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The Exeter Times, 1885-10-1, Page 2THE FA.B1.1„ saot to Grimily's. l'epat got his patent riglit, And rich as all metier:: nut wbere's the peace turd comfort that we all had before ? lersus go a vielthe beck to Griggsby's Station— Beek where we used to be so happy anti so pore ! The Wise el ve aanhe here It's lest A mortal pity To see ne lu till') great big house, with earpets on the stairs. And the pump right in the kitchen And the eity ! city city Au e main' bus the city an amend us everwheree I Climb clean above the roof end leek from the ateeple, and never roes, Tobin, nor A beech or anima tree And right here in earshot of at lust a thoueare peo- ple- And none that neighbors with us, or we wartt to go end see. I•ere geravititin. beck to Griggsby's Station—, Back where the latch string'it a-banglefrom the door, And crag nelthbor round the place le dear 43 A rela- tiOn— Ban.k where we mod to be we hennY and rto nolo want to Oe e the Wiggensee, the whole kit end bilina Asirivire up from shallow Ford o tay the Sun- day through; And I wan t to aesthete titkAdre et their so wiu-lear's and pieta' Out theee Isizy Palen's, like they mei to do want teem the piece quilts the Jones girls is makia" -and I want to pester assay but their freckled hired band, And icke her 'bout the widower elle come putty nigh a-takire, ber pep got hie pension 'lowed in time to save las bead. Zero go aevisitha boAA Griggsbyet Station— nut where there's 'Attila' aggetvathe any more Shet AwaX kAie zo tile woo4 &moat the chi iceaticu— naek v.Ztere we used to le eo hippy and 6o porn! I want to see elariedy ad he+ her oath her sow in', And hear her talk tioicalbe trr man theta( dead and gene. And stand up with LTatittel te Allow me how belt grey:lea And mile of 1 hire sew ber 're *et Fut her receurtirs' on, lind 1 want to as* the bainigRA GA the sad lower Sigkey— Where John, our edetit boy, he wee terb, and ta6i- 44, tor SU own aelre sere at - an eta with liets Art the reeds all We letters weer, writ *entire ate. Whet's lu all We ever.d and high eltuatien, And Airy pick nor isolishewk blooluire at the doer 74_4 go A•vtoitaa' Griggaby 6Staticm„ neak where WC wed to be to happy and so pert. be eared for this purpose. Loeate the flow- er gad= where the wife can see it wheu about her daily work, and it will prove a means of grace to her, A very little work deem at the right time, will leeep it in order, and if weeds are never allowed to go to weed in it, the labor of aring for it will be less each year. I cannot think of any other way in which eo zna1L en expenditure of time and money will brieg so inuele pleasure to the wife mad education to the children. Try it, and see how much genuine happiness men be her/from. a flower garden, DANCE OF IDEATE. A Robber or tae corrals I Forced to Rive Fee the ilhosk. Some WOrtthe One.the citizens of How - acre Stadion, on the 'California, Oregon et Idaho Mage line, offered .$150 reward for the scelp of an immenee grizzly bear that bad fee moieties prior thereto been depredating the stack ranches of Siskieroa meaty. The bearls career ha robber ot the ehorrala ex - over four years, his last aot being to bin A 2 -year old finer, perish himself upon thet ammal, and proceeded to make a meal of him. The reward impelled several, of the moat noted, bear.hteatere to leole ter him but be a very wary way, for lieuiti had made mincemeat of a dozen or more dogs, besides being alive and healthy after four Wir- cheater balks had been planted in him and after he had lost a portion of one of hie feet in a great trap. Grizzly Reelfoot," hadbeen the name by which he has SIAM beeia known, owing to his consequent ambl- ing gait. homes Jones and nbarless Meredith went on the California & Oregon railroad some weeks ago for a hunt. On tbeir re- turn they reported that II. nry Woodburn and Jim IVileon, of Linkvilie, Oregoe, with theenelvea, eueceeded at tut ire killing him. They got on hi* trail in the (imp woeda txn Inedietely mutt* of Howente Station, and, with the aid of Wileoes four trebled doge, umeeded in treeieg him,. After following hien through eauyons and mugles for over %even mile,. heaving the doge baning, evhe wae in the lead, rushed forward wily to Pod two of hie favorite doge lying dead on the ground. Blood eevered the bullet' and great shred!' of ilesh appeared bere and there. Looking upward, the bear tired wending hie way on a limb, about orty feet from, the ground. Ile WAA thow. Ing hie teeth andgrewlingfeerfully. Wilson ickly raising hie gm, tired thrice in rapicl occasion, but without dislodging him. Tim otherthree hunters then arriving, taey elm mireneueeddring, when the poutieroue brute dropped to the grouud. He was 1m• meeliotely seized by the remaining doge, hat, badly wounded ail be wan be mede victims fight, killing one dog end tearing the eoat of