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• -.Kit , «< \ * > ^1 ** t , y • jk.i.'-a^ww "A * '* -fc~ ftEXTY YEARS Aflft *W": »>-;^v BY HU. ». T. RKBBT. (j«5 ^Th- springtime 1i;vk come again, ' 1 *2 i® th^ years of tort, * I* i -flfha mftpto trees are leafing out ": *• * l^c* |^s ] * Before th<» cottage door; • -tsil j * And th<* glad birds hnve come again, |1 * "i Singmg'thetr merry glees, _ ; <nildTng their nent<*. roaring their youaf, •*,.. U p 1 ) 1 o n r m a p l e t r e e s . • • * < • / w i v - , y> ax '̂pf'if- The silver br»ok is dtndiig, |'*"{|: Along its pebbly *»y, • - - « *» %>«. y : i,Jhvl on its .rocky islands now ., -. ' ' The tittle children play; ' •_ | ,-s watched them at thotr sportWds lauu*'1" The fashions come and^go-- ^ T~^UTPTAY« ARE J'1*1 THE •*NM! M •J- TP Were twenty years ago. " ̂ *v/̂ e-: "7" ' " . ,' - <«lhe children have their play-house, Wttf- ".$! * ' tbtfcH '*» 4u«t *hew ours IMWMI to be; S ' f „' , » - f They have tbeir broken bits of WW» t ^ * ^ i Their acorn cups for tea. . j-W i : , - The boys split nwd and built" the i« J- , TMet as you did, you know, - I - «f$S?rt/When we kept house up<m those roeka|f i" . . .|Jf« j ; Some twenty years ago. , 1 I ~^he woodbine climbs the lattice. Will, ! i ^ hide* the porch from sight. ,, p '•• s ' * * Wo you remember how it stood, * '••' at$"l .. Not much beyond our height f . | marked the place where your frssd qm(^. , ' « "A You marked the place of mine-- . • \l < »®t you and I hare grown soma, too, )f "Wft"» Since that far-off springtime. ; C; rK ; • . .. .Te have never met since then, wm, •• Ah IS an I to>nw yon not; f'l - - v-*M-V.;sr. -1h>« bla«as^j*ed ftojf of tlwae glad ^ri • \~r Has never been forgot. ' F ^jPhile Hitting in your mansion grand , - With your proud wife to-day, .. i'&W: '|j wonder if there comes a thought ' ,££$J§ai Of "wee wife*' Katie Gray. <, . , *>m #1 KVE3ip« AT EmNG. I suppoae that all pezsoiw ̂ iven more Jto JTflertHoT! than to action have at times ^.beeu conscious of power undeveloped .ijgfar transcending all they have ever put Siforth. In illiastiation of this assump- ^itioa, I propose offering a plain state­ ment of facte. It may be that circum­ stances equally remarkable occur within "le experience of most persons; but, if jit be so, I believe they excite usually ^-only a. transient observation. Ten years ago I was spending the cummer in Epping--a quiet, pleasant *^«®untry town in New England Un­ it*} usual demands had been made on my 7W «neigies, mental and physical, the pre- *# eeding year, and, with scarcely sufficient vitality to enable me to seek rest, I yet thankfully accepted it when offered by chance. A month of absolute repose re­ stored to me a degree of vigor com- .^aensurate perhaps with that which I kef ore possessed, but with a difference. Previously I had valued chiefly my ^ itoiformity of ability to labor. Now I had the ability in an equal degree, but „ interruptedly. Gradually I observed, *^too, that my own moods were precurs- 1691 ors of meteorological changes, so that I *H*t "beeame a sort of conscious barometer. J*# My experiences at this time were not all equally agreeable, but the most so of them, I think, was a feeling of extreme buoyancy, accompanied by an unusual * clearness of perception, apparently co- ^iacident with, and, as I grew to believe, ^dependent upon any extraordinary aug- >#0Bi8st-ation of atmospheric electricity, fcvfc At such times, too, I was conscious of a Precognition of traits of character in the .4ilmdividualearound me which I had never » .before observed--their thoughts, the jMW-very words they were abont to speak k ^were as clear to my mind as at the mo- ment of their utterance. I cannot bet- _t iter express what I experienced in this 'respect than to say that my own mind, *^Iike a mirror, reflected ^ -consciousness, another, and this quite independently of effort on my part other to hold y|| in abeyance disturbing forces. , One morning in the middle of July, ,a^after a protracted drought, and after the *1^ failure of repeated prognostics of rain, tthe temperature had suddenly descended from a little less than 100 degrees to the *.»H vicinity of fifty. The coolness had t»«i* braced my nerves to a degree of tension ?• * which I had rarely felt. I was evolving a plan of action as I stood by the win­ dow in the office of my friend Wynn, • whose guest I then was, and who, by the ^ way, was eminent in the brotherhood of ! lawyers whose rare acumen and sterling Jfs0| good sense forra a counterpart to the f^graui tie structure of their own State, fe'* "While I stood there, then, an individual entered the office, whom, in spite of multifarious disguises, such as dyed "* " hair and whiskers, false teeth and an *2 assumed name, I at once recognized as my own fellow-townsman, and ar- mat a scoundrel as it had ever been my ;lot to encounter. He had an air of much pretension, wore a large seal-ring, a ""if --showy ^scarf-pin, and several crossings •Ul ©f a bright gold chain over a bright-pat- .