Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 27, 1875, Page 4

RKS" OF SGIENCE.: THE -PRAIRIE-GOPHER, Dr, Eliiott Conor, U. 8, A., contribntes ono of file charming papers on Natural Iintory to the fast number of tho’ Natdvatie, taking for his themoa tho, epecles of, pralrio-goplor known to Zooluginte asthe Spermophilus Kichardeond. Wo acknowlodgo our obligation to tio article for the following facts: Tho gophers belong to the lami ly of squirrels (Scinridir), and inhabit tho wentern portion of North Ainetica, from Meteo to.ths Aretio Ucean, and aldo 8 large part of the Northern Tomiephero of the Old World. ruey tre fitted For living in bnttowa,—raroly, if over, simbing trees,—and, for tho most park are ‘ound fn the opon prairies, Two specion oeatr sast.of£ Lhe Misnisaippls bat, fraut tho, Pai che Pacific, (hoy abound in profusion, Tho prairie-gaphor ocvnrs iv vast umbans over hundreds of thousands of miles of Wextern territory. Dr. Conen staton that hanover raw any anininta it auch inultitados, “TP have ride den,” ho saya, “for dara nnd weeks where thoy were continnburty 2a nnrone na pidirio-dogy ato in their Populoys villages. Thoir numbers to tho aquare inilé are vastly greater than Lover ortained hora at 8, Beredeyic, Uho post of ifornia. to be, under tho'tuort favorable con- ona. Tn. a word, thoit'auinta in legion. “If Dakota, and Montana were the gardea of the world (whieh thoy ave not, however), oithor ie Sophers or tlio gardeners wonld have fo quit.” | They do nial seom to prefar ono tuealit another, baing quite as abundant in sleri Katine wastea, as in fertile, grarey plain Sheie gregarious tnatinet i @trong, ant th generally ween asnembled in eomennitic cording to the hatatof pratrie-doga. Now and then, oddly enough, Dr, Cones would find a eingle mmdividual established miles away from his follows, daese solilary Kpecimons were, in overs cave vbeerved, mntog ; and, af course, had withdrawn ivvta the’ dociety of their hind on account of bight upon their early atechons, Tt te to otod. Hawdver, that thes: wera’ peertlidrly J cnormouely tat. A celibate tifa agged them undeniably. o barrows. of. the. prai fargo enough to adsutt u wian'n aren, ounyuely from tha mouth and. generally sacelhow at thd depth of a foot or ko. Lael Appoars ta have a buriow by’ itaelf, td urd it jealously Cram intrnsion, Some burs aves are occupied oxclibively 4a’ alorehotises and the rest aa residences for repsrats individ- uate’ “Shey fatrly houoyeoms tho soil in “xome ioxiona, making it dangerous for horses: and rion to travel rapidly. ‘Lhe holes jut admit a. barce's hoof, aud the galloping aver a eonutry stereo diey aluund is dangeros in the extrome. ¥ nhars,.de hot rate, and it is probably pase tho wintar iu'n vtatoaf torpor, Taey mpend the sumoter accummliting a store of coi, Which. Hiey eniry ‘in thelr, check- ed to thar (burrows, Though property jsandnivoraiia, the gopher is fond of meat, and jeeds frecly In suminee upoysala buffaloce and singer gultuals rie-gopher are aot the Gopher iaehitp and wity, and ichkoy. diy ery 18 a aiigla note iepeatid gevetal times, ~ “ Comicdl ad a gopher nome of his attituifea nnd “mations,” Dr, Chnen'remarks that “lic tever looks ao funny aa Vein equeaking. ‘Ho gesterally, gets down on aM furs to it, drops hia Jaw with ‘a jark, and ieqdeezer out. the pvina by draning ia his, belly, —- it remiuda one of & toysd6z y Limia, and neewing- coling that he. takes Rays. Dr. Condy; pher' Is the live- nattreS “a mute kick. 19 fferfett repods in’ compari- Tye end Opens ont Like nobhfd vise T krow off with hia absnrd Tite whisk of a tail howted ; nd, the’ way ‘ho (ela ovor’ tho vonnd without onds Jogldng “back is, amazing. afe hone; be ho'never #0 badly Crightaned, he vilbstop to seo whetswag the matter. [To pops youl upright, standa stocks still whi lis tore- atva digoped affectedly In, Tront ef Vins, Tooke detmurely crown, and gquenks ont? Pooh! whois afraid ?"'ng plainly ae possible. ‘Tut let ule come 4 ete nenrer, Mid dows he goes on all tut right over the fiols, whore he bite ‘and da, with bacleatehed™ up, ready for a iivd, Wherrhe does Sally duck out of sight, there’ is ud muataking bis meaning ¢ tha enyestive Wirt af hiv tail,.the last thing keen, speakd volunien ioathoughtfuloheerepre et ssiut tha prestiest-of-all tho exhibitions 9 pepher cau make o@hivself is whoy ha. tegmes Profile in tha rintof his, barrow, | Not eeldous, sdter runing some fittls 1ollow to earth, Lavo i stood til b nul confidently al for Lin reappedrances Presently 1 tear i. 4 seratehing, perhaps alsjnenti, aid then 1 hin hoad. turned -roguishly to ‘ong: sido, ‘to ‘ow one bright. blnck oye fell tipot tue, an if so wel what manner of creature [may bovte rtand thi boldly at his doar. of looks ag if he vonld dike té tnyita mo in, and then langh at me hy being toobus and ele bo Ente Or + ‘Lhe.gopher is oxcecding;, ‘'¥ never goes out Withous {i hi tite In his banda, “tnrotighty-beftad , FLUKE: : _ Vr T. 8, Cobbold, Fy Ji. 8., who has made tho +. tatthe mubject-of profound resoaroh, lately 120 4 npaperbefora tho London Linnean Society, cathe Structure, Attnities, and Trobablo Sanree ef tho Muntan Vluks (intestinal worm), Jistoue Fressumis Tho parasite wad dikeovorad hy Vrol, Task, about thirty yeany ago, he specimens Jatoly brought under Dr. Cobboli’s, notica wore ‘ured from two patiouts,—a missionary ond wife who had resided four yeura at Ningpa, China, where thoy had freely partaken of Sieh, oyeterd, and salads, Hoven epacimons of tho tuke wero obtainad;—two from ‘the lady, and five trom hor husbait Only two of these supplied Ufo obsorvor witli iiew faety reapecting, the or- ganidation of the aiimal, and the boat ono of the «vo hag since been deposited in the University sluxeui at Oxford. From a kurvey of all the Lostimony Itt point, Dr. Cobbold concludes that tha, oeurrence of tho Sisto erase in the ich Nndor Obdarvation wis to bo refered to the aaymption by the nnssionnry and his wifo of po oysters, or of. tinh innufticiautly cooked, Distonia ore tromutods worms, and are called: tlukes from Urorr reromblanee in form to Hukes, or founders, ‘Chay ure not parasitic turonghout their ives, bub ac times mmbiatat wither opeit waters or dowy pastures, ‘Tho Jie toma hepaticuns ta common iu sheop, causing the disease called Bot, Shh species ia ponorally lene than an inch in length, nnd if found tn the liver, where it feeds on tha bilo... It in wome- times Found in the human ‘Ivor and rene porte. Ts cuters, while in tho larval stato, into she bodies of. mollu aud of aquatic insect Larva, und thenco i conveyed to the stomachs of aiuals feeding on berbnge, and in this situa. sun teacher maturity, A small species of thin upon, the 2, haridatobinn, is eommon ih ph in Adrics, and along tho Muuriting, Jn ud examinations of the Toutien of Egyptians efter death, Grioaligor found the paramte occurs ting in 117 casos, Antal spaces, 1, oplthalia- | obo, las beew found in the lung of the himal: eso. br, Cobhatd recopnizes att kpecion of Mukert, of whieh 126 betong-to lishes, 37 to roptiles, 14 to birds, 58 totndinmais, and’ f to the inverti- mitte, At tho lowent extimate, ho asnuties Uhat sue order Jisfonfide: inehides 409 apecies, Sho senus Dideona cortaing wany spevios, infesting wi thele mature atnte different animals, snd et Teeting a lodgment in differant portions of the vide. Some spectes Jocato themselves in the ttinkled membrane around the oyes of binds, NED SNOW. ‘The phenomenon of red enow was apparently xouwn to the ancients, as Aristotle refers to it «a his writings 5 but, from hia dire tentil 1760, it fecelyod ttle of no attention. At tho latter Gets, Saussure made a chemical examination of tyeclmens obtylned frum tha Apennines, from whied ho conchyded that the red color was owing to sung vegotable substance, probably tho pol- jeg ofa plant. Nothing furthor was diseayerat in referenico to the miasttor until Caps. oss fount u largo patch of red snow oxstending oyer a range et chills on che khoro uf Maflin's Bay, Ineay- cred a apace 8 inilos in Jongth, and in vome | places reddened tha snow toa depth of 12 fect, Yu tho