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K*r - ' > * £>* J * v ; •v*"' * *& • • ?& * ' M ¥," A S«4 B were handsome®*® a sj <& * • {. As yon wtli tort two out of »e«!U p^: fef fc*- They (farted np 8* Mn of Hfe . (Each had, of eonrw, the j>rerae« ww«f With Ftron•/ resolves# to d»rc find «ot And still the heavenward |*fhpm*«a . # And tl<r\ acre tender frinids !ho»rnilc, Tliev met and put-tot wifli » HUI»; Their little homes--a happy sign*-- .. .. Were, fired with fflndnes*, low, KM Ofn* But he and every one could we That A began to gain on B „ . in Ko wore T~. . • of one who'd rtwhrd tlio tnpuulKMIC. A jyiWed roseh "'^i Hiilk-whiUi CBUT A tcondcr couple tievw iw« ,222fi. Than he and happ.v MM. A. Both worFhijxwJ wenlth and lovea<ms>«J| .*' But both forgot theirixwlcs and eonga, *£ • -•• And neither eared for otberewro"?*! Hffrt -• When they had rights. All they could Hppf « »; Was goid -life'* crowning victory. Their children stood ae dummlee Bttna--» Nonentities upon the land. Their palace, with it« marble frdnL Looked uninviting, cold, and bloat A distance that could never " leja Enchantment" to hieokMime n«*« Now f>epsrated A and B-- The one a slave, the other free. .The.one, with all his hands waMwH Still wanted more. The talc is WgW> ' „ Forever hungry, pinched and «*• Is he whose only store is gola. The other sat lh.neath the side# That overshadowed paradm. n. ; ^ *«th Itappy hewrt «d wllBnt taplt All happiness and health dcmaiiM, Had » acquired witliwit the Ions. Of life's pure gold, the outward Had in the battle iwn CMEUBH A Where thorns had been the rosee His cot was tilled with love and light, His sun by day. his star by night He wort' upon his Kingly loaks The happy influence of nis book*. Companion, teacher, father, friend. His children found in him. To Mid The storv, ere it grows too long. His daily life was foil of song. Inheritors of grace and worth __ And born to win and mle«be earth, His children all their places took. Their names were 4n the angel's book Among the saviors of mankind. Tie doubly true that " love is blind, But once 'tis it needs no eyA **•-- Its imiinet loads it lo'ihe sky. When parents mold ill heart and act The offspring of love's sweet compaot, Then shall we know, and not till then. Of * jeace OB earth, good will to man." I ftatf " Mr. Glent aaked, a» oon* j •••led it beneath her saeqite. t "I don't know/' she laughed "It ; had a friendly look, and I was seized i with an irresistible impulse to take p. w- : session of it, without any actual reason, i for doing so. Somehow it ia in bight ' favor with me." ! "Tc«i are a brave griM, "Bess." ! "And 1 have a right to be," was the proud rejoinder. " My grandfather was a brave soldier, and you are a brave j civilian, or yon would never be here:" Tlie morning was a deliriously balmy i one, «t»d Tkvwie (1rov« fearlessly oil, ew- ! joying the wild scenery about her ! though eye and ear were ever on the j alert for possible dancers. The quick i trot, which had scarcely been broken ] from the moment of starting, soon | brought her to the wildest part of her < journey, midway between Wildlands and Bolton. ] perior strength. But ehe was too <|iiiek j for me. Poor Bess I She got the hand that wrote the letter ! Forgive me--my mother!" That was all̂ Death churned him. ̂ A Good Horse. "Icant explain what a real good horse v^FACTS FOB THE CURIOUS. ©*® WORD " STARVATION."--Strange as it may appear, says the London Notes and Queries, it is nevertheless quite true that this word, now unhap­ pily so common on every tongue, as representing the condition of so many of the sons and daughters of the sister is," said one of the bt'st uatured dealers j lands of Great Britain and Ireland, is in the street. " They are as jitferent. a» I not found in our own English diction- men; in buying a horse you must look ! aries; neither in Todd's "Johnson," first to his "head and eyes for signs of j published in 1826, nor in Richardson's, intelligence, temper, eouvago, and hon- ] piiblished ton years later --nor in Stu- csty. Unless a horse has brains you j art's---Walker's remodeled - published can't teach him anything any more than about the Kums time as Richardson's, you can teach a half-witted child. See i It is Webster who has the credit of im- tliat tall bay there, a tine-lo6king animal, j porting it frbm Lis. country into this ; about fifteen hands high. You _can't J and in a supplement issued a few years teach that horse anything. Why ? Well, I'll show you a difference in heads; but have a care of his heels. Look at tht beast's head--that rounding nose, that Immense forest trees on either side the I tapering forehead, that broad, full place road, with irregular massive J lx>low the eyes. You can't trnst him. Kick? Well, I guess so! Put him in a ten acre lot, where he has plenty of wing, and he'll kick the horn oft' the moon." Tlie world's treatment of man and beast has the tendency to enlarge and intensify bad qualities, if they predomin- ate. T^his good-natured phrenologist or beast | could not refrain from slapping in the face the horse whoso character had been narrow road, with piles of frowning rocks, gave a somber look to the spot, which rendered it pecul­ iarly adapted to the marauding villain's purpose. She had just penetrated its deepest shadows, when her quick, watch­ ful eye caught s'ight, for a' moment, of some stealthily moving object a short distance alieud, whether man she could not decide. ago Mr. Stuart adopted it as "a trivial word, but in very common, and, at pres­ ent, good use." HAIR GROWING AFTER DEATH.