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.•*<>'; ^M FARM AlTD QAEDEIT. Some Seasonable Hints for Bnral and Other Beaders. Insects In Orchards. One who has tried it states that boming Borapa of old rabber, rubber boots or shoes, npoD a pan of coals that is circulated among the trees of an orchard, will cause all insects to depart. Tbisie a very simple means, but wo should fear that they would return after a little time. The claim was that there was a sort of coDsistence to the â- moke that adhered to leaves, blossoms and even the trunks of trees, which being re- pulsive to insects drives them away, and also holds its virtue for some time. If this is a reliable remedy it will be convenient to repel rose-bnga during their period of greatest injury. Wool Caltlratlon. Prof. Wm. Brown, of the Ontario Agri- cultural College, has issued an excellent bulletin on the " Better Cultivation of Wool." He holds that there is no justiUca- tion by sound argument for the practice of washing, of clipping but once a year, nor of rarely taking wool Irom lambs. He says among other things : The common practice is to leave clipping until Jane, or after spring seeding, when wool is in less quantity, dirtier, harsher, more ragged and not so sound for manu- facturing purposes. Wo should have issued this bulletin earlier, with the strong advice : " Never let your wool go to grass." Even now it will be in time for many in other aspects. The few lines allowed in this public document do not ad- mit of telling all the accompaniments of the change of practice recommended, among the most important of which would be that poor feeding and early spring clip- ping imply many deaths, an inferior crop, and nearly everything in correspondence. Much of the wool of a large Hock after tbo long housing and dry feeding necessary in this country deteriorates before April ; some of it leaves the skin, dries and conse- quently the whole tleece prematures and loses value. When removed two to four weeks before going out, there is such a stubble of new growth as sufficiently fends from sun- shine and chilly mornings, supplemented as it should always be by the application in any case of a good " dip " in mid- summer. And now comes what to me stands as a great mistake in manage- ment and the value of a crop of wool anywhere, namely, harvesting only once a year, and never clipping the Iambs. We have already imlicated the good resnlting from early clipping and that sheep are de- cidedly more comfortable from it, and it is also our experience that clipping again in July is both beneficial to the animal and Srotitable to the owner. The extra well- oing after April has produced upon good pasture a superior second crop, shorter and finer in texture relatively to kind. This ia the stage claiming the better sample for certain fabrics, where also the longer, coarser varieties would and do actually give such a change as fetches a greater price per pound. \Vliy do not tlock-masters make this crop ? There is not the shadow of cruelty about it, though it certainly means tree or shed shade and another turn of the dipping tub. Long before the chilly nights of September or the actual f rust of winter comas â€" not forgetting it is not frost bot wet that does moat harm to sheepâ€" the second growth ia long and close, and ere next .\pril, under good management, is equal in weight to what it would have been had dipping been done only once. Altogether, then, we gather up the fol- lowing oomparison of the two systems as applicable to Ontario and the market to- day for unwashed wool, on an average of the breeds named : Usual clipof? lb. in,Iuuo,atl5c... $1 05 first clip of 7 lb. iu April, at 15u .. $ 1 OS Bocondclipiii July,»ilb.,atlUc... Ba Clip of Lamb, ouo per buad of all tbu llock, 3 lb., at 17c 51 3 CH Diffcrouce per hoail $ 1 03 The extra coat of shearing and dipping amounts to H cents per head. I have recently advised with two extensive woollen manufacturers, and submitted samples of unwashed wool from all our breeds, upon which they set the following as the highest possible present market prices per pound : KltUM fLlP, Al'lllL AND MAY, 18KH. CtB. LbB. liiucoln „ 11 13^ Ontario ijrado*. 13 11J| Cotswold 13 Uh lAjJcester 13 11^ Oxford 15 II) Cheviot 16 '.t Bhrops Ki y Honipa 10 SI Southdown l*t H Merino ii 7 Taking the Merino as a standard and at an average weight of seven pounds per fleece iu Ontario, I give in the second col- umn the number of pounds per lleece required from the other breeds to make an equal value. It is signilicant of nature's impartiality that but one of the number, viz., the grade, fails to stand the oom- parison, as with that exception, which is three pounds too much, the actual average weight per ileece of all the breeds with us is very close upon the figures given. Nuked Fallows. In speaking of naked fallows the Fami Home says: "A crop of ragweed on a stubble field ia a real bleasing in protecting the soil from the scorching sunshine of August, which is the season that the pro- cess of niitrilioation shows the greatest activity." If it ia necessary that the soil should be covered with vsgotation let it be with something of greater value than rag- weed, which is upon any farm, especially when allowed to go to seed, as the seed appear to hold their vitality iu the soil for years, and for that reason we should dislike to encourage its growth because of a pOEsible benefit in another direction. Other Farm Notes. It ia surprising to see what a greatchango a little paint will make in the appearance of farm buildings. Poor, sandy soil should not be left uncul- tivated. Carefully prepare the land, sow to buckwheat and plough the buckwheat under when the crop ia in blossom. In this way thb land may be gradually made productive. For mildew on grape vines.