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I know it is a like ri*etn to tbe rbuwit «h>nge* come, *<»' time will glide, Ute oooia, ,-v a thn in <nntuln-»ide, y g< t iu motion. 4 ,-^1 IMV c**' the n«*l o'd deaooua«iiw4i*T- / Aoti Htopptxd at L feMlast bt:tm} Or bowiiloffl down Wbeu onoe they ? f > ̂ • Bat TyagMtus lie reumiiipd To preach "predestination.' •"ft** 1!, -i i M . : The f u'k* all Urnerl by heart his theirm-* Ench j>Ur*» fund liar sounded ; " iJ1 j Tfcey w-wd to ro to x'«s?p »ti' dream, v . Though hard he hit «n' pouuded. * tog? needed smnpthi' ' mow Ualga To meet the'r moral hunger. Tlw< met an told him to resign-- •ihriy wanted some one youuger. MB«iigii •" cried Tyapastns 8 "llesigM! My! «"h»t »i» " Tkwe Mii't • p"C*oiwr that S^roung ez I iu Gaithen. w Ef a!l will li«'n Sunday mornj} ' ^ Tll.tuake a MMtendeavor -'4. A ja|iyy Todiow that I can blow my bdM t f > , , Ss long *a' loud cz ever." _ f i < Kelt Sabbath-day the church wis orwasaid-j; Twart'j big eamif»li in ho'd iu; * , •'- ' * About the tor'nont,-) of ib» datnuMd ; < Old Tyagastue toid us. W: "Wo! wo!" be cried; "despair I Kball come to all creation." He aiapp^il hi* hand, and sawed the si And roared " predestination I* i -: A ndden crash, a clood o' dn# ., Tbe rot en pulpit crumbled! »lli Down in the pew o' Widder Riwt, b fereordained he tiunb:ed. Tke widder cangbt him in her ai^aa Kk beadlcmK be deecended, AB% nnitten by her buxom chanaa* TW*r gyee were lately blended.' m p. • •> i .0-:- :«i: On Hte-iassnraaee now is heard His -rote* in aoft ppr-uasio" : • p /•rni&t-.,, He never prestJjed another wo 9ft » • , ;iff Cp-?n •« prrdeetuwtkMj.'* ^'» '•s ;• 'iCj ;•. X: DESTINY.̂ • • sr-nun T. cum m- * -, On a stormj March daj a fresli-fnoed i walls, '{oaitg girl was (I was tempted to mj J ways, ^manfully"): " womanfullj" making ker way along the main street of & New \ JEngUod factory village. A bright, ; daring face was hers--one that said, aa - plainly as brown eyes, red tips and . piquant features could say: "Here I Am. Let Fate send her worse. I shall * 4ght the good fight." The very curls ffi her temples, blowing this way and that, under her simple straw turban, v looked fearless, almost saucy, yet with- •at any suggestion of that hideous, straight hanging, modern crank of Ipriiion termed "bang." She wore a -peat water-proof suit, sensible in length, sai£ Flo~ now it li A ooa, and I shall not gfreitp trying tofMyit M long as I oan fill a brash at --•mm * Mtoh«n-flodr it it eomes to that. Oar ularary venturas don*t aMoottt to anything. I should rather write storiea •ad paiftt picturw than ma)m bntthoti, I'm sure, and you would rather give dramatic readings than be tied down to a factory ball--but we are evidently not beaded /or the temple of fame, and may ftfc well give up." "Fame!" rejoined Nettie, " who cares for the empty bubble ? It's the m wey we want. I wish we had back all we have spent in postage stamps on the mis- arable scribblings." •" I suppose it's true (as some editors toll us, in their polite little notee) that writers seldom aeoomplish anything of real literary merit td! they are at least 30. We don't Wong to the fortunate group of phenomenal geniuses," and Flo twitched away her finished brush from the trise, wish a quick, practiced move­ ment, and began to spread the table for their simple supper, in the back part of the Store. Iu cold weather they lived In this room as%iuch as possible, to savo fneL Nettie toasted her feet luxuriously, a^d looked rather admiringly at her prettv hands lying idly in her lap. Her work at ihe factory was by no means detri­ mental to their flftiapennees. "If Mr. Stone had only been at home the night father brought the money for him from Aslifield, it would have been all right. Or if father hadn't had the 'stroke' before morning." Her lips quivered, and her eyes filled, at the memory. "Nettie," said Flo solemnly, as she out the rye loaf, "we are sure that Mr. 'Sackett, is an honest man, and he never would have said that he sent the money if it hudn't been true.** " Why do you emphasize Mr. Sackett so strongly? Don't you suppose Mr. Stone is honest, too ? " " I don't know anything about it," said Flo. " People can't always help their suspicions. Perhaps he was at home that night." v Nettie laughed incredulously. Nonsense ! Don't you suppose that people would have found him out before this if he was a raecal? I don't think myself he's very amiable. Father very likely put the money in such a safe\j>lace till morning that nobody will ever find it, unless the old homestead should be pulled down or struck by lightning, and then it will probably be discovered in some mysterious cranny of the floor or Secrets come to light in strange sometimes." " 2?* P®PPfr«d-'*lk. f «loaKh a ! downs than-Ho, J , ihrewd physiognomist might have been *' I know one thing," said Flo reso­ lutely, "you and I are poing to pay back that money, Nettie (or the remain­ der, seeing that Mr. 8ton« took the very | house from over our heads), if we have I to live on dry bread and oatmeal for j twenty years." I (Ah, how easy is prospective heroism ;«ti6.!) *" We shall be almost old women at j that time, and miss and ugl^, as like as i not, " said Nettie, taking a discontented i bite from her butterless bread. De- ' spite her buoyant demeanor on the street, she was IIKHM^ subject to ups and . willing to wager that somewhere among ! , ker feminine adornings would be found ! dasli of scarlet. She carried her 1 1 #otton umbrella without endangering ; * >'s eyes, and appeared altogether iss like and self-sustained. A i 1--ling stranger, glaucing at her eager | r