return of Cupt, Hous, in 1810, be went rpecimens of this calure} snow Ue Robert Brown eud Francia Bauer, ’ . Yho former gave Ht as his option thatthe coloring matter was a Uuleciiutar plang of the order Alger ; while Bauer pronounced ut a species ef fungus, Uredilealios , Lauer mathe mauy i: teresting oxperiment, with’ the plant, amon which was aa, attompt “to: propagate it, He placed some Of the rod know, now white from ex- poultra to the alk, ins glass veusel contuinlus dinary auow, and, mixing tha two wall togother, «Xposed the vessel to the open alr, Tho woathor win oxtromely cold, it being Decoinber, aud the coloriug mnatter gradually changed from whity to siolt, and tinaliy ta red,—at the wame timo iu- tremiug in qauntity, Again, bo placed a stall amount of the red upon fos suow, aud, the qemperatnrenelay Joa, there waa rill greater ‘dieese of the Plaus: ewe experiments tod aps 2 They, 1 Raner to comelude that the plant beeamd green ‘before it inatured, and that, on exposure to ithe -ale stono,-ft loat ite rod color. aM «In dha}, Baron Wrangol deolared the plant to | Delong to the lichens, naming it Leprisia. Ker- | inesina. ‘I'wo yoard after, Dr. Gravillo, of Vilin- + hurg, obtained” Kpecimens from. the Teland of 5 Limnore; and he, with Agardh, sustained tho | docition of Brown, Later, Sir Witham Hooker | vontirined their views, giving tha plant the name ! of Dntvella nicalis, although Agardh: hud pire- * yiously ealled it Prntococenta nivalia. put the nature of red pnow was not yet detis-} aitety xoutled, “In t889, Mte, Shuttleworth ec: amined specimens with the microscaye, nid des | termined the presonce of avimalentes, tonne | ho declared that the sosralled pinnt was re enanimal, Ite following year, [re cutored into tha disenssion, ani, proc snow trom tho glactor of Aar inthe A covered four cadditignal species of tus i malentos, and contest the - clusions of Dre Shttlews: At ins { however, bean ralistactari ted tant | forncens ix yavely ¥ ble And - that ite pach isin the Jaweat famely panta-—the Palmellaree, ia sbenrchire state, + At conminte “of brill clebnies. Ute ine sate + Hobs. Rented on, bit mot inured re we golabe | jnons mass. 1 * AML tho members of the Pabndacee: propasate + by germination, scudins forth tubatar:tilanrests | fiom their gotta. ‘Iho extremities af these tila | ments dilate ita uew velis, which Nally cenee Aheir connection welt y came independant anllvic Hi havo for # short tina romarka tion, awing to the rapid) vibrit (fine hair) wrth lien bh Tawar of nation nots eclia nro innture, ard rear duee by seginentation. + ‘ . Hed anoit is found above 88 dey. north late itude. and as. far south as. New Shotland, 11702 Ta ere latitude. Parry. found it on tha ices figlds of Spitcberzat, and Kaus met with. it ev icertloes Stl initos.fom tand. It occurs on moun laind above tho snow-lino, aud has recontly been forud npon the summite of tho Sierra Naval, at n height of 10.000 fect above the sea, Another spevian of the gous Profodverns, ty Pe plucialix, in found in ataguantralu-wate lea color is urnally green, but acvasionally it 4 red, The young cella: often send forth two vil hratory cilia, by meany of which they move witl voneilerable rapidity: Ifsadrted slowly, this | Plant retains vitality, and reaw ia fntetions tim being nguin moigtoned. to parent plant anid Yas \ anu cells SURVEY. OF COSTA RIGA, ha Several your ag, Prot Gabb acvepted an iu* | ‘vitation from tho Government of Costa Ries to | Inka; Sbaigo ‘of ‘ail. inyestigition hito the re- xourvos oF thing country. He hag since been ace tivoly ongaged at tho proxeeution of the work in the regions: bordering othe Atlantic alope. His Inst roport annoitnces' the vonpletion af tha geological aid ethnological.eurvey,of tho district Profs Gabb has, with four, us- sintanty. henides Indian Iaborora, carefully. ox- amined a tract of ubout 3,000 aquaro intles, ex- tending from the borders of civilization on the north.to.the houndaries of Panamaon the south, and Crom tho Atinntic to tho crest of the Cordil- teras, and has mapped itd eutiro extent with more aceltracy than Uns marked the delineation of. any .other onal area. of Costa Mien, nob oxcopting ‘the most .populous.. His report of. thik . .dintriet, gives.ae hoy of .trustworthy xtatixties regarding an agri- cultural country sificioutly fargo, fortile, and healthfal, to.support tho, antira population of Costa Rica; and: yor this region is inhabited by only 1,228 Indians and twelve foreigners, of whom but ona is white. It is watered by a river navigablo thé yoar round, aud reaching to within 20 miles of the most remote portion of the coun- fry. In addition to tho slutistics of. the survey or, Prof, Gabb-has gathered information re- ineral resources of ie region, and ite atamal and yi whlo lifo, {mmnentio collecr tious have been forwarded by him to the Smith- xoniin Institution,. for: identification. Among Users nro 100 specimens of monkeys, with indi viduals of other. mammals, birds, ete. in pro- portion, ‘I'he oxhaustive. inquiries into the oth- notogy of, the country have reviilted in rich col- lectiony, Jigawino sent to Wakhingiou. Numor- oud woegtywaries,. with several dialects, have been obtained, that, promise much tothe philain- | fishes oes r gordi ; PRIMITIVE ASTRONOMY, Thi following quaint oxtract frotithe Bazeley of May 31, 1769,. fa reprinted ps.a cyriovity in tho colttnins of Valuve 2 '4Tho transit of Vanun over -tha sun, is a phonomenon whoreby -the satronomera can doterinine the distance of the sun from tho aarth, anil the ‘ditueniiotis of tho whole solar system, moro nécurately thau by auy~ other method..s Kueh a transit will be visible near Louflon on Satinday aftoruoun, Jvue 3, p little after 7 o'clock, if ta weather be fair; and nover inore for this ago, nor porhaps fir man\ ages to come, will auch | Phenonienon be neon in this quarter of ‘tho world, (tho curious, botie Iydies and genttemon, whg aro desirous of beng quyertained with a sight of this phenomenon, may havo the best vitnation for thas purpose, with We arristance of proper porsons amt tale- scopos, at Mi, Lighifoot's, nt Denmark JLall, on Camberwall Thy, 1 b towards “Dirlwicls, a Mi inodations and qinge | “0 REVIVAL, AFTER (POIsANING, js 2 Prof. Bolu, vf Darpat, hns been engaged in exporimouts on resnscif{alion aftor polsoniig,; and the Aolulsche Zeitung.ot Feb, 10 reports tho. resutta of his inqiirioss ‘he Profersor tins suc- ceaded in raviving ‘éats, that had beet poisoned by anJection” of potasli-dalta into their volus, after Curly minutos’ duration of a state that w. in no way diieront from actual deati,—pulsa- | tion of the Loart,-and respiration, huving entiro- ly ceaned. Tho “auccosa oF thee exporiments 4 was obtained ‘by nieaus of artitlcial respiration, and sinmuiancons: compredsion of the broaat in the -viemity of: tho hoart.: ‘he compression of the breast 14 deeined ts casontial av the artifelal respiration, and the Professor dwolls-enpecially nan. ita importance, ‘Hid resvarehes ure: of high: interens -{n thalr relation to tha revival of tha victims of poison "+ ne { CARNIVOROUS PLANTS, | Saeee } Whatés this T ewe, My Molly dear, *ALout the now elrutvu Can little plants Ent truge and an 1 And ya . Why,—bleas my oges! : i Who fe tho great diakivercr 7 az Not Darwin, tove, ied For that would pray Avert of retrogradiay Nurety the fare Of Mowers in alr, | «Ur annatine wrent gs 2 Pheg muoutdn't ent Or dy aught ay degiddlng f Alas} "twould ba Hud news to mo i {Yo hear your own dear Fido, pet; Had Lon bls breaths Tn cruel death, “Beeatre, ane day; ¥ In thousntiess pl ‘ Me. went (uo near a Violet f ng tut, : n rue plant esenivorgud We voutured near Yeas ire, ty Aucl eyvallawed were, With no one thers ‘To wnccor or deliver wat, And yet todo C : Ly dureoun, T Vould calla duu cheouiat)s, Tor one might wat A harder tate ‘Than lave a roe + ary “Unit all his wore Pa Al: Tw pain called urvigatta, 7 } Abt sclence knows. Lach tower that bawe Lull its wicked balite, ‘not fore ‘ to make a fuses Vor eauht we know, 2 ihe bile grow From dialu¢ on Welv rabulte} | meoel Stacy th Serituier for A putt,’ hei Fi ‘ A Druvivon y's Pawer tur Wiseties, Tho Vittubirg’ (Pa.) Lixnatch relates the fol- lowing:.