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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-9-2, Page 21 $creels Kept on Grassi• Grass may be the natural feed ofa he herein but he takes to grain with wonder- ful an er fol reedinees, and if fed nothing but grails the whole system" 1e relaxed and but a cera, Ip*rativelyy small amount of °work oan be en- dured. Gran h so washy wed the stemaoh ef, the hone to to small that but a !mall, amount of nutriment is contained In the stomach when full, The bowels are 10010, the stomach is emptied, and the horse feela' weak and faint In w very short time when at work, The sweat roll, out almost in streams and a few minutes exertien causes him to puff and blow as if he had been run- ning a race. Hemay de very well if be has nothing to de bat run in pasture and fight, files, but be is net fit to work, Re can stand a moderate amount, but he does it with great exertion and corresponding exhaustion, If bee a beam Into worked regularly it le y bet- ter B ter to keep them in the stable and feed them bay and grain regularly, with an eo- easional bite of grana as a relleh and a reg ulster ef the bowels. This may be mown and given them, er they may be permitted to run out a little while and gather the grams. This mode of keeping a team of "horses will pay much better in work than permitting them to run to grace, If but a moderate amount of work is required, the horses may be permitted to run in the pasture at night, but should be pat In the ratable during the clay, when net at work, and given hay and grain regularly, but with discretion. It deem them ne good to fight files all day in the pasture, but torments and worries them. The stable may be dark- ened, and yet kept so well ventilated and airy, if properly constructed, as to avoid the annoyance of flies, and still preserve a oomfortable temperature—even more so &hon that effected by the shade of a tree. Turnips as a Profitable Crop. Walde F. Brown aaya that for twenty- five years he has not made a failure with the turnip orop, and with the exception of perhaps two years ho has grown from 100 bushels up to as high as 1,600 each year, Although some years he has not been able to sell, and so has fed'thcm to hie stook, In ether seasons they have paid him a larger net profit than any crop grown on the farm, and, taking the years one with another, he has found an sore er two of turnips to pay better than meet farm drops. He remem- bers one year that he Held a carload of n00 bushels at 33,1 Dente a bushel en the track at his station, and, as he was loading the oar, was frequently asked by farmers the price, and several times when he told it they said : "Can you make anything Brew- ing turnips at that price 1" It se bappened that cern was selling at the same price, and Mr. Brown said to them : " Yon grew en an average leas than fifty bushels ef cern to the acre and gave it the entire season and several thorough workings; I grew an av- erage of 200 bneheie ef turnips to the aore and grew them as a second orep, and gave them ne cultivation at all," - Mr. Brown says that 200 bushels is a very moderate crop and that he has grown 500 bushels on an acre of highly manured land that had growntwe crops besides the same season, the first prep being early peas that were marketed June 11, and the second Drop pickles, and the turnips were sown about the lot of August at the last working of the cncumbera. He believes' that It is easier to grew 1,000 bushels of turnips en an acre than 100 bushels of cern; Thusly Suggestions, In answer to question hew to knew when watermelons are ripe, snap the melon with the fingers and if it has a dull, hollow sound it is ripe. Another way is to press en it, and if it oraoka itis ripe, but proasiag en it a few times bas a tendency to spoil it. The stem drying and turning black le one sign of ripeness. Gommon whitewash, -+ifbioh censlate of lime and water only, lasts but a short time when exposed to the weather,, hence varione articles are &tided to increase ite durability. One of the simplest ef theme washes is made by slaking half a buahel of lime with boiling water. When thoroughly :laked diaaolve in water and add to the :line two pounds ef aphids of zinc (white vitriol) and ene pound of common salt. This wash le very white. If desired of a beautiful cream odor add three pounds ef yellow ochre. I am not disparaging manure when I say that the cheapestway of fertilizing land for wheat is to plow early and then stir the soil after every rain so as to keep it open to atmospheric action. I think I can sanely say that I have seen ten bushels per acre added to the yield ef a field by thie means, I think the "ooming farmer" will pulverize hie soil more and better than we new de. The Land of Snow and Ice, Colonel William H. Gilder and William Griffiths at leat accounts were getting ready to