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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-5-6, Page 2Annoweaminninsw THE F,A.RM.. Plowing. Farmers, as a general rule, sage one of them in a recent letter, do not take pine' enough with this part of their farm work, I am convinced that I can get more clear omit from an aore that ie well plowed than x oan from an aore that Is only half plowed,. What I mean by half plowed is where it is plowed by geese, deep here and shallow there, wide furrow here and a narrow one there, with the farrows etnnding on edge or turned over very fiat. We can do good plowing jest as easily and just es fast as we Dan hog it ever. The firet thing In good plowing Is to com- mence right, In marking out a bed I use two stakes, one at the opposite end of the field from which I begin to plow and the other about eight rods from this toward the Get the stakes in line end where I begin. G t 8 with the furrow where you start, and then take some object away beyond the firat stake you set in exact line with the stakes and furrow where you begin, and then go ahead with the plow until you come to the first stake. Step and take the stake down and lay it to one aide out of the way, and then go ahead again, taking the end atalpe and the object beyond for your guide. la plowing the first two times around set your plow -wheel so se not to plow more than 4i inches deep. After you have gone thus far raise your wheel eo as to plow the depth you wish to have your plowing done. By doibg as I have described we avoid the high back furrow we would have if we plowed the firat two times around aa deep aa we sh the rest of the bed. In plowing the first two furrows (the first time around) we have two essential things to look after. First, to do our plowing straight ; second, to turn the furrowe over in good shape, and have the edges of the furrows meet and set firmly together. This will prevent the grass from growing up bre tween the furrows to a great extent, Now we can go ahead and finish up our bed. Be sure to keep the furrow' atraght and the name width the entire length of the field, If you hold your plow firm and steady your furrewa will be as etra,ght as a line. Keep your beds the name width at both ends of the field, and then when we Dome to finish we have only one furrow the entire length ef the field to turn out. This, I think, ie much better than to have one end fiaiahed and from one to five furrows on the other and to turn eut yet. Right here I would like to nay a word which I consider very important in doing a good job of plowing. It in this : I consider it very essential that the driver and team understand each other pretty well, If you have a good, strong, well -kept team, and ane that is steady and true to pull, I see no reason why we can't do our plowing In a workmanlike manner, Sowing Grass Seed. The amount of seed required for an sore of ground intended for grass cannot be pro- perly estimated, althengn most farmers sow a given quantity every year without giving proper consideration to the quallty of the seeds or the condition of the soil. The soil may be in excellent condition to -day for need, but may require double the quantity of seeds in two or three days after. In the first place, need will not germinate nnlese the proper oonditione are fa'orable for so doing. When the ground is hard, as is sometimes the case when grass seed la sown upon growing grain, there are a great many chanoee against the seed. Biros eat moon of it, while a large portion of it rote on the snrfaoe. In such cases a large quantity of seed is neoea'sary. Many of the poor " catches " of clover are ane to not using care in seeding. A light harrow passed over the field Immediately after the seeding, if the ground ie hard, will not only cover the seed, but greatly benefit the grain crop. When grain is mown in the spring the grass meed should be sown at the same time, in order that both may have the advantage of thorough preparation of the soil, and leas seed will then be required. Even a "brush- ing " of thefield atter sowing grans seed to better than simply scattering it on the sur- faoe. It to not too late for seed yet, nor should the opportunities be thrown away of taking advantage of the spring ;rains. In sowing seed do not trent entirely to the roller, and there will be a better ohanoe of the meed germinating. SPRING SPARKLES. "Did yon ever see anything like this?' said ayoung lady at a church fair, when raffling wae`in progress. " Only once," repli- ed he. " When was that, dear 7' "Once on a train out West, when it was robbed by bandits," was the gentle response, One little girl was heard to say to a play- mate laymate : " When I grow np I'm going to be a school -teacher." " Well, I m going