--WUL- zerus, in " Philosophical Collections," gives an account of a woman buried at Horn berg, whose grave being opened forty-three years after her death, there was hair found issuing forth plentifully through the clefts of her coflin; inas- , much as there was reason to imagine j ?vears- Colors and material, style, blend- tho high prices which famous colts have | brought have rarely been received by i tl:e men who raised them, the prizes in j breeding and training trotters are few i and uncertain.--Scientific Am> rican. j A Woman's Dress. | Bob Burdette, in tlie course ol an j article in the Burlington llaiokejf?- on j the rights-and wrongs of women, says: Our wife wants a dress. After two or three or half a dozen .stores have been J ransacked for goods, the dressmaker is j •sought out. Tlie niattor of measure- , meni is tedious, and then the matter of > fitting in one of numerous and repeated ; trials? Finally the dress is finished and ; sent home. Then it is sent back to l>e j taken in here and let out there, and at j last, after the customer has been fitted \ more times for that one dress than her : husband has been measured for three or ; four years, the dfess comes home for tlie j last time and is pronounced by the j wearer, her friends, and the dressmaker i as a beautiful and perfect fit, and is fin- j ished. i Beautiful it certainly is, far more beau- j tiful than anything her husband ever I "No, I will not fire even II I should j so cruelly delineated, while he had but be assaulted," she hastily thought, with- j the gentlest treatment for a slick-limbed drawing her hand from the pistol she sorrel that, pricked her ears forward and had involuntarily grasped. " It might j looked intelligent enough to understand invite worse." j all that was being said. And with beating heart she slipped I "Tliftfs an awful good mare," he the hatchet from belt to knee. She Was none too quick. The next instant a masked man darted from behind th# i fiirs eyes* rocks and seized the horse's head. Un THE DEFTDHMD. A servant found it under fee front door early in tlie morning--a large, j coarse sheet of letter paper, intricately ; folded and sealed with a red wafer. The ! simple superscription, " Charles Glent, i Wildlands," was IcgiMe enough, despite the cramped, irregular penmanship. So j "also were the following lines, destitute ol | date, address ar.d signature : j Years ago you did me a kindness, used to such rough treatment, the high- spirited brute plunged so violently as to j shake off the villain's grasp. But, notli- ' ing daunted, he caught the shaft, and, j in spite of the speed at which the ani- : mal started forward, he succeeded, with , the ease and dexterity of one skilled in | feats of that kind, in seizing the dash- j board with one hand and the body of j the wagon just below with the other i hand. But at the very moment he was | in the act of springing up the little i hatchet's gleaming edge smote, just at i the wrist, the hand nftar her foot; And, ! with a groan, he sprang or fell back- j ward, leaving on the wagon floor a ghastly proof of the attack" in a bleed­ ing liaoid. It all passed like a dream, and, half unconscious of the shocking reality, Bessie drove for a time wildly and un- which I vowed never to forget. In re- i thinkingly on. But before Bolton was tufn I now pen the warning that your house will be entered to-morrow night entered her mind liad regained its usual activity. Checking the horse's mad It is well known to a certain thieving j career, she suddenly bent down and wrapped the ghastly object at her feet in a couple of newspapers, fortunately found under the cushions. Then eras­ ing, as well as she could, all evidences of her advecture, she proceeded toward Bolton, and, in a short time, was quietly, though with pallid cheek, transacting the business calling her there. That done, gang that you have a large pum of money by yon. Be wise, and have it removed to a place of safety. Above all things, ! employ some trustworthy person to act j for you. So surely as you neglect this ] charge, suspicions will be excited, and j gjur life^possibly pay the forfeit of your | "Be careful also to provide a good ' and open reason for any journey you j may deem it advisable you should make, j for I assure you every one of your move- I ments is closely watched. And, lastly, do not be foolhardy enough to give ! battle. The money is all that is j wanted, and no personal injury will be i was no rough, you may rest assured, offered if you keep quiet. Whether or j returned the gentleman. ! added. " She's as true as the sun. You ! can see breadth and fullness between the You can't hire that nwre to act mean or hurt anybody. The eye should be full, and hazel is a good color. I like a small, thin ear, and want a horse to throw his ears well forward. Look out for the brute that wants to listen to all the conversation going on behind him. The horse that turns back his ears till they almost meet at the points, take my word for it, is sure to do something wrong. See that straight, elegant face; A horse with a dishing face is cowardly, and a cowardly brute is always vicious. Then I like a square muzzle, with large nostrils to let plenty of air to the lungs. For the underside of a head a good horse should be well cut under the jowl, with jaw-bones broad and wide apart under the throttle. "So much for the head," ho contin­ ued. " The next thing to consider is the build of the animal. Never buy