The Elephant Empress."
Speaking of the recent death of the
moustrous elephant, t!ie Empress, at the
Zoological Garden in Fairmount Park, a
Philadelphia paper says : 44 The Empress,
it will he rememhered, created quite a
ensation here a couple of months ao by
lettlingher IkkIv down to the earth and
f iving every indication of serious illness,
'rora this position she was raised, but her
pait was tottering, and occasionally when
walking for exercise her knees would
double up and she would be seized with
a inclination to lie down. The huge
beast improved, however, and it was
thought that she would recover altogether
from her indisposition. The sequel shows
that her frame was shattered, and that the
Illness referred to was the herald of a
speedy death. The Empress was pur
chased by the society on the last day of
December, 1S74, being taken from the
winter quarters of O'Ericn's menagerie at
Frankford, to which she previously be
longed. SShe was an aged animal, that had
experienced a checkered career in the
Rcrvice of many masters, and had pressed
her broad foot on almost every soil. She
w as the admired of the menagerie for her
great size, and more particularly for he r
wonderful instinct, having frequently con
ducted herself in a manner which would
be well worth the study of her peers. The
deceased elephant was alwav'3 of a gentle
disposition, and never showed any of those
dangerous eccentricities which have been
incident to others of her ppceies. Hie was
one of IJarnum's finest show animals, und
when his large menagerie in Is'ew York
was burned she caught her companion
dog. Carlo, in her trunk and carried him
safely from the flames, evidencing through
out the fearful scene almo.-t human intel
ligence and presence of mind as well as
the highest type of animal sagacity. She
was an invaluable feature of the garden,
and her loss will be great in this re.-pect."
X Hard Job in Railroad IJuilding.
Anyone desiring to obtain any i lea of
the stupendous accomplishments of rail
road engineering should spend a few days
in Teliachapc Pass, investigating the
operations of the Southern Pacific ILiil
road Company. About twenty miles of
the road is a succession of cuts, fills and
tunnels. Within this distance there are
thirteen tunnels ranging from 1,100 feet to
a few yards in length. For the greater
jxrtioh of the way the road-bed is cut
through solid granite. The elevation is
so great from the present terminus of the
road at Calieute to Tehachape Valley that
the first mile and a halfwit of Calieute is
attained by laying down eight miles of
track. Higher up in the pass the road
runs through a tunnel, encircles the hill,
and passes a few feet aIove the tunnel.
After completely encircling the hill and
going half round again, the track doubles
on' itself like a closely-pursued hare, and
after running several miles in the oppo
site direction strikes up the canon. This
circling and doubling is for grade. Once
the track crosses the pass, and this in
volves the building of a long and very
high bridge. Wc doubt if a more difficult
and expensive piece of engineering was
encountered in the building of the Central
Pacific over the Sierras than that with
which the Southern Pacific is now strug
gling in Tehachape Pass. Another tre
mendous piece of work is the San Fer
nando tunnel, which, when completed,
will le over a mile and a half in length,
and in places over 1,000 feet beneath the
surface. Yet the company w ill accom
plish this great work and run cars through
from San Francisco to Los Angeles by the
1st of next July. All the force that can
be used is kept at work on the San Fer
nando tunnel. In the Tehachape Pass
5,000 men are employed, and the force is
being increased at the rate of 1,000 China
men per week. Los Angeles (Cat.) lie raid.
The Koran.
We are told by all Arabs that the Koran
is the most perfect poetry in the Arabic
language; and yet, when we come to read
it as translated into English, we find it
dull ami tedious. It is a difficult thingfor
a European to read through the whole
Koran in a translation. He soon realizes
it to be very different from what he imag
ined it Very possibly be dreamed of find
ing therein long and luscious descriptions
of the so-called '4 Mohammedan Paradise;"
that he should read about houris and the
tree of life, the beast Al-Iiorak, rivers of
wine, and all those visions of the different
heavens usually attributed to the prophet.
He finds not a word of all litis. Instead,
there is boundless devotional enthusiasm,
ail the vocabulary of praise to God, long
moral lectures, Old Testament stories in a
different form, a familiar reference to all
the Jewish patriarchs, prophets and Kings;
an equally constant reference to the facts
of the Gospels, but in a somewhat differ
ent dress; and, finally, tier- e denuncia
tions, in a strain of the most awful solem
nity, of the infidels who will not believe
in the truths of God. Of doctrine he finds
no subtlety. Mohammed proclaims but
one fact, and reiterates it for all time. As
the Koran opens with Al-Fatihat. "The
Preface," so it naturally closes with the
simple and sublime 44 Declaration," a
chapter of itself. The words of those
Chapters are texts for all the rest of the
book. It enlarges, dilates, amplifies, illus
trates, reiterates the one grand declaration,
44 Illaha il Allah"" No God but God."
All the rest is written only to give that
weight. The fact that Mohamuied is the
prophet of God is a mere incident, like the
"Thus saith the Lord" of the Hebrew
prophets. It is to show whence came the
message. That message is the one thing
of importance to man, and it is of the
simplest: 44 No God but God." When that
message is believed the morality of the
Koran follows with equal simplicity.
Prayer and charity are the w hole duty hi
man. Not prayer as an importunate beg
ging for favors, but prayer w hich is only
praise and anxiety to be kept in the faith
of God; not ostentatious alms-giving, mis
called charity, but a charity as complete
and genuine sis that described in the Corin
thians. Such as we find Al-Fatihat we
fin.i the whole book. The Galaxy for All-
Fight With a Snake.