f̂seesad quick'gait, would think, "that giri is in dead earnest." j She looked occasionally at the pict- •res, vases and other pretty trifle* in'j fiie shop windows, but without a twinge | 'M envy in her healthful soul. She was j Jront to say that she could enjoy them i ifoar times a day (except when she car- i |oed her dinner) without the trouble of taking care of them. In short, she " fully equipped for " possessing " the very best sense. She did stop, wever, before a confectioner's window where some tempting oranges were dis- I tred, oountiiiff the coufcents of a shab- j ittfe purse, then snapped the steel p with a determined shake of the bead. " NeHa lUiwMl, you're a selfish I ;'i#o«mrd/s' was her mental comment as she 1 Walked resolutely on. j ̂Turning into a quieter street, yet not ; ; v^oo far from.the business part of the vilr | ... lege, she entered a small frame house by ; |he door of which was tacked a modest j f tin sign lettered, " Ladies' Trimming " » ptore. P. 4A. Bandall." In the front 1 i frindows hong a lew ribbons, cheap ; flaoaa, fismhmqg edgmga, etc.--a moat «mp»otending wtohHrtimeni AJ> Nettie dripping-um- B general discomforI of CM* tmA fining darimess out­ fit* * dieeay warmth and light greeted Iter, aad another fredti-faced brown-eyed * year or two younger, looked up %, » bright smile from her seat behind „ t the «mnter, where she wss swiftly and : ^dexterooaly drawing the bristles through *hoee indispensable aids to civilization-- •ft..', tooth brus&s. :̂ | "How'sDeetiny?" asked Nettie, inn "matter-of-course way,as she hung up her --boater waterproof and pushed her over* . r!v; ishoes under th«> stove to dry. , < • ^ , i (In explanation, let it b© here stated S1" ;}that these two were ©ace singing. hft*. 'v- l>eauti'al poem which begins : <• ' the day of my destiny's ovat " Wi . •tsr of inv faith bad decimal: ; a tiny, liming cousin eanght the melody. 4 and piped out: 44 Though the day of my destiny's 'clined." "Destiny's ; 'clined" benme thereafter a most ap­ propriate expression, when the " best- laid schemes" seemed obstinately bent $«n "ganging agley.") The answer to Nettie's question promptly j y J "Awful! just 15cents in the oash- i drawer S I haven't sold anything to-day "That means oatmeal for rapper " ih* to wDproommg escaoaa ffassd the door upon breUa aad Um gene itara aid fat tmeke vragely, her good humor " We needn't be cross and ugly," an* swered Flo, carafnlly measuring out her' share of milk from the tiilSr pitcher. " I hope the lamp won't snlbke again to­ night How nice it would be to hftve a new burner !** A short, bobbing flgnre, in an im­ mense rubber c!o»k. with an umbrella in one hand, and a yellow quart bowl in the other, pressed a beaming face against the glass npner half of the door. " Miss Mellavine !" said Flo, joyfully, and sprang up to admit her. Their next-door neighbor, Miss Mary Iiavinia Murray ( who had driven herself the name of " Mellavine " when a little child's, was what Flo and Nettie called a "walking sunshine factory." Many a time had her kindly deeds helped to tide them over a threatened collapse in the commissary department, and her gifts were as delicatelv bestowed as they were timely. A simple, unlearned wom­ an, with a heart of gold. " Tou dear things ! I do hope yon haven't finished your tea, for I said to myself this boiEed dinner is so savory this afternoon (you know my habit of two meals a day in winter, my dears) those girls must have a taste. Don't get a chair--I mustn't sit down." \ She did. however, and smiled on them benevolently, while pretending not to see jrnfc how acceptable was her neigh­ borly offering. "Such a day, to be sure! It's a mercy my good spirits don't depend on the weather. How did you get hoone from the mill, Nettie, child?" " Oh, Fm used to all sorts of days, yon know, Miss Mellaviaek That 5 o'clock whistle haunts me in my dream?, but I hope for something better some day. These parsnips are perfectly love­ ly. (I believe that is the current phrase nowadays. ) And what have you done to pass away the time ?" "Oh, odds and ends, my dear--odds and ends. A little mending and my housework, a letter to my sister Celinda's son, because it's Ms birthdav, off among strangers, dear tx»js and a bit of flannel sewing for one of poor Bridget Maloney's | ragged little tribe. I'm so glad you like the things. Some folks ain't any hand for boiled dinners, but I must say I like them. Ton get so much in a small com­ pass. You m«*y cut m© off two yards of that 12 cent rucliing, Flo, my dear. Now I really must go. (Never mind about the bowl this time.) Caleb Stone is veiy sick again--taken worse sudden­ ly, they say , and Mirandy wants me to come over to-night. He's dreadful fid­ gety, and wants to see me about some­ thing particular, she says. Mirandy's no hand to do for sick folks, you know, though she's not to blame, never Imving been brought to it," mid the short au­ burn curls, slightly . . - - - silvered on each | oozing away at the uninviting prospect. • e °* ^er rouQd smiling face, nodded She had been working all day for " cut- "8°°<1 will" and " good night" as she ®°a>" wages in a woolen factory and <vwaPPeared the cavernous depths of was wet, tired and most unsentiment&llv r"' m!>ber stopped out into hungry, ' tLe ram. * That's because yon haven't sot far *'Caleb Stone very siek ! If he should enough in •Epictetus'" Mid h«w matwr (lle we may have to hurry up the pav- serenely, , mente to the lawyers or somebody," said Nettie glanced around at the 1 5?