to be a mamma, and have six children." "When they come to school to me I'm going to whip 'em," "Yon mean thing 1 What have they ever done to you 7" " We feel," writes a Western editor, "that an apology is due to Widow Grimes, In our bane of last week we stated that she had eloped with an 18 -year-old man. The truth le that she was thrown from an 8 -year-old mare, whioh she wan riding in a lope, and whioh slipped and fell. Mietakos will hap- pen in the beetregulated newspaper-tLoes, and we are confident that when we state the Item was sent over a telephone -wire no other apology will be needed." It is said to be Japanese etiquette for a gentleman caller never to leave tho house of a lady friend until she has given him the signal for departure. There are a great many young men In this country who never leave the house of a lady friend until she gives the signal, but it is not etiquette, And it is not healthy, either. It deprivea both parties of too much sleep. Sometimes the signal is so long delayed that the old folks are compelled to give it. And that is not very healthy either—especially for the young man, Chicago Damsel (to New York dude who has been talking about " dear old London, donoherknow')—" Aro you a relation of the Browns, of London, Mr, Brown ?" Mr, B— " Naw { fact is, ye know, Mies Benton, my name ie Van Dozen-Brown—with a by phen, donoherknow ; and I pwefer to be called Mistah Van Dozen -Brown." Chicago Damsel (sympathizingly)—"Oh, I m eo sorry, Mr, Brown ; but we're so particular in the West, and really I haven't been intro- duced to tho Van Dawn half of yon yet." Two newly -fledged physicians met the other day, andtho following highly interest- ing; conversation ensued; "Ah t good morn- ing, doctor." "Geed morning, doctor." " And how are you to -day, doctor ?" " I'm all right, Got a good oast of meningitis at your hospital, doctor ?' "Yea ; oome down and take a look at it, doctor, Anything special up your way, doctor 7" " Man fell from scaffolding and broke his neck two days ago ; still alive; may get over it, e to have you call, doctor," " Thank L1, dootoi, Good -day, dootor." doctor.'+ Heat Apoplexy. A correspondent aaks an explanation of the fact that, whereas he has lived hi Colorado six }ears, and has often seen the mercury stand at 103 ° F. in the shade, he hoe never heard of a case of aunatroko there. It wouldbe desirable to know how far the experience of others accords with that of our o.,rreapondenb. Heat apoplexy—much the larger num. ber of casaea oconr in the shade -depends leas on outward heat than on the condi- tion of the body. Hence persons who use alcohol as a beverage are peculiarly liable to a stroke. The body in its normal condition le commonly able, by its own perspiration and the accompanying evaporation,—eva. paraders is a cooling prisons —to keep its temperature within safe limit- But great heat causes perspiration, and bhls necessitates the drinking of a large quoin. tally of water, and for this nature pro- vides by an unusual thirst. The London Lancet (June, 1885) con- tains the substance of a paper on " The Prevention of Heat Apoplexy," by Sur- geon -General De Rsnzy, who had resid• ed many years at " The Malian in the Punjab, one of the hottest planes in the world." In Jane the temperature rises to 120 ° in the shade, and to 157 ° in the aun. He says that two things are essential as a preventive ; loose, light clothing, aind a supply of drink ab hand to relieve the first sign of thirst. At the capture of Rangoon in 1852, of two seta of men alike in other respects, one fought in shirt sleeves under an in. teneley hot sun, the other in blue cloth, tightly -fitting coats; many of the latter began bo drop down insensible ahortly after coming into action, their command• ing officer being among the number. The native's, who suffer great immunity from attacks, drink immense q aantities of water. Among Britton troops deaths from heat apoplexy are ten times more numerous than among native troops. Among the tea -planters of Assam, whose work re- quires their exposure in the hottest sea- son and at the hottest time of day, the disease is unknown. From ignorance of these facts, and the consequent defective arrangements for water among the British troops in India on their first service, there is great loss of life from thin source. Now in relation to Colorado, we sag• gest whether the rarity of the atmo- sphere does not favor a rapid evaporation from the surface of the body, thus giving rise to special thirst and neoessltating the conaumption of much water, And fur. ther, whether there is not generally a free radiation of heat Into space from the abaence of continuous' clouds, thus secur- ing comparatively cool nights. These, it facts, may perhaps account for