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veto on any attemptat hushing up the
question. She bad timidly tried the
line of pooh -pools ag the whole matter,
and Gerald had clearly shown be that,
in his opinion, it admitted of no such
treatment. She had not dared to ask
Idea seriously if be would marry her,
supposing the accusation were true. A
jokmg question of the kind had been
put aside us almost in bad taste, and,
at auy rate, ill-timed. Consequently she
was uneasy, and ready to bo very mis-
erable on the slightest provocation. But
to -day Gerald came in a different mood.
Re was triumphant, aggressive, and
fearless; and before he had been 1n the
room ten minutes, he broached leis new
design—a design that was to show con-
clusively the esteem in which he bele
the vile slanders and their utterer.
Be married directly] Oh, Gerald!"
"Why not, darling?" It will be the
best answer to them."
What would your father say?"
"I know he will approve. Why
shouldn't he?"
But—but everybody is talking about
me"
"What do I care?"
It suits some men to be in love, and
Gerald looked very well as he threw
out his defiance urbi et orb!. Neaera
was charmed and touched.
Gerald dear, you are too good—you
are, indeed, too good to me and too
good for me."
Gerald said, in language too eloquent
to be reproduced, that nobody could
help being "good" to her, and nobody
in the world was good enough for her.
"And are you content to take me en-
tirely on trust?"
Absolutely"
"While I am under this shadow?"
eryno You aro under no shadow. I take
the corners of two hundred eyes eager your
word unphoi men I would take
daeorge' was to earn Mr. Espial a
610 mare yet, . as it turned out. Ile
bad' not' gone many ,steps, before IpQe
saw his cousin Gerald mMakinr. g i ie bow
to alre, Pocklington•
him too, and was on the alert. Gerald
was .otiosely followed by ToGeorge
"Ah, the enemy!" exclaimed
under his breath, pursuing his way to-
wards Inure Pooklington.
The throng was thick, and his pro-
gress slow, He bad time to to Tom -
serve
Gerald, wbo wee now talking
Tom-
my and to Sidmouth Vane, who had
them. Gerald was speaking
joined
low, but his gestures betrayed strong
excitement. Suddenly he beg
walk rapidly towards George, the peo-
ple seeming to fall. aside from his path.
Tommy Myles �[ollowed him, while
Vane all but ran to George and whis-
pered eagerly, dear
"For God's sake, clear out, my
fellow! He's mad] There'll be a shindy,
as sure as you're born]"
George did not like shindies, especial-
ly, in drawing -rooms; but he liked run-
ning away less. "Oh, let's wait and
see," he replied.
Gerald was looking dangerous. The
healthy ruddiness of his cheek had dark-
ened to a deep flush, his eyes looked
vicious, and his mouth was set. As
he walked quickly up to his cousin, ev-
d tried to look away; but out of
glances centred on the pair.
MI' "Ah, I don't deserve it."
"May L have a wore. with y "Who could look in your epee"—
Gerald began, calmly enough. Gerald was doing so—"and think of de -
"As many as you like; but I don't Beiheat?rt?" Why do you look away, sweet -
know that this place --
"It will do for what I have to say,"
Gerald interrupted.
"All right.; What is it?"
"I want two things of you. First,
you will promise never to dare to ad- Neaera tried to smile at this gleasan-
dress my—Mrs. Witt again." try. .She was kneeling by l,orald's
"And the second?" asked George. chair as she often did, looking up at
"You will write and say you've told him,
for 11." 'Doubted me ?" she said.
lies, and are sorry "Yes, sinceou won't let your eyes
"I address whom I please and write speak for youy I will put you to the
what L please." question. Will that be enough?"
Poor NeaeraI she thought it would
Vane interposed.
"Really, Neston—You, Gerald, rine"'; quite ewough.
«And 1 will ask you, what T have
-don't make a row here. Can't you never condescended to ask yet, dearest,
et him away, Tommy4.. if there's a word of truth in it all?"
g. Gerald, stillplayfully, of
Gerald gave Tommy a warning loo]:, 1100118 and riselofotok ON owlook
and poor Tommy shook bis head mourn- at me and say—what shall be your
fully, oath?"
George felt the necessity of avoiding
every Neaerawastimesilent.sheapoko This passed ade wordist;
she m
a stens. He began to moveathietly worse.
away. Gerald stood full in his p I L know," pursued Gerald, who was
"You don't go till you've answered, much pleased with his little comedy.
