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Bit, (fee longer I live in this Crumpetty 111% The f*!" than ever it «eemi to me nw retr few people oonie this way, *--* " £ jifp on the whole is far from (Ift 8sid the Qiiangle Wangle Quae, / . « But th<*r»> eamo to the Crumpetty VIM i Mr. and Mrs. Canary; And they said: •' Bid yon ever set Any *pot as charmingly airy t |Bv we build a nest by your lovely Half lfc Quang o WauRle, gra tui that O let na come and build a nset. Ofwhatever material suit* yon bwt> Mr. Quangte Wangle Qua*. AvA, i^sldea. to the Ornmpetty T» Cwue the *«t^rk, the Duck and tM Owl, The Snail and the Bumble B *, The Frog and the Fimble Fewl (The Flmb]e Fowl with s. Corkscrew led); And all of&em said: " We humbly baf We may build our homes on your lovely Bat, IfR Qaangle Wangle, grart UB that, Mr. Quango Wangle Quee." And the Golden Grouse came then, And the Poopie, who ha« no toes, - And t' * «m«il Olympian Bear, And the Dong with a luminous the Blue Baboo > who played the Sn^s, the Or cut Calf from the land of Tui* Attery Squat-h and the Biaky Bat -- All MUM and built on the lovely Bat Of the Quangle Wangle Quee. • ' •' And *he Quanglo Wangle said To himself on the C rain petty TH® " V he . alt th«e creiturer mow Wh a a wonderful noise there'll I*" And at night, by the light of the Muiberry Koon, They danced the flute of the Blue Baboon, On the broad green leaves of the C rum petty Trea; And all were as happy aa happy oould be With the Quangte Wangle Quasw UPSET IN A SQUALL. t •' - «•'Cltoe evening, when I had been a mem* t>er of the Stoic Club for two or three weeks, and was already acquainted with most of its members, I was sitting in the smoking room with my friend Fred War­ wick,, lawyer and literatear like myself, bnt considerably more successful in both capacities. We were alone, and our conversation had began to flag, when the door quietly opened, and a man Whom I had not seen before lounged in. Exchanging a friendly greeting with Warwick, he threw himself into a chair at the opposite side of the fire and lit a cigar. To me every " Stoic" was an ob­ ject of much interest and some awe, and I therefore took a good look at the new comer. He was a man of about SO, father over the middle height, and with a certain grace in every movement and attitude. His features were handsome, and his expression--though his face had lighted up as he recognized my friend-- was thoughtful and almost melancholy. This air was heightened by dark, wistful «yes and a heavy, drooping black mus­ tache, contrasting vividly with a com­ plexion of unusual pallor. The whole appearance of the man was striking and even distinguished. * Scarcely had he begun to smoke his cijgar when a servant entered and handed him a mote. He read and re-read it, and then ga^ed doubtfully into the fire, pass­ ing Ms hand across his forehead with a gesture of perplexity. Then he rose, and., turning aside a little, drew some­ thing from his pocket. From where I sat I could see, as the light fell on his lumd, that it contained a little heap of silver, in the midst of which glittered one solitary gold piece. After apparently reckoning the amount, he bade my com­ panion good night and hastily left the Aboufca year after the evening just described I was spending a .Tune holiday ton the shores of one of those lovely lochs jthat open northward from the Firth of JjOlyde. Warwick was onoe more my (companion; but, amid my own straggles jand anxieties, I had lost all save a rec­ ollection of poor Revelle. A success, long and ardently worked for, had given ine a right to enjoy the first real holiday t had known for many a long day, and I tesceraised that right in a quietly-luxuri­ ous fashion. My friend and 1 walked find talked and smoked and fished and fcmised together, and were as supremely, if less demonstratively, happy in each other's society as were the young mar­ ried couple who lived in the cottage next to the one occupied by us while on shore. As was natural enough, we gradually formed a slight acquaintance with this pair--Hammond by name--who were merely holiday visitors like ourselves. The bride was a pretty little thing, father vain and weak-minded, to tell the truth, while the husband was a gentle­ manly, frank-mannered fellow, though Warwick, the severe, never thoroughly liked him. They were very devoted, taking long walks together almost ev­ ery day, or cruising about the loch, in a lug-sail boat, which, in spite of frequent warnings, Hammond handled not only clumsily but recklessly. The last of these warnings was destined to comg from me. c, It was a fine afternoon, bnt one on which it required no great weather lore to predict a sucoession of those treaeher- 0us squalls--so common and so fatal on the Highland lochs--which in a few min­ utes lash the smiling waters into angry billows and threaten destruction to such email craft as are not handled in a sea­ manlike manner. Seeing Hammond and his wife embark, I signaled to them, ehook my head and pointed to the hills; but the young husband responded with a laugh and a wave of his hand, and presently the boat flitted white-winged round a jutting promontory, while the sun glinted on the girl wife's bright hair. As I resumed my walk with a shrug my thoughts soon reverted to my own affairs. I was not in the best of humors. A slip on the hills the day before had resulted in the spraining of an ankle and a wrist, and to day Warwick had gone to Glasgow, the nearest civilized center, to replenish his fly book. I soon limped home, and took refuge in a boob and pipe. Before long a sudden darkness caused me to look up. I knew what was coming. Without further warning down the loch swept a tremendous squall, ac­ companied presently by fierce torrents of rain. As the wind howled louder and louder, aad the ram lashed the window panes, I suddenly thought of the