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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-4-1, Page 73 a f it 3, ao Ld id n, rs an he As ri- in- eir aide the Ali log ha on, On res • ars, aper aid. ,hw and had heir ]tor, gth, e cti- min- hroe with the 3 fin- al re- eets, elleg- ditor terrt- bast- ante. eller, icked f Pe• '. the ig for thing asked Broad. 1 the Ary ¥other. AllAND L L. BARTe OIIO3&BW,. A simple pureonsge—plain and brown— Where Ivies rambled up and down With sweet -brier robes, A place the earliest sunbeams Mitt, Nor left, CMU shadowed by the 1111,81 The Might uncloses; 'Twos here ehe wrou¢ht with patient care A life whose income ailed the air With gladness otlY, Here heard her oaf to enter rest, And lett the home; p broken neat, Bereft prod lonely, To ehildren'e•heerte, and hearte grown strong With anguish, Ile a lesson long, And sad thmlearning, That prayers nor tears can e'er restore The loved one drifted to that shore Beyond returning, • We've learned farewell oftthrough those year fibs—welcome—where there are no tears, nal joys supernal. And cioaely t Ids earth's Weenies; bands WItbiu the h me not made with hands, fern'. O Mother, with the soft brown eyes,I In thy fair home beyond the skies Am,1 expected 7 Orn'st thou rot tell me at last, When 41 that ood y it have passed, Bhnbthreshold re THE LT t$ KILN OLUB, HACKED TO DBd.TR. anExpress ll4eseeu erAlurdered,InUtaCar, "Will Judge Coeueontive .Sadth please stn die a T asked, l3rether Gardner as The expreus car of the Rook Island train p tin opened with; sixteen kerosene wh►eh leaves Chicago . at 11 p, ml was the meeting be dinBh their radiance over the hall, boarded by robbers at Joliet at 1 e olook T3aiY per d time the other morning. Kellogg Nichols, -ex• and the dodge ent continued Ie two-four ' rose messenger of the United States, Fs - President continued : p u o Smith, on am about to leave us press Company, was billed, and money and a dg S 'home ina distant State, jewelry valued at about $35,000 were stolen, an'ta'io up your You will not only earrywid you do bee' Niohole attended to hie duties at Joliet, but wishes of ebery member of die society, but when the train arrived at Morrie, twenty will still preagrve your membership wid nu, ,mica beyond Joliet, he did not open the Ia swine off among strangers, der' am some door of the oar. rules an' maxims dat it would be well to ob. The looal agent at Morris forded open the Carve : door, and found Nichols lying dead on the "While it am faahnabnl to eat wid a fork, floor of the oar, with hie throat out from ear duan' let a good pieoerof bacon slip away fur :o ear and his Stead horribly out and crashed. want of mein' yer knife. The baggsgeman was found bound and gag - "When you has foun' a butcher who will ged in the newt oar. The safe was broken give you credit, you has fonn' anenemy, opsit and its contents gone. As the train " It ain't de amount of wages you airn, dome not stop between Joliet and Morris it but it am do number of daye you am idle. is approximately certain that the robbers " Honest au' industrious men needn't boarded the care at the fernier place, worry about de number of patent jail Tooke, The fasts of the express robbery as learn. "D3 men who lights two candles to think ed from the baggageman are that, ,shortly by am euah' to want fur light to work by. after the train reft,Joliet at 1245 a. m,, he " Da time spent In buildin' air castles heard a rap at the baggage car door.. Think - would purvido de world wid taters at a Dent lug it wa3 the express messenger he opened a buehol, the door and was confronted by masked "Honosty am a good -policy, but it am rebbere, who oovered him with revolvers wise to wait an see what de cdder feller am and forced him to give up the key to the intendin' to do. express oar. The baggageman was guarded "You can't cotch pork in dice box, nor by one of the robbers, ,whilethe balance pay your taxon wid ,lottery tickets dot yarned their attention to the express car. didn't draw, It is supposed they obtained entrance to "Now, Bruddder Smith, on behalf of de the expreaa•ear by rapping and explaining menibere of die club I shall present you wid that the baggageman wanted to get in, At die coffee mill. Its inatrinelok welly) am