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Fon Cuermm Hume. An excellent glycerine ointment for chop hand: ie nude by melting, with gen e beet, two ounoee of sweet oil of elmonde, half on ounce OI apermeceti and one dun: of white wax. When melted, re- move from the etove end add an ounce of filzwlne, end etir until the mixture in cold. ‘ e ointment onn be scented with any I'- lume to unit the fancy. Keep lt in wfie- necked bottlee. 'In the Well-re lated, ete., each day has iujppropriate uties. Monday and Tues- day are, of course, sacred to washin and ironing. Wednesday is iven to the nieh- ing of the latter. and t e oleanin of the kitchen and the pantries. Thu ay the silver must be polished, windows wiped off, ‘ etc. Frida , by general consent, is sweep- in day, an Saturday is devoted to bakiu . e-making, and reparations for the Sn - bath. Where all t is is thoroughly under- stood, the household machinery will move .with comparatively little friction. - FLOOR Palm. Fora kitchen floor, es eciail one that is rough and uneven, the e~v ork Tribune recommends the following glue paint: To three pounds of spruce yellow add one pound, or two pounds if desire'l. of dry white lead, and mix well together. Dissolve two ounces of glue in one quart of water, stirrin often until smooth and nearly boiling. T icken the glue water after the mariner of mush, unti it will spread smoothly upon the floor. Use a common aint bruuh and apply hot. This will fill al crevices of a rough floor. It will dry soon, and when dry up ly boiled linseed oil with a clean brush. u a few hours it will be found dry enough to use by laying ‘gapers or mats tn step on for a few days. hen it needs cleaning use hot nude. Egg-shells crushed into small bits, and shaken well in decanters, three parts filled with cold water, will not onl clean them thoroughly, but make. the; g 8.38 look like ,,, AI 12â€"..-3 2... new. 33y'rubbing with a flannel dipped in the best whiting. the brown discoloration may be taken off cups in which custards have been baked. Again, all 'of us are aware that emery powder will remove ordi- nary stains from the white Dory knife- handles, and that the lustre ol morocco leather is restored by varnishing with white of egg. Nothing, it is said, is better to clean silver with than alcohol or ammonia, finish~ ing with a little whiting on a soft cloth. Willem putting away thousilver tea. or cof- fee-Bot, which is not. in use cvery day, lay a atic across the top under the cover. This will allow fresh air to get in, and prevent the mustinass of the contents familiar to boarding-house sufferen. ADJUSTABLE BoeK~Covnns. These are very convenient to protect an expensive binding or they may be made very ornamental in themselves. The materials required are velvet or satin, or if something plainer .is desired, a fine all wool cloth is fre- quently preferred. The material should be cut exactly the size of the book cover, al- lowing two inches on the sides and one inch at the top of the book. Painting is also a pretty decoration. I saw one very pretty cover, made of cardinal velvet. The de- signs were stamped__on and then painted "‘0" .. --_ .. with gold paint. The letterin was also done with a. brush in quaint, ol -fashioned letters. Two eyelet holes should be worked in each top and bottom and three in each side of the cover, through which a narrow ribbon or silk cord is passed to secure the cover in position on the hook. Sometimes the cover is lined and a. sheet of wedding at between the outside and the lining, just _erge enough to come to the edge of the ‘VAâ€"SlllNâ€"fl l.mnN.â€"-Put a tableapoonful of black pepper into the first water in which gray or buff linens are to be washed, and it " Men work irom morn till set of sun." They do. " But women's work is never done." Quite true. For when one cask she's finished, something’s found Awaiting e be inning. all yesr round. hether it be To draw the us Or bake the b cad, s, Or make the bed. 0r ply the broom, Or dust the room, 0r floor to scrub, Or knives to rub, 0r table to set, 0r meals to get, 0r shelves to seen, 0r innit to cm, 0r seeds to sow, 0r lento to row 0: inens to leach. Or lessons to teach. 0r butter to churn. 