Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 35, Number 50, Jasper, Dubois County, 25 August 1893 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER.

C. DOANK, Publlnhsr. JASPER. INDIAN SUMMER TIME. They'll Jlttlo way, Must Ko Into cray tv Riem'ry a-luyla' In my tho waste basket before I work to-day. Tor they're a-llfttn' an' a-driftln' like messages to me, Blown on tho wlntlit uv summer time, from thing that tisctl to bo, It's HlntiiKO omctimeH, what little ttiiitgi will lean one tmckward through The oiH'ti gateways uv the past, to other days ho It tic w; Tell ho's landed uj agin' hlmelf In childhood's perfect prime, Where tue soul wudca out, barefooted, in the joys uv Ummer time. It's mlddlia' r!, ji winter, a slldlii down the hill; ICr to go n si-allahootln', when tho river takes chill An' puta on a extra cover uv sleet an' lc an' snow; Jes' buckle up my skate-strap an' show me where to go! An' I like the uprlns Mill better, when the birds an' Dowers jes Urcalt up their Ions vacation un" resume their tlzzynessi Uut somehow, .durln' all these days' It always seems that I'm Jes' freczln' for thu mazy, lazy days uv summer time. Odiimrner time! O childhood! you beckon unto me! An 1 am with you once agin', Just as 1 used to be, Drown handed, brown footed, between the rows uv com. Y.r on the fence u res tin' waltlti' for tho dinner horn, Ilehlml mo, In tho orchid", the melier apples fall. "With npple-rtumpllu's In their looks. An' out above It all I see the chubby lingers uv my baby sister climb A swingln' on the barnyard gate, In the sunny summer time. So you see I like the summer, an' so I always will. I could drink It In ferever ,ind nover git my till. J could bo contented always among tho shacks uv wheat: Tor they keep a Intlmatln' that we'll have enough to eat. An' If I had a lever on tho seasons uv tho year Tu get up some summer mornln' and throw It out of gear. So that when I am called to Ira ve.for a brighter, better clime, I'd be shore to make the journey In the gol?en summer time. Alfred Wilson, In Chicago News. CAUGHT BY CUPID. JLn Australian Romnnoo with Snnko Story Attachment. a Copyright, IWJ, by the Author. lAKIMKD! Then. by George! .sir, you ought tobe a s 1) u in e (i o f yourself!" Such was my fri end Puu 1 Weston's burst of indignation when I blandly on the occa- l sion of our first meeting, after a pro 1 o n ir e d separation that I was no longer a bachelor. We had been chums at Harrow, ami -cronies for a year or two after our schooldays were over. He entered the army. 1 for a time tried mercantile pursuits. We wcra both artistic in our tastes, but, strange to say, neither of us had propensities that led us iuto dangerous dalliance with the softer sex. Faul was distinctly a womanhater. For myself I will not venture to say as much, but I kept well clear of their wiles. . l'aul's regiment was sent to India, and of course Paul went with it. Soon after his departure 1 began to feel restless. I hadn't an ounce of business enpacity, so my governor said. I believed mm then, as I do now. "Go to Australia, Jack," was his ad vice. "Go to Australia, and see bow you like sheep-farming. I'll give you five hundred pounds to pay your ex pense, und if In a year or two you find you can do any good at it, I'll set you going on your own account." My governor was one of the right ort, you see. Dear old chap, I revere his memory still. In less than a week I was on board tho good ship "Whitehall," runnlnir down channel, before a spanking ten'00 TO AUSTRALIA, JACK. toiot breeze, bound for the land of Higaroo and mutton. llavinir landed RnfeU- nml wnll it Mnoy, I lost no time trilling with the ml temptations of that fair city, but ent straight up country, whore I Waially succeeded in getting on to u n-vp station. As a matter of fact, 'here were three stations rolled into ne sheep, cattlo and horses being repCCtivelv farmed Iti 1 remember Ml well flirt imnr,.ci,in V -- ltl(VI VII Mil IOIVII T '"de on mo wj,en I rcaii?(., the area w this farm was so extensive. It was Kli1y calculated to bo a distance of wine seventy miles from the eastern to e western extremity. I devoted my r-' to hi,t.tfp ns n spcciaiityt though I "?nt into tho niauugement of both wle and horses. 1 tell this in order to bring myself to cenc of my Rtory's action, for at "dUrencr 1 ... - .. . nu un m serpent once

