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waasaagmuuta TIXE JOURNAL. WEIIN'E-l) Y. MAY !I, lSSi. th3 TccScc, C:"i?a'tii. 1:... a: :t:c Cl -" ITJXdr riE CIRCUS DID. We were n quiet find sober set. Little ucoustonied to noise and fret, Decent awl mrxlest at work or play. And oh ! bo proper in every way. Before wc went to the Circutl Nobody ever had seen us j?o At nil VK fat, or at all too slow; No matter how sully we talked or sanff, Ve never had used a v.ord of Stan? Before we went to the Circus! We went to church, or we went to school, Bvthe very uiot orthodox kind of rule; For we were a people of Dutch esoeut. And rather phlegmatic in tempnrament Until we went to the Circus I Alas and alas! 'tis a woeful sipht The wav we are changed at the time I wrltI Father is swaying against the breeze. Hung by the toes from a hijyh trapeze, " Tr ltir to copy the Circus! The lovs on their heads, with feet in air. Art- riding wild horses on each hlph chair; Ord.iwn on their bacs on the sidewalk brick Are balancing tubs for a juggling trick: And the girls have paint -d bauds and race. And got themselves up for an Indian nice. As they saw them do at the Circus! Mother high up on the table stands. Swinging the b.iby with both her hands, Swinging the baby with many a rub. And hrundi-diing turn like an Indian club; While baby hini-eir, in a terrible fright. How Is like a Zulu from morn till night. Since we x cnt to the Circus! Alas and alas! 1 can only say. I wish in the night, I wish in the day, 1 wish with my heart, I wish with my bead, I wih with mv ears which are nearly dead, I wish with a sort of mute despair, I wiih with a SHRIEK that would rend the air. We ue er had jjouo to the Circus! Wide A walie. WHAT IS HOSPITALITY! IIEKOKK HIE I'AItTV. "There, I believe old Mrs. Peck-ham's name complete. the number! William, my dear, will you please listen to this list of invitations, and see if I have omitted any one to whom we are in debteil?" The oor father-of-the-fami-ly, thus addressed, meekly laid by his spectacles and paper, and prepared to submit to the ineiitable. It was a way Mrs. Barnes had of plan ning with her daughter Alice some ex pensive indulgence, and, when too late to be reealled, springing the subject up on her husband in an easy, matter-of-course way, which left hint no alterna tive but a half unwilling consent. - Why, 30uf.ee, my dear," she went on, in answer to his questions of sur prise, we haven't had a large company in over a year, and we are really under obligations to all these people fifty eight 1 make in all," " I do detest large companies," began Mr. Karnes. "Fin sure you cannot dread this thing any more than 1 do," put in Mrs. 15., "and all the work and care to come up on inc. too: but it is not so bad as a number of small gatherings, just as it is better to have several doomed teeth all e tract cd at once, rather than to keep dreading them." "What would thee people say if they knew mother compared their entertain ment to puHingteeth!" this from Alice, in an aside to brother Fred; but that young gentleman, who had been to col lege, assured her that "it was the way with the world; they all felt just so." " Well, we must at least study sim plicity in our arrangements and that will ease both your labor : I my pocket-book," said Mr. Barnes. - Sure enough, let's institute a new departure, as Julia Dorr did in Rut land," as-ented Fred. "She just had a dainty bit of cream and fruit, or some thing, ami lots of fellows went home hungry, not relNhing the feast of rea son and How of soul. " "That is ven well for literary people, whose houses are full of objects of in terest," said his mother "And who have other xxaxs of entertaining peo ple than through their stomachs," whispered naughty Alice " but we must have an elegant supper, or we will give up the party. Of course we must have ousters and several cold meats, besides ices, ice-cream, fruits, coflee and chocolate. We will pinch some where eNe t") make up; leave that to nie, William." And the lady went on complacently reading her list. " Dr. and Mrs. Rollins; you recollect Ave were invited to their daughter's wed ding." "iloth which 'obligations' cost us a pretty little sum for piesents to people we don't care a thing about." said Mr. JJarnes, bitterly. "Man, if you ever hear me say a word about our having a metal wedding, know at once that 1 am either crazy or in my dotage. When we get so Sow as to invite people to give us presents, I will go round with a sub scription paper, but I will never get up the motlern farce of a silver or golden wedding." "Then lucre are the Livingstones." pursued the lady, "who have just come to town, but real 'quality1 people, whom it is best to place under obligations to us; and 'Squire Harding" " Who invited me to his breakfast, be cause he wanted my vote,11 put in pater familias, unpleasantly. "IJut it's all right, my dear, all right, I suppose, only otie cannot help wondering what the Savior meant, when he said: When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thx 1 fiends nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen nor thy rich neighbors, lest they also bid thee again, and a recom pense be made thee." " Probably that will all be changed in the new translation," said Alice, who was disposed to be a bit cynical, like her father, and to see through the veneer ing of society shams. Let us p:iss lightly over the dreadful lays of preparation; the turning upside-down of the house from top to bot tom, the polishing of silver, the importa tion of crockery and extra help (?), and the endless cooking, cooking, for the Barnes family couldnot aflbrd to order their supper from the local Dehnonico's. So the younger children stoned raisins ami bent eggs, and enjoyed immensely the confusion ami general air of some thing coining; and the family subsisted upon outside slices of roasts, unfortunate biscuits and test pieces of cake. Some things went wrong, of course, and had to be done over, and there was hurry and terrible anxiety for Mrs. Barnes, who, 1 am sorry to say, lost her temper several times, and