Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1880 — Page 4

THH BMeUMH LAXfiVACK. A pretty deer Is dear to me, A hare with downy hair; I Jove a hart with ail my heart, But barely bear a bear. ’Tie plain that no one takes a plane To have a pair of pears; A rake, though, often takes a rake To tear away the tares. All rays raise thyme, times rases all; And, through the whole, hole wears. A writ, in writing •• right,*’ may wdte It " wright,” and still be wrong— For “write” and “rite” are neither “right,” And don’t to write belong, Beer often brings a bier to man, Coughing a coffin brings. And too much ale will make us ail, As well as other things. The person lies who says he lies When ue is bift reclining; And, when consumptive folks decline, They all decline declining. A quail don't quail before a storm— A bough will bow before it; We can rot reign the rain at all— No earthly powers reign o'er it. The dyer dyes awhile then dies; To aye he’s always trying, Until upon his dying bed He thinks no more of dyeing. A son of Mars mars many a sun; All deys must have their days, And every knight should pray each night To him who weighs his ways. ’Tts meet that man should mete out meat To feed misfortune’s son; The fair should fare on love alone, Else one can not be won. A la s, alas! is something false; Of faults a maid is made; Her waist is but a barren waste— Though stayed, she is npt staid. The springs spring forth in spring, and shoots Shoot forward one and all; Though summer kills the flowers, it leaves The leaves to fall in fall I would a story here commence, But you might find it stale; So let’s suppose that you have reached The tail end of our tale.

The Settler’s Stratagem.

BY CLINTON MONTAGUE.

Mark Stanton was one of those hardy pioneers who, in the early settlement of the country, moved from the more thickly settled seaboard and pitched his cabin in the valley of the Saco, far away from the seats of civilization. His nearest neighbor lived at a distance of two miles, near the western border of Lovewell’s Pond. A wife and one child accompanied him into the wilderness. The Indians at this period were peculiary troublesome. Pangus indeed was dead—the great Sagamore whose name had been a source of terror for years, to even distant settlements; but the remnant of his tribe still made their home upon the broad meadow of the Saco and among the adjacent hills. Unable to make any large or connected attacks upon the invading whites the red men contented themselves with pillage and theft and other annoyances. Against these numerous depredations the settlers had no adequate means of defence, and if they found their fowls, swine or cows missing they had to submit to the loss as best they might. Stanton had been a victim to these depredations on several occasions, but had attempted no retaliation. The chief leaders of the savages in these plundering inroads were two braves noted for their strength and ferocity, named Mattampa and Kalarna. On more than one occasion these warriors had even burned cabinsand scalped the owners, and the settler deemed himself fortunate that no such injuries had been offered him. One September day Mark Stanton found it necessary to visit his neighbor Drover’s to obtain a few supplies that they stood in need of. So kissing his four-year-old daughter, and bidding his wife to guard carefully against any attack of the Indians, the settlor took his rifle and departed for the settlement. His stay was protracted to a later hour than he had anticipated, and it was nearly sundown when he set out on his return. He hurried his step almost to a ruu as he thought of the anxiety that would be his wife’s at his prolonged absence. Yet, in his haste, he neglected not to use both eyes and ears; for the settler was a true hunter, and had more than once saved his life by his craft and forest lore.

