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4 JuvlL and 1, 1 Wfte so tired of Jack, poor boy, And Jack wa« tired of m« ; Moet-lonyed-for aweota will BoOD«Bt cloy Kntti bad bm-il kind, ai)d we. Twofo â- Msh spendthritt lieartg made waste Of liftt'8 tieBt ({ifts with ea^tif batit«. Oil ! tired we were. Tiniu soeiUB so Jou^ Wliou averytliiug rods well ! Tbt4 waJlB of hoiuu rose Knm and Btron^ , l^iko prisonurBln a cell HWe clauked our tiiarriatjt) ciiaiu, aud piD«*d For ireedum wo htui lt!lL beliiud. Tired, t ired of lovo and puaoe were we Of every day's caiui bUtts! We bad un goal to win, siiice lie Was iiiiiio. auii I was hlB ; And BO we Hifjltoit in mute deBiiair, Aud wieliod oacb other anywbere. hut Borrow cauio one day- tbo pain Of dcatb B (lark awtul fear ; Ob, ttaun uur lioartB beat warm again Then eacb lo eaub wiui dear. Iti«eemed that lilo could uolhini; luck, Wbile Jack bail uie aud 1 bail Jack' WOMKN AND THKIK CLOTHKS. The l'rof;r«Hi« nf th« War Aitaluitt CorMtit ami fur Uivided Skirta. Barah Bernhnrdt'a empire dresaee in '• La Tosca " bid fair to <io more toward doiot; away with corsets ttian all the labors of reformers. U all women had the sort of ti|>area that Heruhardt has, it would be Btill easier to have her example followed. Lots of great aotrfssea, especially in France and England, dresx without corsets in many parts and often of! the stage. Barata, BUen Terry and Mary Anderson never wear thtm exeept in some particular part wbtre the sl^le of dressing is neiieasarily convention- ally stiff. The real way to improve women's dress hygienically is to improveit and make them believe it i'l improved artiRtically. Lovely woman is not going to satisfy what she believes to be her looks to any small matleru like health or life. The greatest advanoe ao far accomplished haa been through tea gowns introduced by fashion. Tea gowua are now recognized as proper wear indoors up to dinner time, and they are generally as hygienic as bloomers, and a gre*t deal prettitr. A lady jnst returned from England, and who has a very intelli- gent intercut in the subject, met Lady HabbertoQ over there. Lady Habberton Btill inaists on the divided skirt without oompromiae. So ahe doea not make uiucb progress in getting her ideas carried out. The New York lady says that the irouole with Lady Habberton is that she has no real talent or tsate or interest iu lireaa. She wants divided skirts becauue she tbmks they are more convenient, not oecauao she admires them. What is needed are womeu to lead the world in dress who have too macbtaate to eudare big touruure, 8i|uee>»d waists or bulky crinolines. Then the hygiene will take care of itaeif. Mrs. Carpenter Fenton, the 86cre- tary of tne English Dress Rtform Society, is fitted for her position by the (act that she dresses beautifully and always looks like a picture. Mrs. Oostafsou, whose gowns were more ad- mired and talked about iu tbo papers tbau any one else's at-u4he reueut women's convention in Washington, is a druBB reformer 4( the deepaat dye • She insists on beraelt and children always being clad in acooril with hygienic prin oiples. Some of tbe best English dreus makers are dropping the tailor-made idea and going in for high art etiocta. which are DOW much more gouerally if less startliugly attempted than they wwre in the beyuay of iho msthttica. Mrs. Oscar Wildc no longer doea the bi/.arre, but she dreseea witb great originality and tasto. S>io wears the <tivided petticoat beneath her gowns. Most of Mrs.l'otlur'a dreasM, boih for the stage and private n»e, are designed to be worn over the aivided petticoat. It is quite tbe swell thing now, but it iu too dimpay for conventionally faahioiiable frocks. â€" .V^u! Yorkiiraphtc. Uuw tu I>rluk Milk. ' What did you drink ?'' asked the doi'.tor. " Nothing that conld have made uue sick, I am sure," replied the patient. " Only a glass of milk." " Did you drink it iiuickly ?" ," No qaiiker th«n UHual." . " I thoaght .BO. Now, let me give you a word of advice. Many persons complain that they cannot drink milk, without being ' distressed by it.' The most common reason why milk is not well borne is due to the (act that people generally drink it too quickly. If a ^jlaaa of it is swallowed hastily it enters the atouiach and then forma in one solid, curdled niaaa, diflicult of digestion. If, on the other hand, the same ()aantity ia siptwd, and three minutes at least ia occupied in drinking it, then, on reaching the stomach, it