HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1885-10-8, Page 2MOLE WIDOW.
Jonas Datable was a yoang man a a
decidedlyinnerealturn a mind. Wfaeriages
and all mate of gladaome feativitim poa-
mined i hetereetfor hieglootay soul, but
tunerale wereblatielight aad priocipel poet-
- Hine, Ae he Wed beslde the bier. or at
the grave omong the mouriliaO reletivee
and friend& be his long blivok cotie and
-relate tie, with a large luuttikerohlef ef-
fectivety aispleyed, he looked like me of
the =tee. Though without doubt full oi
eireeasithy and, epiritual oomolatiou for all,
311e. Datable& grief was noticea tot* ea -
war a little more ranked et the faxteral
•of those gentlemen who departed for a
better world leaving a widow to mourn
their lees, and who were knownto have
had a goon balenze at their bankers'
Mr Darable wee thought to have quite
the brute, added a004°011 to the will where-
by everthing he left to me went to my
°outdo in meg I *liquid marry within two
yearo. Still, that don't matter, dem Jonas.
as you mid you had ample for tut both,
mimeo we can go, to your house at auy
way don't you ;newer
Theutheppy Jonas eat tu hie chair fairly
gaepixig for !breath. His rage, dioappoint.
plea, end Hee thought of the way he had
been finally taken in after all his whom-
ing, fatrly took away his powe. epeeoh
and, thought. Finally he rose from his
chair, fairly quiverlog with excitement And
rage. and. mid insepulehral tones ; "Why
was I not told of tide 7"
"Oh, I ouppooml you knew it all the
tittle," mid Mrs. Dee—et careleiely ; "every
QUO elm in town did. Beeldee, as you seld
you were well off, I did not 400 to trouble
you jilted thane Now, deer Jonas, don't be
angry ; Mill be happy together, won't
r 1"
FOR THE FARMER
111.1..,P1,11
Gleanings.
No kitchen should. be ewitheet maim to
teat the integrity of thinge purcbased by
weight, and to measure the quantity of
various. recipea,
Finish digging the early potatoes before
mine mimeo them to eprout. Keep the later
kinde free from weeden
**, either by rnin a
narrow eultivater through, the rowe, or y
baud pulling.
'When the pastures begie to falloff„ sozne
extra ttoilAmine. be provided for all the
atook bat eopeolelly tbe cows. 1101104 are
Always well cared for, hut the cove are tea
often eeglected, both as to food me a oupply
of pure water,
Buckwheat is eaeily injured by frost, and
;noted be at in goad season. As it shells
easily, out with the dew upon it, let it cure
in 0=11 loose bunches, and thaw it to the
aurpmeed leivaelf intender and we tea '
prayerful barn when slightly moist.
nolioltudeenthefuneralofthelatedamentea "Happy —together 1” yelled Jones, fair- It tenet easy to reduce straw to the date
:SilasBeffamo the well known paetrycook,j 1Y nletudoluS We teL I'd 13.14 rage- " HdP- a mauure exceptieg by feeding it or by
who left behind hire a youug and rather 1py with yon? Do You atIPPoae 1 would using it as litter, vadcle becomea mixed
'pretty widow, a thriving busineas, and a Wm@ ever married an ugly old fat tbingi with the excrements and tben quickly ace-
tone aura In intered.bearing ascuritiea. like you if I had known that you hadn't a composee under the otimulue of the actiou
Better then ell, there were no children, penny No, I've been sold., taken In, de. a the moist mass.
and everything weal** to the widow..
Soon after thie Mr. Thamble developed
a remarkable fondriese for sweets and was
mho aeon at alittoure of the day and even.
Ing leaning across theoonnter of theatore,
tatting to the alsconsolete widow.
nine went on this way for About a
yen, during wbic ported Mr*, Buff= be-
gan to bloosoin ontonoe more late ooloxed
eap sad bonnet ribbon','and Mr, Durable
hut teen obliged to eat many meet
tillage owing, of melee, to his being so
coutst4tly In the fillip, se to cerinuely im.
pair hie digestion.
One 010rning Mr. (tumble, apparently
drowsed with a little morectire then usual,
walked. deem the man street of Freeport,
and pausing fora moment beforethe More
wleichborethe Nip ; SilazBeffam,
try Coolcal *we looking in through the
window to 400 it th,e fair widow was en.
evonoed in her favorite emit behind the
counter, he opeued the door and went in,
46 Good morning, Mrs. BuiTiun ; adue
day," mid Me. Thimble, As be depoeited a
couple of ch000late crew= within hie eap-
Edens mouth. 1 hopa you were +spirit.•
tally refreshed by my netc.?uree lasteven-
Ohl yei, haaeed, Durable ; you
were indeed /expiring, AO preyerful Such
eltquenoe I Such IS ilew of spirit 1 I am
Isere everybody was as upliftedm I was."