0r Jscxets to turn, Or polish glass, 0r piste oi hrs-s. 0r clothes to mend 0r children to tend, 0r notes indlte. Or stories writeâ€"â€" These one propei your berks o'er household sees In sunny heavens where you rest at sue, And. one word more. don't you lorgel it, please. HOUSEHOLD Hurts. The newest table linen is damask with a ground like momie cloth; it is enriched with damn-work end hematitching. Among the latent novelties are embroider- ed linen sheets, which are brought up over the pillow in lace of the sham, now out of date. These 3 eete are hematitchcd at each end, and at one end show a richly embroid- ered band about 18 inches_ deep. Protty wash-cloths may be made of dam- ask or momle cloth, the edge raveled out to form a fringe, with a row of cat-stitching in red cotton at the top of the fringe. In one corner is ombrojdered diagonally in red cot- " Use me freely, And l he 0n me ou' I rub A lltt e soap." Kerosene is a firstrate article for many urposes about a kitchen, but not for li ht- ng fires, it will soften boots and shoes t mt have Men hardened by water and will make them as pliable as now. So will castor oil, but it is earlier to a ply the kerosene and is not such dirty wor . It will make your tea-kettles as bright as new and will re- move spots from furniture. For the latter it must be thoroughly rubbed in and after. ward polished with a fresh cloth. If left sticking on the outside it will catch dust, and the last state of the article will be worse than the first. Mixed with blue ointment in equal proportions, it is an un- failing hug remedy. To CLEAN GLASS AND vaznwnm. COVOX‘. WOMAN'S wonx IS NEVER DONE. METHOD m Housxxnrmo. IIDIISEIIOLD. will revent them from spotting. It will also co the color in black or dark calicoee end cum rice. or block or dark holeery from running, and will “set " it so that It will not afterward ruin the skin. The soap-ml: towhich such pepper I: added will be just as soft as before. To set the color it in well to use pepper in the pro ortion of a ler e tebleapoonfultoe il 0 water and let t e urticlee be “ in we " for a. couple of hours. Cold water and cantile soap will remove machine oil from washable goods. Stir a piece of sperm candle in your starch, and add .130 a teupoonful of semi The stage belo'ugs in China to the lowest clw‘of _ocqupation. Comedian 331d ‘berberg m looke'é'fipéii'u shaman defamod ones, and are not allowed m take rc in the public examinagions, Whig}; 0t erwifuz admit everyone, and open to the successful candidates the avenues to the biggest posts of honor. There played in the ge com- meroial town of Shanghai ateslebrated tra- edian by the name of YangYeh-Lin. 'oung, handsome, and an artist in his pro- fession, he did not fail to make a deep im- pression upon the hearts of the ladies in the audience, and we can saytha‘t too is. male populationof Shanghai were enthpsias- tic ior the Pariah. ~A young lady from Canton. the daughter of a rich merchant, also saw Yang~Yeh-Lin, and fell dead in love with him, and, according to rumour, pined away and declared she would marry no other but the actor. The story, so far as we have related, is of daily ocurrence, even in Europe. The followmg, however, is particularly Chinese :â€" The father of the young lady, who had an inkling of what was to happen, left Shanghai promptly and returned to Canton, so asto be absent from the scene. The mother, being anxious for the life and hap- piness of her daughter, entered into success- ul negotiations with the actor, and soon the nuptials of the young couple took place in legal form. A terrible excitement in Shanghai prevailed among the Cantonese. They felt their honor deeply insulted. For a daughter of their city, the child of a wealthy man, had married an actor. The magistrate, or Tsche~Hisen, of Shanghai, was a Cantonese, and, like his countrymen, hated the actor ; so the insulted Cantonese hastened to him, demanding the arrest‘of Yang-Yeh-Lin and his wife, also their pun- ishment, and desired that their marriage be declared invalid. actor, only because he had married the girl who loved him. The magistrate could not venture so far, but he did what was in his power, and ordered 100 lashes to be given with the bamboo reed upon the knuckles of the unfortunate Yang. After the painful torture was executed the actor was hung up for twelve hours by his thumbs, tied to- gether, with his arms bent backward. To increase the agony his neck was screwed in irons, which made a particular pressure upon his larynx, so that the unfortunate Yang had for one hour the constant feeling of being strangled. His young wife did not escape punishment