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Hid stck st h«Mt iMMllim, when royal w)nt« holdi Ha nrtfi When every ekwd in ••rapt from mdr aki«% tool tod Ugh tad hearth are gay nitt lip* and yet more laughing •ad (TOMB root i With iMfttiiaf lip* and yati Vtw hMiritn an echo waadera by That aiak- a a d(«*inl in the Christmas chlme^ A •wilt in th<- dance or talk I alfh Aad Mate half-lonely in theenttl Sonn; times. •Tot often, i We were 1 Uhe flower-crowned May t Shoeld MT fair tprinc a longer sojourn keepT °ssi)xss:srA^9.^mm- • And goMtWj andm*M* home otfrsheaves, s far-faint regret nay aloud our ey*B ^ r-crowned Mar of earth hath soon an <M Thonfhi Sometime*. i* ?• •emettmes f aee a light almost ilillw LT In meetiag eves ot two that now MtW Inpatient of the tears that rise to mine, ' I tarn away to seek some work undone. Therf dawns a look upon wme stranger taw: . I think " How like and y*t how f.ir leal fur r AMI look and look a$rain and seek to tmef •*' A Moant atore your fancied likeness thaw ,4 Sometimes. • •I sadand sweet th<m«hts! O! foolish tiia iegietal Aa vim it wcm, what tim#> June rosfta blow, ffe weep because the first blue* violet Wefoanflltt snrlng has fade J long ajfi. O km. my lore,"if yet by song of bird. By flower scent, by some sac* poet's rhymee If y hen rt, that fain would bp »t peace, is stirred, An I to blame that st:il I eigh sometime*? . 'Sometimes* . i know a paqg of jealous pua V) That while I walk all lonely, other ofti May haply sm»1o to y. u."s that stntfo agaia " "• "i ; Beneath the sun and stars of Southern sfcieat The past is past! but is it sin if yet I, who in calm content would aeek to dwell, . ^ Wba will mot grieve, yet cannot quite forget. Still sanda thought to yot aad wish yoa watt-- Sometimes T • TWO NOVELTIES. rowed Ibe eaptain. Bat it was too late. Th« mighty ship strook A sunken rook, and adjomiei But ohe ma escaped. S«mm to the nearest shorn. This shore wiq the Farallont lRltiids, This mam was Algenon Boggs. * ,* • * . • 4. * • , Months rolled by. To the lonely exile Won the rooMj isle they seemed years. . lie was slowly growing old. His mus­ tache had gwxtwn so he ooald oaloh hold of it. > Where was Miranda thai f « ; • ' * * * One day he ooncluded to go to the Other end of the island. As he toiled painfully over the rooks where the hand oi man "haa never pressed its foot, what did he see? < A TAKE tXF THE CEDENT* - Many years ago there lived a certain 8 Caliph of Bagdad who was a misogynist, and he hated the women with an ex­ ceeding great hatred, so much so that the harem of the commander of the faithful, filled thongh it was with dark- eyed houris, looked ,not upon man's face from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof. For the Caliph said that All the evil which Allah permitted to desolate this fair world was caused by women. And he was wont to say, when ought of evil was brought to his knowl­ edge, " Bring me the woman." Now the Grand Yizier liked it not, for­ asmuch m womankind, to him, was fair to look upon, and he loved them all with an exceeding great affection. And he was wont to seek for incidents and acci­ dents wherein figured not women, wherewith to regale his royal master's ears. And he found them not, and lo ! he was cast down in spirit. But it came to pass a certain day that the Grand Yizier' entered in onto the presence of the Caliph, and he lifted up Lis voice, saying: '*0 mighty Caliph, Buler of the World, King of Kings, Sword of the Faith, Favored of AUah, and of Mo; bammed his Prophet, a hod-carrier has tumbled ofFn a scaffold in the next block, and has busted his cocoanut," " By the beard of the prophet--mash- ellah !" said the Caliph. " Even so, mighty Caliph," said the Vizier; "he is mashed ail up," ; "But what matteth the fall of Artificer to me ?" said the Caliph ; " is he not a Giaour?" " Even so, your highnese--from Yrre- iand ; but there ain't no wotnan in it," th^J^jsier, with an Hi-repressed ohaome/ '• "Dog an<l son of a dog, thou lieet7 lOared the Caliph. " 1 " But there hain't,** aaid the Vizier. *• Bring hither the remains," said the Calipli. " We will inttrrogi»4e them." The remains were brought in on a •faeetcher. . " Son of an unbplieveing mother," «aid the Caliph, " why dost thou thus muss up the streets of Bagdad ? Speak --and truly, Giaour^ or on thy head be A light hotue. And some men. And some boats. After fifteen or ^ Jrersation, it suddenly flashed across Al- •̂ enon's mind that he had been livinor on t̂ an inhabited island. With a ̂ ]̂joy he fell senseless to the ground. He had tumbled. » • » * • * * k All is dazzle and glitter in the Bullion mansion. The fair Miranda, though long she wept her absent lover, had at last yielded to her father's wishes, and had bestowed her