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( r "A'~ ~*~~ .., At~ *~ ~ e .4, ley. W! i d f * Wit~aScee AI Downtheir brkeen arobards sing Songs ofsnow and tempest-whining; -Or I stand upon a rise * Underneath the hurtled skies, Hold 1k boaded gass by thee That it mantle steadily? Mayhap, Winter, It is thou Makest rore' bad and blow; Makest leafage and all shades In the anioent chestnut glades; Makest laughter on our lips And the dew at croous tivs. -m 'ONJY ONE'K*LED. dre Warda sat on the tiuy Porch of the gAdier s lodge, tranquil ly knitting, with her spectacles, as usu al, pushed h'gh under her cap. She had eep it9ld tat it'.as a r9st to re mQV Ithinfrd h6r' 4es 600asionally, though whether the relief was to the eyes or to the glasses she could not ex 47tlyOmember; inneither asel how ever, @he felt it her manifest duty to 4"8I them ill sheco-uld. . lt was a glorious summer afternoon, ind from her wicker chair she fooda out over a wide expanse of velvet lawn, luxuriously shaded here and there with clumps of venerable trees, in whose branches the birds were holding high carnival. But Nurse Edwards did not hear the birds, fo, there was a picket fst under theiedge of tiw ' verahda, who had quite ps much to say as they, and who had nb one but her to say it t; nor did she need to look over the lawna'orhiier sunlight, when'a beam bad come purposely to seek her dut, and was lying aqoss her lap, like a long. needle, tre ulously waiting tobe takei up and 6ttiA to some wonderful golden work. It .'Is zonliscontented people who mgetpe, rl a r for the r pleas ures.' r4 . Niil$d4 ~otkail that she required close to ber f t. Preaently she put down'he'knitting, and s&iatiffy .upright, kith'I look 'of recognition on hdrplacid facd hat took the place of a smile, idseenied to ex press almost ore of 'pteasuie. She so t mirnr dY a .steIs, that coii only belon ild, or to one wh JadA uQt ri-sined obildish gladzs~ dd ~ n'ugh, the slender igure of a girl-, still! in her teens, soon pYe4t0d arourid. the. dbtner, ond in a moment more bad 'bounided breathless ly to herd.. "Eh, Mis Anna, dear,"' said the old wolMan, fon4iy, taking the young girl's hand and' patting ItC' affectionately, "what brings ye here in such haste the "Oh! I couldn't come slowly," Annie o?11ed,"with thit litti inconsieneat ,ajg, that 'indicates happiness rithr than mirth. "i don't think "I could walk to-day, if it were t save my lire. My feet wouldn't let me if I asked it of heh Nursie-" she suddenly stopped and kissed the faded chebk-"Pi-ed is coming to-day, and I've i'un down to meet him. Be711'be'.at..the gate'in half an hiour. 2The trai ~idsat five e pretty face F' 4~ Aye've so soon man a lmekro6, ill I looked for ye ,Mnra t "wef 'twa's pnW $1s Rkeg : aafilssisataoline;- 1but -I did hope to 1kethe 19t bqrgi fg th gi -ahi Eh!ieh I .T teatural way,4% children. -lere's y~~iturned a nin of a emden~ith a home to keep me iri;'himr As I'dl held ~a lad till igwatno that-e~asy'to- Vagfaith ng his beard ee~nwitli mny two eyes upori it.' He'll be "getting himi & sWethearte nest,.I tell hIm; but he.:Isyf iihy, he' wapts 11o S*O6theaiff but*his -mother. -My Jom's a gopd lad. God bless him I Apso ye are looking for Mr. Fred, are M ~ Ws Antiie 1? Anid it's for 4ini that y re so gay in all your bravo ~'bbons?" * ot course ~It's for lim," retiu~ned Ahnis,joyo1'sig. "Aid an Iuite fine enough, ay, Nursle deer ? Will ho say 11l4 ne'ver saw me look sy nide befoire ?' . 