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nPHfed-Sntpt Wheat.
Paint, Uint and clear
Paint u the music that dreaini we hear
Shaking the curtain-iold ot sltep
That shuts away
The world's bouse voice- the sijihs and soandi
oi day,
Her sorry joys, her phantoms, laUeand fleet -8o
softly, aotUy atira
The wind's low rnunimr in the rippled whci
Prom waat to eaat
The warm liroath IJowi, the slender hou U
droop low.
Aa il in prayer.
Again, more lightly toed in merry play,
They baud anl bow and away,
With nieaaurcd lioat,
But never real . Through shadow aud ihrougb
an
Goes on the tender rulle of the wheat.
Dream more than sleep,
Palla on the li.tciiing heart, and lull iu care,
Dead years sent Iwck
Some treaaurod, hail foigollin lima.
Ab, long ago,
When sun ami hky were sweet,
nhappy noon,
We aloml, breuat high, 'mid waves ol ripened
grain
And hi nrd tho wind make music iu the wheat'
Not lor to-day
Not (or this hour alone--lbe melody,
So soil and ceaseless, thrills the dreamor'i
ear!
(M all timt was and is, ol all that yet shall be,
It holds a part
Love sorrow, longing, pain;
The restlessness that yearus;
I in' thirst thiil burns;
The bliss that, like a lountain, overflows;
Tho deep repose;
Good that we might have known, but shall
not know ;
'I be hope God took, the joy be made complete
Lite's chords all auswer irom the wind-swept
wheat. Christian Union.
FaltM, GARDEN AND H(H M II i I II.
Hollins Stock.
A writer, in a recent number of the
Milch Zcitung on the danger to German
agriculture from foreign competition,
says that his own experience of fifty
years has taught him that regular soil
ing of cattle is best for the farmer and
for his fields, bringing in greater profit
and maintaining the fertility of the land
at a higher point that twice as much
fodder can be produced on a given sur
face when the forage plant is allowed
to grow as a cultivated crop and reach
a certain degree of maturity, than when,
as in pastur it is continually cropped
off and trodden down. He believes, as
do all the best German writers on the
subject, that the most successful system
of agriculture in the long run is that in
which' a-large quantity of stock is kept
and fed well, and a careful rotation of
crops is followed, in which the same
crop is never put twice in succession on
the same land. The soiling system
makes it easier to carry out the second
part of his programme, and the greater
variety of crops that can be raised on a
long rotation provides a greater var ety
oi fodder for the stock, so that these
two features of the best modern agricul
tural practice work admirably to
gether. The soiling system provides
a more uniform ration in respect to
quantity, and avoids much loss of
manure. It may be pretty safely af
firmed that the droppings of cattle in
the pasture are more than half wasted
by drying in the sun, or by too strong
dosing with manure in isolated spots
here and there. Where land is cheap
and abundant, and cannot be profitably
cultivated and carried up to a high de
gree of fertility, pasturage over a large
portion of the farm may be allowable,
but when high farming pays, pasture
land is a poor investment, and may e it
up a large part of the profits from the
cultivated fields.
Household Hints.
Scotch snuff put into holes where
crickets come out will destroy them.
French mode of purifying rancid and
tainted butter: Let the butter be melted
and skimmed as for clarifying, then
put it into a piece of bread well toasted
all over, but not burned. In a minute
or two the butter will lose its o'i'cYisive
taste and smell, but tho bread will be
come perfectly fetid.
It is well known that many articles
made of rubber are liable to become
dry after a considerable time, and to
crack, grow brittle and lose all elastic
ity. According to a Russian journal
this may bo remedied by the use of a
Biraplo mixture composed of one part of
aqua ammonia with two parts of water,
in which the articles should be im
mersed until they resume their former
elasticity, smoothness and softness the
time required varying from a lew
minutes to an hour.
Bran or oatmeal will soften hard
water. The bran should be sewn in a
muslin bag and kept in the water all
night. The oatmeal should be treated
as follows: Put two ttvblespoonsful in a
saucepan and pour a quantity of hot
water upon and boil it a quarter of an
hour; strain and mix the water as
needed.