either, she was given 100 strokes in the face with a leather instru- ment which might be compared to a fly-trap, the face thereby becoming a deformed mass, leaving thedifl'erentfeatures unrecognizable ; all that because two people who loved had married each other. \Ve should not forget, however, that similar things took place in Europe only a few hundred years ago. The borporation of the Cantonese offered the magistgqte 20,000 tgels, equal. p0 $402000, The Largest Farm in the World. Canadian farmers may obtain a new idea of large farms from the description given below. furnished to the St, Louis Re ub- lican by a correspondent. It is locate in the southwest corner of Louisiana and ex. tends 100 miles north and south and many miles east and west. It is owned and oper~ ated by northern ca italists, whose general manager, J. B. “int ins, gives the following account of its workings: “The 1,500,000 acFes of our tract," Mr. \ Watkins said, “ was purchased, in 1883, from the state of Louisiana and from the United States government. At that time it wasa vast grazing land for the cattle of the few dealers in the neighborhood. When I took possessionI found over 30,000 head of haltwild horses and cattle. My work was to divide the immense tract into con- venient pastures, establishin stations of ranches every six miles. The encing alone cost in the nei hborhood of $50,000. The land I found to best adapted to rice, sug- ar, corn and cotton. All our cultivatin , ditching, eto., is done by steam-power. V e take a tract, say half e mile wide, for in- stance, and place an engine on each side. The engines are portable, and operate a cable attached to four plows, and under this arrangement we are able to plow 30 acres a day with only the labor of three men. Our harrowing, planting and other cultivation is done in like manner. In fact, there is not a single draft-horse on the en- tire plsoe. We have, of course, horses for the borders of cattle, of which we now have 16,000 head. The Southern Pacific Rail- road rnns for 36 miles through our farm. We have three steam-boats operating on the water of our owngestate, upon which there The lInlted states a Dumping (around. The recent movement of the French ov- ernment in sending criminals from ew Caledonia penal colonies to San Francisco opens agfain the general subject of foreign emigrat on to the United States for discus- sion. Of the 274,000 Chinese who have come to this country, one-half of the whole number have returned to China. 0f the whole number only one in two hundred, have become pan ers. Though contributing b their cheap abor and in ustry to the growt of the Pacific coast, we pass lawa to pre- vent their coming. While on the West we close the door, we open it wide on the East. We send out emigration agents to invite all classes to come, and we establish lines of cheap ships to bring them. What kind of citizens does Europe send us? The gov- ernment pay the expense of transporting to our shores their pan ers, idiots and help- less by thonsands. T 1037 banish their mur- derers, robbers, anarchists, dynamitcrs and disturbcrs to the United States, as to a #67300 miles of navigable waters. We have an ice-house, a bank, a shipyard and a rice mill." r. linl colony. As we lnclude tlléne classes n our hospitable invitation, asking no questioqg‘tther potentatpg of El"??? are more IIWDIUIIH u Iv vvuvnwu III III rut-Iv ululv t an wilfinfito get rid of their dan croua citizens in t is way. â€"{American Exc ange. PRISONERS AND I'AUI'BRS. A Chinese hove Story. A Comma Fox. Very wonderful stories are told of the cunning of foxes. l’ereons say they have observed them aoproachiug water-fowl by swimming slowly with a turf in the month, so no to remain concealed; and a writer in Chambera’n Enclyclopwdta says that a most trustworthy person assured him that he new a fox approaching egreup of hares that were feeding in A field with a slow, limping mo- tion, and hnving his head down as if eating clover till he was near enou h to secure them. A oorreepondent of t e Hartford Times give: 5 more recent instance of their cunning. lie aye: . “ When the ground was frozen, but here of snow, I ut-n broody hen under a strong, heavy chic en-coop, to break her up. The coop was boarded on one side and lathed on the otherâ€"the lowar lath within an inch of the ground, which was smooth but sloping, with a furrow-like depression, a. few inches deep, about twcfeet‘up the slope. I.