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i nothleg »**• thon PNI MAT IHM (OM BEYOND <hy With M»r a hw*«« vow. The I--lint moment to r»<*t thine; Ltfc stand* B-twwn, s MHN<IW (ill*, riiritos while the utw's hot--(trite Now it the Mine to do (he deed, Wow the lime to uproot the wi*4. Act, nor pause to ask the h«>* ; : Each |«xmig m.Hiiew i-hil.s iln1 glow, ©<»*1 foi^inu twin* the thought and **>% Strike while the iruu'a hot--titrate BQ«f Jt Plan M we will, strike aa we may, j '- ' Ail »ower, hope, growth iroui <l*y toeaft To the crualriiig now must how. B nulls of rea«Mi I'eHuig, tact, All are sunu ae, the now butf Strike while the irou's hot -i Greatnes* the now ha* always we®, W*il sowed, that this Si« all the $n$ Of Hie, who <ao disavow? Work in the now fioru first to lastj, •lis always with you, newrpwt. Strike while the iron'a hot--atritel -4- WHISKY BOB'S CLAIM. Whisky Bob was dead broke, very tired, and wanted to sit down and study his situation and what was best to be done. "Here I be again, the same denied fool as ever, rained by whisky after mak- in' piles of money; I just deserve it. Wbat a dcggoued jackass a human oan make his self with whisky." Taking up his pack, Bob toiled slowly up the ridge under the trees until he came to the top, where it flattened out in the level places and slight depres­ sions. Birds were singing and flowers blooming around kim; and, as he sat down to rest, he heard, to his astonish­ ment, not very far off, the dear sweet voioe of a female, singing. Peeping cautiously under the young pine tree, there, m a little open flat, sit­ ting on a rock, was the singer. It was a pleasant picture to look at for a lonely man--a tall, shapely, buxom young girl, with light, golden hair, blue eyes, and j very regular, pretty features. She was dressed in a short calico dress, with moc­ assins on her feet, and a sun-bonnet thrown back on her head. Her hand rested on a long Kentucky rifle. She was a representative of the better class of Western girls, who were continually in those earlier days arriving in the mountaius of California from the long trip overland, emigrating in families from Kentucky and other States. Whisky Bob listened to the song with delight, and gazed at the singer in ad­ miration; and then, with his pack on his shoulder, coolly walked out into her presence, and, putting his pack down not far from her, sat down lumself. Then she spoke to iiirn: "Well, Mister, who might you be, that walks into a young lady's drawing- zoom without knaokiug, even on the iiark of a tree?" "Please, Miss, I'm cidled Whisky Bob --out prospecting." "JKo miss' about it, Mr. Bobb, pleae: My name, for short, is Nell Green to all friends, and to others--well, I've a shoot­ ing-iron," said the girl, and' continued: "Your name of Whisky is a bad one, young man, and I reckon shows you are being ruined by corn juice. Is that so?" "Well, Nell, that's a fact--but rather rough," said Bob, who saw the girl had a half smile on her face. "Now, Mr. Bob--without the Whisky --it seems to me," said Nell, "ye're throwing yerself away, and there might tie something better for yer, if ye'd seek it," and she looked at him with an ex- ixression of some interest. •1 know it, Nell, if I oould only do it* •- "Got no folks, no family, to keer for you?" saidNelL "Narry one," replied Bob; "never had. I toted myself and pack up this ridge to jest seek my luck once more, and quit the corn jiuce and reform. I said to my­ self, •Bob, if ye could only meet a wo­ man anywhere in these diggins, and •take out a claim where she stood, it would bring ye fresh luck and ye might turn over a new leaf, and be somebody ouoe more.' And here, sure enough, I've met you." "Ye mean right, I'm sure," said Nell, softly. "But down the trail aw?y yonder I see my folks are coming along, with their fixings and plunder, pau, mau and the rest ov'em. I must put out, stranger, but Mr. Bob, let me say a kind word to J® °n parting from a short acquaintance. You say a woman brintrs v« lnr>L- every '.fir V, m mi •!,v* • acq <)U say a woman brings ye luck time. Now I just hope I'll bring good fortune to yet, and you may take your pile out of this 'ere spot, though I can't «ee where it is. Mr. Bofc„" said the girl Itesitating, "ef ye do not find it, and act ?P to yer good intentions about the corn mice--well, , then. Mr Bob. my folks are raising log houses and shed fixings down on the opening at the foot'of the creek, •way there you can see a break in the trees. We mean to locate." And walk­ ing up to Bob, she put her hand on his shoulder, ' 'and Mr. Bob, if ye raise yer pile yer can bring jest a little piece of oold down for Nell to remember she brought a better life to ye." > He took his rocker and put it in run­ ning order down the ridge by a little pool of water, fed by a small stream, where he could bring his dirt and wash out for half an hour, and then pack down more, while the pool was filling with water again. Next he went and rolled sway the rook where Nell had been sitting and singing by the dry pebbles of the rivulet, and, taking his pick, began digging put a ditch