Deer Mrs. Buffet:a, you metoo kind,too
good to) my tumble efferts in «lie way of
You ere a noble wommt, rasaam,"
said . Dumb)°, helping himsief to some
marehtaellow drops.
" indeed," Mr. Durable " you are
too good to iris," murmured Mire. Boehm,
In sweetest tones. " I only wish I knew
some we, of rewarding you for all your
goodness to me end to the meter femilim to
whom you have been like an angel of con -
;dation in their sorrow.
" Oh, ma.'sen, Chrtatian slater, my
deer Sophia, if I raay be permitted to seed-
-dram you," mid Mr. Damble, pulling out
his landkerchief, and dipping in behina
the counter; 44 you overwhelmene, you do,
udeed 1 Bat you talk of rewardmg my
humble efforts. You earl reward them. Be
ratue, Sophia ; be mine. Be Mrs Dumb's.
Let me 'be t,he eartnerof your Sepias' have
comforted you in sorrow. tie realm - be
mine ." and. Mr. Durcble, anitieg his ac-
tion to' hie words, putted hits arm sac:laud. the
somewhat robust wisest of the relict of the
late Briffurn, and poseemed himself of her
hand without meeting the ',lightest resist-
ant°, " Jonas I am thine, " add Mra,
13 .—, rieleg suddenly and throwiug her-
self with such violence into the arms of the
jubilaraDumbleas to precipitate that geutie
man, who was not prepared. for such a
weighty demonatratiori of affection, head-
long into the show-caee, whence he emerg-
ed covered with pie.3rust and various aorta
ofjam.
Before finally leaving her in the evening
Mr. Damble had prevailed upon the widow
to lay entirely aide her mourning for Buf-
fum, whom he repreeented as n ) longer
needing her tears, and to become Mrs
Daneble the folloymeg week. After much
permission and many inquiries on the
part of the widovr as to Dumble's worldly
position and pease/mime, which he averred
were great, she fi.nally cemented, and nam
ed the happy nay.
In persuauce with this decision the mar-
riage was celebrated the following week
with much opiendor, and tbe resources of
the store were drawn upon to supply a fit-
ting breakfaet for the happy pair andtheir
numerots friends.
Ano'her week passed by, and Mr. and
Mrs. Duxable returned from their wedding
tour, and settled down in the rooms over
the shop Mr. Thimble having now gotten
the wife of thelate Baffum endeavored in
a way to put himself into his skin by learn-
ing the pastry.cook business, but his eff ate
were not crownedwithsuccess to anymark-
ed degree ; in face he wasted in his ex-
periments in pies and cakeeduring the first
week of his apprenticeship as ranch mater-
ial as Mrs. D—oald would have sufficed
to keep the shop going for a month. Con-
sequently his better half aavieed Jonas to
leave cooking alone, and to confine hus at-
tention to tendingthe ohop, where his em-
inently sympathetic manner flinch. pleased
the lady patrons of the establiehment.
One evening Mre. Thimble oarae in, and,
sinking into an arm -chair, remarked to
her lord that she was very tired.
" Why, my dear 1" said the ever attent-
ive Jonas.
"1• have been packing up all day," re-
plied his lady -love, " sad am that tired"'
can't "iitir a finger."
" Packing I" *laid Mr. Durable ; "what
for 7"
"What for 1" returned Mei. D. ;
to go away, to be mum."
"Go away 1" said the astonished Jonas;
" what for Where? Surely you are not
tired of rae, my own, my love 1"
44 Tired of you 1" retorted Mrs. Durable.
"Staff nothing of the sort. Bat as my
cousin Buffula has written to me to say
• that he was cotning tn take poasession next
week it's about time for us to think of get.
ting out."
-Y rur cousin coming to take posses.
.sion 1". gasped Jonas. " Wby, what on
earth do you mean 7 Surely this store and
• everythine else belongs to you. I know
lc doeo. I maw the wile ()tithe lamented Mr.
Buffam." • .
"1 can't help what you saw," wearily
returned Ms wife, "go we must. Buffum
calved, and moot aborainably putupore and
I won't stand it. leave you. I'm go-
ing now. Gocd.by, you—you—» and
Damblealezed a hat anti made for the door.