Raw Oabbaoi. A nice way to pre
pare raw cabbage is as follows: Select
a fine good head ; chop finely in a bowl
what you think will be needed, and to
every quart add one-half teaoupful of
thick, sweet cream; two ttiblespoofuleof
strong vinegar or lemon juice; one cup
ful of white sugar, and mix thoroughly.
Hot Citoss Bvns. Take two cups of
milk, three of sugar, two eggs, half tea
spoonftil soda, half a cup of yeast, a
little nutmeg and Hour to maso stiff
enough to roll; let it stand over night;
in the morning roll out small, set them
close togethor in n pan, let them stand
and rise again and bake in a moderate
oven.
APPLE Ciikkse reel and quarter a
quantity of apples, stew them with n
little water, a good deal of sugar, the
thin rind of a lemon and alow cloves,
or a stick of cinnamon. When quite
done pass them through a hair sieve;
and to one quart of the purco thus ob
tained add half a packet of gelatine, dig
ftolved in water; mix well, pour into a
mold, and whon set turn it out and serve
with a custard poured about it. It is
well to remember that the puree must
Iw thoroughly well sweetened and fla
vored to carry off tho insipidity of the
gelatine.
1 iportlng Mliecp.
We clip from a late number ol the
New York Uirnld the following state
ments concerning the profits realised in
exporting sheep: In a conversation with
a buainess man of this city, who has
paid a great deal of attention to the sub
i". t, we glean the following facts with
reference to the profits to be derived
from the shipment of 1st sheep from the
West to New York, for export to Eng
land. Shetp, he says, can be driven to
Utah, New Mexico or Colorado at a
cost not to exceed fifty cents per head.
In either of these Territories, double
deck ctrs, with a capacity of 14 I sheep
per cr, that otherwise would return
East empty, can be had for 9 10 each.
Fat wethers that will dress filty pounds
net can be bought onthis coast for $4 per
head and slaughtered in New York lor
twenty cents each. The carcass, whon
dressed, e:tn be sold lor ten cents per
pound, or 5 for a sheep weighing fifty
pounds. In addition, the pelt, with six
months' wool on it, brings from seventy
five to eighty cents, and tho refuse tal
low about forty cents, making a total in
New fork, say f H.30 per head, or tW
per car load, irom this is to be de
ducted the cost of 140 sheep at $2, cost
of driving fifty cents, and rent ol car
!!, total, $10, which Jtakcn from
1808, the amount realized in New York,
it leaves the handsome sum of $106 per
car lead, or nearly 110 per cent. gain.
From the mine gentleman we learn that
parties engaged in exporting mutton to
England are now making contracts in
Canada at eight cents per pound. That
the matter is receiving the attention ol
stockraisers in other parts of this State
is evidenced by the fact that last week
15,000 were shipped from Red Bluff.
Poultry Notes.
The comb is a true index of the health
of the fowl.
In cold weather feed more in propor
tion of the fat-producing grain.'
Don't nttempt too much ; master
one variety before, you begin With an
other. Roup is an Inflammation of the mu
cous membranes lining the nostrils and
adjoining parts
Fresh bones from the butcher shop
pounded fine are superior to the com
mercial bone meal for fowls,
Plan your fowl-houses so that they
shall be warm in winter, cool in Bummer
and sunny and airy at all times.
Fowls during molting require more
warm and more generous diet during
this time of drain upon the system,
At five or six months old the cockerels
should be separated from the pullets,
and rear each sex by themselves.
A very good plan, if one has not car
bolic acid on hand, is to mix with the
whitewash a cupful of kerosene before
using it in the fowl-house.
Selling pure-bred chickens in the fall
is becoming popular among fanciers.
This gives a semi-annual boom to the
poultry business.
Ducks and geese can be raised with
out an abundance ol water. Give them
enough of pure water to drink, and al
low them an occasional bath.
The chicken houses must be kept
clean as circumstances will permit. The
diseases of the poultry yard are not
confined to no particular season orcli'
mate.
Those who raise ducks near rivers oi
treams should reniombcr that musk
rats, minks and turtles, and also housn
rats, have a particular liking for young
ducks. Poultry Monthly.
The Word Negro."
