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TMK CUCKOO. net. cALoaan. Krth I wandered, years ago, When tbo Ninniet hud was low. And the forest all agio With hia light; Twaa a day of clondleM akies; 'When the trout decllnta to riao, And In vain the angler nigh For a bite. And the cuckoo piped away How I love hi simpl'i lay, O'er the cowslip fleldii of May Ae it floats! May WW over, and oif oonrso He m Just a little hoarse And appeared to mo to force Certain notes. Since mid-Apr.!, men averred, People's pnlses, inly rtirrol By the music of the bird, Had uploapt; It was now the close of June; I reflected that he'd won Sing entirely out of tune, And I wept. Looking up, I marke d a maid Float moon-like o'er the glade, Casting evermore a ataid Glance around; And I thrilled with tweet unrprlsK When she dropt, all virgin-wise. First a conrtaey, then her eyes Xo the ground. Others eyes have p'raps to you Seemed ethereally bl ae, But, on see, you never knew Kate Xdair. Whst a mien she hail! Her hat 'With with what dignit- it sat On the mystery, r lost, Of her hair! We were neighbors, I had doffed Cap and hat to her so oft t Thai the latter had grown soft In the brim; I Had gono out of n.y wy To bid e'en her sire good 'lay, Though I waant, I may ssy. Fond of him. And we'd met. In streets and shops. But by rill or mazy copse, Where you" speech abruptly stops, And you get Incoherent ere you know it When, thongh nothing of a poet, Yon intuitively go it, Never yet, 80 my love had ne'er been told ! Till the day when forth I ntrolled, And the jolly cuckoo trolled Out his song, Naught had passed betwixt us two, -Save a bashful "How d'ye do?" And a blushing 4How do yoa Get along I" But that eve how twift It passed Words that burned flew from me fast For the first time and the last In my life, low and lower dropped her chin, As I murmured how I'd skin Or behead myself to win Snch a wife. There we stood. The squirrel leaped Overhead; the throstle peeited Through the leaves all sunshine steeped. Of tho lime. There we stood alone; a third Would have made tbe thing absurd; And she scarcely spoke a word All the time.

We've a littlo Taste, a dear! She's attained her thirteenth year, And declares she frels a queer Sort of shook Not unpleasant, though, a. ailWhen she hears a ruckoo call; So I've purchased her email Cuckoo-clock. Scribncr's.

A DYING HYMN. BX moi CAST. Earth, with its dark and dreadful Ills, Beoedes and fades away; Lift up your heads, ye heavenly hills ; Ye gates of death, give way i My sou is full of whispered song; My blindness is my sight ; The shadows that I feared so long Are all alive with light. The while my pulses faintly beat, My faith doth no abound, 1 feel grow Ann beneath my feet The green, immortal ground. That faith to me a rourago gives, Low as the grave to go ; I know that my Redeemer lives That I shall live I know. The palace walls I almost see Where dwells my Lord and King ; O grave! where is thy victory? O death ! where is thy sting?

WHY BANGS HATED DOGS. "Get out!'' "Bangs, that is my dog!" "Yes, I know it. Get, you brute!" And ho shied at him an iron paperweight. My face flushed. "Brings," said I, "excuse me, but I've an affection for that dog." Excuse me, Tills, but I've an antipathy against all dogs. Get out, vermin!" And he gave my pet hlack-and-tan a vicious kick, that sent him howling into the corridor. Bangs shut the door, locked it, and put the key in his pocket. "I wish, Pills, the next time you come to my office you would leave that brute behind. I've a most unconquerable antipathy against all canines, and " Bang.? might have said more, but the look on my face must have convinced hint that I was seriously angry. "Suppose wo let this pass," he said. "I was wrong, I'll admit: I ought not to have kicked your pup, but you don't know how I hate em, big and little. Sit down, Pills, and let me tell you something that heretofore has been a secret with me a secret hidden from the gaao of the cold, unsympathizing world. I feel that now some explanation is proper for me to make, in the hopes tha ; it may prevent a misunderstanding between twu such firm friends as we have been in the past, and, I hope will be in the future." I sat lown in the chair Bangs pointed to, and said, "Go on" "I do not know," continued Bungs, "that I ever had any particular dislike to dogs previous to the circunistiinees which I am about to relate. Do you remember the spring I took a trip into the country?" "Very well," I replied. "That was some six years ago. I have confined myself very closely to business ever since my admittance to the bai, and I thought a month in the country would would freshen me up considerably." "It did not seem to, if I remember

rightfully," I said. "You'll not wonder at it, Pills, waen I tell yon all about the facto. I went down to a little seaside resort, called San Marino ever been there?" "Never." "Well, it's a queer sort of a place. There is a very fine stream of water courses down from the mountains and empties into the soa about half a mile from the town; although there is no town there, only a little hotel and blacksmith's shop, Tne stream empties into the sea in winter, during the heavy rains, but in the summer time the surf bunks up the mouth with sand and forms qnitealoke or lagoon. 'Laguna la Puritas' is the Spanish name. The proprietor of the hotel had a few little sail boats fitted up, and they were in constant use bv his guests. Game is plenty in the' hills about there, deer and quail; the creek is full of speckled trout, and the hotel is just far enough from the sea to render the climate delightful. The San Marino House was filled to its utmost capacity that season. It was a curious kind of a cronrd gathered there. City sportsmen, with dogs, guns, fishing tackle, etc.; superannuated old women, and, for the benefit of the sen breeze, young boys fourteen or fifteen years old, making their first trip from home alone two or three grass widows a somewhat fast clergyman rode down from the city on his velocipede and three or four young ladies and a dozen frisky school girls. On the whole it was as jolly a crew us ever gathered together. With horseback ridine. boating, fishing and luuitinc. the

time passed rapidly enough. I said there were three or four young ladies, but. so

far as I was concerned, there was only one, Miss Tootie Tusby excuse mo, Pjjls, but 1 cannot speak that name, even now, without emotion" and Bangs drew forth his handkerchief and wiped bis eyes vigorously. "I cannot describe all of her charms; but Pills, if ever there was an angel in this world she was one. I devoted myself to her from theftrsst. When Mists Tootie rode I rode, if she walked I walked; when sho went fishing Bangs went fishing. If she sailed on the lake, Bangs

