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Mope a capabilities of the gold
nines, tk" news of the discovery was
peediagoa its way to tho Eastern
males hy two routes simultaneously. It
' reached the irontier of Missouri and
lowaby the Mormon scouts and roving
trappers about the same time that ves
aehr sailing round Cape Horn took it to
New York and Boston; which was in
life late autumn of 1848. The first re
ports, repeatedly confirmed and en
larged upon, threw the whole country
Into tho wildest excitement In the
'City of New York and tho extreme
Western States tho fever was hottest.
The year 1849 was in some other re
spects the most remarkable year of the
? present century. It found France a
Republic, with a Bonaparte President
by popular election. All Germany was
t in armed revolt against kingcraft.
Hungary was in' rebellion against the
Austrian Emperor. There was revolt
in Lombardy against tho Austrian yoke:
in Naples and I'alcrmo against tho
King of the two Sicilies, Ihe people
forced tho rulers of Tuscany, Modena
and Parma to grant Constitutions.
There was rank revolution in Ireland
under the lead of Smith O'Brien,
Mitchell and Meagher. The Chartists
were seriously moving in England for
universal suffrage. Fierce war raged
in Northern Italy between the Italians
and Austria; ana tho year opened with
storm clouds, social and political, visi
ble all over tho Old World. Cholera,
that frightful contribution of Asia to
modern Europe, more terrible than the
ancient plague, was raging on tho con
tinent and advancing toward America,
where the torrors it inspired in 18U2-5J
were soon to be redoubled in a grand
harvest of death and desolation through
out the cities and towns of tho Missis
sippi Valley, and all along tho thorough
fares (as yet hardly explored), to the
shores of tho Pacific. The extreme
western limit of the white settlements
in 1849 was tho States of Missouri, Iowa
and the Territory of Minnesota. Beyond
that there lay a terra incognita known
as " Missouri Territory1' and tho " In
dian Territory1 ' south of it. Between
the lines of Iowa and Missouri and tho
Rocky Mountains there were not, all
told, over five hundred whites. What
few there were included missionaries
among tho Delawarcs and Shawnees,
Wyandottes, Pottowattomics. Scnecas,
Osages, and Indian agents with their as
sistants and servants at the various
agencies. The Pawnees were still a
formidable tribe. Tho wigwams of the
Sioux-and. tho hunting camps of the
Comanches lined tho Platte, Arkansas,
Missouri and their tributary streams for
hundreds of miles in what is now the
richest and most productive agricultural
regions of Kansas, .Nebraska, lowa,
ana Dakota, with its population of more
than two millions.
Tho people of the frontier States
were in that happiest of all earthly
- conditions without wealth, without
poverty a community of small farmers
and. traders. There were then no large
-"towns. St. Louis was a place of 55,000.
Chicago was of less importance than
Sacramento or Omaha now, and Kan-
J"en City- contained a few log huts and
r iBome 300 population. The National
census, computed a year later, gave
) Iowa 'less than 200,000 and Minnesota
'but .,6,000 white inhabitants. Twenty
jaSes out from Council Bluffs and forty
-from Independence brought the hunter
'to the buffalo range. Beyond that to
ward the setting sun stretched a limit
leea Trairie far on and on into what was
tfciea supposed to be a " desert,11 and
io marked on the maps, but what is
now proved to be a very fertile part of
. the continent, sloping gradually upward
-toward the Black Hills and the Rocky
' Tnrm. where it is waterpr hv innumer
able dear, cold streams from tho
heights of everlasting snow. Through
this unexplored wilderness lay the
routes (for there were several) of the
errand army of California pioneers that
assembled along tho banks of the Mis
souri irom early in March to late in
May,. 149. They represented all
1 sH .fkmton Anil TCntmna nil
!v trades, tmUmgs and professions; but
ae mi vui, ui every nunarea it
are been Hard to pick one man
vforty; aad to every five hundred
re jras Jiardly one woman.
were young fellows of twenty,
Imbv.. college, young lawyers,
abators, young preachers, young
young invalids. Some were
Dy pairs, trios, quartets;
mounted on mules, ponies or
with an extra animal to pack
accessary, provisions: and snmn
few were bold and hardy enough to un
dertake the adventure afoot, trusting to
latter," an Irishman, carryina
heavr'eebmrh to have kUleif a
o in, fortnight, was .picked upjon
the PJat,,'lse hundred and fifty miles
eut free o. wo, and brought through
i v?Ma as Jar as Thou-
nags valley, where he was
lor aaisconduct. He worked
foot' to Sacramento, and,
latine S5.000 in tho minpq.
to a Western city, where he
m. -AHerman and a canitalist.
at his command. He was
'-tR road near the sink of
4k, cuttinjr the throat of a
ML feeding himself upon
the carcass. The tiiwj-
the Missouri to the Sacra-
from one hundred to
d thirty days. Gener
ion was made for hut
eafs, aad this mistake caused a
rol-eaalies. The cholera fol-
,-as plague pursues tho
wa, and the craves of its
-wevarjkicker than mile stones
way. There -was no time
ef sympathy on tho dead or
u. the dvmsr. Thev were
M haste, without stone or epi-
e Mark the spot, and hanger or
ttfe Mstilence hurried the sur-
C the train with all possible
y Theaggregate of the -grand
.vanoasiy esumacea av
1,000. The latternum-
nearest the mark. The
as early as Jul v- The
in from the 10th to the
Thev all headed for
(Sacramento). Bat dar
ter and spring preceding
-the discoveries inMDo.
bad extended from Colo-
AtaericaawWeber Creek..
and Mmgtowa Creek.
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avfieater population than
BaaMorfSacramcato. nine-
i it rbetng engaged at placer
as noorganlzed civil Govern
e American plan tilt the luln
ember. 1819, when Peter IL
ett was elected Governor and John
Dougall Lieutenant-Governor.
monff tno Argonauts cuivairous re
spect for woman was carried to the ut
most extremity, and often to the ludi
crous; as a single instance will explain.
In the spring and summer of 1850 some
two hundred miners, nearly all Ameri
cans, were working on one of the many
'dry creeks1' in the foot-hills, forty
five to fifty miles to the eastward of the
Sacramento vallev. They were "do
ing well," that &, those who worked
faithfully ten or eleven hours a day
were making from $1G to $20. out of
which they had to pay expenses say
three to four dollars a day for wear
and tear of tools, clothes, board, medi
cines, etc; every miner in those times
washing his own shirts and undercloth-
ing, wincli were oi gray, oiuu or reu.
flannel. They lived in cabins by groups
of twos, threes, fours and lives. One
day a cart, to which a single old cow
was harnessed, drove up to the trading-
fost in the neighborhood. A slouchy
ooking Pike1" was tho driver. In the
curious craft sat a very plain-looking
and sadlv-dejected woman, holding in
her lap an infant child. In less than
fifteen minutes a crowd of fifty or sixty
young men collected about the cart.