The Standard Bearer, edited by
colored man, says : We are afraid that
some of our readers among the colored
people misunderstand the word "negro"
as applied to their lace, and one of our
correspondents ha3 most vigorously pro
test against our use of it. He probably
considers it synonymous with "nigger,"
a vulgar, meaningless epithet, that no
people on earth use so frequently as the
colored people themselves.
The word " negro " is the proper race
tksignation of the colored people in
America, and is rightly applied to the
descendants of the tribes along the coast
of Africa. The i ames our young friend
alludes to with so much pride were
African, but not negro. The word
"African" has no relevacy as a race
designation any more than the word
"American;" and American may be
Esquimaux, Sioux or Anglo-Saxon ac
cording to tho blood in his veins; an
African may bo Egyptian, Moor or
Negro lor the same reason, and we have
never thought the word African a prop
erly descriptive adjective when applied
to our race.
The term "colored," while generally
used, is rather meaningless, and strictly
speaking, the word Negro (with a big
N) is the only correct term, and we see
no impropriety in using it. It is neither
low nor degrading, unless our actions
make it so, and it is open to no more ob
jection than the words Irish or Gorman.
Our ancestors were negroes and no more
barbarous or uncivilized than the an
cestors of tho whites, and it is only a
false idea of its meaning that makes our
people object to its use. In these days
of tine phrases, it will bo well for us to
use the shorter and more expressive
term, "American citizens of African
descent."
A Medlenl Testimonial.
A man in Rhode Island was cured of
a bad case of rheumatism by being
struck by lightning. He was not killed
either. We may now expect to see a
'"testimonial " something like this:
"Mr. Jove Dear Sir: It is with a
grateful heart that I can rocomraend
your Thunder Bolts for tho cure of
rheumatism in its worst stages. Foi
seventeen years I was a sufferer; I lost
the use of my lower limbs, and spent
five hundred and forty-two dollar , In
medical attendance. Life becarao a
burden, and I prayed for death, when
one of your bolts came along, and wont
right to the spot. I was knocked In
sensible, but soon teOOTBfedi and now
I am well enough to run for a political
office. Your bolts contain no mercury,
and don't have to be well shaken befjre
taken, lot sale by all druggists."
KorristuwH Ikra'd.
Dan Mace can tell almost to tho frac
tion of a second how fast ho drives n
horse, without consulting a watch, and
some oilier drivers have the same
faculty.
run I. II. I tilt HEX.
farmer' Itauchltrt.
The London faff Mall Gaxf'' sayt:
"England can no longer furnish her own
butter. The cheaper kindi oonie lrom
America, for Americans, even with
their rick pastures and improved stock
of cows, cannot make the beat grade.
The high-priced grades come to South
ampton from Normandy and Brittany.
And why is good butter not made in
England t Because the dairymaid with
her pail is atbingof poetry and the past.
Because farmers' wives and daughters
now think dairy work a degradation."
The Qaztttf proceeds to state the
enormous ineomc which dairy farming
carried on by women has brought to
France; the daughter of a dairy farmer
often receiving a dower of twenty thou
sand dollars on her wedding day. Much
of it is the product of her own work,
skill and management.
We might go on with the inquiry.
Why cannot Americans niHke the best
grade of butter P Because the businesi
has gone out of the hands of the farmer's
wife and daughter, and is done by ma
chinery. Near Philadelphia, in the
rich hill-farms, there are a few old
Quaker dames and their daughters who
are not ashamed of tkis old-time craft ;
whose yellow fragrant pats of butter,
wrapped in cool leaves, and packed in
tubs delicately clean, are known all
over the country, and command 81 or
91.50 per pound in any eily market.
"But," says the farmer, "are our
daughters, who have received a modern
education, to go back to the old drudg.
ery of their grandmothers P"
We question whether the modern edu
cation has not made them despise too
much the old drtfdgeryP
In the majority ot cases, these daugh
ters are still compelled to work for their
living. They crowd, into the cities, as
poor artists, china decorators; clerks,
shop-girls, or they besiege editors with
mawkish verses.
In this slighted dairy work is a paying
business which belongs to women, and
which, could they master it, would yield
them as certain an income as it does the
Breton or Norman girl. It is a business
which requires intelligence, scrupulous
cleanliness and delicacy of manipulation.