When about half the intervening distance had been passed, Stanton heard a noise that made him pause. It sounded like the cry of a child, and it was not far from his path. He listened in suspense and again heard the cry repeated. This time he recognized the voice as that of his own child, his darling Annie, whom he had last seen in her mother’s arms at home. The cry was one of entreaty, of terror, too, and Stanton’s heart beat loudly at the thought of the girl’s danger. He guessed instinctively what, had happened. The Indians had visited his home during his absence and accomplished their fell purpose. As soon as the first shock of horror was passed he was nerved to action. Bending his ear to the ground he plainly heard the jar of footsteeps, but he was surprised to discover that there was but a single savage. Quickly, but cautiously, he crept through the bushes, and finally he got a glimpse of the red man, at a little distance, hurrying through the deep wood. The Indian was tall and powerful, and he bore the light form of the child under his arms as though it had been a mere feather’s weight. The little thing had ceased to struggle, for one of the great red hands was pressed hard over her mouth, and she seemed nearly exhausted. It took Mark Stanton but a moment to conclude what to do. He did not dare rush upon the savage and attempt to beat him down, for he knew that if the red .man was alarmed before he reached him the life of his child would be sacrificed. On the other hand, if he trusted to his rifle, there was a bare possibility that the girl might be injured, but it was far the better course. Hurrying cautiously forward until he reached a favorable point, he raised his trusty weapon to his shoulder. Leveling it full at the center of the red man’s head, he took a careful aim and pulled the trigger. The next moment a sharp report rang through the forest. Without waiting for the smoke to clear away, Stanton rushed forward and found the savage just gasping in his death struggle, while little Anne lay screaming by his side. He soon pacified the child, who he found was uninjured. Then he reloaded his rifle and made a hasty examination of the fallen Indian. The settler did not recognize him, but from his dress and ornaments he judged that he was a warrior of some note. Leaving him where he had fallen, Stanton took his child in his arms and wended his way homeward. It was quite dusk when he reached there, and he found his wife waiting for him nearly crazed with grief. The mother’s strength returned when she saw her child, and after the congratulations of the hour, Mrs. Stanton told her story. She had left Anne sleeping in her bed, and went out to milk the cow. When she returned the child was missing. She had immediately begun a search, but without avail, and was fast approaching hysterics when her husband returned. She now urged an immediate flight to the settlement at the pond, and Stanton promised to accede to her wishes as soon as their ripening crops were harvested. The following morning the settler went to the place where he had left the dead Indian, with the intention of burying him; but he found that the body had been carried away. There were heavy tracks about the spot, and Stanton readily conjectured that some of the warrior’s friends had effected the removal. With this conclusion he retraced his steps, determined to keep his eyes open and his rifle ready.

The second morning afterwards as Mark Stanton stepped from his cabin he saw something lying upon the door-stone. He stooped and picked it up, and saw that it was an arrow, with the skin of a rattlesnake around about it. He knew what the fatal signal meant at ogee. The man who left that snake-bound shaft at his door had sworn to kill him. The settler was a brave man, but this stern, significant token affected him as the presence of the avenger himself would have not At first be thought he

would not tell his wife, but, on reflection, he concluded it would be better to let her into the secret. It would be better for her and better for him, for a constant watch must now be maintained. Mrs. Stanton’s first impulse, as soon as she understood what her husband told her, was to hasten to the settlement. “That would hardly be a safe undertaking,” returned the settler; “for my enemy may be even now watching near the cot, and were we to start out I might get a rifle-ball through my body.” The young wife was sorely frightened, but she saw the reasonableness of her husband’s statement, and she urged her point no further. All that day they kept within doors, and during the night Stanton did not relinquish his watch. But no signs of Indians were visible. On opening the door in the morning, however, the settler saw another arrow laying near the door-step. To this one a roll of birch bark was attached. Carrying it into the house, he unrolled the bark and found it embellished with a rude drawing. It was not difficult to make out what was intended tx\ be conveyed. In one corner of the segment was the picture of a dead Indian, and from the hieroglyphics underneath, Stanton gathered the fact that it was meant for Mattampa. one of the noted braves of the Pequaket tribe. Beyond him was another brave, with a drawn bow in his hand and an arrow speeding from it. Under this one was the name of Kalarna. The third figure represented a white man with an arrow piercing his bosom. The settler’s anxiety was not materially decreased by the knowledge that his foeman was one of these distinguished braves. He knew he had to deal with one of the most crafty and relentless savages of that region, and he knew enough of the Indian’s character to know that he would not swerve from his revengeful plan until he had performed the deed or had fallen in the conflict. “What shall we do? What shall we do?” cried Mrs. Stanton, as she shielded Anne in her arms. “We may be surrounded by enemies at this moment. ” “ That is not probable,” said her husband. “ Kalarna is too much of a brave to suffer that. I have slain his brother, and he alone will seek revenge. He has given me fair warning, and now he will hang around my path till he accomplishes his fell purpose, unless I can continue to circumvent him. He thinks he has put me upon the rack, and his next step will be to put a rifle ball through my heart. But he will work in the dark.”

