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H-r sweet.y«MMi« iaots with its tresses brow*, Wan the fdni face in the mining town, Lo! the morning came! but the marriage bell 3 HI *h up <n the tower rang a mournful knell. ]f For the true heart, bur en 'aesth earth and atoo^ i; Far aown in the heart Uf the mine - alone. ; • sorrowful peal on their wedding day, : tf9t the breaking heart and the heart of W, --And the Bscs that looked from her tresses blOWB, Was the aaddeat lace in the mining town. V f % Thus time rolled along on it* wearr way, •V jtil fl'ty years with their shadows grar, - Bad darkened the light of her sweet eyer (bv( And had turned the brown of her hair to MV. Oh! never a kirn from a husband's lips. Or the clasp of a child's sweet linger tips, .Had lifted one moment the shadows brow*, > uFrom the saddest heart in the mining town. 'Far down In the depthsVkf the mine, one day, In the loosened earth they were digging aw*?. They dis overed a fsi-e, so young, so fair, 'From the smiling lip to the light brown hair. Untouched by the finger of Time's decay. s-> .SV^Iien they drew him up to the light of day, r'*?VST/'^The wondering people gathered 'round '. To gase at the man thus strangely found. . ^ Vk • JThen a woman came from among the crowd, &//f'¥"?i^Wit-h her Song, white hair, and her stignt bowed, ?rt5 VSBbe silently knelt by the form of day, t:'< > And hissed the Hps that were cold and grtlfj ^OThwi tbemtdu old face, with itsanowy ha% <in (lis youthful Vrw~. lay pillowed them .iHic "<»<! U . P ; his waiting hri.% iiliiii'i lift pMjpife oniled them aide by sida ^ - * KIPPLE GRANGE. Mr. Pixley was a real estate agent. Mr. Pixley bad had a goodly number of houses on bis list in his time, but never one so persistently, unalterably, perse- veringly on bis list as Kipple Grange. Year alter year it had figured on Itia - books as a " Desirable Country Res­ idence, to be had on Reasonable Terms;" year after year it still hung hopelessly on his hands. Nor was Mr. Pixley the only real es­ tate agent who had wrestled, so to speak, with Kipple Grange. Other land brokers and rent collectors had had their " try " at it, with equally unsatisfactory results. It had been advertised in newspaper*, And pasted up on bulletin-boards, and etill it remained " Kipple Grange--To Xiet" "Hang the old place!" said Mr. Pix­ ley, vehemently scratching his bald -head. "I wish it would burn down, or blow away, or somethiug! It's a dis­ grace to a business man to keep such an «ye-sore on his list. I've a great mind to gmt old Miss Briggs into it, to keep it in order until I can get a tenant, the wants a place cheap. I'll let her have Kipple Orange for nothiug." So when Miss Briggs came tiptoeiug Into the real estate office--a faded, mel­ ancholy little old maid, leading her ter­ rier dog by its string, and wearing a (green veil to neutralize the spring wiutls--Mr. Pixley told her that Kipple Orange should be hers, for the present at least **¥ouH probably find it lonely," said lie. "I dote on the country," said Misa Brigga. "And very mtloh out of repair," he added. "I don't doubt but that' It will do for me," said the little old spinster, hex faded eyes brightening. "Probably, also, Jthere'B a ghost about <the premises,'* jocosely uttered the i;y "•gent. Miss Briggs shook her head with a sad *' t«-j|smile. "It's live people I am afraid of," f «,^aaid she, "not dead ones." ' f i x • • :• »> on{,i nr- XK- "|;rJ-«Grange «hall be yours this quarter, if .you'll fix up the garden a little, and give • , ?ithe place a lived-in sort of look. Of ' t<«course it will be for sale, and I shall ex- ,§>eet you to do your best for our inter­ ests. ' And Miss Briggs courfcesied, and said: "Yes, she would," and withdrew, greatly elated in spirits. Upon tin; same day, the twenty-fifth of April, Mr. Beggarall, the real estate agent of Dorchester, let Kipple Grange to old Mr. Hyde, who was a naturalist and a botauist and an etomologist, to say nothing of half a dozen other ists, and who wanted a quiet country homo, with woods and meadows in ite vicinity, wherein to prosecute his beloved sciences. And MacPherson & Co., of Long Islaud, i VSi,il- Miss Briggs, with energy, made a bargiao with the Reverend Mr. Bellairs, an invalid clergyman, who was in search of country air and complete re­ pose. Mrs. Bellairs was a pattern house­ keeper, and gloried in the prospect of grass bleaching, new-laid eggs, wild rasp­ berries and plenty of plums and apri­ cots for preserving purposes. And, strangely enough, ft occurred to none of the three real estate agents to let the other know of his action. "There is never any demand for Kip­ ple Grange," said MacPherson & Co., indifferently. ^ ' 'I'll write to Pixley and old Mao when I get time," said BeggaralL "There's no hurry about Kipple Grange," thought Pixley. "If Briggs keeps it from tumbling to pieces •he will do very well." Meanwhile Mrs. Kipple herself, the plump widow whose grandfather on the husband's side had bequeathed her <jM> impracticable piece of property, began to think of running down to look at it herself. "They tell me there's no such thing as letting it," said she. 