A roll of clover-scented butter of the
best grade is a higher work of art than a
bad picture or are trashy verses. Our
girls who are looking from their coun
try homes, pining for a career, should
dig under their own hearthstone to find
if the pot of gold be not waiting for them
there. Youth's Comvanion.
Fashion Fancies.
Ivory white is the favorite shade.
Red mitts give a brilliant effect to a
black costume.
Ashy blonde is the new shade of fash
ionably dyed hair.
Ladies on all ocoasions adorn them
selves with flowers.
Spotted and small figured fabrics grow
in popular favor.
Capes ol white cashmere embroidered
in flowers and lined with satin are the
last symptoms of the mantle fever in
Paris.
Sateen and cotton sunshades seem to
be used quite indiscriminately with
every and any dress, no matter how
rich; but red ones do not accompany
anything but black or red costumes.
Small casaquins, of dark green velvet,
opening over waistcoats of a Turkish
material, and trimmed with cascades of
yellow lace, are among fashionabl
trifles prepared for gay watering places.
Velvet leaves and flowers without
any mounting are now prepared for
embroidery. They are stitched upon the
material to be decorated, nnd the ap
propriate stems and tendrils are em
broidered. The effect is better than
that of satin-applied wotk.
Nei:her hoops nor large bustles are
worn. Clinging skirts are quite as
fashionable as the more bouffant styles.
The fullness about the sides of dresses is
aiere'.j' formed by folds and shirrings of
the dress material or some kind of trim
ming. This espocially appears on very
dressy toilets.
Has everybody lorgotten tho dismal
lime when a flounce of lace was fastened
to the brim of every girl's hat, and whon
tho poor things all seemed to be growing
cross-eyed? Tho flounce of lace is com
ing once more, and once more the fea
tures of the girls will only bo discernible
through a cloud of black lace.
If the blondes and brunettes would
but cease trying to wear the clothes
men it for persons of different com
p lex ion 1 Are there no crimson roses, no
purple spikes of spicy lavender, no white
lilies in the tvorld that a yello v-haired
L'irl must deck herself with buttercups,
while a girl with blue-black tresses
wonts purple larkspur?
American Glass Making,
The first glass factory m America was
erected in KiOO near Jamestown, Va.,
and the second followed in tho same
colony twelve years later. In 1639 Bome
acres of ground were pranted to glass
men in Salem, Mass., probably the first
years of the industry which was prose
cuted there for many years. The first
glass factory in Pennsylvania was built
near Philadelphia in lf83. under the
direction of William Pcnn, but it did
not prove successful. The tit at glass
factory west of the Alleghenies was set
up by Albert Gallatin nnd his associates
in 1785, at New Geneva, on the Monon
gahcla river. A small factory was
established cn the Ohio river, near
Pittsburg, in 17tto, and another in 1705.
The earlier attempt failed, the later
was quite successful. In 1810 there were
twenty-two glass factories in tho coun
try, with an annual product valued at
11,047,000. There are now about five
times as many factories, producing
eight times as much glass. According
to tho returns received under the recent
census, our flint glass factories turn out
310,554 tons of table and other glass
ware; and tho window-glass works pro
duce 3,014, 440 boxes. The total value
of the product is nearly ft46,76ii.00(i,
A littlo boy named Brown wot
drowned a short time ago at Moberly,
Mo. His fathor, James H. Brown, was
hanged at Huntaville two months be
fore, and the mother committed suinidt
just prior to the execution. The family
is now extinct.
TIMELY TOI'K I)
An old English miser named Rhodes,
who began making money as a lubbish
gatherer and died in squilor, has be
queathed 300,000 between the Royal
Free hospital, London, and the National
Lifeboat institu' ion. leaving his relations
penniless. The will stands, but the
charities have given the live next of kin
95,250.
King Loui, of Btvaria, has induced
his people to consent, to spending the
money they are willinr to contribute to
celebrate the seven hundredth adver
sary ol the Wittclsbach family to the
Bavarian throne, in laying the founda
tion for a grand general fund to bo em
ployed in the development and promo
tion of Bavarian industries, and espe
cially the hand-art mufaetures of hie
country. The contri b ut ions to this fund
already amount to 2,000,000 marks, and
is still growing.