The Nafioaal Former says: Half a pint
of ;sunflower seeds given to a bone with hie
other food each morning and night will keep
him ia better health and better spirits thou
Stop, you monster 1" cried Mrs. Durcehe wd1 bolo without de while heehaw w
ble, stung tomadnere at theuncompliment. .1" brighter.
sey epitheta. Stop, you mentiug hypo.In Walla Wall* valley (Oregon) may be
crib", you mean old fraud. Olo to think mint eighty rano; of continuom wheet field%
of any one ever being deaelved by yourpie along tee loot -1411a of the Blue himutaitte.
ty, you homy old reprobate 1 You've got The 'sewers continue togrow wheat, though
Mr, Builumat hat on yoer heed uow. I they _have to ray :10 cents per hundred
won't be deprived of any relic belonging to 114.41111664 to get it te t"drketi
A little cbarmel fed two or three times; a.
that dear, good roan. Give it beck to me,
I say, and go As fad like.
week to the pige beeeficial in correcting
ae you
Mr.. parable thoo warmed, tore toe acidity of the steramh, to whith hop are
e., ene, la. 1,L1 +limn, 1,1. liable when fed upon corn and confiped in a
and It 'wlth pm. They will eat it greedily and fatten
'Let;It tileaed"treamtetlta"erre muck 1nore reedily with charcoal them with -
Ana' bystaileal, and out of the ruse house. As the hat fell al QaTtle old em,e, et reepeerry. blab" olueee
dIre. Durable,* feet a paper fell out, which + he n ea t
not A.,:a -o renutin music day alter
bad sppareatly been concealed in the lin. the crop its off. Cut them down elm to the
Ing, the picked It up, and, looking at it, root, and burn them along with other rule
gave a acre= and read it over again. The bleb. They are not ormmenta and only
paper oonteined the following words e take the oubatenee from the young canoe
hereby revolee tbe last codocil ta ray will, which will bear next year.
awe my ewe sepate eau marry wee flee "How do you sweeten your butter tube,
*homes ; for if any one be silly enough to or woodeow, ere .01 aea kind 1" we recently
take her he needs mune, reward hits for teheiteek et .Zirragti'5 vale- "SteoP 011
some clover hay Pr tweet fern and put in the
trouble. (Slatted) Slim Buifam."
Mee. Dutiable et once went out end told tube When' hot*" wall tho toldle This is
INTERESTING ITEMS.
The refusal by a teetotal tailor to inelte
clothes for rumeellem is a new causse for
temperance diecuselon in London.
The penalty for selling a cigarette to ft
boy or girl uuder 18 years of age in New
lianipeline has boeu made 420 for eaoh
knee.
An actitation to change the name of the
to result, it le thought, in a choice et Eine.
copal tdethodiale
The ill feeling in France toward England
is indicated by the fact that oue lame of a
leading Parte daily journal contained five
articiee Miming the Britons virluently,
The medical permeate contain miner-
oue paragraphs ana letters contraimeg of
themselvea upon yablio att. nt on
A New Boren beggar with a awollen
hand and a, story of awful aufferiag from
rheumatism has been expoeed. lie produc-
ed the pitiful aymptom by lending Ms arm
with a cord.
Meth° elpiscopal Church Seen), is likely
physsciana who, itna urged, sel ehly term
the atore to the whole villiege. lktr. Dam- 'w°rt4 knowing; and we give it for the
bonetit of thine who find trouble in "sweet.
lcaethd, and may deem euiegi vtesl, 4.
toba enextegnoanunie &dry
after but was not admittedHe exhaust -
64 de powers 01 peranasion and exlusen in. One of tbe largeat fruit farms in the world
h situated in the southern part of Florida,
vele ; he mid he wiz drunk that evening, sue is aweeee B A. Osborn, of Middle -
for wbiolz eilmisdon he loot hie potation in
Ida church and ropiest of the community
es well, ell to no pupae& Mee. Dumble
inotitueed staule for a divorce on the ground
of desertion end won it, and Durable woe
0. ruined rum and left the town. Wh.en
hisb heard from he was driving 0. home.
Mr& Dumble resumed her name of Br&
fare, married her comiu. still keeps the
ahop on Mein street, and la growing fatter
every day.
Iceland as a Sumner Resort.
Holiday makers who are at a lose
where to go to mum a *tool spot, ataoe
perhaps, be tempted to try Iceland. It us
not neceerarily cool there, notvrithstand-
lug the refresbleig sound of the name, but
it is a good deal lees likely to be hot than
Swiss or evert Scotch valleys, and there
is a good deal more to me tbat would be
freeh to the visitor. Nor Is the island by
any meats 4)fii3alt to get at. The Danish
Ils)al Mail steamers raake a monthly
voyage front Cepenbagen to Reykjavik,
and tive at them run all round. the inland
as well as tailing on each voyage at Leith.
There is also an English line during the
Summer from Lieth to Reykjavik.
Iceland it by no means the diminutive
country which people who do not look at
large maps are m danger of aupposing lb
to be. when they meet that) the poputation
does not much tensed that of a third-rate
English town. It .is postale to travel
from east to west on a direct line for a
greater dietance than from London. to
Carlisle, so that the island is really of
very respectable diraensions. Nor are
the people remote as is their dwellieg
Place from the centres of sweetness and
light, by any rams an uncultured racs.
