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HETte pticnrij £ll;undtaltt, J. YA\SLYKE, PUBLISHER. *IcHENRY, ILLINOIS. I AURICULTURIL AND DOMESTIC, # . BOMS In December. !-•--'•-.-iMW»blown rcwfc and • rosebud cling To one lone bn»h on a December <lajr. Th* hoavy air upheld no hov'rinR wing, And yellow leaves npon the wet; esr&laj. ; I beard no WrdR upon the branches sing, *•') ^ Nor saw I any clouds to break the gray. Can lore lire here while other things grow gntft C*n youth's bloom-blush unto corruption crag? •<)r night dissembling reproduce the day, And Winter wear the fronds of Summer's wing? Tea. press the very bed whore Summer lay, f When tuneful voices ushered to Ltoiing ? -Song is not dead, altho' it cease to Beauty is quick altho' death's ba be gray. To bJaakert night with crescent glimmer cling Some tender tokens of the coming day. .-^nd warning flies that flit with wearied wing, ^ New phwnelesf? lives upon the leaflets lay. .iV»d thus will death lie down where life onoe lay, And from life's dying cadence learn to sing; Wot tho' death's plumes beneath be darkly gray. Borne brighter tints to upper vanes will cling, As if, night-herald of an ageless day, He aaugfct the coming light upon his wing. Xet him who sees his cruder hopes take wing v. J Look back upon the nest wherein they Uy, ', And mark how aooa new, callow, birdlets sing,. And see bright feathers where old fronds weti gray. ^ Close to the better aspiration cling, And haJI the dawning of a clearer day. For deep delight shall fill that dawning day, * ' A. wider sweep supply a stronger wing. Fresh earth shall seethe where witheroa, wet leaves lay, < And wondrous molodies the birds fehall sing; A boundless blue supplant the cloudless gray, And blowing roses all around him cling. Such bads as cling about a winter day Are bope« that wing where shattered fancies lay, That hearts may sing altho' the sky be gray. Aroond the Farm. FIRE PftooF PAINT.--Mix common hydraulic cement with oil and apply it to roofs and outbuildings. It is both wa- , terproof and incombustible. DR. HUMPHREY, of Illinois, said he knew one man in Iowa who had planted 400 acres of timber. He might have ci­ ted an Illinois man who has done nearly as much--Robert Douglass of, Wauke- gan, who has 300 acres of planted tim­ ber.--Chicago Iribune. A FEW years since I took a piece of wet, rocky pasture that produced noth­ ing but flags and rushes, cleared it from rocks and drained it with an open drain, then plowed and thoroughly pulverized it and seeded it down. The first year there was from one to two tons of grass per acre.--Maine Farmer. WM. £. Hrsr, a farmer of the town- f\ ship of Westminster, Ontario, has been fined $10 and costs for allowing Canada thistles to grow on his farm contrary to Statute. The complainant was the over­ seer of highways, and now Hunt has brought a charge against the overseer for neglecting his duty in not enforcing the law everywhere in that locality. IN all countries the right? of privilege of gleaming is a fruitful source of dis­ pute. Poor folk must appeal to holy writ for their charter in England ; but in France, henceforth, they can reiy upon the • Court of Cassation. Tnus the law is laid down : "A land-owner may not turn sheep into his field until two days after the harvest has been garnered, so as to allow gleaners sufficient time for the exer­ cise of their right. If a proprietor or "farmer have the right, so long as his field is not wholly reaped, to pick up for his own profit ea^s of wheat dropped by the harvestmen, lie has no power to cede that right to other persons, even though ..it be done in charity, Beeing that the poor would thus be deprived of resour­ ces which the humanity of the law has reseryed for them." Any municipal ' regulation to the contrary will not be upheld before the tribunals. So tbe great question of gleaning is decided for ever in France.--London Telegraph, FBIOT BEARING trees, shrubs, vines and brambles may be transplanted in the fail, and very often under more favor­ able conditions, and with better pros- ^ poets of success, than if set out in the v spring. There are some well known ob­ jections raised against fall planting, es- . pec:ally of fruit-trees, such as the long exposure to the swaying of the winds before growth commences. But the injury of displacement of the roots from swaying at the tops amounts to little compared to the many striking advanta­ ges gained in planting at a season of the year when there is comparative leisure, •when the ground is usually dry and in good condition, and when the necessary