'Ay, to be sure; that willsp 4w'? re Plied the. old woman, fervently. "5'houghi it'il no- be ribbons he'll mark. He'll say as my Jemn says Wfhen I.put on my smart gown of a Sunday: legd ete and si ownyeweasmoth. or,' he says." -"1 am afraid Jemi is an arrant fiat. erer'," laughed Annie. "You've pos. aitively grown conceited since ou came t~3 i ~ bi~q~better h q on ia ouse." "l~,there's nothing ab could keep all I had, and my Iih )6 'o6ihim. Ie little I can do for him now I'm old, and any sight is ailing, and I'm no thiat quick I was on.my feet; but It's all in thas way of Nature. he says. Them a - *Ilit the dptng shall reap in tI and 'n to reap now, whilst he's werk at the sowing. A el of trouble Lve had in wy day, but- no finger's l touch will be letf vinear me' in ay old I a , he sayo.- I Ut he'! lad lope ~ e yr'~~'?' emaver 8oo3', ?Qte A 0i, 6~si. rio'~~ hreI is 4a 9loekuywtem fao ~~to WeilI U?, t hrowing eaigerly, mperious mounds'. ing; ng, all Edwards liste gtoe nd the chirp jF'f the cr t .he' piazza ledge was th he oaught" T'gyg~hst 'a noiso. hegmayee? sheC said4 admiringly, as Annie turne&1'b ok with a gesture of disappolnt'mn. - "If It's them as is happiest sings loufest, yon fellow has-the best of usall. "Oh.1 will It never be-lve. o'clock t" cried Annie, inhylfuI'only of her im-. patience. "This day has-been a hun drd4 days long already." "Now don't ye be, in haste with Time, my dear." said the old ' woman, reprovingly. "'e'll not; hurry it, though ye fret it never so. We mqst Just bide, the time', my Jem says, and all things1lI- come in turn-first life, then growth, then- death.. Things is best taken natural as they come. The rose that ye force'll only be sooner done blowing," "But I can't wait,". the girl com plained, childishly. "I always wa'nt thingiZ'iumediately, and I want five O'clock this .miuute. What time can it be,- lNursie P -"Oh ' do say it's five o'cloc1Wl "I'll be nigh upon it, sure, by the slant.oi the shadoWs," the old woman answered, peering out across the lawn. "Ye can look at the sun-dial yonder, if ye will." "NonsenseI" rejoined Annie, con temptuously. "As-if a-stipid bit of Wood -and a rusty ebadow ikept :any count of the time the; train goes' by. I'll lqolp.the.clock iuside." (IV1 ,ap a erftelP the tTO~~e~n~-'UGJTIi - 1iib hads stopped utes to seven this mornhng, e a~ g emit out for the city; arid fle Kitbi seven it'i bp till y Je ts. , which mastbe thg ziight.6f 4 o row. And I've been -thinkfri All'he day as I sat here how.it's with iue dd with every thing about -we Jus.4s it is with the old clock inside. It'8.hlm that keeps us going; and we're all ruh down and stopped together when he's gone, biding the time till he -comes back to right us..' "Then I wish be would come back now and wake it five o'clock-," sighed Annie. "Sirely it inuet'be five o'clock, a.d the traid' has core in without my hearing'the whistle. I'll run- down 'to the gate and'wait there Fred can't'be long now. Good-bye,.Nursie. In flye minutes more I shall be the very hlip pleat girl In the world 1' And before she had finished aa~ she was off, disdaining the road an4, making herself a pathless ,*ay across the latwn; laughing, dancing, -bounding along with many a light' apring 'and 'airy leap and merry twist,.like a meu it. !am brook too' itpettious to'i'anuooth ly. -The old nnise smiled ini~uugently. anid, settling herself back in her -chair, went eoltentedlyn with~lidr knittiiig, whie the cricket again became the upi permist, 'soffadhin ."het'*oi'd, like i lionly 'accorkpaniment -tQ.'"thfNingle music of her thoughts. . Maziy more minutes than five went by uncounted, when, suddenly, froin the dire'btion -bf thri gateway, Annie again naine running,t but not as she had run before. Very direct and" straight she came. -Her-artnsa.were outstretched as one who runs blindly; her face, that ~ yt d~et a l~42tfg 'ibs'elf into the old woman's arms with a great, sharp ery.e "0, N4urse 1 0, N'urse. The train ls not in. There has been an accident.. .A man going by told me. And there has bden one killed. Just a light accident I But there was 