Meredith, who bad ventured too near, off hie beck, A final allot from Jonea however, finished blue. The grizzly weigh - el over 900 pounds. Oaring Cora Fodder. When well cured, cern leader that hes been properly grown, is quite emeal in value to Average hay. To 'secure the trill eutritive 'swim of or fodder, it should be grown in rem ',efficiently wide apart to edmit an Abundance of light aad air. Light and air are both necessary for the full development of the plant, and, the production of 'Tara, su- gar and other nutritioue constituent* i the stalk sad leaf. The pale, yellow leaven and stalks, that vault from brood -mat awing, are of little value, and when dried, become harsh, brittle and tasteless, ao that a horse or cow rejects such food with disdain, =tem staved into eating it. But the dark -green, well grown fodder, is aweet, tender, and Ate ire have mid, Isom:mite hay for whiter feed - in. To sere the fodder in the beet coedi. tion, it should be cut before frost lin touched it, or the teasel hu dried. If it bee been twitting tbe But, if primitive man knew how ully, he else knew how to outwit the ghoot. For example, A ghost CAA only ilea hie way back to the home by the way by which he left it. Tido weetnees did not ewer* the vigil. *nee of our ancestors, and they took their grown for grain, the time to cut it le wlaen miasma accordingly. The ectlia waa car tbe kernel is glazed, but yet soft enough vied out of the holism, not by the door, but to be imprinted by the thinhh ned When by a bole maae for he purpeee in the wall, and tide hob was et:a:Welly 'tor act up ea soon as the bcdy bad been lensed through it; so that, when tie ghat etsoiled quietiy beck fr me the geese, he found. to hia surprige that %hire was no thoroughfare. The eridit of thia ingeraloue entice is shared (fluidly by tireenlandere, Heetentota, Beelituinsa, ea- molcds, Ojibwaye, Algonquine, Leoslame If indoon Thibetane, Siernese, Chineaa and Feejeeeus. Teen epecial opinirge, or "avors of tbe dead," are t 111,CU in a 'Village neer Areaterdana and they wore common in seine towns of eentrel Italy, as Perugia and Aseisi. A trace of the 'mine custom eetrvivea TIED LIME -KILN CLUB. There was an unusually large turnout at the regular Saturday night meeting, and the half-dozen Chinese lantern which Gland= Jones bad purchased at hie owu expense and hung around tbe hall produced, what Samuel Shia termed ; "A opeetacled affect of de wildeet dieorden" the crop ha; beeu grown for fedi/1r alone, we cut a before the blossom hem quite faded, and when the eve upon it are half grown. To cures. luxuriant crop of fodder, weighing while green, twenty term per Acre, ie not an easy matter, unitise one goes the right way about it, The stalk" should be cet clout te the surface of the ground, so as te leave ex etubble in the way of fitting the ground at once for a crop of rye Far this purpese, we tied the old feehioned emu heels, radle, of a piece ef an old a,..e the, atta.%:hed to A ehert, atout handle, to be the beet and eaeicet too). A etent brut' hook, at the end of a handle four feet lon,g, is also an excellent irepleniont for cutting by hand. But a reeper roay be used, if it la drawn diagonelly across the rows, and the land has been ealtivated en the level. But in whateier woe the ereia cut, it should lie on the ground fa teensy. four hours, to hemme thoroughly wilted. It ia then bound in small sheavae, weighing about twenty-five pounda, which is A con- venient way to use it for feeding, and these aheaves are aet up in shocks, and protected from the rain. In this way the fodder will cure perfectly well without reoldirg. and preserve ite color and sweeteesse, until it la ready to be taken in , when the bet way to dispose of it is, to litaok it in bat racl.a. Stocking with Sheep for the Winter. The season of Autumnal droutha and short pasturage always brings lots of sheep upon the market. which their owners conclude not to wichir, and tbat may often be very profitably bought. Sheep of good constitu tion, with good teeth, and healthy, may be ae,fely bought, if one has feed for them which he wishes to convert into manure in the easiest and cheapest way. For instance, a large oat -grower has strew which will earry quite a flock through the season. If he buys ewes that have had lambs this year, and has them served early, by a long -wool or Down ram; though thin now, they will rapidly pick up and probably give him one hundred and twenty-five per cent. of lambs. Of course such ewes will need some grain; all the more if when -straw instead of oat is their princi- pal fodder. We have known lambs to bring m the apring double and triple what was paid for the ewes'while the ewes were worth fully as inuch asthey coat, and the manure as much more. This is hardly the usual ex- perience, but under advantageous °bourn- utamea, the experiment is well worth try- ing, recollecting