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was there also. Pills, I loved that girl ; brought the valise as he promised, und I and when I think of what separated us, ! walked eight miles that night to the next you'll excuse me, but" there the hand- hotel. Tho next day 1 took the stage for kerchief again came into requistion, and ; the city. Miss Tusby married Wilkins, Bangs' voice failed him completely. land I never have seen her since that "Did you propose?" I asked. j fatal night." "No, Pilk, no. Ah! if I onlv hud: if I "And therefore vou hate docs?"

i only iiaar "What prevented?" "Well, nothing but my own folly. I was faint-hearted when it came to that. I had it in my mouth a dozen times, but my tongue failed me. There was another fellow there, too, that made me terrible jealous. She didn't show him any par

ticular favors, but he was a great ad-

And who wouldu't? If it hadn't

j been for that dog, I never should have met with that accident. I might have won Miss Tusby, I might now have been i the father of a large and flourishing j family, instead of a misanthropic bachi elor. I might" j Here Bangs was interrupted by some one rapping at his office door. He un-

mirer ol her, any one could see, and locked it, and ushered m a disconsolate

really I wasn't certain in my mind which looking-fellow, who, on seeing me, intishe preferred. Sho might, in time, per-1 mated a wish to consult him privately, haps, have shown some preference and i Bangs' private office is separated from

my doubts uoen aispeiieu nail it not ; his reception room by sliding doors.

been for the affair tha happened which I am about to relate, and which blighted Ml my future life." "Bad as that?" I Baid. "Pills, you never was in love; yon never lost the ono heaven assigned for you you don't know anything at all oboutit." "That is so; go on." "There was a party at the San Marino House one evening, a soiree dansante, or something like that, they called it. They sent up to tho city for music, and went in for a gay time. I was counted out somewhat, for you know I don't dance. The other fellow did. More than that,

he danced with Tootie nearly all the

Bangs invited his visitor in there and closed the door, as he thought. But it happened that the truck on which they run was out of order, and the doors slid open about three inches. Unavoidably I listened to the whole conversation. " Yon are lawyer Bangs, ore yon not ?" said the stranger. "Yes, sir. Can I do anything for you?" "I think so. I am unhappy in my marriage relations." "Ah! that's bad. Tliinking of a divorce ?" "Yes, Bir." "Ahl Perhaps it is best, where two

cannot live together happily. Person-

to

Foreign. have an elective Parlia-

time. Pills, you don't know anything at ally, I have always thought the marriage all about it; yon never had the girl you j state the only happy one for a man iu the love dancing with your rival all the even- world." ing right beforo your eyes, while you sit j "Yon are not married ?" in a comer like a knot on a log see him " Oh, no, sir; no, sir; might have been, in the quadrilles, when all the rest of j possibly, had it not been for an unforthe couples simply take each other's ! tunate accident I once " hands and promenade, see that fellow ! "You ought to think yourself lucky, just put his arm around that girl and j sir," interrupted the stranger, then go waltzing or polluting all about "Perhaps so. But let us attend to the room, every time right in front of j this business of j'ours. On what grounds

you, ami umi cussea leiiow ireaamg on j do you intend to proceed r

your corns every cnonce ne can get you

don t Know anything about it. I admitted my ignorance. "Well, I couldn't stand it; it was too much. I rushed out and started off toward the sea. I don't know as I had any intentions of suicide, but I was in a desperate mood. Tho path to the beach led along by the side of tho lagoon, and by tho time I had gone a hundred yards I changed my mind, and thought I would go down to the beach, but would

take a swim in the lake. That is about

all tho accomplishment I possess, and tnress."

" Incompatibility of temper, first."

" (Jan t agree, eh "Xo, sir; could as soon agree with the devil." "Anything else?" " Yes, sir; deception. She claimed to be a maiden lady. " "Wasn't she?" "Sho had been married three times, and was the mother of three children." "That was bad." " Her reputation, I now know, is not good. She was nothing but an adven-

one can't show that off before tho ladies.

you know not in tho same way you can dancing. " I disrobed under the branches of a huge alder, or sycamore, or some such tree, and struck out for tho other side of the lake. The moon was shining brightly, and tho water was warm and delightful. I grew cool, and soon was enjoying to the utmost tho luxury of the situation" I almost forgot for tho time tho Miss Tusby and her admirer. Having crossed to the opposite side, I swam along in the dark shadow of the alders until I came to the sea beach. Then I noticed that the moon was getting low. I must return soon, before I was missed at the party. After a short rest I plunged in again, and struck out for the place where I left my clothes. I could find it easily by tho large tree growing there. In fifteen minutes I wns there, and, Pills, I tell you, the situation of things about that time was precarious." "How's that?" "I couldn't find my clothes! Gone,

sir! every article except my plug hat. I

rushed round amongst the brush and j called.

" Lot us get this thing in shape. I

will take down your statements" and immediately I could hear Bongs scratching away with his pen. " Your name ?" "John Badger." " Wife's name?" " Susan Badger." "Name when you married her?" "Susan Tinkham. Tinkham committed suicide six months ufter their marriage ?" "Name before she married Tinkham ?" "Plunket. Plunket ran away and left her, and she got a divorce from him." " Ah, hn! She's ono of 'em, isn't she ? What was her name before she married Plunket ?" " Wilkins. He lived with her about a year, when he got a divorce. " " Wilkins; name sounds familiar. Do you know her name before she married him ?" "Yes, sir. It was Tusby Susan

J.USOV, or xootio rusoy, as ane was

nettles, and poison oak, like a setter after a quail Jerusalem! Whew! I tell you I got a dose that lasted me for a month. Not a rag of clothing could I find. At length I happened to look up at the path to the hotel. What do vou

suppose I saw ? A cursed greyhound

bunu uriuugui w my J1VLU, Willi my Willie.

i neara a tinu tnnu on the floor, a cry of dismay from the stranger, and, throwing open the doors, I rushed in. Bangs had fainted.