a long- legged stilty horse. Let him have a short, straight back and a straight rump and you've got a gentleman's horse. The withers should be high and the shoul­ ders well set back and broad, but don't get them too deep in the chest. The fore iegsXsliould be short. Give me a pretty, straight hind-leg, with the hock low down, short pastern joints, and a round mulish foot. There are all kinds of horses, but the animal that has these points is almost sure to be slightly grace­ ful, good-natured and serviceable. As she asked"for^on ̂ of the "gentlemen "to i to color tastes differ. Bays, browns and . . « • * . . , - / i n o e n n t e n r a t h n whom she was well known and related her storv. " I firmly believe the letter was a de­ coy," she concluded, "and also that the whole was the work of one individual," "Undoubtedly, and that individual . abt your servants have been tampered with I can't say." Heavy lines of anxiety marked Sir. * jGlenf 6 thie forehead as he read, and it •was not surprising, the region being at that period a rough one in every . Rs locality and the circumstances which •ent him there with his family it is need­ less to mention. ' w " Strange how the thing 'ever leaked _ „i0nt," he muttered to himself, " but I •appose through ©scar's follv, and now what am I to do ? Oscar will be off in ten minutes," glancing from the letter to the pale, jaded countenance of his dissipated step-son. who stood at a little distance, making hasty preparations for • journey. "And perhaps it is as well i ^ ^r^those gambling hells h .ve sunk him < Joo low for any honest employment." , The entrance of the two remaining Members of his family, with the hurried * * . afliens and departure of Oscar Layne, ended, for the time, bis uncomfortable Inflections. But the morning cup of coffee, just then served, fully discussed, ' he passed the letter to his wife n-nd daughter. Mrs. Glent sat iu mute horror. The daughter, a noble-looking creature of some 20 years, was stronger nerved. ..•fihe read the letter slowly and critically. Hi " To-morrow," she commented, thoughtfully. "That may either mean to-night or to-morrow night, papa. You _ jpee there is no date. We don't know r Is heritor it was written twelve or twen- # Ity-four hours atro." '# i " Yon are right. That never occurred to me. We have even less time than I ilk Supposed. But I see nothing for it but lib let the money go." " It is too badly needed, papa, to be "Still," said,Bessie. "I shall act with ~ T--,. v .* * . - . v,v all mv intended caution, as we may be ! fnow.» 1 f*11}™ a ̂ nulne Pfbald-. * * I IT'C A f m o b r v f f i o r i i v d Q l t n m o v h o n n a n chesnuts are the best. Roans are very ! fashionable at present. _ A great many ' grays and sorrels are brought here for j shipment to ^Mexico and Cuba. They do j well in a hot climate, under a tropical ! sun, tor the same reason that you find i lj0-ht-colored clothing most serviceable in summer. That circus hcrse behind you is what many people call a calico the coffin had' some time been covered all over with hair. The cover being re­ moved, the whole corpse appeared in its perfect shape, but from tlie crown of the head to the sole of the foot covered with a thick-set hair, long and curled. The sexton going to handle the upper part of the head With his fingers, tlie the whole structure fell at once, leaving nothing in his hand but a handful of hair; there was neither skteli nor any other bone left, yet the hair was solid and Btrong enough. Mr. Arnpld, in the same work, gives a relation of a man hanged for theft, who, in a little time, while yet hung from the gibbet, had his body strangely covered over with hiiir. HOT ICE.--A correspondent of Nature, after numerous experiments on the boil­ ing points of substances under low pres­ sure, came to the conclusion that it would be possible to have solid ioe at temperatures far above the ordinary melting point. He says : "After sev­ eral unsuccessful attempts, I was so fortunate as to obtain the most perfect success, and have obtained solid ice at temperatures so high that it was impos­ sible to touch it without burning one's self. This result has been obtained many times, and with the greatest ease ; and not only so, but on one occasion a small quantity of water was frozen in a glass vessel which was so hot that it could not be touched by the hand with­ out burning it. I have had ice a con­ siderable length of time at temperatures far above the ordinary boiling point, and even then it only sublimed away without any previous melting. These results were obtained by maintaining the superincumbent pressure below 46mm. of mercury--i. e., the tension of aqueous vapor at the freezing point of water. Other substances also exhibit these same phenomena, tlie most nota- ^e. ̂ which is mercuric chloride, for The General was very emphatic in his which latter the pressure need only^be j denunciation of the practice of eating --j j A~ Ann /-w_ i-j.1. it- wavm bread. He contended (and no ing shades and contrasting bits of color, j are all in the perfection of good taste. \ N o m a n c a n i m p r o v e u p o n t h a t . B u t i t ! isn't finished. When it is completed as I far as the skill of the dressmaker can fin- ; ish it, and it is put on, it has to be j pinned. Somewhere; sometimes in two | or tlixee, often in half a dozen places. , It always requires a pin. Leave out the < pin and the dress is all awry somewhere. | On all this broad continent there is not j one American woman who can dress so j as to