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l«i«|Neniy 'M-ijm J tbey li.*, Jtmpc their juicy (mlb to iryA^v. « «** f31,s t,le «*>'»• MM* redolent than tropic b'ootn, •:•""•,•• sv'. And on It float* an airy sprite , > »\ A* strong as 1 fo, as swift as lightA ,* Who ligktl? tnk B my willing hauffc : 1 l«Ml me back to Memory Luna, 1L '••rl , - [ aee tbe orchard's nun war J slope, :• --*'p. - r '̂h- And 1 OLD FARM, t Y *• M * $ Jfe other flrwft bu anch a cbarn, - '« epi:2ca from ikoinouiitatnfaij T tenU«r leaf-bu<I* BVKIJT opa, ABO with thepssStrig of the snow *Tfe«|>lnk-1ipi>ed buds to In fairest boaiitv then unfold. r v; - **M petal* white a touch of gold. The bloomine Ixwfl with busy hunts Vt sip their dewy sweetness come|v Y And stroneer mountain biet»zes bMMt-rf. Till whw the snow-drift deeply laf;, • There lies a petal-drift ot May. , | tIL - SfMamnmer Hnnshin? floods the land, Jff The trees m d-d ®i> in herds grass Stan*, Tee mv«tio chemistry of life . » > Within the swelling fruit is rlfo ; Atr, ozone-tinctured, purified, From old Ascutney's piny slue • - . Cool, crystal nectHr, fr> ni the rill ' ™ .' That rinplen down tin? orchard hill £ V; ' v ^ And when the work is wll begun, fcl'J' A rosy color from the stfn, f Thns Hettv«-u above and earth belotT ' Otiiie to muke the npples grow; . L And'when tile ye»r has passed its ltt>MV- WbM mellow shines the harvest tUKMM. With happy toil and merry din vAL:i- ilie ripened fruit is gaiherod in. to would be the legend *Om Bight is dark, the door made fast * Ageing, me winter's stormy blast; Kow gran* Fir', where the tlaran leaps Idgfc: Haadrnwn his squeaking ariu chair niRU; "While at h'fi feet, upon the floor, > I ait and listen t<i his lore. CTntil he calls, "Now. boy, be spry! • - ' Bring me a mellow Northern Spy. "*< : J j.. "With ancient ehoo-kniJo. hollow, tlitoj i In one long curl he cut* the akin, '» ^v.;y TUojri gives "the boy " a generous sitae, , And seasons it wit's good advioo, j Tls years sine® gran' sir' passed aitijf,* * And now "the bor" is growing gray^ - Bat fresh and juicy year bv year ' The apples from the farm appear, i T As if the trees, deep in the ground^;-;- Theirout oi eu«il<iBS youth Uad fouol. - --Youth's Companion. r • iU 110 USE TO LE# "1 have not to move!" sighed Se­ lina Spencer. The wind rustled iu' the leafless poplar trees, tbe muslin curtains flapped in the draught. Old Dorcas, the colored servant, went on iiiiiig* about showing the eager slghtseers whs sure to be attracted by ' 'To Let" on tbe morrow * 'Can't go in uat at room!" ssiu porcas, interposing her stout flgure jbetweeu the hard-featured house jhunter and the door of Mrs. Spencer's Kboudoir "Dat's private, dat ar!" "Anything wronp in the room?" liharply questioned the woman. "No'm," stolidly responded Boreas. "Ceilings f »urst^" * ' • ' • "No'm.'^ "Then \V!iv can't 1 see it?" with a Sudden push in that, direction. i She might as well have attempted to charge a battery of artillery. Old Jporcas stood immovable. , "Lady ain't well, mum," said she. ^Can't nobody go in dat room! Toie jfou so afore!" "Anything cootagioua^M "No'm." ' 4 \ ^ '*Sure? ' ;/- ^ "Yes'm, sartin shuah!" j "Very well," said the house-hunter, with a forward jeik of the chin. "I $hall take no house that I can't see every inch of!" and she flounced out. All day long Dorcas fought the army of investigators valiantly, and at night as she herself observed, "she was jes' as tired as if she'd a done a double day's wash." Stout ladies peered into the sub-cellar and de­ nounced the drainage; lean ladies poked their parasols into the kitchen sink and tore off strips of the hall paper. Deep-voice 1 men parleyed as to the monthly rental; fat old gentle­ men asked questions % in husky ac­ cents. The next morning, however, dove- winged peace once more settled on the field of action. The agent came up and removed the bill. "The house is taken," said be. "Who's took it?" demanded Dor­ cas, who chanced just then to be scourin? the bras-es. But the agent either did not know or would not tell. Dorcas heaved a deep sigh. "Deq," Hetook her :iî Wg!iwf«ss. "Dear sweetheart!" he nrn ••Dear Hit-!* "*elt-!T*2 snow I knew that love would con que* ,j®u at last!" * V When Mrs, Spenoer heard of tbe engagement she said quietly: "I always thought they cared for each other, but since your master died, Dorcas, my poor head has scarcely been itself; but make haste ana tinish the packing. We are go­ ing to Newport are we not?" ' • And so the wedding trip frai to Newport.