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1st" * ' % • ' • Wtm rxmnwcrn'M umomr Ah, th«r* he t.«, 1*4, at, the Mow; He beat* (M bor* for work, • 4- Aai whMaoe»er the taak ratghs £»"•*,- * > KMM artar him shirk, ' '- \-Amd he can laugh, too, till fata e Rnn o'er with mirthful team, tnri ging lull many an old-Una In spite of aerenty year*. ••-I m Oood morning, Mend*; 'ti» twrint'oM • kSu-r *" Tim" for i -hour's rest," «3s - », <«• »d farmer John took out hu lan||| And «te it with * ce«t. A harder task It i#," ho Mid, ~ f~ 7a " Than following up thaaa lending fenem, far, for • l o fed n»T apTenty year*. ^ You uk me why I feci so young, I'm dure, friends, I can't Ml, '"'M: . v# i , J^ut think it is my good wife'a facril Who's kept me'upso well; >Jr<«r women much sw she are t» Is this poor *«le of tear*; 4|hi'>'* glreti mo love and hop* ul rtnagA For mow* than forty yeara. !* And then bit boTi bw il loM Will, v* Aa taraathey hare gonu, .. . ii>4 that thing nrai an oM mu'lNOOl, And help* hlu up and on. Hy gtrl* ha**, MTW oauaed a h K>v»TOr rwtard npanxiousfean; ;; ,Vt>an wo»d«r n«t that I fad young *T • •' ¥ i h**e •* *1r',J5tT TMKfc , •fWhy don't my good hoyiAsay waft • Si* i And 1st me nit and reatf '•>' Ahi friead*, U»at wouldn't do far M| V T, .J I like MY #*• trejr k*t. . ̂ • They hare their duty; I have B1B% And, tlHl the and appear*, . t mean to smell the aMl, ayfrlenH" ,m .- rJ Said the m<n o< aerenty yam. i *• j:*i* NDtM**V- - • TRAGEDY IN THE FOREST. U ' f l e, iux*«t The famify of ClifHinret wer# fitting " at breakfast, •when Gresham, the district attorney, drove up to the door. "Come with me to the forest," he •aid to Mir. Mordaunt, in some excite­ ment " There has been a terrible murder committed there, and I want jour ad- vioe." Mr. Mordaunt was a retired lawyer, who had been particularly celebrated in criminal cases, and who spent his sum­ mers at the estate he owned, called Cliff- hurst, a Jew miles from Berkton. "Willingly," he said. "I confess I •till take ail interest in all difficult case**. " When we were seated safe in the car- < riage, Mr. Gresham said: '*I was not more explicit before the ladies, because the accused is one they **%uow--Miss Stray. She has killed her •l%ther.tn " Impossible," cried Mr. Mordaunt, in an accent of horror and incredulity. . " So t said, when I first heard'of it "But the proof is unanswerable. She is ' "taow iu Berkton jail," "I don't believe a word of it," retorted ,,,.tho other. "We know her sbghtiy, yet ,'n.weli enough to make me sure that there is some mistake about it. No, it can't be." His. oomp&pion shook his head. " I fear you are too sanguine. But you will see and judge yourself. There is to be . -'aninquest at the Locka." •x. The Locks, as the name implied, were -ujoa tii^ caual. There had always been a email settlement there, but since the . railroad had been built, a depot, followed * ,by a postoffice, the hamlet had grown considerably. Close by was a gap in the South mountain, which led to what was called the forest, a wild stretch of wood- ^.laud, ii-om iive to ten miles wide, run- .. ni: ? between nearly parallel hills, and ^ •extending for some thirty miles from norrhe-ast to southwest. The name was well d served, for excepting a few «mnU f» houses, scattered here and there, the «#whole district was covered with its orig- r*inal grwth of oak and chestnut, with here and there grim hemlocks and pines. ' Th? s i-ttlers were principally of German *" desccat, their ancestora having come from the Palatinate a century and a half before. They retained, in a remarkable de gree, the manner8 and customs of the ^ fatherland. Their houses were generally of f-tune, frequ -atly with overhanging ri4itoru*, and often with stone staircases « l»uik outsida. .« In one of the wildest parts of thin forest, high upon a spur of the sand­ stone hills, lived, or had lived, old Wil- belm Stray, a usurer, a miser, the cruelest of creditors, it was said, and a , .̂ raiit to his family and all under him. "He was supposed, however, to be the richest man in the county ; niid it was his only child who was now accused of Jiis murder.* "It Seems," said the District Attor- ' ney,'"tlmt his daughter has been clan- ' destinely meeting a young man, and that her father hearing of it fell into a rage j and threatened to turn her out of doors. ^ There was nothing against the lover, unless it was his poverty. Hi» father, Colonel Wolcott, was once a member of Congress for the adjoining district, and li» , himsdlf a rising young lawyer. The girl had first met him at the house of an old . school-mate. She was at Mrs. Colling- j .wood's boarding school, as perhaps yon know. Stingy as old Stray was, he ap­ pears to have wished his only child to be brought up like a ladv. What passed >i»- the interview between father and daughter is not fully known. The ser- V»*t girl overheard angry words, but oould iiot distinguish their purport; she • ^rtfs'sure that just before the altercation was over, the father threatened to disin- • herit the daughter. Sliortly after, the the old man left tlie house to walk to the ^ o^ks, wliere he intended to taVe the am to Berkton. Almost immediately Hiss Stray followed. Within twenty uainuies, a forgeman, going home, came OB her in the gap, standing over the dead body of her father. Her acptation on being detected was, he says, con- elusive evidence of her guilt. But this is only opinion. The damning facts arc the quarrel; an intelligent motive for the deed; blood on the linen cuff of her right hand ; and the finding of an orien­ tal dagger, which she had long used for a paper cutter, in a thicket close bv, an If filing there when she heard the forge- man coming. The dagger was (- till wet With the crimson stain, by-and-by when ftjind." " What does the daughter say t" /'Oh! she denies it of course. Says Che liad just discovered the body, and .that she was horrified at the sight, a "I am not so sure of that," replied Mr. Mordaunt, "See, here is where his sho,5s were firmly planted in the soil; the deep indentation is unmistakable; it looks to me as if there was some little resistance at least." "But there is no sign of any other foot-steps." " No. Perhaps the assailant stood on this rock hero. By-the-by, the moss seems to be slightly abraided." "I don't see it I rather think the assailant wore shoes that would not make indentation ; a woman's shoe, in foot" "But what is this?" cried Mr. Mor­ daunt. He stopped as he spoke, and picked up. about two yards from where the body had lain, a curiously-shaped button, with a small fragment of green eloth attached to it. The button lay just at the edge of the thicket, concealed by the overhanging laurels. " Here is something that may give A clue. It looks as ii the button Bad been torn off in a struggle." "Pshaw !" said the district attorney. "A mere coincidence. The button has been there for years, probably. Don't you see it is quite unlike any you ever saw before ?" "Nevertheless, note down where w found it" The place next visited was the house of the murdered man. The corpse was lying ou the bed, but with the clothes still on, awaiting the Coroner's jury. A constable kept watch to prevent any in­ terference until the inquest should have net He was as garrulous as Dogberry himself. "I'll take my 'davy,' that I will," he said, " that gal's sweetheart put her up to it Hie thing stands to nafur'. But Ihcy do say she has a temper of he* own. There's where the dagger went in," he added, lifting the sheet "A single blow seems to have been sufficient," remarked the District Attor- ney. "Itwasamuoh stronger one, in my opinion," said Mr. Mordaunt aftei a pause, " than a girl's hand oould have •lealt Ha," he added after a pause, " what does this mean ?'* "What?" asked Mr. Gresham, while the constable, having replaced the sheet, walked to a window. "Don't you see? The blow was a left-handed one. Now, Miss Stray, as I happen to know, is not let't-handei " " This really does look like something, at last," said the other, reflecting. For even he could see that the out, instead of going from right to left, which would have been the case if the blow had been denlt in the usual way, went from left to right, as if a left-handed person had struck it But Mr. Gresliam's incredulity re­ turned after a moment. " Don't let us be too quick," he said. "It is not impossible for a right-handed person to have struck such a blow ; once in a score of times it might happen ; perhaps oftener. Besides you can't explain away the danger; that damnine: fact remains." " It will all explain itself in good time," answered Mr. Mordaunt " I had faith from the first in the girl's in­ nocence. Now I am sure of it. At present I am going back to the Locks, where everybody about here is known. I am looking, yon see, for a left-handed man, who had some interest in this murder." Mr. Gresham shrugged his shoulders, but quietly followed his friend. The inn at the Locks was crowded. Everybody from a circuit of twenty miles around, had been attracted thither by the report of the tragedy. "The real criminal," Mr. Mordaunt argued, " will most probably be there; for he will be anxious to hear the Coroner's verdict; I wonder if his manner will betrav him to ma" But amid all the throng he saw no one who showed the least sign of guilt The beer-mugi circulated freely, and the room was filled with tobacco smoke. A dozen voices at once discussed whether the lover had been an accessory, for the opinion was universal that the daughter was guilty. No, not quite universal, for one man, a hill farmer from the forest}* ventured to dissent. " For where is the monfey ? " he said. " I paid him $356 the evening before ; some money I had borrowed from him last year. He was I saw, afraid to keep it in the house over night; he feared robbers ; he told me he would take it to the bank the first thing the next morn­ ing. Now there is no money found on him." "The girl robbed him after killing him," said a harsh voice, in answer. "No doubt of it" Mr. Mordaunt looked around quickly. The man spoke in German, with a Bava­ rian accent. As if to emphasize his words he plunged his beer mug down on the table with a vigor that made the pipes lying there rattle. More than this, the button which Mordaunt had found was the button belonging to the uniform of the railway employes of Bavaria, as he happened to know. Mr. Mordaunt turned to his next neighbor. "Who is that fellow?" he asked. "Well, I hardly know. A newcomer here; just from Germany; lives off in the forest by himself. They say he's been making np to the servant girl at old Stray's, however; she's believed to have saved money. She has probably told him that her mistress robbed the old man ; he seems so positive about it" But this solution was far from being that of Mr. Mordaimt On the contrary, he attributed the accusation of the man to a desire to screen himself. As if by a flash, the whole tragedy from this mo­ ment became clear. Mr. Mordaunt rose, and leaving the room, sought the District Attorney. "I want two search warrants," he said. "One for the trunks of the serv ant irirl at Stray's, and another for th~ | house or cabin of a Bavarian, living, I | am told at the three mile cross-roads in the forest. Three or four officers, also, as we may have to make arrests." j " This is rather unusual, as you will know, but we'll stretch a point to please you," said Mr. Gresham. "I'm afraid Bavarian, who was in the kit'hen when the farmer came to pay off his loan. "The miserly wretch 'has lived long enough," he argued; "his death won't harm anylwdy; this money will make us rich. He's sure, you say, to go to the bank with it to-morrow. We will throw the suspicion on his daughter." It was then, in discussing this part of the tragedy, that the girl spoke of the dagger of her mistress. " That is just the