They have had a Parliament of their own
—the Althing—for now neatly a thomand
years, and they are a great thud better
instructed than European populations,
generally. The ordinary Cockney tour-
ist would hardly find hineself at home
among them, brit an intelligent observer,
interested in the study of nature and in
the ways of isolated communities, might
really do muck worse during this coming
August than brace himself up for theWin-
ter by a week or two in Iceland.
Fishing aud farming are the Iceland-
er's priucipal pursuit*, ana fishing is
more important, perhaps, than farming
There are practically to manufacturea in
the ommtry, and trade is so little devel-
oped that up to the last year the island
did not even possess a bank, though the
Althing was seriously occupying itself
with the establishment of such an insti-
tution. Some interesting information on
the Icelandic fisheries is contained in the
last report presented to the Foreign Office
by Mr. Consul Paterson. The Iceland
fisherman's beet customers are not his
comparatively near neighbors—he has no
neighbors at all but) the Greenhinders
within 600 miles—but the Spaniards. A
good deal of the fish caught goeo to Co-
penhagen, but more to Spain, and Spain
gete the piok of the catches.
Wheat growing is no part of the In-
land farmer's industry. For that the
climate is not warm enongh. He breaths
fl mks and heads, and during his short
Summer, ts ranch concerned for the re-
sults of his hay harvest). These, last
year, were not satisfactory in the south-
ern part of the island, owing to the occur-
rence of wet weather late in the Summer,
A further reduction of live stook was the
coneequence of the scarcity of fodder. In
the north, however, the hay was good,
and the farming intereot there is fairly
prosperous.
rallOW My Lender.
This old game le very often played in real
life, No one can be surprised at its preval-
ence who has ever noticed the resemblance
of hurnae kind to 4 flack of sheep, following
ito leeder over wells and clitcheie Two gen-
tlemen were looking from window, when
they sew a cabbagegoll froxe. it paining mark-
et -wagon. Instantly over &dozen appmently
sane persons began calling after the wagon
as if the vegetable had bean mede a gad.
The driver atopped, looked back et the ceb-
bage, yawned, tted drove along.
"What an absurd fuse peeple make Wire
such trivial ocourxencee r mad one of the
gentlemen, " Now,,I am positive that I could
draw a otowd of ave hundrea peewits about
that cabbage, within thirty mmetea, and
not leave tele room,"
"Do it 1' eald ble friend, pulling out his
watch, "It's vow half -pain eltven, Be -
Oysters are cheap food, and yet a etcetera
explaino that they are amprodtable for hotel
tablet', because guests never thiek of lettiog
them take the place a any regular cameo in
meal.
The increasiog malculinity of Epeieb
girls is a topic ot many London easa,ylets.
in dress, tell, end mamma* It is the hidden
with daughtere of wealth and refinement to
be as much. like their brothere se decorum
will allow.
Julie. Smith, the Conneeticet women who
got fame by refueingto pay tam, to Govern.
meut tleat would not lot her vote, remake
to Clove who predictea unleappinese from
ber arriege Ove Tome ago, aged 115, that
oa xtreraely
News lag reschect tare. Arglere the Utah
women who writes very sentimental novela
as "The Dueb.eae," of the Americsui who has
made a round of the eateries plum as 4
clitimaut of the euthorship, aekl she peb,
11411011 a cud declaring that she lam goiter
beeu in this oountxy.
Alphonse Daudet le still remarkably
handeorne, but as crippled by rheunatiam
that he cm eeldom walk, Hie ailment was
contracted in the Franoo•Gertnen war. Zola
is described m a heavy, grog.* man, with
ehoet brietlitig hair. Halevy thin, seine
bre, pale, and marine ie appearance.
040 cranke hobby is to incum tbewealthy
toldentit f citice to teen their epacicus,
velatilated home.. during their owu tutairetr
shaence as lodgiugs for the poor. Ile arguee
that it Is wicked ut the millionstires to It
thousand; of innocent thildren die unmet*.
sully (atonement*,
Somebody reraembem that Morse orzoo
predicted that talking through a hundred
nate* of wire would become common, and
ton, N. Y. It comprises et 500 acme, and *et ovum steamers On* vorigewould keep
is covered with over 20,000 occomut teem, tip communicationclectricallywiththeshore,
So far the uuderteking has cost over $100,- Ina firm proulotion baiting ceme true, the
000. As the coominut only thrivea south second le hopefully regarded, thoual3 remad-
e! the !root line and near the omen the ad se wild when rode.