preparatory stirring of the soil can be made without any extra expense. These ' are points that tell in the growth and productiveness of fruit trees, either in the garden or the orchard. If planted in the fall, the soil settles closely around the roots and fibers by the time the spring opens, and an earlier growth is started than with spring setting, wkioh . is often pushed back until the season is well advanced, from causes over which tbe planter has no control. The spring may be backward enough to hinder planting of trees in a way in which they should be set out to insure suooess. All other things being equal, there is no doubt that spring would be the bet- 1 ter time to plant trees. But this does " not often happen to be the case, as every practical fruit-grower well knows. It is therefore wise to transplant in the fall if the trees and the ground are in readiness.--P. T. Quinn, in Scribner for October, About the House. To PBHPABE AN EGO FDR AN INVALID. --Beat an egg until very light, add sea­ soning to the taste ; then steam until thoroughly warmed, but not powdered. This will take about two minutes. An egg prepared in this way will not distress even very sensitive stomachs. ORANGE TARTLETS.--Make some rich puff paste, with which line some mince- pie tins; put some orange marmalade into each, and squeeze fresh Seville orange juice over them. Bake for a quarter of an hour, and strew pounded sugar over. The tartlets are good hot or oold. LEMON PUDDING.--Take three-quar­ ters of a pound of bread-crumbs, half a pound of suet, six ounces of powdered sugar, the rind of four lemons, grated, and the juice of three ; add four eggs, well-beaten, and a little nutmeg. Boil one hour. To CAN TOMATOES.--Scald them so that the «lHn will peel off readily, and cut tfuwn up in a colander to drain, re­ moving all hard and inedible portions. pies remains Boil them in a porcelain or brass, kettle till done, which will be in about five minutes from the time they begin to boil. Then dip them into cans and seal immediately. The liquor which has drained off may be spiced and boiled down to catsup. THE only way to make pies, according to Mary E. Wager, is detailed in the Rural New Yorker thus : " While vis­ iting a friend last summer she remarked to her mother at dinner one day, as des­ sert was being served, that our guest did not eat pie. The mother gave a little nod with her head, which was full of significance, and said, 'Well, when she sees some of my pies, she will both eat and like them too.' In due time the pies began to appear--pies of apple and pies of peaches--and the mother's pre­ diction prnvwd fcma. The pies were de­ licious and quite free from the ordinary objections urged* by hygienists and physiologist s against pastry. They were made in this way : A deep dish, from two to three inches in depth, was file 1 with fruit, pared--and, if of apples, they were cored and out in a dozen slices, perhaps--with the requisite addition of sugar, spices and water, No under crust. The top crust,, thin and flaky, came from the oven, light and crisp, and free from sogginess. It retained in the fruit all flavor and the peculiar deliciousness that escapes when cooked uncovered. In serving it, a knife was used to divide the pie in portions, as is ordinarily done, and with a spoon the fruit removed from the pie dish to the dessert plate, where it formed an odorous and amber like pile by the triangular piece of crust near it. The memory of those like a sweet fragrance. Pipe-Laying In Pennsylvania. A letter from Harrisburg, Pa., says: There is a very strong probability of a war between the railroad monopolies of this State and tbe seaboard pipe line, the enterprise that has been undertaken by the Pennsylvania Transportation Company. The railroads have received for carrying oil between $70,000,000and $80,000,,000, and it is believed that they will attempt to prevent the laying of the pipes along and under the tracks em­ ploying an armed force if necessary. The contracts for the pipe through which oil is to flow to the seaboard have been given out. The line will have a capacity equal to one-fourth the present production, or about 30,000 barrels a day. Mr. Henry Harley, President of the Pennsylvania Transportation Com­ pany, says that it is proposed to borrow from manufacturers the entire capital for the project, and $200,000 more, the $200,000 to be expended in paying the debt that the existing company is unable to pay. The company will require 286 miles of four-inch pipe. The work is to be completed by the lst'of Deoember next. The Intimidators