Two stalwart men were working at
night in a Chicago freight yard. Each
had a large kerosene lamp. A quarrel
arose between them which ended in a
fight. The lamps wore used as weapons,
and were speedily broken over the
heads of the contestants. The oil ran
over them and caught lire, but neither
would let go his hold, and they con
tinued the struggle with their bodies
enveloped in a flame, until both were
disabled by burning. One died imme
diately, and the other lived only a few
hours.
Three enormous steamers intended for
the Atlantic trade are now building on
the river Clyde one each for the Cu
iianl, the Inman, and the Guion lines.
The Cunard liner will have a tonnage ol
7 500, and an indicated horse-power ol
10,000. The Guion liner will be 6,500
tons and 10,000 horse-power. The In
man liner, the City of Rome, will be the
largest and most powerful steamer
afloat, excepting the Great Eastern, her
tonnage being 8,500, with engines or
13,000 horse-power. It is expected that
these three steamers will b? capable ol
attaining a speed of seventeen knots an
hour under favorable circumstances,
thus ronderine the voyage between Liv
erpool and New York, or vice versa,
under seven days.
Recently complaints have been made
to the French authorities that oleomar
garine butter has been substituted for
the genuine article in tiie asylums of
Paris. The Paris Academy of Medicine
hasmadc vigorous investigation, under
an order from the government. The
report of the committee is against the
use of margarine in the asylums, and
is also adverse to its general use as a
substitute for butter. The margarine
as originally prepared is no longer an
object of commerce, being too dear.
That which is actually in use is an in
dustrial product open to various frauds.
Vegetable oils are especially introduced,
and if it is easy to decide by chemical
analysis whether a given product con
sists of butter or margarine, it is very
difficult to affirm whether this mar
garine is pure or mixed with oils, and
vegetable oils are known to be more
difficult of digestion than animal fats.
It was founi to be a miserable con
glomerate of peanut oil, diluted milk,
and beef.
In Europe and Hindostan, according
to Dr. James Law, variola is so common
in pigeons and poultry as to constitute
a veritable piague. Thus, Gucrsent
records that out of a dovecot of one
thousand scarce one hundred could be
found that did not bear marks of the
disease, while Tytler says the poultry
yards in India were habitually depopu
lated by the plague. Bechstein and
others claim that this is the true small
pox, derived from the human being and
conveyabie back to man. That this
affeciion has not been recognized among
us may, perhaps, be due to the fact that
men and pigeons do not live so much in
common here as in Italy and India, i
Cremation has fonnd a champion In
Mr. W. Robinson, F. L. S., who assumes
to discuss the subject from an esthetic
point of view, in his book, "God's Acre
Made Rcautiful; or, the Cemeteries of
the Future." He urges that the present
form of burial is painful to the feelings
and prejudicial to public health, and
that urn burial would afford ample
scope for the art of. the landscape gar
dener, and more securely perpetuate the
memory of tho dead.
Carious Facts.
Iron is rolled so thin at the Pittsburg
(Pa.) iron mills that 10,000 sheets are re
quired to make a single inch in thickness.
Chocolate, the flour of the cocoanut,
was first introduced into England from
Mexico in the year 1520, and soon after
became a favorite beverage in the Lon
don coffee-houses.
Armorial bearings became horcditary
at the close of tho twelfth century, and
took their origin from the Crusaders,
who were accustomed to paint their
banners with various devices.
Tho first piece of artillery was in
vented by a German soon after the in
vention of gunpowder, and aitillery
was first used by the Moors at Al
gosiras, in Spain, over 500 years ago.
The most ancient manuscripts arc
written without accents, stops, or separ
ation between the words.nor was it until
after the ninth century that copyists be
gan to leave spaces between words.
Mr. Hanney, who has made diamonds,
announces that his cxperimente show
that Vac cystallization of silica (quartz,
amethyst, etc.,) and of alumina (ruby,
sapphir,) may bo etarried on so as to be
a commercial success.
Tho Japanese make a very curious and
handsome kind of copper by casting it
under water, the metal being highly
heated and the water also being hot.
