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And xwwto AewNnrglK-T, a»d tMh^t •S 1 R«* hawfc oaa die; twit* the oM fa**w»er cot <W« aoi tti to hi* wlixfs amd #y. me wp mg etd war-how^ And M HTO NOI to «* doer; M»txii|M«Mk»lMVp A* new sum IP«* baton." •MM! ate ay ta . knight stood ta fba bit, rti*4 he took irach a pull at fha red •§..• il« sever ntwa tarik hefomk : M» led the hfiwc BP «i* /f^jAad af*m«d Mm over 4te viB-- "Hilt iuto the *fc>rm, out into the •„ - >Thre» h'.'.rs^rM f(vt of fall I » ' ; aid Bomw, in his present temper, to *«• * barrier matter than any of the im* uMTtal labors lus great namesake umkr- fcuok.' ««Th« gtMl actraH, somewhat peasednow, smiled graciously, donbt- hm over the fact that a man of my call­ ing should know anything at all of nijtliqlogy and its heroes. She now •<h*nged her tact and demeanor. The •gteeable beamed from her countenance, *ad the low, soft tunce of the woman's voice apftealed to me in their honeyed, wolfing persuasiveness. I began to feel tils wonderful power of her personal naagnetiap. My fireman gazed at her in roaud-eyed amazement. She had put new life ilito me, and it seemed aB if the Hercules' drew strength from my touch, for the steam-gauge ran up to almost blowing-off figures. •*I told my distinguished passenger that, if she would now return to her ear, I would try to see what progress J could She begged me to permit her to ALCOHOL IK BISTORT. r*mr Ae«Ml«6|HNM «N«»JDrMM*aHk Mr. Eugene Sehttyler, author of the " Life of Peter the Gnat," finds it dif-1 ficult to understand how a man so infeel- j ligent and naturally so well disposed as { any Arctic coatinent that may exist, If in general proportion, would likely be about four and a Half degrees in depth from the physical North pole of the earth. All shores within the Arctic cir­ cle appear to( be skirted with islands. the Czar Peter of Russia could be at times A» frionste, headstrong and ?ruel« We camlot doubt that he had a sense of duty as ruler of an empire, and that lie strove witl^ earnest purpose to in­ crease the happiness of his people. Capt. Keenan, when "boiling out" in I the bark James Allen, about 100 miles i north of Point Barrow, saw with perfect j distinctness a range of high hind, visi- j ble a long way north ol the vessel's po- i si tion. This is annually confirmed by ! the flight of large numbers of aquatic At one time, when he was cutting off I wllioU northward in the Russian heads by hundreds, the Patri- j 'P^ng from Point Barr6w, and return arch of the national church went toliim, I iu Au^wt or early September with their bearing in his hands the image of the Virgin, and exhorted him to have mercy upon his subjects. young, which are always reared upon land. When we consider that the ice- barrie* iri this part of tho Arctic suo- * m: pSf; w- r'X r found htn aaztaKMNr'taMsgM, */&»£•< Xui not a bone In him whole; • :;»111117 God km matey fit BWiBWr&" * ;|'*V#*u<h m bwweriitr'n•««>. { iCHABLOTTE CirSHMAH»8 |r FBAIBKB JBfDJK. * ' While on route to the White nnat* last summer, wo made A short stay f* Boston. Among the varum* objects -of interest visited was Mount Auburn, <tfce famous bnriol-plaoe of that city and tfee oldest garden oemctery in the United Elates. ^ As we were slowly riding through one «f the beautiful avenues of' this grand «#cropolis we came upon the grave oL' CSiarlotte Cushman, who in her day was one of the greatest of living actrassee. She was a pure, noble woman, distin­ guished alike fox lior Intellectual great* and goodness of heart* t the time of our visit to Mount Att- l̂ jhftrn no monument had been plaoed in tiie Cushman lob The last rosting- place of this queen of tragedy was sim- covered with long, dark, shining sprays of myrtle. But there is soon to \>e erected over hoc grave an obelisk of Uallowell granite, an exact nptesentit- . tion of Cleopatra's Noodle, as it stood at fl^liopolis. « v One of our party was the Superintend- -eat of a Western raflroad, who, before Ms promotion to tliat responsible office, had been a locomotive engineer. Ho t wiw greatly intarestod in visiting Char- Cushman's grave; and. after wv> *ad returned to our hotel in the city, lb pave us the following personal rem- «aiis(*rnfle of this remarkable woman: "When I was running a locomotive the Chicago and Great Eastern rail- «Md, I received an order one day to , Hive my engine, the * Heraulea,' ready ||» tali»! n special train of two cars, con- , 4|inu:g Charlotte Gush man, her luggage td attendants, from Logan upori to ticaga v,'S " The great tragedienne had lost » •fljbunrction, and wain very anxious to go "tit the shortest possible time by a special 71iain. It was a cold, rough afternoon, a • fifed day for railroading