'Will you do what I tell you?" "Say this, On my honour and love, 1
began
"Really, Gerald," George am not tbe girl."
still clinging to peace. ; Why hadn't she let him alone with
Yes or no?",his nonsense about her eyes? That was
"No," said George, with a smile andnot, to Neaera's thinking, as bad as a
a shrug. lie direct. On her honour and love!"
"Then, you our, take—" She could not help hesitating for just
In another moment he wouldut ave ' a moment.
have
struck George full in the face, 'I am not the girl, on my honour
vigilant Vane caught his arm as he j and love." Her words came almost
raised it. with a sob, a stifled sob, that made
"You damned fool! Are you drunk? " I Gerald full of remorse and penitence,
be hissed into his ear. 'Everybody's and loud in imprecations on his own
looking." stnggidity.
It was true. Everybody was. 1 [t was all a joke, sweetest," he
"All the better," Gerald blurted out. : pleaded; "but it was a stupid joke,
"I'll thrash him— and it has distressed you. .Did you
Tommy Myles ranged up end passed ; dream I doubted you?"
his hand through the angry roans oth- No."
sr arm. "Well, then, say you knew it was
"Can't you go, George?' asked Vane. a joke."
"No," said George, calmly; "cot till Yes dear„ I know it was,—of course
he's quiet." it was; but it—it rather frightened
The hush that had fallen on the room I mee'
attracted Mrs. Pocklington's attention-+ "Poor child! Never mind; you'll be
la a moment, as it seemed, though her amused when you think of it presently.
movements were as a rule slow and; And, my darling, it really, seriously,
stately, she was beside them, just in I does make me happier. 1 never doubted,
tine to see Gerald make a violent et- but it is pleasant to hear the truth
fort to throw off Vane's detaining band.; from your own sweat lips. Now I am
I cannot get anybody to go into the i ready for all the world. And what
music -room," she said; and the signora about the day ?"
is waiting to begin. Mr. Neston, give ;
day 1'
me your arm, and we will show the Sh 0f course you don't know what day]
way." Then her eyes seemed to fall , „�lrh11 does 'directly' mean?' asked
fir the first time ge George. "Oh, youNeaera, mustering a rather watery
here too, Mr, George? Laura is look-
ing for you everywhere. Do find her. smile. a week."
Come, Mr, Neston. Mr. Vane, go and "Connie
give your arm to a lady"
The group scattered, obedient to her But, after the usual negotiations,
commands, and everybody breathed a Neaera was brought to consent Lo that
little sigh, half of relief, halt Of disap- day three weeks, provided Lord Tattle-
pointment, and told one another, that bury's approval was obtained.
Mrs, Pocklington was a great woman. And, Please, don't quarrel with
In another second" said Tommy , your cousin ane more;"
Myles, ns he restored himself with a "I. can't afford to let him alone now."
—
glass of champagne, "it would have an.
Are you going, Gerald?"
been a case aE B11w Street!" "No time to lose. I'm off to see the
"I think it fairly amounts to a fra- governor, and 1 shall come back and
case" said ]12r. Eapmon to himself; and fetch you to dine in Portman Siluare.
as a fracas, accordingly, it figured. Goor"Gl-byeralde , forsuppose--an hour," darling!
"Well "1f—lPTER• IX. 1-1 l"
f— No, nothing. Good-bye,.
On the followingmorning, Lord Tot- clear; andr
tdebury sat as arbitrator, gavean im- "What is it, sweet?"
partial consideration to both sides of .'Nothing—well, and don't be long."
the question, and awarded that George Gerald departed in raptures. As sown
should apologise for his charges, Ger- as he was out of the room, the 1 ailless
aid for his vtolenee. Lord TottleburY rat emerged from under the sofa. He
argued the case with ability, and his llatecl violent motions of all kinds, and
final judgment was able and conclusive, lovers are restless beings. Now, taank
Unfortunately. however, misled by the heaven 1 there was a chance of lying on
the, papersr about mettrafotherintthan c the
hearth-rug without being' trod -
those which immediately concerned him, ",Dict you hear that, Bob?" asked
Lord. Tottlebury forgot that neither Neaera. "I—I went the whole hog,
party had asked him to adjudicate, anti, didn't I?"
although Maud Neston was quite con- Lord Tottlebury, who was mu.oh less
viuced by bis reasoning, his award re- inflexible than he seemed, dill not hold
maned an 01,101on in vacuo; and the out ling against Gerald's vehemence,
two cleat and full letters which 11e and the netv'a seen spread that defiance
wrote expresang his views were con- was to be hurled in George's face• The
signed by their reacpective recipients to 011'8 -eye was triumpilau t. Isabel
the waste -paper basket, Each of the Bourne and Maud Ncston made a hero
young men thanked Lard, Tottlebury of Genal alae a' heroine of Neaera,
"I daren't—I daren'tl"
"Wbat?"