Ham­ monds. Snatching up my hat, water­ proof and crutch, I hurried to their cot­ tage, A hasty inquiry elicited the ex­ pected answer. They had not returned. With an anxious foreboding at my heart 1 limped quickly on to the little pier, •which I found already occupied. A re­ gatta at the opposite side of the loch had literally emptied the village of its male popula ion, with the exception of a few tottering old men and babes; but on the pier stood a group of women with shawls over their heads, pointing seaward, ges­ ticulating and jabbering in Gaelic and English. As I drew near I could see through the driving rain Hammond's boat coming on for the shore with sail full sei The sheet seemed to have been made fast, for be was struggling wildly with it, while his poor frightened wife impeded his efforts by fJinging to his > arm. He had evidently quite lost his " Who's thai f I asked, as the door head. doaed. "Cat the sheet I" I shouted, though "That?" rejoined Warwick, whose I almost hopeless of his hearing me. usually cynical face had worn, as he "Out--cut!" shrieked the women, spoke to the other, a cordial, almost j "Tour knife, man!" chimed in a feeble tender, expression. that's poor j chorus of dotards. " All at once he heard either heard us Bevelle.' "Why'poor?** *' " Because he is poor, I suppose. But he's one of those fellows with whose names the adjective seems naturally jooapled, half in love and half in pity. Thoroughly interested by this time in i£he handsome stranger, 1 pressed my iriend with further questions, and with that 1 learned the story of poor Revelle. He came of a good family, and his father, the owner of a small estate, ha 1 in his day made no mean figure in politics. Young Revelle, educated at Eton, was intended for a similar career, but on the father's death it was found that through neglect and reckless spec­ ulation his affairs were hopelessly in­ volved. The more Revelle looked into them the blacker did the prospect ap­ pear. The old estate had to go, and JBevelle faced the world stripped of his possessions, but with his rigid sense of j honor satisfied and his father's debts paid to the uttermost farthing. He had saved from the wreck of his fortunes sufficient to make provision for a sister and two maiden aunts, his only ne»r relatives, mad. leave a scanty pittance for himselt .Straggling upward from his icy or else hit on the obvious expedient himself, for he began fumbling in his pockets. Too latel Already the lee gunwale was often under water, and now, with a fiercer gust than before, the waves rushed in and the boat went over. Then rose a scream from the women, while I held my breath, watching for the two heads to reappear. Thank God, there they were! Hammond clung des­ perately to the upturned keel of the boat, supporting his wife the while. He could not swim, as I knew, and screamed for. help. Whence was that help to come? A properly handled boat might easily have lived; and I knew that, in the absence of the men, some of these women--good, brave souls!--were well able and willing to pull an oar or man­ age a tiller and steer; but there were no boats. They, too, were away to the re- plunge, he began to experience some^- thing of a bracing sensation, when he re­ ceived a blow more stunning than any mere reverse of fortune. He had been betrothed to a beautiful girl, a second cousin of his own having been au unsuc­ cessful aspirant to tier favor, and having since engaged himself to Revelle's sister. On discovering his altered position, Revelle had at once released his fiancee from her engagement, and his old rival had treacherously seized this opportunity of urging his claim*, and urging them successfully. This double treason would have had a petrifying effect on a heart leas sensitive than our poor Revelle's. Robbo--5 at one swoop of birthright, mis- tress and friend, he turned his back upon old associations, courteously declining some half-hearted offers of assistance. After various expedients to eke out his lit&e income, it was suggested to him to util ze talents displayed in olden days as an amateur actor, and adopt the stage as a profession. He did so, with the nsual resu't. The clever amateur was little better than a " stick " on the pro- fessional boards. Revelle, however, lound the calling sufficiently to his lik­ ing, and, as his moderate ability was aided by personal and other advantages, • he had seldom much difficulty in ob­ taining provincial engagements. For tpe present he was out of harness, and come to London, "the headquarters of the theatrical, as of every other, mar­ ket. He had certainly little claim to be Jk member of the Stoic Club; but he had oeen persuaded to have his name put 2>, and no one who h»d ever shaken m by tlie hand felt disposed to give his vote against poor Revelle. A"He hasvfew intimate friends beside Uraelf," said- Warwick, as he fin­ ished his brief history, "but we all love Mm. Unfortunately, too, he has suf­ fered himself to become the prey of a set d sponging scoundrels who infest the lower ranks of his profession like a plague. I'd lay any odds that that note ke got to-night was a begging letter from lazy, tippling blackguard, who Revelle looked after her as she was borne off by sympathising women, and his countenance appeared agitated by strong and conflicting passions. All at mice he seemed, as it were, to awake, and his habitual expression of sad grav­ ity relumed. Shaking himself as a dog might, he pushed back his wet hair, and with something like a groan onoe more turned his face fc> the sea. Knowing what we shall presently know, who shall say what angels, good and bad, during those few brief mo­ ments fought for the mastery in that noble breast ? Again we saw him reaoh the boat; but the interval was longer this time, for not only was the distanoe greater, but the swimmer's strength was less. There