Most'of them had not seen a woman
for six months. Eigcr inquiries were
showered upon the strangers. What
are 'ou going to do?11 " Whcro are
you from?1 "Will you not stop here?
If you will wo will build you a house,
furnish it, set you up with a supply
of grub, and all come and board
at your house.11 The offer was
gladly accepted, with such rude
thanks as honest ignoranrc cm master.
In less than six months after this event
"Pike." his wife and baby departed
from that camp on a stage and six, and
in fine style, with a purse of SG,000.
They returned to the Western States,
and were never again heard of by their
benefactors. The slightest insult to a
woman was resented on the spot with
out regard to her character, education
or condition. The man who cheated a
woman in his board or wash bill was
treated as a thief and driven out of
camp as a pariah. There are unrecord
ed deeds of mercy and charity done in
those early days, the simple truth of
which would slfanic all dramatic effort.
Mr. and Mrs. were among the
early arrivals by the Panama route.
They had opportunities of doing well at
San Francisco and Stockton; but the
husband had started for " the mines,"
and, like thousands of others, he could
not bo satisfied short of seeing them.
He possessed the instincts, education
and manners of a gentleman. The
wife, a delicate, warm-hearted, intelli
gent and very motherly little New En
gland woman, was in all respects fit to
e tho friend and companion of biich a
man. They brought their only child
a girl of five or six years, as beautiful
as a fawn, and the lifo of the family
circle, which" "was soon en'arged by
boarders. Mr. was physically un
able to work in the mines. Mrs.
cheerfully supported him in his illness
(Panama fovcr), hoping for his ulti
mate recovery, which never came.
Within a month or six weeks after his
arrival he died, and tho Argonauts
kindly and tenderly laid him away
in Ins eternal rest. The brave
hearted wifo attended to her
duties as usual, until one morning lit
tlo Ella's Hushed cheek and languid ex
pression indicated that she, loo, was
.wanted on the other side of the river.
Night and day tho mother hung over
the fading form of her darling, alter
nately hoping, fearing, despairing.
And night and day the Argonauts
gathereuabout to cheer, comfort, assist
and encourage. At hist -the supreme
hour came, and the sweet little llower
that had delighted and humanized the
rough natures of so many homeless,
childless and wifeless men" closed its
leaves and faded away into a memory.
With little Ella's death tho light of
life perished from the eyes and heart of
tho mother. Her utter loneliness and
melancholy was sadder than death itself.
She was left in destitute circumstances.
The miners divined as much, and in less
than a fortnight after the burial of tho
child the widowed mother was started
on her way back to her New
England homo with $1,000 and a
through ticket in her purse. This is
but ono instance of thousands. The
demands upon benovolenco were fre
quent and always pressing, but the Ar
gonauts, though their avarice must be
conceded, albeit among the meanest of
passions, brought hearts with them
which on occasion could glow with all
the warmth of a California summer
sun.
It has gone abroad with the brand of
fopular indorsement that there is for
iterature in the annals and traditions
of early life in this State nothing worth
contributing but humor of the broadest
and lowest typo.. This is a grave mis
judgment of tho case; and no man fa
miliar with tho inner life of those times
will assent to it. There was, to. be
sure, a humorous and a ridiculous,
mocking side to it; but by comparison
with the serious, earnest, dramatic side,
it is as the laughing rill to tho mighty
river. Every camp, bar, ravine, which,
has materially helped to swell tho vol
ume of gold produced here since Jan
uary 19, 1848, has been the scene of a
tragedy, and no considerable civilized
State has ever, in so short a time,
yielded as large a harvest of blighted
hopes, broken hearts, crushed ambi
tions and family ties severed as this.
Our humor, like that of the "Fool," in
King Lear, in thefmain derives its in
spiration from calamity and 4nw a
touch of the grimmockcry of, a grin
ning skeleton. The "North American
Pie-Biter," who is tho hero of Mark
Twain's inimitable "Jumping Frog1'
story, if tho-truth be told.oI.him,nada
history as sad as tho cry of a wounded
curlew. SanJfrancteco- CalL ,
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Bright Post-Office Clerks.
The inorennity of-Poet-office clerks; in
reading illegible hieroglyphics, ndeor--recting.blunders
of direction, ds6erves
to rank among the wonderful foats of
human skill. An. English .periodical
gives an amusing instance of this' inge
nuity. The lateBishop of Oxford, Sam
uel Wilberforce, carried on so extensive'
an- official correspondence that ho wrote
many letters in the cars to save time.
He was accustomed to dato from the
Slace of writing. One such letter,
ated rt,Rail, near .Reading," and
signed ia" usual, S. Oxon (Samugl of
Oxford)" came into" the hands- -of V a man
who was ignorant of tho official rank of
the writer, and oMris habit of pstog the
cars as a writinir-desk He, therefore,
interpreted date and signature in the
uiusb uienu way, ana airectea nis repiy
to "S. Oxon, Esg.j Batt, near Read
ing." The Post-oluee' clerks were
sharper-wittedT-ahd read in the direc
tion more than-he had ? ut into it, for
the letter, after a delay of, only one or
two mails, found its way to Bistiop Wil
berforce's London residence. 61 Eaton
Place. TherevWas no red-tape, as in
onx iross-ouice, cunpeuing a long jour
ney to Washingleh,, ia order to receive
a aw direction.-T-.TowWs Companion.
jQjDrar is oft-strength; silence, wLs
dora. The swift stream is not always
owwfaL nor the noisy oae deep.
Tke Hfref a Ckeetaw.
A vbrt- remarkablettorr taints toW
by the Muscogee InrJian Journal: The
execution of Chester Dixon, convicted
of murder at-tha last term of tho Cir
cuit Court of the Choctaw Nation, took
tlaco Friday at noon in the presence of
ut a small number of people. Chester
Dixon, the murderer, was a young full
blooded Choctaw about seventeen years
of age. He was subject to fits, dnring
which he often lost control of himself.
He was. aside from this malady, con
sidered rather a bright boy.
Dixon lived with his mother and
stepfather about five miles from Atoka.
Their nearest neighbors were an Indian
known as Washington, and Martlia, his
wife. One afternoon, about a year ago,
Washington returned from Atoka and
found that a horrible murder had been
committed. The body of his wife lay
on tho lloor of his cabin in ghastly frag
ments. The head was severed from the
body, and several terrible gashes had
been intlictcd with an ax. The bloody
instrument of butchery lay beside the
bleeding victim. The alarm was given
and it was discovered that Dixon had
been seen issuing from tho fated house
covered with blood. Ho was arrested,
but stoutly denied the killing.
He was tried according to the Choc
taw law by a competent jury. He was
found guiltv, and sentenced to be shot
September" 10, at noon. He was al
lowed to go home from the Court-room,
unrestrained except by parole of honor
to be at the Court-House at Atoka at
the hour appointed for his execution.
Choctaw laws provide for no appeal,
else his case would have been reconsid
ered, for after his conviction ho was at
tacked with a fit, which proved conclu
sively that he was subject to temporary
aberrations, during which, it is pre
sumed, he was irresponsible for his ac
tions. His attorney during his trial had
not made any such plea, and, the sen
tence of death having been pronounced,
it was unalterable.