make any kind of an appearance in ; go«*l rociety without pins. • j Now, suppose our tailor should send j our suit home, and when we had put on j the coat we had to pin it at the back ? I Or suppose there was no suspender but- j tons aft, and we had to use pins there ? I Suppose he made our shirts So we would • have to pin on the collar,--how long j would such a shirt or such a suit of ; clothes stay in the house? Who would \ be responsible for the language used by ; the man who had to pin his coat ? No 1 tailor woidd dare to so tempt the wrath j of an independent man. But woman--j alas, she patiently pins on the dress that j she paid some one $30 or $40 to make, | and doesn't think anything about it. We j will not pursue this painful subject. ; Let the women of America take it up, ! and think about it, and learn, in the j noble independence of womanhood, to ( make their clothes before they put j •them on. i A Pertinacious General. Gen. Scott was noted for the perti­ nacity with which he clung to his opin­ ions. No matter what the topic, if the General expressed an opinion about it, that opinion became as the laws of the Medes and the Persians. A writer tells in the Philadelphia Times an anecdote of Gen. Scott during the Mexican war, which illu'strates this pertinacity : mistaken. "You surely will not venture to re­ turn alone to Wildlands ?" " Certainly. My late assailant will have full enough to do to look after his wound, and I have little fears of any other, as the road is not infected, by highwaymen." The conference continued a few mo­ ments longer, and then the matter was | carried to the authorities. A plaster cast of the fair, muscular hand, which it was plainly evident had never graced the person of a rough, was quickly taken, and the agent soon at his secret work. Not many hours later Mr. Glent was lifting Bessie and her well-filled basket from the wagon. " I made the purchases, considering it safer to do so," she remarked ; " but I suspect time will prove me to have been needlessly cautious." And she briefly detailed the events of the morn­ ing. It's a freak of nature and may happen anywhere."--Scribner's Monthly. J Hasband and Wife. ' I A Providence woman who has been ' | separated from her husband for twenty- J 4 four years is soon to rejoin him at Sag- ' j inaw, Mich. Each one has believed the j j other dead for twenty-four years. When I | they parted they lived in Worcester, | | Mass., and when he went to Boston one j j day he heard of an excellent opening at | | Saginaw for a gunsmith, and as he had ! I been doing poorly at Worcester, he ! thought he would give his wife a pleas- j ant surprise: so he went out to Saginaw I and settled himself in business, and I wrote to his wife to come out and join I him. She never got the letter, as there | had been some diftieulty between her ! husband and her relatives, they inter- j cepted several other letters which he wrote asking the cause of her silence. By ' And what of the return jo u r n e y?" lie ' an<J ^ she begiui to think hewas dead, • . . - . . _ • % *\'l on/i rviAtr/.rl VVni»nnorni» f a anxiously asked--a deeper shadow on nis and moved from Worcestor to Providence, He wrote to Worcester and couldn't learn anything about her after she had moved away, so he thought she must be dead. At Providence she set up as a clairvoyant, ^ „„„„ As Bessie expected, undisturbed quiet ! no rfiason Is given for the fact that j tractive articles on " Physics Without ienied liixrht after nio-lif.. | she wasn t smart enough as a clairvoyant Apparatus." In the latest number are to find out from her second sight where , given experiments for boiling water and h e r h u s b a n d w a s , w h i l e s h e p r e t e n d e d . . . - - - face than Bessie thought the occurrence warranted. " I met with nothing to alarm--not a trace of the villain remained." reduced to 420mm. On letting in the pressure the substance at once liquifies. PHILOSOPHY OF THE ECHO.--A man somewhat unfamiliar with acoustics who wanted to experiment with his own echo proceeded to the vicinity of a large rock. He spoke, but no returning voice came. He spoke loud with no better success. At length, after straining his vocal or­ gans to their utmost pitch, he left the place and consulted a man versed in physical science. " You stood too near the rock, my friend," said the naturalist. " Go back and stand at least 100 feei away from it and you will hear the echo." This is explained as follows : Beckoning one-fifth of a second as the time of pro­ nouncing one sellable,' the space trav­ ersed by a sound in this time is about 200 feet. Consequently an object must be at least half this distance before it can send back a single syllable, for the sound must travel to the reflecting body and then back. Supposing five sylla­ bles to be pronounced in a second and taking the velocity of sound at 1,100 feet per second, a distance of 550 feet from the speaker to the reflecting body would enable the speaker to complete the fifth syllable before the return of the first. This is at the rate of 110 feet per syllable. At distances of less than 100 feet there is not time for the distinct re­ flection of a single syllable, but the re­ flected sound mingles with the voice of the speaker. This is particularly ob­ servable under vaulted roofs. BOILIKO WATER IN A SHEET OP PAPER. --Nature is publishing a series of at- reigned night after night. But one day the little, keen-eyed aeent made his appearance at Wild- lands, and asked for Mr. Glent. Be seemed uneasy, and made his business known as quickly as possibly. " We have found our man. sir,** he said, abruptly. " Plenty of mother wit in him, too, or he would not have eluded us so long. But he got pretty low down, and ventured back to our pi ce, Quietly yielded to'those wretches," Bes- 1 laf - into » lie quietly answered. 