"Be—be—trusted Iike that!"
Gerald smiled. "Very well: then you
shan't be. I will treat you as if—as if
I doubted you.. Then will you be satis-
fied?"
for his kind efforts, but feared that the Tommy Miles hastened to secure the
unreasonable temper displayed by the position of "best man," enol Sidumouth
Vane discovered and acknowledged e
deep worldly wisdom in Gerald's con-
duct.
"Of course," said he to Mr, Blodwell,
on the terrace, it it caro out before
the marriage, he'd stand pledged to
throw her over, with tbe cash. But
afterwards 1 Well, it won't affect the
settlement, at all events."
Cllr. Blochveil said„he thought Ger-
ald had not been h this m•
actuated rod y Mo.
Live.
Depend upon it, he has,” persisted
vno,
"Patera marriage, the deuce! After
marriage, a little weeand three
months on the Riviera!"
"0h, I suppose, if it came out after
marriage, George would bold his ton-
gue."
Do you, by Jove? Then he'd he the
most forgiving man in Europe. Why,
he's been hunted down over this busine
ss l
] u down
--limply hunted 1"
That's true. No, I suppose he'd be
henna to have his revenge."
itovengol He'd bave to justify
himself."
Mr. Blodwell had the curiosity to
other would render any attempt at a.
arrangement futile. Lord Tottlebury
sighed, and sadly returned to his article
on 'What the Kaiser should do next."
Ile was in a hurry to finish it, i,ecause
he also had on hand a reply to Profes-
sor Dreesingham's paper on "The Gos-
pel Narrative and the !:volution
of Crustacea in the Southern Seas."
After his outburst, Gerald Neston had
allowed ehimself to be taken home
quietly, and the next morning he had
Eo far recovered his senses as to promise
Sidmouth Vane that be would not
again have recourse to personal violence.
Ile said be had noted on a momentary
lmpelse-,which Vane dial not believe—
and . at any rate, nothing of the kind
need be apprehended again, but as for
apologising, he should as soon think of
blacking George's boots. In fact, he
was, on the whole, well pleased with
himself, and in the wares of the day,
went off to Monera to resolve her thanks
anri o pproval.
He found her in very low spirits. She
had been disappointed at the failure of
her arrangement with George, and half
inclined to rebel at Gerald's peremptory
1 TELE EBUSSELS POST,
pursue the subject with George him„
self,
",After the marriage? 011, I don't
!.cow, 1 Shook), like to snore off the
lot of them."
"Naturally," said Mr. Blodwell•
"At any rate, 11 I find out anything
before 1 shall lot thorn have it. They
haven't spared me,"
Anything new?"
"Yes. They've got the committee at
the Themis to write and toll axe that
awkward to have Gerald and me
in the same club."
"That's strong."
"1 have to thank blaster Tommy
for that. Of course it means that 1'In
to got but I won't. It they like to
kick me out, they oan."
What's Tommy Myles so hot
against you for?"
"O1 those girls have got hold of
him—Maud, and Isabel Bourne."
Isabel Bourne 1"
"Yes," said George, meeting Mr.
Boldwoll's questioning eye. 'Tommy
bas a mind to try his luck there, 1
think."
"Vice you retired."
"Well, retired or turned out. It's
like the army, you know; the two come
to pretty much the Esme thin "
"You must console yourself, my
boy," said Mr. Blodwell, slyly. He
heard of most things, and be had heard
of Mrs. Pooklington's last dinner -
party,
Oh, I'm an outcast now. No one
would look at me."
"Don't be a humbug, George. Go
and see Mrs. Pooklington, and, for hea-
ven's sake let me get to my work."
It was Mr. Blodwell's practice
to inveigle people into long gos-
sips and, then abuse them for
washing his time ; so George was
not disquieted by, the reproach,
But be took the advice, and called in
Grosvenor Square. He found Mrs.
Pocklington in, but she was not alone.
