THE BED CLOUD CHIEF.
M. I.. TlfoMT tS Killtor.
RED CLOUD.
NEBRASKA.
From the broad fields, their Rolden glory sliorn
Ami mm ny uplands or their beauty reft,
Tlu-mcli the s Miit:1lght of the Mitumu morn,
Aud hedgeroMs, with their lingering Jewels
left
By :he brown river, through tl.e leify lanes,
On to the farmsteads move the loaded wains.
The stalwart rearer bears h!s brlgltcned scythe.
Or tracks the course the great machine has
made.
And bonnle lass and 1 !, sunburned atd lithe.
Kound whose :raw hats woodbine and pojir-les
Tatfe.
Wake all the meadow land with h-.rvest ntnlns,
Clustering and laughing r ut d the loaiJed wains.
'TIs sof September natures harvest yields,
Hut all through lire our ripening fruit we reap,
Jfowitorir-g violet Trom sweet Apr.l fields,
Now roses tha brig t .Mil v sunsnli.es steep,
Now garnerln ggray October's sober gains.
Now Christina hollies pile our lozd d wains.
Ah me! how fast the fa'r.'prlng fl. wers die,
II ow Minim r blossoms perish at the touch,
Aiid In peano If ve in tielss sympathy.
Weep rorthe faith that gave and lost so much!
Frtin hair our sheavis drop out the golden
grains;
Small is our portion In the loaded wains.
Y-t ere the in'guty Ilea, er takes it all.
Fill g out the seed, and tend 't rood by rood;
One ear Is full, thoug'i h ml teds round it fall;
One acre "mid a mlldewi d upland good;
Eternity will rar on heavenly puit.es
The smallost ti asurewon riom loaded wains.
f AIUJ.GAKDEN AM) HOUSEHOLD
Ift-iinndaGiaxM for InrnH.
The Arkansas State Grange thus
champions the cause of the much abused
Uermuda grass for lawns: "We have
Bermuda grass that "we" Sed" not say
inuch more. In this latitude we think
it far ahead of blue grass; but there
are situations where blue grass dots
well enough; for instance, when the
soil is good; inclined to be stiiT tnd par
tially shaded. Herds grass grows al
most any where well enough for pasture,
or yard and orchard grass does in the
snaue, but it grows in tufts or tussocks.
JJlue grass aud herds grass mixed, will
commonly make a good turf. .Bermuda
will beat them both, and will, in course
of years, spread out into the street or
road and into the garden. Hut a little
pains will keep it out of the garden
Kei pliiK Kos s ill HIooiii,
As soon as they have formed their
first dowers in open ground, pinch off
the end of the first shoot, and as soon as
the rose is fully opened, pick it off. Ko
rose should be left to fade on the bush,
as when so left it exhausts the plant in
the formation of seed. As the plant
grows, pinch back the ends of the shoots
when they have grown six inches, and
rub out all the little punny shoots, thus
keeping the plant in a rounded open
bush form. J f strong shoots alone are
left to grow, they will soon control the
strength or the plant, and the iluwora
will be few and often of imperfect form.
Should the season be hot and dry, a
mulch of line, fresh grass or sawdust,
or moss from the woods, should be
placed all over the soil, three inches
deep, and at night watered thoioughly,
not sprinkled, but wet like a damp
ram.
IIoiipu Iluildhii;,
Tray ought not he who cares to have
a house built as it should be, contrive so
that it should be as pleasant and con
venient as possible to live in ? Is it not
then, pleasant for it to be cool in sum
mer and warm in winter ? Does not the
sun in such houses as front the South,
shine obliquely during the winter
time, into the porticos, while in
summer it passes vertically over
the roofs, and affords us a shade? Js it
not well, ther-foie, if at any rate this
position for a house be a good one, to
build it in such a way that it shall be
the highest toward the South, so that
the winter sun may not be shut out,
and lower toward tho north, so that the
cold winds may not beat upou it so vi
olently V To speak as concisely as pos
sible, that would be probably the pleas
antest and most beautiful dwelling
house to which tl.e owner could most
agreeably betake himself at all seasons,
and in which he could most safely de
posit his goods.
Trees.
Pew people think, at the time of
planting trees in spring and fall, how
they will look in winter. There are some
species of trees that appear very beauti
ful when clothed in their foliage, but
when this is gone, they look stiff, ill
shaped, and anything but graceful. We
should remember that trees are to be
seen in the winter as well as in sum
mer, and their appearance at both sea
sons should be taken into consideration
at the time of selecting the varieties for
planting. In our noithern states it is
often far more pleasant winters to have
our dwellings exposed to sunshine than
shadow; consequently large evergreens
should not be placed so near as to make
our homes look gloomy. Deciduous
trees are far preferable to evergreens
near the house, for at the time when
the shade is wanted they give it, and
in winter their naked stems but slightly
obstruct the rays which throw both
light an heat upon our dwellings.