aatl fer Cumberland inlet en their way to the North Pale as their ultimate destination. These gentlemen propose to travel en foot and with dogs, availing themselves ef the looal knowledge of the native Eaquimanx, The rest ef this season will be spent in col- lecting obleoting the dogs and prevleiena and picking up the natives who are to accompany them, There will be plenty of game te live upon for many months. The explorers, expect to reach Fort Conger, where there are abund- ant stereo left by Lieutenant Greely. At the end of the third er fourth season Con enel Gilder thinks he may reach a high latitudefrem whence he can make a dash at the pole. There is not one chance in a thousand that Colonel Gilder and his friend will succeed, for the difficulties are appar- ently inanrmountable. They will encounter the ice of the Paleoorystlo Sea ; that is, which has remained mole from generation. to generation, as it is. formed in a region where the temperature la always below the. freezing point. According to the testimony of Nares, Payer, and Weypreoht, who have conducted sledge parties in these high alti- tudes, months are often paned in accem- pliehing a ocnple of mita, fee the toe piles up hundreds of feet high in front of the ex- plorer. While Colonel Gilder will doubt. lees fail,the secret of the poles north and south will eventually be revealed, for man. will never rest satisfied until he controls all parts of the planet he inhabits. But we do not believe that this end will be accomplish- ed until aerial navigation will be successful- ly achieved. , IsQAYH Or TEE VI MIKA,. Nor propeller Beeke* els' by * FloidI*$ Wreck., Oa the night of July 20„at eleven o'clock, when the Werra was about one thousand miles from port, and probably near the Grand Banks, a suddenoraeh was heard, and it was found that the Shaft was broken and the propeller lost. There was a brisk gale, and the sea was running heavy, The vessel drifted until siz, m, the fol Tewin day, when the Venetian, from ,Liv er cell, fell in with her and took her in tow, On the 4811 inet, the hawser parted, but a boat was qulokly lowered and another haw- eer was rigged. The Werra had on board 522 passengers, of whom 78 wore, first cabin,90 seoend cabin, and 354 steerage. Ameng the passengers were thirty children, The Werra was brought to the East Boston books this (Saturday) afternoon, Just 'WHAT:OAUSED THE ACCIDENT is not yet known. Alter leaving Southa rap ton the Captain reports favorable weather, and the vessel made quick time until the night ef the 30th, when they were within one thousand miles of New York. The night was dark and stormy, but there was ne high sea running. About eleven o'olook, he thought, the vessel streak something, presumably a fleeting wreck, The propel- ler was loot and the wrench at the erne time broke the shaft. The pumps showed the vessel to be water tight and the fright- ened passengers were qulokly reassured, £be steamer hardly had steerage way and drifted until the next night, when the Venetian noticed their distress signals and effectually replied to them. A rASaENGEB'S STATEMENT. One ef the passengers, Mr. H. Howe, gives the following amount of the aeon dent :— "The accident happened about eleven o'elook at night—perhaps a Little before— when we were, the captain said, 1,080 miles out from New York. The ladies had near- ly all retired, as had meet of the gentle- men. There were only a few persona on deck, and I happened to be one of them: I suddenly felt as if something was going wrong with the machinery—an,indesorib- able feeling, as if the,aorew had given way and the engine was Being like lightning without any resistance in the water. The sea was rather rough. The shaft was brok- en, but it was net known at first whether It had run a hole into the bottom et the ship or not, and the small beats were all prepar ed in case of need. We drifted around from eleven o'clock that night all threugh nhe next day. WHAT THE HALF HOUR BROUGHT FORTH. " During the next day a fog prevailed un- til about six p. m,, when it lifted for about half an hour. During that time we naw a steamer eff en the horizon. We fired a gun whioh was in readiness for use and put up signals, and the ateamer altered her course and bore right down en ns. The vessel proved to be the Venetian. Without any delay whatever the Venetain turned around, and our second effioer's boat carried a very thin line to her and gradually a thinker line until the veasele were connected by a heavy cable. The hawser broke once, but was quickly repaired." The damage is confined to the screw pro- peller, which wan carried- away, and the shaft, et compeattion metal, which is badly twisted. A new propeller has been stabled for and has been shipped frem Bremen. It is said that en the eeoond day out from Southampton a steerage passenger oame en deck, jumped en the rail