* Ou Buturday night *a blowers hoy,’ amployed at a Bonth-side window-plaus factory, becania intoxicated, and when he camo tu the factory on. Monday again, still drunk, the fir dinehargod him, ‘Tha uther boys employed in» rituilgr caput thon refuned, to work uuloss the ira roinstuted the boy in fis placo. A womber of tho tem .reut for, the boys and other helpers wud told them that “he’ infendod fo ru that factory to suit. tho ‘views of tha projajetore. ‘Twa of the ‘boys! who | haprencato ho warried watd shat they would go to Work anvpow,” At this the other demanded that the tirm should not only relnatate the drunken boy, bus should digehuryo the iro men i who hud uffoted to go to wok. ‘he tirusthen discharged ull the boys, and tuld the met to blra | others, "Tis, tho latter said, wow not dhair bust Hea, Bad, Oo brie’ nittere to a focus, the prox | prigtors put ode 6 tires wud elit up the fae | Ms iy. Pp + parontly almost faultless plowe, t \ ' bevomen; but, to rendor braiu-foree prod TUR CHICAGO TRIBUNE tory, with a detormination nat ta raayen Tet hoxt Septamber, © Thaw were nieve | fork thrown aut-nf emplorment by a dranken hog. : " "HG 2 GAREDIN, MAN: atlog te the Indasvtrieswagricute Riduent ols — SpehietVork = ‘she em CLE: "Mae Mamwwtts Murescing Phaiv eet band Senne Groin = Nee mn minh bods Avighdor — Mating 8 eitit at? Bensete 4 we Pr is BUTE, Why «1 1 nok tha Carver's aon have cation distiiet and technical in its character, a4 well aa students ednealing theintaelves for other professions in life? Why elontd he not sno something moro of hie profeasion than to plow, row, aud cultivate bis cropa propocly reap, mow, and atack bia grain o¢ hay; water, food, and shelter his stock from tho inclomencies of the weather; ‘or, carry forward mechanle ealiy the soltier ordinary routine operations of farme-life? And Jyel.. how many have avquire:t taova-than,tiis moclanieal knowledge 2 Unt fow—very.fon—-have investigated tho rea. nonW why —the principles underlying the profos- mion from whieh thoy yal bread and acquire their weallh, Vt ia trite all have eduention more or fas: Inti Is the exception, aud nét tho rule, where tho teachor, tacks 'tir tral habily of inveétipatls: lomw that oceany Kebaolhpy day . Our teachera are tor often mera machines, whose anly object in tify seers to bo to haniner inta “the brala of the pupil certain routing Knadwlalge, that had previously been hamihored into tho teacher's own Kkull, tna producing one eatot machines an near lila another as the sind | of the pupil sill allows . Aftor leaving xchoot, the ral education af thre « Inulividual commonces, Lf bo havo talent, he nunist first (luk out how hext prastically to apply tas talent,:and'then so toilnomely to work TORSINY THE VONROWS OF INVESTIONION, uitatry Jris heen enfled tho eorner-stono of sricillurd. * 1b iv mtore truly'the bed-rdels npou nich rosta tho wholn aystou of tclances “which ehuter around Agriculture, .Yot™ a man may bo-tho first chemist in the workl, and know nothing evon of husbandry. one of tho simple branchea of Agriculture. Botany ia an‘ Impor- tant study to the farmer,-and especially ¥o to tho horticulturiat® -biit tho mora botanixt, however porfect in ‘tho aelenco, wuld starve to’ doath if he tind to gaia his bread by tho application of ‘niere votnnical Inowlodgo ‘to tho ‘enilnre ‘of plants, ‘Entomology is really of the first fm- portance to every one who delved in -thoe, soil, whothar oi tho farm, in the fled or forest, or in tho, garden or orchard. But again, he who shoild givo hia attention to tho exclusive study 6f. Entomology (would have no time for any- thing‘elso; would grow old and gray: and, per= laps at Ioat, stauding on the brink of the yravo, regret that life was all too rhort for the human mind to compass aven this wciouvo, eye *'Tho point liew Just hore: The student in Ag- fieultnre, or in any other iudnetry, must purano: thowe aclonces relating to- his, ‘ofexaion, but only,4o far ns they bear directly thereon, ‘fake Entomology. for Inatance.’ ‘There is such an ine finity of ingoct-Iffe that the roind is lost in the dotitetnplation of tts numbers: aud yet abont 900 vatrettorcbmprisg all thet dre directly noxions or beneficial to tho agricniturist, aud but compara~ larly few of theke aro necesuary to bo particon- tively eluded by the practical man. WE NAVE A STATY ENTOMOLOUTUT, Hag he spent hls tine cin investting and making known the habits of those fusects toast dostructive to our crops?) Perliaps ie has in- voxtigated ; but. if so, ho has not mado the ro- sulth kuows.. He haa indeed given us a vory ponipretinnelye tind uciontitically-olaborato work ou shellyswinged insects (Coleoplera) iu genoral, and one of great yale, Ko fir’ ns thts’ order of insecta Ss chneerued, to the sclentile student ptiraning Cho aluly of Uiis particntar class. Tho Colegplera aro an important order, and contain w. larga share of ‘uoxious .inkects; but tho report is moro, than useless to’ tho practical turer or ungcientifa reader y-~ fur, “mmstead of assisting, it ~id | xtumbling-block wil ita ~ aclontific “ nomenclature. | ‘To Tho Farm aud Carden,” it is valiabte, ‘To -the atudent pirauing tho study of this clues of fusecta, it would bo indjsponeable if it wero the only text-book extant,. ‘Tne farmor, the garden- er, or tho fruit-grower, however, wants to know fmyatiding. tn pactleular ‘abort fnsxects whitey deslroy his’crops : and. so wo faur tlio State En tqmologist has mado ayrest mistake, af IT 18 BRYONY CONTNOVERST Hat, the niort atucaflon tt nian tys, to better ho'is for it, and the more ‘valuable to the com- munity, 1€ only thet education fins :boen direct- ed‘ Ine tho prdpor* chaunol. : ‘With’ the diffusion of -knowlodge among: the masech through: edneation, ‘an incroasing demand: has sprang up tor technical knowledge aud training, whoreby tho artisan,” tho mechanic, sui the farmer, may be instructed in. those branches en- peeiatly pertaining to their. profession or calling ndife, "This want, has loug heen felt, and hav heratoforo been more.or less actod upou, in our xehools and colleges, To citizons of Illinotw is due the honor of having .provned the subject of indnatriat oducation, ‘which finally reanitod in grants of lands by Congress for the endowmont of: Agricultural and: Mechanical Schools in the sovoral Statos, Their success ao far bow not been gront, *'Ihov were: intondod to run in an on- tiraly now directionfrons that of the ordiuary achools and volloges.. Whon , consciontiounly carriod.out, tho paxsibiliios that lis beforo.tham Ivtho futuro aro. ipcaleulable, if, thoy will glean Ko much from science ax pertaipy to & partioulor induatry,.and impart it lo tho studont,—resory- {ug to those who ara iu turp to bacome teachors * the further investigation of a.particulnr sclouca, By this moana the agricultural. atudont can -bo prebed io such brauchosas rolato,to agriculturo, and just so far'an bis time will allow, BR cAgeguitural schools were waver, intended ea- peciatly forthe edueatian.of. farmory’ sous, wor for tha education.of.any special class of citizeny. fhey ware intended for the..wom.and daughters of penile of, every clara who dealgued to take apricuture a particular aludy, att so of any ©; 20 REOOL OF TECHNOLOGY. i . The intividual who, by his education, whethar atuchool or, by did own, unsided offorta, train dia ,mind.to ,habitw of thought, js like a rou; h diamocd, . which, + from. .the. lupidary’s hauda, catches and throws back each scintillation it ra- ceiyou, originating: romething now, or of :improving upon that which wes. horetofare known, ‘Tho unlearmed, bocuuse unthinking mind, is incapable aCinventions. Why.?2. Siniply becauas whatoyor it may soo in Nature suoutis nothing wew, “Nature works by fixed and unvarying, although , Reneral, laws, Neither chance nor aceidont evar produced anything, .Chanidatlers bad swuns for centirina; jsteam tid bivked,, anil tho Inds of kottles had trombled sinus pottory way invented; apnles had fallon boforo Adam. fall; - bus it rd quired B Galileo to connoct tho’ swinging of 5 chandelier with tho motion of 8 ponduliin; & Watt to ,understand, the capsbilitips of steam, from soging it Jusug fram tho spout of a tey- kettlp;'a Nowton.to solve. the laws of yravita- tgp fromthe fulf.of an apple. Reaplng-mu- ginny war kyown fu the tino of the Homans; (ho yalua of manure wax approciated In Bolo- mon's tiie; -plowa haya heen wrod since man Jearned ta apply anjmal power to hyshwndry, Novertholgep, reapers are yot jimperfeat; we havo. not yat loarnod tho trug value snd moat eoonom- ical: applivation of manure and, wilt our ap. aro only on tho threshold of portection in staying the cartli, Invention dacs not—like Maervn, from the brain.of Jgvosapig fallstodged from the line man thlnd. Ths perfeotlon i4 olimiuated often thyourli‘centurlos of timo. it id only hy true Knowledge that tho world moves, aur the vehicle of ity trasmmiesion JH, and uver muss bo. ¥ 7) TE MIGHTY PRess oo “Jedd walidng tho people more and more, day by day, ‘Thoy aro begining to'feel, atl kuow, apd andert, Hint fabor iy honorable, ‘The more it ia angiated by braiu-force, the moro dionoribly it tive, at be directed in proper chaunely. ‘hore soyal road to leaning, oxcupt turough roy- atininds, . Thoru Iv wo class more {avorably site water, Sor fvelouling brain-forve tun earseut- thinking furmors who lave been thoroughly ed- ucated to thour'profossion, Why? ‘She clreume stances surrounding thom aro ull ‘ealoulstad to torn back their thoughte Within ‘therm tulyex, to wungent ideas, ‘gud foster inverti gation, aes The touchor who fovlg that ’tlle child in’ pivot him to mold like clay; that upon himecll de. penda whether it shall bocome a beautiful vea- dol or fit only for buve tees, duly approciates his own responsibility, ~ Such are an honor and bon ofactois to thor Fave, m iodsyi ‘ BVIING-Work, | wring has come} Kyrlug haw cone t Spri Yeu, it bas come, aud ong month of it hus about gone; but the birds have not excited themselyos to any Gioat extont, unloss it be in cages iu parlors or copy bitting-rooms, * Lu fact, the singing birdy thouselves have not comy, aid will not until the suow-driftty which yet braye the gun igs in vapor, orelsa rin toward tho sea, Vut, becatine the season is late, wo much the the mind to | He becomes capable of; inyention,—of: > SATURDAY, “MARCI 27, more noad that thors who have pardons to mako or lawns to dren abontd-and irtako it ae noon ns the conditiona are proper and the woather wil yormit. “Notwithatandiye tre gato want: saeco fa Uh L, thers aro many localities, iu whieh Tae Titinasé Ina welcome vinitor, where tho carly apring montha mean apring in reality," | -, As! Boon Aa tho front has left the ground and + tha soil haa become acttled,—innters this work han beendone in the fall,—tuo ground elauld to raked vloar of trash; preparatory to apreade ing Meuntte, end © plowing or dtggiAy the, Iindas" Wherever tho. soll randy the "earth: heebmes firm heforo out: but, an all. loams and other fat. la * the Croat teak the soil alwaye romaing sult until the front ix entirely tone, Wait, therefore, until the earth is time under tho feet helore yau coms wenee, nnd Chew imate nll ready for work. Oboe partons inistake’ wilh toga who hayo nat intimately studied the nature of’ soils, ts that. in thoir engarness.to have thoir.crops carly, thor plow ar dig whilo yet tho ground is foo wet. "This ehontd uever he dona nutil tho oil i4 thre oughly friable. or witlerinrblo easily between the fugerk, o.. When it will compact into on ‘rm. masa so unon hej squeezed in the hands, « let it. .alaua: for yon | may do omiechief that) éahnot bo repaired in years. Ketiembor, 3 hunpy garden-ptat will cost yott double thd labor that onb will friable and disintegratle: aud it, will be Inmp: according ax it i worked wot or dr; or frinbla, herefare, to pel if “FROM THE T f whatanave! rake all trash, o loaves, sticks, ote.,—na noon ne the aod hecanwa firm onougl:to hear the feet: audit tho murfaca ja at all rough, rab it repeatedly with a narraw ahead eras, roller, such aa may be dawn by ono or twomen, Glean off the piaveled ronda and walks, raking tho eurface towarda the contro from each ptutter. leaving the larger gravel along the crown, ‘Then flileh with the roller. ‘Thus you may havo all tidy abont the place, ond tho wun, when it does come, will soon start the youltie grabs tuto greonness, 2 “Tf the ttilip and hyacinth beds, and thar con. taintng other hardy perennial bitibn, ‘have be ousered with mulch through the winter, as th should have bean, remove the covering a4 early ay poanible, unless you wish to retard their jrrowth sand tlhits aot, of course, advisable, sineb’tha'abjaet fs togot thom in bloom ag, early ay ponsibia, - 5 Cnt yout a'few pretty bods for flowers In the. hollow ‘portion 6f tho corners of, the walk, whoro you niny nasa bedding planta and anuuat flowers ; for thoy aro all the mors charming if you come upon then unoxpectedly, — A litte time spot ‘in “boantifviug the grounds ia well spent: {t’ not only adds tothe charm of tho honae, but endoara the children to its pleasant prociucts, “‘Tappy tho man who owns a homo to mnake' pleasant ‘and beautiful! ‘Tho one who does own a home ‘ant neglects to beautify it, dchorves bat littio ‘of his fellowa, and nothing of posterity, ' ©‘ :'* at ‘ DING, ALALL QIAINS SEASON MILY, is seading {hon early, If upon land full-plowed, as thoy alwaya should bo'if posslbla, then. Jual as, saat ax the front loaves the ground sulticiantly go that the harrow, the drill, or the’ broadcant seeder cati’ work wishout striking frost, work oarly and fate to got in tho cron, - Gut. sara ote, you have told na that land worked whon wet will bake and becogo inmpy. . Yes, after the frost ns dnce loft the noil,—-not before; for the ab- sequent freezing and thawing got all right again, Somo years binco, a farmer in ‘Central Wnois worked ‘a ‘largo farm that was not aubjlivided by division fahces, ‘excopt ono through tho middle of tho farm and one on each Hide, ‘Vheso woro a milo apart. and congaquently tha flolds—thore waro four of them—contained a section of land each, fe tind been getting in bis wheat at auch times ninco the 20th ‘of Fobruary as tho frost would parihit. ’ His nbighbors—some of ‘them— had prophesied all, kinds of bad Jick. It would freozo out, or drawn ont,, or blast, or. at any rale, come! up :. “Ona! day, white onzuged overnedliy & powar-machind Kowlny and asteng oF team harrowing,” © > TIL FOLLOWING DIALOGUE, ocenrrad hetween himaolf and « uolghbor was passing by t **Meadowmau, what on nirth aro you doin’ there? Sowin' wheat? It'll freazo, won't it?" ‘Hf T thought it would not, Dyhontd not raw ib ial the frost was well out and, tha grouad aol{ler -t Won't the gronud bike ?" “Np, Lthink nol, if it froezes again, aod it probably will. id © Tut won't tho hénd rut?" “Of course iv will.” “Khon what in the uame of gouduces are you wow’ for?” " Bocauwo on .tho carth is tho proper piace to sow it. Did you ever got o erop without the seed Lind first rotted 2” i i) ‘ Woll—u-o + but, of course, I didn't mean thit, “Rut, really, ia Tt right to saw apring wheat in tho winter #—for they uny you sowod some jin February.” a “Oobntic who snidyes, andloftit at that, you would not ho convined. Come and sen,” ae _ Taking the wkeptia.to a portion. of the ‘fold sown in Fobruary, hoshuwed him tho grains of wheat, fully swellod, but olastic, and Just rend: tosprout, Going fonnother part of tho Held, sown with rye tho previous Octobar,.but which, for tho want of rain, had not como up the pravi- oity atitumn, ho alowed hit the rye sprouted half an inch, stated. the conditions, aid” add- ek: “Sf could “always so put in cither wheat or rye, i: tho fall, that it would lip dorniant during the wintor, a crop will of courso bo assured from heaving, and consequent wins ter-killing.” ."Cho ‘neighbor was convinced ut ouce, : ‘The farcer then asked hin if ho liad nob ng- iced that ours of corn tramped or plowed into tha geonnd in the fall world winter all right, and pie up prempily hi'the spring, nd even stand TOK. Uh, yea!" réplicd tho. inquirer, “ atid J have oftou“wondéred it it, Lut nover learned thi fesHon how taught me," fee “s#\VYoul,” nald tho furmer, ‘there are morn eropa ‘lost Ly noylecting tosow and plant in seadon than from any other ono cause, Homo peoplo plant or saw ina certain stago, of the nivon;. others, sigaln,” by certain of the old alniauao signe, or upoy cortain fixed days, But dousiblo mon, plant and vow when the sign je tight, without.refereuce to tho almatiac,—that is, when: tha condition of tho golila right. 