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Not f* <*M •at the wheels turn on and tho thirtUsa fly. Ah, sad-eyed weavers, the years are alow, Bat each one is nearer to the end I know; t Aid some day the latl thread shall ba WOMB lt», (M grant it be love Instead of sin. An we eplnners of wool in this life-web say T Do we furnish the weaver a thread e»ch day t It were better, then, oh, my friend, to sola A heaubfiri thread than a thread 01 sin I THE GREATEST SEA-WAVE EVER KNOWN. ; 0» Augast IS, 1868, one of the most terrible calamities which lias ever visited a people befell the unfortunate inhabi­ tants of Peru. In that land earthquake* are nearly as common as rain-storms are with us; and shocks by which whole cities are olianged into a heap of ruins are by no means infrequent. Tet even in Peru, rt the land of earthquakes," as Humboldt has termed it, no such catas­ trophe as that of August, 1863, had oc­ curred within the memory of man. It •was not one city which was laid in ruins, but a whole empire. Those who per­ ished were counted by tens of thousands, while the property destroyed by the earthquake was valued at millions of pounds sterling. It was at Arequipa, at the foot of the lofty volcanic mountain Misti, that the most terrible effects of the great earth­ quake were experienced. Within his­ toric times Misti has poured forth no lava streams, but that the volcano is not extinct is clearly evidenced by the fact that in 1512 an enormous mass of dust and ashes was vomited fortn from its crater. On Aug. 13, 1868, Misti showed no signs of being disturbed. So far as their vol­ canic neighbor was concerned, the 44,000 inhabitants of Arequipa had no reason to anticipate the catastrophe that sud- 4enly befell them. At 5:05 oclock an earthquake shocfk was experienced, which, though severe, seems to have worked little mischief. Half a minute later, however, a terrible noise was heard beneath the earth; a second shock more violent than the first was felt, and then began a swaying motion, gradually increasing in intensity. In the course of the first minute this mo­ tion had become so violent that the in­ habitants ran in terror out of their houses into the streets and squares. In the next two minutes the swaying move­ ment had so increased that the more lightly built houses were cast to the ground, and the flying people could scarcely keep their feet. "Aid now," says Yon Tscliudi, " there followed dur­ ing two or three minutes a terrible scene. The staying motion which had hitherto (irevaQed changed into tierce vertical upheaval. The subterranean roaring in­ creased in the most terrifying manner; then were heard the heart-piercing shrieks of the wretched people, the bursting of walls, the crashing fail of houses and churched, while over all rolled thick clouds of a yellowish-black dust, which, had they been poured forth many miniates longer, would have suffo­ cated thousands." Although the shocks had lasted but a few minutes, the whole town was destroyed. Not one building remained uninjured, and there were few which did not lie in shapeless heaps of .rains. At Tacna and Arica the earth-shock -•was less severe, but strange and terrible ^phenomena followed it. At the former place a circumstance occurred the cause and nature of which yet remain a mys­ tery. About three hours after the earth­ quake--in other words, at about 8 o'clock in the evening--an intensely brilliant light made its appearance above the neighboring mountains. It lasted for fuilv half an hour, and has been ascribed to the eruption of some as yet unknown volcano. At Arica the sea-wave produced even more destructive effects than had been caused by the earthquake. About twenty tninutes after the first earth-shock the «ea was seen to retire, as if about to leave the shores wholly dry; but present­ ly its waters returned with tremeudous force. A mighty wave, whose length eeemed immeasurable, was seen advanc­ ing like a dark wall upon the unfortu­ nate town, a large part of which was overwhelmed by it. Two ships, the Peruvian corvette America, and the United States " double-ender " Wateree, were carried nearly half a mile to the north of Arica beyond the railroad which Pins to Tacna, and there left stranded high and dry. This enormous wave was tfullv fifty feet in lieisrht. At Chala three such waves swept in after the first shocks of earthquake. They overflowed nearly the whole of the town, the sea passing more than half a mile beyond its usual limits. At Islay and Iquique similar phenomena were manifested. It lias been calculated that the width of this wave varied from 1,000,000 to 5,0*K't,000 feet, or, roughly, from 200 to 1,000 miles, while, when in mid-Pacific, the length of the wave, measured along its summit in a widely-curved path from one side to another of the great ocean, cannot have been less than 8,000 miles. We cannot tell how deep-seated was the oenter of subterranean action ; but there -an be no doubt it was ^ery deep indeed, l>ecanse otherwise the shock feu in towns separated from each other by hundreds of miles could not have been so nearly contemporaneous. Therefore the portion of tho earth's crust upheaval must have been enormous, for the length of the region where the direct ef­ fects of the earthquake were perceived is estimated by Prof, von Hoelistetter at no less than 240 miles. The breadth of the region is unknown, because the slope of Tin- Andes on one side aud the oc<>an on the other concealed the motion of the 4trth s crust. • The great ocean-waves swept, as we nave -aid in all dir.