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S^AX nVLAD THAT THE PLOW. rOLLOWS * 1 stn the lad that fo"ow< tin* plow-- Itobin and thrash jus t mhl tleK* In m h!c'.«>r.v suit, pretty wnl) worn, , I RO tsf* t!« «"lc\-fit earts morn, haip to scatter the (poldwn core-- »%SS' Robin and thrusii jnist whistle for me. '4»V*1i 'Id 1 0<4t In the meadow* and woods and laneay * KoWn and thrush J;ii4 whistle for m Vt-mpf!V| I watch the aheepatid IIUIM at ptay; tf VV " iilii When the grans is I t<H« the liay; Th.-re isn't a boy in U»t wortfl so Ray-- ' **» « ItoWu aud ttorash just whistle lor laa. . 4^ * 4 j. ^ '»ij fulher to shear the sheep • Robin and thrush jiiRt whistle for ma. I Uie out.e, Uio mangera flU, ^ '• ' drive * |«ni, I (fo to the mill, I itollk the cows witb • right pood will-- q " Robin and Uiru&U Just whistle for ma. ,/• >' i he'p the peaches and p'.nms to save :• Robin and tl-rv.ch just whist'e for (Mb ». I aiu the boy that can climb a tree; .4 There isn't an upp'e too high fur roe; $#" There isn't sn opjile I cannot see-- *& T|-" Bobtu and Utriuh just whistle far BMW *'; A When I'm a man 111 own a farm-- T ^oI>'n thrash jui-t whistle for IB*-- %r> 'Horres and sheep and many a cow, J>- B -eta- kw of wheat and « lxir.ey mo»; jf Y. I'M bo a farmer aii'l follow the plow; If'**' tbrush sk#N whiHtie for BML V 'Tlf better to stand to the golden oorn-- {'>,< Motrin and thrash jont whistle for ma-- Tto ten* the bay in the breeay lea, i* Afo p'uck the lrutt on the orchard trMt .ijfThU roam about on t!ie rest e«w sea; Wt'aattGr boy, I'll follow the ptyw. o j! • *T5B bettor to bear the wild birds Ring, ]?% Robin and thrash on the apple bough-- r 1 A better to have a farm and: a wife, • " "And wad a busy, peaceful life, » Than march to the aairy drniu and Af>;' ". 5 .<4 So, soldier boj, I'll follow tha yiow. ^ ' A DARK DAY. »«tis nil »• «i . '**1 Hetty Lookwood sat at the open urin- d<W--« big basket of undarnetl stocking* by her aide, a copy of the last magazine on the table close by, while within reach a blight butterfly hovered •bout a newly-opened honeysuckle grow­ ing against the window. The spring breeze breathed balmily into the apart­ ment, filling her senses with a delicious dreaminess, and her eyes wandered wist­ fully ont beyond the shaded village street to the green fields and budding willows bordering the sparkling river. On a morning such as this who could endure to stay in doors ? Who could «nduro to sit quietly down and darn •bookings? A girlish voice aroused Hetty. Look- ' ing from the window she saw Susie Lake leaning on the little front garden gate. "Oh, Hetty, do come and walk with me down to Aunt Ellen's. The morning is lovely, and I have something to teu jo®-" "I am afraid I can't, Susie. It is Saturday, you know, and I am sewing and watehing baby asleep, while mother it in the kitchen." "Then I will have to tell you now, I •appose." fine came olose under the window, «nd said, with a mischievous smile : " Whom do you think I saw iust now. Hetty?" " I don't know who. The' new min­ ister?" " No, indeed ; somebody very differ­ ent from that iat, red-faced old codger," returned Susie, irreverently. " Oh, Susie, but who was it ? " "Now, it was Mr. Walter Hayes. Sow, ain't you surprised ? " A vivid blush dyed Hetty's fair face. She made no reply, and Susie contin­ ued : " His employer, Mr. Mitchell, sent him on business from Philadelphia to C , and, as this wasn't much out of the way of bos home, they give him leave to stop here for a day or two, so he told me __ _ when I met him just now. He arrived only an hour ago, in the stage from Cox's Station, and that is how I came ^ to see him before you did, Hetty," she i j 5 added, laughingly. She passed on, leaving Hetty with ^ . , flushed cheeks and brightened eye. No wonder. For more than a year past the thought of Walter Hayes had been tlie brightest spot of her lite. One year ago _ lie had stood at that same littk- green **SSK garden prate, in the moonlight, bidding ;?*! good-by before going away to the .great city to seek his fortune. She re- 2[ snembered the warm, lingering clasp of liis hand, and how he had said to her, in a voice that was low and trembling: " You must not forget me, Hetty. I shall always think of you, Hetty, and when I come back--" And just then her mother had com? on the porch and called her in out of the damp air, and so he bad left her reluct­ antly. Bat now he had come back and ehe would see him to-day. " I do declare, Hetty," exclaimed her mother, bustling into the room, flushed from her pie-baking, " you are the lazi­ est girl I ever saw. Here you've been upward of an hour darning one pair of •tockingB! What have you been about ? Dreaming away your time as M& MilS mini V* <« mi mux, •«»% m it m si. tltni JU* M* rnual, no doubt, and with" all the chil­ dren's Sunday clothes to look over and H«V ̂out for to-morrow, beside the Satur­ day's chores.