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, w vrasSSS. Miler W Pabli.tier I j,gi a. »Biv*R", rwanosr. VOLUME 11. ■ NEWS GLEANINGS. ■ ln Florida 3.000 pine “P? !e » ,; “ D 1 e an a<w< grout fl tb» seJlMi are employed h Btfcinjn »■ rk- '<» Cherokee county, Ata. B fheonly drawWck to oocoaniil ran- B*| B Florida litiut it take- ten years the tree* bear- B Fifteen hundred execution- for fl.-In. poll taxes have been issued in county, 8. C. B An old man on Caney Fork in Mid- ■ lie Tennessee, caught $6,000 worth of H h < lop during the last rise. M T rn ne*«ee has a State hOr which 1m H preK a fine of SSOO for failure to report ■ b iL.u ca«e.’ to the State Board of ■ Health H At Louisville, Mias., .John I). M. ■ ybnurbrr hai been sent to the jeniten ■ tun for life for the murder of W. 1' I Triplett. ■ The Georgia Supreme court ha- de- ■ n.1e.1 that tlao cities of that State must ■ Sep their debts at 7 per cent of their unble propertv. tju hundred parti id gee in boxes, ibipped from Danville, Va., arrived in Wilmington, Del., last week for the Mxnare Game Association, which is trring to restock that State. I Fifteen thousand dollars have been upended on the North Georgia agri calturel college at Dahlonega, It will take, $5,006 to complete, it. Col Be»j. 8. Ricks, of Yazpo county, Mise,. the second largdld planter in the South, employs 1,000 men, and made 1900 biles of cotton last year. The acreage of wheat »<>wn over Rast Tennessee is unusually large, and tli< proswet for an excellent crop was nevei more cner^iraging for the time of year. Within the last three yeva over $2.- 000,000 have been in venter! in manufac taring enterprises in Georgia, and nearly 110.000.000 have been invested and con traded for in new railroads lif-our State. Old Aunt Bonnie Holloway died in Fauquier county, Va„ last week, in th< one hundred and fifteenth year of her «f, the oldest citizen probably in the Old Dominion. When Lo[d Cornwallis passed through Eastern Virginia in the rammer of 1781 she said she “was a good •mart gal, big cm ugh to gefmarned.” The Nashville Banner, in some rae recountings. say* : At another race over the Clover Bottom track Gen. Jackson entered his famous horse Truxton, and backing him quite heavily. Gov Cannon was on hand, but had no money, an he bet a wagon load of.negroes with the General. Truxton won tho race and the Gene/gJ took in the uegroie. Gold is being washed from alluvial lands within the limits of Gainesville, Ga., which pays 50 cents to the pan. The city covers a deposit of gold-bear ing material which should be utilized, and no doubt will be as soon as the ca nal Atlanta so much needs . passe through that section. The bed of that canal for a distance of forty miles will he cut through veins and deposits of gold bearing ere. There are three great land companies now interested in Florida. The Dinton company holds 2,000,000 acres of the 4.000,000 acres it bought from the State. A third company (headed by Disa'on *l«o) proposes to drain thr Lake Okee chobee region and reclaim the swamp lands. The area of reclaimation is as large as New Jersey, Connecticut, Deta-j •are and Rhode Island, and the Disston company will get halt of it, the State retaining the balance of it. Two enor mous dredging boats nre already at •ork at this, and the work will be pushed to completion. Atlanta Constitution Florida Notes: Eight years ago there was only $120,600 mvested in steamers on the Bt. Johns Now there are twenty eight steamers plying that. river,'one of which cost $240,000, and to thia fleet there are con stant additions. The Indian river and South Florida lakes and inlet* are now dotted with rail boats, carrying freight to and fro. In a very short time these •ill be supplemented bv steamers, and then the quesaion will be settled, a new region opened, the fertility, and beauty! of which cannot lx put in words. A e<><rraxronAßT asks “ How shall women carry their purses to frustrate tho Uuevea *" Why, carry them empty. Nothing frustrate* a thief more than to I •natch a woman's purer, after folios mg her half a mile, ami then find that it con tains nothing but a recipe for spik'd |*eacbea and a faded photograph of her grandmotbex, Coltmte Bfcerfiser. ‘ TOPICS OF THE DAT. CntarxNATt reports 188 cases of small pox under treatment. Dewbb will hold a National Mining Exjiositioii in August. Thih is the season of the year to make predictions about spring. The persecution of Jews in Russia is exciting general attention. The New York bar will give Judge Porter a complimentary dinner. A woman in Graves County, Kentucky, ui undergoing a forty days' fust. Vanderbilt pays over two hundred thousand dollars annually in taxes. ♦ —.-..... Strawberries from Florida are selling in New York at $1 and 85 jx-r quart. This is the year that the Mohammedans expect the coming of their Messiah. w ■—., Or the 601 convicts in the Arkansas State Prison more than 100 are murderers. Canada is considering the feasibility of abolishing the duties on tea ami coffee.. De Long has been traced to a definite locality. The next thing now will lie to find him. A St. Lovis man has started a fund for the Guitcnu jury by contributing 81 towards it. We find that the more the editors sny against the Gainsborough hats the higher they loom up. ■ ■ Cincinnati will probably try tho ex periment of propelling street can by the chTtlc system. The Cleveland fund for the Garfield monument is not quite 8100,000 and there it sticks. Rin ’•"■iv is und»r »Jie impression ho can fri ' •’» Iv so that it won’t stink. It mny lie that he can. . Fkbrvary 27 is the day upon which Mr. Blaine will deliver his eulogy_ on President Garfield in Congress. - The r< |H>rtvr» of Chicago have Hill'd women out of their press club. Men want to get to themselves occasionally. — liIHBE is one thing Gtiiteau may rest assured ot : He will be nut up, or froze np -exhibited in the flesh or as a ski 1 ■■ ton - - Female teachers in Boston who have been in service ton years want 81,000 a year. If they can t get married they ought to have it. —. The Hpanish pilgrims to Romo are Carlist soldiers or well known friends of Don Carlos, who urges tho movement in letters to his partisans. The Russian Government claims that tho persecution of the Jews in that country was iriginated and is kept np by revolutionary agents. - The work of tunneling the St Law ence River is to be completed m four years at a cost of $3,<500,000. Mon treal has tho contract Wilde's face is so long .hat it is said to have the appearance of lieing reflected from a convex mirror. Grief over he fading lily produced it. Under the law District Attorney Cork hill will get 820 for prosecuting the assassin. Dr. Bliss might give Corkhill a pointer on making out lulls. Ow ar Wilde think* Walt Whitman is rbe greatest of living poets—not even excepting Ixrngfel.ow Mr. Whitman will now please tickle Mr. Wilde some. The Grant phalanx, known as the Throe-Hundred-arid Hix. are to be pro seated with bronze meiials as mementos for their unswerving fidelity in the hour of sore tnal. —■■ • “ If BaRSVM could secure the Ixsiy of Guitoau, and then engage Oscar Wilde a.s lecturer, ho might double his fortune of 83,(M)0,000. The scheme is worth looking into. _ We reckon Oscar Wilde don't like America excessively. Hhafta of sarcasm are hurleil at him from every conceiva ble quarter. IL' must think we Amen cans arc awful reettoss Tobacco is a foul wis'd, but it seems to yield an enormous revenue wherever if is raised. The toliaoco monopoly of France last year yielded a net profit to the State of about s»s<l, Hini-e Liszt went to Rome his health na« greatly improved. But he still <le vot« hours to the faUgnmg work of composition, and forgets sleep, food and Devoi d the Interests of Columbia County and the State of Georgia. HARLEM. GEORGIA. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 14. ISS-2 everything else except the work before him. 11 IK St. Petersburg polioe have iseaed in ord r forbidding tho ap|x>arauoo of any actors or dancers on the stage of the tlieaters of the Capital whose dresses have not lieen previously rendered in combustible by means of chlorate of lime. The same rule has l»eeu in force in Berlin for five years. An official report ou the condition of tho eyes of school children in Philadel phia savs : “ Hyi»ermctropio eyea are more numerous than both myopic and emmetropic ; that next to myopic astig matism, distinct lesions are most preva lent to the eyes with liy|x>rmetic aetig mntixni " This will be startling news to most people. • In its contiuual use in-.the Gniteau trial many }H*ople liave asked, what does ‘court in banc" meant ‘ Banc, * i brought into legal language from the | French, means •‘bench,” and comes to ns from English law. “Banc Regis” was the title of the King's Beaeh, which was blkivl' all other courts, and ap|x*al to which wiis final. The “Court m banc” tficreforr means the Supremo Court of tuv District in full liench. Sixty Harvard students, wearing kneo breechce and black silk stockings and bearing lilies in theii hands, wont in a body to one of Oicor Wilde’s lectures in Boston. O«-ar, str.mge to any was not pleased. To see himself ns others see him so disconcerted him tlint ho failed even to enjoy the rapturous ap plause that ocqphionally greeted him Perhaps this sort of monkey business if pursued loug enough, will teach the dis ciple of a'stlieticism a wholesome lepson. Editor Ramsdell of ‘lie Washington /{(•publican, recently offered 85 for the liest written letter accepting an offer ot marriage, and here is tho letter, by Ger- 1 trudo Nelson, which won the prize.: “J/y bear Jl'niahl— Fresh with the breath of the m> tiling cane your loving missive. I have turned over cveiy leaf of my heart during the day. and on each page I find tho same written, namely, • gratitude for tho love of a nobleman, hu mility iu fin.ling myself its ol'iuot,-and ambition to reuiftr myself nV'r.irv of that I which you offer. 1 will try Yours | henceforth.” Georiie. Q. Cannon, one of the con -1 ti-stoyt-. for the seat of Delegate in Con i grew from Utah K speaking of the re j pressive mensures rt*|Mietiug |K>lvgamy, 'hays: "Our people will be obliged to | submit with tho spirit of martyrs, aa they have heretofore submitted when oppressive laws have been , enacted against thorn, or when they have Ix'en c\p< lied or mobbed from their various homes, before polygamy liecame one of their tenets. They actuaHy rejoice in persecution, us it intensifies their ad- . hesion to the doctrines of their church, ami iNinllrms them in their ts-lief in its divine origin.” a— ♦ A < otemi'OBAIIY tolls the following story: A man name'll Haiseiis who keeps a saloon ami a parrot in New-York went out a few minute* tho other even ing and on his return missed seven silver watches he had there. A few nights after William Cox. who was the only jx'rson in the ra'oon during Hardens absence, came in with some friends; and while he was drinking at tho bar, the parrot startled him by saving gravely, "Billy Cox stole those watches.” He hurried out to sue the owner of the par rot for defaming his character, when he was arrested for stealing another watch ' which was found in his jh>sm. ssion. <to - - Accordino to the New York Herald, now engaged in examining the Clerk s ac conn‘ of the disbursements of the House of Represi'iitatives, tho most shameful reck less nos-- pievaila in tho manner of ' spending the- public funds. Wc quote from the list: “Two perfumery esses, b ugbt for a member, s2<t. three fans j bought for a member, $16.68; six tooth picks, Ixuight for member, 828 17; two fourteen carat charm magic pencils, bought for a memlier. 