^ctions around the fceene of the earth-throe. Over a large jiart of its course its passage was un- fcnted, Iwcfiuse in the open sea the ef­ fects even of so vast an undulation could not be perceived. A ship would slowly *1** as the crest of tliagreat wave passed Wider hor, and t^en as slowly nii.k a£a n. This may seem strange, at firat sight, when it is remembered that in reality the great sea-wave we are oon- •idi rinK swept at the rate of 300 or 400 aea uiiie* an hoar over the larger part of the Pacific. . - In somewhat less than three bourn after the occurrence of the earthquake . o«<«H-wave inundated the port of <5 quifn*M», on the Chilian seal>oard, - 8"0 miles from' Aricn. An hour * or no l.iter it liad reached Coustitucii 11 . ,«l#0 miles further south; and here for some three hoars the sea rose and fell •with strange violence. Farther south, Along the shore of Chili, even to the island of Clnloe, the shore-wave traveled, though with continually diminishing force, owing, doubtless, to the resist­ ance which tk3 irregularities of the shore opposed to its progress. The northerly shoro-wave seems to have been more considerable ; and a mo­ ment's study of a chart of the two Americas Urill show that this circumstanceis highly significant. When we remember that Hie principal effects of the laud-shock were experienced within the angle which the Peruvian Andes form with the long north-and-south line of the Chilian and Bolivian Andes, we see at once that, had the oenter of the sub­ terranean action been near the scene where the most destructive effects were perceived, no sea-wave, or but a small one, could have been sent toward tho shores of North America. The project­ ing shores of Northern Peru and Ecua­ dor could not have failed to divert the tea-wave toward the west; and, though a reflected wave might lmve reached Cali­ fornia, it would only have been after a considerable interval of time, and with dimensions much less than those of the sea-wave which traveled southward. When we see that, on the contrary, a nave of even greater proportions trav­ eled toward \ he shores of North America, we seeai iorcoa to tlie conclusion that tho center o2 the suWerrauean action must have been so far to the west that the sea-wave generated by it had a free course to the shores of California. Be this as it may, there can be no doubt that the wave which swept the shores of Southern California, rising up­ ward of sixty feet above the ordinary sea- level, wus absolutely the most imposing of all the indirect effects of the great earthquake. When we consider that ^ven in San Pedro bay, fully 5,000 miles from t¥e center of disturbance, a wave twice the size of an ordinary house rolled in with unspeakable violence only a few hours after the occurrence of the earth- tliroe, we are most strikingly impressed with the tremendous energy of the earth's movement* / Turning to the open ocean, let us track the great wave on its course past the multitudinous islands which dot the surface of the great Pacific. The inhabitants of the Sandwich islands, whi$h lie about 6,300 miles from Aricn, might have imagined themselves safe from any effects which could IKJ pro­ duced by an earthquake taking place so far away from them. But, on the night between Aug. 13 and 14, the sea around this island group rose in a surprising manner, insomuch that, many thouglii the islands were sinking, and would shortly subside altogether beneath the waves. Some of the smaller islands, indeed, were for a time completely sub­ merged. Before long, however, the sea fell again, and, as it did so, the observ­ ers "found it impossible to resist the impression that the islands were rising bodily out of the water." For no less than three days this strange oscillation of the sea continued to be experienced, the most remarkable ebbs and floods being noticed at Honolulu, on the island of Woahoo. But the sea-wave swept onward far beyond these islands. At Yokohama, in Japan, more than 10,500 miles from Arica, on enormous wave poured in on Aug. 14, but at what bour we have no satisfactory record. So far as distance is concerned, this wave affords most surprising evidence of the stupendous nature of the disturb­ ance to which the waters of the Pacific ocean had been subjected. The whole circumference of the earth is but 25,000 miles, so that this wave had traveled over a distance considerably greater than two-fifths of the earth's circumference. A distance which the swiftest of our Bhips oould not traverse in less than six or seven weeks had been swept over by this enormous undulation in the course of a few hours. Shortly before midnight the Marque­ sas isles and the low-lying Tuamotu group, in the South Pacific, were visited by the great wave, and some of these islands were completely submerged by it. The lonely Opara isle, where the steamers whioh run between Panama and New Zealand have their coaling station, was visited at about 11 SO in the evening by a billow which swept away a portion of the coal depot. Afterward great waves came