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IE ni 6RAS8HOP1 r BOOBS KIOmDAV. n (Brawhopper, ffriif«»hr>pper, drewied *B to Ami wariet, and copper, and ultramarine, Son'rfl the gavwt prawthoppor Stoat ever I'va M #l»w are you going ? Where have yon >**•? Sd th« hot *un from a dew-drop create ywfct there a briliianter being to m»te yon T tiatnre pledged with her la»t mu to fete )H1 -<|»o«w ail the Joy in the world await you 7 Oh, king of creation! Small bridegroom of Junel ®h, white spark thrown off from tne white heat of noon I , . fufician who flndest the whole world in tone I ry drinker, good fallow, pray grant me a kooB. f eH me, i£ T in the fields were to live, now, >0 leap over leave* and 'mongr It He* to dive, HOW, Co revel, «,nd take some gay girl to wive, now, And give up ail thought how to atudy and aim*, *!*• now. f' t i oul it lie in the gnat on the brink of ft» riveR iog--would such • fine life last foreverf Id summer ne'er got Would I ne'er s fould summer ne'i shiver In winter** oold blasta for my laok of endaavort ^ThatT Ton aay Out tha rammer la not yd a-going-- ®»t you do not fed winter breath yet a-Wowinf; that rows can only be sipped white tbeyVe grow­ ing; That, in harvest 'tia bettor be reaping than acrwia#- --Seribner't Monthly. JACKSON AND BENTOK. Ito llbmr Between The* liagpitihcd Jleai In his eventfnl life Andrew Jackson received wounds in personal encounters rfmilar to those received by President ^Garfield. His arm was shattered in an affray with Col, Thomas H. Benton in 1812, and he was shot through the tody in a duel with Charles Dickinson iti 1806. The affray withCoL Benton originated In an act of good nature on the part of »<Jen. Jackson. Gen. Wm. Carroll, then • young man, had been challenged by Jesse, a brother of Thomas H. Benton. Despairing of finding a suitable second lb Nashville, Carroll rode out to the Hermitage, and solicited Gen. Jackson's aervices. Jackson had l>een a Judge of ttte Supreme Court of Tennessee and a Member of Congress. At first he de­ murred. Carroll assured him that it was no ordinary quarrel. He asserted .fh&t there was a conspiracy to run him Out of the country. Jackson made in­ quiries, and found that to preserve his honor Carroll was forced to accept the I jphallenge. He officiated as Carroll's econd. Jesse Benton was wounded as gloriously as Mr. Easthupp in " Mid­ shipman Easy." At the time of the duel Col. Thomas H. Benton was in Washington trying to save Jackson from bankruptcy. They were great friends. Tlie Colonel, how­ ever, was enraged to hear that Jackson had befriended liis brother's antagonist, fie wrote him, denouncing his conduct in the moat offensive terms. The Gen­ eral replied that before addressing him the Colonel ought to have written him lor an explanation, and not have listened to the tales of interested parties. Ben­ ton wrote still more angrily, accusing Jackson of conducting the duel in a "savage, unequal, unfair and base man­ ner." On his way back to Nashville he publicly and repeatedly denounced the General, using the bitterest language. Jackson heard it, and was most in­ censed. Benton's mother had been good to him when he was a boy in North '^Carolina. His gratitude had already J prevented a rencontre between the two "Tiotlieads. This time, however, he took fire. He swore by the Eternal that he TWould horsewhip Tom Benton the first time he met him. All Nashville wit­ nessed the vow. Benton reached the city bursting with wrath and defiance. Hearing of Jack- 3eon's threat, he resolved to preserve the jbeace. He would neither seek nor fly *. jhe threatened attack. His "Jesse joined him before he Coffee, he saw who had fired the deadly charge. Hays was a giant He drew a long and glittering 1>1 ode from his sword cane and made a lunge at Jesse with such frantic force that it would have pinned him to the wall had it tak­ en effect. The point struck a button, and the slender blade was broken to pieces. Hays drew a dirk and threw Jesse to the floor. Holding him down with one hand, he raised the dirk to plunge it into his breast. Jesse divert- THE FAR!. CREAM is lighter than milk, and is very nearly the specific gravity of water, which is reckoned at 1.000. LARD is now used in cheese-making in place of cream to make a cheap article. It is on a par with suet for butter in the form of oleomargarine. STATISTICS show that the annual con­ sumption of eggs in the United States is about 10,600,000 barrels. The poultry ed the blow by seizing the coat cuff of j marketed or consumed is estimated at the descending arm. The weapon only j 680,000,000 pounds, at $68,000,000. pierced the fleshy part of his left arm. Hays madly strove to disengage his arm, and in so doing gave Jesse several flesh wounds. At last, with a mighty wrench, he tore his cuff from the man's convuls­ ive grasp, poised the dirk high in air, and was about to bury it in Jesse's heart, when a bystander caught, tha np- lifted hand and prevented the further shedding of blood. Others interfered, and quiet was restored. Paint from the loss of Mood, Jack­ son was conveyed to a room in the Nashville Inn. His wound bled fear­ fully. Two mattresses Were soaked through, and the General was reduced almost to the last gasp. Every doctor in Nashville, with one exception, recom­ mended the amputation of the shattered arm. "I'll keep my arm," said the woundefi man, and he kept it. No at­ tempt was made to extract the ball, and it remained in his arm for twenty