Her visitor was a very famous person,
hitherto known to George only by re-
pute,—the Marquis of liapledurhann
The Marquis was well known on the
turf and also as patron of art, but it
is necessary to add that more was
known of him than was known to his
advantage. In fact, he gave many
people the opportunity of saying they
would not count him among. their ac-
quaintances; and he gave very few of
them the chance of breaking their
word. He and Mrs, Pocklington am-
used one another, and, whatever be
did, he never said anything that was
open to complaint.
For some time George talked to
Laura. Laura, having once come over
to his side, was full of a convert's zeal,
and poured abundant oil and wine in-
to hes wounds.
"How could I ever have looked at
Isabel Bourne when she was there?"
he began to think.
Mr. Neston," said Mrs. Pocklington,
"Lord Mapledurbam wants to know
whether you are the Mr. Boston."
Mrs Pocklington has betrayed me,
Mr. Neston," said the Marquis.
"1 am one of the two bur, Neston, I
suppose," said Geoege. smiling.
"Mr. George Neston?" asked the
Marquis.
Yes."
" And you let him come here, Mrs.
Pocklington ?"
Ah, you know my house is a cara-
vanserai. I heard you remark it your-
self the other day."
I shall go," said the Marquis, ris-
ing. ' And, Mrs. Pooklington, I shall
be content if you say nothing worse
of my house. Good-bye. Miss Laura.
Mr. Neston, I shall have a small party
of bachelors to -morrow. It will be very
kind if you will join us. Dinner at
eight."
See what it is to be an abused man,"
said Mrs. Pocklington, laughing.
"In these days the wicked must
stand shoulder to shoulder," said the
Marquis.,
George accepted; in truth, he was
rather flattered. And Mrs. Pockling-
ton went away for quite a quarter of
an hour. So that, altogether.ihe re-
turned to the opinion that life s worth
living, before he left the house.
(To he Continued.)
SEA TREASURE.
51,8 Ocean Depths Are Patrolled For Valu-
able Lent t'arg"c..
A weird interest always centers
around those vessels that are lost at
sea, because, perhaps, the struggle be-
tween the mighty ocean and brave
men is such a pitiably unequal one.
Of late years, however, a pecuniary in-
terest has been aroused in these cal-
amities of the main, and in various
parts of the world companies have
been formed to search for lost vessels
and recover their cargoes. One of
the most extraordinary instances of a
fortune found iu the sea concerned the
wreck of the Spanish treasure ship,
Alfonso XII„ which was sunk off Point
Cando, Grand Canary. A single diver,
Mr. Daviel Tester, recovered Spanish
gold coin of the estimated value of
0100,0011. The depths from which this
specie was recovered was 26 2-3 fathoms,
or 1.60 feet.
One of the most difficult operations
ever performed by a diver was the re -
Overall; of the treasure sunk in the
Afalaber off Gallo. On this occasion
the large iron plates, half an inch thick,
had to be cut away from the mail
room, and then the diver had to work
through nine feet of sand. The whole
of the specie on board this vessel—up-
ward of 01,500,0110—was saved, as much
as l80,000 having been got out in one
day.
It is an interesting fact that from
time to time expeditions have been fit-
ted out, and companies formed, wit h
tbe sole intention oe searching for
buried treasure beneath the sea. Again
and again have expeditions left New
York and San Francisco in the cer-
tainty of recovering tons of bullion,
sunk oft the Brazilian coast, or lying
undisturbed in the mud of, the Rio de
la Plata. 1t is, however, an every -day
occurrence for divers to be sent 10 the
Australian coasts to fish for pearls;
and, likewise, to all parts of the world
—or, rather, to all parts of the ocean
—wbere sunken vessels are to be enter-
ed, and their valuable, cargoes recov-
ered.
At the end of 1887 the large steamer
Inclu_s, belonging to the P. and O. Cum -
Pane, sank off Trincomalee, having on
so.'rtl a very valuable least India car-
go, together with a large amount of
Specie. This was another case of a
fortune found in the sea, for a very
largo amount of treasure was recov-
ered,
A NEW SORT OF IIPIADACTIE.