--Toroiito Mail . „ sarinklinif the pillow cases on the j s«*>s she, "we've got to cl'ar out." line table in the corner. Tbe landlord sent Selina a polite •Tve seen it coming this long j note in a day or two. He had con- time." said Selina. lias been as good and considerate as possible " "De lan'lord's an old harpy!" raid jp L " h JDorcas. "Lan'lords allays is!" |y- "No, he is not," persisted Selina. ||,n "We owe him eight months' rent already, and I do not know how he is ever to get his money. I would offer him the piano and tbe carved rose- j wood parlor set, if I thought they i would possess any value in his eyes-- j in part payment, I mean." j Dorcas rolled up the coffee-colored 1 whites of her eyes. I "Dat piano as was Miss Adelaide's when firs' she come from LaUimo' J boarding school 1" said she. "Dat lubly funchure as was made to order in Annaplis! No, Miss Lina--not wiv dis chile's consent!" And she ro led a thin old damask table-cloth v<?ry tinhtly and packed it iuto the basket with emphasis. "Mamma must know nothing of this, Dorcas," said Selina, sadly. "Duuno how you'se gwine to keep it from her. Miss Lina." "It can be done, Dorcas. I've thought it all out," said the girl. "She must be made to suppose that shets going to spend a lew daars with my employers at Newport " "Has dey done asked her, Miss lina?" "No, you goose! I don't suppose that they even know that I've got a The landlord ' eluded, he wrote, to accept her offer of the furniture and belongings as an equivalent for a certain portion of the unpaid rent "Now," said Dorcas, "what is we to do?" Poor Mrs. Spencer was all In a flutter. The Newport scheme de­ li »hted her, and s>he was very busy looking over her wardrobe with refer­ ence to the coming visit. Selina had written to the aunt of an old school­ mate of hers, who kept a boarding Mor« Lucky L«tter> v There are people who are always searching for coincidences and plac­ ing great stress upon "lucky" and ••unlucky" combinations of circum­ stances To individuals so consti­ tuted the suggestion is offered by the Rochester Herald that the selection of Gresham to fill the distinguished position of Secretary of State adds another of the list of "lucky" men whose names begin with the letter "G." This letter is not the most conspicuous In the alphabet, but it seems to be a good letter to have for a last initial. Sensible people, of course, reject all such theories as en­ tirely fanciful, yet considerable evi­ dence might be brought forward in this case to convince the credulous. Let us consider how many of the leade s in American and European affairs during the past halt century are indexed unier "G." The list includes: Grants greatest of our generals;' Greeley, his presi­ dential rival and the most distin­ guished of American journalists; Gar­ field, President and political leader for years before his election; Gould, the "wizard of Wall street"; Oomp- ers, head of the federation of lat or; Garrison and Giddings of anti-slaveiy fame; Gibbons the head of his church in the United States; Gou?b, the re­ markable temperance crusader, and a host of men who have won more or less political prominence, like the Grays, Gorman, Gresham, Gordon, Garland, the Georges, and the three I worthy Democrats of the metropolis, J Grace, Grant, and Gilroy. The navy ; has its Gherardi and the army will not forget Dr. Gatling's gun. Gott- i schalk, the composer, and Gilmore, j the band leader, may also be rnen- J tioned, while Asa Gray and President | Gilman deserve a high place among ! the scholars of the century. In ! EuroDe one name comes quickly to | the mind, that of Gladstone/ France j contributes to the list GamVetta, j Grevy, and Goblet Giers directs Russia's foreign policy as GortschakoS bouse in the fair seaside city, asking! V;TT"/ Tu'*u V T lowe«t orces for a comfortable d-d before him, while Gialitti Holds ber room. Dorcas was to go with Mrs. Spencer as attendant and maid, and Selina had resolved to hire a room in New York and board herself as well as she cotild. 4 'But this has been a dear old home," she murmured. "I wonder who will sleep in my room. I wonder whose hands will strike the yellow keys of mamma's old piano, and dust my flowering blue china, and arrange the old fiddle-backed chairs." The purple sunlight shone softly in; the scent of a stalk of hyacinths in a glass on the mantel brought back reminiscences of the ojd Southern | flower gardens, and all of a sudden a j voice which she had last heard in | those very gardens struck on her ear. "Selina--have I startled you?" He extended a cordial hand. "Perhaps vou fancied I could not the reins in Italy. Among the Euro­ peans of note, Gounod, Gilbert, Gerome, Geffcken, and Geikie should not be forgottea mother. ' I am only a typewriter and ^race you."" said he. "But I dm bet- stenographer in their eyes, and ren­ der my services at so much a day. Mrs Plinlimmon is knowu all through New York as a. female philanthropist, but while she's helping poor immi­ grants out of the slums and rectify-! ing the slop question she don't appre- j l'na?" exclaimed. "Ah, Selina! ciate that a well-dressed southern lady may be in sore straite. But she'll make as good a figurehead as any other." "Miss Lina,said Dorcas, after a brief silence, during which she rolled and sprinkled, patted and folded with aaceasing vigilance. "Wellr" knows whar I could fit >4 a week JtorJ^ndross or Sj 'oreoo!. "t Tiak 6* dat* Miss Lina. Forest lSonarch tbr Ever since the days of the first set tiers in the Pike pounty, Pennsylva­ nia. tackwoods, a tree known as the '•great pine" has been a landmark in Green township because of its im­ mense height, the tree towering far above all the other trees in the pine forest that then covered the Pike, County mountains, says the New York Sun. In the clearing away of the pine timber, which was tbe main pursuit of the woodsmen