developed unknown powers of scolding. But cTerything was whisked into line at the very last moment, and the poor lady with a rack ing headache was trying to get dressed and composed, when somebody an nounced the first carriage. " How dreadfully early some people do come. Here, Alice, help me on with this lace quick; I hoped to have a mo-1 meut to breathe." " Mamma, these new boots hurt me awfully," groaned little May, an un comfortable child, who had not yet learned the ways of the world. "I would rather wear my old ones." "No, no, nevermind if the do hurt a little, they are lovely, so slim and Jiigh, and such a perfect match for your dress." And so the poor child stood ia simple misery all the evening, taking her first lesson in the ways of the world. at the PAirrr. " Good evening, my dear Mrs. Rollins ; how kind of you to cbme earlj; we shall have time for a real little visit before there are other arrivals.1 Mrs. Barnes had a headache ; perhaps f-he had forgotten what she said upstairs. But why describe the usual routine of hollow compliment, of pretty nothings, of flattest platitudes, which make up the conversation of such a gathering. Of course, the guests discussed the flowers, the few pictures, the musius the tupper, each others dresses and the minister. U, much enduring clergy, what would society do without xou.aud tLe weather ? twit The supper was really good, and that constituted the "entertainment" mostly. There was some soulless music, for Miss Alice played tho piano a little of course, all young ladies must, whether they have any music in their souls or not. The gentlemen smoked after supper, but that was done one side somewhere, as questionable things usually are. About midnight the last guest had vanished into the darkness, each one saying in due form with his good-night: "A aelightful evening, Mrs. Barnes, vour companies are always so charm ing!" AFTER THE PAimf. Remarks like these in the going-home carriages: "Such a stupid affair! Why will people like the Barneses try to apa gentility, and give fashionable parties when they don't know how?" "Why, indeed! Everything was stiff as a poker; and what a supper! such vulgar profusion in everything: and so little silver or table ornaments." "Did you notice the spoons were plated, and half of them borrowed, I do believe. As for me, wouldn't have a party if 1 couldn't afford the largest size napkins." "Well, we must at least give Mrs. Barnes the credit of being a most charm ing hostess. I think she thoroughly en joys seeing her friends; but her husband must be a great trial to her, he is so distant and ungracious." Meanwhile, in the confusion of the vacant rooms, the "genial hostess" had thrown herself wearily into a chair, exclaiming: " I am almost dead! Well, there1s one consolation, our guests all seemed to enjoy it; if wc did not I received a great main compliments for the supper, and the entertainment gen erally; and we shan't have to endure this affliction again for one while, I hope." " Why ever again, my dear?" urged Mr. Barnes, gently. "Why need we accept invitations we do not care to re turn? Wiry can we not hereafter invite our friends and people whom we wish especially to make happy, in small companies, which will not tire you to death in preparation. I thoroughly en joy receiving our friends in our home, but how can anybody enjoy such a farce as this, with hollowness on both sides. Why, I felt guilty and mean all the evening." "It does seem as if that were the better wa," assented the wife, absent ly, tliinkiug how she could get break fast out of that mass of confusion in the kitchen; "but then, society, you know," A few more days of hard work brought back the usual order and quiet of the family; it seemed like a calm fol lowing a small earthquake. But the bills began to come in. They looked large placed over against the small family income. The father and mother were talking them over one night after the children were in bed. They must be provided for by "pinch ing" somewhere else, as Mrs. Barnes had said. She was ready with her devices. "We all need new flannels this winter," she said; "the old ones are very thin, but they must be made to do with patching. Then we must do with out beefsteak and oysters as often as usual; these articles are expensive, you know." "It might be considered doubtful economy to dispense with warm cloth ing and nourishing ioou, said Mr. Barnes, with a shake of the head. " Then there is the money vou eive away to benevolent objects our tenth, you know," resumed the lady, doubt fully "couldn't you take a little from that?" " Not one cent from that, my dear, the party was selfishness, not charity. So the matter was compromised on flannels and beefsteak, and in another w:ty which I am afraid, they would not like me to mention. Not that they ex actly planned it so, but the next sum mer it came about in this wise. Mr. Barnes took uo vacation, but stayed in the city and worked hard all the hot, long season. Fred was luckily invited to the home of a college friend. Mrs. Barnes remembered a cousin of hers, who lived comfortably in a country home, not expensively far from the city, whom she had not seen in twenty years, and whom she really ouglit to visit. So with Alice and the two little ones, she gave to this " dear friend" the weeks usually spent in boarding at the mount ains or seaside. Cousin Clarissa did her own work, and got rather tired, I fear, but then it was a wonderful saving, and the party had to be paid for. If I had been writing a fable, instead of a fact, I would put at the bottom this little moral: We all wear masks. Things are not always called by their right names. There is still much slavery in the world, much voluntary srrvilude. We are all slaves to the burdensome social customs, whose 3oke we abhor, but dare not throw off. Mrs. Julia H. MurcJiousc, in Everybody'1 s Paper. Atlantic Telegraph Stations. A Frenchman, M. Menuisier, has just, proffered a novel and bold plan for en-" aiding vessels crossing the Atlantic to communicate with the mainland. Lay, he says, a telegraph cable between