An English physician has discovered
a new sort of healnehe, as iE there
were net eeough alreeily kr.own. Ito
has designated the new style Acad-
emy headache," and says it is caused
by lopking at Pictures that are hung
too high or by maintaining a gaze that
requires the birecttirg of the eyes above
the normal attitude,
AGRICULTURAL
Sk11:Iiia AND 11:10G$ Ata LANA Itle
P ROVERS,
"The owners of small fruit fame
find that they cannot handle oaltle as
profitably as those wh° owA larger
traots of land, Cattle, too, were more
cheaply grown when it large part el
our laud was yet uncleared. Since the
Raid, has been brought under the plow
and the fields Have bean brought under
a three to five -years' rotation farmers
have depeuded Moro on Bogs for con -
doming their corn crops and have fall-
en into the habit of baling and shipping
their straw and hay," says Mr. Bon-
ham in Breeders' Gazette. "13y this
Means they have helped out the short
reeeipts from the sale of grains. It
bas brought a little more cash to meet
their pressing needs. The system is
very detective as it is only a euro way
of wasting the principal. With the
straw and hay go the grain, and these
represent for every thirty bushels of
wheat thirty-three pounds of nitrogen,
9.3 pounds potash and 14.2 pounds of
phosphoric acid. The straw of this
amount of wheat contains fifteen
pounds phosphoric acid, With every
acre of hay (one and one-half tons) goes
forty-nine pounds nitrogen, 59,9 potash
and 12,3 pounds phosphoric acid,
"With twenty-five acres of wheat the
farm loses each year, 1,100 pounds nit-
rogen, '730 pounds potash and 527.5
pounds phosphoric acid, worth as these
elements of fertility sell in the form
that wlli fa,roish .a large amaunt of
flesh in the most .desirable portions,
ripen for the sbamblo early, 0087 to
fatten owl one that w41 produce a
large amount of meat with little fat,
Shorthorns will not, however, de well
011
eedsa , p00rTkwrungsywill a6 wnotilltl Same en liothrer
brvee
Red rations or neglect of any kind,
The objection has been urged that the
rapidity with whwh they fatten pre,
vents thew meat frgm ripeoveg auffi-
°fently before appearing as beef io die-,
market, and also that there is w
proportion of fat to !the lean neat
which is not formed in the breed
of slower growth wad matur•ity, but
these reasons are not sufficiolutly well
founded to deserve a great amount o
consideration. Another goad quality
about this breed is the ready adaptabil-
ity in transforming native, stock by
crossing. The Shorthorn grades pro-
duce some of the best beeves that are
brought into the markets of the coun-
try. 1113 greatly superior to that pro-
duced by native cattle, and should com-
mend a higher price, and its fine qual-
ity should create a good demand. When
well cared for, both native and Short-
horn rattle being kept in the same
herd, the former at a year and a half
weigh from, 600' to 800 pounds, and the
latter should average from 1,000 to 1,-
200 pounds. At two years old the na-
tive will have reached an average
weight of 1,000 pounds; the Sbortllorn
from 1,200 to 1,400 pounds.
INCIDENTS IN PARLIAMENT.
'Chose Thal Cause the ,rrenlest Laughter
Are Accltlealai.
In the midst of political strife, of
fierce verbal wrangling, and hot par-
ty feeling, there now and then ewers,
in the British House of Commons some
of commercial fertilizers 0262.43, where- incident, trilling in itself, perhaps, when
as le the straw is kept for food and weighted against the business of the na-
bedding and bran and middlings return tions! assembly, but so surcharged with
ed, ane supplemented with oil meal to ]rumor as to plunge the House into ti
complete or improve the rations, we rolling feed these by-products, and the • Sen of laughter. At other times
mauure i eworth almost as much as the a simplewith pa
scene, permeated withos,
cost of rho by-products. ex°ution w,is invaron
"The question, then, of keeping up has sufficed to changeiably in aduplicated monis nt
the small farms where cattle fat
aro v
stern hearts. to tender, and to bring
becomes a most important one. Sheep
and hogs can yet be keptit one can- tears into the eyes of men which a me -
not handle cattle. Everyone recognize went before bad had nothing but flashes
es the value of sheep as renovators of of angor in them,
soil. Their virtues have been sounded
by the flock -master until all accept Under tbe former category comes a
tbeir figure of the golden foot, The very funny incident that happened some
sheep du well on hilly and broken parts four or five years ago. There was un -
of the farm and soak the knolls and der ddisoussion at the time a motion
highest points, where the farmer can-
not readily carry fertilizers or manures connected with some question of pos-
from the stables. The hog, on the oth- tal reform, and a full house had rous-
er hand, loves his ease too well and tenet to hear a certain member, an
seeks the low land and rich growth be-
side the water -courses. As common- authority on the subject deliver a
ly handled the hog does not scatter his speech in support of the proposition.