Intimidated. A number of South Carolina cotton strikers went to a field last week in which a stalwart son of Ham was working, and accosted him about how much he re­ ceived, when the following dialogue took place: Strikers--Say, Nat, what you git for dat dar work you doin' ? Nat--Look here, niggers, tell me, are you ready to meet yo' God ? Strikers--No foolin', Nat; what dese buckra pay yon for din worki- -- Nat--I'm not foolin', nudder ; tell me, niggers, am you ready to meetyo' God? Strikers--See here, Nat, we come to stop dis workin'for nottin'; so you got to stop dat work 'mediately and go wid us. • Nat--Fore God, niggers, you fiingin' graveyard dirt on yo'self, and if you ain't ready to meet yo' God, leave here, for de fust nigger puts his hands on me, dat nigger'll wake up in hell. Nat worked on.--Marion Star. Military Discipline in China. A terrible instance of the severity of the military discipline enforced by cer­ tain Chinese officers occurred only the other day at Soochow. As a band of soldiers were being marched through the town the attention of one of the men was attracted by an itinerant needle­ woman--one of those virtuous and use­ ful ladies whose whole stock-in-trade consists of a housewife, a thimble, and a little stool; and this man, it seems, took the liberty of patting or stroking the woman's cheek as he passed. Up sprang the outraged lady, and retorted in good set terms, treating the adven­ turous warrior to a sound bit of her mind at the top of her injured voice. The officer in charge stepped up to her. "Don't make such a noise," he said, quietly; 44 be patient, it shall not occur again. The soldiers passed on, and in a quarter of an hour the man's head was adorning the city walls. It is said the woman, who had been the innocent cause of the catastrophe was sadly grieved at this unlooked-for and dreadful reBult. Shspilar Scene at an Execution. Eighmey, the Oak's Corner murderer, danced when the shackles were removed from him on Sept. 14, the night before the execution. On the scaffold at Corn­ ing he appeared with a bouquet in his left hand, and noticed in the jail-yard B. F. Webster, who had applied for a ticket of admission. When the Sheriff asked him if he had aught to say, he beckoned to Webster, who came forward, umbrella and hat in hand. The mur­ derer then said: " Mr. Webster, the people have to look to you for my being here in this place where I stand to-day. You know what you have done, and you will have to bear in mind that you brought me to this. You and Mre. Crandall talked to me, and now I have to suffer the penalty and you go free. You know what I say is the truth. Always think of it. That is all I have to say." Web­ ster attempted to reply, but the Sheriff refused to allow --Ntw York Trib­ une. THE shaft of the monument to Miles Standish, now being erected on Captain's Hill, Duxbury, Mass., has reached a height of 58 feet. It creates a land­ mark on the horizon line, being visible for 20 miles in the surrounding coun­ try, and far out at sea. The monument is 30 feet thick at the base and 15 feet at the summit. The association en­ gaged in putting up the monument has obtained by voluntary1 subscription $15,000, and intends to hold a large fair in Boston during the holidays to raise the money necessary to finish the structure. A WORD FOR THE FL¥. ' ^ Also for the Feative Moeqoito, Whose Roundelay has Not Yet been Encored. A respected correspondent, not satis­ fied with the entomological opinions of the physicians, has peered through the lens of a microscope to learn more of flies. He has ascertained that they are lovers of gum, and that they buzz through the air in pursuit of that luxury. The gum does not come ready- j made to the fly, but is at first the in­ visible animalcule, or lice, of the air, which gather to the glutinous wings, limbs and trunks of tne little insect, and are worked over into shape for mastication. " The fly," repeats the cor­ respondent, "is a useful scavenger, and a good deal better one than the doctor, since it never brings in a big bill for his services, anti the doctor never fails to do so." "'Watch a fly," he continues, •'that has been soaring around your room, gathering in air lice; wait till he settles upon a lump of sugar, and then see him hoe himself down with his feet and eat gum, air lice and sugar with equal gusto." " ' Tis true," sadly ad­ mits the investigator, "if yon will allow plenty of garbage around, the fly will gather on it just as bummers np to the bar of a gin mill, and tiiey wiil get lazy and good for nothing, and 'whittle * on