for fifty years or more, this lordly tree was left standing, and thirty years ago it became the sole relic in all that region of the great primitive forest of pines, and since then has been fa- and seek than you ! mous throughout Northern Pennsyl- j vania as "the last pine." The na­ tives had always regarded the ancient tree with great veneration, buc the land on which it stood passed into the hands of alien owners and one day recently they had it cut down. The tree was found to be 372 feet in height, and the infallible record of the rings of its stem showed its age < to be 462 years, so that it was a re­ spectable tree 62 years old when Col­ umbus discovered America. It is perfectly sound from butt to tip and -will cut $2,000 worth of lumber. ter at hide tho light. She courtesied haughtily. His handsome countenance fell. Evi­ dently he was deeply disappointed. "Are you not glad to see me, Se- 1 had counted so much on this in­ terview! I had planned to renew my suit--to ask you-once again to be my wife." She drew her slight figure up. "You are presuming too much on ray very evident poverty. Mr. -Berke­ ley," said she. "I refused when I was Miss Spencer of Spencer Yale. What sort of a woman should I be if 1 were now to accept yo'J. --simply as f a protection against adversity?" "Do you want to leave us, Dorcas?" The old woman uttered a subdued ftroan. "Lord knows it ain't dat, Miss Lina! Lord knows it's honor enough to wbrk for de ole Spencers! But it's money we uns wants--an' ebery cent o' de ol<3 woman's wages, dey'U corae back to ole Missus and Miss Lina." The long lashes dropped over Selina a^pehcer's lovely hazel eyes. "It'sot zao use, Dorcas," said she. "We've «ot to bend before the storm. Hush! Do you hear that tapping?" "Somebody knocking at the do'!" cried Dorcas. "Why on arf don't dey _ring de belli-"' "No, said Selina, detaining her as "she mas about to answer the supposed ! rying tack, full of sweet, strange mis- summons. "It's the agent putting the 'To Let.; But, whatever bap- peas, Dorcas, don't let mamma know!" v She rose, and getting up her hat and gloves, went up the wide, gloomy eld staircase. Dorcas looked after Iter and shook her turbaned head. "Meks b'lieve she's pow'ful brave!" muttered she. "Tinks ole Dorcas dunno she's crying dis berry minute! Why didn't she marry Mars George , Berkeley when he axed her' an1 sabe herse'f all this trouble:" Dp in the dimly lighted sitting- *oom Mrs. Spencer sat, a faded belle P>ut. Selina "Pray excuse me from any further discussion of lina. "May I not hope your mother?" he persisted. "I should prefer not." "Do you know, Selina," be said, after a brief silence, "that this is a very bitter mortification to me?" "Is it? Then what must it be to me?" she retoited, -almost fiercely, looking up at him. He stood a second or two gazing sadly at her. Stung by his scrutiny she swept from the room like an angered princess. Half a minute later she cane hur "Sedan Cbjtlr. The sedan chair is named afte* Se­ dan, the town where it was first used. The earliest mention of it in En­ gland occurs in 1581. Early in the the question," said ae- follq,wing century the Duke of Buck- givings. But he was gone. "1 have let another opportunity slip by!" she murmured. "Oh, heavens! where is my life drifting to?" At that moment Aunt Dorcas ushered in the landlord--a fussy, bald headed old gentleman, with a fur collar to his coat. ingham caused much indignation by its use'd iu London. People were ex­ asperated at that nob eman employ­ ing his fellowmen to take the place of horses to carry him. Prince Charles brought from Spain, in 1623. three curiously wrought sedans two of which he gave to the Duke of Buckingham. A few weeks after their introduction Massinger pro­ duced his play, "The Bondman," and in it be thus adverts to the ladies^ For their p mp and care being bofa* In triumph on men a shoulders. The reference is doubtless to Buck­ ingham's sedan, which was borne like a palapquin. Tslk' ol Depopulating icelai^ v. James Thom, of the Beaver steatn. ship iine, who has been intimately connected with the carrying trade of Canada for the past twenty years, has arrived in Winnipeg. "Have any •Good evening, Mjss Spencer," said i sp60'13"1 business, Mr. Thom, outside he. "I expected to meet the new party here." "The-r-I beg your pardon," said Selina. "The gentleman who has purchased this house and furniture," _explained Mr. Beasly, and settled it on yourself <lf the olden days. The piano was i and your mother. A friend of yours /iruin FVIA NR in/In ID #.,11 m , t . v ' open, tbe window was full o: care iully tended plants; a pinicshaded lamp burned on the table, and Mrs. Spencer herself was engaged in crewel work with slow, languid lingers. "You are later than usual to-night, fielina," said she, fretfully. "Per­ haps your idea of a delightful daugh­ ter is different from mine, but I think any amount of Sliakspeare and Brown­ ing classes oughtn't to take so much el£your time away from your mother." "I stopped to give Dorcas orders in the Kitchen, mamma," Selina cheer­ fully answered. "But I'm all ready now. What shall I read to you until Jtbe tea comes up?" "Well," said tbe poor lady feebly, **Td like