Personal. Moxccke D. Conway is lecturine in

vest, tossing it upon his nose, and drag- Scotland on "The DeviL"

vicr-President Wiiisos resembles a Roman Senator, more or less.

Vice-President Wilson is studying

ging it about amongst the dirt and tar

weed as though it had been an old dishcloth. The situation flashed nKn me in an instant. The dog had stolen my clothes in sport, and there I was, out there in the night air, with no possible show of getting into th j house without discovery. Pleasant, w sn't it ?" "Decidedly!" " You don't know anything at all about it, sir. That was nothing to what followed. Just as I was wondering how in the dickens I was to get out of the scrape, I looked up toward the hotel again, and I saw something that fairly made my blood freeze in my veins. I saw three persons coming down the path, and I at once recognized them as my rival, Wilkins, Miss Tootie and another young lady. They met the dog when about half way between the lake, and the hotel. I saw by ; their actions thi-t the discovery of the vest had alarmed them. They all came hurriedly down the path toward the very spot where I stood.

Pills, that was a situation I hope never to be placed in again!"

" Undoubtedly! Uiu vou take to tho water ?" " I dare not do it, but it would have been better if I had. You see I had been in the water too long already. I was in an awful shiver goose-flesh all over mo. There wasn't time to deliberate long. My first thought was to spring up into the tree, and I did so. They came rushing down to tho water-s edge, under the tree, just beneath mc. I could hear their voices quite plaiuly. They were discussing the probability of my being drowned. "I was roosted up thero on a limb, shivering like sin, nothing on but my plug hat, you know. " By and by they began to talk about

going bock to the hotel and giving tho alarm. I could hear one of tho young 'ladies weeping; but hong mo if I could tell which one. I was anxious to know, of course, for if it wns Miss Tootie, tho fact woidd be significant, nt least. In my anxiety to discover which one was crying, I crept noiselessly out a few feet further on tho limb. I didn't stop to consider that the sycamore is a very brittle tree. Stretching my neck to the utmost, I peered down through tho leaves, and crash!"

The limb broke!

the beautiful French language.

Months ago Greeley said to Tilton: " My great ambition is death." Senator AijCOiin-, of Mississippi, has had twenty children and been twice married. W. F. Codv, "Buffalo Bill," has resigned his position as member of tho Legislature. J. N., the wandering philosopher, was fined in Eufala, Ala., the other day, for drunkenness. Bret Harte, in his lecture on the Argonauts of '49, says that stealing and civilization came together. An Indiana man has five children, named Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Oije Boll got mad and wouldn't come out in a Georgia concert, recently, Inscause somo one in the audience laughed aloud. Alex. Humbter, a negro barber of Portsmouth, O., has come out as a sculptor, and threatens to rival Edmoma Lewis. Archbishop Bayley, tho recently elevated successor to Archbishop Spanlding, of Bidtimore, is dying of Bright's disease of the kidneys. Fort Scott, Kan., wanted a church, and Tim Jackson, a leading gambler,

turned in $2,000 toward the project, and will give more if they want it. Rev. Dr. Haigiit declined the Bishopric of Massachusetts in obedience to

medical advice warning him that his delicate health at Ids ago 07 years would fail under the labor and responsibility. "Ned Btjntlints" has sweetly sold tho morning press of St. Louis by procuring himself to be arrested on the stage. His profits are at least 1,000 of tip-top advertising, as nil tho papers worked tho arrest into about three columns of sensation and bloody history. Amoxo the persons arrested in the recent raid on tho leading gambling houses

of Boston on Christmas eve were a mini-

Japan is

nient. SfiomEH arc always buried at night ii. England, Japan's tea trade has trebled withiii four years. The book trade in Franco is as flat nu a flounder. Osioxs weighing over four jioiuids aro produced in England. A Colleob of Science, to cost .61,000, is 2roposcd at Leeds, England. It is now -mid that tho King of Bavariu is not oidy eccentric, but really insane. Tub Chinese claim that Noah's reill nr"o was Ah Boo, and that lie was I

Chinaman residing near Pekin.

A Mr. Wimwi lately rode a bwycla

fifty miles at West Brompton, England, in three hours and thirty-live minutes. A Fbejh'E chemist has discovered i brilliant, method of making diamonds by extracting (;he color from other precious stones. The gross revenue of the British Topi -office for 1871 amounted to 4,8o0,00C, leaving a net revenue of more thfii .1,250,000. In 1757, in Liverpool, the dock du s amounted to only 33(i 15s ; in 1851', very nearly a century later, they ha 3 reached :jl2,'J89 lis jd, and now, in Uio year 1872. the great necessity is still fc more accommodation. A free school of political science hr s been established in France. This inst itution aims at qualifying young men fi r every bra ich of the civil and diplomatic service. It instructs ninety pupils ia eight branches of study.