** Hetty penitently resumed her work ; but she wus very glad when toward sun­ set it was ail done, and she had leisure to run up to her own little room, and never in her life had slie taken such pains with her appearance as now. ; How anxiously she listened for the »fexpected ring at the frontdoor. How tWmultuuusly her heart beat when, at . * lengt II, it came, and how heavy it sank ... when old Deacon Brown stalked in to fe -»;fecus« some church matters with her father. Then she began to look at the clock, and her he<irt grew fainter and fainter as she saw it traveling slowly around to 8 o'clock. In Riverside they Kept early hours, and when, at a quarter *ef 9, Deacon Brown took leave, Hettv •IBO rose, and, lighting ber bedroom ,b a % <M V • Wft * .*«?£«•• mm «* •TZ 4# /«i. • -alk s- ««• V$i*\ » «attdle, went slowly and sadly up stairs. U« >;• When, next morning, she came down, n.«*» IMT mother remarked, as she busied her- s»«a^ aal£ alx>ut the breakfast table: Hetty, Walter Hayes was here last Might," Oh, mother !"* '• There was something almost pathetic In the look and tone, but Mrs. Lockwood was too busy with the steaming coffee ji0t to perceive it. 4#< He came in just ns yon had gone up a&lins," she continued. "He asked for Ton, but it was so late I thought it hardly worth while to call yoa back again. He had been seeing Miss Mitchell home to her aunt's--that Phila­ delphia girl, you know, and I didn't know, Willi he mentioned it, that she was a niece ®f hi® employer, Mr. Mitchell. He is •ertainly improved. To my mind there is nothing like city life for giving people wltat they call style now. Make Ect- •iie's milk toast while I poor out the ooffee." ^ "I think," observed Mr. Lockwood, * "§ as he took his place at the table and cut ¥* - into the cold corned beef ; "I think I • >««*d Harry Tunstall say yesterday that • Hayes was paying attention to ' Tilt as Mitchell. She's a handsome girl, , .* •»<! her father's got money. If Walter her hewiH do welt--don't bolt IV « ' T°ur fooc llke out it properly, sir. if* * , before eating." mm '*. fVJ#L Hetty turnfifl suddenly sick at heart. f~ t 4 . BUe said nothing, but she could not ow her breakfast, and her mother km ^nresently remarked upon her pale looks: . , " Don't you feel well, child? I no­ ticed that you were fidgety lost night You're feverish, I doubt not, with the spring weather." Hetty was glad that her mother per­ mitted ber to go to her room and lie down. There was neve* a fire in her 5| room, but sho drew the bed-clothes over her head and wished that she could thus shut herself out from the whole world. She felt forlorn and miseral^e. All her sweet, foolish dream of love seemed to Jlmve been rudely stricken at n lrfow. Walter had ceased to care for her. He had been won from her by that hand­ some, stylish girl from Philadelphia ; and Hetty hid her' face in her pillow land almost wished that she could die. Her mother sent for her to come down to dinner. There was, she said, no use in staying up-staire in the cold, and the child would be better by the fire, with some nice, warm soup. In there all the afternoon Hetty sat, while her father and the boys went to church and her mother read " Baxter's Rise and Progress " and saagdiamal hymns to the baby. i „ "Het,M said Bill, upon his return from church, " I saw your old beau, Mr. Walt. Hayes, at church with Miss Mitchell, and he shook hands with me fend asked me how the family was. She's jfc real swell, I tell you, and, if you don't %hin§ujo some, she'll out you out." " Wauiam, don't let me here any more bf such slang taJk from you," said his tnocher, reprovingly. " And Hetty," said her little sister, as sho carefully drew off and folded her gloves, "I heard Kate Hayes telling Sirs. Green that Walter and Miss Mitchell were going back to-morrow to Philadelphia, and Mrs. Green said she supposed that was one reason of his coming to Riverside, that he might travel home with her." Hetty lost all heart and hope at this. ?She longe i for sympathy--to lay her head <A her mother's knee and tell her art. But Mrs. Lockwood, though she '•"ally loved her children, was not one of th \se gentle and sympathetic mothers to whom their children thus turn ; and tletty went again to her lonely room, and, wrapping herself in a shawl, seated herself at the window and looked list­ lessly out. A few people were passing. She hardly noticed them, until she suddenly met a pair of brown eyes; and she drew back with burning cheeks and a beating heart as Walter Hayes passed. How handsome he looked ! and, as her mother had observed, how improved in appear­ ance. And she--what could he think of her, sitting there pale and forlorn look­ ing, with her hair all disordered about her face ? He might come Mas evening, perhaps, and yet she hardly wished it now. It would only be painful to see him. Still, she dressed herself and went down stairs; though her head was throb­ bing and she felt really ill. And all the evening she waited and watched, and Walter never came, and she knew that he did not care to see her. And so ended the long, dreary day. Next morning Hetty arose feverish and ill. But she busied herself about the household work ;' and when her mother, observing only that she was dull and languid, remarked that she needed a walk, and desired her to carry a jar of butter to old Mrs. Simpson, she made no objection. The day was pleasant, and, tying a pink-lined hood about her face, Hettv set off alone on her walk. It was rather a long distance that she had to