not any rata the express car dna was opened great—only fifty cents—but you will prize and the desperadoes entered ; and then en- do tenths -mut which aektuated de givers. sued, a battle fir life and the property en - De ole we man kin us a it to grind, coffee or treated to his oharge on the part of the ex - pop -corn, and de children kin play hose wid prase meaaenger. it an hurt nobody feelin's. It am allue The interior of the oar shows that ho wound up. It am prepar'd fur ebery change fought the robbers from one end to the of weather. It nebber needs terrain', an' de other, but -at last the blows that they rain bellows robber gits outer order. Take it, ed on his head with an iron piker forced Brudder Smith, an' may luck an' prosperity him to succumb, and he was left dead in attend you." the oar. The thieves rifled his pockets of the Tho Judge attempted to voice lain feelings, keyeof the safe, which they robbed of all its but it wan a failure. His chin quivered, a contents, variously estimated at from $20,000 lamp gathered in his throat, and scalding to$25,000, Checksand valuable packages not tears rel] Into the hopper of the mill. oontainicg money they left scattered on the NOT INDDRa8D, floor. In one hand the dead man clutched A oommnuicaticn from the Hon, Jud a lock of dark hair, which must have been Taylor of Los Angeles, announced that he tarn from the hoed of one of the assassins, had compoundedog a remedy for chilblains Sheriff Rletz and Chief of Police Murray have organised a posse and aro scouring the which was indorsed by the governors of five Western States, People who had been an- country in pursuit of the robbers. noyed for twenty years had been complete- The Rook Island Railway will offer a r°- ly cured by a few applioatione. The com- pounder had aimednot to amputate the foot, but to eradicate the dieeaae. .Although his applieation for membership had been rejected on the grcunde of age, he hoped the club would tickle him moat to death by indorsing his chilblain remedy. " Gamlen, it can't be done," said the President as he looked up and down rhe Melee. " What am de chilblain ? It am a sorb o' carpet tack which eighteen degrees below zero hits on de head an drives into de fu'i outer sight. Do mo' intments an' salves you rub on, de mo' dat tack Blips around. Heah am fifty Main' examples of de fuck dat de lees you fule wid a chilblain de bettor he will behave hienelf," T00 .FAR• FETCHED, Samuel Shin asked permission to read a letter which he had received from a colored widow in Tenneaee. She stated that her huoband was on his way to the post -office to mail an application for memberehlp when he fell over a cliff and was killed. She had been advieed to bring suit against the club for $10,000 damages, but after due reflection had decided to compromise on enough cash to buy a mule and a mourning bonnet, and gave minute directions as to how the money should be sent. Samuel observed that his sympathies had been deeply touch- ed, and he would move that the sum of $125 be immediately forwarded. "Brudder Shin, how much cash am you willin' to contribute from your own pocket?" asked the President. " I duan' reckon I kb put up puffin, rah," "Docs de way I reckoned; Brudder Shin's. sympathy am mighty consolin' in a case of whoopin -cough, but it won't buy chicken - soup. Die claim ani too fur -fetched, on, will be resisted morally an' legally. Drap down, Samuel, an de nex' time your feelins am deeply touohed hunt aroma' your pockete for a nickel to back 'em," RECONSIDERED. Sir Isaac Walpole called up the case of Elder Furlong Jackson, who was suspend- ed from active memberehlp tome time since for engaging in a religions discussion in the hall.whloh•ended in hie bestowing numerous kicks upon the person of Professor ' Canda- har Jones, Sir Isaac had traced the Elder's genealogy back for elx generations, and had discovered than all his ancestors were very excitable on the subject of religion., They were all Bard -Shell Baptista, and they wouldn't touch a Metholiet or a Presbyter- ian with a ton -foot pole. The Elder had inherited tide excitability. While lit was very wrong for him to kick Prof. Jones on albs shine, it must be remembered that the Plain and Praotioal Donoe,wrs'—One cup of anger, one cup of sweet milk, two eggs, three teaapooniule of Iard, ono teaspoonful of noda, two tea- spoonfuls of oroam of tartar, cinnamon or nutmeg. Beat the sugar and lard together until light, then add the eggs well beaten. Mix with flour as soft as possible, and have it stiff enough to' roll out. STEAMED BROWN BREAD.