years. The wounds were dressed with slippery- elm poultices, and it was two or three weeks before Jackson could leave his bed. A little over a year afterward he fought the battle of New Orleans. . . The Bentons remained for an hour or more upon the scene of the affray, denouncing Jackson as an assassin, The General's small sword had been dropped in the struggle, and remained on the floor ef the hotel. Col. Benton broke it in the public square, accompanying the act with words defiant and contemptuous, uttered in the loudest tones of his thun­ dering voice. The General's friends, grouped around the couch of their bleed- LET every farmer who is not able to fence a large pasture get a few boards, build a few rods of portable fence and make a small enclosure for his hogs and move it around as circumstances require. It will make pork-raising more profitable than to keep hogs confined in pens all the time. THE most dangerous insect to farm crops is the wheat midge. Late sowing of wheat is sometimes a remedy, though this has its disadvantages. Ail insects found in cleaning wheat should be de­ stroyed at once, and wheat stubbles plowed immediately will be likely to de­ stroy all those wound up in cocoons on the ground. CAUSE AND EFFECT.--When fattening an animal for beef let the process be as quick as possible. Any stint in feeding will make the meat tough and dry. Stall-fed animals will fatten more readily than others, and younger animals re­ quire richer food than older ones. In winter fattening much depends upon the warmth of the stable. The warmer the cattle are kept the leas food will be needed. SHEEP do not impoverish land. Bug­ ged canyons and mountain slopes, at present not available for other use until better roads are built to market, may be utilized a long way in advance of the the march of improvements. Time will surely enhance the value of these pos­ sessions as surely as roads, settlements and school-houses draw nearer to them. And, in the meantime, the hardy pioneer eir com­ ely ing chief, disregarded these demonstra- ! need wait but a short while for th< turns, and the victorious and exulting j jug brothers retired. Col. Benton, however, quickly found it very hot for liim. Two weeks afterward he wrote : 411 am literally in hell here. I have the meanest wretches under heaven to contend with--liars, affidavit-makers and shameless cowards. All Jackson s pup­ pies are at work on me. They will be astonished at what will happen. It is not them, but their master, whom I will hold accountable. The scalping knife of Tecumsch is mercy compared with the affidavits of these villains. I am in the middle of hell. I can see no alter­ native but to kill or be killed. I will not crouch to Jackson. The fact that I and my brother defeated him and his tribe and broke his small sword in the public square will forever rankle in his bosom, and make him thirst after ven­ geance. My life is in danger. Nothing but a decisive duel can save me or even give me a chance for my own existence. It is a settled plan to turn out puppy after puppy to bully me, and when I get into a scrape to have me killed somehow in the scuffle. Afterward the affidavit- makers will prove it was honorably done." Benton did not again meet Jackson until 1824, when both were members of the United States Senate. A reconcilia­ tion was effected, and ever afterward they were the warmest friends.--New York Sun. brother reached t^jfashyille. Instead of going to the jfashville Inn, their usnsd resort, tLey gegi-stered at the City Hotel. Jackson always put up at the N;ushville House. I'By stopping at the City Hotel Col. Ben- i'-ton fancied that he would avoid the > <5eceral, unless he chose to go out of his way to seek him. He arrived in Nash­ ville Sept. 3, 1813. Jackson and his friend, Col. Coffee, rode into town the afternoon, and put up at the Nash­ ville Tun. Col. Coffee smilingly re- Inarked that they had come to get their -^letters. About 9 o'clock on the next - morning the Colonel proposed to Gen. Jacksrm that they should stroll over to 1 the postoffice. They started. The Gen­ eral had a riding whip in his hand. He also wore a small sword. The postoffice 1 was situated on the public square, on * the corner of a little alley just beyond the City Hotel. There were two way's of getting to it from the Nashville Inn. One was across the angle of the square, and the * other was to keep the sidewalk and go around. Coffee and Jackson took the short cut. When about midway be- ': tweea their inn and the postoffice Coffee observed Col. Benton standing in the doorway of the City Hotel. He was drawn up to his full height, and waa looking daggers at them. "Do you see that fell ow ?" said Coffee to Jackson. " Oh, yes," the General replied, with­ out turning his head; " I have my eye on him." They went to the postoffice and got ' their letters. On their return they kept f down the sidewalk. Col. Benton had posted himself at the front door of the City Hotel. His brother Jesse stood ' near him. Parton describes what followed. On f coming up to where Col. Benton s Gen. J ackson audaciously turn toward him, whip in hand, saying: "Now, you rascal, I'm going to punish you. Defend yourself." Benton put his hand in his breast- ' pocket. He seemed to be fumbling for his pistol. As quick as lightning Jack­ son drew a pistol from behind him and leveled it at Benton. The latter, recoiled and Jackson advanced upon him. Ben­ ton stepped slowly backward until he reached