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destinies of a tnun und a woman Thu proprietor of llengengo enjoyed progressive turn of mind, and was laudably desirous of emulating thu re nowneu breeders of stock in thu old some country, He had put himself to great expend, la importing some very valuable ruins. The. rains had arrived to us at llengengo in llrst-rate eoudit on, just in the niek of seasonable time. The lato for putting them with me nock had already been fixed, wheu, one morning-, the man whoso especial """K1' imv mm neon, cutno into our hut, and informed thu manager that rams had "broken fold," and.though he had searched all round, he could lind no trace of them. , A thousand pounds'worth of valuable blood in jeopardy put our manager iuto a fever of anxiety, fathering about him two or three of the stockmen, und tunu i niacic tracicers, he was about lo start oil in search, when sud ilenly he remembered that certain lutters had not been sent on to tho head station, and he knew the boss to be ex pecting some important communication. "1 think, Dennison. that you had better ride over to Mount Misery (the name of the head station) and take the mail. You will be better able to make the explanation about, the rams being lost than cither of the men." "All right!" I said; "I'll start at once. Whore arc the letters?" Hero von are. One two thrro fnr the boss, ono for Mrs. J! and one for Miss Cordon Miss Gordon! who the deuce is she'.1" I suggested that Miss Gordon might be the niece of the boss; for I had heard a niece was expected to visit Mount Misery. The ram-seeking party took their departure, and soon after I started for the head station, with but little relish for reporting to the boss the loss he was in danger of sustaining-. Mount Misery is twenty miles from llengengo, but my wiry little nag got over the ground well under a couple of hours. 1 did not forget to keep my weather eye open for traces of the lost animals, but saw nothing. The baptism of places must surely be governed by the rule of contraries. In the cane of Mount Misery, never was name lessapropos. The spot where Mr. Illyth the boss had built his homestead was one of the loveliest and most picturesque places I have ever seen. A long, hroad-hnttomed valley, between two rnnge.of honeysuckle hills. Through the eeuter of the valley ran in silvery silence a small stream. On either side its banks, grew groves of fair-sized timber trees apple wood, box and stringy bark. Here and there clumps of stately gum trees rose to a height of s'tme one hundred to one hundred and seventy feet. Myriads of bright plumnged birds iütted continuously in the sunlight, giving one the impression or winged gems. The noisy but interesting chatter of cockatoos, blended with the softer love-notes of various doves, nil helped to lend a ch arm, and the ensemble was a prospect nr ,,',5t'r'"t than the ill-sounding name of Mount Misery advised. The homestead itself was equally a picture, reminding one of omeold lost century farmhouse, of a style frequently met with in the more retired rural districts of England, lluugalow fashion, its divisions were all on the ground floor, the peaked roof being simply used for storing fruit. A variety of creepers trailed their wealthy growth from end to end, on pillar and post, from ground plate to gable peak. A well-ntocked orchard with a carefully tended and luxuriant flower garden surrounded tho house, which was simply a picturesque and comfort-abounding bit of perfection. The visitor to Mount Misery must of necessity cross one or other of the two barren ranges, which in summer or winter are equally uninviting, owing to their open character, being devoid of shelter from either cold, biting: blasts of winter, or the sweltering rays of the summer sun. Hut having crossed this waste of barren rock, and reached the edge of the