ia ao divided that when coagulated, as it must always bu by the gastrio juice while digestion is going 00, inste'ad of being in one hard oondeiiaed mass upon the outside of which only the digestive Uuids can act, it ia more in the form of a sponge, and in and out of the entire bulk the gastric juiue can freely play and perform its fiinutioa. Milk may be rendered more digestible, and for many,. of a more agreeable taste, if prepared b) slowly adding a few drops of dilute hydro- chloric acid to it, drop by drop, while stir- ring it at the same lime. By this means the curd is broken up, and it is in a more favorable statu to be acted upon by the digestive tlaids. You follow my advioe and yoo will have no more attacks of siokneaa Buuh as the one yuu are troubled with to- day. Two dollars, ploaso. Oood day." â€" Mail and Kxprctm. ^nTorae Than Keported, Yon never hoar of a hod-oarrior going lo a millionaire and complaining that be is tired beoauae he bad been carrying bricks ^1 day. He would get no sympathy if be did. But see how differently a man in a bumble position treats a man of position when he oomplaina. One of our best and most hard-working judges wont up to the bar of the olub the otherday to get a drink. He felt affable. " Give me a long drink, John, I ann very tired. I have ao many things to carry in my head in court that it tires me oirt." "loan sympathize with you, judge," said the kindly barkeeper. " I know how it ia myself, carrying in my head all the drinks the boys order." The oldest ronident of Dakota ia Oor- aeliusO'Leary, who lives near Elkton and â- 8 U4 yeara of ago. Ho was born in Ire- land, and did not oome to this oonntry tiitil he had paaaod throe score aud ten. He reads without glasBea and votea the Demooratio ticket. CORRBNT TOPICS. AnHiNTiiK was introduced into Western civilization by Freiieh soldiers after their return home from the Algerian war in 1844. It is a product of North Africa and the Boldiers mixed it with their wine as a febrifuge. Its manufacture is now one of tbe largest liquor trades in Europe. It is «hiefly made at Neufchatel,in Switzerland, where 2,000,000 gallons are produced an- nually. Thk New York correepondent of the Philadelphia Press deecribes the new style of shaking haudu among women of fashion as follows : The hand of the shakee is seized, brought to a level with the chin, while ihi^ elbow is crooked and then not shaken, but flapped. This uracefnl token of friendship ia, I believe, an importation from the land of beef. Badminton andi ' Bass, you know." W. W. WiLMOT.an old man who appeared on the streets of Montgomery, Ala., a few days ago begging for enough money to buy a railroad ticket to Mobile, has had a romantio history. Many years ago he in- vented a machine (or crimping shoes, aud soon a0(]nired a fortune. In 1870 he lost a wauer of 37r>.U00 that be had staked on Tilden's election to the Preaideuoy, and since then one misfortune hag crowded closely on the heels of another until he has lost his entire fortune and his health as well. An interesting development in' photo- graphy is in the use of clockwork in print- ing from negatives. By this means a continuous web of Bensiti;sed paper ia drawn at suitable intervals under a negative exposed to a aonrce of light. After printing the paper ia drawn, still by the mechanism, through " washer," "toner" and "fixer" anc<ceBsively, and appears finally as a series of finished pictures ready for mounting, and all alike in exposure, color and tone. A NKW ayatem of sewage works has been put into operation at Henley-on-Thames England. Its object is to avoid the dis- charge of sewage into the river â€" which can no longer be allowed â€" and lift it to a level which will permit it to be used for irriga- tion. Ejectors are placed in different parts of the town to receive the sewage, and from there it is forced by comprossed air int» tanks about a trile distant, and IKO feet higher m elevation. The method is not costly, has proved practicable, and may offer a sncceasful solution of the ijuestion Qt the disposal of the sewage of low-lying towns. QpKEN Vktoiua has approved of the lat City of Edinburgh Kitle Volnuteers b> i luin future designated " The Queans Hitle Vol- unteer Brigade, the Royal 8cots (Lothian Regiment);" and of the '2od l'Minburi;h, Irit Mid-Lolhiau, 'Jnd Mid-Lothian, lat Haddington aud 1st Linlitbgowbhiru corps being iu future designated reb|X'Ctively the 4tb, otn, lith, 7tb and .