excrement so advantageously to the Duly the turn of the eminent member
soil as does the sheep, but he is the came, He rose, doffed his hat, and corn -
condenser of food rich do fertilizing'ma-
terial and it can be utilized if the farm- menced his speech. Amid a respectful
er cares to do so. Instead of feeding .silence, he delivered his carefully carv-
on a hillside or beside a stream where ed phrases lending portentously up to
the wealth will be washed away, feed firstpoint. He had been speaking
on the clover or old Timothy sod and
arrange the feeding places so as to for about two minutes, and was is the
take the hogs to the thinnest points middle of an exceptionally mellifluous
for feed. We have a striking fllustra- sentence, when suddenly from behind
tion of the advntages of keeping hogs
on old Timothy sod, Last fall and him, there spread
winter we put the brood sows on an A RIPPLE OF LAUGHTER.
old Timothy meadow which is now in Think' inn was in no tin
corn and other Drops. They were not
teaming Y occasion -
fed more than a week in the same place. eel by himself, the eminent member con -
To -day the corn and other crops oa the tinned his advocation of postal retool,
meadow show exactly where the food But as he went on he found that the
was given. The stubble prevented any more impressive his u'emarks, the more
waste from washing and the droppings P
were distributed, and their value is up- general the laughter grew. The, orator
parent do the ranker growth that fol- turned red. Mr. Speaker sternly called
lows• The sleeping places were in fax order. Nothing,however, seemed to
an adjoining lot, but this was a rag! for
take. We will improve on that by check the hilarity of the honorablemem-
putting portable pens on the meadow bers present, or rather that section of
or clover field where the fall and win- them seated behind the gentleman who
ter feeding is done. We have tried
was on his feet. The members oppo-
this plan oo clover sod and find it the
best means of saving and applying man- site were solemn enough, and indeed
are, There is a, nearly no waste as looked puzzled at the unusual spectacle
can be devised. The hags have cam- of the orator's own party laughing at
fortable quarters and fresh ground and him. The postal reformer valiantly
when farrowing time in the spring went on with his speech, despite con -
comes the permanent pens are usedand tinuat low laughter and nudging among
the fields plowed. The sheep can lin the members. Evidently something; very
wintered about the barn, so there is funny must have occurred to occasion so
the least possible waste and a value- prolonged an outburst. But it was not
ble lot of manure stands for the feed. till be sat down that the speaker learn -
consumed and care bestowed after the ed what it M.S. it was then discover -
crop of wool and lambs has been pro- ed that during the time he had been
duced. With a little care in arrang- advocating postal reform, To penny
ing the sleeping and feeding places of stamps had attached themselves to 118
hogs they will distribute their chop- absolutely bald head. Just before en -
pings to great advantage. If, how- tering the House, the speaker hall placed
ever, they are fed at the same plate the stamps in the lining of his hat.
the year round, and that beside, a run- Somehow they had slipper down and at-
ning brook, they consume the best of
feed and we have only the pork of low-
er grade, having lost the secondary
profit of the business.
"On many farms there is little bene-
fit to the soil from keeping hogs; but
it is not the hogs' fault. Neither sheep
nor hogs will do well on bare lots or
fields, and there the waste or loss of
droppings is great. With corn cheap
and labor high coo can find profit in
letting the hogs gather part of the corn
crop. They will waste little of it and
leave a vast amount of fertility behind.
1f one can provide water the hogs will
gather the corn free of charge and
leave every particle not made into pork
for the benefit of the ground. The
saving of labor and fertility make the
old-time practice of bogging off corn
attractive now. Sheep do well to pre-
cede the hogs and clean up the fence
corners, eat up the lower blades and all
weed and grass seeds that have come in
after laying by the corn. It sheep are
let out of the cornfield at night and
the corn stands up, well they will not
disturb the corn until they have dean -
ed up all the grass and weeds. By a
little care in littering well the pens and
lots and keeping hogs as mush as pos-
sible on the clover and on the sod land
that is to be plowed we can add to the
fertility of our lands and to the health
of our herd and (look. If hogs aro al-
lowed to run and root as they please
they can become an unmitigated nuis-
ance, a damage to the farm and a dis-
grace to the owner. But properly
handled there is no more profitable
stock and none more ensily controlled."
SHORTHORNS AND EARLY.
MATURITY.