thing," cried the Bavarian. "Get it for me to-morrow. I will hide in the edge of the woods, watching till I see the old man get out; then I will stdal down to the back door and get the dagger from you. Leave the rest to me." All this happened several years ago. The Bavarian was arrested, tried, con­ demned and hung. The girl, by turn­ ing state's evidence, saved her life. It was not, it was discovered, the first serious crime of the murderer. He had fled from Bavaria to avoid arrest for a homicide committed there. He had never worn his old uniform, except on the day of Mr. Stray's death, and he put it on tnipking it a disguise. " But 'twas the devi] who suggested it," he said, wrathfully; " had I not worn it I never would have been found out Yes, the old man held on tight and cried for help; it was some time before I could make a sure stroke; and I was going to make but one." Miss Stray lived in the strictest seclu­ sion for more than two years after the tragedy, and then was married to her lover in the quietest way, only the Mor- daunts being present. Her husband is now one of the leading members of the bar at Berkton, where they reside, for she never went back to the house in the forest. The old edifice is falling to de­ cay, and it is said to be haunted, strange noises being heard at night it, wailings, groans, prayers for mercy, so the ex­ cited imaginations of the neighbors fan­ cied. It was only the other day that one of Mr. Mordaunt's daughters was dining at Mrs. Ellicott's. " Let us go out on the piazza and look at the sunset," said the hostess as they rose from the table. "Yes, darling you may come too," this to her little girl who was clinging to her dress. "Do you know the people who have been abroad toll me that the view from here down the valley is not unlike that from Fiesole." " I have seen that view," answered the other. "All this one wants is the white villas scattered over the slopes. The scenery is quite as fine. " "Ah," sighed Mrs. Ellicott after a long gaze, " how thankful I ought tj be. I never thought to be so happv. Under God, I owe, my dear, in a great degree to your father. He it was that lifted me from out of thatauful, awful gv.lf." She suddenly covered her eyes with both hands, an3 shuddered. And that was the only time she was ever heard to allude to the tragedy in the forest. --Pe- terson'a Magazine. • SCRAPS OF SCIENCE. u bv her that morning on her blood on her cuff site ex- horror which the forgemau mistook for l y°ur ?Cftl> for °»ce, however, has outrun ilt. The dagger, she declares, i foxu judgment." 1 * " ' i--i " Trust me for that," replied Mr. Mor- daunt. " My intuitions in these mat­ ters have never misled me." Accordingly, he found, on searching the Bav irian'B house, just what he had m. . , , , .expected; the green uniform of a flaff- Tuat s because yon know her and station guard in Bavaria, with one but- r bar. \\ ho elsa could have «..oat; the j ton missing. The bntton had evidently ; been violently wrenched out. The bit of eloth attached to the button which Mr. Mordaunt had picked up, exactly fitted the rent. ./ saying she had stopped to see father was really dead, and so •tain ,1 the linen." . W e l l , I believe her, deeel? Who had ;mv motive? Ideally, '••u are too old a man, too experienced a iawyef, to let sentimental motives cloud ytW judgment. The best that can be said<of her is that she did it in a fit of sudden passion--they say her temper is high; she was goaded to it, perhaps. (Another Beatrice Cenci." God forbid," said the other. " But cbme, we'll say no more until we have seen for ourselves." .The two gentlemen first visited the xnenuot. 0j the murder. There were no Outolde o>« ,a struggle, such as both ex- or the S'entinia^ But Mr. Gresham said : nlml J, n * was too quick and Bure for Bpme Guard*. ,e> The old man fell and WUOUBTUCK, IIX.0^ stunned by a single m- FABm N< --T-, " So far. so good," said Mr. Mordaunt " Now for the servant girl." On examining her trunks a roll of notes, was discovered, which the farmre from the forest, who was brought to the house for the purpose, identified as part of, the money he had paid to the old man. " See, here is my mark," he said, showing a peculiar cross on each note. " I always put that on every bill." When this was made known to the ser­ vant, the bravado which she had shown at first gave away, and she confessed all. Ths murder had beast suggested by the A MANUSCRIPT treatise by Copernicus has been discovered in the Stockholm Observatory. CERTAIN species of animals have reg­ ular cemeteries to which they repair to die. The South American llama, for in­ stance, has its district cemeteries in which bones are found in great numbers. IN EXPEBIMENTS to determine the depth beneath the surface of the sea to which sight could penetrate, twenty-five fathoms was found to be the limit of visibility. It was also found that the water is most transparent when its tem­ perature is highest AN EXTRAORDINARY interest is mani­ fested in the Polar regions this year, two expeditions being now en route to that locality from the United States, one each from Norway and Sweden and Denmark, a private one from England, and an offi­ cial one from France. IT IS probable that very soon the southern part of the Territory of Utah will supply enough of antimony for this country, and render unnecessary any importation of that substance. The ore mined about one hundred and forty miles from Salt Lake City yields from 60 to 65 per cent, of antimony. THE Rev. Dr. McCook has noticed a black "carpenter ant," which is capable of effecting great destruction in wood­ work, contrary to the general belief that ants outside of the tropics are harmless practically. He has seen a rafter in which this species, the Formica Penn­ sylvania, had penetrated to an extent of five or six feet of its length, completely honeycombing it. It is evident that such penetration of wooden structures, and