withered cabbage and cheese rinds, instead oi eating gum. They force the slovenly housekeeper to a cer­ tain degree of cleanliness to escape annoyance from them, for if she keeps her apartments perfectly clean and sweet, then there will lie no animacule to make gum of, and no flies to eat, you see. On the contrary, if her house is untidy and unsavory, the fly will go through a deal door and a pair of stairs, you see, to get his gum, and he will use her face or the sugar-bowl as a dish to eat it out of." The correspondent enforces his opin­ ions by quotations from the English chemist, Mr. Emerson, who first dis­ covered the fact that flies eat gum, and who ciphered out the problem by the algebraic formula of Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and n. Mr. Emerson saw a fly on a lump of sugar. Instead of " damning a fly," he set to work to find out why "the insect's miuute trunk or proboscis, which is perfectly retractile, and'which terminates in two large lobes that are spread out when the fly begins a meal on sugar (and gum), should be passed over its body so frequently while the fly dined, or in other words, why the fly should lick itself like a cat, since its trunk was not made for lickings but for grasping and sucking." The chemist fell to thinking. He caught the fly nnd put it under the microscope, and saw the insect was covered with air lice. Here was something to be looked into. " Why is the fly lousy ?" mueed Mr. Em­ erson. He caught another fly with a like result, and in this case found the insect eating the vermin which had been worked o>er into gum. "A glance through the microscope," said tho chemist, "showed that the op­ eration was not one of self beautifica- tion, for wherever the air lice were, thither the trunk went. The lice were disappearing into the trunk!! The fly was eating them! I!" The chemist grasped a paper, waved it frantically and mysteriously through the air, put it un­ der the lens, and found it thickly oovered with the same kind of vermin that ba liad discovered on the flies. " Here is something definite," said he. "The puzzle is solved. Eureka! The fly is a scavenger." Mr. Emerson made inves­ tigations with flie i taken in filthy and unhealthy places, and found them fat and saucy, while insects caught in clean and well-ventilated apartments where they could get little gum, were as lean and lonesome as a park bummer after a night in a bar-room. The fly correspondent closes with the glowing peroration : " One word for the mosquito. When the summer sun dries up the stagnant marshes, he sends the gay and festive mosquito to warn you to close your windows against the miasma that will bring chills and fevers, and if you will not listen to his gentle rounde­ lay, he inserts his little bill as a gentle reminder of the doctor's bills that will follow, compared with which it is as Ti- tania's wand to Goliah's club." A French Opinion of America.- The French vrorkingraen delegated by the trades-unions to visit our Centennial show have been banqueted on their re­ turn to Paris, and treated to letters from Louis Blanc and Victor Hugo, and a second-hand greeting from the now de­ crepit Papa Raspail. They gave their opinions of America and the Exhibition without reservation, and these opinions are not flattering. We learn from the speeches of Citizens Desmoulins and Damil and Prudent and Barodet that the Exhibitions a failure, and that American industry is a misnomer--there is nothing of tbe sort, all our designs, all our pro­ ductions, being either copies of French originals clumsily done, or the work of French artisans, drawn here by the sup­ posed industrial advantages of this coun­ try. These advantages, moreover, are overrated. The workingman has no liberties • negro slavery has been abolished, but more than replaced by slavery of the whites. The workingman is deplorably ignorant--he has to labor fifteen hours a day in order to live mis­ erably, and, after that, he has no leisure to run to the libraries. The working- man has no part in the values he pro­ duces--they reii fores the tyranny of capital. The gloom of the general view, in short, was desperate; while, as to the shameless way in which we have stolen French ideas and methods, "the spec­ tacle was desolating to every serious spectator." And Citizen Desmoulins warned his brethren that the time was coming, when, by means of this robbery, American markets would be closed to even the articles of luxury of which France has hitherto had a monopoly, as they are already to some of its industrial arts (the work of the carriage-maker, for