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VOLUME VIII.
CIIILLKOTIIi:, UVIX(iSTO COUNTY, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1SS.T.
NUMHI'Il Hi.
RANDOM CUPPINGS.
TnK Czar snys iu ofl'oct "Go ahead''
to Komaroir, while Knglaml says
"Comooroll" to IVlcr Lumsdcn.
Mil. IIahhv A. (iaiifikli), son of tlio
lato president, is to accept a position
as teacher at St. Paul's School, Con
cord, N. II.
In two loctures rocontly dolivorod
nt New Oilcans Mrs. Julia Ward llowo
netted 639, all of which sho donated
to the Southern Art Union.
A vv.w years ago Kansas was trco
loss. Now it has -.'0,000,000 fruit trees
nnd '.'00,000 acres of fure.st troos plant
ed by tho peoplo of the Stato.
Tills latest and most powerful advo
cato of cremation in Kngluud is Canon
Luldon, os St. Paul's who is willing
his own aslics should bo put in an urn
with tho lid on, of course.
Loiinr's Loiisk is sending pipes nnd
tobacco to tho British soldiers in
Canada in emulation of tho generosity
of her royal mot her, who sent soap and
slate pencils to tho soldiers in tho
Soudau.
Dismaiick's protege, Dr. Schwenin
ger, has organized a mammoth stock
company to erect nnd mnnago an im
inenso sanitarium nt llraunfel.s, where
ho proposed to treat patients after his
own peculiar method.
Maiik Twain is said to havo cleared
$;I3,OOU from his reading tour this sea
son. This is doubtless tho largest sum
ever realized by uu author, from read
ings of Ins own writings, sinco Dickens
made his famous American tour.
Silt Mosks Mdstei'iouk has written,
with hisownhand, a letter dated April
20 to tho Hev. C. 1). Hradloo, of Pis
ton, thanking him for his felicitations
on Sir Moses's attainment of tho cen
tennial anniversary of his birthday.
MAt'lllCI KlNllSI.KY, son of 'Ciiaiim
Kingsloy, tho English writer, has been
long enough in this country to make
a fortune In Colorado silver mines mid
is now about tosettloin New Haven
for tho purposo of educating his chil
dren there.
Hkn Winn, n commercial traveler,
who lost nil his money in a Cincinnati
gambling house, went crazy and killed
himself iu a Georgia asylum tho other
day. K Hen Winn had been winning
instead of losing ho would probably
to alive and well to-day.
A BociKTV eorresnniideiit reveals tho
occrot that tho Duchess of Bucking
ham emblazons her stockings Willi a
ducal coronet over her initials, A. 1!.
C, nnd probably sho marks her mit
tens in tho same way so as to have her
A. I!. C. at her lingers' ends.
Mns. I'oii-rai Asnn, of San Francis
co, has tho good fortune) to bo tho
daughter of Mrs. Charles (i. Crocker,
who gave her a dowry of iino,oi)0,
which sho lias since supplemented by
tho gift of n completely furnished
jWoO.OOU liouso, nnil yet tho young wo
man married an Aslio man.
Fiiof. Tnsso, of Covington, Ky., at
the advanced ago ot ciglity-throo, is
living on a moderate Income and tho
reputation of having composed the air
of "Tho Arkansas Traveller," with
tho accompanying funny dialogue
which negro minstrels usod to recite
forty years ago.
U. II. Nkwki.i., bettor known as
Orpheus C. Korr, who as a writer was
onco very popular. Is now broken
down, old nnd despondent. His fam
ily havo cast him oil' and ho is obliged
to sco his manuscript, onco so eagerly
ought for, cither coldly rejected or
mutilated beyond recognition.
The Cook credits Jay (iould with
saying: "My idea of a good break
fast is a piece of steak, a mealy baked
potato, some Graham bread and a
glass of milk, and I lind I can get
along vory well when I liavo it. Vour
complex dishes of high llavorsare very
good, but they nro not business."
A novki. trait in spring costumes Is
that tho sleeves are very much trim
med; tho trimming is put on lliu in
side from tho shoulder tu the bend of
the arm, nnd consists of passamenlerio
nnd fringe, woolen laco or braid; If
tho latter, it is put on in several rows
closo together, nnd finished in loops.
Ji'ST now fashion's whim is a tea
jacket, mado iu soft silk, with laco or
gold and silver trimings, as dressy ns
possible It is a thoroughly comforta
blo article. Intending to bo worn foi
home dinner, oither with any con
venient skirt, or before a low hodico If
put on, with a full dress evening skirt.
Mackay is said to be the richest man
In the world. His forluno is estimated
nt $275,000,000. following him como
Rothschild, '.'00,Oi.Ki,000; Vnudorbilt,
(1175,000,000, nnd tho Duko of West
minster, $HO,000,000. Poor Jay Gould
comos farther down In tho scale, strug
gling to make both cuds moot from an
income on 50, 000,000.
The Siam Advertiser contains an ac
count of tho bringing to Bangkok from
Friilnbaung of another white olophant,
giving it n name, and installing it In a
homo near tho Imperial palaco amid
much oorotnony, nnd adds that "for
eigners nro naturally surprised that
such ominont honors should bo con
ferred upon an animal by no moans
white, though porhaps a shado or twe
lighter than nn ordinary olophant."
' A travelbb in Japan tolls of a ro
marknblo pine troo noar Otsu. It Is of
an unknown a;o. Its diamotor at the
boso is six or sovon foot, and hugo
branohos shoot out in difforont direc
tions, strotehlng their glgantlo arms
ovor an immonso aroo, probably one
hundred yards In clroumforcnoe, ne
cessitating numerous props to sustain
the immense weight, nnd giving it at a
distance the appoaranoe of a huge
banyan trco
WHEN M'RINO t'OHIM.
Alnnir Hip yellow rend the- (irass
Null Miltlv cn-i like noiseless feet,
A thousand o lor subtly nweet
ehull lireuthc where'er the tenth wlnd pass.
The first pule IiIcwoiih oliall unfold
llolde tin- linc'rhnr drifts uf suuw,
rlii- dandelion wiiUe und ijlow
Ere fades tlie crocus' hlte mid (old.
The swnllnw on ld.-i jury w'ng
Shall jour where skies nn- softly Mile,
In thickets wet at noon wltli dew
1 Iu- licnnlt-Uirusli Ahull lurk auil shut.
lint who ohall enre for these, shut
If from n grave the (lowers shnl! gror.
Ami warm nrns only rn.-lt the snow
To hide the dead lietie itli the grass.
Mary . Kruiit, in The t'urr
UNDER FIItK.
A True Border Story of the War.
