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The Brussels Post, 1889-3-15, Page 66 YOUNG FOLKS. The Land of Nod. There's a beautiful land that the children know, Where ft's Summer the whole yrar round . , attempt in a strap a loud and not even a Where eh000late•drope, and belle and 'Wipe; gnome for a friend g 1 Lie think on the grassy ground; Someone rudely topped him on the ghoul - do and said: "To work with you; we eau Whore the licca grow tette aud Banbury have no loggards here," Thou taking him by hearts, the atm, he put him la front of a table and And null's ayes pip from the ped, told him he wet to put oyes in the doll faces And you never do wrong the whole day lying there. long— One little gnome, kinder than the real, They call It the Land of Nod . told him how to do it; and to have great When the cloak strikee eight, and taib curly care, tie the master was coming on the morrow, and woe bo to the one who had any pate thin wrong. Lice taw ou the pillow white ; Tommywent to work and suuoeetled better When the small mouse rqueake and the wain than he xpoctad to ; but a good deal of hls soob °reake, time was spent in watching hie etrange cam - And the abadows danoe in the moonlight panions, and nein how neatly and taste streaks,, full the did baeir work. And the star lamps jewel the night ; On the morrow Tommy worked hard to When the reit lids close on the ripe cheek's make up for the ley before, About mid toes day he muster game to inspect each one's And the, feet that trod work. When be reached Tommy's table The nursery floor are heard no more— ho turned each fate over and looked ab it Harrah ter the Land of Nod i carefully. "Here, whet does this mean?" he asked, as Where they Jay in the puddles and steal he picked up bhe last face, holding it so that from the stores, all might see. A loud laugh followed from they juggle with matches and. knives ; every one the room, and no wonder. Tommy And they poke such jokes at the grownup in his hurry hrd pub in one dark brown eye folks, and one blue eyr. Who dareu't say " Don't " for their lives 1 "Whet shell be don with him?" said the All the perecnn who teach are deprived of master, speech, Mary were the methods of punishment And whipped wi h a pickled rod, proposed, but nano seemed to be severe And fed upon dates, three h dark dungeon- enough, grates, g "I know," said one at the last; "make In the beautiful Land of Nod I him swallow one of those wax dolls that spoiled in the making." When the cloak a'rikes eight, and eaoh early " Yes, yes," said they all ; "that is just pate the thing." Lies low in the darkened room ; "Get the largest one you can find," said Whou rhe small mouse equeaks and the wain- the overseer. ecot creaks, Soon they brought it—a doll twine as And the shadows dance in the moonlight- large au Tommy. In vain he protested streaks, against it, and said he would nob do it, Aud the cricket chirps through the gloom ; They held him ; forced his mouth open, and When the soft lids close on the ripe cheek'e —Tommy in some unaccountable manner, rose, found himself book on the graee right where And the tiny feet that trod he had started from. The nursery floor are heard no more— The first thing be did was to feel hie throat, Hurrah for the Land. of Nod I tohad owed gdoll busee ctlhbhhadnot, Then he All the dear old dollies are mended there found he woe his natural size. He gob up That were broken to days that have the turned nome but unearthed nothinee had seen flown; g but a big All the kittens that died in their early pride bleak cricket. To beautiful oats have grown; By this time he was fairly awake—for be All the pleasures upset by the wind and the wet r Smile out in the sunshine broad ; And the meaning of "dose not a youngster knows, In the wonderful Land of Nod 1 "Now, you will heto to work on wax della for epoiling that beautiful one this morning. You will have to stay here for- ever, may bo; for very few beam o so good the t we allow them to go buck," Poor Tommy 1 what oould he do 1 A When the clock strikes eight, and each curly pate Lies low cn the dainty bed ; When the ahadowe dance in the moonlight - streaks, And the dull fire's core glows red ; When the sofb lido close on the ripe cheek's rose And the tiny feet that trod The nursery floor are heard no more— Hurrah for the land of Nod 1 And it's Oh! for the dreams of the'old, old days That have fled for ever and aye 1 For I watch and weep, as the dell dawns oreep • Up the cold gray cliffs of the sky. Could mine eyelids close on that blest repose, Would the hearts that lie under the sod Rise to greet the glad sound by my feet and beat On my heart—in the Land of Nod ? When the clock strikes eight, and eaoh "curly pate Lies low in the curtain's shade ; When the small mouses squeaks and the wain000r creaks, And the shadows dance in the moonlight. etreahs, ° And the hearth -sparks glimmer and fade ; When:the soft lids close on on,the,ripe oheek's TOWN And the tiny feet that trod Ince nursery floor are heard no more— Hurrah fur the laud of Nod? [Illustrated London News TOMMY'S ADVENTURE. BY BESSIE CLARE. Tommy was nob always a bad little boy, but eometimes a spirit of naughtinese would prevail, and he would be sere to get into trouble. Just now he was in disgrace*, for he had a quarrel with his little sister and had taken her prettiest doll end thrown it into the fire, and before it could be roamed it bad burned to ashes. As soon as it was done the little boy was sorry, but it could not be helped nor woad it reconcile Susie bo the lose of her favorite doll. Hie mother had given him a severe talking to, and he had run out and thrown himself on the grass, wishing so much that he was some place where little boys were not always being scolded. He looked up at the blue sky and watched the soft, white clouds floating belly by, and was thinking how nine it would be if he might be a fairy— he Was sure fairies had no troubles. Just then he heard a voice close by, and turning hie head beheld a litbla man about four inohes high standing on a flat rook beside him. He was dressed in brown and green, and was altogether a oomical• looking little chap. "So," said he "yon think we fairies have an easy time of ib,- do you? Suppose you jnsb come with me and see what we do ; then, maybe yon will not be so anxious to exchange plates. Tommy was startled at first, but by the time the little man had finished he had de- termined to see whab he could of fairyland. The little man touched him and he found himself growing smaller and smaller, until he was the same aim as his companion. When the fairy said, " Come with me," opening a tiny door on the very rook he was standing on. Tommy followed, feeling very queer and saying to himself, " What if I never get out of here again," They went along a narrow path ant out of the earth for quite a distance, and finally Dame to a large room, where he saw many little fairies who all seemed to be doing eomebhing which he could not make out, Thie," said his • companion, " is one of our work rooms. We have a great many of them, and we make all the pretty toys you see in the stores.' He took Tommy into many other rooms and showed him how they lived, at last bringing hint to a room where dolls were made. " I don't mind telling you now that 1 am nob a fairy, but a gnome, Fairies do have nice times, as you thought they had ; but gnomes don't, end you area gnome now, my business is to punish little boys who spoil pretty toys, ospeeially if they belong to other people, thought he must have been asleep, " though it was a wonderfully vivid dream," as he dishes or sweep the floor. told his mother afterwards. He went to the A curious crop is a harveet of 4,000 spent house, hoping all the morning's work had been a dream. But he knew by Susie's looks that her lost doll had come to life, and being thoroughly sorry by this time, ran up stairs where he kept his pennies, took them out and went to a Blore and bought the big. gest doll that could be had for the money. Tommy was a changed boy after his visit to Gnomeland, and though it wee only a dream, he was careful of Susie's playthings, lest h e might have another trip there. THE BRUSSELS POST. MARCH 15, 1889 AS YOU 1,IKB 1T, TRE MMAGIO WELL, Upon my table stands a well— Ne end of 0005015 it can tell ; Its liquid r'apl te, of little space, Are darker than ,,n Lthiop's fine, I shut it from the light without ; And yet it has the power, no doubt, Wheu touched by zoom Ithuriel hand, L'ght to emit from land to land, Tbis fountain is not mine alone, Others a kindred teeaeuro own ; Possessed it was in Homer's age, And from it blossomed 1) ore's page. When Shakespeare took ono drop from it, What unimagmad etorea of wit, Of beauty, subtlety, and power, Poured forth on that eventful hour 1 With it he played bit greatest part, With it unlocked ilia human heart, And, under themes of joy and woe, Wrote what no future can forego. I sometimes tremble when 1 think What things lie deep below its brink ; What Borrow its mfsuee nun bring, What jeys from it may tato their wing. Although a child may dip in it, Its outlined field is influite ; Part of the world's most preoious dower, No human thought exhauats its power. —[Joel Benton in Christian Union, When a pretty girl turns ber bead to look at o yourg men cn the street it is al meet sure to turn hie heed completely. A Now Jersey man bas made a ballot -box whieh cannot be stuffed . Now all the country wants is a voter built in the same way.