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AGRICULTURAL. Stale Butter. A subscriber writes : " Is there any way to sweeten butter after getting stale? If 80 please give me the receipt for doing it ?" We ncv er s-iw (or tasleil) any butter that had Ix-come stale, had " gone over" or was "off " that we thought was of much account. Yet there in considerable " worked over" hutter (?) on the market. We have nev< r used the following but give it for what it is worth ; " Bad butter may he improved by dissolving it thorough- ly in hut water ; let it cool, then skim off, and churn again, adding little good ualt Mil sugar. Try a smaJ quantity first, if improved or approved, fix up a larger quau- tity. The water should merely be hot ' enough to melt the butter or it will become oily.* Here is another for " Restoring Rancid Butter." " Melt in a hot water bath, with some coarsely powdered annual charcoal I whuh has been thoroughly rifled from dual) ami strained through flannel." If by any mishap a you I butter maker has some poor butter on hi.i hands he will not try to doctor it and put it upon the market ! his make. Hit reputa'iou ii worth too j much. In the case supposed (where one lias poor butter) it is best, it seems to us, and cheap- er in the long run to put the stuff on the market without brand and let it be aold for what it will bring, rattier than "doctor" anil fool someone who cannot tell doctored butter till the " bottom falls out " of it. Hives and Honey. Every fanner should keep some bees. They will furnish him with food that is as healthy as the healthiest. [ feel conlident that a person who eats honey regularly will not be troubled with " l.a Crippe;" in fact, it has been stated that during the rage of that dreaded disease last, year honey pre- vented it in some cases where it was used regularly. Anyone who has decided to keep bees should begin in a small way and increase as their knowledge increases. The first thing to do U to select the hive; but do noi imagine that the hive will make the honey. I advise using the " dovetailed " hive for several reasons ; it is the simplest, strongest, and best ; it consists of a lower story, a plain box of seven eighths pine, thirteen seven-eighths by twenty inches and nine inches deep, with hand holes in each end for lifting, the ends rabbet ed frames to rest in. Thehive contains eight thick top- bar Langstroth frames ; the cover and bot- tom boards are both fon-teen by twenty-one inches, the cover being a sound board with a grooved cleat on each end that prevents it from warping and keeps it in place on the hive ; the bottom board has a similar cleat at the back, while the cleat in front i* leveled down on top to form an entrance ; the bottom may be used as a cover in an emergency. The supers are t ho same SI/A- as the hive body and jnst one half the depth; and if desired two supers may lie ud us a full body. The special feature that gives the hive it* name is the fact that it is dovetailed together at the comers, thus giving it great strength and durability as well an sim- plicity of construction. The supers have slatted bottoms witli openings to corre- spond with the openings in the sections. Taking everything into confederation it is the simplest and easiest hive to handle. They can be shipped, knocked down at a very low rate of freight, and they can be put together by anyone. These hives are sold very cheap, ami I recommend them to all farmers in prefer- ence to any on the market. They are not patented. If you will give them a iri.il I am sure you will not be disappointed. The next thing is the bees. Italians are by .ill means the best ; they are the gentlest, the best honey gatherers ; they will stay on the combs lieiter, and are not vicuus. If your lx;es aru not Italians it is a very easy matter to change them. By the purchase of untested Italian queens, ami introducing them into your own colonies, the job is done. RF.KKKKPKK. ricultnr.il portions of the West. Former! I used to keep at least one teem shod, haven't paid a shoeing bill during the lost five years. Formerly my neighbors put their teams in the livery stable, and went to thu hotel to dinner. Now they take their horse feed with them and feed in the hind end of their wagon ; go into the court house park and eat their dinner brought from home. I have j seen chain harnesses attached to good teams j and " top buggies " in the busy season of the yoar. Does this look like " distinctly wanting seventy-tive-ctnt dollars "? All that is asked is that thu dollar and the products of the farm shall bear a just n- latiou to each other based upon the intrinsic value of each. We have heard it so often said, that il has been accepted without question, that the age of the family loom and the tall LAST MAN AND A Graphic Story of the Extinction of the Human Bice, The :>. M" ra . llaiili at Hrlrnrr wllh Ihr Inevitable 4'rowilrd to Ihr l.iiialoi II Alas ! the entire earth had disap|>arcd beneath snow and ice. Kvery where the de- sert, everywhere solitude, every where si- It nee. Snow followed snow, hoarfrost fol- lowed hoar frost. An immense shroud .