Sumo time before tho war a l'resby.
terian clergyman from New Hamp
shire went South, with his family, for
tho benefit of his health. Ho pur
chased a littlo farm in Virginia, about
three miles from Washington, 1). C,
access to which was had by tho way
of Georgetown nnd tho Aipieiluct
Bridge, llegruditully failed in health,
however, and died, leaving a widow
Mrs. Gnvos nnd two girls and two
hoys. At the breaking out of tho war
in lMlil, Mrs. Hayes ami her older
daughter, who was about liftcen years
of ago, took a decided stand in favor
of tho L'uion cause. It required not a
littlo moral courage to do this; but
lliero was no clement of fear in tho
make up of any member of the family.
At first their homo was within the
Confederate lines, and communication
with Washington was very dillieult
nnd hazardous. Mrs. Gayes was ridi
culed, and sometimes threatened, but
it availed nothing.
After the Confederate lines wero
driven back a few miles in 1TO1, forti
licalions were constructed around
Washington fur the protection of the
National Capital. They consisted of
a chain of forts arranged in nearly a
circle. Tho line crossed tho Potomac
near Clpiin Bridge, above George
town, extending tiiciieu down to Ar
lington Heights and some distance
below, recros'sing the river about half
way between Long Bridge and Alex
andria, and so on around until the cir
cle was complete. Within this line,
and about a mile and n half from Fori
Smith, situated on a littlo eminence,
was Mrs. Gayos' modest homo, pro
tected now from tho enemy, but suf
fering more, perhaps, from her
friends. Many regiments wero en
camped near by; and little by little
her limber and fences and stock and
crops disappeared, until (hero was
scarcely anything left save the house
anil tlio land, l.ven tho cook store
was missing one morning. Very fre
quently at night shu was aroused hy
tho beating uf "tlio long roll," the
shouting of words of command, and
the tramping of regiments as they
swiftly formed in line of battle to meet
Ihocxpeutcd enemy. On such occas
ions all tho members of tho family
would hastily dress, secure about their
persons what valuables they had, and
patiently wait. During all' these try
ing jears site and her daughter wore
devoted friends of the Union cause,
and Ihcir willing hands were untiring
in doing something for tho soldiers.
II was a midsummer morning in
l.HoT. Out in the lieM and over iu tlio
city it w as scorching hot. But in Mrs,
(ayes' house, protected ns it was
from the rays of the sun by tho
abundant foliage of the great oaks
which surrounded It, tho heat was not
oppressive. Mrs. Gayes was in tho
silling room reading a paper. Tlio
elder daughter was iu Washington.
Charley, the elder son who was then
near twelve years of age, was play
ing Willi tho dog on tlio porch, ltwas
a peaceful, quiet piotiuo of Virginia
country life Suddenly lliero catno a
loud, whistling, screaming sound, fol
lowed by a terrilio explosion directly
over tho house.
"Why!" ejaculated Mrs. Gayes, as
sho started from her seat, "what n
heavy clap of" thunder, sho was
about to say, but tho unmistakable
humming, twanging sounds which fol
lowed closo upon tho explosion, with
the falling of leaves and broken
branches Jroin the trees, told her it
was a shell from some heavy gun.
"Is it possible the robots are making
an attack?" she said.
Tho children now canio running In
from their play, and one of them cried
out, "Oh, mamma! the lightning has
struck tho trees." Mrs. Gayes went
out on tho porch and looked and lis
tened, but nothing unusual could bo
seen or heard.
"It was n shell," said sho. "I ex
pect a gin at ouo of tho forts went on
accidentally."
"Well," said Charley, "when "they
load their guns I wish they'd point
them toward ltiehmond. They ought
to bo nshamed of themselves.
"I don't think wo shall bo troubled
any more," said tlio mother us sho re
turned to tho sitting-room, followed
by the children. Sho had but just re
sumed her seat when another shell
buried Itself in tho earth a few rodi
from I lie house and burst, throwing
up clouds uf dust and dirt.
"What can it mcanP" said Mrs.
Gayes.
"1 know what it moans, mamma!"
cried Charloy. That Now York regi
ment which has just boon sent ovor to
Fori Smith has put up a target in our
Held, nnd tlio fellows nro liring nt it.
I wish I was n general I'd put ovory
one of them in tho guard house!"
The boy was right in his surmise,
nud in a fow moments another mis
silo thrown from ouo of tho huge
siege guns with which tho fort was
sriued, struck, a quarter of a milo
away, and canio bounding or ricochet
ing toward the house, striking tho
ground nt short intervals in its mad
courso, something ns a stone when
thrown violently upon tho water skips
along tho surface With a shriok like
a demon it plungod through tho gar
don, destroying everything in its path,
Ii led tho atr with dust, gave two or
throo more skips and screeches, and
liinally burst ovor noar the road. Mrs.
Gayes turned palo.
"Come down into tho cellar with
mo, all of you," sho said; ana thoy
obeyed with alacrity. After sho had
qnielod Kliza, tlio negro servant, who
was nlternntoly praying to "do good
Lord" and to "Missus Gnyos" to save
her, sho snld:
"Charley, you must run np to Mr.
Pierson's just as fast as you can, and
ask him to go around to the fort and
havo the firing stopped. And you re
main nt Mr. Pierson's until I sond for
you. Don't como back. You are not
afraid to go, aro your"'
"No, mamma, I'm not afraid,"
answered the bravo little follow as ho
clasped his mothor's hand a littlo
tighter.
"I know you would not be; and
now as soon as tho next sholl comes 1
want you to go." When it came sho
kissed him and said, "Now my brave
boy, run I"
She would gladly have gono herself,
but sho thought it heller to remain
that sho might ho with tho other two
children in ca-e the house should be
struck and burned. It cost her a
struggle to send her son forth on sue li
a perilous errand, and her face was
very pale as she kissed him. Away
sped Charley through tho garden
glancing with wonder at tlio great
furrows tlio shells had ploughed,
climbed tho fence and started to run
with all his might toward Mr. Pier
son's house, which was half a mile
distant. He had scarcely left the gar
den fence, however, whin another
shell canio tearing through tho shrub
bery he had just passed and hurst
closo to the house. Tho mother's heart
stood still for an Instant anil there
was cause for it. Ono of thu living
fragments struck poor Charley anil he
fell to the ground with a cry of "Oh,
mamma!" Down in tlio cellar the
mother heard tlio cry of her wounded
boy, nnd in a moment she was kneel
ing by his side. Il was a sad sight for
n mother to look upon. "The cruel
piece of iron with its ragged edges
had stripped a great piece of lloh
from tho back of his tinkle upward,
completely sou-ring tlio cord and lay
ing bare tiio hone, lie was lying up
on his face, nnd the blood was already
staining tlio green grass where ho had
fallen. Speaking words of encourag
mcnt, she removed his shoe und llic
fragment of stocking, ami hastily
bound up the wound willi strips t-irii
from her clothing. In this way sho
staunched tho How of blood and
quieted his fears, through she could
not alleviate his pain.