^^tb Volunteer lUttalious of the aboveiuentioned regi- ment. A riuKNn recently spoke to Louis Kos- suth of the dourirbiiig condition of Peeth, when the Uungariau exile said that it almost broke bis heart to bear of that Dcautiful city and nut be allowed to see it. The friend auiige-led tbathemight go there wearing blue ^ogglee and a wig, after the style of General Boulanger. '* No," waa tlio reply, yet it is juslpoBaiblii that 1 may fei^Uuugary oguiii. If Knasia attaoka uiy coantry I will go without a wig or disguiHu, and will visit every village ana every city, and give my right arai in the service of my fatherland." Tim British driuk bill iu 1H87 ainoiiniod to .t 124, â- 1.0:1. GHU, against £122,;iO,'>,7H.') ill IHmi, an lucrcaae of £2,047. WJii. Thia iieavy iucreaai\ in the absence of any sug- gistioii to the contrary, is attributed to tbe liirueiy increased quantity of liquor drank in celebrating tbo (jueen'u Jubilee last year, i be compiler uf tbu above statiatics notes one comforting fact ia relation to this matter: It ii, that jubilees do not coine every year. Another cause lor satiBfactioii IB fouud iu ihu fuel, ihat the bulk uf tliu increased expeudiiure was for beer and wine, aud only a fractional portion was spent in spirits as strong drink. TuK Loudon SperUitor tells this story as an uxaiiiple of tliti (utility uf uuipirical knowledge wii bout science : Tbe Couiinia- sion appointed to iiii|iiire into the sea fish- eries, of which Sir Lyon Playfair waa ChairiiiaD, found that ou the wuut coaal uf Scotland there was a close-time for her- rings, fixed at the instance of tbe fisher men themselves. .As the greed of the lisbermeu has often interfered with the eiiactmeiit of a close-time, and thereby done great damage to the fiithiiig, tliia seemud a piece of nnuaaal wisduin. It turned out, however, when the (.'oiiimia- siouers oame to inquire into the otfuct of thia olose-Muie, that it also prevented fish- ing for ood and ling. Now cod and ling live upon herring, and the result of the protection given them for several mouths in each year was that they destroyed far more herrings than all the tiahermeii in thu United Kingdom would have taken iu the same period. Theolose-tinie had a directly opposite efTuot from which it waa intended lu have. A HBCENT British visitor to the Fiji Islands, once the homo of a race of canni bala, asserts that tbe British " govern this population of 100,000, not unaccustomed tu lighting, and scattered through a dilhoult country, witb a mere handful of native constabulary." A I'^rench official lately sent to Fiji from New Caledonia, " com- missioned to discover the secret uf our suc- oeas in dealing with these native raoee," being informed of thia fact, replied : '* Well, there ia no tise in nay reportiug this to my superiors, because they would not believe me ; or if, pur mtlheur, tbey did believe and tried to put it in practice, we should be driven into the sea in a we-k." Unhappily, despite official reporta to tbe contrary, the Fijian is rapidly disappearing from tbe (aue of his island. Why, the ship which conveyed the aoiieptance of our sovereignty of I'iji brought also the measles, which swept off one-third of the population. One of the many causes of the deoline is said to be " the going to church in a full suit of Euro- pean clotheB, and sitting naked in a draught tu cool themselves afterwards." "For thia reckless introduction of clothing, the more ignorant miaaionary of (ormer days has to answer." " The disappearance from the earth of these very fine races ia a distinct loss to the world. The experiment of pre- Berving snoh a raoe ha^ certainly nsver I been tried before under suoli favorablu oircomstanoea, for the work-3.:a >i&"ehkd carte I'hinchf. . " still, the writer believes that " what la needed above all is some additional atimulue to exertion." MiKKouTONEB nover oome singly. Oiiiy a day or two before Matthew Arnold's sad death, there died at Oxford Mra. Thomas Arnold, the wife of his younger brother, and the mother of Mrs. Humphrey Ward, whose novel, " llobert Elsmere," has made so much sensation. Mrs. Arnold had lived with her husband (of University College) iu North Oxfol-d for some twenty years past ; aud she will be greatly missed by Oxford society. In Robert Louis Stevenson's paper on " Gentlemen," which will appear in the May Scribiwr's, he says : " It is easy to be a gentleman iu a very stiff society, where much of our action is prescribed ; it is hard indeed in every free