instance), and as they are to English cottons, coal and iron. There seems to be a trifling incoherence in thin mention of cottons, coal and iron, which can hardly have been affected by our vicious robbery of French skill--but perhaps Citizen Desmoulins can trace a connec­ tion. Finally, cried the orator : " Let us show ourselves the sons of the French revolution, by which the entire universe profits in spite of itself. Let --as instruct ourselves ; we perish by ignorance; we have to repair the ravages made \>y four­ teen oenturiee of clerical obscurantism." Whioh sounds like a faint echo from another Desmoulins, friend of Danton and tribune of the people. AH Korte. AjN Indian will keep fat on roots where a white man would starve on podding. I* is estimated that over $100,000 changed hands during the great rifle match. THERE was a tree in Baltimore county, Md., which was struck by lightning in May, and again in July, the last stroke completely demolishing it. AN impecunious Cohoes doctor advises his friends to throw their peach pits on the sidewalk, as many cases of apoplexy have been caused bv the exertion of throwing them into the street.--Brook­ lyn Argv.s, THE office of chaplain in the French army has been abolished by the Asaem bly. _ Complaint was made that chap laincies were filled by men who were of no particular account, and who did the soldiers little or no good. A SINGLE day's orders from the Post- office Department recently amounted to 1,459,100 stamped envelopes, 8,556,410 postage stamps, and 1.410,000 posts! cards. The aggregate amount charged to the Postmaster therefor was $272. 122.96. A DRUGGIST at Little Falls, N. Y., has for several years bred brook trOut in a large aquarium placed in one of his store windows, by conducting through the aquarium the water of a brook near by fed by springs and remarkably free from, earthy deposits. A MAN-EATER shark, eight feet nine inches long, has just been caught at Newport, R. I. It is said to be the largest shark ever seen there, and it was taken in a seine.^ It divides attention with a mackerel eight and a half feet lnnir that weighs 800 pounds. DECEIVED by fog into the belief that they were going to run into another train, the engineer and fireman of a Hoosac tunnel train, jumped from the engine the other day, and the latter, Al- van Foster, of Ashburnham, Mass., was badly hurt about the head. THC first bar of iron Tnmfa in the United States was manufactured by Mr. Samuel C. Lewis, of Pittsburgh, Penn. He has been formally invited to visit the Centennial Exhibition by the represen­ tatives of the iron interest, and will be received and entertained by them. ONE of the supes at the Worcester, Mass.,theatre, the other evening, whohad orders to "shoot an Indian*' in the Rocky mountain , scene, did his work too effectually, and filled the back of one of the actors with a big charge of powder. The hurt was more painful than serious. BOSTON folks, very naturally, don't like a decision of Judge Gardner, of the Superior Court, holding guilty a German named Hasy for keeping his confeo- tionery store open Sunday, though the man really believed Saturday is the real Sabbath, and closed his store on that day. HERB KBCTP estimates that his latest gun will penetrate the twenty-four-inoh armor of the English ironclad Inflexible at a distance of 1,800 metres, or will go through a fourteen-inch armor five or six miles off, and throw a projectile THE GREAT BJA8T. rr,rqHg,1ft overLon don. A MASSACHUSETTS clergyman, the Rev. C. L. Lathrop, has been brought to trial for the brutal treatment of his three daughters. The testimony includes horsewhipping for trivial offenses, sys­ tematic starving, feeding upon rotten meat, and positive dishonesty in his family relations. Two CONVICTS employed in the con­ struction department on the San Anto­ nio road at Seguin, Texas, recently ef­ fected their escape in a novel manner. They loosed the engine from the con­ struction train and jumped aboard, and while one of them held the engineer tho other ran the engine. When at a safe distance they ptopped and took to the woods.. THE first marriage in Deadwood took place in the theater, at the jclose of the regular performance, Sept. 1. The local print says that the bride was " attired in an elegant evening costume," while "the groom was jauntily dressed." A 'Squire tied the knot, and, from stage fright, or the presence of his mother-in- law, forgot to kiss the bride. A PAINTER in Washington fell through a skf light, striking ou his right hip, and a mineral-water bottle containing muri­ atic