu Iks most malignant founs, ho esc ip * w hen other* ar.- attacked. Dr. Oglu, of England, finds that while tho law yers die at the rate of 20, tho clergy •t the rule of 10, the dm tors' mortality is 25 per 1,000. In a million adu taother than physicians, 10 died of scarlet fiver, 14 of diphtheria, and 2IS of typhoid fcv< r; while, of an equal numb, r of physicians, by succumbed tosearb t fever, St* to diphther.n, mil 811 to typhoid fever. Suiallp. \, o i the other han I, claims mno victims among the laity than in the medical profession; due, doubtless, to the fact that physicians have suffi'lent cent': 1. neo in the prv testivo influence o. va c.n ton to keep thenvclve* u.sum eptible to the attacks of smallpox. -.Srwwmr. Good N'loollng. Sjwrtsmau "Any sb. smug around heivF Farmer —“Yea. sir-cc! It’s ti e bos* pla.-e fur •hooting. Three m< n shot yes terday, two to-day, so tar, aud you will be the third if you don't mosey out of tey clover patch.— Jml-jt. FOlt THE FARM ANU HOME. PrstsetlaM €• I'mll. For mildew on grnp vines, # du»t on flow, rs of mlpliur, eitlv r curly in the morning while the dew is on, or nfter a shower while the foliage is wet. Forth? gr ipe vim- li etle, shaking the vine early in the morning, will bring thorn to the ground, when they can very readily be destroyed. Spreading a clo hor piece of paper u derthe vines will n d matci Lil ly in catching them. Sho-k'd lime | sprinkled over the foliage will destroy tle Inrvie P :i-:t-li> •of nil kinds can lie d -stroyed by dipping the plant or part nff ctod into kerosene rm 1 sour milk, I one part kerosine t> three of milk. Sprinkling with strong tcimcco water i« ai-’i rec immende I. for the strawberry leaf roller the wisest plan, if they have Ik-cooiii firmly established, is to plow under after the fruit is taken off and - et out n new planting. If taken in hand early eno igh h ind picking may destroy them, but it requ rose m» derable | car'. For rust, either with tiiu currant or go iwbcrry, mulching with coal ashes is n'.rongly rei.oinmendcd. 1 have never had any trouble on thi* score, as 1 ha*'o | made it n rulu to mulch w II nroun I th s- plants soon after setting out. — Hural Ibaat. I’lsklnir amt atorlmr Apple*. Hand picking should always be the rule for winter apples. Varieties that ripen irregu ar y ought to be gathered accordingly. <> nerally speaking, the later sorts should be left on the tree until | hit", SO as to give them opportunity to fully color up. Before picking begin* it ia well to have a suitable place prepared in the orchard or near by for tho tempor- , ary storing of th fruit, unless there are two *ets of handi for sorting and pack- I ingns fl.st ns the fruit is gather 'd. Ap ple* keep longest if free from atmospheric moisture when taken from the trees. ; Hmall baskets holding half a bushel each and suspi lull d from a hook on the bid der are more convenient and less liable to bruise the fruit taan bigs. (face gathered, the apples should be securely pr itected from sun and storms until tin y are sort'- I. Many farmers who have fruit houses delay sort.ng and pack ing until the approach of col 1 weather. Tlie best method is to sort the fruit im mediately, and lay all that is sound care- | fully into tight barrel*, shaking the bar rels gently two or three times during the pr ice’s of filling, to insure the apples packing closely; they may then be tight- j ly headed, with the head sufficiently ! pressed and secured to avoid all move ment of tho apple* inside the barrel. : Right here is generally the neglect. The barrels should be placed on their sides nn I not stored away until freezing weather. The Safest Wax to Hive Bare. Allen Pringle says: “Tho safest and best way to hive n swarm of bees is, of course, the way I myself do it. Every old bcti-keep r has the ‘best plan,’ ami here’s mine. I, ‘of course,’ keep all my queens dipped. I say ‘of course,’ be cause I think every first-rate bee-keeper I clips his queens, the non-elippers to the contrary, notwithstanding. When a ' sw arm is seen to be issuing I take a little wire cage to the swarming colony, and usu- I ally Hud the queen just in front of the hive trying to fly. The open end of tho wire eage is put over her, when she itnmedi ■ atoly crawls up into it and is shut in. • Then as soon ns tho swarm is nil out I I close the entrance of the old colony and turn it round facing the opposite direc i tion and two or three feet from where it ! stood. 1 then place my hive for the new swarm on tho old stand mid put the caged queen in it on top of the frames under the quilt, and tho work is done. This occupies from three to five min utes. By this time another swarm or two may be issuing, when they cun be to iled in the same way on the double quick. By this short and easy method I have hive 1 ns many in eight or ten ■warms in about fifteen minutes. If three or four are coming out nt once, and you have no tents to put over them to catch them, you can manage them nil as above alone rightly if you “look alive.” Run around to the swarming coh nies and cage the queens ns above directed, turn ing inch colony ar und and placing it off two or three feet, and ns soon m you get round th m all, go.back and begin plac ing your hives for the new swarms on the o d stands s rapidly as possible. If you have your hives ready and handy by, a* every be.