andstabbed him- self and then threw himself overboard. The vessel was stepped, but the roughness ef the sea rendered his reaone impossible. r-ssrene-- Unselfish Bev. Mr. Dall, who recently died in In- dia, where he had been for years a success- ful missionary, was simple, earnest, and ex- tremely nneeltish. It is said that he rushed into his boarding-house one mernirg while the houshold were at breakfast, and crying out, " The worst case yet 1" seized the platten of meat from the table, and hasten- ed out to give it to a poor family whose sufferings had touched him, When he went to B alttmore as a preacher he took a house where there was a good opperennity for a garden, and being fond of flowers, he devoted much leisure time to the oultivation of the little spot. A woman. lived next door who, for some reason, con- ceived an intense dlaltke for her neighbor, and missed no opportunity to annoy him. Among other things she persisted in throw- ing refuse over the fence into Mc. Dell's garden, greatly to its detriment, oespite his repeated prote"tatioaa conobed in the friend, lits; words. Mr. Dell's garden, however - flourished' and finally bloescmed. Gather- ing the first flowers, whioh were exception- ally beautiful, the minister made s. bouquet, went to hie neighbor's deer, and asked for the lady. She came with an astonished scowl, but when he, with a friendly smile, extended his hand with the flowers, begging her to aooept the firat products of his gar- den, she was taken aback. After that she was one of Mr. Dall'a most devoted friends, The Highest Observatory. The advantages of regular account" of what is going on several' thousand feet above the earth has long beenreoognieed by meteorologists. To furnish data to these scientists, the Tyrolese are going to have the highest observatory in the world. They have built two houses, one made of doge and the other made of stone, on' the summit of Sombliok. As a atone house would be uncomfortably, oold se high up in the air, the weather observer is provided with a hut made of legs, lashed, anohored, and gabled to the top of the mountain ; but no Wooden structure can be entirely seonre, so terrible are the wind storms that sometimes ruge in the upper air, henoe•the stone refuge, whioh L Ont into the rook:. Of (nurse the obser- von will be able to aommunioate the diary he keeps to the soientlete on the surface of the earth by telegraph and telephone. An other observatory will be the famous tower, 1;000 feet higb, the foundations" of whioh are soon to be' lead, on the Champ de Mara, to be in readiness for the 'Petrie expedition two years hence. It will be.ono of the won- ders of the world, We have described its fea- tured In these oolumns : already,' but after the exposition Is over it will be used as an observatory, and will be devoted to for- warding scientific objects,' "" Ob, hum 1 I feel broke _.upp to -day," said Mr. Yonn hasbaiid rnefni :loakin at him- self B - , �" Irina i� g self In the mirror, Iree,,4Iear, said the young bride tenderly, "'.;I know all about it, I read' It in the paper ,this morning,.. " Yon did eh 1 e1Ied Mn Younghuaband, kin off in the middle of a yawn and breaking 5' Making an exalted dash' for the paper, •' Wh-where fait i Wh-what does it say 7'' "Why darling how nervone you are 1 It doean't say mach. Only that the Snighte of Leiauro held their anneal reunion last night and that the party broke up at an ear., ly heti/. I suppose they were all broken up rant the dame as you dear, weren't they t" Ohoioe Recipes. Ruh Obeid . PIE. -(made with, only one oeusb).'—Quo teaouptul of ripe oar' ranee crushed, one teacupful of sugar, two teaspoonfuls of water, one teaspoonful of flour, the yelks of two eggs After baking use the whites of the eggs with two tea- spoonfuls of pulverlaed auger for mer- ingue, BREAD SAUCE —Put one pint of, milk on to boil, aline ono onion in the milk, leave in ten minutes, there atraln and add two teaepoonfnla of bread crumbs, butter the size of a walnut, one dessertspoonful of granulated sugar, pepper and malt to taste. Put all in a ateamer over hot water for an hour and a half at leash, even long- er if you have time. SWEET TOMATO PICYLE.—This is One of the most delightful sweet pickles, and to very nice with cold 'teats. Peel and limall egg ce thethe a tomatoes, or use e, tomatoes ; take half weight in sugar, and for seven peonde of the fruit add one ounce of cloves and one of mace and cin- namon mixed; cook all together with one quart of vinegar for an hoar, and seal. Tie the spices in a email muslin bag. HARLEQUIN CASE.—One cupful of an - gar, two tablespoonfuls of melted butter, two-thirds 4f a cupful of milk, whftee of three eggs beaten to a stiff froth, two tea - ;spoonfuls of baking powder, two small caps of flour. After mixing thte, divide into three portions leaving one of them white. Add to one part the yolks of two eggs: and one tableapoonful of flour. To the third portion add sufttoient red eager to color it. When baked pub the layers together with frosting. To CAN CORN.