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Hui-rs ou l’LANnxo Canonâ€"One hed better buy the few plum. he will require for the early crop than “tempt to raise them from seed, unless he bu hot bedl or ahooeel to raise the plants for the pleasure of growing them. The Ibould be let in the ground about the 20: of April. Winter cabbage: can be raised from seed sown in open ground between the 10th and 20th of June. Tm: Balmâ€"It requires a deep, sandy loam ; should be sown as early as the ground is in good working order, and the plants as soon as Well up, should be thinned to eight or ten inches apart for the early crop. Sow- ing for the winter crop should be about July 1st or a little earlier. Less thinning will be proper than for the early crop. Four to five inches will be narrow enough. The ear- ly Bastian and Dewinq’s earl turnip are standards for both early an late trops. Beet tops used as greens are by many pre- fc rred to dandelion or spinach ; the Swiss chard or silver beet is grown entirely for this purpose. It sends out fresh sprouts continuously during the season, no matter how often cut ofl‘. T1111 TOMATO â€"â€"‘l‘omato plants should be let out about the first of June; the dground should have been made vergv rich. and if it' 15 :e‘fit free from Weeds no urther attention he required. J uet before front the vine max be taken up with all the earth that can ep t adhering to the root, and transfer red top the cellar, where all the full grown tomatoes not already picked will ripen. I'ou: on RUNNING Baneâ€"These cannot be plented until eettled, mild weather. any from the 20th of May until the let of June. Four plnnte in a hill, with hills four feet npnrt etch way, is as close as they should be grown. as they require plenty of light and sir. Lime: and moves being very tender should not be planted before June let, For Ihell beans, the best kinds are large white lime, and pole horticultural. Either the black wax pole or Indian chief is an excel- lent snap or string bean. The dwarf kinda nre far superior for the latter use to the pole The grasses, for convenience, may be ranged in twa general divisions. The first division comprises all the true grasses or plants with long,‘ simple, narrow leaves and -s .1 LA -L- L“-.. mk:nL ‘Inm~v -. -_ .._.o a long sheath odivided to the base which seems gto clasp the stem; or, rather, through which the stsn} appears to pass. ' The artificial greases are mostly legnmin- one plants with a. few stems which are culti- vated and used like the grasses, although they do not properly belong to that family. The eleven: of all varieties, the alfalfa, etc., belong to this letter class. |,_ “he “A; In general, grasses ought to be out not long after the time of flowering, for although there is a great deal of' nourishment in the ripe seed, it is hardly enou h to make up for the loss in the stalks an leaves, which are most valuable before the soluble materials, such as starch, gum and sugar, are_gra_dually changed into vioody fiber. A___L The best known remedy for the cur-rant worm, which infests both currant and goose- berry busheq, is said to be white hellebore. Now, white hellebore isan altogethervdifl‘er- ent drug from black hellehore, so remember and use the former. The cheapest and easi- est mode of application is to mix the helle- bore in water. Place a heaping tablespoon- ful of the powder in a dish ; and gradually a quart oi boiling water, stirring all the while to make certain that the hellebore is thoroughly saturated. Turn this mixture into a pailful of cold water, stir well and apply with a garden syringe or ordinary watering pot. The obiect is to wet every leaf ; make two applications, a few days apart. While white helleboro is poisonous, there is little or no danger from its use, as above directed. The chances are that before the fruit is ripe enough to eat the rains will have washed 03‘ all traces of the hellebore, and should any remain on the clusters the fruit will present a soiled appearance and be rejected in con- sequence. )Jnsiderabie heat in fermenting manure may kill most of the weed seeds in it, but it also and always impairs the value of the manure. Strawberries do not anymore seem to bring the large prices of former years, says the Orchard and Garden. \Ve must econo- mise someway. But the attempt to save in the manure account is like trying to make the dairy business pay by withholding the grain rations from the cows. High cultiva tion and high feeding is the only thing that can make strawberry culture profitable in a dull