On Thursday, Dixon came to Atoka
with his step-father, for the purpose of
ordering his coffin. He had his meas
ure taken and gave the orders for the
disposition of his body without the least
appearance of concern. On Friday
morning about one hundred persons,
most of them whites, gathered about
the Court-House to witness the execu
tion. Up to within half an hour of the
appointed time Dixon had not ap
peared. Our reporter asked his com
panion whether there was not some like
lihood of the prisoner breaking his pa
role. "If he is alive he will bo here within
ten minutes just as sure as the sun
shines."
Hardly had the words been spoken
when a murmur of " Here he comes"
was heard on all sides, and there rods
upayounjj fellow, slight of build, tall
and straight, but rather awkward in
Ids movements. Alighting from his
pony, the boy approached a little knot
of Indian women who were gathered
around a blazing log. Without giving
any attention to those around him he
sat down by a stump, and, hanging
down his head, ho seemed lost in med
itation. Presently a venerable old In
dian approached "the boy and spoko to
him in tho Choctaw tongue, bidding
him, as tho interpreter said, to meet
his fate as became a Choctaw brave; to
remember that nothing but his lifo
would atone for the life ho had taken,
and not to mako the expiation grudg
ingly, but to meet his death lcoliug
that" his people had done justice in con
demning him.
While the old man was talking
Dixon held his head down, but at tho
conclusion of the speech ho looked up,
held out his hand, and, in the hearty
grasp ho gave the old man's hand,
seemed to imply that he would not
falter, and ho never did throughout it
all. Several men and women then
came up and shook hands with him.
Ho looked up at each one with a glance
of recognition, but neverspoke a word.
At-aboiit 11: loo" clock the Sheriff, Wm.
Nelson, brought the doomed boy an
entire change of clothing, which he
put on. While Dixon was dressing for
the grave, cajreroyes watched his every
motion to discover, if possible, the
least evidence of emotion, but ho ad
justed every button without a sign of
tremor. Ho then sat down on a'blan
ket while his mother combed his hair.
The Sheriff then announced that the
time had come. Dixon arose and
walked to tho spot "pointed out by tho
ollicer, and stood facing his coffin. His
stepfather held his right baud, his
cousin supporting him on the left. The
same old mau who had spoken to Dixon
before now made a mark with charcoal
upon tho boy's breast just over the
heart, and spoke a few words of encour
agement. The Sheriff then bonnd a
handkerchief over Dixotfs eyes, com
manded him to kneel, and immediately
thereafter beckoned a man who hail
until then kept out of sight. This was
Abner Woods, a cousin of the con
demned. Dixon had chosen him to do
the shooting. Abner advanced, and,
takings his position about five paces
from the boy, he leveled his Winchester
rifle, took steady aim and fired.
The ball went to the mark. Almost
simultaneously with tho report of the
rifle Dixon fell forward, uttered a groan
and died without a struggle. The
mother of tho dead look "charge of the
remains, which wore burie'd oy a few
friends. The entire proceeding passed
without a semblance of excitement.
Everything was conducted properly and
decorously. As contrasted with the
civilized mode of punishment the Choc
taw method is more humane, more
offective, aud is more likely to deter
others from capital offenses.
American Incomes.
There is no table .of tho average
duration of fortunes;but .the statistics
of business failures in tlfe eountry"sinco
1SCG show that tho average yearly fail
ures ranged from one in 103 in tho year
1871 to one in 75 in 1876. How many
business men in a thousand fail, once
or more during their business lifetime,
I cannot learn. The proportion used
to be estimated for New England at 97
per cent. That is probably too high a
figure for the business, of to-day, con
dusted as 'it is upon much' shorter cred
its than formerly.. - Bui.. tha.-proportion
of traders who fail is probably jiot lower
thanTo per cent, of tho whole' number.
How mauy of our people Jive upon
their invested means? In 1866 our income-tax
returns showed 771,000 in
vcomes of 500 per year and.over, and
uS;000,0lxr incomes oLJess than $500.
Bui thesewcre not incomes from cap
ital; they were mostly earnings or
wages Probably not one in a hundred
of these smaller incomes, and not over
10 per cent, of the incomes over $500,
represented tho interest upon-investments.
In France, ten years later, the
census returned no less than 2,000,000
of" people,, rentiers, who live Entirely
upon their invested means. In 1877
seven and a half millions of the people
one-fifth of the population were en
rolled, as rentes-holders orsavings
banks depositors, but it must be. added
that the savings-banks do not often fail
inFr?nce, and that sooner or later they
vre apt to fail with us.. Most of these
deposits are small ones. But no less
than two.millions of the French can say
with Petrarch, Parro sed mpca mihu
"It is'littlaienough, but it will do for
lae.1! - 3c N
Thus, iaapitelof the resources of the
country, ia" spite of the almost univer
sal search 'for .wealth, and in sfeite of
-the fact that we have a great many rich
men at any given time, we stul do not
have a large class of permanently rich
men; we-do not even have, like the
French, alarge class of persons who have
a permanent, thoaga small competence.
Tho ricn Americans wealth is extretae
ly volatile; in nine cases oat of ten it is
"fairy gold." Tho old land-owners
form the chief exception to tho rule;
especially ln!oaf Jajrg&xtUcs. wacrctbc
increa.'MJ of values has been great.
But if our class of permanently
wealthy people is small, so also is our
claw of destitute people. Wo arc for
tunate in having few of the very rich or
the very iwor, fix havieg no snch im-
.xnenso and harmful inequality of for?
tunes as we see in modern hngland.
Our ill fortune is this, that our daw cf
moderate competences is also small,
that so few of us, in spite of our op
portunities and our labors, have seized
the good of even a small assured com
petence. The land is full of people
who have not, on the other hand, and
who are not likely to have, any assured
competence, however moderate, but
who have nothing to expect but Inbor
to the end. That is, indeed, the ap
pointed human lot for the majority m
any community; but need it be. In a
country of resources like this, so nearly
the universal lot? Might not many of
m avoid it by a greater care for a mod
erate competence, a lemoned ambition
for fortunes? T. M. Gsjh, in Harper's
Magazine
The Ladle of Cjprns.
As American lady recently
returned
from Cyprus gives some
interesting
fact.- concerning the Lypnole women.
Two-thirds of them arc" Greek, and the
remainder Turkish, with a sprinkling
of Europeans. Beauty is not their
strong point in fact they arc fearfully
u;ry. The Greek ladies are more intel
ligent than the men, and their handi
work in lace-making, in cotton-spinning,
in the manufacture of silk, is often
splendid, but tliey are opposed to the
introduction of steam anil the modern
improvements. The Turkish ladies aro
inferior to the Greeks, indolent aud un
educated, but a cross between the Arab
and Turk is extremely intelligent and
witty. The Greek women have a French
eve for colors; "my Greek maid wore a
blue cashmere skirt, a fine black velvet
jacket opened in front, with loose
sleeves gold embroidered, and under it
a white silk chemise a sort of gaiMO
with a heavy stripe and trimmed with
white lace, cut low in the neck, aud set
off with considerable jewelry," for
a Greek woman dresses to be seen,
while if a Turkish woman allows her
veil to fall and shows herself, her hus
band is entitled to a divorce. Tho
Turkish married womeu wear no jewel
ry; only young ladies wear it, and they
marry often at fifteen years of age.
