Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1881 — Page 4

TOO UTTER TOO. A. HMf.a Department young man, A-tw<>-ror-flve young man A Government barnacle, Don't care a darn-acle, Quall-upon-toaal young man. A'State Department young man, .A Roman-rail young man, A Stinon K. Tappertit, Give em a l>euetlt— Hvunx-on-tUe-Ave young man. A.£tate Department young ipan, . A boutonniere young man, A finnlcky wittol, A thorough A® utterly-too youug man. A Rtate Department young man, A. German-favor young man, A modern aesthetic, . Aeta like au emetic, , An awfully sweet youug man. -[Washington Capital.

DOMESTIC DISCORD.

Pacts Concerning Edwin Booth’s Second Marriage. 3i. Y. Cor. Boston Herald. Edwin Booth took for his second wile (his first wife, to whom he was devotedly attracted, was Mary Devlin, an actress well anc] favorably known in Boston) Mary Ruonion, called Mary McVicker, daughter of die present Mrs. McVicker by a previous union, and the step-daughter of J. H. McVicker, the theatrical manager of Chicago. Bhe was then 19—he being sixteen years her senior—and had been, notwithstanding her youth, for some time on stage. Tne first time she saw him she fancied she loved him, and doubtless she did, .for it seems fr6m ail accounts to Lave been a plain of love at first sight. They afterward played together, notably in “Romeo and Juliet” aCtho opening of his theater in this city, and this circumstance naturally augmented her romantic pission and inspired him with reciprocity. Soon after that they were married at Long Branch, and hundreds of women who had had one-sided sentimental attachments for the handsome and- gifted actor were indignant because he had chosen a wife from the pro session .when he might have had one from what they considered the first circles of society. No man of the time has awakened to such an extent as Booth has a tender interest In the feminine breast. It was natural enough that he should awaken such interest, because he personated Hamlet as no other living actor could personate and his character is aS singular and as attractive in a way as that of the Danish Prince. Numberless women throughout ths.Uuion, notglly ta Borton, had for years made themselves ridiculous about him, bad sent him flowers and mementoes, had written him amorous letters by the dozen without exciting the slightest interest or curiosity in nis, to them, obdurate heart. Edwin Booth is What, regretably, comparatively few men are—a constitutional monogamist. With active sympathies, warm affections, intense emotions, he is incapable of galautry, in the common import, and has never had, to use the popular euphemism any affairs of the heart. Extremely retiring and domestic by temperament, he looks for the highest sympathy, for sexual companionship, only in a wife and home. This sort of sympathy and companionehip he had secured, all his friends say, in. his first wife, but missed in his second wife from incompatibility of disiKisition. The passionate love she felt for him at the start continued with out abatement; but her mani estation of it was not always congenial to him. She was an exceedingly nervous organization, indeed her nerves tyranized over her completely ;she was as restless as quicksilver, and excitable to the last degree. He, on the contrary, is variable, often moody—artistic natures generally are so—foud of study and relaxation by turns, inclined to reticence introspection and waking dreams. He had no understanding of such a nature, and consequently little patience with it. To her he seemed indifferent to everything,wholly indolent.and all her energy, which was boundless, was employed to rouse him out of what she regarded as his laziness and lethargy. He wanted, in brief, to be left to himself, and she was resolved he should never be left to himself. She deemed it her wifely duty to keep him mentally active, in her sense of mental activity, and, in her ceaseless effort to his end, she-tired and tormented him more or less, evets’ hour of the day. He was seldom, if ever, irritable to her, despite the continual nagging; he was generally amiable, passive, calm, philosophic, and she labored to injure i>im with her ardent agitation. She Was bent on making hino over again, after her image, and he would have been but too happy to be allowed to remain in nis own. She constantly etarged;him with lack of ambition, and ' her unflagging endeavor was to supply this lack. She was a great to help hi m in all business matters (she was oractical, while he was poetic), and these she usually managed thinking herself, jnstly, the more competent of the two. But in the closet and tenderer relations 'pt life, tn whatever savors of affinity, and true comradeship, they were, notwithstanding her donmant low auu his chivalrous loyalty, spiritually separated. They could not coalesce. Her loVe was too intense, to mastering, to ibe even or wholesome. She was selfish n it. She was addicted to jealousy without tbe slightest cause or pre; of cause. Her jealousy was not of women more than of men. She hated everybody who occupied any part of his time or attention, and her moods were ‘often frenzied. a- To the v*-ry close he*was as devoted to her, as solicitous for her bes* couditM>u r as he had.been from the first. It i|4fltipeamble.for any man allied to a woman by a marriage wanting in competences to have been more tender, more loyal, more generous than was Edwin Booth. The report of their separation, caused by a disagreement about property, was widely printed a few week’s before the poor lady’s death, but had nd morejoundation than other slanders echoed by the press. IS he had separated herself from him, in her inaaDfty,' unwillingness to see him; but he had long understood her unfortunate infirmity, and plttied her profoundly therefor. There may have oeen some ■WtoagreemeDt concerning financial ques tioiu,. because in the event of Mrs. Boeck’s death, the whole, or part, of what he had given her—and he had been very liberal—would have gone, accordlug to the particular law of the .State, to her mother, Mrs. McVicker.