1 cult/ ̂ hlch ende4 ln a bad wound. quietly answered. "True. But what is to be done? if you and your mother were not here I would risk my life in taking it to the Bolton Bank. But, as it is, 1 can't con­ scientiously do so, and there is no one upon whom I can call." " Yes. there is: I will take it/ L<*»" " You !" exclaimed both parents, ut­ terly aghast for the moment. " Yes, I am going," was the cool re­ joinder. " " You are demented, Bessie!" cried her stepmother. "It is far better to lose the money than for jou to run so great a risk." "Determined, wnwnwi^ uot dejpent- ed,"_said Bessie, as her father said : that you will es over a road is dying now, sir, and wants to see vou." "Who is he?" Mr. Glent asked, with a certain grave anxiety. " If you will excuse me, sir, he begged me to^ bring you without telling his name," the agent returned uneasily, ; "and I never refuse the dying." I For one instant they gazed into each ; other's eyes. It was enough ; Mr. Glent ; went unquestioningly. to give just such information to others in search of it. Recently an English lady visited Providence and met the clairvoy­ ant* and mentioned that she knew a fam­ ily of the same name in Birmingham, Eng. The clairvoyant remembered that this was the home of her husband before he came to America, and she wrote to his Birmingham relations expressing her belief that he was dead. She received an answer saying that he couldn't be dead, as they had very lately heard from him at Saginaw. Thus she found him again doing a prosperous business.-- ExcJiayoq (and doubt with much correctness) that bread should be eaten stale and cold. The army on the march had, of course, to eat hard bre°.d or biscuit, there being no portable ovens in those days. " Well."said the Captain, who one day visited Gen. Scott in his tent, rubbing his hands in anticipation, " we'll soon be in Puebla, General, I suppose ? " " Well, sir, and what then ? " "Why, we'll get up the ovens and have some hot bread." " Hot bread, sir ! hot bread !" shout­ ed the General, rising from his camp- stool and straightening his towering form, while he extended his arm with a majestic air. " No, sir! Sooner than permit you to commit such an impru­ dent act, I will stand over the ovens with my drawn sword ! " The remark was so unexpected, and the speech and attitude of the General so tragic, that the Captain, in relating it, said that, for a moment, he thought the General was rehearsing some lines from a theatrical act. He was taken to one o< the low dens in which Bolton abounded, and to the bedside of the dying man. " And so my secret fears are realized ; it is you, Oscar ?" he said, taking the wan hand the poor wrrett" half-doubtingly extended. " It is, but don't, don't reproach me !" . . . , , . ( he gasped. "I have enough of that too lonely to make you/feel qmte aT j here," touching his breast. "Too . "Yon, forget. Bessie, nave a drive of three mil* A Liberal Editor. We were grieved to read the other day of the death of one of Michigan's • jolliest pioneer editors--almost the last man of a band who published weeklies in the State when a coon-skin whould pay for a col­ umn "ad," and three bushels of corn dumped on the office floor stood for a year's subscription. Never a -publisher was more liberal with his space. It was > haiid the"poor"wretch feebly S ! hard 7°* f?r hi™ c*?arKe [or anyth1iu« -doubtinerlv extended ! excePt the tex llst and mortgage sales, and he measured short even on them. ease, considering the character of those about us." " I am too much like yourself to be a *!- . coward," she answered, firmly. "And t indeed I don't believe there is the slight­ est danger, except in imagination. My * , best protection, I think, will be our market-basket, and that I shall take and j .faring home well filled. Your vest pistol would not, however, be out of place in my pocket, and 1 win take it also, since I can handle it as dexterously as your­ self." ; M it f f8* more objections were ursecL " 'only to oe skillfully overruled, and Mr - Glent, feeling also that there was no' : actual danger, at last fully consented. • " no^ send for assistance, Charles?" suggested the notvexy per­ spicacious Mrs. Glent. L "That would never do in such a region ij under such circumstances, unless we 'intend to keep an armed force about us," Bessie answered promptly, Mr. Glent echoing her opinion most "emphatically. Owing to various trying delays, nearly two hours passed before Bessie could my poor Oscar; start. As she left the sitting-room for the light wacron at the door, a email hatchet which Oscar had that morning carelessly thrown on •. chair attracted her eye. She picked it tip half absently, and, with a glance at tin© keen edge, •lipped the handle under her belt. "What are you going to do with j much ! too much! Ah ! if I could live over one year of my life--one little I year!" " That you cannot, but you can--" " I know--I have heard it many a time from the preachers, but I don't Ixslieve it. I'm the man my deeds have made me. The life I have loved here I shall follow there--and I love evil! Good­ ness disgusts me even in the midst of fear J" And overcome by the' excite­ ment he sank back exhausted. Reviv- ' ing