-ov with the sword, with poison, or with a ro- murkable choice of varied weapons. Then they cut up the bodies into small pieces. ' curiosity, all energy, and all vitality. Henceforth, deprived of all desire of pleas- ing, of all idea of rivalry, and of all coquetry, Sicit'i' in turn killed tin- criminals in vaii- they formed among themselves but ouo ous ways. Hero their heads were cut ott by family of sisters, associated in a common mi'. ins of axes, swords, and guillotines ; , misfortune, and they had all adopted a there they were strangled or hanged ; further somhn mouruiug costume, a sort of black on they were i in puled or drowned. On cer- tain duys of revolution, in th u:idst ol the capitals of this pn>i<<inl<>d civili/.aiinn, the and misshapen religious garment. Hut this lit tic population itself bad rapidly disininished. Fifteen years had sutlircd victors were seen to place the vanquished ! to reduce it by more than half. At the quietly along the walls and shoot them down moment when the events narrated above by the hundred. Historians stale that al a fonk place, them remained but the youngest period not far removud the most civilized ' ol Ihe Ceylouese, Ihen eighteen years of age, nations kepi exuculioners who were exercis- ed in crushing the limbs, quartering, taking ml the .skin, burning with red-hut irons, pulling out tlit- eyes and the tongue, break- snd the continent and ihe seas Sometimes mR ,,, limbg| um , torturing in ' mall . a solitary peak rose above the frozen ocean ; , vit . tim8| wlmn , they generally ended -Minei imes a dismantled ruin, a spire, a tow- . ... .... h ...,,,.,..,, candle were forever past ; but there arc peo- er, marked the site of a vanished city. Kvcn The commentators are rifht in saying that pie to-day who are making their own cloth touiln and graveyards were no longer to be j llle8e anc . egU)rB O f ol|r ape and burning tallow candies using lallow I perceived ; ruins llitmsch cs were destroyed, because it is worth but two cents per pound, Kvery where nothingness, ice, silence. Days while coal oil is worth twenty-five cents per followed duys, and every night the red disk gallon, and it takes money to get the coal of the sun set behind the white plain which oil. slowly, at each twilight, took the violet tints With a rigid economy prevailing through- of death. out the agricultural districts; with "no Already half ihu members of the expedi- new improvements " as a watchword, there- 'ion hail died of hunger and cold, when the by forcing the mechanics to go to the cities I Hhtilla thought they saw from their airy for work ; with thu demand for all maim- ' heights an immense ruined city near an un- factured products reduced to a minimum, it ! frozen river. They steered toward the un- seems to me that no great amount of reason- 1 known city, and thought themselves dream- ing power is necessary to see that capita! ' ig, when they discovered on the banks of must bear its share of the burdens incident 'lie river a group of mun walking. A cry of to t he present condition of affairs. Now a word in regard to Western mort- gages, and I am done. Western mortgages may be divided into three classes : First : Mortgages given on good, well- improved farms under competent manage- ment, with a security ranging from three to five times the amount of the loan. This happiness and wonder sounded from every breast, and in an install' ill the- slutfs Men- tied up by the rivur banks. They were received as unexpected saviors by men who ha.l long believed themselves to be the only survivors of terrestrial humanity, looking on with despair at thu lost days of the world. At the head of the group stood an old man enveloped in reindeer skins. Ot by burning in the public smiares on holidays, fit in saying that ipecies did not yet deserve the title of men. If the end of the wnrl.l had taken place at this period, the destruction of thu race woulif not have been great loss. But this ancient race made way for ours, and we too with four of her companions. (TO BE I-ONTIM i n. i Illl ICMUAMttli:i1. A "mull rlnl Work ni F.niclurrrlUK, fur II, ,..! ..i v* 111. Ii | l ,,. 