'one 'killed. Only one killed, the mnan said. 0, Nursle I it is Fred. I knowi it is U'red I As ceitamnly as that I am alive now, I know that it is my darling who is dead I'" And the girl burst into a passion of stormy weeping, abd. would neiither be'~ .homforted, nor listen to'anykhing thatt her old friend said. "I tell you I know it' is hej" she orild, with an agony Of con victiouiin her voice that almost carried certainty with it. "It was like a knife throukhi my boar the moment 1e m spoke. At iso4jtt Fred wa t elffhsi ythnt .ttl0deMie I" gled' t6.n otd nutrse, olaspig the i4l to hqr a~t and rock IVe back and. forth wias itLshs were a babe, so quick!ly te fiabake children of us all. "Hlowcan ye know ? Whly borrow so sore a tronble as this 9 &mliti i p925g; Qrpl ngs Itt ye I Flimself, and g of -it by I ending 11s -own l1essehn4, iud o'tle >urd0$Jyhet 4lguld start -before isandto fearit ? 1 'Oh? don't yoi e d e ged. ;4Don'tryou'soee:? ISO a I lappy t ri I di- a I bavenever ai all V4e, PIg. 4 h i rthing [want. I hy ' 4 44toih Ky llifd-l lglt'a e ar is long. and the q d to stoI sometime. -ri'e' we ala ye beinpe.' old' we" Must :expect sorrow ?, Iat svery one has to suffr?It isn't natural to be so happy ab- X .. Sorrow has f~k 6"VA8t, n*e,* too; Mid.' I ..*Uw i 16 g no*-tn this wnay- ,t.iost terrible way of all. I am to lose myI very dearest. I am to lose Fred for sver. And we Vefe.so hAppy.together oh sohappy U 1 loved him ob U, O; N119756, Nurse I 'oa6Wbai' li#l "Wilst, gllt, hij atn' ONn'tV ye go to tinnk the Lord b3grudges ye rot bappiness 'in the- blepsings Him self has give ye to enjoy, Don'l ye go to misjudge-Illm so." "Ohl If He has taken Fred from me -if Ie has-I shall hate Him, I shall hate HimL'I oried Annie, wildly, clench ing .ier slender hands. Oh I I God Is so cruel, sa pitiless as that, I will never love I1m, never pray to Hijn agaiin, never,'while I live " I - *unie, Annie I God liolp ye, ye don't- know what ye are saying I" ex Diaimed the poor old woman, with tears dropping over her withered cheeks. "flow dare ye call Him cruel. If He pids ye let- go your heart's dearebt, what right have ye even so td set your will against Him as made ye, and'as works all thinks together for your, good? My. Jem says there's a reason In all'the Lord's dotg's; it's only our eyes as is weak and don't always see plain. It's wicked of 'ye t0 talkc so, Annie, and I couldn't a-bear it, only Jem says he Is sure the Lord don't listen when we speak that we don't mean; and ye don't mean- what ye are saying now. Why, ye've just said there's no blessing in the world as has been denied ye your life long, and yet now ye couldn't take one sorrow from Him even if He sent it ye 1" "Only not this one ?" sobbed A noie, her face hidden in the old woman's dress.' "Only not' this I I could bear agThijipp but only not thisri -1 . ", tnnie I iteWe:. fort usi . hay what shall be of'the ,Lird's s'eing. What ;e sends, good or bad, that mist we take; and it's-no f6r,.us to choose the what or the when. If one poor soul lies dead yonder, then there's Borrow come into the world some where by rea son of it. It's so .that sowe one must bear the grief ye say ye can not, nor will not, bear. Is others stronger than ye, then, that ye should be spared, and your. pain put on' them ? What tght havee, Annie, to claim to be spared, arid take no part in the w6rld's troubleY The very trees -has storms sent them, and stands up againqt them whilst they o in. So then tJAtQ Qd sends this sor row to the'da3, whoe've they chancq to. be, must e'en* submit their .wills to it, and, as .ngy. Jem would say, may the gracious Lord liahten it to the heart 1FX4 fixes it upon. . - '. The old wotinan bowed her head rev erently as she spoke,dnd .Annie looked up at her, hmalf -awed, thongh " with cheeks still wete with* rebellious tear,. Antjmgst there.,some one stooped over them and lifted the young girli to her. feet, softly saying her name. Ah I what voice of all living coddso say it save tune ? 