°,' rather apprehensively, getting her sh^f of carefully selected volun^ZW- t du^7Ptn r,ead.T- e»ent and modern, gathered for these 1 vr >} frA w,owy OTer thB*?' answered two in vears past by & studious father's ' Withely. ftoa as she tied on a large apron preparatory to dish wiping. She I had recovered her elasticity since the ; advent of the parsnips, etc. | "If there's an out-and-out angel oa j •he face of this selfish earth it's Miss 1 Me'lavine. What a difference a good JBT oar won * •mM.nkbv v. I ?ieal mftke» ^ one's moral barometer. --aonnt to much this s I was cross before supper. Mo dear " said S^etoSfd^oTtth?U17imeilt i ^ Peixitentl> Riving her sister a quick IS, «Z.i17fch' 7<? know- dah of a kiss on the left ear; '< if any has a right to be cross it'sVo»/,shut vl vri!** p*ymentB to Mr. up here all day--with no exerci»e ex- d f ~ ^ U T P t ' ° 1 d o ^ i b e e v e n i n g s w h e i oi coat money• Netbe ? 1 Tm at home to tend the store. You're h*nd and judicious brain. w« eâ P^oaopby. H ZiJfiJf ongmal manusenpts, we ^ rnterfyou , *» ^°i *be continued decided- put °p he? feet to warm, Minj^gjauat happen pretty soon. My pay won't amount to it Miss Mellavine's benefao- ' * to give a flavor to the tomm mmk la 1M« work la the dark of ihe In the fao- torywaspi Abooft the middle of quick eye deteetod something wrong in a pile of stookings ftat had just been brought to fear for boxing. "How's this, Biohard?" said she to the messenger, " there most be a mis­ take. Mr. Barker .has given you the wrong land. These stocking* are part cotton, and my labels say 'superfine all wool."' The boy gave a knowing wink. VI guess it's all right. Barker knowed what he was about. Mum's the word, Miss Nettie, if you and I want to keep our places." With sparkling eves and soarlet cheeks, Nettie carried the box of stock­ ings into an inner room where sat Mr. Barker, the overseer of her department, a heavy, flabby man, with pale eyes, pale hair and a hanging under lip, and with him one or two clerks. " These are not the right stookings for my labels, Mr. Barker. They are half cotton." Mr. Barker fumbled the stookings with his thick fingers, looked at the labels and then at her with a beery smile." "Mv dear young lady, you surprise me. The stockings are all right. Your legitimate business is simply to pat on the labels which we provide." Higher mounted the CQlor in Nettie's cheeks, Her voice trembled, but her courage dd not falter. "Then I must decline to do it, Mr. Barker." " Ho, ho, indeed !" said the beery Bar­ ker, with sudden energy. " Here, Simp­ son," to one of the dapper clerks just passing through the room, " be kind enough to step to Mr. Wiggins' desk and ask him to settle accounts with this ex­ ceedingly conscientious young woman, and provide her with a ticket of leave," and Barker turned abraptly on his beel. Nettie's nerve and indignation carried her throngh the next few moments, and soon she had closed the factory door be­ hind her. "I know I've done right, and I shall find something to do. I hope Flo won't be very much overoome I" Her sister looked np at her eajly re- turn. On hearing the story she gave a half-hysterical laugh. " You match my experience, Nettie. That * drummer' from the Worcester firm was bare. Do you notice anything strange? " Nettie looked around the room, and bebeM sliow-oase and rope-lines nearly emptied. "We hadn't the money ready, you know," said her sister, "so the goods iiad to go. He was * vewy sahwy'-- 8 disaj»weeable dewty'--and all that sort of thing, of course. Such 'genteel' kid gloves he wore, and such a " genteel' ease he brought to pack the tilings in! I sat in stony silence, working away, and never lifted a finger to help. Mean of me, wasn't it?" Nettie slowly sank into the little splint rocker and stared helplessly* " "Now," said- Flo, proceeding briskly with her brushes, " the question is what to do next, I shall -get two quarts of New Orleans molasses, andstart a candy trade to-morrow." " I suppose I might take a flat bas­ ket, and peddle the sticks, after you make them," said Nettie, half bitterly. " I might possibly strike a goldmine, in the shape of a rich old lady or gen­ tleman, who is fond of taffy, and would like to adopt a likely bairn about my age." "I hope wa won't be teogpted to eat too much of it ourselves," said the prov­ ident Flo, " Where's the tin pail f said Nettie, jumping up. with alacrity. "Oh, here it is. I'll go to Dickerman's for the mo­ lasses right off. Yon will need every spare minute for your brushes now-- till you teach me haw to make them too. After all, I don't see why it won't be just as respectable to sell candy aa any thing else, if we deal in pure goods, and give honest measure. I'm sure authors sell their books, and artists their paint­ ings. It's only a question of degree," "And even monarchs and great states­ men r̂ eive compensation," laughed Flo. * The molasses was soon bubbling mer­ rily in the poroelain-lined kettle, and, until the time of constant stirring should arrive, Nettie sat down by her Bister to take a lesson in brash making. *' We can take a few dollars of yonr pay, Nettie, and lay in x small stock of candy to-morrow. The school children will soon find it out. I can take some comfort in having you at home, lor a time at least. Why can't we indulge in a good supper to-night, as long as we have your pay ? I'm getting reckless. Let's have oysters." " Agreed !" said Nettie, delighted to see Flo m ready (for once), for a com- jOTsbve luxury, " < scrimp-ation' has its " Oh, oh!" cried her sister, in mock* horror, 'tabors of Max Muller! How ou, Nettie ? There !