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The Exeter Times, 1886-3-18, Page 13111111111 THE FARIVI The Seed Potato Puzzle. . Of all the various magnet which conspire to moke the average yield of Ili voted() orop no ridiculeuely low—eighty five leathele per acre, or ehoreabout—eoue hes aoemed to me more potent than the prevailing prao. tice of light needing, ea, advemated by many prominent agrioultural o Otero. For a DUal• ber of yearn I have made this emitter e sue jeot of often repeated teat' s and trieci by the publication of their ressulteto persurade farm era to adopt a common-senae method of seeding, It pleases me to, see iso mane* miming to the !support of the new method, among them oleo the Now York Experimene Station (atio "Whole Pototees Bent for Seed" in veTribune January 20,) Doubtless, (Lttd hoevor, ea 7 advocatee a heavy seeding may „lea eir followere into grave ride - Wee*. The a vies to ple.nt whole or half potetoeu muat be hedged in by eeverell"ife." The would-be tes,chers either have no do tooted, or fen to pobat out, the decided dif- ference, in the belneviour of dvearf (eyelet.). ymous,witinearly) and tell (eynonyzeottevritia late) varietiens. The all- weeping claim that whole tubers are the beet seed ie all wrong. "With early varietiem" to quote from my little work on potatoen, written riemewhiati over a year ago, "we can hardly nom:wive of any combination of Oolrotimetancee whit& might prevent a. oorrespranding itioreatie of yield from her.vier needing.' In all ray tests I have never touted the ,yield of ski& eyes of dwarf poratorne like Early Ron, Early Ohio'Early Sunriete, atm, to exceed 43 per cont, of the yield from goeci-eized tubers, except during lett ISSaGoti, when a patch of Early Suariee, plonted six inches in the row with rowe throe feet apart, yielded at the followbag rete per acre: Single -eye planting, 250 buthele ; whole tubere, 540 buehole ; and this be apite of the foot that richnithineell-tilleel,aoll, a motet season and all other circumetanoes were particularly favorable to mingle eye plenn ing. Many farmera, no Oonht, will eall a yield of 540 buahele of early potatoee per acre a very largo yield, 1 coneiderecl it in some sonue a failure and etbributed it to late planting. Had the pitch been planted two weeke earlier, thet is, at ow: esuel plant - bag time, the yield would probably have been much larger. , Let me any now, most emphatically, that maximum mops of early patotoos oan only be grown from full teeding, a whole large tuber being better than a small 'imam and this better than a utill ernaller piece. The heaviest seeding invariablyagivea the largeet yield. With late, that le, tall -growing vex. ietios, themnatter astumee an altogether dif- ferent enema. .An over -dose in seeding here may result in utter feeletro of crop. The use of whole large tubers for need is safe only when planted on light, thin eons end in check mem. The richer the sell and the more vigorous (teller) the variety, the leas seed must be med. Closer plating alio mre- 01 quires allet ed piece% To regulate the proper quo , ;y of teed, which will give the beat resalta, iseno easy matter and °Men may puzzle the expert, M13 the reason Iteolf, which nobody thus; far hen been eble to fore- tell, has a very decided influence upon the comparative yielde from lighter or heavier seeding. For common farm soila, upon which the majority of our growera raise their crops of late potatoes, I ehould recom- mend to plant, aa a minimum'one piece of fair sized tuber, which ha,s been quartered longhtvvise, by cutting equare through the seed end. ii% The quarterai w*Ighing not more that one and one-half oaf a each, are to be planted eighteen inchel aie a in rem three feet dis- tant. If Planted in check wows three by three, twroe that quantity of seedper hill is not too much. When American farmere generally adopt the commenmeneeiaystem id pleaating a eufficieney of seed, an atiggested by these remarks, the average yield of the oxop—even without any other change in many of the antiquated or indifferent methods atill no generally in vogue—will largely and certainly increase to the amounts approaching tho ca,pabllitios of the soil, At present those yielde are much leen than the soil is able to produce. Pesple who plant einglemye pieces have occasionally grown cropa of 300 or 400 buehole to the wore. They report their "remarkable success" to the agricultural paper!: and speak enthusi- astically of the single -eye planting. Had they planted half or whole potetoes inetead of single-eyea, they would (as I infer from my experience) have had to repeat yields of 500 or 600 bushel a and upward per aoro, All testa should be comparative; an" they are of no value.