hand upon John Gub- ,l)iii8, a prosperous dealer m butter, eggs, dheese. The fairest of San Francisco's fair thronged the mansion of Nob HiU. iThe most renowned eaters of the upper crust were getting their work in. No tnan with any respect for his stomach •Aver eats the under crust. Suddenly a knock was heard. Why did a chill pervade that brilliant gather­ ing? Who can tell? Perhaps it was because they t ad just tackled the ice fcream. " , , ., A stalwart form pushed its way through the throng. It reached the iroom where stood the newly-wedded touple. An arm of iron gripped the bride around the waist; with the other a way was made through the guests. As alie felt herself borne toward the door what did Miranda dot Alas! she kicked. , M11 • f ly wuh me, Miranda?" Algernon passionately murmured, as he bore her toward t he door ; " jonder stands a Cal­ ifornia Street dummy. We will hie us to the wilds of the Western Division, where none dare follow ! Let us " He stopped and trembled. A mortal weakness seized him. His lovely burden Flipped from his grasp. He staggered and fell to the floor. As he did so John Gubbins emerged from the doorway laughing harshly, applied his dreadful weapon to the prostrats man s heed. There waa a shudde ̂.a quiver, sand all was over. John Gubbins had slain him with a Limberger cheese.--Son Francitoo At- qonaui. "O moightv king," aaid the remains, *'ye must know that I was a carrying of •a® hod up the laddhers, and when I ceached the scafforldin' I stopped and ink a look below, and the prettiest cray- thur I ever Be n, w id eyes like sloes, and An iligant ankle. And I followed her wid me eyes, and when she reached the dhree goods store at the corner, she tuned and looked at me, and dropped her veil; and it upset me so, your highness, that I lost me balance and tumbled <y&, and I'm afeard IVe brack •eback." "Slave." mused the Caliph, "life •eemeth dark to thee, but perhaps ifn not black. Hast thou a wife?" , "Divil swan, your highneea," "Go in peace, 0',<JiaourH^fliou art tree, and shouldat l^e happy. I"--and 4he miperable man turned hiajEaoe aside to conceal his emotion. "I have three fcnndred!" A TAM OF THE oocmaon. •} „ , - 4*And you'll always be truet" *' Miranda, I swear it!" • u Truly true ?" f **Fair girl, doubt lhat the atan are but never doubt me, love. Dost thou trust me ?" "Aye, Algernon, trust thee will I for­ ever !" ' " ' '; It waa more than his tailor would have 4otie, but we digress. "And yon, Miranda," said he, "will you be true ? To-morrow I sail far away over the trackless ocean, over the bosom of the broad Pacific, toward the rising nn, toward the cradle of mankind to i Asia!" • | f This Was isot original with Algernon. 1 He had been reading it in a Chronicle editorial, and just slung it in to show he WAS no slouch on style. However, Mi- itada did not know this.] / "When I am far away," he went on, *f mid the temples of antiquity, and the --the--and--and--and--Qh! Mirand! wilt thou then be true ?" •' Algernon," said she, in low yet pas- dtonute tones, as her great, glowing, gor­ geous eyes gleamed through the gloom, "Algernon, I should smile." Algernon pressed the fair girl fondly 1|b his heart; then, as he kiseed her pas- •fcmately, he murmured: "Farewell, my own, my Miranda 1 •must skip." • • • • •- * FACTS FOB THE CURIOUS. THKBK is a bank of coal about two miles from £1 Moro, Col., high np on 4?the mountain north of the town, that has been on fire, for upward of thirty years. A FABtTLotrs story of the manufacture of glass is that the Israelites set fire to a forest, and the heat, becoming in­ tense, made the niter and sand melt and flow along the mountain bide, where it melted as glass. THE solitary wasps sting their victims in such a manner as to pierce the gang­ lia, and thus, without killing them, al­ most deprive them of all power of move­ ment. One species of sphex, which preys on a large grasshopper, after having almost paralyzed her victim in the usual manner, throws it on its back, bends the head so as to extend the ar­ ticulators of the neck, and then, seizing the membrane between the head and the body with her jaws, wrushes the ganglion --a marvelous instinct. THE wild dogs of India ran by nose, and, having made themselves acquainted with sombur or other deer in the valley or jheel of the jangle, they separate and lie in wait at the different passes from the ghat, crouching on the high ground above the paths taken by the deer. One or two of the pack then go around and rouse the sambur, which rushes up hill by one of the many paths. The dog which lies in waiting springs at his vic­ tim and fixes to his tliroat, and the oth­ ers soon run into him. THE curious custom of preserving the tears shed at a funeral is still carried out in