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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
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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.
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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.