FARM AlfD GAEDEN. Roots In Cellars. Every fanner knows, or thinks he

j knows, how to take oaro of potatoes for

winter use, font we will describe Drietly our methods. Dig the pototoos, :if possible, when tho ground is dry; but if this cannot or has not been done, they sho'dd be allowed to dry on a bam floor, the adhering soil removed, and thon tho roots nay be carrid to the cellar. We provide large boxes which will hold abtmfc twenty bushels each (cast-off treo boxes), raise them a few inches from tho cemeut floor by eross-pieees of scantling, and then fill them with the cloan and dry potatoes. A lid excludes them from the hg;ht. If there happens to bo a few wide cj-acks in the bottom of tho box the ventilation will be better: ond if the tubers are clean

Lf)A tho celhir cool there will le iiittle of w

IUU rut. Beets, turnips, carrots, and parsnips will not keep fresh in this way, as they have not tho impervious skin of the potato. Our plan is to pack l;hem in barrels, or goods boxes procured from tho country stores. They Trill shrivel and spoil if tho moisture is not retained in them by some substance to nook thorn in or to fill interstices. Finely broken and moderately damp moss is best for this purpose; but in its absence, sawdust answers quite well. At thi j season of the year, there is a great deai of this material in the ice-house, after the re

moval of the ice, that is quite damp enough for use. Put in a layer or two of j tho roots; then scatter enough of the

sawdust over them to nil the interstices, then another layer, and so on. In barrels, more roots may bo put in at; a time, the sawdust being shaken among them by rocking the barrels. Packed in this way, we have seen beets taken out one full yoor after they were put in as fresh as the day thoy were lifted from tho soil;

while those which were placed uncovered

The Fro.neh Assembly has finally voted i i . , i , . "i-, i ji . :

me restoration or me unoui. s on the cellar bottom were spoiled ia a nr rather of the nnrt of them which hi s ! .. t r

not been ulienated. This part is worth 87,200,00), divisible among no less than eight families descended from Louis Philippe. The Prussian Government have allote d 400,000 thalers to relieve the most pressing need of the sufferers on the shon!8 of tho Baltic. A much larger sum, however, will be required, many millions worth of property having been destroyed by tho inundations along the four hu idred miles of coast visited by the gale.

month by drying up.

corn tc. winter tho 300,000 Texas cattle now in Kansas. Mant Kmas farmers are saving their wood-piles and burning corn. The corn crop of McLean county, 111., for the lost season is estimated at upward of 10,000,000 bushels. The Alvarndo, Col., beet sugar factory daily uses sixty tons of beets. Six thousand tons will be used this season. English history records that oat of every thirty colts from thoroughbred stock, but one proves extra fast. Corn is a legal tender in the diinking saloons of Clietopa, Kansas. A bushel of corn for a drink of whisky is the rate of exchange. A cow in litigation at Charleston, S. 0., has cost :$1,2()0 already, and neither party has her yet. A pabmeb in Gage connty, Neb., recently cut ax d hauled to a lumber mill a cottonwood tree, the first 12-f eet cut of which made 108 feet of lumber. This is remarkable only in connection with the fact that he planted the seed of the tree but eight yevrs ago. A Paxtos, Bl., farmer recently shipped 160 bushels of potatoes to Chicago for sale on commission, and received "cash to balance $10.24," or about sixpence per bushel net, $44. having vanished in freight and commission, besides a shortage of 22 bushels. It takes.

therefore, five bushels of Paxton potatoes !

market.

Cheap Gate. A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer says: I take five pieces of inch boards, each ten feet long, one-eighth inches wide for the bottom strip, and each of the others four inches wide. I (hen take one piece four inches wide for ono ond upright, and one piece eight inches wide for the end picco where the hinpres

I ought to be. These strips are ::'our feet ' long, that being high enough for any

gate for ordinary purposes. Now lay j Too Much Confidence in a Strong Co a- down your pieces, then place tho eight ; stitution. inch wide and ten feet long strip for the ) Horaec Greeley possessed on uncom- bottom; nml it at each end to the up- J nioulv strong natural constitution. He ht Y1 1 y"g't nails; naw take ; was capable of performing a very great ! .th of thc iml "oh wk stops and amount of labor! But it is not certain I .y them on parallel with the bottom one, that in the wav lie used it this remark- ! dividing the spaces so as to leave four aide constitution was any advantage to ! lnc'108. between the lower two boards, him, so far as longevity was concerned, j ad lx "lohcH Mh fPftc0 between the Because he could endure so much, Xr. i nPlcr one; nail as beforo. Now turn Greeley seemed to infer that he could ! 1 Pa,tc r '""V0 tbe remaining i o.i,.' -,.n,; nr. v.ntw ivWi l Tn ! strip, lay it an angle from the bottom.

acted lis' there were no limit to hia" pow- i Bt the hinge end, to : the . top of the latch

ers, and as it tno great law ol nati re which requires rest were abrogated in his ease. As long ago as 1810, when Mr. Greeley conducted the JjO( Cabin, he was already overworking himself. He remarked :o a friend in reference to liif. labors nt that time, " I stood up and

end; cut it so that it will fit in and lay I

close to the long strips; nail u. on, and hong gate with strong hinges.

Dry Food for Horgeg. The Spirit of (lie Times says: " We never have believed and never shall believe that chopped hay and eornmeal.

wrote ui til it seemed as if my right o -m saturated with water, is proper for a would d -op off. " j working horse as a general diet. We After iho election that year had taken I ""nty believo that tho food of a working place, his right arm was covered w th ' norae who cannot bo pastured should be boils as indeed was a largo part of us I good sound oats and sweet hay iorotleast person and to these he attributed 1 he i nve days a week. Look at the South, preservation of his life at that time. I where the common run of working horses From that date up to his death Mr. ! are fed on corn. What is foiu d there ? Greeley allowed himself very little recr ja- j Why, the big-head, a terrible sad almost tion. The benefit of his visit to his fa nu mcnrablc complaint. Wo also think was much Unpaired bv his returning to j wet cornmeal is the very yoret way the city at ft verv lnto"hour of the night. of feeding corn to a horse that ever was More moderation in his labors might, practiced. And the chopped wet hay is very likely, have prolonged his life to I not naf so good as fine, bright, timothy old' age. ' from the mow. We like to hear the A'ver erablo gentleman who nttei led I borsc gi'inding up his good timothy hay the aire of ninety once said in our hear- ! "ke a grist mill, after he has finished his