A SrLYT.n Lakk (Pike County, Pa.) let
ter to the New York Fun says: A fourteen-year-old
servant girl in the employ of Je
rome Prockway, w ho has been spending a
few days in the wilds of Pike County, had
a narrow escape on Saturday last from be
ing strangled to death by a black-snake.
She was sent hy her mistress out into the
woods to pick whortleberries. She crossed
the lake in a small row-boat, and, accom
panied by a Newfoundland dog, walked
about three-fourths of a mile into the
woods w here the berries were plenty. Af t
er filling her basket she sat down on a log
and ate her lunch. As she w as about to
start for home a large black-snake sprang
alxut her neck and began choking her.
The affrighted girl screamed at the top of
her voice for assistance, but there was no
one near enough to hear her cries. At
length, when she was so exhausted that
she was unable to cry out, the snake
twisted its head around so that the girl
could reach it. At first she was afraid to
touch the monster. Then, realizing that
she must do something or perish, she
caught the snake about the neck and
choked it until it relaxed its hold and fell
to the ground. The girl then threw it
against a rock and succeeded in killing it.
She tied a small hickory withe around the
snake's neck and dragged it home. It
measured six feet eleven inches.
The manufacture of glucose, or corn
sirup, should be very profitable in this
country. The foreign article, of which
immense quantities have been imported
since 1SG7, is charged 20 per cent, duty,
besides ocean freight. This advantage to
the home manufacturer is enhanced by the
fact that the raw material in the United
States is far cheaper than in Europe. A
bushel of corn in Illinois costs from thirty
to sixty cents, in New York eighty-five
cents, while the European manufacturer
of glucose and grape sugar Las to pay
$1J2J.
a. m
A day or two ago, w hen a young col
ored man living in the city took a pepper
mint lozenge in his teeth, leaned over the
gate and motioned for his girl to bite o3
the other half, she gave her head a proud
toss and replied: 44 No, sah! If you wants
to mar'y me jisl swallcr dat candy and
spoke up like a while man!" Yicksburg
11 era Id.
What Is the Opposition!
There nre some who profess to believe
that the result of last fall's elections indi
cated Republican defeats and Democratic
triumphs. It were idle to deny that they
resulted disastrously to the Republican
party, but it would be fully as ridiculous
to attribute the defeat to the Democratic
party. That effete organization could not
have effected the overthrow of the Repub
lican party, and did not effect it. There
were several causes which produced dis
sension in the Republican camp, and
w hile gome, aye, many, joined the Opposl"
tion to rebuke their own party, they did
not consider their action as total and final
desertion, nor as attaching themselves to
the Democratic party. There were other
Republicans who, like Fitz John Porter
at the battle of Gainsville, tamely looked
on at the contending forces, declining to
render aid, which would have routed the
Opjosition. Though innocent of designed
treason to parly, such as acted in either
manner spoken of active or passive the
result gave them to understand that they
had given 44 aid and comfort to the
enemy," and they will not repeat the ex
periment. The causes which produced dissension
w ithinthc Republican ranks have been re
moved. One cause was hostility to certain
representative Republicans whose persons
do not now repose in official chairs. An
other reason w as the hard times then pre
vailing, which produced discontent and
indifference. Times are improving, the
outlook is encouraging and the breaking
away of the forbiddingclouds has revealed
the dissociation of the Republican party
with the dispensations of Providence and
the periodical cloggingof business wheels.
Still another cause was opposition to Pres
ident Grant, some of his opponents being
actuated by honest impulses and many
from unworthy and wholly selfish pur
poses. The President is in the habit of
listening to all who approach him, and
then following the dictates of his own
judgment, without apologv or explanation
to those who urge different action,
thus offending the sensitive, exact
ing and conventional. Then, too, he
has had occasion to use his prun-ing-knifc
pretty freely, and the wound
ed have generally taken their ill-smelling
sores to the Opposition for healing plas
ters. Rut President Grant's letter has
taken the last prop of the enemies of the
Republican party from under them and
they are now destitute of cohesion, and, like
a man so drunk as to involuntarily mis
take the law of gravity while lying prone
upon his back.it can do nothing but
howl and make a noise, and that it is
doing.
l.ist fall the contest w is between the Re
publican party and the Opposition. This
year and next it will be between the Re
publican and Democratic parties, and there
can be little well-grounded doubt as to the
result. The Republican party is being re
organized, and all that, is essential to secure
ifs success is the polling of its full vote.
Numerically it is far stronger than the
Democratic party, and the indications of a
revival of the old-time enthusiasm among
Re publicans are auspicious. The politi
cal heavens are brightening and are
spanned by the bow of promise. llepublie
Magazine.
The Shoe on the Wrong Foot.