The result is a beautiful rose-colored
tint, which is not affected by exposure
to the atmosphere.
A record of the weather kept nearly
three centuries ago by the famous astron
omer, Tycho Brittle, on the coast ol Den
mark, has lately been published at Co
penhagen by the Royal Dnnish academy
of sciences. The manuscript had found
its way into the Imperial library at
Vienna, whore it was discovered a fow
years since.
Aa Kx-renrict's Ha4 Werk.
"Good by, Mike. You've worked
faithfully in the laundry, and we'll keep
the place open tor you for six weeks.
You're sure to come bark by that time."
The speaker was Warden Ciark, of
ding Sing prison. He and Keeper
Con ar ton were liberating Michael Dunn,
who had served, up to that time, thirty
five years in American and English
prisons. This was on February 95, 1878.
Dunn, to the surprise ol the prison
officials, failed to return to Sing 6ing.
and it was conjectured that he had left
the country. Such, however, was not
the case. W hen he reached New York,
friendless and with only the lew dollars
that had been given him by the State
Prison Association, he visited Jerry
McAuley's meeting, in Water street.
He was soon interested in the work go
ing on there, and he became convinced
that he could ameliorate the condition
of released criminals like himself who
were suddenly thrown upon the world
without recommendation or friends.
Assis.ed by Mr. A. S. Hatch of Messrs.
Hatch & Foote, bankers, he opened a
House of Industry, it 3n5 Water street.
Ho knew how to deal with convicts. He
ascertained when the terms of his fellow
prisoners would expire, and on their
arrival in New York he invited them to
his place. There they were at once set
at work shoemnking or shawl making.
In case they could do neither, he found
other employment for them.
"Every morning," he ald, "I took
the Sun and read carefully the labor
columns. As soon as I found some
thing that one of my friends could do I
gave him his breakfast nnd sent him
out to apply for tho place."
In this manner lie has found employ
ment, he says, for nearly 3o now ur
ing the last thirty mont lis. Besides this
he has found ships for over 200 sailors,
who, having spent all their money, had
been cast into the ?treets by the keepers
of sailor boarding houses. The sailor,
as Eoon as he gets ashore after a long
cruise, is sure to becoire the prey of the
land sharks. Notoriously improvident,
he soon gets rid of his hard-earned
money. Then if the boarding-house
keeper can get a ship for him, he draws
two or three months' pay in advance, to
pay for clothes and what are too often
Barmecide repasts. Intoxicated and
ragged, Jack is hoisted up the side of
the ship, together with many more in
the same condition, and the anchor is
weighed. This is the class of sailors
that Dunn gets hold of before it is too
late. Only three nights ago, a sailor
crazy with delirium tremens, who had
been ejected from a boarding-house near
by, was picked up in the street by Dunn
and his wife. Tliey dragged him into
the Homo and put hin to bed. Yester
day the man seemed so well pleased
with his new quarters that he was
afraid to go into the street lest he should
all into one of the many pits laid by
and sharks ; for these are to the sailor
what the barnacle ie to the ship, and
no complete cure has yet been found
for either pest.
Over the door 'of 305 Water street is
the legend, "Michael Dunn, Shoe
maker." Within, several ex-convicts
were at work yesterday making shoes,
while others were knitting shawls.
Near the door a solemn-faced young
man, with palette and brush, was paint
ing fancy scrolls to be hung on the
walls. On one of these is pictured a
prisoner in his cell weeping over the
figure of his mother who is.kneeling on
the stone floor beside him.
Dunn is sustained in his work by W.
R. Bliss, of West Eleventh street and
Olive Harper, as well as by Mr. Hatch.
Notwithstanding this assistance, he is
very poor. He exhibited yesterday a
pawn ticket showing that last week he
had raised $3.25 on his coat.
" You see," he said, " as soon as I get
a man whose time has expired in the
penitentiary I try to find work for him,
Sometimes it takes week and some
times more. If he earns only two
dollars a week I charge him fifty cents
for board. If he earns three dollars, I
charge him one dollar, and if he earns
four dollars a Week I charge him $1.50
for board. New York Sun.
Lioness and Rats.