1 Dive’ alwaya practicad sowing wheat on fall- plowiuy, ‘an@ before’ tho “frout™ had loft the ground, if possible... I got earlior ripening, 08 5 rule, and" corly-tipeusd ~ grain: ‘is’ geriorally good. A wook in the ripeung of ‘grain wil anvo it fcom many unfavorablo contingoncies oporating aguinst a good ylold, or to which ama- turing crop is subject. All our coroal grains orignially required to be sown in tho autumu,to Maturoacrop, by sowing wo lato fuautunm that the seed did not germinate until mpring, they Dayo boon’ geidually changed into spring ya- elles, aud thud have become annuals, If all {armors yore thinking met, or inquirars into tho tensond why, as you and ‘] are, it would not bo many yours muti the whole system’ of culilya- tors ‘would Ha changed for the hotter.” “ T guess you are right, Moadowman,” Asaont- ed the hearer, “Lam glad tor what I've loarne ol, and ospociaily for that idea of asking the ftedkua why.” * : ie MAKING UILTnDOR Wott, 7 adyrteultural Bidaraf The Chicaya triowne Ui a Kastmag by atuption, but nots grasshopporsuidterrr, Tnatice you Iuvile u9.to unk questions; but, of core, tliat Iv always a wany Fankeo's privilege, Be please tell a Kear sina Gilt Eye Butter "ia matte, * ae miei ke ec otioN Butter," ao culled, fa ainiply -but- arlor anality, made in the most that line never boon ovarsalted, anda mans how cloanly manic: oVer-workod, or oYcr-heated ;' and that {i ro- volved by the-dealeria nearly or quite na firm a stato.aw when taken from the ico-liquss of othor cout pluce,. whero, tf have it remain ito, -it muat be kept; for, however nicoly or carefully Wnttor fs hinde, if It be heated ta 00 doy., it thotealpor wevor roping its proper texturo, Tn jnnking’ butter that shall ho really fine, fio hecadsary that the cows. have nou but Hveut peetiure s thut.they have ® pure stmusphore to Ho fis; that overy utensil uxed be kopt serupits fougly clean aud sweot 5 and that the uddor of the cows ho washed bofore boing milked. . Bos sides these, No foul odors must bo allowed about tho nilk-room’; ite temperatura must Lo kept ‘at an peur GO dogracs, or lost, ad possible, and, to, do thid Ja'the sunimer, ico or olse porfectly cold water must be provided. Here you baye tho gromdwork, > Your datry-house ehonld be wo arranged that he vata in which tho pans of milk are placod may have w constant source of coal water, supplied fron: a spring, or else ynunped by wind-powor. Whonover you. add ¢croam to that previonaly siimmed, alt should be sutilcrontly wthred that itumay be mixed, , . Tub TEMPERATURE OF THE ENT ‘ for chuenlig hoald beddWegrees, aud the churh- ing slonid be slow-cnough so thatthe butter twill formie sunost half an hour, When: the buster in fully gathored, draw off the buttor- P null aud pour suficiont volt, pure wae ter lo Wnuh ont such romalning battormilk as may be casily done, Then pub the but- ter info the bawl for working. Or, if you tisye euouyh to pay you so to do, buy a butter-workor. half “an ounce of salt to tho pound of butter before working, and, as you proceed, dry w moisture will not run’ uit readily, with a cleat, soft sponge, Alter work- ing alikhily, add half on ounce of tha best giannlated engarto each pound: of butter, and vomtianey wlagcuntit the butter me tours ubiy diy. Tica fut it inte @ compact made | 1875. TWEE and ret it away until tho vost d, recoive its final working, oa Tn giviug this ual working, taste the tntter, and, H it be not anit qnougi: to bo palatable, abl a Ausitor of mai onnco of salt for each pound of buterr, —remeinboring ulways (iat ealt, ar aucee, ia not nacd fs first-class buttor to make i. keop, bot simply to render it acceptable to the tnato,-~ simply aa sou would anit # bheefatoak,—for tho bntlor will keep as porfectly na lard, if only the buttormilk. is extracted, “Work it the eacond (ime only onough to freo tt thoroughly of the moisture that tn boon ret. fron by tho sal; alidhough wo boliove, with an eld friend, tn Mod Dlewing the woman who works bitter tao nnieh, rather than she who works it too little. Bea earoful alwaya, in working, to prans ond tha moisturo, drying it with the enone, rather than with a drassing stroke, whiol:bronky the prati, avis too ofton practieed, thus making the butter aalvy. So tho butter js HEADY Fow PACING, | Good, sound, woil-neasoned, white-oal tbs, or firkina, that have been xo thorotyghly woaked it atrong brine that no taste of tho roo: will tafht tho butter, are tho best for alupping in, Nover uHa a wooden paetaga tho second tine ; for, bo- aides the dificalty fit rendering them perfectly aweot, tho dingy apneniance of the firkin will detract from the prico of tha butter, € into bo void in somo near market, cracks nyike pool and clean packages. From their Hahility to break, but principally because butter caunot be parfeetly excluded from the alr when iu transit, stono crocs should not bo naed for varrying long distances. li packing butter, eprinklo fo littl salt on tho bottom of tho package, and then plico layor upon layer, prowing ono firmly upon suather, and against tho widea, so that ull air ts pot feett: excluded, . you + -lavo not hat ono packing to All the package, Ml np vith bring, to bo potred off and the whola wiped dry before moro is put in. fo proceed until withtu a quarter or half inch ofthe top, Mead uptight, and fill completely full, throngh tho ¢ork-holo in the head, with brine, and stop all vlose, Kaep the fpacknges mn cool, are enllar, or, hottor, juan ivs-lonse, natil wanted for ante, Boforo shipping, pour off tho brine, and having: provious to packing tho “hittter, shod and marked tho package, now weigh tho whole; sib- JAY, hon itenould track the’ tare. and =o mark legibly on the head * the grove, taro, and not weight. Thue you may hnvo © CH-Edgo Butter" that will keap from June toJune, Thu there will bo no necessity to shipoxeopt in enld woathor, when good, bitter 4s alivaya wearco and will commant a high pelca, ONE OF ‘HG EVITA that tho Wout has had to labor iuder lias been,— in yot,—that many of our products, whon ship- pel-Enst, hava boon sold at-roducod prices an compared with Esstorn articios of- tho samo grade, simply becauno thoy wore Wentern-mndo, The Went, however, is becoming waked up lo her truo interests, and to tho ns- sertion of her rights. We vow make cheese aud butter equal to any in the world. Still, womake much that is inferior. ‘Chis cannot bodopied. One ronaou is, that many farmera will pormiat In making butter and cheers when they hayo not the propor conditions or tho prop- er facilitioa for making or kooping either. + Tho factory system has protty haesly driven sole-leathor clieass front the market. Wo are gradually oxtending tho syatom to the manufne-, turo of butter, Wo hope tosceit continued, For Ao porson over yot niada monoy in the manufac- tro of grenso-lfter; and all butter, however woll or cleanly mada, snd then over-heatod, is no Inngor good butter, but grease-buttor, . 