—USO glass cans. Cut the corn from the cob, prase it into the cans (with a potato -masher) till the milk flows over. Pub on the top, aorew down tight. Place them in a boiler, with sticks on the bottom, pour in cold water enongh to about two-thirds cover them. Boil five hours. When about half -cooked re- move a can at a time, tighten the top, and replace. We have tried this receipe for two years with perfect euoceea, WATER ICE.—One cup of loaf sugar, with the juice of nix lemons rgneezed over it, half a pint of weber, and a syrup made by boiling three•gnarters of a pound of sugar in a little lees than a pint of water ; let thin stand in a large earthern jar or dish for an hoar and a half, then max the lemon, etc., with it, strain ib and freeze. If you wish to make this a pretty dish, ea well as pleasing to the taste, add the white of eggs beaten to a froth with pow- dered sugar mixed with them ; put ,-thio on the tap of each glace. POTTED FISH.—Cut a fish twelve inches In length into four equal parts ; rub a lit- tle salt on the end of each piece andplaoe the pieces in an earthern pot ; add whole spices and cider vinegar to cover the fish when the pot is nearly full. Tie on a paper Dover and over this an earthern cover to keep in all the steam. Bake in a moderate oven for three hours. Fish cooked in this way is 'delicious and will keep two weeks in a °col place and long- er in a refrigerator. SWEET PICKLED PEACHES.—Pare seven pounds of peaches and lay them in a pre- serving kettle with three and a half pounds of sugar in alternate layers, let- ting them stand for anhour ; drain off the sirup and put over the fire with a quart of vinegar and two ounces each of whole cloves and stick cinnamon tied in a small muslin bag. Boil and skim this carefully and put in the peaches ; cook until you can perforate them easy with a straw. Lift out with a skimmer and pack in jars; reduce the airup.by boiling to nearly half; poor over the peaches and seal up. When Animals Hoar. There is an almost universal belief that the lion roars when he is hungry, and in a wild rotate when in search of prey, but the writer ventnrea to say that, like the bear's hug and other almost prover- bial expressions of the kind, the idea is altogether erroneous. But, let it be asked, would so sunning an animal as the lion, when hungry and in search of hie dinner, betray his approach and put every living creature within miles of the thoroughly on the qui vine, by making the forest echo again with his roaring. As- suredly not ; for a more certain method of scaring his prey he could nob possibly adopt. 'All quadrupeds, more especially the deer `tribe, will know and dread the voice of their natural enemy. Even do- mestic animals instinctively recognize and show fear on hearing the cry of a wild beset. In India the sportsman when out in camp during the hot weather months often finds himself far away from towns, and villages, in some wild spot in the depth of the jungle. Here the stillness of the night is constantly broken by the calls of oaring creatures inhabiting the neighboring "forest—the deep, solemn hoot of the horned owl, the sharp call of apotted deer, or the louder bell of the sambar. Bat these familiar sounds at- tract no notice from the domestic ani- mate included in the' camp circle. But should a panther on the opposite hill call his mate, or a prowling tiger passing along the riverbank matter his complain- ing night moan, they one and all immedi- ately show by their demeanor that they recognize the cry of a beast of prey. The old elephant chained up beneath the tamarind tree stays for a moment sway- ing his great body backward and for- ward, and listens attentively. His neigh- bor, a gray Arab horse, with pricked -up ears, gazes nneaiily in the direction the sound appeared to come from, while the doge,- jest before lying panting and mo.: tionlees in the moonlight, sprung to their feet' with bristling back and lowered tall, and with growls of fear disappear under the tent fly, A MYST Y Or THE SEA. What Wean* 01 the pew Solt an that lead vane Nigh .. There Inc. mysteries of the sen which faeoh nate, and there are mysteries which appal. One cannot read the record of ships which have sailed forth from the great ports of the world to be heard of never again without feeling a mighty awe creep upon hire. "1 had been 111 of fever at Valparaiso for several weeks," said a seaman named Wil- Ram itLiam Bondwell, " and about the time.X was fit for duty a Boston bark which had been above the equator and was now homeward bonnd called in for Some alight repairs, and was amnon short, She wasa snug !graft, well s ff sered and found, and after a few days we were booming