Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 16, Number 25, Jasper, Dubois County, 31 July 1874 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER,

C. DOAI7E, Publisher. JASrKK. INDIANA iti'jis ov iTi:ici;sT. I'ersoiinl wnil l.ltemry. lllt number of the S;m Francisco China .W has Im-cii Issued. ItU printed in the Chinese langiiage.uinler the patronage of fix ( hince companies, ami Is (Itvoted to the interest of the Chinese of tin OOUft. 4i'ii. bankslstols'comea rf'citiiiul lecturer, lit' i preparing new lecture in American Volunteer Soldiers," Itluo .stockings," " W'hat a Man Owes lo the Town he Lives in," and "Tin' Princes of 1 ;plomacv favour, Gortschakolf, Catclar ami Thh-rs." Jo-h Hillings, shaking of Mark Twain's struggles ami triumphs, says that then-is nnu e solid joy to the square loot in fifteen dollar a wivk when a muni making his r utation, th in in $." for the same It ngth of time after hi n-pnta-tion is m .nufacturcd. Perhaps Murk don't think so. Grace (Jni iiwtMxl and Mary Cleiiitner Allies two of the most veratile of the A.nerican iicwpaper-woinen of the day, lire spending the summer together in Colorado. Another of the same sisterhood. Miss Margaret F. I'm-hanan, of Chicago journalism, is said to lie preparing for her weeding with one of the official of the Pho-nix City. Mis Suan K. Iit klnson. a sifter of the lecturer, who inherit her full share of ti e talent of the family, is alxmt to make her apiarunce also on the lecture pHtlonn. l'rought up among the Quak rs, fiie ha- fitoi-iilly jtildn-eil large aiuiifiict' already, hut mainly in churches.aml on themes not calculated tt challenge new spajM r notice. I'rof. James Kussell Lowell's resignation of his itrott-ssorship of belles lettres at Harvard ('olh-ge two years ago has never Iwn accepted by the authorities of the college, ami In- will, then fori1, resume his old jvost at the beginning ol the Octolx-r term, though under somewhat altered condition-, which ill relieve him from continuous el as, teat hinj;'. It is said that an answer Is to lx maile to (ien. Sherman's complaints of the limitation o his jMiwt r, showing that it i quite im" ihle for the Pn-sidcnt and . n nil Sherman to hold the fame ollice at the came time. If Sherman were the tdiilo-i phi r he ought to be. he would settle down in Mime cool .jKjt near that remarksble bridge in St. Louis, and devote the rt t of his h i u re lxtw-cn this time and the next war to draw ing his salary. Cuurirr-JiHima I. The ( ilasgow AVirt has published the subjoined account of an interview w ith M. Kocht f'rt, in the mail train on its way to London. M. I.'ochefort I state I to have said to the reporter : "A a t.nthcr joiir-nali-t I mo happy to receive you, although my comfort ha Urn materially interfered with hy the reporter of America. It Would have itliillM'd you to see how they came forward in crowd, not a you would tlo hen-. 1'iit with note-lMMik iii hand, and with a long li-t of prepared questions, w hich we t re X- t-d to answer seriatim. We did not. hut the re.-ult of that w as that tlu v have made the most extraor dinary stati-im-nts regarding us in their journal. I tlo not understand Knglish, bti I have harm-d that they have credited M. Tain with a perht t knowledge of the tlitticult ("hint. though he 1 notacquaintcd with a inl of it." School nmtl hurrti. It i reported that anuuilM-rof lulies are tt enter the Theological S htMd of the lio-ton l'iuvcr-ity (Meihtxli-t) next fall. The New Church (Swe ,enlM)r,.'ian) have eeei platvs of wor.h!p ill the Mate of hio, three in Indiana ami one in henluckv. It is pnpted to erect two extensive asylums f r priet tmuiihetl from tiermany, o n- iii Knglaiid and one in the I'llitetl States. Mts 'ollins, a missionary amo ,:n the California Indiaiis, ctunts up S() convert among the various trilx's from her niinistnttions. The women preachers in the l.'nited States now n n niltcr JW. Thev an- thstrihutttl mainly among the McthodUt ami rnit r-:cii-ts, with a sprinkling of 'i'lakt n - -. The colon 1 H'tpl of Haiti more adapt tht-iii-eUes uith gnat a.s to the formula and tlo :riiie .f the I'rotestant Kpiscopal Church. At prv-ciit they have five churches in u nourishing 'condition in that city. The lrli I'n-hy terian Church is likely to lc rent a-uuileron the pietioii of l ie employ uient of liiilifal iutrilinents. The i iCiHTa! AssemMy tlirected, l.it year, that all tnuded iiistruuieiits lnild ! exi lutletl fntiu the churches. Mill, one of the churches insisted I1mi n-iug a h iiinoni iiii, and the ptor i to lx airaigm tl U tore the next (icneral Aemhly to answer. A large proportion of cYrgymen