'Tve a mind to go down and see for myself. One really pines for the country, now that they are selling lilac blossoms and pansies in the street*; and I'm quite sure that a change of air would do me good. I'll take Dorcas, my maid, and a few cans of peaches and sardines, we'll picnic at Kipple Grange, just lor the fun of the thing." "It never rains but it pours," saith the ancient proverb; so upon this winCrc-e', etfi., blooming April day, when the sui "ereafter. toenriow slopes were purpled all o|ivry V'i' It wild violets, and the yellow iiAHttk V. silent hemlock wood, still and soented and emerald green in the twilight. Miss Briggs, with her terrier dog, her bandboxes, and her poor little hair trunks, studded with' brass nails, had got there early. She had opened the on the second storv, and devoted her whole energy--and not without some degree of sucoeas--to keeping the peace between Ghico, the monkey, and Nip, the terrier- Mrs. >\*ippie, however, got tired of indows to let in the yellow glow of the* rural felicity, and returned to the city in April sunset, kindled a fire with straight the autumn sticks on the deep tiled hearth, and was sitting on a starch-box turned upside down, drinking cold tea and feeding her dog with occasional scraps of canned beef and baker's bread. "It seems rather lonely here," said the little old spinster to herself, "and the rooms ate very large and dreary-look­ ing; but I dare say I can hire a little fur­ niture in the village, and tho garden is really superb. I never saw such tulip roots in my lite. And tho little brook twinkling at the foot of the wall is an idyl in itself." Miss Brigga, who jhad^a good deal of pOetry in her starved soul, set down the can and reached ov*tr to look out of the window at the golden western sky. "So quiet, too!" said she; "so se- efnded." But, ro her amazement, even as she looked, she perceived the figure of a stout old gentleman, bald and spectacled, twtd carrying an immense flat traveling casa tinder his arm, who was picking his way among the rose-briers that lay prone across the path, stopping here and there to examine the growth of silver- green houseleeks on the garden wall. Miss Briggs, who was somewhat near­ sighted, jumped at once to the conclu­ sion that this interloper was a tramp. She hurled the tin can recklessly down into the budding currant bushes. "Go away!" she cried. , Mr. Hyde peered upward, with One hand back of his ear. "Eh?" said he. "Or I'll set the dog on you," squeaked Miss Briggs, encouraged by the shrill bark of the terrier. "Woman," said the scientist, "who are you?" "I'll let you know," said Miss Briggs, waxing more and more excited in her iudignation. "How dare you trespass on my premises?" "How dare you trespass on mine?" retorted the old gentleman, curtly. He's a madman," though* Miss Iiriggs; and she remembered, with a 'In-ill of terror, that there was no key to he big front door, and the bolt was rusted into two pieces. At the same moment the sound of whooping voices was heard through the wide, echoing hall, and three chubby lads, rushed hilariously in, tumbling over one another as they came "Hurrah!" they shouted; "hurrah! Vin t this a jolly old eavern of a house! My! here's a fire! and here's an old woman!" Miss Briggs, who had drawn her head in from the window, stared at the three cherry-cheeked invaders, who returned her gaze with interest. "Boys," said she, severely, "what are you doing here?" "Why," said Master Bruce Bellairs, mat. eleven, "it's our house. And pa and ma are helping unpack the cart at the south door. And I've got a redbird, and Johnny's got a brood of Brahma chickens in a basket, and Pierre has a monkey." But, boys," said Miss Briggs, with a little hysterical laugh, "this is my house." "No, in ain't." said the three Masters Bellairs in chorus; "it's ours. We've rented it for a year, and pa and ma are unpacking downstairs." "Is that your pa? ' aaid Miss Briggs, with a sudden inspiration, as she pointed to the old gentleman in the garden, who stood stock-still, like the Egyptian obe­ lisk. "No, indeed," said Pierre, contemp­ tuously. "Nothing of the sort," said Johnny. Our pa ain't such a guy as that," chuckled Bruce. "I think I must be asleep and dream­ ing," said Miss Biggs, as the door opened, and a stout, blooming matron entered upon the scene, with a kerosene lamp in one liana and a basket of care­ fully packed china in the other, while iroin her finger depended a bird-cage. "My good woman," said the Reverend Mrs. Bellairs, "I suppose you have '•orne here,to see about a situation.