r This lady has, if the testimony of the actor’s friends be of any value, hated Booth long and bitterly, and has by herenergetic manifestations of it, earned from him some degree of reciprocity. Poor Mrs. Booth’s final dislike to her faithful consort is ascribed directly to her disordered mind; It was, in fact, a symptom o( her disease. Boor Mrs. Booth had many talents, many estimable and noble qualities. Her life was, for several years, very unhappy; the least unhappy part of it being itsend. It was no fault of hers that she was not temperamentally adjusted to her liege. She helped him much and troubled him not a little. They suffered and enjoyed together: she enjoyed the more, aud he suffered the more. But it is all over now, and charity will let curtain upon the close of the domestic tragedy. Her death, attended by its antecedents, was sad, very sad; but it was the best way out of a melancholy complication that no amount of love,*no degree of devotion could ever have unraveled.

Selected Miscellany.

This world belongs to the energetic. Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse. What has been unjustly gained cannot be justly kept. Those are the most honorable who are the most useful. Men, like bullets, go farther when they are smoothest. The reproaches of enemies quicken us to duty, aud not keep us from it. The wisest man may be wiser to day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day. Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires and in our having only regular desires. If every person would be half as good as he expects his neighbor to be, what a heaven this world would be. The soul knows what justice is; and in those who approve, and in those who resist, truth creates conscience. Those who resist, are irritated; those who obey, grow strong within themselves. To think we are able is almost to be so; to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself. Thus earnest resolution has often seemed to have about it almost a savor of omnipotence. An indolent man was cured of his indolence byhooking out of the window and seeing a man turning off one sheet after another of writing paper until almost the daybreak. Who was it that wrote until morning? It was Walter Scott. Who was it that looked at him from the window? It was Lockhardt, afterward his illustrious biographer. Whoever, by word of mouth, or by shrug of eyebrow, or by expressive silerae, or by stroke of pen, endeavors to gfvb a false and injurious impression respecting another—his character, his opinions, or his actions —violates the ninth principle. It is this which introduces all heart-burning into society, and all bitterness into religious aud political controversy. “In all the qualities which adorned humanity, and in his devotion to the public good, he was an unexampled man.” Bo said De*u Bradley of President Garfield, in his sermon at Westminster Abbey. And lie further believes that the long suffering, aud the lamented death of the President, have done mere to bind the two nations together than any one life could possibly do. The young man of the period, who is impatient because he cannot all at once nave the fruits of a laborious life without first paying the price, would do well to ponder two sayings of the late President Garfield: “You cannot extemporize success.” “It is a notion of mine that if the disposition and ability to do hard work and keep it up steadily be not the proper definition of genius, it is at least true that these qualities are the best possible substitute for genius, perhaps better than genius.”

The Good in Freemasonry.

New York Tribune. The Rev. Robert Collyer preached last evening at the Church of the Messiah on “The Ancient Order of Freemasons* and their Mission to our Time.” His text was taken from 1 Kings, v. 17 and 18: “And the King commanded aud then brought great stones, costly stones and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the bouse. And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders did hew them and the stones squares; so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.” Mr. Collyer spoke about the difference of opinion that existed among people in regard to the work of Freemasons'. A great many thought, be said, that the order was a great peril to the citizens in a n public, while others regarded it as a safeguard. Some thought that it had iu it a divine element, and others believed that its teachings . were infernal. According to the records of the order, it was established many centuries ago. Men bunded *•' -• 'her for freedom, and the result of ir association was seen in thegrea’ cathedrals and works of art in the <>id countries. Their great object wa.- o do their work most su- . tMji'reiv fejod. St. Paul’s Cathedral, in England, was the last great work constructed by the order-. The great central idea of Freemasonry still existed in the order. There was ue body who were so faithful to their brethern as the members of this order. They still worked for the noblest kind of freedom, and they joined together to perform the best work in the best-,pos-sible manner.