in the grass, about two feet deep and tw# feet wide, down stream, and took the dirt to his rocker. He worked until sunset, only finding about six bits of coarse gold, but in his last bucket, when washed out, he found a good solid piece of gold weighing three ounces. In the morning he arose by daylight, and after his breakfast of fried pork and coffee, ending with the usual smoke of his pipe, he went to work again, deter­ mined to work the gold out for NeH's sake, if he did not make a fortune. He worked hard and steady through the day. only stopping at noon for some onree and a smoke beneath the pine tree cunp. The sun was very not, but lie didn't mind it. At night, when he washed out the result of the day's hard toil, he OBly had a dollars' worth of coarse gold, but he found a little piece of blue ribbon Nell had lost from her Its#-. This con­ soled him amply, as he kissed it and said to himself, •• Bob, better luck to-mor- row." His claim was what miners call 1 "very spotted," for the gold was scat­ tered in spots here and there. The next :. day and the next, his lalxtrs brought him • the same result--about enough to pay «Kpenses, or as the miners eall it, "grub iponey." The fourth day, just Wore he washed out, ki his last rocker of dirt, at Bunsct, he found two pieces of <*< >ld, one worth $150, the other full $><». Bob was happy that night, and tied the blue rib­ bon with a leather string round his neck, SO that it could rest on his heart. The next two days brought no big piece, but the seventh he took pieces of gold from -; the clay-like cement weighing about $700. It was dark colored gold, pretty •olid, and twisted into strange shapes, with holes in it, but not appfearing much * W»rn, or, in mining parlance, "washed." When the miu«*rs passed him daily on their way to the divide, they stopped to 'ifIk what hi* luck was, and when they saw a very little coarse gold m his pan, they laughed at him. But Bob kept his lumps of gold in his pocket, or buried them beside the rock iu his camp. In this way "he worked on, taking sometimes large pieces of gold out; half as large as i Nell's little fist, and then tor days very little. He now examined and weighed his pold. and found that he had about $S,000, 1 mostly m heavy pieces. This was a pretty good fortune for seven weeks' diggiug, and Bob felt an unconquerable longing to go and tell Nell all alxmt it. The next morning by daylight he cleared utt, packed up his things and started dowsn the ridjre to the nearest trading tents. But in his blankets, carefully strapped •out of sight, was a heavy bag of gold in place of a whisky bottle. It was early in the day yet, and Bob jset out to find tlie ranch of Nelly's peo­ ple, leaving his pack, except the blanket containing the gold, which was slung over his shoulders ou his pick handle. In a little over a mile's walking he found a pretty valley at the month of the creek, where some new log houses, fences and olearings indicated Nell's home. In a bade room, with her white, strong, beautifnl arms bare to the shoulder, stood pretty Noll at the waslitub, very busy in a stream of soapsuds and Ken­ tucky jeans, singing free as a bird. Bob pnt do wn his pack and walked in, but Nell's quick ear heard, and she turned and saw him, and her cheeks flushed and her eyes sparkled. "What! Bob, is that you come at last? iu store clothes, too?" said she, glancing with bright eyes at the young man, and with poorly disguised pleasure. "Certain, sure, Nell; you said I jnight lone." •• les. Bob! hut how about the whisky?" " Nell, I haven't touched a drop since yon saw me; if I have they may shoot me. And what's more, I don't mean to --if you say so," replied he. •!An' Bob, did I bring luok to yer? Was there gold up thar?" "Nell, thar's six thousand dollars and more, rolled in them blankets thar, I >we to your pretty self, or I'm a nigger. And, Nell, just look here." and Bob took irorn the breast of his shirt a package carefully wrapped in pape^ which had rested ou the bow of Nell's blue ribbon he had found, end which she plainly saw. Unwrapping it, there was a piece of gold, in the shape of a spread eagle, almost exact in every part, weighing •tver six ounces. "NeH, you said I might bring yer a specimen from my pile, aad hese 'tis." "Yes, Bob, but what gal's bit of rib- !x>n is that yer so keerful about?" said Nell, with a laying look, but turning her face from him mischievously, and stirring the soap-suds. ! "That ere," replied he, "broke loose from the liar of an angel that met me on the mouutains, yonder, and said some kind words to a dead-broke man, that gave him new life, and what's more, brought good luck, the thing as a charm to lighten his thoughts when he felt downbeartened." "Yes, Bob," said she, "but ain't that talk kind of airy? Angels don't flit round these diggins, as I ever heerd ov." "Yes, Nell, that's so; but any woman's an angel to man that*s going wrong, who, in the loving kindness of her heart, encourages him to do right, and that's what ye've done for me. That ere gold came to me by luck from you, and if ye'd only take it vpth something else" -- "With