in the Chun li of luglaml to-ilav are as poorly paid as the Vicar of U kctii Id was in 'iold-inith's time, for XI.") at pn-eiit, considering thr cost of living. Is no more than equivalent to the Vicr of Waketie.'i U. There are now 4,:(S.iletietlees in the church of Kngland umlcr XJixl a year, ami i-o less than 1,211 under 100 a year in value. A letter in the Philadelphia Prti iys ; ".,.,:v-ix colleges in the I'llited St.ite now admit women on equal terms with men. Th pn-senci' of the men ami woiih ii together in the diccting-riNtn of the Il '-ton l iiivtTity, whi' h Is oh ii to H.th -exes, has an excellent etrcct. One 'l the professors divlares that he has never known the torn f any di ctini'rotmi to !h o c!cvatetl and linexception''''If as this ha Imi-ii, and that he ha itver Imi m jn liny other rtMiin for that purjMiv' in which "then h is lcen hi so mat ki d a degree an ahencf ot whate ver has the einlilainv of immodesty or vulgarity.' " Nrt-nr aikI Industry. Of the 1.:!I.ih;7 worker hi inet.il in '""cat llrifain, :!7i;.7s: are miners, 174.701 wotkt-r. etc.. on arms, 77:i,SsW w inkers "'id ili ali rs in minerals and metals, and ''. 12 mat him: and tool makers.

The Khodc I -lam I Locomotive Works of Providence have Im-cii awarded a contnu t, iinioiinting to i.VVi.doo. (or the con-

: struction of tilt v tirt- lass engine for the itirand Trunk h.tilway of Canada. The work win tie at once placed on full working time, w ith a full complement of hands. Along the Pacific coast, from April to August, sardine are asahuiidant as grashopMT now are in part of the Northwest. A firm in San Francisco has. commenced packing them. They projoHe to get their olive oil from Mexico. As to the quality of them, a reporter of the San 1- raiicico Chronicle visited the estahlishinciit lately, ami a hox of sardine wa.s opened in honor of the event. The excuse that they had not Imtii put up a sutlitient length of time to Im- passed upon critically was ohVrcd, yet they were sweeter, fresher, and more delirious than the hnporttl artlAn article of original manufacture, called cane-lils r felt. Is made by a Virginia company. It is the only li lt made from cane In the world. It I until as a lining under tin, slate ami shingle roof's, and for deafening floor ; it also forms a cheap carpet lining, ami Is a substitute for plaster ; in fact serves any use for which lelt can ! employed In buildings. It I a non-conductor of heat ami cold, ami impervious to water or moisture. This felt Is plain or resin-sized, the. latter as well as the former (M ing inodorous. It is cheap, durable, ami free from objections which characterize other felts. It is a fact not generally known that the value of the leather product of the I'lilted States is greater than the value of the Iron product. The following statistics will be l Interest : During the year 170 there were in the United Mates 4.f7 tanneries and :i.0s-j currying establishments, employing 30,111 inch and using 2.V.:t.S) cord of WW. A capita! of )."i,(rJl,2y) was invested in the business, and the aggregate sum of $12.0,H,4nO was jaid as wages to workmen. The value ot the product exceeded $2i ".,000,000, while the value ol thelroH budness was less than f 100.000,IMI, of the cotton manufacture less than S17S.UI0.000, of woolen jroods less than $.!0 .ooo.oon. To a greater extent than most other articles, leather, when worn out, i an absolute loss, as it cannot then Im utilized to any great extent. Iron ami most of the other articles atmve mentioned, when worn out, arc utilized and jM rfoim important functions in the economy ot Ues. IM AMI ttlshapn. A Kalamazoo boy invented a wooden cannon, hut upon tiring it the iiiiK-e exploded ami the boy lost his eyesight. A hoy named (Jraham, living near Lancaster, Wis., w hile building a fence, was bitten by a rattlesnake through a linger on his left hand. He at once picked up a dull ax. and laying his linger on a ot. chopped it oil. The Mexico (Mo.) Mwttngrr ayc : Sune half a ilo.