The &et epeaker went to the window,
threw up the sish, and, taking a Calle,
pointed earnestly at the nma-covered cab-
bage, with A terrified expreation. Present-
ly a cabdriver noticed the action and began
to stare at the vegetable, from the euria-
Moue ; then a bootblack atepped, a billpos-
ter, it atemenger-boy, and a merchant.
"Whate the natter 1" 1/1(1111red a Ger-
man, approaahlug the benoceet basis of bis
national disk.
" Don't tenth it I look ant there etana
bink?' shouted the gentlemau at the vie -
dew,
At his horroostrichen tone; the crowd
11 back precipitately, fermi,* demo
ole about the ;Abbas& Unwired; 0401e rue,
ing up, and tba exeltment tepidly ire
premed.
"Look out there 1" frentically exclaimed
the *tattier of the c3nrusion, "Take thatdog
away quick 1"
Simnel etoueo were thrown et the mitnel
euiffieg romul the oebbege.
Tette wire 1" eald a oeleariver to
polioemen, who was thoulderiag We way
• tbrough the MOW,
• adeentebile the eavement W46 blocked, the
innate bcoarae impeemble, women screwed
end rushed lute them and, a man began to
tie 4 bucket on a long pole with which to
pour water on the fiend.ish, invention. As
the crowd was by this time dense, the two
gentlemen moved away from the window,
end lett down. In a fete ralrettee there was
a. hurried tap At the door, and a delegate
appeared &wattle rams uteetiog outside.
Should like to know, gentlemen, west
the facte are," he mid,
"What factat"
"What la there peculiar about that
bane out there?"
n Nothing in the world," was the mit
ply, 44 except that it mem% to be surrounded
b about a thousend brave and sensible pee.
p e. Can we do anything else for your
The maw reflected for a moirant, the
mid he thoaght not, and retired.
At Madame Taunters; gallery, in Lon-
don, one cm now see the Princess Bea-
trice in her wedding dress, and Prince
Henry in his uniform.
All the British baronetcles are not go-
ing begging. Mr. R. N. Fowler, a retir-
ed tallowchandler, now- Mayor of London,
has kindly cemented 10 take one.
owner of this ferm bee apreetloal monopoly
of tbet trine in Florida,
In the winter of 1$634, Iliad some aloe
yearling steers that I divided into two lets,
and wintered one lot in the stable, and the
banayerd where they hal the protection cf
a good straw.etack. Toey were fed hay or rudely through a gime. Ibla exploit *Elver -
owl her, and me of her claming conquest*,
la that of a prince of royal Wood, who bee
been &rotated in a strett broil on her so.
count.
Jeanne Blin 14 the greatest of present
Nation mobil noterieties. She was the
oompaniou of Marchatelou, the murderer,
and elm pad $200 for e. balcony from which
to Nee him guillotined. Her toilet was ex.
gnisite, and abe wetebed the execution me
br ght fodder every day, end a little grain
morning and night, both lots being fed
In tee sprieg the lot stabled had sallied 1 10
pounda per head ; the lot wintered at the
straw ate& had lost 10 pounds each.
Cultivation. of Oats.
Oats are capable of receiving wonderful
improvements, 13otb in quality and quantity
per acre. By selecting the seeds with great lief to be that God may "leada person out
side the Church to essential truth, hide.
pendently of human ageney," and may "save
him, although his relation to Christ may be
BO obscured by peouliar conditions as to
elude our recognition,"
It la theopinion of Prof, Hodge of Princs.
ton, who has studied the subject cerefully,
that Sir Moses Montefiore has gone to the
Chriatian heaven, although he was a devout
Jew-, Prof. Hodge argues the orthodox be.
care every semen and by giving the crop
clean and richounivation. 75 or 80 bushels
of clean grain might be raised per acre by
good management just as easily as forty by
the common system of cultivation. Al-
though oda absorb coarser materials from
the soil than wheat or barley, there is: no
other kind of gniin that will return a better
oompenaation 10 an increased amount of
grain per acre, in consequenee of the soil
being manured than oats. Oats flourish
best when the soil is under the highest state
of cultivation. A. fanner may raise as many
butillels of oets per acre as he reasonably
desires, provided he w111 manure and cul-
tivate the mile, well as it ought to be oua
timted. The most satisfaotory way of
applyingbarn yard manure to any soil. for
the purpose of increasing its productiveness,
when oats are the principal grain to be
raised, 10 10 spread and plow it under in
late autumn rather thank the spring of the
year. In most came oats are 'Wowed to
stand too long before they are cut. Moat
farmers let the oats stand till there is not a
green head in the field. But as soon as the
chaff on about one half of the heads has
assumed a yellowish hue, then the oats
anould be cut. There may be a few- heads
that will not be out of the milk *1 1101 stage
of their growth, but if they are &Unwed to
stand longer, more loss will be sustained in
shelling off the -early and dead. ripe oats
than there will be in the shrinkage of those
heads that are in the milk when the straw
is out. Early, out oats are heavier per bush-
el, fairer to the eyes and will sell for more
money in the rnarket.