IFrenh Meat Transportation.
The steamer Frigoritique has made
two successful voyages from South
America to Europe with fresh meat
The system of refrigeration employed is
entirely dissimilar to that used by the
exporteis from this country neither
ice, salt, nor saltpetre is used. The air
is purified and dried by a different pro
cess, without the use of ice. The ma
chine will run for three years without
being recharged. In a compartment of
14,000 cubic feet, it is said that the sav
ing in cost by not using ice, estimating
f 3 per ton for fifty tons of ice and econ
omy of space at "27s 01 sterling per ton
of cubic feet, is S750 per voyage be
tween New York and Liverpool. Ice
for a long sea voyage is totally imprac
ticable from its moisture and from the
space it occupies.
Pressing Flowers.
The little schoolma'm, a few days agot
was showing the children how to press
flowers. Her plan is to take a sheet of
thin cotton batting and lay the flowers
carefully on it, cjvarin Vim with, an -
!.ah!fl?d?l!0'e
when the flowers are thick, and contain
a good deal of moisture, she pute
in fresh cotton the aex - and. aft.er
tw a -- -3iurb them. But in
pressing nearly all the small flowers, the
cotton need not be changed at all, and
not even opened until the flowers are
preserved. I noticed that the little
schoolma'in's pressed flowers had a soft
bright look. She groups the long
stemmed ones prettily in vases, or lays
them between sheets of thin glass, and
hangs them in her windows in winter,
she says. They havn't at all the poor,
pinched, faded, flattened look of flowers
prepared in other ways. The little
schoolma'm presses green leaves and
ribbon grass in the same way, keeping
their color perfectly; and she told the
children when they wanted to pile a
number of these double contton layers
together, it was better to lay a sheet of
blotting-paper in between the sets. Some
times she lays tissue paper between the
flowers and the cotton; but it is of the
thinnest kind.
A California Y ow.
The largest plow ever manufactured
in this city is now being made at the
shops of ilatteson & Williamson, to the
order of H. Barnhart. The plow is de
signed for work in the tules, and is a
formibable looking implement It will
cut a furrow thirty-eight inches wide.
The mould board is eight feet long from
the point to the end, sweeping upward
with a curve of about four feet radius.
At the end it stands two feet above
w 6'uju. a tic ianu tue is seven
feet long. At the rear a horiz ntal cut
ting-plate is arranged to cut under the
soil on the land side a distance of ten
inches. The furrow will be cut as shal
low as possible, not exceeding three or
four inches. The plow will be attached
to a sulky, and will require a team of
twelve stout horses to pull it. Mr. Barn
hart's theory in regard to tule-plowing
is that the furrows should be as wide
as possible, and it would be better if the
whole sod could be turned over without
making a furrow. It is with this end
in view that he h;ts ordered the mam
moth plow. Stockton Independent.
F.ict Worth Kememberiii
One thousand shingles laid four inch
es to the weather will cover over luO
square feet of surface, and five pounds
of shingle-nails will fasten them on.
One-fifth more siding and flooring is
needed than the number of square feet
of surface to be covered, because of the
lap in the siding and matching of the
floor.
One thousand laths will cover 70
yards of surface, and 11 pounds of lath
nails will nail them on.
Eight bushels of good lime, sixteen
bushels of sand and one bushel of
hair will make enough morUir to plas
ter 100 square yards.
A cord of stone, three bushels of lime
and a cubic yard of sand, will lay 100
cubic feet of wall.
Five courses of brick will lay one
foot in height on a chimney. Nine
bricks in a course will make a flue eight
uiches wide and twenty inches long,
and eight bricks in a course will make
a Hue eight inches wide and sixteen
inches long.
Tho ProHjtec'Ive Hoy Crop.
While there are unfavorable reports
from some portions of the West, taking
the country generally, it may be set
down as reliable that the fall and win
ter supply of hogs is very promising.
in many places where cholera existed
there is, this year, an entire absence of
the disease. From the returns of sum
mer packing it nppeara that the quality
is improving; and, should the corn crop
turn out as favo ably as it now prom
ises to do, there is little doubt that the
Western States will forward to market,
this year, one of the best crop of hogs
ever marketed. So far, the number of
pigs is reported as largely in excess of
last year, especially in the far Western
States. The aggregate reports of the
assessors for the states of Ohio, Iowa,
Missouri and Nebraska, compare as fol
lows for the two years:
1S77.
Hogs, Xo.
Ohio 2.130.010
Iowa 1,014 711
Missouri 2 ;)4 1.-J22
Nebraska :n -.704
1S76.
Hogs, No.