market. in it. The composting of conraemenure, even for a period of one or two years, will not gieetroy the vitality of half the weed seeds An English strawberry grower uses oil meal and woodashes spread about. the plants and worked into the soil, and recommends it as a clean fertilizer for strawberries. No weeds in that manure. Nous. Prune any time the weather is fit and keep the knife sharp. For fertilizing purposes there is no more valuable form of potash than wood ashes. Be sure and phat good seed potatoes even if the need be coat‘y.g But do not plant too may moron. Good rosds are the most obvious marks of advanced oivilizstion, and are essential to general prosperity. The hen that is active, scratches vigorous- ly, and seems anxious to be always so sreh- ing for food, is usually the one that is a good layer. Dwarf pears and cherries often yield a ood crop the second year after plsntiu . nt for the after good of the trees such ear y bearing, in large quantities, should be dis- coursged. Sow more clover. Sow it with the spring rsin where you do not intend to lay the gold down for mowing. Clover will smoth- er other weeds that would otherwise mature their seeds with the groin, sud will make is good crop to plough in. Beens like a dry and rather light soil, though they will do well in any garden call if not planted too early in the spring. Dwnrfa are earliest and most hardy, an n generel rule. In garden culture been: ere generelly pleated in rows, 18 inchee npnrt, end 3 inches nput in the row ; in field cul- CLASSIFICATION oxr Gnassns. STRAWBERRY CULTURE. FARM. ture ln drllle wlder «put. so u to cultivate with bone one way. Rvnnlng beans are planted [11 bills twa or three feet spat. The Poultry Record gives this method of liming eg a for long keeping: To one inc of salt. ans one pint. of fresh lime add our ellous of boilin water. When cold put it, 11 stone jars. ' 'hen with a dish let your fresh eggs into it, tipping the dl~h after it fills with the fluid, so they will roll out without cracking the shell, for if the shell be cracked the egg will spoil. Put the eggs in whenever {on have them fresh, keep cov- ered in e coo place and they will keep fresh for a year. Keep your cows comfortably housed Keep salt before them at all times. See that they get all the water they want at least twice a day. Water warmed to 55 at 60 deg will save feed and increase tho milk supply. Feed regularly both as to time and quantity. Mild regularly and with no un- due haste or rudeness. Strain the' milk away as soon as possible in a cool place. Skim after about twenty-four hours, and put the cream in a moderately.warm place to sour ; stir thoroughly three or four times a day. Churn at 60 deg. The farmers in the Eastern State; are ap- plying themselves more and more to dairy- ing. According to the third volume, just issued.ofthe hdassachusette census.taken in 1885, that State produced in that year agricultural products of the value of 347,- 750,000 Hay is an important crop. Be- tween 1875 and 1885 the quantitv of milk produced rosefron130,698.l59to 72 528 728 gallons, very nearly doubling. Tne pm- duetion of butter in the same period increas- ed nearly 2,000 000 pounds. The egg crop was more than doubled between 1675 and 1885. The increased attention given to fruits is a marked feature in the change. The apple crop of 1885 was nearly 1,300 - 000 bushels greater than that of 1875, while the product of cranberries more than doubled. The grain farmer, says an agricultural writer, no matter how few his acres. can make money by keeping a few sheep. There is always room for them somewhere, and they consume and turn into money food that otherwise would be wasted. To illustrate: suppose a farmer cultivates only eighty acres, raising grain chiefly. He keeps a few cows, and the necessary teams. One fifth of his farm is in pasture, one fifth meadow, one gianted, one spring grain, and one wheat. e thinks he has as much stock as he can profitably keep. but if he puts one sheep to every five acres, he will find their products clear gain. In the spring early they can run on the sod which is to be planted, and will not hurt the land, but will live well. After that they can go into the pasture, and will glean after the cows to advantage. A run on the stubbles after harvest will not be felt, and in the fall there is plenty of feed. And through the winter they can be kept on what the other stock would not consume, with the addition of a little grain. A Beer’s Curious Misadventure. A correspondent writes the F ield as follows