the back door of the hotel. The muzzle of Jackson's pistol was three feet from his heart. They were turning down the back piazza when Jesse Ben- ^, ton entered the passage behind them, Seeing his brother's danger, he raised his pistol and fired at Jackson. The pis­ tol was loaded with two balls and a large alug. The. slug took effect in Jackson's left shoulder, shattering it horribly. One of the balls struck the thick part of his left hip and buried itself near the bone. The other ball splintered the board partition at hiB side. Jackson fell across the entry, bleeding profusely. CoL Coffee had remained outside. Hear­ ing the report of the pistol, he sprang into the entry. He saw Jackson pros­ trated at the feet of Col. Benton. Con­ cluding that the Colonel had laid him low, Coffee rushed upon him, pistol in hand, to strike him with the butt of his pistol, when Benton, in stepping back­ ward, came to a stairway and fell head­ long to the bottom. Coffee, thinking him hors du combat, hastened to the assistance of his wounded friend. Stokely Hays, a nephew of Mrs. Jaok- aon and a devoted friend to the (ieneral, stood near the Nashville Inn when he heard the report of Jesse Benton's pis­ tol. He ran with all speed to the City Hotel, and saw Jackson lying on the floor, weltering in his blood. Unlike Some Big Hailstones. Hailstones vary greatly in size. In ordinary storms they weigh from forty- six to 120 grains. It may be interesting to notice some of the largest on record. Holinshed (who is, however, a persistent wonder, monger) says that hailstones as large as eggs fell in England in the year 1202, during the reign of John ; and that in the twentieth year of that of good King Alexander IIL of Scotland (1269) there arose " great winds, with storms of such immeasur­ able hailstones, that many towns were thrown down" by their violence, and fires spread throughout the kingdom, " burning up steeples with Buch force of fire that the bells were in divers places melted." Those of the Abbey of Aber- brothock (Arbroath) were thus destroyed. In 1339, while Edward IIL was march­ ing near Chartres in France, his army was so much injured by a storm of im­ mense hailstones that he concluded peace. Count de Mezeray relates that when Louis XII. of France made war against the Pope and carried his army into Italy (1510) bluish hailstones de­ scended during a thunder-storm, one of which weighed about one hundred pounds! On June 21, 1245, there fell in Lancashire "hailstones as big as men's fists, which had diverse prints in them, some like gun holes." On the 7th of June, 1573, in Northamptonshire, some were found which measured six inches in circumference; and on the 29th of April, 1697, a storm passed over Cheshire and Lancashire, during which hailstones weighing eight ounces and measuring nine inches in circumference fell. Hertfordshire, on the 4th of Mar in the same year, was visited by a showey of hail which killed several persons. The stones were fourteen inches in cir­ cumference. M. Parent relates that hailstones as big as a man's fist and weighing from nine and a half to twelve and three-quarters ounces, fell in Le Perche on May 15th, 1703. Passing over many recorded and perhaps doubt­ ful instances such as the above, we learn that during a liail-storm at Constantino­ ple on October 5th, 1831, there fell stones weighing more than one pound. Similar stones are said to have been picked up in May, 1721, at Palestrina, Italy. Blocks of ice fell at Cazorta, in Spain, on June 5th, 1829, which weighed four and a half pounds ; and in the South of France, during the latter part of Oc­ tober, 1814, some fell which weighed eleven pounds. After a hail-storm on May 8th, 1802, in Hungary, a piece of ice w.is found which measured more than three feet both in length and in j width, with a thickness of two and a | quarter feet. To conclude this list, a hailstone is said to have fallen in the reign of Tippo Suib which was the size j of an elephant. It is possible that many of these so-called gigantic hailstones were simply masses of ice composed of a collection of hailstones agglomerated to­ gether in some hollow space into which they had fallen, and where they may have remained for some time alter the general fall of hailstones had melted and disappeared. -- Chambers' Journal. CASTOR oil is undoubtedly the best, and therefore the cheapest, for iron axles--which should always be wiped clean. A correspondent informs us that his market-wagon would run only twentv j miles before requiring to be regreased, ' when lard was used, but with c.istor oil it rap sixty miles, and was good for twenty more--a big difference, and worth remembering. He further remarks that "a wheel well lubricated will turn one- half easier, and wear as long again, a gain of one hundred and fifty per cent." by the liberal use of oil. NUTRITIVE MATTF.R IN HAY AND CORN. --The average results of experiment and theory, so to speak, make 57 pounds of Indian corn, equal to 100 pounds of hay, or 1,140 pounds of Indian corn to the ton of hay. But it must be remembered that the nutritive effects of food upon an animal are varied by many causes, and also that the comparison of foods is affected by the object sought, as fact, growth, labor, milk, Arc. The above0is the relative amount of nutritive matter in corn and hay, as determined by ex­ periment and theory. IT IS evident that the changed condi­ tion of our agriculture must soon com­ pel the employment of skilled hands, and these skilled hands must be edu­ cated before they can be employed. Agricultural laborers are composed too largely of a floating, unsettled class, and this must be changed before amendment in the degree of skill can be expected. They must be composed of a class with settled and definite ends and aims, who are educated to the business as earnestly as mechanics. With such assistance agri­ culture Will attract capital, and afford it a safe investment. Skilled labor is the immediate demand of the future in agri­ culture. ENSHIAOK.