—[T. Greener. . Agricultural Items. One spoonful (waiter to a peck of aced corn will prevent crow° from pulling up the coin, . Adorop of mange's yielding forty-two tens of top and mote, thirty-three tone of the latter, hies been grown at a omit of $1,60 per ton, Children leave the farm, says Mr. J. 3, Thomas, becattee it is not attractive, He suggests that less money be epeat on build- ings and more on grounds. An experience goen to elbow that the farm- er who has smooth land which oan be culti- vated by horse -power, and =ghetto to raise a root crop, fails to live up to him privileges, A "root [market" in a feature of many English market towns. Roots are brought in and riold in lo d put co hay is brought ie into our marke The annual root crop of England le ()nor. It is a great help to , her cattle interests. Truck farmera near Savarnaah say that there will not be any early veyetabloe this year. Everything is or will be late. The January freeze and the attbriequent cold ename killed all of the vegetables tint were grow. hag and set the season back, The partridges mufferod severely in the rIo. cent sleet storm in Maine, Larnbermen end wood -choppers frequently OOMMO aCt*17S the feathera of theae birds bed& the helm, Rn thensnow from which the force and other animals have dug them out to oat them. Bintiphiele of carbon im in the opieiort ol 1V1, Pastime tho meat effieaolious of all am tiception. It in alio die cheapest, ami, al- though offennive In point of odor, is cap- able of oomplete purification. Large quan titiee are need to °hook the ravagm of phyl. Inoue The °home for wooer, in life are murk greater for the boy Who has grown up on the farm, and the industrious habits funned end tho fact that his evoninge wore opent at home are what givem him the stamina whit% enables him to win in the battle of life, ,. Atmerding to a recent eliscueeion, a grain In order to be meet veluable for paeturt ballet peewees the followin Ointritoterisilos .• Be well suited to the loulity, both ab to moil and climate; nuttitione i pakitable ; capable of growing continuotudy, do an to conatantly tonoW ito foliage whea oropped ; endure the ttainpieg of entomb ; be emille propagated, TEMPERA/TOE THOUORTS. YOUNG Foxxs. I expect to my dying day to fight the drink With every lawful weispon.—e[Grough, It'very MOM who becomes o drunkard be come, !so in trying to be a mederate drinker — [Gough. There are broken hearts, blighted hopes hlackened oharecteres, crushed intellects ea the result of strong drink,-- [Gough, Prevention is better than euro, It is worth a life effort to lift a man from de. gradation Bat to prevent his fall is far better.—[Gough, I velment° total abstinepoe from alohollo Poieeoe as a duty tolvarde our God, a duty eo oureelves and a duty to our tempted and zuffering fellow creaturea.--[Cuyler, Tons of arguments and appear: have been printed on this vitel question "How to aavo young men from et/tug drink ?" but they may be sal condensed into ono lino -- stop before you begin. —[Cuyler. The one momentoua truth that must be inetilled into the minds and oonecienoes of he young fe, that nobody win !safely tamper with an intoxmatieg beverage. On the bad -rock of entire abstinence alone are they oak.— [Cuyler. To tell young and excitable persona that they may drink intozioating liquor, if they are only careful to atop before becoming drunkards, ii its abeurd is to tell them that they may blithe in the aapids of Niagara, but keep out of the eateract—ECuyier, A Peddler Who Became a Prince. The hietory of Prince Torlonia, whoze death was atmounced, bea video of surprises. The family were of :French origin, ona came from Auvergne, the original name being not Torlonia, but Tourlogue. The feweelor of the great banking basally was etievant of Cardinal Aquaviva, wito in his will left him o provleion for the rest of his life, The valet invoeted the money in Ince and needlea, and did a good 'Made with these small wares, and Wali able to educate and pude forward hie eon, who early allowed de - aided eabiiity for finance, iOe was patron- ized by Pius VI., and employed by him to carry out a aeries of meiletary operations, all of which ware bridiantly eaccessiful, The ammo of Teurlogne was now ebandoned. and Giovanni Torloaia founded a bank, and money multiplied with him. On his deeth in 1829 he left his on Alex- ander Torlenia, a fortune of 40 millions. Alexander iaherited not only his father's wealth but also hie capacity for bueinass. The 40 millions invested in tb.e purchene of a monopoly et tobacco, etrotehing over thirty years, increased enormously, and Prince Torionia found that while the other Roman nobles were growing yearly more iinpover. iehed money was fructifying in his coffer% He employed it in princely hospitality and in ventures of enormous magnitude, and both methode of inveetment were prosperous, The draining of the lalte Fuoino, a work which severed of the Roman empercire had commenced and abandoned, was Euccesdal- ly carried cut at a cost of 36 raillione, and Vieter-Emmanuel celebrated this great en- gineering achievement