a few chapters of the 'Scot­ ch Chiefs.' it was the first novel my dear papa allowed me to read-- and in my opinion ynur Ouidas and Beaddons don't come near it" And while Selina read out the trials Of Helen Mar and Bruce the brave, tSbs wondered how on earth she should Ctrb Cs SOtac Valuable Su»»««tlona. „.,M ' : The Ontario Department of Agri­ culture has issued a valuable special bulletin on the making of roads. The line of argument used in favor of the building of good country roads in Canada is muca the same as that in the United States--namely: that good roads enable the farmer to market his produce at all times in the year and secure his supplies at less ex­ pense for hauling, with less wear and tear to vehicles and injury to animals, besides which they result in bringing together more closely the members of the agricultural community and there­ by increase the social intercourse of farmers. But this is only preliminary to an intelligent discussion of grades, drainage, and material for road bed, with the treatment necessary to keep as well 9s make good roads. It is stated that a grade of not less than three inches in 100 feet is abso­ lutely necessary to preservative drain­ age. but any great excess over that should be avoided if possible. If the load a horse can draw on a level be called 100, the effective power is re­ duced to 90 for a grade of- one fcot to the 100, to 81 for one in 50, and 25 for one in 10. Hilly roads are full rt danger to horses and vehicles, and economy in maintenance depends on easy grades. Thorough drainage is an absolute necessity to a good road foundation, and a drain on each side of the road is far better than one un­ der the middle. The best material for the roadbed is that which is hard and tough, but dirt roads cannot be avoided in some sections, and if care­ fully attended to the result will be wonderfully different from those of neglect. The Tel lord road is recom­ mended as the best, with macadam next on the fist, and gravel to be pre­ ferred where these are unattainable. The necessity of repeated and eftlcient maintenance is strcngly in­ sisted on, and directions given for performing the work in the best man­ ner for securing a desired result with the minimum of labor and material. The report says the repairing of roads once a year (the usual plan) is wrong in principle. It is all the more ob­ jectionable as almost always it is done in the spring, the good effects disap­ pearing before the time for fall and winter travel sets in. The report strongly commends the movement in favor of wide tires for draft vehicles. It says it has been proved by repeated experiments that wheels with tires 'Ji inches wide cause double the wear of wheels which have 4^-inch tires. The wide tire has a tendency to roll the roadbed and keep it smooth at the same time, while the narrow cuts it up and requires more hauliug force for the same weight of load, besides spoiling the thoroughfare. Most of the European countries have laws regulating this matter. In France the market wagons have tires;from 3 to 10 inches in width, usually 4 to 6 inches, and the rear axle is the longest, so that' the hind wheels run on a line outside of the tore wheels, the vehicle being thus a road-maker instead of a road- destroyer. For wagons without springs the tires should not be less than 2£ inches for a load of 500 to 1,000 pounds on each wheel, and for loads of 2,000 to 3,000jpounds on each wheel the tire should not be less than j 6 inches wide. The document is worthy of wide circulation in the Unioed States as well as Canadal Its perusal by the average farmer would lead him to see that good roads and broad tires would be of the greatest possible benefit to him, and worth in a pecuniary sense far more than the cost of bringing about the reform, ftUNMtNO CIRCUS. Bacteria In Tobacro. There seems to be no end to the discoveries that await us concerning bacteria, and the relations of those microscopic organisms to the well- being of man. Who would ever have thought that the peculiar flavors which characterize different kinds or brands of tobacco are due to the pres­ ence of bacteria? Yet that is the conclusion to which recent investiga­ tions by a German botanist lead. In curing tobacco, or preparing the raw, green leaf for use, a fermentative process called sweating is gone through with. It has been supposed that tbe chem­ ical changes induced by this process were the source of the peculiar quali­ ties possessed by the cured tobacco. But according to Suchsland's experi­ ments it appears that micro-organ­ isms may be the real cause of the changes. He has examined tobacco, which had been cured, from all parts of the world, and has found in it ai% Abun­ dance of micro-organisms, and upon cultivating the bacteria from a par­ ticular kind of tobacco, and then:in­ oculating another kind with this cul­ ture, he has produced in it tbe taste and aroma of the original. This discovery has led to the sug­ gestion acMecast. The horrort of its later history were tragic, affld thit»9gb them we gain some Insight into thci Ideas of penal discipline which ruled in tbe old "blue law" colony. A Utant of the Olden Time. One of the most gigantic