1.S01.250
1 303.13.1
2.011 598
110.033
Total 0444 010
5,322.82.')
It will be observed that the increase
in the hog crop of these four states is
1,121,785. This is equal to about 21 f er
cent increase in the four states. In the
the balance of the Southern and West
ern States including Kentucky, Ten
nessee, Michigan, Indiana, IllinoisWis
consin, Minnesota and Kansas the ag
gregate hog crop is about 11.000,000, or
making a total last year in twelve states
of about 1G,300,000 hogs. Should the in
crease be proportionately large in the
last named states (which is rather im
probable), the aggregate hog crop in the
West in May last may be estimated at
10,925,000 hogs. The report of the De
partment of Agriculture last January
exhibited an increase in the United
States of 2,310,000 hogs. It is estimated
that tne hog crop of the Western and
Southern States will exhibit an increase
of fifteen per cent on the average.
New View of the llojf Cholera.
To Dr. Fred. A. Ballard, Independence,
2Io.:
It was with much interest that I read
your scientific article in the Times' is
sue of August SO, on the important
matter or hog cholera, and I seek this
opportunity of addressing you, with no
other motive than a desire to promote
the public good. I fully cencurwith
you, that it is far more rational to seek
out and avoid the producing causes of
this and all other diseases pertaining to
the brute and human, than to traverse
the earth in quest of a specific remedy
for the same.
I am a farmer, and reside 'on rolling
prairie land. On the west I am bound
ed by a belt of timber, along the envi
ronment of which are located several
farmers, whose hogs, previous to the en-
actment of our state law compelling us J
to .restrain our hogs from running at
large, had access timber rang, while
ours seldoro ventured beyond the prai
rie K-uits. The result of these different
conditions and circumstances was that,
while the timber hogs died by scores
with cholera, I never knew one affected
by it that ranged entirely upon the prai
rie. It is presumable that the owners
of the timber hogs depended principally
on the hogs procuring their own living,
while we, of the prairie,depended most
ly on the crib and slop-tub. To my mind
the diff rent surroundin s account for
the different results obtained.
I recently met with a very intelligent
gentleman from Decatur county, this
state, who informed me that in his vi
cinity there was formerly a heavy loss
of hogs from cholera, but since the en
actment of the hog law has compelled
them to fence up pastures for their hogs
they have become healthy, and a death
by cholera is not known.
The result of my observation, on the
other hand, is that when hogs are too
closely crowded in lot or pen, especially
in time of drought, when much dust ac
cumulates, they soon become unhealthy,
and die, if conditions are not changed.
From the above named facts, I de
duce the following corollaries, viz:
Keep hogs away from timber range,
give them plenty of room in timothy
and clover pasture, don't compel them
to feed in dust, give them plenty of
pure water, a moderate amount of corn
through the summer, all the slop that
can be produced, provide ample shed
room to shade them in summer, and
keeD them comfortable in winter, and
the hog will be as healthy as he ever
was, while the opposite conditions will
produce the opposite effect
Xow, I may not be correct, in my pre
mises and conclusions, but be this as it
may, I have a strone desire to fllinir
Liirougn tlie limp. Mm -r.o..
" .
ols' rvations on the matters above men
tioned. Our views as to causes may
collide, but, bear in mind, the spark is
only produced by abrasion of flint and
steel. Yours for truth,
M. J. Burnt, Chariton, Iowa.
Cincinnati Times.
A Landscape in Words.
'For first cf all we went down to
Manchester, a small, scattered, pictur
esque wattering-place overlooking M is
sachusetts Bay the Swiss-looking cot
tages of wood dotted down anywhere
on the high rocks above the strand.
And when the wild sunset had died out
ef the eastern skies the splendid colon:
had been blinding our sight until we
turned for refuge to the dark, intense
green of the tree's in shadow we had
our chairs out on the veranda, up here
on the rocks, over the sea. We heard
the splashing of the wav s below. We
could vaguely make out the line of the
land running away out to Cape Cod;
and now the twin lights of the Sisters
begin to shoot their orange rays into
the purple dusk. Then the moon rose
and the Atlantic grew gray, and there
was a pale radiance on the rocks around
us. Our good friends talked much of
England, that long, still, beautiful night";
and now it seemed a place very far
apart from us, that we should scarcely
be able to recognize when we saw ii
again." Mr. Black also visited Long
fellow at Cambridge, and his day with
the poet is thu3 pleasantly described in
the same novel: "And how is it possi
ble to avoid some brief but grateful
mention of the one beautiful day we
spent at Cambridge or rather, outside
Cambrdge in a garden there ? It was
a S mday, fair and calm and sweet
scented, for then were cool winds blow
ing through the trees and bringing the
odor of fl nvers into the shadowed ver
anda. Was not that bit of landscape
over there, too-the soft green hill, with
its patches of tree, the hedges and fields,
the breezy blue sky, with its floating
clouds of white a pleasant suggestion
of Surrey V There was one sitting with
us there who is known and well beloved
wherever, all over the wide world, the
English tongue is spoken ; and if that
gracious kindliness which eeemed to be
extended to all things, animate and in
animate, was more particularly .shown
to our poor, stricken patient, who could
wonder who had ever seen her, sensi
tive mouth and pathetic eyes ? Of whom
was it written
"So't as descending wIbrj lell the culm ot tin
hour on h r sp:rlt;
Something within her sild, 'At Ieng h thy trills
are ended"'?