Persia as in olden times. The tears are bottled in the following manner : As the mourners are sitting around and weeping the master of ceremonies pre­ sents each with a piece of cotton wool, with which he wipes off his tears. This cotton is afterward squeezed into a bot­ tle, and the tears are preserved as a pow­ erful and efficacious remedy for reviving a dying man after every other means have failed. It is also employed as a eharm against evil influences. A GENTLEMAN had his curiosity aroused, while the trees were covered thickly with ice, as td the relative weight of the ice and wood it surrounded. Bo he cut off a limb and found that it weighed two and three-quarters pounds; after the ice was melted it weighed two ounces. Two hours later another trial was made; at first the limb weighed four and one-haif pounds; after the ice was removed it weighed three ounces. Another trial showed a weight of thirty- | two pounds, while the limb alone weighed two pounds, making thirty ! pounds of ice. A YOUNO man in Danbury, Ct., lost { his arm in.a railroad accident. For I some time thereafter he was serionsly troubled by pains as of the cramping of the fingers and thumb of the missing arm. He felt the pain, although he knew well that there was no arm there. At length the lost arm was exhumed, and it was found that the fingers and | thumb were cramped in just the man- • ner he had described when suffering the : pain. They were put in a comfortable ; position and returned to their grave, ] whereupon the patient was immediately i relieved of the pain, and has suffered no I more with it since. Big Things. The largest deposits of authracite coal in the world are in Pennsylvania. The greatest river in the world is the Mississippi, which is 4,100 miles long. The largest lake in the world is Lake The mighty ship moved out of the : Superior, being ISOmiles long and 1,000 tuurbor. A? she passed, a form might' feetdeep. have been seen hanging over the rail, | gazing with straining eyes at tiie hill where stood the Bullion mansions. It was the form of Algernon Boggs. As he gazed upOn the house which held the font of Jus Miranda, he moaned in Agony. The ship has passed the Golden Gxte. She is out Upon fiie ocean. Still the •am® foun might have been seen hang* illg over the ntf. Still does it moan. "Oh," groaned Algernon, " why did 1 "gi to go to Japan ? ̂ wish I was If I had had any sense I would (MfOM to--E-u-r-o-p-e." Lettwdxaws scene over this painful • • • *. • p "Avart these! Belay your f oksl amid 1 IXaui'tKii yoor studdinsl I" thus BBBWXRS' grains oontain two per cent more water than potatoes. THR bulbs of the tube-rose neve* bloom but once. They require a sandy soil. AT THE present price of improved cat­ tle no farmer can afford to keep scrub stock. POTATOES are surface feeders and re­ quire a liberal, general manuring to insure an abundant crop. IT IS considered by some experi­ menters in feeding, that about one-fifth of ground corn passes through cattle un­ digested. IN CHANGING the, diet of an ox, five days will generally elapse before the remains of the preoeding diet are ex­ pelled by the animal. FLOUR made from Kansas wheat is said to be stronger than that manufac­ tured from wheat raised in the same latitude in other States. JUDGE ALLEN H. WATHODS has a plan­ tation of 2,200 acres on Flint River, G*. The place is worth $50,000, and on that amount will pay 10 per cent, dividend. THYME will grow almost anywhere, but it prefers. a dry, poor soil. It the ground is rich, the plant will grow too luxuriant and lose its aromatic qualities. IN ALL cases a cow should be milked regularly and stripped quite clean. No doubt this has much to do in forming good milking tribes of cattle, by 'en­ couraging the milk-giving organs as t'a?i as possible. THERE are three classes of Yorkshire breeds of pigs--the large, the middle, and the small. This sometimes produces Bome confusion. When persons speak of Yorkshires they should designate to which class they refer. THE autumn-sown grains, both wheat and rye, have deeper roots and a longer period of growth than the spring-sown cereals, and are better able than the lat­ ter to supply themselves with the neces- sarv constituents from the soil. THE superior fattening quality of a pasture, as compared with that of the hay made from it, is clearly due to the fact that on land continuously grazed the animal is fed on young herbage, while hay will always consist of the fully- grown plant. BUTTEB, when worked should never exceed a temperature of sixty degrees, as a higher point causes the butter to gravitate towards stickiness. When worked at too low a point, the butter becomes mealy and the texture is de­ stroyed. BLOOD readily decomposes in the soil, yielding ammonia and