83<> 60; "even , knives, bought for a member, 8109 67; three card cases, bought for o niemlx r 810.35; one fine opera glass, Ixnight for a meiulx r 840: one shaving case, Isrugbt for a memlier, 813. These are a few of the long list given. The Herald, commenting, says: “Hun-ly Mr. Adams, the late Clerk ot the Honse of: Representatives, who furnished these extraordinary articles to ‘a memlier' at the public expense, on the pretense that they were needful for the discharge of his legislative duties, does gri-at injustice in will.holding the ‘ member s' name from I the curious taxjiayers. He must have b < n engaged in very dirty work to need I so much jierfumt-ry." (hz old Irish <lsme askisl another, toiicbing some person recently deceased, the Ldlowing question : “ Eh. dear Judy aiannah, iv what did lie die ? " “ Ayeh, dear," replied Jody, “he died iv a Tuesday, l'm tould. ' 1 Npoopondjke In the Rule of a Hports man. “Say, my <frar,” said Mr. Sixxqien dyke, as he drew a gun from the case and eyed it critically, “I want you to wain- me up early in the morning. I’m I going sbisMiug. ” , “isn't tliat too sweet!” ; Mrs. Spo’pendyke. “I'll wear my dress : I and my Saratogn waves. Where do we g,,? " “ I'm going down to the island, and you’ll go ns far os the front door," | i grunted Mr. Spoopendyke. “Women I don’t go slio itiug. It’s only All 1 Vou've >got to do is to wake me up au<! I I h*t breakfast. When I come home we'll i have-aoiuo birds.” I- Won't that lie nice !" chimed Mrs , Spoopemlyko. “Can von catch birds ! with tint thing?" ami Mrs, Njxx>peudyk< I fluttered around the unproved breech loading shoMgun, firmly impressed with the i h-ii that it was some kind of a trap “ I ca.i kill 'em with thia,” exclaimed ’’Mv S|s*>)H-ndykc. "This is a giai. biv I dear ; it isn’t ii nest with thn'e spid-kh'd I eggs in it, nor is it a barn wipntTiob' in tho roof. YijM-Btjck tlie curtndge m hi-i. and pull t(ns fiXt'-i im-<. j ami down conies your bird vi< ry tun J' “Isn't that th^greatest thing' 1 sup poeeif yon <L>Xt».mt Miartridg*you cun stick ii duel or ii turk/y m tliut i-mi. too, or n fish okaJybsAer, and Lnng it down just us quieic' " Yes, or you can stick a house or a cornfield, or a d<xl gssti'd female idiot in there, too, if yon want to!” snorted Mr„Sp.wqs'n.l vko. “ Who said anything al>oiit u partridge ? >lt's a cartridge that goes in there.” i "Oh !" ejaculated Mrs. S|x»qHjndyko, ' 1 rather crestfallen. "IsoenOw . Where 1 , does tho bird go?” “ It goes to night school, if he hasn't got anv more senro than yon have,” ! snorted Mr. Hjioopoud.vke. "Look hero, ( now, and I'll show you how it works,” > and Mr. Hpoopendykc, who*c ideas of n gun were iibout as vague as those of his ' wife, inserted tho cartridge half way in tho muzzle end, and cautiously cis'kid the weMion. "And when the bin! sws that he comes and peeks it! Isn't that the fun- i niest!” and Mrs. Hpoopciidvke chipix-d her hoiuls in tho enjoyment of her dis covery. “Thon you put out your hand and catch him !” “You've struck it!" howled Mr. | Spoo|X'ndyke, who had the hammer on the half cock and was vninly pulling nt the trigger to.get it down. “ Uhat's tlu ideal 'li a v<>u maid is four feathers mid ' a gns lull to lie u martingale ! With , your notions you only wont n new stock , and steam trip hammer to lx- a iiecdh gun! Don’.you know the dod gusted thing has to go off before yon get a bird ' > You sliisit the birds ; you don't wait foi 'em to shoot you !” “At home we used always to chop their heads off with an ux,” faltered Mr.i. H|H*ipndyke. * "Ho would I if I was going after measly old hens,” retorted Mr. Hpoopen dyke, who had managed to uncock the contrivance, “but when 1 go for yellow birds and sparrows I go like n eiioitx mm. While I'm waiting fur n bird,' continned Mr. Hmxqx'iidyke, adjusting the cartridge at the breech, “I put the I load in here for safety, and when I see u flock I aim and lire.” Bung ! went tho gun, knocking tin foil feathers out of-an eight-day clock and plowing a foot furrow in the wall, ! (s-rfoniting tho closet door and culininnt mg in Mr Hpoo]M'ndyk<>'a plug hat “Goodness, gracii.tia !" aqm-ikcd Mrs. Sjemp'udyke, "Oh, iny!" Mr. Hixxqa'ndyke gatheied himself up and I'onteinplated the damage. “ Whv couldn’t ye keep still'” he shrieked. “ What'd ye want to disturb my aim for and make me let it off? Thmk I can hold back n charge of |x>w : der ami a jMinml of shot while n tm-iudy !' woman is scaring it through a gun bar ' re) ?