that October service brings February lambs, which, if well pushed for- ward, may be in market by the first to the middle of May. Earlier service will, of course, briog earlier lambs and greater pro- fit. Naar anus. It was announettel that the following new rules and regulation would govern nutil further orders : The hour for opening the regular nantings will be 8 o'clock. Notlay pipes over one year old eau be inuoked iu the library without special per - The eatingofpeanuts, popoormeandy,etc., during session( is calculated to divert atten- tion from the solemnity of the °madam and is therefor diecouraged, Members who bring their doge with them must be prepared for the worst. Any member found with bis hat on after the triangle has sounded will be ruled not lees than $400. In her old, age, experiencing a full there All religiows sad political discussion le of the delicate infirmities wlaicti the instincts strictly forbiddeu. Menibers are aloe asked of humanity require to be treated with ten - to abetain from telling fish atoriee or relat- der consideration, elle was ruthleeely snatch- ingaelventureewithrattiesnakefsandInclians. ed. from tbe midet of a loving family and TIID GOOD WEIGH. j THE GOLD TIRIEF. •••••••-•,..1 An account or the Irbil awl fxscution of airs. Nowrke roe Iniiefienee. The follov bag regardbag the trial and ex- ecution of Rebecoa. Nourse who was oseri- aged to that Orange religious Moloch, Salem witchcraft, in 1692,. lin been, publish- ed. The megiatrate (Hawthorne) mentioned 'Wag ail am/ester of Nathaniel Hawthorne" and is no doubt the original of the Col. Pynotieon be the "Rouse of Seven Gables," The life and death of Rebecca Nouree form A sad chapter in the history of Salem, Tra- dition nye that he was a beautiful woman, past middle age, revealed by all wile knew her, from tbe time she first entered the town until, in awl:on:lance with the popular super. etition of witchcraft, she fell evietira to her imighbors' displeasure end calroy went to her death on Gallows hill, With the promptons which characterized her, people's acts on religioua subjects, four indietenenta were sworn out against her, and the wife of Freewill Nouree, one of the meet respectable citizens of the deluded town, was brought hate eourt. Where it becomes positively weessaary for a member to remove his oboes to ;scratch hie ehilbleine or rub a whetstone over Ids come he must retire to the ante -room *4 a quiet and unassuming manner. A raw en:ea:semen; Gere'len," said the President as he *oft rose up aucl ealroly looked down u the slaining pates of Sir Isaac 'Walpole and Elder Taate, "dar am some few tillage it would be well fur you to diereekolect ; "De rnan who at on de feaes; when de elle Will be digglo' fur grub whom nutmeg charaeter, and appearence of the paeoner "Indiptry may male de beck ;mho, but made the woollen one of unucual interest, ehe fills de stomach an' Livers de feet. The building was crowded. Hawthorne, the "De man who wants satiefaxelmo by law magistrate, began the proceedinget by ad - &easing one of her 40f/users. "Hee thia woman ever hurt your "Yea," was the reply, "What do you say to that 1" (to the price Ie. A Weer but low voice the woman re- lied : "1 eau itty before my Eternel tiler I am iatiooeut, and God will clear my innoceuey." Then followed the inveatigation. With customary uurelenting cheraeter of the ac- eusera a deaf earwas turned tethe eloqueet appeale of the wife and mother, who eaereed apeele by divine inspiration fer life and lib ety, So clear onus her defenee that no regaible CARA amid he made out aphid her, but, despite it all, site was kept within the arm of the lew and without regard to juatice, sent to jail. Mrs. Nouree, as has been;,id, wes A very devout woman, and probably the hardest blow of all was the action of the lunch, of which ahe wee a member. The recortle atill preeerved read as follows; "After sacrament the elders propounded to the church, aed it was by unanimous vote commuted to, that our aintet Nourge, being a convicts -1 witeta and condemned to die, he ceuglit in de sot and sent to jai). I °erne a exestnnnumiceted, which wee accordingly mule myself, 0.1.1 mime I strive to be placid done in, the afternoon, oho being preseut," ale forgivin' au' charitable, der am occasions Then came the day of execution, July He ray op3s might be gccejaegs but 011 look- it bass oppfared in Itele end In Chine And roade to feel the horrora of a criminal a life and death—to plane the imaginative and religiouely crazed people. Of her early life little can be said. She was born in 'Yarmouth, Eoglend, in 1621, but eame to this couritry and settled in married state, hesiog two some For many years she was oae et the leading eieters in the church, and was activey engaged in all religioue work., Row the fat,a1 hand of sus. pielon settled en her bag never been neer- telexed, but it its known