by preeenting the prince with a gold medal specially struck for the occasion. The prince's enormous wealth passes to his daughter, married to ono of the Borgheae family, who takes t'ne name and title of Torionia. Jonesionae FROM SAM JONE'S'SERMON Thr CHICAGO. God pity the Christian man that conaults public opitien on any (mention of conscience or conviction. There is but one eon in the universe of God that infidelity would grow in, the evil that's Intoned byethe unfaithful limes of pre- forming Chrietkine. ROW, there are two very dittinot kinds of courage. There is what we cell "moral" courage and what we cell "physical courage. I don't go much on phyaicel courage, be- cause we find the higheet expretzion of that in a bull pup, [Laughter.] We say we believe in old-fashioned heart religion. Brother, if I can't have religion in but one perticul at.. niche (any pernon, I want it right here in my right hand, that I can ho something for God and humanity. Yon hear that? [Leughter and applause.] Reputatien is like a glove. ai on oan put it on and take it off, and you can rend it and throw it away, and yon have not lost much but character is the hand iteelf, and when once it is nonewed it is acarrod forever. Liesten, there must be an keine. When the issue was made between the North and •tho South see how 'the lines were drawn. Then every loyal citizen beyond the lino in the South hteuried back over Marion and Dixon'a line, got hisemusket and went to the frontemad every man loyal to the South went back over the line, got his weapons, and went to the front. The effort of my life in the pulpit ia to make myaelf under- atood. I don't care a cent whether you agree with me or not. I want you to un- derstand me thoroughly. If you think the devil is going to snrrender Uhicago without a fight, it is bemuse you don't know your old acquaintance. You aro not Rested. The devil is running this city. [Leughter, ) A Waifs View of Wealth. A little street waif was once at the house of a great lady, and the childieh eyes that had to lock no sharply after deny bread, were dazzled by the signs of [splendor on emery hand, " Can yon get everything you want?" the child asked the mIstrean of the menden. "Yee, I think so," waa the reply. Can goa buy anything that you'd liko to have 2" The lady answered, The child, who was of a randitative turn of mind, looked at her half -pityingly, and ae,id, wonderingly: Don't you find it dull ?" To the keen little mind, acoustomed to live bird like from clay to day, and to re- joice over a little nuppiy with the delight beret of rarity, the topeol; of contimial plenty, and doeirea ell gratified by poem ion, conteined an idea el moeotony that seemed ahnorit maritime. Many an owner of a et11-filled puree, hat found /no dull," and pronounced in the millet of luxury that all Wino are vanity, But the hand that knowa how wisely to dostributo and totter abroad the bona% poemeeed, will Dever be w,tholit interred it, life, will never miothe eat shine thet abides for kind and utwelfinh heartm Ohe Wanted a Signal, Etholborta—I Want a pair of dippers for pa. Number tens, plow, endeesquealty, Genial Shoemakon—Squeelty roles Joe efraid wo havout any of that kind, Etheiberta—I com 00 none, Couldn't you nake him a aretteeky pear There IS A oar aioy�baig gouthanen who visits the fro fluently, and—and it would be very canoe)) teut for hint to know just whou pa is um - What Ever Boy Should Learn. Every bey ahould know how to tie a square knot, To tie a equaee--and not a "granny knot," every timet without ein ping to think how it is done, is ao important pears of a boy% education, But there ate many other things e boy ahouid learn early in life, as by so deiug ho will Neve himself inuch rnorlefioetion when he becames a young Men. Nothing so troublea young man when he goes among people of his own age, no to feel that he is ooneidered "green," He ehoeld early learn to control hisnuelf, to tand still, Many boys, without being uonsolous of it, aro °mutant's, origglieg. They fidgekwhen attending, and do not know anat to do with their him& When sitting, the trouble is with their feet, and they with therm keep up a tapping, or other motion, or continually ores& theft -loos, one overanother, Let every boy who recede this, train himself —like a soldier, to "atand at eerie," and also to alt at ease, Every boy should reoollect that the mouth has its proper MOO, but these ire not to hear with, or to see with. When mai are listening to something that intermits you, keep your mouth ahut. In seeing anything, no matter how strange, do not open the mouth, se le that would help te.ke In tho eight. Keep the mouth shut when not eate lag or telkiug. Personal oleaalinees and, neethees, Mnould become n habit eerier in life. Do iletbe afraid ol any work, however it may roil the had, but when through fir the day, be euro to have the hands in proper ceder. If the hande