“Could I not go to the settlement and inform them of your danger?” asked the heroic wife, brave now that she knew what the danger was that was to be met. Stanton shook his head dubiously. “You would not be permitted to- do that,” he answered. “Besides, I would not have you undergo such risk. ” The situation was truly a perplexing one. The stout settler was imprisoned in his own cabin as surely as though he had been within the walls of a dungeon. The avenger was already on his track and might be, even then, hidden in the greenwood. He felt confident that should he step one foot out of doors his body would be the mark for a bullet. In the middle of the afternoon Mrs. Stanton opened the door and went out to get a pail of water. The spring was situated a few rods from the cabin, near a thicket of trees and bushes. As she stooped to dip the water she saw the painted visage of an Indian glaring at her through some whitewood bushes. Though trembling with fear she did not betray by a sign that she had observed him and bore her burden with seeming carelessness into the house. Once within she sat down pale and trembling. “I have seen an Indian,” said she, in reply to her husband’s questioning. “ He is hid in the clump of white woods by the spring. Oh, you will be killed ! Mark, you will be killed!” Stanton stepped to one of the small loopholes between the logs and looked sharply out. The bushes in question were not over ten rods from the door. He could see no Indian there, but he knew it was a place where an Indian could hide, and he did not doubt his wife’s eyesight. Kalarna was probably there waiting for his appearance. The settler’s craft did not desert him. He felt easier to know that his enemy mas near him, for he could make his plans accordingly. He knew his enemy’s position, and that knowledge placed him, as it were, on something like an equality with him. “Mary,” said he to his wife, “I am going to kill that Indian.” “What are you going to do?” she cried, in an agony of pain and suspense. “The moment you step afoot outside the door you will be shot. ” “ Of course if I go out I am sure to be killed; but suppose something should go out that only looked like me, what then?” he asked.

“What do you mean, Mark?” and Mrs. Stanton gazed into her husband’s face as if to comprehend his meaning. “I mean that we will send out a man of straw to draw the enemy’s fire. After that it will be my turn with the rifle. Now do you understand?” The wife said she thought she did. ‘ ‘ Then let us go to work as quickly as possible, before the Indian changes his lurking-place.” Stanton’s plan was clear now, and they proceeded to speedily carry it into execution. The settler doffed his clothes, which they stuffed well with bedding. A proper looking head was fashioned from a small pillow, to one side of which was tacked a piece of bearskin to represent hair. Upon this was placed a bat, and when all was completed it formed as respectable a looking effigy as could be easily gotten up; indeed, so well was it proportioned and so excellent was the likeness that the good wife declared that, had she seen it for the first time in the woods, she should not have known it from her husband. In order to perfectly carry out the settler’s plan a broom handle was fixed to the effigy, under the right arm, so that it could be held in an upright position. Mrs. Stanton then practised upon it until she could move it about as if it had life.

When all was ready the settler took liis station at the loophole which looked toward the cover of the Indian. He had already his rifle in readiness, and as soon as the muzzle of the piece was in its place, and he was sure of his aim, he gave the signal to his wife. She opened the door very slowly, and carefullv lifted the image out over the threshold upon the stone, holding it there steadily. At the same moment Stanton saw a human head lifted cautiously above the white wood bushes. The eagle features and the painted countenance told that it was an Indian brave. The settler instantly covered the right eye of the red man with the sight of his rifle. The redskin discharged his rifle at the same instant with the white man, .so that both reports were simultaneous. A loud death yell told the result of the settler’s shot, and Stanton saw his red foeman leap into the air and fall to the ground. The Indian’s aim had been no less certain, for on examining the effigy they found a bullet-hole just where the heart would have lain in a human bosom. After a while Mark Stanton went out to the white wood bushes. He found the vengeful Kalarna stone dead. A bullet had passed into his right eye through the brain. The red man had fought his last battle. He buried the dead body at a distance and removed as well as he could all traces of the conflict, and then for two or three days kept a careful watch. But he was not molested. The attempt upon his life had been planned by Kalama alone, and the death of the redoubtable warrior was never traced to his hands,

The sturdy pioneer lived there many years and prospered. Grandchildren grew up around him, to whom the adventures of their grandsire were as interesting as fairy tales. But there was one story they never heard without a tremor, and’ that was the hunter’s stratagem when' he slew the famous Pequaket brave.