The Great Vice of New England

Providence Journal. Forty thousand dollars worth of ehewing gum is gathered Tn the State of Maine every year. In Oxford county is a man who makes it his business to collect spruce gum. Every year he buys from seven to nine tons. The gum is found chiefly in the region about Umbagog Lake and about the Rangeley lakes. A number of men do nothing else in the winter season except collect gum. With snowshoes, axe, and a sheboygan, on which is packed the gum, they spend days and n ghts in the woods. The clear, pure lumps of gum are sold in their native state, the best bringing fl per pound. Gum not immediately merchantable is

refined by a peculiar process. Bievelike boxes are covered with spruce boughs, on which is placed the gum. Steam is introduced’underneath. The gum is melted, is strained by the boughs, and then passes into warm water, where it is kept from hardening until the packer takes it out. draws it' into sticks, and then wraps it in tissue paper, when it is ready, for market. The gum meets with a ready sale. There is not a village, town, or city in Maine where it is not in demand. One dealer last year sold fourteen hundred dollars worth. In the large mill cities gum has a free sale. In Biddeford, Lewiston, Lawrence, and Lowell, the factory girls consume large quantities. It is said that in the lumber camps gum is used as a means of extending hospitality. After meal time the host fills his own black clay pipe and hands it to his guest. Later, clear lumps of spruce gum are placed before the visitor, and he is asked to take a chew. Maine produces forty thousand dollars worth of crum in a year, some of which finds its way to this market, from which it is distributed to the various out-lying factory villages,where,as stated before, -it is in good demand. Spruce gum is adulterated, and those who adulterate take the trouble to fashion the pieces of gum to appear like those taken in a pure state from the trees. The ingredient of adulteration is supposed to be the gum of the pine tree.

The Boss Boy.

Evansville Journal. A man giviug his rameas A. Castleman, from Casey county. Kentucky, was at the St. Cloud hotel yesterday with his family, one member of which is certainly a striking curiosity. This is a boy only three years and two and yet he stands three feet four inches high in his stocking feet, measures sixteen inches around the calf of his leg, twentyrsix inches around the thigh, forty-two inches around the waist, thirty-eight inches around the chest, and weighs one hundred and thirty pounds. The child, his father says, weighed but nine pounds at its birth, but al six months had increased to forty-nine pounds, and then jumped at rapid stages to its present enormous bulk. The child is bright enough, although physicians have counseled his parents not to tax him at all closely with mental eflbrt. Physically, although so huge for his age,he is sound and healthy,am] makes what might be called a waddling effort at a romp. Yesterday, when the reporters for the press visited him, he was found lying flat on his face on the floor eating peanuts, which h|s father, sitting on the sofa, fed to him playfully as if he had been a pig.* He devoured the nuts eagerly, though he looked the while like he would burst. When clucked to get up, he obeyed, after scpAm bling around for a moment or two to get a foot-hold, and when bantered to beat his lather to a hoop, which was rolled across the room in snort, he started off shaking like an agitated stand of jelly, and when he caught it first, as of course he was permitted to do, he .enjoyed bis triumph very much. Castleman and his wife, though both of them are of good size, are neither of them large, and cannot remember any ancestor from whom their prodigious boy could have inherited his extraordinary proportions. They have another child, an infant girl three months old, but giving no Evidence of following in her brother’s footsteps. Castleman has been exhibiting hiason at the county fairs through Kentucky.and proposes co exhibit him here.

Will the Coming Woman Smoke?