—"Yonkers Statesman." "Coffee Pot," a well known character who peddled lunches around the New York newspaper offices, is dying in that city. He is worth a quarter of a million dollars, George Agustus Sala is said by a Parisi correspondent to have bad hie ambition a5 a painter out short by having it pointed oat to him that he had painted one of hie figures with six tons. If the Anti -Poverty Society is seeking no- toriety, it is suooeesiul. Attendance ab its meetings is now to he regarded as a sin for which the pleat cannot grant absolution, Thie is Arohbiebop Corrigan's mandate. The kerosene used in Dakota freezes solid at seven degrees below zero, and it is as much a part of the household work to melt the Dake of kerosene me it is to wash the Death of a Giant. The " New York Herald -' says :—One of the greatest men of this earth, Colon- el Routh Goshen, the famous Arablen giant, was laid to resb yesterday in the little ceme- tery at Miadlebush, N. J., and only a few neighbours and his adopted daughter were the mourners. The death of this well known museum attraction occurred on Tuesday, as published in bhe Herald. Goshen had been suffering for several months pad from a complication of diseasen but an attaok of dropsy finally proved fatal. During his sickness bis nurses had recourse to a double tackle and blook in order to raise the big man from bed. Nothing in life was more pleating to him than his immense size, and he took great delight in all the arrangements made for lifting him about un the improvis• ed derrick, because it was a constant remind- er that he was very large. The plain farm. house looked vary dr"ary yesterday ntarntup, Theoluthe oevereel cueseb Wotan uoutainedthe remains was too large to pass through the door and the corpse was taken outside and placed in the otfan, resting an the frsnb ver- anda. The great coffin was eight feet in length. It was lifted into a waggon by eight stalwarb''armers and then borne to the grave, whore a prayer was said by the preacher and the body lowered into the ground by means of four strong ropes. As no gate would al- low the passage of the mina a aeotion of fame was removed in the yard. The colonel was buried in the wig which he had worn for years to conceal his black, kinky hair, and which was interposed to hide the evidences of 1»s alleged negro origin. The giant was first discovered by Showman P. T. Barnum in 1857, and it is altogether likely that be did not himself know his exact age or birth. plaoe. The colonel had once lived in Mexi- co, where he gained his military title, and was a genial gentleman. For thirty years he told marvellous tales about his adven- tures, enough to fill a book, but before his death he oonfeaed to the parson that they were untrue. Bow East Londoners Farm. Rev. Hugh Huleabt,of bfoosomin,gives an account of the operations of the London Artisan oolony, whioh owed its inception to a drawing•room meeting at the residence of the Baroness Burdette-Coutts. The oolony aoneiete of nineteen families, numbering in all over a hundred souls, most of whom are from the east end of London. The London Artisan colonists, Mr. Huleatb says, in talc. ing up bheir homesteads ab Moosomin, "did every man that was right in his mind," like the ohildren of Israel; every man had been doing what was right in his own mind, and ao there has been many mistakes end disappoinbments. This is the chief cause why five out of the fourteen col- onists have turned 'aside from farm- ing to follow their own trades in Moose• min and other towns. This is how some of the parties commenced operations : Numbers 2 and 3, heeds of families ; in the morning they oommenoed work, harnessed their oxen to the plough, but they would not move ; the men thought the beasts wore obstinate, and belabored them moot unmercifully, but it was no nee ; from morning till midday men, oxen and plough remained in state quo until a neighboring farmer name to their help. Be found the Londoners had so harnessed the bullaeke that they could not possibly move ; he pub them all right, showed them how to handle the plough and turn up the earth, and both these men are now average plough- man. On the whole, Mr. Huleatb speaks of bhe exporimenb of making artisans burn armors , tie 0.131100050. ea. Ib was obtained by an Austrian wean as the result of an exserimenb of literally sowing small parts of living sponges in a soil favorable to bheir production. The production of the ;oda plant in Snnth America is so enormous that one -eighteenth p05b of it would be eutficient to swamp the markets of the outside world. Almost all of it ie consumed in South America. An African trader has so trained a young gorilla that it follows him around like a dog. It reoently aeoompanied him on a tramp of 20 miles. The animal does num- erous tricks and is so docile that its master doesn't hesitate to allow it to sleep with him. The holy city of Tunis, Kairwan, oan nowbe entered by0bristianss and its mosques can be visited. The great mosque has 565 columns of marble of every conceivable color and of every variety of architecture, and is, perhaps, the L, xi In beauty to the great mosque in Cordes.. The new pencils introduced by Faber for writing