"Now, Charley, 1 must go up to Mr.
Pierson's myself, for a sholl may
strike the bouse, and then Mary and
Rohhy will bo burned. I'll put you
behind that tree, anil you will not be
ill much danger."
"Hut you'll run, mamma, won't
you?"
Ana tho tears trickled down t bar
ley's cheeks, though he tried very
hard to keep them back. The tree
was a large chestnut, and its generous
trunk alVorded a pretty ample protec
tion against the shells, two of which
had struck near by while Mrs. Gayes
was binding up the wound. Arriving
at Mr. Pierson's, she di-putt-licd him
in great lia.-te to l lie furl, while she,
with swift feet, returned to Charley.
Heeky ami Berty Piersnu, aged seven
teen and eighteen, with true girlish
nero sin, returned Willi lu-r notwith
standing the bursting ski lls. On the
way they passed several negroes shelt
ered behind stumps ami stones, and
Mrs. Ga os vainly begged lliem to fol
low her and assist in tho removal of
tho wounded buy. They found Char
ley behind the tree, and he said, "Oil,
mamma! 1 m so glad you've come
back." lb- could not walk al all, and
he was weak from pain and loss uf
blood. So Ins niotlicr and the two
gins earned inni in Ihcir arms as best
they could. Down the hill, hall blind
ed by the smoke and stunned by tin
awful explosions, slowly moved the
strange procession. They waded the
littlo stream iu the hollow, stopping a
moment to bathe Charley's fa md
hands, and carried their burden up
lilt- hill to Mr. Pierson's house.
By this time .Mr. I'ier-.on had reached
Ihe fori, and the liring eea-rd. The
ulhcr children were sent foi and iu a
few moments tho regimental surireou
and hospital steward came galloping
down toexpress their sorrow at what
had happened and tu render assist
ance. Tho surgeon's prollered -ervices
were most gladly accepted. When he
was ready Iu examine 1 1 1 o wound, the
mother said:
"Now, Charley, it will hurt you to
have lite wound dressed; but ii must
bo done; and you must try and bear
it. It will soon oo over."
"I'll try," said Charley, "if you'll
be sure, mamma, and not let my leg
be cut off."
Sho pressed him to her heart, and
assured him with loving words that
there was no occasion for so serious
an operation.
"Sing to mo, mamma! Sing to mo!"
"Why, Charley 11 don't believe
I can sing now," she faltered.
"You must, mamma, you must!
Please sing to me just the same as ynn
always do and I'll keep awful still."
And lie reached up and pill his arms
pleadingly around her neck. There
was a silence in the room ns the lilllu
sufferer persisted in his tliango re
quest. 'I hen the mother closed her
eyes and tried to sine-. Her voice was
tremulous at lirst, lint by a mighty
effort .-he expelled from her mind
every thought save the rcmcmhiunco
of her love for her wuiimled child; ami
sho was soon able losing toliiin al
most as sweetly and softly us if in her
own quiet homo. Tim boy's arms
gradually relaxed ami ho lay back
agaiu quietly upon tho hlood-sluincd
bed willi bis head resting half upon
his pillow and half upon His mother's
lap. His eyes were closed, and his
pallid face had lost something of the
roundness and fullness which marked
il in tho morning. The mother was
bonding over him Willi ono of his
hands in hers. On Ihe other side uf
tho bed fat Berty Pierson fanning
Charley's face. At the foot stood the
surgeon and tho steward. Clustered
around tho room wero half a dozen
neighbors looking on with sympathet
ic, nwo-strieken faces.
When thu mother began to softly
sing the song sho snow he loved, lliero
was a solemn hush in thu room, and
every eye was filled with tears. liven
tho rough, old surgoon, as ho cut away
the bloody bandages, was seen to turn
away his head and hastily draw his
slcovo across his eyes a number of
tinios; nnd the steward was hardly
able to distinguish his instruments.
Undor tho soothing effect of his moth
er's voice the boy allowed tho wound
to bo dressed and tho cruel stitches to
be taken. Later in tho day he dropped
asleep and nwoko considerably re
freshed. Ho was uncomplaining
through It nil; and tho fortitude with
which ho boro his sufferings excited
tho admiration of ovory ono.
In the cool of tho ovening Charley
was tnken homo in an ambulance, sent
for that purpose from the fort. Tho
officers aid everything In their powoi
to atone, for tho suffering thoy had so
carolossly but unintentionally oausod.
The surgoon nnd his assistants attend
ed him tenderly nnd carefully until
ho was well. The surgoon
offered to procuro his mothor n
pension, but airs. Gayos declined, say
ing that she was too thankful that her
boy was alivo to think of asking aid
from the Government. Charloy was
soon able to walk with tlio aid of
crutches, but could not dispense with
their use for many mouths.
Mrs. Gaws, now an nged woman,
loves to tori of tlioso portions times.
Ono of her daughters, a lady of raro
qualities, fills ono of the highost posi
tions allowed to her sex In the Govorn
mont departments in Washington.
Sho has in her littlo cabinet nt home
the very piece of sholl which did its
cruel work that day. It is rusty, and
when picked up was blood stained.
Charley Is n florist and brings his
(lowers regularly to ono of the Wash
ington markets. Ho limps a littlo and
will nlwavs h ive cause (o remember
Ihe summer morning when tho Now
York regiment iu l-'ort Smith bom
barded his mother's house. A'tro York
Tribune.
Possessions of the I'niled States.
Knglaml and Russia now about to
close in a desperate struggle fur Cen
tral Asian supremacy aro credited
with being respectively tho lirsl and
Second nations uf the world in point
of area, and the second nnd third ill
the mailer of population, 'l'ho teem
ing Chinese r.mpiro is climated to ex
ceed cither in the numbers of ils peo
ple. Next como tho Republic ot
France and its dependencies in point
of population, and I lie I'niled Stales
in area. Much has been said of the
British Kmpire, on which lho sun nev
er sots, ami the Russian Kmuirc, which
spreads over an eighth portion uf tho
glube. Thousands upon thousands of
the square miles uf territory dominated
hy the I. ion and Bear are entirely un
inhabitable, including us I hoy do must
of tho North Polar reginns uf both
hemispheres and arid deserts and step
pes in other climes. The Pulled States
is nearly tin- equal of either cnipiro in
Ihe extonl of habitable area over wdtirlt
lho spangled banner Hunts. And she,
too, has great, almost limitless, areas
of ice-covered couliiients and islands
which are never counted as part uf her
lauded possessions, and yet which she
may quite as juslly he credited willi
as Russia nr Knglaml, Willi certain of
then- uninhabitable possessions in
frozen zones, l-'ew geographies show
on Ihcir maps these foreign posses,
sions of tlio Cuiteil Stales, and a brief
reference to them is likely to surprise
the citizen w ho has been accustomed
to contemplate the possessions of the
American I'tiion as hedged in by Ihe
hounds of her States ami Territories.