FARM NOTES.

The United States, while it contains .ess than a sixth of the population of Europe, has four-fifths as many swine, a third as many cattle, and a fifth as many sheep as are in all the Eropean countries together. Perhaps the heaviest returns ever obtained in this country from a single sheep was secured last year by Daniel Smith, of Hinsdale, N. H., who raised from a Shropshire ewe three lambs, which he sold for $lB, and the wool of the ewe for $1.50, making the total income from the sheep $19.50. Friend farmers, prepare your land for wheat better than you ever prepared it before. Harrow, harrow, harrow. If the soil is sandy, roll after sowing or drilling in. If at all inclined to be clayey, roll before sowing. See if the results of this careful preparation do not more than pay the cost. Prof. Budd says, in the lowa Colleye Quarterly, of the Worden grape: “We have the true Worden growing on the college farm, and the merest novice can distinguish between it and the Concord at a distance of ten feet. It ripens in lowa fully ten days before the latter, and the fruit is larger and more juicy.” Chicken Cholera. —Seeing considerable about this disease in the different agricultural journals, I give you a very simple cure, which was communicated to me by a lady friend. We have tried it a’d found it to work “to a charm. ” It is simply a piece of salt bacon or shoulder nailed to a stump or board and placed where the fowls can pick at it. Old wormy stuff—that is not good to eat —is just as good as any, and a large piece can be bought at almost any country store for a mere song. Try it.—Hayseed, in the Son of the Soil. The Coming Fence.—The Farm Journal gives in a few words its opinions concerning the fences of a no distant future. It says: “Ist, the fencing material of the era now dawning will consist more largely of iron than heretofore, but, 2d, iron posts will not be used unless there is a great fall in the price of iron, a circumstance not likely to occur. 3d, to turn cattle and horses only, a fence consisting of wooden posts with three iron No. 6 wires will prove the cheapest and best fence. The bottom wire, about two feet from the ground, may have barbs upon it, to prevent cattle from pushing against it; the top wire should have plastering lath wired to it horizontally, the lath whitewashed, to prevent animals running into the fence. 4th, to turn sheep and hogs wooden fence is cheepost and best. sth, as to the fence of the more distant future for turning cattle, we are not prepared to nameit, but many farmers in the old dairy sections will say ‘fence, no fence.’ The soiling system that will feed and support one hundred cows on one hundred acres requires no fence at all, for the cows do not graze, but are fed at the barn v.inter and summer.” Salt*for Poultry.—Hens often have a habit of biting and pulling their feathers and greedily eating them until their bodies are bare. This practice, it is believed, is occasioned by a want of salt, as when salted food is given them they make no attempt to continue the habit. Salt pork chopped fine and fed twice a week has been adopted with success, while others put a teaspoonful of salt with two quarts of meal or shorts moistend, well mixed, and fed about twice every week. Fowls, like human beings, to be healthy must have a certain allowance of salt. So long as the American people prize sugar sweet cakes, and the New York hotels consume 1,800,000 chickens and poultry, and 5,500,000 of eggs every week, the poultry business in this country will remain a good one. Give your fowls warm, clean houses and dry, grassy runs, if you would have them clear of roup and canker. And feed them regularly with good nourishing food, if you would have them free from disease, lay more eggs, and be more profitable every day. Winter Dairying.—The better class of livers in the United States are beginning to demand good, fresh butter instead of the salted article which has hitherto been eaten through the winter months. In consequence those farmers who try to please the palate by producing a sweet, nutty-tasting commodity, will reap their reward by receiving a remunerating price. Setting ■ aside fancy prices, it is certain that a good, fair rate will always be paid for butter which can be depended upon to come to hand weekly in uniform quality. The best butter-maker in the United States fails unless the cows are fed properly, therefore there must be the right sort of food. The hay should be made from grass cut when in bloom, and this alone will do, but some corn meal and wheat bran will increase the cream and add to the rich flavor of the butter. Also tlie use of carrots will cause a greater flow of milk, and there will be then the peculiarly fresh taste which characterizes butter when cows are in good pasture in June. Of course comfortable stabling, cleanliness, and exercise in a sheltered yard will be requisite for full success. The cows should have their calves in September or thereabouts, and the heifer calves from all good milkers should be raised, which can be done on the skimmed milk. In the autumn there is no forage or food of any kind, better for milch cows as a help to failing ■pasture than pumpkins. I have used them freely for years with the best results, and find the fear of the seeds all nonsense. At the present time I have a fine lot growing among the corn and about three acres planted near the barn, which together will be sufficient to last till Christmas if I can secure a portion of them from frost. After the pumpkins are gone, carrots are better than any other variety of roots, and if fed till grass comes again there need be no loss of quality in the butter. The quantity of the milk will be equal to the best grass season, and will depend upon the cows. Any man having common sense, and managing properly, can obtain double the average given by cows of the kind usually met with, if he will buy good ones and breed from none but deep milkers, and from bulls which are from a deep milking strain.— Correspondence of Country Gentleman.