society where (as it seems) almost any word or act must oome by inspiration. The rehearsed piece is at an end : we are now floundering through an impromptu charade." Thkhe ia a great demand jn circulating libraries for Mra. Humphrey Ward's novel " Robert Elamere ' in consequence of Mr. Gladstone'a article in the " Nineteenth Century " wherein thegreat Liberal states- man's passion for theological cootroversy largely aaaerts itsulf. Alth^igh the novel waa written with the purpose from which point of view Mr. Gladston* mainly con- siders it, it also sets forth a love story of unoommon iuterest with much artistic efiFeot. Dk. OiiLK, General Superintendent of Statiatica in the British Registrar General's office, was on the 20ih ult. examined be- fore the Committee on Bpiigrania and Emigration. Hestatedthat the total num- ber of foreigners in Eiiglond and Walee, including London, in 1H81 was 118,000, of whom 17.000 were Americans, "18,000 were F^nropean foreigners, 306 were returned as having no occupation, or as being children under 5 yeara of age. Of the 118,000, 10,583 were sailors and 484 were priests or ministers of religion. Deducting iheaeand other similar classes, there were li;,34;') males over the age o( fl years left to com- pete with native labor, but a further reduc- tion would be made from that number for children between r, and l.') and for old people over 0,';. Of this number of 4ii H45 there was no single trade at which there were so many as ,"),000 foreigners engaged. The number of foreignera in London in 1881 was fi0,222. the largest portion of whom came from Germany. The foreign tailors in St. tiiorge'a in the East wt^ro in 1881 (il per cent, of the whole tailors in that district, and by 18H7 tbe number had risen to 83 per cent. In other trades, such as waiters in botels, there was a correapond- ing increase in the percentage of foreign labor. Col. W. F. Fox, in an article in the Ctn- lunj for May, tai<eB occasion to abow that iho much vaunted sacrifice of life by the Light Brigade at Balaklava was far ex- ceeded by regimeiitu during the I'nited Htatea civil war. The Light Brigade went into action 07:) strong; the lost in the charge was 1 13 killed and 1H4 wounded, a total of 30.7 i>er cent. During thu Frsnco- Frussiau war tho beaviest lighting was at Mars le Tour, in which the Kith (Jerman Infantry, or the3rd Westpbalian, lost 4'.l per cent. "But the 141st Pennsylvania lost 7'i per cent, at Gettysburg," b»v« Col. Fox. " while regimental lOBSeRof tiO p»r cent, were frti|nent occurrences in both Union and Confederate armies. In the war for the I'liion there were ecorea of regiments, un- known or forgotten in history, whose [ler- ctfiitago of killed and woiiiniwl in certain actions would far exceed that of the much praised Light Brigade, and nobody blundered either. " Peitigrew's brigade, Ilotha divisionâ€" the 20th North Carolina â€" went into the battle of Gottyahurg with over HOO men ; it had 8ti killed, ,'i()2 wouiuied and 120 mihsiiig. In one company, 84 Htroug, every ortic«'r and man was hit, and the orderly sergeant who tnailo out the list did it with a (lullet through each leg. It has been said it takes half a ton of lead to kill every soldier wi|)ed out in battle, but theae figures show that the chano<-sof keep- ing metal fromgoijigtowasttare aulhciciitiy iiunu-roua for all ordinary purposes. AMONG THE alOBM0^8. Mviuorlwi of a Visit tu the City nr ilie 8aiDt» â€" The Meu May Uuve it«.eu Hypocrites, but the Wouieu Were Siuuereâ€" A Talk With One uf lirighuiu Young's Wi<luwaâ€" tVeleoiue to Kxtra Wivea, Whatever the Mormon men may be, 1 believe the women are sincere, especially the foreigners, who are ignorant in the e.\- treme aud show it in their faces and speech and manners. Among the better classes, however, the women are intelligent and leljiied aud well educated, sending their sous to college and their daughters to Europe and living iu everj- respect like their wealthy gentile neighbors. Some of them profess to be very happy with their oisters, as they call their liUHbauds' wives, while others openly denouiue a sjstem â- vbich has brought so much evil to them, lu a pretty cottage near our hotel was a .Scotch woman who talked freely upon the subject. She married her husband, who was much older than herself, because asked to do so by his wife, with whom she lived happily (or a time. Then fierce jealousies and quarrels insued, and they lived a cat- anddog life until the old man threw