^Vierned waistcoat, all of which decorative *- <#M»-trumpeiy served tne pun>ose of varnish • *'!•*» a very ugly picture, heightening the mi*, distiiictnest1 of every point. His errand, to obtain the use of the Town Hall for .the delivery of a lecture on animal mag­ netism, being speedily accomplished, he " ! took his leave. "Wynn," said I, as the door closed upon him, "do you remember Mark Tufts, who was convicted of burglary in Charleston, and who afterwards escaped ft , from State prison ? " Ua i " Yes," answered Wynn, " and I could of whom this man reminds me- jres, it is Mark Tufts." ' ,«*: "It is Tufts himself," I replied. "I TOCOgnized him before he had uttered three sentences. I came across the room to look for the scar of a wound on the left cheek, given him by a companion in adrxoken brawl The mark ie there memory, sometimes the and volition of ,u Uc And I know that the little finger" and 1 the first joint from the one next is miss- J " ing from the hand he carries in a sling, and which he pretends to have been hurt *' in » recent railroad accident." " Pierson G. Leffingwell" wae elab­ orately engraved on the card with which ike had introduced himself. I looked **• from the window; the man had crossed the street, and was standing on «fi * Hi. f the £iazza of the Epping House. Presently e entered, and shortly after reappeared, -•accompanied by a showily-dressed woman and a young girl. In the appear- ^ anoe of the latter I remarked nothing, [except, perliaps, extreme fragility. ,U j „ A programme indicated that at the , -close of the lecture some interesting •.ft#* demonstrations would be exhibited. i > * Mrs. and Miss Leffingwell, it was stated, # *%•} were both mediums, and the former »*«»» gifted with remarkable powers of reading ! the future. We decided at once to " assist" at this #?.?. prelection. The man's extreme villainy ip&p* and audacity made him interesting. In- 1 deed, so entire had been the popular conviction, in the trial to which I have referred, of the man's deliberate, vin- -dictive malice, that there had been felts very general disappointment that his sentence was not more severe. Not a very large audience, of course, was to be expected in a place like Epping; but it was a pretty fair turn-out--several hun­ dreds--and these were mostly oollected before Mrs. Leffingwell and the yotuig lady made their appearance. On a platform at one side of the hall were placed a table with lights and sev­ eral chairs, Mr. Leffingwell came in, arranged these, withdrew again , and SOOD returned conducting his assistants. The woman seated herself in a bustling, im­ portant way, arranging and rearranging her dress, and sending around bold, as­ sured glances. The girl took her place quietly, without raising her eyes until the falling of a window, which had not been properly fastened up; then she lifted them a moment, with a startled, expectant look. I observed the group closely, for I had begun to grow inter­ ested in them. , The lecture was a tissue of trashy plagiarisms, through which what the man would be at was not clearly per­ ceptible. It was evident, however, that he had himself a sort of grotesque faith in what he was trying to say--a kind of trembling belief involved, in his diabol­ ism, And this suggested to me a plan for the solution of a query which had entered my mind: how far, namely, that slight young girl sitting there with an air of such utter abstraction was a volun ­ tary accomplice of Mr. and Mrs. Leffing­ well. That they were well matched ad­ mitted scarcely a doubt. The woman, large framed, coarse-featured, swarthy, with thick, sensual lips and black brows meeting over lurid eyes, looked fit for any emergency of wickedness. In dress she was the counterpart of her husband; everything about her was tawdry; a flash silk gown, much flounced, a heavily- wrought and solid white crape shawl, a rigolette, as I believe they term those triangular tagrags which women were then beginning to wear on the head, a quantity of bracelets, rings, chains, brooches and the like, and a vulgar- looking fan, which she flourished unre­ mittingly, made up her outfit. She im­ pressed one as haying foregone every womanly trait. Not so the girl claimed by the Leffing- wells as their daughter. She looked at most 14, and might