^ If von can bring good reference as to char­ acter--" "You are entirely mistaken, madam, I am herr* because But at that moment Mrs. Kipple ber- •ielfV with Dorcas her maid, entered the r x>m. She was a tall, handsome woman, lressed in elegit mourning, and she ised an eyeglass as she talked, and omehow she seemed to tak<» tin a orood 1 eal more room than anybody eBe. Mrs. Bellairs set down the kerosene lamp and the bird-cage, Miss Briggs' terrier stopped barking, and the three boys in­ stinctively retired behind the starch-box. "Who are you all?" said Mrs. Kipple, surveying the scene through her eye­ glass. "And how came you to be here?" "I have taken this house," said Miss Briggs, with dignity. "So have w^" said Mrs. Bellairs. "So have I," declaired the baldheaded old gentleman, who had by this time made his way up into the rudy light of Misa Brigg's fire, and stood there, close­ ly hugging his flat traveling case. "Dear me!" said Mrs. Kipple; "this is very singular. And I have come here ltecause the house wasn't rented at all." And then ensued a general chorus of explanations, laughter and depreciation, *hose general effect was heightened by i sinale combat between Master Pierre Bellairs' monkey and Miss Briggs' ter- ciasus was shaking its golden tasf over the neglected borders of Kip Orange, the old brick house, which 1 f 'en, and stood empty for six good years at lei hereof, I B became all of a sudden alive. election It. was an ancient mildewed struct on the edge of a wood, an old red hoi .M * whose front garden, tangled over w rose-briers, and grown with the fantas trunks of mossy pear trees, and api rIng t,,e v that leaned almost to the ground, sloi down to the bank of a merry little ri Here the tiger-lilies lifted "What are we to do?" said Miss Briggs plaintively looking at the hair trunks studded with brass naila, "Do?" said Mrs. Kipple, briskly-- *t«r out meat of of the let. uere the tiger-lilies lifted ti scarlet turbans in the July sunshi the clumps of velvety sweet-willia blossomed first and sweetest. Gri cream-hearted roses swung against t tumble-down stone wall, and love-in mist, London-pride, and all those r; the time (or his petent as oroughly confined old-fashioned "flowers of our an«ist^/,!/>nt °,j ran riot sprawling across the gra .,®' , grown paths, and packing themsel^ J|| Into the angles of the fence, where tb honeysuckles trailed, and the scarl • ^" popples looked like drops of bl The old garden of JKipple Grangp'/ed i,'- s. A like a horticultural show gone her. She ..-.v midtiummer. And even now itjg* »8 nay man's with tufts of crocus, blue-velvs^J.V _lwo dollars. tlnffodils- whilfl a.t the '• •» Dctr< - " 'Not lotii New' Mr. Bellairs received a call to a Pela- ware parish, where peaches were thicker than blackberries, and the climate was soft as that of Italy, and he accepted it promptly. •"What shall we do now?" said Miss Priggs, who was disposed to take a tim­ orous view of thiugs. Mr. Hyde pushed his spectacles on to the top of his head. "Don't you like the house?" said he. "Yes," Miss Briggs admitted. "I like the house." '.'And don't you consider the situation salubrious?' "Certainly," said Miss Briggs. "Then," said Mr. Hyde, looking at the edge of his geological hammer, "why don't yon stay here?" "What, all alone by myself?" said Miss Briggs. "No," said the scientific gentleman; "with me!" "Good gracious!" cried Miss Briggs. "We both like the place," said Mr. Hyde. . "We like the situation and we like each other. Why shouldn't we set* tie down here for life?" "But I never have thought of such a thing," said Miss Briggs, in trepidation. •".Think of it now," said Mr. Hyde in accents of scientific persuasion, as he laid down the hammer and took her black-mittened hand tenderly in his. And Mr. Bellairs married them before he went away, and Kipple Grange has never been tolet since.--Harper's Ba­ zaar. FACTS FOR THE CITBIOUS. CARRIER-PIGEONS often exhibit a re­ markable love of music, and they are exceedingly fond of aromatic odors. WHENEVER any one of a herd of hye­ nas, in their native state, is wounded its companions tear it to pieces and devour it. JELLY-FISHES can live cut in two for an indefinite period. Halves of them trill swim along as if nothing had hap­ pened. THERE is a pair of scales in the New York Assay Office of a kind so delicate that, when brought to a balance with two pieces of paper of equal size in the pans, the mere writing of a name with lead pencil on one of the pieces of paper will add enough weight to the paper to turn the scales in its favor. WHEN a lion is roused he never goes directly forward, but takes an oblique course, receding with a slow, proud mo­ tion, going from one side to the other, and bounding rather than running. The lion is a long-lived animal; in his native forest his age exceeds that of man. When a lioness fears lest her re­ treat may be discovered she often hides her tracks by brushing them out with her tail. IT is said that the bats of Java seldom fail to attack sueh persons as lie in the open air with their extremities exposed ; afld