'It 'wa8 as -if her lover had been giiven back to her from the.very regions of the dead, and, after an almost fright daee4 glande at him, Annis threw iberself upon Jils breast, with an inarticulate cry of relief and rapture, Perhaps whjen;souls. first meet in Heaven, they fael somewhAt as she' felt in that mo ment, But the young man gently unclasped her clinging arms,' antd, holding her hands in one of his, went nearer the old nurse, .and stood looking at her. without speaking, :I0o'. Mr.' red l" thes old dornin criled, catchinghis hand, while- a look of such unselfish delight irradiated her' wrinkled face as absolutely transfigured It. ~"The Lord be thanked that is '45 not ye who have been taken!"0 "No, not I," Fred sai4 sldwlywhile Bhe, in t.he rellef -that seemed to set all' her senses free again, liearedthe cricket chirp, and saw how the Nolden needle of light had slipped away from her lap, and felt it where it lay bright and warm across her foot. "Not I," he said, "but. another." And there he paused again; 1hnding, speech dililcult, and laid. his lland 'on her shoulder as if to steady ~ her; and then, In despair at bis own' odwardice in breaking the news 'to her, he turned abruptly to Annie. "Help her if youroan; Anny," 'he said. "TelL her. Jem was on. thetrain, too. It I her 3em who was killed."A The old rise spoke rnovel a-word. dild she rinderstand Y~ Slid felt a tfezli blngt but she did' not weelp o016941 & move.by a hair's breadth, only sat ifl her hands dropped helple'ssly in her lap,' looking unseeingly up at him who had brought the news. It seemed as if the silence couild be felt. 'Annie had fun~ heAif lton her,kue by the old 'oga naside, again/ and 'Ias ooverings tbe boW& old hand with vain ktisses and vainer tears, Her heart was full of an ntol~a~lhB iladlHR t vho ( utot, ".W. mos 0 rouipd1er e1C if lnaidy bk l Svin Z 4et~. aa s -0.% lbag raso 1metW gzetis l9ig :thb 4 ihyme ahet will he..upon d e hestrengI4thh bst begu lias'laid HLsWbir uiWine but ih tand will be nix.%ny cldsteot that fklnt, WanWs %inand -mo Ment looking uncertailiy abot er,: as if trylng to find 9iHs4Idit tbiss range wotid she, *r& 1*0 t ly, the chito t OJ6 her ear, like a famIliarsoi from erlnly Dld world of the pist linlthiibe then ind the now'tdjeth0.-Tife conseloiig dess came slowly backi nto 4e e'as lier look wanderu, a And the trees, be ,dned to pass on toso oint ftheI'tle , perhaps befond .d thaltogether, be. yond'death,- beyo4d-sbade' janje- beyond time. She seemed quite to had forgot. Len the presence of the others. 'Ay, ay I'$she mumred-apftly.. 'Wie not so long to wait as some.. The Lord Ls full of love and mercy. It's better I than another. Aud.bette' Jean than one, may be,.less reigo'." And with.tbat sho..erned and went into her little des.olito-hoie, and closed the- dooi; and ,1k6.'two -left outside looked at each t il nty, iny en went Mutely, through allr the, .piness of their rT union; By*what inscrutable-justleq had this sorrow passdd them - by'to fill on lier? . Wit is the nfYstic sign that so ften turni aside the angel of wob fr.m the abode of the happy, to theathe ,bli sword afresh in bearta .that have alread y bad? is it because they who have suf. fered most- ori atalnger to endure igain. being the quickest -to discern the dldden blessing in he stltg, and tho i.irest of all making It their own ? Who tan tell , LIf6 is full of prob. ems more unreasona4je than this. . ' Thi'own iuto'The oa. A collision occurrdd,on the 10t inst., betwedh twotrains on tus railway be. bwveen Monte Utilg and *Mentone, in France. The train Ifrom Menilogo wga [illed with English vistr. A'nrnbdt; )f carriages weore-smashe~d anid fell into the sea. Three passengers, an engineer; mnd 'a gua.rd were~ lnstantly2 killed, rhirtyislx 4 the pOassenzers .were lid. lnred, thirteen very dangegously. Thie solhslon happened on a sfiarp ourve, which the two trains, both filled with passengers, tried to round at. the.