Balt in the Ration for Poultry.
Physicians throughout tbe eountry lave
reoeived a oiroular trout a dealer in human
curiosities. Tito menageries are supplied
with beasts the world over by a singe Ger-
man ram, butthe exhibits othumandeform-
ity are found through items in the news pa -
pare. This apeculetor has planned to be a
monopolist. Be says Unit he will pay lib-
erally for bxanediete information of any
phyeically peculiar child, so that he may
get ahead of competitors m bargaintng with
the parents.
There is a prevalent notion that salt
causes the feathers of fowls, or perhaps of
the feathered tribes in general, to fall out.
This, we believe, is well founded. Certain-
ly, excess of this condiment should be avoid-
ed. There appears to be some connection
between sett and feathers. Feather -eating
fowls are. often cured of the tendency by
adding salt to their food, and a small quan-
tity of salt in the ration promotes, or is
supposed to promote, the production of the
new crop of feathers at moulting time.
This supposed effect may be , simply the
loosening of the -old feathers. The remit,
as promotive f moulting, would be the
same. Salt is a very important ingredient
in the ration of pigeons, and where these
birds are confined without it, they are never
so thrifty. It is natural then, to conclude,
that it is valuable in the food of other birds,
and especially for barn -door fowls. The
earlier old fowls are out of their moult and
in full plumage, the sooner will they begin
to lay, in the autumn. Pullets usually be-
gin to lay as soon as they are completely
plumed as adult fowls. It is worth while,
therefore, to encourage moulting in every
way, giving them exeroise, insect food, or
fish in their ration, • with ground bone,
ground oyster shell, and sound grain. A
tablespoonful of fine salt in the soft feed,
given daily to a flock of twenty hens will be
a fair allowance. Fowls do not 'depend
upon this for the salt which their bodies and
feathers contain, for either the material
itself, or the elements of which it ie com-
posed, exist to a greater or less extent in
almost all the food they eat and the water
they drink ; and what we dohy giving them
salt is simply to increase the supply.
American silk Is durable, haudeome, and
cheap,
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NEWSPAPER BEADING.
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Education and Intelligence increasing the
Demand.
This is emphatically a reading age. Re-
latively with our enlarged educationalfseili-
ties the reading public hasincreased in
number. Where heretofore those who could
aot read were in the majority, the rule has
been reversed, and now a person who can-
not read is regarded aa a curiosity, but yet
deserving the sincerest aympathy. In every
department of life the demand for newspaper
reading is ever on the increase. The boy at
school, the young Ma11 hi the workshop or
in the office, the young girl in domestics service
or behbadthe counter, the master thedesk
and the mistress in the parlor, all look with
equal eagerness for the regular appearance
of the focal journal. To supply the grow-
ing demand for newspaper reading the city
dailies publish large weekly editions, made
up almost entirely of the matter which ap
pears from day to day in the daily. These
weekly nprints of the great dailiee ard sup-
plied at such a ridiculously low subsorip-
price as threatened at one time to totally ex-
tinguish the local country sheet, which could
never afford to furniah the quantity of read-
ing matter given in the large foreign week-
lies. To meet the difficulty which here
presented itself. the ready -print system was
inaugurated. Firma were eetablished which
make a specialty of furnishin' g to country
publithers ready -printed sheets, containing
the essence of each week's happenings, and
clippings from sources available oaf), to a
large city publisher.
This system has rapidly growo in public
favor, until, in the Dominion at least three-
fourths of what are known as the country
prole are published on.the auxiliary plan.
The prejudices which once existed against
the readrprint system have entirely disap-
peared, and proprietors find that in order
to compete with contemporaries using the
eystem, and with the city dailies, and to
ensure a profit at the end of the year, they
must comply with the inevitable and adopt
ready -printed &mete. •
Some idea of the popularity which . this
system has attained with country readers
will be gained when we state that a firm in
Toronto supplies betweenone and two
hundred publishers with ready -printed pa-
pers. To do this three separate and distinct
editions are issued every week, containing
matter entirely different each from the other,
and the system is becoming so general that
those who have, from prejudice or other
cauen, heretofore refrained from adopting it,
find it necessary to do so to mabatain their
circulation and give satisfaction to their pa -
b.
His Pi* Cigar.
B s seers kora
souat boy puffed ata eigaa
eyes bulged. out In hie cheeks sunk hi,
Oa gulped rank finnee with Ids Ihpe ajar,
While muscles shook to hie youthful chin ;
Hia glib wore green, but he smote A AM*.