-n little Imij s w ere playing in a lot in this city on Thursday lat when a loaded pistol in the hands of one of them was accidentally discharged, the ball entering the net k of a son of lr. Kudohih St harloch. ultout ten years ot age. lie lived about tell minutes. .lohn .Severn, living near Lincoln, Nt h., w hile laltoiing under religious excitement, jumjM'd Into a well sixtv-tive f'-ettleep with live feet of water. Hi father ha-teiicd down to the rescue, but he fought determinedly to die. The old man finally succeeded m fastening a ne amMit the 1mv's fotif, and drew him up feet foremost. The young man had just returned from camp-meeting. A recent London dispatch announces the t leaf h of a professor w hile attempting to tly from a balloon to the earth alter rising u short distance. The irofesor was lowered and hung suspended from the balloon by a roe, w ith the wings of a flyingmachine extended. The b illoon ascended to a considerable height, and at a signal the rope Was cut, when the professor descended with frightful velocity to the ground ami was Instantly killed. Mrs. Cassidy of IN-yiioldsville. S hin ier county. N. V., during a late thunderstorm, gathered up her children and went down in the cellar, and got into a dark corner, with a child on each side. The house was struck hy lightning ami the two children were killed, while she was unhurt, ami did not know what had In fallen her balM . When the storm was over she carried them up into the light, and understood whv they had suddenly lus-onie so quiet, she then nvcived the first shock sh' had li lt. The incident wn ins to prove that the cellar s a good place for women to hide from lightning, but bail for children. Foreign (oilp. Iii Cuban hotels butter I served up when called for in long-necked !ottlcs, and ltMks very much like wagon greae. The (ireat Wctcrn Kailway Company of Kngland has abandoned the broad for thu narrow gauge. I he change of auge of the whole line was etl' cted in three days, and with it ends the hroad-rauge system in (ireat P.ritain. The oldest grandchild of (Juecn Victoria, the son of the Crown Prince and Prim-ess of Prussia, is now l." years o age. He is represented as a fine, promising lad, although paralyzed hi the right ar it, a malady of whose cure the best physicians of Itcriiu have no hope. An extraordinary accident is reported from 1 leidt Ibcrg. 'i'he famous chemist, Profeor Ibiiiseii, went out of his study for a short walk, leaving on his table the manuscript of a new book, which lie had Is-cn preparing for the pat four years. On returning he found his papers in flames, and Ik-fore the tire was extinguished the 1mm ik was in ashes. It is said that some Inciter matches which were lying fin the dek were ignited by the sun. and thus the whole mischief was done. A letter from St. Petersburg says that llussj.i i at last Isginning. though by slow degree, to introduce the representative system in its legislation. It was announced some two mouths ago that the ( ioverument proposed in future to submit :dl bills relating to agriculture. In-fore t in i n ir to any final tlet i-imi Umhi them, to an assembly composed of representatives, partly elected ami partly nominated, of the nohilitv. the provincial diet, and the commercial and industrial classes; and it is now stated by the llumki Mir that the assembly in question will meet in St. Petersburg in January next, ami that the first bill submitted lor its considera

tion will be one for regulating the relations between employers and employed. M. Valouyetl, the Minister of the Crown Domains, is to Im the prcsidi-nt in this assembly. The total nuinlier of members will be forty, and they will bo taken from among the nobles, the town jMipulation and the iM-asantry. ItapM-ars that the jut-en. in going out driving, the first time the Duchess of Kdinburg accompanied her, placet, as usual, the Princes of Wales U side her on the back seat, so that the Duchess ami her siiouse were forced to sit opposite with their backs to the horses, which was all very well for the Duke, he U-ing a man and in his mother's carriage, but the proud and jietted daughter of the Czar of all the Kussias had no idea of N-irgmade to yield the first place to any one. On her return from the drive, therefore, she informed Ouccn Victoria that she hat! never occupied the front scat in a carriage Is fore, ami that she would not submit to be placed there again. The (juccn reminded the irate Duchess that the Princess of Wales, as the wife of the heir to the crown ami the future (jueen of Kiiglaud, was, of course, entitled to take precedence over the wife of her second son ami that, moreover, the Prim-ess IJcatriee, as an unmarried Knglish Princess, still under the immediate protection of the Queen, was also entitled to take precedence over any of the other female member of the royal family. " lbmember that 1 am the daughter of the greatest sovereign on earth, of the ( zar of Kiissia!" cried the indignant young lady. To this the Queen responded, " I acknowledge no earthly sovereign as my superior." So there the matter rests, and the Duchess of Kdinburg was not present at the Queen's lat draw ing-nMm, ostensibly on aiiunt of illness. A newspaper corresMjndeiit is the relator of the above incident.