dawn the Paoilio on our way to Cape Horn. We were running the Cape pretty well down to a point, when we one day fell in with an English whaler— a brig from Portsmouth, I believe, She wae. three quarters fullll of ell, and was working down to the south to oatoh a few more whales before heaving the brickwork over- board and rquarmg away for the English Channel, The way I came to know these things and a good many others was because we everhauled her one morning about 10 o'clock, and just at that time the wind died' away dna the two crafts were becalmed until aboutsundown. " Some of our men were permitted to yieit the Ben Bolt, and some of her men oame ever to ghat with ns. They were a hardy, JOLLY SET OF FELLOWS, and wore making a snooesaful voyage of it, I don't know as the Captains had any un- derstanding about it, but as we were both bound the same way, we kept company as the breeze oame out of the northeast. -The bark was a bettor sailor than the brig, and we were also homeward bound ; but, much to our surprise, our Captain did not crack on and leave the Englishman eaten. On the contrary, he kept us under reduced nail to allow the brig to lie on our starboard quart- er almost within hailing distanoe. And when night shut down what did the old man de but give orders that a lantern be hung ever the stern, and the brig dropped into our wake as if we had her tow -rope board, We of the fo'caatle couldn't make oat what these things meant, but finally agreed that there was some under- standing between the Captains. There was a stiffish breeze through the night, and when morning came the Ben Bolt was net over a mile astern. She showed her colors and the compliment was returned. I am satisfied that we could have run her hull down in two hours, but we made no more sail than we had carried through the night, " The breeze began to die out toward noon, but it was 4 o'clock in the afternoon before it left us entirely. Then the brig was a full mile away, and dead astern. The weather was INTOLERABLY and perhaps that was n why neither Captain lowered another ' yarn.' It was evident looks of the sky and the run of we need expect no change of we senriae next morning, Just at ed lan- tern appeared on the bo brig, and Pile was suspended over answer, I was at the wheel, th had lost steerage way, and the d near me and surveyed the brigg time thro' his glass. As he as and tented away he shook mut- tered under his breath mend not catch any of the words, quiet a night ae a sailer ever a There was a long, glassy runt d swell, and as we rose and fell t was the creaking and cheeping a from hull and aloft, which al a sailor the bines. One of the I saw before my watch turned lantern en the Ben Bolt rising aregular- ly as °look work, Al I TURNED OUT A neither lantern nor the n of the brig could be seen, Thead' just gone to arouse the Cap a few minutes everybody aboardrd the news. From our deok a seen the hull of the brig mi From a perob aleft, with a goo upper sails could be seen fort r mere. We looked for her from and we looked from aloft, but n er glare could find the faintest The excitement eft shared by the officers. The Ca d to the oabin to look at his la ion and consult the ohart. The currents to drift the brig away f she had drifted we must have go m dusk to daylightthere had no eneugft to flare a candle. `'He had been noticed by the watch up . Then what had become of ;,h you, sir, every man felt as If a etching his throat as hie eyes s t glassy sea and failed to find `a he brig, We heard the officers t g them- selves. and it was the O aid : "' There's ne other t for it —she's gene to. the"bottom " As soon as the b up we worked the bark down t y where the brig bad last been we ran back and forth and oirol r hours, every man, from Captainkeeping his eyes open for wreck enld not have floated away from she had gene down there would One hundred Anarohists 'were chilling in an up -town hall, " Attention 1 Carry, arms 1 Forward, maroh 1" "Bang 1 bang 1 zies 1" Seventy-five <men dashed for the door and tumbled over eaoh other down stairs, ten jumped out of the thirdstory window, eight- fainted, nix fell on their knees and commenced praying, and one nearly but i out hie brains trying to orawl into a mouse hole. Some one had carelessly dropped two parlor matehen on the floor, and when they were stepped on and explod- ed, the Communiate, who Were training fer a fight thought It had begun. HOT, the rears a boat fen from the the sea that ether before dusk a light w of the ear stern in though we h Captain rtes for a ion shut the glass his hoed and , but I 001 It was as saw at sea. o the groan o it, there and groaning ways gives last thuds in was the and falling aa T DAYLIGHT slightest sig first mate h Captain, and in had hen we could have les away. d glass, her wenty miles e the deck, zither eye n trace. he men was Captain