go--out of the village and across a field, and then by a lonely pathway lying along the foot of a hill. Mrs. Simpson kept her somo time talking, and it wae late when tired girl set out on her return. < Slowly retracing the little pathway, Hetty paused at the stile which led into the open field. It was pleasant there. The sun shed a golden light over the beech boughs and a breath of spring-time i'ragrance Boated on the air. Somehow Hetty felt soothed as she stood resting on the stile and looked dreamily at the white clouds overhead. An approaching footstep startled her. Turning, she saw a man s figure com­ ing along the pathway, Her heart gave u great throb, and shen seemed to stand still. He came straight toward her, his hand extended, his lip smiling, his eyes look­ ing straight into her OWL. "Hetty!" t She looked up at him, hall in hope, half in doubt, and the color came ami went on her face. " Hetty, I have wanted so much to see you." She could not mistake the sincerity of his tone or the look of the brown eyes, and she answered, simply and naively : "I thought you had forgotten me." " Forgotten you ?" She could not have told how it hap­ pened, but somehow she found hersert seated on the step of the atile with Walter beside her, and her cheek close --ah! very close--to his, while all the world around seemed transformed into a strange beauty and glory. Such miracles does a moment sometimes work in our lives. As they walked slowly homeward to­ gether he told her that one thing and .mother had prevented his seeing her ; 'lmoi.g the rest, Bill having told him confi(]k?ntially ai the church that she was too sick to come down stairs that day--a statement which he had unfortunately credited, and when tliis morning he had •culled and learned from her mother where she had gone, he lost no time in following. "But, Waltet," said Hetty, hesitat­ ingly, " do you know I heard something about you and--Miaa Mitchell ? " He laughed. " Miss Mitchell is to be married short­ ly, Hetty, to our junior partner. She has been very kind to me, and so has her uncle, my employer. Indeed, Het­ ty, I wanted to tell you of my good fortune and prospects, and to ask you, darling, if, when--" And the words which had been for a whole year delayed were spoken, and Hettv wondered, as she came in sight of her home, whether this could be the same world that it had been on that dark, dark day, yesterday. FARM NOTES. How He Got Hold. A well-known sportsmau of Crescent, it is said, was in New York a short time X seeing the sights. Among other jes he visited was a sale stable, where he took excessive pains to let them know he was a great sport and was up to all the dodges of the trade. He bragged so much they determined to sell him. He was accordingly shown, in confidence, a large box filled with excellent robes and harness, worth at least $400, which lie was informed had been stolen, and he could get them oheap. He bought the lot at $75, and ordered them shipped. He waited anxiously for the box, and when it arrived it was opened, and to the disgust of the purchaser, contained nothing bnt manure and sawdust. There was no remedy, as he purchased stolen goods, and now he is waiting for a chance to get oven on soma of Ids rustic ac­ quaintances.--Troy Press. ONE of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a tiling which any of the company can reasonably wiah had been left unsaid. Pww milk condensed to one-thtal w!ll remain sweet from five to ten days in warm weather. TEMPER in animals is hereditary as well as in man; it is not desirable to breed from a vicious sire. MB. ADAM SCOTT, a prominent Maine sheep-breeder, last wintor fed 330 wethers, and to discern how rapidly they were gaining in flesh secured two which he weighed every month. On the 12th of January they weighed respectively 120 and 136 pounds, and continued to gain steadily up to the 13th of April, when they weighed 150 and 170. They were fed one and one-fourth, pounds of corn daily with all the hay they could eat The total cost for feed being estimated at seventeen cents per month --an increase of about twenty cents per month for each sheep over the value of food eaten. A RBASOX for the application of salt as a fertilizer for growing crops is that it contains both soda and chlorine. Nearly all plants contain these substances to some extent, and need to be supplied; some plants contain more than others, as, for instanoe, white clover contains five pounds of soda and two pounds of chlorine in 1,000 pounds; beets, cabbage, and turnips contain from four to six poands in 1,000; tobacco contains seven pounds of soda and nine pounds of chlorine; beet seeds oontain eight pounds of soda and five pounds of chlorine, and all these are greatly benefitted by an ap­ plication of salt. TREES should be generally set the same depth that they previously stood in the soil, allowing an inch or two more or less for the settling of the newly stirred earth. On heavy soils they will be more injured by being planted too deep, than on those of a light sandy, or gravelly nature, ^nd where greater depth is needed to prevent the effects of drought. Oa lands inclining to be wet, setting trees upon the surface, and rais­ ing the earth