finds of gigantic human remains of which we have any record, says the St. Louis Remiblie, was that made at Palermo, Sicily, in the year 1516, when an en- entire skeleton of unheard-of propor­ tions was unearthed ^y some marble quarrvman. These mammoth re­ mains measured exactly .34 feet from head to foot and 9 feet 7 inches from point to point of the shoulders A stone ax buried .with this old-time giant may still be seen it Palermo in Section Z of the St Isorent Museum. It is made of a bluish-looking, fine­ grained bowlder, and appears to be about 2 feet> 8 inches long "by 1 foot broad and 9 inches through in the thickest place. A musty, rusty-look­ ing tag attached to the relic informs the visitor that it weighs fifty-two pound, but the general verdict is that it could not weigh more than thirty or thirty-five pounds. The skeleton was burned by a mob iri the, year 1662, during the prevalence'of^ black death at. Palermo, the ignorantj superstitious people believing that it was connected in some mysterious way wfth thedeath-dealingdistemper. The skull of this giant, according to Abbe Ferregus, "was largly excessive of the baskets sayd to hold the bushel, being fitted above and belowe withe teeth to the number of sixty-foure, the each of which would have weighed two ounces" Cavalier Scroy claimed to have found a skull on Tenerlffe that had sixty teeth. Recalled to Mind. Poets who have written much,often have the experience of coming on a line of their own which they do not recognize, but which they sometimes profess themselves, in all honesty, to like. John Eagles was an English­ man of scholarly acquirements and & most accurate and wonderful mem­ ory. He was also a writer of verse, and would probably have sail that he had written nothing which he could not remember had not experience proved that he, as well as others, could be caught temporarily napping. One day Mrs. Crosse, the wife of the celebrated electrician, sat talk­ ing to Mr. Eagles, and reading from time to time bits from a book of poetical extracts. At length she came to one of his own sonnets, and began reading it, with the comment that it was a special favorite of her own. "Have you beard this before?" she asked. ' ••Never," was his prompt reply; "but go on. I like it!" . When she came to the seventh line she made a mistake. A word had been changed in copying. "Stop!"called the author. 'That's wrong. 'Ev'en in the busy mart of men,' not 'heart' Why, bless me," he added, with $ sudden realization of the truth, •'they are my* own lines!" ' Cartons Museum of Newspaper®, One of the most curious museums in the world is that containing hun­ dreds of thousands of newspapers at Aix la-Cnapelle. This quaint mu­ seum library was founded some seven or eight years ago by Oscar Forken- beck, who collected newspapers as other people collected stamps or auto­ graphs. The whole of his income for something like forty years was distributed over newspaper offices of the civilized and uncivilized world, and he received every morning dailies published in thirty languages. By the year 1885 be found himself tbe bappy owner of 10,000 files. He then bit on the excellent idea of founding a newspaper museum, and with this obiect in view sent a circular around asking the whole newspaper world to assist him in his great work. The continental press seem to have re­ sponded with enthusiasm, and now there is certaiuly no such collection of newspapers existing in the whole world. Mr. Forkenbeck, as was only fair, has been made librarian^-chief, and both he and three assistants are busy indexing and arranging the ever-increasing collection. -- London Chronicle Courage of Indian Elephant). They will submit day after day to have painful wounds dressed in obedi­ ence to their keeper, and meet danger in obedience to orders, though their intelligence is sufficient to stand tbe peril, and far too great for man to trick them into a belief that it is non­ existent No animal will face danger more readily ataman's bidding. As an instance take the following inci­ dent, which recently occurred in India and was communicated to .the writer. A small female elephant was charged by a buffalo in high grass, and her rider, In the hurry of the mo- ... , ^ , . ment and perhaps owing to the sud that the quality of tobacco j stopping of the elephant, fired an I suppose--Mr. Berkeley.' Standing sadly in the shadow of I the rustling poplar boughs outside, i George Berkeley felt the magnetic j Influence of another presence. A | soft voice stirred the twilight air like I the far-off music of forgotten days, j "Mr. Berkeley," it said--"George! --please will you forgive me?" A dead silence ensued. • Won't you, George?" with a little sob in the voice. "I--1 don't mean to speak so harshly to you. I didn't know then what I kuow now of your noble generosity." * ' Silence--only silence still. "If 1 accept it for dear mamma's sake, you surely will not misinterpret me. Oh, George! how can you be so cruel? Why don't you answer me? What are you waiting for me to say?" And still no word broke that haunting silence. George," in a low mind. I of the general business of your line?" asked a correspondent of the Toronto Mail. "Yes," he