But she can really make quile an ar
ray of foreign possessions, which are
hers by the divine right uf discovery,
which has given to most of (he powers
of theearlh their foi-cigmlepcndeiieics.
The voyages uf Kane and suliseqiient
American explorers llius gave the
I'niteil Stales Ihe whole north western
portion of Greenland as far as discov
ered, and (ii'iunell Laud on the oppo-
ite shore of Siuilh Sound. The fa
tuous statisticians, lichni and Wagner,
give ihe area uf Ihe Greenland si retch
ot ice and glacier, known as Lincoln
and Grant lands (from seventy. eight
degrees In eighty-three degrees) as
1!il'.7ih) kilometers, and of Griunell
Laud at o.iioO. Wranuel Land has
liii.lut) kilometers. There arc no
estimates even of the area of tin- vari
ous islands north of Siberi;-. discovered
hy tile .Icauncllo, and it is doubtful if
they do not belong to Ihe New Sdiel'
iau group, clascd fo.-.- many years as
liebitiging to iissi:i.
Tho great Americail exploring ex
pedition of I I' discovered most of He
vast Ice-hedged c-.a-l uf the Antarctic
Continent, which has been roughly
estimated to extend over -J.oiio.ooii
square Hides, Some of tin-lands dis
covered by Commodore Wilkes have
thus been estinialed, the ngiires being
'n kilometers: Graham's land, lou.ii'U;
Alexandra. ;li,imu; Wilkes, hio.niio;
Liiib-rbv, lM.iiiiii.
The following islands find groups in
I'o'vncsia belong to tho l uiii-d Stales:
Barber, Palmyra. Prospect, panning,
Christmas, Starluiek, lYurvliYii, Swan,
Pitt, McKean, Hull and Kiide'rby. the
I'llited Slates also owns the ilay of
Pago Pago in tin-Saninan Island.
There are no obtainable statistics uf
any of these -'foreign posse-sioiis,"
aniLthe ordinary American citizen is
quite content to think of tin-l'uion as
embracing only the sweep of land
from ocean to ocean and hike to gulf,
not even counting iu frozen Alaska
and tin- girdle of Aleutian Islands that
span thu Pacilic Ocean. If other coun
tries were not granted by geographers
their equally "important possessions.
popular knowledge uf rospoclivo areas
would be greatly increased. lhtrml
Erec prevs.
How Some Letters lire Lost.
When letters are lost il by no means
follows that the postal authorities are
invariably Iu blame. Sometimes it
happens that, through culpable care
lessness or shoer absence of mind on
ttie part of peoplo who mail them,
important missives go astray to
tho great annoyance of everybody con-
corned. A postman in a northern
town has just given Ihe public tho
benefit uf his own recent experience
in tins direction, in nno casu a gen
tleman hastily jerked a letter ad
dressed to a business linu in Franca
into the aperture uf a Ictler-box, and
lclt it slicking there, l-'urlunatcly, tho
postman was approaching at the
moment to clear tlio box, or tho loiter
might havo been stolen by somo un
scrupulous passer by, or lust iu tho
street. On another occasion a gcntlo
man, who was running to ovorlako a
Iriend, mado n dash at tho letter-box
as ho rushed past willi two thin postal
cards, which caught tho edge of the
opening nud sprang back upon thu
pavement. Thu gentleman was unite
oblivious of liin accident, nnd eager to
ovcrtako his friend, was quickly out of
sigut. in tlio mint caso a gentleman
was walking down lho street with a
postal-curd in his hand, and as ho drew
near lho letter-box a man at a shop
door gave him tin advertisement card.
Instead ol putting llio poslal-carK mlo
tho letter-box, he carefully posted lho
advertisement card, and then deliber
ately folded tho postal-curd two or
tlil'co tunes ami uirew it into llio gut
ter. The vigilant postman was passing
along at tho moment ami saw the curi
ous blundor, and the postal-card was
duly rescued from untimely oblivion.
Tho Tall Sycamore.
Dan Voorhees, "tho tall sveamoro of
tho Wabash," as ho was called by In
diana politicians, was tho ablest demo
crat on tho lloor of tlio houso of repre
sentatives during tlio wnr nn object
of admiration among his political
friends and of aversion among his po
litical oppononts. Personally ha was
a favorite on both sides of tho houso.
When somo of tho prominent repre
sentatives would rlso to sponk, their
hearers would havo to listen attentive
ly all tho way through to lind out what
side they woro on, and ovon thon it
migni not navo Dcen oasy to havo told.
But when Voorhocs got up, tho lirst
sontonco ho uttered Was n koy to all
that followed. Ho never took middlo
ground In anything. His forto was de
nunciation oi lus oppononts, ami no
always used Wobster's heaviest artil
lery to tear down tho enemies lortitl-
cations. Othots dofonded democratic
principles by eulogizing Androw Jack
son and palliating the faults and
foibles of James Buchanan, but Voor
hees did it by anathoruatiiine Wendell
Phillips and exposing the sins and
bortwmings pf (ho republican party.
FA US IANA(iK)IKNT.
Kasv Mitliiiils of rriiriirln:- Sweet -ivt:i!.i
i'liints ami Cainii; for ilirin In i lie Kielil.
Cmu-etHi',' Tr finin line. 'is lieneriil la-
dimtriiil .tllHi-elhuiy.
Sweet-l'olalii I'liltiire.
The cultivation of swecl-potaloes,
says The 'n'eiojo Tiiiitx, has been
greatly extended in this country dur
ing lho past twenty years. Previous
to the civil war but few wero laised
north of llio Ohio river. j;,,B. Jersi j
and Ohio were (lie lirst nnrlhern slates
tu engage extensively in sweet-potato
culture. They are now raised to some
extent in every slate In tho union.