they are so dexterous in this opera­ tion that they can insinuate their acule- ated tongue into a vein, and continue to draw the blood without being per­ ceived ; and that during all the time they are engaged, they agitate the air with their wings in so pleasing a manner as to throw the sufferer into a sounder sleep than he was before. THE common flea lives by sucking the blood of man, and of some species of quadrupeds and birds. It abounds par­ ticularly in the nests of poultry, pigeons and swallows, and wherever sand and dust accumulate in the chinks of floors ; it is to be found also plentiful in beds, wherever cleanliness is neglect­ ed. Fleas undergo a complete meta­ morphosis. The female lays alxrat a dozen eggs of a white color, and slightly viscous. The larvse is a lively little worm, at first white, afterward reddish, and destitute of feet. THERE are at present in the Old World and in the New World more than 100,000 railway locomotives. Their to­ tal force is equal to 30,000,000 horse­ power, and all the other steam engines on the globe are estimated at 46,000,000 horse-power. The technical " horse­ power," however, is really equal to three average horses, and each horse to about seven men, the aggregate power, there­ fore, of all the engines being vastly more than the effective force of all the human workers living. Four-fifths of the steam engines now at work have been made within a quarter of a century or so. SOME of the washing waters of Paris, which were formerly run into tlie sewers, are now collected in casks, and, the suds being subjected to cltemical treatment, the fatty matters are being manufactured into toilet soap, made fragrant by the addition of oil of rose. According to this process a little sulphuric acid is added to the soap water obtained from cashing linen, the whole is then stirred up, and the fatty matter is allowed to stand for a few hour?, when, on its col­ lecting upon the surface of the liquid, it is gathered in casks. Instead of sul­ phuric acid, sulphate of iron or ferru­ ginous sulphate of alumina may be em­ ployed, by the action of which the sepa­ ration of the fatty matter is obtained, being precipitated in the form of an in­ soluble soap. After the action of these metallic saltr, the operation may be ter­ minated b>- the addition of milk of lime. at "pome people have good luck tgt people have bad luck. Now let ber once I was walking; along £1 with Tom Jellicks, and he wep» on ono side or it and I went the other. We hadn't go tie,e half way down when he found . book with 850 in it and I stepprt woman's dress and to got atf" with my present wife. It so," lie added with a si^jl:, "t^ Jellick* was the luckiest mrue World and I never had no luck." -d drum l i ter was sent to\a town i^e sippl to lo^k after the affairs ©- chant Whojfhad fallen, and waA® in debt toit'te establishment |^e IIH sented. '"Mr. Hoflenstein " nn "how inueh do you propose to the dollar?" "Veil," replied Emperor of Brazil. The present Emperor of Brazil, Pedro II., is descended from the royal line of Portugal. When the French invaded that country in 1807, the royal family fled to Brazil, which was raised to the rank of a kingdom in 1815. After diffi­ culties with Portugal, the father of the reigning sovereign took the part of Bra­ zil, and was proclaimed protector and perpetual defender of that country, which was declared independent in 1822, and he was proclaimed constitutional Emperot and crowned. Ofc. the death of his father, Dom Pedro Irabdicted the throne of Brazil it. favor of his infant daughter, and returned to Portugal to assume the office of King. It was dur­ ing the residence of Dom Pedro I. in Brazil that Dom Pedro II., the present Emperor, was born, which event occurred December 2, 1825. He was crowned July 18, 1841, and-was married Sept. 4, 1843, to Princess Christina Maria, daugter of Francis I., King of the Two Sicilies. Their one surviving child Princess Isabella, was born July 29, 1846, and was married in 1864 to Prince Louis of Orleans, Comte d'Eu, eldest son of the Due de Nemours, of the ex- royal house of Bourbon-Orleans. The Empire of Brazil has greatly improved aider Pedro IL, slavery has been abol >'0i(, Mich, ••" -A, GOSSIP FOB THE LADIES. Mia4««r i.oven. ' ' \ jft>r your aorerelgn sake, my friMHIt. j All my loven are estranged, •badow-loven without end : . But laat night they were aienfew* V vJjbi the middle of the night . • One by one I uw them riae, > " Rearing In the ghostly light, i | Silent, with averted eyes. #ir*t, my master from tbe8outh, With the laurels round his brow, Aud tho bitter-smiling moutb, >ft me--without smiling now. £hen came one long used to rula' All I was, or dirt, or had-- P;*to, that I read at i-choal Till my playmste* call*) me ma#. Itatden saluts as pure as pearls^ Beautiful, divine, austere; Sweeter-voicad JEollau giria Left their friend of many a year. But, my earliest friend and best, My Beethoven, this