upon the roots is a mode that has some advantages, among which are the greater depth of soil thus made and the prevention of water settling among the roots. THE raising of cattle, sheep and poultry for the supply of our village and city markets is every day becoming a matter more deserving of the attention of the -agricultural community. The demand is becoming more and more difficult to sup­ ply, as larger quantities and finer quali­ ties are being continually sought after. As raising supplies of beef, mutton, veal, lamb and poultry attracts more and more of the attention of farmers, in like pro­ portion will all information be welcome which furnishes accurate and reliable details as to the worth, economical meth­ ods of fattening and getting ready for market any of the above products. The breed of animals most easily fattened, and the kind of feeding which is at once most effectual and most eeonomical, are points upon which we may yet obtain Considerable increase of rekable and use­ ful information. THE age of horned cattle may general­ ly be known by rings on the horns till their tenth year; after that time they give no indication of age further than that the animal has passed Its teiith year. The first ring appears 011 the horn after the animal has passed two years old-- soon after, as a general rule, though sometimes before that age. During tne third year, the ring gradually increases, and at three years of age it is completely formed. The second ring appears during the fourth year, and at the fifth year it is complete. After that period an additional ring is formed each year. This rule is sufficiently plain, and even n young farmer heeds but little practice lb enable hini to read a cow's age on Iier horns. A cow with three rings is six years old; with four she is seven years old. No new rings are formed after the tenth year; the deeper rings, however, and the worn appenrauce of the lioms are pretty sure indications of old age. FOR CORING BEET, PORK, MUTTON, HAUS, ETC.--To one gallon of water, 1^ lbs. of salt, $ lb. of 6ugar, | ouuee saltpetre, J ounce potash, in this ratio the pickle can be increased to any quan­ tity desired. Let these be boiled to­ gether until all the dirt from the sugar rises to the top and is skimmed off. Then throw it into a tufb to cool, and when cold pour it over your beef or pork. The meat must be well covered with pickle, and should not be put down for at least two days after killing, during which time it should be slightly sprinkled with powdered saltpetre, which removes all the surface bloed, etc., leaving the meat fresh and clean. Some omit boiling the pickle, and find it to answer well, though the operation of boiling purifies the pickle by throwing off the dirt al­ ways to be found in salt and sugar. If this recipe is strictly followed, it will re­ quire only a single trial to prove its su­ periority over the common way, or most ways, of putting down meat, and will not soon be Abandoned for any other. The meat is unsurpassed for sweetness, delicacy, and freshness of color. Omit the potash unless you can get the pure article. Druggists usually keep it. FARMERS' U ÎON.--The following prac­ tical advice on the management of colts is from the Lancaster farmer: If a colt is never allowed to get an advantage, it will never know that it possesses a power that man can not control; and if made familiar with strange objects, it will not be skittish and nervous. If a horse is made accustomed from his early days to.have objects hit him on the heels, back and hips, he will pay no attention to tho giving out of a harness, or of wagons ruuning against him at an un­ expected moment. We once saw an aged lady drive a high-spirited horse, attached to a carriage, down a steep hill, with no hold-back straps upon the harness; and she assured ns that there was «o danger, for her son accustomed his horses to all kinds of usage and sights, that commonly drive animals in­ to a frenzy of fear and fright. A gun can bo fired from in front of a horse. I An umbrella held aver his head, a buffa- j lo robe thrown over his neok, a railroad | engine pass close by, his heels be { thumped with sticks, and the animal j take it aH as a natural oonditiou of; things, if only taught by oarefol man­ agement that he uill not be injured thereby. Russian We vex. I have seen wo've< show more bold­ ness in the pursuit of dogs--their favor- j ite food, according to my experience-- than on any other occasion. Setters and retrievers are frequently snapped up within 100 yards of tho sportsman, and in broad daylight, when shooting in thick forest j and wolves will prowl around the villages at night, and como right into small towns after howling puppies. The peasants seldom show fear of them, and an old woman I knew ran out once, in the lightest of garments, on a bitterly cold night, only armed with a piece of tin and a stick with which she struck it, shouting loudly to drive off three marauders who howled under her window, whither they had come in the hopes of finding her dogs outside. Some watch-dogs, however, know their enemies and defend themselves most bravely, and I saw a big mongrel New­ foundland who showed honorable scars gained in pauguinary fights w ith wolves. One fine morning I met a young wolf trotting down the high-rond in such a peaceful, inoffensive manner that I took him for a large dog, and so lost my chance of a shot by not getting behind covert in time.r--London Meld. HOUSEHOLD HEl<?!t. LEMONADE.