--the candy boiled over ! Run and stir it-- the midst of the stirring and ̂ ter Miss Mellavine in a state of unwanted excitement.) « " Such a surprise, ny dears T What do you think? But, first of all, I sup­ pose you have heard that Caleb Stone is dead?" She dropped into the nearest chair, and fanned herself with her brown check apron, though it was wintry March outside. "Why, no!" exclaimed the girls in a breath, while Nettie held her spoon suspended in mid-air, with ropes of taffy gracefully pendulous therefrom. " Iinukt Degin at the very beginning," said Miss Mellavine, " or I shall be sore to forget something I ought to remem­ ber. He died at 4 o'clock this morning, but Mirandy couldn't bear to have a me«s of half-strange women around, she said, so she begged me to stay on-- though I'm free to confess I ached to come and tell you as quick as I deoently could. I can't get over the turn it gave me. To think that all this time--(but 1 shall be sure to let it out before I get around to it, after all, if Fm not careful). When I went np last night he was asleep and Mirandy was sitting by the fire and the little fellow had gone to bed. * I'm so glad you've come, Mellavine,' says she, ' for Caleb is that set on seeing you that I was afraid he might try to cfress himself to go to your house if yon didn't come. He s been out ef his head more or Uim all day, but the doctor gave him another small dose of morpheen, aud he's resting easier now.' She hadn't more than got the words out of her month whenhe turned his head on the pillow and opened his eyes. •« that you, Mellavinef ! " a Yes, sir,' said I, going up to the bed. ' "' Mirandy,' says he, 'yon go out sad sit by the kitchen fire till I want yoa again'--and to humor him she went. Just as quick as she dint the door ha olutohed me by the ami aad pointed to a heavy black box that stood on the bu­ reau. Vjnwnj b§MiilaM.a fyhim. the It's Be quick!' FABlK r,'said I, topnei' it? 184,885 in it away !'-, Oatiifc BIOTAIB, A I orchards. A BMxttrt hen always makes . j clocking sound. *•£ I Nearly forty-six per oent. • sorfsoe of the kingdom of uncultivated. * THE food supply of Sweden and Nor- I did Inst u ko «... ' way shows a deficit in grain, but a sur-• ut I&r* • told me /you ve got pIuJg of meat to be wife a *a?m' man. yon know), not iF _ expeoting to find anything important "Vl WwffffayWWMr• -aljlH oeculiar to the Irish. Welsh hogs. It is daitaad that the • J I unlocked tl)f box, and the first thing I see--oh, I pretty near let it out that time, but you've guessed it, like as not. I declare, I don't know rrhen I shall get over the tu| itgmv* me !" (Flo and Nettie exchanged quick, startled looks, and drew nearer to Miss Mellavine, wnil̂ the molasses bubbled unheeded in the poroelain kettle.) " 'Tell then,' W says, * that I've not had an hour's peace sinoe I looked it in there. Their father's sudden death put it in my head---the temptation came like a whirlwind, then, oh, the misery! You know the rest. Afterward I could not confess. They are good gMs--good Tains are upwards uf 1,000,000 agri­ cultural land owners in Germany, pos­ sessing leas thaif acres. THB products of the farm can be in­ creased by a large percentage through rejecting all inferior seed aud planting varieties notedly prolific. IN SOME sections of the West the eon- dition of the roads through the forming districts is much improved by the use of tile drain on each side of the line of travel. If the tile has a good outlet and is alwavs kept open, a dry road irill be secured. ILLINOIS is now the foremost State in the Union for cattle. Kane County has eighty-nine head to the square mi1« be- giri»> John ̂ Bandair^daughters could j ing mostly milch cows, while De Knlb "" " * ' | County has an average of seventy-four. The average of the whole State is thirty- eight to the square mile. ANY marked falling off in the supply of milk a cow has been in the habit of giving should be at once noted, for it is an almost unfailing indication that there is something amiss. This will some­ times take place before any faJling off in the animal's appetite is noticed.4 * THE French census shows that, though the rural population is declining, yet more than one-half the total population still depends on agriculture as a means of living. There are 18,513,325 individ­ uals, comprising 5,970,171 heads of fam­ ilies--and the rest dependents--engaged in agriculture. Or THE wheat crop in the East Indies one peculiar feature is that it is never a failure. Nine-tenths of the rainfall is during four months of the year, ending about the 20th of October, and the wheat is sown at the end of tliis period. In some districts where the soil is a sandy loam, the crop will mature and yield at least a moderate harvest without a drop of rain after it is sown. THE London Agricultural Gazette is authority for the following item concern- not be anything else. Tell them to keep it all--all It is doubly theirs, I have so wronged them I I do not want them to pay another dollar on the old ac­ count. It is the only reparation I can make. Beg them to keep my secret. I don't deserve that they should have mercy on my good name, but, oh ! for Mirandy's sake and little Joe's beg them to show it. They are good girls. Now call my wife,' he &$ys, and drops his head back on the pillow without another word, There, I've tried to tell it, word for word, jost as it happened--and you, dear things, nobody could be gladder to put it into year own hands than my very own self--but that miserable man's looks «id notions will haunt me to my dying day, I verily believe." . She drew from the bosom of her calico dress a packet which she placed in Net­ tie's hands. The lost money ! as the reader has doubtless guessed. " From Jjoren Sackett, of