â€" Prepare by boiling three pounda each of flours of snlphur and lime in six gallons of water un- til reduced to two gallons. When settled pour off the clear liquid and bottle it. When used mix one part of the clear liquid in 100 parts of water. The potato crop is one that usually pays. The average value of a crop should not be less than 850 per acre clear of expenses, though more can be made by selecting pro- per aeed and giving good cultivation. The early crops are leas liable to insect attack than the latter, but for winter keeping the late crops are better. A cow should be milked out in five to eight minutes. It is hard work on the wrists and muaclea, but it must be done or the cow will get a habit of dribbling the milk, which ia very tiresome. To cure this habit, which haa been brought on by slow milking, the milking should be done more quickly, and in time the trouble will disap- pear. A contemporary gives three excellent hints : " An avenue of well-grown trees by the roadside makes a farm vastly more attractive, and costs little except the labor of setting. On high ground the Bugar maple thus set will make a sugar grove after a few years. On lowlands the elm ia a handsome tree, but its roots extend far into the fields, and are very likely to get into underdrains when the roadside is drained, as it should always be." It is surprising what growth grape vines will make over an evergreen if given a chance to run. With only moderately rich soil the vine will entirely cover the tree, killing it after a few years. Its tendrils cling to the slender stems of the evergreen foliage and will not relax their hold. The higher the vine runs the finer the grapes and the harder they are to get. It is not u good way to give grape vines their will over any kind of trees. A low, neat trellis will cost but little and be every way more satis- factory. ^ i'lieiitluj; the liunk. " There are any number of people, some- times, I think, as many as nine out of ten, who seem to think it no crime to cheat a bank," said a clerk in a financial institution to a Pittsburg DUpatch writer. " If there is a streak of meanness anywhere in a man's nature it will crop out when he is put to the test on a question of money. Sometimes I have amused myself by experimenting with men to find out whether they were honest. There is un easy way of ascertaining. For instance, a depositor hands in biH bank book, together with a number of billa and checks, the amounts of which are to be placed to his credit. He haa made out a deposit ticket, which he holds in his hand while I count the money. 'How much?' I ask. 'What do yoif»wake if" he in- quires. I name a sum fS or 810 larger than I have ascertaited the amount to be. If the man is honest he will say he thinks I am mistaken, but often he will turn around and make out another deposit ticket, fixing the i^mount to correspond with the figures 1 have given. Then, of course, I count the cash again and announce that I have made a mistake, and to prove it hand back the monL>y and let him recount it. Men whom nobody would ever suspect of crookedness in business matters are often very quick to take advantage of a lit- tle mistake iu their favor. I know several wealthy gentlemen who, I truly believe, would never think of paying back any sum, large or small, that got into their hands through a bank clerk's mistake." Katy's Coaslu <>n the Forcr. liaty Mulcahy was out in the Central Park yesterday with her two little charges and had a groat deal of tronblu with the boy Walter, who would not keep off the grass. They had entered by the gate at Seventy-second street and strolled down to the heavy bench of chestnuts at the corner of the grand drive, where Katy mot her big cousin on the Park police and rested a bit to give him the time o'dsy. When the cousin in gray was fully informed on the subject of time he strolled leisurely down the walk, and Katy called after Wally for the fiftieth time to come off the grass. He wonldn t and she threatened him with the policeman. Walter stopped and looked at the big bushy- whiskered oflicer and re- mained on the grass. " Come off, I tell you," shouted Katy, " or I'll call that policeman, and he's very wicked." " Wicked ?" cried Wally, looking at his nurse with his eyes wide open. " Yob, and ho has a big stick, and there's no knowing what ho might do to you." " Well, if he has such a big stick and is so wicked why do you kiss him so often ?" " Because he's my cousin. " " That's no reason. I have a cousin Maud, and I don't kiss her. I hate her," and he stayed on the grass. â€" New York Star. ir Not One, Why Then Another. " Kin I git a marriage certificate, mister, with the gal's name left blank?" inquired an agriculturist. "I gueas so," was the reply ; "what's the trouble?" "Niineyet, but gals is like everything but death and taxes, mighty onaartin. There'a goin' to be a wedding though, miater, and don't you forgit it."