acid--used in his business, and car­ ried in his hip-pocket--was smashed, the small end or neck being driven about two inches into the flesh, causing a pain­ ful, lacerated flesh wound. Fortunate­ ly for him there were lots of doctors around. A CORRESPONDENT of the Kankakee (III) Gazette soliloquizes on the Cen­ tennial as follows : To go or not to go--that Is the question; Whether it is better to lay up zucklea for that rainy day, And puffer the alinga and arrows of regret Till 1976; or to gather up the eheckels. Buy a through ticket, go down to the big show And have a grand good time ? To gather--to bay-- To go--to see ; and, by so doing, make an end Of all regrets--'tia a consummation devoutly to be wished. To gather--to buy--to go. and then to aee-- Ay, there's the ruo; 'tis easier said than done. NOT only is Chicago to take a stand s the metropolis in the amusement line also. Hereafter Chicago audiences will not await the convenience and the verdict of London and New York before seeing and deciding upon a dramatic novelty. The best plays of foreign manufacture will be produced here at McVicker's Theater, either before or simultaneously with their production in London and New York. "Well, well, well!"--Chicago Inter Ocean. NEAR Cairo, Egypt, the oeremony of opening the Nile took place this eeason in the presence of the principal min­ isters and officials and several thousand persons. This ceremony is held when the river attains a certain height. An opening is cut to admit its fertilizing waters to the numerous canals spread all over Lower Egypt. The effigy of a wo­ man in gorgeous apparel, and bedecked with jewelry,, is floated down the stream, and money is distributed to the natives present, in token of the riches and abun­ dance that will result wherever the Kile flows. xi or omy us v/mcago ro rase a stand with New York as a wholesale dry-goods market, but it is to compete with the Blowing Up Hell.flat* Beet--The Terrific Mending Foree Liberated by the Finger of a Child--AnSveat In the History ot New York. [Frcm the New York World. Half past 2! A jet of white smoke, followed by a heavy report, announced the first gun. In tventy minutes it will be all over. The suspense is most op­ pressive. Tho tide, which is now nearly at its height, dashes and swishes against the wall, and conversation in the neigh­ borhood of the shanty is monulated to the accompaniment of the wates. Ten minutes later and a black tug which had been lying alongside cf the Gen­ eral's launch steamed across the river to the scow at Ward's island, and after a brief delay turned its head toward the 'firing point." 44 It is bringing somebody here I Mrs. Newton is coming from the. scow;" and it was whispered among the little group that at the supreme moment a lady would touch the key and let the earth­ quake free to do its will. The black tug touched the little dock, and after some bustle and ado a lady emerged from the cabin, escorted by Lieut. Willard, and followed by a nurse carrying a sweet-faced blue-eyed child. They hurried across the narrow gang­ way and stepped into the shanty, the original tenants making way for them by scrambling up the slope on the wet grass. The babe seemed to inspire awe and wonder among the gazers. As they stared, Lieut. Willard whispered to the man at his side. The listener wheeled instantly toward his next neighbor and whispered in turn, and the elcctric mes­ sage flashing through the crowd ex­ ploded the mine of curiosity in a burst of surprise: "That baby is going to fire the mine!" The boom of the second gun came across the water giving warning that but ten minutes remained to complete the work. Gen. Newton and his as­ sistant were seen to descend from the bomb-proof toward the launch--ev­ idence that the last task, that of con­ necting the wires, had been accom­ plished. As the launch left the side of the dam and steamed toward the 44 firing point," word was passed that the last man had abandoned the mine and every­ thing was ready for the climax. When within a few feet of the shanty Gen. Newton sprang to the gangway and thence to shore. Going into the iiut he first unlocked and adjusted the instru­ ment. Then lifting the blue-eyed baby to the table he said : " Do you know what you are going to do, Mary?" The child, timid and confused, made no reply. Her nurse motioned toward the instrument, and the chubby hand reached out to touch the key. The wires were detached, and she was suf­ fered to play with the clicking toy for a moment. It was a most impressive scene. All that indicated the giant slumbering in his den