-~same time on'a singls tra'ek;. Th'e brins were badiy (el~ospoped &n& .w6re yowa from ijie tracts, The point where the collision oodeurredy is attat6fd'h a .cliff yerkdolng 'the iea,.ad ot$2ffe abdyp the beach,' f wo of the'carjijges whichyv,&thrqwn. from the track andsfel ldown. the oliff rolled a' conalderable distahoe i the' 5hallow watet t.the base aid tbedded bheinelves 1h -the -s'and.Both: tlese 30aclies *e 'ul.f:ep6nd.h bio'nt's Oarlo. Kutd the wounded tire-Anierloans nd- Eagdisliien, ;tune of the luled siember .of al a r endlt ISm(1y who' were atouiring loether had theIr egs broken. ~The Ao dont was due t0 heo'aied et fthe treiblis atchets at agend of thie ttrbk, whdfplied to nquire whether tihefraolI o r o AA Roman Wewr-Conese. ' Theqxroavations oarld on in the Ro nan-arena at'farlskyov istibeen re Warded 41th ery estin t is. Au gttifaial tep re'd~ ezgent eservfaticEN 31~Ji lieen *lif 4bre. whieh evl40i41% gthe purpose of lin at~ t9or on the - j~oughi ledbphi'doo 604 e~ronaryt ~ole 11l~. of i~& h elar rirther'om po lg seats. or the eottore, and f$Q9 some ramnsof a slahb e srbe 6f s idh4l t~~lof Lutet4 p gO aog '.0'.', -'t& NIORIA GOAN FAlm. kA t4'kE' Voture ' h. has ote Prt/le ,ok, New York, 4qar tto river, %s an Angora 0* wob frem its novelty at totitefti liere bout. It.it A IQk4 ol~ o itb ai tbq'nature 9e raisini of oats browse an. goats prosper o n i' e O ght 1 - boedq' I.. ey d onr Ydli apd ore Le a to T e lerd x ap 44 e ha noei fam j1sb skW n Uoblwrs '75..Varythg In age from, th6e b o of thfee -tanths which tool e 4.roA Ate & og rklbitand, ' p* ggqr' pull, g the fiengoine' of thi: flock, ajpgagnficnet speIme o the pure Angora breed, *ltha Iiieise ourling horns. This ol48-ebd fellow with'htibWfe Wero lit W f Dr, Agin# the famous oI i 6 N Yprk, from .Asia inori and the inportation cost hupi a heapot mozi6y as thk pridW ofodais goes. - Theit preseiht 6o eie's the-gootd wQmangho now runj .thos goat faio and W1ho oever tires of disoan~ting ubon the.good qualities'-of her pets. T4ie know her voice, and and - answer' to -their names when she alls'them. I9nd and gentle they' apieai nwhen' visitors rp abopt, but'the fondness for fighting as characteristic .o goats as It Is of a Inative of Tipperary, drops out .w ied the herd is.t6gether and dppitgntly out ,of ight of man Ind. A strange fact noticed I.nithie iUqed t-ig of these animals is that thd iemiles do not thrive ini this locality as wev as tie maes. Tuh hardO female goat, 'f the ordinary . species 'was .Intr6ddeed into t~isa flgk for expprlmental bre Ing purp.opes, and ,with-marked success. Repeated crosisi'ngs with the conion goat tnd- her fioring ha- producei apliarently pure Angora- goats, the tendenoy,4eing ira al. bases for the kids to reverb in the, texture .of their wool. toward the male side. As a consequence the third:geieoratori has All the appear ;bco..I4 it 1#sti spe tn and Cile t gur geogsgtio eyp egptreoatrkot- tell the purotbrded from the grade Angora. This-fact is a matter of' considerable interest to breeders of gdata, as an Angora buck scosts $100 or over, while the common goat can be had almost for the asking. TM fecundity of the Angora is not so grtat as that of the common goat, the Angora ewe giving birth to but one kid yearly. As a source of profit the goats have turned out well. The wool is from 4 to 0 inches in length, silky, and of beauti ful t6xture. A full grown animal will yield 4 pounds or wool, which will readily'sell at $1 per pound. Just now the demand for this wool Is not parti cularly lively, as - the lustrous dress fabric Into which it was at..ono time largely converted 18. out of- vogue with fashionable ladies. It ls-therefore used 'almost exclusively in the manufaceture .of plush for upholstery purposes. When the kid is siz -months old its hide,: un dressedy is worth $3, and Will sell readily to glove .manufacturers. 