ninge, the eye is gladdened by the oasis just described. On this occasion I did not, as was usual with mo, halt to re-ad mire the picture, but continued my way to the foot of the range. On entering the grove of timber I struck the station track, and put my horse to a sharp canter, and was beginning to formulate some quiet style of speech to in troduce the ill news I bore, when suddenly I became aware that a lady was standing on the track some hundred yards or so ahead of me; she appeared to be reading. "This must bo Miss Gordon." thought I. "lly George, she's young, and what is more a jolly pretty girl!" My artistic nature) came to the front again, you sec. I'll try and describe Iter; then, perhaps, I may beforgiven my rapture. A figure tall and lithe, an oval face, a pair of sott, sleepy-looking brown eyes, shaded by a mass of lion tawny hair, which was hound up and braided into a simple knot She was garmented in a robe of some soft well-hanging material, purple of hue, und relieved of its density by a white India-silk kerchief, lightly thrown over hershoulderSand fastened loosely in sailor fashion round her throat. llcmember, this description is as she, appeared most fre-piently to mo after tho following incident, and not at the particular time. As I drew nearer, I saw that something unusual had happened, und that she was apparently suffering an agony, for her face was ghastly pale, and her eyes set In an awful stare. When I reached her side I mechanically raised my hat, but still tho same set look on her face. "Vou are suffering. Can 1 be of anj' senlco to youV" 1 asked. My voice broke the spell that was upon her. The frightened stare vanished, and a roneate flush began slowly to tinge the pallor of her .'hecks, and eoswtkinjf akin to a walle .vreathed her J

lip. Then in a volee aubdued but mellow, like a nightingale's she said: "You are just in time; 1 had all but fainted from exhaustion. look!" and, pointing to the ground, she dlreete my attention to that which enabled me to solve tho mystery, A huge blaeksnaku had colled around and above tho unlclo of her right foot. I was horror-stricken at tho sight, and for a moment the power of speech seemed to have deserted me. At last 1

burst out: "Has it bitten you?" "1 think not. but please do something to release me." This rather petulantly. hendlng down. I saw that the head of the snake was beneath the heel of her slipper, and oh! what a Cinderella of a slipper it was. I snatched my bush-knife from its sheath at my waist, und in another instant had guillotined thu reptile. Looking up at her, I asked: "How long have you been in this plight?" Hut tho pallor was again fast spreading over her face und the glorious eyes closing. I sprang to my feet, only just in timo to save her from falling. She had become quite unconscious, so resting her gently against a tree I jumped on my horse, und, bendlug over, lifted I GL'ir.I.OTlNKD TIIK ItKPTI.f.K. her up in my arms, then, putting spurs to my nug, made the best of my vray to the homestead. My arrival there in the triple role of cssengcr of ill news, postman and succorer of beauty in distress, caused quite a stir in thu Mount Misery house hold. It is unnecessary to detail the slovy process by which I arrived at the bliss ful state, tho uzaounccmcut of which brought down my friend Paul's wrathful indignation upon my head. Let it sutlice for meto say in explana tion of the position in which I found Janet Gordon on that eventful day, she had left the house with the intention ol taking a stroll in tho bush, and had proceeded just so far as the spot which 1 had found her when she Kvf met with the misadventure I hu'. related. Strolling leisurely along reading her book she suddenly found herself in the fix described. To use her own words: "I knew instinctively, as it were, that I had trodden on a snake, and that it was coiling round my ankle. I knew, too, that under ordinary conditions it would not have been content to leave me unharmed. I felt that some part of it was yet tinder my foot, and from tho fact of not feeling a puncture, judged that its head was the imprisoned