a littW presently he panted-- \ "I wanted to tell yo»--I wanted to ask you to foigive me--forgive me foi my mother, too--I would not kill her by bringing her here. You see that it was a debt of honor, and I had to have the money by fair means or foul, and so I wrote the letter. I wrote it very care- fulhr--very carefully--and all happened as I designed, except--" And he moved the maimed arm significantly. After a moment's silence he resumed, with the same panting breath: " I supposed you would send the money to Bolton, aa there was np other place, and I knew j Bess would take it if I made it a matter of life and death for you to go. It was tJiis way. you see : X did not want to light for it--did not want to flgbt my stepfather. But I anticipated an easy Yictory over Bess by means o< my su- e measured short One day in the years gone by his paper copied an attack on a county official, and old Mark was dozing at his desk when I the injured party stalked in and began: " You are a coward, sir--a--coward!" | " Mebbe I am," was the editor's com- j placent reply. I " And I can lick you, sir--lick you out | of your wrinkled old boots!" i i "I guess you could," answered Mark I I as he busted the wrapper off his only \ ! ex(»ange. " I'm going to write an article ealling : you a fool, liar, coward, cur, slanderer j and body-snatcher, and go over to Ionia ! and pay five cents a line to have it pub­ lished !" "Hey?" queried the old man as he Wheeled around. "Yes, I'll pay five cents a line to have it published! " Say, let me tell you something," re- Elied Mark. "I've got 200 more circu-ition than the Banner, and I'll publish your attack on me for two cents a line and take it out in mill feed or corn stalks! Don't trot over to Ionia when you can help build up your own town!" Mark would have published it *word for word, just as he Baid, and thrown in a cut of a horse or a stump-puller free gratis, but the official cooled oft--Detroit Free Press. OVER $2,000,000 worth of dried yeast was imported by Great Britain in the 1879. melting lead on a piece of paper: Take a piece of paper and fold it up, as school-boys do, into a square box, with­ out a lid. Hang this up to' a walking- stick by four threads and support tlie stick upon hooks or other convenient props. Then a lamp or taper must be placed under this dainty caldron. In a few minutes the water will boil. The only fear is lest the threads should catch fire and let the water spill into the lamp and over the table. The flame must therefore not be too large. The paper does not burn, because it is wet; and even if it resisted the wet it still would not burn through, because the heat im­ parted to it on one side l>y the flame would be very rapidly conducted away by the water on the other. Another ex­ periment of a similar nature, but, per­ haps, even more striking, is as follows : Twist up the edges of a common play- ing-caid or other bit of cardboard, so as to fashion it into a light tray. On this tray place a layer of small shots or bits of lead, and heat it over the flame of a lamp. The lead will melt, but the card will not bum. It may be charred a litr tie around the edges, but immediately below the lead it will not be burned, for here again the lead conducts off' the heat on one side as fast as it is supplied on the other. The Old Trick. In Iowa the lightning-rod agents have been exposed so often that the farmers refuse to have anything to do with them whatever, and the agents have been obliged to resort to severe measures. I They use the Henry improved rifle, and ! load with ball cartridge. In Mercer I county a couple of the agents were ! obliged to kill an old farmer who refused ! to sign a note for $1,800 for sixty feet of j galvanized rod with two points on it. In his dying moments the old farmer explained that he would have paid the $1,800 for the $8 worth of rod, but the scoundrels had fixed the note so it could be raised to $18,000, and that would have taken everything he had. A man has got to look out in transactions of this kind. There is no friendship in business.--Peek's Sun. Fast Horses. The standard trotter is one that can cover a mile in 2:30. It is said that less than 600 of all the horses raised and trained in the United States have this record. The number that can trot in 2:50 bear the ratio of one to 2,383 horses raised. As a business the breeding of last horses is therefore very much of a lottery; and when we recall the fact that r English Farmers. Mr. Findlay Dun, a member of the ' Royal Agricultural Commission in En- j gland, states that throughout the Mid­ land and Eastern counties an® in some i of the Southern counties the position of | the English farmer is critical and shows I little sign of amendment. To render English farming less precarious and j more profitable, Mr. Dun recommends j greater diversity. Less dependence j than heretofore must be placed on ara-' ble culture ; less wheat must be general­ ly grown; more live stock must be reared and fed ; more dairying, vegeta­ ble and fruit culture must be prosecuted. The old lands of England he considers could not lie economically farmed on the rough-and-ready system successful in this country. Tiiey require increas­ ing capital, skill and resource to make them yield even a fair reward for the labor expended on them. For the ad­ vantage of landlords and tenants--the community at large, in fact--Mr. Dun thinks that the old laws of entail and primogeniture should be either abol­ ished or so changed as to suit the