The Brooklyn Union discloses the con
tents of one page in the history of Duncan,
Sherman fc Co. which ought to be very
generally known. Hitherto the Republi
can party has had to sutler very materially
from the collapsing of banks which have
been managed by Republican directors,
or have been favorable to the Administra
tion, or w hich during the war held a loj-al
position and supplied funds for its vigor
ous prosecution. When the Freedman's
Rank w ent down, and when Jay Cooke &
Co. and Henry Clews fc Co. collapsed, the
Democratic pressof this country improved
the opportunity, not so much to denounce
their reckless method of financiering as to
influence the public mind against Repub
lican rule and political financiering. The
wild gambling and speculation, the accu
mulation of rotten securities, the invest
ment in all sorts of balloon schemes and
the consequent collapses which inevitably
follow this system of banking, which is
only another form of gambling, werecred
ited to the influence of the Republican
party because the managers of these banks
happened to be Republicans or were loyal
during the war. These same papers,
however, since the failure of Duncan,
Sherman 6c Co., have been strangely si
lent. We have not learned from them that
their fall is due to the corrupting and de
moralizing effects of Republicanism. They
have omitted to charge the losses of de
positors and customers to the Administra
tion. They preach none of their custom
ary sermons on the frauds and corruptions
of the Republican party not even a word
on Grant ism. The Brooklyn Union ex
plains the reason why they have failed to
take any partisan advantage of this fail
ure. It appears that the house of Duncan,
Sherman fc Co. has never had Republican
proclivities since the war, and that it had
no Union proclivities during the War.
They were cotton speculators then, as they
have been since, and their sympathies were
with cotton, and, this being the direc
tion of their sympathies, their interests
were with the South and with English
hostility to the North,- for where the
treasure is there will the heart be al
so. They bulled Southern securities
in Europe, and backed blockade-running.
They were the agents of
the 44 Society for the Diffusion of Politi
cal Knowledge in the Army." During
McClellan's command of the Army of the
Potomac they scat down to it issues of
the World and the Philadelphia Age by
tons, also packages of tracts and tobacco
for free distribution, the wrappers being
neatly printed with peace and cotton mes
sages". The Copperhead missionary work
was carried on to such an extent that at
last it began to demoralize the troops, and
the Government w as compelled to step in
and stop the nefarious business by a
special army order. They not only never
touched an American bond during the
war, but they used their influence in Eu
rope against them. This is the politico
financial record of Duncan, Sherman &
Co., and these are the reasons wiry the
Democratic newspapers have failed to
preach their customary sermon .upon the
enormity of political banking and its cor
rupt and demoralizing tendencies. At the
same time it is perfectly consistent to ask
if the failure of Jay Cooke & Co. is to be
credited to the Republican party, why
should not the failure of Duncan, Sherman
& Co. be credited to the Democratic party?
Chicago Tribune.
m ss
tSF" The Republican journals of Penn
sylvania express great confidence that the
State w ill give a good Republican majori
y next fall. They assert that the confi
dent feeling in the party is rapidly grow
ing; that old feuds arc healed ; that the
Republicans are beginning to work in
earnest and in good spirits; while the Op
position is divided, faint-hearted and indifferent.
The Cincinnati Gazette says the
Republican party in Ohio 44 has never
been more consolidated, harmonious or
enthusiastic than now. Hayes is popular,
the platfoim is approved, and there is a
prospect of success so bright as to excite
to hard work even the most sluggish. We
say this after a good deal of inquiry. Per
sons from all parts of the State bring the
same news."
The Albany (N. Y.) Journal says
"Senator Thurman, of Ohio, occupies the
position of a man without a party." Iowa
is a long way ahead of Ohio in this re
spect, in that all who are not Republicans
41 occupy the position of men w ithout a
part)-." There is not so much as a name
to distinguish them. Dubuque Timet.
The Louisville Courier-Journal
tells how Kentucky was carried for the
Democrats at the late election: 44 Votes
went freely yesterday afternoon at fifty
cents apiece, or, by wholesale, at five
dollars a dozen.
1ST Taxation in Maryland has in
creased from ten cents on the $100, where
the Republicans letl it ten years ago, to
tw enty and five-sixteenth cents more than
doubled in a decade! Washington Chronicle.
Thf.ke are -1.000 keys to the vaults of the
Safe Deposit Company in San Francisco.
No company can expect to get on a higher
key than this.
The Dead Sea of America
On the w est of the lake, north of the
end of Cedar Mountain, the Great Desert
begins some 5,000 miles of sand and al
kali, only a few feet higher than the lake.
Doubtless it w as once a part of the lake,
and possibly it will be again, for the lake
surface has risen some fifteen feet since its
first survey by Stansbury in 1849, and as
much more will cover much of that desert
Straight south the Oquirrh range rises
very abruptly from the end of the lake,
there being barely room for wagon and
railroad to pass in fact, it is assumed by
geologists that Antelope Island is but a
coutinuation of that range, the break be
tween covered bv the salt water flowing
over a low pass. Twenty miles or so away
I can make out the peak on which I stood
six weeks ago and took a general view of
this and Rush Lakes and the adjoining
valleys. It is often said that there is no
living thing in Great Salt Lake, but this
is not strictly true. There is a minute ani
malcule at the bottom, resembling a fine
shaving of the skin from one's finger
more than anything else I can compare it
to. As it grows in size It beats in toward
the land by the action of the waves, and
finally swells up into the likeness of a
worm and floats upon the water. The
boatmen think that the flics, which are so
numerous around the edges of the lake,
breed from this worm, and this idea is
strengthened by the fact that the empty
hulls of the worm, like abandoned shells
of chrysols, float on the water in large sec
tions, extending in long, dark lines for
hundreds of feet. At first I supposed these
collections were merely the Iwidies of
drowned flies, but on examination they
proved to be the husks, so to speak, of
what had been worms. All sorts of at
tempts have been made to propagate life
in the lake or mouths of the affluent
streams, but one and all have failed. Oys
ters have been planted at the mouths of
the rivers, but when the wind was up
stream the dense brine from the lake set
ting into the river's mouth killed them.