Saint Nazaire, Bordeaux, and New York, with a branch in mid-ocean to Panama." Every sixty leagues, the average daily distance covered by a ship, connect to the principal cable a vertical cable, ending in a buo at the surface. To the right and left of the principal cable lay two branch cables, ten to twenty leagues each, ending in a vertical cable with buoys. These branches would form two crosses with the main cable. The chances of ships sighting buoys would thus be frequent. Each buoy has a number, and its position in mid-ocean is known from special tables. When a ship p:issing near a buoy wishes to tele graph, it connects its apparatus wire, one with the wire of the buoy, the other with the buoy itself, which serves as an earthwire. Thus the ship might com municate witli a central post which should be established on an island or rock, or a ship moored according to M. Menuisier's system. A vessel in dis tress near one buoy might, through the central station, get help from a ship p:issing near the next buoy. The diffi cult matter would be the "buoy. How would it resist storms that have broken cables? M. Menuisier has not yet de scribed it in detail, but says it is pro nounced quite successful by competent navigators. It is luminous by night, sonorous in fog, and easily accessible ia any weather. The Girl's Beau. A Dr. Sprague, of New York, was told by his ofiice-boy that several men were going to rob his house last Tues day night. Pretending to go out, he came back and locked himself into his room where he kept his cash-box. Pres ently his hired girl admitted three men into'the house. They burst the door open and went straight for the cash-box. He fired at them and they turned and raa. The girl made a confession impli cating three men, who were arrested. One of them had been visiting her for two years, and introduced his brother and another man to her. The brother proposed robbing her emplover and sharing the money with her. "The office-boy, who told them where the cash box was, was to have his share also. When they whistled she let them in. Woman-like she insists that her lover was not one of the burglars, but the doc tor insists that there were three of then. Detroit Free Press. People who complain of high prices at the opera may feol a sort of resign ment when they learn that $8 a seat was the price across the water at Monte Car lo to hear Marie Van Zandt, the Ameri can prima donna, sing in "Diuorau.'1 jr. X Herald. FACTS AND FIGURES. The Cincinnati Industrial Exposi tion of 1880 cleared $11,624.46. The Exposition of 1881 lost $10,922.24. Among the veins of New York City e 386 miles of sewer, 512 of' water are mams, eoo ol gas pipes, and about 8 mues oi electric tuoing. heavy j gloves at Johnstown, Fulton County, N 1., nave had scarcely any call for their goods this season, owing to the warm weather. There were 1,756 races run during the season of 1881, and the amount of money that changed hands was $987, 284, of which $811,935 was won in the United States, Three years ago a firm in Texas in vested $33,000 in cattle; a few weeks ago this stock and its increase was sold at'$15 per head, and the sale amounted to more than $110,000. A lead pencil should never be wet. It hardens the lead and ruins the pencil. This fact is known to newspaper men and stenographers. But nearly every one else does wet a pencil before using it. The long-sought-for specific against hydrophobia, it is said, has been discov ered in Cambodia in the shape of the bark of a tree, the effect of which is very similar to that of strychnine. In dianapolis Sentinel. Jav Gould's total wealth is esti mated "at over $60,000,000, of which $40,000,000 is invested in railroad and telegraph stocks, and $20,000,000 in bonds. He and Vanderbilt could by-and-by afford to " pool their issues," and pay off the National debt AT. Y. Sun. The Alder gulch, in Montana, has been steadily producing placer gold for twenty years, and is now worked out as high as water can be carried on its sides. The amount of gold taken out is estimated at over $30,000,000. More than a dozen gold-bearing quartz claims are now being worked at the head of the gulch. Chicago Times. The great activity in business cir cles is made manifest by the fact that the outward-bound mails from New York City are unprecedentedly large. Recently 991,000 letters and circulars, and 1,219,000 newspapers and circulars were dispatched from that city, neces sitating 152 wagon-trips from the post office to the railroad depots. Chicago Journal. The Astors pay taxes in New York on $11,500,000 worth of property; W. H. Vanderbilt on $3,250,000; A. T. Stewart's widow on $5,250,000; Amos R. Eno, $4,000,000; J. G. Bennett, $1, 200,000, and so on. The bulk of their wealth, however, consists of securities, which are not included in the personal estate taxable in New York. If the growth of cities be a criterion of prosperity, Italy is advancing rapidly. The new census returns show that Na ples has a population of 489,334, an in crease of 40,000 since 1871; Milan, 321, 000; Rome, 300,292; Palermo, 244,955; Genoa. 179,491; Florence, 168.000; Ven ice. 130,698; Bologne, 122.S84; Messina, 120,000; Catanie, 101,000; Leghorn, 97, 615; Ferrare, 77,008; Padua, 72,174; Ve rona, 67.741; Lucca, 68,116; Alessandria, 62,634; Brescia, 60,630; Bari, 60,576; Ra venna, 60,306. WIT AND WISDOM. Immodest words admit of no defense. For want of deceney is want of sense. Earl f Itvgtcommon. Nothing makes so much noise as a rickety wagon with nothing in it, unless it be a man who insists on talking when he has nothing to say. N. Y. Herald. Eli Perkins cut open a Florida alli gator and found pine knots in its stom ach. That's nothing. An alligator is not obliged to make a diet off of rocks and gravel-banks all the year round. Detroit Free Press. An oriental traveler ays: " I have seen a heavy man fired several yards into a dense crowd by the kick of a camel, and picked up insensible." The American mule used to go to school to the camel. Courier-Journal. The meanest man on record sent through a post-office presided over by a