upon glass, porcelain and metals, in red, white and blue, are made by molting together four parts of spermaceti, three parts tallow and two parts wax, this mixture being colored with white lead, red lead or Prussian blue, as desired. So Mr. Edison is to have 8,000 square feet of space in the Paris Exposition solely for the display of the more important of his own works. Is there a parallel to this in all the annals of invention ? This ex -news• boy is the eighth wonder of the world, and you are respeobfully requested not to forget it. A young negro boy, only three years old, is going to Eogland for exhibition. He is blind, but pommies a remarkable memory. The youngster will answer 3,000 questions ooutained in a book, and any combination of figures or names told him at the beginning of the entertainment will be repeated at the finish. The old Marquis of Donegal, who died the other day in his ninetieth year, was a typical Irish nobleman suoh as Lever depiobs n hie novels. He was rich and spent his money in his own country, where he lived the greater part of his life. His son, Lord Belfast, who succeeds him, sympathises with Home Rule. The religious condition of New York ap• pears to be rather discouraging.There are a million and a quarter of inhaitants in it and of these there are only 100,000 who are members of any Protestant church. Instead of sucoeesfully fighting the abounding un- godliness bhe church is actually receding. At present in a certain dietriob with 631,000 inhabitants, there are 127 congregations, In 1860 there were in that same district half the inhabitants and 141 congregations. How is thin? Have Protestants lost their en. thumasm and their go? Are they satisfied wibhmakingtheirfineohuroheslittleelse than rich men's clubs while they leave the masses to parish fn bheir sin? Something wrong somewhere, The Canadian Pacific coast rivals northern Florida and the Carolina coasts in sompar- tive exemption from snow. The first flurry of snow at V iotoriethis winter occurred on the 14th inst., and 'almost disappeared the following day. It is worthy of note that many plume on the eaib side of Vancouver, in the lee of the mountains their traverse the island, combined with their mild winters the absence of strong winds and an absence of rainy weather, suoh as is not generally found on the Pacific coaeb, or even in parte of Fast. ern Canada. Undoubtedly the dry side of Vancouver will yet abound in favorite health resortefor people too delicate to en dare the braoing and for mosb people thoroughly healthy climate of the Dominion east of the Rookies. The Bad ease whioh occurred a few days ago at Norwalk, Ohio, in whieh a young lady died in the dental chair, after being placed under the influence of chloroform, emphasises the need that sedate for dentists to he well acquainted with the praobioe of auscultation, whereby they may ho able to ascertain the condition of the patient's heart with enough certainty, ab any rate, to know whether to employ, or not to employ, a powerful anaesthetic, In the opinion of most people, however, chloroform should nob be given exoopt by a duly qualified praotition• er ; and until dentists combine with their other qualiflcatione a preotfeal ability to diagnose insipient or developed heart disease 11 would, no doubt, be well to call in a physiolan when chloroform is required. Wo believe, however, that the modern dental neuron includes inetruotion in the usual mebilods of auscultation, Au Hour in the Peeking House, I A DYING STAT,. We have bten a 1 lel time getting to peaking o per ra s sane o you the ki g h use, p l P f y Nevada sfsy Boon Re Wilnout fnhnbitents. thiuk, after that filet visit to the oraage grove, But you know ib always takes a long time to get anywhere when thorn is a crowd of ohildren along wonting to see everything now, and asktug questions about everything they see, That's right, ohildren, always A curious ocnotltutional problem is likoly to be presented to the Amoriean people be- fore very long, eve the Chicago Masada, It 10, in effect, whether a State oan surrender its constitution aud statehood and be remit. sad to the ceudition of a Territory. It la a auk to have everything you don't understand question like thee of 800000i0u, upon width eaplalncd to yuu, and in that way you will the Constitution of the United States is gather a valuable/11110404 of iuformabiou if silent, but whieh will have to be settled, not you will only try to remember what you are told. Now thio is what the ohildren leuru- ed tie they walked through the orange grove to the peeking house, They taw some tall orange breva with their lower limbs away above a 111511'13 head, aud some others with low drooping limbs that touched the ground and reminded ono of a sty little girl try- ing to cover her bare foot with her skirts, to, of course, they asked, " what is the difference in hose trees?' meaning is