what. Bob?" but Nell still kept her face turned away, while he was edging still closer to her. "Well, Nell, if I must make the riffle, just take Bob with the dust and make him a happy man for the rest of his life. He loves j'er, and would die for yer any time." and Bob stole his arm around her slender waist. Nell at lpst turned her blushing face, and looking roguishly at Bob, said: "Don't you think. Bob, it would be bet­ ter sense to sav you'd live for Nell than to die for her?" Bob did not speak, but drew Nell to him, and kissed her. Nell, somehow had her hands so entangled in the soapsuds and clothes that she couldn't resist, but she pouted her lips, and Bob took his kiss back from them. Three years after the above events happened, in that same valley, was a very pretty cottage* with a garden and flower around it, that indicated taste and refinement, and &3RICULTURAL HOTESk TIIERB are no horses in Greenland and Lapland. In 1739 a sooiety in offered a premium of £100 for grown in India. IT is asserted that the of the Unitea States have twice the value of the wheat crop. A COMPANY has been organized in New Orleans, with a capital of $100,000, to manufacture jute bagging, which has hitherto been imported. A itEC&fT sale in England of one hun­ dred Hereford bulls for shipment to Buenos Ayres, shows that even there the improvement of stock has com­ menced. \ > GOOD sweet milk contains one-fourth more sugar than butter; this sugar turns to acid, and if this acid is too much de­ veloped before churning the coveted aroma is destroyed. THE past season has been a very fine one for soeding wheat, and there has been a full crop sown. Winter wheat is reported in many places as having come up remarkably well. THE following may be acoepted as an approximate to the average qualities of milk given by different breeds of cows: Natives produce annually 1,794 pounds; Jersey, 8,820; Ayrshire, 4,300; Holstein, 4,527 pounds. Iv Germany the dairyman sends his butter through the mail to the con­ sumer's table. In wiuter it is sent in parchment paper and wrapped in com­ mon paper; in summer ini tin cans or wooden boxes made expressly for that purpose. THK Elgin, HI., Bo&rd of Trade aro doing a service to Western dairymen by showing up the Chicago frauds who are putting up neutral lard, deodorized dead- horse grease, and other nauseous and deleterious mixtures, under the name of Western creamery butter. Mr. Lakiu, of Powyke, Worcestershire, England, says that his short-born cow, Old Strawberry, gave an average of 4,200 quarts per year, for fifteen years, her daughter Star gave an average of 3,200 quarts for seven years, and her grand­ daughter Stella gave an average of 3,920 quarts for five years. IN- the process of dressing hogs for English baoon the hair is removal by being singed, instead of being scalded off; therefore, the animal must not be too chuffy. Hogs suitable for making this singed bacon, for which there is a growing demand, are a cross with the pure Berkshire s. FEW persons are aware of the pianu- rial advautage of sewage. It is said that if the sewagrf of London could be ap­ plied to an entirely barren soil, it would confer upon it the power of producing food sufficient for 150,000 people, and yet this is drained into the river Thames to poison its waters and send pestilence along its shores. A practical solution of how to utilize sewage would be a boon to the world. THE Bothamsted experiments by Dr. J. B. Laws show an average product this year of twenty-eight and one-sixth bushels per acre for the unmanured plots that have been in wheat without fertilizers for thirty-seven years in suc­ cession, and thirty-four and five-sixth bushels per acre for the manured plots. This is a much better result than the average of ten years past, not so gooid as the preceding eighteen years, yet a little better than the average of twenty- eight years. IT appears from a series of experiments at the agricultural academy of Eldena that Holland cows consume about five pounds of hay or its equivalent for every quart of milk, and Ayrsliires nine pounds of similar food for each quart of milk. Another series of experiments conducted by Villerory resulted in showing that 100 pounds of hay produced in Hollanders twenty-nine quarts and in Herefords six­ teen quarts. On a comparison of these figures with other data it appears that4 the average for all breeds is about six pounds of hay, or its equivalent for one quart of milk. SQUASHES are of tropical origin, and therefore whiyi spring opens it is use­ less to plant tftem until the soil is quite warm and all danger of frost or cold nights is over. Again as they make a very rapid growth there is no necessity of haste in getting the seed into the mas lncucatea taste | ground. Squashes are good feeders, lik- »g « rich soil. It is best to manure in had become extensive, with its buildings and improvements. Her® resided Mr. Robert S tin ton and his happy wife, the handsomest and happiest couple in the northern counties. Mr. Stinton was a prosperous oat- tle dealer, well-to-do, and few remem­ bered that there ever was such a