woman, a postal-card on which was written: "Dear Jack: Here's the de tails of that scandal." And then the rest was in Greek. Boston Post. A Philadelphia editor bears the name of Comet. He should have no difficulty in providing a talc for his paper, but it is hoped he will not get out of his orbit, and pitch into the Sun or the World. Norristoum Herald. A lazy young man complained that he was overworked in his business, to which the father replied: "I suspect, George, that overwork is not your trouble, but that it is that you need working over. Home Tretuture." Old Mrs. Skittleworth don't know why people will make counterfeit money. Siie says she tried to pass a bad half dollar a dozen times the other day, but nobody would have it," and she thinks it a waste of time to make such stutr. A Philadelphia man told a post master from a rural village that his post-office clerk was " no gentleman," and the postmaster got as mail as a hor net and came very near getting himself arrested for assault and battery before he rellected that his clerk was a lady. "My brodders," said a waggish colored man to a crowd, " in all inflic tion, in all ob your troubles dar is one place you can always find sympathy." "Whar? Whar?" shouted several. "In de dictionary," he replied, rolling his eyes skyward. AT. Y. Indejtendent. It requires no great stretch of con science to explain why we have had such a vast excess of weather such extremes of heat and cold, wet and dryness this year, as compared with previous years. Formerly a large part of the appro priation for the weather bureau was embezzled; now it is all expended for weather. Hence the superfluity. The Housefiold A leading citizen of Dallas, one of the most intelligent property owners in the town, was reading a newspaper in the Texas Sif tings office, when he came across the paragraph: "The admission of Dakota is a foregone conclusion at Washington," whereupon he said: " I can't keep up with the run of the Well ington scandals, there are so many of them. What did Dakota admit?" Tex as Siftings. Center la Quinine. There is something important going on in quinine. The distress occasioned by Southern freshets, to say nothing of the malarious influences of an open win ter, have led to a largely increased de mand from that quarter and one that is likely to continue; besides whie h there is supposed to be a heavy speculative "short" interest which is exhibiting some anxiety to cover, and from this source also there is a quick demand. Not long sinee there were considerable "short" sales of German at $1.50 per ounce, and these, it is understood, were covered vesterday and to-day at from $2.05 to $2.10 per ounce, thus entailing severe losses for the speculators. The sales in this market within the week are estimated at not less than 50,000 ounces some say 75,000 and the re port is that 100.000 ounces have been placed in Philadelphia. The jobbers are said to have been carrying comparative ly light supplies for some time past, in consequence of uncertainty as to prices, and this class of buyers have suddenly come into market to replenish stocks and provide for probable increasing re quirements. The market, not onlyhere but everywhere for this important drug, is said to be virtually controlled by a for eign syndicate, with headquarters in London and Amsterdam. N. Y. Cor. PhilaiUlphia Ledger. Fesdia? Poultry Raisin? Chick. One of the secrets of succossful.poul try raising is the art of feeding proj.crly, not merely at regular int eruus, baton the most suitabhTfood, a:id keepinir the chicks growing as ra'fily as possible from tho very start. It "is vcy poor economy to stint the poul-ry, e-peci ill. young growing stock, for when once stunted it takes a long while to recover, if it does occur at all. For the first twenty-four hours alte the chicks emerge from the shell, they sho tld re main under the hen unmolested, both to dry and gain strength and hardiness. They do not require any food, as the store nature provides will last over this time. As the chicks hatch sometimes irregularly, the older ones can be eaied for m the house until tne others are ready to be taken away, when the hen and her brood can be removed to a roomy coop, with a tight board bottom and a rain-proof roof. Tl.ey should be fed five times daily, but only just wh it they will eat up clean. The lirst food should consist of stale bread moisten d in water or in fresh 'nil! the milk is decidedly preferable. Do- not wet the food, as very moist" or slopp food will cause sickness and a hgli rate of mor tality among young tende.- birds. Keep the water (for drinking) away from them until they are si to eight weeks old. but if milk can- be .-pared, give them occasionally driid s f iL The too lavish use of corn meal luis caused more death among oung chicks than has cholera among grown fowls. Until tj.e ch'cks are half grown, i oi i ineal sho.dd be but sparingly fed, I lit after that time, when judiciously used, is one of the verj best and chea jest foods for fowls and chicks. Nine tenths of th. young turkeys and guinei fowls, which die ill the "downy" state, gel their death-blow from corn meal, as it is a very common prarticir (because it is so "handy," and suits laxy peojde so well) to merely moisten, with cold wa ter, some r.iw corn meal and then feed it in that way. Young chick-; re ish occasional feeds of cracked wheat and wheat screenings, while rice, well boiled, is not onlv greedily eaten by the chicks, but is one of the xcvx be-t tilings that can be given. It frequently hap pens that damaged lot of rice, or low grades of it, can be bougnt. at low fig ures, in the cities. As it increa es so much in bulk in cooking, it is not an expensive food for young chicks, even at the regular retail price, though it would not ordinarily pay to feed it to full-grown fowls very liberally or ery frequently. In the absence of worm, bugs, etc., during early spring, cheap parts of fresh beef can be well boiled and shreded up for the little chicks, but care must bo taken not to feed more frequently than once in two days, and only then in