ing that ho attributed tho preservation

of liia life to this remarkable periot' to tho circumstance that his constitution was na'urftlly so delicate that he was unable jo violate any law of health without feeling the effect at once. He was obliged to pay the penalty immediately. This made him very careful. In yciith he was so feeble that he would gladly have compromised his chances of a long lifo fur a rtirtjiintv of fortv vojirs. But

his strict observance of what his health reason they are sometimes eallod "lime

oats. A nice mash onco m a while is good, and a very different tiling from

anncst constant sou diet. Leguminous Plants. Leguminous crops, snch os peas, beans, vetches, saintfoin, clover, etc., partake of tho character of the pea, which may be accepted as the type of this family of plants. The prevailing mineral con

stituent of these plants is Jume; for tins

required had gradually strengthened his constitution, and at ninety he was iale

and hefirty. Wo t riinit that people as strong as Mr. Greeley wits ore more apt ultimately to break 'down suddenly and finally ban those ho are not ablo to perform overwork wi thout immediate Buffering. .Yew York Ledfcr.

"Yes, Bir; and I found myself stretched ; her of prominent citizens, besides mer-

out at full length on. tho sand, right in

the midst of them. Q Jupiter Amnion! Pills, yon don't know anything at all about it! I prayed for an curthjuak: to open tho earth -and swallow nio up; but it didn't." "Well, the denouement?" "The girls looked at mc in ostonisn-

raent a moment, und there wan a tromeii-

hnnts, manufacturers, one prominent

bank president of Boston and a clergyman of a neighboring city. The Saturday Review thinks that Alexander II. Stephens is a very great mi'ii for an American. It is further of the opinion that "there are not half a

dozen men in thc whole North who have

Pacts for Careless People. Hore are a few facts which are worthy of the attention of careless people, particularly thoso who have occasion to corrofponil with newspapers, incksing money and expecting answers: ' 'During the past year thero were sent to tho Deul Letter Office nearly three millions of letters. Sixty-eight thousand of these letters could not be forwarded, owing to the carelessness of the waiters in failing to give the connty or f-tatc; 400,000 failed to bo sent because the writers forgot to put on stamps, and over 8,000 letters were put into the PustofSoo without any address whaiever. In tho letters above named were found over $02,000 in cash, and draft.'!, checks, etc., to the value of 58,000,000." No doubt the whole of that vast amount of moi ;ey was made up by inconside rable sums in separate letters;' indeed the proportionnto average is a little ove:: ono dollar per letter. Publishers could add ninny curious items to these absurdities, such as money-letters properly addressed, but bearing no date; others wrthout signat ire, and some even without 3ither dato or name; and these, too aro usually the ones most peremptory in their orders for the immediate fo warding of papers, etc. People are :ipt to think but; little of their own little i.et.4 of omission and carelessness; but ntuw in a while; nn aggregate statement s ich as the alovj will startle thorn into i consideration of their ways. Our Eailways. Tho following table shows tho number of miles of railway in tho States named

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dous fluttering of white dresses a they ' th0 1!ftrnl?'8 fml ability necessary to give rn hnclt famnnl l.lio l,.,ti v;n,;'L i them a fair chance againso such aii lul-

bnrst into a roar of langhter s.nd kept it up until I sprang up, collared him, and told him as he valued his life to go to the hotel and bring me my valise, which contained an extra suit of clothing. I made him promise to keep mum, too,

until T was clear of the place. Ho was glad to do that, ioi if I loft ho would

have the whole field to lumaelf.

versary. John M. Bahct,ay, Journal Clerk of tho House of Kepresontativos, at Washington, has celebrated his twenty-fifth official anniversary, having first, boon appointed clerk oil the 20th of December, 1K17, when ltobcrt O. Winthrop

uld was Hpoaker, and T. C. Campbell, of Ho i Tennessee, Clerk of the House.

in lH'vi, :is compared with 18(il): Wnta. Jun., 1WS0. Jt:n.,im2. Ohio 'J,!Mi 8,740 ?IiclilK 7711 4.J35 iniliniiii 2.HM ,B-2i lllilioi 2,71X1 5,'JIM Winxmi-in MITt l.fil MimtfPotu l.lil'2 ),ms fills KttnyoK 1 ,700 Kfhmnkn 2, 14:4 '.liwnlri HIT 'J.fiftll l-2,m 2D.3SH

Thkkk nro in tho country 8, MX Catholic church edifices, with' a gutting capacity of I,9"9,515 persons,

plants." As we might for this reason expect, these plants flourish luxriantly on lime soils, and are cultivated most successfully in limestone districts.

For the same reason, the addition of lime to soils containing but little of this substance greatly favors tho growth of these crops. Another mineral constituent required by these plants in sulphur; hence, the addition of some combination of sulphur is generally attended with bei.cfit to a crop of this description. A substance well fitted for purpose is gypsum, or plaster of Paris. This compound, as already noticed, con tains sulphuric acid ond lime, and on this account may be regarded as a special manure for leguminous plants. Slock in Winter. The Rural Home says: Anesperiencec! farmer can tell very quickly by glancing oVbr his flock of sheep whether any nro drooping, and if they aro he will have them removed to a separate yard where thoy can have better nursing;. Cattle should bo fed in such a way that tho strong ones cannot drive tho weak away from their fodder and water. Stock should always have a plenty of clean, dry bedding to lie upon at night. It is perfectly cruel to allow a live animal to sleep at night upon a hard, cold plar k, or upon wet, filthy straw. Dry straw, besides being soft to lie upon, is a poor conductor of heat, and consequently keeps within tho animal his own heat. (Iota. A correspondent of the Journal of the Farm says, in regard to bots: Just as son os you discover that your hovso. is troubled' with bots, commonee to work on his stomach and bowels; get a live chicken, kill it, and drench the aniaal with tho warm blood and entrails. The bots will lot go their hold on tho intestines, and commence to food on tho more attractive food. A few minutes after drenching administer a proper dose of castor oil, which will work off the bote. lltiral Brevities. The hog crop in Indiana is estimated at 1,500,000 head.