HOUSEKEEPERS’ HELPS.

Freckle Lotion.—Muriate ammonia, one dram; cologne water, two drams; distilled water, seven ounces; mix and use as a wash. It contains nothing injurious. Roast Oysters.—Open, leave the oysters upon the lower shells, place in a large dripping-pan and set in the upper grate in a quick oven for ten minutes. Take out, season with butter, pepper and salt, and serve upon the shell. Broiled Oysters.—Select large ones, wipe dry and broil upon a fine wire gridiron. By dredging with flour before broiling, a crust is formed which is liked by many. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and drop a bit of butter upon each. Pie Crust.—Three and a half cupfuls of sifted flour; one cupful sweet lard, one. teaspoonful salt, one teaspoonful baking-powder, one cupful very cold water; mix with knife, using hands as dttle as possible to mix with; roll. Corn Fritters.—To the beaten yolks of three eggs add a teacup of milk, a pint of boiled green corn grated, a little salt and as much flower as will form a batter thick enough to drop from a spoon. Beat the whole very hard, than stir in

the beaten white® of the egg; drop the batter a spoonful at a time, in hot lard. Crow’s Nest.—Fill a deep padding tin, or dish with apples cut in thin slices; sugar and cinnamon, or lemon, to sweeten and flavor to taste, and a little water : covered with a thick crust made as above; bake until apples are tender; Serve hot with hard sauce, or with cream nnd sugar; be sure to cut air holes in die crust to let the steam escape. Oyster Soup.—One quart of soh'J oysters, free from gnt. Pour into a sauce-pan two quarts of boiling water: cream, a large tablespoonful of flour with a half teacupfal of butter, thicken the boiling water with the paste, season with pepper, boil up, add the oysters and cook until the edges curl. Have heated a teacupful of sweet cream or as rich milk as you can get, turn into the tureen, pour in the oysters and serve. Favre Beans. —Boil some white beans until quite dry and tender. Into a four quart, baking dish put an inch layer of the beans, seasoned with pepper and salt, strew over minced bits of salt pork, cover with a layer of raw oysters, sprinkle with powdered cracker crumbs and bits of butter and cover with another layer of beans, thus alternating until the dish is almost full. The beans should make the last layer. Pour over a pint, or more, if the beans were very dry, of oyster liquor, cover and bake half an hour, removing the cover toward the last that the top may brown. Chutney.—One pound salt, one pound mustard-seed, one pound stoned raisins, one pound brown sugar, twelve ounces garlic, six ounces cayenne pepper, two quarts unripe gooseberries, two quarts begt vinegar ; the mustard-seed gently dried and bruised; sugar made into syrup with pint of vinegar; gooseberries dried, and boiled in a quart of the vinegar ; the garlic to be well bruised in a mortar; when cold, gradually mix the whole in a large mortar, and with the remaining vinegar thoroughly amalgamate them. To be tied down close; the longei kept the better.