on the prairies • 'fit any event, but particularly so for a . ^frpecinl' that bad to 'moke time,* with *^e fteroe winds beating and howling "> *ifrer them, as I believe they never do ' -*nvwhere else where railroad tracks am • Hid, except off Lako Michigan. Bnt I 'ipd my imperative orders to pot the , lcain through with this our fastest en- so that Miss Ooshman might be in 'season to fill her engagement that night % Chi cago. The train had arrived at Logansport ~ *ten minutes behind time, and we started -<wt with the least delay possible. I had fully inspected my engine, and for if ̂ ty flt'eman I selected the very best man | "io * make steam' that could be found in the railroad corps at that city. But. in •piteof these precautions, about 4 o'clock in the gray November afternoon we came * de®d halt out on the open prairie. I ̂ jumped down from my cab, with oU-oan n hand, but tho mighty gusts of wind that swept against me made me glad to £3fcawl back into the shelter of my cab. " Presently one of the brakemen, with :||is cap tied on his head wiUi a stout ti-moaxi, came forward to tell me that Mi«u» «/(Cushman desired to see the engineer in * il#ie passenger oar. I sent back word ~ -f!hat I could not leave my engine--that ,<j # would do the best I oould with, our 4j|rain, and that nothing oooid be said or Suggested, even by the distmguished •I; Mssenger, whioh would make the least (ain in our headway. *' The brakeman took fumself off^ and ; ' 1 wus cot at all pleased, I must confess, ; , ^ frhen Jake, my fireman, who was at the - ' foment looking out of the cab window, Vllown the track in oar rear, shouted, ^ K^bove the gale: * ** 'There is the lady heiaelf coming C fiow to the engine. With her skirts and jJjMngs, "he'll be sorely blown across the .j^ilprairie!' "Sure enough, there she was, look- as if she were the spirit of the wind, first she walked resolutely and ma- tically forward, the wind-storm seem- to make no impression on her stout, et figure. Soon, however, the queen- form sueoumbed to the sweeping and she bogaa to aliog to the Jen of the don. ' • \ • "After we had dragged her up into cab and she was sheltered from tha she stormed about the delay ̂tppearod to me, to subdue "toy or all of the dements. She tried high tragedy on me and my good en- 'Hercules,' unUl she caw it hadn't ^xne tew t #ffeot. , 4"Bfi#t assured, madam,' I said to entirftly unmoved by her excited ^and raiher-vehement manner, 'that I ««Ueiu l̂ do everything that can be done to jfi&ithfr "speotel" ia^Ohicagts at the nqttired tame. After "Hmwdee" hm .:v, time to breathe e littfta, I a>s»fc :|r?" : will pull us along In good shape; but I " What business is it of y said I ce-*f*uy resists the insidious appit»ach the Czar, with anger. "Enow that I ! the WHrm Knro Siwo, coming from reverence God and Sis Holy Mother Ithe trol,iofl» a branch of which flows more earnestly, perhaps, than thou dost, j P*" Japan and through Behring strait, It is a duty of my sovereign office, and a | argues a solid backing to sustain it duty that I owe to God, to save my peo- i inanQ(>Vtthly fM> far south, such as- a ooin- dde on the locomotive, at least a few i p]w from harm, and to protect with pub- | Pac^ archipelago or continental coa&t miles; but, as I was inexorable in my refusal (far I had beoomfe a little nervons over the state of the crown- sheet of my engine, for some reason-- { beside, one of the rules on the line was tSiat no woman should ride on our looo- motives), she had no other alternative bat to return. We helped her down the steps of Die cab, and, as she refused to Jet usaeoom- pany her to the rear of the brain, she started back alone. I thought the mer­ ciless wind would surely take the reso­ lute woman off her feet, and drive her past the train; but we soon saw her grasping the step-guards of her car with a will, and she was pulled upon the plat­ form. i4 We started. I clapped entail steam, riie ' Hercules' nobly answered to the opened throttle, and presently we were ranking fair headway against the yet-re- moreeiess gnle. As my engine was now rtgnlnrly laboring along I glanced back to the train, and saw Miss Cushman standing at the forward end of the car nearest us (which was half baggage and half smoking car), watching us intently through the top window of the door. She nodded and smiled whenever I looked that way, still remaining at her poet ns we shot along with increasing speed. Her great, speaking eyes were :igleam with excitement; and there was u look of suppressed power in her face that I never saw on any other human countenance. I felt that she-could, if *h« so pleased, have carried us along by the force of her own will. " We reached Chicago et 7-30 p. m. After