--The publication of a mul­ titude of affidavit* from amateur farmers who were "wild" over the results ob­ tained from feeding ensilage seems laipely over, and now and then'a ray of real truth begins to make its real worth more clear, and in many of the statements the economy was evidently forced, so that suspicion is cast over the whole subject, very otten the great gain is made apparent by figuring the value of the ensilage at actual oost of production, and then balancing against it hav and corn at market values instead of at real cost as in the case of the silo fodder. Accuracy seems wanting in too many instances, and upon the very few impartial experiments that have been instituted conviction seems to settle that there is no such" great guin as claimed. In no instance have we seeu any item in regard to lost fertility, for an acre of land that produces seventy-five tons (?) of corn fodder must be exhausted almost beyond any drain of a dozen grass crops that would produce twenty tons of dry looa. a ust wnat tne iuturfe oi tne sno Is to be in American agriculture is uncer­ tain, but that it can establish itself by any unjust claims or end in other than disappointment unless accuracy can be maintained is doubtful, and, if success does follow, it is not the base upon which our agricultural prosperity must be built upon, but in any event can only become a part of many successful industries.-- Cleveland Herald. HOUSEHOLD HELPS. The Many-Leaved Clover. gentleman residing at St John, A _ sends this office four small bunches of clover leaves, which are quite a curiosity. He says: " At the request of Mrs. L. C. Severance I send the inclosed speci­ men of four, five, six and seven-leaved clover, which are quite a botanical curi­ osity. They were all plucked from a small sod not a foot square." One bunch contains sixteen stalks, each with four leaves of clover; a second eight stalks, with five leaves; a third, eight stalks, with six leaves: and a fourth six, with seven leaves.--Portland Oregoman. GOOD FARMING.--It is one sign of a good farmer if he prizes manure. It does not require a good farmer to raise bountiful crops on a farm already rich, but the art lies in so managing the farm that it will produce good crops every year without losing in fertility. A man may make money from his farm while he is wasteful of fertilizers, but he is not a good farmer, for he is constantly running his land into debt. Good farming con­ sists of such management as will make the farm produce the best possible re­ sults without deteriorating the soil. This can only be accomplished by a rigid economy in the making and use of ma­ nure, and a systematic rotation of crops that will be the least exhaustive to the soil. WHXBE sheep are kept for the double purpose of direct income in wool, mut­ ton, etc., and the manure they make, it is important that the extra food, or that outside of what the pasture furnishes, should be chosen with care. It would be wise for the American farmer to be­ come better acquainted with cotton-seed cake, linseed oil cake, and like concen­ trated foods. By feeding, and feeding liberally of such foods, the sheep not only grow rapidly, but the manure they make is rich introgenous matters and valuable fertilizing salts. The growth of animals is a means to an end, and when the most money is made from the flock, and the land enriched, the most rapidly the end is gained. The profit of sheep as fertilizers depends largely upon the kind of food that is used. PICKING FRUIT.--The following sug­ gestions in regard to picking fruit for canning are furnished by a gentleman conversant with the business : " It pays to pick your fruit carefully and in time ; if in right condition one day the next will be too late to pick. Go over your trees many times. Don't try to pick all at once. If green, you lose weight. If too ripe, it is spoiled for canning. The proper condition for apricot, plum, peach and nectarine is when fully matured, but befoM softening. Use shallow boxes. Shakes nrake good boxes and are cheap. Above all, bring to the cannery, or send to the market, at the earliest possible j moment after picking. It is not too late : to thin out some fruit Trees that^ over- j bear do not yield marketable fruit." FOWLS IN ORCHARDS.