â€" Epoch. In a More Delicate Forui. A little girl seeing her mother petting and caressing another child began to show unmistakable signs of jealousy. Her mother remarked : " Why, Sadie, I believe you are, jealous." "No, mamma," she replied indignantly. " I'm not jealous, but I don't feel coml'able." Unnecessary Troable. Policeman (to Brown, who is clinging to a lamp post)~8haIl I help you over to your hoHse, Mr. Brown ? lirownâ€" No, ehnnneshy. Honsh be (hie) here in minute; can see it oomin'. Been 'round Iwiahe already.â€" Li/e. The late Lady Buchan well remembered Napoleon Bonaparte at St. Helena, where her father was governor in 1815. When she w ks first introduced to him tbo ex-emperor Biid: " I have long heard from various ijuartors of your superior elegance and beauty, but now I am convinced that report has scarcely done you sufficient justice." And then, as she was soon to leave the island, he added. " You must bo glad to get away." " 0, no, sire," said she, " I am sorry to go." " Ah ? Well, mademoiselle, I wish I could exchange places with yon." On the wagon sheet of a prairio schooner that paased through Orleans, Mo., from Kansas the other day, bound eastward, was the inscription : " Try in' 2 sit back 2 my wife's people. My name's Eli." A T£BBIBLE BIDE. A Stage Coach Dashes Down a Mountain Side Behind a Kanaway Team. The stage passengers on the return trip from Julian two days ago experiencud an exciting adventure in the shape of a runa- way down a mountain road, in which the driver was thrown from his seat, three of the paesengera injured, and all had a nar- row escape from death on the rooks. Out- side with the driver sat Marion Thresher, a little blue-eyed girl, 10 years old, and inside were five passengers, all men. As the stage waa coming down a steep road on Stone's Hill, between Ramona and Bal- lena, forty. two miles distant from San Diego, the brakes gave way and the horses started on a jump down the precipitous mountain path. 'The driver realized the danger, and knew that unless the horses could be stopped within a quarter of a mile the stage and all its occupants would be dashed to death down the side of the cliff where the road entered a narrow mountain pass. He exerted every effort, but the frightened horses, with the heavy stage pressing upon them, almost tore the reiae from his hands. They had not run far before the wheels struck a reef on the side of the road, and the stage almost went over on its side. The driver waa thrown from his seat and dashed upon the rocky road. The little girl clung with both hands to the seat rail and kept her place opon the careening stage, but as she looked down upon the maddened horses tearing down the steep path to the cliff and chasm below she lost all hope. Boon another reef was struck, again the stage almost went over, and this time the strength of the child waa not sufficient to withstand the shock. She was dashed out upon the stony roadbed and lay there bruised and senseless while the horses went tearing on. At the start tlie inside passengers had not suspected anything wrong, and it was not until they saw the driver fall upon the roadside that they knew their danger. Then they sprang to the opening to save themselves if possible. One of them, Sam M. I'oarce, as he viewed the fearful pros- pect below and realized that if the chlf was reached all would be doomed to death, resolved to risk his life by a dangerous jump. The tlinty roadbed made it almost certain that thia step involved at least a broken limb, but as the stage fiew past a clump of bushes he throw himself into it. The force of his fall waa broken and, although badly bruised, hewas not seriously injured. Mr. Rich, another passenger, fol- lowed, but did not escape so easily, for he sustained a broken ankle. On the other side of the stage the other three passengers were clinging and looking for an oppor- tunity to leap, but on that side of the road, and almost grazing the horses and stage as they tore along, was a 'oarbed wire fence All gave themselves up for lost unless the stage shoald pass the wire fence before the cliff was reached. Suddenly there was a crash and a shook which threw seme of the passengers violently against the front of the stage and one of them to the ground. Une of the horses had fallen and the stage had been stopped within a few rods of the terrible cUff. The passengers in the stage, although badly frightened, were uninjured, and returning up the road they gave assiatance to the wounded. Mr. Pearco, who jumped into the busbea, had already limped back to the little i^irl and picked her up. He found her lying senseless, terribly bruised, and with a broken arm. She aoou returned to couBciousnesB, and, opening