The following incident about tin old
lion's last days is taken from the last
report of the Dublin Zoological Garden :
The closing weeks of her useful life
were marked by a touching incident
worthy of being recorded. The large
cats, or carnivores, when in health,
have no objection to the presence of
rats in their cages. On tho contrary,
they rather welcome them as a relief to
the monotony of existence, which eon
stitutes the chief trial of a wild animal
in confinement. Thus, it is a common
sight to see half a dozen rnts gnawing
the bones off which the lions have dined,
while the satisfied carnivores look on
contentedly, giving tho poor rats an oc
casional wink with their sleepy eyes. In
illness the ease is different, for the un
grateful rats begin to nibble tho toes of
the lord of the forest beloro his death,
and add considerably to his discomfort.
To save our lioness from this annoy
ance, we placed in her cage a fine little
rat tan-terrier, who was at first re
reived with a surly growl, but when
the first rat appeared, and the lioness
ww the little terrier toss him in tho air,
matching him with professional skill
across tho loins with a snap as he came
down, she began to undcr-'and what
the terrier was for; she coaxed him to
her side folded her paw around him, and
each night the littlo ten ier slept at the
breast of the lioness, enfolded with her
paws, and watching that his natural
enemies did not disturb the natural
rest of his mistress. The rats had a
bad time during those x weeks
Massachusetts, with her 7 800 square
miles of territory, now supports n popu
lation of more than 898 to tho square
mile, which is nearly equal to the den
sityof the population in Italy, and infe
rior only to Belgium, Great Britain,
and Italy among the countries of tho
world. The population now reported
as 1,783,812, has Increased 30,481 in
ten years.
Things a man never forgets his first
snub, the first girl he ever kissed, his
first night at a theater, his first pair of
pantaloons, his first cignr, and how
much better ho might have done in tho
world had he followed some other occupation.
CLEVELAND MARBLE WORKS,
LEWIS WILLIAMS,
Dealer in and Manulnol uror of
American
Italian and lV
M"ble J J
Tomb and n i
Head Stones, J
Rustic Crosses, Jf ' flEL
Urns, Voses. -y
Monuments,
A'so Ilr.ilders
of all kinds of
Stone and
Marblo Works.
Fjroigu and Darueeln
ORAHITE MONUMENTS AND TABLETS
furnished to order.
Plain and Ornamental Slating Done at Short Notice
Designs and Priee List furnished on application, fl itisfaction guaranteed in
L. WILLIAMS,
april ly
. .'! v nd, Tenn,
W. O. WIMIlfft.
D. A. MnLKAIT.
Cleveland Foundry.
Hollow-Ware
Stove Repairs
Scalding Kettles
Sash Weights
All Plow Points
Mill Repairs
Cln Cearing
Sorghum Mills,
Irwn Railing for Veran las and Grave Loti, ai l Job Work.
BUY THE "ALL RIGHT" CHILLED PLOW,
OjX9 and Two Horse, and Save Money.
They are our own make and guaranteed to do Cood Work.
All orders Ailed as promptly aa possible.
WIGGINS & McLANE,
april
-ly Cleveland, Tenn., near .Railroad Depot.
B. S. WOOD dfc CO.,
Cleveland, - - Tennessee,
Wholesale and Kotail Dealers in
Tinware and Stoves,
wlSSdeMrgre and Fruit Cans of all descriptions.
ROOFING AND GUTTERIKO
Done on shortest poneible notice.
Wo are the soie mannfaotnrers of the
DIXIE WOOD PUMP,
AleO Of tllO
WOOD'S EVAPORATOR,
and CANE MLLB. Wo maunisotafe ulso
UNDERGROUND PIPING,
and can fill orders on short notice.
For prices on any work in onr line, address tho above.
STILL m TIE FIELD!
They are Happy who have
WIGGINS' WAGON, OE BUGGY, OX HACK,
Beet .Timber,
And bj nsing the
Iron and Steel Coods,
Painting and Workmanship,
In the fntnre as we have in the past, and growing better by eiperien w a time
goes by, wo nhall try to merit continued I'ntronage.
We earnestly thank onr friends for all help in the past, and ask all to
rail on ns at
OUR- IV E W SHOP,
Near Railroad Depot, on Mill Street,
Ceo. Wiggins & o,,
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