—For a small loaf take one-half pint of rye meal, uneifted, one pint of sifted Indian meal, one pint of sour milk, one-half gill of molasses, one tea- spoonful of salt, and one largeteaapoonful of soda, Mix all the ingredients, except the soda, dissolve tbat in a little boiling water, and add last, stirring the mixture thorough- ly. Grease a brown bread tin, or a pail hav- ng a close lid, and having put the bread in t, eot it into a kettle of boiling water. Boil t four hours. Remove the lid, and set the pail in the oven a few minutes to dry the top of the bread. SALLY LUNN.—One quart of flour, a piece of butter the size of an egg, three tablonpoon- bale of engar, two eggs, two cupsof milk, two teaspoonfuls of cream-tartar,Ain© toaapoonful of ealeratue, and a little sale, Slit the oreaa tartar, salt and sugar in the flour; add the eggs, the butter melted, and one-half of the ',milk. Dissolve the salerat- ua in the other half of the milk, and stir all together very thoroughly. Bake iu two pane. WHITE'ROLLS,—One cup of graham and one cup of white flour, one tablespoonful of sugar, one-half teaspopnful of salt, one tablespoonful of melted butter, two eggs, two cups of milk, bakedina hot iron gem pans. Use Do� r egg -beater to stir the whole maes tor liglitneea at the last moment. A GOOD CAFE.—One cup of 8001 cream, one cup of powdered sugar, one and one-half cups of our, two eggs, one Dnp of raisins, one level teaspoonful of noda, one teaepoon- fnl of extract of vanilla. After mixing the otheriingrodl0nts, add last the flavoring, and the raisins rolled in flour, Beat hard until it is creamy, then pour in the pin and bake at once. Hints and Ena'gestions. Cover houseexnts with newspapers be- fore sweeping;: also give them ammonia o0c3 a week in the water you put on them. Teething, feverinh children can often be quieted by bathing them in warm water in which you have dissolved a large spoonful of saleratue. Eider down is much used this winter in lining the old-fashioned quilted shirts, the puirphiu hoods, and the old-fashioned Eng- lish pelisses that are being imported. How many women there are, with only small families to do for, who adopt such hard ways to do their housework that it is impossible for them to enjoy any loieure. No prettier fashion of wearing the hair fa seen, than a simple coronet, made' by the. hair being combed to the middle of the head, loosely braided, and pinned so as to give it a graceful, fluffy appearance. Allow thirty minutes for boiling potatoes, and forty, five minutes for baking them, Pare them, if for boiling, and put them in boiling water which shall j art cover them. When done pour off every drop of the water, and put a towel over the kettle a few minutes. A little turpentine in the wash -boiler will make clothes very white, and will often re- movelncorrigible stains from white ' geode. A tableepoonfnl of turpentine to a large boil• er or a teaspoonful to two gallons of water. There is no email, the boiling preventing it. If ink is spilled on the carpet throw enough salt on it to absorb it. Take it up and put on more salt, rubbing it well into the ink -spot. Repeat it until all tho ink is taken up, then brush the salt well out. If properly done not a trace of ink should re- main, If coal-oll is spilled use cornmeal in the manner described (above. I have seen both these remedies used with entire suc- cess, o One bushel' and twelve quarts of, Bound corn, or its equivalent in other grain, will keepa fowl a year. And that the average hen will lay ten ud a half dozen eggs per annum mai a profit of sr cording es the p grain are varied by the market or your locality, certain for you to secure 01,$1.75 perw annum, w- oes of eggs, poultry and Sometimes a wick becomes too short to carry up the keroBene and the lamp pee out. If you have not time to put in a new wick a"pleoe of cotton rag pinned on below will answer every;purpoew and become a good feeder. If a holo ehould be