The London World thinks she will, and gives its reasons for this opinion as follows: “In all probability the higher education of women will bring, about one result which its advocates have never thought of. Girl-graduates over worked and crammed, will take to the solace of smoking. The women who are pushing their way into the professions will discover the need of it. When women begin to work they will be entirely associated with the bluestocking, instead of the anonyma and her imitators. It Will be useless to protest or condemn. The use of tobacco was prohibited in Russia—the knout threatened for the first offense, death for the second—yet Russian ladies are the greatest of smokers. Pope Urban VIII issued a bull against it; our King James fought vigorously against its introduction here. Inthe'east the priests and sultans declared smoking to be a sin against their holy religion, and yet the Turk is seldom seen without a pipe. Even the edict of society will not alarm the new generation of clever women. The actress smokes in her dressingroom because she is exhausted; the authors, the artists (and we have one or two women wno can paint) will smoke in their studios for the same reason. When sensible men go to see them, they wi’l light up- together aud have a sociable talk. * Let us console ourselves with the fact that a pretty woman who smokes because she likes it. looks well. Doubtless there will come a day when Worth will always add to his dresses a dainty little tobacco pouch or cigarette pocket. And we may be sure, when fashion has once get a word to say in its favor, smoking will no longer be improper.

He Tried to be “Sharp.”

The commercial traveler of a Philadelphia house while in Tennessee approached a stranger as the train was about to start, and said. “Are you going on this train?” “J am.” “Haye you any baggage?” “Well, my friend, you can do me a favor,and it won’t cost you anything You see, I’ve two rousing big trunks, and they al ways make me pay extra for one ot them. Ypu can get one check ed on your ticket, and weJJI eucherhem. See?’* “Yes, I see; but I haven’t anv ticket.” But I thought you said you were going on tnistrain ?” “So I am. I’m the conductor.” “Oh!” ' He paid extra, as usual. In the large village of Philadelphia the residents of one street excite surprise by trying to stop the “procession of pigs that meander through that thoroughfare at all hours of the dav and night.” * By the auction sale of seats for the Cincinnati grand oratorio Concert, $13,250 was realized in two days.

PRINCE OF WALES AT HOME.

A Ball at the Palace of Sandringham—Royalty at Its Best. London Letter to New Nork Mall. The county ball this season came off last Friday and was a very brdliant one. Two years ago when I was last in Norfolk, our carriages stuck in tHe marsh near Lynn-Regis for nearly two hours, and the water got in and made us all very comfortable: but the weather last we*ek was simply perfect, and although we had to drive fully five hours before we got to Sandringham, being a merry party and the stars shining brightly, it was pleasant indeed. Sandringham Hall is situated on the sea coast, close to Hounstanton, the now famous 'watering-place. It is by no means of an old house, having in fact been rebuilt by the Prince himself during the past twenty years. It stands on rather high land, and commands a fine view of the sea and woodland, and is altogether exceedingly pretty. The house is not large; that is to say for a royal residence, and there are a hundred “seats” in Norfolk fifty times finer, but it is excessively convenient; every possible modern improvement has been introduced. It is heated like an American house, and has the most magnificent conservatories, full of rare exotice and winter gardens, imaginable. The park is charming, but even this does not bear comparison with the Marchioness of Lothian’s place at Bliekiing, where Anne Boleyn wjes born, or that at Houghton Hall, the seat of the Walpoles, or, indeed, even that at poor Lord Townshend’s, Riynham Hall;but it is in many ways ways very delight ful, well stocked witji deer and. wateied Uy several pretty streams and a large lake. v On arriving at the hall the guest is .at once taken by a servant in royal livery to a dressing-room, where he or she finds all the conveniences necessary for touching up his or her toilette. Then a gentleman usher dressed in a black velvet court costume, and carrying a wand, tipped with silver, leads you into the presence of the Prinoe and Princess, who stand in the center of a rather formal group of royalties and illustrious personages. Your name is Called, and the Prince bows and the Princess courtesies, which acts of courtesy you repeat with all the grace at your command. Sometimes the Prince says a few words to you, and if your face is familiar to him he even condescends toebat in a very friendly manner. The Princess, on the other hand, is rather reserved, but always graceful and well-bred. On Friday, for the benefit of your readers. I will .-ay H. R. H. looked charmingly youtnfui, aud wore a dress of mauvecolored silk, covered with small rows of Brussels lace, edged with wreaths of pansies and lilacs. Her train- was of violet-colored silk shot with silver threads and heavily embroidered. She wore several orders and stars, a diadem of diamonds and amethysts and a veil of tissue. Round her neck was the famous band of black velvet, studded with enormous diamond stars. Her bracelets were amethysts and did: moods; and she held in her hand a boquet of Parma violets, stephanbtis ana white roses. A lovely costume, n’est ce pas? The Princess Maud, of, Wales, who is now a very beautiful girl, wore white tulle, very simple, and a wreath of white China roses. H. R-. H. the Princess Christina, lilac silk, with crysanthemums, and very big pearls. Graceful and animated I found to be the Princesses of Hesse-Darm-stadt, daughters of the late Princess Alice. In our company came a yon ng lady who was lx>rn deaf and dumb. Ou this (act being', communicated to our royal hosts, tne Prince and Princess with jreal kindness tbek special notice of her, and tfie Pnpce, although the lady 1.4 not in any way c nn >ctcd with the county magnates', with exquisite good nature and breeding asked her to dance with him, so that the afflicted lady had, through the delicate conduct on the part of the Prince, a charming souvenir of her ball. After the first formal introduction, which is rather alarming, all becomes smooth sailing. In no private house could you meet with more attention and "kindness. Nothing has been removed from the tables in the numerous sitting-rooms. The family albums lie around as usual, and one of these I discovered to contain some admirable caricatures, done by the various members of the family, especially by the Princess Beatrice, who evidently possessed a keen sense of the ridiculous, for some of her choice sketches of well-known public men and women were most ludicrous and truthful. General dancing does not begin until their Royal Highnesses have. gone through the cermony of the opening quadrille, which is usual perform--ed by guests staying in the house only; Once the “ice-breaker” is over, -then all fall to and amuse themselves as best they can, rather after the fashion of a public ball; but the Prince looks after his guests, and intoduces bashful young gentlemen to partners, aud makes himself useful and amiable in a thousand ways. As almost all the people present know each other, and indeed,for the most part me connected, it is quite amu° : ; o hear the remarks n» de as fat d.-zagers, blazing w'th diamonds, troop in with their fair youug charges, or rather fast widows flirt only too evidenly With dashing officers. Si