are browned from ex- poatzre, or atairma by the work, do net mind tint, but let them be as clean as soap and water will make them. After washing the harela, clean the neals, and if need be, trim them. Never go to the toble at home with the naile "in mourning,"is and you :ill bo sure not to do so elsewhere. It hardly noede to be nuggested that the heir should be in order for each meal. Some lane Imo said, that "a. bad Set of teeth, Le an Amerl- oan's Coat of Arne." We hope each dooa not apply to Canadians. It is true, however, whatever may be the came, that bed teeth, or lost teeth, are more frequent in Ammice, than auy other countey, livery boy, after he gets hie second, or permanent set ef teeth, should begin the daily use of a, brush and water. The brush need be but moderately stiff. It. water Moue does not keep the teeth quite clean, rub the brush upon a piece of Caatile soap before' urieg. A boy should early acquire the habit of removing his hat whenever he entera the house. If he observes thle for hie own hence, he will be sure to do so on entering all other house, The other extremity, the feet, should not be forgotten. A farmer's boy ahould not take hia working shoes (or boots), into the house with him, with their adhering soil. At the baok stoop, or other convenient place, change these for slippers, or a pair of old, but clean shoes, kept for the purpose. Whatever be the foot wear, when not at work, if not polished, let it be at Went elwaya clean and neat, Many boys have an expreinion, or a set of expreastonee which they time on all oc- casions. When told of something, they say: "How you talk 1" or "Well, I never or "You don't say so !"—when the othoe hen just said so Still worse is it to ex- claim. "1 awan I" or "Jerusalem cricketa 1" or "Gosh all January 1" or any mole vul- gar set phrasee, some of which are but thinly concealed profanity. When told something new, how much better it would be to say; "I am surprieed," or "Thia is new to me, and I thank you." The use of ouch slang phracere aa they deserve to be called, Is not confined to young people, who would not nee them, were it not for the ex- ample of older pelsons, who should know that to use each iii a mark of limited in- telligence. Accustom yourself, in cashing a favor, to add, "If you please," and in accepting one, however slight, always add, "I thank you," insterid of "thanks." An observance of the pointa above given, will prepare a boy to go anywhere, without fooling that he is looked upon an green and awkward. These we regard an neceesary for every boy to observe, but though thee remarks are addressed to the boys, their deters, the girls of the family, may ind in them some points which they may observe with benefit, THE ROGUES' RETREAT. Judge Tate, the Peoria Absconder, and hrs Lady Love Stopping in Blinn eal. A dispatoh from Montreal says: The soandaloue behavior of Jndge Yates, of Pe- oria, HO, who anted as curator to a rich widow of that plaoe, harm not been torgotton. A few weeks ago it transpired that he had squandered ber fortune of $1,500,000eaad eb- acended with all the cash he could lay his hands on, deserting his wife and family at Peoria. Since his absconding it has been diecovered that he has also ruined a young lady of fortune of that place, who since his departure has not been seen and is supposed to have run away with the unrighteous Judge. Both of the runaways have been traced to We oity. The young lady, who is demoribed an being a fascinating creature, arrived here on Molloy last on the train from the West. She traveled by herself, and informed those who gook° to her that she expected to moot a friend at the St. Lewrenoe Hall. Whon oho artived there with her baggage she Was nervous and agi- tated to find that her friend was not there. She'howsver, took a room and registered as "Mho 0-1, Chicago." After remain- ing there a few daye the maid she had sum oe.oded in discovering her friend at the Wiuclaor Hotel, to which elm immediately removed, and where elm has been residing for the last ten days. The Judge, from the description given, was also a guest at the same house until a few days ago, when he maidenly disappeared, probably owing to the press/leo in the city of several American detheives. The lady Is well provided with funds and is richly and tastefully dressed. She knows Ito one in the city, and does not appear to care about inaliieg acquaintencee, She ens oho is welting the return of a Mend, A Novel Weapon. A few nighto ago a gentleman was arous- ed from his olumbers by hearing a noiee a hie window, He immediately oonoluded that he was about to be treated to a robboey Pistol or gun he had tune, but he was de termlned to defend hie little property with aim' life. Looking around he found a. bottle si ginger ale. A happy thought; struole him An soon as the burgher's head came through he window he puehed the bottle Ooze to is head, out the