Tolling in at intervals of about twenty minutes, and several days elapsed before the sea resumed its ordinary ebb and flow. It was not until about 2:30 on the morning of Aug. 14 that the Samoa isles --sometimes called the Navigator islands --were visited by the great wave. The watchmen startled the inhabitants from their sleep by the cry that the sea was about to overwhelm them ; and already, when the terrified people rushed from their houses, the sea was found to have risen far above the highest water-mark. But it presently began to sink again, and then commenced a series of oscilla­ tions, which lasted for several days, and were of a very remarkable nature. Once in every quarter of un hour the sea rose and fell, but it was noticed that it rose twice as rapidly as it sank. c At about 3:30 on the morning of Aug. 14 the water began to retreat in a singu­ lar manner from the port of Littleton, on the eastern shores of the southernmost of the New Zealand islands. At length the whole port was left entirely dry, and so remained for about twenty minutes. Then tho water was seen returning like a wall of from ten or twelve feet in height, which rushed with a tremendous noise upon the port and town. Toward 5 o'clock the water again retired very slowly, as before, not reaching its lowest ebb until 6. An hour later a second huge wave inundated the port. Four times the sea retired and returned with great power at intervals of about two hours. Afterward the oscillation of the water was less considerable, but it had not wholly ceased until Aug. 17, and only 011 the 18th did the regular ebb and flow of the t:de recommence. Far on beyond the shores of New Z 'ii:und the great wave courted, reach­ ing at length the coast of Australia. At d twn of Aug. 14 Moreton bay was visit­ ed by five well-marked waves. At New­ castle, on the Hunter river, the sea rose and fell several t'mes in a remarkable manner, tho oscillatory motion com­ mencing at half-past 6 in the morning. But the most significant evidence of the extent to which the sea-wave traveled in this direction was afforded at Port fairy, Belfast. South Victoria. Here the oscillation of the water was distinct­ ly perceived at midday on Aug. 14, and yet, to reach this point, the sea-wave must not only have traveled on a circui­ tous course nearly equ d in length to half tlie ck-.nimforeEae of the earth, but -!V3k Utive through BUMS' straits, between Australia and Van Diomen's L«aud, and so have lost a considerable t>ortion of its force - and dimensions. earth. For tlie sea-waves whioh reached Yokohama in one direction and Port Fairy in another had each traversed a distance nearly equal to half the earth's circumference; so that if tlie surface of the earth were all sea, waves setting out in opposite directions from the center of disturbance would have met each other at the antipodes of their starting point. It is imi>ossfble to contemplate the ef­ fects which followed the great earth­ quake--ftie passage of a sea-wave of enormous volume over fully one-third of the earth's surface, and the feroe with which, on the farthermost limit of its range, the w*ve rolled in upon the shores more than 10,000 miles from its star ting-place -- without feeling that tlioso geologists are right who deny that the subterranean forces of the earth are diminishing in intensity. It may be difficult, perhaps, to, look upon the ef­ fects which are ascril>ed to ancient earth throes without imagining for awhile that the power of modem earthquakes is al­ together less. But, when we consider fairly the share which time had in those aacient processes of change, when we see that while mountain ranges were be­ ing upheaved or valleys depressed to their present position, raee after race and type after type appeared on the earth, and lived out the long lives which belong to races and te types, we are re­ called to tlie remembrance of the great work whioh the earth's subterranean forces are still engaged upon. Even now continents are being slowly depressed or upheaved; even now mountain ranges are being raised to a new level, table­ lands are in process of formation, and great valleys are being gradually scooped out. It may need an occasional out­ burst, such as the earthquake of August, 1868, to remind us that great forces are at work beneath the earth's surface. But, in reality, the signs of change have long been noted. Old shore-lines shift their place, old soundings vary ; the sea advances in one place and retires in an­ other ; on every side Nature's plastic hand is at work modeling and remodel­ ing the earth, in order that it may al­ ways be a fit abode for those who are te dwell upon it--J*rof. Eicfuuyi A. Proo- PQLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS. AGRICULTURAL ITEMS. A Thirty Yean' Record of Attempts on tlie Ltves of ltulers* 1848--Nov. 26--The life of the Doke of Mod en a was attempted. 1849--June 21--The Crown Prinoe of Prussia was attacked at Minden. 1851--May 22--Sef»loque, a workman, shot at Frederick William IV., King of Prussia, and broke his forearm. 1830---June 28--Robert Pate, an ex- Lieutenant in the army, attempted to assassinate Queen Victoria. 