waa hard Tou should leave me with the rest, Pass without one last regard. For all went and left me there, Sighing as they passed me by; Ah, how sad their voioes were! I shall hear them when I die. f Fare-t\»*>e-wol]," they snld, " wa go - Scorned ax Bhsde* and dreams. Adieu 1" Jtove Ihiue earthly friend, but know Shadows stitl thou dost pursue." . Mary F. llubinwn. , • Women W1m Wwk. The question of how to employ the women of New York city is awakening attention. There is said to be one law­ yer among the females, a number of physicians, several are reporters on news­ papers, critics and editresses. The women rather lead in the actors' profes­ sion. Decorative art is employing them in wood-carving, design-drawing, sculp­ ture, china-painting, pottery, tapestry- making, embroidery, crayon-drawing, painting photograplis, book-canvassing, bird-fanciering, bird-training, etc. It is said that 75,000 women here support themselves in various light artisan pur­ suits and in shops.--New York letter. ' more Tlian ati* Hatch* Occasionally, yes, very often, a wom­ an is more than a match for a man. A farmer living in the outskirts of New Haven was in a hurry to get his farm- work along, and went* out into the field with his boys and hired man, entirely overlooking the fact that the last stick of wood in the woodpile had been burned to get the breakfast. Bagiug hungry the force came in at noon. The good wife had the table set with all the taste of which she was mistress, and ii really looked inviting; but there was no dinner upon it. " Sarah, where's the dinner ?" inquired therfarmer somewhat anxiously. I don't know whether it is done or not. There was no wood for a tire so I hung it in the warmest plaoe I could find. It's on the ladder at the south side of the house." The whole force was detailed at chopping wood that afternoon.--New Haven Jlegister. * Women In France* A French writer notices the increasing political and social roio which women play in modern Prance. In lawsuits, commercial and financial operations, be­ hind the counter, and at the cashier's desk, in the theaters, and in the restau­ rants, you to-day see the activity and feel the influence of women. Men make the beds and wax the floors. In the middle-class women are eager for gain, ready to go into court, adventurous in tinancial schemes. They treat about a lease with you, attend stockholders' meetings, and turn to the money-market column of their paper almost before they read the feuilleton. French women won't yield an inch, they won't make a concession, they will be in turn solici­ tors, lawyers and sheriffs. On the eve of the Frauco-Otrmaii^ war' Thiers weht to the salon of Mine. Drouyn de Lhuys and said to her, " You are a woman ! Women are thought to have great weight in this Government. I beg you to ap­ pease this war. We are not ready for it." PlnmpncHM a Requisite. Instead of saying that there is an ex~ oess of 30,000 women in Massachusetts, we shall be able to reason more clearly if we simply say that there are 30,000 unmarried women in that interesting State. If the facts are stated in this way, we at once see that, instead of troubling ourselves about over-produc­ tion. we should merely ask, " Why are theso women unmarried ?" The an- er is not difficult to find. These women are unmarried because they are of a pattern which has of late years gone out of fashion. About the same time that the gray trousers of England drove out the I lack broadcloth trousers, which, in connection with the black satin waistcoat and black dress-coat, formerly constituted the walking cos­ tume of the American citizen, there was introduced the plump English style of girl. The latter soon became enormous- ly popular, and the bpny and spectacled maidens of Massachusetts became a drug in the market. It was still generally conceded that the Massachusetts girl knew more about Emerson's philosophy and Alcott's Orphic utterances than did their plumper rival, but the merits of *.he former were unable to awaken any enthusiasm. The Boston poetical young man no longer wrote sonnets expressing the emotions of his heart on hearing the bones of his beloved rattle as she ran to greet him at the gate, and the Boston youth of fashion no longer proposed at public dinners the once-familiar toast, "Beauty and bones," in honor of the spare sex. In fact, spare and angular girls went entirely out of fashion, and Massachusetts men went outside the boundaries of New England when they sought for wives. " No, sonny, I nebbah had a wife-- fiebbali 'vested in de matry-monul lot'ry. De chances alius seemed ter me fo' ter be powerfully 'gin drawin' a prize; ef yo' wuns buy a ticket in dat skeem yo* am suah fo ter draw sumfin', and a B>oah hoss eats's much as a good un. e day a man marries, sonny, it am eder kill or cure--an' it am seldom cure. I hab studied de points ob de female sex fos a good many yeahs, an' long ago I 'eluded dat da hud too