Greek women walk out" freely in the
evening and often with masculine es
corts, but Turkish women are never
seen in public with a man, nor after
sundown. Though the Greek women
often talk very agreeably, and are ex
tremely polished in manners, they can
not write their own names, and are un
able to read a line. There arc plenty
of children in Cyprus, and they are
treated ta if they wore dogs. Even
when belonging to good families, their
hair often is matted, their bodies are
dirty, and beaten in a frightful manner
by tho parents. Yet every father thinks
it his duty to provide a house and
garden for each of his children es
pecially for a daughter, and parents
frequently relinquish their own home
to a daughter who is about to bo mar
ried. N. Y. Evening Post.
Pcasaut Humes in Germany.
But, even when remembering all the
faults of the Fatherland, an American
can scarce help pitying tho
when ho sees the prettv,
emigrants
home-like
houses they give up for the miserable
shanties that await them in the West.
In middle and southern Germany the
isolated farm -house is tho exception.
Here the traveler is seldom, if 'over,
oppressed with tho utter desolation, the
grinding lowliness of peasant farm-life.
The owners of adjoining farms build
their houses in a group, and then go off
to cultivate their out-lying land. Some
work-dajs may thus be lost, but many
a social evening is gained. Then the
homo in itself is far pleasanter than
our ordinary farm-house. The build
ings, with their tiled or thatched
roofs, are picturesque, and they
ahwoys have an appearance of cleanli
ness and thrift. Ever window this is
characteristic of all German homes,
high and low is neatly curtained and
decorated with plants and flowers. The
little door-yards are nicely, if not taste
fully, laid out and planted. A German
front 3ard Is a miracle. It is exquisite
ly neat, and is fresli aud cosy; but to
the extromo Dutchy. as we would say.
Bo it but ton feet square, it is laid out
in many precise little plots, and filled
to overflowing with well-trimmed and
various gaudy flowers, has a quaint or
nament or two, aud then a silver ball
usually beams its effulgence upon tho
whole from its lofty pedestal. The
striking contrast that the unkempt
Western farm-house and garden forms
with all this none but those who have
seen both can realize. But, though the
emigrants may miss their pretty homes,
they will find the new world far ahead
of tho old in many particulars. Inde
pendent. m m
The Terrors of a London Fog.
The London Telegraph thus dis
courses about Londonfog: "Wo areonly
just beginning to estimate the terrible
effects of the great Tog which lasted,
with few and brief intermissions, from
November, 1879, to the first week in
February, 1880, and wiiich enormously
increased the death rate of that period,
besides laying a formidable train of con
sequences not even yet fairly disposed
of. None of the other large towns of
Great Britain suffered to any extent
comparable with the visitation that
lingered so long and so calamitously
in London. Asthma is tho disease
which appeared to be most directly
influenced in its mortality by the
continuous fog. In the first three
weeks of the present year, when the
dense curtain lifted for a thner tho
deaths from this malady dropped at
onco to about thirty percent, below the
average, having previously risen, in
the middle of December, when the fog
was severe, to forty-three per cent,
above the average. Then, again, on its
return at the end of January, and its
continuance with increased density
through the first week of the following
month, tho deaths from asthma rose at
once to tho alairning height of two hun
dred and fwcaty4er cent, over the av
erage, falling again, when "the fog
finally disappeared, to as low a point as
they "had stood at for a considerable
time. Of course, all lung diseases fol
lowed the fluctuations of this extraordi
nary atmospheric condition, but none
of them, equaled asthma in close obedi
ence to the varying density, or, unhap
pily, in prompt yielding to the benefi
cial change.
m
The northern magnetic pole of the
earth is at present near the Arctic
circle on the meridian of Omaha.
Hence the needle does not everywhere
point to the astronomical north, and is
constantly variable within certain
limits. At San Francisco it points
about seventeen degrees to the east of
north, and at Calais, Me., as much to
the west.
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Emfress Elizabeth of Austria, styled
"the first Amazon of the world," is
about to receive, it is said, the title of
honorary Colonel of a regiment of
Russians Uhlans.
m t
Emma Abbott told a Chicago re
porter so he says that she is one of
the strongest and healthiest women
ever born, and never has any pain from
her head to her toes.
The population of what is known as
the Gunnison country is now as large as
the entire white population of Colorado
when the Denver-Pacific was built.
ALL .SORTS.
ABkookxyx infant was. baptUeiLaj
Garfield Hancock.
Two op tho best steel engravers in
this country are women, ono living la
Nrw Yotk and ono at Co!umba. O.
7 The BrHbh Columbians arc pc:Ui8w
ing the Dominion Government to forbid
importation., from the United Sfatc. ia
American vessels of lew dimetukm.
than thirty ton measurement.
A HETSioo of removing tho bark from"
trees, when tho sip i not flowing, by
treating the wood with superheated
steam, ha secured for its inventor a
prize offered by the French Agricultural
Society.
Is 1J7 a Syracuse man died and left
a diammi to one of his daughters. She
has had t-everal chauc& to ell it for
one thousau'd dollars, bat took It to NeH&iaay i31) "iw abjeci. iiU
York the other dav to find that it was ct,r tho ownn-g of mum, aT
only paste, and not worth five dollars. glcriej. nhjariwaad ijinft-n ii tnj
Oxr. of the .imminent Ner Ybrl f1 ! SSST I i
milliners excluded nil from her fall I'ideat itfec iosUtutio
openintr except tho-j who presented " "". Ju.. who laicjlj dicdat
cards of aduihv,iou. Alanv lira-, aro Hartford, Conn., inade a fortuae bfi
following her example, as each exon ' covering th fan of MarkTc-iia "In
they lose a heavy um bv having their occnts Abroad; while the work w- in
styles copied and Imitated bv loor manu-jenpu 1-ram had tried in -run
lights in millinery and tlrt-AS-tnaking. , ? Mcuro a publisher, and --a about to
William LmW, conduct ivw mm ?C'lf-J?T Ie 'a, ' iJTr u 'C
despicable that his fellow operatives in ' ff ""S . lTt Z t m, '"
a null at East Dedham. MaW. treated ' " wl,hun fident of a ubnpuoo
him to a eoat of tar and feathers. He ' P-V- .
returned to hn work nest day. bat he I. LYC,w vlV.M wnt'"' ! lh.c Mrb,s
was met with jecr and taunt After , 1c,a,1 OM -y r ht '"r I.
enduring this a few hours he went out ! "-kima" Hu-dui-r hue.- bad no real
and committed suicide. foundation in fa-1, that she knew many
An English paper says that " there
arc at present working at Victoria
(I'imlico) Kailwnv station between
thirty and forty orters who receive no , 'Vi" i7 T ,K-
.:. .i ' it....--., .i . ..she had on ndnvethrmin iwauipsttt.
waics, t tie company nmminir them to
depend on a generous public for a liv
ing, whilst at tho janie time they are
amenable to the by-law- forbidding tho
receiving of gratuities under pain of
dismissal."