was, too, more delay in beginning the return journey, and Hammond seemed to struggle with Revelle and impede him. I knew what it was to be thus grappled by a drowning man, and held my breath once more. Suddenly I felt my hand grasped. It was Warwick, just returned. " Thank God 1" I cried, and pointed to the boat. In an instant my friend was cleaving the water, amid the sobs and the prayers of tho lookers-on. What happened thereafter he shall tell him­ selt " I easily reached the boat," said War­ wick, when, with broken voioe, he told the tale, "and found Hammond, half mad with and terror exhaustion, clutching poor, tired Revelle in a way that would quickly have sent both to the bottom had no assistance come^ Revelle could hardly speak, but he recognised me, and gasped out something about being sur- Erised to see me, poor fellow, as if we ad met unexpectedly in the Strand. I got Hammond from him and made for the shore, telling him to follow mew Knowing him of old as a swimmer, and not being aware of his former feat, I thought he could do the distance with ease. So--God forgive me !--I saved the cowardly villain and left the honest, brave man to drown." For poor Revelle never came ashore. The wind had abated, and the rain, changing to an impenetrable mist, hid all from our sight. And for whom had he died? For the false love and 11m doubly-false friend who formerly blight­ ed the life that was in the end thrown away upon them. Neither Warwick nor I had, of course, been aware of the identity of our young neighbors; but there could be no doubt that Revelle well knew for whose sake he thus rushed upon death. He had been acting in Glasgow, and, his engagement ended a day or two before, he came to this neigh­ borhood, not so much on account of its intrinsic attractions as from a fond de­ sire to look onoe more upon his false love, whom he knew to be here. Night and day we sought for the body of our gallant martyr, but it was never found; and now the fickle waters of the Firth laugh or sing dirges as their fancy sways them over poor Revelle. | The sole hope lay in the arm of a strong swimmer, if only he could be , found. As for the old men, they were out of the question, while, had I ventured ! into the water in my maimed condition, ! I should probably have been drowned, J and should certainly have been of no | use. I never felt so helpless in my life, j How I longed for Warwick, with his cool i daring and his powerful arm! J BU*. longing was idle, while the cries j for help grew fainter and more despair- i ing, and the boat, capsized and helpless, drifted slowly toward the mouth of the j loch. It was terrible to stand thus do­ ing nothing, and I know not what rash­ ness I was meditating, when a man sud­ denly pushed his way through the crowd ! --;a tallish man of distinguished air, with pale face and heavy black mus­ tache. Where had I seen him before ? I did not recollect at first, but as he , flung off coat, waistcoat and shoes and ! coolly entered the water, I exclaimed involuntarily: i "Good heaven! It is poor Revelle l'i | No one paid attention to my words, for all eyes were fixed on tke swimmer, who breasted the waves with a long, steady stroke. Breathless silence was ours, amid the howling wind and the AQRrCUT/rURAJL •"P»* Yarm Boys ft© From a Western paper we extract the following practical remarks, they will be very useful to every one on a farm; How many of the boya who read this paper could " lay off" an acre of ground exact- ly, providing one of the dimensions was given them? Now, "Hoe Handle'" likes to be useful, and I have taken some pains to make out a table, and I would like to have every one of the farm boys learn it. There are 160 square rods in one ' acre, and there are 3<H square yards in' one rod. This gives 4,840 square yards in one acre. ft yartla wide by 968 yards long is 1 acre. 10 y«rd* wide by 484 yardx long is 1 acre. 90 yard# wide by 342 yards long ia 1 acre. 4" jard* wide by 181 yardft long is 1 acre. 80 yards wide by fl-ijf yard® long ia I acre. TO yards wide by yard* long ia 1 acre. 60 yards wide by So?., y»rdn long is 1 acre. Again, allowing nine square feet to the yard, 272£ square feet to the rod, 48,560 square feet to the acre, and we have an­ other table: 110 feet by 389 ftot --laera. 1*1 feet by 363 feet--1 aor* M0 feet by 19$ feet-1 acre. 940 feet by 181* feet-1 acre. 440 feat by 90 feet--1 acre. Orders for Druggists. " Ogsattegassett." A clerk m a, retail drag store pointed to the above strange word, written on a small piece of paper that was pasted into a scrap-book. The thiok book contained more than a hundred puzzling orders that had been received at the store and saved as literary curiosities. 4'There it is. Now tell me what it means," said the clerk defiantly, address­ ing a newspaper friend. When the reporter had confessed his inability to translate "ogsattegassett" into English, the clerk explained : " The person who wrote that wanted oxalic acid. We were some time, how­ ever, in understanding the other. The Latin prescriptions of physicians are not as hard to decipher as the written appli­ cations for drugs we frequently get from unlearned people. By experience we learn to read the latter, but I must con­ fess we have to stady some of them a long time. For instance, take this one : 'Avis chatara pills.' You would not suppose that this means 'Ayer's cathar­ tic pills.' Here's another: 'Seena mone.' I had to ask several questions of the person who presented this before I discovered that senna and manna were wanted. There on that page you see •box yelape cillacca,' which was some­ body's way of asking for a box of yellow basilicon. This ' tinker mur' stands, of course, for tincture of myrrh; and this one, ' grose of sepliment,' for corrosive | sublimate. Many of these other ones ; you will understand ac once." The clerk continued to turn the