that her examination came off *4the Hell Church. The age, wilt satisfy de lewyere wooer dau 4Kneelda' a MISUCIOWAbekatie his differs wid you dorm' prove de truf of your CAVA pee' shun. “fle len a man keowe de mo' anxion h ageme to be to make de public' believe he am Women, tLet tie now Wavle the reglar program. my and destroy de binges which has celled us togeder. in Thuringen, where it was thought that the ghost of a man who hes been hanged will ro. turn to the house if the body be not taken out by a window butted of the door. The Siamese, not coutent with carrying the dead out by a epeoial opeuing, endeavor to make aseurance doubly aura by hurrying him three times round the hone at full apeed—a pro ending v ell eeloulated to bewilder the poor soul in the ecilia. The Areucauians adopt the plan cif strewing ashes behind the coffin es it is being borne to the grave, in order that the ghoat may not be able to find his any bsck. The very general practice of closing the eyes of the deed appears to have originated with a similar object; it was a mede of blindfolding the dead, that he might not se- the way by which he was carried, to his last home Around the Rouse. Little wonder that many farmers' wives wear out, grow prematurely old, or die young. There is absolutely nothing attractive for them to look at about the premises. The yard has never yet been properly graded, and if mowed at all, it is but once a year; generally the horses are turned in to graze it down, Sprouts have come up from the old fruit trees, branches broken down by the weight of fruit or winds of former years are hanging with their tops resting on the ground and burdock and other bardy weeds grow up through the dead branches. A dismal picture, but too often true to life. Two things alone will make a yard beauti- ful, if well arranged and eared for; trees and gran; but the trees must not be in etiff, un- natural rows, nor crowded close to the house and the yard must be well graded, and the grass kept closely out, Flowers will usually give a better effect and be much miller to care for, if planted in small beds, The garden can be kept clean much easier, as the grass will be continually encroaching on the small beds. A single square rod will enable you to grow quite a variety of flowers, but several rode ought to A. Few Hints on Preserving. Chem fruit that is sound and not too ripe For peaches, the Crawford ia a good kind, being a lucious variety, flesh a good a good color, and easy to peel. Plan in boiling water for ten or fifteen minutes, af- ter which the skin can be easily removed; then out in halves, removing stones. Take same weight ef sugar as you have of peaches. Pat the sugar in the kettle with water enough to melt it, and when dissolved put in the peaches. Stew gently till the scum ceases to rise; place at once in bottles or jars, and seal down tightly while hot. For plumbs, take seine weight of sugar as of fruit. 11 wanted whole, make syrup of sug- ar, using only enough water to dissolve the sugar thoroughly—then gently, as for peaches and put down the same way. Pears should be pulled and quartered, removing cores—use one-half pound of sugar to one pound of fruit; put m kettle with about a tablespoonful of water for each pound of sugar and stew till clear. Self-sealing jars are the handiest and best, and will be found the cheapest in the long run. The pints, quarts and half gallon sizes, imperial mea- sure, are useful sizes. It is a desideratum in preserving to have everything of good quality ; whenever spices are used they should be the purest that can be procured; the sugar used will have to be carefully selected. For the adjuncts for reeking and keeping your preserves, we can recommend those goods sold by Mr. George Williams, of 81 & 83 Lower Wyndham St., Guelph, as of the beet quality. The Beoretary called atl.e tiou to the following paragraph in the New York Sun : "Danforth South, A colored resident Uohelten, was yeaterday fined .$20 and sent jail for three moathe, for brutal treat- ment of his mulelie ia Raid to he a neenther of Brother Gerdzer's Lime Kiln 44 1)0154 bit cognomen appear on our rolls!" asked the Freakient. "Yes, rah. He tined dis club one y'er ago, an* was pertiekierly recernmended fur bus child -like disposition." 