her blue eyes, gave a piteous little moan, and then clinch- ing her teeth, refused to give any further signs of her suffering. The driver, although badly bruised, was not disabled, and the stage was rigged up to proceed (in the journey. The injured child was ten- derly cared for by tlio passengers and brought to her friends in San Diego, to whom she wau returning from a visit to the country. The thrilling adventure of that terrible stage ride ia an experience which will never be forgotten by those who came dashing down the rocky road. ^ Uuveu Uf}sa Ate with Uer Flngem. It ia diflicult to reali/.e what a modern invention the table fork is. Queen Ijlix.a- beth never heard of one. She had, it ia true, a few dainty forka, perhaps with crys- tal handles, for eating preserved fruit at deaaert. Bnt long after her time dinner forks were unknown in England. The very earliest now to be found belongs to the same nobleman whose hour-glaus salt haa been already spoken of, and these are not older than the middle of the reign of Charles II. The fentearly forks of the reign of George I. are three- pronged, and but few of our neighbors can show us fonr- pronged forka much before the reign of George HI., from which time their fashion haH remained nnaltered to the present day, except for their handles, which have fol- lowed the fashions of spoons, finishing ap with the familiar "fiddle pattern" of I'.tth century use. Before the days of forks the ewer and basin, which have now generally dijsppeared, were much in request after every course ; whereas now the basin alone, with a little rose-water, makes its appear- ance at civic feasts after dinner, as a mat- ter of fashion rather than neceasity. Four out of five old baaina have no doubt been melted up to supply the very forks whose invention rendered the washing of the fingers superfluous. â€" Mumiij't Magazine. Misfortune Turned Into Luck, How often it is that what seem our mis- fsrtnnes turn out to be the beat of good luck. A Toronto merchant had a cargo of 07,000 bushels of No. 1 Manitoba hard hung up in the ice last winter at lUcKay's Harbor, in Lake Superior. It is juatgetting out now, and ia worth eighteen cents a bushel more than when it was frozen in. Profit from the transaction 81'2,000, and no elevator charges to poy. â€" Toronto Olobv. Why Uo Was a Little Vexed. " Adolphua, d'ye know that I'm a little vexed at Miss Simmons?" "What hap- pened, Arthur, old boy?" "Well, you know, I pride myself on my singing. We were at the piano. ' I'll sing one more song and then go home,' I said. " Waa it late? " " About midnight." " And what did she say?.." "She said, 'Can't yoa go homo first?'" "And did you?" "Yes, Adolphns. I tell you I'm a little ve.\ed about it." _ ^ , Joseph Mason, of Fielding, HI., has not shaved for fifteen years, and his beard is five feet long, touching the floor when he atanda ereot. SAFBGUABDS AGAINST TUIBVES. A Reformed Burglar Tells Householders How to Protect Their Property. First of all, I may say that the hoase- holder, especially if his house ia situated in the suburbs, shoald count as next to nothing the protection afforded by the night police- man on his beat. I don't mean to insinuate that the night policeman neglects his duty. I believe that, as a rule, he performs it as well as he is able to, and it may be pretty safely relied on that at each time he passes a row of villaa he will cast the light of his bull's eye over the front garden, if there ia one, and over the house front, and lower windowa and street door. If there ia no front garden he will see that all is right and tight in the area as well. Bnt his beat ia a long one, and it ia probable that he will not pauB thst way again for an liouror perhapa longer. So that if there ia a job afoot all that those engaged in it have to do ia to hide ana see the policeman off, and they then know exactly how much time they have to get through their work before he can make bis appearance again. Speaking of my experience, and from that of others with whom I have been ac- quainted, I should say that at least a fourth part of the number of private bouae bur- glariea that are aucoeasfuUy committed are assisted by servants. But speaking of ordinary work it ia the female servants who are made useful, and that quite inno- cently on their part. Masters and mia- treBBSB have no idea what easy simpletons many girla iu service are, or how easily they are induced to betray the secrete of the house. And not only girls, but women cooks and housemaids, who are old enough to know better. A smart chap, with plenty toaay and with money to apend, has but to scrape ac<iuaintanco with the kind of ser- vants I am alluding to when they are out for church on Sunday and meet them a few times afterwards, and lie can loarn all he wants to know respecting the valuable stuff in the house and where it is kept, and the ways and habits of their employers and when they are at home and when away. It is not often the burglar himself who in this way goes aUshing for useful infor- mation. Generally speaking, he ia not what may be called a â- ' ladies' man." He is very well in his own line, but