string and bang went tilt 3ark, followed by a eluloo of ale into the Wet of the men. Ho iell back yollingi and the gentleman ran out to find a compeniot e'Ito, belated, had gotta tweeted to epoticl the %Immo of the night, and thought he would )1der Without disturbing hia friend. They +Vora smarmy, bet the 6.10 Was too good to odd, cmcl wo give le to the public), with, holding the name& Looking Baakward: 1.0111.14 MARL Look not back, but straight ahead; Seek the Stinknot pm deed ; Yestetday le thine no more, Give regretful grievioge oar. Greet to -day with purposo IteW ; how— toAlay—be good and true ; Linger not in ion°, delrY O'er the joys of yesterday, Weep not o'er Itefoi1te. peat Only let them be thy last ; Learn the lemon that they teauh, And to toad more worthy roach, Let soh Wino, each mistake Spur anew thy power to make Manure victory ; no regret Ever gained a triumph yet. Forward. hopeful, turn thy face ; Steps which thou mat not retraoe Leave behind, and choose todity For thy feet the better way. Let thy life each moment be So macelash, sweet, end free. Tho4 no haunting shade shall lie On the them/bre of days gone by. SOMME AND ART. It is maid that glycerine in its pure atate should not be tend Inc clapped belie, as it abeorbs moisture from the skin, thus leaving It dry and liable to crack. When modem ately diluted with water, however, glyeer- ine is an excellent application. The 13r11ith experimonte to tent the relm tive merits of oh, gas and electricity for lighthouee illumination have resulted in demonetreting the imporiority of eleotricIty over ;another lighta, even, no has been gen- erally doubted, in demo foga, Coppar.lined tenks tiro often known to trouble by leaking, after a fow years, much of which arises from the manner of molder- ing. Meet plumbers nee common fielder, made of lead and tin. For this kind of work pure tin ehould be used, and the leaps thor- oughly sweated through. The nand should aleo be of copper. The mettle imatem of weighte and measures wee adopted entlenaket'eally in many labor- atories when first introduced, but it is now Wel to be rapidly losing ground. The fact that tho misplecement of a little dot will turn a cemparatively harraleas dose of med- icine into one having a deadly poisoning potter beam strongly againet it. A scientific journal gives an aoosunt of a pianoforte made in Paris in vihich paper was made to take the place of wood, the whole case being made from paper ao com- pressed that it wee enehled to receive a hard surface, which took a perfect polish. The color was oream white, The tone of the instrument is reported to be not loud, but very eweet. Emperimente on an exteneive vale have been meal° in Germany to ascertain the re- lative atrength of iron and steel girders. T.he soft-eteel girders proved to be twenty- two per cent, and hard steel girders sixty- six per cent, stronger than the iron girders; and ilii remarked that it seemed pretty well establiahed that the strength of steel girdera ia about the name for the two flanges, if made alike, in sectiona. A mixture of zinc white with zino °bladder is found to furnish a paint of great value both for wood and metals, as it becomes very hard, and can be washed and brushed without injury, which panders aro, of course, of prime importance.. An essential preos.ution, however, to be obaerved in re- gent to thie paint is not to ar ply in rainy or frosty weather, as it then becomes mealy and toeles off. It ia aometimes said that the term hone - power is incorrect, because it does not ex - prefix the actual power of an average, or even an exceptional, horse, This really makoa no difference. The animal should be entirely elimbaatod from the mind, and the term taken at its exact moaning, viz. : the raining of 33,000 politick ono foot high in one minute of time. A horse would fall short of doing this for ten hours a day; a mteam engine will do it for twentstfour hours. In recent eleotrimlighting experiments, it hes been attempted to give each lamp its own battery. Perfect success is reported, and portability has been gained by the uee of a battery of great power and small size. Tho elements are a small packet of chloride of silver and two plates of zinc, which aro placed in the oell with a weak solution of °audio potash, forming what is known as the Skrivs.noff primary battery. After a time the chloride of silver ia reduced to me- tallic) silver, when it ie eaaily restored by washing in a mixture of nitric and hydro. chloric acids. With each renewal, a small battery wlil feed a glow lamp twelve hours, it is reported that a stem engine in which the dead centre point is obviated ban been invented by a German engineer. In this engine a block coestruoted with a slot through whioh the crank -pin passea is hasten- ed to the piston -rod. This slot is diagonal, and has conoave edges facing each other; at each end cf is it a recess. The slide -valve