broken in the glees chimney paste on a piece of pa- per, which may often he done lin a moment, and it will answer its purpose fol a bong tiro,; or until you call get a new chimney. Sometimes the burners of the Lampe become gummy and prevent the winks moving,free- ly. Boil them up in suds over a fire a short time and they will become entirly clear and work well. iT'U , F, :JET » Timelyions. i3n Suggestions. st. The ;wino growers are just now Advo• oatiug hogs with more lean moat. ,This is a move in the right direetlon. The stylish hog of the Bast decade has been but little more than lumps of animated lard, Give the hogs a range with paoturo,and feed less corn, That will certainly improve the quality of the pork. Sheep fatten moat rapidly at 2 and 3 ears old. By feeding rich fodder 1 -year old sheep will Moreau) in 'weight more rapidly than when older, While they will fatten also at this age the flesh in not es- teemed as when older, as it is more watery. Lambe taken very young and fed high are fattened and made palatable, Bat when fattened' for profit au well as palatable 113th, sheep, as well as other animals, should be matured in growth fust. A newly dropped lamb is a weak and in significant thing, and yet it has an ulti- mate value of several dollars. We have at time realized from $10 down to $3,50 per head for our crop of oprlug lambs, and theee small sums may make up, in the aggregate, a large amount, The lambs are therefore to be oarefuly nursed through their weak and helpless stage, and then fed j adioiouely but liberally. • verfeeding in the great danger, A small quantity of warm, fresh cow's milk given to a weak lamb three times a day through a nurslug- bottle will help it wonderfully, When the lambs are three cr four weeks old an ounce daily for oaoh lamb of a mixture of corn and rye ground together finely will be service able. It is, however, hotter to feed half a pint of it daily to each ewe, which will help the lamb more than if it were given to it. Are tbeeo young Men and'wemen so well educated and trained in the work and business affairs of the farm as they,, the sone and daughters of farmers, ought, with their opportunities, to be ? We fear there 18 yet too muob of ,indifference in parents in teaching their children the business of leveling, not only as a 'trade, but as a. prefeeston, It ought to be kept constantly in view that tho training and education needed by the farmer can largely be learned at home, and that the practical knowledge thus Rained will be of iinestim- able value--eo ncuoh capital with which to begin the buafness of farming. Wilat an Old T'armer Says. This Is the advice of an old man who has tilled the soli for fifty years. I am an old man, upwards of three adore. years, during two scores of which I have been a tiller of the soil. I cannot say that I am now, but I have been rich vn9 have all I need, do not owe a dollar, have given my children a good education, and when I am palled away will leave them enough to keep the wolf from the door. My experi- ence has taught me that : 1, One sore of land well preparedand well cultivated, produced more than two which received only the same amount of. labor used on one. 2 One cow, horse, mule, eheep or hog well fed, is more profitable than two kept on the same amount necessary to keep one well, 3, Oae acre of clover or grass is worth more than taro of cotton; where no grans or clover is raised. 4 No farmer who buys oats, cern or wheat, fodder and hay, as a rule, for ten years, can keep the sheriff away from the door in the end. Plant the Beat Potatoes Large crops of fine sized potatoes may be grown from email tubers in rich mel low soil, but the principle is all wrong. The potato is a aabterraneous branch, with' buds analogous to those above ground, and on this account some writers argue that the matter of 8119 le unimportant. Every right minded nursery man knows how necessary it is to increase his stock of plants from sound healthy specimens only, and the moat vigorous well -ripened shoots aro invariably selected. The fotth-coming ward of $10,000 for the capture of the generation depends in great degree, upon men who committed the expi•zss robbery, this act, as is frequently demonstrated by and $5,000•for the arrest of any