1852--Sept 24--An infernal machine was found at Marseilles, with which it had been intended to destroy Napoleon III. 1853--Feb. 18--The Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria was grievously wound­ ed in the head while walking on the ram­ parts at Vienna by a Hungarian tailor named Libzens. 1853--April lft--An attempt on the life of Victor Emmanuel was reported to the Italian Chamber. 1853--.July 5--An attempt was made to kill Napoleon IIL as he was entering the Opera Comique. 1864--March 20--Ferdinand Charles IK, Duke of Parma, was killed by an unknown man, who stabbed him in the abdomen. 1855--April 28--Napoleon TTT wa* fired on at the Champs Elysees by Giovanni Pianeri. 1856--April 28--Raymond Fuentes was arrested in the act of firing on Isa­ bella, Queen of Spain. 1856--Deo. 8--Agesilas Milano, a sol­ dier, stabbed Ferdinand III. of Naples with bis bayonet 1857--Aug. 7--Napoleon TTT. again. Barcoletti, Gibaldi and Grillo were sen­ tenced to death for coming from London to assassinate him. 1858--Jan. 14--Napoleon m. for the fifth time. Orsini and his associates t hrew fulminating bombs at him as he was on his way to the opera. 1861--July 14--King William of Prus­ sia was for the first time shot at by Oscar Becker, a student at Baden-Baden. Becker fired twioe at him, but missed hrim, 1862--Deo. 18--A studert named Dos- sios fired a pistol at Queen Amalia of Greece (Priuoess of Oldenberg) at Athens. * 1863--Dec. 24--Four more conspira­ tors from London against the life of Napoleon IIL were arrested at Paris. 1865--April 14--President Lincoln was shot by J. Wilkes Booth. 1866 -- April 6 --A Russian named Kavarsoff attempted Czar Alexander's life at St. Petersburg. He was foiled by a peasant who was ennobled fpr the deed. 1867--The Czar's life was again at-, tempted during the preat Exposition at a review in the Bois de Boulogne, at Paris. 1867--June 19--Maximillian shot 1868--June 10---Prince Michael, of Serbia, was killed by the brothers Rad- warrtwitch. 1871--The life of Amadous, then newly King of Spain, was attempted. 1872--August--Col. Gutieriez assas­ sinated President Balta, of the republic of Peru. 1873--Jan. 1--President Morales, of Bolivia, was assassinated. 1875--August--President Garoia Mae- no, of Ecuador, was assassinated. 1877--June--President Gill, of Para­ guay, was assassinated by Commander Molas. 1878--May 11--The Emperor William, of Germany, was shot at again, this time by Emile Henri Max Hoedel, alias Lehman, the Socialist Lehman fired three shots at the Emperor, who was re­ turning from a drive with tho Grand Duchess of Baden, but missed him. 1878--June 2--Emperor William shot at by Dr. Nol>eling while out rising. He received alxnit thirty small shot in -the neck and face. 1879--April 14--Attempted assassina­ tion c-f the Czar at St. Petersburg, by one Solowiew. He was exocuted May 9. 1879--Dec. 1--The assassination of the Czin attempted by a mine under a train near Moscow. 1879--Deo. 30--The King of Spain was shot at while driving with tho Queen. 1880--Feb. 17--Attempt to kill the roytd family of Russia by blowing up tlie Winter Palace. Eight soldiers were killed and forty-five wounded. 1881--March 18--The Gear killed by a b .mlj. REMEDY FOB LOCKJAW.--Let any one who has an attack of lockjaw take a smuH quantity of turpentine, warm it aud pour it cm the wound, no matter where the wound is, and relief will fol- low in less than a minute. Nothing bet- When we remember that had not tho ; ter can be applied to a severe eust or • bruise than cold tnrpentine ; it will give : certain relief almost instantly. Tnr- : pentirie in also a sovereign remedy for croup. Saturate a piece of flannel o;i BONB DUST. --Applied now, the results will be greater after two years than they will the first season. It does not operate quickly. ^ LIMB.--Lime is an excellent fertilizer ou clay soils, on aocoilnt of its power to render soluble many of the component ports of tlie clay, and also to make it more porous. ROOTS.--English fanners bring to this oountry a liking for root feeding. One gentleman feeds large quantities of man­ gels to his pigs, with shorts, metd, wheat, screenings and corn. He also turns his sugar beets into pork. Por,K BEANS.--Our experienoe shows us that 110 other pole bean should be planted iu the same hills with the lima. The former are likely to ripeu first, and the picking of them and the tearing of the vines are a detriment to the lima.-- N. Y. Herald. WHRAT.--The crop of wheat at the Virginia Agricultural College last year on a clover fallow and superphosphate, costing on the land $4 per acre, weighed sixty-seven pounds per bushel. On ac­ count of the mildness of the winter the crop had to be grazed down twice with sheep. Before harvest it suffered from drought So says the Planter and Farmer. P108.--Pigs that are being fattened for the market should hare a variety of food. Half of the diseases of swine are caused by too much corn. Give wheat or rye, bran, milk, roots, and an occasional feed of out and moistened clover hay, along with the corn, and you will have healthy pigs, provided always that they have clean and well ventilated quarters and plenty of fresh water. SCABBY LEGS IN POULTRY. --A corre­ spondent gives the following cure for this disease: Take equal parts of lard and kerosene oil, and thicken with sulphur into a paste. This should be rubbed up­ on the legs until" the scabby parts come off, when they should be smeared with sweet oil. The scabs are not caused by filth, as our correspondent believes, but by a parasitic insect much like that which causes scab in sheep. SHEEP.