leaves and point to his curiosities, among which were these: Send me oce jQ of jin. Two ounces of hickery pickery (hiera pier a); also called for as hide pik. Sulfer is ink (sulphate of zinc). Ten cents worth Ari Parick; also spelled padygorick, prigorick, pariori- goric. Pammy Btone. Duse ruburb mgniste (magnesia). Glereson ; also, spelled gliser reae. Antenodium wine (antimonial wine). .Rose shell salts; also spelled Roe cheel salts. Five cents Shoemakers ginger (Jamai­ ca ginger). Gobble salts (Glauber's salt). Sprinn a city (spermaceti). Gumaramach (gumarabic). Oil of ganen (origanum). Biller's pills. And seead corgel (anise seed cordial). Lickwith of canan (liquid quinine). Katizicon wine (colchicum wine). Erryroot for childess food. Kreem ut otter ; also spelled cream tater and cream tatter. "In almost every drug store," said the clerk, " a book of this kind is kept. Ours is a dreary sort of business, and these funny orders oome in every little while as an antidote for our many dis­ mal experiences."--New York Sun. Some Museums. Every farm has some room or loft in some building, where the youngsters-- for it is a work for both boys and girls-- can make a farm museum. " What shall we put in it ?" you will ask. In the first place, as the foundation of the farm, I would include specimens of every kind of rock found upon it In some localities there will be no rocks, but never mind that; take as the next thing whatever grows naturally upon the soil, specimens of the various wild plants and the wood of all the dif­ ferent kinds of trees. You may leave the birds until you get older; but the insects, injurious or otherwise, found upon the farm will make a most inter­ esting collection. Suppose you, if liv­ ing upon a wheat farm, oould see at once samples of all the different kinds of wheat that had been grown on it for the past twenty years, with the yield per acre given for each, would that not be more interesting than all the birds in all Africa ? Begin, now, and make a museum of all wild a'vrl cultivated products of the farm, and you will be surprised to see how it will grow, both in size and in in­ terest.--American Agriculturist. Baisinff Violets. There is no more popular flower than the violet, and, as it is one that can be enjoyed by all with very little labor, while the expense is not to be thought of, we are often surprised at its absence from many households. It is one of the earliest to bloom ; in fact, it can be enjoyed almost throughout the entire year, and is so hardy that it requires very little protection. At most a cold frame, covered in winter with straw mat­ ting, which a bundle of straw will sup­ ply, will be sufficient to give us flowers in the latter part of March, when the plants, which have been increasing, should be partly removed and set in the open ground. A portion of these may be let remain out all winter, well cov­ ered with manure, to be uncovered early in March. It is also one of the prettiest and most welcome house flowers, being planted in a suitable wooden box and placed in a cool part of the room, and aired occasionally by being set in the sun at a window in the room in which there is no fire, and allow the sash to be raised for an hour at midday when the weather is not too severe. There was very little intermission the past fall, winter and spring in which we could not gather a little bouquet of violets, and we should consider it a real depriva­ tion to be withoul them.--Germantown Telegraph. Mascotte and Jettatura. Both dictionaries and scholars fail to lashing rain till he reached" the boat : ®nf,we5L theii<lue«tion» which the opera Then we sent forth a cry of joy and en­ couragement. We could see him disen­ gage tke half-fainting girl from her hns- ; band's clasp, see him turn his face shore­ ward, see him begin the laden journey : back. Buffeting the waves he came, I now disappearing and anon appearing i a^ain, but nearer, always nearer, till at | last the excited women rushed among the ; breakers and dragged the rescuer and i rescued ashore. ! The young wife, as I have said, had seemed nigh fainting; but she was no sooner ashore than she straggled to her feet and gasped out: " Oh, save him--save him, too, or let me die 1" Then, kneeling at Revelle's feet, as he stood with heaving chest and streaming garments, she cried again, with clasped hands: " Oh, for the love of God, saye him !" For a few seconds they remained thas, she looking up imploringly at his face, he looking gravely down at hers--a strange picture in the rain, and the | spray, and the tempest--till suddenly with the title constantly raises, what is | a mascotte ? But the visitors of Monte, : Carlo tell us it is a fetich--a luck-bring- | er. All gamblers are superstitious, and ' draw their inspirations from the oddest ' circumstances. A mascotte may be a sou or a sixpence with a hole in it, a button, a lock of hair, anything which ' the punter has associated with a lucky, turn. Alms to a beggar--mascotte; de­ nial of alms--mascotte; seeing a hunch­ back or a white horse--mascotte; meet­ ing a black cat--mascotte. Three years ago a little hunchback at Monaco de­ rived large returns from standing near the table and rubbing his hump at the request of the players. He had a tariff: Once, 5 francs; a long rubbing, 10 francs; ! for standing half an hour behind a cer- ' tain player and not rubbing for others, 20 francs. At the end of the season, returning to Paris on the train, he was seen to thrown away his hump. Mascotte is the opposite of jettatura, or the evil eye,--New York Sun. oould, if he chose, earn treble poor ! her eyes opened wide, with an expres BeveUft'ij income. Bat it grows late and j 8"?Q that seemed one of recognition I am due in Fleet street. Good night, mingled with terror, and she fainted old fellow." j away. I THE Italian patriot, Garibaldi, wrote two books, one