In Nova Scotia tho farmers yoko their I osen by the horns. Bket kitoaii cultivation is regarded as a fined success in California.

A hmatjT farm well cultivated is better than a large one badly worked. l'AixEsvrrjiE, Ohio, has tho ohompion calf seven months old and weighs 740 pounds. It will require 24,000,000 bushels of

Atmospheric Phenomena.

The Nation gives on explanation of what j is known ns the "November Atmosphoric . Wave," or the sudden annual change which wo call tho "cold snap." The change itself is the transfer of cold de- ( scenmug ah' from the oceans to the continents; its cause is the change in tho position of the greatest relative heat. The suddenness of the change is explained as follows: Descending air is constantly increasing in the capacity for moisture,' which causes a steady disappearance of the clouds, renders haze impossible, and thus uncovers the surface to unrestrained radiation into space and niorht, and the reverse is true of ascend

ing air. The proximate cause of every . sudden fall of temperature is said to be the advent of a group of spots upon the ! sun's disc. The direction of this "at- j mospheric '.vave" is explained as follows: The cause of the eastward motion of theso semi-annual phenomena as of all other oloments of weather in tho temperate zone and of the Westward movement within tho tropics, will be clear only to those who understand why the water opposite our moon masses itself into a- tide. Just as this water is left behind by the more rapid movement of the olid part of the earth toward the mooi. (because the solid part, averaged at the center, is nearer the moon), so tho air above tho torrid zone is left behind by the more rapidly westerly motion of the solid earth beneath it, and thus always, appears to bo itself moving from tho east (trade wind). For the atmosEhero rotates (by a force which is known, nt need not here be stated) independently of tho earth and independently one portion of another, while the earth must move altogether; and thus the surface of the torrid zone moves faster, and the temperate zones slower, than either would move if liquid or independent of its neighbors. Tho average velocity of rotation is near latitude 30, where air and earth move at equal pace. North of this latitude we may regard our prevailing westerly winds as (approximately) illustrating a more natural rate of notation, while we are retarded by. being so near the axis approximately merely, for the enormously superior friction of solid over gas compels the atmosphere to conform almost entirely to the velocity of the surface. All extensive atmospheric phenomena, then, must in the temperate zones move from west to east (unless propagated backward, as frequently hap-, pens, but not in relation to this topic) . along with tho air in which they are in- i volvcd. Hence a movement from an ' ocean to a continent will always be di- ' rected toward the continent next east of tho ocean. Other causes conspire with j

tne one aoovc statea, due una in wie most comprehensive cause. Noah's Flood. Geologists admit the powerful agency of rushing water in drilling, rasping, and transporting materials which make up lulls, mountains, and plains. Those i t - -1 e 1

traveling lceuergs, oi wiuuu nu iuuuii ia said, that scoured the face qf the earth in their progress from the north, undoubtedly were employed by nature to smooth the surface on a gigantic scale. But that great flood referred to circumstantially :n the Bible must have been a terrifSc evant to have impressed all mankind with a traditional recognition of its nnivorsolily. Sir Henry James, on English engineer, has attempted an explanation of phenomena that are traceable to the deluge, and especially treats of what must have occurred by a- change of the axis of the earth in itsi rotation. If this globe were of uniform density the poles would traverse tlie circle of evagation in three hundred days, ii the density increoses from the surface towards its center, something else would follow. H- argues that is the flood commenced on the 17l;h day cf tho 7th month, in the 600th year of 'Noah's life, and covered all the land 150 days, and after having destroyed every living tiling save those in tho ark, aud was just 150 days draining off into appropriate channels and basins of presect oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers, he has mastered the problem. The flood, then, was in consequence of changing the polarity of the earth. Whether earthquakes opened vast rents iu the omst of the earth, into which waters rushed from their old localities and thus altered the center of gravity, or whether enormous masses of ice broke their fastenings and sliding along an inclined piano, brought about the flood, still remains an open question, which may bo freely discussed without exciting the apprehension of tho police of aiy country. Pkopaoation of Sopito. A locust may be heard one-sixteenth of a mile; a wren, weighing half an ounce and a middlingaizod man would be; ns heavy as 4,000 of them could be henjd about as far. But, if the voice of either bore a proportion to the m:iss of matter employed in its production, a man could bo hoard 1,000 miles, favored by a brisk wind. A veBf ol at sea a fow years since, 100 mile s fro m laud, heard distinctly tho thrilling music of a band playing on shore. There must have been a poeulior condition of the atmosphere at the time, while tho broad surface of the sails were equivalent to a great external ear to arrest and converge the aerial undulations.

Kiso Victor Emahuel is every inch

Rohiiii' -with goat.