there Any difference in the variety of those treed, and they were told that the tall theca wore the native sweet oranges and bhe low drooping Mesa were Ster and Mediterranean aweebs. Toon they noticed two other kinds of trees, one with narrow, slender leaven, and the other with broad, ooareo looking foliage, the latter they found wore lemon trees and the others were Tan- gerines, or the kid -glove oranges. By this time they were in the peeking house, whioh was a large, breed building with doors and windown alternating closely upon oaoh side. " Why was that ?' they asked. That was for two purposes. A groat many doors were needed in the buoy aonaon, so that a number of oranges could be loaded ab the ammo time while others could unload on the other side. Then a greet many windows are needed for ventilation, for if there was not a great deal of fresh sir when these houses are filled with ripe fruit or green vegetables they would be injured by their own heat and moisture before they were peeked. The model pack- ing house has a kind of stage built comma one end, and in this aro cub several pita for the packers to stand in, whieh brings them just on a level with the orates they are pack- ing, so that they San pack them very fa51 and slide them along to burs doors without env lifting, Near the packers is arranged bhe sizore, which are sometimes made this way : Taro planks aboutebrfeetlong are nailed so as to form the sloping sides of a trough with a oraok aboub five inches wide at the bottom, fitting into this aro very thin pieces of bonnie, carefully smoothed, and arranged to slide up and down on the sloping plank. These boards are eight bathes long, and when the sizsr is ready to work each of thous are set by a measure and screwed faeb, Then the openings in the bottom of the trough represent the size of oranges that can nets through it, and the packer knows how many of each size it will take to fill a box. Under each opening a rough box fa set to catch bhe fruit, and a man stands at the upper end of the sizer and rolls down the oranges until they fled a plane they can drop through. As these boxes are filled they go to the packer, who wraps them in beautiful red and green and blue striped tissue papers and packs them for their journey north. The next man nails up the orates and elides them into the waiting wagons. While the children have been watohing this we have peeled aomo small brownish looking oranges far them that had been oast among the nulls, and they reach out eagerly for the ever -welcome fruit-, but as they pull them open intending to "suck the bags," they look ep in disgust and exclaim : "Why this orange is all bloody, just see how red it is.' "Yee" in answer, "that is why we peeled it that way so you could see how pretty the Maltese Blood orange is. Now eat ib and see how sweet and winey it is also." then here is a Star orange, see the star like ridges whioh radiate from atom to blossom end of the fruit, Ib is next to the blood orange in delicate flavor. And this is the famous Naval orange, with its ugly, curious distortion ab the blossom end. Ib is not half as due flavored or sweet as the others, out because its peen Herby is outside instead of inside it has won fame and become popular. Anonther Schooner Seized. Gloucester, Mass„ Mareh 11—The sohoon- er Wm. H. Toys was seized on Friday at Beaver Harbor, N, B , for allege4 'violation of the oedema laws. A fine of $400 was imposed and paid before the vowel was released. Capt. Bowe denies that ho was smuggling or otherwise violating the law. A Plucky Sheriff. Tho late Jamas Weed, ox -Sheriff of Nel- son County, Kentucky, wan u quint, untie, sliming man, never thrusting himself into pprominenoo, and singularly exuot in the por. formanoe of his duties, Bo seldom carried Arms, and did not seem to know whab fess mesot, I have known him at verious times to tackle some of the herded oases fa Bards. town when no other man would dare t0 go user them, In those days -1868 to 1865— and, for ti ab matter, long before—there were a number of tough fellows, young And old, in Bardstown and vicluisy. They were personally olever men, but were given to using too muoh rod liquor, and when drunk were generally dangerous, They all had the extreme Southern idea of insult, honor, reparation, and all that, for whieh the Southern students at St. Joseph's College wore largely responsible, aud, doopite their manner of getting eon sprees aud terrorizing the town, wore as chivalric a lot of young men generally as you could find. It was with these that 01d Jim had to deal oouasion- ally, and he never failed to capture hie man, and that without trouble. Among theta who lived near town were several who were considered desperate oharaotors. One of these was John Robin. son, who in a street fight, killed Bill Hardin, a grandson, I believe, old Bon Hardin, and was himself so badly tub that one of hie arms was crippled over after. Robinson used to conte to town aud get drunk, and when in that condition always wanted to kill somebody. Nobody oared to interfere with hist. I never saw but one man, aside from old Jim Wood, wise had the nerve to stand up to Robinson, and that was Bill Rowan, son of Senator Rowan. 