part Although in nn agony of fear and alarm, I resolved to keep it there as long as my norves would stand tho strain. I tried to shout; whether 1 did or not, I cannot say: to me it seemed that my voice had left me. I must have been standing in the position yon found me in for over half an hour, growing gradually weaker. Oh! it was an awful trial. The sickening sense of possible death, and by such an agent, was painful beyond description. Had I been told beforehand that my nerve was sufficient for such a trial, I should not have believed it" Twelve months after the event related above, my father was killed in a railway accident I was summoned hojnc to take possessloa of a handsome fortune he had left me. I brought a fortune home with me a bon nie fortune represented as it is by my wife Janet Paul Weston, who is a frequent visitor at my place, has since more than once admitted that "Truth is stranger than fiction," and often closely interrogates my wife, with a view to ascertain if she is a survivor of an extinct class or a veritable luus natura. F. Eliot. NOT THAT KINO. A Hotel Clerk Who Knew Alt A beat Drnmraern. "Traveling men are just as truthful as any other class," began tho drummer, and every other man in the party coughed significantly. "Well, they are," contended the drummer, "and notwithstanding you and everybody else seem to think they are liars." The hotel clerk looked sympathetic. "Oh, hotel clerks ain't any better than the rest,ti, said the drummer. "On.y last week I stopped at a hotel in Muskegon and just for fun I registered 'George Washington.' The clerk didn't seem to notice anything particular in the name, and I began ,to talk. " 'Ever hear of him?" I said. " 'Nope,' he answered flippantly. " 'Never heard of George Washington?" "The clerk examined tho signature and tool: a gaze at my sample cases. " 'No, never heard of him.' " 'What, never heard of George Washington, the man that never told a lie?" " 'Oh, himVandatlashof intelligence came to his face. 'Yes, I've heard of him; but drummers ain't that kind, Front, take this gent to forty-four,' and that's nil the satisfaeUoti I got out of it" Detroit Free Press. Shady Talent. Teacher "This drawing is excellent Did you do it all yourself?" Small Pupil "No'm; Johnny Smart dreW it for me, but I did the shading." Tca:hcr "The shading is remarkably well done." Small Pupil "Yes'm. I held a book up to keep the sun from shining ia Johnaj't eye." Yankee Iliad

HOME HINTS AND HELPS.

Potato Polonaise: Stew cold sl!ce4 boiled potatoes in broth or milk and dress with caper sauce, and you will have a potato polonaise. liostou Globe. -Herring Fillets: This is a irood zest The salt herrings should bo carefully washed, the heads t taken off and properly cleaned, then, they snoiiid bo soaked In milk and water two hours. After this thev should 1m wiped dry and soaked in linlf vinegar uuu water for twenty-four iours with raw onions und whole popper. They .should be perfectly drained mid served m a boat with vinegar and oil blended with mustard. Hoston Globe. Strawberry Cream Cake: Two eon fills of sugar, four eggs, ono cupful of sweet milk, six tablespoon fills of melted butter, three cupfuls of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, JJako in layers. For tho cream take ono cupful of thick sweet cream and beat or whip until stiff, add four ta blespoonfuls of granulated sugar (tho granulated sugar gives firmness, but must bo fine grained), and one pint of strawberries, well sweetened; spread on the layers of cake, when perfectly cool. Housekeeper. Cooking Heefsteaks and Chops: Trim the steak carefully, cutting oil all ragged pieces for soup-meat. Put in Ute pan a picea of butter the size of a filbert, and a tcaspoonful of Worcestershire sauce. Lay the steak upon the butter and sauce. Hutter thinly the side that is up. and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Cover closely. Let cook about three minutes, then turn over. This browns both sides and keeps the juice in tho steak. Turn once or twice more while cooking, which should take about ten minutes for a steak of medium