a novel, " The Rule of the Monk;" the other, a poem, " The Thousand of Marsala*" Neither in sub­ stance nor form were these of the least t consequence. War on the Army Worm. Prof. O. V. Riley writes in the Sural New Yorker: To meet a general demand that will probably soon be felt and made for the best means of coping with the army worm, I would here repeat in condensed form what I have in previous years rec­ ommended. Experience has established the fact that burning over a meadow, or prairie, or field of stubble, either in winter or spring, usually prevents the worms from originating in such meadow or field. Such burning destroys the previous year's stalks and blades, and, as a consequence of what I have already stated, the nidi which the female moth prefers. Burning as a preventive, how­ ever, loses much of its practical im­ portance unless it is pursued annually, because of the irregularity in the ap­ pearance of the worm in injurious num­ bers; judicious ditching, i. e., a ditch with the side toward the field to be pro­ tected, perpendicular or sloping under, will protect a field from invasions from such other infested region when the worms are marching. When they are collected in the ditch they may be de­ stroyed either by covering them up with earth that is pressed upon them, by burning straw over them, or by pouring a little coal oil in the ditch. A single plow furrow, six or eight inches deep, and kept friable by dragging brush in it, has also been known to head them off From experiments which I have made I am satisfied that where fence-lumber can be easily obtained it may be used to advantage as a substitute for the ditch or trench, by being secured on edge and then smeared with kerosene or coal tar (the latter being more particu­ larly useful) along the upper edge. By means of lath and a few nails the boards may be so secured that they will slightly slope away from the field to be protect- ed. Such a barrier will prove effectual j where the worms are not too persistent , or numerous. When they are excessive- | ly abundant, they will need to be I watched, and occasionally dosed with j kerosene to prevent them piling up even j with the top of the board and thus • bridging the barrier. The lumber is • not injured for other purposes subse­ quently. j The poisoning by spraying of London- purple or Pans-green water (made ac­ cording to the well-known formula) of a few of the outer rows of a non-infested field that is threatened by invasions from an adjoining one may, under some cir­ cumstances, be warranted as an expedi­ tious and cheap mode of destruction, Finally, Mr. J. W. Sparks, of Mufjr 60S- boro, Tenn., has just sent me the follow­ ing experience which I give for what it is worth: ( " The army-worm s making sach in­ roads upon the wheat crop and other crops here in Middle Tennessee I thought I would write you and give the process I have for ridding the wheat of these vagabonds. I take a rope about sixty j feet long and cause two men to walk through the wheat field dragging the rope over the wheat. By this means you can go over a large field of wheat in a few hours. The rope, dragging , over the wheat, shakes the worms off on J the ground, and they carl up and lie > there for half an hour or more--seem to be mad about it--and then begin to move about hunting something to eat; but the larger ones are unable to climb the wheat stalks with all the blades off, so that you get rid of the larger ones the first time going over; and the small­ er ones can be shaken off so often that they oannot hurt the wheat. If you will make known this simple plan to the seo- tion where the worm is at work the peo­ ple can yet save their wheat. I am sat­ isfied I will save mine. I am going over my whole crop twioe a day. My wheat is looking splendid, and, if I succeed in whipping the worms, I will make a large yield. You shall have fall reports at the proper time." DOMESTIC HIVTS»« e". 7 HEKEWNO OLD KID GI/OVKS.--make a thick mucilage by boiling a handful of flaxseed; add a little dissolved toilet soap; then, when the mixture cools, put the gloves on the hands and rub them with a piece of white flannel wet with the mixture. Do..not wet the gloves through. ANTIDOTK TOR POISONS.--If any one is unfortunate enough to swallow poison of any kind, through mistake or otherwise, five immediately two gflls of sweet oil. t is an effectual antidote to almost any poison. Any one with a strong consti­ tution should take twice the quantity. (In liquid measure one teaoupfnl is one gill.) QUBM OF PUDDINGS.--One pint of nice, fine bread crumbs, four eggs beaten well, the grated rind of a lemon, one cup of sugar; mix well, pour into a deep dish, and bake a nice brown; then, having beaten and sweetened the whites to your taste, flavor with lemon spread over the top; brown slightly in the stove and serve with hot sauce. Jam or jelly is nice, or whipped whites spread be­ tween the pudding. BAKED codfish is an excellent break- tap* dish ; cut the fish into small pieces apd let it soak all night in cold water; in the morning pick it into shreds, and let it simmer on the stove until it is ten­ der, then draw off the water, and to one-third mashed potato put two-thirds fish ; stir it so that the potato will bo evenly distributed. Bake until it is a rich brown on the top; serve with a sauce of drawn butter, in which out two hard-boiled eggs. POTATO SALAD.--Take four or five or­ dinary-sized Irish potatoes, mash well, and "pour in two table-spoonfuls of melted butter, two onions chopped fine, one teaspoonful of salt, one of mustard, one of black pepper; mix together thor­ oughly with the yelks of three hard- boiled eggs; moisten the salad with half a teacup of vinegar; put this into a deep glass bowl, and chop the hard-boiled whites very fine, with cucumber pickles, two or three; spread over the salad, COLUMBUS EGOS.