of them.' the transmission of diseasee which` ordi- Tne baggegeman has baen arrested on eerily are not, handed down through the auapioion of being implicated. means of seeds. The potato cutting, as it were, even if taken from a poor little tuber, will by liberal use of manure and thorough The Lover's Fatal Blander. culture produce some largo specimens ; bat " Louise," said he, as they sat in the par• lor together a few evenings before the rising of the honeymoon—" I ought to tell you that I belong to a M.teonic lodge, and have to attend its aeaeions ; ao deareat, when we are married you musn't fret if some evenierga I have to be away from my little wifey-pi- willthe crcp be we nniformily large as if large tubesswere used ? Reason Lege no. The large tabors will give a very much better average in the long run, For exemplification of the soundneae of this doctrine, take the case of two formers fey." And the designing villain chuckled residing on adjoining tracts, 020, whose at his prudence, g g " headwork " always made him auccesaful " 01 course I won't, William," ehe said with crops, followed for many years the softly ; " how many lodges do you belong 1 custom of ming l tubers, without t ad - to ?dition plantingIrntire andutin " Onl ono darling," he answered. at all. Whether this was the real cans of g ' g' ,ilio Itis crit or riot others may judge'; but "Aad when does it meet ? How often ? he was strong in the faith, and as practical On what evening ?" ,. i aloof rare] "Oh, once a week—on—on Thursdays, 1 y failed to secure the fleet prize "Very well ; than I shall have you at for potatoes wherever they were ehown, home every other evening in the week— His neighbor, under the impression that that will be so nice." thio was waste of good material, used And as ehe took out her tiny note -book small tubers, and cut to tingle eyes at and made a memorandum on the subj sot, he that. Apparently he took just as much felt that, after all, he had made a mietake. pains in the culture, but he was frequently Professor had observed that he wouldn't even let his dog bite a Baptist. Waydown Bebee moved that the case bo reconsidered, and the President replied : "Of co'e, if die religious excitability am in de blood, an' was bo'n in de bone, we can't blame de Elder so' weary much. We will reconsider his sentence, an' I hope it will prove a great lesson to him. Da man who has to kick somebody to prove dat his religon am de bes' had better hunt aroun' fur a new one." NOT OF IMPORTANCE, The Hon. Delaware Green arose to make an inquiry. He wanted to know whether the Lime Kiln Club believed, with the Vir girlie church congregation, that the sun moved around tier mirth; or with the debat ing society in Vermont, that the earth mov- ed around the sun. He didn't want to seem captions, but would like to act on eome nettled policy. " If die.queahun was decided either way would flour and bacon become any cheap- er ?' asked the "President. "I down' reckon day would, rah," "Den' you had better peg along as you afro. It am a matter wo eliallgit around to in time, but jiat now it am of no ,great im- portance to us, Wo git Pot as much sun ono way as de odder, an' wo, am indepon- den boaf of Vermont and Virginia." WILL WAIT, The Chairmen of the Committee on`Pab- lic Buildings reported that the frost had lifted one corner of Partake Hall ,eight incbea, and he asked what should be done about it: "We will wait," replied the President. 'Long de de freet dat oo antWand to Bottle down again. At de present time three oo'• nets of my cabin am tilted up from do same eauae, bat 'long June doy will drop back into de old place widout expense or trouble,. Defineetite' will now eand up an' we will take our umbrellas an' go home. _�,.-sem, _ , ...._M.....,.