If she could not quite say that as yet,
her sorrows were for the moment at
least forgotten, and she sat content and
pleased and grateful. And then we
had dinner in an old fashioned room of
the old fashioned house, and much dis
course on books ; the mute listener, hav
ing won favor of all, being far more
frequently addressed than anybody else.
The full moon was shining on the trees
when we went out into the clear night
It was shining, too, on the Charles
River, when we had driven on along
the white road ; and here, of course, we
stopped to look at the wonderful picture.
Far beyond this flashing of silver on
the rippling water the river was bound
ed by a mass of houses that were black
as midnight in the shadow; and here
and there a dusky spire rose solemnly
into the lambant sky, while down below
there was a line of lamps burning in
the dark like a string of ruddy jewels..
These were the only points of color,
those points of orange ; all else was blue
and silver a dream of Venice." Wm.
Black's Green Pastures and Piccadilly.
A Romantic Story.
A story that reads like a mediasvai
romance comes from Xew York. In
refitting the old postoffice buildings the
carpenters have discovered that the
upper floors are double, and are arrang
ed so that detectives can watch the
operations of those in the different
rooms, who suppose themselves to be
alone. The whole building was fur
nished with secret passages, sliding
pannels, hidden trap-doors, and myste
rious chambers, of whose existence the
post officials had no knowledge with
the exception of the post-master and
assistant. When the workmen had re-
moved the flooring it was ascertained
that the concealed space was from four
to four and one-half feet deep, affording
ample room for men to move about
Passages led entirely around the
building. At very short intervals were
found small circular holes in which
were inverted lenses. Through these
a view of the room below was ob
tained. Bick of and above these lenses
were reflectors which brought before
the eye of the observer the utmost re
cesses of the postoffice. If a detective
saw any stealing or any improper action
committed by a clerk or by a person not
employed in the office, the speaking tube
by his side conveyed a warning at once
to the attic room and the guilty person
was met at the door, or tapped on the
shoulder in the interior of the office
by another detective. The aperatures
through which the detectives over
looked the rooms, are in most places so
small as hardly to be visible from the
apartments below. Some of them, how
ever, look boldly down from the case
ment, but as the planks in which they
are seen were obtained from very old
timber the holes would readily be taken
for knot-holes. The maxim of the post
master was, "The detectives and assist
ants watch the employes and people,
the postmaster keeps an eye on the de
tectives and assistants, and the Lord
will watch the postmaster."
Freezing to Death.
Many years ago I became a citizen of
of the West, and commenced opening
a new farm in a sparsely settled coun
try. The place was about ten miles
from the nearest town, and one pleasant
day near the last of December, I went
to the latter In a light spring wagon to
getsome supplies for Christmas festivi
ties. The day was so mild that I did
nnfuun -xrrcii;Ocli. " .aiDOtuT tne
time I started home, which was a little
after sundown, it began to grow sud
denly cold, and presently a storm almost
amounting to a hurricane broke from
the north, bringing with it the temper
ature of Nova Zambia. In this region
of marked climatic vicissitudes I never
before or since knew any so great. The
murcury fell in an hour to forty de
grees below zero. Under ordinary cir
cumstances I could have easily m ide
the ride home in that time, but I was
going in the teeth of the wind; so that I
could make but little over half the us
ual speed. I suffered severely from
the cold, but not more than I had many
a time before, and have many tims
since, but as ynu may imagin w:is anx
ious to get home as soon ;is possible.
When I got within a couple of miles of
there, I found the weather growing
pleasant again. My ear that had been
stung and smarted with cold, no longer
troiiblid me. My lianas, though still
numb, had a firm grip on the lines, and
seated in the bottom of the wagon,
with my back resting on the seat, I
would have been q lite comfortable, ex
cept that L was so drowsy that i could
scarcely keep awake. I comforted my
self with the reflection that I would
soon be at home snugly tucked in bed,
where I could sleep to my heart's con
tent. While indulging in this pleasing
revery 1 dropped asleep, and what fol
lowed I only learned of my family.