a oomb into the camp by telling them he was about to marry Rose, a fairhaired Swede of 20. Then tbe first and second became a uni% and waged war against the third, whose charms, however, prevailed, and she oame to rnleMiver them until tbe first wife died and the second packed np her goods and left the field to Rose, whose blue-eyed babies I saw, together with her husband, and a man of 70 or more. Sometimes tbe wives are sisters, and in rare instances, I was told, a mother and duagber have called the same man husband, but for the aake uf womankind I hope this is not true. Through the kindness of the wi(e o( one u( Brigham Young's sons I was taken to the Liou House to call upon Eli/a Snow, a widow o( the great apostle, who had. when be died, 18 wives, not inulndiug Ann Eha, and 47 or â- 'iU children. Truly, bis state in tbo next world must be one u( beatific bliss i( sn>h bliss is proportionate to the aizo uf his family. The room in which I was re- ceived was a pleasant home- like apartment, with many portraits of the Youngs upon the walls, and among them one uf Brig- ham. Sister Eliza, as she was called, had ueen the wife if .luaeph Smith, the first e.\)>()uuder of M> rmoiiism, and was about 80 years if ag •, with the sweet placid face of one who. 'laving outlived thu joys and sorrows of life, waa patient Iv waiting for the end. She was very intelli- gent aud well informed, aud talked freely uiHiii various subjects, especially that ui poljgamy, in which she fully believed as something sacred and holy, alleging many argnineutu in its defence, one of which was that as women, as a class, are much purer than men, it is better for a young girl lo be sixth in the love of a good man than first in the heart uf a bad one. This did nut convince me, as I saw no necessity lo be either, but she interested me greatly. She was a Mormon, and bad been the wife of a man uf many wives, and ou that point I had no sympathy with her, but she iifi- preased me as a sincere Christian woman, with nothing in her religion except poly- gamy which the most rigid evangeliutouuld not endorse : and when nut lung ago 1 heard that she was dead 1 felt sure that she had found the rest she was waiting for when, on the steps of the Lion House, with the moonlight falling on her silvery bair, she gave me her blessing and said good-bye forever. â€" .If (I ry J.Uulmet. CUMBRSIONN OK A LAJlT HKNDRR, A Fair Ciiiitortiouiitt of 10 T«IU How Nb» L,earu«Hl tu VMutoTt, The oiner aoy callea on a bender, a lady, not a gentleman, who ik well known as a most serpentine contortionist. I wished to ask Mile. Vonare a lew questions about her art, with a view of throwing some light ou the training of little boys and girls for the profession. The lady was sitting before the fire with her sister, who has abandoned bending herself, and exhibits a iroupe of highly educated poodles. A huge wicker basket contained ber dress aud other stage habits. From Its depths she produced a bundle of photo- grapiifi of herself, tied and knotted into all iiianuer of L:iiriouB (olds. 'That is the uuBiuesa of a bender. The body is thrown into a score of unnatural pos- tures, which ajipear to the audience to be acliievfcd by dislocating every joint in the human frame, and to be "effected at great risk to limb and life. Artists are geneially uulhusiabtic about their callings, and 1 must say that Miss Vouare declared she would rather be a bender than a i|uecn. or something to that effect. She began at i ; ai .5 aud a half she was before the public. tirowiiij; (.juiiiCHta. 'Those who have attempted to grow tbe (juinoe, which is one of the beat of (ruits lur preserving and making jellies, are aware ol the diflicult ie» attending the fclTort. One of the obstacles lu the destructive work of tbo borer if it is not arrested in its liepru- datiuus. By a careful examination of tbe trunks of the tree tbe marks o{ thu pre- sence o( the borer can be detected and their destruction effected. Hilling up about the tre% with hard uoal ashes has been by suuie believed to he sort of preventive ; washing with soft soap suds will sometimes prove uffoctual in the destruction, but a small wire thrust into tho cavity lormed in the passage of the worm will servo well in its destruction. Salt strewn upon thu surface of the ground seems to promote health, and by some is believed to be absolutely essen- tial to Bucceas, and the fact that the i|uince thrives well upon sea coast farms that are continually acted upon