As an all round breed of cattle for
beef, early maturity otherwise, too
much can never be said in behalf of
Shorthorn matte. This breed' has add-
ed millions of value to tbe cattle of the
country in grading them up by crosses.
No breed can be found, says the Farm
Journal, that has more desirable qual-
ities as a beet producing animal for
the general market than the Short -
born, and no breed has attained a great-
er popularity and a distribution so wide
during the past century as this, This I
breed is noted for its size and weight,]
early maturity, aptitude to fatten and.,
tine bone structure, thus furnishing a
large proportion of meat 01 fine gial-
iL with a small proportion of waste.
Y p I
The Shoftt:arn is therefore an animal
Lathed themselves to his shiny pale. This
ludicrous incident had the stied of com-
pletely stultifying the really able speech advice tsave his money.
ts•hich the member had delivered. Mary coonklin, aged ten, an inmate of
Atom T to 3896
BlenelttARLR PARAGRAPHS,
A law teems. ]Pills?) IMO 616' retool l'ery
tine 'esliten.
A Oat witie sigh( feet belongs to ]]'Liss'
]:dna Webster, of Delaware> Oldie
,A motor bioyole recently tested in
London made a mile In fifty-eight seo.
ends
Th,ree thousand telegra chars• are em-
ployed in the several poet -offices of Lon-
don.
Pape often rewrote u poem eight or
ten times before permitting it to go to
the printer•
When the fashionable young ladies of
Japen desire to make themselves very
attractive, they gild their lips.
A shetland pony colt, which ta'eighs
only twenty-three pounds is owned by
Captain Langley, of 61, Joseph, Mich.
The popular vote of the United States
at the election in November, IL is esti-
mated, will be close to 18,000,000.
La 131aehe, the great basso, had a voice
so strong that on several ae0asi0118 it
cracked the window glass in the room
where he was practicing.
The atlas moth, a night -flying insect
of Centra 113razil, is the largest winged
bug in the world. its wings extend
fourteen inches from tip to tip,
All of Elueee Victoria's daughters
were taught to swim wilco]. very young.
The daughters of the Prince of Wales
eould swim before they could read.
A few crackers, or a silts of bread
and butter eaten with a glass of milk
or water, just before retiring, are re-
commended as a ou1•e for sleeplessuess.
Au electrical alarm for infants has
been devised by a French inventor, A
cry from the child causes a bell to
ring, and thus the attention of the mo-
ther is aroused.
A rich man in Vienna tried to estab-
lish a record as a faster, by abstaining
frau food for eighty-four days. Oa the
diad, •
tweet -first day he gave up the con-
test,. having become so weak that he
A fancy dress ball is given once a
year by the lady artists, sculptors, sing-
ers, and actresses of Berlin, No males
are permitted at this ball, and about
one-third of the attendants go in mas-
culine costume.
Nearly every guest at a Norwegian
wedding brings a present to the bride.
The gifts are mostly of a useful char-
acter, such as clothing and provisions.
]legs of butter are the presents which
find most favor.
It is stated that a dragon -fly may be
converted into a scarecrow for mosqui-
toes. Two or three dried dragon -flies,
suspended with fine silk thread under
the roof of an open porch, keep off the
little blood -suckers.
A paragraph in a recent issue 01 a
Connecticut paper referred to the bolt-
ing delegates of a Prohibition conven-
tion,% The compositor got in his funny
work by making the type describe them
as 'bottling delegates."
Three cows belonging to L. h .Bidwell,
of Tecumseh Mich., died suddenly and
mysteriously. A post-mortem examina-
tion disclosed lead poisoning Then it
was discovered that they landdrank
water from old paint cans.
About a year ago a hen scratched the
wrist of Clement Younger, of Marinette,
Wis. Blood poisoning and partial par-
alysis of the arm resulted, Two weeks
since he hurt the arm, and an illness
succeeded from whish he died.
The vital spark in tortoises is very
strong.There is a record of a tortoise
which lived six months after its brains
had been removed. Another which had
suffered decapitation, showed life in the
severed head three days afterward.
Two women were asleep on a feather
bed in their home at Bonne Terre, Md.,
when lightning struck the house, and
set fire to the shuck mattress under
the bad, but the women were unharm-
ed. The feathers repelled the electric-
ity.
The little taws of Vasso, Sweden, has
a female fire brigade, It is composed
of 150 women, who stand in two. Imes.
stretching from a lake to four big tubs.