nitric acid. Wool and hair decomposes much more slowly, and their effect is spread over many years. Dried blood is an excellent manure for wheat. Wool and hair are sometimes used for hops. ALCOHOLIC fermentation generated in the roots of apple trees has been found by Dr. Van Tieghem to be often the cause of disease in such trees. As the roots do not sometimes receive enough of oxygen in wet weather, drainage is the remedy recommended. HUMANE societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals are either a most en­ couraging element iu our civilization, or else evidences of the relics of barbarism. If there were no barbarism there would be no crtelty, and if no cruelty the necessity for humane societies would not exist. IF THOSE farmers whose farms are soils underlaid with clay would sell one- quarter or one half of their land and put the proceeds into the judicious thorough tile drainage of the rest, they would make more money from the one-half of the original farm under improvement than they now do from the whole area. A CUBIC foot of ensilage weighs from forty to fifty pounds, and a daily ration for a cow is fifty to sixty pounds. One and a half cubic feet makes a cow's ration for a day. A silo ten feet deep, ten feet wide and ten feet long, will hold ensilage sufficient for two cows for three hundred and thirty-three days, or for four cows for half the year. ON THE Island of Jersey cows with white horns are not looked upon with favor. The yellow horn, tipped with black, is considered a much richer milker than the white horn; while the crumpled horn is there now, as it was nearly a century ago, a favorite form. This latter is a short horn, turning in a curve across the head to near its centre, drooping somewhat from base to tip. YOUNO grass is much richer in nitro­ genous substances, also in fat, and con­ tains a smaller propor tion of indigesti­ ble fibre than older grass, and is conse­ quently more nourishing. The same comparison may be made between young clover and that which is allowed to ma­ ture for hay. Hay should always be cut as soon as full bloom is reached, since after this point the quality of the crop will materially deteriorate. A LARGE part of the demerits of plant food contained in soil is present in such a condition that plants are unable to make use of it. A soil may contain many thousand pounds of phosphoric acid oy of nitro-ren and yet be in poor condition. One of the agricultural problems of the future will be to leara the exact sub­ stance to applv to soils for the purpose of liberating the elements of plant food locked up, or unavailable. A WOOL and wheat-grower say*: " It is my belief that the real reason why our wheat crops only yield half as much as the English crop is, that in England farmers utilize sheep as grain-growers, while we only consider them wool and mutton-makers. I have even heard UP essay on 'Sheep as the Scavengers of the Farm,' meaning probably pickers up of nn considered trifles in the form of weeds. Now, though I object entirely to sheep being graded as scavengers, I, with admirable inconsistency, admire them greatly in the office of dung-car- riers, that is, feeding on heavy lands, or on crops which cannot be profitably used in some other way. Sheep fed npou linseed or cottoo-seed-meal will distrib­ ute the elements of fertilization con­ tained in these feeds which they do not economize, and deposit them where the wheat was wanted to grow. SALT FOB $HBBP.---Salt will be taken with avidity by sheep while on grass. Where arrangements can be mane, it will be found convenient to have salt in little troughs at different points about the sleeping grounds. These should be so sheltered as to be protected from raii^ and elevated so that the sheep can get at them only with their heads. They will soon learn to visit these troughs wheu desiring salt, and if allowed con­ stant access to them, are in no danger of taking too much. The more common custom is to distribute salt at regular intervals over the ground, on or near the range, whence it will be taken up a few minutes after being found. Under these circunibtances it hhould be given often enough to avoid restlessness in the flock on the approach of the sheperd, and so scattered as to allow every animal ready access. Intervals of five davs have been of his sorrtmndlay. .gBme experienced sheperds mix sulpher iS • small quantity with salt, thoogn the majority do not use it. A GREEN MAKUBWO PRJANT.