1 have aeon hint defy Robinson to do his worst, but Joba wouldn't try anything but cursing. He knew that Bill was as game as he was. On one occasion, when John had. born unusually drunk and had rsntaiued in town longer than usual, the good people became seriously ltiarrned lest he should kill somebody before he lett. They wanted to have him pat in jail, but no one oould be found who would attempt the job. Old Jim Wood happened to be to town and some one appealed to him. The old follow—he was then about forty- five, bet grayhairod, and wan palled old— agreed to capture Robinson. He found him on the street—a street on whioh a score of mortal combats had taken plane—walked up to the desperado and said:" John, oome with me," John didn't wanb to do it, but Wood notified him that he had to go to jail, and John gave up and marched along quiet- ly as a Iamb. In 1862 Bardstown was full of Federal sol- diers. So. Joseph's College had been seized and converted into a hospital, as were other bnildinga. The town was under military rule. Capt. Jonathan Green, the "reformed gambler," was in command, and his force oon- sisted of a hundred or two oonvalesotnt sol- diers from the hospitals. One of these sol- diers, who was suffering from a wound in the head, which affected his mind fn come de- gree, Dame out in town one day and took a drink or two, whioh made him wild, He got hold of an Enfield rifle, loaded it, put a bayonet or . and defied everybody. Capt. Green sent the provost guard after him, some eight or too strong, under a sergeant. The crazy soldier bad created a terrible excitement on Main street, and was flourish- ing his gun in every direction, Whichever way he burned ite muzzle there was a scatter- ing. The guard could 'not get near him. Every time it started towards him he le - yelled his rifle and threatened to shoot,which he would have done. 'There must have been nearly two hundred 'soldierabesidoethe town people on the street. No one knew what to do. Suddenly same one said ; "Here aomee Old Jim Wood; he'll get him." To the as- tonishment of the guard, In taot, everybody else, the Sheriff coolly walked up to the in- furiated man and laid hold of his rifle, any- ing : "You'd better give me that," took it away from him, and in lose than two minutes he was a disarmed prisoner. Old Jim didn't do anything but look at him, either. Thab'e the way he dideverydody. There are dozens of just such cases bo hie credit. When Nel- son County lost him she lost one of the best men in the county." by war, but by some extra constitutional device. Ib wilt arise In respect to the State of Nevada, whioh, without offence be itsaid, appears to be in a moribund oondition, Since 1870 ire population line been steadily decreasing, uutil now there are pro. bobly not more 50,000 residbnts of that sterile and rooky region, There never was anything but the bonanza mines to induee people to go thither, and now thio these are practically exhausted, and no now mince are being discovered, the people are rapidly leaving. For yearn the State has been governed from San Francisco, and all its expouses have been paid by the silver kinge, who, for the poor honor of being United States Senator, or Governor, cr some such ofloer, have held it as a sort of pocket. borough, In thona'ure of things such a oondition of affairs oaonot last, and We the people who are residents of this State are beginning bo realize. They know that within its presenb borders there aro not sufficient resources to sustain suoh a population as a State should have, and they are now seeking to gain additional territory. A year or bwo ago they en- deavored to obtain a slice out of Idaho, and recently the Legislature of the Stats sent a committee to the Legislature of California praying that is few northern counties of California might be annexed to Nevada. The mission was in vain, and the Sommitteereturned despondent, The entire State ie so uninviting and so wanting in natural resources that oven the Mormons have refused to go in and possess the land. There Is a State with all its rein ohinery ready at their hand, whieh they could easily control and in a great measure make themselves independent, so far as their peculiar institutions are concerned, of the Federal Government, and yet they refuse it. This tells the whole story. There is no hope for Nevada, and lea population must dwindle away until but few effice•holdere are left. So long as the San Francisco millionaires lash, and are willing to pay the expeneo, the State may continue, bub when bhey give out, as they must in time, and no