They had concluded that li uling the
sudden change in the temperature I had
either determined to spend the night in
town, or had returned there for that
purpose in c;ise I had starled home be
fore the cold began. At eight o'clock.
having given me up they retired to bed
and to sleep. About nine o'clock my
wife was awakened by the repeated
whinnying of a horse in front of the
house. She never suspected that it w;is
ours, but took it for a stray, and from
motives of humanity called up one of
the men and ordered it put in the stable.
When the man went out and found
that it was our own horse and that I
was in the wagon apparently dead and
frozm stiff, he made an outcry that
soon brought out the household. For
tunately my wife had lately been read
ing of the proper mjdj of treating per
sons partially frozen, and therefore
knew that I must not be taken into a
warm room, but must be rubbed with
saow. Plenty of snow had fallen, and
I was stripped and well rubbed with it
until I began to show signs of anima
tion. Then frictions with coarse cloths
were used until I was sufficiently re
restored to to scream with the torture
they were putting me to. Every por
tion of my body seemed as sensitive as
a boil. I felt as if I had been stung all
over with wasps or hornets until I was
a swolen pulp, ready to burst at any
point like an over-ripe cheiry. The
joints of my fingers, toes, ankles aud
wrists seemed as if screwd in lvd-hot
vises till tha blood was ready to ooze
out from the extremities, and could
scarcely persuade my silt that my fin
ger and toe nails were not being forced
tff by the pressure. I soon became de
lirious, and a raging fever set in, from
which I did not recover for weeks. B ut
when I did rec3ver, my physical con
dition was better than ever before, I
had been slim and almost puny before,
but now became hearty and robust as
you see me, so that at sixty I am as
strong and active as most men are at
forty. I attribute it to having been
frozen to the .verge of death.
Fortnae'a WtiecL
Nine years ago Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas
Smith, of Sicramento, had plenty of
money, hut no children. To met this
deficiency in their household, they de
cided to adopt a child. Mrs. Ladd, a
widow, had a girl baby and Iwd no mon
ey to support it or herself. They talked
the subject ot, and the upshot was
that the baby was transferred to the
Smiths, under a written contract stipu
lating that the mother relinquished all
i.iiTini w M M m tr w- rw n l i ii . a n si - kk .
-- " -line ..coij uaic
cnangea the circumstances of these
ioiks. jirs. Ladu that was, is now Mrs "The Dance of Death," wh.ch is sup
Golden, the wife of a wealthy man; the posed by the unlearned reader to be
Smiths are destitute, and the adopted j the waltz or the redowa. The oMc-
gn is an uneaucated hoyden. Under
these altered circumstanced, Mrs. Gold
en wanted her daughter back again, and
offered many inducements for her .re-
turn; but the Smiths loved the girl as
their own, and would not part with her,
although their poverty urged a bargain.
At length Mrs. G Iden sued for the re
covery of her daughter, and a decision
has just been rendered in her favor.
Tne little girl who had never been told
that the Smiths were not her parents,
cried bitterly at parting with them, and
their grief was intense. Mrs. Golden,
too, affected by joy at getting her daugh
ter and grief at the daughters retusal
to recognize her, wept with the iest
Errors iu Marriage.
Many of the errors of life a'mitof
I remedy. A toss in one business m iy be
repaired by a gain in another. A mis
calculation this year may be retrieved
by special care the next. A bad partner
ship may be dissolved, an injury repair
ed, a wrong step retraced ; but an error
in marriage goes to the very root and
foundation of life. It is said that no
man is thoroughly ruined till he has
married a worthless wie. And so even
woman has a future before her until
she i3 chained in a wedlock, wntoli is .i
padlock, to a wretched and an unworthy
man. The deed once done cannot be
recalled. The wine of life is wasted
and the goblet is broken, a"d no tears
nor toils can bring back t e precious
draught
L-'tthe young think of this, and let
them walk caret uhy in a world ot
snares, and take heyd to their steps.leat.
in this most critical event of lift, they
go fatally astray. But here we must
guard against another error.
Many people think they have made a
mistake in marriage, when the mistake
is only in their own behavior since they
were married. Gocd husbands in tke
good wives, and good wives make good
husbands; and thv scolding, or intemp
erate, oi alutternly partner has but hi m
self or herself to blame for the misery
that clouds the life and desolates the
home. Multitudes who feel that their
marriage was a mistake, and who make
their existence a lifelong misery, aiiglit
by a little self-denial and patience, aud
forbearance and gentleness, and old
time courtesy, make their home bright
en likn the gates of Kdeii, and bring
back again the old love that blessed the
happy days gone by.