have been a year or two younger. She wore a lilac-colored dress and a black silken scarf, the sim­ plicity of her attire not less than the frail, delicate beauty of her person con­ trasting noticeably with the intense vul­ garity of the woman beside her. Her face was too pale, but the features were exquisite in outline; the brow low, with shadowy chestnut hair; the eyes blue, I knew afterward, though I had supposed them black, were so large and fringed with such thick, long lashes, that they seemed to make half her face. There was an occasional slight compression of the under lip that showed her to be ill at ease, whether from physical pain or some other cause, and under an air of apparent languor, a quick, nervous clos­ ing and unclosing of the little left hand which held the edge of her black scarf. She wore no ornaments. Of course I do not pretend in any way to account for the phenomena I am about to describe. No theory that ever came in my way has seemed to me to bear adequate credentials. In most in­ stances, too, which have been related to me I have felt myself compelled to doubt facts and inferences. I >**11 give an unvarnished statement of occurrences, premising only that I had previously and precisely, when I found myself in a mood similar to that which I have de­ scribed as particularly belonging to me on this day, been able to exert the influ­ ence to which have been given the epi­ thets magnetic, odic, and the like, over some refractory subjects. At the close of Mr. Leffingwell's declamatory farago he came to the front of the platform and proposed for the more satisfactory demonstration of his science to experiment on any one or several among his auditors who might solicit proof in their own persons. A middle-aged man of stolid aspect and a bey of 16 presented themselves. Di­ recting them to be seated in chairs on the right of the staging, and observing that he would begin with the elder indi­ vidual, he took bis station nearly oppo­ site and commenced his craft. I commenced, too, and in earnest. For about three minutes, during which I felt my concentrati re power--I know no better name for it--growing stronger, I perceived no outward token of suc­ cess ; but then there was a perceptible toning down, a manifest smoldering of the audacity of his look. Let me en­ deavor to describe my own experience at the time. It seemed as if I projected a circle of influence extending to an indefinite dis­ tance from the man, and inclosing him as a center, the circumference irregular at first and wavering. It was my effort to integrate, and then with a steady, tidal pulsation to contract toward and around the person I was endeavoring to control. It was in my favor that he, in­ tent on his own purpose, was unaware of mine. I was succeeding--nearer and nearer came the inclosing wave--I saw it become faintly luminous, while points of lambent, bluish flame projected from it inward; a needle of light glided toward his hand--he rubbed it hastily-- the next moment the faint blue circle, invisible to all but myself, was contract­ ed to a hazy, luminous, irregular center. My aim was accomplished ; his eyelids quivered, then drooped, and with a slow, audible respiration he sat back in his chair, rigid and white. I breathed freely then, and I became aware that two persons were intently watching me; one was Wynn, whom I had taken into my counsel at the outset. With a glance he directed my attention to my other observer, the young girl on the platform. Her hands were firmly clasped, her lips slightly apart, and her dilated eyes, fixed full upon me, ex­ pressed an indescribable blending of pleading and terror. But my work with Leffingwell was not yet done; the audience had perceived the change in his countenance, but supposed it the result of his own efforts. Now, however, they began to suspect some counterplot. Wynn, well known to the whole assembly, broke the silence with a few words. ' happens that an individual pos- a higher degree of the power to Leffingwell lays claim is pres­ ent this evening, so that the fowler is I apparently taken in his own snare." I Several exclamations of " Good 1 Let the gentleman oome forward," were the response. I did not, however, leave my but asked to be allowed to in Mr. Leffingwell. An immediate perfect stillness succeeded. The were made by Lefflngwell with aelib distinctness. My first query was. "Wen years ago in Concord, N. H. V* Answer, "I was." " Will you allow me to look at your left hand f" He replied by withdrawing it from the sling which supported it, unwrap­ ping from it the enveloping handker­ chief, and held it out. The fourth finger and a part of the third