nidi as Whisky Burlington Society Notes. The most Btylish purse of the season is made of undressed sealskin, with nothing in it. A novelty in neck lingerie for gentle­ men is made of hemp or manila arwj is so worn as to close np pretty snug when the gentleman steps through the trap. It is much affected in Nevada and New Mexico. The engagement, of Johnny Snebbly and Miss Lebechin will be announced as soon as Mr. Snebbly has got a lift in his salary to $11 a week. Mrs. Isinglass held a brilliant recep­ tion in the back parlor of her fashion­ able hotel on Saturday evening last. She received $5.65 apiece from all her regular boarders except voung Mr. FaS- boy, who paid her 6b cents and a Bilver watch, and stood her off till next Saturday for the rest of it. The fascinating Mrs. Tommary, of North Hill, had a new girl last week; a genuine Swede, imported, that runs at 178 pounds and broke two lamps and a soup tureen the first day in the house. Miss Diflenback, the accomplished and beautiful cantatrice of West slapped her old mother over the h< with the dish-rag last Tuesday evening, because the old lady wouldn't let her go down and sing m a Dutch chorus at the masquerade in Bogus Hollow. Miss Diffenback has the true temper of a lyric artist and our city will yet be proud of her. Mrs. Dinklemaa read a profound paper before the " American Woman's Society for the Elimination of the B. B. in the B. S." Mrs. Dinkleman said she always got the drop on them when she used corrosive sublimate.--Burdette. What It Costs to Smoke. The cost of regular smoking, says an exchange, is shown by the following computation, upon the basis of a weekly expenditure of $1, the amount, 826, be­ ing brought in as capital at the end of every bix months, at 7 per cent, per an­ num compound interest. It amounts to, at the end of .t SM.944S jraan 9 15,080 N -- MSI" - " 5 year*. 10 yearr...... 15 ycara. 20 jr earn. '2~> yeara.. ... H<) year*. 35 years. 40 yearn..... 1,841.91156 yoara S.1W 94 6 ) > 8,405 37 (55 yean 5,1H8 60 70 yoara 7,511 (Mj75 yuan.. 81,936 1» 46.404.11 64^81.41 90.9*0.2-1 128,641.G4 10,9O0.O7j*J yearn 181,7«U2 Moi>t smokers (of cigars) will pay out at least 25 cents a day for " the weed," at which rate the amounts in the above table would be nearly doubled. Moral: Don't smoke. the hill. In sowing place a dozen seeds in each hill, and when danger from the bugs is over pull up all but three or four. A mellow, warm soil is the best. For bush sorts make hills three or four feet apart, and for running kinds twice that distance. All winter squashes should be ripened thoroughly or they are watery, lacking sweetness and richness, also lacking keeping properties. * MB. HAD WEN of Worcester, in giving his experience with shade and ornamen­ tal trees, at the Southboro meeting of the Massachusetts Board, said that the Norway maple would succeed where many other varieties of the maple failed. It succeeds well on a stiff, heavy clay. European larches grow rapidly under favorable circumstances. In cultivating them he has had the benefit both for ornamental and economical purposes. Twenty-six years ago he set out a row of Scotch larches on the line of his avenue leading to the public highway. This season he was in want of twenty large sticks of timber for his cow stable floor, aud was unable to obtain what he wanted conveniently elsewhere, so he took out every other one of these trees, and they squared eight by ten inches, thirty feet long. Those which were left were suf­ ficiently ornamental and answered the purpose of shade almost as well as before the row was thinned out. He planted a belt of white pine trees to protect his buildings, and for thirty years has had the benefit of their shade and their in- , fluence as a wind-break. They are orna- I mental and useful, and will be valuable j in the future as wood. He has had goad success with certain varieties of trees and shrubs from China aud Japan, and found them well adapted to the soil and 'of Massachusetts. White Lies. Not a day passes, probably, in which we do net listen to several of those polite fibs which usage sanctions. For in­ stance: " Cigars do not affect me in the least; indeed, I am quite partial to the aroma," says the white-lipped girl to her {gentleman friend, who smokes constant-y at her side; her sufferings only equaled by those of the other girl who persists in rising with her back to the horses, and says that the motion does not affect her in the least, though knowing that many times before she has been reduced to a state of miserable sr-a-sickness by a t itnilar proceeding. " Not at home to­ day, John;" . and the footman receives and delivers the message to visitors as uncousciously as though there were no moral wrong involved in the transaction. I recently heard an animated conversa­ tion concerning the propriety and moral­ ity of polite lying. Several, including a minister, asserted that both politeness and kindliness demanded that we fre­ quently say that which we do not mean, admire that we do not like, assent to that with which we do not agree, and in many ways speak and act lies to avoid wounding the feelings of other people. One lady present, who immediately re­ ceived the sobriquet of "Puritan,"" main­ tained that, while it is not necesnai y to say all that we think; while we need never give adverse opinion unless it is positively oiled for; while we ifeed not obtrude our likes aud dislikes, nor ex­ press our unfavorable criticism; whije, indeed, we should seek for something which we can honestly admire and praise in every one, all shams and subterfuges, all seemings that were not realities, and especially all words spoken with intent to deeeivo are, in plain Suxon, lies, and no amount of kindliness of purpose can change their moral character. A lie is a lie--nothing more, nothing less.