Suppose the wife d s not know q iit
so much as you do. V I1, you showed
your judgment when you thought her
the chief among ten thousand! Or, it
your husband is not the most wonder
ful man in the world, :t simply illus
trates the wit and wisdom of the young
woman who once though' ho was and
who could not be convinced to the con
trary! Ho, perhaps you are not so un
evenly mated after all. A ml if one has
had better opportunities since marriage
then of course th it one should teach
and encourage and cultivate the oilier,
and so both j urney on together. Hut it
one has grown worse, and sunk lower
than at the beginning, perhaps even
then patience, and toil, and sunshine,
may bring back the erring one to duty
lift, up the fallen, rescue the perishing
and save the lost. How gloricus for a
wife to pluck her husband from the
j iws of rum, aud to bring him safely to
the heavenly home! llw blessed for
the husband to bring U ick to the gates
ot paradise the worn m who through
weakness has beun led as ray!
Kendm T Aloud.
Unhappily the practice of reading
aloud in the family circle is rapidly
falling into disuse. Tne newspaper, or
rather the abuse of the newspaper, has
done much to bring this about. We rise
from the table; we seize ea, j, 0r s :,
newspaper or a paper-covered novel,
and we plunge into their pages and sit
unsociably silent We even nisfnt the
reading of anything aloud to us,bc tuse
it interrupts our own silent, solitary en
joyment, and because we think that we
couiu nave read tlie p;issag so much
more quickly by ourselv s. The pleasure
of a common enjoj mmt is d aregarded
in favor of own greedy devouring of
our silent, solitary mental meal; the
charm of the smnd of the hum.vi
voice, conveying to U3 shades of mean
ing and points of emphasis, is undei
valued, and seems to be piS3ingawav
as one of the delights of life. Silent
reading must necessarily destroy com
panionship. Newspapers, thus read, are
gradually extinguishing conversation.
One advantage of a long dinner is that
it compels those around the tab!e to
leave books and newspapers out of
their hands while they are there, and
talk to each other to their best ability
As to talking at a "reception" or a ball,
that is impossible in any coherent, in
tfclligent, almost in any intelligible
fashion. And thus by silent reading
and the neglect of conversation. langu
age itself is coming to a kind of disuse.
Truly have we fallen upon degeneratr
times. A Good Advi.er.
Those men who understand the val
ue of a woman's advice have learned a
valuable lecson. It is a wondrou3 ad
vantage to man, in every pursuit or vo
cation, to secure an adviser in a sensible
woman. In woman there is at once a
subtle deltc icy of tact an 1 a plain
soundness of judgement which are com
bined to an equal degree in man. A
woman, if she be real y your friend,
will have a sensible reginl for your
character, honor and repafe. She will
seldom counsel you to do a shabby
thing, for a woman friend always de
sires to be proud of you. At the same
time, herconsritutional timidity makes
her more cautious than your in.de
friend. She, therefore, seldom counsels
you to do an imprudent thing. A man s
best female friend is a wife of good '
sense aud heart.
r
jus. wu. auerznaii nas written a
strone letter in sunnort of ;i hnnfc-ratio.
ttons to it are placed cnieily on hvgienic 1
grounds, and it is said that manv wo
men have broken down their health pre-
maturely in this manner.
TIIK WOKIjO OF SCIENCE.
A Remarkable Globe.
A Monk of the Benedictine Monas
tery a Haygern, between Brunn and
Vienna, is a self-taught mechanician
and artist. He has recently completed
a mechanical curiosity in the shatx of
a self-moving terrestrial globe, which
the Academy describes in detail. A
combination of wheels gives it a motion
similar to that of the earth, and when
once set going it will revolve for three
weeks. At the north jole of the axis
are dial-plates, on which the days and
months are imixated. and over these is
a smaller globe, by means of which the
motion of the earth around the sun is
' tinted. The larger glo!)e sets the
smaller one in motion by the agency of
twelve wh'els. The construction of
the meelunism tiok more than ten
years of patient application, and was
only completed after numerous experi
ments. As regards geographic d de
tails, the map on the globe is carefully
drawn, and shows all the latest discov
eries. The steamer routes, railway and
telegraph lines, the heights of moun
tains and the deptusof the ocean are all
distinctly shown.
The Satellites of .Mars.
A strange misapprehension is said to
have arisen from a phrase used in a dis
patch to the Trilmiit of August J0, dc
scubtng the discovery of the moons of
Mar: the notion being that the idea
was conveyed that Prof. Hall did not
real 1 7 the meaning of his discovery
until he learnrd from Prof. Xewcouib
that the objects s'en were satellites.
The phraseology of the dispatch does not
justify such an absurd misconception.
The fact was that Prof. Hall made ids
own calculations, reeogn-ng the dis
cov ry or the satellites, before asking
Prof. Xewcouib to check the results b
a separate deduction of the figures.