descending from her car, instead of immediately -entering her carriage that stood waiting for her, she cauie, transformed now into the gracious, ele­ gant lady, to the engine, thanked me heartily for my efforts in her behalf, told me she should expect me to attend '.iie theater that night to see how she played after her ' adventure,' and, ask­ ing me to give her the street and num- tier of my boarding-house (which X no­ ticed she made no written note of), shook my grimy hand as cordially as if it had been dressed in immaculate kid, and bade me good-by. " Half an hour afterward, while I was hurriedly eating my supper, a messen­ ger from the theater called with a note for me, in Miss Cushman's own hand, containing an order that I should there­ after be admitted free to any theater where she might be playing an engage­ ment. " Yon may be sure I went to hear her Uutf night in the crowded theater, wkete, in one of the best seats near the stage, I was honored by a glanoe and •od of recognition from the great woman whom the throng was lcmdly applaud­ ing. "I saw her at different places affc>r ward, and she never tailed to greet uic cordially, calling me by name, *T>d re-' ferring pieaBantly to that trip across the prairie and to the brave 'labor' ot the old ' Hercules."'--Christian Regieter. S IXTEKMITIENT FEVER. This Is the medical name for fever and ague; or rather, fever and ague is one form of intermittent fever. The name refers to the fact that the paroxysms come and go generally at regular inter­ vals. There are three kinds of inter­ mittent fevers--quotidian, in which they return every day; tertian, in which they return every other day; quartan, ill which there are two days between theb recurrence. A fourth kind, called er^ vatic, occurs at irregular intervals. Intermittent fevers are supposed to be caused by malaria. They mainly pre­ vail in regions where the soil contains a large portion of decomposed matter. In tnis country the disease has been continwl chiefly to the West and South. New York and New England have known it almost wholly by re)x>rt For the last few years, however, it has shown itself in New York and Connecticut. This last summer it broke out as an ex- tehsive epidemic in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, seizing many victims in both of those States. It is probable that the epidemic has a connection with the great lack of rain, which has left the bottoms of so many ponds and marshes bare, thus exposing a large amount of decayed matter. Periods of unwonted dryness are gen­ erally periods of various epidemic#. The low water, in the wells contains at such times & larger proportion of de­ composed matter, for the mater from a much wider area. Intermittent fevers begin with a se­ vere chill, during whioh the teeth chat­ ter and the whole person shakes violent­ ly. The fever generally lasts several home.. The remedy is quinine, nour­ ishment, rest and, where practicable, removal from the malarial region.-- Youth's Companion. lie vengeance crimes thai tend to the common ruin." * . • The work of decapitation went on, therefore. The infuriate Eanperor com­ pelled the nobles of his court to act as executioners. On one occasion, as Mr. Schuyler records, as many as 109 men, accused of mutiny and treason, were de­ capitated by the nobles, in the presence of the Czar, who even, it is said, used the ax sometimes with his own hands. It was not uncommon for him to strike his courtiers with his fist Upon the whole, he behaved like a patriot and philanthropist who was subject to fits of insanity. " How are we to account for this ?" is. Mr. Schuyler's conundrum. We answer in two words : Strong drink ! Peter was one of the steadiest and deepest drinkers of whom history makes mention. Beading one of Mr. Schuy­ ler's articles reminded us of a passage hi the " Diary of the Duke of Saint Simon" --a nobleman of the court of Louis XIV. of France--in which he descriltes the ta­ ble exploits of the Czar daring hie resi­ dence in Paris in 1717. We translate a sentenoe or two from the record of this trustworthy eyewit­ ness: "What the Czar ate and drank in his t wo regular meals is inconceivable, with­ out reckoning what he swallowed in beer, lemonade and other drinks be­ tween the repasts. A bottle or two of beer, as much or more of wine, then some liquor, and at the end of the feast a half pint, or even a pint, of brandy-- this was the regular allowance." At the opera, in the midst of the most elegant audience in the world, the thirsty Russian asked for beer. The polite French were equal to the emerg­ ency, which, indeed, they had foreseen. A mighty goblet of beer was bought. The Duke of Orleans, Regent of the kingdom (Louis XV. being