-.‘ __4_ .,n,, 01“.. “r In the morning the hen we; gone. The coop 11de right over the depressionâ€"the lathe bearing numerous impreeafone of an animal's teeth, and the small one at the apex. yes sonatgned by his claws. .AA__LL __ Al,_ L---) ..rv.- .. w- _--- " lle wasted no strength on the board side tryin to push the coop over, up hill, but tried is best on the other side ; but, failing, he hit and tore at the laths to break them, and finally drew the coop up the hill over the hollow, drew out the hen and made off, leaving no blood. very few feathers, and ‘ only three of his hairs on the lathe.” How Mosxm’s OPEN OYSTERS. So many people have expressed their eur- prise at hearing that monkeys break open oysters with a stone on the islands off South Burmah, that it may be of interest to give a short description of their method of using such a. tool. The low-water rocks of the islands of the Mergui Archipelago are cover- ed with oyeters, large and small. A mon- key, prohebly_ macaeue cynomulgus, which A71“ 7‘, ,HA LI,, -L___ ISO], Plvunua’ unwwuu v; v '"D" ..... infest these islands, prowls about the shore when the tide is low, opening the rock oysters with a stone by striking the base of the upper valves until it (lislocates and breaks up. He then extracts the oyster with his finger and thumb, occasionally putting his mouth straight to the broken shell. 0n disturbing them I generally found that they had selected a stone more for convenience in handling than for its value as a hammer, and it was smaller in- proportion to what a human being would have selected for a proportionate amount of work. In short, it was usually a stone they could get their fingers round. As the rocks crop up through the low water mud, the stone had to be brought up from high Water mark, this distance varying from ten to eighty yards. This monkey has chosen the easiest way to open the rock oyster, viz., to dislocate the valve by a blow on the base of the upper one, and to break the shell over the attaining muscle. The gibbon also frequents these islands, but I never saw one of them on the beach. A lady who was walking through one of the hammecks adjacent to town heard a hog making a curious noise, and on going to as- certain the cause, discovered 15, ferocious ra~ coon making a. persistent attack on a sow. The latter was retreating and defending her~ self and a litter of young pigs. The coon would seize the sow by the ear, she would shake him off, dash at him, and he Would retreat, when she would start to run, only to be seized again by her enemy. Finally the uproar attracted a squad of other hogs, which rushed to the sow’s assistance and succeeded in driving the coon away. The latter, however, after abandoning the can- test, stood bristled up and sulkily watching the hogs as they moved off, whereupon the lady threw a chunk at him. To her aston- ishment the animal pounced upon her and began-tearing her dress to pieces. After much exertion she succeeded in beating the coon 06, when he went up a tree near by. John Templeton is a blacksmith who owns a fine specimen of the English mastifl'. Recently Mr. Templeton was working at his forge, puttin a new steel inapick. The new steel was slightly burned in the heat- ing and, instead of welding, flew in half a dozen pieces. One piece struck the black- smith just above the ri ht eye with such force as to fasten itse in firmly. The blacksmith staggered and fell backward. How long he was unconscious he does not know, but when he revived the dog lay al most in the middle of the shop crying al- most like a human bein and rubbing his jaws in the dust of the 001‘. The piece of steel that had struck Mr. Tem leton lay a short distance from the dog. he faithful brute had seized the hot steel with his teeth and drawn it from the frontal bone of Mr. Tom leton’s head. The {dog’s mouth was foundpto be badly burned. 