■’ " If it bad been a bird how nicely you would have shot it!” snggcstid Mrs S|x«ip<'udyke, soothingly. “If you j shimld ever aim at a bird you'd cat.L | him sure.” The Crater of I’epoeala|»etl. In a letter to tho I'iuhuielphiii Jlccord, Mr. Nathan E. Perkins desi rib'-s at ; great length the ascent of the Mexican voh-ano Porxx-atupetl, having reached the crater after a toilsome elm b, anil de scended ns far as he oouhl without a rope. From this position u good view was obtained of tho crater-walls. Tl.o , I s.ttom was hidden by ascending smoke and Steam. The lower walla wc/u bung with largo mnsses of snlphur inti-rsfH-rseil with icicl<*a hundreds of feet long. “ The crater is alxint one mile «<-r<»u<, ami has Um apjMiarance of alarge funnel wbooc sides are but little inclined, and the Ix'ttom ia hot visible. There seem to lx- three distinct rings, which divide it into four zones, the largint lieilig that nearest the mouth. From the summit ’ the City of Mexico, although nvt r Bai Igiles away, was plainly visible, and, surrnundcii by lakes as it ia, seemed like a magnificent gem set arournl witii 1 jx-aris. The whole great valley of /L-x- , n o can lie seen at a glance. At our feet , lay Arneca, over thirty miles distant, with iti luxurious growth of tropu-al plants, orange groves and liannna jilan taUons, ami on the nght Pueblo ami the I old cities of Cbilulo ami Taacalla, witii I tl.eir 365 churches and spires. The dis tout monntiun of Orizaba, nearly 200 ] miles away, the snowy |»-aks of Mdea- ; eha, the illite Lily anil several others in tliudistance, sUkmlarrayed Is-foerne. 1 Mt fully reiarnl for my toil in having climlx <1 the lilghi st mountain in V.rtli Ane nra. whom- summit is alxmt lx.iHZ) I f< et alxive the imn-li'Vel.” O/VRCLT the b|>x for >qam sc . the ou- . • duct for convictmua A POLICE INNOVATION, lbs < bIMW OAerr lbs UMler Fxor. Concerning Denver's naturalmed Chi neee policeman, Ixiuis Johnson, alia* Kunlun Yu, the fact that Johnson u pm first Mongolian who ever wore the Atei of u policemman in America, was ratFy developed in the conversation, ami is worthy of note. Johnson is married, and more important. Ins wife u an American, a lady in all senaea of the term. ' • “I mnrrleher,” raid Johnsen, Louisville, Ky., in 1878. Hhe wax a Miss Burt, and lived on Twenty-first street. A gixd family. Oh, yes. First eliuw. Hhe is of German descent, and was a working girl, but I assure you in every way an excellent womau -oh, yea !” “Keeps you pretty straight, doesn't she ?” “ Yon bet. Hhe objects to my going among tim Chinese, and mokes me do just ux Americans do—just tho s.ime." “ How do you like that ?” "Oh, 1 don't object. You see I con sider myself civilized, and my country men nre not. Many i f them arc bad |to»ple. They are envious and under handed. When they ace that a China man has a gixxl thing, they try to gi t it away from him by under bidding him." “Are they immoral ? ’ “ Most of them are bud. Ho mv wife doesn't want me to associate with my coiiutrvmen here." “ What do Chinamen pay for the Chi nes ■ women !" “They arc tonight first in Chinn. Young girls uro jireferred. Tlcy are stolen on thestneta in Chinese cities and sold to slave dealers there, who again sell them to men who ship them to America. They are tonight ther • for from $250 to tT.JOI) by wliolexale, ami re tailed in Him Francisco for from f .RK) to SBO0 —young girla bring the best pneea. They then to-loug to the men who buy them, who keep them till they get old and then sell them to Cliinstuen, with whom they live ns their wives. Their owners collect all the money tho women receive, except what they steal, mid feed and clothe the women.” • “ How manv (Jliincsc women are there in this country ?” “Well, 1 should ray there arc nbout 16,000. They are scattered pretty thick ly over tho Pacific const.” “Why do no more decent Chinn women come to America?,' "Da'China everything ia different from Amerii's The women nre kept very close. Hence the women don’t get out much, and tlify don't coms to tins country." “Do all tlio Chinese smoke opium?" " Most of them.” " l>o you ?” “Ob, 1 bit the pipe occasionally when I have n hcadiichc." " D<xs your wife?" “ Not much.” "How many Chinese are there in Den ver?" “About 500.’’ Johnson says it ia his determination to live the life of ii rvsjw'ctiible American citizen. IL* is a member of the Meth odist Chinch, while his wife Itolougs to the Christian denomination. Huhns de voted mo-t of Ins life to the tea Inis uh mi. lie whs mituruliz.nl m Evans ville. H|x ukiug of Ilia courtship, he says he met his wife through her brother, who was a friend of hi*. He courted her for about n y<ar, and when they decided thut they encli loved the other more than thev loved uny one eis« they were mar 4 rieil iiv n ('liYtotlun ISiinater. Denver A'< ire ' A Bat lie Between Birds. A gi'«itlmrta»Arotn Htfine C riuity gun the p irtieiilnnt of n remarkable incident win Ii ho witm sx. <1 while cniraing White River on tho tony just above the mouth of Hyeamore Cr<-i k Wli«-ti nearly half way across the atri um an enormous eagle swooped down on a flock of gi-c*c, which wen swimming m the river rx.rno eighty rials Inflow the to>at. The fowls, up-on obwrviiig the eagle approaching, in stinctively dived under the water just ns the bird stnick the wave. BatHi'.i in tho first uaaaiilt the eagle flew slowly up ward, and when the geese came to the sur face, darted downward again, and Lrtry ing its talons m one of them, attempted to to-ar it sway. Tin goose struggled violently, while its companions swam around uttering shrill cries and sons on th*- ferry I oat nat.-lo strange scene with ke<-n interest. Once tbei-agle lifted its prev clear out of the water and teemed on the jniirit of convoy ing it U> the mountain cliff that rose grandly in the air <m the other side of the strrnm, bnt tho atniggiesof Uiegonso forced the caotor ilowuwsrd. When water was again reached the gixmi' mndo a supreme « ffort and plunged below tho surface, dragging the i agio after it and i-aiiaiDg the latter to loosen its bold and rise upward with a fi-rrec stream. The eagle next attacked another goose, bril with the same roaclt. todtig com p 'lied to relinquish its hr.M when iu in ti-mlod victim plunged to-ncatli tho waves. Thin strange content lasted fully thirty rniuutew, at the end of which time tho eagle gave up the fight. Ml 1, rising, soared nwnv to the mountains .westward, while the flock of geew swam further down tho stream None ot the thick were killed, hut the water m tlm vicinity wm dyed with blexol.-aud the auifai e of tl.<: siri stu waaooversd witii feathers for a eouh.derablo drstui,kj. —l.ittb Jl<>ek Ism r In Atlanta <'onititutiiin. One of the greatest pleasun-a of • liitdhrxxl is found in tin- mvsmnen which it hiilr-s from the akoptii-iam of t>i .dim, and works up uito small my tholngvn of Ila own. Ttm*-IIO' per »■■■■ IN ADVAStX NUMBER 8. ÜBF.FUL HINTS. Nr.van lean the back upon anytlnag i that is cold. Nkvkh Itogin a journey until breakfast lias to>eii eaten. Hfikitm of ammonia diluted witii water, if applied with a ajxmge or flannel to discolored spots ou tho carjtot or gar 'monte, will often restore the color. Hkim-milk and water, with a little bit of ghio m it, made scalding hot, will rtwtore old niaty black crape. If slapped . tuul jireaaed dry, like mtudui, it will look as“giual as new. A rasTR made of whiting Mid benzoin will..clean marble, ami one made of whiting and chloride of soda, Bpread and left to dry (in the sun if jxwuble) on ths murblc will remove s|M>ts. Uklkry. lioiled iti milk and eaten sritli tho milk served as a beverage ia said to to- a cure for rheumatism, gout and a specific in cases of small-jx>x. Nervous ja'iqile find comfort m celery. Nkvkh stand still in cold weather, csjx'i'iully after Raving taken a alight degreo of exercise ; mid always avoid standing ii]M>u the ice or snow, or where the pcnxin la exposed to a cold wind. A flannel clokli dipped into warm aonp suds and then into whiting