A Water-Wheel Story.

Some one tells the following story, which serves to point a moral: “ There were two men (in about 1838), Stickpenny and Whewell, who owned a sawmill near Old Town, Maine, in common The arrangement under which the mill was operated was that each had the mill all to himself during alternate weeks. Stickpenny was a mean, rusty old chap. Whewell was a shrewd, investigating young man. The mill was run by a crude, rough kind of an undershot wheel, that gave very little power for the amount of water used, so that the water was often short. Whewell wanted to put in a new iron spiral-vent wheel, then just coming out, but Stickpenny would have nothing to do with it. He wasn’t going to lay out money for any ‘such a job as that.’ Finally, Whewell said he would pay all the bills, to which Stickpenny at last agreed, ‘but provided you put the wheel in in your week.’ So the new wheel was put in, and Whewell, being of a mechanical turn of mind, experimented with it, and soon found that by plugging up some of the orifices the saw went through the log faster than when they were all open. So he plugged them up during his week, and always pulled the plugs all out again for Stickpenny to operate with. Soon it began to be noticed that somehow or other Whewell always managed to saw a couple of thousand feet more of lumber in his week than ever Stickpenny could, no matter how the pond was. “Finally Stickpenny went down to see Wlieewell about it. Says he, ‘Whewell, how is it that you manage to saw more lumber in a given time than I can when my turn comes round? ’ Says Whewell, ‘Don’t you know how that is? Waal, I’ll tell you. It’s because you ain’t been treatin’ of me fairly in this matter. It’s ag’in nature. You can’t expect the mill to saw as well for you as it does for them as do the square thing all around.’ Stickpenny wouldn’t believe that, and went away. But still the mill went on turning out regularly more lumber for Whewell than Stickpenny managed to get out of it; so, finally, tlie latter came round, and said, ‘What’s your bill? I’ll pay my share.’ “He paid it, and thereafter Stickpenny managed to saw lumber just as lively as Whewell did. ‘Well,’ said the old fellow, ‘I always knew that the folks around here were all ag’in me, but I never thought that the Almighty was ;’ and he died without finding out the explanation of it at all.”

Hereditary Descent of Beauty.

Mr. X)arwin believes that the general beauty of the English upper class, and especially of the titled aristocracy, is probably due to their constant selection of the most beautiful women of all classes (peeresses, actresses, or wealthy bourgeoises) as ■wives through an immense number of generations. The regular features and fine complexions of the mothers are naturally handed down by heredity to their descendants. Similarly it would seem that we must account for the high average of personal beauty amongst the ancient Greeks and the modem Italians by the high avemge of general taste, the strong love for the beautiful, diffused amongst all classes in both those races. The prettier women and the handsomer men would thus stand a better chance of marrying, other things being equal, and of handing down their own refined type of face and form to their children. If this be so—and evolutionists at least can hardly doubt it—then we should expect everywhere to find the general level of personal beauty highest where there was the widest diffusion of aesthetic taste. Now, our own squalid poor are noticeable, as a rule, for their absolute and repulsive ugliness, even when compared with those of other European countries. Gaunt, hard-faced women, low-browed, bull-dog looking men, sickly, shapeless children people the back slums of our manufacturing towns. Their painful ugliness cannot all be due to their physicial circumstances alone; for the lazzoroni who hang about the streets of Naples must lead lives of about equal hardship and discomfort; yet many of them, both men and women, are beautiful enough to sit as lUbdels for a Lionardo. On the other hand, every traveler speaks in high admiration of the beauty and gracefulness displayed by young and old among the sesthetic Polynesians; while in many like cases I note that Europeans who have once become accustomed to the local type find decidedly pretty faces extremely common in several savage races whose primitive works of art show them in other ways to possess considerable aesthetic taste. In India, where artistic feeling is universal, almost every man or woman is handsome. On the whole, it seems fairly proved that the average personal beauty everywhere roughly corresponds to the average general love for beauly in the abstract.