1t does not coat] cent a pound moro to ‘make aud wove butter properly than to da so ‘improperly. The good will bring trom h to 16 centa per pon more than tho bad. Wil it pay? A businosy- manjwould ray, Yor, moro largoly than any other ordioary mantlacture, * a —— sS.NCERITY. heard holy Gabriel, from & Iu Parailise, God'a vulco rexpondin; Untoa butnan heart,“ Surely,” thought le, « ‘That mist Jehovah's Best Beloved bo— A rightoans oul to eehty Tastings dead Strulubtway o'er laud and sos theangel Ho raro a saint to find: but found tlm not, : Albeit through Heaven and Earth be falthfa) cought, Wherofure he cried at iat: *O Lord, I pray To this thy servant polnt mo now tho way,” God sald: “Toward yondae village turn thy Mut ; In that pagodais he,” So forthright The nugel thither Now, and therein found A lonely man, who knelt upon the qromud * Before an idol, ani did rend the alr With whlepored aighn, with poxaionate ral and prayer. Then, quick to Heaven returning, (abrich wyiske & Greutor of tho world 1 how canst ‘Thou take Pleanuro fu wuch an one, thatebiludly ertes ‘go tol In pastada, heathen-wise 2” “Rocatige,? God sald, hit heart Tree, how It", With-flame of real devétiyn in allt, ae Who doth bla ignorant heat, to him give T my grace ¢ ‘This non, amid {ts darknens, huth the highest places” rect Pomeray in the Independent," * a Something Bike 2 Crt. “Talking about cats,” said Unelo im, a regn- lar Yankee, ** puta mo in unind of seat -1 once owned. Let mo tell you sbout‘her. Khe was a Maltco, and what .that'cat didn't know wasn't worth knowit', Horo’é one thing shodid: In tho upring of 446,1 moved..iuto tho little toll hotwe ou tho Crooked River. We put our pro- visione down in tho collar, and, tho first night wo siqde our beds on the floor.. But wo. didn't sloop, No soonor had it becoma dark than wo hoard a téariti’ atid & aquedkin’ in’ the cellar’ that waa awiaf, Ijit tho candlo and went down, Jor. snlomt . Tatk abotit rata! + I novor ‘saw sich a sight in my born days, Every inch of tho vollar- bottom was covered with them, -Thoy ran up on to me, and all ovor me, 1 jumped back into the room and galled tha cat. Nhe cama down and looked. I- guess -sho wat thore about ten min- utes, Jooking .at thom rats,-aud I was’ waitl to aco what sho would do,* Dy-and-by sho shook her head, ‘and tarned ‘and wontup-stairs, - .didn’t care to tacklo ‘om. .That night, I toll you, thera wasn't much aloap. In tho mornin’-Tcould not find hor;.she'd gone. | 1 guessed the rata had frightonod-hor; and, to toll tho plain truth, L didn’t wondor inuch,’: Night eamo again, aud tha old cat hadn't’ coma, Kaya -Botuy © Ann—that’s my wifo—to mo, *‘Lim, if that old eat don't conia back, wo'll have to tenva this placa; the rata ‘Il eat cus!-up'* Says oS," *Just lot tho old... cat ba,’ .T didn’t hetleve sho'd loft ua for good and all. Just as Botay Ann wae puttin’ tlie children to bed, we heard a soratchin’-and waulin’ at the ontaldo. door, ~ I wont and opened it, and :thora: stood :our-old Maltoo on the doorstep, and bobind hor 2 whold army of cats, ‘all paraded as rogular a4 any sal- diers!- Tot. our old cat in, sud’ tho others’ fol- lowed hor... Sho went right to tho collar-door, and scratched there, 1 begnn.to undorataud, Old Maltoo bad boon out forholp.. L-oponod the way to thocollar; Sho marchod down, and tho other eats trampod fafter hor in regular ordor ; and fa thoy. went past I counted ilfty-alx’of ‘om. Oh, my! if thera wasn't a row ‘aud a rum: pus io that ‘ore collar that night, then L'm mis takon$ Tho next morning the old ont camo up and caught hold of’ my tronsord-lox, and pulled, mio toward.tho déor, I wont down to seo tho sight, - Talis about your Bunkor Fill and Boston maxsacros! I novor saw such a sight bofore nor sines, Botwy Ann and me,.with my boy Sammy, were all day ay hard at work as wo could ba cloarin’ tho dead rata ont of that ‘evo collar, Jia a fact—overy word of It Bulthnore’s L Oddity. New York Heening Pust, A Baltimore miser has abdicated the throne of meaunoss anil retirod into the obsourity- of the grave, and tho avi! ho has done lives afterhlin, Itis probably nobody's business that the man was wo dewporately. wean; tho only. link- that bound him.to tho rout of- mankind, and mado is reputation in any sonee public property wan & wife who, in hor own way, Was quite a4 ktranga & apecimen of humauity as ho, Sho was young and not uncomely, and, though her name stood, third: on the hat of womon who had gerved inn aimitar capacity, Hho was as davotod and unsol- fish as the heart could wish, She passed her days in a tyair-factory, and brought her earnings faithrully homo to her lord, while he acted as housekeoper nud donoxtio ocouomlut. With ant eyo to the fatura a4 watchful as Mra, Toodlos', and influitely more practical, ho provides hime wolf seyoral yoard ago with a sovond-hand pine cofiin-caso which ha stored: away amid pile of other rubbish in the garrot of bis hovel. Av his end upproaghod, ie mada, peady for tha, Jast usd ritod by ordering p barber to. slave tam, “If it js dono during may life,” ho roxsonodl,, it Will cout bug 10 conta; if delayed till alter my, cath, -it, will oucumbor tho estate to the extent’ of #1." ‘Yau then symmoued fila wify to hiy bod- ido and contided to hor hts parting inytructions t! “Lot therobe no: useless expouditnre In tho matter of oj] and candies fora wake, My woul will rout oaujor without, : A learse, also, is but a vain ehow ; Job me be borne to my final reuting- placa on tho shoulders of throo stout mou, Ani markt us you yalue your [gsceetat pot tha! funeral expenses ayeced #10 at the ntmout® eure," ek: . s Alfw faithful partpor carciod ont: theso eon-1 mandmentes, wa fur wy Fractivahle, to tho very: fetter, ‘boro wus no wake; thero waa ua hearsa,: At was fouud that the requisite number pf pail-, bearers could not bo obtained oy rangonablo: term, Ko an old furniture-wagon wae engaged in. their ktowl, Jloven fionds wud yalatiyos fale lowed jn procauyion, and tho cost of the wholo outilt reached oyly the madost sum of. 8.72. Wheu the will was opened it way found that $37,000 iu real oatato aud pavingy-bank deposits’ wero loft to tho mourning widow aud axon resi dens ins dizjant State, with tho toxlator's ear-! nest adjurstion to “a0 ft carefdlly.” LVR PAGES. . - THE STORY OF FIFINE, Tho How Bragg Tomkins, of—woll, lot's ray j, Wampum Raplis,—did nob go into sodlety ‘and Y politics until Jate in life, BSocioty had not quite gat to Wampum Rapids at the time wo speak of, j and it waa mnt until tho Jon. Bragg, wha was protty much the foundet of Wampum Rapida, wont to Congroad an ‘ita roprenentalive, that ho saw anylliing of ‘aocloty,"? ‘Tho Hon. Dragg waa barn in Oblo somewhere, and hia ear- lier associations aro connected with pig driving, Somebody owned the pigx, ond Yomking drove thom. Aw ho grow up ho Tonrned to drive bargains aa woll as pigs, ond, taking Mr, Creetoy'd Rdvice, went Wost till ‘he camo to Wampum Raplits, whore he gettlod,mor- riod, built np a'lard factory, 8 porit-packing ox- tablintiment, town, nd ond of the handaomost fortunes-ovor accumnutatdd in tho Werte Te wan after thosa ‘achiovomonts in practical life that tho Honorable Bragy went into politics and had himaelf returned to Conpress. '.8o- cloty,”” as ho aawitin Washington forthe first timo, struck the Honorable Bragg with a doli- efaus nwo-it was all so atrango'to hin, 60 diffor- ont from pork. .At ono of tho firet partios to which ho was invited the Honorable Bragg was so inpressed with the {noffable inaotenco and charming grace of manner of ao porson present that he bogged: ta bo introduced to him, aud, after an interviow of fivo minutes, retired in a sort of stunned amazemont to ask hia host who that was, Io waa luformod that it waa n foreign diplomat, an attache to one of tho legations. * Rodam'd lf T don’t make a diplomatist of my Miaty, thon!" erfod:tho Tonorabla Drage; ail. the compliment’ so ploayed the diplomat whon ho hoard it that ho invited him to dino with him at the Wolckor'a of tho day, and taught him how to drink Burgundy, ‘ “Maty" wos tho familiar abbreviation of Thomiatoctos ‘Meginnts Tomkina, ouly son and hen of tho Uonorallo Bragg, ot that time ao youth of 18, pursuing his college course—Dill- jards and whieky-punch chielly—at Michigan Univeraily. Misty waa a gond follov, liandsono, rattlo-pated, with no proat anonnt of braina, but plonty of life, and yery napulare Nis college career was nipped in the hud soon aftor wome rather obstroperous ekylarking, “an: "the old man" callod “Misty” lo Washington to. preparo himself for n diplomatic earocr. “ Miaty” took a French and o Spanish teacbor aut went into Washington fast life with unsur- passable yim. After a souple of yeara the “ old man” procared’ him s position us. Secretary of Legation at a Europoan Court, and Misty sailed for Paria in gloeful anticipation. Ho