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Bloomington Telephone BLOOM1NGTON, INDIANA. WALTER R BBADFUTE, - - PuBUsma

The eight longest rivers 1& the world, according to the calculations of Ma Gen. A. YanTiblo, are as follows: Missouri-Mississippi, 4,194 miles; Nile, 4,020; Yang-tee-Kiang, 3,158; Amazon, 3,063; Yenesai-Scanga, 2,950; Amur, 2,950; Congo, 2,883; Mackenzie, 2;86& The length of the Missouri-Mississippi is taken from the report of Messrs. Humphreys and Abbott. Kloders estimates it at 3,658 miles. A piague of ants is reported from Nancy, in France. The insects were of immense size, some having wings, They fell in such large numbers that the inhabitants thought they were haying a repetition of one of the Egyptian plagues. The thick, black flakes kept falling for an hour, and every part of 4he city was covered. It is supposed that a visitation was the forerunner of a violent storm which swept over the city the next day. The following, called a railroad problem, is going the rounds: A freight train one mile in length stopped with the caboose just opposite the depot. The conductor got orders to move bis train to the next station, which was just five miles distant. He gave the enginoer the order to move which the latter did while the conductor walked overhead on top of the cars and got there just as the engine arrived at the next station, where he got oft Tae question is, how far did he walk; or, -as lie was walking during the entire five miles, did he ride at all? The petrified bodies of Henry Smith and wife which have been attracting -considerable attention at Frederick, TeniL, for several years past have been interred permanently in the vault of the old reformed graveyard. The husband died in 1837 and the wife about 1845. These bodies are in a perfect etate of petrifaction, due, it is supposed, to the peculiar conditions of the atmos phere in the vault Their figures are in an almost perfect state of preservation, the skin being apaleyellow color. A grave was dug in the floor of the vault, and both bodies were interred in one coffin to preserve them from desecration. Explosions in mines might happen occasionally owingto miners not detecting by scent the presence of perilous gases, anosmia, or want of smell sense, being as dangerous in such cases as color-blindness in the case signalmen. It is perfectly plain that to place on watch duty in any edifice where risk of fire is feared a guardian affected with anosmia, or absence of the smell sense, is practically to secure that the fire ahall not be discovered in its incipient ataga The Peruvian Indians, so Humboldt said, could discern the presence of strangers by their odor; or the Arab who, as recorded, can detect the scent of horning at a distance of thirty miles. A sixouii&B case of desertion from the army came before an Austrian court martial recently. A Carnoilan recruit deserted the ranks in 1848. He lived for thirty-nine years in the mountains and forests of Carnoila and Carinthia, associating only with shepherds and woodcutters, his only shelter being in huts of his own construction. He contrived to make a small livelihood by selling resin, but, at last, as old age came on he got tired of his mode of existence, and in his sixty-third year he surrendered to the military authorities. They have condemned him to eight months' hard labor, which, under the circumstances, seems rather a harsh sentence. Hebe are four persons so old as to demand attention: Nicholas Babo, bom in Lorraine in 1792, a member of the grand army of Napoleon, now living near Belleville, HL, and so vigorous that he walks the streets without a cane, reads without glasses and shaves himself; Stephen Withington, of Hudson, Mass., nearly 101 years old, blind, and fast losing his mind; Mrs. Margaret Arnold, of New Holland, Ohio, who on July 4 was 110 yours old, and who, while bodily quite well, is failing mentally; and Mrs. Phoebe Travis, of Travis' Creek, near Canisteo, N, Y., born on Christmas day, 1783, married in 1800, the mother of twelve children; has a venerable son living, and has had

forty-eight grandchildren, 133 greatgrandchildren, and thirty-one great-great-grandchildren. Ik 1885 there were 150 deaths from railway accidents in the city of Chicago ; last year the number was 184, and the Chieigo News says that "if the ratio for the first part of 1887 is maintained the roll of deaths for which railway carelessness, lawlessness, and 'casnaltias' are responsible will number nearly 250 victims, while the wounded wiU not fall short of a thousand. This is a frightful record. The city has it in its power to materially diminish the slaughter by insisting that the railways observe proper precautions by the guarding of crossings and the slackening of speed. The News, however, thinks nothing will be done "until in the case of some unusual fatality a grand jury indicts the principal oificers of a railway company for manslaughter because their road has been operated