--For a nice supper dish, boil eggs until hard done; when perfectly cold, peel off the shells, care­ fully cut them open with a sharp knife, take out the yellows and mash them fine; add grated or minced ham (boiled, of course, beforehand), ohopped onions, mustard, pepper, butter, or, better still, salad oil, Worcester sauce, salt and vin­ egar. Fill the whites with this dressing, then join together to resemble an un­ broken egg. Place lettuce or parsley leaves in a flat dish and lay the eggs nicely and tastefully upon them. HANDSOMI toilet sets, which are suit­ able for wedding presents, are made of plush and satin; a large, square cushion, with half of the cover of pale blue plush and the other half of satin of the same oolor, is simply elegant. Join the two parts of the cover diagonally through the center. On the satin, corner put a cluster of pink buds, in embroidery or hand-painting, and trim the edge with wide, white Spanish lace. Cover the bottles with plush ; tie them .at the top with narrow satin ribbons; they need no other decoration. A night-dress case made to match, and having the mono­ gram of the bride upon it, is very hand­ some. For less important occasions the cushions and bottles may be covered with cardinal plush. Instead of making the cover for the cushion of satin and plush, put a broad band of fancy ribbon diagonally across the cover. Scent sachets made to match are pretty, and may be fastened by a loop of ribbon to the toilet glass. Recent Legal Decisions. A, who was in the employment of B, bargained with him for the purchase of a horse which B owned and kept on his farm, the price to be paid from wages to be earned by A. The horse remained on the farm under the care of A, who paid for his forage and who claimed ownership of the animal. An attach­ ment agaiilst B was levied on the horse, and A brought an aotion to recover hi n as his property, Hull vs. Sigsworth. In January the Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut decided in favcr of the at­ taching creditor. Judge Pardee, in the opinion, said: "There was no visible change in the possession of the horse, and the declarations of ownership made by A, including those made at the time of the attachment, must go for nothing, because the apparently-unchanged own­ ership by B was a constant denial of their truth, and, as a matter of law, bors them down. Millers who were engaged in manu­ facturing flour, mixing for the purpose red and white wheat, and who had wheat in store for the purpose, and who were receiving wheat in store for others and issuing warehouse receipts therefor, applied to a bank for a loan and were al­ lowed the loan on condition of their giving a warehouse receipt for 18,000 bushels of wheat as security. They gave the receipt accordingly, stating therein that they had received in Btore 18,000 bushels No. 1 white winter wheat and No. 2 red wheat, the same or an equivalent in floor to be held for the banks as security for the pay­ ment of a note of $2^,000. The millers subsequently faile^ in business, having put a fraudulent mortgagee in possession and the bank replevined from him such wheat as was found in store-- 3,0d0 bushels No. 1 white winter--and took flour manufactured from wheat in store for the remainder. Upon these facts the Supreme Court of Michigan held: First, that a warehouseman could make a valid pledge of grain in store by issuing a warehouse receipt therefor, without the ceremony of making actual delivery of the grain. Second, that the pledge in this case was not invalid be­ cause of its specifying two kinds of wheat, but that the pledge was entitled to take an equal amount of each kind. Third, that not finding the requisite amount of wheat, the bank might legal­ ly take an equivalent from the flour, as they did. The Rain Tree. Some traveled in South America, in traversing an arid and desolate tract of country, were struok with a strange con­ trast On one side there was a barren desert, on the other a rich and luxuriant vegetation. The French Consul at F.oreto, Mexico, says that this remark able contrast is due to the presence of .the Tamai capsi, or the rain tree. This tree grows to the height of sixty feet, with a diameter of three feet at its base, and possesses the power of strongly attracting, absorbing and condensing the humidity of the atmosphere. Water is always to be seen dripping from its trunk in sueh quantity a$ to convert the surrounding soil into a veritable marsh. It is in summer especially, when the rivers are dried up, that the tree is most active. It this admirable quality of the rain tree were utilized in the arid regions near the equator, the people there living in misery on account of the unproductive soil would derive great advantage* from its introduction, as well as the people of more favored countries where the climate is dry ana droughts frequent --. fjpmd and Water. * - The Only Chili. » "If I had an only son," remarked Brother Gardner, of the Lime Kiln Club, " if I had an only son, aad he growed up as only sons am pretty sartin to do, an' he went off on a Sunday-skule pic­ nic an' got drowned, I should feel a leetle sorry an' a heap thankful. If I had an only darter, an she growed up, as only darters alius grow, an' she run away wid a lightnin'-rod man, an' was left in de po'-house, I should feel a leetle sorry, but not a bit surprised. De family wid an only son or an only darter needs no odder trouble. When you meet a man who carrier his cigars in his hind pocket an' goes off behind de ba'n to take a chew of terbacker, sot him down fur an only son. When you meet a man who flusters an' brags an' seeks to lord it ober odder people you have foun' an only son. When you meet a man who thinks de world was made fur him alone you have met an only son. De only son am de man who takes up two seats in de kyars--who crowds de chil'en at a festi­ val--who eats hisself sick when he pays two shillings fur all he can eat I doan' say dat he am to blame, but I do say dat de world feels relieved when he goes to his grave. Once in a lifetime you may hear of an only son who hasn't turned de famiLy out of doahs nor had all de naj burs fur a mile aroun' shoot at him an' offer to buy him a tombstone, but be keerl'ul how you believe it. " When you meet a woman who puts you in mind of selfishness out for an airin', sot her down as an only darter. When you fin' a woman who expects de kyar to stop in de middle of a block-- when you meet a woman whose husband am alius ready to dodge, sot her down fur an only darter. De only darter grows up to whine an' complain an' tyrannize an' make de world mo' wretch­ ed fur people wretched 'nuff befo'. De odder day I was called upon to go over to a naybur's an' box de years of an only darter whose poo' ole mud ier lay on a bed of sickness, an' I raus' say dat I kinder enjoyed it Dat same evenin' I was called upon to visit anoder naybur whose only son wanted to sell de family cook stove to buy him a yaller dog an' a single-barreled shotgun. I had a short struggle wid de young man, an' he won't be out of bed fur a week to come. " My experience is dat a familjr which de Lawd had forsaken arter sentiin' one ckile has woe an' sorrow in der household. Selfishness takes root aar' an' grows amazin' fast Wickedness creeps in dar' an' nebber lets go. De small-pox kin be stamped out--de yaller fever mus' give way to frost--de cholera only settles down heah an' dar', but de only chile am alluB wid us. He or she meets us ebery day--walks wid us frew life--brings upon us de larger sheer of our miseries. Pity de fadder wid an on­ ly son--thrice pity de mudder wid an only darter." The Paris 'Bus. "The *bus system in Paris Is the best in the world." So says th© guide-book. The 'buses are long carriages with seats on the top, but no "knife-board," such as' the London 'buses have, which ac­ commodates two persons on each side of the driver, the very best place from which to see London. I learned a good deal about the Paris T>uses by experi­ ence. I stood on the sidewalk and hailed a 'bus that had " Bastile " on it. They didn't pay the slightest attention to me, but bowled serenely by. I hailed the next and the next with the same result, and as the 'buses were not full I began to get offended about it I shouted at the next one and waved my umbrella, but both guard and driver looked at me with a sort of mild curios­ ity as they quickly passed on. As my gestures became more emphatic, and my shouts to stop more audible, a white- aproned waiter approached from the cafe in front of which I stood and said : " Parley voo Jfransay, moss&ra?" "No." "You speak de English, den?" "Yes." "Well, my mastair, le propretair, would be oblige if you not repeat your wave la paraplue--le--umbrel--but to move 'way." "Then, does your master, the pro­ prietor, imagine I am doing this for the amusement of your master, the proprie­ tor, and his guests ? I want to get one of these idotic 'buses if I can." /" " You vant to get on ze 'bus ?" asked the waiter, in astonishment " Zen why you not go to ze stasheo--le station ?" and he pointed down the Boulevard des Italiens, to where a 'bus was stand­ ing and people were crowding on board. _ "Then 'buses stop only at stations, like railway trains?" N " Cairtammang, Mossu. Ze Iras systaim de Paree ez ze best in ze voruld."--Detroit Free Press How Spiders Seek the Light. At the last meeting of the Academy of Natural Sciences the Rev. Dr. Henry O. McCook reported the result of exper­ iments recently made by him on the subject of the sensitiveness of spiders to light The brood of young spiders which he had for sometime been study­ ing in his library were found to dispose themselves during the day on lines of web upon which the light from a win­ dow fell with the most effect On the approach of evening, when the study lamp was lit, they moved in a body to­ ward its beams, and when the position of the lamp was changed it immediately produced a corresponding change of resting-place in the brood. During his studies of the winter habits of spiders he had recently found adult specimens of Epeira vulgaris at Atlantic City which had evidently survived the win­ ter. Although the season had ad­ vanced somewhat, there seemed to be very few young, which might be due to the fact tnat they had been eaten either by the old spiders or the stronger young ones, as there seemed to be a scant sup­ ply of insect food in the vicinity of the webs. He mentioned, in this connec­ tion, that, although the spiders in his study had been supplied with water only since their escape from the cocoons, he had not detected among them the slight­ est disposition to eat one another. Prof. Lewis stated that a saltigr tde spider confined by him in a glass tube was evi­ dently able to distinguish the waving of a handkerchief at a distance of six feet In connection with the reported cannibal habits of spiders, the President stated that the common wheel or saw bug, Heduvius novenarius, certainly eats its young. The President also described colonies of the white aphis and red ooo- cus kept separately as captive herds by a species of little red ant of the genus laatua. --PMladtiphia North American. rani Airp ronrc. WHnrft&ator coresyoufoy_ he is one of natun's1u>-Mll.meii. The circus performer is the the period now, for he is in tents of the time. OH, yes," she said, "Lieut Rounder is regarded as one of the smartest offioers the army. He can danoe all the: steps there are going."--Lowell Citizen. ONE of the colored pupils at Hampton (Va.) Institute illustrated the opposite meaning of" pro " and " con " by giv­ ing as examples progress and Cbngmm. SAID Quintilian: " In everything, e^> Sirience is more valuable than precept," ot in being hurled over an embank­ ment into a cellar by a goat, six.