4( Yon will at owes notify him det he ern mapended fur eta inonths—oot fur wollopin" do mule, exactly, but mo' bekate wra Fiain LIFTic ING" Sror OF THB TIIALIAN DIGGINGS. It was on a November evening that we all sat around a cheerful fire after dinner. Uncle John, who had come home from Australia the week before!, wee giving us various bits of information about the climate, people, etc., in that favorable country. He patuted for awhile, so I ask- ed Mm: Couldn't you tell us a story of your adventures, or something that hap - leaned to you, uncle?" " he Anewered, "I've had SO many adventures, email and great, that it's hard to pick out one, but suppose I tell you the first that happened to me— will that measly pot' We all declared we should be delighted to hear it; so, giving the fire a poke and all of udrawing nearer *4 the blaza, lie began the follewirg; "You know: When lfiret want to Atte, traiia, there wax great excitement about the gold that wive being found in. aeveral plaoes; and, like a great number of people I wail aeized with the gold mania and went to the diggluge. You know, also, that I was very fortunate thereenbut of that I am have nothing to say now, as I going to tell you what befell ma one night, about a fortnight after my arelval at the sings. . "Your Uncle Tom, vrho was with me, wee up the country for a couple of days with artoid echool-fellow whom be had found in that rornote region, se I found *078011 on Ude porticuler night the eole occupant of our but. 1 had retired to my hem:neck rather early that night, but kept toseing abm for lyng time. At last opened *07 0706 wide with the %a- viation thia eleep Was IVA within my graap for that night, and I began looking he h round the at sucle obas jecte there. undue ef the fire made clear tmougit to be "As I looked round a dark object in one manor arreated ray Atte:311m ; was In a COMP= uot lighted by the fire, eo time took some momeeta to make out whet it was; but At lad I came to the pleaesnt aonclusion that there was ttorne ono eine in the huebeaidea royeelf, • "bow thia wow a particularly ine m- venient thing, to my the least of it, for I knew nobody penal:4411y that lived about us ; but knew very well that, SS general rule, they were a low, comae lot of rut. Una, greet restoy oithem oonvicts anci men who bad had to fly from thole coml. triea for wakes reasorus beat knewu to thereeelvea, so you may perhaps form a alight idea of my feelings. 1 knew it was unt my brother, for he would not be heck for two days; besides, why should he Qom in ao silently and 'tend there art mysteriouely? Bat what ponied me moot was how ay one (Kula get there, for I had moat carefully fastened the d)or before retiring to rest. 1 theught been_ opened, mit was geourely fastened on the Wilde. That day I could not bear to do any- thing but ait by my fire and think over my adveature and try and solve the mye- terh.for reins bery I gene' tided there pertain- ly was ; but I could come to neeatisfactory cone/mum with regard to it. The next day my brother canto baek, bet I thought better not te, Say any- thing about my visitor to him—at all evente not until I found oat who or what the intruder wax, "That evening I 'returned to the hut after my day's work, 1 heti found my first nugget, whieln however, was a very tonal' one, and on entering the doors, I saw my brother sitting on a /stool with a coat across Isla knees whiols eleOraed tO perplex hira Tory mach, When he saw me he called me and asked me if I could acoonnt for two holes which were la the back of the coat he was examining. "01 °aurae I knew nething about them. tfe said he had left the coat hanging in the corner, and had jot feund it down behindthe cheat, and with those two holes, whie13 he thought very like pistol. ehots, through the bale. "The explanation flashed acrose my mind immediately; my midnight robber was nothing elee than my brother'a ooat hanging on the wall Oa examining it further. I found the loop by which lee hung Wes Celt, evidently by one of the shote and this accounted for its falling. aeed scarcely say what laughter it exassen when 1 told my brother tide ; but, small adventure as it seem; 1 eltell never forget my night with the gold.:ter." Tim Choler:A. The old stories of the plague are recalled by the re.vegels of the choiera in Speln. Thie auremer will be remembered bnbpabn like the yearn of the Black Death in England eaVen eel:Auriga ago, and the de- tails of +suffering and. terror, even Oh they are reported by the telegraph, arellsrrow. modern edema isapparently baffled by this pest, except that it urgea the rte. amity pf sanitary precautions. The cholera vaeobasstion is °vide/34 a doubt- ful experiment, although perhispa not more so than that for email -pox at the be- gining. Jenner'e invaluable diecevery was reatived with hey ekepticienn Itled to bittercontroveray, and revilement reluct- antly grentod to Ole ire:temperable benee factor a SUUS Of USCOSeyi reduceel by one.helf from the original prop. oeitionts. Thus far tu the 1841011 thie country has fertile/Only escaped the cholera. But even 11 11 /should not appear this year, the perienee of geirope allows no Omit Ito alum and tour of the world will hardly be arrested. Islet emximer it demisted Memento; and aome parte of 'tray. But it ley quiet during the whater, only 10 10115 furiously upon Spain this year. Ie Is spin aim in the vomit of France, and wheal haa de ole woman look me up down 1691, At an early hour the little village - Enora inten-ly it the dark ject al even. The probability in even if we Mimeo' steed at de doeh wid a kbot gun. was brietling with activity, "Illa aevint $11 distiact'sy 'saw the outline of par. Of If oho diellot I should jump in on flat mule angel on earth" was to he punished withithe wh„lly eeettpe this year, that the peed- ' pound him till life Was dostinct. INhile death the deserved, .13( u/d"I'l "a aua OrOli but It Wse 1111" team ray anew itself here re xe amen. 1".