--Last fall, says I the Poultry World, we visifced an or- I chard in which fowls were kept, the ' owner of which told us that before the I fowls were confined in it, the trees made I little or no growth, and only a corres- I ponding amount of fruit was obtained. But what a change was evident now. The grass was kept down, the weeds killed, and trees presented an appear­ ance of thrift, which the most enthusias­ tic horticulturist could not but admire and envy. The growth ot the trees was most vigorous, and the foliage remark­ ably luxuriant, the fruit was abundant, of large size, and free from worms and other imperfections. The excellence was accounted for by the proprietor, who remarked that the "hens ate all the worms and curculio in their reach, even the canker worm." He found less trouble with their roosting in trees than he exp .cted, and that a picket fence six feet high kept them within bounds. His orchard was divided into three sections, and the fowls were changed from one to another, as the condition of the fowls or the orchard sections seemed to require. (From the Detroit Free Press Household.) TOSSED POTATOES. --Boil some potatoes in their skins ; peal them and cut into small pieces. Toss them over the fire with a mixture of cream, butter rolled in flour, pepper and salt, till they are hot and well covered with the sauce. SPICED CURRANTS.--Five pounds of currants, four pounds of sugar, one pint of vinegar, four teaspoonfuls of pure cinnamon, four teaspoonfuls of pure cloves ; boil three hours; no pepper or salt. Delightful with venison or mut­ ton. FRIED EGG PLANT.--Pare and slice them, then sprinkle each slice with salt and let them stand for about one hour with a weight on them, then dip into egg well beaten, then flour and fry light brown in lard and butter. MUSTARD SAUCE.--One cup of sugar, one cup of vinegar, one tablespoonful of butter, four eggs, and one tablespoonful of mustard; beat the eggs well ; mix all together ; turn into a new tin pail or basin and boil in water same as custard, only to a cream, not thick. Strain through a thin cloth and it is done. PEPPEB SAUCE. -- Take twenty-five peppers, without the seeds, cut them pretty fine, then take more than double the quantity of cabbage, cut like slaw, one root of horseradish, grated, a hand­ ful of salt, rather more than a table­ spoonful of mustard seed, a tablespoonful of cloves, the same of allspice, ground; simmer a sufficient quantity of vinegar to cover it, and pour over it, mixing well through. COCOANUT PUDDING.--Take sufficient stale bread to make a pudding, the size you require; pour boiling water over it. After it is soaked well, take a fork and see that no lumps or bread remain ; then add half a cupful of grated cocoanut, make a custard of one quart of milk and four eggs, flavor with nutmeg (of course you will sweeten it with white sugar); pour over and bake immedi­ ately. GOOD LEMONADE.--Take two lemons, divide them, and put each half into a lemon squeezer. When all the juice is extracted, put the remainder of the lemons into a pitcher and pour boiling water on them; after they have stood a little, squeeze all the goodness from them; add the juice to some loaf sugar--enough to sweeten pleasantly-- then pour enough cold water to make the strength required--I think about one quart or a little more. Ice must be added. A FARMER'S DAINTY DISH.--Peel and slice thin tomatoes and onions (five po­ tatoes to one small onions) : take half a pound of sweet salt pork (in thin slices) to a pound of beef, mutton or veal; cut the meat in small pieces ; take some nice bread dough and shorten a little; line the bottom of the stew-pan with slices of pork, then a layer of meat, potatoes and onions,dust over a little pepper and cover with a layer of crust; repeat this until the stew-pot is full. The size of the pot will depend on the number in the family. Pour in sufficient water to cover, and finish with crust Let it sim­ mer until meat, vegetables, etc., are done, but do not let it boil hard. Serve hot. This we are assured by one who knows is a dish fit to set before a king. A WHOLESOME SALAD.--Cut up a pound of cold beef into thin slices, and half a pound of white, fresh lettuce ; put in a salad bowl, season w ith a teaspoon- ful of salt, half that quantity of pepper, two tablespoonfuls of vinegar, and four of good salad oil. Stir all together lightly with a fork and spoon, and when well mixed it is ready to serve. Chaptol, a French chemist, says the dressing of a salad should be saturated with oil, and seasoued with pepper and salt, be­ fore the vinegar is added ; it results from this process that there can never be too much vinegar, for, from the specific gravity of the vinegar compared with the ou, what is more than useful will fall to the bottom of the bowl, the salt should not be dissolved in the vinegar, but in the oil, by which means it is more equally distributed throughout the salad. SCRAPS OF SCIENCE. Is bb years, trees of the Eucalyptus globulus planted .in Jamaica have be­ come one foot in diameter and sixty feet in hight IT HAS been affirmed by Dr. Arnott that no wave of the ocean rises more than ten feet from the ordinary Bea level, whioh, with the ten feet its surface after­ wards descends, gives twenty feet for the maximum height of the entire wave. IT IS noticed that various substances are formed during fires in coal mines. Among them M. Daubree has discovered at Commentry a new magnetic mineral which contains phosphorus and small quantities of arsenic and sulphur. This substance resembles various natural minerals and some meteorio stones. AN INVENTION for the instantaneous extinction of fire has been successfully tried in Paris. One of the most remark­ able experiments of the trial in the Champ de Mars, was the putting out in in less than a minute, of an incandescent lake of tar containing 7,000 pounds of that substance, after the flames had reached the height of the third Btory. PLINY states that the coffin of the ancient Bomans was generally of stone. In some cases it was made of a certain stone in Troas, which had, or was be­ lieved to have, the