'Kids on the far'd in question mect with sud den death on that account at about that age with considerable regularity. Whie tit te necessary to. kill, them the good lady has themn obloroformed 80 that she may not hear the death cries ot her little pets, The milk of the goat Is much, sought af ter. by; dyspeptics, by persons ,suffering frotn bulmonary troubles,, and2 by otherwise delicate *pgrsons, and it. brings a much greater price than cows' milk. *As to their ase for food little can be said,= because' the goat'does not flesh up well, but the ~kld Whe~n killed yon furnishes a fair uount of -tender 'moat which some~ People like, -It will never become. ai great delicacy In thei -market or be In sufiflciept demand, to become a s autcb ofiicome to the, goat raiser. There is. nothling in the world so cbeA'p,to raise asgoats; because They will find ample food -in lots up 'here where -other snt mials would starve to death. Acorns 4re a nfavorable article of food witih -them, anid Z\these abo4ne )n.Lhe woods .ther hiost for *iter. fodder is mainly confined to tihe trouble of gathering the acorbs. kWTZNG INSTA1RANTS. E4phemnes 6y Whioh Itogues Get Good A nnohns Ver'y.Cpxh . ,7"~. chipf 36ue tronuneicjr ~Is li996est,t '$ean Itidiscriminate 14dra7 tioa for wealth ;'an adiniration avhicl 'dces not :takat Iitd oisideratio~n 'tha character 'ft the pbssessor." A i'ake quranteteepet In Uhicago was asked. by ja reporter in searrch of signs .of the' spproacliIng millenium if he-attrjbuted the 'lessening of the troubleaccaused by his customers endeavorind to be~L'their lunCh bilto:haiewaning of snab hu a4 miratiggor the ennobling of charaote "Not 'by a J'ugful ; don't tool yorhZ agle byagpy uoh idlg" he said. "The simpe reasofii thib'tthose of my pat ig; (M ~tp~e4to lheat know, tlbat ' AIX Oh't th'eir trickB .rd that it 'is an exceedingly hard rdtte4 to bea me, so they'doii'Otr( o1i ve' rmuch. I had one nia fry to get ahead of me last week, *Whihis the only 'case I have bad for ove' a nnth. It was by an ohtrick, thoiughmrow, perhaps, to him. He came in one noon, ordejed-.a Oifteen cerit lunohi which as g.veti him, and kt it a, eo Ife tihgi ered ten if and 0. k1 - . . waiter asked for he rt oc, t the man denied baving rec'eiv6d AtWY and ae iiave in's¬ed iiwi-whterN1to die Pei ' innk, g h. fig tc arbitu d ere' affi I 4 od )golc 4 h "Segp lIN inI mp tAemry, 8 $19469; apoi te ofP days aftrWard'he canedu,1 ngqegeiel enogh to amo'unt to-tchirtyellkvee its. on, nW a y h eyprg. 916teO yea chell abiunt-, Ing to over WenLy 9 is vtohedi~o when this indidlaiparclies up fe tie counter I as ready-for him. -.He did' as , sp ppose'd'lie 'Vould, and tistea oi ha6ndig oer 1fi ri'ht cWl pi h'e gve me_ tiqifteen-cent 'one j6 yole te lqt(timq,,he vas in. I accused dlin point bidnk. and -demanded the right check. He objected 'atfirst, lAt upon Upy threatening to -cqll ad fil'ber,' he. gave in and paid both." "Are there any new sche~yes that you have come . across lately, by which they try to overreach you?" . 