from Stackpole, Pembrokeshire : Some of your readers may be interested to hear of a curious misadventure which happened to a deer at this place a few days ago. Early one morning the herd of deer were noticed to be verv much disturbedâ€"â€" staring about them and occasionally darting off in all directions, taking refuge in wood and water, several swimming'across the lake which bounds the park on one sideâ€" in fact ratherreminding oneoi the herdof swtne, etc. Buttue evilspirit in this case was one of their comrades in sore distress. He had been rambling about the keeper's house the night before and had got entangled in a children's swing. consisting of a wooden seat, measur- ing l9 inches by 9 inches, and a sufficient length of rope to fasten it securely to one of his horns. \Vith this acquisition he careered about the park, and evidently appeared as- tonished that his associates should look upon him with such awe. Keepers were sent out to try to secure and liberate him; but he managed to evade them by hiding between a fallen tree and a pigsty wall. In this se- cluded spot he remained until early next morning, when he was discovered and pursuit recommenced. He went awav as if mad, jumping a park-gate 5 feet 9 inches highâ€" haudicapped. remember. with 5 lbs. of lum- her about his head ; making for the village, he was headed and turned back into the park which he crossed, and then went straight at the boundary wall, 6 feet high, which he cleared I After swimming another lake he was overtaken, and finally shot, in au exhausted and much-bruised state. They are telling a little story on the street about a well-known reil estate mm of con- siderable means who is a. little careless in his business habits and has allowed 1- large number of unpaid hills to accumulate in var- ious parts of the city. The other day he took it into his head that he would have a new will dmwn up, and to that end he sum- moned a legal friend who was acquainted with his little p acnlinrity. The liwyer put down the impo=ing clmse, “ In the nmie of God, Amen, I â€", being of sound and disposing mind," etc. Then he looked up all t_he_real osmte man. u c,,,; LL_L _ “ I desire, said the latter, "first, that al|__t_ny just debts qhal] 1}? Paid. ‘ j The lawyer “trot-e, laid down his pen and asked him to sign. “But. I hwen’r. finished yet,” said the astonished real 0mm man. ,, _ “ Oh. yea, you have.” repliei the lawyer. “ That‘s all that's necessary. By the time that. desire is compliel with your estate will be taken care of.‘ The Danish Exhibition at South Kensing- ton, London. will, it is expected, be inaug- urated on the 14 inst. In order to be in keeping with the verbal atrocities of the “Fisheries," the “ Healtheries," the “ Col- inderies,” and the “Inventories.” this is to be called the “ Daneries," and the Italian ex- hibition tho “R1manaies.” By the way. what will they call the Irish exhibition, which opens on the 4th of June?â€"[ Maia. Anatole (to De Jones, who has been trying to make himself understood in bill-of-fare Frommâ€""If ze gentleman will talk 29 language vot he was born in I vill very mooch better undetatooq." luvvvu v u. ‘v- _.._v_ Mr. DeJones (to f_iiéfid)-â€"“Ql1eer. ain't it, how soon those Frenchman forget their own lingo when may get over here t”â€"-[Puok. llis Will Was a Short One. Very Forgetful. Undecided. The Perilous Experience eta Party of Dar- \ in: English Boys. ‘ Eleven boys, ranging in age from 11 to H years, hada most extraordinary adventure on tho beach at Seaham Harbor England, recently. At the south side of the town there is a rock pro'ecting from the mainland known as Nose Point, on the top of which is built the Vane and Seaham blast furnaces. Underneath isa large cavern, locally known as the “ Smugglers' Cave," which, at high tide, is filled by the sea. Among the boys referred to the exploration of this cave and the unearthing of treasure of seine buc- oa- neer of the past had long been an object to be accomplished. and adetermination was at last come to carry out the project at the first fitting 0 portunity. A certain atnrday was fixed upon for the day of search, and they started off. head- ed by a trusty leader, and provided with candles. lanterns, torches, a pick, and sho- vel. Entering the cavern at low water. they commenced work. and soon were so in- tent upon the object of their labors that they never heeded the turn of the tide, and it was only when they found escape from the save by the way they had entered impossible that they realized their position. The wa- ter