-keeper ought to have, you can go over half a dozen in this way in an almost incri libly short t me, cveu though I they nil eon e out nt once. 11 :» nninc. one who has but a small garden,or even a flower bed, should be wasteful of the manure fro.u the fowl r K>-t*, for when properly manipulat d and ju liciously applied to vegetation, the benefits de rived from it* application are very sat s factory indeed. When it is known that hen manur? rinks with Al guano as a • ferti.izer, it does s.-em to us strange that | more attention is not paid to collecting and applying it. The one essential in keeping hen man ure so as to realiz- the greatest good from it is to keep it dry, under cover, where the rains and sun will not destroy and remove its va uable, though volatile, quality. The poultry house should be str. wn with loam, pulverized clay, or sand as often as i* necc«iiry to pre*erve cleanHness and to absorb tho moisture. Dry -trect dirt will readily act as an üb virlient, as it I* very thormigly pulver iz'd by the wheels of carriage*. Every week clean up the floor of the house, putting the manure into barrels, which •hou d be rem >vc 1 tz> some convenient shed where the contents cau lx.' kept dry. After the tn mure has b- en removed give the fl >or a goo 1 sprinkling with the dry road dust, to r c.'iv • future droppings. By continuing this plan you w ill, ut the end of a few months, have quite a col lection of the r.chest kind of manure. If you have no garden or lawn, or if y< plenty of other fertilizers, you can sell your h n manure for forty or fifty cents .i bushel to the tanners; but in this case, instead of being mixed with e-irth, it must be kept pure. Sime poultrymen derive quite a revenue troni their sales of the droppings for tanning purpose’, and find it convenient to have shelves arranged under the perches, which are regularly scraped every morn ing. Thirty or forty cctiu a bushel is the price commonly paid, and the in come from this Hourei' goes quite away towards defraying the cost of the grain consum'd by the fowl". Hen manure must not be allowed to decompose or ferment before being sent to the tanner, a* its value in preparing leather depends on its lieing crude. Farmer* and gar dener* generally pay about $1 per bar rel lor hen manure for n fertilizer. '1 his price prrsuppo-' S a very little dry earth mix' d with the dropping.’, as will gen erally be the case, but not much, the manure being nearly pure.— Poultry \Md. Urape Vines From Cnttlnas. No kind of wood w ill more easily groxv from the eye than tire grape vine. For this reason the rapid propagation of new varieties is a very easy matter. The nurserymen use single-eye cuttings in greenhouses, and this is a very good way wherever lotto n heat can be furnished. But all this trouble and expense are not needed, provided the right course is taken and enough buds or eye* left on the cutting. Even nurserymen do not rely entirely on the single-eye method. It is only used, in fact, for new vari eties, when wood is scarce and it is de sirable to increase tire vines as fast as possible. Cuttings set in the open ground should be prepared early in the spiing, leaving two or, ut most, three eyes on a piece. The lower part must be cut off square at the bulge where a bud , has formed. Then remove this lowest bud with a sharp knife so as to make a clean cut. Leave the top eye just at the surface of the soil, which must be packed around the lower part very closely. P.ant in rows three feet apart, and run the cul tivator through once a week to keep weeds down. Plant cuttings six to eight inches apart in the roxv, and keep down weeds with the hoe. If the season is ' fairly favorable four-fifths of these cut tings will make strong-rooted plants Iby tho first of July. There is no need of being discouraged about those that nt this time show no signs of put ting forth a shoot. Pull one up and you will find the bottom calloused and tine, white, thread-like roots from it. In such cases tho shoot will us ally start from the eye below the surface. Where ; the first eye start* and grows, the one below it grows also. In the fall or next spring one of these sprouts must be cut off, and the other trimmed down to a single eye. By this method, farmers and others can easily and cheaply sup , ply themselves with as many grape vines as they wish,and of the best varie ties. Four-fifths of all the grape vine I growth of the previous season must be ’ cut off this fall or next spring, and it can be usually had for nothing. A few very hard wooded and close-jointed grape vines do not root easily. Eumelan and Delaware are samples of these; but it is only necessaiy to take a little longer cutting and plant nt an angle of forty-five degrees in the ground. This will keep the bottom of the cutting within reach of th ■ air and warmth. No manure is neees.uy, in fact, it is posi tively hurtful, its h ating forces the buds too rapidly, and may cause th? bottom of the