he hasn't got the good looks or tho insinuating ways that go down with the fair sex. That part of the programme is intrusted to the " sweetatuff man." Ho ia an affable, well apoken young follow, very respectably dressed, and so respectable in his manner that even if he was caught in the kitchen with the servants at houses where followers are strictly prohibited his appearance would disarm suspicion. It should not be forgotten that the burglar haa no particu- lar desire iu tbu pursuit of nia owning to run his head into more danger than is necessary, and there ia iiolhiug that is ao much to Ilia liking as parapet work â€"get- ting in at attic windows that arc screened by the roof parapet. Not one houaeholder in a score gives a thought aa to the secu- rity of the attic window. He will have his street door iron plated, with a patent lock on it, and a chain strong enough to hold an elephant, but a catch that can bo put back with a Dradawl ia good enough for the attic window, and all tho time it is quite as oaay to enter by oneway as the otherâ€" if tho houses stand in a row and one of them happens to ba empty. This is one of the oppurtunitios the fraternity are always on the lookout for. Nothing can be easier than to enter an unoccupied bouse at the basomuat, and once within all a man has to do is to walk upstairs and get out on to the parapet, and there, well screened from view by the coping, he can creep ou bis hands and knees, and by means of tho attic windows get into uny house he has a fancy for. If it is winter time, and after dark, be will have no difficulty in taking stock of tho front windowa before he makes the ascent, and so ascertaining which of the front rooms are occupied or if the fitmlly are at dinner. If the latter he can bo pretty sure that tho servants are all down stairs, and he can explore the upper rooms without much fear of interruption. Thia wouldn't be called in the profoseion tip-top work, but it is a means by which houeeholdora lose a coDHiderablo amount of portable property, and it very rarely happens that the robber is uanght in the act. As regards house fastenings there is, in my opinion, nothing safer for windows than a long thumb screw in a socket, going right through the frame and deep into tho sash on both sides of tho window. I don't know if there have been any wonderful in- ventions in that way since 1 took an inter- est in such things, but I never saw a door fastener except the thumb screw that should give a workman a minute's trouble. For the street door there is nothing so good as a fiat bar fastened to a pivot to the centre, so that it will extend across the jambs and drop into slots made on the plan of a watch ana chain swivel. For window shutters the cheapest and best protection is a lightly bung bell on a coil spring. But better than locks, bolts and bars is a wiry little dog that, roaming loose, will opun his pipes and let all the house know it the moment he hears a suspicious noise at door or window. â€" London Telegraph. UOKltOBS OF SIBKBIA. Exile Provinces Where the Mercury Stand* for months at 50 lieluw Zeroâ€" A Mai- vellous Trsnaltlou. I " It is hafflly neceasary to say that a I country which has an area of five and a I half million square miles, and which ox- I tends in latitude as far as from the aonth- I em extremity of Greenland to the island of Cuba, must preaent great diveraities of climate, topography and vegetation, and cannot be everywhere a barren arctic waste. A mere glance at a map is sufficient to show that a considerable part of Weatern Siberia lies farther south than Nice, Venice or Milan, and that tho aouthern boundary of the Siberian Province of Semireohinak ia nearer the equator than Naplea. "in a country which thus stretches from the latitude of Italy to the latitude of Central Greenland, one would naturally expect to find, and aa a matter of fact one does find, many varie- tiea of climate and scenery. In some parts of the Province of Y'akutak the mean tem- perature of the mouth of January ia more than 50 degreea below zero, Fahr., while in the Province of Bemipalatinsk the mean temperature of the month of July is 72 degreea above, and such maximum tem- peratures as 05 and 100 degreea in the shade are comparatively common. On Taimyr peninsula, east of the Gulf of Ob, the permanently fro^ien ground thaws out in summer to a depth of only a few inches, and supports but a scanty vegetation of berry bushes and moss, while in the aouthern part of Western Siberia watermelons and cantaloupes are a profitable crop, tobacco is grown upon thousands of plantations, and the peasants harvest annually more than f)0,000,000 bushels of grain. The fact which I desire especially to impress upon tho mind of the reader ia that Siberia is not every \vhere uniform and homogeneous. The northern part of the country differs from the southern part quite as much aa the Hudaon Bay Territory differa from Kentucky ; and it is as great a mistake to attribute the cold and barrenneaa of the Lena Delta to the whole of Siberia aa it would be to attribute the cold and barren- neaa of King William Land to the whole et North America. â- ' To