'A SNAKE Sronr. A dog was about to attack a monkey be longingg to an organ grinder. As the dog InSy mouse, N. Y. there lsado said to be the ylarg eat in the World, whic weig ha 203 pounds, and measures 6 ft. 3 in. from nose to tell. A snake story from Illinois is to the effect that two farmers Ilving in Moultrie county in that Stato,_whilgplougl_1ing _160 acres 0! in that State, while ploughing 160 acres of land, killed plmnt_l_00 rattlesnakcs, some of The Douglasaville, Gm, Star has a. snake editor in training who bids fair to become valuable, judging from the following effort : H A chm-t. Hmn hunk Mr. Adnrhnld wit. A first class elephant is worth from SIOO to 8600; zebra: are worth $1, 200; gimfl'ea sell for $3,000 each. u A sho‘rt Em; back Mr. Aderhold wit- nessed a large snake swallow a nest of ar- tridge eggs on which the partridge had Em sitting and was nearly ready to hatch. A few days later Mr. Buttier came across the same snalre surrounded b a covey of young partrid es (the eggs hav ng been hatched), to whic her snakeship seemed very much attached. And a few da s later on Mr. McElrath was walking t ron h an oat patch near by and Was attracte by a snake passing through the oats with its head ele- vated about even with the top of the oats which‘were headed out, and on examination he found that the snake was picking the kernels from the oat heads and dropping them on the round to feed the young ar- tridges, whiclgz were following along by er, picking them up.” Nearly 500, 000 sin ging birds are imported into the yUntted Seam every year. then; very old and large. STORIES ABOUT ANIMALS. qu'r BETWEEN Coon AND Sow. A SYMPATHETIC D00. An Ohio man sold hie dog to patties maln- di'ana. 280 miles away. An accident blin ed the canine, but he started for his old home and reached it by highway in ten days’ tro- velling, and without being able to see a thing. A Skye terrier belonging to a London g-en tlemsu, says the Field, is «roar olgnt little chickens. They occup ket snd the chickens nestle in the do ’I long hair nnd seem comfortable. They allow 8the do about and the brute “this to give them e1 the personal care possible. A pet blackbird in its on was placed in an open window of a New ersey residence last summer, when n wild blackbird flew down to it, looked in at the prisoner, and then flew away. He soon returned, bearing a worm in his beak. This act of friendship was repeated many times during the season. Recently the cage was hung up in the same Elace, and had not been t ere more than elf an hour before the same wild blackbird came flying down to his old friend. Worry, Not Work Kills. “ The great man," says Emerson, “ is he who in the midst of the crowd keep: with perfect sweetness the serenity of solitude.” “ How many of the troubles of life," asks Sir John Lubbock, “are insi ificant in1 themselves and easily avoidabe‘!" It is not so much, in most cases, great sorrows, diseases or death, but rather the little daily dyings which cloud over the sunshine of life. “’8 most of us give ourselves an immense amount of trouble, encumber ourselves, as it :were, on the journey of life with a dead weight of unnecessary bagga e. In that most delightful fairy tale, “ ice in Won- derland,” the White Knight is described as having provided himself on starting on a journey with a variety of odds and ends, including a mousetrap, in case he ‘was troubled with mice at night, and a bee-hive, in case he came across a swarm of bees. To save ourselves from imaginary, ‘or at any rate problematical evils, we. often incur real suffering. “The man,” said Epicurus, “ who is not content with little is content with nothing.” There is an amusing pas- sage in Hearne’s“Journey to the Mouth of the Coppermine River." A few days after starting he met a party of Indians who an- nexed a great deal of his property, and all Hearne says is, “The weight of our bag- gage being so much lightened, our next days journey was much pleasanter. I ought, however, to add that the Indians broke up our philosophical instruments, which, no doubt, were rather an incum- brance.” Do then your best and await calmly the result. It is anxiety, not work, thatkills ; it is work, not anxiety, that com- mands success. There is a Hindoo saying that the fortune of a man who sits, sits also ; it sleeps when he sleeps, moves when he moves, and rises when he rises. Anxiety, on the contrary, does more harm than good. Many seem to think that, in these days of oompetion and struggle for exis- tence, life is more difficult and anxious than it used to be. On the contrary, I believe there never was a time when mo- dest merit and patient industry were more sure to win reward.