Aslifield, to Caleb Stone, SI,800 payment for live­ stock. Sent by kindness of John lian- daH." *> ' For two yean hidden in Caleb Stone's strong box, while two heroic girls, turned out of their homestead to gratify his guilty greed, were working their young lives out to make good its assumed loss I .ing a prolific flock of sheep : "In Flo and Nettie" wept silently at the | 7ell-kuow,\ fl°ek in the eastern count side of their good friend. Mingled with for^ ew,eB have thl8,8ea8°" brought the the inexpressible relief at their good fortune were pity (sticb as few in like case woul i have been able to feel) for the wretched, guilty man who had so need them--and sorrow for his innocent child, that this gain must come from their grief and loss ! Ah ! John Ran­ dall's daughters were indeed good girls! "After all," said Flo, finally, jumping up and running to the stove, "I don't believe it's good eoonomy to let the candy burn! They kept the dead man's secret faith­ fully, compassionately. They made the remaining payments to the heirs, as if nothing had occurred, then went to Bos­ ton, Nettie to take a thorough course in elocution, and Flo as an ardent student. They wore not wanting numerous Paul Prys of both genders who " couldn't for the life of them see where John Randall's girls got money to fool away on such doings! To such Miss Mella­ vine discreetly replied that, as far as she could say, it was a present from a very kind friend named "Destiny !" TIFIC SISCELLAlTf. THB Librarian of the Alessandrina Library at Rome, Professor De Maes, claims to liave ^griieuce that % great Egyptian obelisSTSslraried in the vicinity of tne Piazzi di San Luigi di Francesi, near the side entrance to the Senate. THE element caesium has been secured in an isolated condition by a German chemist, Herr Setterberg. It is found to be a silver-white metal, resembling sodium and potassium in general be­ havior. Caesium had hitherto resisted all efforts to separate it from its com­ bination with oxygen. ACCORDING to P. L. Sclater, F. R. S., the term lipotyge, which is comparatively new to science, is employed to indicate animals which we should naturally ex­ pect to meet but do not find in certain parts of the earth. For instance, Australian lipotypes are monkeys, vul­ tures and woodpeckers. W. H. PREECS, F. R. S., states that the explosion of a cannon can be heard to a distance of twenty to twenty-five miles; and instances are known where the boardment of a town has been heard at a distance of 100 miles. It is very well known, he thinks, that the roar of the guns at Waterloo was heard ou the English coast, more than 100 miles from the battle-field. THE sand of tha Sahara Desert is sometimes heated to a temperature of 200 degrees Fahrenheit by the vertical rays of the sun. This gives rise to a scorching wind--the dreaded simoon-- which is rendered still more terrible by the burning particles of sand it carries along. In 1813, Burkhart recorded 122 degrees in the shade during the preva­ lence of this pestilential blast. THE story is told of the famous Ger­ man scientist, Alexander Yon Humboldt, i that, being engaged in experiments with Gay Lurtsac in Paris and needing a num­ ber of glass tubes on which & heavy duty was imposed, he instructed the manu­ facturers to seal the ends of the tubes and label them " German air." The air ©f Germany was not on the list of duty- paying articles, and the tubes duly passed the custom officers without any demand. THE ground in the Jura mountains is in a state of movement, as is shown by some curious observations pointed out by M. Girardot. Villages that were in­ visible to each other at the beginning of the ceatury, or even thirty or forty years ago, are now viable. First the roofs ap­ peared, aud then the upper part of the walls. Such is the case with the villages of Ducier and Marigny, near Lake Chal- ain. Important changes have been noted even within ten years. THE ventilation of the great Alpine known flock in the eastern oountiea ' ewes hai extraordinary number of 130 lambs, j thirty of the sheep having three lambs 1 each and the others four each. The voungsters are all nice, strong lambs. The flock is of the pore-bred, black- faced kind:" * IN SHOEING flat-footed horses, if the animal has a spongy toe it may be out off to the proper length. After thi* is done the horse will travel easier than before. If, on the other hand, there is a hard shell around the hoof, it is best to cut as little as possible as to the sole. If the sole of the foot is thick let the shoe bear on the sol© and hoof equally, but if the sole is thinner, dish or oon- oave the shoe so as to bear on the rim only. ONE of the ancient grist mills of Pom­ peii, which has been unearthed, had four run of stones, conical shaped with a stone hopper receiving the grain, turned by the upper stone, which was the runner. The stones were hard, porous and black, similar to some in use at Naples at the present time for the manufacture of macaroni The stones Were turned,by two levers, tone on each tide, the motive power, of oourse, b^ng manual labor. v BETWEEN 1846 and 1880 there has been an enormous increase in.the imports of grain and flour into Great Britain. In 1846 the imports of grain and flour amounted to seventeen pounds weight per head of population; in 1855 they had risen to seventy pounds per head, and in 1865 to ninety-three pounds weight per head of population. Finally, in 1880, the imports of grain and flour amounted to 195 pounds weight per head of popu­ lation of the United Kingdom. WHEN wheat is not very rich in gluten, and the flour is therefore wanting in body, an addition of two