thickness. Chops should be cooked just as steak, except that, being thinner, they will require rather less time. Ladies' Home Journal. Jellied Veal: Tako a knuckle of veal, wipe, put in a kettle, over with cold water, and bring slowly to a boil; skim, and let simmer for two hours; add a slice of onion, a blade of mace, a dozen whole cloves, half a dozen pepper-corns, half a tcaspoonful of ground allspice, and one grated nutmeg; let simmer gently for ono hour longer. Tako the joint of veal up, remove tho bones and gristle, put the meat in a square mold, strain tho liquor, and boil until reduced to one quart; ndd half a teacup of vinegar, the juice of u small lemon, with pepper and salt. pour it over tho meat, and stand aside over night to cool. When ready to serve, turn carefully out of the moid; garnish with parsley anil thin slices of lemon. Slice very thin. Farm, Field and Fireside. SUMMER COLORS. Xvy Mino unit Whlto .Make n Pretty Combination, Notwithstanding the introduction of new combinations of eolors, the most popular dark dresses for summer are those of navy blue with white trimmings. These reappear year after year in varied arrangements, not only because they are generally Incoming and suitable alike for the young and old, but because they are the coolest-looking of all dark dresses. In their latest manifestation these gowns are of sheer wool crepon, with narrow insertions of creamy guipure in row after row around the skirt and on tho shoulder ruflles and sleeves. Sometimes seven insertions, sometimes eleven, are used to bring the uppermost row high around the hips. In other gowns the insertions are confined to the waist ia cross rows for those who arc long waisted, and in lengthwise stripes for those with short waist The skirt lias then a gored flounce beginning at the knee and headed with ,a rucho of blue or black satin ribbon, which may nJso be repeated at the foot. Dresses of inexpensive India 'silks or of dark blue cottons, either batistes or organdy muslins, have a foundation skirt covered with three flounces, each bordered with the narrow white guipure insertion with straight edges, or else with one mitred or scalloped edge that gives a pretty finish. In some blouse waists of such dresses two wider rows of insertion form the trimming, the lower row passing around directly under the armholes, while above this in front and back is another row crossing from armholc to armhole. The insertion may be introduced in the puffs at the upper part of the sleeves, but it is more usual to leave these of the plain blue fabric, and have many horizontal insertions in the close lower sleeves. Harper's Itazar. Staining- Fler. The popularity of stained floors goes on increasing. Nowhere are they more appreciated than in sleeping rooms, where sweetness aBd freshness are the main considerations. Just what Is the best stiin is a difficult question to decide, although permanganate of potash is believed to possess many advantages. It is much used in the navy, and is very satisfactory in sitting rooms and sleeping rooms. Ah most people know, permanganate not only stains. Hut purifies and disinfects the rooms which arc stained. The mode of procedure is this Procure a good quality of permanganate of potash and dissolve nbout nn ounce and a half of tho crystals in u gallon of boiling water. This will make quite a dark stain. Use a stick to stir up the mixture; then, with a paintcr'a fiat brush, lay on the stiin. working the way of the wood quickly und boldly. National liuildcr Tim Clmflntf-DUh. In buying a chafing-dish do not hink that a silver-plated one is necessary. One made of block tin is just as l-ood for cooking purposes. In using a chafing-dish remember that the flame Is intensely hot and vory close; therefore be careful lest what you uro cooking be overdone or burned. Always wash the chafing-dish ns soon an possible after using tnd place it in the sun, if possible. Also in extinguishing the flame, that you completely cover tho la'.np; for if you do not you will loose a great deal of alcohol by evsjecratioa.. Ladies' Home Joura&L

A NOTE OF WARNING.

