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Air enormous ranch in l&esteo has jaat been purchased for 1,000,000 by a syndicate of English and Scotch speculator of -whom Lord Tweedmouth is on& It extends over 1,600 sqnare miles.

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on the Gnlf of Mexico lost hil life in a singular way. He had a cork leg and when he fell orerboard his leg rose to the surface an held him head downward nntil he died from rash of blood to the head. Is Nevada there are hundreds of Artesian wells, averaging less than 200 feet deep, and costing, including boring and piping, less than $500. Each of them flow 50,000 gallons of water a day, and will irrigate five acres of plow ed or fifty acres of meadow land. All the wells are on top of the bed-rock, and there is shown to be a stratum of water underlying the whole State. . The California ostrich farm covers 200 acres, has twenty old birds and eighteen young ones. The proprietor is hopeful of a large profit. One-half the feathered product of Africa is marketed in the United States, and the demand is increasing. Each bird ought to yield fifty long white feathers twice a year. The feathers have to be washed and curled, and are then worth H to $6 each, wholesale. The New Orleans "World's Fair, to be opened next December, was first intended to commemorate the centennial of the shipment of six bags of cotton from Charleston, S. C, to England, in 1784; but its scope has been enlarged so as to embrace all industries. The buildings will be larger than those at the Philadelphia Centennial; the machinery hall alone will be 1,300 feet by 900 feet, and cover thirty-two acres. The editor of the Kentucky State Journal wants to bet somebody that before another hundred years are past there will be trotters in this country that will make a mile in less than two minutes. It is to be hoped that the Journal man will find some one to take that he will make the sum a large one and let us hold the stakes. There is a chance for the stake-holder to enjoy himself before the money is called for. ' . Thxbe are a number of women plantera in Madison Parish, Louisiana. Mrs. M. A. Gibbs lives on the Hecla plantation, which she manages with great success. Miss Lu Lucas manages a large estate, and personally superintends a large force. She spends most of her time in the saddle, and looks after her plows, hoes, drains, levees, stock, and milL Madame Ames is regarded as the best woman in the parish, owns a tract of 1,000 acres, and has 800 acres under cultivation this yeq At this- time, when cut fltwers fade so aaon, it is well to know that if a small bit of the stem is cut off and the end immersed in very hot water, the flower will frequently revive and resome its beauty. Colored, flowers are more easily rejuvenated than white ones, which are apt to tarn yellow. For preserving flowers in water, finely pulverized charcoal should be put into the vase at this season. When vines are growing in water, charcoal will prevent foul odors from the standing water. : The manufacture of "buffalo horn" furniture has become an industry in New York. The horns are not those of the bison, as is commonly believed, but are from the cattle killed in the abattoirs. They are sold at the slaughter houses for a little more than what the button manufacturers give, are cleaned, dried scraped, and polished. The cost of making these horned goods is less than thq$ of carved wood, but they bring two or three times more than the latter. The new industry is almost monopolized by Germans from Saxony. Recent returns show that out of a total estimated population of 26,921,703 in England and Wales there were 4,273,304 children on the school register last year, of whom 3,705,388 were present at the annual inspection, being an increase on the previous year of 83,692 and 162,646 respectively. The number of certified touchers was increased from 35,444 in 1882 to 37,288 in 1883, the assistant teachers from 10,071 to 1290, while the number of pupil teachers wss reduced from 28,285 to 26,428. The total cost of maintenance was 5,817,466 against 5,572,820 in 1882. . " Mm Pjkru, a Parisian pianist of extraordinary daring, has laid a wager that he will play in a cage of wild beasts. His selection will be from Beethoven and Chopin. Wagner he deems dangerous and calculated to arouse the kings of the forest to a sense of what is due them. A berceus of Choyin may lull them to sleep ; such is his hop$ and reliance, and a sonata of Beethoven (not the Appasionata) may complete the work ' begtriffey the berceuse and reduce the royal Beasts to a dense degree rf somnolence. Whether the trumpeting ,of elephants and roar ef lions could be heard or not over the