Colorado's exemption. Sunstroke, as heat apoplexy is common- ly called occurs in cities, and as often in the hay -fields of the Northern States. Sunstroke usually occurs in the middle of the day, and on the third or fourth day of a heated term. Latent Beauty. A woman famous as one of the most kindly and lovable among leaders of the beat American society once said,— " 11 I have been able to accomplish any- thing in"life, it is due to a word spoken to me in the right season, when I wan a child, by my old teacher. I was the only homely, awkward girl in a claam of ex- ceptionally pretty ones, and being also dull at my books, became the butt of the school. I fell into a morose, despairing state, gave up study, withdrew into my- self, and grew daily more bitter and vin- dictive. " One day the French teacher, a gray- haired old woman, with keen eyes and a kind smile, found me crying. " Qu' as•tu, ma fele!' the asked. "U madam, I am so ugly 1' I sobbed out. She soothed me, but did not oon- tradlot me "Presently she took me to her room, and after amusing me for some time, said, 1 have a present for you,' handing me a scaly, coarse lamp, covered with earth. 'It le round and brown as yon. "Ugly," did you say 7 Very well. We will call it by your name, then. Now yon shall plant it and water it and give it sun for a week or two.. "'planted it and watched it carefully ; the green leaves came first, and at last the golden Japanese lily, the first I had ever Been. Madam came to share my de- light, " Ah ! she said, significantly, 'who would believe so much beauty and fra- grance were shut up in that little rough, ugly thing ? But ib took heart and came out into the sun.' Ib wee the first time that it ever occurred to me that in spite of my ugly face, 1 too might be able to win friends, and to make myself beloved in the world." Beauty nowhere helps its possessor so much or no unfairly as among very young people, who are able to appreciate pink and white theta and harmonious featurer, but have not yeb learned to feel the high- er and stronger power of more subtle charms. Ugly girls may find some conso- lation In the fact that the women who have exercised the moat potent influence in the world were in very few oases beau- tiful. Beatrice ''ortinari, whom Dante wor- shipped all hie life, and made immortal an the fairest saint in heaven, was, after all,. we are told, a homely, insignificant -look- ing woman. Mary -Stuart found her most devoted adherents when she was " wan and haggard in face, her limbs drawn and racked with rheumatism." Shakespeare dwells but little on the mere beauty of hie heroines, but urges on on notice their morn powerful charms. The "voice, ever soft, gentle and low ;" the "innocence that dignifies arch jeets and laughing eyes ;" the " infinite variety" the wit, the wise gentleness. In every community or family it will be found that the merely beautiful wo- men are never the most beloved or hon- ored. Petraroh sums up the chief powers given to women in the " ardent spirit, the high soul, the pure heart," and every man's experience tells him how often beautiful motile shine on the world through dull eyes and homely features. But they never fail of recognition. If the golden lily is there, it will make its way through the coarse husks of he covering. The Indian Bunter. "The relentless Indian pursuer never drinks while on the trail. His tongue may hang white and swollen from his mouth, he may be choked with dual, his 'stomach may be burning up with heat bub not a swallow of water does he take. When a deer drinks of a stream 11 swims to the other side, and the Indian plunges into the water at the same spot and Dross. es, As he dashes across he scoops up a handful of water and oarriea it to hie mouth, where he holds it, rinsing it about for a few seoonde and then rejects 1t. If he is obliged to swim he leta the water run in and out of his mouth, bub care• fully prevents a drop from entering hfa stomach. An hour or so after the Indian has discovered that the deer has filled its stomaoh with water he begins to examine the trail more carefully as he runs, for he kncwe that it is then time for him tc find signs of the deer's exhaustion. A drop of blood here and there along the trail in dicates to the Indian that the deer has fallen on ite knees at those spots, a bunch of hair hanging to a projecting edge fo rook or sharp branoh hanging low across the trail proves that the deer's strength has failed, so that that it can nob turn quickly outof the way of obstacles. When these infallible signs of the deer's ap- proaching doom are found by the hunter, he inoreaaea his apeed for the first time. He soon discovers the game, and with a yell of triumph bounds forward ; the cry startles the failing animal to a