a child of 7 years), rose, took the goblet, presented it to the Czar, and remained standing while he drank the beer; then received the goblet and handed the Czar a nap­ kin upon a plate. The audience gazed upon the spectacle in silent amazement. Sustained by the beer Peter found himself able to hear another act of the opera, but he could not sit out the performance. "We love to decorate our vices with fine names," says Goethe, and historians love to decorate the vices of their heroes in the same manner. But in frankness it must be said that Peter the Great was a glutton and a drunkard. He polluted his whole organism with alcohol. He clogged his system with superfluous blood. Naturally, he was a just, patriotic and benevolent man, with immense vital power, and indomitable resolution. Strong drink and an overburdened stomach made him at times a savage and a maniac, as it did his brother, King Frederick of Prussia, him oi the regiment of giants, who kicked his chil­ dren, and made life terrible to bis fam­ ily and court: imagine he will •*': 'w- fkid working ahead of TUBE is no a1 •Mtdtvolora^ •oaweetaef the contented hemo box. In a flowery dell a herd boy kept his sheep; and because his heart was joy­ ous he sang so loudly that the surround­ ing hills echoed back his song. One morning the King, who was out on a hunting expedition,'spoke to hi™ and said: " Why are yon so happy, dear lit­ tle one?" "Why shall I not be?? he answered; " our King is not happier than L" " Indeed," said the King, " tell me of your great possessions." ^ The lad answered, " The sun in the bright blue sky shines as brightly upon me as upon the King. The flowers on the mountain and the grass in the vallejr grow and bloom to gladden my sight as well as his. I would not take 100,000 tholers for my hands; my eyes are of more value than' all the precious stones in the world ; I have food and clothing, too. Am I not, therefore, as rich as the King?" " Yon.are right," said the King, with a laugh, " but your greatest pleasure is a contented heart; keep it so, and you will always be happy."--From the Ger- man. THE ATLANTIC AM» TACtWXC ARC' TIC. Nordenskjold reports the east coast of all Arctic lands as heavily iced, when their west coasts are comparatively free. This is explained by rotation of the earth making the eastern > shores the weather or resisting and advancing side, while all western shores are relatively lee shores. His recent tidal observa­ tions just south of Wrangel Land show an average rise and fall of only eight inches. This seems to indicate that the marine basin north of Behring strait is of limited extent, and either land- kicked or composed of an archipelago of numerous islands, connected by sounds with little surrounding water. Judging by the comparative size of Greenland, line farther north would presentf W*' | CMnUDBESTB DRESS. I No child is prettier for an elaborate i design of drees. A single ruffle at the | edge of the skirt does very well, but it • is quite as well without it, And to' cut | up the tiny space of a child's dress with | loopings and trimmings and ornaments i seems to us to make them look like 1 monkeys. Not even the sash is beauti­ ful for a child. A child is constructed first of all to oat that it may grow, to re­ ceive impressions that it may learn; therefore the head and the stomach are large in proportion to the rest of the body. When the little figure is nude, so that the soft fleshy forms can be well j teen, all this is beautiful; but to em- j phasize in the draped form of the { child the luge stomach by a broad | sash, is utterly against all rules of I beauty. The legs and arms are often beautiful, j but to show the legs by cutting off the j dress at the hips is immensely awkward, j and seems chiefly to serve to display the j drawers, which are not a beautiful gar- j ment, and should be entirely hidden. | Beside this, in winter our climate is j wholly inappropriate for any such ex- j posure, and we shall best see the beauty ! of a healthy child in its easy, untram- | meled motion as it moves about in a simple dress (of as handsome a material as you like, provided that it is un- trimmed), which is long enough to be warm and loose enough to be comfort­ able. If yon want your children to be graceful, let them be unconscious ; if you want them to be healthy, let them be sufficiently warm. No woman can have a fine oomplexion who as a child has been habitually chilled, and we see in the winter many children, who seem to have nothing on from the waist down. They could much better afford to put it the other way, and wear noth­ ing from the yaist up, the lungs and heart being .at less expense to warm the upper portion of the body than the