haa attachment with a rod famished at its lower ends with tappets'againet which tho endn of the sliding-blooks strike, thurs redip- rocating the slid -valve rod, The necessary expansion is imparted by spring -arms at- tached to the lovers from which the rods are suspended. PAD THE LAST PENALTY. A Laborer Hanged for Efeliberately Drown- ing his Child. At Cardiff, Thomeas Nash, a laborer, 39 yearn of age, paid the last penalty of the iavr for the murder of his child, Mary Ann Nash, 6 years of age, on the 41h of bait De °ember. The prieonor warn a widowee with two children, but upon marrying for the neoond time, about (eight months ago, he placed his daaghter Mary in charge ot Mre. Goodwin, who lived in a suburb of Swam flea. As ho fa,iled to pay for the chile'. keep Mra. Goodwin sent for Nash to take her away, and on the 41h of December he called for his child ona aubssequently Was semi welkic g down tho So -exiles extension pier a atructure two thousand face long rtins'ilng into the sea. ()Ter this the surf was breaking at tbo time, and no one Was on tho pier except the primmer and hie daughter. He.vin,g reached the end of the structure ho wait eosin by some minors in a boat a few hundred yardo from shore to de. liberatoly throw hie child into the water and wateli utb1 aho woo &Ailed to piecea against the rook& Tee sailore gave the alarm and the man was arrested, At ilitt trial on the Weleh oireult, before the Lord Chief J112i100, the prisoner said diet he put the child upon a rail to take her on hia bank to carry her to town, when she Blipped and the wind blow hot into the ,Iba, but as this explanetion wao direotly oentrary te the teatirminy of the etagere, the man mu found guilty and sentenoed to death. Pd or to hie execution ha eonleseed his guilt, ahd maid that his sound wife Would only live with Itirn on condition that she was not to bo "bothered" with ahy etepohildret, end es he botlia not pay for the olaild'e keep, he determined upon getting rid of her, HERE AND THERE. Moo Langtry i udy storing away her wealth in N. Y. She hail gradually been add. ing to her Investment)) in mortgages until she now holds over $50,000. An exhibition of live fish, and ell apemen two of thile watching and hell culture, will be nitd n Chipago in April nudor the charge of tho Americon Fisheries liioeletY A Tennessee court has Mooed a term in which six murderers escaped conviction, by sending a hruigry woman to prison for two years tor atealing a quart of buttermilk. Remy Adonis ef °Wont; had in his stable a fine liminess and wolf rebs, nnd a valuable bull -dog to guard them. Mike Welela broke in and etole hernese, robe, and dog. Dr. Hamilton Griffin, Mary Anderson's vigilant ritepfother, says that at the close of the preaent inseam the Kentucky aotrese will retire for two years to gain ranch need- ed rest. The Mermone are still picking up proem hetes among the poor whitea of the South, Elder Morgan has just talcon thirty pretty tough -looking converts from Terineseee and Alabama, Some of the money made in Northern °Wee by electric Lulu linnet went to buy Jereey cattle for Father iluratte farm, and now he is selling Georgians art exceilen quality of butter. At e recent temperance meeting in Youngetowo, Ohio, 1VIre. Knight, a soloon keeper, signed the pledge, and at, once put her faith into worka by turning her saloon into a coffee house. A young woman of Jefferson county, In- diana, adveetised for a husband, A K02:14aS oleo answered the tedverritement. Soo agreed to marry hien and when he sent her $23 started to meet him, Capt. George Bliers of Attleboro, Masa, who fa nearly 80 years old, walked all the way to Reboboth on one of the windiest of the recent windy nights, that he might take part in the town meeting. Dr. Farrand of Charienton, W. Va. wen 100 years old on the firat day of March. Ho ifs a halo old man walks about the °My alone, and reads olthout glasses!. He was once a very well-known Philedeiphia phy- sician. Georgiann point with pride to David Sar- gent of Hall county. He is a vigorous na- tive of 95 years, anci walked twenty-two miles the other day, and said he could just aa well as not have walked ten ranee further. Edinon's patents have now become so 1172MOSOU0 that they have a special seders of index or rebeence numbers in the Patent Office—the only came in which such separa- tion from the general index has been thought nee:emery. The citizens of that part of St. Louis known me Kerry patch, not bailey -lug that a dog pound ehould be permitted, assembled last Sunday, men, women, and children, marched upan the pound, over-novvered the watchman, and let boric over 200 dogs. T. 0, Detre', a wealthy citizen of St. Louie went to Leadville recently with the Idea Of investing largely in the mine!! there. While looking through the " Colonel Sel- ler?' Mine he stumbled and fell into a shallow pit. He did not think he was hurt, but he died