---jffx- chatige. ^ ' HOUSEHOLD HELPS, ' TEA CAKES.--One cup of eour cream, one cup of sugar, two eggs, two cups (full) of flour, teaspoonful of soda. FRIED OYSTERS.--Dip eaoh oyster in beaten egg, then in rolled crackers or corn-meal and fry quiokiy.in hot butter or lard. PUFFS,--Two eggs, two cups of milk, two cups of flour and a little salt. Pour into. hot roll pans, and bake in a quick oven. Fill the pans about half full. COCOANOT COOKIES.--Two cups sugar, one cup butter, two eggs, one teaspoon­ ful soda dissolved in a tablespoonful of milk, one coooanut and flour enough to roll. FRENCH LOAF CAKTK.--Two cups sugar, half cup butter, half epp of sweet milk, teaspoonful of soda, two of cream tartar, three eggs, three cups flour; flavor with lemon. LEMON JY.AF-JACXS. --One pint of milk,' four eggs, juice of one lemon, flour to make a light batter, pinch of soda. , Fry in hot lard. Servo with sugar and nut- meg. FRIED MILK TOAST.--Dip slices of bread in milk, wetting both sides; have some butter in a hot frying pau . and fry the bread a delicate brown. Will relish for tea. PUFF CAKE.--Two cups sugar, three ®gg8» one cup butter, one cup sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls cream tsirtur, one' teaspoonful soda,i;hree cups flour. Bake' in a quick oven. POTATO PUFFS.--Two cups of cold, mashed potatoes; stir into this one tahle- Bpoouful of melted butter, two «ell beaten eggs, and one cup of milk or cream. Pour into a deep dish and bake in a quick oven. CIDER CAKE.--One cup of sugar, half cup of butter, one egg well-beaten, one large cup ef cider, one teaspoonful of soda, flour sufficient to inake it as thick as pound cake. One cup of raisins can be added if desired. CREAM COOKIES.--Two cup3 sugar, two eggs, one cup cream, one cup but­ ter, one teaspoonful soda, one teaspoon­ ful lemon extract or one-half a nutmeg, grated; flour enough to make a dough as soft as it can be rolled. Delicious. LATER CREAM CAKE.--Three eggs, one cup white sugar, four tablespoonfuls oold water, one teaspoon of cream, two spoonfuls of baking powder, half cup flour; for the cream, half cup of cream beaten to a stiff froth; add a little sugar; flavor to taste. WASHINGTON CAKB.--Two eggs, one cup of sugar, on$-holf cup of butter, one-half cup of milk, one and a half cups of flour, one small teaspoonful of sale- ratus, same quantity of cream of tartar. This will make three cakes. I use half butter and half lard. FRUIT CAKE.--One cup of butter, two 3ups of sugar; threat&M a half cups of flour, one cup of molasses, one cup of cream, four eggs, one pound of raisins, citron and currants according to means, one teaspoonful of saleratus, spice to taste. Warranted to keep a year. FRIED APPLES.--Quarter tart apples without peeling; have some nice salt pork fryings, or butter if preferred, and lay the apples close together, skin side down; cover till well steamed; then uncover and brown both sides, turning and watching closely to prevent burning. FEATHER CAKE.--One cup of white sugar, one teaspoonful of melted butter, one egg, two-thirds cup of milk, two even enps of Bifted flour, two even teaspoon­ fuls of cream tartar, one of soda; flavor with lemon. I always sift pay cream tar­ tar and soda into the flour. You will be Burprised when you make this cake, it is so delicate. MOLASSES CAKE.--One cup of butter­ milk, one egg, one cup of molasses, half cup sugar, two-thirds cup of shortening, two even teaspoonfuls of soda dissolved in a little water, one teaspoonful of salt, two of ground cinnamon, a very tiny bit of cloves, one even teaspoonful of ginger, one-third of a small nutmeg and flour sufficient to make middling stiff. This will make two small loaves or one quite large one. Ssrow BALLS, WHITE.--One cup of sugar, six tablespoonfuls of melted but­ ter, two eggs, one enpof sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls of cream tartar, one of soda, a very little nutmeg, one teaspoonful of salt; mix middling soft and roll out, and cut with a small round cutter. I use my tea canister top, it being just the right si^e. Fry in not lard. Have ready a small bowl with a little fine white sugar ia it. As you take them from the lard ' '• j. . " •" - • ' • ^ •• FACTO FOB THE CTJBI0IJ8. THE water of the seo and rivers con­ tains more animal life than exists on the land, if we can believe scientists. Two FROOS a little water to drop them in the sugar and roll around quickly until the surface has a very thin coat of sugar all over it, then lay care­ fully on a plate. Repeat with each cake separately, adding ft little fresh sugar occasionally. SOUTHERN GUMBO FBLA.