drove them further and further back into the cave, until at length they found it impossible to recede further. To avoid the rise of the water several of the boys climbed as high up the walls of the cave as possible. Others had no alternative but to stand grassed up against the end of the cavern an allow the water to gradually creep n upon them. Higher and higher rose the water, and deeper and deeper the lads became immers- ed, until some of them werepovered up to the shoulders. They all managed, however, to kee erect, notwithstanding their weakened, congition, produced by shouting for help and numbness from being compelled to stand in the water. Now and then a broken wave would dash in among them, rendering their position still more perilous. Moreover, the cave was nearly dark, all the lads’ lights hav. ing beenput out except one, which had escap ed the wash of the waves and continued to give forth its feeble illumination. One of the boys at last, from sheer wantof strength, was washed from his holding ; but soon nncther lad standingnear groped in the dark, and , with nothing but the cries of his com- rade to guide him, succeeded in restoring him to his feet. In the mean time the lads had been miss- ed from their homes, and their continued absence caused inquiries to be made. This resulted in their whereabouts becoming known. A rumor then got abroad that all the boys had been drowned, and soon farth- ers, mothers, brothers, sisters, and a large body of other men, women, and children rushed off in eager haste to the top of the cliff. There was no way of reaching them from the shore, nor was there any possibili- ty of going down the precipitous face of the cliff with ropes. Nothing could therefore be done by the hundreds of people who had collected but to wait until the fall of the tide would admit of access to the cave from the shore. Meanwhile the imprisoned boys passed a terrible time ; but just when they thought the worst had come the water stop- ped rising. Slowly the water left the cave. and in ashort time they felt themselves in comparative safety. although in darkness. It was however,10§ o’clock at night before they were rescued. Gambctta’s Dog. Some ten years ago, M. Gambetta was re- turning from Paris to his home in Nâ€"â€". He was in his buggy. The night was very dark. He went very slowly, for he could not see his horse’s head. Suridenly, his horse reared. A man who wes lying on the road had felt the horse's nose touch his face, and had started up. As soon as Gambette saw what had occurred, he said : IMPRISONED BY THE TIDE. “ You stupid fellow ! You came within an ace of being killed. ” “ I wish I had been.” “ Why so 1" “ 1 am a poor workman. M y master told me to go to Nâ€"â€" to collect a bill of tw0 hundred francs. I was paid in gold. I put the money in my pocket, I did not know there was a hole in it. All the gold has fallen out. I cannot hope to recover it again in this darkness.” “ Have you one coin left 2" “ Yes, here is the only one left me.” Gambetta untied his pointer that was underneath the buggy, held the coin to his nose, and said : “ Go fetch. Tom." Off Tom bounded, and every minute came back with a lom’s d'or in his mouth. In half an hour the workman had all his money again. His master was so well pleased that the next day he bought Tom a new collar, and had the date of the incident engraved on it. An Archdnkc's Narrow Escape. Tnere was a tremendous fall of rocks the other day upon the railway line between Vienna and Trieste, near Gratz, end there was just time to stop the express which was then due and in which the Archduke Otto was a passenger. 1f the rocks hsd come down five minutes later the train must have been lost. and the disaster would have led to important results, for the Archduke Otto, failing the Crown Prince Rudolph, who has no sons, is the next heir to the throne of Austria} The sweating system in London produces fearful to no. Mr. Lakeman, one of the Factory napectora, met. a woman in the East End working for sixteen hours a day m iking waistcoat button-holes at. the rate of five for twopence. In fur-cape makings woman said : “ I work from Srto 8,_and earn five shillings a week, sometimes less ‘ I have nothing to do for six month "n the ear." In the East End. and ewm wan-a] ndon. {or the lowest class of n--» . mirte. sold wholesale at eleven shillings u (ii-zen and retoiled at thirteen shillings and sixpeuce, the worker's remuneration is one shilling s dozen by machine work and threepenoe n dczen for buttonholes and buttons. A women by close application: may nuke a dozen shirts a day, and thus painfully earn slx ehillingsn week: the finisher must be content with three shillings. lint worse even then all this is the “2.