legs, which are further away from them. --Miss M. J*,, Oakey, in Harped* Magazine. . , TEA, When first introduced tea was not an universal favorite. It was most vehe­ mently abused as an immoral, unwhole­ some decoction, from whose use the worst of results must be expected to fol­ low. In 1633 a learned German decided that it was nothing better than black water with an acrid taste ; and, a few years later, a Russian ambassador at the court oi the Mogul declined a large present of it for the Czar, his master, " as it would only encumber him with a commodity for whioh he had no use." The Dutch were wiser men. They ex­ ported large quantities of dried sage, which pleased the Chinese so much that they gave three and four pounds of .tea for each pound of sage, until the Dutch were unable to provide the material in sufficient quantities to meet the home demand for tea. For a long time En­ glishmen drank sage tea in preference to J the genuine article ; and to this day the use of sage and other herb teas is still frequent among the agricultural poor of some districts in England ; and the "tisannes" of the French and Swiss have been in no way replaced by the more costly leaf. Morocco combined tisanne with tea, putting sugar in the tea-pot, and tansy and mint, the flavor of which would, doubtless, considerably disguise the tea, rendering the decoc­ tion as unlike that agreeable beverage as was the liquid which issued from the classic brown teapot of Mesdames (jhimp and Prig on the fatal night of their quar­ rel. Thibet kept clear of the admixture of other herbs, but had its own peculiar way of consuming its tea. This was by boiling the leaf with water, flour, butter and salt, and devouring the resulting mess bodily. In China, the common people add ginger and salt to the bever­ age. The word tea, it may be remarked, comes from the Chinese name for the leaf of the tea-plant* SCENE IN A NEWSPAPER OWPMTE. Managing editor--"We wantafew lines on the Governor's message. What shall be said about it ? " Editor--" Have you read it ? *' M. E.--" No ; have you ? " E.--"No. John, have you read the message?" John--"No." E.--"Jim, have you read it ? " Jim--" No." E.-- "Oh, well, call it an able document, which points out needed reforms, and shows the increasing prosperity of the State." Som men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintances discover their greatness only by the tax of humility which they are obliged to pay as the price of their friendship. Such characters are as tiresome and dis­ gusting in the journey of life as rugged roads are to the weary traveler, which to di*oover» to be turnpikes only by the ELIZABETH ZAXE. ' Bmr m «MM<M/W{ Tow** Oirl Chwhrnfte* ttinun» Girty. Hie wickedest white man of the early period of Ohio history was Simbn Girty, who sided with the British in the War of the Revolution, and commanded the Indian allies which were induced to fight against the colonists. Girty was as cruel as the worst red savage, and there are many traditions in the Sciota and Sandusky valley of his raids and outrages. In 1777 Fort Henry, which was situated, on the Ohio river, near Wheeling, which was garrisoned by forty-two men, was suddenly attacked ,bv Girty with a force of 500 Indians. He succeeded in ambuscading and slaughtering thirty of the garrison, leaving but twelve to defend the fort. Among the women and children was young Elizabeth Zane, a beautiful girl of 17. The twelve soldiers, commanded by Col. Shepherd, were good marksmen, and, knowing that surrender meant death for their wives and children as well as for themselves, they resolved to fight to the last. But, alas! bravery availed them little, for it was not long before the small stock of powder in the fort was almost exhausted, and only a few charges remained to each man. In despair the Colonel called his brave little band together, and told them that at a house some sixty yards outside the fort, which their enemies had not yet dared approach, there was a keg of gunpowder. Whoever should try to bring it into the fort would be in peril of his life from the Indians. He had not the heart to order uny man such a task, but the powder was their only hope, and therefore it was his duty to ask if any one of them was brave enough to volunteer the un­ dertaking. Instantly three or four men avowed themselves ready, but dnly one man oould be spared. But, while they were generously disputing among them­ selves for the perilous errand, Elizabeth Zane approached the Colonel and begged that she might be allowed to go for the powder. Her request was promptly re­ fused, but she persisted earnestly, even against the remonstrances and entreaties of her parents and friends. In vain they pleaded