Among other queer hallucinations on
the subjic' ot the moons of Mars, is the
fancy that they can be perceived by some
other means than with the best of tele
scopis. A man at Poughkeepsie is said
to have seen them by looking at the im
age of the planet in a looking glass. A
letter from a person at hong Kddy (a
place somewhere near I.ouisvi!le),grave
Iy states that tlie satellite w:ts visible
there during the first week in August,
every clear night about 1 1 p. m., and
that its progress w:is then obs rved; "it
in ived rap'dly from east to west around
the planet." That was a performance
certainly surpassing anything seen
thiough the Jf. inch refractor at Wash
ington. It is not s'ated whether blue
glass or a tumbler of KentuckV chief
product served as a lens to tho observer.
The British Vivisection Act.
Prof. Huxley read a paper, at the re-
nt Domestic Economy Congress in
Birmingham, on " E'ementary Instruc
tion in Physiology." At the close of the
essay, the author made the following
pertinent comments on the Vivisection
act, which has caused such warm dis
cussion in Great Britain: "I think It, 1m
my duty," said the Professor, "to take
this opportunity of expressing my re
gret at a condition of the law which
permits a boy to troll for p:ke, or set
lines, with live frog bait, for idleaintise
ment; and, at the same time, lays the
teacher of that boy open to tlie jwnalt
of tine and imprisonment if he uses the
same animal for the purjos of exhib
iting one of the iii's- beautiful and in
structive of physiological sectaries,
the circulation in the web of the foot.
Xo one could undertake to allirm that a
frog is not inconvenienced by being
wrapped up in a wet rag and have hi?
tots tied out; and it cannot be denied
that inconvenience is a sort of pain.
But you must not inflict the least pain
on a vertebrated animal for scientific'
purines (though you may do a good
deal in that way for gain or for sportj
without due license of the Secretary ot
State for the homedrpirtment. gra ted
under the authority of the Vivisection
act. So it eomes about again, in this
present jear of grace l.'-TT. two persons
may be charged with cruel tv to animal-.
O le has impaled a frog, and suffered
the creature to writhe about in that
condition for hours; the other has
pained the animal no more than on of
us would be pained by tying strings
around his fingers, and keep him in the
position of a hydropathic patient. The
first iff-iidT says. 'I did it because
find t'Hhmg very amming,' and the mag
istrate bid3 h'm denart in jwac-; nay,
probably wishes him good sjwt. The
second plea Is, I wanted to impress a
scientific truth, with a disMnctiiesi at
tainaMe in no other way, on the minds
of my s 'holars,' and the magistrate fin-s
him -. I cannot but think this is an
anomalous and not wholly creditable
slat; of things"
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
IWlin is the largest centre of (')m
munisin in Germ my.
The Tuikish Legation informs the
prts3 that the eminent Turkish Gen
eral Osman Pasha was lini in Asia
Minor of Mussjhnan pirents.
Thirty Chinese merchants iu .San
Francisco have united in an appeal to
the Board of Education to have Dtibltc
schools opened for the instruction cf
Chinese youth3.
The farrn-rs of Minnesota. Iowa, Wis
consin, and Kansas will receive nearly
'W'.l more for their wheat crop of
t'ii.3 year than they did for that of
1 -7'3.
Experiments with "lectric lights late
ly took place at Cron-OuiL The appara
tu3 was fixed on board the IVU?r the
Great, and wu3 of such interBitv that
fcmall print coul I U read on a vessel
moored four cables off. It is contem
plated to furnish all the forts at Cron
stadt with this light
During the Ashantee war a telegraph
w.ts srt up by thr British. It was re
garded as the white mans fetish and
lo-jfeed ujwn as a most powerful charm.
- this respect was due to the fart
of the native workmen having while
making the line received several smart
shocks in handling the wire.
IIPMOROUS.
A father of a two-weeks old baby
calls it "Ma's newly discovered satel
lite." Several orchestral have struck, and
therefore brought alvuit a coalition le
tween the workingmen anil playing
men. They say C iw.mls only strike in the
dark." but we are of the opinion that it
was the person who wanted to light u
match.
A young toet out West, describing
heaven, sas: "It's a world of blbB
fenced in with irirls." Where Js the
man that won't repent now?
A pupil in an Knglish .u!Imh1, wlwtii
asked to define the word "bitUrons."
wrote out its intuitu . A fritmlu who
makes butter."
The Greeks are so courteous Umtthey
speak of a woman with bi; feet, pK
nose and shrill vocie as "a mistake of
the angels."
The Dayton IhuuM-r.it !ms son u
horse in that plaw eat meat. W hare
frtqtiently seen horses run for stakes,
here, with a bit m their mniths.'
That wjis not a bad reply of a young
ster the other day, who. on lvi:ic asked
if he would not like t be an editor, said
gravely. "Xo, Iain going to be a -i
man."
Hayes h:is a regular tld-fjihMiuil
c ibinet. Ho can always find the Ktr to
.1. changes his Schttrtz when .Hodisjmsed
and uses his bu?t Kv.trts to keep it
clean.