“. paid for the making of a gross 0i match-boxes. Tne expeditions worker in this line can only turn out three thousand boxes a week by labouring sixteen hours a day, and can thus earn the magnificent wage of four shillings nweek. Is there no work for the large- ‘sonled emsnoi etionist end anti-slavery Lphilsnthropist ere? We tether think no. Some day, when you are down by the son, take a long steady look at one of the Nova Sootla cont captains. lie in a “plain in this can), because he ls owner, couunulder and crew of a cut-boatâ€"a croft used by fishing and exournlou parties. You will find a crowd of these men and boats at Tor Bay, Whitehead, and v other points, and in ybhe past five years not a Iinglelife has in the past five years not a singlelife has been lost from one of this fleet of boats. There are young men as well as old. but on will find them all hroezed and weather- eaten, grim, silent, noiturn. Some faoee can be read. Theae cannot. You will no- tice, if you look keenly. that there is a shade of anxiety over all. It is there by rights. These men study the skyâ€" the clouds, the set of the wind, the ruin up and the going down of the sun. Their oily life in a combat with treacherous currents, insatiable tidesâ€"the fierce demon who lurks at the batten o! the see and reaches up to pull down his victims. Do you wonder, then, that they are grim and silent? 1).) you wonder that their bronzed faces Wear a hunted look, and that their lips sometimes move an if whispering to themselves : “_ l_t_may come _to-t_norro_w .!" In summer they are captains and masters. In winter they are handed into life-saving crews. It is perilâ€"alway speril. You hear rhythm in the lap I lap ! lap 1 of the waves against the sandy beach. They hear a men- ace. To you on the sands a change of wind is nothing. To these men it may mean the clutch of death. A barrel goes floating up or down the shore, you may wonder why It does nofidrive in, but the thought comes and goes. To these men it signifies a new channel â€"a wash in a new spotâ€"another danger to en- counter. Never a man of them but has lost father, brother or son in the vengeful waters; never a man but can tell you how hard he has fought to save his own life. ‘ ' we had been fishing-near the bar of the inleLforfiwo houruâ€"_a grirppld captpin am! I. Hardly ten words had been sfioken. I understood him and would not try to break through his crust, while I myself felt a bit nervous over the outlook of the weather and the behavior of the sea. It was a calm, mid- summer day, but here and there an ugly cloud, showing ragged all around the edge. sailed slowly about. There was a stillness which startled me. If a voice reached us from the shore it was tinged with melan- chgly, as ii the owner spoke in grief. The sea had been calfn at first: and a babe could have kept its seat on one of the thwarts. By and by there came a sort of shudder, and the been lifted her bow high in air and sank down with a crush to throw the {prey a_ score 9} foo? away. You read of a qu’e‘t sea. It is never quiet. In its culmest moments it trembles sud shudders like a woman in the dark. and men call these tremblings and shudderings the ground swell. There is no foamâ€"no defined waveâ€"but the sea lifts up as if to throw off a burden. There is malice in itâ€" there is something sinister in every heave. The man looked out to see, unbroken and unfettered for 3,000 miles long, and then at the land. I watched his face, but it was like a stone. “ (irofind swell," explained' the captain as I l_o_oked up igquiripgly. Just then a shark struck our book float- mg out astern, and for the nexa ten minutes we were busy. All of a sudden we lost the sunshine, and at the same moment I heard a noise afar up the inlet like iron shod horses galloping over a cobblestone street. The rugged clouds had floated together, joined forces, and a white squall was thundering down upon us. “ Sqtfall 2" said the captain, as he cut the line and let the shark go, and motioned for me_ to creep under the half deck. ‘1‘ It was upon us next moment. \Ve were at anchor with the sail down. There was nothing to be done but ride it out. The first rush of the squall seemed to drive the boat under water, and the scream of the wind had something so devilish in it that I was forced to forget all else for the moment: For five minutes the boat tugged and strained and heaved, like some terrified ani- mal in the face of appalling danger. The downpour of rain ceased as suddenly as if a valve had been closed, and then the wind seemed to gain additional force. The cap tain stood in the stern-sheets, looking straight ahead. His face was as unreadable as a stone. 