Tlio jiehl is the largest, the quality
(he besl, ami the cultivation the easiest
in the southern slates. Th - sweet
potato is of trupicnl origin, but it is
easily acclimated to all parts of the
wnrld where Indian corn will ripen,
Tho crop will licit prove to lie a very
prolilahle one tu raise for Ihe general
market in parts uf theeoiiutry where
ricirt corn can not bo ripened. The
plants require much sunshine nud
quite a high degree uf heal to produce
large tapers that will malum before
Ihe earlier frosts, that are certain to
kill Ihe vines ami injure the potatoes.
It is useless to set out the plants be
fore the suil becomes warm. They
will make hardly any growth, ainl the
ground wliere "they are planted will
become covered with wee. Is. If
planled about Ihe middle of June in
tins latitude tlicirgruwlh will be rapid,
and little labor will bo required iu
their cultivation.
Sweet potatoes are not likely lo bo
injured by any insect except cut
worms. They are never molested hy
the Colorado beetle. They endure
drought much better than most kinds
of root crops. They are profitable for
every farmer tu raise iu portions of
tlio country where the average crop of
common potatoes is less than a hiin-
trcd luisiiels per acre, lho sweet
potato in tne norlhcrii slates is raised
from sprouts, which are taken from
Ihe parent potato and transplanted to
low ridges that are ordinarily aboiil
four feel apart, the plants heiuir about
a fuel f nun each other. Any suil that
uitable fur curn will, under suitable
management, produce good sweet po
tatoes. There is no necessity for
plowing the land very deep. II is
holler not tu have it pulverized deeper
tnaii is required tor a crop ot small
grain. The potatoes grow like par
snips and canols iu 1-u.spccl lo position
iu the ground, and exleiid in length
till they reach hard ground. It' the
soil is pulverized Very deeply Ihe
tubers will be likely lo he long and
small in diameter. If lho pulverized
soil is shallow the tubers will be shori
and large iu size, and ol lho best pro
portions fur cooking.
The obtaining of tho plant' is the
must troublesome lliing in connection
willi raising sweel potatoes. Iu sonic
places they can be obtained iu suf
licicnt quantities for raising potatoes
fur a family from market gardeners.
They generally raise theniiiiidcr glass.
Few tanners have hot beds covered
willi glass, and Iherelure lind it dilli
eult to raise sweet potato plants. An
Ohio correspondent of Tin .V. - York
Trihuue gives a method uf making hoi
bed suitable for sprouting sweet" po
tatoes which is not attended by much
expense. It is larger than will be re
quired by any farmer who only in
tends tu raise sweet potatoes for the
use of his family. A peek uf seed
will prodi all tlie plants thai he will
require, and a frame that will extend
four feet in each direction will Cllolo-o
sllilicieut space to hold the potatoes to
be sprouted. The sides of a dry-goods
box will make n suitable frame. The
following are his directions for milk
ing, lilting, ami managing the bed:
1 prefer top of the ground to an ex
cavation. Place lirst nearly a foot iu
depth of wet straw, from around tho
stack preferred, tramped down solid;
if this is done less manure will ho re
quired. Build out the manure, which
should bo thoroughly hot, three feet
wider each way than you wish the bed
In lie: upon eight inches of the hot
manure, wc'l packed down on the
straw, set a frame uf hoards one inch
thick and a foot wide. A good size
and shape is sixteen foot lung and
eight wide; this will hold a barrel or
more of potatoes, and bo convenient
lo water and pull lho plants from.
The frame need not slope like that of
one on which glass is usc i; it may no
set Hat, but there should bo a movable
bar at one side raised a foot or so to
give slope enough to the boards with
which Ihe bod is lo be covered to car
ry oil tho water, the lower end of the
boards resting on the frame. After
tho frame is placed, bank up with
strawy manure on tho outside to tho
lop of the boards, and shako a few
inches uf best manure inside till.
when tramped down, it is within oiglit
iiiciics ui llio lop, in packing a hot
bed always step on small pieces of
Hoard, anil move lliem one trout uf tlm
other as you walk along; this will pack
tho manure evenly, while if tramped
with lho teet somo places will bo inure
compact than others and thu heat will
bo irregular. Thero should bo four
inches of good earth between lho po
tatoes and tho manure; 1 lind good
garden soil as good as any, but pre
fer a lighter soil leaf mold or sand
lo cover with. The soil with which
tlio potatoes are lo bo covered should
bo put in when lho bed is mado, so as
to warm up willi tho bed, but tho po
tatoes should not bo pill in till tho
earth is all warm so as to feel com
fortable lo lho hand. As soon ns Ihe
bod is completed covur it a foot deep
with straw, nud, ns it may need to bo
uncovered several times. It will save
timo nnd litter to havo the straw bound
in small buuules. Placo tho roof of
boards above tlio straw and wait for it
to hoat. If tho sun shines out bright
nnd warm tlio warming of tho bed
will bo hastened by uncovering for six
or eight hours iu tho middlo of tho
day. When the bod is warm rcmovo
tnroo inches of sou from a strip nt ono
end nnd put In n whool-bnrrow to bo
takou to tho other end to covor tho
last strip. Small potaloos nro gener
ally used for sprouting, ns thoy will
furnish nioro sprouts to tho bushel,
but I fnror good-sized potatoes, nnd
not crowded in tho bod whon ono Is
growing plants for his own use. Tho
seed should bo sound, nnd tho Booner
it is put iu tho bod alter it Is tnken
from tho collar where wintored the
bettor. Ono will rarolv succeed woll
with potatoos that havo stood ex-
fosod to tho air for a week or moro.
laco In the bod on tho soli closo as
you can without touching each other;
pross mora won down, aim tnon cover
with top soil from tiro adjoining strip,
nnd koep on In this way until tho bod
is full, covering the last strip with the
earth on tho wheolbnrrow. Thon
cover closely with the straw ami
ooards, and nine timos out of ton the
bed will not need to bo uncovered un
til the plants begin to com through.
It suouia oe exai
examined every day by
running lho hand down under the
straw into the suil, and if it is not
warm enough uncover for n few hours
ill Ihe holiest part of n bright sunny
'''J'-
I'roti'ctlnu 'frees man Insej-ts,
Willi regard In protecting Irces
from the ravages of insects which
climb up the trunk from Ihe ground
and destroy the leaves, blossoms, and
fruit, some paint a ring uf coal-tar or
liquid gum uu the trunk, and iu some
cases paint Ihe whole of lho trunk.