were want­ ing. " Is Leffingwell the name by Which you were known in Conoord ?" " It is not." " Is th« yomig woman who accompa­ nies you a relative of either yourself or of Mrs. Leffingwell?" "Of neither." "Is she voluntarily associated with you?" "No." " What is her real name ?" " Janet Ware. " " Why is she thus connect 3d with you ?" ' * "She believes herself Mrs. Leffing­ well's niece." "She supposes this through the agency of yourself and Mrs. Leffing­ well r " Through our agency. " At this juncture Janet Ware, since such was the girl's name, who had, listr enea with intense interest to every word of our colloquy, made an attempt to rise. Mrs. Leffingwell arrested her motion, at the same time addressing to her a whis­ pered remark. I spoke to the woman then with a de­ gree of confidence for which I felt full warrant: "Mrs. Leffingwell, let me as­ sure you that it will be for your interest, your own and Mr. Leffingwell's, to re­ main passive." There was more, proba­ bly, in my tones than in my words, for the woman cowered and desisted. The girl spoke with a passionate en­ ergy which set aside fear. " I am not with them of my own will, God knows! They said they had a claim to me; that they were my only relatives, and I feared it was true. Thank God it is not true ! Do not, do not let them take me away with them!" I am unused to the melting mood, but I confess the girl's words and tones ap­ pealed to ihe as no acting ever did. In­ deed the effect on all present was elec­ tric. Wynn spoke in a low tone with his sis­ ter, who sat next him, and both arose and went towards the platform. Miss Wynn addressed Janet Ware, who looked in her face searchingly a moment and then clung to her arm. I resumed my dialogue with Mr. Lef­ fingwell. "Has Miss Ware relatives? If any, who are they." "An uncle, her mother's brother, Paul Williams." " Where is he now ?" "In Boston?" And now, reader mine, if you doubt whether all this be very convincing, I acknowledge the reasonableness of your doubt; but then and there I did not take time to weigh the matter. It was, how­ ever, no port of my plan to establish the identity of Leffingwell and Mark Tufts, even if such a result had been possible. I decided to withdraw the influence, which, as all experimenters in this bi­ zarre branch of psychology are aware, is comparatively an easy process. The man awoke, much as from an ordinary sleep, looked about him, and finally, as he recognized the place and missed Janet, with whom Wynn and his sister had withdrawn, his features assumed a ludicrous mixture of bravado and con­ sternation, visibly heightened as I ap­ proached him. Intimidation, though, was not my sole object. I spoke to him in a tone audible to himself only. " You are foiled with your own weap­ ons, Tufts," said I. "There are several of us who know you ; I have no personal grudge against you, and if you are dis­ creet--this return to your native State scarcely looks like it--you will not de­ lay to make the distance between your­ self and the Stats prison wider than it is now. You have not exposed yourself to-night, but you have put it in our power to expose you at a moment's warning." He scrutinized my features tepidly. I permitted it a moment and then walked away. He exchanged a few sentence® with Mrs. Leffingwell, and then, ap­ proaching the audience, assured them that it was not MB fault if an entertain­ ment different from that laid down in the programme had been offered them tKi« evening; that he hoped to meet them again to-morrow evening, when he would resume the subject, and, he trusted, convince the most skeptical that neither himself nor Mrs. Leffingwell urged claims of any kind which they were un­ able satisfactorily to establish. I doubted if they would let him go; but they did, I presume on account of the presence of Mrs. Leffingwell. The next morning the LeffingweDs were gone. They had taken the mid­ night train down. If they had waited they might have had Wynn's company, for he went to Boston in the morning train. As he had arranged previously to go at this time, and as his usual stop­ ping-place was the Revere House, the drama of the preceding evening did not probably influence him in those circum­ stances ; but it may have furnished the motive which prompted him to inquire of the clerk if Mr. Paul Williams were among the guests, and the reply being affirmative it may have induced him to seek out that gentleman. The result was the confirmation, in each particular, of the items elicited from Tufts. Janet Ware was the daughter of Mr. Williams' only sister, who had married, and with her husband removea to Illi­ nois. Their sole child was