moderation. This feeding on meat shreds is very beneficial to young turkeys and guinea chicks when they are "shooting" their first quill feathers, as then they require extra nourishment to repair the drain on im mature bodies. American Agricult urist. Selection and Sowing of Seed. Provident farmers not only furnish themselves with good seed, but taking time by the forelock, make all needful purchases in this line in ample time so that when the rush and hurry of the planting season is at hand there need be no delay. By good seed is meant, or should mean." not only seed that is fresh and will readily germinate, but seed produced from selected seed stock. It is upon the quality and condition of the seeds sown that the profits of the garden and field most largely depend. No farmer can aflbrd to risk sowing damaged or defective seed; hence the wisdom of testing seed previous to planting iL It is a comparatively small matter to do this, as most readers know. The germinating powers of wheat, rye, oats and barley may be tested by sowing some seed in garden pot-saucers or oilier unglazed earthen vessels set in water and covered with moist flannel. Clover and grass seeds may be tested in the same way, as indeed may garden seeds. If the seed germinates irregularly it is a sign that old and new seeds have been mixed. If only a small per cent, germi nates the seed should be, of course, dis carded. The heaviest seed, other things being even, is best. The seed selected, the next considera tion in the cultivation of a crop is the condition of the soil. The temperature and moisture of the ground have more to do with the successes and failures yearly recorded than is generally acted upon. Wheat and barley, for instance, while they will struggle through the ground at the extreme temperatures of 41 degrees and 100 degrees, germinate most quickly other conditions being equal at about 84 degrees. Corn does best at about 90 degrees, though it will germinate at from 50 to 115 degrees. The squash, bean and pea all germinate readily at about the same temperature as that given for corn. Clover seed oft en fails because sown at a time of iusutli eient moisture, while millet, for in stance, under similar conditions of dry ness, will secure a good catch. The depth of planting is another im portant point. The size of the seed should regulate the depth of covering. Corn must be placed deeper, therefore, than the small grains, and the small grains in turn deeper than the grass seeds. Most fanners understand this, but all do not vary these respective depths to suit the different soils into which the seeds are placed, and yet a moment's consideration makes it appar ent that a heavy soil which lies close to the seed admits of slighter covering I hau does a shifting sandy one. Many inter esting experiments have been made from time to time to test the germinating powers of seed under different depths of covering. From experiments showing the germination of wheat at certain depths in the ground it appears that about three-fourths of the seed planted will come up at a depth of three inches, and nearly all at from one to two inches. These and similar facts point to the im portance of planters acquainting them selves with the requirements of the seed to be sown. N. Y. World. Women in Cities. One of the enrious revelations of the census is the large increase of females in cities. New York has nearly 25,000 excess of females over males, Boston over 18,000, and indeed in all the cities north of the Potomac and east of the Miss'ssippi there are more women than men. In the olden times it was the men who came to the cities, leaving the women in the homesteads; but the changes in modern industry, but more especially the growth of manufactures, have had" the effect of emptying coun try homes of the women who before did most of tho making of clothing. In the times of our forefathers the weaving, spinning and other employments gave work to the females of the family in their rural homes. But with the growth of manufactures home labor was dis couraged and employments were to be found only in the large towns and cit ies. It is the more surprising that women should come in such numbers to cities, as landladies do not like them, and prefer patrons of the other sex be cause they can pay them better and are not so much trouble in the household. But necessity knows no law. Women are in the field as workers, and to earn their living they must seek the large centers of population. The tendency is not a wholesome one, but society in time will doubtless do what it can to surround women with guards which they do not have in their rural homes. DemoresCs Monthly. Fifty thousand slate pencils made daily at Castleton. Vt. are RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. The Baptist ministerial arm in the United States numbers 16,514, beside the licentiates. A man iu Knox Comity, Maine, who wanted to vote against a projected high school, wrote his ballot "Know." Omaha is to have a Young Men's Christian Association. Steps have been taken by some leading citizens toward organizing one. The number of white and colored Bupils attending the public schools at anville, Va., is the same 370 each. 