4-'o I don't thnk there are; at leasi I have foind none. Occasionally when there, Ina cowd in he're the'boats man age to.0llp out .of the door nnoberyed, but noe often. There is one trick-au old-ole-which they work and wlich ist-1p dnly o'ne fiave been dnsticqess '(1d Iii copibating. Two friends, thougfl appvrxegtjy strangers, come in an' sl together.' One orders a big lun ithe other 6 -rbalLone,- each-receiving his respective cleck. The one Odering the lairger weal leaves4 first, 'after ex changing checks with, his cdmpanion, who, -when he Is ready to leave, informs the waiter that the-check at his phite is tbo much, has.it exchangedi and .de camps. The next tlmeihey change off, tbe one who' had the light lundh first tlking a .big one in, order to equalize their appetites. But even by this way they slip up after a feW- attempts, for 0h .bh austoniers. prptty cWa - Treading .the Vine-Press in Italy.. Something has already, been said about the vineyard of the Scala Bros. on Vesuvius. The vintage was in pro gress when I visited it, and I saw the treading of - the grapes and the frst stages of wine-making. The room used for the crushing was a part of'the family mansion and was. scarcely mqore than fifteen or twenty feet square. The platform for the treading was perhaps three feet high, four or Llve wide, and built entirely across one end of the room.,. The front of it was raised a-few inches to prevent the escape . of the grape-juice, and it was carefully ce mented in every part. - There was a sinigle person treading, a stalwart peasant, whioostent, atiously washed his feet before beginning iha a small tub of water standing near ; as he afterward explained, out of defer ence to the strant er. His' feet were uncommonly broad at the base of the toes. His dress was a calico shirt and short trousers, which he rolled; up a little,- probably because he wished 1o keep them dry, and not "out of respt for the wine. Half a ton of grapes were put on the platform, and the treadinpg began about the ediges and then systematically all over the .pile, which kept as well as possible togethery The juice soon began tQ flow freely acrops the platform and out at a spont made in the little barrier of cement in, to a large tub.. It was intended - for champagne, being the first. It is the usual .arrangement for treading where wine is made in large Qizantities; . The Coldest Plaoe on Ettr Many feel -iin these latitudes quite comfottable on isending df the bold reg. istered at Werkhofansk, in Siberia. At *th6 late meeting of the St. Petersburg Academy of defence; it was stated that the mean temperature, of - Werkhc Jansk', during January, 1885, was 62.90 Fahrenheit below zero and the lowest reading of the thermometer was 90.4 below zero. This is tehe lowest mini. mum temperature ever rego~d on the globe, under circumstances which make the record entirely relfable,-and-is prd. babiloylwei- than'wouilil eveu'be record. ed at the north pole itself. .The Werk-. hojanslrr sobservations also show 'lhat the' great cause of refrigeratoi oa the ~M~his is not dite td the fnovemnent bir air over th~3,' but to the radi' ndloss of heat by the soil itself under an atnmosphiere - extremnely low 0peolute humidity. -~ inense cold registered? by. thie Ru$ a, meteorolo. gisls at Werkhojaiak was evidently, niot imported4 thither efroisp the ArctiV Ocean,; but was generatedion the spot. .' OQnu~ed6wu2m adgises laying out ti~emydenin'o og shape, with per matent fences ~ ie endl and movable ones t the aidso ,that nohn the garb de jg~.he'scultIvated thi ide panels cau, poved, the latn ,d by e Sthe ltside ot '- a~ pn-. audW f et r eyed, ie B3O1VAMNWAL' GARbfiNS'OVV ltx The Wonderi-otii$ioafivogttion-w eVivid Desoription othe otnery. In A short time we arrivad at the en trance to 'the bMtai Ard eome. body , gkdwons ~We gr. , . soon . Gfwi9,W 1f ijd 1PygselZgg it. ulvsa -r frr C are oluter as I h, Ar 1d99 ,, or four 4 8 a~ta atort'ist it b a ma rustio' eure ca ~ aJupp and the suirice 0of" ' 40 with Illies 'nd .9iequ * Here the path pirn'da atiwen ere a -i b-tee gh un -Th6 foliage 4s so thick If ias iIM possible to tell 'where th6i blll'bgan, and whether the bigtrees 'e e uunsu 'ally high or whether they grew oh the -mountain Sie. ,Wherever theygrew, they. were of immrense height. There were. scores. of royal palms, running .such a.