Jordan was stocked with eels a year or
two ago, but they floated down into the
lake and died. One was picked up long
afterward on the eastern 6hore completely
pickled. The finder cooked and ate it
and found it very palatable. Gulls and
pelicans abound in places around the
lakes, feeding on the flies and worms.
Capt. Stansbury reports finding a blind
pelican w hich had been fed by its com
panions and kept fat. At points where
grassy marshes border the lake the buffalo
gnats are numerous and troublesome.
There are indications that buffalo were
abundant in this basin 100 years ago. The
Indians say the Great Spiritchanged them
all into crickets! The latter were very
destructive to the first crops of the Mor
mons, until the gulls came in immense
flocks and ate them up. The Mormon his
torian in pious gratitude says: "There
were no gulls in the country before the
Mormons came." In one meaning of that
word this is on a par for facetiousness
w ith that statement in the Book of Mor
mon: 44 Great darkness overspread the
land ; yea, darkness w herein a fire could
not be kindled w ith the dryest wood."
Cincinnati Commercial.
A Wedding Tour.
There came one day to a little inland
town in Kentucky a j-oung rural couple
who had just been bound by the "silken
bonds." Their destination was the depot,
and the bridegroom was evidently quite
impatient for fear the train should arrive
before he could reach the oflice. Buying
one ticket they stood on the platform un
til the train had stopped, when they en
tered the car, the bridegroom found his
bride a seat, kissed her most affectionate
ly, bade her 44 good-by," and, going out,
seated himself on a goods box and com
menced whittling most vigorously. He
watched the train out of sight, regret de
picted on his face, when a bystander,
thinking the whole proceeding rather
strange, resolved to interview him. Ap
proaching him carelessly, and chewing a
straw to keep up his courage, he said :
"Been irettin' married lately?"
44 Yes,' "said Rural ; 44 me and Sallie got
spliced this morninV
44 Was that her you put on the train ?"
44 Yes," with a sigh.
44 A likely-look in' gal," said our ques
tioner. 44 Anybody sick, that she had to
go away ?"
44 No;" but here Rural grew confiden
tial. 44 You see, me and Sallie had heard
that everybody when they got married
took a bridal-tower. So I told Sallie I
hadn't money enough for both of us to go,
but she shouldn't be knocked out of hern.
Se I jist brought her down here, bought
her a ticket and sent her on a visit to some
of her folks, and thought I might get some
work harvestin' till she got back."
An 44 audible smile" w ent around among
those who were standing near, but our
friend was too much absorbed in remem
brances of Sallie to be conscious of it.
That afternoon found him busily at work,
and when, in a day or two after, 44 Sallie"
came back he welcomed her cordially and
affectionately, and, hand in hand," they
started down the dusty road to their new
home and duties, far happier, perhaps,
than those w ho start out with more pomp
and parade. Louistill Courier-Journal.
Length of Roots.
The nature of the soil has much to do
with the length and number of roots. In
light poor soil I find roots of Jane grass
four feet below the surface. People are
apt to under-cstimate the length, amount
and importance of the roots of the finer
grasses, wheat, oats, etc. A young w heat
plant when pulled up only shows a ftnall
part of its roots. They often go down
four or six felt, or more. The roots of a
two-3-ear-old peach-tree in light soil were
found seven feet four inches long. In dry,
light soil this season we pulled up one
parsnip three feet and a half long. Of
course smaller roots went down still
farther. The noted buffalo grass on the
dry Western prairies is described in the
agricultural reports at Washington as hav
ing very short roots; but Mr. Felker, one
of our college graduates, found, where a
well was being dug, that the roots w ent
down seven feet. The roots grow best
where the best food is to be found. They
grow in greater or less quantity in every
direction. If a root meets with good food
it flourishes and sends out numerous
branches. Roots do not 44 search" for
food, as vegetable physiologists now un
derstand it Many ot the smaller roots of
trees die every autumn when the leaves
die, and others grow in spring.
Near a cherry-tree in my yard was a
rustic basket without bottom, filled with
rich soil. On removing the basket and
earth, which had been there several years,
cherry roots were found in large numbers
in this rich soil. Roots in such soil will
grow up just as well as down. From
Forthcoming Report of MicJdgan State
Board of Agriculture.
The tendency toward ornamental
instruction which has been visible in our
public schools has caused some Missouri
ans to petition their State Constitutional
Convention that the common school sys
tem may be abandoned. They declare
that the time of the pupils is "taken up
with the ornamental branches to the neg
lect of studies which are really educa
tional, that the taxes are high, and the
schools cost more than they produce.
There is doubtless a great deal of ground
for such a complaint, though the remedy
asked for is a very injudicious one. For
tunate is the parent whose children in the
public schools do not literally waste half
their time over the ornamental features of
reading and pennmanship, and the unim
portant ones of arithmetic, geography and
grammar. The remedy does not consist
of shutting the school doors, however
a little personal care in the selection ol
text-books and teachers will bring alout
a speedy reformation. While book-agents
decide what text-books a school is to use,
and the parents' opposition is manifested
only in grumbling, the school system is
evidently not to blame, nor should the
same system be abused because ersonal
favor or a mistaken idea of economy
places at the teacher's desk an unfit man
or woman. Christian Union.
Prof. Bonamy Price praises our fe
male teachers to the echo, and says that
nowhere in the world is so thorough a
sympathy between pupil and teacher tc
be found as La America.
SESSE AND NOASEASE.