especially bridges, might cause their disastrous and unexpected fall. ONE of the most decided impressions which non-scientific people must receive from the visit of the great comet of 1881 is that of the ignorance of science con­ cerning these mysterious visitants. Whence they come or whither they go are problems none can solve; while the unfulfilled predictions of the return of certain comets show that calculations in relation to the motions of these bodies partake much of the nature of guesses. With all the skill and telescopic pene­ tration of our astronomers^ they can not yet trace the course of the comet, which in a few days passes across the immeas­ urable expanse of space viewed from this •arth, and disappears in the depths be­ yond, to wander perhaps for thousands of years before completing the cycle of its journey, and returning to a point in its orbit near the earth. Two or the foremost chemists of St Petersburg, Messrs* Beits tein and Knr- batow, have subjected the Caucasian petroleum to a critical examination, which has been published in full in the proceedings of the German Chemical Society. The peculiarity of this petro­ leum consists of its high specific gravity as compared with American petroleum of the same boiling point For a long time this fact caused the consumers to be mistrustful of their own oil. Experi­ ments and comparisons, however, proved that the Russian oil gave 10 per cent more light than the American, and it was alao found that the illuminating oil even of this high gravity was drawn up the wick to the flame more easily than the American oil. The high gravity of Caucasian oils has for some time been taken advantage of by the manufacturers of lubricating oils. The Assessor's Alternative. An Irish lady called on a Brooklyn Assesssor to talk with him regarding taxes. She had heretofore, by keep­ ing a flpek of geese and pasturing them upon the public commons, been able to clear from the sale of their eggs and feathers money enough in the course of a year to pay her taxes. The enforce­ ment of the goose ordinance would com­ pel her to sell the geese. "An' now, Mr. Connitt," says she, "phat ia it lam to do? Ye've taken away me geese an' I oan't pay me taxes. It's a fcorry fix I'm in, so it is. I'll tell ye, sorr, phat I'U do. You take the geese an' I kape the taxes, or I'll kape the geese an you take the taxes. The bar­ gain is fair, so it is. Is it agreed ye a*e?" Tiw American cranberry with success at Ashburnham Park, Sus­ sex, England. • IT is considered by some experiment­ ers in feeding that about one-fifth of ground corn passes through cattle undi­ gested. IT IS said that in Great Britain more persons were killed last year by horses than by all the railways of the United Kingdom. Very bad management some­ where. THE oxygen of the air aids and facili­ tates the germination of seeds, and seeds buried so deeply in the ground as to be out of reach of the atmospheric air will exhibit no signs of life. ANIMALS when first confined, and sup­ plied with fattening food, always increase largely in weight during the first few weeks, after which the rate of increase diminishes to a considerable extent. TEXAS has five million head of horned cattle and a superabundance of mast and corn, and thousands thoroughly educated men and women, yet she imports butter, lard and school teachers from Kansas Oily. D. BRIOOS, of Davisville, Tolo Co., Cal., has a plantation of 460 acres of graperies from four to eight years old, on which he has raised forty-six car­ loads of raisins, most of whioh were sent to the East. IT IS said that one of the best remedies for the cabbage worm is to sprinkle air-, slacked lime on the plant in the morning on the dew till the plants are white with it One who has tried it for several years says that at most two applications are sufficient IF THOSE farmers whose farms are soils underlaid with clay would sell one- quarter or one-half of their land and put the proceeds into the judicious tile drainage of the rest, they would make more money from the one half of the original farm under improvement than they now do from the whole area. FOR general purposes on the farm cas­ tor oil, with a little kerosene added, is the best lubricator and preserver. For saws, mowers, buggies, and the like, this mixture furnishes more body with le»s gum than most other oils. The amount of kerosene, if any, to be added must be governed by the purpose for which it is designed. OPINIONS upon practical agriculture should never be formed from books or papers alone. They are excellent for suggesting ideas, and for comparing notes with our own practice. We may be able to endorse the opinions at sight, but generally speaking new practices should be verified upon our own lands before we either adopt or endorse them. REFERRING to the scales which form the cortex of wool, and continue its most important distinction, determining its felting power, a recent writer gives the following table of the average num­ ber of scales to the linear inch in differ­ ent wools : East India wool, 1,000 scales to linear inch, China wool, 1,200, domes­ tic wool, 1,400, Leicester wool, 1,400, Southdown wool, 1,500, Merino wool, 2,000, and Saxony wool, 2,200 scales to linear inch. MANURE should be forked over occa­ sionally to make it fine. If it is heat­ ing, then muck or loam should be mixed with it to absorb the ammonia which is formed during the process of decomposi­ tion. Sprinkling the manure pile witk ground plaster is advisable. The plaster will absorb any ammonia which escapes from the pile and save it for the use of growing plantB. Ammonia is too valua­ ble an element of plant food to allow it to be wasted. Again upon some lands plaster is an excellent fertilizer THERE is probably no feed so good for raising good dairy animals as warm skim- milk with a mixture of moderate quant­ ities of ground oats scalded. The milk and oats contain a large