Janet, and when she had attained her 12th year both her parents fell victims to that fear­ ful scourge, cholera. A neighbor had taken home the child and written to Mr. Williams a letter which sever reached its destination. A year afterward Mr. and Mrs. Leffingwell, on a tour through the Western States, had accidentally encoun­ tered Janet and discovered in her Buch a susceptibility to the odie infiumce, so termed by Mr. Leffingwell, as to make her a very desirable acquisition. She was timid and easily wrought upon, and. the myth of kinship, invented on the spur of the moment, had been over- P^ering. The ohild had tolerably hard disci­ pline, though it might have been worse. For the six months and more she had been wandering about good care had been taken that she should find no op­ portunity of escape, and entire seclusion, exoept when under the eye of Mr. and Mrs. Leffingwell, secured to her at least ft degree of immunity of ba4 influences. Mr. Williams was induced to accom­ pany Wynn on his return to Epping, and when he saw Janet, who bore her mother's name, her strong resemblance to th*it mother was to him convincing proof that his sister's child stood before I have since seen a full-length portrait by Sully of Mrs. Ware before her mar­ riage. I should unhesitatingly have pronounced it an incomparable likeness of Janet, or, as she is now, Mrs. Wvnn. There were just the same large, shadowy, violet eyes, fringed with lashes of un­ common length and richness; the same low, pearly brow and profuse, brown, w a v i n g h a i r , w i t h g o l d e n l i g h t s o n i t ; the same faint tinge on the cheek, just like the inside of a sea-shell; the same curve of the bright red lip; the same poise of the head on the white, slender neck. A little sad I should say the face is, but Elinor, Wynn's sister, now my wife, affirms that Janet is as cheerful a little sprite as ever gladdened a man's hearthstone. THE GRASSHOPPERS. Dr. Packard'! Boport of His Investigations In the Western Territories. Dr. A. S. Packard, Jr., secretary of the United States Entomological Commis­ sion, has lately returned from an ex­ tended trip through portions of Colo­ rado, Wyoming, Northern Utah, Eastern Idaho, Central and Eastern Montana, and through Dakota. He reports that 50 per cent, of locust eggs in Colorado, about Denver and Greeley, were des­ troyed by parasites, according to the ex­ perience of Mr. A. H. Arnett, of Morri­ son, and Mr. Max Clark, of Greeley. Though large numbers hatched out in the spring, the heavy, late rains, the ex­ treme cc»ld, the fall of snow for three days at the end of April, killed the young, so that few were left, except in small areas about Greeley and Long- mont. The young died from apparently the same causes as in Kansas and Ne­ braska, i. e., extreme wet and cold weather. In the fall of 1876 eggs were laid in profusion in Colorado, and the farmers expected to have the " worst fight yet" with the locusts. May 29 and 30, a large swarm flew over Jules- burg, Col., on the Union Pacific rail­ road, and were seen seventeen miles west of that point by Mr. Joseph Bam- say, of Greeley. These flew from the south, probably from Texas. In Wyoming, locusts were reported as hatching out from a point fifty miles north of Laramie City to Custer. Light swarms from this region and',the Black Hills may be expected in Colorado. In Utah, Cache and Malade valleys were badly infested. About Franklin, Utah, one-third of the wheat crop was reported as devoured by them. The winged locusts were beginning to fly June 11. These locusts will probably migrate to Middle and Southern Utah. Though numerous about Farmington, Utah, on the shores of Salt lake, little injury was done, as the season was late, wet and cold, and hatching was much later than usual. In Idaho scattered broods of young were seen along the stage-road from Franklin to Pleasant valley, but none were seen in Montana from the southern borders. of the Territory through the central parts as far north as Fort Benton, nor along the Missouri river to the east­ ern border of the Territory. A few hatched out in Bitter Boot valley, doing some damage, and locusts were reported to have hatched out on the Yellowstone river at and near Baker's battle ground, i. e., on the north shore of the river be­ tween Clark's fork and Froze-to-Death creek. None were seen or reported from the valleys of the Sun river and the Up­ per Missouri, and none in the Gallatin, Madison and Jefferson valleys. From reliable information received at Fort Benton, there were no young locusts this spring in the Marias or Milk river val­ leys, or in the region northward toward the South