and reasoned with her, urging more than once that a young man would be more than likely < to succeed through his power of running swiftly. She replied that she knew the danger, but that, if she failed,. her loss woui£ not be felt, while not a single man could be spared from the little gar­ rison. Finally, it was agreed that she should make the first trial. When tyll was ready the gate opened and Eliza­ beth walked rapidly across the open space toward the house where the, pow­ der was stored. Those inside the fort could plainly see that the eyes of the Indians were upon her; but, either from curiosity or mercy, they allowed her to pass safely and to enter the house. Her friends drew a breath of relief, and, watching even more anxiously for her reappearance, saw her come oat soon, bearing the powder in a table-cloth tied around her waist. By this time the Indians suspected her burden, and in a moment more, as she was hastening toward the fort, they sent after her a shower of bullets and arrows. They all, however, whistled by her harmless, and with wild, startled eye, but nndaunted heart, she sped on with her treasure through the deadly missiles, until at last she bore it in tri­ umph inside the gate. By the aid of the powder and the enthusiastic courage which Elizabeth's self-sacrifice inspired, the little garrison was enabled to hold out until relief came to them. And so the noble act of a young girl saved the lives of all within the fort and van­ quished its 500 dusky assailants. The Zane family became well-known in Southern Ohio, and gave their name to the beautiful city of Zanesville. ^ HE MIX Kit THOSE ROTTLfH VP. • A gentleman returning home from the Gilroy hot springs by coach was asked to exchange seats with a lady who found riding inside disagreed with her. As he was making his way to the inside berth, sh£ bade him take especial care of two bottles of Gilroy water, which she was carrying to her husband. As it hap­ pened, the lady had contrived to make herself very disagreeable to her fellow- visitors at the springs, and the passen­ ger she had ousted from his seat deter­ mined to have his revenge. Opening each of the bottles, he poured out half the contents, and filled them up with whisky. Before many days elapsed the proprietors of the Gilroy springs re­ ceived the following elagant epistle, dated San Francisco, Aug. 30, 1879: "Sirs--Yon are a precious lot of scamps, you are 1 My wife paid a visit to your confounded place, and brought back some spring water. I drank about a bottle of the miserable stuff, and went to the Good Templars, and had not been in the hall more than fifteen min­ utes before I was as drunk as any man you ever saw ; disgraced myself and the lodge, and this morning I am on a sick­ bed. My impression is that any set of men who will run an institution of this sort ought to be soused into hot-water springs until life was extinct."--Boston Transcript IN ACTIO*. Great evils result from physical inac tion. It is well known that through the whole human System strength and de­ velopment come only by exercise. Every unused muscle shrinks in size and loses its force, and the man or woman who lives chiefly a life of passive repose will gradually lose the power as well as*the desire for activity. This, however, is by no means the whole of the evil in­ volved. The connection between the mind and the body is very intimate, and the mental faculties cannot obtain their full power, nor the character attain its highest excellence, unless the body be kept in healthful condition by salutary exercise. Pure air and regular physical exertion are necessary to think clearly, to decide wisely, to reason acutely, to plan with discretion, and to execute with vigor. Strength of will depends largely upon strength of muscle, and he who is weak and flabby in the latter will in all probability be feeble aiid irreso­ lute .in the former. " ----•-- i I.. y^-v/'s - AIT vtrroxruXAxm mvxrotun./,' In the early days of Indiana, one of the State Senators was a good-natured gidnt, named George Bo6ne. When he stood up, his height attracted attention, for he measured nearly seven feet. If he made a gesture, his hands were no­ ticed as the largest ever seen. Bat it was his feet that amazed his colleagues. One day, when joked on his big hands and feet, he told a story of an early ex­ perience which a brother Senator, in hiB "Sketches of Early Indiana," reports as follows: • . When about IB, yoag Boone thought he would call on a neighbor who lived a few miles off, Sally, the neighbor's daughter, was large and pretty, and the youthful giant thought she would make him a suitable wife. c j It was late in the fall, though too early to put on shoes, so he started