replied.. "My mis,-, sion here is to interview the Mani­ toba Government in regard to bring­ ing over settlers from Iceland during the commingsummer." It iRreported that the Government will arrange with Mr. Thom to bring out 2,000 Icelanders next summer, and that the intention is to bring frofri Ice­ land tbe entire population, if possi­ ble, some 60,000 or 70,000 souls. grown in any country may be im proved bv simply inoculating it with bacteria from some finer-flavored leaf growing elsewhere. Wines have al­ ready been improved by a similar process. ' Newgate Prison. Lonely, in ruins, but yet picturesque, the old Newgate Prison of Connecti­ cut, named for its London prototype of gloomy memory, stands upon a green hillside in the town of East Granby. Viewed with a glass from Bartiett's Tower, a lofty observation point awav across the Farmington River, it resembles an old castle, tur- reted, moated, bearing the unmis­ takable marks of age This old mine prison holds a unique place among the antiquities of New England. To­ day, as one stands beside its crumbling and vine-covered walls and looks across the peaceful valley of the Farm­ ington, with its quiet villages, it is not easy to realize that the place has a history written in Mood and suffer­ ing. Only a descent into its subter- Varlous Sources or 811k. Silk worms are not the sole source of'the production of silk; it is also obtained from several vegetable sub­ stances, but of an inferior and less • durable description. Excellent col­ ored silk is obtained from tbe pre­ pared and finer fibers of the bamboo, I ranean caverns puts the visitor in the wnich is much in demand fpr cloth- [ mood to feel the spirit of the stories changed wife!' my voice. "I've will be yom ing in tropical countries from its lightness and porosity. Another form of silk is obtained from the pods ot the silk cotton tree of which there are several varieties In exist­ ence, the material obtained from them being known as vegetable silk. --Brooklyn Eagle. A OAS trust seldom trusts fen; for 'M* which the place has to telL Newgate has been successively .a copper mine, a colonial prison, a mili­ tary prison in the revolution, and a State prison. The first chapter of its history opened in 1705, and the last chapter closed over sixty years ago, when the prisoners of the State were removed to better quarters in the new orison at "Wethersfield. The iouteur minnlng of its early history, explosive shell from his rifle, not into the buffalo, but into the elephant's shoulder. The wound was so severe that it had not healed a year later. Yet the elephant stood flrmpalthough it was gored by the buffalo, which was then killed by another gun. What is even more strange is that the elephant was not "gunshy" after­ ward.--London Spectator. Caught by a Crinoline. Apropos of possible crinoline, a wo­ man tells this of the old days of "cages." "A man--an artist and a very shy person---walked out with tbe woman he delighted to honor and asked ber to marry him. In stepping closer to her, as the occasion seemed to de­ mand, early in the walk he trot his foot through her large and expansive hoop and was too modest to make any attempt to remove it She was equally timid, so they took their walk, settled matters (she consent­ ing), and came, home with his foot held in her hoopi History does not state," finished the relator, "how it was finally removed. I only know the story is true and the pair to-day are old married lovers."--New Yoric Times . AN innocent young sportsman. In order to shoot a squirrel on the top of a tree, climbed another close by, and on being asked the reason of so foolish a freak, said, taat he didn't want to strain the gun on a long Tho Cost It Jftw Jloyonil Idea of 9So*« People. ' A week's bill in connection with the running of a circus is by no taeans a small affair. A good traveling circus may con­ sist of any number between seventy- five and 200 men, all told. These in­ clude "agents in advance"--their very name typifies their mission--they go before and prepare the way, have the walls of the town to be visited deco­ rated with posters, and induce shop­ keepers to exhibit their bilis^ press agents, who work the newspapers; excursion agents, who arrange with railroads for excursions, make trans­ portation rates; contracting agents who contract for board, supplies, etc.; riders and drivers, stable grooms, ani­ mal-keepers, canvas-men, Droperty- men, and wardrobe mistresses. The wages of these people rage from $5 to $300 per week, the last figure of course only being paid to a "star" of tbe first magnitude and in the height of the season. When on the road the salaries paid are much lower, in fact, circus salaries in the majority of case? are not only remark­ ably small but very uncertain. Some "stars" refuse to go round with a traveling circus, but only accept en­ gagements at an established, perma­ nent affair. Such sarlaries as we are about to quote are only obtained by people in the very front rank of their particu­ lar line of business. For instance, a first-class bare-back jockey can earn from $250 to $300 a week. Trapeze performers and acrobats generally form themselves into families oi threes and