This is moro nr less inelleelu.il, as
some of lho insects settle upon I his ad
hesive substance ami perish, but iu
doing so form a bridge for others to
pass over. A more ell'eclual and per
manent protector was said to have
I il invented by a German some time
since. Tlio method which ho adopted
was tu use a metal collar, w hich eon
laiiicd iu its lower part a rim forming
a kind uf dish, w hile the upper part
supported a screen which protected
the lower purl from the inlluenceof
thu weather. It was made in two
halves, which, when attached In a
tree, were joined by two pins. The
apparatus is slightly larger Ihan the
tree, and the space iietw nit is then
calked with lioinp or cntlun. This is
afterward saturated with tar or petro
leum to prevent birds from picking it
onl. Iu the upper part there was a
small opening closed by a cork;
I hroiigh Ibis hole a liquid consisting of
glycerine, tar, mineral-nil, by itself or
iniM-d with poison, was poured, and
the cork replaced. When properly ad
justed it was : stated tli.it insects could
nut ascend, and that Ihe apparatus
would remain cffcclivo during Ihe
whole season without attention,
lllillislrilll Itrelllles,
A consular report on tlie Iraile ami
commerce of Venezuela says thai Ihaf
republic can not bo said (npossc-s anv
industries iu Ihe true sense ut the
Wurd. With a few exceptinns, the
majority of articles of nidiuai-y con
sumption arc iniporled Iroui abroad.
Prolcclivu and prohibitive duties ami
lolal prohibition have cause, some
articles to lie produced iu the country,
such as Inciter inalches, envelopes,
soap, camlh-s, starch, shoes, ready
made chillies, sugar, ruin, etc., but
these can led he termed industries, as
they arc not esported to foreign coun
tries, anil inileed are produced for
home consumption at higiu-i prices
Ihau if imported from Kurope or the
I'niieii Stales.
Buckwheat is on the decline as a
grain cultivated plain in. flu- west of
F ranee, where two millions of people
have i( for Ihcit i-vclii-ivc food all tne
year round. Il is made into a kind of
porridge and e.ikes. Il is not consid
ered here a healthy arlieh- of diet, be
ing dillieiill uf digestion nn account uf
a peculiar mailer in the gra skin of
the grain, anil dial even the bc-l-n,ade
buckwheat llotir nlwavs contains a
portion. The Tartars are said lo
jios-ess the M-crel of rem iving nil Un
objectionable pellicle. In Belgium,
luicl.wiical is nllcn taken as a sloieii
crui, the grain being employed to
feed and fatten poultry.
J. M. Siuilh, "I Green B:i, Wis.,
is reported lo have raised some years
ago ;!.7."l quarts of Wilson slrawber
ries uu a loiirih ot nu acre, ur ut the
rate ot t in busiieis per acre, lie eui-
livateil iu malted lows two feel wide,
willi a space of two feet between. The
plants were mulched for wirier and
early spring. A good coveiing of
well-rotted manure lilleeii or iwentv
biishelsaii acre orseveiilv-live bushel
uf iinleaehed a-luM -ivi i'i; applied
early in the season. All weeds were
destroyed al whatever cost. As for
watering when dry. one Ihoroiigh wot
ling was loiind belter than three
sprinklings.
A correspondent uf uu Indiana pa
paper writes: There is an apple tree
on the farm ot William (.'rites, in
Green county, somelwo miles cast of
tlie town of Worthiugtnii, which
measured eleven feet iu eireuiufcrenco
and has a top sixty feet across. This
tree is a s iling. 11 was planted
about 1.HF.I, by Isaae Slaleup. and has
borne fruit every year since 10. Tho
tree is healthy and llourbliing. Wo
have Ihe largest sycamore iu Ihe state
17 feet 1 inches in circumference.
So far as 1 am informed, it is the larg
est tree in (he 1'nited Slates cast of
tho Rucky muuntuitis.
An ctoniologist has reported having
found 7-1 species uf noxluus insects iu
thu trees, shrubs, ami plants uf lho
.New turn parks last year. Ihcso in
clude the cuttun worm uf thu smith,
the wood-bnrersof lho west, tho sugar
cane beetle, many speeies unknown to
(he ctoniologist, und somo entirely
new species. The most destructive iu
sect to tho trees arc the bag-worm,
the lent and web eatorpilurs, tho scale
insect, the coccus, ami lho elm beetle.
Of theso insects nearly seven bushels
of cocoons and egg masses wero re
moved. Statistics show that lho peoplo of
this country consume about four ami
one-half pounds uf cheese per capita,
while the people uf Knglaml consume
about futmcoii pounds per capita an
nually. Tlio argument thai cheese is
not a wholesome article of food, It
would seem, would not hold good In
the light of this fact, as thu agricult
ural classes of 1-aiglaud, who nro largo
consumers of cheese, are among lho
most robust nnd healthy people of tho
world.
At tho annual sheep-slioaring fes
tival of tlio Vermont Merino Shcop
Shcaring nssocialion, held in Middle
bury, Mr. J. L. Bultolph's ram,
"Burr," sheared thirty-eight pounds
and lin'rleon ottuces, two ounces moro
than there is any authentic record of
liny previous shearing. Tho heaviest
owe lleoco taken weighed twenty-ono
pounds and nine ounces, nnd was
sheared from a owo owued by Mr. Ii.
C. liiirwell, of Brid port.
To plaoo tin-foil on japan tin with a
mueiledgo or commit so that It w ill
dry and cleave to tho japan so lirmly
that water and weather will not re
move it, innko a dilute solution of
white golalino or Isinglass, tho proper
proportions are ono to twonty; add a
littlo pottassium bicliromalo, and np
ply it oy means of a pencil or sponge.
It doos not ndhoro at onco, but will do
so in a short while.
One of tho loading Florida commis
sion houses reports that orun gos wrap
ped in paper do not roach tho markets
in as good condition ns tlioso sent
without wrappers. They sny thoro is
moro rotting of fruit when wrnppod,
nnd attribute this lo tlio olosing up of
tho orovicos In the boxes by tho wrap
pers, whoroby tho frco circulation of
air is hindered.
Tho wonry task of spading up tho
Canada thistle may be spared you if
your sheep aro asked to holp'yoti.
Drop a little salt at tho roots of tho
weeds, and thoy will then bo nibbled
close to tho ground by the Hock, lte
poat the doso whon it re-npponrs, and
it will be oxtirpated by the next
season. ,
An pflloer n (be English army jo
the Soudau wrib s: There are hun
dreds of thousands of acres dial will
grow anything in lie- world sugar,
maize, cotton. There is no limit to
the prndm e Ih-it may he taken Ironi
lho soil without any manuring or cost
ly cultivation.
A little charcoal f.-d two or l.-ree
lir;es a week lo llic pigs is beuctieial iu
correcting acidity o( tho stomaoh, to
which hogs are liable w hen (cd upon
corn and conlincd in a pen. 'i'hey
will cat il greedily ami fellau
much more readily willi charcoal than
willioui.