cutting to rot instead of putting forth roots. —Cu ticator. lloHwrhnhl Hints. Vnslakcd lime near mea preserves it by keeping the air dry. Drain pipes and all places that are sour or impure may be cleansed with lime water or carbolic acid. New tins should be set over the fire with boiling water tn them for several hours before food is put into them. Should a mirror show defects, apply tin foil on which you have previously [vur<d quicksilver rubb - I on with buck skin, putting on it a weight. In a few hours it will adhere. Green cucumber peel scattered about a budding will rid it of cockroaches. They are poisoned by the peel, which they eat with great relislu It is sometimes neces sary to follow up the experiment two or three nights, us ng fresh )»eel every ni_ht. Ginghams and print* wiil keep their color belter if washed in water thicken ed with flour starch. Fiour is very cleansing and will do the work of soap in one or two washing* in the starch water. This, with the rinsing, w.ll be sufficient,*and the goo is will look fresher than if washed and starched in the old fashioned way. Keclprs. Syrup of Vinryir.— Four quart* vine gar an 1 two pound* sugar boiled until a clear syrup. Bottle it. L’*c one or two tablespoons to a glass of water, an 1 it will be found a very agreeable beverage. lemonade uhrnyt Ready.— Squeexe the juice from a dozen lemon*; boil the pulp in a pint of water and add to the juice. To each pint put an equal measure of white sugar and boil ten minutes. Sea l up. When wanted use one tablespoon to a glass of water. Ciikeefor Tta. W i for fifteen min utes four eggs with half a pound of sugar, half a grated nutmeg und ns much pow der clove* as will lie on the tip of a din ner knife. Tiien add half a pound of dry and s fted flour, and mix thoroughly ; have a greased or wax id tin; drop a tablcspoonful of the dongh nt intervals upon it, and bake a pale brown ia a moderate oven. A Way to Cook Calf* Liter.— Try this Austrian method of cooking calf’s liver. Remove the skin from the liver and cut it in pieces as thick as your finger and lay them in milk for several hours. Then take them out of the milk and sprinkle them wih flour; dip them iu beaten egg and cover them with flour with which you have mixed a little salt. Fry them in hot dripping) and serve garnish-:.I with mince parsley. French Soup.— Cut up a good-sized onion into thin rounds and place, with one-half pound of butter, into a stew pan; do not let the onion get brown, but when about half cooked put in three handful* of sorrel, one of lettuce, all fine ly cut; add pepper, salt, a little nutmeg, and keep stirring the vegetables until they are nearly cooked; then put in one tablcspoonful of finely-pounded loaf sugar and a pint and a half of stock; boil until the onion is thorougly well done. Toast some very thin slices of bread; cut about two inches square; ilgy these, and when the soup is to be served, after adding the beaten yolks of two eggs and half a pint of milk, place the toast in the soup bowl and pour tire soup over it. Buddhism. Buddhism gives no explanation of the beginning of all things; its starting point is that the world and men exist, and that everything is subject to change. Everything moves to cither destruction or renovation. Nirvang == -“perfection or salvation"—is the state toward which the righteous tend; for the theist there is the absorption of the individual in God; for the atheist absorption iu nothing. A human life is not a separate entity; it is a portion, so to speak, of the universal life. The life that sinneth it shall die, says Buddhism; it shall sink through lower and lower forms, until it reaches annihilation. The righteous life, rising ever upward, attains at length to Nirvann, and it is reabsorbed in the Divine Essence. There is ever-increas ing joy in ever-increasing wi-dom, and after one life is ended there shall be another, ever ascending the scale of holi ness, stretching up to beatific and illimit able heights. This was transmigration: not of souls—for Gautama held that there is no such thing as sou'—but of life; each individual, according to the good or bad u-.e he makes of his pre-ent Hie, bee ones after death another individual of higher or lower character. And yet it is almost an error to say that Buddha taught absorption into God as the stage of existence beyond Nirvana; for it does not appear that Buddhism acknowlodges a God. Perfection can go no further; it is the vanishing point of the human landscape. Quiver. Eccentric Wil s. Will*, with curious or obscured pro visions arc rarely carried out according to the designs of their makers. Indeed, a will that is a little unusual casts a doubt upon the sanity of the testator. John Stuart Mill held that eccentric wills should be held sacred, and the wishes of those who made them carried out. He instance* the case of a man who left *a large fortune for the care of wounded birds. The will was set aside, but, as Mi l pointe 1 out, the treatment of tbe dis 'uses of bird*, might have thrown valuable light upon the patholo gy of the animal economy, especially of birds. *Y Russian bachelor has just died who bequeathed his