Never lend money to a genius.
Qceexs of 'Arts female graduates.
Bean-evolent enterprise soup-house.
Mercy-nary fellows tenement land
lords. All the colors of the 'spect-rum a U,
per's nose.
Academy of Design a young ladies'
boarding-school.
Prof. Tice says we will have a warm
winter, and he knows, you know.
The Chinese interpretation of going to
law is: 44 Losing a cow for the sake of a
cat "
How to make the largest census report
with the smallest number of people is the
study of the age.
44 Good enough in some respects, but too
stuck up to let on a dog-fight," was the
eulogy on a Nevada man.
PEortE with the colic may not be anx
ious to know it, but there are ovei 2,700
varieties of apples in this world.
It was the grasshopper in the West; it
is the tramp in the East, and it is hard to
tell which is the greater plague.
That silver mine at Newburyport,
Mass., it turns out, was 44 salted" with sil
ver for tricky speculation in the land.
They have got to calling Old Probabili
ties names, and one newspaper disrespect
fully refers to him as 44 Old Perhaps."
The church at Bethlehem Heights, N.
II., occupies the highest point of ground
of any church edifice in the United States.
A Miss Haxke, of Allentown, Pa., has
six grandmothers, all living. The Hankes
take in a good deal of this tangled skein
of life.
The time has now arrived when the
average youth starts out of an evening to
hunt coons and stops in the first melon
patch he conies to.
The saying that 44 reforms never go
backward" diies not hold true of ladles'
fashions, as witness the change from the
hoop-skirts to the pin-back.
Bank bunrlars have had such a poor
show of late that they are downcast and
discouraged, and some of them talk of
studying law in order to get a living.
Tennessee talks of building a mauso
leum on the Capitol grounds at Nashville,
and of depositing therein her three dead
Presidents, Jackson, Folk and Johnson.
Experiments with loiled linseed oil
and hardwood shavings show spontaneous
combustion after exposure in a draught
ten hours at a temperature of sixty-five degrees.
It is estimated by a well-known natural
philosopher that the average man will be
fourteen years about getting around to
screw that loose knob on the bureau
drawer.
44 Johnny, is it thundering like rain?"
asked Mrs. Jones of Johnny at the win
dow. 44 No, it is raining like thunder
now," came back from reliable young
America.
The New Orleans 44 Press Club" has
passed resolutions against 44 treating."
Good thing. Now suppose, gentlemen, you
also go a little further and stop "'treating"
yourselves. .
Don't lie awake fidgeting all night,
thinking a burglar is in the house; cither
get up and see about it or go to sleep. The
burglars of the imagination never steal
anything nor hurt anybody, and are there
fore not worth lying awake for.
A roET in Coneyville, Kan., has pro
duced the following statistical verse:
''Should millions into millions multiplied
be, With ten million times ten million
more, 'Twould scarcely express a millionth
of the grasshoppers that pass our door."
A Brooklyn sick girl cleared space
around thirteen ears of green corn at one
meal the other day, and, picking the frag
ments from between her teeth with a hair
pin, observed : " If ever I get well enough
again to eat much I think I could live on
corn."
One of the Siamese ambassadors, on re
turning home from Europe, gave the fol
lowing description of a piano-forte, or, as
he called it, 44 a great trunk set upon legs."
He said: 44 A woman sits in front of this
and, tickling a sort of tail it has w ith her
toe, produces a variety of sounds by beat
ing rapidly with her fingers on a number
of" little bits of ivory in i'ront oi it."
A niOTOGRAPn has been forwarded to
England which has aroused the astonish
ment of their distinguished men. It is
taken of a branch of pears grown from a
tree on the ranch of Mr. Gholson Kerche
val, near Sacramento, Cal. The branch
was four feet six inches long, carried 2G)
pears (most of which were about five inch
es in length), the w hole weighing about
110 pounds.
When we look around and see the
large number of able-bodied men who
spend their money and their time at the
beer saloons, w hile their wives are stitch
ing at home, or go out w ashing to earn
money to keep themselves and children
from starving, we naturally wonder why
more young men don't get married and
man-el more that so many young ladies
do. Norristoicn (Pa.) Herald.
It is stated that of the present Congress,
composed of 'SAG members, 200 are lawyers,
fifty merchants, and the rest editors and
farmers. In the United States there are
40,000 lawyers and 2,500,000 farmers
therefore, there is one lawyer in Congress
for every 200 of that profession, and only
one fanner for every 130,000, as the latter
class in reality only number eighteen in
our National Legislature. 11 asliington
Chronicle.
Basques are more trimmed than they
were last season. A collar of some kind
reaching low down on the breast is seen
on most basques ; this may be only a plain
revers, either round or square cornered, or
else it may be formed of small pleats laid
the whole length of the collar and edged
with a pleated frill; this fashion is very
pretty in grenadine. Another fancy is
that of making the front like a vest, cov
ered with very narrow pleats reaching
from the throat to the end of the basque.
TnE use of ox-tail soup in England, I
am told, is not very ancient, the origin be
ing I believe as follows: At the end of
the great war there were a great many
French prisoners in England ; by way of
feeding them cheaply the commissariat
used to supply them with ox-tails, then
considered as offal, and left on the hides.
The Frenchmen, with their usual clever
ness in cooking, made these tails into
soup, and this is the origin of the ox-tail
soup a story which I think should not
be forgotten. Frank Buckland?s "Log
Book" Matthew Van Denburgh, of the town
of Mayfield, Fulton County, N. Y, died
recently, poisoned by the use of hair-dye.