by tbe salt hreei-.o seems tu favor that idea. But perhaps the most important thing is to keep the sur- face of the soil dressed with coarse manure to a depth of several inches. An abund- ance of fortiliy.ing material seema to be of greiUer effect in the vigorous growth of tbo tree and tbe development of excellent fruit than any other thing that can be done. I'urt«€l tar Only I'weuty Mini)l«« White ribbon and crape hang tu the left I of the dour at 7,^:1 Mitdisoii street, while at ' thu right is the Hoiiibro insignia o( >leat)i I whii:li shows that an adult has passed away. In the little parlor on the top floor are the raniHins of mother and daughter. Fannie Wells, an 11 yuaruld girl, was taken tick nbout three weeks ago. On Sunday morning her life waa despaired of. When her mother. Mrs. Li/./.ie Wells, realized that the enii was not only inevita- ble but oiOHu at baud, the scene was most pathetic. I " Is my little i;irl going to leave me here alone ?" she atkud. ! " The dying child smiled faintly and in a few minutes Mrs. Wells had lost her daughter. Twenty minutes later tho mother was also dead. There will be a double funeral thia afternuon, at which Pastor Burns, of tho Ueid Avenue M. E. Church, will officiate. Four deaths have thrown the family into mourning within three years. Nut long ago a daughter ran away and her whereabouts are now a mystery. â€" Hrookhpi luiiilc. and remains a bender still. 'My father saw a contortionist one night on the stage, aud he asked bimBeK why he should not teach me, aged 4. I was put into training at once, and enjoyed the (un, as a child will enjoy anything new. Was I beaten ? VVas I starved ? No. I seemed to take to it like a little duck takes to water. You see, we were a (amily of athletes, and besidea, I was a daughter and not an apprentice. If the father la the trainer he may not spare the rod, but he is cruel only to be kind. My experience is that less rod and more kindness is the best plan. Father used to bribe us into doing the different tricks. To be sucoessfai means years of hard work, practice aud performance. I am I'.t now, and my performance keeps me in oapitol training. In the business of contortion the first lesson is the backward bend, first with tho arms, aud then without. You stand on a long niattrose, so that there is no danger, and at first your teacher controls your movements with a hell. It is much the same with other forms of acrobatic work, and the cruelty often takes the form of tak- ing away the mattras^, which creates a sort of panic in the pupil's mind. If he has reallv tried his 'best and (ailed, he is ao terrified that he la almost certain to (ail unless he has a great deal o( pluck. If be has only been sulking, it may bring him to his bearings. Of course ohilnreii are often btubb'irn and try the patience of the teacher to its umusi iimii. â-  I'heart of contortion, " continued Miss Vonare, •• is learned by degrees. l"ir«tthe backwaril bund, then the ' dislocation,' tfata tbi! ' splits,' and so on. What we coll ' closeness ' distinguishes the best bending. To the audience bending seems most diffi- cult. But I experience no discomfort or incunveiiience. ( was a puny child. Yuu see ino now." "Tho lady bender was cer- tainly moat healthy and cheerful, stout in body aud ruddy in complexion, and she strongly maintains that all women would be greatly benefited if they took lo bend- ing. " It IS quite a mistake to think that we put our limbs out of joint, or that we suffer from the curious nature of our pel' furmniioe. Of oonne, after one or more diflicult positions one may suffer a little pain, bnt it goes in no time. In some atti- tudes I can only remain for twenty seconds, as the breathing becomes difficult. Bu» these are trifling inconveniences. I practise a few iiiinules every day to keep myself loose here iu my room, and that is about all 1 need do. " â€" I'rtit Mull iluzrtte. I Ttu.OOO Mlldi laws iu Ontario. ! At the meeting of tho F'airs and Exposi- tions' Convention in Toronto yesterday I'rof. Uobertson, of Guelph, read a paper on the " Use of lv\hihitions to the Dairy Industry. ' Tho Professor gave some interesting statistics. There are at present in Ontario 7fi0.000 milch cowa. Tho milk of 250,000 o( these is manufactured into cheese, 250,000 contribute milk for butter and iriO.OOO give the milk which is ooii- sumed in tho ciliesand country. Tho Pro- fessor suggested that in dairy shows thu winners should be ticketed by the judges with