Odd I'.ndo. According to the census, there are only two men in America w ho make a secialtyofthe manufacture of hand-organs. Just think how ca-v it would be to kill those two men, ami yet they still live! iWw York H'urld. Coronor Paeon of Ihitl'alo saved a lady from drowning on Friday last. Ht-r beauty and cries for help overcame the proswct ofa fee. It Is to be hoped that the lady's friends will see that the Coroner docs not lose by his self-sacrilicing heroism. A Streator, Wis., soda-fountain was recently charged with arsenic Instead of marble dust, ami nine is-rsons partook of the compound Is fore the mistake was discovered. A stomach pump undid the work its soda brother had done ami they were all saved. A young widow lady left Washington the otficr day for Colorado to marry a man to whom she was engagi-d, ami w-hose business Is so arbitrary as to deny Mm the privilege to go so far from home, even to marry. About one man in a thousand is worth, as a husband, the fatigue, trouble amIexK'ne of going that far for, and it too oft-n turns out that h isn't. Put women will take such risks for a Very small premium. Courier-Journal. "What may Im its effects. esjMsially iimiii the minds of ignorant men. I dare not foretell,"' wrote Mr. Parkhurt. discussing the comet's tail, and the posibilit v that the earth might come in collision with it. Hen- is one indication of w hat may Inexiectetl: "I've got 'em!'' shout'-d a Mississippi lMiatman. when first the wanderer broke iion his sight. "Snakes I've had licforc. and now the stars have got tails on 'em. I'm a dead man '." Little Johnny II.. of Fourteenth street, wanted to go to 1r. Putler's chun-h yesUnlay. His mother was atraid he would make a noise, but his father said : "Johnny knows U tter than to make a noic in church." So he went. He kept very still till the lat prayer. P.y that time he bad grown tin-d sitting still, and was standing on the new cushion w ith his back to the pulpit. When the lady in the next seat (owed her head iii praver, Johnny thought she was crying, lie leaned over" and said to the lady, in a tone that was meant for a w hi-pcr, but w hich was only too plainly heard: "Poor lady! What e matter? Do oo stummut ache!" It it rejtortetl that the Princess Peatrice, Queen Victoria's youngest daughter, a girl of 17, is to lie niamed to Adolf Frcidrich. the hclr-apparctit totheOrand Duke of Mecklenburg-Stn litz. The father of the cxcctaiit bridegroom rules over less than one thousand square miles of territory, but as he owns over half tne laml in his dominions, rules almost absolutely, and has saved a large private fortune! he w ill hen uca: h a very pretty estate to his son, should the latter survive him ami no revolution overthrow the present state of things in (it rinany. Adolf is 2U yearn old. and his mother is a daughter ol the late Duke of Cambridge, Victoria's untie. 'I In- wife of C-eorge III. was a prim-ess of Mccklctilmrg-Strclitz, a was also the w ife of hi son. lather of the demsi1 King of II mover. The paternal (ioverument of the little (5 rami Duchy is not much liked by its subjects, ami they are emigrating in such muiiiImts that the population is diminishing yearly. I'se of Sulphur in the Vine aril. M. IS. Pattham, hi the Jlortirult-ritf, say of the reports made of recent exeiinieiits in the uc of sulphur on Catawba vineyard-on the l-land: It wasf-tatt-d by one of the graix- growt rs from There, that sulphuring tin- vines had Ix-en practical to some extent for several y ear pat, and that when judiciously do.ie. it whs found a certain preventive of mildew and rotting of the fruit, ami abo of the blighting ol the loliiige; ami where this was practiced, ill 1--72. the vines rit lied their wtH I so well as to sutler but little damage from the winter, ami thus produced a half crop, while vineyard not sulphured liore no fruit at all. Thee facts will can' a very general u of sulph r hen-after, ami much Improvement i expected then from. The practice is to mix the sulphur with an equal quantity of tine, air-laked lime, and apply the M'vder with a Is llowsof which they manufacture a very cheap style for thepurMse. The first application i made as soon as the blossoms are ; If in June, ami n-N at once a month or so during the summer. The lalmr audi xjm n-c are quite small compared w ith the iM-in-tit-; and the practice is recommended to grape-growers generally, especially ho varieties that ansubject to mildew or blighting of the foliage. Let us all give the eM-riineiit a trial and report the result next year.