Saskatchewan river. None were seen by parties who had just re­ turned from Wood mountain, Sitting Bull's camp, sixty miles north of the United States boundary line. Locusts hatched out in February at Fort M'Leod, on the South Saskatchewan river, but were killed by the unfavorable weather. Along the Missouri river and the line of the Northern Pacific railroad no young locnsts were seen, and it is probable that few locusts developed in Dakota this season, unless in the eastern portions. Light swarms, however, were seen flying from the east at Fort Peck, as early as June 18, also at Wolf Point, osa the Mis­ souri, and at Bismarck, June 21, and a few were seen at about the same date at Jamestown, Dakota. These apparently came from Minnesota and Iowra. If so, it showk (coupled with the fact of the Texan swarms observed in Cbkvado) that the return westward migrations of the locust from the border States extend to the base of the Rocky moim'tains, from Colorado to the United States northern boundary line. It result® from these observations that over an immense area in the northwest supposed to have fur­ nished the swarms which have hitherto devastated Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and Minnesota, owing to the wet, cool, back­ ward weather this spring, there were no young locusts developed, if many hatched. Should the present exceptionally cool and wet season be followed by a similar one in 1878, it may be reasonably ex­ pected that the border States will not be invaded to an alarming extent next year. It also appears somewhat doubtful whether extensive swarms will invade the border States of Minnesota, Iowa, Ne­ braska, Kansas, and Missouri this sum­ mer and fall, though light swarms may possibly fly east from the Black Hill and Yellowstone region. But absolute pre­ dictions can not be made, and it would be unwise to hazard an opinion exoept as to probabilities. A 4-YEAR-OLD miss adds another to the list of remarkable juvenile speeches. She was asked where she expected to go when her mamma died, and replied, " To the funeral, I s'ptm," A WOMAN'S HEROIC FIGHT. »m> Pioneers Mawwcred by Jndlans • Black Hills. •>"*'- {Dsadwood Cor. Milwaukee Sentinel.}/1- A wagon drawn by two yoke of oxen and carrying two men and a woman, with their effects, left Deadwood on Monday morning destined for Bismarck. They camped on Centennial prairie on Mon­ day night, and on Tuesday night passed through Crook City. An eye-witness, who was cutting hay within a quarter of a mile, tells how it occurred. He says that, hearing a succession of rapid shots fired over the bluff from where he was mowing, he got up on a high-timbered elevation and saw about twenty Indians engaged in a fight with two men and a woman who occupied the ox train. The men defended themselves gallantly against the great odds. They were well- armed, and fought as only men flight for their lives. The Indians, instead of coming up in a body, broke in every di­ rection and surrounded the wagon, keeping up a constant trail of bullets upon the poor unfortunates. Three of the oxen were the first to fall. Waggo- men, the owner of the outfit, and the husband of the lady, next was shot through the head. " Mrs. Waggomen seized her husband's revolver and dis­ charged the contents among the Indians, who were now close upon the wagon. After she had emptied the weapon she flung it full in the face of a burly savage who was reaching over the wagon to grasp her., He reeled back, but others took his place. Mr. Tyner, the other man, was quickly finished, and there remained but the lady to deal with. The Indians had since the beginning of the conflict been careful not to injure her, and their bullets were directed chiefly towards the two men. The poor woman, knowing her probable fate, fought like a tigress, clutching an empty gun and striking right and left, but to no avail. She was finally over­ powered and brought to the ground, but the woman fought so hard that they procured some tent stakes which were in the wagon and staked the limbs and body of the poor woman firmly to the ground. After they had accomplished their horri­ ble deed they took her scalp and horribly mutilated her around the breast, and then dispatched her. The shrieks of the woman, could be heard distinctly where my informant was lodged, powerless to help and almost dead with fear. When the savages began sacking the wagon they observed the witness of their cruelty standing on the bluff, and two of them started in pursuit. He, how­ ever, made good time, and succeeded in reaching Crook, about nine miles off, without falling into their clutches. Soon after the massacre the Bismarck