--Four quarts of water, one and one-half pounds loaf sugar, juice of eight lemons, the rubbing of one; strain it ready for use. BUTTER SPONGE CAKE. --Fourteen egtgs, the weight of the same in sugar, eight ounces of flour, six of butter, and _ the juice of three lemons. FOR a good or easily made puddiug- sauce take one tablespoonful of butter, •two tablespoonfuls of flour, two-thirds of a enp of sugar. Pour hot water over these, etir well and boil until thick; fla­ vor with lemon, wine or with nutmeg and a teaspoonfnl of vinegar. • v CORN MEAII PUDDING.--Two cups of Indian meal, one cup of fl*ur, three cups of sour milk, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, a tablespoonful of melted butter, a little salt, any spice you please, aud a large teaspoonfnl of soda dissolved in hot wafer. Beat the ingredients free from lnmbs; adding the soda last. Pour into a buttered mold or tin pail and boil two hours without stopping. Eat with liquid sauce or maple sirup. IF you have not a pretty or even good looking dish ia which to serve scallopped oysters, a common yellow dish may be made presentable by covering it with a napkin. Fold the napkin in the shape of a handkerchief, put around the dish and pin it: tuck the corners in and fold under the dish, then set it on a plate. Be careful to put the napkin ou smoothly, letting it come just to the edge of the dish. YORKSHIRE pudding, to be eaten with roast beef, as one would eat a vegetable, is made in this way: Stir three teaspoon- fuls of flour into one pint of milk; add three eggs and a little salt; pour into a shallww tin baking pan, put it into the oven an hour before dinner time. After it has baked for about ten minutes put it under the roasting beef. When thfe meet is taken up, leave the pudding in the oven for five minutes, then pour off the fat and 4erve with tke meat. PARSNIPS FOR GAKNTSH.--With a veg­ etable cutter cat them out raw to any shape preferred. Drop them in fast boiling water, add salt and a small quan­ tity of whole pepper; when done drain thoroughly, toes them on a saucepan with a little butter and some parsley finely dropped. Or boil them in plenty of fast boiling salted water; when done pass them through a sieve, then work a piece of butter and a little milk in them in a saucepan over the fire, adding pep­ per and salt to them. CHICKEN SANDWICHES. --Ingredients:-- Chicken and ham, four eggs, one table­ spoonful of olive oil, nmstard, vinegar. Chop the chickens (not too fine) also a little nice ham; then braid together the yolks of the eggs (boiled very hard) with the oil; when smooth add a little made mustard and vinegar, should it not besalt enough from the ham add a little, stir the mixture well and add tbe meat. Have ready some thin slices of bread buttered and put some of the mixture between tw® slices; very nioe. HERE is a delicious pudding for des­ sert: Ono pint of nice bread crumbs (not crumbs of stale bread uufit for the table), one quart of milk, oue cup of sugar, and the well beaten yolks of four eggs, the graied rind of one lemon, and a piece of Butter the size of an egg. Bake until done. Whip the whites of four eggs, and beat in one cup of pulver­ ized sugar in which you have put the juice of the lemon. Spread over the j pudding a layer of jelly or raspberry jam or any sweetmeat you prefer, then pour over it the whites of the eggs. Set in the oven to brown slightly. Serve cold with cream. This is an excellent dessert for an elaborate dinner, as it may be made early in the morning, and so be out of the way. PIE CRUST.--One pound of flour, a quarter of a pound of butter, a glass of cold water, a cool pantry or room, and quick movements are essential. Place half the flour in a heap on the molding board; cut the lard in two and through it until qmte fine; add cold water and stir with the knife. When wet and quite soft scrape from the board to one side; sift the other half till the board is well covered; lay the dough on it; roll it out, but be careful not to get it too thin; spread half the butter over it and then cover the butter with flour. Fold and then roll out; put on the remaining but­ ter and cover with flour;,fold and roll quite thin; sift flour on it; fold and roll up and lay it aside; take a littde more than a fourth of tho wliele of one crust; flour the board and dough, and roll to the size required; place on the tin or dish, shaping to the same, and out off around the edge with a sharp knife; fill the pie with quarters, or, if the apples are large, with eighths, of tart apples; roll an upper crust and lay it over the ap­ ples; trim it around tho edge as before, but do not pinch the two crusts together. If you wish to ornament the crust let the outs or marks be upon the upper surface 011 if*; do not cut through so as to make holes at which the steam can escape. Place the pie in a hot oven so that tho paste will bake quickly; when thoroughly baked, if the apples are not