in defiance of law and a human life has been thereby sacrificed." The "mi" in telegraphy has caused considerable trouble in messages handled by inexperienced operators, and sometimes a first-class one gets caught. "1070 X Bt Boston is 10 Milk street, Boston, and "70 Waukee" is Milwaukee. Here's a bull that beats them alL It happened in a special, and was perpetrated by a first-class operator: "Guaranteed for forty-eight hams." When it was corrected it read: "Quarantined for forty-eight hours." Here's another that caused considerable trouble to the operator. The address as he took it was: "Gep. Bagentery." Two days afterward it was found to mean : "Gen. Bag. Agt Erie By." The Boston Herald once came out with a big headline : "The To King Enthroned 1" It should have been : "The Ice King Enthroned. w All through the dispatch wherever the operator could work in that "To king,"

he did it and it was printed that way. Mb. Inglis, a resident of Travancore, India, had a narrow escape from death the other day, having to run for his life before a rogue elephant. The animal was among a small clump of trees close to the jungle path through which Mr. Inglis had to pass. After a careful survey of the "monarch" that gentleman dared to throw stones at him. The first one missed and only caused the animal tp cock his ears to catch the slightest sound. The second went straighter, and hit him right- in the eye. The elephant made a salaam like movement of his trunk, accompanied by a terrific roar of anger, and made for his assailant at a furious pace. Mr. Inglis, however, was too clever for him, and ran very fast, but, in suddenly turning a corner round a huge tree, he stumbled and felL The elephant was close on him with outstretched trunk, the point of which at one time touched Mr. Inglis' coat, and had his fore foot already raised to crush him, but the animal's head being caught at- this instant by the tendrils of a climbing plant which had suspended itself from the branches above, he turned away, leaving Mr. Inglis frightened, bnt with no limb broken. The rogue is a great terror in the hills.

The expenses of the forthcoming marriage of the Emperor of China are estimated at nearly $2,000,000, to be raised by special contributions from the different provinces. The Empress dowager has issued the following decree on the subject: "It is proper that preparations should now be made for the great event of the marriage of His Majesty, the Emperor. We have therefore ordered the Controller of the Imperial household to take all the steps prescribed for this occasion in the Imperial statutes. The State expenditure is strictly limited by fixed rules, and great expenses are being incurred for the work of military reorganization. More than once misery has been general throughout the provinces, aud consideration for the sufferings of the people accentuates the importance of economy. The Court ought to set an example of thrift to the nation, and the sacred duty of all high functionaries is, according zo our desire, to encourage simplicity of living and to discourage extravagance. Let them, therefore, enjoin their subordinates to pursue honest courses. With this object we have commanded Prince Chun to examine from time to time all the accounts opened under this head. As for the ditties and preparations which devolve in consequence of this event on the different public departments, let each of them, after complete and respectful examination of the established usages, address us memorials on the subject, and await our further orders. "

The Home of a Hunter. Bafe Wiley's cabin was almcet as primitive as the abode of Adam ; there was more out-door about it than anything else. Its logs, slightly notched together at the four corners, only fenced about a bit of space. The roof neither compelled the smoke to remain inside, nor the rain outside of it, and the floor was as free a piece of uncovered earth as ever mortal trod. The inference might be drawn that Bafe was finishing it on an installment plan, differing from the usual one in that instead of paying for goods by piecemeal, he obtained pieces of goods as he paid; for there was a bed lacking a post, a backloss rocking-chair, threefourths of a table, two-thirds of a stool, and fractions of other articles doing duty in whatever capacity necessity demanded, regardless of their fitness. There were indisputable evidences of a woman having once resided there, consisting of a calico skirt and a bonnet hanging from a peg, and three ruddy, ragged, dirty bits of humanity, from all dress appearances as yet unclassified as to sex, or separated from the life of the 4gP&rt of the family. The presence of the sunbonnet and absence of the woman indicated beyond doubt to me that she had eloped in the night. I never mentioned the matter to Bafe, but it was told me in a matter-of-course way by a native that "she'd gone off with another feller." The world in general would go on just as well with Bafe Wiley out of it as in, but to me he was a treasure because of hit detached erustence from anything save idleness and hunting. Tobe Hodge, in the American Magazine We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us; God alone judges, and knows too. Wilkie Collins, If thou art wise, thou kno-rest thine own ignorance, trod thou art ignorant if thou hnowest not thyself- Luthtr.