(1 "° the TIT t44:1 petenblo to Oa the head or face, ea the sympathize wid 13. udder Smith, he roue' , Metall:A attired themeelves in holioy r Forewarued is fore mined. Not only send eceeended in deference to pUblie honor the event. The promo= to- the gel! 'bean wee so very heavy in the moor, almuld everykindof eanitai7 precautlimbe "Now, In this very oorner we had a, anfaraed by the local authoritien every - cheek, in which we brought ratlines clothes where, but every iutellsgent person/should 31'4 otlulv 00e0reirla8* "a lo W 1114h. WO put hie own system into the beat possible meets.; to put any gold we might 110-1 state of deforne by temperance and rued - mitten. All plaguea like the cholera feed upon filth and feebleness, and they always take the least fatal Weld of a clean and. temperate community like a rural 'Bine. Their reneges are always great- est in a dirty city. olacyrin. !eta tear. 'wedeln Jones offered A reliCallt1011 to the effect that the club adopt Prof. Wig,gius* weather predictions up to January I. Shindig Watkin ohjected. Ile didn't be- lieve in bindieg the club to patronize any particular prophet's weather. Elder Toots layered the Wee. 'Wigging had predicted a mild winter, and if there was any mild winter lying around lone he wanted one The Ilev. Penatock oppond the resolution. Wigginshad predicted a rainy summer and he bad purchased a new pork barrel to put under the eaves on the strength of it. The bottom of the barrel had scarcely been wet this atratton. " Gamlen," said the President with a desire to out short further debate, "1 reek= dis club bad better take the weather as we find it. De prudent man will pile up de wood, stock in de meat and taters an' de- pend upon Providence fur an ably epring. De resolution am deolar'd outer order." WAS TS A ouhaseen. An official letter, signed by Lord Dead - broke Johnsing, was received from Lan- caster, Pa., asking that a eociety in that city known as "The Setters" be granted a charter as a branch of the Lime -Kiln Club. The Setters were a body composed of the cream of colored society. The object was to broaden and expaned the mind by hold- ing down chairs, boxesand barrels in the cor- ner grocery. One of the chief aims was to turn out accomplished liars, and another was to give wives a chance to support their husbands by washing. " Idea& reckon we am aching fur any sich orowd," observed Brother Gardner. "De Secretary will gently but firmly frow out a hint in his answer dat we am ebuck full o' great men jiat at present, while the market has a downward tendency." A popular minister was asked how it was possible for him to preach a new sermon every Sunday, year after year, and to find something new to Bay. Doesn't it give you a good deal of thought and trouble ?" "Oh, no," was the reply. "It is a more matter of habit, "My sermons have never kept me awake five minutes," "Ah V" said the other, "that, then, is probably the reason wby they don't keep other people awake, either.' The souvenir which the Princess of Wales presented Emma Nevada in recognition of her sweet singing at Marlborough House is an exquisite lace pin set with diamond pan - deg with pearl hearts. Oh woman 1 Loveliest of lovely things. First in church, first in charity and first in circulating the news, The friend of the edi- tor, but the foe of the press. Iowa was a long one, Seem of pkople from the neighboring towns, and villeae4 taking part. Ihe victim, nereicled Azad euarded by the alioriff aril his deputy, headed the line, while close 'feline]. followed troupe of men and wawa who laughed, deeming it rare sport to gee the agonieed feces of the terror- stricken family As they watched the mother and wife grow pale, and tremble as she be - Pau the aeeent of the rocky eliff whose top waft crowded with the instrument of death. It ia impossible in 'words to depict the scene of the exeouticee in the horrible colors in which tradition has painted it. With firm ateas and eyes upturned to heaven the gray- haired woman took her place on the drop. Silently the hangman tied the rope before the eager-waitiug assembly; then a moment- ary hush paned over the crowd—the executioner's duty done. A moment later all that was left to toll the atory was the body of the aged woman swinging gently in the summer wind. Seldom has woman pact with a harder fate. Her body was thrown with the prey - lout victims into a hole in the crevice of the