Female Slavery,

Buffalo Courier. .■> . Paul Boyton, in his trip down the Missouri, has run across a curious matrimonial custom that the Government should look into. One night he. was entertained by a rancher named George Mince. A comely squaw presided over his household, and three pretty halfbreed children called him father. To his guest W con fessed the fact that he had boughWthis woman at Sliding Rock Agency for a horse. He purchased her as a substitute for bis Indian wife, whom he had bought several years agp, mMffed, overworked, and maltreated until she ran away. *The squaw is kept harth at work, and the husband or master does not allow her to sit at the same table with him, and beats her whenever he pleases. What Mince has done* is a commop ,thing amonghis-neighbors. ‘"nils system of< female slavery /’says Boyton, “is much more extensive than the public generally suppose. Scores of white men are accumulating wealth from the physical iaboij of these poor women and their children.” Captain Boytcn says that a few days ago a white woodcutter bought a 12-year-old Indian girl for

$l5O at the Berthold Agency, and it is regarded as an ordinary business transaction. * ‘ As all half-breed Indian children are entitled to rations and clothing from the foulian Agencies, the importance of this immoral slavery question as a mere matter of governmental economy, is self-evident. This is a E base of the Indian question which is ept in the background, but it is a fruitful source of evil and misery which needs immediate attention.

Patti.

Miss Patty is small for her size, but as the man sed about his wife, 0 Lord! Sheis well bilt. & her copiplexion is what might be called Broonelty. Her ize is a dark bay, the lashes being long & silky. When she smiles the aujience feels like axing her to doo it sum moor, and continuer doin’ it 2 a indefinite extent. Her waste is one of the most beautiful wastes I ever seen. When Mister Strackhorse let her out, I thawt some pretty skool gal, who had just graduatid from pantalets & wire hoops was a cumin’ out tu read her fust composishun in public. She cum so bashful like, with her head bowd down and made such a effort to arrange her lips so thayed look prety that I wanted to swaller her. She reminded me of Susan Skinner who’d never kiss the boys at parin bees until the candles was blowed out. Miss Patty sung suthin or ruther in a furren tung. I'don’t know what the sentiment was. Fur awt I know she may have been denouncing my wax figgers and .-sagshus wild beasts of Pray, and I don’t much keer es she did. When she opened her mouth a army of martingales, boboliuks, kanarys, swallers, mockin’ birds, etsettery, bust 4th and flew all over the hall. Go it little 1, sez Ito myself, in a highly exsited frame of mind, & es that kount or royal duke which you’ll be pretty apt to mary lof these dase dont do the fair thing bv ye. you kin always have a • home on A. Ward’s tarmf, near Raldinsville,lnjiany. When she sung Cupoip threw the Rye, & spoke of that Swayne she dearly luved herself, individually,' I don’t wish I was that air Bwayne. No,I guess not. Oh, certainly not. This is Ironical, j don’t meau this. It’s a way I hav of goakin. r Artemus Ward.;

House-Hunting in New York.