--Keep your sheep gaining through the fall; if permitted to lose flesh they lose in vigor and general health. Give them a small daily feed of corn when pasture gets dry and scant Do not expose them to the fall rain. Sheep nre exceedingly sensitive to cold and wet, and dislike rain even in summer. Keep them dry and warm aud you will save the food otherwise necessary to pre­ serve animal heat. BEST BREED OP FOWLS.--A subscriber sends to us the old inquiry, "Which breed of fowls shall I keep?" Get a re­ liable work on poult^, and when you know the wants and chanictoristics of tho different kinds of chickens, decide which will best suit your accommoda­ tions and the demands of your market. Do not keep too many kinds iu one flock. They will require different feeding and treatment The Asiatics must be foil sparingly, as they take on fat readily, and are apt to become too fat to lay. Leghorns, Dorkings, Houdans, and Hamburgs need generous feeding, aud are all good layers. Leghorns and Ham- burgs are too small to make good early fowls for market The Plymouth Rocks bid fair to become the most popular fowls, and deserve their reputation.--N. Y. Herald. BEETS FOB SUGAR.--A farmer in his first trial of raising beets for sugar is apt to fall into many errors, which discourage him from futuro attempts. He finds it more difficult to raise one acre of sugar beets, and expends more lalx>r on that tingle acre than he would on half a dozen acres of corn, simply because he knows by years of experience how to raise corn and does not know how to raise beets. It is necessary to take iuto consideration the nature of the land on which you wish to raise the beets, as well as nearness to a factory and facilities for transporta­ tion thither. Stiitablo land will bring success, while a thin, gravelly soil will result in a failure, as the t>eets need to grow under ground. A well tilled and richly manured corn field will need but little labor when put into beets. Never use for this purpose a field which has been poorly manured for the previous crop and where the weeds have been al­ lowed to ripen their seeds by thousands. Such a field would cause an amount of labor in weeding the beets that would discourage the most sanguine. Errors to be avoided are too thick planting, causing a great amount of thinning, and putting in more acres than can be properly at­ tended to. Where too little sf><»d l».«s sown, it is of very little use to fill the thin plaoes by transplanting, as the second plantings seldom *nake a good growth. CORN SMUT AND CATTLE.--In the fall of the year there is always frequent complaint of cattle dying after being turned iuto the cornfield, when husking •is done. Usually this fatality is attrib­ uted, very erroneously, to the fungus or smut so common on the stalks. One farmer will affirm that he knows this to be the cause, having seen tho results so plainly and so many times that there is no possible room to doubt it. Another testifies with equal energy and certainty that his cattle have eaten corn smut time and time again, and that not the l ust injury has happened. If this fungus is a poison it must always operate in the same way. Poisons clo not work differ­ ently in different oases. Arsenic will poison one man just as quickly as an­ other, aud one ammal as soon as another animal, and if corn smut can be eaten with impunity by one herd of cows it can l>e eaten with imnunitv by all cows. Tliat cattle do eat it without injury we know, and so do many of our readers. So we conclude that it is not * poison. The trouble in such cases is not caused by the smut but by tlie stalks themselves, which cause an impaction of the third stomach. The cattle are turned among the stalks, and, without sufficient water, are permitted to eat their fill of the dry, over-ripe, indigestible fodder. The re­ sult is death, and the smut gets the credit. The same result often happens from other causes. A sudden change from dry food to the stimulating fresh grass of spring, from soft to hard water, or the taking of lead into the system will cause it Tlie symptoms of the impac­ tion in acute cases, are drowsiness and stupor, accelerated pulse and breathing, hardness and tenderness under the right short ribs and tremor of the muscles. At a later stage tlie eyes glare, the ani­ mal moves about regardless of obstacles, often breakingits teeth and horns against tlie more solid impediments to its course, and l>ellowing fearfully in the meantime. Death often r(suits in a few hours. So far as feeding upon cornstalks is a cause of this trouble, it may be prevent­ ed by not allowing the animal to feed until it is gorged and by giving it free access to plenty of water. We always followed this rule and never had any trouble with cattle that had eaten stalks or smut-- Western Rural. Charleston, Mo. On the track-bed of the latter company ties of this wood have laid in the muddy silt of the Mis­ sissippi for twelve years, and are still in a good state of preservation. They have outlasted two sets of white oak ties, and bid fair to survive the third. SCRAPS OF SCIEMCR, HOUSEHOLD HELP# To REMOVE TAB. --Rub well with clean lard, afterwards wash with soap and TO&rm water. Apply this either to hands or clothiug. TOOTH-ACHE CUBBT--Aloohol of thirty- three degrees, one ounce; opium iu pow­ der twenty grains; oil of cloves eighty drops. WASHING FLUTD.