And 04 high up on the farnapAtd
and (toehold hie hat o'er his glassy eye,
Then, wee* a wink et a oow near by.
The earths aware round, but the stile stood stli,
The tom /me up and the kid, crawled down,
He groaned aloud, tor he tense tie
And hnew that cigar had A'dona lam bowel e'
lila head vim light and his teet like lead*
ILa obeeka grew white *RA linen spread.
While he weekiv gulped. ea he gmect afar,
"111 live, this hereiuy bun nor."
Lakes of Ilushoka
sneasoce
Let Erin's Bard. sing et the Went Avoca,
Or Byton or llarnsof ths Land or the Berth'
1*1 sing. for I love the melodic Uneltoka,
Where Couthiching's waters rush joyously forth,
IU sing of the Wands girt with their averment',
Blow snugly they rest like a award le lto Moth,
ox the weird scanty legendry guarding thefeliCeateal
Deep, dAtit AA the waters reheated beneath.
Ale I thus will I ion till the last of my zonnherth
• From island to +Moreland ere echoed along ;
iU the Bud of the wood shall awake from his
altunbera
Unbroken for ages and join lee fa ea.
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PERSONALITIES.
thanght 1 soot to London a mere
dictionary, but I home found 'with eilemere
I have ri ellt there a men of Went, le the
compliment M. de Biowitz unikea flt. de
Glens Toy to M. LOrreink.
Gorizthalcoff, after the Beetle Confer.
moo, comparing Lord BeamitiNelde col.
league, the prevent Prime Minister, Lord.
fialiehary, with Biemarok eaid "he was
wood painted to leak like iron."
Six John Millais le by no meatus the firet
English printer Made a num of Otte, ea
several thoughtleee correepondente hue
meterted Sir Godfrey Kneiler end Sir
Joslaua Itoyuolde aro ellpedg17 to be re•
=rebored.
Queen Victoria la said to Menke the
royal a, puichreof her familyatSteeorges,
became the bowie of George IV. met
there. Size liolde zueroory in abhor-
rence, and dose net wieb the remaine of
arty of her immediate family 10 10 placed
ear
Both the Czer e f Rendes eons are
eliglat, geutleaoeking bey& who take
ter their mother rather than after their
gantlet father. The Czerina has a
t lam, with beentiful sole eyes, end
ry winning, affeble manner. 810 10
treporial altogether in (ferriage and
than the Empress of netsteise
t therms everybody by her quiet,
orainly grim:nominees.
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Remarkable Phenomenon,
At about midnigbt reoeuelya remarkable
Olumorcietion wao seen at Jonkoping
(Swedee). over Lake Wettern. .A. atrong
tuminoeity was suddenly Seen in the
north, where some very peouller oloasle—
lookiug like iceberge were seen alnunt
to touch the water. irrom these cloucla
electrical discharges continually proceed-
ed, imparting to them it bluish phos-
pliorement light, somewhat ruddy near
tee miter, and intensely oeliow at their
sides. It teemed like a conotent dis-
charge of fireworks from the lake. It
wee remarkable that therli t—aa le gen
erslly the case with an elect cal diecnarge
In the atmosphere did no atteume the
form of bunchee of sixteen:Lets, but at one
time flered up intensely and. at others
formed narrow bends acrom the clouds,
Above the latter there was a faint bitelah
reflection. The lake lay as °elm as a,
mirror, t ed though an optical illualon was
uncommon in these parte' be western
shores 'seemed close to thentievn, -while
the eastern disappeared in the clouda.
Except the electrioity-laden donde' in the
north the aky was clear, stare shone, and
the full moon was bright. Below the lat.
ter the aky seemed faintly red compared
withthe intense electric light. At Kst.
rineholm the same p'henomenon, was seen
in the north-east. Here an intense glare
was seen above a cloud, assuming the
appearance of two gigantic lustrous trees,
which remained thus for half an boar,
when 113 changed into a variety of forms.
There was 110 noise accompanying the
phenomenon, which lasted in both places
for about an hour. It in not probable
that the phenomenon could have been
of auroral nature on account of the
brightness under a full moon.
The Ilse of Ble4s.
The amertion that nottetng mid* in the
world but whet was made tO nerve Immo
toefulpurpeee, though admitting of rainy
oppereut oontrielletions min the WO of
such pesta as mosquitoes and. reptiles,
will generally he found, after patient' in-
veatigation, tabs ans,otuel truth. Though
obaged to aonless a dislike to the EiNfliala
sparrow, the impertinent little foreigner
who h45 uourpeci the plea of the robin
acid other native bhcla in our puke and
lawn& theTalker will aamit that the emir -
row might justify biraself on good and
reasonable grounds. We know that other
birds are oonetantly engaged, in umbel
aervioe. The swallow, *swift, and. night-
hawk arethe guerdians of theatatoaphere.