lion. S. S. Cox on Our National Annl versarj. At the annual banquet given by the Tammany Society o New York City on Imlejicmfcncc Day, Hon. S. S. Cox made tin; following address : MK. COX'8 HTKKCH. Having n)ken k often the pat eight years on thes occasion I vainly sought to decline for this day. One thought only for my short talk. ThU day is dedicated to civil liberty. Is not this phrase an anachronism ? The Fourth of July is"lndi.emlcnce" day. The declaration was entirely unanimous; nor was it Intended to Is; so much in the Interests of human nature ami abstract liberty as of home rights, colonial autonomy, and cis-Atlantic defiance. The celebration of this day. Is then-fore, not an aotheosis to the lieuutiful goddess! It Is rather the memory ot an armed man. It recalls Pabius and Washington, Plato and Jefferson. It reminds u of light and philosophy. We have hail enough revolution revolution at the South, (iotl knows. Phi much ! We had it during the civil warand since ! We should forget the vagaries of our recent history and come to the facts of our icrilous present. The Declaration w as a pawspi icddrcani, an armed vent un-; the Constitution which followed is a written chart. It celebrate t he fact accomplished. It anchors u. Our independent venture, our starry dream is over. It Is a century old. We must sail now by the chart or we must wreck. Departing from the charters and roving like pirates, the party in power for more than a decade has outraged and outlawed every sentiment of litserty and broken every w ritten or traditionary restraint upon central ami local tyranny ; so that the party out of power, becoming conservative of law and order, contests with the party in jxiwer, which revolutionizes to overturn tioth. This cannot last without imminent peri!. How shall it he ended? Only by the union of good men of all ciectls. and parties to check the revolutionary ami elevate the conservative. Name one element of freedom which our fathers fixed in the Constitution as organic and quickly you find its infraction by the dominant party. The nebulous statement of our wrongs in the Declaration are enstarred in tbe Constitution aye. and since 17S7 we hive added some of the lunar ami vapory Ideas of more recent date as amendments ; but these all are of no moment Infore the IrresjKinsible cabal which by malversation, corruption, covctousuc, reck

lessness, mid wrong doing have made administration a scolllng and law a by-word. Need I i-trticularize ? Shall 1 n ad you the " Hecord " of Congressional usurpation ? Shall I tell you that wherea w e ustl to have otdy hundreds of bills u session wu now have thousand., ami that most ot these thousands are w ithoiit the projs-r purview of Federal legislation ? What are they? (irand scheme of money H-nding; schemes of water ami laml communication ; device to get money for favorites in the way of inoities, tariff, centennials and charities ; st -hemes for nil men, black men and w hite men : gilly schemes for pious men ; schemes tor improving little rivers over which you can leap: and schemes alout great States w hich, lying prostrate, we trample upon. Is then-one element ot civil freedom named in the Declaration or rcservi-d in the Constitution which this administration ha conserved, or which it has not tried to abridge and detrov? What a mockery to tell Louisiana that slie tlerives her jut powers from the consent of the governed ; that she I an equal State, according in her inuic with the Federal constellation! What a scandal to tell South Carolina that taxation and representation go ttt ret In t! W hat a sham to talk to Ar-i.-insas aliout ls-ing fitly organized Is-twt-en P.riMik and IJaxttT so as to effect her safety ami happiness! How simple our talk "of the tyranny ot George HI. over the colonies, while the Uniicached Dun ll pocket the proi-ccds of bankrupts, State and individual, and wears t'"' spotless ermine; and the looy Moses," Governor of Siuth Carolina. csea.c indictment by the dignity of his otlice! What a commentary, the (latling guns of Casey ami the Imprisoned legislators of Louisiana, on the imH-achment of the llritili ring for "dissolving representative houses!" W hat irony in the n-proach that King George destroyed naturalization, with the lb-publican" bill from the Fon