and npplied to paint will instantly remove nil grease mid dirt. Wonh witii clean w ater Mid dry. The most delicate tint will not Im* injured, and will look like new. • T'< remove grease from white goods, wash witii soap or alkaline lyes. Col ohhl coHous, wash with lukewarm soap yea. Colored woolens, tho same, or nuiniotiia, Silks, uimorb with French chalk or fuller's earth, and dissolve away with to'tizineor ether. Fob Halt-rising bread, stir up quite Huck in tho usual way, using cold water, and place upon the sitting-room coal stove over night; it will lie light enough to Bjxinge tho bread by morning, and is quite a help when the liftys are so short for rniamg tho emptying* ; my family prefer thia rising. When one lira not a warm-enough place to set their milk put hot w iter in to raise the temperature. T<> make a light wheat lonf, take tho thick buttermilk from the bottom of your buttermilk dish ; stir just as ypu can, allowing one heaping tensjaxinful of so da to a pint I nix in ot buttermilk. Pot )>ie is nice mailo in the same way, only put about uni' third sour cream. A puil ding made in the same way with dried cherries and steamed in tho cake dish witii n hole in tho center ia nice. Tlio udviuitagu of the holo in the center ia that the ■tram pi wee- through center of U*i pudding into the steamer. Eat this pudding with sugar and cream ; nice tart apples will answer very well for fruit. POI’I I.AK MCIENCB. Fob a< ver il years it has lieen observed that the Eurojiean glaciers are steadily retreating. The moleeiiles of hydrogen, at a tern jierntltre of 60” Fahrenheit, move at the average of 6,225 feet in a secund. FI.VMM*HI an says that the tall of s eonii-t must sweep through apace with the velocity of 16,tXN) leagues perseooml. Mn Hbinh, her Majesty's astronomer nt the < upe of Giaxl Hope, has just com pleted his g.'est catalogue of Houthern star*, the result of ten years' latoir at the cape. Tin: alga' known iw protococcsc. m have one jx-cullarity—they do not live in the water but in other plant*, some in dead, some in dying Mid others in living ' parts. Home people have coma to believe that suiting or smoking will kill trichiiur, but a tem|x-riituri' of 212” Fahrenheit, or ut l« sat 160” should bo reached in every part of the meat to bring stoiut this result. The colors which distinguish our sum mer and autumn flora -reds, pinka, blues and yellows— are caused by ths presence of . substances which require a strong light and high temperature for their < product iotu It w*x at one time supposed that I among twining plants each had its own ■ direction, some twining toward the sun ; Mid others agMpstit; but, though the theory la true in the niMn, there are ' fouil'l exceptions to the rule. The amount of nervous action may l>o measured by the quantity of blood con aiirnc l m its performance. The plethys mogrtpli. meiwuring the volume of an organ, when the arm is brought in con ' tact with its records the amount of blixal j drawn from tho toaiy to tho brain, and I thus indicates exactly the effort in men tal action. Exfesimenth have rooently been made to sluiw that the preeenoe of ozone pro duce-! luminosity in phosphorus In pure oxygen, at a temperature of 15® C., and uinler atiuosphi-ru- pressure, phi»- phorone is not luminous in the dark, and a bubble of ozone introduced under tho Indi glass protlucesmomentary pirns phorescence. The practical value of the Faure ac cumulator for the storing of electricity la yet to lie proveiL it is said that aev end such butteries stationed in a house and charged with electricity during the day will be sufllcu-nt to light up the rixinis at night and perform such light oja-rationH ns turning • coffee-mill ar sewing-machine. " Pautiwo is such sweet sorrow,” re marked a Isold old Isuiheior to a pretty girl, as be told her gixsl-nigbL “I should smile." alm repiiivl, glancing tqsiu Lis hairh-.xmens and winidenug how be ever did it. ■mi ■ iai ii—iiim iv ' - ~ ~ ' ——— Farrz has named his dog Non tteqnit- UT, taesuse It dies not follow.