yonder was this double wire, as though an arm reaching from the pit had been dissected to the nerves which would startle the sleepy monster to a fury at the slightest touch. The toy was removed for an instant and the wires replaced. Six minutes more. Looking up the stream, Gen. Newton saw the steamboat the mine. '* What in the name of conscience does she mean?" he said, angrily, and his excited assistants followed with a chorus: " Fire it at once. General 1" "Delay the firing and signal her, General! " Shall I signal to her, General?" Boom! broke tho report of the third signal-gun upon the air. The moment had arrived. Every member of the little group held his breath as Lieut Willard, running out upon the pier, waved a handkerchief for the last signal to Col. Abbott, and then sprang back inside the hut. The chubby fist of tho baby girl was stretched toward the key amid a silence like that of death. An instant of terrible suspense--two--three; the child had withdrawn her arm in fright at the general hush, and looked inquir­ ingly at her father. " Now, Mary!" he said, and seizing the tiny hand he drew it toward the key. Click f And simultaneously with that click thc earth quivered an instant, while a grand crown of water, boiling white at the crest, rose majestically lroni the mine, while a thunder-clap smote the air. An­ other convolution, with jets rising here and there out of the crest--tho black mud at the bottom showing now, with masses of rock and timber struggling amid the chaos. Then a second report, duller than the first, rumbled along the water. Only an instant of this. The next second and the mass had tumbled foaming to its place, sending a wave circling into the river; and the climax had passed. Then came chaos Mid Babel together! A confusion of tongues at first, followed by a definite exclamation of relief, for the suspense had been terrible. Sud­ denly a ringing voice called : 44 Three cheers for Gen. Newton 1" Never did huzzas arise from more en­ thusiastic throats. Deafening rounds of bellowing voices fairly outdid the ex­ plosion of the mine. From the 44 firing point" to the soene of the blast, at a dead run, was a matter of six minutes. A throng of men and boys were already prowling among the ruins, grabbing for bits of wire and wood as souvenirs, and tumbling over each other like a pack of ravenous wolves at feast. On the river a vulture-swarm of boats, springing from nowhere, pounced upon the floating timbers and growled and, shouted and quarreled a chorus to the shore. The river present­ ed a different surface now. A smooth, swift current ran close to the shore, and it was apparent at a glanoe that the blast had done its work most successfully. In spite of the many warnings against a too close approach to the reef alter the blast, the excursion steamers, laden to the water's edge, careening now on thiB side now on that, swooped down among the horde of smaller craft, and, braving the risk of wreck, explored the new channel without fear. On shore the effects were a disappointment to the alarmists and prophets of eviL A small frame building which stood nearest to the mine, and which had been used as an office by the engineers, had been lifted bodily into the air and dropped again, so that it stood aakew, bat not ft * pane of glass was broken either by the- concussion or the shock of the fall f • In the bomb-proof the disk of the bat­ tery, where the metallic points bad fallen into the cups of quicksilver, was . covered with the globules of mercurjr spilled by the sudden displacement aft - the points dropped into their placed The whole electric arrangement had, worked with the utmost harmony and success, every detail being carried out to the very letter. J?'or an hour the pdfe?" licemen and soldiers carried oi\ a ruQr ning combat with the crowd, who pitched and tore at the wires, each anxious to a secure a souvenir of the dajfc The leading wires were twisted anft broken into small pieces, and at the onV side gate one enterprising individual drove a trade in relics at 10 cents a bit for wire or wood. Then the crowd broke through the guard lines and swarmed over the grounds, inspecting the twisted office, the smashed-tip coffer dam and the remnants of the railway by which the debris had been removed tram the mine. Pith and Point* A HAN can't travel into a woman'a affections by getting on her train. ^ WIT is the boomerang that strikes and graciously returns to the hand. Hftmamgi is the envenomed shaft that sticks in thft victim's gizzard. OF the great Italian writers, it is gen­ erally conceded that Boocaocio lived in clover, and Dante in fern, oh !