According to a return issued by the French Minister of Commerce the working population of France is distributed among the various branches of industry as follows: Collieries (342), 106,415 hands; peat works (1,035), 27,977; iron mines (353), 8,468; other metal liferous mine (60), 4,423; iron works (35fo,) 57,000; china and earthern ware factories (412), 18,708; glass houses (162), 23,421, paper mill &ud cardboard factories (536), 32,655 5 gas works' (61 2), 10,575; candle manufactories (157), 8,603; soap works (339), 8,509; sugar works (512), 63,526; textile factories (5,024), 353,383. Agriculture not given. Colliery and iron works stand highest, which give employment to over six times as many as the iron works. A faemkr in Solona, California, is possessed of a peculiar fancy in regard to the feline tribe. He believes every cat has a design on his life, and takes occasion upon seing a cat to dispatch it as quickly as possible. He visits hotels, stores, and private houses for the sole purpose of killing his alleged enemies, and even offers a bounty as high as $5 for the possession of any feline which he cannot kill without incurring the enmity of its owner. He frequently goes about with his pockets full of cats' claws, legs, ears, livers, etc., and often laments that he cannot kill all of the "nasty varmints. n His queer actions have attracted the attention of the authorities, who have taken steps towards confining him in his right pl&ce a lunatic asylum. The remains of Schubert and Bethoven are to be removed with great pomp and ceremony from their present place of interment to the Friedhof Cemetery, in Vienna. The life work and story of Bethoven is too well known to be repeated, but the incidents relating to Schubert are only being understood to-day. The appreciation of Schubert came late. Believed at his death to have been nothing but a songwriter. The melodic excellence of his instrumental wor& was a later discovery. His misfortunes and his poverty seem to have arisen pretty much from hits own fault. His early death, at thirty-one, closed a career which might have made him as great as the greatest of the musical masters, had he but lived to a maturer age.

Our Northwestern farmers having been notified that they must expect a serious competition in wheat-growing from the ryots of India and the AngloSaxon settlers of Australia, the turn of our Southwestern corn-planters is but a question of time. An economic society in St. Petersburg has just petitioned the Czar to set aside some state lands for the scientific cultivation of a plant named epilobium, and the continuation of experiments for improving its fiber. The reason at the basis of this petition is that certain Russian naturalists claim to have made a discovery in reference to this plant which may revolutionize the cotton trade of Europe, The epilobium more popularly known as the "willow herb," from the shape of its leaves, has hitherto been cultivated solely for its flower, which grows from the top of the pod. The Russian savants now claim that this pod can be made to yield a fiber possessing many of the valuable qualities of cotton fiber. In the experiments already made this fiber has been ginned, spun, and woven successfully on a small scale. The enthusiasts who hope for so much for the plant go so far as to claim that the result of the discovery will be in time to avert the necessity for the importation of cotton into Russia,

The Chinese Island of Hainan. In a late number of the China Review is given an account of a journey through Hainan, by Mr. Henry. As in other outlying possessions of China, the native tribes have succeeded in a measure in holding their own against ubiquitous Chinese. The northern part of the island is described as a large plain, while the central and southern portions are mountainous. Here the aboriginal tribes, the Les, take refuge. They are cordial and hospitable to strangers, and are probably of Malay origin. There are fifteen or sixteen different tribes, known under distinct names, varying more or less in dress, language, and customs, but all evidently belong to one homogeneous race bound together by common ties, and, as a rule, living on friendly terms with each other. The flora and fauna appear singularly rich, and but little investigated. In a visit of a few weeks the Jate M. Swinhoe noted 172 species of birds, nineteen of which were new to science, and were first described by him. The leeches are an especial plague to the traveler. They are desscrtbed as of a grayish brown and earthen hue, and vary from half an inch te an inch and a half in length, and swarm from the ground on all sides. Along the path, on the ends of grass blades and branches of shrubs, they may be seen holding by one end, while they reach out their whole length feeling on every side for their prey. The instant they touch foot or hand, or any part of the body, they take fast hold and can only be detached by the application of fire, or when they are sated with blood. The natives carry bamboo sticks, with which by a quick motion, they can sometimes detach them. Although the people appear to enjoy a fair degree of rural prosperity, there is very little foreign trade, and the climate is bad.