--As the subject of recuperating! the soil now ranks among the foremost with the cul­ tivators, and is oun whi^h is constantly reaching for the aid of scientific research, any suggestions or opinions bearing upon tne same are generally accorded a large share of attention. We give be­ low an extract from a jpaper by C. E. Thome, connected with the Ohio State Utliversitv : For several years I have noticed that some thrifts plants of Mel- lotus alba were the sole! occupants of a plot ot clay subsoil as bird as the floor of a brick-yard, from which the surface had been washed away, hut the peculiar significance of "this habit was not im­ pressed upon me until during a recent drive over a newly mad^road, I saw this same plant growing upoh the bare clay of the road-side, whence the soil had been scraped in making the road-side, and where even white clover was making but a scant living although the melilot was already as tall as the red clover on the fertile soil of the neighl>oring field. The plant--otherwise knpwn as Bokhara or sweet-scented clovei--has become naturalized here at a comparatively re­ cent date, but has long beeu known as a forage plant both for caitle and bees, being well adapted for soiling, as it makes a growth of four to six feet dur­ ing the season and it is said to bear two or three cuttings; while ite sweet-scented blossoms afford a favorite pasture for the honey gatherers. Tho German anal­ ysis gives to its hay a feeding value of 815 per ton, against $115.28 for "very good " red clover hay, while its habit of growth is such that I should expect it to yield a much heavier crop than red clo­ ver. But without discussing the value of the melilot as a foliage plant, tli9 ob­ servations I have noted indicate that we may possibly find in it a counterpart of the Southern cowpen as a recuperator of exhausted soils, and at the same time find it better adapted to our climate and circumstances than the cowpen. As it grows much more rapidly than red clo­ ver, whether from the seed or from the root, and seems to thrive so well on ster­ ile soils, apparently ('rowing by prefer­ ence in such places, it would Seem well worthy of trial as a green-manuriug crop, A further reason for a more gen­ eral examination of the merits of the melilot than has yet been made in this couutry, is the probable failure of the red clover from the depredations of the European olover beetle, which according to the statements of Professor Barnard, in the report of the Cornell University Experiment Station, is already threaten­ ing the total destruction of that crop in some sections of New York. „ ' : rv HOUSEHOLD HELPS. The largest valley in the world is the Valley of the Mississippi. It contains 500,000 square miles. The greatest cave in the world is the Mammoth cave in Kentucky, which contains a navigable lake abounding in eyeless fish. The greatest mass of solid iron in the world is the great Iron mountain in Mis­ souri. It is 350 feet high and two miles in circuit. The greatest cataract in the world is the Falls of Niagara, which plunges over the rocks in two columns to the depth ot 170 feet each. The greatest natural bridge in the world is the natural bridge over Cedar creek in Virginia. It extends across a j found quite satisfactory, though the chasm eighty feet in wiMll, md i aheperd should be guided in this, as in in depth. ̂̂ J details, by <h! appsnntlaftoeisity {Front the Detroit Frea Preta Household.] OYSTER OMELETS.--Take four oysters parboiled, chop up and cook the same as the omelet. CHEESE OMELETS.--Grate two ounces of new cheese and roll the same inside while the omelet is cooking. TOMATO OMELETS.--These may be made by placing two tSblespoonfuls of tomatoes in the pan before rolling the omelets. Mifrr SAUCE.--Mix aao tablespoonful of white sugar to half a teacup of good vinegar ; add the mint and let infuse for half an hour before sending to the table. Serve with roast lamb or mutton. EGG SAUCE.--Take yolks of two eggs boiled hard; mash them with a table- spoonful of mustard, a little pepper and suit, three tablespoonfuls of Vinegar and three of salad oil. A tablespoonful of catsup improves this for some. This sauce is very nice for boiled fish. FISH SAUCE.--One-quarter of a pound of fresh butter, one tablespoonful of finely chopped parsley, a little salt and pepper and the juice of two lemons. Cream the butter; mix all well together, adding at the least a teaspoonful of mayonnaise. Less lemon juice may be used if preferredJ LEMON ICE CREAM.--This is made with the same proportion of cream and sugar and one lemon; grate the lemon rind into the sugar ; this extracts the oil; then add the juice and the raw cream; strain and freeze immediately. Lemon cream sours more quickly than any other. % WHITE CANDT.--Take one quart of granulated sugar, one pint of ^atqr,' two tablespoonfuls of vinegar; boil 9s you do molasses candy, but do not stir it. You can tell when it is done by trying it in cold water. Pull it; have a dish near by yitli some vanilla in it, and work in enough to flavor it as you pull; put in a cold room and the next day you will have delicious candy. VANILLA ICE CREAM.