--One pound of sal soda, one pound of potash, each dis­ solved in one gallon of water (separately), then mix together and bottle. FRIED CAKES.--Two cups of butter- milk, two eggs, a lump of butter the size of an egg, two cups of sugar, one tea- spoonful of saleratus, a pinch of ginger. Fry in hot lard. SUGAB COOKIES.--One and one-half cup of butter, two eggs, teaspoon ful of soda dissolved in two tablespoOnfuls of sweet milk, one teaspoonful of cream-of- tartar in the flour. Cut into round calces. FURNITURE POLISH.--Shellac varnish, liaseed oil and spirits of wine, equal ports, or this: Linseed oil and alcohol, equal parts. This is also good: Linseed ou five ounoes, turpentine two ounoes, oil of vitriol, one-half ounce. GINGER COOKIES.--Two cups of mo­ lasses, one of Sugar, one of fried pork drippings, one cup of buttermilk, one- half cup of ginger, one tablespoenful of saleratus. Careful not to mix too stiff. Cut ia square cakes. MOUNTAIN CAKB.--One pound of flour, one pound of sugar, one-half ponud of butter, one teaewpful of sour milk, six eggs, one seaspoonful of soda, two of cream-of-tar tar. Bake as jelly cake and spread floating between and on top. PORK CAKE.--One pound of salt pork chopped fine. Let boil two minutes iu a half pint of hot water. Add one cup of molasses, two of sugar, three eggs, two table spoonfuls of soda, oue tea- Bpoonful of cinnamon, one of cloves, nutmeg, one pound of raisins, chopped. Flour to make a stiff" batter. CODFISH AND CHEESE.--Just bring to a boil, a pound of freshened codfish, chop fine, and stir in a cup of drawu butter, season with pepper and a little minced parsley or celery leaves and two tal4e- spoon i'uls of grated cheese. Turn into a baking-dish, strew fine bred-crumbs on top, and brown in tlie oven. APPLE PIE A LA TRANSCENDENTI.-- Make an apple pie with two crusts, but without sugar or spice. Bake it and when nearly done, beat up two eggs, with sugar, spice and butter or any other seasoning preferred! When tho pie is done, take it out of the oven, slip off the top crust on to another plate, stir in the egg and seasoning till it is well cooked put on the top crust exactly as it came off, and serve. Everybody will want two pieces. To CUBE CORNS AND BUNIONS.--Jtfake a shield of buckskin leather an inch or two across, with a hole cut in the center the size of the corn. Wear it until the oorns or bunions cease to pain you. By sewing a narrow baud on and slipping it over the toe it will keep the shoe frwm rubbing it. A strong mixture of carbolic acid and glycerine used in equal portions make a good application, but must be kept out of the way, for it's a burning poison. Bay rum or vasaline is a sooth­ ing application, if they are very painful. A weak solution of carbolic acid will heal soft corns between the toes. FBIOASSEE OF SWEETBREADS.--Procure four nice sweetbreads, wash them care­ fully, removing skin and gristle. Cover with boiling water and boll fifteen min­ utes, then plunge into ice-cold water, to which you have added a little salt. Leave them in this twenty minutes, take out and cut into crosswise slices, quarter, of an inch thick. . Have ready three or four tablespoonfuls of butter heated in a fry­ ing pun and fry the slioes uutil nicely browned but not burnt. Into a sauce­ pan turn two cups of strong broth, seas­ oned well with salt, pepper, a dash of Cayenne, cloves, a little chopped onion boiled iu it and strained out, and thick­ ened with browned flour. Put in the sweetbreads, cover and simmer fifteen minutes longer. MORETON FABM CAKE.--Two pounds of butter, softened throughout, but not melted ; add two pouuds of nice, white, soft sugar, and mix together until creamed ; take out one-half and reserve it in a separate bowl until wanted. To the rest add one quart of pretty warm, sweet milk ; stir in gradually four pounds of flour, then mix in very thoroughly a teacupful of lively home-made yeast. Let it stand in a warm place uutil very light, which will take about four hours : then add the remainder of the butter and sugar and a little more flour if needed; add two pounds of raisins, nicely stoned, a little pulverized mace, and, if at haud, some candied lemon peel; let it rise again, and when well raised mix it well, using the hands, and proportion it off iuto well-buttered paus; let them stand in a moderately-warm place uutil begin­ ning to rise; put them into a steady oven and bake them fully an hour, or longer if only one or two pans are used. There are no eggs used in this cake, none are needed. It is an excellent cake for econominal housekeepers to make iu winter, when eggs are scarce and high- priced. If the top and sides are frosted it will keep moist for a long time. Brown paper is nice to wrap cake in before put­ ting it into the cake box. ied 11 efiVcts of the earth-shock on the water l>een limited by the sho~es of South America, a wave of disturbance equal in ixtent to that which traveled westward would have swept toward the east, we the throat and chest, and in every severe see. that tlie force of the uhock was suffi- ww