momentary burst of speed. After a leap or two it atop. As if aroused to the fact that farther efferta to escape were utterly fu- tile, it turns and facea its pursuer with all the defiance its exhausted nature will permit. The hunter knows the animal le too weak to harm him, and he seizes it boldly, throws it to the ground, and oats iba throat. Without a second's delay the Indian outs from behind iba foreshoulder a large piece of meat, and, trotting bo and fro constantly, he euoka the blood from the meat, and now and then eats a Agtall portion of it. After sucking the meat dry he throws the carcase across his shoulder, if it is not too heavy, and starts back for his wigwam. If the deer is too heavy he takes a portion of the meat and hides the rest. He keeps constantly moving. for he fears that if he should stop to reat his limbs would become stiff and he could not return at once with his prize. Hie wigwam may not be far from the spot where the chase ended, as the trail of a deer is always devious and cit• cuitona, and frequently ends within a short distance of the point from which It started, but if the deer is captured fifty miles from the hunter's home he does not rest until he casts the carcase, or a portion of it, on the ground at his wigwam door." Gratitude. Cats have the reputation of resembling those men and women whose gratitude le a lively sense of future favors. Bat the Rev. J. G. Wood, an English naturalist, belle of a cat that he tormerly owned whose expressions of gratitude shame hu- man beings who accept a favor without the slightest acknowledgment : He is, with regard to his meals, a most grateful cat, and howerer hungry he may be, never thinks ot eating until he has pnrred his thanks and rubbed his head against my hand. This trait of character was once displayed in the most affecting manner. One day ' ` Pret" had been shut np in the loft, on account of a lady who had a strange antipathy to cats. I was gone to town that day, and did not return till after midnight. As I was going upstairs, I heard "fret's" voice calling me in a very anx- ious man ner, and on inquiry I found that the poor cat had been forgotten, and had been shut up the whole day withcut a morsel of food or a drop of milk. Of course I immediately procured some milk and meat for him, and carried it up to him. The poor creature was half wild with happiness when he heard my footsteps, and on seeing the plate of meat and ma- ces of milk, he flaw at them like a mad thing. But scarcely had he lapped a drop of milk when he left the saucer, came up to me with lond purring, and caressed me, as if to express his thanks. Then he went to the plate, but only just tonohed it with his nose, and again came to thank me for having attended to his wants, both of food end drink. Ib quite brought the moisture to my eyes to see the affectionate creature, though nearly wild with hunger and thirst, refraining from enjoying his food until he had returned thanks. A Word to the Girls. Courting is a perfectly proper thing, but it should be confined to the parlor, the sitting -room, the ice cream saloon or the moonlight promenade. If you cannot hold your beat young man in the good old way, let him go. There are plenty of good fellows—honest fellows, upright fellows—to be had if you only manage them properly. The low light in the par. lor, the single chair, the good-bye at the door, are still as effective as they were 100 years ago. Don't try to hold the young men against their will. The more you do that the more they won't be held. Il they appear to grow cold you should ap- pear bo grow colder. If they appear to grow melees of you, yon should appear to grow more careless of them. When they relent you should relent, when they soften you should soften, when they ask forgiveneas you should forgive, when they—but why pursue 117 There are thousands of young men to -day who might be had for the asking, but since you cannot ask you can ab leant hint. But if, after all the devices of your cox have been exhausted, you 'still fail to achieve the desired end, Don't waste time 16 vain regretting, Do not sigh your youth away. Go and look up another young man, Ninety-nine times out of a hundred you will be all the happier for having missed at the first or aecond or even the third trial. +w-�rr�r•--s'' There is not a paper in Nevada whioh pays interest on the money.' Ned Fires. The fate of the Oregon has shown the dan- ger to he dreaded from water, and the more tortunato experionoe of the steamer Crystal only two months age, suggests the peril in whioh a vessel may be planed by fire. In the Dasa of the Crystal, the bulkheads were undoubtedly of great assietance. On January 11 John Gray, the steward, thought he could feel unusual heat in his room. Re waited