Hon. Richard P. Bland, of Missouri on tho Silver Quoetion. the S-nHoiml Word of the flrrat Choc floH of NllvorShNll KnKUHtl b SuitMlunl by AHirlcH AgHlUBt America? Y.tsii!.va.To.v, Aug. 11. "Wo do not .ntend that any political party shall survive tliat will lay tho confiscating hund upon America in thu interest of England und of Europe and demonetize silver in this country, und, my friends of tho eastern democracy, we bid you farewell when you do It" These wero the words of Richard 1 Island in the great financial contest that opened in the house of representa tives to-duy, and thu applause that fol lowed the determined utterance demon strated that the great silver leader had with him a material element of the dem' 1IO.V. 1UCIIAIID V. M,AXT. ocratic party. It brought, every mem bcr of the house to a realization that the most serious crisis in the democratic party since the dissensions of slavery was at hand, and that the division of 1893, like the division of 1801, would be largely on sectional lines. In accordance with the programme last night agreed upon, Mr. Wilson, im mediately after the meeting of the house introduced n bill unconditionally repealing the Sherman purchasing law, and Mr. llland, on behalf of the frce-coinngo men, followed with a resolution providing for the immediate consideration of thu bill, and alloting fourteen days of general de bate before a vote should bo taken. The resolution of procedure was drawn to especially secure the silver men in their demands for separate votes on free coinago at tho various ratios proposed, but is so explicit as ta call for a final vote on the repealing bill at the termination of debate, whether the silver amendments prevail or not The preliminaries of the debate hav ing lcen arranged, tho great battle was begun, and after speeches by Messrs. Hayner, of Maryland, and Hrown, of Indiana, Hon. Kiehard P. llland, of Missouri, was recognized by the speaker and made the speech of the day. He expressed his regret that a num ber of gentlemen had changed their position on the silver question. The gentleman who had just taken his seat Mr. ltrown) had been regarded as one of the most ardent and able advocates o! bimetallism. He had retreated from part of the Chicago platform from that part of all others that hud con tributed to give him a scat in the house. He had turned his face toward tho east and his back toward the west The Sherman law was the only law on tho statue books that looked to the use of silver as a money of the country. He knew at the time of its passage that the clement that was striving to secure its passage was the clement opposed to free coinage. He knew at the time that that element would demand its repeal at the first moment it saw its opportunity. The repeal of the Sher man act had been a part of the Chicago platform. Another part had been a declaration for tho use of both gold and silver as the money for the conn try. Speaking for the people he repre scntcd, he understood that tho free coinage of silver in accordance with the platform necessarily repealed the Sherman law. The two laws could not exist together. They were inconsist eat RKCKNT I.KOIST.ATIOJI RKV1KWKD. Mr. Itland then reviewed recent silver and financial legislation and con' tended that it was an apprehension that the United States would repeal the Sherman Inw which induced the Ifritish government to recommend to the government of India tho suspen sion of silver coinage. Why was there being rushed In now, he asked, a prop osition to repeal the only law which sustained for thu moment at least the value of silver? Mr. llland appealed to members to stand by bimetallism and not to obey the commands of the shylocks. France, ho went on to say, iiad ufTordcd a medium of exchange for all the world during seventy years at a ratio of l."4 of silver to 1 of gold. At that ratio Franco has been able to maintain tho parity of the two metals ill over the world. That was a proof that the United States government could do so at tho ratio of 111 to 1. If Europe refused to accept that ratio tho effect would bo to divert from Europe all tho trade of every silver-producing country in tho world. Could England, ho nsked, withstand this withdrawal of trade? Certainly not; it was bimetallism that madoft tho manufacturers of Kngland so strong and prosperous. Western Europe would have to come to the American standard or abandon its commerce with tho United Stales and with all civilized countries. WOOT.U HAVK TO UKC00.VIZK SlI.VKIt. The United States was tho best market in the world for the manufactured products of Europe, and that market Europe could not have unless it recognised and accepted silver at tho mtuic value as the United States did. The