BABRYMORE'E KAKBOW EHCAPK. Sequel to tlio Murder of Actor Porter In Texas Years Ago, Chicago Tribune. "The severest tost I was ever subjected to," said Maurice Barryinore recently in talking of emergencies that prove a man's metal, "was in connection with the Porter murder case in Marshall, Texas. J do not refer to the killing itself, but to one of the complications that grew out of it;." The Porter murder will be recalled by every newspaper, as it created a great sensation at the time in theatrical circles all over the country. A New York company was playing "Diplomacy" down in Texas, and among the members were Robert Porter, Minnie Cummings, aud Maurice Barrymore. Those three wore together when they happened to enter the railroad station in Marshall. They were accosted by a half-druuken rough named Jim Currie, who fancied that some slight had been put upon him, and who followed them, using the vilest language. Barrymore warned him to stop, but this only infuriated the fellow, who drew two p;istols and blazed away. Both bullets took eftect, one in the fleshy part of Barry more's arm. the other breaking the shoulder blade. The wounded man ran into a neighboring saloon and begged the bartender to give him a revolver to defend himself. The bartender would not and Barrymore returned to his companions in time to see Porter on his knees as if imploring mercy, while Currie took deliberate aim at his breast and killed him. A year af cer a Texas jury set Currie free on the plea of insanity. "After traveling thousands of miles to give testimony at the trial against the cowardly murderer," said Barrymore, "you may fancy what my feelings were at the verdict. I expressed myself pretty freely in denouncing the trial as a farce, and ascribed the verdict to the venialty of the marshal. Some friends came to me and warned me to leave town, as I might expect to get riddled by the marshal as soon as my words were carried to his ears. It seems that this excellent official was himself a desperado, and had earned the respeet of his fellow townsmen by the number of killings he had to his credit. I assure you I had no desire of provoking a quarrel with him and resolved to get out of town as soon as possible. "That night I was sitting on the veranda of the hotel about dusk, and there were some half dozen of ns in conversation, when we saw the marshal approaching. He was a one-armed man and wore his revolver exposed ia a bell, as the law permitted him to do. My companions scented trouble and got up quietly and walked away'in different directions. I sat where I was, not knowing what else to do. The marshal, who did not know me by sight, passed me and went up to the hotel clerk, who was behind his desk, only a few steps from me. Ms Mr. Barrymore in?' I heard him ask. The clerk, with a presence of mind which I mentally blessed, replied, 'No; he left town this afternoon The marshal was about to go when a darkey, who was cleaning spittoons near by, looked up and said, Dat?s Mr. Barrymore out dere sittin' on de steps 'It's all up I thought, and for the second time in my life I cursed fate that I had no weapon. What was I to do? I couldn't run away, and yet to remain was death. I made up my mind to snatch a pistol from his belt when he approached. He had but one arm and I had two, aud there was an advantage in that He came toward me and asked quietly , 'Is this Mr, Barrymore?' fcYes,' said I, and arose, i was sitting three steps beneath him, and when I stood up my head about reached to his waist as I straightened up his hand fell on the handle of his revolver, and he drew it "I have faced danger in life when it was sudden, and have hardly realized it till it was over, but the mental strain of that moment was something I never wish to go through again. As he drew the revolver he handed it to me, handle foremost, saying: 'I've brought you the revolver that Jim Currie "Shot you with last year. I thought you might be curious to see it' "I was stupefied. It was no sudden revulsion of feeling. The situation had been too terrible to suddenly become ridiculous. I mistrusted him. 1 took the pistol and examined it It was fully ten minutes before I returned it to him, convinced that he merely came to gratify my curiosity and not to make a corpse of me. The fact was he bore me no ill will at all, as he had not beard of the disparaging remarks I had made about him. I kept him at the bar drinking with me until it was time for my train '.o go, and then I shook hands with him and jumped on board with a thankful heart Chicago Tribune. The Wheat Fields of Dakota. First in area comes Texas, then California, and third the Territory of Dakota. Climatically Dakota presents great diversity. In the northeast and southeast the soil is surprisingly rich the climate moist, not over severe in winter, and well adapted to the cultivation of cerealu. The western portion of the Territory falls within the arid reigon. Bain is scarce, and until irrigation can be carried out it will remain unproductive. In the southwest the Black Hills range produces the precious metals, but excepting in its proximity the surface of the territory is fiat, with an average height of 2,000 feet above the level of the sea. Jn many parts of it are wide areas consisting of a dark loamy soft of considerable depth a land particularly adapted to the growing of cereals. Within th e last twenty years great attention has been paid to the cultivation of wheat i:i Dakota. Prom a product of only 94.ri bushels in the whole territory made in I860, in 1880 the harvest was 2,80,28? bushels. It is probable that in 180C this product will be much more thai doubled in quantity. The Northerr. Pacific Bailroad carrion a large proportion of tho wheat and it finds us principal market at Duluth. Wheat :farnm of enormous size are found within tho Territory, there being one ! of not less than 100,000 acres. On such avast domain as this, economy in labor is every thing. The fiat pr&irie-land oIIowh of the most approved mechani