peculiar faculty of destroying all the body, the teeth ex­ cepted, in forty days. Hence the name " sarcophagus, which literally means flesh-eater. This stone was probably a species of limestone. BALFOUR STEWART, in a recent lecture on " Sun Spots," says that the spots are probably eaused by inrushing of cool matter toward the interior, while the faculse or bright spots are outrusliings of heated matter. If some circulation of this sort did not continually go on, the sun's surface, according to Sir William Thompson, would probably cool down to darkness in a very few minutes. THE old alchemists, in their search for the philosopher's stone, left no mix­ ture of familiar or unfamiliar ingredients untried. An ancient work, called "The Gold-Maker's Guide," contains this promising formula: seven or eight hours' rest for his tired eyts. But the green cambric will not shut out Bounds ; and he is lucky if he is not kept awake until 1 cr 2 o'clock every night by the unceasing tread and loud chatter of the cheerful Norwegians, who have been forced to form the habit of sitting up half their Hight-time, to get in the course of * year their full quota of daytime.--Atlantic. • ® Paper Making. The most ancient form of paper known was made from the papyrus seed. The inner cuticle of the stalk was separated into thin layers by a sharp point, the slips laid side by side and covered by another layer placed at right angles, made to adhere by pressure and then dried. The sheets were afterward beaten smooth with a mallet and polished with a piece of shell or ivory. Parchment and vellum--dressed skins--began to be used in place of papyrus in the seventh cen­ tury, and shortly after the art of making paper from vegetable fibre was introduced into Europe from China. It was made from cotton. The Spaniards appear to be the first to use rags for its manufac­ ture, and the oldest specimen of linen paper having a date is a treaty between the kings of Aragon and Castile in 1177. The Germans attempted the use of straw in 1756. Paper has been made of many different substances--potato vines, grass, bark, oakum, silk, tobacco, thistles, wil­ low, cork, corn-stalks, basswood and ban­ tam t>eing only a small part of the list The first paper-mill in America was Mh tablished in 1690, near Philadelphia. A SIMPLE trap for moles consists of a glass or stoneware jar sunk into the ground under the mole-runs. The moles, while running along, fall into the jar, and the vertical slippery sides of the jar prevent their getting out again. Field mice are also frequently caught in these traps, which leads to the suspicion that they are the authors of much of the mis­ chief attributed to moles, whose burrows form convenient avenues for the intru­ ders. of a black tomcat, killed when the night approacheth, one part; of the brains of a night owl, taken from out its head when the morning dawnetli, five parts ; mix in the hoof ol an ass when the tide turneth; leave it until it doth breed maggots, place it on thy breast-bone when the moon shineth bright--and-- thou wilt see a sight which the eye of mortal man ne'er beheld afore." MANY strange sounds, real or imagin­ ary, have been heard in the working of Nature's processes. There has been re­ ported to exist on a distant island in the Bay of Bengal a phenomenon known as the " Baiisal guns," which is often heard at the beginning of a rainfall, and is like the sound of the firing of cannon. An observer has decided that these sounds are atmospheric and in some way connected with electricity. Mr. Horne, reporting on the villages of the Himala­ yas, describes exceedingly powerful noises heard in the highest mountain peaks, to which the natives can ascribe no cause. Above the town of Koimba- tur, in Madras, is a pond which the na­ tives carefully shun because frightful noises issue from its depths. THE many unlikely methods by which the seeds of plants are diffused over land and sea until they at length find a con­ genial spot for development, form an in­ teresting and curious study. It is well known that bees carry pollen from flower to flower, and thus act not only as sowers of seed but also as fertilizers of the female plants. A curious instance of this kind has been given by a scien­ tific man, who states that attached to the skin of a panther recently shot in India he found numerous seeds, each of which had two perfect hooks, appearing as if designed to attach themselves tc foreign bodies. As the panther moved about it collected the seeds on the skin and carried them wherever it went; but when it rubbed against the shrubs, the seeds were brushed off and thus distrib­ uted. It Is Better. It is better to look up and take pleas­ ure in contemplating the good and great, than to find happiness in low devices and mean acts. It is better to tell the truth than to tell a lie; to do good than to do mean; to have charity than to be critical­ ly severe; to love your fellows than to hate them; better to lift up the fallen than to pull down those already up; to speak kind words than to hiss out the gall of bitterness; to keep pure than to reek with filth; to be on the losing side of a right than on the triumphant side of a wrong; to be honest than to cheat; to have honest piety than to be a flaunting hypocrite; to be industrious than to be an idle vagrant; and to be a fair and squave human being than to be an uncertain guanity. With your virtue worship the true and you may attain unto greatness, but you can never