thoroughly cooked, which can be easily ascertained by lifting tho upper crust'at one side and peeping in, lessen tho heat or transfer to a oooler oven until done, if necessary. EDUCATION. StatlaliM M •• Ele­ mentary Kducacton Thraafhont tke CiviSized World. In a paper prepared by the United States Bureau of Education is included some interesting and valuable statistics, compiled from the latest official reports, showing certain facta relating to the condition of elementary education throughout the civilized world. Among the facts exhibited regarding each coun­ try are the total population, tlie school age as established by law, the total school population, the number of schools, the number of pupils enrolled, and the most interesting facts tlum to be pre­ sented are given in the table printed herewith. It will be observed, upon reference to the following table, that in some of the countries the number of pupils en­ rolled in schools exceeds the entire school population. For example, the school population of England and Wales was reported at 2,500,000 in 1879, while the number of pupils enrolled in schools in the same year was 3,710,883. This ap­ parent discrepancy is explained by the fact that the official school age in those countries comprises only children from 3 to 15 years old, intending those in in­ fant schools. The 2,500,00'J school popu­ lation is an estimate, and included only those children who were between tho ages of 7 and 13 years. Of tho 3,710,- 883 pupils enrolled, 1,208,016 were be­ tween the ages of d and 7 years, 2,333,- 973 were between the ages of 7 and 13 years, and 108,894 were over 13 years old In nearly all the Continental coun­ tries of Europe tho school age covers a period of only seven or eight years, usu­ ally from 6 to 13 or 6 to 14; and conse­ quently many children younger than 6 years or older than 14 years are enrolled as pupils in the schools, although they do not form a part of the school population. In the United States the school age varies greatly in the different States. Thss longest period is seventeen years, from 4 to 21 (in Florida, Maine and New Hampshire), and the lowest six years, from 8 to 14 (in Texas). School age in the United States covers an aver­ age period exceeding fourteen years, while in European countries the average period is a lit' le more than one-half as long. It would not be fair to conclude tha.% because Saxony reported more thau 100 per cent, of her school popnla* tion enrolled in public schools in 1878> she wa* therefore, in an edncati mal sense, ahead of the United States, which reported only 64 per cent, of the schco'. population eurolled in the public schoofc in tho same year. In Saxony the school age covers a period of only eight years, while, as has been shown, in the United States the period exceeds fourteen years. In this table the school population of Kassia is estimated at 15,000,000 in round numbers. This, and the reported .school populations* England and Wales already mentioned, are the only esti­ mates in the table. Of the 69,527 teachers reported in England mid Wales, 23,716 ara certified teaehers,6,610 are as­ sistant teachers, and 33,195 are pupil teachers. Following is the table above mentioned : Scfujol Mi ni Iter 09UNTBIKS. Popula­ / *u/)i7s Xuntber tion. Hit rolled. Ttuichert*. United States 14,."<96,'.8'J 9,373.105 271,144 ALGERIA 5r>,(KK* •->1.551, ],2-Ju Alsace-Lorraine 259,020 217,1.11 4,3.4 Argentine Republic.. 503,078 116,244 5,893 Austria. 3,122,B(Ui 2,lUi,l-8i. 31,116 D iden 245,o61» 3,60.1 Uel̂ inm 77'.yi7l> e8i,74f 11,808 No report Brazil.. So report 187,915 11,808 No report Bremen (free city) 17,802 17,311 40iJ lintinli liuiinati. Bo rejmr! 80,292 No repcrt British Columbia a.7^1 2,194 5i iiritinli India No report f>l.\744 So rept rl i'a\aria 745, '231 841,304 ll,l>2l Denmark r. 34U, 5l> 3,469 Egypt No repor; 167,17; No report Eug and and Wales.. ^,500,(00 3,710,88: 01),")'.7 Finland 20,279 532 France 6,400,087 4,710,9)5 110,709 Greece ' •J4.>,000 81,440 1,205 Hamburg (ety).... .. 41,310 48,348 1,826 Hawaiian islands.*. No report 7,Wo No report Hungary •>,1-27,1(50 l,^5S»,«3ti 20,747 Ireland So re port 1,031,99.. 10,489 Italy 4,5'j7,5!S2 1,931,617 47,085 Jamaica No report 52,243 No report Japan 5,251..'•00 2,16_,9t2 69,825 Luxemburg a;>.0 if 3), 4,7 6iKI Malta No report 7,74<i No report ilvi CO No repcrt 34 .1,0 0 Noiwpoi-t Netuei lands 5. tiji'.tl 4,-6,737 12,692 Now Brunswick 51,084 No report 54,472 No rt port New South Wa ea 51,084 No report 129,1.-5 1,824 Norway S02,0lU '261,62V 4,030 Nova Scotia. No report 84,35.. 2,011 Ontario 491,4-4 487,012 6,596 No report Portugal 615.W.' 198,13. 6,596 No report Pnivwa 4,:»«,7U8 4,007.771 67,i«t! (jut-bee No report, 239,808 6,132 Queensland No report 41,38'J 924 Konmauia 700.000 10f,MM 3,6 1 UuHHa 13,000,000 1,213,325 No report Suxniy 448,814 4;,1,324 7,219 Scotland.... 501,600 60H.4V2 9,477 Servia ... No report 22,7A( 027 Hr.uth Australia .No report 39,127 '«8S Spaiu. 2,G03,'-'to 1,410.47f 29.022 Swedes 7 698,334 'j*311 Switzerland 441,714 411,754 10,156 Se report Tasmania No report I*.'