Boston Advertiser. I have never seen anything like the present demand for houses in desirable situations. I met a gentleman yeserday, who, after using every effort to get one furnished for the winter, was on his way to Washington to take one there instead. He had offered $3,500 for the Winter for a house on Lexington avenue near Grammerey Park—a pleasant and comfortable neighborhood but not “the t est.” While he was negotiating, another person secured it for $4,000, which gives some idea of prices. House-hunting is a dreadful occupation iu New York, but it has its amusing side. An aequaintance of my own nearly exhausted, and at his wit’s end, entered, not long ago. the office of a worthy and most affable Hibernian broker. To Jiis surprise he was promptly told of a house in an excellent, situation, exactly meeting his requirements, and at a moderate rental. He at once asked for a permit, and while the broker was preparing it, the latter quietly remarked: “Perhaps, sorr, I ought to tell ye that there’s a slight drawback. The old lady that owns the house aud her grown up daughter, they want to remain and board with ye.” The applicant,struck speechless, prepared to withdraw. “What,” said the agent,-looking up in innocent surprise, “ye wouldn’t loike that? Bhure an’ I’ll tell ye what ye’ll do. The same case entoirely happened a short time ago. and the tenant said it was all roight, signed the lease and took the old lady in. And, sorr, he just stharved her out in two made her ate with the servants, sorr! Ye moight do that.”

Fashion Notes

[New York Suu.] • • Bonnets grow larger and smaller. Neck lingerie grows mote voluminous. Loose-wri-ited Bernhardt gloves remain the most fashionable. Dolly Varden muslin handkerchiefs appears among new neck lingerie. Hat and bonnet ornaments are in better ste this season than for a) long time. Neckerchiefs in Quaker gray shades are affected by ladies of conservative tastes. Christmas ca-ds come in better dosigns and finer finish for the price this season than last. The gilt dagger with jewelled hilt is the favorite bopnet pin; it is thrust through the large bow on one side of the head, and requires artistic taste to give it the correc angtle *of incidence or reflection to the base of the bonnet or hat crown. A pretty fancy for a Christmas card has a small hand-made pocket or bag of old gold or satin attached to it at one end; the card is simply a fine, bevelled and giltedged, oblong slip of Bristol board, the pocket, which is intended as a port cadean for a gold thimble, or any other bijou, and a tiny bouquet, is finished at the bottom with a yellow nutshell, and has draw strings of gold cord at the top.

A “Peculiar” Costume.

A New York correspondent says ;For real wildness in dress' bne must go to the music gardens. One of the largest of these was raided by the police last Sunday night, ostensibly for a fracture of the Sunday law, but in feet because it r had lately become a rendezvous of impropriety. A ‘few hot evenings ago a girl appeared there in a wonderful dress—not wonderful in itself.as it was merely white gauze of a single thickness, but for what it revealed. The wretch had arrayed herself in the most elaborate of underclothes. There was a brand-new corset, faced with a satin cord. Above this, extended half way to her throat, the top of a daintily-em-broidered chemise, with ruffling a little way .down her arms. A quilted white satin peticoat was worn under her corset, mark you, instead of over it. Over these things was the single thickness of the gauze dress, so that the whole of the perfectly-shaped corset was in clear view, as well as the other fijungs, It was a bewitching revelation tothe young chaps who hung about the garden, but the manager wouldn’t have it, and the girl was compelled to keep her shawl ou.

Farm and Workshop Notes.