40111 11 As the seat of an extensive commerce an j internal trade, Roman London was as emin- ent in anliquity as it is to-day. Its monu- ments, ihe memorials of ils greatness, prove its prominence. One of these, if it is Roman work, which is uncertain, is the embank* ment of thu river Thames. This immense >rk is quite unequalled by any of the labors class of mortgaged property will never be- 1 commanding stature, his hollow black eyes come the property of the loan com- 1 shady by bushy white eyebrows, with a long primes, for the reason that a good farm can j beard as white as snow, and his skull as yel- al ways find a purchaser and, if "worse comes ! low as antique ivory it was felt that Inn to worst," the farmer can sell and protect was one of those energetic characters who himself. | have endured all the trials of life without Second : This class of loans is by far the yielding, but whose heart has bidden fare largest, and in Kansas is made up largely of people from the Host who bought specula- tors' lands or pre-empted lands not very de- sirable according to the ideas of the old set- tlers, who luve invested all their own funds, and in many instances all they could borrow, in a futile attempt to prove their faith in Kansas uplands and make a home. The marked decline in the value of farm pro- ducts, and consequently farms, leaves this class of mortgagors in a very trying situa- tion not improved by some of the proposed legislation or by the attitude of the average loan company. Of this class, if the loan companies persist in their threats not to renew loans, the loan companies will become the owners of all the least desirable lands, and the mortgageors will be stripped of all they put into their farms both time and money. Third : For this class I have neither ex- cuse nor sympathy. The cupidity of three parties was necessfry for the perfection of a well to every hope. However, his counten ancc lit up with joy at the arrival of the newcomers. His nous and their companions threw themselves into tlle arms of the aerial travellers. They made large tires and seated them- selves atainodcHl meal, composed principally of fish which had just been caught. The new -inners informed t!ieir hosts that they were about the last survivors of equatorial Africa, that they camu from the celebrated metropolis now deserted, and they asked if their aerial route had not deceived them, if they had not left the equator, and if they had landed at tho mouth of the Amazon, as their calculations indicated. " My friends," replied the old man, " the ancient Amazon Kivur, whosu waters still flow over the circle of the equator, no longer rolls between its shores the impetuous Hoods which, if we believe tradition, caused it formerly to be compared to a sea. At the period, long since vanished, wlnii the any have l>een no more pastures or Hocks. W are now reduced to the lust fish. But," added the old man, " the table will still outlive the guests, for there are no now born babies among us : there are actually only men here, those that you see, the lost : child of thu other sex, my poor little Spe- I rauy.a, not having survived her birth." This declaration produced on all thu mem- bers of tlle expedition the idled of an elec- tric shock. The tall of a thunderbolt in the midst of the assembly would not have brought about i greater confusion. " What !" cried the chief of the flotilla. " There is no Ii nger a single woman among you *" " Not a single one, " answered oue of tho guests. " Wu hod just couie," added the young chief, "in search of female companions with whom we could associate. Our conn try is still wealthy, and hud we Imgid but one single wife all the riches of our country would have been her.-. ' " \ on have albo no women '' Ihe travellers exchanged a glance and re- mained silent. imisl perish. We perish of cold. Slerile inn in .- no longer produces aayllung. For I many centuries past there has been uo more of tlle lnodern K D 8 ' engineers * or thirty. wheat or vines. For many centuries there *?" Inlles , alo "S the course of the stream louy mounds confine ibu river within hxed bounds, and offer a secure path to the navi- gator. On each side tho country spreads out !ui below ihe embankment, and more than once tho waters have broken through. loan of this class. First, a desire for an ex- empire of Brazil, the Argentine Republic, orbitant rate of interest on the part of the and Columbia flourished in South America ; an adventurer who ! when North America was divided iuto con- ic, lerated States: when France, Knglam