A NEW KB8D OF GRADUATE Ur. Selvedge Leani That H Has Drawn Some Erroneoun Ideas Itam Vbe Newpaper- " And so,w said Mr. Selvedge, the tailor, shaking hands with his young friend, "and so you are home from college? Graduated with honors, I reck on?" Young Mr, Bookby admitted that he carried off some of the honors, but not the highest. "Pulled stroke in the winning boat, I reckon?" Mr. Selvedge said, winking at the bystanders. "No," young Mr. Bookby said, "we had no crew j at Yarmouth. There used to be some interest in boating, but for some years :tt has been neglected and there isn't a crew in the college. Some of the men row for pleasure and exercise, but they have to hire boats in the village." You go in for base ball, I suppose?" "No, not very much. There are several nines in the college and we have had some pretty good games, but only between our own nines. We had no ball club that traveled, and it happened that none of the other college clubs came to play with us, except the Bowdoins, and we beat them 27 to 0. But we didn't pay much attention to the game, except as a pleasant recreation. I never plajed; I was too slow." "How are you on the bicycle ?w asked Mr. Selvedge, anxiously. Young Bookby laughed. "I never was mounted but once" he said "and then I didn't stay on long enough to learn how to get down. I will never know just how I did dismount, but I did it. "Didn't you box a great deal?" "Not very much. Oh, I put on the gloves now and then, juat as the other boys did, but our fellows didn't seem to care much for sparring or fencing. n "Guess you wan't much of an athlete?" suggested Mr. Selvedge, rather irritably. "Oh, I don't know," replied the young man. "I was considered the strongest man. in my class. I could put up heavier weights than any man in college, and I never had a sick day in my four years. I'll tell you what III do; you pnt up the heaviest weights you can handle, then I'll lift you and your weights, if you can hold them." "You most have lived in the gymnasium ?" "No only practiced regularly one hour a dav. t4PIayedlawn tennis?" "Oh, yes; quite frequently. I was rather fond of it. I played a little every week, in good weather." "And what are you going to do now, take charge of the government or drive a dray?" Young Mr. Bookby laughed again. "I don't believe I could drivo a dray," he said. "I'm a poor whip and rather afraid of horses. I am in the city engineer's office now, and I just came around here to tell you that you are Betting the wall of your new store four inches over the sidewalk lino, and it must come down before it goes any higher. Luckily I discovered it before the men got more than a foot above the ground with it. Come around and we'll look at it" But Mr. Selvedge stopped to say a word to his book-keeper. "How many newspapers are taken in this store?" he demanded. "Four daily and six weekly." "Stop 'em!" he said, savagely. "Stop 'em. Cut 'em oft' on the spot, every last solitary, lying one of 'em! Stop 'em and take out every advertisement we have in all the universe. Cut this establishment clear loose from the newspapers and keep her loose. "When you have any advertising to do send a man out to paint it on the fences; but don't have anjf newspaper business about this shop." -And the man who had gathered all his idea of college education from the funny papers, went out exceedingly sorrowful, for he had been taught from his youth up to believe everything the papers said. Bob Burdeite. Always Shaved Himself "Let's drop in for a shave," said I to Tom Western, as we reached the Palmer House. "I always shave myself." "What? Shave yourself? Surely not for the sake of economy. Ten cents is a small matter " "I wouldn't let a barber draw a razor over my throat for all the money that Grant dropped," broke in Tom. "Why ?" I asked. "Because I'm haunted !" "Eh, haunted?" "Go in and get shaved. 111 wait outside and tell you all about it after you have finished, as we stroll down here," muttered Tom. After my barber had finished shaving me, I joined my old friend and we started down town. "Jack, you know I just came from Johet" "Yes; where you've been under-keep-er in the prison for five years." "Exactly. There was a fellow there, a burglar, serving out a ten-year sentence. He was the most hardened man I ever met in my life, aud I have met some pretty tough cases, too. Before he took to the jimmy, he wielded a razor, but it finally caught him irt last. Once I was obliged to paddle the man for disobeying rules. The look upon that man's face, 'after the paddle had done its cruel but necessary work, was enough to freeze the marrow in a man's bones. About two years ago he served out his sentence and was released. In the darkness of night, that man's face haunted me like some fearful nightmare. Ten days ago I dropped into a Wabash avenue barber shop for a shave. The fellow who manipulated the brush seemed familiar to me. I tried to recall where I had met him, but could not. As he laid the chilty steel against my bare throat and glared, yes., fairly glared into my eyes, I felt a thrill of horror pass over me. He seemed to prolong my misery; he rubbed my cheeks with his hot, burning palm, and stroked my chin with his long gaunt fingers. Once or twice as the razor glided over my throat, he nicked me as though by accident. It seemed an age of horror, those few minutes in the barber chair. After oiling and combing my hair, he released me. "Dont come again!" he said, as he handed me my change.