hurried et observation There were no from nil, If ne tee. From t been wind r lantern h to 2 o'clock er 7 I tell y hand was al urveyed the trace of t talking among who s way to account 1' reeve oame o the locality seen, and ed around-fo to cook, age. She o nil, and if be WRECKAGE FLOATING ABOUT —a boat, a spar, ropes, belaying pine, buck- ets -something from the litter of a ship's decks. We found nothing, absolutely no- thing, Our Captain didn't give up in an hournor half a day, nor until it was dead certain that we had beaten book and forth wens a space at least ten miles wide, and we had failed to discover even a floating chip. Toward night it oame on to blow pretty stiff, and wesquared away for the Cape, leaving behind n► an unsolved, one of the g m greatest eteries of the sea, y "It oame 'entbefore we had finished our voyage that the Captain of the, brig had been ailing for some time when we over• hauled him, and he was what you 'might call a bit babgfeh, Oar old man had given him some 'medioines fres his oheet, and some delicacies from hie pantry, and had stood by him as related to cheer hem up a bit Wospoke td two whalers before we rounded the Cape, and gave to both the particulars about the mysterious disappear- ance. We also reported the ease to a home- ward -bound English ship. The affair hap. paned over twenty years ego, Since that time I have sailed from several English ports, and met Bnglieb sailors who knew the Ben Bolt and her Captain. After about a year ails was given up aa boot, and from that day to this net the slightest trace of Alp or crew has ever been turned up, No longer than two years ago I taw the oame mentioned in a London paper, and reference was made to our bark and Captain. What do I think 1 Well, that case has been talk ed over by sailor men in more than one te'oastie, and half' always been a stunner. She oonldn't have burned, became we taw 00 fire, She oottidn't have floated away because there, was no onrrent, Suppose that Re Was Very Kind to .Him. " Well, Berkey, how are things 7" " Oh, mono," " Did you see your man, Colonel Ks,rper,!' " Yee, I saw him;" "How did he treat you t" "" Didn't treat me at all ; I had to do all the treabing,' " I mean did ho appear kind to you 8" " Oh, yea; ;• very. He took a drink every time I arcked him," A Southern newspaper given an account of a roan who tried to hang himself with a towel and oame down with a orash. Such levity is 111 timed the weight of her cargo fotoed a large "collet of her bottom out, shouldn't we have dim covered some of the wreckage floating about 7 X long ago gave up trying ti sails• heatedly solve the ease," A Spring ()Woken Theory. A city man named Mugge has been out visiting acme friends who 'live on a farm, Mr, Mugge is net only a man of more than average intelligence, but he le also of an li qufring tura of mind ; and while he was veeiting on the farm he managed to pink up a good deal of valuable informatlen by ask. lug questions about things, The first day he was there he went around with the farmer to look at the steak. Oae okthe first thing that excited his ourosity was a hen that was on a nest under the end ef a lum- ber pilo, "'Thla must be a hen," said Mugge, confi- dentially, " It ie," said the farmer. „ Sho theme to be taking•life pretty ea ay,' ventured Mugge. "Quite the contrary," maid the farmer; " she is busy," Laying an egg [probably," emoted Mugge, " Probably not," aeld the farmer ; " she is setting." Then Mugge made some patronizing re- mark to the ben and reached down to smoke the fur on her neck. The hen wan busy, but not too busy to keep an eye on Mugge, and when his hand came within reach she pinked a small piece of skin off from it, Mugge took hie hand away with wonderful gaiekneca and put it into his pocket, Then he stood and ;contemplated the hen in si- lence for several minntes. At length be Bald : " 1 auppene hens eoldom have the hydro- phobia;,, " Scidom," said the farmer. " But when they do have It, they have it pretty bad don't they 1" inquired Mugge, with considerable anxiety. " Oh, you needn't be alarmed," said the farmer. " The hen is mad, but not in that way. Her fangs are not poisenous," " I suppose now," said Mugge, " that an induotrieua, persica-ant hen like that will hatch out a ohioken every day, and not feel it." " There is a differonoe in hens," said the farmer, "Some hens set harder than othere and hatch ohiokens faster, I have got one that hatched out a brood of chickens last summer in ten days. She never stepped for Sundays or legal holidays, but just kept right at it, But it wasn't a very good job because it was rushed too muoh. Nine of the chickens were foolish, and the other four were not any too bright. Yon see they wore not expeoting it, and they seemed sort of dazed—couldn't understand hew they got here eo soon, They would stand round in a half-witted kind