• Sir Alexander Stuart,ox-Premier of New South Wales, le now in Denver, a %141>4.1-e4 11----- -- . Conjn;'al Devotion. Not long ago as an elderly couple were out walking, a lady on the other Bide of the street slipped and fell down. The old gen- tleman rushed across the street,ralsed his hat and offered to mist her In any possible way. His wife followed him acroe1'at a slow pace, and, witnessing his devotion to the atranger, shook her fie't at him, "It's all right—it's ell right 1" he whiopered. "Yes, f know it is I" She exclaimed hotly. "Here an un- known woman hurts her too, and you plough across the street to eat her up with kind- ness. The other day, when I fell down stairs, you, stood and laughed, and wanted view, born and kept alive by ignorance to know if I was practising for a circus 1' only, ie a mistaken fallacy of the past, fast dying out, rather than the sentiment of intelligent, present thought. The agri Justice Chitty of London was recently culture of to -day le not breed on manual irylog acase when a large piece of plaster labor alone. The education of the mental fell from the ceiling upon the canopy under faculties, as well as the training of the hand to work skillfully, is recognized tie an eesentfal, in fitting for the life work of the farm. Upon these, intelligence and labor combined, rest the hope of progress in agriculture, And yet it may be questioned if farmers fully appreciate the value to their children of a home training and edu- cation in the work and in the bushman of the farm, Each year there go out from the farms young mon and woman to assume the work of managing far Me for themselves. disgusted with hie °' poor luck," ante com- plained that his seed had "run -out." A good rule is : Always use the best at command, whether of seeds or cuttings ; this will pay in the end. Mind in Farming. The idea haw generally prevailed in the past, and possibly more by farmers than others, that for the business of farming but little intellectual training was necessary. A willingness to work on in the ol 1 rou- tine, that has been transmitted from the practices of the past, was all that could bo safely relied on for success, Tats narrow TUB, WORLD OVER Creeidv, a French horse that was loakod upon as the coming racehorse when two year8 old, will anon appear in the new "Freuoh cirque as a trlok horse. No dna °an ride him, 5, The farmer who never reads the papers, sneers at book farming and im- provements, always has a leaky roof, poor stock, broken down fences and complains of bad "seasons," 6. The farmer who is above his busineas and entrusts it to another to manage, soon has no business to attend to. 7. The farmer whose habitual beverage is cold water, is healthier, wealthier and wiser than he who does not refuse to drink. Tho most brilliant soiree given recently in Paris was that of the Princess Youriooe- ky, formerly the 1)1410008 Daigorouki, wi- dow of ,Alexander II. All the swell world WAS there. An .a33thetio ' Worcester horse will tear any cheap blanket that may be thrown over it into shreds, but seems immensely pleas- ed when covered with one that is costly and beautiful: A oolored rail -road porter says of . travel- ling brides: " `Sperlenoe teaches me dat de is tickled mightily ef.you mistakes dere husbands for bradders, I does it ebery time now, an' hits 'em fo' a dollar, ahuah." Adafyn newspaper ewe a er has been started in Greenland. As there are only about thirty days in the summer and none in the winter , it is thought that the editor will be able to get through the year without mortgaging his anew hut. Robert Morris, a Georgia murderer, has been uentenced to be hanged on April 16. When the Judge sentenced him' he laughed, and to the Sheriff he Bald : "Sand me plen- ty to eat, so that I will be heavy enough to break my neck when I fall," .11 where Robinsona little uneducated nine-year-old negro girl of West Point,' Gm, bids fair to rival Blind Tom. as a pianist. She plays with wonderful correctness any compoettion that she has ou0e heard. Like Toni ehe Beene oblivious to everything else when lietening to music or playing the piano. A Wonderful Peat, As the sonth-bound freight train left Gridley station the other afternoon, a num- ber of the citizens were eye -witnesses ot a scene that made the blood in their veins run cold. A tramp was trying to "beat" his passage on the train, and attempted to get on a brake -beam. He mimed hie reckoning, and his feet dragged on the tracks between the rails. The train was moving about six miles per hour, To lot go was certain death. He etruggled frantically to get his feet on the brake -beam, but failed. Meanwhile, the spectators were horrified, and many turned their ©yes away from the scene. At last, by as almost superhuman