muclt combat- ability ob tempah fo' me. A woman's tongue am her sword, sonny, an' she nebbah 'lows it to rust. As anodah re- «ult of my reser-ches, sonny, I fin' dat de man dat will not be ruled by his wife nrns' come undah de thumb ob his mud- dah-in-law. In 'dishun ter all dis, dar am de queschun ob chillun; dis ques- ehnn may be divided inter de maximum an' de minimum. In de maximum I hab 'skuvered dat a faddah kin scratch bble fo' ten chillun wid mo' success ten chillun kin hoe a row fo' one faddah. In de minimum I fin' dat de man dat owns one hog makes him fat, an' de man dat has one son makes him a fool. De neares' I ebbah 'rived to de yoke, sonny, war to git pa'shally tangled in a web set fo' me by a widdah." " Then you did fail a victim to the wiles of a widow?" "As I sed befo', sonny, pa'shaliy. But de widdah had fo' 'tachments dat 1 couldn't bring myself ter look on wid kin'ness--da war fo' chilluns. My ob- salivashuns ob de matfcah bed 'vmced me dat de man dat marries a widdah an' fo' chilluns hitches himself ter five thieves." " You are very bitter against the fair sex, Uncle Joel." "lam only gibbin' you de result ob a long study ob de subjeo', sonny. Yo' can't bide de defeks ob de female Bex any mo' dan you kin klver up de spring" halt or de blin' staggers in a hoss."-- Albany Argut. DOMESTIC RECIPES. merchant, "t imes fe pad you know hed, immigration invited, railways pUhne** VM dull. Ant-" he contlm& a',(* the tinaU(>es a»l1 "ther d«Pftrt* .. .. ... s of the government nut on a firmer touching Ids nose, "I'll pay shoost as The Emperer traveled in Europe much as der re»t. How much I* der ^ poya paying th!s| year, anyhow?*'--^. O. Time*. time during 1871 and 1872, and LAW»e viaited the Unite^ States, very cordially receiv ed. A Colored Philosopher's Views on Matrimony and the female Nex. " Good afternoon, Uncle Joel," said the reporter, taking a seat upon the "tool he had occupied on a previous visit. " Hel-lo, sonny," replied the old gen­ tleman, with a hospitable glance over his sooctacles. " Are you taking a practical lesson in domestic economy, Uncle Joel ?" Tl.e old gentleman looked up with a mild reproof in his eye. The look ma) have been partially induced by the fact that at the moment half an inch of the darning needle was hidden in his thumb t>y the breaking of the twine. ' • Wat wo'd yo' tink I war doin', son- ny, by de 'pearens ob tings ?" The reporter was abashed, and did not reply. " bonny," continued the old gentle­ man, "nebbah try fo' ter tangle up an ole man wid ambeguities. Ob big words on fedders many go ter de poun', an* live wheels ter a ca'at am alius one too many. Anoddah ting, sonny," con­ tinued he, as he proceeded to accommo­ date the extracted needle to the abbre­ viated thread, "nebbah ask a man w'at he m doin' w'en ye kin see fo' yo'self. I war tryin' fo' ter paste dis button CABBAGE SALAD.--Slired the cabbage fine. Heat together two table-spoonfuls of vinegar, one of butter and a teaspoon- ful each of salt and sugar. Pour it over the cabbage hot, sprinkle pepper on top and serve. PODDING SAUCE.--Mix two teaspoons of corn starch and two cups of sugar well together. Add the juice of a lemon and half the grated peel, half a cup of butter and a cup of boiling water. Stir and boil for five minutes. MASHED CARROTS.--Wash, scrape and soak them in cold water for an hour. Cook tender in boiling salted water; drain, mash and beat in a generous piece of butter. Season to taste with salt, arrange them in a dish, sprinkle pepper over the top and serve hot. BEET-TOP SPINACH. -- The tops of young beets, if treated in the same way as spinach, but boiled for half an hour instead of ten minutes, will be found "very similar to spinach, and quite as good. The dish should be garnished with slices cut from the roots of large red and white beets, and seasoned plenti­ fully with pepper. OAT-MEAII AND BEEF TEA.--I find this quite useful to give strength to weak patients ; take two table-spoonfuls of fine oat-meal and make it perfectly smooth in two spoonfuls of cold water; pour into this a pint of strong beef tea ; boil it eight minutes; keep stirring all the time ; it should be very smooth ; if lumpy pass through a sieve. "VEAL CUTLETS.--Dust your cutlets, with pepper and salt, dip them in beaten egg, then in cracker crumb, and fry slowly in hot' butter or beef drippings. When done take them out of the pan, and pour a little boiling water into the gravy, thickening it with flour previ­ ously browned in the oven. Serve on a very hot platter, with the gravy poured around the cutlet. WASHINGTON PUDDING,--Put a teacup of seeded raisins into tho flour sieve, throw over them a pint of flour and add half a teaspoonful of salt, the same quantity of ground cinnamon and a quar­ ter of a teaspoon of ground cloves. Silt the flour and spices from the raisins and make a batter with a cupful of sweet milk, a cup of molasses and one egg. Add a cupful of choppcd suet (sprinkle with flour whilfe chopping), half a tea- spoonful of soda dissolved in a table- spoonful of hot water, and, last of all, the floured raisins. Steam m a buttered mold two and a half hours, and serv# a nice sauce. STEAK PIE.