-New York Home Journal. It is easy to confound quickness with tal- ent. The slow but accurate thinker will rarely attain the same popular reputation for ability that attaches to the swift though often mistaken reasoner. Yet even great minds are rarely at the same time hasty and accurate. Napoleon was gifted with extra- ordinary quickness of perception, and owed most of his early success to the swnft and unexpected tactics with which he broke through the old extraordinary methods of conducting campaigns. Quick himself, he detested slowness in others, and was im - tient if any one he questioned hesitate a moment in re ly. Cuvier com lained that he lost the mperor's favor ause he would not give a sudden cate orical answer to an important question 0 finance. On one occasion, ridinv through Fontainehleau, ‘ the Empreor suddenly turned to the forest- master and demanded how man acres of wood the park contained. The crest-mas- ter, an honest;man, waited a moment to consider, at which a subordinate, who knew the Emperor's peculiarity, promptly named some imaginary number, so delight- ing Na leon that he bestowed the head- rangers ip on this swiftly replyin person. The result did not justify the émperor’s penetration, for thequick-witted man roved so extremely dishonest that after a me he was dismissed and the slower thinker rein- stated. An When Horace Greeley was asked to lec- ture on woman‘ a rig hte, he took as his text: “A women has a ri ht to do what she wants to and can.’ ft will not be many years before the rusty padlock of prejudice will be wrenched fromp the door of every héflorable calling. to perform at their pleasant homes, but those vocations have vanished, and it is no longer expected that female handicraft will furnish family wardrobes, or that larders and cellars will groan beneath the fruits of woman’s industry. From the factory comes every description of wearing apparel, all kinds of house furniture and furnishiilu materials, while a large per cent. of the food supply is prepared and issued from the same source. The mighty strides which inventions andforganized labor have made during the past quarter of a century have, ten reat extent, relieved woman of her more aborious home duties, and for this she should be truly thankful. But since it is a fact, obvious to the most obtuse, that homes do not increase as rapidl as individ- uals, and with duties constant y curtailed, the question arises: What shall be and where shall women find suitable vocation ? Within the past few years tele aphing, telephoning, silk-raising, t pe-wr ting and other vocations have openc new channels telephoning, silk-raising, t pig-writing and other vocations have 0 net?Y new channels for female industry. II): the cities needle- women can obtain five or six cents each for makin a shirt, often weaving their own show a as they bend over their iii~remun- ereted tasks. \Voman’s work is one of the greatest luestions of the day. Our grandmothers ound work enough_ gnd_ more than enough Quickness 0! Thought. Woman’s Work. One morning, while sitting on e bench there, she became conscious of a peculiar sensation in her head. and a loss ofi «. She rose to go home, but found that slu- h d forgotten, not only where she lived, but uer name es well. She celled to a gentleman who was p"- eing. “ Will you please conduct me home, air If' The gentlemen offered his arm. “ Where do you live, madame I” he naked. " I cannot remember the street nor the uumber,-” said she ; “and, what is worse, I cannot remember what my name in. But perhe you may understand better why I shoul beiu this plight, air. if l tell you that I am one hundred and eleven years Madame do Montgolfler, who died in Paris in the hut part of the reign of King Louis l’hilippe, passed her one hundred and eleventh year. It was her habit to take a. walk alone 0' ory morning in the Garden of tho Luxembourg. old." ‘1‘“. “ One hundred and eleven years nld I" he exolaimod. “ Then 3 on must he Madame do Montgolfier. who lives at Number Seven- teen. Ruo_d' Enfer."' "'TE}E¢cI§,3ir; I am she x" we old man oxclgixped,_in delight: "Shahâ€"ad found our. u be she was. She was conducted to hex home, and died peaceably within two days. Louis Herbst, who keeps a saloon in Camden. U. 8., and who is one of the best known Germans in South Jersey, celebrated yesterday his third anniversary of r skim- med milk diet. Mr. Herbal; is a lure. . :ine- ly formed man of about fifty years d u e and weighs about two hundred puun s. Three years ago he was afflicted with des- Eepsiu and kidney troubles and was advised y his physician to try a diet oi skimmed milk exclusively. He tried the remedy for a couple of months and