They check the it:trireme of insoota that
otherwise would overload it. Woodpeck-
ers, creepers annohickadeesere the guard-
ians of the trunks cf braes Wahl= and
flycatchers protect) the ?allege. Blaok-
birds, crawls, thrushes and lake protect
the audios of the eon. Snipe and wood -
cook protect the soil -ander the surface.
Emil tribe has its reepective duties ti
perform in the economy of nature, and
it is an undoubted fact that if the birds
were all swept cif theface of the earthman
could nob lire upon it ; vegetation would
wither and die ; inaects would beolme so
numerous that no living thing oeuld with-
stand their attache.
trona.
A. Physician's Secret.
A pathetic story is told by the Ertel&
medical journal& Dr. Warburg coin-
poundedformany years a valuable remedy
for violations diseases which was espe-
cially umbel in tropicalolimates. General
Gordon, when be . was Governor General
of ethe Soudan, deolared that be owed his
la to it, and the English medical pro-
fession came to regard it as one of the
moat powerful febrifuges. Professor W.
O. Maclean appeared to Dr. Warburg
to reveal the secret of its compooition for
the benefitof naedical mimeo. Therequest
yeas heeded, and the formula, which had
previously been a well -guarded secret,
was publiehed in The Lancet. The son -
fie quences were disastrous to the inventor's
fortunes. Druggists in England and In-
dia prepared, the remedy themselves arid.
sold it for their own benefit. The inven-
tor's income was taken away as soon as
he parted with his secret, and his profits
went to the wholesale and retail drugtrade.
The government of India made a grant of
$1,000 to him in token of its appreolation
of the value of the • remedy. Otherwise
the world was indifferent to his fate. He
is now in destitute oircumetances at the
age of eighty-one and‘ehe English med-
ical journals are making appeals to the
profession to relieve his poverty.
In the Clutch of a Wildcat.
Mathias 13erger,(the Blue Mountain
hermit) is seventy-two years of age and
about five feet four inchee in height. His
head is covered with straggling tufts of
hair combed smoothly down. "I remem-
ber," he said, "whenthie entire mountain
was one entire wildernese. Wildcats and
panthers were as plenty as briars. Just
see here," and he stripped off . his coat
and exposed two or three roars down his
back fully twelve 'notes long. " That
was born twenty-five years ago. Those
are the marks of a wild cat. • I was cording
through a woode one night when I caw
two eyes like streams of fire thrown at
me from a tree overhead. I knew that
they were those of a yeacleat. • Before I
had timetoget away she jumped and land-
ed on my back, burying her claws deep
into ray fleoh, I threw myself back nthe
beast andwhile she was tearing my hands
and arinowith leer sharp claw, I whipi d
out my knife and cuther in theneok nobil
she bled to death.
A Strange Story.
A remarkable story comes from Mon -
cloys. 11 is in. substance that about thir-
teen years ago Thomas Hubbell, then it
prosperous farmer, died and was buried
in a village graveyard. He left a -wife
who has since married, and an imitate
which was divided -among eight children.
Hubbell was nearly forgotten, when a few
years ago the wife received a letter from
a Michigan asylum signed in the dead
man's name, but no notice was taken,
friends supposing 11 a freak of a lunatic.
This week another letter was received,
and to geld suepicione of doubt the grave
was opened, when to the surpriee of all
the casket was found empty. it hao
caused great excitement. Sinceithen the
brothers of Hubbell have been following
up the dee in Michigan, and now believe
k1/4.
the soluticrint the mystery 1 ' that when
Hubbell was buried the boda$ wad atolen
by robbers for a medical coil ' e. It is
eupposed that life returned on the ilimect-
ing-table. Hubbell had been' afflicted
with diseat,e of the head. It is thought
the terrible ehookawoke hire, a d proving
to be a lunatic., he wasplacedmanitsylum.
The return of the brothers from their in-
vestigarir n h. eagerly watched for. The
tfratr has created quite a profound sen-
sation hereabouts.
Lady Dufferin has distinguished her-
aelf by estabhahing in India a national
as Iodation for supplying female medical
aid to women. The scheme is to educate
native women to be nurses and midwives
as well as phyaiolans. Skilled women
physicians will be imported from Europe
and America to act as teachers. Lady
Dafferin has acoepted tee presidency of
the emaciation. he is au accomplished
woman, of noble impulses and exquisite
tact, and this enterprise promisee to be
potent in the emancipanon of Indian
women. Meanwhile it will relieve much
suffering in a country where social cus-
toms do not allow it sick woman to con-
sult a male physician, bub permit her to
languish and die in solitude.
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