--The best thing to use for a beef pie is a tender rump or fillet steak. Cut it into convenient pieces, lay it in a pie-dis^ season with pepper and salt in the proportion of a teaspoon­ ful to a pound of meat. Skin and split some sheep's kidneys, cut each half in four slices, the long way, and lay them on the steak. Boil an onion, finely minced, in stock or water nntil tender; put it and the liquor on the steak. If a cheaper pie is desired stew shin of beef with vegetables, pepper and salt until tender. Cut it in thin slices, lay it in a dish with minced or kidney seasoned, add two or three shred shalots, and pour over the liquor in which the beef was stewed. If liked, a layer of slioed potatoes can be added. Beef­ steak can also be used for thu pie, but, as it is not generally sufficiently tender unless cooked before baking, it should be cut in small pieces like dice, and gently simmered with an onion or two, pepper and salt, for an hour. The kid­ ney will, as in other cases, be used raw. For the crust, shred beef-suet very thinly; rub half a pound of it into a pound of flour. Make it into a paste with a gill and a half (some flour requires a little more liquid), and work it until smooth. Roll out as thin as possible, fold over to the size of the pie dish and finish in the usual manner. Ef on dis coat wid muslidge, den de qniry, at am y°* doin' ?' wo'd be in odah : but de pure an' simple operashun ob sewin' it on don't call fo' de interroga- shun." * thought queer about the matter, Uncle Joel," meekly replied the reporter, "was that so old a man should attempt^ to sew on buttons. Have you DB. BEABD explains the marvelous powers exhibited at times by subjects in a mesmeric or trance condition by the exaltation of some single faculty--as of calculation or music--with the suppres­ sion of all other faculties to a greater or less degree, occurs sometimes in the cases of idiots, whose brain power ap­ pears confined to one line of effort. In such cases any improvement in general ability or intelligence is attended by a lessening of the force of the exalted fac­ ulty. The attention of the Medico- Surgical Society, of St. Petersburg, has lately been called to a remarkable case, illustrating this principle in tho inverse order. The subject, a Russian of twenty- seven, was in youth distinguished for brilliant abilities. Disease, brought on by dissipation, caused the loss of all his mental faculties except memory and the power of mathematical calculation. Those increased proportionally as his power of logical thinking and under­ standing vanished. He is now a living phonograph aud calculating apparatus. "WHAT a rough fellow that Sniggins Is!" petulantly exclaimed the Hopedale girl after a struggle with the aforesaid Sniggins at "Copenhagen." "He near­ ly smothered me!" "Aud did you kiss him for his smother?" asked the other rniaa, naively. DAVIS' FARM NOTE*. CORN IN DRILLS.--The advantage of drill planting over hill planting are: Larger yield per acre, better quality of corn, fewer short ears and a great say­ ing in time and labor. Put one kernel in a place, from fifteen to eighteen inches apart in the drilL 1 MUCK.--Muck is cooling to the soil in summer and warming in winter; it col­ lects moisture and retains it; it aerates the earth, is a reservoir of ammonia and o'her elements of plant food, not the least of which are its crumbling shells and fragments of petrifactions, Too MUCH SEED.--Tho experiments of enterprising and intelligent farmers gel to prove that too much seed is gen­ erally used in raising potatoes. One, or at most two, eyes to the hill have given the best results. The commercial fer­ tilizers generally give smoother and sounder tubers than barnyard manure. SCAB IN SHEEP.--Mix a little sulphur with the salt when salting sheep that are ailing with the scab. Dipping the sheep in a decoction of tobacco is one of the best remedies, beside giving the skin a healthy action and insuring a nice white fleece. After dipping the animal, rub thoroughly with a woolen rag. Dip three times at intervals of a week. WASHING PIGS.--Frequent washing with soap-suds, says Col. F. D. Curtis, in the Rural New Yorker, does pigs a great deal of good, and should always be practiced if they get dirty. Young pigs will never thrive well in a filthy pen. I* the dam is unclean, the pigs are liable, when suckling, to get sore about the head and around their mouths, which will stunt them. When this is the case they should be thoroughly washed and oiled. DUST BATH FOR FOWLS.