tlireo or four drops on a funi}> crt cient to have disturbed tho waters of an s 'ig;ir may be taken inwardly. Every ocean oovering the whole surface of the ' family should have a bottle on kaad. The CAtalpa Tree. Tt is believer] that tho railroad tie of the future will be cut from the beautiful e.atalxa tre<>. The Fort S 'otf. Texas and Gulf railroad have plaut -d 800 sicrrs of joung trees, aud tho I ton Mountain rail ood have planted 100 acres, near Elepbant Dentistry. One of the Indian elephants some time since had the misfortune to wrench off a portion of its truuk which had got caught in a noose of rope, and the larg­ est African specimen, whose huge pro­ portions are well known to the frequent­ ers of tho Gardeus, met with an accident by whioh its tusks were broken off; the stumps subsequently grew into the cheeks, causing it excruciating pain, and necessitating and immediate remedy. The intrepid Superintendent undertook to perform tho delicate opei*ation and re­ lieve the poor beast. Having prepared a gigantic hook-shaped lancet I10 band­ aged the creature's oyes and proceeded to his task. It was an anxious moment, for there was absolutely nothing to prevent the animal killing his medicil attendants upon the si>ot, aud to rely upon the com­ mon seuse aud good nature of a creature weighing many tons and suffering from facial abscesses and neuralgia, argues, to say the least of it, tlie possession of considerable nerve. But Mr. Bartlett did not hesitate, and climbing up witliiu reach of his patient he lancod the swol­ len cheok. II is conrage WHS rewarded, for the beast at otico perceived that the proceedings were for bis good, and sub­ mitted quietly. Tlie next morning when they came to operate upon the other side, the elephant ^lrntyl his cheek with­ out httiug bidden, and endured the second incision without a groau.--Saturday Jim- vimw. A GEBMAM chemist has established the valuable fact that wood impregnated with paraffhie oil is preserved for many years from rot, even under cireumstanoee most, favorable to decay. A CORRESPONDENT of Nature gives the following natural experiments with polar­ ised light: Break off a plate of ice aud hold it between the sky and a pool of water. Its reflected image will show the beautiful colors due to polarized light. The incident rays should come from & psrt ol the sky about ninety degrees from the sun, and reflection should take place at the polarizing angle for water, and the plate will probably require ad| justing to bring out the maximum ef| feet. ALTHOUGH Dr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys has during a period of between forty am fifty years, dredged, as an explorer, al the seas of the British Isles besides 1 considerable part of those on the coast of North America, Greenland, Norway red France, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, an< Italy, he never found anything of valu< except to a natralLit, nor any humai bone, although many thousand humai beings must have perished in those seas The gems, "dead bones," etc., that wai thought to form the floor of the oceai appear to exist only in the imaginatior of the poets. . THE artifk-ial means by which drowsi ness may be induced have been investi gated lately in Germany by Preyer. Th ordinary drowsiness of fatigue sitppose to be caused by the introduction into the blood of lastic acid, a compound pro* ceeding from the distingeration of the bodily tissues of neives and muscle. To ascertain whether this view was correct, Preyer administered large quantities of the aoid to animals, and found that it would induce a drowsiness and slumber apparently identical with formal sleep, aud from Which they awaken seemingly much refreshed. Not only lactate soda, but sour milk and whey, fed to animals which had been fasting, produced this artificial Sleep. THE conditions prescribed by the Brit­ ish Government in the manufacture of gunpowder for the public service provide, among other things, that the wood-- dogwood--for the charcoal shall be of the utmost cleanliness, any traces of bark adhering to it constituting an impurity insuring its immediate condemnation, and the wood must also be cut ia the spring of the year. If the latter opera­ tion is performed when the sap is rising, tlie bark is easily removed, and the wood is left perfectly clean; but wood cut later in the year or in winter is perfectly as good, only in this case the removal of the bark is a much more difficut matter; the process of separation involves the boiling of the wood, or, if this is impracticable, the whole of the bark must be Bliaved off with a knife. The objection chiefly characterizing both tho boiled and shaved, for gunpowder manufacture, that they do not keep so well when stacked as tjhe spring-out wood, going to decajr much faster. RUST.