until 8 o'olook, and then went into the ohief officer's room to report his euspioions, When he opened the state• room door he was met by a donee cloud o: smoke, and with difficulty aroused the mate A volume of smoke was pouring in at 'a email hole bored through the bulkhead to al- low a telegraph wire to run from the forward steering wheel to the after one, and It was four hours before the mate was returned to ooneeiouinees. The second officer, whose room was abaft the mate'e with a Antler aperture i a n the bulkhead,was also unoon- torous. The vessel was then 700 miles east of Newfoundland. When the full extent of the danger was made known to Captain Stannard, he at once ordered all the openings described to be closed up and the hatchet battened down. The ship is divided into four watertight compartments, with iron bulkheads seperat• Ing them. That one where the fire was lo• rated was about forty feet long, and reach- ed from the upper deck to the keelson. There were stowed bales of jute, carpets, paper stook and burlap, and Captain Stan- nard rightly concluded it to be widens to attempt to distinguish the fire with water. The smoke from the smoldering maze per- meated every corner of the vessel and mode it Impoeeible for the men to remain below decks. Several of them were prostrated dnring the psaaage and had to be cared for In the engine room., A consultation of the officers was held,. and all but the contain thought it advisable to make for S. John's or Halifax. Some dissatiefaotion was expressed when Captain Stannard made up hie mind that he would bring the vessel to New York, The succeeding ten days and nights were filled with apprehension. The decks are of iron covered with wood, and it was feared that before reaching port the heat would force its way upward to the deck and give vent to the smoldering flame. Both fore and aft bulkheads of the oonpartment con taining the fire, it was feared, would give way, and then the flames would have a clean sweep fore and aft. Bat with a steady cour- age and admirable 000lnees the captain con- tinued on his course and quieted the fear of hit Drew. "I have been at sea many years and have suffered shipwreck," he said, "but never was I planed in so terrible a position as on this passage. Sailors Dan fight all the ele- ment' exoept fire. In a gale of wind, so oo- oupied are the crew with their duties that they have but little time to think of danger, but in this case all know their fearful peril." The consignees are muoh pleaeod with the manner in whioh Captain Stannard anted, and say that to his determination is due the safe arrival of the ship, The damage to the cargo is said to be in the neighborhood of $10.000, mostly covered by insurance J South Sea Horror. The latest horror from the South Seas is the roasting of two white men by the na- tives, who afterwards 'feasted on the re- mains. The information of the shocking af- fair has just been received from Brisbane, where it appears some fears were entertain. ed of the safety of the nutter Alice Grey, The Alice Grey left Brisbane for McArthur river, in the northern territory, She was seen between Kimberly and Swear Island, after whioh nothing was heard of her. Whilst making inquiries to the fate of the vessel, the master of the 'schooner Pelton learned that the natives of the territory between the McArthur and Robinson rivers had murdered two white men. After kill- ing the two men the natives were reported to have roast d the bodies and then feasted on thein It was supposed that the unfor- tunate men belonged to the crew of the Aline Grey ; but before the report had reached Brisbane a dispatch was received from the Government Agent at Normington reporting the arrival ef the Alice Grey, The two men were then thought to belong to another trading vessel. Few by sickness grow better and more re- formed e so also they who wander much abroad, seldom thereby become holy, Mrs, Snngmnch (who fe the first peat to arrive) to her hostess—" And so you expeot Mrs. Dash? Fine woman, very fine woman ; though, between ourselves, §p trifle load, And, really, she shouldn't go ottas she does with young Mr, Milds. And he's Doming, too 7 Nice fellow, extremely nice fellow, if he deet make me think of a monkey every. time I look at him. And Mies Jello ? Lovely girl 1 Pity she's so very plainand unpleasant- ly rude, And Ritewell, the anther ? Clever man, but horribly conceited. And Mrs, Wood ? Ah, there's a charming old lady 1 I admire her so muoh for this reason : Yon never hear her, Bay a word against any- body." An old member of the medical profession tells us a story whioh, he Bays, Dr. J, Adams Allen, told him many years ago. Dr. Allen, as the story goes, was jest beginning his practice when, one Winter day, seated in a