--Both ton Post. THET were talking aboi)t beauty tte other evening, when Miss Smith re­ marked: "Well, say what you will, homely people are almost always ua- usually bright" Miss Brown (sotto voice): " The egotist!" "I HAVE been grossly insulted," ea» olaimed Brown. "That rascal Smith called me a liar I" " How unfortunate f remarked Fogg. "You couldn't deny the assertion without indorsing it, could - you?"--Boston Transcript. A MTTIIE boy, whose parents are al­ ways moving from one house to another; was asked by the Sunday-school teaches?, ' Why did the Israelites move out ol Egypt?" "Because they couldn't pay their rent," was the reply. "WELL, well," said Billington, maje*- tically, "we mustn't be too severe an the young fellows. I suppose I was as big a fool as any of them when I was young." " Yes," replied Fogg, "and you are not an old man now Billington." --Boston Transcript. "WELL, old chappie, what did the doctor say ?" " Oh, said I was to give up tea, and take plenty of rest, and ail that Mean to." " But what did he say about big cigars, and brandies and sodas in the morning, and all that?" "CL didn't mention it. Fact is, never asked him."--Punch. GOADED TO DESPERATION. When falls the soulful moonbeams, Upon the back-yard fence, And tuneful felim> .-iioristera Their serenade coiumeuo^ The Buffering esthetic, • His utttrnets forgot. Hurts madly through the midnight atr His too-too sunflower pot. THEY were discussing religious ques­ tions. Said Brown : "I tell you that, if the other animals do not exist after death, neither does man. There is no difference between man and a beast" " If anybody could convince me of that, it would be you, Brown," replied De*> oon Jones, demurely.--Boston Tran­ script. AN Austin widow was Contemplating the perpetration of matrimony the seo- ond time, when the rumor reached th» ears of her little boy Johnny, who bunt into the room where the widow was en­ tertaining the young man who had been mentioned in that connection, and ex­ claimed: " If pa was alive he would cure you of wanting to get married again."-- Texas Sif tings. A MISSISSIPPI boatman with immense feet, stopping at a publio-house, asked the porter for a bootjack to pull off his boots. The colored gentleman, after examining the stranger's feet, broke oat as follows : "No jack here big nuff for dem feets. Jackass couldn't pull 'en off, iriassa, widout fraktring deleg. Yose better go back about tree miles to pi forks in de roads an' pull 'em dar." ' HIS OIBL'S HAND. Some hands resemble fotaiW a(MS% Others the monkey's hairy paw*; But thy white hand Is sweet and b.and-- There arc none like it in the litad. Some hands ara like an iron ravp, 86 coarse and hu oh within one s gr--p; But I like much Thy velvet touch-- In all tliiB world there Is no such. Some hands are clammy, like a fraf. And all iny pulses seem to olog; Bnt thy fair palm Is like a balm, And all my pulses seem to calm. Do xou play lawn tennis, Miss ?" inquired he. "No, I never learned the game. Is it interesting?' " Yes, very. You see there are four courts on each side-^l' " That is eight courts, isn't it ? If I had known there was so much courting to the game I should have been an expert by this time." "Oh, 1 assure you, but you ate an expert" There is no use in pursu­ ing this scheme further.--New Haven Megister. " No, GENTiiEMEN," exclaimed a mid­ dle-aged man, who was talking to a crowd on Austin avenue, "nothingin the world could induce me to allow one of my children to enter a schoal door, for the reason that--" "You hire a teacher to oome to the hou°e," inter­ rupted one of the crowd. " No, it's not that It's because--" "They are too sickly to go to school," exclaimed an­ other excitedly. " No, that's not the reason either. No child of mine will ever attend school because--" " Be­ cause you don't want them to bo smarter than their daddy." " No, gentlemen, the reason is because I've not got any children."--Texas Sif tings. " Arizona Farming. "No, sir; I wouldn't advise any man to try farming in Arizona," he continued, as he rubbed his back against the depot wall. "I've been thar, and I know all about it" " What's the trouble?" " Well, I had the purtiest farm yen ever sot eyes on. Jist as I got my wheat in along came a parcel o' fellars an' dis- kivered a silver mine right in the mid­ dle o' my wheat field, and I believe they spilt at least thirty acres." "But you sold the mine?" "O ves, they come down purdy hand­ some for Ih it, but I never felt quits right about it Then there was my meddor. I had 100 acres of the purtiest medder in the United States when 'long came a galoot an' diskivered a mineral spring on the back end, an' nuthin' would do but I must sell him fifty acres- for $500 an acre. I had to do it, but it spiled that medder completely. Then I had a hill, all graded oft nicely fur the boys to slide down in the winter, an* they was anticipatin' heaps o' fun, when » gang rode up one day an' began to hammer an' dig, an' afore night they coaxed me into selling thirty acres for $50,000. Then anothur crowd diskiv­ ered asbestos in my calf pasture an* stuck an' hung for ten acres at $2,000 an acre, an' to cut it short I was driven out o' that in my old age with only $200,0^0 in my wallet I tell ye farmin* don't pay out thar; the minit ye git a start an' begin to feel at hum they dis- fciver a silver mine in the door-yard an* shoot ye out -- Wall Street Daily News. The Clam. To thoroughly know the dam yon must meet him in a chowder, but take care who introduces you. Nobody of taste ever dreapis of having the large clam raw. The little neok clam is the only one to eat au nature!.; Among the professional openers there are meu who rattle off the shells of oysters like wild* fire who can do nothing with the dam. It requires double the skill to open the clam, ~ i • 4 J