people are left to be taxed, whab will the office holders do ? They, too, will have to decamp, and the State will die of inanition. But the consti- tutional problem will remain. There will still he 110,000 square miles of recite and dsserb over whioh the United States Govern. ment has no more nuthority than over the State of Illinois, Ceder the Constitution Congress can nob divide a State ner add to ib without the consent of the people of that State. Bub if the people have fled, whab is to be done about it? It looks as if at no distant day Nevada would be fn truth aud faob a "No man's land." You see, ohildren, thab is always the way, the very beet things and the best, people are always quteb and Belf•oon- tained, and their virtues must be dili- gently nought for before they are discov- ered. And now fill your handbags with kid -glove oranges and let's go house and I hope you have all learned from this visit to appreciate the feet that oranges are not all alike by any means, but that the differences in them aro great enough for even the ouildren to discover.—[Mrs, Charles, A Reptile Wreath. On a frosty morning a few days ago, as Mr. Jere. Fenton of South Orange, N. J., wait walking with bie nins•yeer-old daughter in a small•plantation near his house, he saw what looked like a wreath of %ariege. tad cords lying at the foot of a tree, It was aboub ten inches in diameter, and perfectly oirouler, Supposing that some children at play in the wood had woven it and carelessly flung it away, he pinked it up and playfully crowned hie Mile girl with it; but there was a sold, clammy feeling about the thing that the ohild did not like ab all, and as ib touched her forehead she hastily shook it off. Then Mr. Fenton made a more careful examination, and was considerably startled to find that whab he had mistaken for a cordage wreath was very much like a double.headed snake, The two heads were exactly opposite eaoh other on the circular brand but Mr. Fenton soon perceived that each head was attaohed to a separate body. The variegated ring was, in fast, two snakes • that had mixed themselves up, as a sort of mutual benefit *moiety, for the winter, Their tails were nob visible, because each bad swallowed the caudal extremity of the other, and se muoh of the upper anatomy as it could stuff down its throat. Forgetfulness in the Extreme. There was once, se we know, a distinguish. ed person who gob married in the morning and later in the day beoame so absorbed in his Wenttlo investigation that he entirely forgot the interesting little olroumstanoe, A correspondent tells us of a Seoteh gentle- man who Wan even more dreadfully forgetful. He 0)05 walking along a Glasgow atreeb with a friend. They mob a lady who bowed ; andas in duty bound both saluted in return, " Who is that young lady ?" asked the young gentleman of his more elderly nom. panion, "I seem to know her face," "Oh, you must have seen her beforo," wee the to. ply ; " that is the lady you are going to marry bo -morrow, —[Sb James Gazotto, They Were in the Way. "I don b think much of the deanery of this part of the country," said a Yankee on a H.ighlaud railway hound north. "Give me prairie every time." " Whab't the faob ter with the seenery in this part ,r the coun- try ?" asked a fellow -pawn" Waal, you can't see any, Thom hills and mous• tains are in the way I" A Famous Camellia. On the banks of the Ashley River, near Charleston, stands Middleton Plane, the home of Arthur Middleton, a signer of tho Declaration of Independence. Though bhe hall was burned during the last war, the gardens, terraces and hedges remain substan- tially as bhey were a hundred years ago. This remarkable plane is still widely known, and in the proper seasons rows of azaleas, japonicas, with all 'other Southern plants and trees are the delight of its many visi- tors. Some time ago, Mr, William Middleton went to Loudon, and there mob an old col- lege chum who procured for him a ticket to visit the Queen's gardens, The proud Bard. ner-in-chief took his visitor all about and finally stopped before the queenly treasure of the plaoe. Ib was under a large glaee case—perhaps five feet high —a beautiful camellia shrub in gorgeous bloom. " Now confess,' said the inflated function- ary, " you haven't Been anything like this before." " It is beautiful—very beautiful," answer- ed Mr. Middleton. " But tell mo, you haven't ever seen any. thing to approach this?" " it is wonderful. Ib is marvellous," "But," said the disappointed head•gard- ener, "you haven't answered my question. This surpasses anything of the kind you have seen, eh ?" "I did mot answer you," replied the Southern•gentleman, " bagmen I wet unwifl. ing to hurt your feelings ; but 1 have in are garden at home, and growing nub of doors, a camellia thirty feet high, that has on it six thousand blossoms." " Sir," said rho gardener, " if that is so, you are Mr, Middleton