rocks and hastily covered with earth. Then the masses of spectators turned home- ward, leaving the bereaved family at the homestead unened for and ignored by their once firm friends. Wild Dogs. The tendency of animals to revert to s. savage state has been atrikingly illustrated at Woolwich, where a number of ownerless and half savage dogs have had to be exter- minated. Some time ago, it seems, a fe- male dog who had no definite home reared a litter of puppies in the timber eheds of the royal arsenal. She assumed nocturnal ha- bits, which her decendants inherited, until at last they became a nuisance to the neigh- horhood and a positive source of not unrea- sonable terror. Several litters of puppies were found and destroyed; but at last or- ganized war has had to be proclaimed, and the whole pack has been shot down one by one by a policeman told off and provided with a rifle for the purpose. They are desexibed as being of a large mongrel breed, and it is to be hoped that one of them at least may be peeserved, as 11 15 extremely interesting to notice the type to- ward which the dpg when it runs wild shows a tendency to throw back. The dingo is no doubt an instance of reversion, and the fish - catching doge of the fisher Indians of the Straits of Magellan are a similar example. The dog, beyond eh question, is very close- ly connected with the wolf, But we have absolutely no traces of his original descent, and it is, consequently, very interesting to notice any instance when dogs have escaped and reverted to a lupine life. In all ascer- tained instances the lupine characteristics have been very strongly marked; and there can, indeed, be little reasonable doubt that the wolf is the dog's original ancestor. --eatreet—eotearateeteree---- In charenter, in manners, in sibyl° in all thinga, the oupeeme excellence is fampii- city. Tailor-made jackets and frocks are (sant' sidered indirmensable at the etragicle, A Love Dory. The suicide of Miss Annie Sharp, who leaped off Beaohy Read and fell a dietanee of 400 feet which was shown at the keenest to hzive evidently been inspired by a love quarrel between the deceased and a young man who had broken off the engagement, gains an element of additional pathos from some incidental facts which the investiga- tion of the case has brought to light. A young Essex gardener, named Philip Cook, having read of the suicide in the daily papers, concluded that the young woman who had destroyed herself was an old sweetheart of his whose whereabouts he had not been able to trace. Being poor, the young man start- ed for London from issex, en route for East- bourne, and arrived at London Bridge weary and without UMW after a disheart- ening walk of 30 miles, 'Once on London Bridge this ardent rustic lover muldi not find his way out of town, and he had, no personal knowledge of the direction he ought to take for the south coast ; but de. ternained to walk the nearly 100 miles to Eastbourne, he consulted one of the Metro- politan Police. A city gentleman overhear- ing the inquiries as to the route and the burning tale of the young roan's in- tentions advanced tlae latter 10s, and the wearied'Essex traveller at once, with sim- ple honesty of purpose, handed the gentle- man thus befriending him a watch as proof of his sincerity of search for the remains of the girl with the euburn air. The young lover was thus with the lOs able to ride in- stead of walk to Eastbourne, where he had the melancholy satisfaction of finding his suspicions but too true as to Annie Sharpe being his old flame. say meant, became wo bed not get any up to the preaent—a3 I, of ceurae, conclud- ed that my visitor was examinhig this cheat vrith a view to robbery, toed I theught the hest thin I could de would be to re- main quiet for the preeent; hub 1 apoiled my peen by turning an nay side, so as to watch the robber better, and ha doing so I made what teemed to bon groat deal of notes. "1 now thought there Was no nee in coneeelment, so, drawbnga revolver, which slims kept under my head at night, I called out: Come forward at °nee and show yourself, or 111 blow your brains out." "1 made as much noise as I could in cooking the revolver, so as to give my threat more weight; but the gentleman in the corner seemed to take no notice, for he remained perfeetly quiet. I was undeold- ed what to do till the thought struck me the robber rreight at that moment be medi- tating shooting me frora 'where he wsa, and thia thought made my blood run cold for I thought of the friends and relatives I had left st home, and of the state they would be in when they heard I had been shoe in Auatralia; eo I again called out: "Whoever you are, rn give you but one chance; I'll count three, and if at that word you don't come forward I'll fire." "I told you I could not see the man's head, so I aimed at where I thought it ought to be and counted slowly: 