ign Atlairs of the House to uncitizeiiize.ilenationalizc those aln-ady natundi.cd, it they hapM-n to sojourn abroad! Think of our revolutionary Indictment against the Knglish king: how it might le translated by the n-ecnt edition of our political lexicon ! Did the stupid king Intel ten-with the judiciary? Well, did not Cong ess enlarge the Supn-uie Court to crowd its ls-iich for a purpose? Who carried out that purpose? The Kxi-t-utive who desired in hi "memoranda" to n s al the legal tender, ami who signed the present currency law. The king made swat in if harassing and hungry otiWrs. Vet we rather like our hone-t custom-house. Mstolllces, ami Internal Ib-vcnne Department. The king kept the military alMve the civil, did he? He cut off trade, did he? Well, his schemes wen as a little finger compantl to the loins of our tariff swindlers. He transport! our fit hers incriminated to fonign trilunals, did he? lb-violate 1 Magna ( barta bv dciroving the jury of the vicinage? What 1 i f the thirty-six fcciiuiors do who voted the tran-poitation of the fearless editor and tli- s-nal muzzle of the press? It was under the cloud of battle that the Ib publiiau paily passed the Gibraltar of your li In rtie aid entcn-d that wide Mediterranean of tli-cn-tionary, usurped powers, w hen' lor four long years they voyaged at will. When challenged they promised they would give back I he siHiilsof warwitli ihe return id k-hiv. Put what right ls-trayed have tiny ever nstorcd? What principle of liberty sacritiitl have they ever returned? Not one. The lay of restitution approaches, ami these spoiler of human rigid, the. depn-t lator of liberty must answer to the people for the aggn-ssion they have committed. The principle! that most concern human government ami human society tlo not change, they do not grow old or die, they may lie m glected forgotten. In calm days of vcaec and prosperity the vessel of state may drill along on the tranquil sea without compass or headlight, but when the night shnuid the ocean in darkness, and ftcrchancc the storm rages, the vt sel freighted with our hopes and destinies must look to the trimim-d ami burning light tif cxiN-ricnce, wi-dom, and statesmanship. The impatit nt ami panting re

former who runs along the shore and sends up his rot k In w ill only lure to destruction. It Is the Pharos on whose tower every night for a hundred yearn the tin- have been kindled that can alone warn ot from every dangerous and Inhospitable coast and sun ly guide to a safe anchorage within the sheltering harbor. On the (lathering of Itlpe Fruit. The following is by Josiah IIooixt, a celebrated fruit-grower and writer on horticulture, of Pennsylvania, and will be found seasonable and useful to the fruitgrower : "In regard to the gathering of ritK? fruits of dill'eretit kinds, no fruit should he taken from the tn-e or plant during a damp time, and esjecially when the dew la plentiful in early morning. Never be so hurried as to tfnd any cause for tbe excuse, I had no time lo'haml-pick my fruit, and consequently, was forced to shake them off, tor such Is joor olicy. Fruit so gathered w ill almost inevitably decay from the t-IIt-cts of bruises. Kat-h sjs-ciuien should lie taken from the tree one by one, handled as if they had Is-en so many eggs. The slightest bruise or abrasion of the skin is the sure forerunner ot a dark spot, which w ill eventually change into some form of rot. The SHres of ifcd of fungi are always reaily to jussist in the work of dissolution, ami the slightest scratch gives them a foothold for their destructive work. Scarcely any variety of the largest fruits coloraudriiH-n so w ell iflctt to ierfect themselves on the tree, and especially Is, this true in res sit to car. Summer varieties, as they approach maturity, loosen their hold somew hat on the limb, and by gently raising the fruit they w ill easily detach themselves at the proper jn-riod. Thin Is an excellent test, and may always le relied on. To color up fruit uU ly, ull that is necessary w ill la to spn-ad a blanket on the floor of a cool room, and then thinly and evenly place the fruit on the floor. A second blanket must Is? spread over them, ami in a short time the eJli-et of this tn-at-mentw ill Is apparent in the mo-t goldencolored liartlcit, and rich, rutkly-looking Scckcls imaginable. Pears is-rfcd! in this manner rarely have the mealiness of their naturally ripened companions ; nor do they pn-niatun-ly decay at the core a.s when hit on the tn-e. Peaches are too frequently gathered Is fore attaining the full size, ami when this is the case we need not exst t good flavor. They must obtain this requisite