the traveller who croases the Urala for the first time in ilune nothing is more surprising than the fervent lieat of Siberian sunshine and the extraordinary beauty and profusion of Siberian flowers. Although we had been partly prepared, by our voyage up the Kama, for the experi- ence which awaited na on the other side ol the mountains, we were fairly astonished upon the threshold of Western Siberia by tho scenery, the weather and the flora. In the fertile, blossoming country presented to US aa wc rode swiftly eastward into the Province of Tobolsk, there waa abso- lutely nothing even remotely to â- aggest an arctic region. If we had been blindfolded and trans- ported to it suddenly in the middle of a sunny afternoon, we could never have guessed to what part of tho world we had been taken. The sky waa clear and bluo and the uir aa soft as tho sky and tho air of California; the trees were all in full leaf ; birds were singing over the flowery meadows and in the clumps of birches by the roadside ; there was a drowsy hum of bees and a faint fragrance of flowers and verdure in the air, and the sunehino was as warm and bright as that of a .1 une after- noon in tho most favored part of the tem- perate zone." â€" George Kemwn in the " Ccn- iiiry." Danger In Strawberries. " People should be careful about how they eat strawberries," said a prominent physician yesterday. Ho had been interro- gated as to several cases of " poisoning " and cutaneous affections that bad followed aa reaultu of too hearty indulgence in the lusciouB fruit. Many folks have been alarmed by a apecics of " rash " breaking out on their bodies after eating strawber- ries. Several pbyaiciana, among them one or two who make a specialty of cutaneous diseases, were interviewed on the subject yeaterday. The effect produced on certain people by the consumption of strawberries can only be accounted for by tho medical profession on the grounds of " constitu- tional idiuayncraay." With some peculiarly couatitnted organizations strawberries act as a laxative, with others as an astringent. It ia auppoaed that the tiny seeds of the berry lodging in the cavities of the intea- tinea produce the various evil etfeots. Again, the acidulous nature of tho fruit proves hurtful in many cases to the stomach. The eating of strawberries, hewever, may be regarded as harmless to ordinarily constituted peopleâ€" except, per- haps, the young man who lias to acttlo the bill for the three or four platefuls consumed by his best girl. â€" Philadelphia Record. A Hard Problem. "If we could only be children for ever," wistfully says a writer in the San Francisco Chronicle, and then proceeds to show how much more fun a child has than a grown- up person : "1 sometimes look at a pretty boy and think what a pity it is to think that ho is bound to grow up and become a man, and get married and drunk and wicked and all sorts of horrible things. And when you look at the blueoyed, fair- haired little female child and think that some day she is going to be a pretty woman with a tight-laced waist, a tailor made suit false hair, and a touch of paint on her face; that she is going to lib and flirt, and deceive and marry the wrong man, and have lota of troublo â€" well, you oan't help asking, ' What ia the use of it all ?" Cause and Bll'ect, Grocer â€" See here, you haven't settled your bill yet. Last month you paid promptly on the last day of the month. Customer â€" Yeg.and voa gave me a cigar! Grocerâ€" Well? Customer â€" Why, I've been aiok ever ainoo and anable to work. Grand Duke Alexia, I rother of the Czar, is said to be able to drink mora ohampagne than any other Eoropean Prinoe. A Lonesome White Hun. For the past nineteen years an Italian named Valpreda has been the sole repre- sentative of tho Cancubian race living on tho shores of Lake Tchad, in Africa. He went there aa the aervant of Dr. Nachtigal, oua of tho few explorera who have viaited that region, and, imagining that aa the only white resident of thoae parts he could cut an important figure, he deserted his mii.ater, became a Mohammedan, took unto himaelf several native wives, and entered tho military service of the Sultan of Bornu. Hia glittering hopea, it appears, have not been realized, and a caravan the other day brought a manuscript wiul from Mr. Valpreda to the effect that ho would rather be a street laborer in Home than have all tho good things an African sultan can give him. The Sultan seems unwilling to spare the only white man who graced his court, but the Italian Government has decided to ascertain if a handsome present won't tempt His Higneas to get along without Mr. Valpreda'a society. • â-  Wisdom Will Come to Him, " Let nie see your tongue, madamej pleaso," said the doctor, and he add^d faoetiously,asthe request was Domplied^ttitn: " It is not neoessarv to expose the effmre length of it." The indignant patient drew in her tongue - and gave the thoughtless yotmg physioiaa. a piece of it. II m One of tho Indian children drilling for exhibition expressed his nervonsnoaa in thia way to his teacher : " Too many eyes look at me. I soare, 1 aoarel" â€" CarlitU (Pem.j lied Man, ^.