fours,1 and pose as the "So- and-So Family" or "The Other Troupe." They draw anywhere be- tween $50 and $600 a week between them. Single performers, as Zazel, and others of equal fame, get* from $50 to $300 apiece, the latter salary having been received by the famous Lu-lu when at the height of her, or rather his, fame. Acrobats, when specially elever, earn from $15^a week, and work bard for their money. A good acrobat oi the "first water" is a>ways worth his wage The salaries of clowns hava hot kept pace with those of other per­ formers, for the clowns of to-day is not an especially clever or important being. There are some,'however, who possess a trained animal which they bring into the arena with them, who can earn up to $100 a week, but your nowadays wearer of the motley would be glad of a sure fifteen or twenty dollars a week engagement in the tenting season. The majority of clowns, however, have to be fairly competent acrobats, even to earn that small sum. Musicians have plenty of work to do, and can earn as little as $6 or $8 a week, and as much as $15 and $30 for doing it Then when the salaries of agents, bill-posters, ticket-sellers, etc., are added up, it soon amounts to another $200 or $500 a week. Advertising means anywhere from $50 to $2,000 a Week; the animals; too, have to be fed. ' Thousands of dollars . are invested in traveling circuses. Some of the gilded carriages which carry the band in the procession cost as much as $3,000; indeed the Barnum Show, the Forepaugh Show, and such circuses as the Walter L. Main and Sells Bros, havo some carriages worth $4,000 each. It will be seen that a good many people have to put their money into the ticket wagon in order to make a circus pay. - Properly Introduced!^ , , ' 'Fellow-citizens," exclaimed the chairman of the meeting, whom no­ body knew, "1 take great pleasure In introducing to you the distinguished guest whom we have assembled this evening to honor. I am glad it has fallen to my lot to welcome him among us. i can assure you that his fame as an incorruptible statesman, an honored public servant, a man ol stainless record, of irreproachable pri­ vate life, of generous impulses and of commanding talents as an orator, diplomat land man of affairs has pre. ceded him. I am no stranger--we are none of us strangers--to his worth, and among those who hold him in high esteem I claim a lore- most rank. I honor him for his statesmanship and bis devotion to truth. I esteem him for his admir­ able personal qualities. I respcct him for his purity of character, and 1 may say--in fact I will say--that. I know of no other man whom I ̂ rank higher in the possession of the attri- butes«I have mentioned. "I repeat that the honor of intro­ ducing such a distinguished flellow- citizen to this audience has fallen to me, I esteem it a high privilege. I shall always consider it one of the proudest moments of my life. I shall long look back upon it as an impor­ tant event in my history. I shall embalm this hour--this occasion--in my memory, and if I shou.d live a thousand years it will always seem as fresh to me as at this moment 1 rejoice, I say again, to be the me­ dium of introducing to you our illus­ trious guest whom 1," etc. The the distinguished orator and statesman, the Honorable Mr. Great- man, whom everybody knew, rose and said,-- "1 thank you sincerely, my Crlends, for this kind reception." Fast Talkers. The New York Sunday News has been tolling some fairy stories of the rapidity with which certain public men speak. The late Bishop Brooks, it says, spoke at the rate of 250 to 275 words a minute; and Bourke Cockran and Col. Fellows often, in addressing a judge or jury, rise to 300 words a minute and more. It is easier to think that this is so than to know it A carerul record has been kept in some of Bishop Brooks' addfesses, and ho never spoke above 213iwords a minute. A flow of 225 woflkls a minute is about the limit of intelligible utterance in English. ThO writer in the Sunday News says thaf the late Roscoe Conkling was "a huificane talker." The contrary is truS. Perhaps the fastest the! world is Sarah talker in Bernhardt To I1 >nJs woitis a minute was very easy for her. But « French stenographer might tell a different story. --Buffalo Courier. One of the prevalent disorders at •ea--salt-room.' 7 , >-* - . • BWALLOWSD BY AN SLEPHAHT. i • '.>• V*" - '• " ; Uttle^oeU Made U*»rol y* s X>ra»eyal* • Cure. Apropos to tbe incident'related in last Friday's Republic of the death of Zipp, the big elephant at Baraboo, Wis., from having swahowed a chain weighing ninety pounds, a reminder pas called up and related by Dr Hume of Denver, who recently reg­ istered at the Lindell. • & "Just prior to the demise of the much-lamented Phineas T. Barnum I was touring In Connecticut and called upon the great showman at Bridgeport, who invited me to see the circus animals in winter quar­ ters. On arriving at the great cara­ vansary where the wonders that tour the country year after year are stored, the illustrious owner was in­ formed that Beta, the prize trick ele­ phant, was ailing. All the symp­ toms of the poor beast pointed tn the fact that she was suffering from acute gastritis, and