cal appliances, and m harvest time innumerable reaping machines are used. Nothing can be more startling than to see approaching a huge battery, an it were, of the reapers, drawn by three horses yoked abreast Aft far as the eye cau see, over a vast frontage, the line advances, and even at a long distance the revolutions of the blades of the mowers can be heard. The golden wheat falls in huge winlrows, sometimes to be taken by other machines and made into sheaves, or to be handled by the harvesters. Mounted "posses" vide from point to point and superintend the work. In plowing harrowing, sowing, the best aud most approved labor-saving implements are used. A Dakota wheat farm of good size seems to be rather a factory where cereals are to be produced than a tract of land dependent on ordinary agricultural methods. Such a wheat farm when the big line of reaping machines is on its march is a picturesque sight. All along ti e front the machines are advancing. It is hot and heavy work, for the sun is powerful in these rogions, and there is no shade. The boss scans the men at their tasks, and in & few mir utos, spurring his horse, may be far down the line, directing the labor of other hands. The sight is unique, for in no other part of tho world can such a wheat field be seen as in Dakota. " A Dakota Bride. Old Bud Jackson, one of the tarrors of Montana, lost his fourth wife, and c inie over into Dakota for a fifth victim. He met and married 1 he widow Braggs, a frail, gentle looking little vjpman, who had just been left a widow for the third time and seemed crushed to earth by her loss. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson wended their way to Bud's Montana home, and as the gushing bridegroom led his bride iuto his lovely cot of one room and introduced her to his favorite dogs, he said tenderly : "You want to remember, Mrs. Jacksou, that I'm the boss here. Don't you never fergit that The four dear companions that I've laid away mighty soon found that out. All I ever had to do was to crook my finger and they come a runnin to know what I wanted. There wau't no hangin' back nor askin1 questions. You see that ox gad up there? Welly that's the little arbytrater that useter settle any slight diff'rences l ever had with the four dear comnanions that are gone. They giner' idly suckkumed after Txmfc six licks, an' I hope you'll be equally obedient "Now, B'posen' you take ray boots an' clean 'em up an' grease 'em. They've got mighty muddy while we was on our tower. Clean 'em up good. I'm mighty particular 'bout my boots, an' I'd hate to take that air gad down the fust day you was in your new home.. Come an' pull off the boote." The frail, sad-eyed little bride did not move. Her pretty lips began to tremble, and her gentle bosom heaved. "You coram ?w roared Jackson. "Hev I got to snatch down that air gad? Oh, yer co-niin', eh?" She came. She snatched down the gad on her way, aud with set teeth and eyes that twinkled merrily she landed within two feet of Bud. He had faced wild-cats and hyenas, but never anything like this. A conflict ensued; it was short, fierce, and decisive. It ended in Bud's crawling under the bed, aud as his wife prodded him with tho hoe-handle she gaily shouted: "Ye pore innercent thing, ye ! Hain't no mo' S'snse ner to raise the dander of Lizy Jane Bs.ggs Jackson, her that never did nor never will take & word of sass from any man living Ye'd better crawl under there ! Ye'd better crawl clean under the walL Oh, yell holler 'nuff, hey? Well, you go aud cut a month's supply o' stove wood 'fore you show yer face in this cabin ft.rfn. I'll learn ye who's boss here!" Tid-Bits. There Are No Kickers There. I hope to go to the realms above, when I lie down to die; I hope that choirs ail clad in white, will greet my wandering eye. I know that I'll be filled with joy, in regions free from care, for angels tell me in my sleep, there are no kickers there. Though rugged be the jasper pave, no soul will dare complain, though sunlight shines the ages through, no spirits call for rain ; though crowns be half a size too small, no sera phs tear their hair, and all is joy above because, there are no kickers there. The music may be out of tune, no one will hold his ears ; the robes may not be tailor made, there'll be no moans or tears ; the sandals may be often worn, none asik a better pair, for glory to the Lord of Hosts, there are no kickers there. And when the celestial council call, for paving on the street, the inaa who gets the contract may, work onward swift and fleet; no spirits will injunctions bring, nor cranks or croakers swear; the realms above are free from chumps, there are no kickers there. Then take me from this vale of tears, where cranks come to the front, where men who never work or toil, still lie around and grunt; I long to wear celestial robes, and climb the golden stair; for well I know that in those lands, there are no kickers there. Atchison Globe. Illessin? Cuttle in Bulgaria In the Greek Church of Eastern Europe much of the religious work is done by the married parish clergy, who are popularly styled "Papas" or "Fathers." Bishops are not allowed to marry, but the working clergy are not as a rule ordained until they are married. They differ from the monastic clergh, from among which the bishops are chosen, in other ways, but it is to them that the people look for pastoral work. They belong by birth to the people, and they usually live on terms of fainiliarit' with the peasantry, and identify themselves with the rustic population, being not much distinguished from them in manners and habits of domestic life. Among the ecclesiastical customs of Bulgaria is that of the priest visiting a farmyard, at stated intervals, to pronounce a religious benediction upon the increase of fiocks and herds; the oxen and cows, the sheep., the goats, getting the benefit of his blessing, which is read with solemnity from an authorized liturgy, accompanied with the gentle waving of a feathered fan, sprinkling a few drops of consecrated water in tho presence of the assembled rural household. ----- --. ulCJSSfi