bclorc gathering; although It Is not iiccs.ary to delay picking until very mellow. As a general rule, all small fruits are gathered too early ; ami, as high color is not a sign of maturity, many exjH-ri-cuccd fruit-growers are frequently misled. Never pick straw ben it s because they are red. nor black lK-rries solely on account of their dark apix-aranee. Kach should nmuin on the idaut for some lime tliereafter. The Albany wedlmg strawberry changes to a deep crimson hue, ami gains continually in size alter its first coloring pnsces. It is tln-n soft ami excellent eating. And so with blackberries in like manner, many complaining of their extreme tartness, when the fault was In gathering Iihm-i lc t fruit. The Iiw ton or New-Kochclle variety, in particular, Is delicious eating, if allowed to remain on the plant until soft, when the slightest touch will sever it hold. Straw U-rries picked with the calyx (or hull) adhering w ill always carry I Iter and he lews liable to decay than if can le..-l v pulled oil" w ithout thfs apiN-ndage. The foregoing remarks in n-lation to the prtqver time for gathering fruit an equally applicable to the graj'. These generally color long Is fore they are matun' ; and thus many a novice in fruit cultun- frequently forms, an unjut opinion of hi varieties simply from tasting unrie sK-cinien. Grapes should nlways U- severed from the vine with strong scissors cr trimming shear, and m vcrtwisted or broken o.!." The nice apicarance of fruit of all kinds, in their boxt s or basket, in the market, will command a better price than when slovenly "done up." Sensible Hints About Dress. Men of low instincts. hn take pleasure hi flattering silly w omen to do silly things, invariably encourage all worn n. except their own wives, to dress in a sty le that is miscalled " loud." It is an ungciitccl, un-lady-like style, tint it s not any mon vulgar than the affectation of those who, to make a display of the giKl bn-eding they lo not osscss, an- always talking about loudness in dn-ss. Dre cannot te loud. It may be ungente 1. milady-like, vulgar, iumiislest, flashy, fast less or unrefined, but not loud. 'Neither can it tie quiet. That Is another affected term ucd by people who apin; to lie very genteel. Dn-ss may te simple, lady like, n lined, elegant, tasteful, sty li-h, fashionable, characteristic, elatmrate, gent- I or modest, but not quiet. If ladies. wih to w in n-spect rather than surprise men into an equivocal kind of admiration, h t them choo-e sober-colored fabrics, ami forbid their dressmakers to load their garments w it li trimming of various kinds. I, t them avoid novelties and the rage for any thing, es-iallly the jctI a 1 rage of thf season, also the furor lor striped fabrics; or, if they inut wear striM-s, hi tin-in Is' narrow and not in stroiig-coirrasting colors. I t tncin not loop tunics ami polonaise in any of the fantastic styles seen in the fashion plates, tior wear enormous bustles under voluminous pout ami boullanf. : but, if tbe ligun-1 slender, use a small bustle and a moderate pout or looping in the back. Let them try to stop the tide of folly and extravagance which has trained for the women of this country the name abroad of " thoe dreadful Americans." and wh:ch among ill-bred American men can- s them to ! spoken of as " those loud -dressing women. It I said (hat Dr. Chalmers once entertained a distinguished guest from Switzerland, whom lie asked if he would lie In ljed to kipier-d salmon. The f m ign divine &skii the meaning of the uncouth word " kipjK-retl." and was told lhat it meant " preserved " Mini at; r the pHir man made use of this newly acq'. in d expression in i: puMi" pnncr. whin he nth-red a jx-titi.ui that the distinguished divine might long be kippered to the Free Church of Scotland. .1. II. I'ol.imon. a wcal'hy f.irimr, living iiar (.re I y, Itiwa. wa recently fron-tl by a bull, ami so badly Injun d that ie died hi two hours.