of south Carolina 1 I know that bush. It was pianted by Mao - lees in 1780 I" Rifle Shooting. General Middleton spoke out boldly and truly ab the annual meeting of the Dominion Rifts Association in Ottawa last week. He begrudged, he raid, some of bhe money that was devoted to target shooting by rifle auto - citations and would like to see more given to the volunteer servies. Eight men out of twenty-five, he deo'arcd, in the provincial battalions hadn'b the most elementary know- ledge of the way in whioh to handle a rifle, and many of the remaining seventeen could hardly bit a haystack. The majority of the prizes, the General further said, at these rifle meetings were won by officers. This latter is doubtless a feat, but there are good and obvious reasons why it is so. Bub more attention than is at present the ousters' should certainly be paid to the rank and file, every member of whioh should be made se porfecb in the manipulation of gun, bay- onet and sword as his brains and musette will permit, Jewelry as a Reoessity. At bite drat annual dinner of bhe Birming. ham Jewellet e' andSilversmibh'sArmada tion, held on the 28th ult., Mr. Ohamberlain pro• posed bhe toast of prosperity to the aasooie- bion. In concluding his speech he said that jodging from the faces aboub him bhe msnu- faoturers engaged in the trade were evidently not dispirited. "I do nob think you have any reason to be," he said, "because after all the love of preened adornment is in- herent in human nature, and you will not find any nation, either in modern or in ancient times, or any tribe, however savage, who could do without ib, Consequently, when people talk about jewellery being a luxury they are talking of what they know nothing whatever about It is per- feotly evident that it is a nooessity of human nature. The fact is, all experience teaches us that men and women, and espeoially women, can do without houses, they oan do without food for a long bime, bhey oan do without drink, and there aro some of them, I have been told, thab can do without; toba000—(laughter)—they can do wibhoub olothes, but they otnnob do without orna• meat. Accordingly, you will find that the mosb naked tribes of Central Afrioa, al. though they oan do without everything that we have oome to regard as necessities of life, cannot do without either their nose -rings or their lip•rings or their earrings or some other arbioles'of personal adornment whioh ministers to their self sabisfaotion, and whioh even causes envy and jealousy bo everybody else, I say then that, under the einem- stemma, parrying on as you do a trade of this description, you may bo perfeotly certain it cannot and will nob permanently languish. Therefore, in drinking the toast I have been asked to propose, I drink aleo with the greatest hope and the moat confident eatis• faotion to the continued and extended pros• parity of the trade which your association re. presents." (Loud oheere) Divorce in the United States. According to the special report just cub. mibted to Congress by Mr, Carroll D. Wright on the statistics of the laws relating to mat- riage and divorce in the United States from 1867 to 1886 inclusive, no lees than 328,716 divorces wore granted during that period. 111inois heads the list with 36.072, and Ohio and Indiana Some next with 26,367 and 25,- 193 renpootivoly, It is no orodib to the mon that of the whole number 216,739, or 65 per omit., wore granted to wives, and 111,983 to husbands, Drunkenness is assigned as the cause in only 13,843 oases, bub Mr. Wright nays it is apparent that thio figure does not represent the total number in whioh drunk. ermine or intemperance was a merlons factor, In a few representative eounbios the investi- gation was carried outside of alleged onuses, and it was found bhab intemperance was a direst 00 indireob ammo in over 20 por neat, of the whole number of divorces granted in thoeo counties. Woman Mine Inspector. Miss Cromwell, whose remarkable 0500555 in the development of mining in various parte of Australia, has won for her the sobriquet of bhe "trinoees Midas," is now In Queensland, making a tour of inopootion of the mines. The lady wee born in Eng. land, but in her babyhood she was brought over to Australia, Five years ago she began to take an aobive interest in mining matters. She has over since personally inepeobd and examined the underground workings of mined. She obtainedher singularoxpsrienoe and ineighe by listening to the views of theoretical men, and by getting praotioal men to teach her, by going over s she mince with her, and illustrating the various ways of working them before her, By putting together the theories of ono sob of teaohors, , and the theories of the others, she formed her own judgments, She has, by vigilant observation, developed such a power of gues- sing the properties of mines, that the people ascribe to her a gift of second sight.