All fowls mat fi-alhcr .slowly un
usually hardy. For in-Iaiiocj the
llrahnias. It is owing lo Ihe fact that
the drain on the svstcni ecca-ioned hy
the quick feathering does not w-al.en
lliem. Slow feathering while growing
is indicative of hardiness.
In sevi ral counties iu Ibis stale
tetianls are ready loeiye half of all
Ihey raise on a place for llic use of il.
In roino places laiid-iiwicrs can nb.
tain aliunsl any rent they choose lo
ask, as the number of tenants has be
come very large.
A Massachusetts fanner during two
years planled seed-corn from Ihe seed
end ami stem end scperalely. Roth
years the seed end gave him a crop
from twelve to fourteen dav s earlier
than thai from the stem end.
There is a demand for horses to use
iu tlie suppression of the rebellion in
western Canada. :i:,d it is found to be
dillieult to supply it. ,-islh,- auiimils
an-all wauled on farms at this sia-on
of (he year.
The legislature of Texas has passed
a law requiring all the railway com
panies in lhal slale to prov id- double
decked cars for persons desiring to
Iran-poll sheep and logs.
In must portions. of northern Ibiuois
the charge for pa-tiiring cailleis on
ceiils per month and for horses from
jl to si. oil.
The did hoop Shirt.
An item is gietig the roon Is of tlm
papers to the ell' ci dial the old fash
ioned I p skirls are coining iulo sty lo
again, and Ih it vv ithin a year die hoop
skirl faelories that hay.'- I n lying
idle fur years wiil b- I'liniiing fiili
h!:is. ami Ihe ladies will gr.r.v larger
around as die fashion is recognized as
Uu. thing. Who thai was on earth
I went v -live ve.ii', ago, do -s not reiucni-
ber tile lil'-l hoop, l.irl craze:' Hoop,
c line into fa -h.ou sii ld.-ulv, nud all
women, whatever doii- condition,
adopled Ihe la-hioii at once. There
were few regular manufactured hoop
kirlsat lir. I, ami only tho-e whovveiv
v. ry i.jiiv h id elaborate hoops, leu as
hoops were die fa-hion even body had
io have - me-' iiing licit uoahl m-t '.
Ihe ,
wire
..tit. .Mereh:i:,l . sol I
!l-t r.lt!:i!l. and v, nalelioue. and
I :.:, and ladies mrM th.'ia
llllo
:,v.
Would
1 h it lie1
lint sin
'.s. and s,1;iie of 1 ii-ni were
u!. ni . for anything. A lady
I her iioops mad-- au-l liu.l
sl.irt oi herdress was so small
wood liavo to use a shoe horn
lo
uu-.-1. j i i over llio iioops, or
gle; so llic I oops, ami then the dre-s
was so light over Ih.- Iioops dial every
I p -lo "! plainly as d ;h it
had been on I he outside, -oi iieer
scenes vve:- willlessrd when hoops
lir-l e:'ine in. Ladies were mil aeeus.
loii.ed lo walking iu : barr. !, and Ihe
I ps vvoiii I net ;:v lolly c nil ran . :nd
-how I heiu-e'v e . oa -light proyie niou.
Modes! h, lies wore fre.:, lit I v m id.
lo iibis.i b .some act of die hoops,
VV hioh -I'ellie I lo be Cil.lie.Ved i ; 1 1 Us
lunch ell--, due- s as a inil'e. The
v. eaivr of a hoop could n wi' I"1 en
tirely cii'.ain what an hour would
bring forth. Tic h i ip was liable to
go along all right, and appear lo nn
dcl'slanii ils hu-iness, and to have de
cided to he d nt, and when die
wearer nl tempted to go into a door,
Ihe hoops would get on a sii-ikc and
tin- lady couhiu'l drive it in with a
elite. .Men were consiautly laughing
at some ecei iilricily they discovered
iu Ihe hoops. Train conductors en
joyed a consianl picnic iu helping
stranded females, who gut cast in try
ing Iu cnt"i-a car, or a car seat. Ladies
who could not afford lo buy the expcii.
sive bra s lumps would utilize tho
hoops of barrels, and many a lady has
so ingeniously pressed a barrel lump
:iun ine service as to pass lor a lead
erotthe fashion, until smile day she
attempted to sit down in a pew at
church, when the hoop would llop up
and strike heron the nose twoorlhrco
times, and leave ln-r iu a situation so
tiiu'umlortaiile as In bring tears lo It
eves. It is a mean hoop th.it will
strike a lady, and a meaner hoop lhal
w:ll strike her on the nose, ami a con
founded sight meaner boon thai will
repeat the blow two or llireo limes,
bill there are ladies living lo-day with
scars on iiicir no-es niaile ironi these
Iioops. School-girls would wear bar
rel hoops, and it was an impossibility
tu keep them anywhere except wliere
they might mil lo he, and there are
rn living lo-day, who were buys
twenty-hvii years ago, who could re
late a good deal lhal they ought not
lo about lho way lho girls were mado
lined of Ihe fashions. Later, hoop
skirls wero reduced to a science, like
making watches, ami the ladies be
came su accustomed to wearing: them
lhal nothing ever happened worth
meiiliouiug, lint when two lady fiicmls
f tho lirst hoop year get together to
tail; over olil tunes, and thoy gel on
tlio sun. net hi iiioso olil trisiiioticd
mop skirls and their experiences, they
can keep lho children uf dm present
lay laughing unlit inuir sides ache.
Ladies wlio aro leaders of fashion, ami
eminent iu tlio affairs of thu world lu-
day, can remember when Ihey took the
lust tioop on a Hour Parrel ami hasletl
il into lho bollotu horn of n calico
dress, and fell as proud as queens, as
luey sullen uoivn mo village streets,
with everybody looking at them.
Tragedies were enacted in the early
lavs of hoop-skirts. A lady who is
now tho wife of a senator, carries a
scar on lho calf of her leg which
causes her to often wonder, ns sho sits
in tlm senate gallery, whether it was
tlio dog, which got into lior hoop-skirt
one day, to hide away from cruel hoys,
that had bit lior, or wholhcr n corner
of n barrel-hoop stuck through her
stocking, ft she was sure it was the
hoop sho wouldn't bo half ns nervous
abutit herself as sho Is when she sous a
log noar her. And so hoops nro com
ing into stylo again? Well, let thorn
come. In tho language of tho lamented
rntrlok llenrv, "Wo repeat It, sir, let
lliem ooiuo," nud bo darned to 'cm.
lack's Sun.
film day when the ground wai white w.th
snow, Mill-.. Dorian, n prent whip nmoiiir. Ihe
I'urlftlun "sportswomen," Invllid Victor iluiio
to drive out to ice tlio hknlers In tlm Hoi de
Itou'on?. As ho cot up bes'it.i her oa tho
box at her turnout si. e rt m u ked i '-you liavo
feriittrn your ovcrcont, mm cttrr mni'lir."