amount of muscle and bone material, and, as a consequence, we have :t cow with an ex­ cellent constitution and a good-sized frame. Corn meal does not contain enough of the requisite materials for giving a good-sized and at the same time a well-formed animal. The oats might be alternated with linseed and cotton seed meal. THE Australians have a very stringent law for the eradication of scab in sheep. State scab inspectors are appointed, whose business it is to see tln»t the law is enforced. Every owner who discovers indications of scab in his flock is obliged to notify all flock-masters within a cer­ tain radius of the fact, and also to post notices in public places. If the disease is not stamped out within ninety days,, the diseased animals must be killed. The result has been that scab has almost entirely disappeared from Australian flocks. AN INCORPORATED company for sheep> breeding has been formed in Southern Missouri, one hundred and fifty miles from St. Louis. The incorporators pro­ pose to locate 30,000 acres of land on the side of the Ozark Mountains, and to start with 4,000 sheep, fenced in at a less cost than herdsmen can be employed. They expect to bring the land under cultivation at an early day, and to graze the sheep in blue and tame grass instead of bunch grass ; also, to provide shelter and winter feed for the flocks, with other necessary improvements as needed. This is more sensible than the Colorado system, which relies on pasturing or starvation in the winter. LEOUMWOTIS crops have a special power of accumulating nitrogen in the sur­ face soil, and are hence of the greatest value in a rotation. Red clover is the most striking instance of this action. Its roots extend further perhaps thau any other farm crop, and being biennial it has a long period for growth. The accumulation of nitrogen at the surface, in the form of roots, stubble and decayed vegetable matter, is in the case of a good orop of clover so considerable, that the whole of tho above ground growth may be removed as hay, and the land yet reniain greatly enriched with nitro­ gen, and in an excellent condition for producing a crop of wheat. As TO the mammal value of different cattle-foods, we find that tho oil cakes, yield the richest manure, as they coiv- tam the larg««r amount of nitrogen and , phosphoric acid, with a considerable amount of potash. Next to these beans and peas, malt-dust and bran. Clover hay yields a richer manure than oa£s, wheat, barley or corn, while meadow hay stands below the cereal grains. The various grains and the roots, like tur­ nips, carrots and Swedes, contain about the name proportion of nitrogen in their dry sulwtance ; the roots, however, sup­ ply much more potash. Potatoes stand below other routs in manurial value. Straw takes the lowest place as a ma­ nure-yielding food, bean and pea straw being more valuable for this purpose than the straw of the cereals. IMPROVED HARNESS.--A recent writer calls attention to the fact that with all the inventions and improvements that have been made, we are still driving and guid­ ing our horses by means of appliances practically the same as in bv-gone ages. Horses still run away, as in years past they have run away, and the appliances for stopping them are, in a. great many cases, inadequate. The writer alluded to makes the suggestion that instead pf attaching the lines direct, as now?, they might pass over a pulley on tile head­ stall, one end to be held in the liand as now and the other fastened tox «oipe fixed part of the harness. This simple contrivance, in accordance with well- known laws of mechanics, would exact­ ly double the power exerted by the driver. All possible safeguards f-hould be thrown around the liability of acci­ dent to life or limb, especially as the liaudling the reins is often entrusted to timid or inexperienced persons.--Amer­ ican Cultivator. TIMOTHY FOR DAIRY MEADOWS.--One of our principal meadow grasses is tim­ othy, and this forms a tuber or bulb just above the surface of the ground, and is injured or destroyed when this bulb is cut or eaten off. Pasturing meadows of this grass is likely greatly to injure these bulbs, and this explains the serious injury that occurs when these meadows are pastured in the fall. Cut­ ting too close with mowing machines often injures it. Timothy is, perchance, the most valuable meadow grass, as with proper attention, it will easily con­ tinue ten years in succession to yield large crops. If our meadows consisted of Kentucky blue grass, wire grass, orchard grass, red-top, etc., pasturing would not be fatal, although not advisa­ ble except on alluvial or overflowed land. But let us see what the real value of the aftermath of timothy meadow is worth. Take the case mentioned of sev­ enty-five acres pastured. Four cents' worth of wheat middlings and corn meal per day to each cow, would have pro­ duced more milk and lefi the cows in better condition, during the five or six weeks that they are allowed to run a portion of the day upon the meadows. This would have cost at most, only about $1 60 per head, whilst thtf damage to the meadow was at least ten times as much. Meadows require generous at­ tention, should be top-dressd with stable manure in the fall, instead of pasturing them, and when this cannot be had, should be top-dressed with some com­ mercial fertilizer every few years, and thus kept in full production, and your dairy full fed through the winter.