re­ quirements of modem times. They were good enough in their day, but their day is gone. The position of the En­ glish farmers has become a national question. Shortened farm crops, dis­ ease among live stock and other causes have combined to shrink English farm returns from £10,000,000 to £20,000, 000 annually. THE leading millionaires of San Fran­ cisco are assessed this year as follows: Leland Stanford, $19,719,000; Charles Crocker, $10,187,000; Mrs. Mark Hop­ kins, §17,211,900; J. W. Mackey k Co., $10,680,000; J. C. Flood & Co., $10,500,- 000; Wm. Sharon, $4,470,000; James G. Fair, $4,220,000; J. C. Flood, $3,- 630,000; P. Donahue, $51,220,000; N. Luning, $3,170,000; Hagghnt Tevis, $3,- 000,000; Daniel Meyer, $2,500,000; «Tas. Phelan, $2,450,000; Joseph MacDou- ough and family, $1,669,000; James M. McDonald, $1,709,000; Lloyd Tevis, .$1,500,000; James B. Haggin, $1,500,- 000; D.O. Mills, $1,500,000; Louis Sloss, $1,400,000; L. L. Robinson, $1,275,000; 11. F. Morrow, $1,200,000; Robert Sher­ wood, $1,100,000; Chas. Speckles, $1,- 000,000. THERK IS a good deal ol feeling in Washington over the fact that Mr. Hayes insists on having the White House "banked up" for winter, the same as farm houses in Ohio are banked up, with " maneuver " from the barn-yard. Fash­ ionable residents of Washington stick np their noses at it, but Mr. and Mrs. Hayes insist that the flavor is not unpleasant, and that potatoes and ap­ ples keep better in the cellar when the house is banked up that way.--Peck's Sun. NEW JEBSET men who get drunk on apple-jack don't go around whooping and howling and smashing things, ont sit down in a fence-corner and cry like chil­ dren. One driving through some local­ ities in that State would imagine that every second man had lost his whole family. The fence-corners are full of them. A Strange Ocular Discovery. trot Benjamin C. Merrill, Hf Mil­ waukee, has been pursuing a series of experiments, endeavoring to make the natural eye do the work of the telescope and microscope, namely: magnifying tlie size of the object to 1>e viewed.' He ar­ gues that the telescope and microscope are clumsy apparatus compared with his plan for accomplishing their work. He alludes to the well-known fact that near­ sighted people have protuberance and globular-slu)p.;>d evoballs, while the far- sighted have eye-balls with flattened surface. Acting upon this suggestion of nature, Prof. Merrill has conceived the idea that the eye can. be rounded or flattened at will, and thus increase the focal distance and do the work of the telescope. Accordingly, he constructed an instrument composed of two small metal discs perforated with exceedingly fine holes, which he placed over the eye and fastened it with a band around the head. The discs were pressed on the eyeballs by tightening the band with an adjustible screw which flattens the eye­ balls, thus throwing the focus to a greater distance. The discs being finely perforated, the eyes are enabled to look through precisely as they can lopk through a veil. The Professor met with astonisliing results from his experiments. As fast as he turned the screw the tele­ scopic--we use this term in order to give the idea clearly--power of the eyes was increased. With two turns of the screw he w(is enabled to read a newspaper twenty rods distant! And with six turns he could, at night, seethe moons of Jupi­ ter and the rings of Saturn. This marvelous experiment brings to mind the statement of an acquaintance made to us years ago, in which he said he could see a sail vessel on the lake when no one else could see it, and that the moon appeared to him to be seven feet in diameter, showing that his eye­ balls were more flattened than ordinary. Prof. Merrill has not made any exper­ iment as yet to make the eye do the work of the microscope, which can only be done by reversing the, operation and rounding the eyeball. This, he thinks, can be done. If his discovery can be made of practical use it will produce wonderful results. But there is the un­ pleasantness of having perforated discs pressing on the bare surface erf the eye, which may prevent the discovery from being *of practical l>enefit. Imagine a General of an army standing on an ele- evated position, with a pair of these per­ forated discs strapped directly on his eyeballs, directing the movements of his forces in the far distance ! If it should happen to be slightly dnsty he would not be very happy for tlie time being. Then, there is the danger of injuring the eyeballs by producing imflammation.-- Exchange. Household Perils. Under this head the Boston Journal o f Chemixtr,y names several dangerous sub- stanccH which find their way into house­ holds. There are two or throe yolatile liquids used in families whirls are par­ ticularly dangerous, and must be em­ ployed, if at all, with special care. Ben­ zine, ether and strong ammonia consti­ tute this class of agents. The two first- named liquids are employed in cleans­ ing gloves and other wearihg apparel, and in removing oil stains from carpets, cur­ tains, &c. Tlie liquids are highly vola­ tile, and flash into vapoi as soon as the cork of the vial containing them is re­ moved. Their vapors are very combust­ ible and will in fin me at long distances from ignited candles or gas flames, and consequently they should a ever be used in the evening, when the house is lighted. Explosions of a very dangerous nature will occur if the vapor of these liquids is permitted to escape into the room in con­ siderable quantity. In view