--Take an on­ ion and cut it up fine; have the lard quite hot, then drop the onion in and let it fry alight brown; dust in two tablespoonfuls of flour and stir all the time to keep from burning, and in a few minutes it will be brown; pour in boiling water as much as will servo the family, allowing for boiling down; have a nice fat chicken cut up, put iu the pot and let it boil until tender; take fifty oysters from the liquor and strain it to remove all pieces of shell; put the liquor in a stew pan, let it boil up once, then skim and put the liquor ia the pot, season Wi(h salt, black and red pep­ per, also a small piece of garlic; after letting it boil some time, add the oysters; take two tablespoonfuls of fela and dust in, Stirling all the time; as soon as it boils once it is ready to serve; always serve with boiled rioe. Republics a Smefl** This significant remark is made by The London Echo: "While Italy is accumulating a deficit; while Austria is bending under a deficit; while Spaiu can scarcely make l>oth ends meet, and while the alleged imyn-ovement of the financial condition of Prussia has proved to be ilhisory--to say nothing of Russia--it is worthy of notice that Switzerland, as she has done for ages, maintains in govern­ ment matters the even tenor of her way; that France, under the Republic, feels no financial strain, and that the United States, the greatest Republic of ull, is going forward to prosperity by leaps and bounds." This would indicate that re­ publican institutions are a striking suc­ cess from a business point of view on both aides of the sea. oos put in an earthen jar With iter by a physiologist who in- use them for experimentation, were overlooked for nine months, dur­ ing which time tliey were without food. Yet, when found at last, they were "alive and kicking." : ACCORDING to Dr. Edward Smith, an egg contains 15} per cent, of nitrogen. Another writer estimates that the value of one pound of eggs, as food for sustain­ ing the active forcea of the body,, is to the value of one pound of lean brief as 1,584 to 900. Aii a flesh producer one pound of eggs Is about equal to one pound of beef. N v STORM warnings are a distinct branoh of the forecasts of meteorology. Their object is to give to seamen notice of an approaching gale. They have been now in operation for more than ten years, and during that period at least 75 per cent, of the warnings issued have been justified by the gales or strong winds which followed. THE medical department of Queen Victoria's household comprises three physicians ordinary, three physicians extraordinary, one sergeant-surgeon ex­ traordinary, two sergeant-surgeons, three surgeons extraordinary, one physician of the household, one surgeon of the household, one surgeon apothecary, two chemists of the establishment in ordi­ nary, one' surgeon oculist, one surgeon dentist in ordinary, ani .one other physi­ cian. THE simplest postoffice in the world is in Magellan straits, and has been es­ tablished there for some years past. It consists of a small cask, Which is chained to the rock of the extreme cape in the straits, opposite Terra del Fuego. Each passing ship sends a boat to open the cask and to take letters out and place others into it. The postoffice is self-acting therefore; it is under the protection of the navies of all nations, and up to the present there is not one case to report in which any abuse of the privileges it affords has taken place. THE progress of languages spoken by different people is said tj be as follows : English, which at the commencement of the century was only spoken by 22,009,- 000, is now spoken by 90,000,000; Russian by 63,000,000 instead of 30,000,- 000; German by 66,000,(500 instead of 38,000,000 ; Spanish by 44,000,000 in­ stead of 32,000,000; Italian by 30,000,- 000 instead of 18,000,000; Portuguese by 13,000,000 instead of 8,000,000. This is, for England^ an increase of 310 per cent. ; for Russia, 110 per cent.; for Germany, 70 per cent.; for Spain, 36 per cent., etc. In the case of France the increase has been from 34,000,000 to 46,000,000, or 36 per cent. MANY of these productions, says an English paper, have a very curious his­ tory, ii it could only be traced. Some of them probably owe their origin to names distinguished in our literature, as Oliver Goldsmith, for instance, is be­ lieved in his earlier days to have written such compositions. Dr. E. F. Rimbault gives us the following particulars as to some well-known favorites: "Sing a Song of Sixpence " is as old as the six­ teenth century. " Three Blind Mice " is found in a music book dated 1609. "The Frog and the Mouse" was licensed in 1580. "Three Children Sliding on the Ice " dates from 1639. "London Bridge is Broken Down" is of unfathomable antiquity. " Boys and Girls Come Out to Play is certainly as old as the reign of Charles II., as is also " Lucy Locket Lost Her Pocket," to the tune of which the American song of " Yankee Doodle" was written. " Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, Where Harve You Been ?" is of the age of Queen Bess. " Little Jack Horner " is older than the seventeenth century. " The Old Woman Tossed in a Blanket" is of the reign of James II., to which Monarch it is supposed to allude. The French Dickens. 