--One quart of cream, half a pound of sugar, granu­ lated, half a vanilla bean. Boil half the cream with the sugar and bean, then add the rest of the cream ; cool and strain it. If extract of vanilla, or any other ex­ tract, is used, do not boil it, but put it in the cream with the sugar and freeze. Make it strong with the flavoring, as it loses strength by freezing. STKWED LAMB WITH GREEN PEAS.-- 1 Take two pounds of lamb, put it into a stew-pan and cover With cold water ; af­ ter removing the scum add a little pep­ per and salt, then let the meat stew for an hour and a half or nearly two hours; now add some boiling water (to make gravy ) ; add your green peas (half a peck before shelling) ; let these cook about twenty minutes ; stir up a tablespoonful of flour into half a cup of milk and mix with the stew. Let this cook two min­ utes. HINTS ABOUT OMELBTS.--A great mis­ take made in the kitbhen by servants who are left to do the cooking, is too much haste. Now in making an omelet, if you wish it light and delicious, beat the white of two eggs and yolks sepa­ rate, and than together ; salt and pep­ per ; add a little cream or pure milk with a small lump of butter or lard in a hot pan; pom it in; with your knife raise and roll by canting your frying pan, and by turning it over you place the.omelet on the dish for the table whole. The XalarU Pnzile, The people both in town and country are becoming more and more puzzled over the definition of malaria and the results of its effects on public health. When it was an emanation that declared itself in the so* of the Lombardo-Vene- tian plains, it took the form of an inter­ mittent fever and assumed that guise in whatever locality it appeared. It is only of late year.s that it has assumed a variety of shapes, and is now spreading itseif insiduously in all localities, and is mainly traceable to emanations from badly ventilated sewers, and even from soils that have no connection whatever with the marsh miasma to which its prolonged debilitating effects were once attributable. Indeed it lias assumed so many complexions that even the shrewd­ est pathologists are unable to trace it to its origin or to devise means for its ex­ clusion, or to prescribe methods for the relief of its consequences.--Exchange. A WOMAN at Lebanon, Pa., 84 years, is insured for $164,000 on the speculative plan; . MB. BRAMI has made a number of ex­ periments on animals with pure hydro- ciaaic acid, and reports that the flesh of those killed with it remained unaffected by decomposition about a month. He found also that in separating the acid from the tissues by distillation that it was more readily accomplished in cases of herbivorous than of carnivorous ani­ mals. IN A letter to the Lancet, Dr.' A. Paggi records the following observation : He states that in Paris he saw a case in which,, under the inhalation of chloro­ form. tho heart ceased tb beat, and arti­ ficial respiration for ten minutes failed to restore circulation, when Dr. Labbe dipped a large cloth in boiling water and applied it to the region of the heart, with the result of immediately restoring the action of that organ. A FRENCHMAN has devised a method Of Converting iron into steel and at the same time producing illuminating gas. The iron is placed in a retort with char­ coal or coke in layers; and is heated to 1,650 degrees Fahrenheit. Fatty mat­ ters are then injected, and as soon as de­ composition has taken place a jet of dry steam is passed over the incandescent mass. The iron is thus changed into steel, while carburetted hydrogen' is given off from the retort., THE lead used in sounding from A ves­ sel usually weighs about fourteen pounds, but in aeep-sea soundings a weight of not less than 150 pounds is frequently employed. Wire has been largely used for a line, as it makes less friction in sinking through ttie water. With hemp rope a sinker of 300 weight is sometimes twenty minutes in reaching the bottom in 1,500 fathoms of water, so great is the friction of the line. PBOFESSOB IRA RB:MSEN, of John Hop­ kins University, has been investigating the question whether or not cast-iron stoves allow deleterious gases to escape, and the result vindicates tho stoves. The professor finds that carbonic oxide, the gas generally thought to be emitted, does not pass through red-hot cast-iron even if it is not more than an eighth of an inch thick; and he says, moreover, that after careful examination he did not find, in any instance, hurtful gas given out by a well-made furnace. M»- MAXIM, inventor of one of the electric lights, ridicules the idea that there is danger to either life or property from the use of that light, and