My uvnreontl I Iciven't any, and 1 uovor hsd
one; and 1 dmis Just the sarnu way In winter
as I do Is nimuiiT. My overcoat U rnj
youth,"
AM) FANCY.
i a population of 2,-
Texas
i)i.-i,iii.
Il .seems lo be '
skating-rinUs an- losii
oul Ihe country.
Ihe air" that
favor llirougb-
There is a l.irg
land. ( ircgu-i. tor
to take the place
dcma'.d al Port-
- I serv.i'it-girU
now occupied by
i uinamcii.
Fifteen thousand shad havo been
taken in Ihe Susqueh inna tins season,
and siiad-bakcs are the fashionable
amusement.
No lime is lo, I n
lsh Coliueb'a. Tii
were held hvod iv-
:ons in Unt
il elections
the liomina-
after
lions wen- made.
The important discovery has been
made in Paris thai die enieodilo can
bring ils jaws together vi;ih a lorco of
over three hniidrc 1 p oinds.
The abstract of tin, New foiindlaiid
census for ss, jnsi p ibli-hed. shows
thai tin-total popuiai.on of Newfound
land and Labrador is nl present l'.ni.
III. An observer of small dist inctions in
speech says lha! vv hen vou hoar a man
sav lo anoiher, "1 certainly am glad
to see you; I cefiainly am,'' x uu may
be sure he is from Virginia.
"S ill should be ealell willi IllltS to
aid digestion." Water can be drunk
lo lake a-.vav the effects of die salt,
and t licit more mils can bo eaten lo
lake away lint ta-lc of die water.
A Vermont hu-lemd is reported to
have Iru-irale.l the intended elope
ment id his wile by taking possession
of her -ilk dress. ,. knew sho
wouldn't run away in a calico gown.
Ail die -hoe dealers of Pittsburgh
abbre-, iate die names of ihcir goods,
and so many cariouis are labeled
Cur Kid'' that die citizens uf tho
"Smoky Cily" fully believe, it is said,
that they arc wearing dog skin shoes.
The problem ol wiis-tlier nil elev ator
jeir iuen: remains
aver.i,.;e man, ini
v. ith a lady,
:ug oil bis hat ill
nn-olved, and Ih.
prisoned in the t
liesilales about la
llic draft.
The brevet seas
ill a m-w pane of
picket to the front
ide hotel now puts
g ass and adds a
I'ellee, nlld Ililver-
ilupi'oveinciits havo
aratioii I r die com-
liscsthai co.-lly
occii niaile in
pre.
ing
on.
A farmer near S".jU,., Cal. has put
up a scarc-erow iu bis oreiiar-l dial is
.s.lid to be so ;!i li'.e U ds u j : pear.llICO
dial his neighbor- mien nddros, it and
depart in a rag" a! not reviving a re
ply. Tiicv must h..ye curious-looking
people in t 11:: I seel 1 in.
Ill Ihe
: I- 1:7
considerable ihtcr
I in :::i alinollllcc
V es had been colu-
I'i.i The annual
o foundries in lhat
as - I. on i.oo l, ami
i a
!U:i!o!
lilt si
Hie
pieled ill 1'lli
prodlle! of t!a
Cilv is lioVV
..had
Ihe industry sUjo
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profession during
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dole But
Ihe different
ach sl,."e of the tender
passion, link means congratulation
and white is used for wedding Invila
lions. Variegated colors show con
dieting emotions.
A clergy man ih-siring eouli'ibulioiH
for a special object, lilted up an ox
horn al die church door. Upon (his
he inscribed his aspirations to this
effect: "Tins 'orn was on :o on thu
'cad of a ho, and now hit bis a mis
sionary box." Il mighl have boon the
odd jingle, and il might have been thu
old Lnglishtuaii's zeal, or a combina
tion of die two, Inn certain il Is that
this special mis-iouary box intruded
coiitiihutiuiis in an extraordinary
manner.
Some people are never stislicd. Tlio
water works of die cily of Troy aro
full of eels, and by simply tapping tho
pipes lish two feet and a half long can
be secured fur breakfast, and so de
lightfully fresh! Such an abundance of
cheap fu.nl wuuld be considered a
boon in any community, yet tlio Tro
jans are running lo and fro and com
plaining to die water hoard thai their
supply of water is choked oil' by tho
eels. The idea of complaining uf a
supply of fresh lish with Ihcir water!
Alette-.' describing lho market of
New Orleans says that everything is
sold by tlie eye, and there is no stand
ard of measure. Nino lentils of the
hundreds whu sell in tho noted Freuch
market of the city do not know what '
a bushel or a peck is. They buy their
vegetables by the lot and place them,
in little pi'os' on tallies. Tlioso piles .
lire of different sizes und prices. The
buy er looks ut the piles nnd buys that
which he thinks is biggest and best.
Sometimes buckets and boxes are
used to niensiiru, but they uro of all
kinds and shapes.
Four-car trains running so near to
gether that there is always one at ov
ory station and ono between oach two
stations, aro nut sutlicinut toaccom
dule tho travel on the New York ri
valed railway. Dongcr trains, which
would rcquiro heavier engines, would
shako the slructuro to pieces. Fileo
trieity is believed to nffor tho only so
lution to tlio difficulty, and a variety
of experiments nro about to bo made. .
lulisnn's plan is to apply tho propul
sion through littlo dynamos curried on
tho forward truck ol each car, all op
erated by tho single engineer at tho '
front of tho train. His idea is to do
away altogether with tlio locomotive.
A Massachusetts minister condemns
ponplo fur rigging up their children
for tho. Sunday school. "Which goes
to show," snvs The lliston Trmucriit,
that evon a' Marlborough minister
doesn't know everything. Tho hotter
children nro dr-sied tho belter will
thoy bohnvo; nnd if (bo conduct of tho '
nvorngo Sunday school scholar whon
ho or she is rigged up is very nearly
enough oxnspcrating to cniiso tho
teacher to kill him or lior in cold
blood, while tho superintendent looks
on npprovlngly, for heaven's sake,
wnnt wouiu tne young oreniures not
liko if thoy wore permitted to no to
Sunday school Ih thoirovery-day cloth
ingP Nay, nay, my minislorialfriend.
let not a inn oe oDliioraiou or a stripe
FACT
el lime