1 clept back to him, and just as [ipulled myself -up beside hid] the boat swung her head right and left in a vicious way and he shouted in my ear : “ Gone adrift !" The cable had parted and We were driv- ing dead out to seaâ€"out upon the angry waste of waters which had no check be tween that inlet and the coast of Spain. The bow fell oil‘ until it pointed out to sea, the captain gripped the tiller and sat down, and we drove ahead like a live locomotive. 7 In a gale on land you hear the roar of the wind, but its vengeful nhriekaâ€"it fierce screamsâ€"its voice of triumph as the great sens leap and dash and threaten to over- whelm, are reserved for the sea. It is a lion which has long Waited in ambush. It is a tiger which has had neither food or drink fordaye. _ I looked up into the face of the captain. There was anxiety there, but there was also sternness and determination. The eyes stared straight ahead into the dark storm- bank. The fingers which clutched the tiller had grown fast. Had his time come? If so he would meet it as omera of his blood had done. I looked over the gunwnle at the leaping, whirling, boiling waters now showing their might. It. was the fateful whirlpool of Niagara magnified a thousand times. It wxs as if a great cloud burst had set. a thou. and rivers flooding the world. The fierce wind caught the foamy create and tore them off and hurled them through the air until it. seemed as If the black sky was alive with great while birds. I new the faces of drown- ing man no the waver heaved them up. I saw in itfened arms, dripping locks and gaunt bodies. It was a sea of the deadâ€"a mael- strom in which the corpses of generations were Booting and vyhirling. The night came down, But i could see a white iace and compressed lips above me. The storm grew fiercer, but the fingers of iron never let go their grip. The darkness shut out the cwrpses. but ll brought moans, and waiis, and shrieks, and I stopped my ears to keep out the sounds. Ind you ever hear the shriek of a woman when the steam- er, which has battled so long. suddenly goes down to her grave? Did you ever hear the one loud, ionq cry uttered by a strong men as his strength suddenly leaves him and the waves wash over his head? Did the shrieks of children over come to you as an awful death stared them in the face? I heard DEAD 0lI'l‘ T0 SEA. them allâ€"over and over ‘ulnâ€"ixoird them more and more faintly, sud finally not even the voice of the gals wundod in my ears. uoder the lee of a great. blue ulled liner, and I was bring hoisted ehos t . The sky was clear. the wind had dropped to a gentle brews. and the create of t waves no longer foamed. In the eterumht tenet the brouzad faced ceptuin, only at that moment surren- dering the tiller. All that wild nightâ€" r- ing every minute of that med rece 0v 3 hundred miles of boiling ocean, his eye: had never cloned and hie lips never opened. There was nothing to read in bi! faceâ€"no more than it he had slept at home in his bed. Ilia time had not yet come. As he helped to lift me up he spoke for the first It was homing. Our NW boat wen i Make Your Daughters Indepen- dent. From an “ Open Letter ” in The Century for May: -“ Would it not be wiser for to induce young girls in thousands'oi happy, prosperous homes to make ample provision for any and all emergencies that the future may have in store for them 2 Could a better use be found for some of the ,years that in- tervene between the time a girl leaves sshoul and the time she may reasonatly hope to marry? The field for womans work has been opened up of late years in so many different directions that a vocation can easily be found, outside the profession of teaching, that will be quite as congenial to refined tastes and considerably more lucrative. Bookkeeping, typewriting, tele- graphy, stenography, engraving, dentistry, medicine, nursing, and a dozen other occu- pations might be mentioned. Tnen, too, industrial schools might be established, where the daughters of wealthy parents could be trained in the practical details of any particular industry for which they displayed a special aptitude. If it is not be- neath the sons and daughters of a monarch to learn a trade, it ought not to be beneath the sons and daughters