'I he average attendance is one point in favor of the white pupils. In Springfield, 111., the young men of the Christian Association holdserv ices in the jail every Sunday afternoon for the benefit of the prisoners. These brethren arc sure of their audience rain or shine. President Cheney, of Bates College, Maine, has published an appeal for an addition of $100,000 to the college's present endowment of $150,000. The women of the country are asked to raise $20,000 for the endowment of a chair. A young couple in Trousdale County professed religion on the same day in the same church, were baptized in the same creek, in the same hour, by the same minister, and were united in marriage before changing their baptis mal clothes. NashviUc (Tcnn.) Ban ner. General James M. Coale, who died at Frederick, Md., a few days ago, left $10,000 each to the following institu tions: Georgetown College, George town. D. C. ; St. John's Literary Soci ety. Baltimore; St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, Baltimore, and the Little Sisters of the Poor, Baltimore; besides smaller bequests of from $2,000 to $5,000 to other schools and charities. N. Y. Independent. At a meeting of Baptist ministers at Philadelphia, a resolution was adopted protesting in the name of Christianity against the arrest of Godfrey Hubert, a Baptist pastor at Skiem, Norway, who was recently sentenced by the courts there to pay a line of -?o0 for baptizing a convert, both of whose parents were members of his church. It was resolved to request the Secretary of State to in struct the American Minister to Sweden and Norwa to inquire into the case. Chicago Netvs. The Lee Avenue Baptist Church, Brooklyn, whose pastor, the Rev. J. Hyatt Smith, now a member of Con gress, recently resigned after thirteen years' service, has dissolved under its former name, and a new church has been formed under the name of the South Baptist Church. The Rev. N. B. Thompson is now pastor. As the church edifice has been sold for an academy of music, a site for a new church is being looked for. Services will be held in the old structure for six months. N. Y. Sun. A restless young preacher with a congregation of working people, in a manufacturing town, wrote to Prof. Phelps desiring his help to a better posi tion, and remarked: "I am throwing myself away in this shoe town." Prof. Phelps wrote to the young man that ho could not make a better throw. If by throwing himself away on these people, whom he considered unworthy of his superior talent, he could lift them up intellectually and spiritually, he was doing a work which would be worth the sacri lice. Ch icago Herald. The New Comet. At present the comet is about one hundred and sixty millions of miles from the earth, and its distance from us will probably not be less thau eighty millions at any time, though further calculations will be necessary to settle that point But though it will not ap proach us so nearly as other comets have done, it may be expected to make a line display for a few days in the early part of June. Only ten comets have liitherto been known to approach the sun so nearly as this in all probabil ity will. It is to be regretted, however, that its greatest brilliancy will occur at a time when it will be invisible to us, and seen only in the Southern Hemis phere. In this respect it will resemblo the great comet of 18S0. The present extraordinary intensity of its light which comes to us from the enormous distance of 160,000,000 miles, proves that it has plenty of material for future display, and it will probably show a long and nearly straight tail of enor mous dimensions to our antipodes. How much of the same sort it will give us is still somewhat problematical, and can only be decided on the basis of further observations. It is now invisible to the naked eye, and by a small telescope, though it is readily seen. 3et owing to its smallness it can hardly be distinguished from the stars which surround it. After passing its perihelion it will probably become visible in the Northern hemisphere. It now appears in the constellation of the Lyre, near Vega. It will pass to the westward of that star, and will continue on its journey up into Cepheus, when in May it will make an abrupt turn and go plunging in toward the sun. The elements of the orbit of the new comet are: Perihelion passage, June 15; perihelion place, 49 degrees, 35 minutes; longitude of node, 206 degrees, 40 minutes; inclination, 74 degrees, 47 minutes; perihelion distance, 10,000,000 miles, motion direct. This comet appears to have no ana logue in the past, as no comet is known with elements sufficiently resembling these to constitute reasonable belief in identity. The elements of the comet of 1097 somewhat resemble thoe of the present comet, but the perihelion dis tance of the former is computed to be seven times as great as that of the lat ter. Two weeks of further observation will serve to remove main uncertainties which now exist as to the future of this comet, and these observations will un questionably be awaited with the great est interest Albany Cor. A". Y. Herald. . Opening the Car Window. May be a man feels happy and proud and flattered and envied and blessed among men when he sees a pretty girl trying to raise a window on a railway car, and he jumps up and gets in ahead of the other boys and says: "Allow me?" Oh, so courteously, and'shc says: "Oh, if you please: I would be so glad,' and tho other male passengers turn green with envj, and he leans over the back of the seat and tackles the window in a knowing way with one hand, if peradventure he may toss it airily- with a simple turn of the wrist, but it kind of holds on, and he takes hold with both hands, but it sort of doesn't let go to any alarming extent, and then he pounds it with his fist, but it only seems to settle a "leetle" closer into the place, and then he comes around and she gets out of the seat to rrtiro liim a foil itnanrtn nnil Iia tvrnnnlaj that window and bows up his back and tugs, and pulls, and sweats, and grunts, and strains, and his hat falls oil', and his suspender buttons fetch loose, and his vest buckle parts, and his face gets red, and his feet slip, and people laugh, and irreverent young men in remote seats grunt and. groan every time he lifts and cry out: " Now then, all to gether," as if in mockery, and he bursts his collar at the forward button, and the pretty young lady, vexed at having been made so conspicuous, say's, in her iciest manner: " Oh, never mind, thank you. It doesn't make any difference," "and then calmly goes away and sits down in another seat, and that wearied man gathers himself together and reads a hook upside down oh doesn't he feel good, just? May he he isn't happy, but if you think he isn't don't be fool enough io e .tend any of your sympathy. He dmsii't waul it. Bur'iuglun Hawkey c I Farm Tools. Some agricultural papers, aro Indulg ing in wholesale tirades against farmers generally owning expensive farm