Mi-s Chesa:, who diel recently in
London of apoplexy, brought on by
overwork, had written the leading arti
cles in the London Queen for eighteen
years. She had been a member of the
Loudon School Board, and represented
tho female teachers in the Couueil of
the College of Preceptors mid in four
other colleges.
The Hums Monument Trustees, of
Ayr, Seotlind, have completed the pur
chase of the cottage in which Kobert
Hums was born. The building has
hitherto been ucd as a public house. It
is to bo converted into a itiu-euni. in
which relics of tho poet will be gathered
together. Tho price of the house and
ground w:is 6:!0,000.
A duel has just been fought at Mou
lins, France, between Messrs. lladre
and Beaudouv, and at the lirt pass tho
latter ran on to his adversary's .sword
and fell dead at tho feet of the Prefect
of tho town, who was quietly looking
on at the .sport, but, according to the
reporter, was unable to prevent the
suicide being accomplished.
S.VAKKsare plentiful and very poison
ous in Zululand. The bite of the
"inhlonhlo" is fatal, and thu only an
tidote known to the natives is to catch
the Miake that indicted tho bite, ex
tract its heart and give it to the per
son bitten." As thu Zulus believe that
departed warriors tuko tho forms of
snakes they will not kill tho reptiles
even when thev invade their kraals.
The Wild Hot; r India.
Those who have formed their concep
tion of pig exclusively upon the tamo
pig of the civilized sty have no
adequate idea of the free wild pig of the
Indian jungle. Likc.tlm North American
Indian, the pig is debased by con
tact with civilization. Ho becomes
cowardly, weak, dirty, and a prey to an
inordinate thir.-a for -swill. Thu distance
between the tame Indian of Saratoga,
who steals chickens and wallows drunk
en in tho glitter, and the tierce
warrior of tho Western plains is not
Sreatcr than that which separates tho
espiscd pig of civilization from the
wild and fearless qmrrv of the East In
dian pig-stieker. The latter pig. whoso
spirit has never been broken with
yokc-s, and whose moral nature
has
never been poisoned with swill, is one of
the bravest inhabitants of tho jungle,
and has been known to attack and put
to rout the majestic elephant aud tho
ferocious tiger.
The full name of the East Indian pig
is Sus imlicus, though no one except a
punctilious scientiiic person over calls
him by it. Among beginners in the art
of pig-sticking he is sometimes mag
niloquently described as a wild boar
though " he i3 very often a wild
sow; but pig-stickers of reputation
uniformly call him a pig or a hog.
Sua indicus often grows to the length
of four feet and eight or ten inches, and
reaches the height of three feet, orcven
forty inches, at the shoulder. When
full grown his strength is enormou3,-and
in speed he will sometimes rival tho
fastest Arabian horse. He enters upon
existence in astriped state; subsequent
ly he becomes brown; when in the prime
of life, he affects a dingy black color;
and when old, he is jrray and grizzled.
At no period can he lo honestly called
a handsome or a graceful animal. 4mt
his courage and tenacity of life demand
our respect.
In point of teeth tho tame pig-has
sadly deteriorated. The wild boar of
India, which is the type of the barbaric
pig of all ages, is armed with lonemi
clrcular tusks. Those in the" Ipwer
jaw sometimes attain tho Iongth of
eight or nine inches. Thev curvc out
ward and upward, and tfic edge's aro
kept sharp by the pig's constant habit
of scouring them against the tusks of
the upper jaw. Ihe swiftness 'and
power with which he uses those tusks
to carve an enemy are almost incred
ible. A hunting-dog 'is frequently cut
neaily in two ry a single stroke of
a boar's tusks, and horses and men
are occasionally killed by boars which
have become tired of bemr .hunted,
and which try to infuse a little variety
into the affair by hunting their ene
mies. When wounded he is an exceed
ingly dangerous beast to face on foot,
unless the hunter is a lawless ruf
fian who is capable of killing him
with a ride. One can scarcely ima
gine an Englishman so lost to all
sense of decency as to shoot a fox, and
next to that crime ranks, in Anglo
Indian estimation, the loathsome out
rage of killing a pig by any process ex
cept that of pig-sticking. W. L. Aldcn,
in Harper's Magazine.
.
Dressing the Head.
In dressing the head, more errors are
made by men than by womcn,.altbough
.men arc very fond of indulging the idea
that when fashion i3 talked about
women only are referred- to. Close
caps, mufflers, tippets are often the
causes of colds. Beside, the hair is
rendered unhealthy and the hearing
often interfered with. It is one of the
virtues of the silk hat that it stands up
a little from, the head. If, as should
be, there are a few holes made
through it, there is opportunity for
air without draught. The more open
bonnets of women do not expose them so
much to evils of overheat, and inure
them to exposure when not too severe.
The hair is the natural covering- of the
head. It is somewhat doubtful whether
any other is really needed. So we do
not criticise women for treating the Tiat
as a mere head ornament and not a
protection. Where changes of climate
or exposure require it, they only need
to have at hand some other protector.
It was an improvement when hat strings
were made to come behind the ears
instead of over them. Fashion rejoices
in change, and we are not disposed to
find fault with her so long as she does
not interfere with health.
1-XKS9.-UL AP UTEKAKY.
Mrs BKAro's new novel bcnilUc-l
J-a LAst-
HnofA Borotrrot hx bea matin
todies Sa Oxford. KeglaaL for a core!
of unirerdty life. ,-
Tiir number of ifamc in th N
litflSTEIbrary of I'rk U 2.075.0X1. and
Irf Ufl bVitwh 3liucuat only l.M).0CU.
GtK)n MAOtHN4JLi5 next notrl U
te N dfced larT ilanion." and-it
wfH UhMrat cortaia lutrcsUng pba-n-M
of modern English life.
Baj-tlet Coirs clx, tha Amnxui
playwright, called on Mr. Carijlc in
X"tland, and I xul to hare found Jh;
latter dirtlngnLdied gtntirniaa cngav-d
in killing a rat with a pokor.
JPuor. Tvmjau. t announced Ui de
lirer an aJdrev beforw tha (lx;juw
uannans in iveveny out none tn .Mar
blehead. and thai the poem was --tig-
t? "J. Xvr"u ' ,.
Marblchuad and Salom.
A.v autobiugraphv of Lady Bulwer
has lately appeared in f,ondon. w hich.
if it bo not suppre vcd. U likeh to mako
a sciuatiou. It i. a long tory of al
leged abuses on tho part of the late and
thu pn-M'ut Lord Iv Hon, and abounds
iu tho modi violent language. It l faid
to contain a ".ory ejruss aud uuladUiku
attack on tho Queen, and to be various
ly improper and uot to be endured. But
all this, of course, will make over body
want to read it.