was so benefited by the diet that he determined to try it for a year. At, the expiration of the latter, period Mr. Herbsts health was almost perfect. Far from becoming thin or emaciated from the long‘continue use of skimmed milk, his ‘form was, if ssible, even more round than ‘before and y the advice of his doctor he decided to adopt skimmed milk as his ex~ elusive diet permanently. For three years he has eaten or drunk absolutely nothing but the article namedâ€"not even waterâ€"- and declared to his himds who visited him that he proposed to continue skimmed milk And dispense with steaks, bread and butter and beer for the rest of his life. The wag of the Jubilee has turned up and all England is laughing ovu‘ his success. He caused the circulation all through the country of the report that every baby born on Jubilee day Would receive a present of a silver cradle and six guineaa, or about $31, from the Queen. 1t caused the greatest ex. citement among the mothers of the land, and they have been writing and coming to Buckingham Palace until 400 hare already responded. What lent it probability is the fact that the Queen, although stingy as a rule, has generally sent 815 to every mother in England or Scotland «he brought trip- lets into the World. One proud mother who appeared at Buckingham Palace with twins was especially aggrieved, as she con- sidered that, like Mrs. Chick, she had made “ an effort" to honor Her Majesty’s Jubilee and should not be defrauded of her cradles and her cash. She would, she said, change the babies names, which had been selected for her by a local schoolmaster, the boy being called Jubilo and the girl Jubila Hig- gins. The officials disclaim all knowledge of the matter and hesitate to tell the Queen about it. A European traveler, on his way from the coast of Madagascar to the capital, Tan- anarivo. in the interior. had emptied his water-flask, and was suffering from thirst. He asked :one of the natives of his party when he should be able to ( bygiqwnter. The Age of the Earth. In borin a well on the farm of Mrs- Serah Will ems, some live mile. south of Coluse, J. C. Frazier, who has the farm rented, struck a piece of wood at a depth of 170 feet. The wood brought up by the auger Was in an excellent stete of reserve- tion and was renounced “all on .” The place is only ii ty feet above the sea-level, so that the wood is 120 feet below the ommn'e surface. If it was eunk there when rhis valley was a lake or an arm of the lny it was in pretty (lee water. How long since this piece of woe was in a growing tree? The valley, of course, has grown, but with- out some convulsion of nature the growth has been slow, not, perha a, over one foot per century. Then has it man 17,000 years since this oak tree grew? In the shadow of the Infinite this is not long, but measured by the history of men it is indeed along spuce.~â€"Colma (001.) Sun. “ Any time you like,’ smiling. said the native, A wThecI‘VJuroptmn saw no signs of springs or water ; but. the natives conducted him to a group of tall, palm-like trees, standing in a cluster on the edge of the forest, with straight trunks, and bright-green, broad leaves _growing fr_orn the opposite sides of Two little girls of seven and eight are piay lug together. “And our papa, what does he do I" asked one 0 them. -" Whatever mummu uyn.” iiiérétalfi, undvmaking the {fee appear like a great fan. The white man gazed admit, “81x.“ $119930; . n ‘,,.n _,9I “_A "W‘TOh, ”0’”. éhid the-native. “ The leaves drink in the rain that falls on them, and when it has passed all through them it be- comes very pure and sweet.” Wfi'YVorurtrl'fihk it is a. fine tree,” said the native, “ but I will show you what. it is 30951 fog." a n ,, .‘ 1 A__ -1 LL- !__R a He pierced the root of one of the leaf- etems, at the point where it. joined the tree, with his spear, whereupon a stream of clear water sported out, which the Euro- pean can lit in his water-can. and found cool, free and excellent}o_dn:ink. _ _ .. “ But where does the water come from that the tree containa?’ asked the white man. “ In it ta_k_en_ up frqm the? _a_o_il ?_" w..- _- -â€"_ _,_.. The party having satisfied their thirst and taken a supply, the native who had spoken went on : ' ...--.‘-‘.*1‘ “ This tree, which is good for us in more ways than pne, “.10 call. the traveler’s “:80." She Forgot ller Own Name. Living on Skiummd RIiIk. Water from a Tree. A J ubllce Joke.