--Na- tional Live Stock Journal, The Habit of nicknaming. Among the scholars at Christ Church School was the son of a poor clergyman, who rejoiced in the name of Simon Jennings. He was of such a dismal and gloomy a nature that he had been nick­ named by his companions Pontius Pilate. One morning he went np to Dr. Bowyer and said, in his usual whispering man­ ner, "Please, Dr. Bowyer, the boys all call me Pontius Pilate." If there was one thing old Bowyer hated more than a false quantity of Greek and Latin, it was the habit of nicknaming. Rushing down among the scholars, from his pe­ destal of state, with cane in hand, he cried, "Listen, boys : The next time I hear any of you say Pontius Pilate, I'll cane you as long as this cane will last You are to say Simon Jennings, and not Pontius Pilate." The next day when the same class was reciting the Cata- chism, a boy of a remarkably dull and literary turn of mind had to repeat the creed. He had got as far as " suffered under," and was about popping out the next word, when Bowyer's prohibition un­ luckily flashed upon his obtuse mind. After moment's hesitation, he blundered out, "suffered under Simon Jennings; was cruci--" The rest of the word was never uttered, for Bowyer had already rushed upon him, and when he had dis­ charged his cane storm upon him, he cried : "What do you mean, you booby by such blasphemy?" The simple- minded youth said : " I only did as you told me." "Did as I told you," roared old Bowyer, now wound up jo something above the boiling point. "What do you mean ?" "You said we were always to call Pontius Pilate Simon Jennings; didn't he, Sam T' appealed the unfortu­ nate culprit to Coleridge, who was next to him. The great poet, that was to be, said nanght; but old Bowyer, who saw what a fool he had to deal with, cried, somewhat unadvisedly, perhaps: " Boy, you are a fool 1 where are your bradns ?" Poor Dr. Bowyer was for a second time floored, for the boy said, with an earn­ estness which proved its truth, but to the intense horror of the learned poten­ tate, " In my stomach, sir." Coleridge, in his quiet style, used to add, when re­ lating the story : " That is not the only instance I have known of ' matter tri­ umphing over mind, stomach over bcain, stupid boy over Bowyer." Meneyed Men at Dinner.. A. T. Stewart used to dine here. " William, a sirloin steak, fried potatoes and a cup ol tea," he would say. " Yes, sir." "And William, a melon." "Yes, sir." But never a cent to a waiter. One of the queerest of our customers was old Mr. Tileston, of the shipping house of Spofford & Tileston. No one would ever suspect him of giving anything. But he often gave me a dime; He was- very fond of onions, steak and tripe.. So was Mr. Vanderbilt, the Mr. Yanderbilt. The way that he and old Mr. Charles Morgan used to eat steak and onions was a sight to eee, sir:" " Was the Commodbre pleasant ? " " That depends. He neves walked fast, as I remember,, and he neve? wasted words,, sir, but he could snap those eyes of his and say, ' Damnation,.' so that it meant damnation, better than, any man I ever heard." " Did you ever see old Jbhn Jacob As tor ?" "Only once, sir. He was a feeble man when I saw him, but lii» son Will­ iam used to lunchi regular wiih Clarke & Brown. He was a great hand for apple dumplings. Nor could I tend it in my heaart, sir, for blaming tuaybody from liking them dumplings, because they was awful good,, sir." 41 Did you er«r serve Mr. Bennett?** " Yes, sir, o£ten. He had a way earning in on, a cold day, sitting befuse the fire and warming one side and tbyen the other. Me wouldi say, 'Eugene, breakfast 1' Eugene was the 'ead wait­ er, sir, and powerful sieh. But it was always charged so as t» save the trouble of handling the chaage, and so there was no sixpence for the waiter, sir."-- Hotel MaiL , How Daniel Wsfester Proposed. In old times it was the fashion for a suitor to go down on his knees to a lady when he asked her to become his wife, which, with very stout gentlemen, was an uncomfortable proceeding. The way in which Daniol Webster proposed to Miss Fletcher was more modern, being at the same time neat and poetic. Like many another lover, he was once hold­ ing a skein of thread or wool which the lady had been unraveling. "Gracie," said he, " we have been untying knots; let us see if we cannot tie one which will not untie in a lifetime." With a piece of tape he fastened the half of a true lover's knot; Miss Fletcher per­ fected it, and a kiss put the seal to the symbolical bargain. No MAN can enlist iu the regular army of China until he has shown his courage by having a tooth pulled. If he yells he is a |IOt:.SEHOI£_HEIM. y , [Boston Cultirntor.l TJLAKEB FISH.--Make a sauce by dredgiug some flour into two ounces of hot butter in a stewpan ; add half a pound of cold fish, nicely flaked, one ounce of cold butter, a dessert spoonful each of anchovy sauce and mixed mus­ tard, one teacupful of cream, some pep­ per, salt, and a few bread crumbs. Make hot and serve as it is, or you may pour it into a butter dish, with the addition of a few bread crumbs, and brown the top in the oven. BUNS.--Two cups of scalded milk, cooled to blood heat; one cup of yeast or equivalent of compressed yeast; mix with flour rather stiffer than fritters, let it rise, then add two cups of sugar a id one cup of butter beaten to a cream; one teaspoonful of soda; mix with flour full as stiff as bread; mold it well; let it rise, then cut out and lay in pans, and after it nas stood for rising blake it. These taste better when eaten warm. If liked, stir in before molding a cupful of huckleberries or the same quantity of dried currants.-- Aunt Mary's Cook Book. ONION SOUP.A soup made from onions is regarded by the French as an excellent restorative in debility of the digestive organs, 'says Miss Corson. It is made by frying golden brown half a dozen slioed onions in sufficient but­ ter to to prevent burning, with a tea- spoonful of sugar; two quarts of clear soup are next added to the onions, to­ gether with a bouquet of sweet herbs and a palatable seasoning of salt and pepper; these ingredients are allowed to simmer gently together for about a quarter of an hour while some slices Of bread are being toasted and placed in the soup tureen ; the bouquet of herbs is then removed, and the broth and ouions poured upon the bread, -when the soup is served hot. CUSTARD SOUFFLE.