'One, two, three 1" ' "At the word "three" I fired four shots In quick Rumanian for I thought that in the almost total dirkiness my aim might not be very good; but they seemed to have taken effect, for when the smoke cleared away I looked in vain for my mid- night visitor. "1 could not summon courage to gab up and look for his body; not that I was exactly afraid, but I had a horrible feel- ing of having abed a human being's blood, which I had never done before and I firmly believe I would almose rather have been shoe by the robber than have the fearful thought on my mind that I had killed him. "Never did I spend suoh a dreadful night. I could hot get rid of the one thought of having deprived a poor fellow - creature of life, especially while he was in the act of robbing, and perhaps intending murder; but more horrible than all was the idea that I might possibly have been the means of sending him to a fearful eternity. "In vain I tried to perauade myself that it was to save my own life I had done ; this summed to be a poor excuse., "However, I ab last fell into a dieturb- ed sleep, which lasted till morning; but the moment I awoke the dreadful night recurred to my mind; although I felt rather more calm. I thought I had had a b.orrible einem, but, on examining my re - 61110. Krupp is at present chiefly manufacturing guns for China, Turkey, Japan and Egypt. Young ladies who are fond of •roller skat- ing will be pleased to learn that, according volvere, I found four oham oers discharg- to the latest fashion announcements, the ea bustle willbe larger and "more pronounced," "1 rose and looked about the room, hub the coming season. In ram I sought the body of th.cs intruder. This, however, relieved me greatly as I thought he could not have been killed, but only wounded, and had escaped out of the but while I was aaleep ; but on going to the door I was more perplexed than ever, for the door had evidently nob Concerning "Cranks." What would weelo were it notfor cranks'? How idowly the old world would mom, did. not tronlos keep it rushlike. Celum- bus was a crank, and at lout he met the fate of moat arankti—was thrown into prison and died in. poverty and disgrace. Greatlyvenerated noel Oh,yea. Harvey was a crank on the subject of the circu- lation of the blood ; vrad astron- °Weld crank ; Fulton Was a crank on the subject of steam navigation ; Morse was a, telegraph crank. All the old Abolitionist's were cranks. The Pilgrim fathers were crauks ; John Bunyan was a crank; any man who doesn't think asyou do, my son, is a crank. And by-and-by the crank you despise will here his name in every man's mouth, and it monument to his memory crumbling down in a dean olties, while nobody outside of your naive village will know thee you ever lived. Deal gently with the crank, my boy. Of mune aome cranks are crankier than others, but a crank is a thing that tame something, it makes the wheehs go round, it insures progress. The thin that goes in for variety, that changes its position a hun- dred times a day, that is no crank; that is a weather -vane, my son. You thank Heaven you are not a crank." Don't say that my eon. Maybe you couldn't be a crank, if you vrotild. Heaven is not very parbioular when itt wants a weather -vane; almost any man will do for that. But when it wants a crank, my boy, it looks about very carefully. Before you thank Heaven that you are not a crank, examine yourself and see what it is that debars you from being a crank.—[Robert J. Bur- dette. A. cireumetance illustrating the extreme unpopularity of the American army occurred at Memphis the other day. Two thieves were released on condition that they enlist in the regular army, but after carefully. :;in- vestigating the matter they returned and in slated on being sent to gaol, -.11111411.—, A Humorous Elephant An elephant once played an amusing trick upon one of its own neigh ors in the Ila menagerie. One of the wor en had been engaged in painting a porti n of the house, touohing off the ornamental pro- jections with red paint. The young ele- phant watched him with great interest, apparently amused at the bright bits of color that euddenly appeared wherever the brush touched. The painter was ab- eorbed in his work when the dinner bell rang. He put his pot and brush down and went off to his meal. The elephant waited till he was outs of sight, than care- fully felt for the brush with his trunk. Next to Tom Thumb stood a eleepy camel dreamily eating his hay. Tom Thumb took up the brush and streaked the enure aide, Tody happened in just then and watched events, The elephant was beside itself with joy when it saw the red line of paint on the camel's grey auks. When the painter returned, the brab was back in its place, but the paint pot was empty, the elephant wan gazing ea,rneetly into 'space, and the camel was emblazoned all over with red stripes like a crimeon zebra.