fiEMIIvlSCi;XCE5 OF PUBLIC MEN. BY BEN : PKBLET POOUE. There was much speculation in Boston, in the spring of 184:9, as to the meaning of an inscription on a pair of silver wine-coolers, presented by Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis to the landlords of tho Tremont House, where she had boarded tho previous winder. If; ran thus: H. Gr. O. To him that imth shall bo given ; from hira that hatfc. not shall be t&keu away ovou that which ho hath. Tim quotation was thus interpreted: When H. G. Otis died, some months before, and left a large estate, his daughter-in-law, who had been led to expeot a generous legacy, received nothing but these wine-coolers, so she said that us H. G. O. had thought best to shower his wealth on these that had enough before, she preferred that the trifle he had bequeated her should be taken away, as they only reminded her of a cruel neglect. This interpretation was not exactly correct, us Mrs. Otis did not complain because she (the widow of H. G. O.'s eldest son) was disinherited, but she did assert that her father-in-law prevailed on her, much against her judgment, to refrain, some years previously, from sel ling a large amount of Taunton manufacturing stock, which constitutad the bulk of her private fortune, as it would hav impaired the market value of the stock. He then quietly cold out his owu shares, the company broke, Mrs. Otis lost what she had, and her husband's brothers, already rich, received their father's large estate. Public sympathy was, of course, enlisted in behalf of the despoiled widow, whose hospitality and goodness of heart had ever been prcverbial. Mrs. Gerry was a daughter of the venerable Charles Thompson, Secretary of the Revolutionary Congress. Shswa&one of the most elegant and accomplished ladies of her day. Trained up amidst tho scenes of the Revolution, she possessed all the energy and firmness of those times. During; jier husband's absence as Ambassador to France, her house was entered by a burglar, when, animated with a true courage, she seized a pistol aud encountered him; he fled before her, jumped from a window, broke his leg, and was taken. Her brother, who had been in the service of the British East India Company, left her a handsome fortune. I came across, a few days siince, a letter written from Washington in January, 1819, by the Hon. Elijah H. Mills, then a Senator from Massachusetts He then wrote: "Yesterday I dined with the French Minister in a party consisting of about twenty or twenty-five, mostly members oi Congress. The dinner was in true French styl?, everything so disguised and transformed that no one knew what to 05.k for, or what was before him; whether ham or jelly, mutton chop or padding, no one could tell until he had put his knife into the dish. The first course consisted almost entirely of cold meats, in various forms, pickled, h ashed, and minced, as well as whole. Turkeys without bones, and puddings in the form of fowls, fresh cod disguised like a salad and celery like oysters, all served to excite the wonder and amazement of the guests. It reminded me of nn anecdote told by Horace Walpole when giving an account of a dinner of a great man at which ho was present. He said : Everything was cold but the water, and everything was sour but the vinegar. Excepting, however, the perplexity of finding o at what was upon the table, I had a very pleasant time. Mr. and Mrs. de Neuvillo are decidedly the most pleasant and the most popular of the foreigners residing here. Pleasant and affable in their deportment, they take groat pains to please, and to avoid the ceremony a:ad cold politeness which distinguish almostt all the intercourse which takes pi ice he re. Although of a frivolous nation, they both fieem very considerate and sufficiently grave, and have much less of frivolity than the other minis ters resident here. Their kindness seems unaffected, and fcheir piety, it is said, is equally so. In he evening there was an immense crowd of ladies and gentlemen, their house being open for that purpose every Saturday evening. The usu41 insipid interchange of idle questions and needless replies, azing, lounging, card-playing, and dancing occupied the various groups, as fancy or caprice might dictate, and the evening closed with a waltz by the daughters of the Spanish Minister and a few others, mostly foreigners. " Tom Corwin used i;o tell in his inimitable way a story about a Mr Jones, who was running for Congress in an Ohio district, aud who, -w hile filling his round of appointments,, made a speech, at the close of which, by way of commending him 3 el:: to the "bone and sinew," the "regular sovereigns" of the country, he said thai; he was a selfmado man, of "obscure birth and humble origin that, in fact, he was sprung from "the very dregs; of the people." "Why, fellow-citizens," said he, warming up and elevating his voice, "my parents were so poor that when I was 18 years old my mother had to tie me to the bedpost to keep me from falling into the fire whenever she went to the spring for a pail of water." Of course he intended to say eighteen months, and Mr. Corwin, who was present, cried out: "Oh Jones, Jones, what u thumping big baby you must h:ve been !" The crowd saw the point of the joke, and Jones broke down &t once, amid their jeers, Whit Tommy Wanted to Enow, Litttle Tommy trudged over to the house of his lawyer neighbor, and sat down, trying to keep up a brave face. "What row, my little man?" cried the old attorney, cheerfully. "You're