to three per per cent, of bean flour produces an ex­ cellent effect; it increases the extending properties of the gluten and renders the bread light. This small quantity is neither injurious to man nor does it de­ teriorate the flavor,. but this proportion must not be exceeded. Egyptian beans are the most suitable for this object. In France this admixture is quite generally resorted to. SINCE last June, M. Pasteur haa vao- cinated 90,000 head of stock, among I which were 10,000 oxen, cows and horses. In every instance his process was J successful; the animals vaccinated es- j caped the charbon malady, while those t Bon-vaccinated fell victims to that | plague. M, Pasteur (and others have I corroborated his view), lays down that j the effects of his preservative vaccine do not last longer than eight months, so that j vaccination must be repeated annually, | and that April is the best month for ex­ ecuting the operation. M. GOFFABT states that his corn fodder lor ensilaging is cut- in the field by wo­ men, with sicklos. These French women have great skill in the use of that im­ plement, and eight of them will cut eas­ ily one hectare (2j acres) a day. They receive fifteen francs per hectare, and therefore earn about thirty-eight cents a day each. If water invndes a silo, whether it enters from without or from compression upon maize that is very wet at time of ensilage, it should not be wasted. Cattle will drink that kind of grass-soup with great avidity. AN ENGLISH farmer, in the matter of ; rearing calves, writes: After weaninp. at j the end of a week or so, the calf can feed ;very well upon skimmed milk. Many j substitutes for milk have been expeci jmented with, including hay tea and . linseed jelly. Hay tea is made by pour­ ing boiling water over fine sweet lisy, j and inclosing the vessel, wh^n in the course of a couple of hours • stong • liquid is produced. It ahon'd be rivon ; of the warmth of the natural milk of the cow. Linseed jelly is- mad* by putting one quart, of seed to It not laagfortfab !< t ̂ _ be fed exclusively <HI IMko meal.- * Cosowumra the early amber sugar cane a Minnesota farmer, who has tested it for several years, gives the following statement: "I planted a piece of this eane in 1881, on the 27th of May, on new land, and before any frosts it was entirely ripe. Its saccharine qualities are of the first order, fine and rich, and its enrliness highlv recommends it to the whol« country. It*has another desirable quality--it stands up well, does not easily blow down; unusually grows eleven and rtwglve feet high with us. When planted between the 1st and' 10th of May, the seed almost invariably ripens,"thus giving one the advantage of a double crop in one year from one planting, some twenty or twenty-five bushels of seed, and a hundred and fifty or more gallons of fine syrup per acre,, that is, if it is skillfully handled. All kinds of farm stock are fond of the seed; when ground and mixed with bran it makes a good heavy feed for horses; hens are very fond of the seed, and I be­ lieve it makes them produce eggs more abundantly than almost any other kind of grain. We have seen sugar produced from this variety equal to the best coffee sugars in the market." 'fel of men are •than first HOUSEHOLD HELPS. -fe¥ tunnels under Mont Cenis and the St.. six of water, and allowing it torboil for rln4nAV/1 £• nii 4A ̂ U M I A I.IM f•• 11 • i i * "^.T «1 * * * ii i Gothard so as to free them quickly from the smoke of trains has been a work vf much difficulty. It has been proposed to create a current of air by the keeping of large fires at one end, but the expense has teen found excessive. A French en- I gineer, M. Pressel, suggests that the ten minutes. Nothiugis better than *kira- med milk thickened with lins°e<l. Some very successful calf-rearers use a mixture of linseed and ground wheat to thicken with, in the proportion of two bushels f linseed to one of wheat. IT HAS been a matter of surprise to same object may be attained by cooling A^Z ,• ifT! W the air at some point in the tunnel by I . J? that English bacon water, which woald «*..ft. diikrej, j ^ 2T in density of the atmosphere necessary to cause a draft. Cool mountain streams are numerous in the Alps, and could be readily applied to the purpose. A CITIZBV went iMO a Norwich hard* ware i n the other dav, and inquired: "How audi do yon ask for a bath-tub for a child?" "Three dollars aad seven- ty-flve cents," w*s the reply. "W-h-e-w!" whistled the •aatoeaer, "Guess well have to keepo* waahiag the baby in the eoal scuttle tfill frioae <mm down." temporary explains this matter. West of England bacon has for many years been famous for its delicious flavor. Pigs weighing from seventy to ninety pounds make such bacon as is best fitted for the retail trade. None but the best bogs are used in the flrat-olaai trade, those whose meat is likdy to be of a soft, flabby nature being worthless, as most of the bacon has to be smoke-dried. English packers claim that of large con­ signments of American hogs, the ht when slaughtered was yelloiriah and did A y.*1 «< What Parted Them. [Somerville JoitmaJ.1 "Why did you send me that almanac, Augustus?" asked Angelina, "Because, darling," answered Augus­ tus, as he vainly strove to twist the few downy sorouts on nis upper lips into a curl, "because, darling, i w^hed you to select a date for oof--the mouy." . "Oh, I see/ she said; then smiling a bewitching smile, she murmured, "oall it the first of April." Augustus will some day succeed in raining a mustache, but he goes t® see Angelina no more. [Contributed to thu Detroit Free Prens " Household" by Houst-Keepera, and the results of yHua! experimenta.J LEMON CAKE.