oar, muffled to the ears, he overheard this conversation between two passengers who were sitting where they oonld not see hie face, "Say, George," said ono, "what kind of a dootorie this young Allen ?" "All that I know about him is that he snatched my aunt from the grave last Sommer—that is, I shall always think he. did." " Did he, indeed ?" said the other ; "well, he must be a pretty good doctor then, What was the matter with your aunt 1" " Oh, she was dead and buried, you know." A carious old custom among the quarry men of the Isle of Parbeok was observed recently ab Code Castle. There is among the quarrymen a charter bearing the date of 1b51, which is rigorously obeyed, in order to keep the worktng of the atone quarries in the 'ale of Purbeck, in the hands of the freemen. To be able to take up one's freedom one meet be the legitimate son of a freeman. He must be 21 years of age, np to which time his wages belong to his parents. Once during the year the quarrymen meet at sDdrfe Castle town hall and there read the chart: er, and on that occasion -namely, Shrove Tuesday—" free boys' claim and take up their freedom. Each man has to sign the roll of freeman, pay a fee of six shin lingo and eight pence, provide a penny, loaf made on purpose by the baker of the of the place and to buy a pob of beer. Tho man thus sworn in becomes his own master. Should any of the freemen desire to marry during the next year, he has to pay to the stewards "a marriage shilling," and should .heneglect to do this his wife lona all interest in the qaarry and cannot take an apprentice to work for her. Cigarettes. Clgarettea aro largely axed by boys ; but cigarette -smokers, both young and )ld, usually regard with asepticism the statement made by physicians concerning she evil eoneequenee of the habit. The smokers aay that their cigarettes are made of the "purest Virginia," bub if they want to know what this " purest Virgiu- la" is, they should read what a large manufaoburer of tobacco recently Bald bo a New York reporter. "The quantity of drugs used in olgarettee *appalling, he declared, "and the oommbneet of these is valerian and tincture of opium. "An experienced tobacconist can de- tect the presence of valerian by the smell The drug imparts a aweet, soothing effect, that in a little time obtains a fasi cheating control over the amoker. The more cigarettes he smokes, the more he desires to smoke, just as is the case with one who tines opium. Tho desire grows Into passion. The smoker becomes a slave to the enervating habit. "By the use of drugs it le possible to make a very inferior ; quality of tobacco pleasant. They are pub on the market at such a price that the pooreeb can easily procure them, and boys go in swarms for ahem." "That is title Havana flavoring that 1s no much used 7" "It is made from the tonna bean, which contains a drag called mellolotis, a dead- ly poison, seven grains being atfficient to kill a dog. lb has become quite an article of commerce, and is extensively used in the manufacture ot olgarettee." "Does the paper wrapper of a cigarette' add a great deal to its injuriousness 1" "Certainly. There are three sorts of paper in common use, made respectively from cotton, from linen rage and front doe atraw. Cotton -paper is made chiefly In Trieste, Austria, and the linen and rice -paper in Paris. " The first, manufactured from the filthy scrapings of ragplckers, la bought in large quantities by. the manufacturers, who turn it into a pulp, and subject it to a bleaching process to make it preeenb- able. " The lime and other substances need in bleaching have a very harmful influ- ence upon the membrane of the throat and nose. " Cotton -paper is so cheap that a thou- sand cigarettes can be wrapped at cost of only two cents. Rloe paper is rather ex- pensive. Tobacoonized paper is mann- tactured. i " It is the common paper saturated with tobacco in such a way as to imitate the veins of the tobacco leaf very neatly. It is used in making all-tobaoco cigar- ettes. Arsenical preparations are also used in bleaching cigarette -papers, and oil of creosote is produced natnraliy as a consequence of combustion. The latter is very injurious to the throat and lungs, and is said to accelerate the development of consumption in any one predisposed to the disease." Marriage -made Bien. "Let him marry, then," was the crusty reply of an old bachelor, on being told that a friend had gone blind : '" let him marry, and if that doesn't open his eyes, then hie case is indeed hopeleas. The sneer has been confuted by the experience of nares of blind scholars, whose wives have been eyes to them. Huber, the great authority on bees, was blind from his seventeenth year, and con- ducted the observations which gave him the facts for his