*"" 10,156 Se report Victoria report 2^1, If,: 4,00fi Wurtvniberg No repor' 5,887 Jokes of the Druggist. Drug clerks will have their little joke, especially where on one is harmed, says a prominent New York druggist. Woe be to the fellow who comes m and asks for love powder, or tlie stuff to make ' moustaches or beard 'grow. Love pow­ der is one of the few tilings that is dif­ ferent in every store that I have clerked in. Sometimes it is plain powdered su­ gar, sometimes epsom salts, sometimes flax seed meal, and now and then it is ginger or oharcoal. We generally pick up the li'andiest thing that is lying around. No thoroughbred clerk will decline to supply a want of that kind, es}>ccially if he enjoys a joke. Customers of this kind are always simpletons, and they go away happy with anything you give them. We generally make them swear on a pile of almanacs tliab they will never divulge the secret, uuder penalty of their going to the penitentiary. Having taken the oath, all you havo to do is to tie up any- Nettllag a Witness. thing that is lying around, aud they are The Troy Frew says: Witnesses in contented. I havo frequently given them court cases after having pestered • almost ; a good dose of tartar emetic. If that to death by counsel on tho other side are don't produce love, I don't know what extremely apt to become obstinate in an- I will. I have never known one of them swering subsequent questions. Such ac- I to come for a second dose, so it must do tion, although natural, is of poor judg­ ment, for the inquisitive lawyer seeing that he has nettled tho witness will re­ double his exertions to completely oon- fuse him, and thus benefit the case of the cross-examining discilpes of Blackstone. In tho Circut Court, yesterday, a witness after having been expressibly wearied by the persistent interrogatories of eminent counsel, apparently made up his mind to become obstinate and possibly witty, so when asked the distance from oue point to another by street blocks, he answered, "I never measured." "How long would it take you to walk the distance ?" "I never counted." "How long would it take yoa to ride the distance?" "I never rode." "Could you walk the diatanoe ia fif­ teen miautes'?" "Yes, if I wanted to." Answers were given in thia unsatisfac­ tory manner until finally the information desired was oljtained. But after that the witness was dotfbly persecuted, and upon leaving the stand his feelings mutt have been identical with those of the fellow who dreamed he stepped from hell into heaven in a second of time. Witness as who adopt the obstinate-witty fashion must expect rough handliug. They al­ ways get it. the business. When fellows come around after a "beard grower" we give them a box of some waste ointment. Anything at all in the shape of grease satisfies them, and they depart with a look of mingled contentment and guilt. One day an old gentleman asked me to make up a hair dye according to a formula which he handed me, which I did. In an hour he returned with his whiskers, which were formerly snow white, of a deep black hue. Tlie next morning he agaiu came back. But what a change! His hair and beard were a bright carmine? He was wild. He charged me with playing a joke on him. But soon I convinced him I had not done so. The only way he could get ont of the scrape was to go to a barber shop and have his hair and beard dyed black with nitrate of silver dye, wliioh always gives a kind of a rusty appearance to anything it is applied to. " ^ Is Consumption Contagious T It is surprising to some American vis­ itors to Europeau hospitals to find that consumptive patients are kept in a de­ partment by themselves, while the same care for separating is not exhibited in regard to disean- s deemed more conta­ gious on this side of the ooean. Yet the conviction that pulmon iry diseases are infectious is gaining strength amOng American physicians, and it is a note­ worthy fact that the fathers of medicine, Hippocrates and Galen, inclined strong­ ly to that opinion. The same belief has been entertained all along by many prominent physiologists and anatomists. Consumption often arises from eating of the meat of animals with diseased lungs, and actual experiment has shown that when different animals have been fed on the diseased lun gs of a cuw, they have been attacked by pulmonary disease. A rig­ id supervision of all "meats told, and a thorough system of ventilation in houa- es, and especially in hospitals where consumptives are treated, seem to be tho best preventives agairst tho ac­ quirement and communication of the. malady. - ' ' Oar Opium Eater*}. - Almost any physician of reputable practice is qualified to tell us that the intemperance that agitates society and puzzles legislatures is after all not the most subtle or dangerous that afiiicte the country. Disease in its varied and acute manifestations, is to be dreaded, not simply because it inflicts immediate injury upon tlie body and sometimes the mind, but beoause it so often opens wide the door to the habit of opium eating, which is a greater evil than almost any disease can be. It is not easy to satisfy our sense of justice by holding the vic­ tims of this habit to a strict moral ac­ countability, for about the first effect of the drug used habitually is to deaden the will power and make the partaker