XvcQl'l-i Ofkksbacii. the ojvera
bouQu compoiur who died recently at
Paris, was born of Jewish parent at
Cologue, Germany, on the JI-t of June,
18ll, aud was therefore .Mxtouo years
old. The bright and sparkling mu'ile of
his operas is familiar to lovers irf amuse
ments in every city of this country and
Europe, his bet known works perhaps
being, "La Grande Duchess," La
Bellu Heleno" and "Itarbe Bleu."
His latest and last work, ' La Fillo du
Tambour Major," met with great suc
cess in Loudon aud Paris, and is now
being played iu Xew York nt two thea
ters iu French aud iu I'nlMi.
iiU3ioi:m:s.
The man who will convince a tin
smith that two joints of stovu-pipe of
exactly the same .sle won't go together
as easy as grease lias a medal awaiting
him in this locality. hxdiangc.
Anothei: poet comes forward and
says: "And 1 hear the hNs of a -corcli-ing
kiss." Beats all what a man can
hear if he is only mean euo'igh to listen.
A'eio Haven UeguUr.
And right iu the middle of tin impor
tant campaign, women aro unpatriotic
enough to insist that the country shall
remain unsaved while a stove "is put
up iu the sitting room. LtKkport
I nion.
Bjoknsok Bjakknson. the Swedish
novelist, is in tho country. I lis name
is pronounced B-yernstyairnch I"-ern-Mhn,
so it will, bo seen that it is :ls eas
ily pronounced as spelled. Hoton PosL
Now that the coining frosts will
soon ripen the nut crop even new-.ja-per
should warn its readers against eat
ing chestnuts in tho dark. It is uot only
unwise, but it is cruelty to iinocts.--
ruladclpuu Chronicle-Herald.
One of our landlords writes his own
bills of fare, in order to save a printer's
bill. Tho lastoneaiinounces: (."oflov,
stipe, rostc befe, fridu haiiim. boyled
and bakt portaters, frido could puddeii,
mins pyes, niutting chops, veele cul
verts, nasch and crusified chickens."
Tyrone (rVi.) Times.
Thev can instantaneously photograph
an express train going at sixty miles an
hour, so that it looks, .smoke and all, as
if it were taken at a staud-still. And
yet they can't, or won't, photograph a
man sitting in a chair without scrcwiiur
his head round in a vi-e like a movable
doll, aud keeping him looking at a
smudge on the wall till his lip drops
and his oyes water, and tho pleasant
little speech ho meant to think about,
just to hold the expression, goes maun
dering through his head like tho ghot
of a homeless echo. Every photog
rapher's studio" must be at least twen
ty years behind time. Why is it?
Boston Post.
Woolly Elephants in New York.
Two "woolly" elephants of diminu
tive size arrived in this city on the
steamer Oxfordshire from Singapore.
They were the property of Captain
Jones, of that vessel, who has sold
them to Charles Reichc, an importer of
animals. A Tri'unc reporter saw thu
animals at No. 55 Chatham street yes
terday. They are the first of their
species ever brought to this country.
The larger of the two is less than thirtv-
six inches high, while thu smaller
scarcely measures six inches in height
They are thought to be about six years
old. The chief peculiarity of these ele
phants is the fact that thev arc covered
with a thick black wool or hair, es
pecially about the crown of the head,
tho back and tho legs. The wool i two
or three inches long. "Prince" and
" Sidney" forthus they were named by
the crew of the Oxfordshire are natives
of tho Malay Peninsula. Although
other elephants have been caught, they
have invariably succumbed when taken,
from the bleak mountain ranges to the
warmer plains. Hence the fact that
this species is generally unknown, and
mentioned by but few "naturalists. Ar.
T. Tribune,
X Sterk as a Mou.er.
A large and handsome whooping
stork, says the Council Blnfls XonparieT,
can be seen daily strutting around the
yard at the residence of Prof. Paige in
this city. The elongated bird was pur
chased by the professor during a visit
to Mexico some months since and has
become quite tame. Among other food
that the stork relishes is a nice fat
mouse. 3Irs. Paige na3 a small wire
trap in the house, and whenever a mouse
happens to wander therein he becomes
a sweet morsel for his storkship. The
other day Mrs. Paige, noticed the bird
standing near the barn watching in
tently at a small hole leading beneath
the building. The stork remained in
an attitude of watchfulness for nearly
half an hour, aad Mrs. Paige, becoming
curious, concluded to watch and sec
what followed. Finally she saw a
mouse creep into sight from under the
bars, and the same instant the intelli
gent stork pounced down on the moue
and took him in," kiUinj it first and
then eating it After performing this
intelligent feat, the stork -resumed his
vigilance at the mouse hole, and aftar
watching sharply for over an hour
seemed to grow weary of hi3 work or
get out of patience, and marching to
the house entered the kitchen, aad
ckmsr up the mouse-trap, irom which
e had so often been fed, he returned
to the barn and set the trap down near
the hole, evidently appreciating the use
of the trap, and believing that it would
catch a mouse for him. if anyone has
got a brighter bird than that we would
uke to bear from it
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IIOW BEXNIK SENT A NOTE TO II W i lMimu m Jth tat wmiwl of Ion 4r,
MAMMA. corn UU. ahaud(u) of tthMek-rn l-h
n , . : . , . en and two Itfwheft fclv.
Oct In a part of the country where it ,jow Frank!, yon am -co- w
U wry hilly, there -.Unds a red house . m f Mmw , i
at tin foot of a st-K'p hill whou lifde U
eovoreil with blrrh and nine trci. and
i: , : ft. -,"- ,, , - , ,
houo live two little childcim. nud what
a iiiick uimnrniwiii ui oj uii. iu Kik
do vou think the duloue dn I
?
'I heir ttMuima was buy biking, ami j
l icy went to play bv itio lime iirook in
uieyant ihi. wure iiiaKin,: a onugo
ui . tl.nv usd Hut oni.fr JJ
tun, hed iu 1 hen Su-ioV hltu Kitten
wiri iiitivtn a oritiL't
tried it, ami Atonped :wjvv without, once
netting her uaint jueU
Now Uiat'i done, and that'll wo do
next?" a.ketl ruitliM-t liltluStisl'-.
"I know," jnil Hennif, "lot'a p
lip the hill and find whore the brook In,
gut-. It -, hanl climbing, and mother
thinks I ain't hi ' enoiigii, but I'm big--er
now than 1 vex the lrw-l Um 1
aiked Jier."
Well, let's go then." udd StwW
eagerh. and oil they .started, baud in
hand at lirst, but they oon fouml they
e.ieh needed twoh.md to catch hold of
tho bii'lir" and pnjeoting roek, a t
.i.
they clitnbetl up tlie lull elo-e uy
UltlO bed of thrbrirOk
went; it was pretty tires
Xto kUenUS
was inn iu it, for the white kitten ran
iiluiblv ahc d aud kept Mopping for
them, aud the brook re-med to huieh
....km..!! -. I . I.
out. loud a.- It druicml ummlv to mo.?t
rS'riinn . MK11
them.