do it in the eyes of justice by trampling upon, or by despising what is under you. The poor have as bright eyes and tender hearts as the rich. They are not below your consideration. Nature's willow will bend over them with the same grace and beauty they will over the proudest son and daughter of earth. Concerning being true in life, Grace Greenwood says: "Never unsex yourself for greatness. The worship of one true heart is better than the wonder of the world. Don't trample on the flowers while longing for the stars. Live up to the full measures of life, give to your impulses, loves and enthusiasms; sing, smile, labor and be happy. Adore poetry for its own sake; yearn for, strike after excellence; rejoice when others at­ tain it, feel for your contemporaries a loving euvyj steal into your country's heart; glory inits greatness, exult in its power, honer its gallent men, immortalize its matchless women." How much better to do these things than to go sulking and skulking through life liko some dishonest cur! It is better and easier to do right than to do wrong. You go straight forward to the right, but you approach the wrong by devious and doubtful ways.--Quincy Modern Arao. Growth of Telegraph MonopdfyV The rise and progress of the Western Union Telegraph Company is thus Bet forth in a prospectus issued by a rival company. Beginning as the House Printing Telegraph Company, with a capital of §360,000. On the first of January, 1863, by stock bonuses, and the purchase of other lines, its capital was increased to $3,000,000. On the 2d of March, 1863, this was watered by ex­ actly doubling its capital and presenting the additional shares to stockholders, thus raising it to $6,000,000. May 28, 1864, it was further increased, by pur­ chase and extension of lines, $5,000,000, making its capital $11,000,000, and at the same time the whole of its stock was again doubled by an issue of 100 per cent, bonus to its stockholders, making its capital $22,000,009. From this period up to January, 1868, it took in the Uni­ ted States Telegraph Company at $3,- 333,333, and\ absorbed the American Telegraph Company, with a capital of only #2,000,000) taking it in at $11,818,- 800, and by bonuses and extensions of lines, etc., its capital waa increased to $41,008.800; and then it absorbed the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Com­ pany, whose lines cost more than $2,500,- 000, and the American Union Telegraph Company, with its lines, which cost lit­ tle more than $2,000,000, taking them in at $25,000,000, and at the same time is­ suing a stock bonus of $6,000,000, thus bringing its capital up to $80,000,000. In, addition to all this it sank $3,000,000 in the abandonment of the Uussian Tele­ graph, and nearly as much by the aban­ donment of the California lines and con­ tracts parallel to the Pacific railroad, and it borrowed $5,000,000 for the pur- uuiiwxiuo wjiio | Gf reaj estate in New York, and Take of the gall . linvu 47- nnft ^ r^foi t' ti,„ PERRY DAVIS' Paia-Eflla pays $75,000 per annum rental for the California State Telegraph Company; $85,000 per annum rental for the Illinois State Telegraph Company ; purchased a majority of the Pacific and Atlantic, Southern Atlantic, and Franklin Tele­ graph Companies, and guarantee perpet­ ual dividends on the minority of the stock; leased the Northwestern Tele­ graph Company, and pays a large rental on a stock andDonded capital of nearly $4,000,000, besides rentals of other leased lines, making its capital really about $100,000,000. The increase in the volume of its business and the amount of its earnings have kept pace with its increase of capital, until now its traffic is over 30,000,000 of messages, gross re­ ceipts over $15,000,000, and net earn­ ings over $6,000,000 per annum ; and all this with no improvement in method and but little improvement in appli­ ances over the first line constructed forty years ago; moreover, this gigantic mon­ opoly, touching and influencing every branch of commerce and industry, is controlled by one man, whose sole object iB self-aggrandizement. A SAFE AND SUtI REMEDY F0(l RfcmmatisiB, Neuralgia, Cramps, Giialwa, | Diarrhoea, Brahn. AND ScaMt, TojUhaeht ANB Hndickfc FOB SALE BY ALL DBUGULSTS. MUNII. OF LYII, MASS., Dining With the Two-Headed Girl. In response to an invitation from Mr. J. R. Smith, a Star reporter took break­ fast with Millie Christine, the double- headed girl. This interesting young lady possesses two heads, four arms, four feet, sings duets, waltzes, polkas, and boasts of several other accomplishments. When the reporter arrived all was in readiness for the morning meal. Five persons comprised the party. " The weather ia exceedingly oppressive," was the greeting of the right side of the double-headed girl, as she shook the right hand of the scribe with two of her four hands. The left side smiled se­ renely and fanned itself vigorously with a disengaged hand. There was a great deal said at table, but the guest was there for the purpose of taking break­ fast with Millie Christine and omitted to make a note of the conversation. The Nightingale occupied one entire side of the table, and while one of her pair of eyes was intent upon gazing on the well- spread table, the other was looking out of the window with a dreamy expression. Two plates were well filled with edibles and the work of destruction was begun. One-half of the lady had an especial j fondness for fried chicken and toast, \ while the other would partake of noth­ ing but porterhouse steak and fried potatoes. In the line of liquids one- half drank iced milk to the other's coffee, and two napkins were demanded and freely used. Somehow or other there was time for talking toward the close of the meal, and the Nightingale spoke freely and intelligently upon a number of interesting topics. At times one head would make an asertion which its com­ panion could not entertain, and then an interesting and animated discussion would follow. Happily these arguments were amicably adjusted, and breakfast was finished in time for the double- headed lady to go to Bunnell's Museum for the mid-day exhibition.