had a pock- etful of sholials, a latter of bredit which mado baukora’ clerks how to him till they showed ibeir back alr, aud -he was not quite 21 yoars old, ‘There was no necossity to report at tho place of his destination immediately, and Miaty was de- termined to have s good time. : Ifo puceeedad wonderfully woll, Somo of bls escapades are yot surviving among tho lugonds which Hoar around the “ Atnericnn colony" im Patis-tlavorous tates which sro told to now- comors over the second bottle in tho studont rostaurante of the Latin Quarter. It wos Misty who'tied tha sergent de ville to w lamp-post with Milo, Autonine’s corset-lacos. | It was he who captured tho magnificent helinet of a Cent Gard, ashe was marching on parade, with » fluli-look and ne, aud forever disgraced the warriar by overwholming hin with the inextinguishablo Inughtor of tha mob. It was Misty who in- yeigied the Brooklyn pardon, in Europe on sick furlough with bronchitis, into s tote-a-tete with Milo. Antonine at tho Kocher do Cancale, and, whilo the minister waa deap in his efforts to con- yout tho interest creature, introduced two pf his stuidoat parisbionera upon the eons.” Lt was Misty who wont to the Communist mooting at Bellovillo, and nearly frightonod Paris into hyaterics by firing off Roman candles for sigrial rockets from tho windows, aftor turving off tho Eg gad. On night na Misty was returning from a quos+ tlonablo ball ats questionable nour, along an unfrequonted stroot, he say: & drinken ‘Turco, erazod with absintho, purating a little girl, who in yain tried to escape from. him. Just.aa tho brnte caught the shrinking child by.-tho huir, ! Minty atopped hia eal, jumped quickly out, \ knocked tho fallow doivn, ‘and kiokod him into ; the gutter, at the same Limo Lrying ta compoxo : the terrified child. Uho cab-drivor drove away « burrindly, ‘and tha ‘Lnreo,, rising, drow hiv } bayonot and avaaiied Minty with vindletive fury. } ihe child scroamed Joudly, tho police camo, and the npkhot was the arrost of all three, Whion Minty was releasod noxt morning, he called the little girl to him, Sho was raggod aud tonr- sofled, but a very pretty croature alont 10 yoarn of nge, with dcop olive akin and large brown oycs full of ontroaty and pathos, ‘What is your namo, little girl?"honsked. "Toress Goniez,” she anaworod; ‘ but oyory ono calla mo Fitine— except my mother,” 460 i “Will abo not bo anonsy about you, Fifue?" Tho child's eyes filled up with tears, “0, very!” bho criod, “aud sho id Ho sivk, too.” ‘Lhen Bho told hor Jittle story, Sho lived Numero 601 Rue do Bac,. au siztene—ond they wore very. poor, Her mother was too i to go out or work, and tho little girl supported both by"netling cigaz- lightora abont the cafes and tho Woors of tho theatres. - Last evenlug she way lator ont tian uaual, and hind lost hor way whon the ‘Turco pur- aucd hor, Hor father .waa.a goubler, saldom camo home, and did nothing for ber qmothor's support, ouly abused hor,” * . fe ‘Our youvg diplomatist’ called n carriage and took Tine to her homo, sixth story of No, GOL Rue du Bac, Me was introduced ta a acono of Histroes and doutituuion such as fairly appalledt his unsceystomod eyes, — Ina baro garrat atrip- ped of avery comfort and: convenionco of -lifo,. ho found a young woman, In the: last stage of consumption, ying unattended upon:a pallet. This wuhappy crenture wolcomed Filino’a return with, , painfylly, -conyniaive Joy. wand thouo matornal cries of relief from: agony which 10, one cau liston tounmoved. A few nylablew told hor all, and thon Lor gratitude to Misty draw “tours from thal young follow’s eyes anch an ho nevor expected toslod, Tho woman, whoo namo wan Carlotta Comoz, wan evidontly a lady. Sho told Tomkins that sho was a South Amorican, gavo him to understand tliat who was tho yictin of an unfortunate marriags, but abstained from telling him moro, or accusing eny person besides herself, - Misty could soo for himself ‘that sho waa: dying, and was‘oxtromoly destitute. Ilo went out, and pronontly returnod with a cap-full of: delicactes for the dying woman, and.a physi- clon, a young Amoricau doctor who waa walliug tho hogpltals and corresponding with nowspa- porgat home, Dr, Lilicott easily saw that Mmo, Gomoz'e lifa was to bo very ‘short’ eho, and told Tomkina vo. Our- diplomalist dotermined that the child should not beg ony” moro, aid should remalu with tho ‘mother during tho rest of her lifo, Ifo took aaro,.to provide evorything “that waa neadful for tha -Invalid’s comfort aud the child's woll-being, gave the tisa In “charge sof Dr, Eliicntt, and thon avoided tho’ place to’ exaape the gratitude of his benoliclariea. Five orsilx weoks later Dr. Eliivott camo for’ him hurriedly, “Sho wants to ses you,” auld’ ho; “sho will not live more than two or three days.” Misty went with bim to tho chamber of death with that feoling of awe which always over- comes young, hoarly natures iu such presonos. .Thedying woman holdout both: hands to him api gagod at him sardeatly with hor large, wist~ fileyos. Fitna kiaved him, and nostled to his arma. ‘Tho doar Uttlo girl waa sobor and Hilont, but Alaty fott a strange yonrning towards hor aw ha efroled hor hair and ‘sat down by the sido of tho bed, Fe : “You Lave a kind heart,” sald Carlotta Gomez, “and I, who havo taxed itu generonlty wo layinb~ ly, am now going to appeal to it again, f£ am ‘ing, and I do not want ny bueband to haya my’ child, flo ia a brute, and he will dapose of hor according to hia fuatincts, Proimlée mo to shall not have my chitd." Minty promived,“forvontly, ET My fathor, Jogo Linco, is a very rich man, & proprictar’of mines, and 4 great jg: ne in Yoru, . Ho discarded me “for marrying’ Sancho Gomoz, but T think lo will adopt my child whan Tum dead, Apply to him; but if hots will im. placabte, promise mo‘at loaut that Sancho Gomes, shall uot have'ny chitd, “e . = ‘Aralu Misty promised, x. h Tho woman, with a proat vob, kissed Porta’! hands, and put the child into Ie arms, Au slie aid go, auothor agjar nypeared upon th Keone, a low-browed’ Spaniard,” with a yielous ‘tace,; ilashily attired, and smoking a lar which raade hiv wife cough. It waa Gomez, Ho'bowed low, “You have company, I sce,” ho said, with tempt at earcasm. ‘I trast 1 du not intrude,’ “Compauy, yeu; frionda who have come to 800 me die!" said the woman, fixing hey grout, eyes upon him, “+ Ehavo, loft my child ‘to “this kind friend,” eho continued,“ Pwish Mr, Tom- kina fo be 'ferona'a guardian Promise mo you will hot Jutorfore with my last wish, Sancho," “Lcaunot pormit my child to. ba dopougent upon thocharlty of strangers,” said Gomes roach- Ing ont to ‘tak hold of ‘Fife, 'wid wliratike way {com him, * [iewides, at your death; she becomes the only holr of the rich Jove Uincon, who ought to be mado tou repent hia troatment of 14." Carlotta half rosa jn bod, but Misty tnrned auddenly’on Gomez. “If you don't let go tho ebijd and throw that cigar away 1'll pitch you out the window!” ‘The two nisn glare! at each other a moment, | when Dr, Ellicott pat lie buud op Gotvz'y shoul- ate a See Cate mete dor. 4 tetond oF infab Waal tory Olympo—you wor eal ta pollen?" a ey jane” slink AWAY And tefl the room. - : Aa lid'closed tho door tlio child orang fron Minty's arma with n ebarn ety. She two met turned—tou late, Carlotin Goniez waa dont 4 PUES atthe present, Jo you want Rix yoara paad rapldly’when'ons fg absort; ¥ tho earon nud burdens of diplomacy, Thani! clos Megitinis Tormking «na grown a preat cro, of whiskors, and lo hiss beon promoted from hi vivinayo to the Court of Behtonayol-Anders mete to tho more roxponsible post of Brerotary nest Mis High Mightinoos of Hovenstoven-ametiinee with tho prosjict of Ron Belfy n’Charaq wom whorea ; for tha :}onvtable Heng chan tata} come Into tho Senate, aud. donliig in policies 2 ho ured to deal in pork, has beconio s man a Hucnco and fmportanen, Minty, who ia packing his trank for a visit to Paris, ing about throo lottera which ave him that morning, ‘upestting ‘eony) diplomatic aplomb, and giving bittorness glasw of soltzer on his dressing-table ar yana clgar in ia mouth. ‘Cho firet loiter is fr, tho Honorable Brage, requesting his gon to ig homo tosconrummato the matrimonial engapie ment made for him witltsthe dangbtor of th iton. Braxton Caboll Blathtan Bototonct—a weit mortaaged 1. HV." Whe wocoud letter, pin, marked Paria, 1s from Sancho Gomoz, domang, ing immeiinta porseasion of his daughter unde, ponalty of tho law. Tho. third fetter, slaue) Fitino, and written from Chantiily, is tho Neeljy eplstte which hiv nitle ponsionnuiro addresses i Maida papi te ae pee “Hang iti" anid Misty, sittin: Took St; = T'm nono of your papay and Tn none of Miss BF, ¥, V.'a lovers! By. Jingo! Whaey tho neg of sludylug diplomacy If ‘ONG cannot pet one's self ont of anernpa like this!" No sae for'hig rervant. | Cot ni an ‘oficial onvelopa of tho Embasey,”" Ie read-Fiine's latter aver sea earatully, und, inolosing itin Uho-oflicial enya. opo, addroseed It ino hott, rotind hand to * Mix, Adataidatlicaxton (, 18, Hototourt, cara the fice rage ‘Vomiinw, Washligton, D.C" tye spikes thnt wailling. T goss,” Haid Misty: pt, vow! won't ithe old man--daneo! «As forthiy scoundrel (tomoz, I shall have to wring his ue, L suppone, or pay lim no ond of blackmail. 