Mr. V. was only forty-three years old at
the time of his death, but for twelve or
fifteen years he has been quite gray. For
several 3-ears past he has resorted to the
use of hair-dyes to cover the symbols of
old age. For several weeks he had not
been well, and his physicians immediate
ly discovered the presence of poison as
the cause. But all their skill was in vain.
The poison from long-continued use had
so thoroughly impregnated every part of
his system that antidotes were of no avail.
A Practical Father.
BoATINfl IS HO doubt R tmcA Ihinir n-linn
judiciously indulged in, but an old gentle
man residing on Congress street, w hose son
was a member 01 one ot the w inning crews
at the Toledo regatta, has rather conserva
tive notions concerning the muscular art.
On Sunday the following dialogue oc
curred between the father and son :
Father My boy, how much did you
weigh when you liegan to train for this
regatta ?
Son One hundred and sixty pounds.
Father And you pulled at one hundred
and forty-five pounds, didn't you ?
Son Yes, I w orked down to that beauti
fully. lather And how much is that badge
worth that 3-ou won down there ?
Son Don't know exactly, bu I think I
heard some of the fellers say they cost
twenty-seven dollars apiece.
Father Um! twentv-seven dolln
1 . - all .
uivu, ii you 11 worK on ine same amou
ot flesh next season by sawing wood I
give you a badge worth just four times
uiuiu as mat one, ana an order on
ianor ior tne best suit ot clothes you can
LkLlKl.
TIlP VAlinfr rrnntlaman ? T-i t ysa 1. 1-
t "viufl vuttvmaii imiuiutLU 111 a I Ht"
guessed he'd take a little run down to the
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USEFUL A.ND SUGGESTIVE.
Plants in pots that is, the ordinary va
rieties usually grown for this purpose, in
cluding roses are greatly benefited by a
slight mulch of hot-bed manure. And
conifers, too, show the cflectof this fertiliz
ing covering by an increased color and a
more vigorous growth.
To Keep Thin. If a man inclined to
obesity desires to keep reasonably thin he
must deny himself some of the luxuries of
the bible and take plenty of exercise.
Horseback-riding, playing at billiards,
fencing, swimming and gymnastics are all
equally excellent. At table lie should ab
stain from bread, butter, milk, beer, pota
toes, pudding and from sugar in every
shape. Biscuits or dry bread, every kind
of fish except salmon, every kind of meat
except pork, and all vegetables except po
tatoes may be eaten. "Plenty of fruit is
also recommended. By persevering in
this regime a 44 fat man" may soon become
less of a burden to himself and enjoy life
more. Western llural.
A Cheap FcMtoATOR. The follow ing
w ill be found to be a cheap and pleasant
fumigator for sick-rooms, diffusing a
healthful, agreeable and highly penetrat
ing disinfectant odor in close apartments,
or wherever the air is deteriorated. Pour
common vinegar on powdered chalk until
effervescence ceases, leave the whole to
settle and pour off the liquid. Pry the
sediment and place it in a shallow earth
ern or glass dish, and pour upon it sul
phuric acid until white fumes commence
arising. This vapor quickly spreads, is
very agreeably pungent, and acts as a
powerful purifier of vitiated air. Ex
diange, Green Apples. Housewives tire of
the monotony of the dried and preserved
fruits of a loregoing season, and are fain
always to make use of green apples, even
while they are so young as to have little
flavor and even a suspicion of bitterness.
An excellent way of preserving such new
apples Is to stew them with very little water,
pass them through a colander, and break
them up with the back of a spoon. If
young apples are cooked too long, and in
too much water, they lose their flavor;
but in any case, when using the first green
apples of the season, they are improved
by a flavor of nutmeg or lemon. Western
llural.
Cooking Mushrooms Pipsy Potts, in
Arthur', directs howtocook thisdelicious
edible: Cut oil' every decayed particle,
and the end down next to the ground, and
wash them two or three times in plenty of
w ater. Then slice and sild them in boil
ing water in which is a liberal pinch of
salt, then let them drain In a colander.
Have some melted butter in the hot spider
w aiting, and fry them until brown. Then
pour out into a tureen in which is a slice
of soft, buttered toast. Put half a teacup
ful of cream into the spider immediately
after the mushrooms are taken out, and,
when warm, pour it over them. Pepper
to suit the taste. The salty water in
which they are scalded and the salt in
the butter is enough without adding any
more.
Sweet Picki.es. These are made up
from pears, peaches, plums, apples, and
other fruit, as well as from watermelon
rinds, the fleshy part of ripe cucumbers,
etc. The material is cooked in water until
soft enough for a straw to pass easily, ami
when cool placed in a jar with a few
cloves stuck in each. To each seven
pounds of fruit take three pounds brow n
sugar, one quart vinegar, four ouuees of
cinnamon and two ounces cloves. Boil
the vinegar, sugar and spices together for
a few minutes, and pour over the fruit.
Repeat the boiling for three days in suc
cession, and put away for use. "Fruit pre
pared in this w ay is by some called b the
nonsensical and absurd name of 44 euchered
fruit" American Agriculturist.
Harvesting Apples.