a slave to a craving that was planted in­ dependently of has own motion. Women are tlie greatest sufferers. The nervous disorders to which they are subject, and the pains and maladies which attack them in myriad forms, seem to drive the doctor to the morph-ine bottle as the inevitable resort for the relief of his pa­ tients. This is like feeding balnea up­ on soothing; syrups. It accomplishes what it is intended to accomplish for the time being, but it exacts a penalty which it takes the suffering and sometimes the agony of a lifetime te satisfy. Alcoholio stimulants never establish a mastery over body and mind in the same short period of time that suffices to implant the opium craving in an ordinary human constitution. The effects of alcohol manifest tbomselves even to the most ordinary observer. The effects of opium, on the other hand, almost defy detec­ tion by the experienced eye of the skill- ' ful physician. Those tinder its influence are lively, cheerful, frequently brilliant, and they get the credit of being iu ex­ cellent health and spirits, when, in fact, they' are in deadly®warfare with all the laws of physical and moral health. The result of this now wide-spread practice, which is as secret as it is terrible, is to enfeeble the generations that eome from these impure sources. Tho importation, aud, we suppose, the consumption of opium iu this country has increased 140 per cent, during the last four years, and we fear the doctors are responsible for not a little of this startling exhibit. They should use opium and its preparations only in very extreme cases, and tben not long enough or regularly enough to cre­ ate a craving. Otherwise they may be, and in many eases will be. laying the train for habitual opium exhilaration and drunkenness, which is almost worse than death itself. An Oriental Sunday Among the Mer­ chants in Bombay. An Indian correspondent of the Wash­ ington lirpubtioan writes: The Sabbath in Bombay is, as it is on the Continent, a busy day. The natives find that the labor of six days does not render them revenue enough, and therefore continue their traffic on the seventh. The Euro­ peans remain quietly at home, bnt ti<i« does not prevent them from being visited by the merchants and their wares. They enter the hotels and boarding-houses and strew the floor with their goods, and very beautiful they are, too. Cashmere shawls, embroidered Persian garments in silver and gold, cunningly wrought jewelry, sandal-w«od fans and boxes. The cus­ toms and manners of the merchants are unique and not just what we are accus • tomed to in a civilized land. His goods are transported by a coolie who remains outside. The merchant who is bare­ legged aud not over-dressed, squats on the floor while he displays his merchan­ dise and glibly tells of the superior qual­ ities of the articles. Ho names at first an astonishingly high price. He expects to be beaten down; and, as you express disapproval, gradually lowers the price, until, if you purchase, it has been low­ ered nearly two-tliirds. The Jews, who have always carried off the palm for this particular mode of trade, would find themselves iu nearly every instance put to shame by a native Indian trader. There is no necessity for ladies to go out shopping in Bombay, for all kinds of apparel and fancy articles are brought to the houses aud bungalows for them to choose from. All of the native shops are open on Sunday, and mechanics go to their daily labor as a matter of course, the large cotton-mills and manufactories rumble on regardless of the lioiy day. The natives havo different days for their religious worship throughout the month. The Pays ef Humbugs. Is it possible that this can be the Nineteenth century? is the question one asks oneself as the eye settles upon the. longs lists of astrologers, clairvoyants and other humbugs, which have a promiuent place in the advertising columns of our dailies. There is probably no other country in the world where such iinpos- ters coidd ply their nefarious trade with impflnity. "Of course it is only the ig­ norant,, who patronize such peoplo," is tlie usual remark passed in connection with these charlatans. But suoh is far frtjm beii*g the case. People, ladies es­ pecially who should know better, visit the offices of these imposters, in tho fond belief that they may get a "tip" on stocks which will make their fortunes, or, by some exercise of witch or wizard's power, be able to marry the man they love. There is not cause to waste pity upon this class for fools will be fools the world over, and the astrologer might as well have their coin as any ono else. It is from tlie laboring class, however, that the fortune-teller chiefly gets his living, and many a hard-earned dollar has been paid--for what? For nothing--and worae thau nothing. It is this class that needs {>rotcetion, audit is to be hoped that, ere qng. instead of granting them licenses as at present, some law will be passed which will sweep them, with other use­ less rubbish, into the gutter of oblivion. James Bowie and His Inlfc. James Bowie lay for months in his bed, in the city of Natchez, before he reoovered from his wound. 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