--CVw»- mercial Advertiser„ 44 WHAT is the worst side of naval warfare?" asked a school-teacher. 44Thft broadside," replied the boy in the back seat. He went np head. A COREESPOJTOENT says "the head oook at the Ocean House, Newport, get* S300 per month;" but we are not i»!d what kind of heads he cooks. SPRIOGS' wife woke him up at3 o'oloak in the morning to say that she had de­ cided, on the whole, to have a dark green suit and a green velvet bonnet this winter. AN old bachelor having been laughed at by a party of pretty girls, told them: 44 You are small potatoes!" 44 We may be small potatoes," said one of them, 44 but we are sweet ones." FIFTY cents a 44 swear " is the fine for swearing in Freehold, N. J. After a Freehold editor is bored half an hour by a lightning-rod agent ho slips on his coat, hurries outside the limits of the town, saves $10,000 in ten minutes, and returns feeling greatly relieved. WHEN a dog barks at night in Japan the owner is arrested and sentenced to work a year for the neighbors that were disturbed. The dog gets off easier, b*- ing simply killed. Our enlightened, country has still many things to learn from that more favored but less civilized people. THE following are some of the rhymes in Browning's new poem : 44Circle** and 4'work ill;" "was hard," "haz­ ard;" 4'whitewashed sides of it," 44fa* and wide so fit;" "grunt is't," " con­ trapuntist ;" " proven," " Bethoven f* 44 my house," 41 pious44 pontiff,'* 44 won't if;" 44 lam das," 44 d--d ass." 44 How MT7CH will your new school- books cost, Johnny ?" says father. (Johnny calculates to himself, sotto vo6e^ 44 Lemme see; 62 cents for the singing- • book, 75 cents for a new 'rithmetic, $1.3© hookey, harf a dollar for a new bat, ma a quarter for candy." Then out tdoud says, " 'bout $4, pa!" ! DEAD-BEATINA, as it is called, ought to be abolished. It is a nuisance. It was once reproved by a certain 44 mine host" in this wise: A preacher desired , that a reduction should bo made from his board-bill cn account of his 44 cloth,'* The host replied: 44 Friend, I have observed thee. Thou hast eaten as ft sinner, and thou must pay as a sinner.'* A SMALL boy was so unfortunate as to remark at the breakfast-table, the other morning, "Oh, dear! I'm so sweaty," quite to the horror of a youthful aunt. Being reproved for the use of so inele­ gant a term, he replied, "Oh, yes; I know all about it. They talk ot a horse as being 4 sweatywhen it's a man he 'perspires,' but young ladies like you only'glow.'" THE Philadelphia Bulletin docs this sort of thing by tbe column: 44 Miss Henue. of the opera troupe, had quite an ovation, the other night, as she warbled her lays at the Academy. Brignoli, the Nestor of the company, was delighted to have her chant-a-clear note, and the manager cackleated that she was the success of the season and would pullet through." A WEALTHY Bostonian died recently and left all his property to his wife on condition that she married again within eighteen months. A friend of his who knew of his purpose previous to his death said to him: 441 should think you would dislike the idea of another man enjoying your money." 44 He would not be likely to enjoy it much under the circumstances," was the reply. THERE is a play called "PiqnGs" of which the Utica (N. Y.) Herald says: 44 They went to the theater last night and were happy. But they quarreled all the way home--Horace insisting that the name of the piece was pronouneed •Pike,' while she knew it was 4Pe- kay,' and she had a dress of that arti­ cle. The policeman who heard them making up at the gate didn't4 peek.' " LAST Sunday morning a prominent Brooklyn clergyman, who had just re­ turned from his vacation, wishing to announce that the regular evening services would be resumed, and having a conscientious purpose to forestall any disappointment to members of his flock who might be cherishing expectation^ gave out the notice with the following comment: 44 As I have not been to Europe, nor to the Centennial, nor to any other place worth mentioning, I shall preach the gospel." Cultivate the Willow. Two-thirds of the willow for the man­ ufacture of willow ware in this country is imported from Europe at a cost of $5,000,000. The cultivation of the wil­ low is contemplated by some Americans, they thinking that, by cultivating supe­ rior grades of the basket willow, they o&n make a profit per acre of §150. a 1 manufacturer asserts that fully 5,000 a*-tides are constructed from willow shoot® --chairs, sofas and baskets being the j most common. <8$