in four days from the effects of the fall. A Columbine W. T. man and wife drove mayoral miles to a griet mill carrying with them several sacks of corn and their child, which had a bad case of whooping cough. While the corn was being ground the child won kept in the hopper until the grain all ran out. They had heard that such treat- me.nt would oure whoopingmough. A Victoria, B, C., merchant was so pleased with the photograph of m young woman living in Nova Scotia, that he struck up o, correspondence with her, a.nd then in- vited her to join him and be hie wife. She made the long journey, rend when he sew her, and found that she wasn't nearly as good looking as her portrait, he refused to marry her. She is ening him for $5,000. Piing Martindale of Kirkland, 0,, le a well-th-do, but apparently very hazy, not te say heartlees fermer. Ho had 300 ahotp when winter sit Li, and plenty of grain ard fodder, bue the other day en agent for the Humane Society found 71 of the &beep dead, 40 being piled in the haeement of one born, and 23 in auother, ant othere guttered about the place. They had all starved to death. A Beaton drummer ordered a plate of his native fodder in Brandon*. V,, the other (lave and was charged twenty•five cents. He ob- jeoted to paying fifteen cents more then the Breton price, but without avail. The nexe day the bean sellor received a telegram say- ing : "Don't you think that wee too much for those beans 2" The reetaurant man paid twenty-five cents for the message and swore. Wong Ah Wong, said in the Shanghai newspepera to be ono ef the Chinese students who were educated in this country, has been arrested for getting money on a forged order. He got only about $2. In court he pleaded for mercy on the ground that his relations had disovvned him, that his wife had been taken from him, and that he was witheut home and money. He was sentenced to one mouth' a imprisonment and to reedy° 200 blows. Ono of the warkraen in the bineetone querries on the Lechawaxen River keepa his family well aupplied with duck meat. He sots ordinary atool rat traps baited with lish, whenever he dada an open ahallow meet In tho Poo botind river. Tho duc10 go there to IMAM and hunt for food, cid the fish under the water, dive for it, a,nd get °aught by the head, and ta serieo of duck tale etioleing out of the water mark the spote where they died. In the cemetery at Crewfordvillee Gm, a steno has just been placed over the grave of Harry Skevena, who died In 1881,11 bears theao words: "Ho was for many psalm the faithinl, treated, and beloved body sem rant of Alexeuder IL Stephenas. Like hint he WaS distinguished for kindunee, upright - nese, and benevolence, Arc 0 man he was honemt and true, Aa a Christian he was humble and trusting," The grave of the master It etill unmarked by mentement or stone. A eliyming siginil eereice officer has for. mutated the flag Gado for weather preclice None in the following castlememorized linos A sun of red Is weether warm, A aun of blue it general storm A element reet 11 weatitee A (gement blue Iti %it` foretold, A star of red no Ohne° implies, A blue star loon sternly eitioit, A square of black on flAg of While, A cold wave comes in ell lie might. "Pitat'e thet said Pat to the glaesware dealer, "That'a set of opeeue glees," "PoWere ! Sure 01 lived the mot of hie loti near the O'Pakes and neva' tt Otos hut they, bat 1 pewter pot, A MASSACRE IV YEARS Am, The Guilt ar on Amin 1 l'ireledY loftoednohle at Usti Advice's from British Columbia state that, efter fourteen year& waiting, the authorities believe they have dirmovered mad have in custody one of the participants in the was - ewe of the peseengcre and crew of the steamehlp G. S. Wright, evideb was loot olu the down trip from Alaska in 1872. No authentic details of the oeoualty or of the fate of the unfortutiate paetwegere and crew were ever know, as no white man lived to tell the tale. Authentic rumere, which were eubsequently confirmed, eveee in cir- culation sometime atter the cataetrophe of the epeape of a number of white people from the wreck and of their zubsequent maseacre by the Indians on the ooast when they leaded. The supposition wau that the 111 -feted vane!, during ri mnow dorm, ;struck a reef when entering Queen Charlotte Sound, at the !northern end of the island, the entrance to the Sound being dangerous In thick weather on account of the number of treacherous reale. Otte of the firemen on the George S. Wright was an Indian, wbo OtOap d with others from a watery grave and, ehen initiated his brother redskins to kill the unfortunate °Moen end paseengers who escaped with hire; It is now believed, be- yond doubt, that an Indian named Komab, who Is hold In custody at Viotoria, 13. C., fie:having atolen liquer in Me pooneeeion, is none other then the fireman of the ill-fated yeesel who took part in, if he did not whol- ly instigate, the murder ef the passengers and otew. The authorities are now working up the case, and from the evidence of several Indians from the vicinity of the wreck there is every probability that one at leaet of the guilty parties will be brought to juatice, although fourteen piers have gone by since the torribie dead was com- mitted. Trouble in Mint] town. "Top av the marnin' to yez, Mrs. O'Tool I An' in tido yer day for resstevine 01'5 know 1" "0 -o -o -o / an' Is that you, Mrs. G array 1 Sit down an come in 1 An We glad 01 am to eee ez 1 indade it is 1 An' how are yez ahtandin' the eleimate this weather ?" 