--Professor Barff, of London, has discovered how to treat iron vessels so as to render them wholly safe from a tendency to rust, so that boilers, if the iron of which they are made had been thus treated, would be safe agaiest the corrosion caused by the water, aud cook­ ing vessels would no longer need rather to be made of copper or furnished with a tin lining, while spades and rails and iron keels and plates, and the locomo­ tives on our lines, and all the countless iron instruments of our modern' life would be safe against the most destruc­ tive of all the agencies which waste them away. The process is to coat the iron with the magnetic or black oxide of iron, which is not only incapable of rust, but liarder than the iron itself, and which Adheres to iron with a tenacity greater than that with which the various strata of the iron adhere together. Professor Barff subjects the iron to superheated steam at a temperature of from 500 to 1,200 Fahrenheit, and if the exposure is continued from five to seven hours this coating is fairly formed, and if the latter temperature is secured it will adhere so closely that not even a file will scrape it off. Professor Barff loft iron vessels thus treated out on the lawn for six weeks during the late rainy weather, and when brought iu they were as bright as before their exposure. The coating does not affect the surface, except by turning it black. The tJreat Bell of St. Paul's. St. Paul's has always possessed, and still owns, a great bell. From time im­ memorial the citizens claimed the east- em part of the churchyard as the place of assembly for their folk-motes. "Iu tho great steeple'there situate (which, wo may remark, was an isolated strncture), was their common beil, which being there rung, all the inhabitants might then hear and come together." Thus Stow Dugdale supposes this building to have stood where is now St. Paul's School. So far back as the 15th of Ed­ ward I. (1286) mention is made, in a quo warranto, of the custom of ringing a bell in this tower as one existing long ere that date. Henry VIII. lost tower, spire, aud bell at a game of hazard to Sir Miles Partridge, who quickly over­ threw his •winnings and melted the bell. For not far short of two centuries St. Paul's had no great bell. That which it now possesses was the gift of William III. It was originally cast in the reign of Ed­ ward I., and was hung at the gate of Westminster Hall, to notify the hour to the Judges. It was afterwards called '•Edward of Westminster," and subse­ quently "Westminster Tom." William gave it to the Cathedral of St Paul, whither it was brought on New-Year's Day, * 1699. Since then it has been twice recast, each time with an addition of metal. It weighs more than two cwt. over five tons. It is ten feet in diameter and ten inches in thickness of metal. The tone is very fine in the musical note A, concert pitch. The lionr is struck by a large hammer, and falls on the outside rim of the bell by its own weight. The bell is only tolled--that is to say, the clapper is only used--on the death of one of the royal family, or of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, tho Deau of St. Paul's or the Lord Mayor.--London City Press. M* MJH GREAT 6£R«AFT " V REMEDY " warn RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA, SCIATICA, LUFIIBAGT, BACKACHE, SORENESS orrai ML, OL JEWELRY, SiIverware, &c. RICHMOND, ILL. DLL 9TID PURS ACH NO Prftpfir&tioft en earth equAlf ST. JAOORS Off. M ft MV% BUR?:, SISCFLK tad OTEAT ExtamiU Ztoixtcdy. A trialeutcflft bet the opurmiiT»ly '<-rrflingouti&y of St>CjtftT3, ri enticing with piio CSQ cheap &std pog>tiv« pxo&taf elsimn. MIXTIONS IB ttBfEH LANMUGES. •MB IV ALL MNMUSTS JUU ft CALEBS 1H Ml A. 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Ho has two sons, both Freuchmen to the backbone; neither of them, however, wish to follow their father's profession, but have choteu a military life, which plainly shows their want of "tasta," ad- oordiiig to their father's idea. ened by tho Bt-smln < your duties avoid ftlmul&nts and use Hop Batters. If yon asti yotmgf and I discretion or dissii>al ried ©r single, old or I poor health or fenguiuh | neas, rely on H O "Whoever yo u are. whenever you feel , that your ?5^le:n needs defusing, ton- * Ing or Rtimuiattng, withoutinto.vfc-Uiiig, i t ake Hop Bl t t e r i f Hnvoyourfys-pppsia, kidney i or ii>ni»OT*y com-§ plaint, $h of the blood*I or nerves f| i 11 Del cured Bf vouusel Hop Bitters! If ypti are e?m-l IoWBIH i t t I t may! of terstoilluti night work, to res­ tore hr&ui lierre and waste, use Hop B. I suffering from any In- 1 tion ; it J |young, I lug Bitter Thousands ale an­nually from some I form of Kidney tdiso&ftd that might have been prevented by a timely use of MopSlttars if you are mar- I, (Offering from m a bed • " ' ' i of dak- HOP nodi gnirit«J,try| I t may! •aveyour life. It has! saved drecis. hun- NEVER FAIL D. I. C. I* an abeohite and lrreal£t&- Me care fur dnnbenrae s B „ use ot opium, tobacco„or nareoUca. fis;.. bf drae-pixtR. Senator Cireml&r. oo., BwfcaatCT-, K. y. ft Tornnlfl, ODU POND'S EXTRACT. guldyM h/amnate, AmtU mmd Chronim. IKVAL Catarrh. Contrail mil Vrnont and U m»» 1NVALTTABLB FOR Pond's Extract * »e Oil y ep oiili't )r this disease t-'o«l in tha Head, fco. Oar Catarrh Cure crs «*.i t-ixx-ury propaivd t•> lrwet »£ nor.ti r.'jsrn, cont%ln» ah the curative pn ,VontT,s our Nasal Syringe (J> writs,, mv liunb <• l ,r u?e In catarrhal c.JeotK.,,%- \« (-imp« and < tlVvtivo. Sore Throa' Lungs, Chapped Hands »"d Fuoo > u^eiiied tho extract, f ronted Li mbs' Q'l Chilbl - ins it'"t-1>- mpt:y rfluTe* #!1.1 jMtiiiiate y t ftrvd i>y Piinfl'S Extract. t It 1* nnnifa Ui uso • t'lor wi ll <>ar •f •rrr tu;™. W-.-t o. h»Tin(t POND'S KXTBAOT. BafE» all tanUUuug and aabiuiute*. . .AiSk„_