1; shail not have Fillno.” . - ‘Tho tiext day Thomiatocles was In Paris, ti first caro wan to goto Chantilly to viel hin tig, Yitne at thobosrding-schootwhera.ha hadplasey her -six.yoars ago, Me bad-outy «oon hor ow, since, ‘Tho Spanini-American girl davelones rae, ebolonsly,and. Filing was grown nlteady intos ebarming and lovelywoman who. when who kei: him an: the = month ard “both: eheoks,-tny hit blush, and thoroat. sho blushad likeaiee. Dr, Kilicott was now married, amd, Mlaty to, Fitino of to Paria.to ba Mew Ellieatt's gucet ter nome dasa. “Mon papa" was droppadby mat conront~it was a-cano of love nt Hirst wleht, ani was deyaloped with grantor mpidity mu diptog, ativts gro unually.accumlomod to conduct Lop . nogoliationa, ~ Diag nk . Uno ovoning Dr, ENicott wan Rant for toes now pationt altho Hotelda Louyre. Mra, Elliwy wos engaged about somo domentic matters, a9) Misty was diligoutly soontting Fifine, who neve red of boing caurted, whon the agrvant shosed ina visitor, Itwaa Sancho Gomez. Both kas ini at once, aint Pifing involuntarily, ‘rughed fy to Tomine! aring,; Ginmez smiled sardomiestis, “Child” said hw, I have conia.for you, + ¥¢ are'tho image of your'mother. -L havo taketai tho steps needed to reenre possersion of suit, sa) it is usclost to roxist mo. “If you dart’ wit } compelled to resort tothe Inw, Mr. "Poratins hie js too much a diplomatiat not to know the ezan canes of those docunonts.:’. Ant he bane Misty papora whieh showed that-Lo ‘had tates, all the preliminary stops neceinary to regain ti, enstody of his childs ¢% Chavo two poles agsnls waiting below,” ho nddedy “ne Bilnty lool¢) throntoniogly toward him, oe "Thin ig “a-queslion of money. I. snppo." anid Misty; '* what do you :charye-tye bur thes Papora and cone this puranik 2” ran Comox smilad. —* Halfen-dozen" perk tacterti won't-dott! Jove Rincon i6-75-yeorn old, is nets 0,000, and she is hikonly-hoir’ | 0b Jono. Rincon, then, deride who fy tots hor-guardian! 0 ree bo 5 “Ho has already deoldad’ it, ‘hora is hig lottor him," ee Fino clung passionately -to Misty;~ parce ately roftiwed tosmo: with hor. fathour, oid ths altuation was- growing’ very paintnt when De Ellicott suddeniy returned, accompanied Ly 2 old gontloman with # dark slain, bald fica, st! a black velvot skuil-cap on. fis gontlerasn oy Hoonor Faw Comer than ho pounced upoutis with <a, ~vehomonen .2ono. would + lan thought impossithle for lls. years, took bia by the ‘throat aud shook “Iitn vtolerts. “Villains Har, murdoror!"” he orivd, fk found you out at Jast.thanks to this guod d tor. Thon Lo saw Fiftia, treinbtait sll ort, and held ont hia arins...\¢ Imago of my mu. dorad Carlotta, ombrasa'mo |" 4 Tt waa Rincon: himéelf,-who all tho time bi! “boom paying ‘money ta Gomoz for the suppor uf the child, and. had “fivatly been porsnadedta come to Paris to'adopt liar. + Gomez, seeing himself foilod In ‘tlie mowers of tho consnmmnation of his’ hoper, w 5 ato. Ti lave “tha girl, ‘anyhoy *+ nono of you can keop her fram a Yor Mét you gcatritial!" sagt Rlucon. *Svr lave no'anthovity pyar hor, She in’ my dash tor'a Hlogitimate clita.” * You. were iol manict to hor, thongh sho thonght you ‘were, boss's ou had anathor wif: NMvlng “ab the tyme, © hor natuyal gnardlan, aud'will ho’ her jy one.” * her Piet Comez‘etoto away, - *!1foll on, old peut!» man,” #ald Miaty." "1 abject to! that elu Porpotuat aardiaushipa hre jes, slwaya ‘torminnbld wb tha pldaaure high contracting partter, ‘Vifndy I'm gettts divalpated aud woody—going to ult for tach ef wife, * Will you marry we?” ® “And Fillna sald sho would, “MD voor Cires days lator Minty dispateh’ from Mrs Teagytatlul: darken tho’ paternal dodra ng Alii ae Minty wrote back nx follows ¢'* Cablo dispacs roegived: -; Tmt on your Leat bib auil- (ycker, v4 oy, and Nato tlio house’ wlraighteried up s bil. T‘om®*'comlng home with my bride, Deoue Fino ‘Torosa Maria Gomez, daughter ot Doo Aancho , Gomez; aid’ ernnddaughter of Dou Manuel Teriacio. Jose’ Kincon” do. Valubres, v! Santo Palacio, ~ Bhis blout ‘of Bpatu, olf cos: upseodutel grandee, and ri¢h.aacream !" "Shore tromeniony ainruod noite “rddouctted the Honorahlo- Bragg for tho alight put npeu Misty B,C. B. ‘Botetourt; and ‘who ho heard of t Pornvion ‘rulties,” aiid” kaw Don doso’s velvet ekull-eap,-he swore that diplomapy, viext to potle way ihe Diggeat’ thing aw’ eartt.—Vee Joh ott,” : eS “ite tty, in ang. cong ty ely hig to the nd tho Ta. on hit tronk ty atl Com; begging mo-té- bring kerb alved allt: un weir be 1) ACROSS: THE’ STREET. Ado nol know it $F he knows, |. , 1 watell hur, o9 wliw comes aud voces ? A Wonderdt sho druainm of jt. oO Ritting and working af my rhynies, + weave her runny hate nt tines! + Tuto my verse, or gleams of 1h, +a. «Upon her windaw-ledg ‘A Lox of flowering miguonetle 3 Morning and night slg tends to (hen, * 'Thé wenseloss flowers, that do not care ‘Yo Kiva that atrand of lopatard bait, ¢ ‘Aa prettily she bends tu the If [could once contrive ta ye! Antu that box of mignouette, Route Tuarning oy whe tence to (etal Doar mot’ Lave thowweet bod tite ‘And bloom-abaut her cheeks gud ees » 2 And bosom, av whe tends to them} <7. W. Aldrich an April Atlantic; Bilracwlous Dratw of Vishem Carruitton ({il.) Journal, ix y with some felunds, and on inv " Hon of Tamou T- Lawton, proprislet vtho famous “Wild Noss Mills,”. situated ba 3 2 miloa from thiy city, wo drove down tu thorn’ dam norosy Mose -Creok, last Vriduy ovo iM withens 8 mont extraordinary sight. See ta tho stroam, which ia @ more brauel, peur) not avoraging more than Bo fect front co Ay bank, having beon frozen all nlunys it* Laren meanuoringiy the fish seem to have cum i, the stroam in groat: force to (ho ie tight dam for the purpose of gotting @ From thia place thoy were draw on te mulll-ran, . ‘Tho-water ia then shat with t eae -and.tha fish aro loft: founduring at the an oauy proy to tho ready hands which to throw them out on tho platform. run only, wo undoratead Mr, Lawton had taken: ont.22 bushol-barkets of Those aromainly bar, These and fat, the ug inched 2 fiw baa tiated bt ay) to say he full of Be grudos and Kinda,: a cropple, porch, aud a fow yard” In eplondid condition, being large major portion svoraging frou 14 +0 topith Hixteon: ifoudant reat taken Thurgday and Hriday Jay Cee Tate Bea as been exkiug teu fee evor.wiuce, oud-wa only guosd Ot i0G Tg weight to date. whon wo put tho toa) 20,000 poanda..- Tt may run up to $0,000 ‘The Captain has beou divposingof hia "chr, at Gcents'a pound; ‘Ilo was offered bys a a4 wo learn, 3 ceuta a pound for all, bi peli tle, aa ho might throw sbem out, but Thom bie ha declined the bid, proferring to eli? : well, H hy stopre? Capt, Lawton'w’ milt ia dtten setuslly tM by the multitude pf fishes whiet Bet Ty gu. Whool, and ho iy oftan required to wlll Ets, HU ho can oloar then out aud got tho WHT iy Each year the rua down. streaus g1V84, iy, wame Work. ta do oyor,-- TBO youre WhO Out about 45,000 pounds froin bin der