of the great hazard of handling these liquids cautious housekeepers will not allow them to be brought into their dwellings, and this course is commendable. As regards am­ monia, or water of ammonia, it is a very powerful agent, especially the stronget Kinds sold by druggists. An accidenr in its uso has recently come under our notice in which a young lady lost her life from taking a few drops through mis­ take. Breathing the gas under certain circumstances causes serious harm to the lungs and membranes of the mouth and nose. It is an agent much used at the present time for cleansing purposes, and it is unobjectionable if proper care is used in its employment. The vials holding it should be kept apart from others containing medicines, &c., and rubber stoppers to the vials should l»e used. Oxalic acid is considerably em­ ployed in families for cleaning brass and copper utensils. This substance is highly poisonous, and must be kept and used with great caution. In crystalline struc­ ture it closely resembles sulphate of magnesia or Epsom salts, and, there­ fore, frequent mistakes are made and lives lost. Every agent wliieh goes into families among inexperienced persons should be kept in a safe place, labeled properly and used with care. White Hairs. "Not like snow, nor like anything else in the world," writes the author of " Romolaso she simply calls it " the beautiful white hair of age," and, in disdaining all similes in connection with such a subject, we recognize the deep and true perception of George Eliot. Your hair ban a golden K'OBS, Jeannette, 'Tin a Bilk of the finest floes, my pet. "Ti» a beautiful twist facing down to your wrlat-- A thing t>o be braided, jeweled, and kissed. 'Tin tlio loveliest hair ln the world, my pot. So sings Charles Halpine, and so in all ages have poets sung of hair that is au­ burn, raven brown, of "those wonderful waves of bronze and gold," of all hair, save the sad and simple hair of age. Ah, yes! men fall into raptures abo i sunny ringlets or jet-black looks, and their hearts get entangled in the silk meshes; but in the venerable presence of white hairs one is tempted to lift his hat. Some' there are who, walking along the pathway of years, have reaohed in time the threshold of eterni­ ty ; and, as they recede further and further from the darkness, perhaps it it is simply the reflection of heaven which makes their hair seem white. However that may be, let us learn to love " the beautiful white hair of age. " Fierce Nihilist Women. Russian Nihilist women are the brav­ est of their sex. They wear waterproofs w i t h r e v o l v e r s i n t h e p o c k e t s . E v e n f l u y o u n g a n d g o o d l o o k i n g , i t i s s a i d , e n ­ tirely succeed in divesting themselves of the usually-controlling feminine p siou for dress. The woman, exolai one of their admirers,, who voluntarily abandons herself to wearing on all da; : irrespective of weather, and at all tim -; a water-proof cloak, may be figuratively said to have burnt her ships. She has abdicated her natural empire. WHEN they shear sheep in Australia they mean business, as may be im­ agined, when the flocks aggregate over .200,000 head. There are some proprie­ tors who own more than 500,000. Eidoes k. Co., New South Wales, upon one sheep farm at Burrawary, had a sheep- shearing which lasted ten weeks, during which time 260,123 sheep were shorn. One hundred shearers, beside the regu­ lar farm hands, were employed. VEGETINE if Kidney Complaints. DISEASE IF THE RIDHEVS. The srmp+oim of mi Mote attack of friflnmmfttirm of . th« kMnnysareas follmn; Iterat, painln thn«BMll of His ,u;3 nhcoHn.- the thigh, vomilinjf. oanally at tirat a dmp red color of Uk» uriau, whicii iiwanm pate and «uln>lwa» tiis •aa* increnseu, and ia discharged very eftea with pairt and difficulty; coettvenea. and some dagree of colic, in chronic diaeaaes of the kldneja the qnaptoma an pain hi the back and limb*, dryness of the akin, frequent uiina* Won (eamctellF at nlffhtl, csobiml dropsy, hoadanhfi, diz* zinesa of sight, indigestion and palpitation of the heart, Kadnal loss of strength, paleness »nd pnffiness of «h» oe, oongh. and shortness of breath In diseases of the kidneys the VEOETIW. giwa knme dlato relief. It has never failed to earn when it is taker) regularly and directions followed. In many rases it miut take aoTentlbottlea.especially ee«es of ion* standing. It acta direotly upon the secretion< , cleansing and strength, ening, removing all obstruction" and inunuities. A great many can testify to cases of long standing having been perfectly cored by the VEGF.TIKF., evwi after trying many ef the known remedies wfeioo am Mid to be ex­ pressly for this diseaa^- DDffiT COVUDITS. „ „ CINCINNATI, O., March 19,1877. ^ H. R. STETF.NS : Dear Sir--I have used your VFOETIKK for some tinw. and can truthfully say it hns been a greit benefit to me;.- and to those suffering from disease of the kidneys I cheerfully recommend it. Respectfully, • O. H. SMITH. Attested to by K. B. Ashfield, DntggiBt,corner and Central Avenues. MH.W R- STEVENS: °- ̂ »• »*• I.hire suffered several yean with the kidnap complaint* and Whs induced to try Vkorrnw, I have taken seterij botilea of >'orir preparation, and am convinced it ia * v«dn:ible rvuiP:ly. It has done me more good than an# , other medicine. I can heartily recommend it to all aui. • ferine from kidney complaints. Yours respectfully, „. . „ .. • „ J. 8 MoMlLTJtN, Tint BocOtkseper for Newhall. 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