says he is ready at any time to take the shock from any number of the largest machines. While lightning will jump through two miles of air and forty feet of solid rock, he asserts that no dynamo machine used for the electric light in this coun­ try will make a current of sufficient strength to jump through the one-hun- dretli part of an inch of either air or stone. G. H. DARWIN has been trying to esti­ mate the stresses caused in the interior of the earth by the weight of continents and mountains, and concludes that either the materials of the earth at 1,000 miles from the surface have about the strength of granite or that they have a much greater strength nearer to the surface. He confirms Sir William Thomson's theory that the earth must be solid nearly throughout its whole mass, and he attributes the lava of volcanoes to the melting of solid rock, which exist at high temperatures, at points where the pressure is diminished, or to the existence of comparatively small vesicles of molten rock. • • 1, ' The Natfre Esquimaux. Tile Esquimaux generally are a good- ;sh lot of poor devils as far as deposition is concerned, their good nawe appar­ ently beginning wirh boyhood. A short time since a canoe was alongside in whi'.:h lay a baby enveloped in furs, itl tiny hands protruding and holding a piece of blubber, which it sucked with apparent relish. It was quick to feel itself an object of attraction, and its chubby face returned any number of smiles of recognition, alternating with occasional blinks caused by the falling snow. Something of the artistic instinct also crops out in their disposition, as may be witnessed from rude carvings of ivory and attempts at delineation. At St. Michael's an Esquimaux boy who has never had any instruction draws ex­ tremely well. They have music pecul­ iar to themselves, and are devotedly fond of dancing, which is done entirely by the women, who, being stripped to the waist for the occasion, are more decollette than our women at the " ger- mans." The men are spectators. It is much to be regretted that they are not more cleanly in their persons and habits. If an enterprising ento­ mologist were so inclined it would be quite possible for him to supplement the paper to the Royal Society, made some years ago, on the "Ethnological Classi­ fication of Vermin," and "Ouida" might find material which, if worked up, would surpass in disgustfulness the flea epic mentioned in " Moths." As a trader the Esquimaux is a regu­ lar Shylock. He will haggle about the slightest matter. in making a bargain, although bartering for 10 cents' worth of tobacco a skip that could not be got for as many dollars in New York. Oc­ casionally one or two are met with not so unsophisticated. A«chap on the Si­ berian coast having a quantity of furs to dispose of, being offered some trifling thing, exclaimed (using a phrase un­ mentionable to ears polite), " those skiiuftare worth $10 down in San Fran­ cisco." Another fellow said he had been to California on a whaler, and be­ ing asked his name said it was " Shoo Fly." In physiognomy this race has many of the Mongolian peculiarities, vet the type varies. In the vicinity of East eape a few are to be seen having dis tinctive Hebrew noses, others of a more Milesian cast of features look like Irish­ men, while one old fellow was found the very image of the proprietor of Worm- ley's Hotel, in Washington. Physically they are far behind the Anglo-Saxon, if the writer may be allowed to regard himself as a standard of comparison. They are wanting in biceps, cannot swim, stand on their heads nor turn somersaults. A few gymnastic tricks fill them with admiration and astonish­ ment.--Lieut, Reynolds. The Cabbage Pest. • •• The imported cabbage worm has oome to stay. His first summer on Long island showed the natives that he was capable of advancing the price of cab­ bage--$500,000 worth was destroyed in one season in the suburbs of New York. He has followed the tide of civilization and gone West. The problem now is, what will kill the worm and not injure the cabbage? We would suggest that the deliverance must come by prevent­ ing the moth from laying the eggs on the cabbage. We have suggested to our neighbors to try tying newspapers, or sacking, or netting of any kind, over the cabbage plants during the preva­ lence of the moth ; when it disappears the covering to be removed. Few of all the remedies so far named have given satisfaction. Prof. C. V. Riley, always practical and intelligent, suggests the use of pyrethrum. He first tried it in 1879, but did not recommend it thatyiir. as he wished to test it further. He has made teste, and caused tests to be made by agents, and the general experience has been most favorable. He unhesi­ tatingly recommends pyrethrum for all the different worms that infest the cab­ bage plants. Prof. A. J. Cook, of Lans­ ing, Mich., says he tried bi-sulphide of carbon as a weapon against these pests. It had been successfully employed in fighting the phyiloxera in France, which suggested its use here. He made a small hole close to the plant, three or four inches deep, and turned into it about a half teaspoonful of liquid, then quickly filled the hole with earth and packed by stepping on it. The same experiment was tried for the squash- borer with gratifying success. He thinks the bi-sulphide of carbon would prove effective in fighting the peach-tree borer and the radish and onion z Exchange. maggots.