--Two scant table- spoonfuls of butter, two of flour, two of sugar, one cupful of milk and four eggs, are the ingredients which Miss Parloa prescribes for custard souffle ; let the milk come to a boil; beat the flour and butter together, and add to them gradu­ ally the boiling milk, and cook eight minutes, stirring often ; beat the sugar and yolks of eggs together; add to the cooked mixture, and set away to cool; when cool, beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth ; add to the mixture; bake in a buttered pudding dish twenty minutes, and serve immediately with creamy sauce. The materials can be prepared in advance, but should not be cooked until just before it is wanted for the table. LOBSCOUSE.--Lobscouse is a dish that yaotslimen may sometimes find valuable, as it is warranted to cure a man of sea­ sickness. Certainly a person who could eat it at all could not be suffering very seriously from that malady or any other. Take four slices of pork or the same of bacon, and about as muoh of salt beef, and soak the beef for a couple of hours in fresh water ; fry the bacon and slice up four onions and brown them in the pork or bacon fat; then peel and slice a dozen potatoes; put in the beef, the pork, onions and potatoes in a stew-pan, and only cover with water; salt is not wanted if the beef is well corned ; the more pepper the better. When the po­ tatoes are tender, break up four pilot biscuits, not in too small pieces, and drop them in. Cover it, if you have a cover, and let it go slow, and eat it pip­ ing hot. CAULIFLOWER. -- If not carefully cooked, cauliflower is a tasteless vege­ table, but with a properly prepared sauce it can be made a delicious addition to every dinner table. Wash the flower well iu strong salt and water. Then tie in a floured cioth and boil for forty min­ utes, putting it into salted boiling water and ke#p it in the boil all the time. Dish into a deep vegitable dish and pour over it a sauce made with one-half pint of sweet milk, boiled with half a small teaoupful of water the cauliflower was boiled in. Stir to a thin paste with cold water a small teaspoonful of com starch ; add to the boiling milk and water. Put in a piece of butter as large as an egg, and one teaspoonful of sharp cider vine­ gar; stir till the butter melts. Pour over the cauliflower and serve it at once. There are very few palates that will not be pleased with such a succulent dish; if there be any left chop it up with as much cold boiled potato and sesre very hot with the sauce mixed in with it for breakfast. DOLMAS.--The Turkish way of pre­ paring cabbage is rather elaborate, but seems better than the crude dish that appears on many tables, and spoils the dinner of everybody who does not like it. The Moslem cook makes a force­ meat of a pound of lean, raw mutton, chopped; a cup of rice, cooked five min- utefrin boiling water ; a teaspoonful of onion and a tablespoonful of parsley, chopped and mghiy seasoned with pep­ per and salt; the leaves of a cabbage are carefully washed in cold water, Eut over the fire in salted boiling water, oiled for five minutes, then washed in cold water and freed from stalks; the leaves are next cat in pieces about three inches square, said in each piece is wrapped a teaspoonful of the force-meat. These little rolls of cabbage and force­ meat are the dolmas, and they are ar­ ranged in layers in a saucepan, covered with broth and held in place by laying a heavy plate upon them;; the saucepan containing them is placed over a mod­ erate fire, and its contents simmered far half an hour ;• the dolraaa are heaped on a hot dish, five raw yolks of eggs are mixed with the hot brcih in which tliey were cooked, the juice of a lemon is. ad­ ded to it, and then it is strained over the dolmas, which are served at once. NAtlC Automatic ConnAimg of Letten. Two officials of the London, Post- office have invented and patented a method cf automatically registering the number cf letters stamped. Tlje count­ ing may be done by mechanical or by eleetricr*l means. In the first case a small counter similar to an engine counter, is placed in the head or hand oi the hand stamp> and each time the stamper pres­ ses upon a letter it is registered on the counter. At the close of the day the stamp is opened, the number of letters stamped read off and registered, and the cotuitar set ready for the next day's work. In the second case, two methods have been devised for electrically effect­ ing the ob ject In one case the striking o& the inking pad cau&es electrical con­ tact to be made, which transmits a cur­ rent to a counter similar to that of a gas metvr, and so registers every letter stamped. The other method is similai in principle, but a lever st%mp is em­ ployed. the French Republic. France is the most prosperous country of Europe. Its agricultural industries are large and the peopie are industrious and economical. The debt is owned at home and the people don't want it paid, because they believe more firmly tn their own Government than in outside pow­ ers. The French republic will be per­ manent. The death of the Prince Im­ perial was a great blow to the Bonapart- ist faction, but the three monarchical parties togetlier are not formidable against the republic. The Republican pa-ty can hardly lie defeated unless by serious divisions among the leaders, which are not to be feared. The days of coup d'etats in Franco are past. There h?ve been no serious disturbances of late years. The Government is strong and conservative. -- Ex-Minis­ ter Noyra., Booth's Body. The Washington correspondent of |ihe Buffalo Commercial writes: "It was only after some patient inquiry that I conld ascerta:n tho facts, which are in­ teresting and, as far as I know, are yet unpublished. Booth, the murderer of Abraham Lincoln, died as will be re­ membered, in A barn in Maryland, from a wound received from the musket of Boston Corbett The body was brought ~ " afhmgton, and, after having been identified by the court martial before which his fellow conspirators were tried, was dissected by the surgeon-general of the army. The brain and heart and some parts of the body were preserved iu alcohol and are now on exhibition in the medical museum of the surgeon- general's office. The building in which the assassination occurred was Ford's theater. The government confiscated it, but afterward Ford was paid its full value, and has since been used as tho headquarters of the medical corps of the army. The brain and heart of Booth are in jars, standing in a case that is situated very near the actual scene of the assassination. After the surgeons had done with Booth's body it was buried in a grave in the arsenal grounds. Only half a dozen persons knew the exact spot, which was unmarked. In 1867 Edwin Booth, the actor, sent Mr. WTeayer, the sexton of Christ Church, Baltimore, to Washington, with the re­ quest that the remains of his brother might be taken up and removed to the family bnrial place. After some delay, the request was granted by President Johnson, who was finally appealed to, and Mr. Weaver took the body to the cemetery in Baltimore, and buried it lie- side the elder Booth and others of the family. The removal was conducted with great secrecy and was concealed from Secretary Stanton, who had refused to give his consent. The Dynamite Piano. Several musical composers have turned their attention of late to Eastern tragedies. The Musical Herald gives a short musical story in ridicule of the new style. After representing rival lovers in the usual way' the story con. eludes: "Ha!" interrupted the tenor, "he al­ ways plays the same thing and always without notes. I doubt he - can play anything at sight." " I can play any composition at Sight, even with one eye closed," responded the proud pianist. " It is well," sneered the tenor. " I have here with me a new composition of my own, a Nihilistic symphony in several movements. You will observe that it begins pppp and continues very softly until this chord (a diminished seventeenth), which is to be struck ffff. Do you think you can give the sudden climax ?" "I have force enough for two more f s if you wish them," calmly replied the pianist, as he sat down before the in­ strument He began very softly, so softly that one might have heard a pin drop. Minka sat beside him in ecstasy, although very little of the sound was audible. The fatal diminished seven­ teenth chord approached. It came. Swooping his arms wildly in the air, he let them crash upon the piano--bang ! The fragments of the two lovers spread over three counties. The tenor, who had tied, had smeared dynamite upon the keys, and achieved* his re­ venge. He was never heard of any more. By order of the benevolent Czar, the remains were carefully swept up, but, as they could not be assorted with certainty, they were buried in one grave, where tiiey still remain, a fearful testi­ mony of the singer's revenge. The Causes of Dew. If dew fell it would fall for the same reason that rain falls; but dew does not fall. It is simply a deposit of moisture always contained in the air to a greater or less degree, and which, when there is efnough of it, will always form on any cold body exposed to the moist air, in precisely the same way that a cold bot­ tle or stone, taken from a eold cellar and suddenly exposed in the shade to tho moist, warm summer air, will become wet. This is not sweating nor does this moisture come out of the bottle or stone as many people believe, but from the air. It is for the same reason that mois­ ture will condense against the window- panes when the air is cold outside and moist inside, the moisture slowly freez­ ing while its deposits form crystal ice which we so often admire in winter. When the weather is cool enough the moisture will even freeze plants and grass, and then we call it hoar frost; if it does not freeze it is simply dew. The only point left to be explained is why does the ground become so cool during the night, so much cooler than the air above, as to cause the latter to deposit its moisture. This was for many years a vexed problem till Wells first suggested the radiation of obscure heat, which takes place from the surface of the earth through the clear atmosphere into the space above, and so causes the surface to become much cooler than th|> air itself. He demonstrated this by metuis of ther­ mometers placed at different heights, and also by the fact that dew is only de­ posited on cloudless nights. When there are clouds they reflect the heat or prevent it from escaping. The surface of the earth thus being kept from cool­ ing, no dew is deposited. s Washiagton Bed Tape. There is annually issued by the de­ partments at Washington about miles of red tape. If this were stretched out in a straight line it would reach from Washington to New Haven,, Ct., on the north, or from Washington to Wilmington, N. C., on the south. Using Washington as * pivotal point, and moving the tape around, the ends would touch the great lakes and pass through the States of Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina. Or, to make another illustration, from the In­ terior Department to the Navy Depart­ ment is about one-half a mile. The tape -would go around these departments 300 times, and bind them closer and more securely than ever Indian and tnr were bound before. To go into details: The Treasury Department alone requires 288,000 yards of red tape, and is closely followed by the Interior Department with 129,600 yards. Following come the Navy, with 49,500 yards; the State, with 28,800 yards; the War, with 14,400 yards, and last, the Postoffice with 12,- 900 yards.-- Washington Post. ' 9 CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS never but one person, and they didn't hang him for that It was a woman, and she froze to death in July while riding be­ side him in the street oar.