" Haven't Wc; goms ntnch as a mile?"
asKCM busle nt la-l. miioiii" her arm
going out Motni'r s making pien.
"Oh, then let's hurry!'' binio ox
claimed, starting agnin, and a- (die
pushed licr way nrquud a thlek brien
Inish, there Was the white kittm'wafu
ing for them just ahead, and there at
last was the bubbling spring, gushing
from among tho rock., thu birth-place
of their dour brook.
"Uh, Susie, make a cup of ottr hand
and drink .some water!" .said iluuuie,
bending down to do it himself
" I can't! 1 can't! I am caught iu tho
briers!" cried 3iwie. Piniin-lin-r :w nhe
siioko to disentangle herself, but it
seemed as if every thorn on the bush
reached out to catch at her, and diu
could not gf t nivay.
Beunic ran to help her, but only got
his hands scratched, aud when Susie
turned her head, thu briers caught her
curls so that she could not move any
more without her linir being pulimf.
This was too discouraging, and ho be
gan to cry-
"Oh. dear! I wbh mamma wa
here," said l'ennle, lojking wistfully
down at thu top of tho homo chimney
below.
Mamma! mamma!" ho shouted
then as (bud as lie could; but the wind
blew the wrong way and tooS the unout
up hill InstcaiL of down. Then he said
im rt"tlf fft V-riA--i tml ltl !-- t.-n
jit it iiiiui v t m iiiiiiii: nun l : i 111:1 aiiaiiiiai.
-Oh.no. no!" WW Su-ie. "I
don't dare bo left alone; there might
around a young bireh tree, "while sliej ?" h,V!llu, ,l " an l 'r ?" ,Ul'
stoiipad to take brunUi. . cow ,,.,., . ,
"S-o. not more than three-quarters. H Hmilv'1' hu A" 1 Uw tW
guess." .aid Itounie. "See. there' 21" .'" ft lS . -,.
nr.. ,. .i...... ,i.... i i... found. wltlrllihtrVarIaUoti-,.wii' inn-!
Jt UltllllllUI .CV....& IMU4 1J. ..41. nMIUkU .
I l
be bears among tho trees, or a snake. , 7 u , ?-, are cnumu wiwi
BonH go. I-cnnler r ,f . x'ri11' A.WBiiui hMtl-
"Well. I won't." said Bonnie; "but'"6 u,,a" wnfl a fox playing In
I wish I loul some -teinsom or n kniff.
Father ought to give i
how; I'm big enough.
mo
a knife, any-
Then he sat down by Susie, and they
wondered what they should do; would
thoy have to go without thnnrrasd
supper? Would thy liavc to utay all
night there on the hill? .. ,
"Oh, I ad nt tiredr- said Suste mSr-
!iim I... l.n.l 11a l.n. t l..i-4t-C. !.-
:. i - ,.... ,., -it... tt.fi..i.?r.. i
kitten rubied againthcrand purred, but
it could not help her. Yes it could help
her! A brlglitidca flashed into Ben- 1
nie's miad. j
"Let's send a note to mamma by '
kittyf he exclaimed. " I've got some i
paper in my jweket and a little -tub end
of penfcih and I can print."'
Susio stopped crvmg and watched with 1
great Interest while hen slowly printed
down theseAwonb pn j. torn Mip of ,
paper- - ' ,
-DccKMiMa.WealltuptwrcTlnM tea
UHUt-cliashcMr y 4
Then he found a piece of striag in hU
pocket, and tied the note arosed 'th? '
white kitten's neck. When that was
dene, he turned her bead down the hill
towards home, aad clapping his hamls
at her, said in dreadful tones i
"Scat! Scatr
TSefflgSlcfalSd kitten dnrtcd down
nuc ivimu iuk.1 i auvu, a hu iaav JTfc. F
tnenrn. ana was quicxry oat -aigiit
among iuu uu'iic.
.. .? -n r-t ..M p.
- .wv7 ruoiLuuii il kajiu'z, au oo?ie,
with a sigh
of relief. 'But Bcnnle had.
thought of something eLe.
I'm -roinrr to send a letter ia a bot
now." he iuf-Uu.1 agaia h slow Fe ts more airtire nwLr iu Inwwri
Piall0w fier of I PJ" - - to-ot better and act more vigor
. maul' "ue "P btHoTUA -ajcmsly. Let a tolas Uh: airiest, earnest
Thu h- rttneil to -i n? of kiiJ
is be tastencu to a piece of birch
andlauncho-i it down the litUa
ling stream, which carried
bark.
f rtmltilin;
swiftly out of si"ht- . ?' I
Now she'll come pretty soon." fe
said, sitting down ia perfect faith "to
wait. , - , Z
Their mamma baked hforcad tkat
morning, and then she bated pies iau
made cookies aad got her diaser over
before she had time to tbiafc much about I
the children- Then she stepped to the t
door to see how they were -ftUia-r !
iJong; xid "ealfed thrmv bet thera jwl 1
noanswer. j j
The wind blew ia her face and the
white kitten nihhed against herfeet.
1 v acre are ine caiuirea. kiuy " I
she asked, looking down, and then she
spieu wie no uea arousu the waite
lurry neck, bae took it of and read
the bkrrred-wonis-." A . ?
"DetrMiMi eattsVlwXeT--asld la a
Sat caught
a the
ft! mJ. W fc-!- b45 hrdf7 V-t rwa.
I way to r Tfcyf wr- t t- ..
' rcntf; & "frht tut - V
'esrFvSf
1 tiU wilJr-rfn-ti-- -------tt
l t.lk MtJkkn
jilh- --.--. "-
w-, Uia thai & d && W -
Si
tKa bmoL
. ritUn njaflia fcf-- K-r . 4 A
whittf feitUn runatrwr
it v tsot -Mtarlv
mito -M" -
t--t -wnlr a W !--? "M V
' fcaOi. ad l4tt t rtlety Mn,f
her Md.
yA -.j-c c-itjr a ! tl.a . Mr
lwa cooUl pn msi n$;at -Ui -
I .l.lffatl-?-! fr Jwt wt.
. .. .t.L
. tt-r, vk UuU Jr-t. aad UHe M m.
flil-h.h-artl &U and hf ftM ,
,u-ttfc a-o. Jt mm --
mm Jw vAtji V dlbnn j I
' BOk l:r w 0-!
rtaaVkS lnf."ula um.
L.i.T winter my h-vdUt gv - & i
the dtvcWrahl Uau-t go nJA Jft t i
a cKirrUjJr lbtti -r; Wf
1 fc-v Atjt, thwwhl hljg: Aaert Km
a"d fcr bcAHiHol Hrim
j Jut hen lha train . Uu.