of way and try to fig are it out, bub they never seemed to under- stand it at all." " I should think," said Mugge, 'thought- fully, "that chickens hatched so fast as that would be apt to mature quickly—get old while they are young, as it were." " Exactly ; they do," said the farmer, "Yen remember that I bought a couple of opting ohiokens of you last fall," said Mugge, atilt mere thoughtfully, as if an idea had occurred to him, "Yee, I remember," said the'farmer, who was also beginning to have an idea, " What of it 7' " Oh, nothing ; only I thought perhaps they belonged to the brood that jou have been speaking about. We boiled them a couple of days and then gave them to my boy to out into bean -shooters." A coolness has since existed between Mugge and the farmer. With Illustrations, An amusing scene was that enoe enacted Ia an English hospital, between the celebrat- ed Dr, Abernethy and an Irish patient. The dootor had been absent from the hospital for a short time, and consequently many oases were no longer in the condition in which he had left them, He wee passing through one et the wards, pointing out at every step some very inetruottve fact to the crowd of pupils who followed him, "when an Irishman suddenly' leaped frem ens of beds, and preatrated himself at Abernethy', feet. Everybody was momentarily bewildered, but the poor fellow began pouring fcrth enoh a torrent of thanks and blessings, i1• lnstrated by phantomimio display, of his legs, and the scene speedily explained itself. "That's the leg, yea honer 1" cried Pat. " Y or honor's the boy to do it 1 May ye prosper foriver and iver 1 Lang life to yer honer 1 Bad luck to the epalpeena that said yer honer would out itefl 1" It seams that the man had entered the hospital some three months before with a dinned ankle, which had at once been con- demned to amputation, Abernethy, how- ever, suggested that rest and some mild treatment should first be tried, and the re- mit was 'moat happy. With some dlffioulty the patient was now induoed to go to bed, and Abernethy began a short lecture upon the case, interrupted by a,oemmentary fro Pat, Every statement made by the sergeon was confirmed by the patient. "The patient, gentlemen, was greatly weakened," began Abernethy, "Theue, yer honor 1 Sorry a lie div ye ehpake 1" oried the Irishman. " I recommended nourishing food" --- "Ah, yer honer's the great doother en- tirely!" At the slightest allusion to the leg, off went the bedclothes and up went that mem- ber, as if taking aim at the ceiling, That's it, yer honor 1 And a-bitther leg than the villian's that wanted to ou it off 1" r--.1119411111.- BEEAVBD, l3 JoHN IMaIE, eononTo,, I pates a dear fico, From it's wonted place, And my heart is full of sadneae; But looking above, • To the God of love, ,The sorrows chabg'd to gladness, For I know that there, In that purer air— The hemp of our heavenly Father— Is the one I mite, In that land of Mee, Where the angels love to gather, And a voice that alio , heard Through the silent ye .re, with its sweet . Is # e`ddln B , And a hand that guides, Through earth's stormy tides, Hath mine in Its kindly loading. I must not repine, But daily incline The path of my lov'd one to follow; Then let the years para, Like sande in a Riese, Or sighing winds over the hollow, Oh 1 we yet shall meet, Oa that golden street, And never again shall we sever ; Earth's troublea all past, In our home at last, With fiancee of joy for ever I • A Terrible Undertow. There is a mare terrible menace for the bather at the aoaahore than the white -capped waves tumbling in on the bar—something to be dreaded more than the deep and treach- erous holes out in the sands by tho last tide —something which Inspires more horror than. the eight et a shark, It is the fierce clutch of the undertow—the unseen current which drags strong men to their death. At one spot it is a thread of silk polling at the bather —at another it ie a chain dragging him out to the depths where the horrible sea spiders creep and orawl—the fierce crabs fight each other—the shark and the stingaree watoh and wait for victims. A score of us eat on the sands watching for high water, Here and -there beyond the bar a whitecap showed itself at Intervale, and now and then the wind breezed up a lit- tle, but there was no Bea to speak of. It was simply the pulsations of the great ocean— the heaving of the waters shorewards as or- dained by Him at the creation, They rolled in upon ns vexed and angry and defiant, and their froth blew past us and over ne end fell upon the dark sands to make blotches of yel- low white. A wave breakfulis-on the sands would fall back upon itself with sullen rear, churning up the foam until the green waters wore hidden, but the next would take a mad rush and sweep up the long elope as if it would cross the Island before it rested. Soddenly on the crest of