a card explaining why they were swarded pn/es. This would be » valuable aid to breeders. A NeKleet«d Pather. Mother (to Bobby, who has just oom- pleted his prayers) â€" Why, Bobby, you forgot to pray for papa. Bobbyâ€" Why, so I did, and ho needs it ao tnach, doesn't he, ma 7 A FHmily Man. " Are you a man of family, sir ?" he said bo a timid little ohap who had a nervous way of looking over his shouldor. " Yes, air," was tho reply ; " my wife haa a husband and four children." â€" Neit York Sun. « Wilhelmina Liebkuchner, who poisoned her two children on Maroh 2lBt and is looked up in the Tombs, at Now York, awaiting trial for their murder, gave birth to a male child yesterday morning. Her hnsband died a oonplo of years ago. Miss Vranoea WilUrd advises all girla who " feel a oall," as she onoe did, to the ministry to enter a theologioai seminary and prepare (or the wsrk, undictorbed by I tho alleged irreoonoilability of the vooationi of nunisttr and mother. Puetry Which Pays. Society Dameâ€" Who is that young man ' who is so attentive to yon now ? Great Belle â€" He is a poet. " Mercy on us I And do yon, the proud daughter of a hundred millionaire, pro- pose to throw yourself away on a poor, miserable starveling of a poet '/" " Oh, ho isn't that kind of a poet. He writes aoap adverliaements." I " My own, own daughter, after all. Ask him to dinner."- Omn/iu World. A Trivial Oixuirreure. " Yon wore severely woanded at Gettys- burg, I believe 7 " Let's see ; I believe I was." " Believe I Don't yon remember it ?" " Not very distinctly." " How's that ?" " I've been married ever sinoo tbe war." â€" Ntbnuika State Journal. The law of oompensation as stated by a woman : " 'When we are girls they don't go away till after midnight, and when we are wives they don't (x>me home until after midnight." Cti' Piled Oil Ills KiiiKera lo Kaciipu Work Charles lleyers, a convict serving a term ill the Suutherii Prison at .lefforaonville, adiqitcd a peculiar method yesterday morning to a\oiil iiiaiinal labor. While on the way lo ibe foundry, where he is as- signed to labor, he dropped out of lino, and before tile ^luard discovered his iiituntious ran into the nmcliiiie shop and, sei/.ing a iiatuhut, deliberately laid hia left hand un a block of wood aud cut off all the fingers. This is the third time that Beyers has attempted to disable liinisulf. He was sent to tho i»enitentiary from Orange County to servo a term of eight years for burglary, and is one of the three prisoners who over- powered the jailer at Paula last .laniiary, and WKB pn-vented from osciipiiig by the wife of the (itlioer, who heard tho scullle and went lo the relief of her husband. Standing in the hallway, with a cocked revolver, she called for asaistance, at the same time threatening to blow out the brains of the first prisoner who attempted to pass out. â€" huiiunupoiir Jiiurnai. One of tli«5 Fiuully. Mrs. H.â€" " Norah, I heard a man'sveioe iutho kitchen last night. Didn't I tell you that I did not like my girls to have com- pany ?" Norah--" Yos, 'om, yon did; but it was uie first cousin Mike, and auie you needn't niiiko company of him at all." â€" Uiirpir'K Uatar. F'riend (to Mormon lady)â€" Yon are very happy with your husband, are you not, Mrs. Biighain ? Mrs. Brighainâ€" Very. Wo aro devoted to oaoh other, and he haa such iHTleol confidence in my judgment that he confides all o( his little love affairs to me. Rev. George Barnes, the (amons evange- list from the mountains of Kontucky, is a man of hinhmg ap|iearanoe. Ho is now (iQ years old, is fully six feet tall, and his Htraiglit, vi.;i runs form shows no sign o{ Bioop thai c..ii>. H from age. His face showB strength ol cliaiacter aud oarnestnesa in every liin . An experience of more than twenty years of judicial life haa taught mo that more than aoven-eighths of the crime committed in thia oountryâ€" which involve personal violenceâ€" were traceable to the use of in- toxicating li.iuors • * • that of all the sin and misery, of pauperism aiM wretched- ness, intoxicating liquor stands forth the unapproachable tihiet.â€"Noah Davit, Chief Jutlice of tlie New York Suirreme Court. At Indianapolis aa a gentleman was walking along tho street, accompanied by two young ladies, one o( the girls stopped on a parlor match, and in an instant the dresses o( both were abUite (rom head to (oot. By prompt aotion on the part o( the gentleman tbe llames were smothered be(ore tbe yoang ladies wore seriously burned. ^ i*