Under the auspices of the British Goat Society, a kid dinner was given on the third day of the goat show, at the Alexandra Palace. The viands consisted solely of the flesh of the kid at different ages, dressed in various wavs to repreresent fowl, mutton, lamb, veal and fawn. The object was to bring this article of food into more general consumption. While making a call at a neighbor’s, a young lady of Madison, Ohio, said to a cat that came into the room: “Why, pussy, I haven’t seen vour babies yet; are they pretty?” The cat immediately went out, and returned with a kitten in her mouth which she laid at the feet of her questioner. n 'lhe Chicago Times says: Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cine is highly indorsed bv ministers, Judges, physicians, surgeons b’v men of literary and scholarly distinction' anii by individuals in all the walks of fife.

BREVITIES.

The broad-heel shoe is becoming fashionable for ladies’ wear. The Chinese use American lard, for oleomargarine, on their bread. Ouray, the late Ute chief, left property valued at $200,000. Moody and Sankey have fused for the coif version of the California “hoodlums.” A golden owl, with diamond eyes, perched upon a crescent moon of rubies, is one of the new scarf-pin designs. A recent report shows that the increase in the consumption of horse and ■ass flesh is large and steady in France. A publication giving the origin and pedigree of all the old Virginia families is issued periodically at Richmond. Fifty-seven tons of Greek marble have been delivered in London, free of all charges, by the Greek Government, for the Byron pedestal. Italian army officers are now exercised in the practical running of railroad trains, so that in time of war they may know all about moving troops by rail. During the past five years ex-Gov. Stanford, of California, has accumulated a stable of 294 head of thoroughbred and trotting horses at his stud farm, Palo Alto, Cal. A man near Houston, Texas, made §6OO per acre this year from the cultivation of domestic blackberries. The yield was 3,000 quarts per acre, which sold at 20 cents a quart. A method of removing the bark from trees, when the sap is not flowing, by treating the wood with superheated steam, has secured for the inventor a prize offered by the French Agricultural Society. A Frenchman has discovered that an oil can be distilled from American grape vines which will not congeal above 8 cleg. Fah., while other oils congeal at 27| deg. He recommends this oil for watch-making and similar uses. German clerks are underbidding English in London, and there is an outcry. Germans seem very glad in these days to quit their Faderland. Bismarck has perhaps shown them too clearly “ how wide the limits stand between a splendid and a happy land.” The wedding guests were assembled to see Howard Canby married to a Baltimore belle, when a telegraph boy brought in this message from the absent bridegroom: “I have left you. ” The bride fainted, and her friends slowly dispersed, expressing an unfavorable opinion of Canby. In Northampton county, N. C., Ranson Harris, 14 years old, and James Ingram, 10 years old, both colored, became involved in a quarrel, during which Ingram threw an ax at Harris, but missed his aim. Harris then threw the ax at Ingram, striking him on the head, killing him instantly. A man complained in a police court at Marietta, Ohio, that a neighbor had struck him on the head with a cane. “I don’t think he hurt you much,” said the Justice. “No, I don’t know as he did,” was the response. But they were wrong, for the man’s skull was fractured, and a minute later he fell dead in court. There is no necessity to neglect your business if you only use Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup at once ; the most reliable remedy m the world for Coughs, Colds, etc. Suicide is inspired by various and veiy conflicting motives. Early in the war of the rebellion a boy hanged himself in Northern Ohio because his father would not let him enlist. A good many more persons put an end to their lives through tire mere apprehension of being drafted and killed in battle. An excbange now says that the wife of Judge Miller, of Lincolnville, Maine, hanged herself the other day to the bed post, leaving a note to the effect that she was drawing near seventy-five years of age, and feared that she would come to trouble if she reached it.

Educational.

We would call tho attention of School Boards and all interested in educational matters to the advertisement in this number of “ Swinton’s Supplementary Readers,” designed to connect with any of the regular scries of readers. The books are pure, elevating and instructive, while in typographical appearance and as specimens of the book-maker’s art they are far in advance of anything wo have seen in the school-book line. The fact that the series is published by Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co. is a sufficient guaranty of their excellence.

The Voltaic Belt Co., marshall, Mich.,

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