studies through the eyes of his wife. He declared that he should be miserable were he to regain his eyesight, adding, "I should not know to what extent a person in my situation could be beloved ; besides my wife la always young, fresh and pretty, which in no light mat- ter." Blind Henry Fawcett became professor of political economy at Cambridge, an ef- fective debater in Parliament, and a most sucoessfui postmaster -general, by using the eyes of his cultured wife. The crusty old bachelor's sneer falls flat, when it encounters such wives as these—and they are but two out of the many who have made their husbands men of good repute. Sir Samuel Hominy, the leading lawyer and law -reformer of hie day, llivatrated the experience of auccesaful mon when he said that nothing hadmore profited him in his public life than the observations and opinions of his wife. The biographer ot bir William Hamil- ton, commenting upon the helpfulness of Lady Hamilton, says : "The number of pages in her handwriting still preserved is perfectly marvellous." When he was elected professor of logic and metaphysics in the University ef Ed- inburgh, he had no lectures in stook. He began at once to write thein, but though he worked rapidly, and far into the night, he was often only a few hours in advance of his class. Lady Hamilton sat np night after night to write out a fair copy of the lectures from the roughly written pages he had scrawled in the adjoining room. He would take her legible sheets, and read them that morning to the students, who knew nob that their profeesos's am- ens was due to his being a marrfage•made man. When paralysis, brought on by mental overwork, had stricken b.lm, she became even more helpful, and by her assistance he was enabled to perform his professional duties until death removed him from his chair. Baby Seals. If the following account of the manner in which young seals are taught to 'swim is true, it is not very much unlike the way in which children are instructed in the. same art by Pacific Islanders. The babies are simply thrown into the water, bat their fathers stand by to rescue them if they should be in danger. A seal -mother gives a carious display of maternal solicitude in teaching her calf to swim. First taking hold of it by the flipper, and fora while supporting it above water, with a shove the bends the youngster adrift,"leaving it to shift for Rua. In a short time, the little creature becomes exhausted, when she takes a frean grip on its flipper, and again sup- ports it till it has recovered breath after whlohthere is another push -off followed by anew attempt to swim, the same process being several times repeated to the end of the lesson. HERE AND THERE. Esther Dow, ofnee field, N. H,, who re- oeotly died, aged 88 years, had never in her life seen a railway train, and for years had not been o8 her farm, Daniel Arnold, of Macon, Ga,, hid his savings ($700) in a hole near bis house, but the recent flood inundated the hole and oar. dad away Dan's wealth. 4 remarkable bedstead, made to order by a 'Milwaukee furniture firm, is 24 feet wide, and has nine compartments, eaoh intended to hold one of the purohaser'a children. One of the barbers who was arrested In Washington the other day for keeping his shop open on Sunday had employed a part of the day of reef in ehaving President• Cleveland. Thunder from a clear sky could hardly have more surprised the passe ere in a stet oar recently than the Budde xolama- tion made'b a3 -year-old child/o e o m arka- Y bl beautiful and1orm I y eau iful facet ad been lying half asleep in its mother's arms, and had been awakened, when it straightened. op and cried, load enough to be heard from one end of the oar to the otb er, " Ma, if you don't let me alone I'll break your nose." A Maine fisherman, who used to sail the Southern seas, reports that he saw a sea serpent the other day off Wella. It was like one he once saw in the Caribbean Sea, exoept that it has grown considerably. It held its head, the size of a barrel, high in the air ; Its eyes, as big as senoore, gleamed with a marvelous light, and its huge open mouth was armed with triple rows of teeth. The paper that reports this says the old salt Is not addicted to drink. Sam Small has given $140 for the benefit• of an Atlanta, Ga,, mission Sunday -'school. He writes :—" I hope it will do away with the necessity of en entertainment, for I do not believe these means of getting money for the Lord's work, are to either His hon- our or glory. Try to avoid all such schemes. Let people give what they will, bat please don't tarter them anything for the Lord's sake." A Texas jeweller hung a watch in hie window and labelled It: "Look at this watch for $10," and the unsophisticated gentleman from a neighboring