I examined his face more closely. Finally, resolving to solve the mystery, I asked: "Why should I not come again V "Perhaps I couldn't resist the temptation next time," "What temptation?" I interrupted"Of laying open your throat I don't forget that paddling you gave me." "And it was the convict, Tom?" "None other. I can never give my life into another man's hands. I shave myself now," responded Tom. H. 8. Keller in Chicago Sun. Along the Dikes Skirting along the dikes, we had a good opportunity of seeing some of the incessant toil, some of the constant engineering and battling with the sea, to keep it at anything like a safe distance. The dikes about this island are perhaps the finest, the most constantly guarded, in all the country. The dikeworkers are a distinct class, a guild, in fact, jealous of their craft and its rights and privileges. It is not the firstcomer who may be a regular dikeworker, even if he should wish to be. We saw great gangs of them going from point to point with pick and shovel, ever on the lookout for weak spots in the great embankment, ever refacing it with miles of concrete, and strengthening every point with strong groins running into the sea. ' It was almost pathetic to note with what solicitude every blade of the binding bent grass was coaxed to grow. Every little tuft was watched and tended as if it was some choice tulip. The top of the dike formed a level, firm road, stretching away for miles. The sea iooked so mild and gray and innocent as it gently lapped the edges of the mighty barriers that it seemed an effort to fancy it an enemy capable of mischief. The breezes were simply delicious and fresh, coming over the wide North Sea. Inland, the scenery was fiat and grim and serious. Farmsteads in the distance looked green and fat enough. Sheep and kine were plentiful about the rich fields. Just over the edge of the dikes were the little scattered hamlets of the fisher people and the polde:rmen ; the dike-workers lived more of a roving life, camping out here and there as their work called them from one point .to another. Sometimes the wind had blown up and the seas tossed up great, long? meandering mounds of sand, helping to back and strengthen the dikes. On these billowy hillocks the grass was carefully planted in little regular tufts, and stunted pines were set wherever the tempest would spare them to grow. All sorts of binding vegetation was carefully protected. The very children knew enough to let it alone. We stopped at Zoutland, and climbed to the top of the dunes to look about us and sniff the sea breeze. Down far below us lay the village so far that had the waters swept over the rim of the sandy dike, the sea would have only reached its level when it played about the tail of the weather-cock on the gray old church tower. There are watchers ever on the look-out, day and night, calm and storm. No wonder that the set, anxious look one see3 on every face, that seems to be born with every babe, should be the only characteristic expression one remarks among the people here! When the watchers of the dikes see danger, the alarm bell is rung, and every soul either flies to the dikes for safety or to help the gangs of workers to sfop the threatened breach. All was calm enough at that moment, the tide was far out, and yet the village seemed far below its level. The cottage window lights were twinkling in the prloom, as evening was just coining on. The church bell was tolling for evening service, and the warm glow of sunset just touched the top of its tower. Through the tall lancet windows one could see a flush of warm lamp-light within. Ail sounds o,nd sights were of peace and calm, and yet there somehow came upon the imagination the grim reverse of the picture ; the clanging alarm-bell, the hurrying to and fro, the wild tight for safety from the mad, hungry sea. We were feeling deadly oppressed by the prevailing seriousness of the place George H. Boaghton, in Harper's Magazine. A Fable. Once upon a time two fresh young chicks were promenading along the garden walks hunting for a free lunch. Presently the) espied a June bug, aud, without the ceremony of an introduction, they sat upon the stranger, and the larger chick took him in and cared for him, while the smaller chick was fain to content himself by hoping for better luck next time. He however, expressed himself freely and remarked : "You may be larger than I, sir, but you have no ancestry." "I have, sir, My ancestors are of the best Puritan stock, straight from Plymonth Bock." "That's nothing, sir. I happen to know the eggs from which the members of your immediate family were hatched cost only eight cents a dozen, while mine cost fifty cents, and scarce at that.

Fudge, sir; you need not converse with me relative to the pride of lineage, for I am too smart for you," and he strutted away. Moral The winning aristocracy is the aristocracy of wealth. Merehan t Traveler How many people there are who live in the city and who know absolutely nothing about the numerous phases of its life. There are plenty of them who except for a reminder given by a stray burglar or the accounts of happenings in the daily ptpers, would imagine that from midnight to dawn the whole city is wrapped L slumber, whereas there is not an hour of the twenty-four but what iu some part of the city, there are evidences of active life of some kind or another. The night brigade includes all kinds of characters, from the toiler to the sport, with undoubtedly a large proportion of the latter element, and it is worth one's while to join the owls now and then to get a fair idea of what humanity really is in its manifold aspects. A wise man will desire no more than he may get justly, use sober lv, distribute cheerfully, and leave conteutedly. Swift