stage rolled by the fatal spot. There were no Indians in sight, and the pas­ sengers were horrified at seeing the sight before them. Both of the two men had been scalped and their ears and noses cut off. The woman was horribly mutilated, her brains and entrails "being scattered all over the ground. The bodies of the poor unfortunates were taken to Crook and there interred. They belonged to Brainar^., Minn., and had come into the Hills early this spring, made their little stake and were on their way home when the fatal accident befell them. The Oleomargarine Trade. Neither the prejudice which in thin country is still general against butter which is known to be the product of other than the dairy, nor the law in re­ lation to the production and sale of such butter which was passed by the State Legislature at its last session, says the New York Times, has caused any reduc­ tion in the oleomargarine produced, but a great change has nevertheless resulted in the trade of the article. Before the passage of the act referred to, a large portion of the oleomargarine produced from the fat of animals killed in the slaughter-houses in and around this city was made into butter and sold in the markets here; now nearly all that is made is exported to England, France, and Germany, were no prejudice exists against it, and where it has been manu­ factured publicly, and as publicly sold, for many years. In England it is called " butterine,"and for all pastry and cook­ ing uses it is there deemed better than the genuine product of the dairy. So extensive has the exportation of oleomar­ garine, and butter made from it, become already, that during several months past the average has been fully 1,000,000 pounds per month, and the quantity is limited to that only because those who are engaged in its manufacture cannot find the material in suitable condition for the production of more. In order to extract the little yellow globules, called oleomargarine, from the fat of the slaughtered animals, it is necessary that the fat shall be put under the required process immediately after being taken from the animal. This makes it a requisite that the manufac­ tory be wifthin ready reach of the slaugh­ ter-house ; and in order to have the pro­ duction of it profitable it is indispens­ able that the works be placed near to only very large slaughter-houses. In meeting these requiuemeats the pro­ ducers of oleomargarine are, of course, limited to the quantity of desirable fat which they can procure from their sour­ ces of snpply, and thus far all that they can secure does not eaable them to pre­ pare fos the foreign markets more than the quantity name<L It is considered strange that the law governing the production and sale of oleonaargarine butter was not also ma^le to apply to cheese-. The bill as it origi­ nally stood included cheese, but the lat­ ter article was stricken out through the influence, it is said, of Hon. Ho#atio Seymour, who is said to be interested in a large dairy company which mannfact- tnres oleomargarine cheese. This com­ pany were in the habit of using the cxeam from their milk for the production of butter, and then producing large quantities of cheese from a combination of this same oleomargarine with the skimmed milk left after the cream had been taken for the production of butter. The law, as first framed, would have forced them to brand their cheese as con­ taining oleomargarine, and that they be­ lieved would very seriously injure its price here, where the effect of the use erf oleomargarine is not as well understood as it is abroad. A MINNESOTA paper records the death of a valuable oow fioux swallowing a pieoe of hoop-skirt. SEASONABLE LAY. *** *ĵ ae,°n have com®. the deadliest of a*. When îtî en^*nd have power, and choleri Whm^m •«» «UIk the streets familiarly ̂ DtagnS£^F#0' onlfrntt iwponthoi v °°BCedead!y aS*** P*®* flesh, aweet Joioe an| KOt we ̂"ndther*his deeds, not few far between The fatal cases credited this ™oth*n' Pwtttelr darlings' to* ^verses rob° ** marble^n, who« mournfi The mortal melon, crediting the angels with the Job. 1 toe£e^Phu*d«1P|»l« boy, 4 Sabbath-school e*. Am^ess0fgi5a6 *W*riia°m> ̂ °°n»c4oua good- MMt "peat* H* 'MclilefioVM U»eft--from a miaaiona# He bought a watermelon huge; he ate it ail Keit day his mother, sobbing, placed his ton •OA BD0a, < PITH AND POINT. Cooi., but not always oollected; sn ioe Dill* 'r. THE path of duty--Through the Cus­ tom HOUHO. ADAM missed one of the luxuries of life. He couldn't laugh in his sleeve. -- A umE girl was asked, "What is faith?" She replied: "Doing God's will and asking no questions." THE young Texan doesn't tell you hfc