You can get "a dinner, with a bathing
suit thrown in."tor v rents, at Atlantic
t'ity. But who wants a Utth.ng-smt
thrown into his dinner?
"I'll call to borrow." utl the man with
a cold in his head, as he went oi of the.
toctor's ouVe. "Xo you needn't" was
the reply. "I never lend."
A young gentlemen of Kilkenny.
Meeting a handsome milkmaid, snkl:
"What will you take for yourself a'Ml
vour milk, my dear?" The girl utant
!y replied: "Yourself and a gold ring,
dr."
"Algernon." she whispeni'. "will you
dways love me?" "Kvunge'itie. 1 swear
t," he le.sjvond.'d in a p.uvuotiate mur
uutr. Then there w.is a sound us of
i clam falling into the mud, jid nil was
still.
There w.is one business not disturbed
by the railroad riots. B inks continued
o fail and life insurance companion
ept bursting just the same n ut tiuien
f peace.
Two ladies were diHCtmtt) a third,
who w is. of course, ulenl. "She ki
i-eally charming," says one. "awl aljow
ill, she h.Lsan atrof intelligence.' Yf,"
taid the othei, "but then are no wurdtt
o the air."
Guest- "How did thone uhhagi hap
pen to grow iu that alleyway ; they cer
ainly could not have been planted
here?" Acute porter--"! ji. no; UiutH
.vhere the ge 'men throw their Havana
igar stumps."
A young man woke up the other night
md saw a gho.it in his loom. Selz'tig
'lis six-shooter, he approached it. and
ound it wai his collar, which hnp
lened to be standing on the tlr.
An Kuglishman. who w.u iu the imh
t of distlibutiug his IPs pninieiH'tri
y, unseeing the word hotel on a sign
ipclled hotel', soberly remarked tlmf.
hey miiHt have put another hell on
.hat wonl since he went t school.
"Gentlemen of the jury." said a Bulti-
nore lawyer in the criminal court, "do
you believe that my ebeiit waHgolltyof
lelling beer to a b y in a miiall 1 U!e?"
I'lie j iry thought it w.is a mixed up
.trojMWition and disagreed.
I'a gentleman on the ntree otu at
i lady intently, he is eoti.iidenxl jtitpo
ite; but If he m'eli her in the w.kUVhe.
nay hug her all h p!e,L4-ia no m itter
who.ae wife she m iy be.
An orator declulng that fortune kno:k
"d at every man's !oorotice.au old Irish
man s iid, "When she knocked at mine I
nust have een out."
The col. der'.i I.lhL w jrdi: "I feel that
I fv.r weaker cne'i Hiieeetyling lav, and
chat I arn fast approaching my end; a
few more. hWi". and all wiii I; over;
ind I hhall go where there is rent for
the weary xule and every sorrow will by
heeltil. Having said nnl he wished, he
calmly breathed hh bixt
A baby was out with its nurse jn a
garlen In the nejgh!orlKKd ofG'.tsgow.
".Vt a laddie or a lassie?" aske ! the.
gard'ner. "A laddie," replied the maid.
"Wee." said he, "I'm l.M! tY that, for
there's ower inony women iu the world."
-Kh, mon." cnH the girl, 'Mm ye ken
there's are. inaist sown o" the lat
crap:"
The v due of trade nnrks: If :i huny
ry, ragged, wiM-eyed. loug-h dnd indi
vidual, wtth a sketch lok under hki
arm, asks for bread, he la invito! to
dinner, and the family feel elated to
think they have ertertaini a strolling
artiaU If the aatne rnan loee hta
i-xk. and applies rr v.cluels at another
house, h is .shot at for a trump.
A Sirnpff JJiet.
Lime water am! rnllk is food and
medicine lxth. A stomach taxed by
gluttony, irritated by impror food.
Hillamed by alcohol, e.nfe-b'e1 by dts-
iise, or otherwise unfit'-! jor tin un
ties, as is shown by the varkxM symp
toms aUml int upon indigestion, dinr
r tp l, dis-ntery. and fever, will resume
its work, arn! flo it enTgetlcalh. it an
exclusive diet of bin water and milk.
A goblet of co-a's milk, to which fonr
tablespoonfuls or lime walr have -,n
added, will agree wth any person, how
ever objctionable the p am ar;ice may
be.; will be frieudly to the stomach
when other foxi fa oppressive, and
will b digested when all else falls to
afford nourishment. In thfa simple
remedy, ;is common as air and almost
a3 cheap as watr. all the elements of
nutrition are so prepared by Xature as
to be readily adapted so the infant or
the adult stomach, so freighted with
healing virtues as to work a cure when
drug3 are worse than useless.
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