the wave rolling in as moven a thief In the darkness, we caught eight of a horrible objeot, and women aoreamed and men sprang up. It was a hu- man body—the clothing rent and torn—the flesh hanging in shreds to the bones—the sightless eyes seeming to ,tare at the shore as if aeleoting a landing place, The wave rolled in and in, and the body came nearer and nearer. It wan lefte bailing, bub- bling, seething froth as the shave broke, and we sprang forward to secure it. But the treaoherens undertow was ahead ef us. It clutched the body and hurried it out of sight beneath the surface and back towards the bar. When it released its hold the corpse rose and moved towards un again—new en its fade with arms parted like a ewimmer— now en its back with the afternoon's sun re- flected from the polished skull, It was hurled almost at our feet, and again the undertow exulted ever our defeat. It drew him eat of sight, dragged him far out and a hundred feet down the shore, and then It re- leased him to let the roaring waves tumble the poor body landwards again. For half an hour we watched and waited. Then, an If satisfied with vengeance, the sea brought the body to the sande and threw it far up the beach with a sickening thud, Peer naked, fleshless, broken skeleton I In the great atorm of February a bark bad foundered on this hostile shore, and this wan one of the eight men drowned, He had reaohed the sands on an overturned yawl, when the undertow ()hitched him and drag- ged him away to hin death, The body was not to float' out to sea or become food for sharks. Off this bar at some point where two treacherous currents met and created an eddy, the drowned man rated In the panda, and in a night wan covered three fent deep. He rooted In that grave until to -day, undisturbed by sound from shore or sea. Then the revengeful undertow began its work of uncovering him for further sport. It out channels over and around him, and It finally lifted him from hie bed and oast him up to ear eight and at ear feet, Then, as we gave the pobr'foreigner .a quiet, grave in the dry sande, 3,000 mitis from his native ahoros, the undertow raved and seethed and clutched vengefully at the feet ef the obil- dren who walked upon the shore. A Lady Killed in the Alps. Tidings have reached Vienna of an - ether fatal Alpine accident in the same neighborhood where, .barely a month ago, the Marquis Pellavioini and M. Crommelin, of the Dutch Legation, met with a tragic end.; This time the victim wad a lady, Franlein Paulino von Sonklar of Innebruok, who, in company of four gentlemen and another lady, had set out from Ifeiligenblut, in the Groaaglooker district, on a -mountain went, intending to view from a distance the some of the recent catastrophe. So reaoh the point whence the Groaeglooknermight helmet, it would be neoeasery for the exousionists to olimb a rugged mountain path for about two hours, and they would then descend into a wild ravine, through whioh flows a torrent. Emerging from this part of th read, they would follow a ' narrow and don. proton mountain traok, bordered en ono nide by a steep precipice, and upon whioh experienced mountaineers alone ihould ven- ture. It wee at the most periloue portion o this track that the unfelt nnato lady lost he footing, and" before assistance could be af- forded, was' precipitated trots the dizzy height and dashed on to the rooks below, Death wan inatanteneouo, and the body, when recovered, was found to be frightfully uutilated, The Water of the Great Salt Lake. Four barrels of the water cffjrhe Great Salt Lake will leave,after.--a�6a oratin , P B nearly a barrel of salt. "The` lake was discovered in the year 1820, and no out- let from it has yet been ascertained. Four or five large streams entpty them- selves into it, and the fact of its atilt re- taining its saline properties seems to point to the conclusion that there exists moms secret bed of saline deposit over which its waters low, and that thus they con- tinue salt ; for, though the lake may be but the residue of a Immense nen whioh once covered the whole of thin region, yet, by its continuing eo salt with •the amount of fresh water poured into it daily, the idea of the existence of nose such deposit whioh it twelves its supply deems to be only too probable. For the pest fifteen yearn—until last year -=-the lake has been gradually rising ; but in 1F79 18 receded some two or three feeb— le most unusual occurrence, owing to the exceptionally warm summer. ' There are no fish in the lake, but myraide of email flies cover he surface. The buoyanoy of the water in so great that it in not at all an easy matter to drown in ib. The en- tire length of the Salt Lake is eighty five notion, and its breadth totter -five miles. Compared with the Dead Sea, bhe Great Salt Lake is longer by forty-throo miles and broader by thirty.fivo,- Tirougfe America.