Hr. Greeley as a Lover of Poetry and the Drama. The London Jtra theatrical journal publishes the subjoined letter, addressed to the editor of that paper : Sm : A great ana good man, nay, I may say in virtu ei a second "Cato" has left us for another and a betfcerworld; died of a broken heart. I am rare that it will be of some interest to the prpfesr sion, especially to those who strive after higher aims, to hear that he vas one of the stiMinehest supporters of the legitimate drama. Bos political duties, and arduous labors as editor of the Tribune, left him little time to visit tbe theaters as often as he wished, but he gave them his fullest support. His crita were always experienced and highly educated literary men, and the New York Tribune was looked upon as the oracle in theatrical matters. Justice was the:-e for every one, and none dreaded its opiaion except the impostor and the charlatan. Mr. Greeley's sound and poetic views upon Shakspeare's heroes often astonished me. You could learn more ia a shwt conversation with him than days of study and meditation could reveal. I never spent an hour in his presence without gaining some profound and beneficiid information. Mr. Greeley was a great reader and lover of poetry; his special clelight was " Byron; he revealed more in tbe beauty of his language and rhythm than in his philosophy. In fact, it was "rhythm and beauty of language" tliat he firsi looked to in every poet. Swinburne's verses he gready admired ; so did he Heinrich Heine's. One evering at one of tho reception of his beloved sister,

Mrs. Cleveland, he read fron. an old folio a translation of Schiller's '"Semele," poem seldom read even in Germany. I

was delighted and much astonished at it, for I doubt, with the exception of Bayard Taylor, that, any one else in the room know of its existence; and yet it gave pleasure to all, for he had a sweet voice, and, with his child-like, innocent face, crowned with his silver hair, he looked a regular truly God-like man. Peace to his ashes. Not only has America suffered a great loss in him, but the entire world. I admired and loved him dearly, and cannot refrain from paying this ghxple tribute to ids memory, for he was " e'en as just a man us e'er ny conversotion coped withaL" Yours truly, Daniel E. Bandmann.

' Bald Urt to Liberty imigfm; ... So naff- your rrtvereud ietefem TuliMighatCimylKMqrsBd tro

Vm bud because Vol race yoa mm So, lislcu l tlio trttt: C s

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1 drewn It in toddy!

Nsy nut tnotnwait 4fceH

ui very aainiy fuze; i I'm bald becauM I'm Mtge roamt fco liatsu to Uie aiatft

Good friends ! theeo UaU wffl aUoA tHai And ehmiidu'i be upglsetod; ..

Sntwtat'atiiefinnd'Of aUUKTjeat, If Bounty ia rejected v Yoang love true lore mast erer be 'Xbe r chest earthly prise; jPai bsll beroue T'm aege you see; tlo, lutest to tat wiM'.

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Good friend r beUeve roe, only o We ave IJfo'l trnei treaaurea; By juat con denting, a they flow, TuUi'b evauoaocnt pleaanraa. Mv aenaon'a mK who Hal tojna. Tbe rower of fate doftea; rVabajlbeMiuteraageywaee;

How to Preserve Dead Bodies. In the course of investigating the destroying elements that affect dead bodies, Mr. Peter Craig, undertaker, perceived that oxygen was tho elemem that causes decomposition; it struck him that if tbe clement could be removed from the

coffin where the body was incased, that

preservation wo aid be certnin. Jtiow to accomplish this at first Hither puzzled Mr. Craig, but, not to Ixi baffled by

trifles, he cave the subiect great con

sideration; and knowing t iat combus

tion was caused by the union or tne car

bon of the material and ti e oxygen of the air, he tried the experiment of using up the oxygen in thc casket by the aid oi a lighted candle. Ho had an airtight casket made, and placed a burning candle therein; he screwed down the lid perfectly air-tight. The candle continued to burn for eight hours, and then having consumed all the o:rygen in the interior was extinguished. This proved he theory and satined hir.i that he had made an excellent discovery: but to

carry out his ideas effectively he ob

tained the body of a dead man from the

uoroner ana puieea it lnms coiiui, wim the lighted candle, as before screwing

down the lid, etc. in tins case tne

candle burned for five horn's and a half, and then became extinguished as before.

To test tho case Mr. Craig &ad the body removed to a back room, where it re

mained for three weeks in a perfect state

of oreservation. This satisfied him ie-

yond a doubt that he had succeeded in discovering a new art, whereby bodies could be embalmed without the aid of chemicals,. After having succeeded so

well with his invention, he drew the attention of Dr. Edwin Bently to the process, and that gentleman expressed his firm belief in its success. 'Che new process is to be fully tested to-day, with the ! bodv of Mr. Gowenback, who died in

this city on List Thnrsday, and whose i body has been preserved in this manner. It is the intention of tliis gentleman's relatives to hoe vhis re mi ins taken to

Scotland. ThismUte8tiaieprooes8,and, should it prove satisfactory, which is not doubted, Mr. Craig will h ave added a new process of presei-vin? bodies to science. San Francisco Alta.

A Gift of Tire Bibix .Ifter Tetk-

teest xbabs WArrrso. Among me items of newB received by tie China and Japan mail is the announcement that Dr. Hepburn, a well-knorn American Japanese scholar, recently received permission to present the Mikado with a copy of the Bible in ISnglish, with the lost edition of the Doctor's Japanese and

English Dictionary. Thui Bible Dr. Hepburn took with him to Japan thirteen years ago, and it is on of the costly editions specially prepared by the American Bible Society for presentation to ijudted personages. For these thirteen years has Dr. Hepburn been waiting to press his gift upou the ruler of Japan, patiently waiting 'or an auspicious season. That arrived in the early part of November, the presentation taking place through the intervention of Minister De Long. The MJkado testified his appreciation of the gif ; by acknowledging it in suitable term:) in an autograph letter. This satisfactory reoepmon of the books, coupled with another item of news received by this mail, shat thirty-five nat ive Japanese who had been imprisoned for embracing Christianity had been pardoned and set free, ia a good omen that, in the projected revision of treaties with Western Powers, there will bo introduced large ooncessions in favor of religious toleration. San From-

Cisco Bulletin. Cider and Pickles fob "Pkveb. Some two months ago a resident of Detroit named Broof was taken ill with some sort of a fever, and for two weeks there was littlo hope of saving his life. He continued to sink, in spite of all the physicians could do, and they finally gave him up. All tliroug ti his sickness the man,, had continually asked for pickles and cider, and whin he had got so low that his death vas oonaidorcd only a question of a few hours, Mrs. Broef decided to gratify liis wishes. A glass of RWect eidor was given him, and lie declared himself muoi better fcr it More was given througl. the night, in place of medicine, and the next morning the doctor declared that almost favorable change had taken place. Some strong pickles were procured and given him, and he begun to call for gruel and broth. To lie brief, he ia now able to move around the house, and everybody in the neighborhood, as well as the physician, gives the cider rind pickles tne credit of porfonning the 'jure.