monometalilsts ot Europe know thai if this country went into the free cola age of gold and silver at a fair ratio it would settle the question for the world, and honoe their interest and determination to prevent it. It was not only a serious question for the United States, but the oppressed people of the old world appealed to this country to settle the question for them and for tho whole world. The money requirements of tit United States, with the vast wealth, industry and uncrgy of its people, wero equal to those of England.Franco and Germany combined', and the wholv civilized world would have to look to this country for its future monetary supply. And yet, he said, with vehemence, we nrc nsked here to-day to lay tho bloody hand of confiscation on millions of our population in order to satisfy the greed of England. Will congress do it? Will you trample down tho interests of your own pcoplo and destroy tho valuo of ono of tho precious metals simply to gratify the greed of Wall street, a mere agent of Lombard street? It can not, it shall not, be done. Applause. A 'NOTE OF WA1CMNO. Speaking for the mass of the pcoplo of the Mississippi valley and of the people west of it, I say you shall not do it Renewed applause. And anybody, or any party that undertakes to do it will, in God's name, be trampled down as it ought to bo in the .dust of condemnation now and in the future. Continued npplauso on the floor and in tho galleries. I speak as a democrat, but yet as on American above democracy. Cheers. We do not intend that any party shall survive, if wo can help it, that will lay its confiscating hand on America, in the interest of England or of Europe. That maybe strong language; but, in speaking to you of the eastern democracy. w

will bid you farewell when you do it. Applause. Now, you can take your choice of sustaining America against England, of sustaining American in dustries and American laborers against English industries and English labor ers, or of our going apart. Yt e have come to the parting way. I do not pretend to speak for anybody but my con stituents; but I believe tliat I can speak for the masses of tho great Mississippi valley when I say that we will not submit to the domination of any political party (however much we love democracy) if it lays its sacrificial hand, upon silver and wounds it in this country. UNDKMOCItATIC AND UNA ME IU CAN. For myself, I will not support such a party hero or elsewhere; but will denounce it as undemocratic and unAmerican, and the democrats eniraired in it will ask the pcoplo of tho country to condemn as the agents and toolsno, I will withdraw that epithet us the representatives of tho moneyed power and moneyed interests, instead as of representatives of tho American people. You can not hold the demo cratic party together on that lino. Applause. In closing his argument (which he said lie was entirely without prepara tion, for) Mr. Bland declared that the time had come to decide whether or not the country was to go to bimctallsm. He thought it the dutr of tho house (especially of his demo cratic associates) to settler tho money question at once and to settle it nt once on the democratic lines. It would not do to demonetize silver and then to undertake to restore it afterwards. There was time enough now to arrange it according to the principals of bi metallism, and In a manner conforma bly to the promises of the democratic party. If, he said in conclusion, addressing his words particularly to east ern democrats, you do not do it, yours is tue responsibility, no cars. Applause. Alligators' nests resemble hay cocks more than anything else to which they can bo compared. They average about four feet in hcitrht and about live feet in diameter, and arm constructed of grasses and herbage. First the mother 'gator deposits on layer of eggs on a mortor-liko floor, and, having covered this with a stratum of mud and herbage about eight inches thick, lays another set of eggsu upon that, and so on to the top, there being commonly from one hundred to two hundred eggs in a nest With their tails the pa rests then beat dowa. the tall grass and weeds to prevent the approach of unseen enemies. The female watches her eggs until they are hatched by the heat of the sun, and then takes her brood under her owa care, defending them aad providing for their subsistence. A new kind of paint is announced, which, it Is claimed, possesses in a peculiar derree tho properties of preserving metal from rust, and is unaffected by either heat or cold. When applied to sheet iron it is found that the coating is not affected by warm water or steam, nor is it at all influenced by the action of acids and alkaline liquids, ammonia, gas, hydrochloric acid gas, and sulphuretted hydrogen gus. The principal ingredient in this paint is the silicate of iron which is found ia the neighborhood of natural deposits of iron ores, and also occurs in veins ia deposits of granite which have become decomposed bv contact with the air. A novel contrivance to rcstrala runaway and pulling horses has recently been patented. The inventors churn that, when in operation, it will bring to an immediate standstill tho most powerful and refractory horse. It is fixed under tho box seat, tho buckled end of tho rein being passed through an aperture xor tnc purpose, and tho driver, while guiding tho animal with s loft hand, can ,vith his riirht. if need be, inntantly raiso "tho Keady," as tho machine is called, and by putting a revolving process In motion tighten thu reigns to any extent required. "How old Is your grandfather, Hyson?" "I don't k no. v, but ho muse be quite old. Hu was a grown man as fat back as J. can remember."