many means had been tried to relieve her without avail. "It was finally discovered that Beta had by some means wrenched oft an iron bar from her stall, and, as it could not be found, ft was sur­ mised that she had swallowed^tt, S and which accounted for the gastric irritation of.the valuable pachyderm, "Mr. Barnum saw that poor Beta | must soon succumb to the inflamma­ tion caused by such a large foreign body, and with readv wit resolved on ? a unique plan to retaove it. Attached > to his large winter hotel was a* small ^ colored boy who went by the name of | Joe. He was but little larger than a full-grown 'possum, and P: T. sent j: for him and explained that he must i take a rubber tube in his mouth to breathe through, and with a rope - round his waist go down into the | elephant's stomach and gee out that | bar of iron. ' * "Joe rolled his eyes and demurred, but he knew his employer too well to r< refuse. Accordingly Joe was anoihted , with a pouiid of vast-line, ana Beta be- f ing safety gagged he was gently ? pushed down the giant oesophagus head first-- a smooth stick well oiled landed him at the bottom. Accord­ ing to instrt|ctions the boy soon gave three tugs at the rope, as he had been instructed* to be pulled out again, and, sure enough, tightly clasped in Jo6's hands was the offend- | ing and indigestible ban It is need- less to say that Beta's life was savedf n and that Joe was handsomely; re- | warded for bis cure of the valuable I elephant's indigestion."--S^,. ^ Republic. t-; Woman In AdverM^*i^%J: Women should be more trusted and J confided in as wives* mothers, and sisters. They have a quick percep- ; tion of right and wrong, and without | always knowing why, read the ores- | ent and future, read characters and acts, designs and probabilities, where man sees no letter or sign. What else do we mean* by the adage "mother.wit," save that woman has a quicker perception and readier in­ vention than man? How often, when I man abandons the helm in despair, * woman seizes it, and carries the home-ship through the storm! Man often flies from home and family to avoid impending poverty or ruin. Woman seldom, if, ever, forsook home thus. Woman never evaded mere temporal calamity by suicide or desertion. The nroud banker, rather than live to see his poverty gazetted, may blow out his brains and leave wife and children to want, protector- less. Loving woman would have coun­ selled him to accept poverty, and live to cherish his family and retrieve his fortune. Woman should be coun­ selled and confined in. It is the beauty and glory of her nature that it instinctively grasps at and clings to the truth and right. Reason, man's greatest faculty, takes time to hesitate before It de­ cides; but woman's instinct never f hesitates m its decision, and, is I scarcely ever wrong where it has even-^ chances with reason. Woman feels were man thinks, acts where he de­ liberates, hopes where he and triumphs where he falls, -- . i. •> •• The Senator Xlsanilentss& There is a funny story told in tbe Senate of the mistake made by a member of that body at the time of Gen. Anson McCook's marriage, some half-dozen year's ago. Senator Dolph undertook to get up a subscription for a suitable wedding present and offering the paper to one of his col­ leagues who was somewhat deaf, ex­ plained the case and" asked for what amount he might put his name down in the list The Senator from Oregon , was somewhat nonplussed and con­ siderably nettled to meet with a point-blank refusal. The affair was the more inexplicable as the Senator of whom the contribution was de­ sired was known to be a warm per­ sonal friend of Gen. McCook. Later in the day the situation was uncon­ sciously explained by tl o offending Senator, who remarKed t» a group of friends: "What the «deuce do yoif suppose Dolph means? He came to me to-day and after telling me that his cook was about to be married, ac- tually asked me to contribute for a wedding present" -- Kate Field's Washington. • " , • ' The Ifoaemlte Valley. For every hundred persons living west ot; the Mississippi River who • » have seen Saint Peters- Roiae, hardly ten, I think it may safely be jfe, said, have visited the Ypsemite. Two small hotels in the valley are \$fv. ample tor all who may, aVany one .M, time Seek accommodations, ahd oriiiu average two coaches a day during the season will carry all whQ seek cqn- "S , veyance to that place, , of grandeur. • ' One thing is certain; the foreigner ^ * "doing" the United . State* dom omits the losemite; yet many j. I an American tourist traveling in Ca)i- ifi fornia leaves the coast in ignorance i 1 of the wonders and beauties of the * § famous region. On a beautiful Sun- * f day in May out of sixty-five guests at the Stoneman House over forty-five -sf|| were foreigners, most of them on a trip around the world; and that pro- '"""-j portion is not unusual during the season. To the foreign tourist tbe 2 • ? Yosemite ranlp with Niagara; and 'MM from those who have seen the won- ; ders of nature on every continent tbe ^1 verdict seems to be that the Yose ZiM mite stands pre-eminent--t est of alL - •'A \1s tSysV.-'V- - j V - : M n V-..4 ,L „> < J.. v>.'&' ' * , a - "K ' i J*