One line passes full buckets of water
to the tubs, and the other lino returns
the empty ones.
A munificent send-off was awarded to
a lad who had spent four years as an
an apprentice on a farm near Bath,
without reeelving a cent in pay, The
whole-souled farmer gave him a quar-
ter on his last day of service, with the
Here ds another—a different scene.
Controversy had been the order of the
day at Westminster, and his feelings
had reigned. A. member was making
an eloquent speech, occasioning cheers
from his party, and counter -cheers from
his opponents. Presently an attendant
attracted the orator's attention. The
latter paused and took a telegram which
the attendant handed to him. Ile read
it, turned pale and
REELED A LITTLE.
A moment before he had been flushed
with the pride of triumphant debate,
and had swayed the House with his
words. Now he was dumbfounded,whito
and trembling. The House looked on,
waiting for him to resume his unfinish-
ed speech. But the member only rose
and murmured in a broken voice: "AI
Speaker, I say uo more, I have 1irtish-
ed." Immediately after he lett the
House, to the utter an azement of every
one present. Ten minutes later every
one knew the 10110n, The telegram had
been sent by his wife stating that their
only daughter bac] met with a severe
acoulent and was on the point of death.
At once the whole demeanor of the
House changed. All the bitterness of
feeling which the debate had occasion-
ed immediately changed to feelings of
genuine sympathy and commiseration.
A little thing will often matte stern
men weeA member of Parliament
recounts hew on one occasion 7lr. Glad-
stone, having forgotten his glaeses,triod
in vain to read 9011113 notal he bad pre-
liared, He struggled for c1 Lime with
his eyes close to the paper, but in vain.
With a .gentle, pathetic smile he hand-
ed the paver to 111x. John Morley to
read. Tritlingg and bold as 'tete incident
may appear, al; had tbe effect of reduc-
ing the majority of those present to a
state bordering on tears.
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AN OPTICAL PECOLIARITY, J
The eye is the most movable organ in
the face; yet if you hold your head ,
fixed and try to move your eye while•
watching its reflation in the mirror
you cannot do it—even to the extent
of one-tlousandeth of an incur. Of course,
it you look at the reflection of the .nose
or any other part of your fao your•
eye must move to see it. But the
strange thing is that the moment you
endeavor to perceive the motion tic eye
is fixed., 'Poe is One of lie invades why
a P0rs0n'5 erp.ressian, as neon by him- i
sell in a gross is quite different from
whet it is inncn seen by others.
the Orphans' Industrial Home at Tivoli,
N.Y., had beautiful golden ringlets.
They were remover. by the girl
of
the home; and the little girl fearing
that they would never grow again, kill-
ed herself with Paris green.
An English beauty, a resident of
Bath, was in the habit of curling her
hair with £5 Bank of England notes.
She occasionally showed herself to vis-
itors with her hair in this costly paper.
She soon captured a wealthy husband,
who discovered that she was a deceiv-
er—that she had borrow -e1 the money
she had displayed.
A goat with a paver tag on its neck,
to show its destination, was brought b'
a Louisville express office by a dnrky,
to be shipped. On its route the animal
ate a part at the tag., "Where is the
goat to go?" inquired the express clerk,
The darky examined the halt -devour el
tag, and answered, "De goat doesn't
know himself; he's done eat up the
town." „
STEEL CARS.
Aaalhee Merit or Prngrr„ 101 Railroad
Egali one u,,
At last steel curs have been made.
For years they have been regarded as
the coming 0111, but owing to the high
price of steel they were not thought to
be economically possible until the twen-
tieth century. A great steel 0ompavy,
in order to show under the presentcon-
ditions the possibilities of steel in this
but it was not a good one, and the oth-
thts material which are the first of
their kind. They are to be exhibited
around the country to railroad men,
and ie the idea takes than will be coin l
strnctec on 5. large scale1.
While the cost ofga steel inathe
lfxaia-
turally be more than that of a wooden
one, sufficient experience has already
been acquired to warrant the statement
that on a commercial basis these oars
can be constructad at a cost not to ex-
ceed that per ton of carrying capacity
of Wooden cars, and with a safety 'fac-
tor in fever of steel, They have been
tested with a load of wet sand and pig
icon weighing one bandied. and twenty-
five thousand pound8. The use otsteel
will not be confined to freight cars, II:
is intended in. the near future to build
pahunLgoerdraswoafy stewetl h thtrhoeugdhaonugtevenal
splintering in railroad oollisions,