Jatnto hvjO"x! to fc M up i ih t
winJov t io tn a pw4 fc
' 1-rtor Hitii FLow' hi is -o !
with u-jvr" H pffeu tag j-mm
of a pound of candy ot!
I um tint rntlli- to Hi no IX. Wl
J fuhKtnablw invalid Apewl tw.r a
tcr. but tho hontf f an 4-1 Ir -r t
of min on tut Akkvw - m.
liowgUtll Wa"t ftttd twi a. ,-v
had a little boy ' Un wa nK m .U
tha ttcithrw Lflwvl lvft tabMk (Mt I
j oon (mind htm to t? a iwl-h-ww"-".
urave mwe -"i-
i 1 1 u mamma wwu w --
't t0fl
Y'
ont do u tut tbo IIimM. a
mamma. Abe ran i jp-t it
i piKr. una very tn - i
llrtw illt .i'j- tM ikhi.. ik.
1 notietMl that thoiiUlkrj,wre W - I
, , . . . . , u iW.anfM tft
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i ,mH a.ftit?-.-aielitii-c U$Aitm
mta, , lu uwkc'Ti,nirH-. m
f , . A ,. t
I)imw U fur oattlo," nald Ab. -rt
nlu-r.
I Uicn
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a.'kcd how tlmy made oatii
Frank le
dhl not xtM'in uutnmtiimgnttTw, 'S.
Xo At'i again sunfttwi my n!-Mn
WVal. oi ot cut If jr
waits i iiiiiiuio 1 II -hw vw "
I io out oir a pitHMt of Ua iom1mI la'k
about four U)dltv foug. thuu iU ta
hull Into four pliH'i'1 ntntu ftttArftr f
an inch wldo and two blob loiifft IU
Ktllck tWO Of tl' pltHitt ti'r '"L
of the stalk for hlniMoga. aud th twoMT
others nt a quarter v4 t insb ffiMM lh
i other end for front one. He tho e.i
!' fotMil narrow b,u of' M&
tor horns: another
; jiu-e irp us -hut
tlio head rtIl taeij
Oi fliti int. L n itiltV
t ' " "- --' -
ttTfi-a ut t irtl? fir-t ltit
. 11 la t.fc
-"! ""i' "y ""
cu feather -iK - Itk for tho ta-f, and Mm
job u:u J.iiuIh.hL i
"Now, den." nahl Atw,-tniHn)tun!
repre$t lK)r,cow-, nmlti?, !tej'.
i and pig, aad uVen cl.h'kSh.
llfMl
"" '
wiiteii, oi cure. wm mucli iutii-t
and had only twi leys, Ju Use -ourm
of tli monimg an&fe nhil A1h ih-Ufu-fact
tired a sow with -ven HtUi'pIp
two cows, a mule and a hor.
Itluwl .stopjwjd miiilnjSOjiA bA
akud if 1 wouLl uoCiTCiHV Jt out"jun.
sen th"ir farms. VtU-r a hd m thi
ard were these two fanm. hitahvihI
j as nearly as i't--II-4 like I rankle
father's. Ilarns, ntabJes, wazoii hoOsos
awi I-K-1,A" T,iru f l"V
voir siniill muilIi' -Jiii! inlinliiiml fnriMi-r.
stalk cattle ..?
A wagon made f a chip tied to twi
sools was hitched up with two corn
stalk oxen, thoir jfeathor tall- Ntindlnjf
up iu the air. J
I thought lay little frjeml wouUXlike
this now breed of pattto They strerk
mo as being i-fa-h caller to idSItag-
than tho- of Villi's ark, for thfjjro U
hardly a boy wMo has not hail all man
ner otlrutibie iil making lather Noah's
cows and hons-fr itam up, (iathor to
gothersomo rhrn. jiUlk this nutouiu,
let them dry, &A stock a farm for your
wlf. t'lortnciE. 'JStig. in HftrjKr't
J VHirj I Wl
Do IslmaU JteaH.
lie Palt .hnthij Y, Y,
f I MntMyW. Y. KlnnWj
rf-" '" 'aow titat otir ir reia-
B" "ff !rnere Uiery wont SWlnt
anu tncir
)g At length hocId
a block at
as large as onn of tb-
pigs, ami
uc4 through the turn, of
courne wi
t alarnuJiir the inntlmr-
sow,
I'ng that the hole wai largo
ghai-fiiur he wnrtiut -jur-timl.
cnou
ho return ffshd Carried off n'ltlt-
vui. cAtinp-ijiuuruance.
uuhop fs JIsxju knew of
if an ejephaayf
latcrlxctfby'a; r
whoce BllfcJ cvo was eac
1 . - . T wJ.r
r"5ATOS P""1 V'w VKr ,Ms.t to J "
out' - ,tf-u1- lJJ'"d.by thii otl.r
ad f opentnl on witjyiitrati
ol "vejI they fearcl the ?leph.int
w?J,'ifillj,; wme-iU-ctor. buthcruy
Wif J4 kidy- aad. rjfcadtlialiaSl
oaJf f(S'fatiC4U, tjr r, -e
. a'-ia ay rarfa xfrvt & vmxt -
1"1 m f.e. Wum i Ju ipp-rti wtfre
J00 -l,2 S1 J1
tmV'9tT sopporu, Owa fa-urit
Rccurelf w the aridrr of the hivf. then
cut.- He pdjars which obslruetcd
tbaruhway. fhey probably never
had mk as exigency before. lastiacC
ouU sever burc tygcsted blocking
UP " road to the until led combs; and
then aerejnat have been ome-niHil- - t
tat to enks their whole Jlotyt in th- t
wi. - Z '
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j,J Kf-n aaf Xnuy Utc.
JUairrUo of tho most actiragca
,j,. -
m
eallrcmng and bcautimng n
t-.,
e all know the value ox sua-
ic.u.
sa a heaitfigiTing sgut to th-fr.
' -Is-7Mt MH.I.I'nf'AM 4M-f f t Tin fM-t
i "-"
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f. . a""' f' " "Vf v'
liTOK - wa - - lfc wodtsbop where brain
"W ? La.lIt UP ?A rfi?eedi w
ana suaaici. room ta tna notua lor our
And let as there hare a fe-ty windo4tr
- && 05r pl-a m s.ro:rore;
"gh-which the good twJa-tisj---i ol
aatore, jweiighs aa fwr air. caut free-
.te.E- .Jt)ari Ka bring djutesk
of Prics; l&rtia a. emt.t j&mL&'
eal Jton-trf poweriftssa-,
-Ta-clt hiiiB to argy and' TigH--
baC M J-S"1, rt-J,," l-3dhe-MV &r
g00 hoaae. where watU aad
farit Kr 4 browa we have
bmt to take down the heavy earteias.
P9A - til "f- kaa brackets
her side, see awwr-pks tm tha
---.'u--u- - uh warm sw sti
fref to btiS itk U oucM
v" "-" "t ".
Six always hegiaawith plNtsora -mw!
cads wKh hitteraeaa. It w Kke a colt
which the lktle bey said was verv Uaaa
miresadTeaadheii.
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