Experience alone must serve as a
guide to the orchardist as to the proper
time for harvesting fruit. We can only
give this general direction: Gather the
l'rui.t when fully grown, or at the time
when it has received the greatest nourish
ment from the tree. Ladders of different
lengths, also stands, are employed for this
purpose. The windfalls should
first be gathered and converted into cider,
or at least kept entirely separate from the
remaining fruit. Pick by hand, select
and pack with great care, so as to obviate
bruising the fruit. In assorting make
two qualities for market and a third for
cider or for swine.
Pack in new or clean barrels. Pack
one kind only in the same barrel or box ;
also let the apples be of as uniform size
and appearance as may be. The upper
layer of apples should protrude somew hat
above the chine, and be brought down
and headed under pressure. Employ for
this purpose a clamp, either patent or
home-made. Some operate with a screw,
others w ith a lever. The latter is very
simple, and may be easily constructed.
For shipping the pressure system is par
ticularly desirable, as it retains each ap
ple in its place, and hence prevents it
being rattled about and bruised. The
fruitbeing barreled should remain in open
sheds till the approach of cold weather.
Keep as cool as possible without freezing
before removing to the cellar. Maine
Pomological Heport.
Insects Injurious to Wheat.
Insects injurious to wheat are more or
less numerous in all parts of the country.
Unfortunately, however, the greater por
tion of these pests are of small size, and
therefore readily escape notice until their
numbers have increased to such an extent
as to cause serious losses to the farmer or
dealers in this grain.
Some kinds confine their ravages to the
wheat plant while it is quite small, as, for
instance, the Hessian fly (Cecidomyia de
structor), which deposits its eggs in the
wheat plant during the autumn, while
another brood of the same attacks it again
in the spring, the grubs boring into the
center of the stalk and causing it to wither
and die. This terrible jest of our w heat
fields was first observed on Staten Island
in 1776, and from this point it appears to
have spread over the country, sometimes
increasing to such an extent as to compel
farmers to abandon wheat culture entirely
for a number of years in succession, and
over a wide range of territory, then again
disappearing, probably through the agency
ot parasitic enemies. It is only a few years
since the great wheat-growing regions of
Central New Y'ork were devastated by this
insect, and it will doubtless appear again
in the same localities, so that the farmer
must be on the alert.
Another species of the same cenus,
known as the 44 wheat midge" Cecidomyia
tritici), is also quite common in many lo
calities, and we have before us two heads
of wheat, received from Mr. W. C. Little
ton, of Tippecanoe County, Ind., which
contain the pupa of this pest. The habit
of this last-named species is quite differ
ent from the former, the female depositing
her eggs in the heads of wheat while it is
in blossom. The eggs hatch in eight to
ten days, the maggots feeding upon the
pollen, also sucking the juices of the
3'oung, soft kernels and causing them to
shrivel. After reaching maturity the
grubs descend to the ground, forming
minute, thin cocoons within w hich they
pass the winter, appearing again in time
to attack the wheat when in bloom. These
cecidon ias are very small, two-winged
flies, but they have natural enemies in still
more minute species of four-winged flies
belonging to the genus Platygastes. Were
it not for the latter we fear our farmers
w ould soon have to abandon wheat-culture
altogether; but as the midge increases its
natural enemy also has an opportunity of
multiplying; occasionally, however, the
wheat-destroyers appear to get the advan
tage for a few 3'ears at least, but their ene
mies soon become strong enough in num
bers to overpower and destro3' them.
There is still another insect which is
sometimes very injurious to growing
wheat. It is generally referred to as the
" jointworm," from the appearance of the
maggots in or near the joints on the stems
of "the wheat. When abundant, great
numbers of the wheat-stalks die and break
down soon after the heads appear. The
name of the species which attack wheat is
Eurotyma hordei Harris.
Another species attacks r3-e in a similar
manner; another barley; and, as thepupje
of all of them remain in the dry straw
during winter, the best method of check
ing their ravages is to burn over the stub-
ble'in the fall and see that all the straw
from which the grain is threshed Is citlief
fed out to stock or rotted dotfn in the
barn-yard before warm weather in the fol
lowing spring.
After wheat is threshed and put away in
the bins it is not safe from the attacks of
insects. Perhaps the most common nd
destructive kind in this countiy is the red
grain weevil (Sitophilu granarius). It is
a small beetle of a pitchy red color, and
attacks wheat after it is stored, eating out
the inside of the kernel; hence it is not
easily detected except by handling the
grain or submitting It to a slignt pressure,
the shell readily breaking when touched.
This weevil is sometimes exceedingly nib
mcrous about old barns iii the Middle
States, and considerable care is necessar3'
to preserve seed-wheat in good condition
for sow ing. Infested barns should be w ell
cleansed every season before new grain is
put in, even to fumigating with burning
sulphur, as well as dusting the cracks
about the bins with the same substance.
A closely allied species of weevil,
S-oryzea, attacks rice as well as wheat in
the Southern States. It differs from the
former in having two large red spots on
each elytron, and is of a dark brown or
black color. It is generall' known as the
44 blnck weevil." There are other species
of weevil w hich infest wheat, besides nu
merous moths and Hies, and itwould .be
well for our farmers to pay more attention
to these pests and not only learn how to
recognize the different species, but learn
what is known of their habits, and how
best to destroy them. The longer such
things are neglected the more abundant
they are likely to become, aud it is quite
frequently the case that a few dollars in
vested in entomological works, and a few
evenings spent in reading them, would
save a farmer hundreds of dollars annual
ly. N. Y. Sun.
Warts 011 Cows' Teats.
The Canada Farmer recommends the
following plan for removing these annoy
ing excrescences !