--TWo cups sugar, juice and rind of one lemon ; three eggs, add­ ing one at a time, not being previously beaten; three cups flour, one-half tea- spoonful of soda, piece of butter the size of an egg.--Rhicardo. , BROWN BREAD.--Two cups of Indian meal, one cup of flour, two cups of sweet milk, one cup of sour, two-thirds cup of molasses, two teaspoonfuls of soda, one teaspoonfttl of salt; steam thr je hours, or steam all day is better.-- Rhicardo. DROP CAKES.--One cup sweet milk, one-half cup sugar, one egg, small piece butter, one teaspoonfnl soda, one and a half teaspoonful cream tartar, salt, flour to make as stiff as soft cake ; fry in hot lard. One small teaspoonful in" each.-- Rhicardo. ORANGE PIE.--Grate tha peel of one fresh orange, take the juice and pulp of two oranges ; add to them one cup sugar and the beaten yolks of three eggs. Mix one cup of sweet milk with the whites of the eggs beaten to stiff froth. Bake in puff paste. » BREAKFAST CAKE.--One cup of flour, two-thirds cup of meal, one cup of milk, one egg, one teaspoonful of butter, one tablaspoonful of sugar, one teaspoonful of cream tartar, one-half teaspoonful of soda, beat well, and bake in a quick oven.--'Rhicardo. ' LEMON BOTTEB TO* TABTIS.--Lemon butter is excellent for farts. , Take one pound pulverized white sugar and, whites of six _ eggs and yolks of two; three lemons, including grated rind and juice. Cook twenty minutes over a slow fire stirring all the while. _ LEMON CREAM PIE.--Juice and grated rind of one lemon, yolk of three eggs, five tablespoonfuls of sugar, a small lump of butter, three tablespoonfuls of flour, and small oup sweet milk. When done beatthe whites to a stiff froth; poor over the top evenly $ return to the ovan to brown slightly. CREAM PIE,--Take flout enough for the crnst, salt it and mix with cream, roll the crust, sprinkle some flour be­ tween so that th"by need not stick to*.: gether, bake in a quick oven; when dona separate the crusts and take two table­ spoonfuls of flour, the same of white su­ gar, one egg; beat all together; boil one-half pint of milk, put in the batter of sugar and egg and stir till it thickens, then add some extract of lemon, and put it between the crusts and you have a nica pie.--Ethel May. RECIPE FOB WASHING.--Soak tha clothes over night in clear water, or put them to boil without soaking, with the following mixture added to the water : To one quart of soft soap take one tablespoonful of kerosene oil, mix well, and to three pails of soft water take a large teacupful, or half a pint of the mixture. Let them boil ten or fifteen minutes. Rinse in blued water, after rubbing them in one suds of soft water. This is good for prints too, and will save half ihe labor of washing, without boil­ ing first. Hard soap oan be used instead of soft if preferred.-- Vilette, ETTLE CAKES.--Take one cup of lard (or part butter), one teaspoonful of cream tartar, one-half teaspoonful of soda, a teaspoonful of salt; run lard in some flour, same as for pie crust; mix with three-fourths cup of cold water. Then take one pound raisins, one-half cup sugar; chop line and mix well. Now take a pinch of crusty about as much as for a thin cooky, put it down and put a teaspoonful of the raisin mixture in the center and pinch the edges up together, to cover the raisins ; then roll out about the size of a cooky-- the raisins will stick out some. Bake quickly. They are nice and a change from cookies.--Maine Sunflower. RAISIN PIE.--Take two cups of raisins, wash and boil with enough water to cover them; in the meantime make your paste pretty rich, lay it on the plates you intend to bake pie in; when the raisins are nicely swelled dredge amongst them two tablespoons of flour to thicken the water, add a little sugar, spread them on the paste, bake in a moderate oven with a paper laid over the top to keep the raising from browning; have ready a whip of the whites ef three eggs and two tablespoons of white sugar; when the pies are cooled spread the whip nicely over the top, lay a few swelled raisins on top of the whip. (This is a delicious pie, aud looks very tempt­ ing.) Return the pie to the oven a few minutes to set the whip.--Ethel May. SrntlM willing to1 plaoein an a&ir ofhoaor. OKB spring linory opening willi * sfoow such gorgeous and wonderful!® flowers as nature nttvar^NMMd of. JUDGE HO/ION'S faihin far Stewart's IB dry-goods business suggests tha ancient^tS reason--that, he couldn't get Jews tO it. JESSE JAMES evidently deserved hisife death, for when shot he had las boots *> on and was standing oa his wife* best ?Sl ehaif. ' . INQTTTBBB--what does the corner of card turned down mean ? Means the " other fellow's aheating, Watch him.--WU Boston JPoat . , ^ _ " AMATEUR Gardener" wants to know If the easiest way to make a hot-honse. #1 Leave a box of parlor matches where tha 01 baby can, play %ith them. " WITT have you just rented a ground £ floor, when you often say no flats lower than the fifth story are heslthyf ^i " Why, you see, I have sworn to throw myself out of the window if 10H won't marry me."--Le Figaro. I|| THANK a^kind Providence for the dec- ;• M orated-banjo craze. After a banjo is^ili deoorated, it cannot be played on with-S out spoiling the pictures. Now, won't:®! some good angel -start a mania forP| decorating accordions ? "--Philadelphia 0% News. "Do TOU admire the principle# of#a Jefferson?" asked an enthusiastic poll tiaan_o f a society friend. "I.reallylff don't know much about his principles, " was the reply, "but he plays 'Bin Van 4 Winkle' ra^bly."