ma chinery, and doleful pictures arc drawn of the waste and extravagance caused by tho propensity of our agricultural class to own the best and most improved implements. There is no doubt that very many farmers show exceedingly poor judgment in the purchase of tools; that they discard many useful ones for new kinds of doubtful superiority; and that they yield to the smooth talk of agents ami buy more than their farm .work requires. It is the old story of lack of judgment to be told of men in every pursuit more often, perhaps, of farmers because of their numbers and their comparative youth in matters of business calculation. But it is unsafe to say, as some writers do, that the ma jority of farmers are losing annually on their farm machinery, that nearly all the farms are strewn'with broken-down tools as a testimony to the owner's folly. Conclusions founded on such statements are sure to be erroneous; for such state ments are manifestly absurd. A gloomy article by one writer on this subject 6ighs for the good old times when there was " musclo in farming." when the tools on an average farm cost only thir ty dollars. We think that the writer of that article never had much experience with fanning in the days when there was muscle in it In "those days the boys who amounted to much were driv en by disgust from the farm to an em ployment with " brains in it," and ag riculture thus lost many from its ranks who would have been its leaders. To keep the brightest and best bovs on the farms, the work must be relieved of most of its drudgery, and this can be done only by the best of farm ma chinery. The difference between the agriculture of the present and that of the past is mostly the result of our improved machinery, aud we attribute the supe riority of our general farming and farm ing prople over those of other countries partis to the same cause. We could not do.w-t.hout these implements at the pres ent time. They have been of untold value to us. It is possible that this very extravagance and waste on the part of a portion of onr farmers has been a bene fit to the agricultural class as a whole although detrimental to the individuals by causing a great demand for im-pnn.-d tools and thus stimulating the inventors to renewed exertion. But it is unnecessary to enter Into a long defense of the late improved ma chinery; for all admit its value. The onlf question seems to be with the wrilers referred to, how much shall each farmer own? And they entertain all sorts of schemes for combination by which the work of many farms irmy be done with the same implements." A number of farmers are to club together in their purchase of the costly tools and me them in common, or a rich man is to own them aud rent them to his neigh bors or contract for doing their work. In Switzerland some such plan is in practice simply because it is a necessity; but here it is not a necessity. Our aver ige farm of eighty acres will cover many of the average Swiss farms, and there is the difference. A farmer with one hun dred acres of land must be independent of all others; he must have his land plowed, seed sown and crops harvested within a certain time, prescribed by our seasons, and where a number are depend ing upon the same implements, trouble is sure to follow. Such a system is im practicable for our agriculture. It woulc. be the cause of great loss in crops, and the disputes arising from it would bring endless lawsuits. The care of farm machinery is a sub ject which it is well to often bring to the farmer's attention. Even many farmers who show good judgment in the purchase of their machinery know little of how to get the most value from them. They leave these costly machines in the fields or in the barn-yard many a night and often all winter, exposed to the rain aud snow. Few have a shed devoted to the purpose of their protection, and a great many provide no protection what ever. One writer claims that the loss of machinery from exposure is greater than from its use. Alternate wetting and drying decays the woodwork, and rust soon does its work with the steel. A little care in putting the implements un der a water-tight shed at the close of tho day's work, and in wiping them dry, would more than repay itself. Lansing (Mich.) Republican. . m An Old Farmer's Narrow Escape from Freezing. Parties who came in from down the Bozeman road yesterday mooting were startled to find a wagon and team be longing to Mr. Filson, of Beaver Creek, standing in the prairie about four miles from town, the owner not being in sight The horses had been unhitched from the wagon, and it was evident that they had been there the greater part of the night. It was known that Mr. Filson started for Helena with a load of oats in the afternoon, and it was surmised that in the storm he had got off the road, and in the endeavor to find t had wandered away from his team and lost his way and probably his life. The night had been severely "cold and the storm blinding. It appears, how ever, that in this thev were partially wrong, as on reaching town Mr. Filson was found comfortably ensconced at one of the hotels. He had left home the previous day with about 2,500 pounds of oats in his wagon, and on reaching Woolfolk hill his team refused to pull. There was a fierce storm blow ing, and rather than spend time in a vain effort to start the horses, he took the oats, sack by sack, and carried them up the hill. After reloading the wagon, he started on again, but his team soon got into a snow-drift and could go no farther. He then unhitched the horses, and, getting onto one of them aud leading the other, again started for town. Again the horses got into a deep snow drift and Mr. Filson was unable to make them move. He was now becoming benumbed with cold and also became very sleepy, a dangerous sign. He resolved to go back to his wagon and pass the night m it, as he had left some blankets there. Fortunately for him, he was unable to find the wagon; we say fortunately, for the reason that if he had succeeded in finding it there is small doubt but that he would have frozen to death dur