1 Sneaking of Zola and his style, the London correspondent of the Troy Time* says: He calls himself a naturalist (sic) because his object in many of his volumes has been to represent human nature as he found it. I have no doubt, after read­ ing his works, that many of his delinea­ tions of character are perfectly true to nature; but what kind of nature is it? Where has he gone for his subjects?* Like Dickens, to the lower strata of so­ ciety, but unlike the English novelist, he has not, in most instances, selected the best types he could find there, but vilest, the most wretched, the most de­ jected. There is a resemblance between him and Dickens in another resu>eot. He is a marvelous word-spinner. He takes twenty pages to tell a thing that another could tell better in twenty lines. The resemblance holds good in yet another respect. He is most popular with the people. "L'Assommoir lias run through eighty editions in three years, and "Nana," a vile book, bids fair to outstrip even that. M. Zola is, besides, a jour­ nalist, and great critic ou almost every subject And, if one can believe half that is said, the most remarkable thing almut him is his seH-couceit and assurance. Bear witness this stanza: Monsieur Zola n'eut pna «n Onlmaire, erojez-lc bioo; Si 'on votis <lit rpi'tl mstn^e comiM Tout un diacun, n'ttn eroyex-ri«n! II ae mourrlt do la nature Et M vent d'nutro fuuirrltaret Mimsimtr Zola. ' Prenex-gaide, Monsieur Kola, 1 i Ceat un lichu wets, celul-lal The sarcasm in these lines is splendid, but untranslatable. I will tell your readers more about M. Zola in my next letter. i Aj* Ungallaat Translator. In a review of Professor Blackie's translation of Faust the Saturday He- view says: " Will it be believed that the closing wordb-- ' DnVntoctirilblMM H tar iat r* : !).« Ewk-We.UiciM Zdiht uiia bluan-- Are presented by him to the English spader thus: IWnntT lmmartal The rapt aptrit nalla, Where the eternally Female prevails. Of course translation is baffled here; but only total want of sympathy could ena­ ble a scholar of Professor Blackie's abil­ ity to turn out such a oarricature, eVen by way of incidental illustration. Bay­ ard Taylor's-- The IndrftCiibable, Here >t i* done; The Womsn-Smil laateth us Upward and on!-- Is at least in the right direction toward the movement and spirit of the original. Aud it is just the finer spirit and move­ ment that, eveo where he is iu sympathy with his author, Professor Blackie does not always preserve." Frugal Fan. The Puritan farmers were remarkably fnigal in their diet. They had pea*o- porridge for breakfast; bread, cheese and beer or cider for luncheon ; a "boiled dish," or "black broth," or salt fish, or boiled pork, or baked I jeans for dinner; hasty pudding and milk for supper, and of fruit or berry at every meal when tha hout-jswife had time to make them iu addition to her other cooking, her dairy, washing, mending, carding, spinning, weaving and knitting. Swedish turnips were the staple vegetables. The bread was gen­ erally made of corn, barley or rye meal, and, if the diet was rather farinaceous tlrui animal, there was less demand for m-dicing and a larger, longer growth of men antj women than in these de­ generate days of luxury and "progress," Donble Congrionsnera. Tie disappearance of the Rehr. John Marsland, of Windham County, Conner- cut, and his explanation when he was found at Binghamton, N. Y., 400 miles away from his residence, that all that had happened in the interval was a blank to him, brings np the mooted question whether there is or is not such a disease as donble consciousness. Many skeptics aver that such a condition of mind is impossible, but several physicians of this city and Paris declare that the diag­ nosis of this mental disorder is well der fined. Dr. William A. Hammond, ^of New York city, being asked his opinion on the subjeet said: "No doubt that amnesia, or double consciousness, exists in both a chronic and acute form. It is something more than absent mindednesa or temporary insanity. I liave classified it as a mild form of epilepsy. Many erases have come under my notice. Among them was that of a patient in a large mercantile establishment, who left bis office at 11 o'clock to get a signature to a paper from a gentleman whose place of busi­ ness was distant only a few minutes' walk. He had not returned at 3 o'clock, aud, as was subsequently ascertained, visited the office and obtained the signature, and left, apparently in good health, at 11:30. He did not appear at his own office till nearly 5 o'clock. The last thing he recol­ lected was passing St. Paul's church, at the corner of Broadway and Yesey street. It was subsequently found he had gone to Brooklyn, visited a newspaper office there, and purchased a