- 6EHS OF FHOUTTFTR. is the thirst of youth.--Jfoyon. NOTHING is so good as it seems before- hanfi. : 'IN &OT, as in chess, forethought wins. GOODNESS thinks no ill where no ill seems. _ •.. ; THE iove o£ demo<araey is thai of equality* ^ •' „ ' ' • >'"• " • • . LITERATURE is' ;the immortality of speech. ' GRIEF halloWs hearts, even while it ages heads. THERE is something sublime in oalm endurance. # \ JUSTICE delayed is justioi Gladstone. ! GOOD actions ennoble us, and we'aatf the sons of our deeds. HYPOCRISY admits the worth of what it mimics with such care. NOTHING can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeaL THE stateliest building man can raise is the ivy's food at last.--Dickens. THE earliest and the longest has still the mastery over us.--George Eliot. CIRCUMSTANCES are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. t A TALENT is perfected in solitude; A character in the streams of the world.'-- Goethe. ' To REMIND a man' of a kindness con­ ferred is little less than a reproach.--- Demosthenes. KNOWLEDGE once gained casts a faint light beyond its own immediate bound* aries.--Tyndal. LEARN to say no! and it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin. --Spurgeon. KNOWLEDGE dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; wisdom, iu minds attentive to xheir own. ONE of the mistakes in the conduct of human life is to suppose that other men's opinions are to make us happy. SILENCE is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from im­ pertinence, vulgarity or envy. THE pathway of progress will still, as of old, bear the traces of martyrdom, but the advance is inevitable. GREAT designs are not accomplished without enthusiasm of some sort It is the inspiration of everything great. GIVE to a gracious message a host oi tongues, but let ill tidings tell them­ selves when they be felt.--Shakespeare. AN IRRITABLE man lies like a hedge-hog rolled up the wrong way, tormenting himself with his own prickles.--Hood. WE JUDGE ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.--Long­ fellow. FORTUNES made in' no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.--Douglas Jerrold. ADMIRATION and love are like being intoxicated with champagne ; judgment and friendship like being enlivened.-- Johnson. IN FAMILIES well ordered, there is al­ ways one firm, sweet temper, which con­ trols without seeming to dictate.--Lord Lytton. , POETRY is the sister of sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse and every heart a poem. SINCE Time is not A person we can overtake when he is gone, let ns honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.--Goethe. THAT virtue which requires ever to be guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel.' --Goldsmith. 'Tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home. --Shakespeare. THE best part of woman's love is wor­ ship ; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious spikenard re­ jected, and her long tresses, too, that were let fall, ready to soothe the wearied feet.--George Eliot. " : « HfWrc Mft'tfcat*'8?' 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It is this last fact which we commend to the consideration of capitalists upon the eve of embarking in Mexican gold mining ventures with the expectation of finding there the greatest gold mines in the world, upon the speci­ ous statements of unscrupulous specula­ tors and their venal scribblers of the press.--Mining Record. ^ "THE hen is a frugal housekeeper," said the old Dominique; " she finds her nest and then she makes her own spreads." "And the chicks have to shell out before she scratches a single worm for them," said the Bantam. " Yes indeedy," said the Dominique; "the chick comes down the first thing." " He has to," said the Spangle, "feather or no." "How can the hen make him come down ?" asked the April chicken, who was just too fresh for anything. " Son," said the Spanish cock, solemnly " I cannot tell a lie ; she did it With her little hatch it."--Burlington Hawk" eye. 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