The School Savings Bank, One of the European improvements in education is the school savings bank. It object is to teach children how to save and accumul ate money. The natural tendency of youth is to willful waste, to spend constantly, to be led away by casual temptations. The habit of saving is seldom taught and seldom learned until the rude experience of life brings with it the iron pressure of necessity. The folly of extravagance prevails chiefly among the young, and the recent annals of our city and country abound in instances of ruined lives and wasted hopes, the results of the luxurious and thoughtless manner of the age. Our young men of business have too often never learned in early life how to save; their only conception of living is how to get, in order to spend. The passion of extravagance grows upon them. Their salaries are too'small, their profits insignificant, compared to the demands of a growing love for pleasure. They soon overstep their legitimate expense ; they rush into speculation ; they fall at last into crime. The awful moment comes too soon, aud the ruined victim of his own folly perishes, dishonored and lost, because he had never learned in youth the practice of saving. Itis not so much to the wealthy as to the poor that this habit is all-important The wealthy may waste the accumulations of his forefather; but to the workingman, the professional man, or the man of business the habit of saving is the only security from suffering and often despair. It is a safeguard that should be thrown over every family and taught in every school. The school savings bank has been found singularly useful and successful in connection with the public school of various countries. It was suggested in France many years ago, and has already extended to Germany, Hungary, Italy, Belgium, and Holland. The system is very simple. The teacher tells his children that he is ready to receive their small savings, and explains to them how they may be made to increase. He gathers in their pennies and cent.mes, keeps a register with the name of each depositor, and when the sum amounts to a franc or more, places it in a neighboring savings bank or lends it to the Siate. The business is transacted out of school hours; it teaches the pupil some of the nicitiesof trade. He keeps a duplicate account of his deposits, and can only draw any part of them with the consent of his parent or guardian. The plan has proved very attractive to children. In Ghent, out of 45,000 pupils, there are 13,000 depositors, each for more than one franc In France the number of school banks is 10,261, with 213,135 depositors. The whole amount deposited bv the children was in 1880 more than $1,000,000, The school banks form a part of the system that would make education a practical thin?, and more than ever useful in preparing the youth of the nation for active life. To teach the great body of the people in childhood the habit of saving would of itself alone more than repay the public outlay upon education. It is the foundation of honesty, the chief source of national honor. In it lie the safety and purity of families, and much of the happiness of domestic life. Without the habit of saving, our young men and young women often wander recklessly on a perilous track, and perish miserably for want of an early training in frugality. Fugene Latormce-. Peabody llotloinfall Wins a MijaL

"Am de Hon. Peabody Bottomfall in4

de hall dis evenin' ? blandly inquired 1

Brother Gardner as the meeting opened. He was. He came forward with an expression of humility covering hin like a blanket, and when he had taken his station before the desk the President continued : "B rudder Bottomfall, I am about to present you, on behalf of our organization, wid a silver medal. You am de fust an' only member ob the 1 ime Kiln? Club eber receivin' sich a gift, an some explanashuns may be in order. You has bin a member fur de lasr three y'ars, an your conduct in an out of Paradise Hall has Inn sich as to call fur constant praise. We who hev watched you de clusest hev obsarved dat. ' "What you lacked in flower pets in de front yard has bin made good by a big crop of cabbages in de back garden. "Your lack of educashun has bin made good by your industry, "Whar your integrity has caused you to hunt up de owner ob a lost dollar bill your luck has made you a two-dollar friend ebery time. You hev carried no motto on your back for de world to read, but your pew rent has alius bin paid in advance, an your cupboard am ueber empty. "You has not demanded to be s?nt to de Legislachur' as a member, but your nayborhood respecks you an' co'ner grocers smile to see yon walk in. "Your prayers hev not prevented your nayburs from goinf to sleep, but mo' dan one ob 'em would depend on your kindness in case of misfortune. "Your voice has not bin heard from de stump or rostrum, but your hull family w'ars woolen undershirts doorin de winter, an' has ice cream ebery third Sunday in de summer. "You hev writ no poetry, but when you sign your name to a note it's as solid as a rock. "Br udder Bottomfall, we am all ob us pleased to obsarve dese praiseful traits in your eberyday character, an9 in presen tin' you dis medal we assure you ob our great esteem an1 continued friendship." The member was completely surprised, and so great was his embarrassment after receiving the medal that he walked over to the water pail and would have sat down in it had not Elder Dawson barked his shin with a vigorous kick. Detroit Free Press. Strength of character is not mere strength of feeling. It is the resolute restraint of strong feeling. It is unvelding resistance to whatever would

t disconcert us from without or unsettle

us from within. Charles Lickem. VJSmotional insanity has never yet caused a victim to put his hand in his pocket and pay an outlawed debt.

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