of republican Ameri- ca to emulate their good example, provrded they possess the requisite” ability to do so. aim’e: ' ' “Thank God 1 I feared he wu dead I" “Two years will suffice to make any bright, quick girl conversant with all the mysteries of the art of housekeeping, espe- cially if she be wise enough to study the art practically as well as theoretically. The management of servants and the care of the sick and children will be incidentally learn- ed iu most homes, and can be supplemented by a more exten led study of physiology, hygiene, etc., than was possible at school. Sewing need not be neglected either, while leisure will readily be found for reading or any other recreation that may suit indivi- dual tastes. Another year, or longer, may be added to the time devoted to these pur- suits, if desired. But, above all, let two or three years be conscientiously set apart for the express purpose of acquiring a thorough experimental knowledge of some art or vo- cation which would render its possessor self-supporting and, consequently, independ- ent. “ If the tide of public opinion favoring such a coure would but set in, men a one Would be spa ed untold suffering an misery in after life. L-t the rich set the example in this matter. They can afford to do whet- ever pleases them, and, therefore, have it in their power to mold public opinion. Be not afraia, girls, that you will find your self- imposed task irksome. Remember that oc- cupation is necessary to happiness, and that there is no reason why you should not dream while you work. ‘ Tne cry will be raised that there is danger that such a plan as the one advocat- ed here will tend to give girls a distaste for the quiet retremeat of home, but there is little cause for fear. Not, one girl in twen: ty will voluntarily choose a business life in preference to domestic happiness. Indeed, it is absolutely certain that happy marriages would be promoted by this very independ. ence among women. Not being at leisure to nurse every passing fencv, girls would elect to wait patiently until the light of true love came into their lives." A Literary Horse Dealer. Anderson, the famous Piccadilly horse dealer, is dead,'and figures. curiously enough, as a patron of letters. This man, who was very wonderful in many ways, honest amon other things, although a horse dealer, re every day in the Morning Post the s orting articles of " Pave." These he much a mired, and l’avo receives a large legacy. Anderson was one of the most successful as well as most trustworthy of London horse dealers. In his old age he was assisted by George Rice, about the smartest horseman in En - land, witha riect figure, and admirabe seat and the t boots and breaches that could be bought. A practice of Anderson’s which may be of use to American horse dealers was to put Rice on the hack he wished to sell. Rice would make the ani- mal show off as no one else could, and then Anderson. with a smile like Bret Harm‘s Chinaman, Would say : “(:earge Rice is a good fellow, but he doesn‘t know anything about riding a horse. “’hen you are on that little animal it will look very different indeed, air.” This usually effected a sale. The Poet Pope in Ills 01d Age. Alexander Pope had not, to use Do Quincey’s words, drawn that supreme prize in life, “a fine intellect with a healthy atomech," and his whole ator testifies to that fact. As years went on his little fif- ure._in Ito rusty black. was seen_ qI-ol'e rare y in the Twickenham lanes, and if he took the air upon the river it was in a sedan- chair that was lifted into a boat. then he visited his friends his sieeplessness and his multiplied needs tired out the servants; while in the daytime he would nod in com- pany even though the Prince of Wales was talking of poetry. He was a martyr to sick headaches, and in the intervals of relief from them would be tormented by all sorts of morbid cravings for the very dietary which must inevitably secure their recur. rence. This continued strife of the brain with the ignobler organs goes far to explain, if it may not excuse, much of the less ad- mirable side of his character. Hisirrita- bility. his artifice, his meanness even, are more intelli ible in the case of a man habit- ually racke with pain, and morbidly con- scious of his physical shortcomings than a they would he in the case of those " whom God has made inll-llmbed and tall,”,‘and in the noble teaching of Arthur's court, his in, firmities should entitle him to a larger charity of judgmentâ€"[Austin Dobwn, in “Scribner's Magazine” for May.