Dii jcbwe --The cail

AuB4r.w The STordiS. o!;f

wiyiwr-aatawaanrany, .

CATTEAii affairs Natatxoal

Buoocx Anns some from

Trra present day Tour pommfSi

Binaue mettte A yomgUajyta Tax worst tax of aSAttacto

Chtjbck belk The rwtfp ters.

A IiAZT cook One that atn

away her time. "VPkkk "doctors differ" .thaj'ra.

apt to lose their paaenta, " WocroB, is tight-lacing ." Of (wiuit m madam."

Wot is the letter X like a youngdy

isecause is majs.es pi pjA TA-KaA-nnn is a CUTIOUS ehao'i

it's wide awake it's leaping. Tint worst kind of education To

brovgM up oy a pomjKnu". vj Tme lhnf!Tiix was raised in a hc43

and that's what made him soar. A Irish gentleman speaks of the-Mi giasippi as " the father of McWatorB."

tha Iiord's Prayer bj asking for

daily gingerDreaa. Why is the alphabet like f?uftirtg first teeth? Because it is tanght

(torture) wnen young. Wmna a. nun crbtv little boV lnTkfl

window ne snowa oe paaununt, w

principle that pains ana pennuaos together. r-

Minr are frequently like toai'.the

strength and. gooaness are not pn

drawn out oi uiem unui uiej uyo for a short time in hot water.

Tub Newt says a iTuilelcss Pant

man saw a beantiiui enromo man " for fifty cents," and sent on the i and received the jack of dabs.

SoaatBOBT mquiring at the SpriBfrfkj

Howe, received the gruff answer

there was up iettar mere ioi ouyn

cow. . Al" TSrrnnoMwrR- in the decline i

was falling with his nephew, to

no related stories oi msjoum, uncle," suddenly ei claimed the rror, "nhttt sfcmek VOU IDOSt

ycmrlife??' " My dear boy, it was

tmt!" The Memphis Appeal tens . . . . 1 t - J. x .

Irajtunan woo go wugiieu u iur -

faces over some persinimoiiB, i 4-s.A fliTiB " Ye nuLV Drill.

ton-headed idiots 1 but I can lather

sowl out uv the man that sput i

over ttnm plums. Mucart. Wbeezin, aueczuwt all tbe day; Eyes watery and streaming; Oougbii jn a chatt'ring w; Poor nose red and poor cheeaj gray; How ToicekM and now "creaming. PaiM and achee iu every limb; Iw-r leutTfrea aadly VTi, Hearing gone and eyesight din; Sad, dejected, aafcmn, grim ; Head heavy, hot, stuffy. T feel all this, and then be Uild, Xy dear, you've only g it a cd.'

Hi

Funding a Doctor.

Dr. M-, an army surgeon, waa; vnlrA nnlosa HlTlRtrlteTl &t his '

w ww vv. f . pense), and had, moreover, a g0M

renowned for their courage than . - a Kaa.

Mh.lw,Hm . CTM II1.V u. Ill I .kit.

iiuunW tia1 TMrfrtrtnea sundry

. . . . . . . i r a -

bulnmons ol tne tame, vjn?. .,. 1 nMMsliaYiAl tflffitfWT Anil A.

Htu oowu.f'" " . nn ramllrkHl to UlB IyOOtOM WflO

luin ammawrhaifc Mrare in his remark

the literary de&aenciea oi some w

new officers:

"Dr. M., are you aoquaintea

"Tab T VnAw him WelL

Doctor, "he is one of the nV s

what of himr' - - . -

uwu.fnul a latter from nirfL. SOA XI

. ..-i.l

wager yoa a doaen oia psnxuafj cannot guess in hi. gneeseabowlMiAV

cat.

"Done! It's a wager. "WelL fommsnoe i

CI:S- .

"IL, a, aouoie "No." "K, a, double t, e." "No." "K,a,t, m "No! Try agian. "C, a, double fc,.w. . "No, yoa ht nmaed "Wetf tba," returood

"C, a, double t" "No, that's nc the inft it's your last guses." . f-TSo. that's wit the way.

yowr wager." ;Will " uud tha Dootor.

petulance of manner, "how

'W)iv h Boollsit c a. f

-nth tfiA iiimiutt urnvitv of

amid the roar of tt aej pg

caoKinir wr rage wo w

"Uapt. b.? i am voo ina wa triiied with in this mannerr ' Maa Erww JPobmiw at im,

BAND S iSIES. JKXa. JCAfWlB tragedian's wife, was, soovdhaj 1 statement of a reporter, atberhaa) funeral Ho nays: - fitting at the window MUMS '1 street, and with no one Bear IM arms resting listlessly on her bmx. fingers neryousry dnunuing wi ' each other, was Catliarino Sfiiia divorced wife of the iJed Actox: one knew who she was, they ttpptu keep their distance. She arriTBd ; day morning and entorod th$ iff

. X' ' :

ing, wim a ut-uoio oiao cnpo

MIX nearly to ner roe, oaan ously toward the rear parlor.

renuons were iyuig. Xhorov

or six persons in tho ropaa.

aside her vail she stood for

mcimttes. ilooed her hand on fe3a

and followed the arm down to ftn

which she grorped for a low m

Tlien she gbded toward U ocfftn and plucked one or

from the cross wlwh lay ujj man'sfeet She thee jnovoA 1

the front parlor, whom aWw.

vstol hub ooatm mt w wwaa;

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