-distancei',Into the air that it made one's neck ache to look up at the toPs of them; fnd .genprally their attaight round trunks were festooned wth Tparasitical plaiith, iht ran from 'thegrothid all 'th6 way'up "$nto their ranoief. Wherveur thei any possible place on the tr&il dt a tree for one to stick, a -hugeair plant was growing. Tliere were bamboos with iout -*uMberg ahi *hi ds* df thick .,tropical plints that f had Veger seen or iheard'bf before. The road wound here ,and there through the rqVine,.and led ,us to an 'elevated spot on Which, there pvas a smsll lake, its edgeh.bordered ,with queh.tropical plaRja as one usually -sees in petures but seldom in reality. *There was.a. grotto cnt ot, of the rock 4n the mountain side, where the water gushed through holes out for. it in the back, dashed'itself ovefa sloping bed of rocks) aid 'as cauig' in a basin of 'tdne "tje foot; iin this. basin was half-covered wit learei and growing wate fi le and more trottoes tiid r'atuiral discade. where the *ater fell froni catisidelRble heights and broke itself 'ito foa' if' tearing 'over the rooks. Near the eioret'of the largesb lake Was a 'small cottage, with chairs and tables in its 'single open room--no -doubt a favorite resort for picnicking parties. There were more high trees In that one little spot than I ever saw 'gathered together before, It fairly makes the back of my neck ache now to think of trying to look up at tliem. And. isuch vegetation every. where I Jpst such plants and trees as you see in the pictures of tropical coun tries, and such as you generally don't 'see when you visit' those coultries In person, uthere they were, all gather ed together in this botanical garden, -the whole garden 'covering a space, at a rough guess, of a hundred acres. I remember seeing a gaudy lithograph once in an atlas in the public libeary in Bermuda of; a "scene in South Amer- - ica." The leaves' were the deepest and brightest greens, the trees were pre .ternatural,1y tall, the imountains were high,.. the foliage .was thick 'enopigh to cut withea knife, and-birds of bfihllsant plumage sat,, in "tple braiches. I thought at the .thp that thst picture must have beentna~ie by sonmebody who had never been in a tropical country ; but here was just, such a sqenevacolors, trees, shrubbery, birds~ and afl. 'There was nothing lacking. The Jersey How the popular "Jersey," the close fitting sacik now scunhiversally worn by Womnan,: camie to recemfe 'its name, is thus told by a lea~ing Londdn and Now York draper : "Thb princess of Wales has an exceedingly good figure. She wants. novelties, of course, like other ladies, and, enqspring 'we made her a jacket of Ilnely-ktiitted sills, (regged or braided with gold Acress the frpnt. It made a sensatio'n. None of the other ladies ,knew -whtat 1.t was, nor could ex aet, iak'e .u. .,Shie said' sheliked it very much, a$ she .received from me a profnise ngt' t6' tiak*aothNi lt a year like It. Very well'. In a dii ntli or two ~I was over on' the priofu' -yacht at Oawes, {ktd lhe came and sat dIown by ul'o and turmied -thie titik to 'ladies' 'kownAt - sa* aozhetbi~ w as on-ihs wind anid i16ndsfed tvhd lie was going to say. -"The'orose jdelet fits the prin cesb beatteifai1y to what 4tras. Of c9.urse It.e~ressed ny gi-eat pleasure, ad. I' .w,ishv' .9ou1wqgWv gnalke one myref .Ap pg $gamsr told hi PW9)igeqpss "Yes,'" po , qud gwul make a9 f (99 Mrs. m al on its fa ta we Oa the Waf On $1 e uI~ts. bien belie to b4.9iwioz '