Bounty who stared at the article and then went in and wanted the $10 had to get down on the floor with the jeweller and roll over and under him a number of times before he oonld be made to underatand that he couldn't have any $10. A repent study ot comparative heights and weights among different olasaee of popu- lation in Great Britain ahowe that the criminal cease average no less than 45 pounds In weight, and 4t inches in height less than their antagonfste, the Metropoli- tan police. Compared with the general population, too, this class is seen to be l8 pounds in weight and 2 inches in stature below the average, standing on about the same plane in physical endowments as luna- tics. A goose which has jutat Stuttgart left the flook while still a gelding, and re- solved to have nothing more to do with its companion geese, but to try a new way of life for itself. So it boldly marched into the barracks of a Uhlan regiment one day and stationed itself near the sentry box. The Uhlans were tonohed by the goose ohooaing to ally itself with their corps and built a shed for it Olive in. For twenty-three years neither threats nor percussion were able to 'separate this bird from its adopted regiment. When the corps changed quarters the goose went with them, and when, the Uhlans went to fight for their country .the desolate crea- ture took up for a time uleth a battalion of infantry, but no sooner did' the first Uhlans enter the town than the goose marched out to meet them, and went with them to her old quarters. Since her death she has been stuffed, and i. to be seen in a glass case on the gate of the barracks of Stuttgart, Mrs, Prudence Crandall PhIlleg, now liv- ing in a " three•room pioneer box house" at Elk Falls, Kan., who bas just been oompen- eated by the Connecticat Assembly with an annuity of $400 for outrages sustained 53 yea-., ago when she was driven out of a Con- necticut town for keepinga school for nergo gide, has written a grateful letter of thanks for the relief at last afforded. She Is under espeolai obligations to the press and to pre- greeaive persons who petitioned in her be- half as well as to the Legislature, and notes the ohange in Cenneotiout sentiment as fol- lows : In 1833, when the law was passed by whioh my lite prospects were destroyed it was celebrated by ringing the bell bang in the steeple of the church, into which we were not allowed to enter, and by firing a cannon thirteen times, placed upon an emi- nence a few rods from my door ; and today when your telegram Arrived, the only jubi- lant display I wished to make was to nave a private nook where my tears of joy and gratitude could fljw unobserved tor the change that hail been wrought in the views and feelings of the mass of the people. The following atory fB told of an enter- prising Toronto jobber, the events having taken plane some time ago The merchant in questien, paving heard of the arrival of a country trader who was know to be a large purchaser and of unquestionable oredit, was resolved to get him to visit hie 'establish- ment, and onoe there, he felt sure he could secure him as a onetomer. He accordingly sent out one of his drummers, of whom he: had quite a number, adapted to every taste and dieposltion. Tho ene sent, however, returned without snooess. No. 2 was dis- patched, with no better result, and again No. 3, and so on until a had gone and Dome back without their m` The merchant now determined to i self, , and finding that brandy and water and free tickets to the theater were of no avail, for the country trader did not take one or go to the other, he was rcduoed to the necessity of employ- ing a rues, which, as the sequel shows, was simple as well as effectual. Oa taking his departure after a pleasant interview the merchant took Dare to commit the "mistake" of taking the trader's hat instead of his own. Next morning, as was expeoted, the mer- chant received a prompt visit at his store from the trader, who Dame to look up the hat whioh he supposed had been.liurriedly exchanged. This was what the'enerohanb wanted, and through this means he sold a good bill of goods and seoured a regular customer. Royalists Learning to Labor. Prince Ludwig, of Battenberg, who, like the Rneaian princes, has been taught a handicraft, was lately initiated into the mysteries of printing. Having mastered the busineee he taught it to his wife, and the princely pair have just set up in type and printed a book of 200 pa ea, entitled "My Journey to Bulgaria." The author of this little volume, which Is intended only for private circulation, is the Countess Maria, of Erbaoh, Schoenberg, Prinde Alex- ander's dater, The Knights of Labor would hardly a ire of Prince and Prinoea Lr.n a:g'tco on, but they could find little fault their printing.