newspaper. He then returned to New York, got into an omnibus at Fulton ferry, left it at the corner of Twenty-third street, entered the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and While there recovered recollection." "An even more interesting case oc­ curred in the autumn of 1875. A patient, who was a manufacturer, left his office at 8 a. m. to buy some bulbs. He re­ mained away eight days, and no trace was obtained of him during that time. Subsequently it was ascertained that he had been to theaters, and hotels, where he slept, and stores where he made purchases, and that he made a journey of 100 miles from New York. Losing his ticket he was put off at a way station, and, returning to New York, passed the night at a hotel, and on the eighth day, at about 10 o'clock, made his appearance at his office. He had no recollection of what ooourred, though he acted coher­ ently and had drank nothing intoxicating except a glass of ale, which he had with some oysters in a restaurant on Sixth avenue." Dr. Hammond's daughter has com­ pleted a novel entitled " Mr. Perkin's Daughter," which has been accepted by G. P. Putnam's Sons. The plot turns upon the idea of a double consciousness. The heroine, while in the "second state," engages herself to be married, aud when she recovers her normal condition has forgotten all about that. The publishers have induced Dr. Hammond to write a preface, which certifies that this pheno­ menon of double consciousness is recog­ nized by the medical profession.---Min­ neapolis Tribune. Back to Back. A rowdy cannot endure the sight of & well-dressed man. It acts upon him as a red shawl upon a bull. Some years ago, as two young gentlemen were going home from a party in Philadelphia, they were attacked by a gang of rowdies. The youths were brothers, and noted for their skill in boxing. Standing back to back, they knocked down their assailants as fast as they eame at them. In a few minutes the rowdies fled. Similar tactics once saved two English anglers from be­ ing bitten by a pack of fierce dogs. As they were passing a {arm-house, a large dog, whose barking and, glaring eyes an­ nounced his rage, dashed at them. "Catch up some stones and stand back to back, or he'll worry us," cried the elder. Armed with as many stones as they could pick up, they put themselves in position and waited the charge. But the dog did not attack. He evidently thought the position too formidable for him to carry by assault After circling round the men two or three times, he returned to the farm-house. The anglers, congratulating them­ selves on the success of their tactics, pressed onward. Tiiey had just passed over the brow of a hill when a chorus of "Yelp, yelp, yelp !" announced another and more dangerous attack. " We are hunted," shouted one to the other; "more stones, and stand firm, or we are dead men." Filling their pockets and hands with stones, the two men again stood back to back, and waited anxiously the attack. On camc the large dog, with four other (logs, all open-mouthed and barking furiously. They, too, had their tactics. They began by circling round the anglers, and graidually drew nearer and nearer. A well-aimed stone etruck the leader Of the pack on the head and rolled him over. Another stone hit a second dog on the side and sent him ont of the circle howling with pain. Then the padk halted, retreated some distance, and again began to circle round the men. Sullenly they went round and round, until, seeing no chance ior an as­ sault, they went slowly off over the hill. The anglers wont their way, spectu- lating as to the method by which the large dog persuaded his four com­ panions to join him in assaulting his enemies. «n Interrupted ttkitlif Story. "You ought to have seen me," said the vivacious young lady to the new minister; "I'd just got the skates on and made a start, when down I came bn my--" " Maggie!" said her mother. " What ? Oh, it was too funny ! One skate went one way, and the other'n t'other way, and down I came on my--" " Margaret! " reprovingly spoke her father. "Well, what? They scooted from under me, and down I came on my--" " Margaret I " yelled both parents. "On my littlj brother, who had me by the hand, and like to have smashed him. Now, what's the matter?" The girl's moiher emerged from be­ hind the coffeo-pot, a sigh of relief es­ caped from the minister, and the old gentleman very adroitly turned the con­ versation in a political channel. A TOVMO fellow in Iowa Ciiy objected to paving a Justice $2 as a marriage fee, and walked off with his girl to find some­ body who would perform the ceremony for $1.50. That chap had what Dr. Collyer would call "clear srrit." A GOOD FA TREED! (This engraving represents the Ionga in a hfsalthy state J WHAT THE DOCTORS SAY I PR. FLETCHER, of Lexington, Missouri, aajra: "I (•command YOUR" IMIMSI * In pretavnoe to Uf otte Wdiuine tor cong'tm and colds." DR. A. C. J0HNS02C, of Mt. Vernon, I31n wrltea o| aotne wonderful cures of < ouampll.il in bia oiao* fcy the use of "Allen's I.uaic Babau." DR. J. B. TURNER. 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