--New York Star. A Wonderful Original Play. A young Milwaukee person has writ­ ten a play. The one prominent feature is its wonderful originality. It is nol like anything we ever witnessed on the stage, but of course we cannot say how it might be received by the public. The J curtain rises upon a dead man the firs!; I thing with the handle of a dagger stick- i ing out of his bosom, and the assassin J stands gloating over his victim for a few ! minutes, when, to the horror of the audi- ! ence, he. seizes the handle of the fatal j weapon, and draws out a bright, gleam- i ing dagger, eleven feet long, and the j murdered man sits up and begins to ! argue on the currency question. The • scene changes, when a beautiful girl, I rigged up as angel with wings, and dress ed in pink musquito bar and strung on wires, floats through the air back and forth half a dozen times, then plumes her flight and disappears amid the paste­ board clouds at the top of the stage. Act third represents a piewoman selling dried apple pies, and there is more or less conversation of irrelevant nature between her and customers, one man producing a boot-heel swearing he found it in the pie. There is no plot Plots have become so common in plays that the public is tired of them. There is no love, love having become old and bald-headed and toothless. There is no deep aud terrible hatred, deep and ter­ rible hatred being too snide, and what LYDIA E. PIN KHARB'S VE8ETABLE COMPOUND. Ig a Positive Cure fbrall thee* Painful Camplrtlnts end WeakMMM •ao<Httnt@i3 feissale population. Xt will cure ©afcjrely Its© worst form of Fomaltt Ooi®- plainly, all oYarl&n troubles, IcHammation and Clcort Hon. Falling and Displacements, and the cornsqMBt Spinal Weakness, and 1a particularly adapted to tha Change of Life. It will dissolve and expel tumors frota tte uterus t» an early stage of development. The tendency to ort* oarous humors there is tfhccked very speedily by its 1Mb It £8dntnes% flatulency, destroys all craving cvnd relieves weakness of th# stomach. It awires Bloating,, Head&eh©^ Nervous Prostration, Debility, Sleeplessness, Depression and Indt- That ferine of bearingdown, causing pain, weight backache, is always permanently cured byttsua It wfll afc all times and under all circumstances act ia harmony with the laws that govern the female syrtaaa. tvr th® sure of Kidney Complaints of aithar an ttta Oompotind is unsurpassed. LTDIi E. PINKHAlfa VEGETABLE COX- pafTEtTDis prepared at ttS and MS Western Avanue, Price#?, Mx bottles f or tB. Sent by mail Is the form of pills, also in the form of lozenges, oa OHipl of price, (1 per box for either. Mrs. Flittaa ffcaely answers all letters of Inquiry. Bend for panphp Jgt, Address aa above. Mention thia Ho should be without LYDIA C» rinuiAIH »JU«:r FIZX3. They cur* constipation. 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Ask vour druggist for Hop Bitter* and try them before y£u sleep. Take no •Cher. n T C Is an absolute and irresistible cure for Drunkenness, use of opium, tobacco and narcotici. Summer in Norway. The Norwegian house is one-half win­ dow. In their long winters they need all the sun they can get; not an outside blind, not an inside shutter, not a dark shade to be seen. Streaming, flooding, radiating in and round about the rooms comes the light, welcome or unwelcome, early and late. And to the words "early" and " late " there are in a Norway sum­ mer new meanings. The early light of the morning sets in about half-past 2, the j fjrrh ting occurs is done merelv to fill in late light of the summer evening fades i the time The great object aimed at by into a luminous twilight about 11. En- the author has been to make the play SlVD FOB ClBCTTLAB. All sbore ioM by drnfsrlata, Hop Bitter. Mfg. Co., Rocbe«t«r, N. Y„ & Toronto, Ont, joyment of this species of perpetual day soon comes to an end. After the traveler has written home to everybody once by broad daylight at 10 o'clock the fun of the thing is over; normal sleepiness begins to hunger for its rights, and dis­ satisfaction takes the place of wondering amusement. This dissatisfaction reaches its climax in a few days ; then, if he is wise, the traveler provides himself with several pieces of dark green cambric, which he pins up at his windows at bed­ time, thereby making it possible to get original in every essential and he has succeeded to a wonderful degree. AN Iowa farmer gives thia method of destroying cabbage worms: Take of saltpeter and common salt each a table­ spoonful, dissolve in a little hot water, and add twelve quarts of cold water. Apply to the cabbages in the heat of the day when the sun shines. If you apply with a good sprinkler, and do your work thoroughly, one application will be suffi­ cient." Cyclopedia War. 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