'Ooh 1 it'a doyin' Oi am 1 Pliwat widI puttin' an me Summer muslinen a Mon- day, an' thryin' to le.ape warm an top av a red hot ehtove an a Chewsday, and thin boyin eke my a Widneeday, it's kilt 01 am int,o,IAnh rely10"Nv 's Distil& I'd know ?" "Dionis is foinely ; he's ehtruck a job av wurrk over to the crematory an. the Mount av Olives ever ferninet Williamsburg." phwat's he dein' there ?" "Milkin' cows an makin' butther and ohaze, I suppose." "An' phwat s ailin' the pet ? Niver outwit diei he offer to run at me whin 01 ktm in !'' "Oh 1 he's bin :Min' tome deynimite cat- ridgee phwat they're after twin' down at the quarry, an' ho a bin low in his moind an' sollum bike iver since." are yez givin' him anything to arm him Mike 1' "It's afeard to mix elheinkti 01 am." Och 1 spalein' av Malinke remolude me that thinorrer la Washington's birthday 1" "An' Phwat are yez going to give him for P'Pr•Gesieviltewrho phwat ?" ".Plien am yez was simian' av 1" OI don't be slither knowin' him! Howly mother I an' how long have yez been in the counthry that yez never hoard av him phwat owns the big market down beyant "Phwat markit ?" "Washington markit, to be sure 1 an niv- ver a—veheoroor 1 there ! Sheep atin' MG cloak, ye baste 1" And. with that Mrs. Garrity gave she marauding goat a sounding kick in the ribs which wee immediately follow. ed by a terrific explosion, ee * After being planed in the ambulance, Mrs, O'Tool recovered enough to say, faintly : goa"tAier' if that you there, Mr. Garrity 1" "Therm is pieces av me here." "An' yez wiil be either payin' for the "Indade sn oi will not, an' oi will have yez up for kapin' dangerious wepins 1 01 will 1' up in there l'' shouted the amine le,nce surgeon, e,nct then al wee quiet on the Potomac. Then and Now. "The, golden age of greet Elizabeth" ap- pear)) but bare and poor when contrasted with our own. Women !servants were paid about times Millers a year, betides one dol- lar for clothing, and meat and drink. Most of the gentry gave their servants but one eubetantial meal eech day. The houses of farmers arid mechanic a were still, for the moist part, huts, without Aim- neye ; the smoke (=aped by doors and win- dows, after it had welt -nigh blinded the in- mate& Even the great palaces, as the French ambassador reported, were without carpet& "the floars being strewed with rushes, whieh remain for months'receiving mud, bones and grease from the table, and filth of every kind, until the stenoh and ver- min in these great houses are insuppor- table." The plague which raged in England In thous days was duo to the uncleanly con- dition of the housem Strada gives an a000utat of the wedding of the son of Arohbithop Parker to the daugh- ter of tho Bishop of Chichester, which con- trasts oddly Avail the magnificence and cost of a marriage now in wealthy families in this °emitter. "The bride had with her aa dower a geld. ing ; for her apparel, ten pounde ; of her owia stook, twelve pounds; and of table - linen, one damaek Moth and one towel, two pillow -ben, two long cushions, one silver salt and standing cup, and, where they rode to visie her mother, tea pounds in money." Napkins and table-eloths were seldom need ; forks were alumat =known. Even tho dainty Lady Jane Gray made her break - feet on " swine-fleah and ale," cutting and tearing the meat by the aid of a knife and hor fingers. Winn we eontrant this bete, life with the luxury d oar own Saye, the countless ap- pliancee which mimeo, art Mei wealth have brought hem every quarter of the globe `into a. Canadian home, we ore apt hastily to call oura the age of eivilization, Yet the geniue of Shakeepoare and the whdom of Bacon grew cut of that poor out- ward Ilfe ; the fineet flower of L'nglieli lit- erature bloteomed in it ; and inert and woe neon found in it a feith which suetelited them triumphant at the stake. " A levee life," elaye Holy Writ, " eon- elatoth net in the &bowl:Ito of thiege he poeueeeth," Bop; or gels whoa poverty in 1886 hiekett their life at bore ao if they had bccn born in the age of Elisabeth, must keep In mind that decorated bonne, eoft elothing and dainty are were not needed in thou cleye to num° poota, heow, or neer- tern into life. ,e,..--menememesestoweeseeem---- The vanity that "the world ittovee he' °Alan "it is deeper to move then to pay rant Is dolled.