" If the w arts have well-denned necks,
cut them off with scissors and touch the
places w ith lunar caustic (nitrate of silver).
Or, if horse hair or silk thread is tied
tightly around them, they will fall off in a
few da3s. If without well-defined necks,
w et them and touch w ith lunar caustic. In
a few days cut oil' the dead, blackened
parts and touch again. If the places be
sore after the warts are removed, moisten
the surfaces w ith the tincture of aloes and
myrrh; and if ulceration sets in, wash
w ith a solution of sulphate of zinc of the
strength of one dram to a pint of water.
" The presence of warts shows a disor
ganized state of the system. When the
cause of them is removed thej' will disap
pear of themselves. They may proceed
either from a lack or a redundancj-of vital
force. Where warts are present in such
numbers as our correspondent mentions, it
will be best to try to obliterate them a few
at a time."
Greasing with hog's lard will remove
ordinary w arts, and we have seen recom
mended a liniment of equal parts of iodine
tincture and glycerine, applied thorough'.
Violent remedies are not to be recom
mended w hen milder means will answer.
llural New Yorksr.
Dividing Colonies of Dees.
In August colonies of bees that have
been kept strong through the season of
white clover and linn blooming ma3 safe
I3' be divided. In our experience large
colonies w ith fifteen or sixteen combs do
not winter as well as those containing
eight or nine. If 3011 want more bees
divide 3'our colonies judiciously, and you
ma3r depend on having them built up in
good, strong colonies, in any location
where buckwheat is raised, or where
smart-weed aud golden rod are found.
For most parts of the West hone3-, in
the fall, is abundant nine 3'ears out of
ten, and if an increase of bees is preferred
to surplus honey there is no better time to
divide than now. I need not say that all
who have a surplus of queens on hand
will make a great gain by giving every
new colon3 a queen.
One correspondent writes : 41 Last 3ear I
had eighteen colonies in large hives, of
eighteen frames each. I had them full of
bees w hen linn came into bloom, and it
was wonderful to see how fast the honey
was stored. I extracted it twice a week
(I have no doubt I might have done it oft
ener), and secured an average of 200
pounds to a hive; yet when the linn went
out the hives were all full of bees and
hone3". I divided ten of them the Sth of
August, giving each hive nine frames
each, full of comb aud some brood, but
ver3' little honey. They all did well, and
by the last of September I extracted an av
erage of sixty-two pounds each of golden
rod hone3T, with some buckwheat. All
of these twentj' colonies (nine frames each)
wintered perfect, but not one of the
eight large ones that I did not divide
came through the winter well. I am not
able to tell wli3'; but after this give me
large colonics to get great 3-iclds of lioncj'
from early in the season but smaller ones
to winter well." American Bee Journal.
Insects as Food.
The Hottentots alwa3's rejoice in the
arrival of a swarm of locusts, eat them in
great numbers, and make soup of their
eggs. The3' are brought in wagon-loads
to Zez, in Africa, and are preserved y
salting or smoking. The Moors prefer
them to pigeons, and a person ma3' eat
two or three hundred w ithout feeling an3r
ill effects. They are usually boiled in wa
ter half an hour, after throwing away the
head, legs and wings, and then fried with
a little vinegar. Their use as food is
alluded to in Scripture, where the food of
John the Baptist is said to have been
locusts and wild homy. The ancient
Greeks considered grasshoppers as a crreat
luxurj-, and the Chinese, who are unwill
ing to waste aii3-thing, after unw inding the
silk from the cocoons of the silk-worm,
send the insect to the table. The Hotten
tots, again, parch the white ants, and eat
them "as we do corn. Mr. Smeathman
tells us that they taste like cream and
sugar, or almond cakes. There are many
other instances of insects w hich serve for
food to different nations, though, with the
exception of a few individuals, asLalande,
the great astronomer, w ho w as fond of
spiders, their use is generally discarded
by those w hom we consider the most re
fined. We say general', for one species,
the cheese mite, is often conshlercd a
luxury even among these. Christian Ad
tocate. The last Presbytery of New York re
ported nine Presbyterian churches with
out pastors, some of whom were making
efforts to secure a preacher. Measures
were earnestly discussed in behalf of
church extension in the bounds of the
presbytery.
Thb science of advertising is one which
can be learned by experience only, and, like
everything else requiring study and skill, is
best understood by those houses whose sole
business it is; hence we regard that adver
tiser as peculiarly fortunate who is enabled
to secure the services of a reliable agent con
versant with the whole subject, and able, by
his experience, knowledge and general repu
tation with both the public and the publish
ers, to offer all the advantages and emolu
ments that can only be possessed by a
first-class house. Among those houses of
known solidity and promptness whose mer
its are universally recognized, and whose
reliability and skill remain unquestioned
Perhaps that of Geo. P. Kowell & Co., 41
ark Row, New York, ia most deserving of
mention and confidence. A close attention
to business, a watchfulness over the best
interests of their customers and a prompt
ness in the execution of all orders Intrusted
to their care have been the characteristics of
the firm from the outset, and have done
much to ingratiate them in- public favor.
They have always possessed the best facili
ties for doing work both cheap and well, and
by promptness and fair dcaliD? succeed in
procuring from publishers, in all cases, the
lowest cash rates; and by so doing distance
their competitors in a majority of case
when figuring upon large estimates. Frank
Leslie" Illustrated.
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loss of health. It is the friend of the poor
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und of ttie rich because it prepares him to
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