effort, he got both feet up between his hands against the brake -bar or which he had a hold, and after swinging several times until his body had gained sufficient momentum, he let go with his hands and shot out ander the oar head first, and landed on his back on the side of the embankment, down which 1)e rolled into ,a mud puddle. His fade was devoid of color when he arose, the palms of his hands were bleeding, and he trembled as if suffering from a severe chili. His adventure and marvelous escape aroused the sym• pathies of those who witnessed the knock at "death's door," and a collection of several dollars was promptly taken up and given him. He was a robust young man of about 25 years of ago, and owed his life to his strength and agility. which he was sitting. "Fiat justitia, ruat cesium," he exclaimed ; and went on with the trial A prosperous farmer of Owingetilie, K.y., well-preserved widower of over fifty, has two conn who were both in love with the Fame girl. She found dlffieulty in deciding which to take, and the old man solved the problem by sending the boys off on business and marrying the girl himself while they were away, ,He (speaking of their' marriage) : ; "11 think they both made` a very good match." She: " Flow CM you say to 'f' Why, sho'e brimstone personified, and he's a perfeot stick" He r " Brimstone and a perfect stiok—recisely the essentials to a good match." Family Pliysiekrl; as I•inafraid that you have boon eating' too much cake and cndy, Let me see your tongue. Little Girl "Oh 1 you inn lock at it ; but 1t won't toll," Mr. F. Marlon Crawford will presently return to America for a vigil:, A renownod oirclta clown died recently In Troy, I:tt aught to have been one of hid own jokes, tbon . ho' never would have died. A Georgia farmer. who was carefully rear- ing a nice litter of Berkahire pigs, couldn't account for the disappearance of ail but three. One day he heard one squealing shrilly in the air andaaw a big buzzard tail- ing off with it. The farmer allot the buz- zard, and buzzard andpig fell to the ground deiad. The big anew storm in Maine packed the principle etreeta'lin Dixmont with a drift fifteen feet high, and so solid that horses could be driven over it, The young men and boys of the village tunneled this drift, and after two days' work, made a tunne1175 feet long, 7 [feet high, and S feet wide, through which teams were driven for sever- al days. At se recent Duukard baptismal service at Jones's Falls, Md., one of the baptised persons, a young woman, was nearly stran- gled at the second dip, and so proatratod at the third that she had to be carried to a neighboring home and revived. A thirteen - year -old girt endured the ordeal with a smil ing f ace. Each was in the anaemia water at leant ten minutes. " Do Yon MeanPMe 7" "An unprecedented affair (writes a oar - respondent) happened at a little country church en a recent Sunday evening, A young man, accompanied by a female, at- tended service there, as they had frequently done before. It appears that the young man, either for convenience (the pew being crowded) or from force of habit, placed his atm on the top of the seat behind his corn - lamina. Judge his surprise, and that of the congregation also, when the minister, hav- offered np the prayer, exclaimed, ' Take your arm from that woman's waist, will you ? Of course, at this there was a gener- al look to discover the guilty one, the young man himself being unable to realize his po- sition. Giving another book at the minister, he wan met with the words, You, I mean ; don't you hear 1' As there could be no mis- take this time, the young man answered, Do you mean me?' The minister Bald, '. Yes take your arm from that woman's waist 1—' I beg your pardon, sir, replied the young man; my arm is not round her. waist,' ens ever me in church,' said the rev. gentleman. ` Very, well,' replied the young man, ' I will leave your churob;' and picking up his hat, he did so,' A huge California hawk swooped down on a sleeping"cat at Santa:Ross. the other day, and bore it equealing and scratching high in the air. When about 500 feet high the hawk lost its grip, and the oat came down with fearful velocity, but the hawk caught it again just before it struck the the earth, and was