DEEDS OF A TERRIBLE PIRATE,

not after copvintr at your ace

"No, sir I no, sir! I'm worried. n "Bless me! Out with it." "And won't you charge me?" "No, certainly not.w "Well, i:f papa gei;s divorced from mamma, do I have to get divorced from Sister Sue at the same lime?" Boston liecord There are few skilled tailors in Poland, because the Polo is not attraoted to the needle as tho aeedle ia to the pole.

How Capt. Morgnii lMndored Panama Other CI tic ii of Spanish America. When C ipt. Morgan came up frm Gibraltar he found three great mea-of war lying in the entrance to the liie awaiting his coming, says Howard Pyle describing in Harpe7's Magazine ih deeds of a Eeventeen-century pirate Seeing that he was hemmed in in ihm narrow sheet of water, Capt. Morgan was inclined to compromise xnatteni, even ofiering to relinquish all the plait der he had gained if he were allowed to depart in peace. But no; the Spwiish admiral would hear nothing of tliis Having the pirates, as he thought, Mcurely in his grasp he would &wep them from the iace of the sea once cn0 and forever. This was an unlucky determination for the Spaniards to reach, for instead of paralyzing the pirates, with fear, a he expected it would do, it simply turned their med courage into as mad desperation A great vessel that they had taken with the town of Mctricaibo was cmverted into a fireship, manned with 1 ga ' of wood in saontera caps and sailor jackets, and filled with bnmstone, pitch and palm leave soaked in oil Then out of the lake the pirates sailed to meet the Spaniards, the tire ship leading th way, and bearing down directly ujmm the admiral's vessel. At the helm stood volunteers, of the most desperate and bravest of all the pirate gang, and ftt the ports stocd the logs of wood ia montera caps. So they came up with, the admiral and grappled with his ship in spite of the thunder of all his great Runs, and then the Spaniard saw, ait to late, what bis opponent really wa(u He tried to swing loose, but clouds of smoke and almost instantly a mass of roaring flames enveloped both, the vessels and the admiral was lost. The second vessel, not wishing to vraik 1 for the coming of the pirates, bore down to the fort, under the guns of which the cowardly crew sunk her and m id the best of ii) way to tho shore 1b& third vessel, not having an opportunity to escape, was taken by the pirates without the slightest resistance, and th passage from the lake was cleared. So the buccaneers sailed away, leaving1 Maricaibo and Gibraltar prostrate a second time. Down they poured npon Panama,iuid out came the Spaniards to meet theia 400 horse, 2,?K)0 foot, and 2,000 vriid bulls which had been herded together to be driven over the buccaneers so thmt their ranks might be disordered ind broken. The buccaneers were only 300 strong; the others had either fallen; in battle or had dropped along th dreary pathway through the wildernoss but in the space two hours the Spaniards were flying madly over the plain, minus 600 who lay dead or dying behind, them. As for the bulls, as many of them mm were shot served as food there and then for the half famished pirates, for th buccaneers were never more at home than in the slaughter of cattleThen