--Get ready a dust bath for the fowls in some bright, sunny place. If it can be put under a shed with a southern exposure, where the sun will fall on it a part of the day and where it will be shielded from the rain, so much the better. Roai dust and sifted coal ashes, with a plentiful sprinkling of sulphur, is the best. Never use wood ashes. Do not spread it about, but mound it up. Tho hens will soon scatter it. PEARS.--An Eastern subscriber a3ks for a list of eight or ten of the best varie­ ties of this fruit. For profit or home use perhaps the following will give the best satisfaction : Louise Bonne, Law­ rence, Duchesse l'Angouleme, Sheldon, Bartlett, Beurre d'Anjou, Urbaneste and Beurre Hareley. The Lawrence and Duchesse are fall varieties. The Vicar, which is only a baking pear, is the only winter pear worth naming.-- New York Herald. COTTONSEED MEAL.--This is a rich food and must be used sparingly. Be­ ing a concentrated food it should be fed in connection with grass or roots, but never with dry fodder. For pigs mix a peck of the meal with a barrel of slops and give one feed of it every day. Horses may have two pounds daily with corn meal; that quantity being consid­ ered equal to ten pounds of oats. Milch cows should not have more than two pounds daily, while for calves from two to fout ounces are sufficient. TOBACCO STALKS. -- Tobacco1 stalks should be saved, but should not be al­ lowed to dry before' being covered up with manure or muck. Before being covered it is best to cut them into short pieces, then put a layer of muck or ma­ nure on the ground about six inches thick, then a layer of stalks about the same thickness, continuing this method until all the stalks are used. They will soon begin to ferment and rot, and the result will be that from an acre, of to­ bacco you will get a cord of the best kind of manure. STRAWBERRIES.--A London gardener planted a! strawberry bed four feet wide across his garden, on one side of which potatoes were planted. These were dug up about the end of June, the ground leveled and raked smooth, so that the runners established themselves and formed a new bed. The next season a similar process was pursued, and thus a moveable strawberry bed was created. At the end of three years the original plants were exhausted and dug up, though the bed annually grows wider without renewal or transplanting. BREEDING FARM HORSES.--We have encouraged the use of the large import­ ed horses of the better class, because we have thought that one of the greatest defects in our farm horses was want of size, and this, it seemed to us, could better be supplied by an infusion of the blood of the draught horse than from any other source. But we are certain that in many localities quite as large an in­ fusion of this blood has been made as will be profitable, and that, for the uses of the farmer, better horses can be pro­ duced from these grade draught mares by the use of a stout, large, compaclly- built thoroughbred horse, or a highly- bred, well-formed and good-sized trot­ ting stallion than by a further infusion of the blood of the draught horse. Re­ turning again to the Percheron blood, we have no hesitation in affirming our belief in its excellence, and that it is to this blood, which at a very early day was introduced into Canada, that ihe horses of that section owe much of the excellence that distinguished them fif­ ty years ago. Very many of the very best sires of general purpose or farm horses that we have ever had in the United States have been brought from Canada, and evidently partook largely of thu blood. From that coun­ try we have had the Pilots, the Corbeaus, the Columbuses, the St. Lawrences, the Royal Georges, the Napoleons, the Nor­ mans, and many other recognized fami­ lies of superior excellence, which we believe derived their merit mainly from the old Percheron blood, brought over by the French settlers, rather than from an imaginary scion of imported Messen­ ger, spirited in some mysterious manner th"V"-<rdnr. r«» ft c"rfnin sHf-stvlod "Horse Authority" in this country haa told us over and over again. And while, as Ave have said, in many sections we have had quite as much of the coarse, draught-horse blood introduced as will prove valuable, yet we are clearly of opinion that we can never get too much of the genuine Percheron blood in any part of our country, where the produc­ tion of hardy, useful horses is the object in view.--National Live-Stock Journal. True Politeness. " Evil is wrought by want of thought, as well as by want of heart," wrote Thomas Hood. Well, life is a thing to be lived carefully, day by day, realizing that it comes but once. There will never be too much thought for others or too little living in self. The courte­ sy of Gen. Stonewall Jackson, who never entered the room of his wife without knocking, was the key to a polished and beautiful character. True politeness is a tender thoughtfulness of others. What wonder that the Savior was called by old Thomas Dekher, who lived in 1641, " The first true gentleman that ever breathed." 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