-/W«^ 2vS. ; graph. ' Los© Y., whose popularity was not#v1 excessive in a certain Scotch town, hav­ ing refused an importunate beggar, she renewed her application: "Now, my Lord, if ye'd just gi' me ane little sax- penoe, I could treat every friend ye have in the toon." A PARIS photographer has invented a ̂ process by which he can take a likeness 1 in the l-100th part of a second. This Asff time is not so short, however, but that^ <1 the average boy could change his posi- i | tion three or four times during a aittinn --Titumrilfie World. CHAMPION Prohibitionist--Mr. Brown 4 wants to punish the liquor drinker asii|iS well as the liquor seller. Fogg says he "' 1 will go a step beyond Mr. Brown. Hei#i wants the liquor itself punished, and he is willing to punish all he can get of it. i f --Boston Transcript. '.*% A PHILADELPHIA boy was asked if haf$f ever prayed in church, and answered/ • "Oh, I always say a prayer, like all the* 'J rest do, just before tne sermon begins."^ "Indeed!" responded the astonished$3 querist, "what do you say P* MNow I |fy lay me down to sleep." ^ THE Cambridge polioe arrested a man, • cock pit and who, they said, kept a toughened birds for the ring ; but he«e£ produced evidence which clearly proved^ that he was only raising chickens for £ Mr* Cambridge boarding-house keepers. He^ will die in affluence.--Harvard Isom-' i l poon. ^ THE Augusta Newt has a learned tide upon " How Long Girls Should befel? Courted." We cannot answer as to how long girls should be courted, having generally paid more attention to short if ones; but if the question is who should-#^ court a long girl, we have no hesitation 8 in saying a short fellow.--rNew Ybrk Commercial Advertiser. . .IJUBT buttoned bsr glove, . And h« dreaa hw). no 8l«M, ' Sou will blame IM, uiy IOVM ? ,• But I bog yonbelieve-- (Jw* what I can't prove). But her dre«* had no Meeve, ' ftiul she made some tui^ht move, V .-v'jiijDd then--prithee, sweet dove, J.' , • ) - l.»o not let yonr»elf grie«% ?i:-' .gormy heart did not rove, 'X, -v , v •: •. Thoogb i»y wits all took 1MM% '* , i j j y t b i e m a r k o f h e r g l o v e . . $ $ $ & $ <!OD my ehtek, you lercelVfr-- ' •"if.rl That--her dregs bad no aicevs. _.,s. • nXtLAOE schoolmaster, examining**': a reading class, asked the headK#j of the class, "What is artificial manure ?" " Don't know," said ^ he, and the same reply was given by i ' four other boys ;but a precocious young- , *\ ster, not yet in his teens, was equal to > the occasion, and said. "Please, sir, f ̂ it's the stuff they grow artificial flowersM* in." W-l MATCHING: "What colored frame^ will you have, ma'm ?" inquired a shop- '! man of a lady who had called to have her prospective husband's picture framed. " Well, you ought to know more about it than I," was the lady's reply. " I want a frame that will match the picture." "Oh, of course, ma'mf"-|| said the dealer, selecting one from the j large assortment " How would a green j?" one do ? " That man has never discov- ered to tius day why that woman got ^ | out so quickly leaving the dooroHa |p w i d e j a r ; . . . . ' ./•»• ••{ i ---- -- >6 i-Kl A Sagacious Donkey. *Is^fw"f®rt©f the worlds probably,- the patient animal, which is too- often r. j treated with cruelty, so well cared for as -4^ in Spain. In this country the donkey ^ and the5 mule are petted and become:>- great favorites, and among the peasan- try they are almost looked upon as mem- 1 bers of the household. As showing the H wonderful influence which kind treat- ment will exercise, especially _ oa the donkey, w© are told that a Spanish peas- ant who possessed one was in the habit of journeying from his home to the city - of Mhdrid for the purpose of conveymg milk to the customers whom he supplied there; and every morning he ana his donkey with laden panniers went their ^ aocustomed round. One day, however, ^ the peasant bepame ill, and having no ^ one to send was in rather a serious ' | dilemma; whereupon his wife suggested ^ I that the donkey should be dispatched 4 {alone. Accordingly the panniers were «I filled as usual with the cans of milk; a ^ piece of paper was attached, requesting ':"J • customers to measure their own milk ' god return the cans, and the donkey r ' started off. In a short time the faithful ^ creature returned with the empty cans, having duly performed its errand; and not only did it continue to do so for ^ several days, but its master afterward •»"*>, learned that it did not merely go the usual round, and trust to the customers coming out to it in the road, but even had the ssgacity to go up to their doors and ring their bells (which in Bp pull downward) with its mouth. THE most-onrtoas fishery of all, to our apprehension, would be that for the pa<» lolo, which is carried on among the Fiji islands and in other parts of the South Paoiflo ocean. The palolc » small worm# three or four inches kmg, and the bigness of a fine straw. The natives feast upon the dainty morsels raw, or bake them in leaves of the bread-fruit tree and send them as gifts to friends,in less-favored neighborhood* will end all ill-feeling, ^obserratkm, we recoro- ... r 1 -4*., The Way to Bare tfe» Csantry® LetNorifcern peopl* goSoufh inthe winter, and Southern people come North#? in the summer, and let the young of both sections flat in love with each f other and do a little marrying, and when - Northern and Southern grandmothers * *" go traveling back and forth to visit the babies that will naturally come the scene, that From personal mend plenty of inter-State marriages *h® n«* ten years, and the oountry ̂ will be sal* jgfe; t-, %l' f 4 * -«*>.•> •' %ar'" "• «y ~£*'n %.»»*.#• <» -V* : •* . " ; - • ~ 1^:.