sweetheart is as sweet as sugar, bt|t says, " Oh, she'll do to put in coffee !" ®low^R shriek of breaking mow, 1' • ? milkman'8 cart goes rumbling down the wit* *e blithely toots his gentle horn. And from my eyelid® sleep flies fast away. WHAT is the difference between a post-hole and a speaking-trumpet ? One is hollowed out and the other hollered in. AN old gentleman who had dabbled all his life in statistics says he never heard of but one woman who insured her lifa. He accounts for this by the aingnW fact of one of the questions being, " What is your age ?" HE wiped his heated brow, he did, His brow so intellectual; But all he said about the heat Wae sadly ineffectual. But she, sweet lass, did say to him, In mellow tones unwavering, " Dear George, I am so warm; I'd like Ice-cream, with lrtnon flavoring." WAITER--" What would you be pleased to order, sir? We have potage prin- tanier a la Julienne; fricandeau de veau avec coquettes des • pommes de terre; rissoles de boeuf--" Milesian---" Well, give us a plateful of whichever of them's nearest to an Irish stew !" " MY dear," said an affectionate wife to her husband, as she looked out of the window, " do you notice how green and beautiful the grass looks on the neigh­ boring hills?" "Well," was the un- poetic response, "what other color would you have it at this time of year?" "WEIII»," said a miner yesterday, "if things keep on this way much longer I'll get a job, and one that will keep me. too." "What is that?" "Why, I'll die; and I'd like to see any dog-goned mining superintendent beat me out of that job."-- Virginia (Ncv,) Enterprise. ^ A ST. LOUIS journal tells a story of a disconsolate widower, who, on seeing the body of his late wife lowered into the grave, exclaimed, with tears in his eyes: " Well, I've lost gloves, I've lost um­ brellas--yes, even cows and horses; but I never--no, never--had anything to cut me like this." AN old writer says: " I have seen wo­ men so delicate that they were afraid to ride, for fear of the horse running away; afraid to sail, for fear the boat might be upset; afraid to walk, for fear they might fall; but I have never seen one afraid to be married, which is far more riskful than all others put together." THEBE is a world for contemplation in observing a young girl gazing upon the tender petals of the rose her lover has just given her, and then looking at the same woman five years after, as she stands beside a huckster-cart and tells the owner she wouldn't give 5 oents for such a head of cabbage if she had to do without.it all her life ! A iiiTTiiE negro boy in Plattaburg, Mo., lay down on the railroad track just as a freight train was coming up. The engineer whistled down brakes and re­ versed the engine ; bystanders rushed to 4 the scene, and the little nigger was s n a t c h e d o f f t h e t r a c k j u s t i n t i m e i f f save his life. When asked what he meant by his performance he grinned tremendously and replied: "I does love to hear dem blow de whistle so much 1" DURING a debate which took place some time ago. in a Scottish town Coun­ cil on a question where much diversity of opinion prevailed, a bailie, among other reasons in support of the measure, stated that it would be of immense bene­ fit to posterity. On hearing this, the Provost, who headed the opposition, got up and said, "I'm really surprised to hear ony man bring forward sic an argu­ ment What reason hae we to sacrifice ourselves for the gude o' posterity?" Point oot," he continued, striking the table, and looking triumphantly at his opponent, "point oot ae instance whaur posterity has everbeen o' the least benefit to us." THE Maharajah of Gwalior is now sur­ rounding with a garden, which bids fair to become one of the wonders of the world, his palace erected at a cost of $1,- 250,000, of which the Prince of Wales was the first occupant. It will contain ten garden houses, each illustrating a variety of Hindoo architecture, and a winter palace of glass, imported from Vienna. Water will be brought from artificial lakes over channels so con­ structed as to give that murmur which was prescribed to afford rest to Maecenas in his villa near Rome. The garden will be kept perennially green by irriga­ tion. The expense of all this will be nothing to the enormously wealthj Gwalior. AT the recent celebration of the 200th anniversary of the King's Grenadier Regiment of the Prussian army, the chief burgomaster of Stettin, in presenting to the officers of the regiment, on behalf of the citizens of the town, a silver table- service, mentioned that the regiment had been constantly quartered in Stettin ever sinoe 1715, or for more than 160 years.