ing the night. Finally in despair he turned toward town, becoming more sleepy and numb every moment After a struggle of two or three hours, which only the greatest exertion of will power enabled him to sustain, he reached the lower end of Rodney street Here overstrained nature ga e up, and the despairing man fell to the ground, where he lay in an almost unconscious condition. He knew that he was freez ing to death, but was unable to longer fight off the overpowering desire for sleep. Strange visions appeared before mm and strange sounds rang in his ears. At one moment thousands of sleighs with their jingling bells seemed to pass round and over him. He seemed to hear music and songs in the distance, and bright, many-colored lights shone before him. Providentially at about this time two men passed along the road, and, although believing him to be drunk, they rubbed him, got him on to his feet anil managed to get him to a hotel. Mr. Filson, who Is seventy-four years old, has now entirely recovered from the ef fects of his unpleasant adventure; but it may be truthfully said that he does not hanker for any more experience in freez ing to death. Helena (M. T.J Inde pendent. m . m The albatross, the largest of sea birds, flies with the velocity of 100 miles aafeeur. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE! n n:t s spavins M'lil.NTS, ki : Bo . ri:us am ALLS .MIL UHLi: ISI1ES AM) I. Mil) KSTIIK llI'Xi WITHOUT ULISTr I IG. j6ftKENDALLtS KENDALL'S SPAVIN URE! It ha- cured thon-aniN of cases and is destined to cure millions and millions mor KEHDALL'S SPAVIN CURE! Is the onli positive .-ure known, and to (1 ! w.t.t. tvl,. . GIVEN UNDER OATH. To Whom it Mav roueum. In the year I.S7." I treated with "Kendalls 5-'iuiii Cure." a bone Min of M-or-il months' growth, nearly halt" at larire :i a hetix fifjr, and completely Mopped thu I-iiiie ncto and removed tlieViil-irgomeiit. 1 hae worked tho h.r-e i-eriueu erv haid.and lie nc ir iiu li.-en lame, nor could I exer see any dill'ereiiee in the (Size of the hock join: since I treated him with "Kendall's S,::vin I'-ire." U. A.Cxin.v. Knoslmrjrh ' IN. t.. Fi l. il. ".'.. Sworn ami Mil,-(Tilet! to lielore me thi 2Tith day ot Kcli.. .v. i. IS7!. loiiN i. Jkxnk, Justice of lV.iee KINBALIr'S SPAVIN G1TBJB; ON HITMAN FLESH it has been ascertained In; repeated In -Js U, be the very best liniment ever used for aui deep seated pain of lona slandim', or of short duration. Also fur CU.'Xt. UWIONS. FitUS ' BITES or any bruise, cut or lameness. Some are of mid to use it on ha nan flesh simply because it is a horse medicine, but you should remember that "irhof is good J or 11 EAST is good for MAN. and we A-uoir from Experience that "KENDALLS SJ'AV IX crilTetni be' ued on a ctid 1 year old with perfect safety Its Ejects arc wonderful on human flesh and tt does not blister or make a sore. Try it and be convinced. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE; Read below of its wonderful ollVcts a n liniment for the h:i in family. f) . . Hi-M VI I ik. Mii.smi i:i. Au-ist -jo. ixsn. 1... I, hKXDALI. A C. . (JKNTs.:- I .im so.crjnd in icw if the lesii't of an il plication of jour K. ndallS Spaxin Tim- that l'tci-1 th.it I onsh: f.r Humanities' .sake pul.Iish it to the world. Almut thii t-tiV . ir auo wlnh i idin - a v..iui' utrly hoie I was injured in one of my testicles. n,d f.oin that tini- to thr.-e ,,'k" asroa slow but constant enlargement has I.een the result, tfivin- me a irreat amount ot trouliK. :i!iiio.t enrfrely preMiitiiur me rro'n liors, h.i.k ridin-. ulrcli as,,iv UMinl wax ot traxelmir. Is, a i ..ti. e of x ..ur Kctid i I's -,, u i rt.. ix.r..iue thouirhtot it loraiixihin-except tor lim,.,, hut attei i. ecu io- he medi.i...- ,nd readinjroxer xvhat it xvas ood fiir, f elinierrililx ..ercic.i .il.out mx ditli. tiitx t i I had coi'u!ted many phxicians .iinl none traxem- nix speeiiie ut !i-n it .-.'nil he endured no loiiircr to n move it x i;h the k:.if. . I apph. d unr Ketid-ilis .P i Cure as an experiment, and it was s0 painful in its application that I itnic.1 not to repeat it andthouirht nomore al. ut it ii'iti! : a xxe.-k. a ! I. m.i l.ri,..t,t one-hair the size xvas one. xx it It joy I could M-.invlv !. ii v.- it I tuimeili-itelx ip- plied it over asrain. and luxe made in all ih.mt . doen u;ii.- n -ns runnt x( r a space of txvo xxei ks and the terrlMe e ilarifeiuclu is alm..si ?. .. j x ,,. f"n ,, (l I cannot express nsx feelings of deli-flu. It h.is hecti a ;...) send to me. mix he ieiiu to others with like troubles, .loiix Kick Pastor of Hematite Cotiifregation.il Church. i . a. ion are at liocriy to put tins ashamed to have my name under, oxer or KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE! Kendall's SpaxinCure is siir. in its 'Jlister, yet it Is penetntiiii and powerful torei.-h mv tie ( move any botiv gro-xth or anv other enlargement ;i ii.nl ir si4mi, -iiiuis, canons, sprains, swelling, a:iv l.itu- nt and t: o i u enn it' s . the joiut. or limbs, or rheum itisin in man and for aiix purpose fr xx hi.-h a liniment is Used for man or beast. It is n.. knoxx n to !. the b. t linim n: f.n m m i-vcr ummI aetiiig mild xet certain in its elfeets. It i, used in lull .sirm-rili nith p. l.-ct s.-u.iv it all seasons of the xear. Send address for Illustrated Ciictiiar. which xvr think gixes .i.sitie p-.iof. of its virtues. Xo remedy has met with such .tmu tllii d - i , to our know Irdifr. im- beast as xvell as in in. l'riceI per buttle, ur si Imiiirs for ?". ALL DRUGGISTS have it or can get it fer you, or it will be sent to aiix address 0n receipt oi piiei.bx the piopi leitus. 4S Dr. IL .1. KEXlALIj.te CO, K .osi.iirg- l-'alis, Vermont. .....:.. . ..,:... ...II ... . - ... ... ..... WHEN YOU TRAVEL A I WAYS TAICK '1 1 1 K B. & M. R.-R. Kxamine map and lime tables circfullx It xx ill be seen that this line eo-itit cts xxith C. I5..VQ K It.; in r.u : they are under one management," and taken together form xx hat is called Shortest and Quickest Line to ICAGO. ST. INB. FillU. DESMOIXKS, K0CK ISLAND. 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