bare­ foot. His best butternut-colored suit had been made some six months before, and was much too small for him. The pantaloons reached only just below his knees, while the ooat stretched as tight over his body aa an eel-skin dried on a hoop-pole. * , After wading creeks and muddy l>ot- toms, the would-be "aparker " arrived at the neighbor's log hut just as the family were sitting down to the supper of mush and milk. Being invited to "draw up," he sat down alongside of Sally. The old lady offered him a large bowl, which he stretched forth his hand to take. Not making sufficient allow­ ance for the size of his hand, he struck the big milk pitcher. Out went the milk over the table, and out went Sally from the room, roaring with laughter. The old lady kindly remarked.* " It will rub out when it driesbut the youth knew he was already rubbed out, so far as Sally was concerned. He saw nothing mare of her; The clock struck 10. "Mr. Boone," asked the old ladv, " won't you wash your feet and go to bed?" "Yes, ma'am." " Here's an iron pot; it is the only thiug I have that'll do." The pot proved too small for his feet to enter, except by sliding them in side­ ways. When in, they swelled so much thnt he could not get them out. The pain was intense. As the clook strnck 11, the old lady asked : "Mr. Boone, are yon done washing your feet?" "What did this pot cost ?" he roared; " I must break it, "A dollar." " Bring me the ax." Breaking the pot in pieces, he handed the old lady a dollar, opened the door and started for' home. Several years ufter he met Sally at a husking. As soon as she saw him, she burst out laughing. A VAT ON OVAXO IBLAlfJU. My idea of a guano island had always been that it was very rocky and covered with a white substance resembling mor­ tar before the sand is mixed with it. I imagined, too, that it exhaled an odor differing somewhat from the orange- groves of Tahiti. Had I not been told that I was on a guano island I would not now have known it from the surround­ ings. Instead of being rocky the soil was mellow and dark, and- everywhere vegetation was most luxuriant. The air was remarkably clear and pure. Dur­ ing a walk around the island I then learned that there are two kinds of guano ; or, rather, that of certain quali­ ties which all guano possesses some of theae qualities predominate in that found in a given locality, while guano taken from islands differently located possesses in a much stronger degree some other essentials. Thus the guano of the islands off the coast of South America, exposed to the rays of a tropi­ cal sun, where the surface of the land is never oooled; and where rain seldom or never falls, possesses the strongest am- moniacal properties. Not only the ex* cretions of birds are deposited there, but the birds themselves come there to die ; and eggs have frequently been taken oat a little below the crusts which form over these deposits that are almost pure am­ monia. The guano of these islands has a strong, pungent odor, and is white and light brown in color. But the guano of the islands of the Southern Pacific is made up of decomposed coral, forming mostly phosphates of lime and magnesia. It is entirely inodorous and of a dark- brown color, resembling well-pulverized loam. It is believed that the birds, which in large numbers inhabit these islands, living, as they do, almost en­ tirely on fish, deposit phosphoric acid on the coral, and also leave the bones of the fish, which they cannot eat. These decompose the coral, and thus form the phosphates which give to the guano its value. The guano is separated from the coral in the following manner : There is quite a foroe of natives employed, who gather the earth in large heaps, and then screen it in the same manner as fine coal is separated from coarse. The screens are about eight feet by three, and the iron gauze covering them is fine, allowing only the guano or fine portions of the earth to pass through, and leav­ ing the coral in the screens. The guano is then sacked, and shipped to Ham­ burg, wheuce it is reahipped to different parts of Europe.--The California*. A TKfPKB/&onscienee is ®a estimable hliisninc; that is, a conscience not only quick to discern what is evil, but in­ stantly to shan it, as tha fllw ft. msiM against the motea FOB RHEUMATISM, Nwralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, Backache, Sorcnat* of tho Chaffy Bout, Quinty, Sore Throat, ' * { •fbg* and Sprains, Bumf and ; Scaids, General Bodily , h Paine, V'v£. Tooth, Ear and Headache, Froet$0x Feet and Ears, and aft other Pains and Aches. lb itamnitton on Nrtti eqnth Sr. Jj,eon M ft «a/V>, turr, aitnple AND cheap Extent*! Remedy. 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