carrying it off, when suddenly both fell like lead to the ground. The cat had bitten through the hawk's head killing it instantly, and the fall killed the oat. Steamboat Frank, a Modoo Indian who was captured at the time of the Modoo war, and who is still a prisoner of the United Stats,, is attending, by permit of the Gov- ernment, the Oak Grove Sminary in Maine. Ho now calls himself Frank Modoc, ! and is studying for the ministry. He is making good progress in his studios, and is appar- ently a devout Christian. He is proud of his descent from a long line of Modoc chief• take, and conducts himself with true In- dian dignity. The prevention of decay"' in wood is said to be effectively accoinpilahed by exhaust- ing the air from the pores and filling them with a gutta percha solution, a substance which preeervos the wood alike from mois- ture, water, and the action of 'the sun. The solution is made by mixing two-thirds of gotta percha to one-third of parafine, this mixture being then heated to liquify the gutta percha, when it is readily intreduced into the pores of the word, the effect of the gutta percha being, when it becomee coal, to harden the pores. A goose farm is one of the curboeities of agriculture on the eastern shore of Virginia, Within au area of about 3,000 acres live 5,000 geese, of several varieties, attended by herders and regularly fed with corn, &c, The object le the collecting of downier quilts and pillows, and once in about six weeks a plucking takes place. Only the breast and the aides under the wings are plucked, and it requires the elold of nearly 100 geese to weigh a pound. The raw feathers are sent to Philadelphia for cleaning and sorting. R. B, Swankin of North Manchester, Ind., had the reputation of whipping his wife sad abusing his children. One night a mob of men and boys went to his house and told him he must quit the town at once. They gave him time to pack two gripsacka, and then they marched him down the main street, a big fellow walking behind and cutting his logs with a cattle whip. When the toren limits were reached he was strip- ped and soundly whipped with blacksnake whips. This is the second ocourrence?of the kind reportedi from Indiana within a few weeks. Janitor King of the Virginia City Court Home bought a piece of cheese and put it in hie overcoat pocket, and afterwards laid the coat down for a time. Then he put nit on and went to a saloon where he played cards for the drinke. He noticed as he thought, that Tam Grady, who was looking on nudged him very oiten as a:signal how to play his Dards, He lost, and accused Graoey of misleading him. While Graoy was denying that he had touched him a big rat jumped out of King's pocket. He had been feasting on the cheese and nudging the card player. One of the clergymen of Louisville is at any rate consistent in hie opposition to Sun- day newspapers. To aiohurch notice which he had printed in a Saturday evening news- paper he'added -re request to the Sunday nowspapzfs not to copy it, and in a note to the ed`itor wrote k learn that my church announcements frequently appear in the Sunday papers, They are copied from the Saturday evening papers. 1 am oonsoien- tiouoly and out and out opposed to Sabbath desecration, and do not wish to appear to encourage Sunday papers by using theta even in this way." The green color which sometimes affects American an well as European oysters has formed the alibied of a late special investi- gation by a microscopist at the Smithsonian Institution, Ho finds that it is the minute blood cells which become tinged with groan and that.. thea° tend to lodge in tho heart and gills in numbers groat enough to give a green appearance, The coloring matter, Which may be Vegetable or tin abnorrlial product of digestion, is entirely harnalewea, and in no wise'due to a stopper tincture, at popularly supposed, tiliiI6' '11111n',s Qll#` OlVelt . G t1• A.Lat'[ CIIII1411011;EN TIME C�',Ji�i°A ,lit -and . I�x • ISN'T TIItS A QtiI;ER Tann, TOIL A BOON, 1tiI0T.il Le. ft fi NOT 1_11111 OTH1;R GIRLS "? 'I WONDER WHAT 81:1E CAN DE SIiD ly NOT LINE 0111110 O,IELLS 2 aSTAVING IN Tits IF Mother , f DON'T 1{NO1V, 17NLNSS 'SH% Cons INTO 1111, rllmallsN AND )111,13 IE$R nzbxBrIL, INET-„tn 01 smd ». PARLOR TO MAD NOVELS,