property to his nephew on three conditions. Before he inherits, he must give his word of honor that he will never use tobacco or play card--, and that within six months after the probate of the will he will marry. The nephew was willing to comply with the first two requirements, but gave up his titl to the property rather than en cumber himself with a wife. Coniracinn vs. Expansion. F ofessor —“To contract is to make smaller; to expand is t > enlarge. Cold contracts; heat expand*. The opera tion* cannot go on at the same time in the same thing. If’— Pupil—“B g your pardon. Prof; **ar. There are some things the m »re you con tract the more they enlarge.” Ah, indeed! Name some of them.” •‘Debts, sir.” CLIPIXGS FOR THE CL'RIOVS. A duty of four pounds was laid in 1703 upon every negro imported into th* colony of Massachusetts. There were about 12,300 men in a Roman legion, and in the palmy days of Rome she possessed thirty of these mighty forces. Thomas Golden, a flagman in Galena, 111., has a tame robin that be has tai ght to walk out of the flag house and wave a tiny fl ig whenever a train comes. A beautiful custom is said to prevail with the native* of Java. A fat er when his cliil 1 is born plant* a tree, and . thus s'gnnl.zes the birth. It is affirmed by Mons. I. ssenne that a needle—puncture in the skin of a living person will close at once, and *hat if the ; puncture remains open it is a sure sign of death. Tnc longest clock pendulum in the world is at Avignon France. It is six ty-seven left long, a id requires four and aha f seconds to swing through an arc of nine and a half feet. The art of sculpture in wood seems to h ive been native among the early i Greek’, and carved idols soon took the place of stones and trunks of trees, which were at first worshipped as divine symbols. The sacred figures in early Greece were frequently covered with real doll like clothing. The difficulty of repre senting the hair of these puppets ap- [ pears, from the later treatment of the heads in marble, as seen in the Apollo of Tenca, to have been evaded by the use of a woolly covering like a wig. It was considered very honorable to be a soldier in ancient Rome, much more honorable than to be a mechanic or I laborer. Every soldier took a most solemn oath, which was called a “sacrament.” : He swore never to desert his standard, to submit his own will to the co > mand of his leader, ami to sacrifice his life for the empire. The soldiers were well paid, j but very strictly disciplined. Birds have wonderful appetites, and ! the insect-eaters must do great execution among the insect enemies of the farmer. This is illustrated by Prof. Wood’s esti mate that a man would have to consume in every twenty-four hours sixty-seven feet of sausage nine inches in circumfer ence in order to eat as much in propor- - tion to his bulk as the red-breast, whose daily food is considered as equivalent to an earthworm fourteen feet long. Thieves’ Bars Hi Berlin. The underground life in Berlin, which has recently been exposed in an interest ing volume entitled “Die Verbrechcrwclt ' von Ber.in,” has some sides which are I gloomily’ picturesque on which the au thorities have hitherto in vain sought to lay hand. One of them is describ' d by the anonymous xvritcr as follows: “There are at Berlin some score of public bars the frequenters of which belong exclusively to the criminal world. They are kept in the basements of houses, no bright- ! colored signboard tells of their existence, and at night the light from the windows falls faintly through closely drawn cur tains into the street. The frequenters are professional thieves, their accomplices J (who find occasions where strokes of business may be done) and receivers of stolen goods. The conversation in these i places is always carried on in a low voice and everybody drinks and gaml ies. Dis putes are rare, for as soon as a quarrel threatens to become noisy the neighbors of the party in question interfere in order to avoid any uproar. Sometimes the door is rapidly opened, a head is thrust in, and the new comer cries out ‘Lam- ' pen.’ At this word a general rush to- | ward the door commences, the innkeeper hurries the glasses off the tables, and when the police arrive the room is empty. Both at Berlin and Frankfoit public houses of this kind have a chain of out posts formed by a number of poor wretcies who, for a few pence, keep a lookout, and report as soon as any sign of danger appears on the horizon. If ever the police succeed in capturing one of these thieves the malefactor hardly offers any resistance.” A Wily B mrder. Black—lloxv do you get along at your new boarding house? White- Very well indeed. lam well lodged, well-fed, and everything is made comfortable for me. Black—l am surpr sed. White —Wl>y so? Black—Because I boar led there my self, and I was half starved. I can’t understand why they treat you different ly. White—l'll tell you. You remember the landlady’s baby? Black—That squint-eyed little brat? I do. 1 can hear him yelling now. ; White—The baby is not handsome, I admit. It cries considerable, I allow; but I can’t made it any handsomer, nor improve its t< mper, therefore I make the best of it. I call it a pretty little darling, a sweet little thing. I make excuses for the noise it makes by snying all children arc so. The other boarders laugh at me but the laugh is on my side when they are sawing away at tough round steak ! and lam luxuriating on tenderloin. It doesn't t.nkc much effort to smooths over the rough places of life. Botton Courier. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. Folly soon wears her shoes out. A clear conscience can bear any troa. ble. zY flow of words is no proof of wis dom. Work like a man, but do not be worked t* death. The heart is the first pait that quickens and the last part that dies. O >e morsel's as good as another when your mouth is out of taste. B ■ ashamed to die, until you have achieved some victory for humanity. Happiness is neither within nor with out us; it is the union of ourselves with God. Oid friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet. The indiscriminate defence of right and wrong contracts the understanding, while it harden* the heart. II ■ that thinks that diversion may not be hard labor, forgets the early rising and hard riding of huntsmen. Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual depend ence and interests, and thus creates that unity of our race which makes the re source of all the property of each and every member. There is more sunshine than cloudy weather, take it all together, in every- I one’s life; so sun yourself in the bright spots and pass quickly over the hard . lines. Think of the good time coining and bear the the transient evils that fall to your lot heroically. Hunting Mountain Sheep. A Wyoming Territory letter to the i Salt Lake City Tribune describes ths methods of “Mountain Sam,” a hunter iof mountain sheep. In one of the most hidden valleys of the Big Horn moun tains, says the correspondent, the hunter j has built a house and here lie slays the | huge sheep whose heads and horns are ■ his stock in trade, for Sam has more orders than he can fill for these heads, chiefly from Englishmen of wealth, i Many an English hall boasts spreading and massive antlers which were once proudly carried by a Rocky Mounta’n patriarch, before he fell beneath Sam’s l unerring aim. Though the hunter is ia ! debted to his own good rifle for sheep, : he says he depends entirely upon his ! pack of magnificent dogs to bring the sheep within range of that rifle. These dogs, twenty-five in number, are a pure bull dog and bloodhound cross. Their mountain birth and training have given these dogs extraordinary endurance and i phenomenal activity. These qualities added to the str.ngth andsagacity inlr ri ted with their mingled blood strains, ! make the noble brutes enemies the wily and active mountain sh cp fails entirely to throw off. No trail is too rcu’h, no precipica tio steep, no crag too dizzy, no peak to remote to throw an obstacle in the way of the pursuit of the mountain sheep by the mountain dogs. The pack hunts on a systematized plan. ' When the scant is struck the dogs at once ! divide into small bunches an.l wide cir cuits are described. The pursued and doomed sheep are irresistibly forced to ward a common centre, and soon can be I seen closely rounded up, no matter what : the nature of the ground, with the bucks gallantly facing the common foe. The pack has been known to bunch as high as 250 head of the wild sheep of the mountain peak and crag, and have held their game frequently six hours, awaiting i the arrival of their master, detained by ' the difficulties of the way. In case, as ' sometimes occurs, th hunter is unable to reach the spot on account its inaccessi bility, he gives warning of the fact to his intelligent four-footed allies, by means of a peculiar, far-reaching shout. . As th s signal strikes their ears, the dogs > close in on the sheep, select and slay the largest, and will tumble and push the J bodies from cliff to cliff, from precipice to precipice, until they .are placed where a human foot can safely venture. In Danger of Tipping l'p. During the war it was the habit for delegations of “prominent citizens” to visit IVashington to consult with Presi dent Lincoln upon the conduct of the war. Sometime during the darkest days a dozen or more of the leading busi ness men of Wilmington, Del., called upon the President. They told him that they represented the “solid men” of I) .- eware, and that they had come to dis cuss the situation aud the means of end ing the struggle. zYfter the chairman of the delegation (who is still in active business in Wilmington) had finished his speech the President asked: “So you are solid men of Delaware!’ ! “Yes,” was the reply. “All from New Cas‘le county?" “Yes, all from N. w Castle.” “All from 'Wilmington, too.” “Yes all from the same city,” replied the gentlemen, in a churn*. “Well,” remarked Mr. Lincoln, as his l eyes twinkled, “did it ever occxr to you gentlemen that there was danger of your little State tipping up during your ab sence?” The delegation returned home wiser, but so full of appreciation of the joke that their friends were not long in hear ing of it.— Nets York Sun.