they marched toward the city. Three hours mere fighting and tliejwere in the streets, howling, yelling,, plundering, gorging, dram-drinking, :inct giving full vent to all the vile ind' nameless lusts that burned in their1 hearts like 8. hell of fire. And now followed the usual sequence of eventa rapine, cruelty, and extortion; only 1;his time there was no town to ransom, for Morgan had given orders that it should be destroyed. The torch was set to aud Panama, one of the greatest cities' in the new world, was swept from th ' face of the earth. The Warble Fly. It is only within the last few months that attention has been drawn to the great loss caused to farmers, breeders aud grazieru by the depredations of the warble fly. It is mainly due to Mis Ormerod, the honorary entomologis t to the Royal A gricultural Society of 'E gland from whose report on the fiubject we dor: ve the facts for this article that attention has been called to the matter at a.L When we state that the annual loss is estimated at between mx and seven million? sterling, many will no doubt think it is very much exag gerated; but if they will procure m copy of the report and carefully study the figures, they will, we think, come to the conclusion that the amount is rather under than overestimated. The fly in appearance is not unlike the com mon bumble-bee, and is aliout half an inch in lenfth. The female is provided witii an egg-laying tube (ovipositor); but it is a moot-point whether she really1 deposits her eggs on the hide or, by means oi the ovipositor, pierces thai skin and leaves the eggs underneath From the mad way in which the cattlei gallop abo at when the fly makes its appearance, we are inclined to think she: adopts the latter mode. Egg laying generally takes place during Mar, June, and even July, but is slightly varied by the weather, or by the cattlv being on high or low pastures. That egg is ovc.l-sbiped, of a white color: with a small brownish lump at one end. Having safely deposited its eggs, the? fly's mission is finished. In a few day the egg brings forth a small magyot,, which at once commences to eat its way through the hide to feed on the juiceef beneath. About Christmas, lumje t small at first, but gradually inoreteang in size until they attain that of a wal nut will he seen on the backs of the cattle These lumps are caused by thej growth of the maggot, which, when! full growr., is about an inch in length aud of the thickness of the tip of onefe little finger. Strange to say, by many farmers these lumps called warblelumps wre considered as jhouing; that the animal was in good condition: and were called "health lumps1' or "thriving lumps." Chambers Journal , i The Cucumber Crop During the past season 80,000,000! cucumbers have been pickled in one factory at Fredericksburg, Va. Oner acre will produce on an average 100.,000) cucumbers, aud they sell readily in ihen'v city at 80 cents per 1,000. They arej usually picked when not more than an inch or an. inch and a half long. One person can gather in 3,000 in a day. Chicago Times. People seldom improve rhen they have no ether model but themselves t oopy afteic Goldsmith I

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