Young cows do not give as rich milk as do those of mature age. A lean cow gives poor milk and a fat one rich milk- * » 4 J Keep sheep dry under foot. This is even more necessary than roofing them. Never letsheep stand or lie in mud or water. There was a white frost and a thin formation of ice in Ban Francisco Nov. 19, and at the same time orange trees were laden with flowers aud fruit. A farmer ol experience in wool growing says that there is more money in growiug wool at even twenty cents per pound than in loaning money at 10 per cent, interest. If tbp owner of a cow will realize the fact that unless she pays him in clear cash $44.50 yearly she is kept at a loss, he will soon become interested in the subject of the improvement of cows. Pear blight has in several instances been arrested in affected trees by syringing them with a weak solution of potash, and in some cases it has proved a preventive when applied to the healthy trees. One reason why our wheat crops are only about half as much per acre as in England is because the British-former employs sheep as grain growers, while with us sheep are only considered as wool or mutton makers. Both for its effect upon fattening and upon health a small amount of wood ashes should be given to swine. The food-without this is rich in phosphoric acid,' but has little lime, aud the equivalent should be thus supplied. Too much attention can not be paid to the cleanliness and ventilation of stables and pens. To insure the health and comfort of animals they must be kept dry and warm, and have plenty of light as well as pure air and pure water.' | ’ A lady correspondent of the Coubtry Gentleman claims that by dipping the joint or fleshy ends of Turkey, geese or chicken wings into astrong solution of copperas they are made moth-proof, as well as more durable than when treated in the ordinary way. To get a gear wheel off'a shaft upon which it has been sunk, take it to the foundry and pour some melted iron around the hub, and it will heat and expand so quickly there will be n.o time for the shaft to get hot, and the gear will come off easily. To pinch off the top of a shoot is not to produce a shock, but to change; not to impede, but to send the flow of the sap in other directions, by which the fruit is benefited, while the leaf power is not materially interfered with, ihe axillary leaves affording the needful supply. It has been proved by Mr.; Waite’s experiments that a highly polished . bearing is more liable to fri-lion than a surface finely lined by filing. The lines left by the file serve as reservoirs for the oil, while the high polish leaves no room for the particles between the metal surfaces. Farmers should endeavor to sell as little as possible of that which comes mainly from the soil, and as much as possible of that which comes from the atmosphere. Butter and fat stock sold will improve a farm, while cheese, milk and lean stock sold will keep the farm lean, unless manure or fertilizers are bought, .The seed is a storehouse of conceiitrated plant food, intended to nourish the germ till the root and leaf are developed. Il the seeds "of the cereals and of many other plants the chief ingredient is starch. Another class of seeds, of which linseed and mustardseed are examples, contain no starch, but in its place a large quantity of fat.-

A Dream that Frightened a Woman

Bath [Me.) Times. < A lady in Battf* was recently much alarmed by breaming tbat some one was holding her wrist. Vainly endeavoring to scream for assistance, she succeeded at last in whispering just loud enough to awaken herself. After a few minutes’ relief at being no longer under the influence of the dream, she became conscious that some one was really holding her left wrist, and all her strength was inadequate to release it. Whether to call her hostess or not was easily decided, for as terror rendered her as speachless as she had been before awakening. It could not be that any of her friends had seized her wrist in sport; it was too rigid a clasp, and had been continued some time, for her lefthand was cold and numb. But just as she should be able to speak in a moment she found the relentless grasp was that of her own right hand, and not easy to withdraw from its twin companion, so desperate had become its hold. - , - j

Washington’s Carriage.

A correspondent in the Sew York Bun says: “It may not be generally known that one of the citizens of this city is the owner of the carriage in which Washington made his tour of the Southern States in 1791. It was built by White, of Philadelphia, and was regarded by him as a masterpiece. In a journpy ol nearly wo' thousand inilejs it is said that "not a screw or a bolt'started. In the towns and villages along the route the appearance of the “white chariot,’ driven by John Fagan, Washington’s trusted coachman, was the signal for general rejoicing. Of the three carriages in which Wash- ' ington was wont to appear in publithis one alone remains, and it is in a wonderful state ot preservation. The others were cut up into canes at the time of Washington’s death. The carriage is now in Philadelphia, and I understand that Mr. Benjamin Richardson, the owner, has written to the foreign visitors to the Yorktown celebration inviting them to inspect it.”

Marrying a Title.

National Republican. A lady belonging to the American nobility, now domiciled in Paris, is going to purchase the position of wife to a rakish old English earl, paying therefor the bulk of her great fortune. The venerable roue has a pedigree that hooks on to Noah. He is also proprietor of a shirt that was worn by Charles lat the time of his abbreviation. If this lady had good sense in matters ♦ matrimonial she would not take a step that has brought ruin to the lives and hopes of too many of her countrymen. An honest wood-sawyer is a better husband than a dissipated old earl—* and ever so much cheaper!