I, < ler- many, and Russia struggled for supremacy in European politics, ihe Atlantic Ocean mortgagee. Second, an adventurer who never expected to redeem the s. -. tirity, and m many instances took uo pains to conceal his intentions. And, third, an unprincipled loan agent who became a party to the trans- action for a large commission. This class of lands were in some instances mortgaged for from two to three times the first cost, the borrower nly remaining long enough to get great continent of the West Indian was, it/ possession of the difference between the two i appears, cut up into innumerable small transactions, when ho sought "pastures islands, scattered over an immense sea. The fresh." Who is responsible for this class of loans? Is the Farmers' Alliance? Are tho actual haiistible, ice anil snow never showed farmers? when, if they hod any inUiresl in themselves m our country, and the rays of III. time before thcso events happened m Africa, and in America, the island of Ceylon, now attached to the southern point of Asia, through the diminution ol the seas, found itself to be the last lu.ugc of the human race in Asia, and there, in this form- er earthly paradise not far from the equator, at the foot of Adam's Peak, twelve women remained the sole heiresses of the last un- extinguished families. The male sex had completely disappeared. For a long time the number of girls had been far above that of boys a condition of things which overspread the lowlands, and left desolation around them. The Knglish bad neglected to repair and strengthen thu banks of the river, and were indebted to the skill ot a Dutch engineer for the restoration of the Roman work. "The Thames from Rich- mond, ' says Mr. Smiles, "is an artificial river." How many yean of ceaseless toil, of acute engineering skill, and vast expense were employed on this unequalled work no history relates, no record even suggests. Some authorities attribute the embankment to the Reign- traders, l>efore the Roman in- vasion ; others, even to the monks of the Middle Ages. But there is good reason to supine that the true authors of the chief improvements on the Thames were the Ro- mans. Similar works almost on an oqual scale exist in other parts of Kngland, and wu have the complaint of the subject Britons that they were worn out tind consumed in clearing the woods and embanking the fens. Not that the hapless natives were ever treated by their Roman taskmastersas harsh- ly as were the savages ot Hayti and Cuba by the Spanish discoverers. l!ut they have out- lived their conqueror. Before these embankments were made the country below London was an immense fen, or marsh, over which tho tide (lowed incessantly. The town could have l>een only a collection of rude houses seated on the rising ground above the river. It was al- ready a seat of considerable trade even More the Roman conquest. But t he genius and skill of the Roman engineers, if the Romans built the embank ment, gave it those unequalled facilities for traffic that have :orrespondud, besides, with secured its commercial supremacy in every the slicceses obtained by women and their 'age. By the emlwnkmunl the Thames wa increasing authority m politics and in the confined within bounds : many acres of land universal direction of business. Tlu-y li.nl gradually substituted themselves for the effeminate and uncrvatcu men as deputies, lawyers, physicians, and. in general, in the ' and torm'moved up and down. in were added to the agricultural domain, while along tho tine highway of tho river a ceaseless procession of vessel sof every size _. ...., . . . and form moved up and down. They came, extended, as we see on the maps, from the greater number of social professions, in j as Strabro tells us, from the mouths of the ruins of Now York to those of Havre, and commerce and industry, arts and literature, | Loire and the Caroline, the Seine and thu from 1'eruambuco to Dakar ruins which are now forever buried l>enuath the ice. The oceans were far vaster and deeper than to- day, the rains frequent, the rivers inex- pure and applied sciences. Thu education Rhine. eq nil this class m lands, it was to have them remain open to run a few old cows on. Over one hundred of this class of loans have In- u fore. rinsed (?) during the last year in lin-ciiwood County. Gentlemen, Uie property it yours ; you have paid well for it. But pli'inc don't charge the Fanners' on its axis, the days have hi-. Alliance with trying toget these lainlsaway the moon is mi r- 1 .lii-lanl, and the from you with " dollars worth only seventy- become colder. Tho prediction five cents." liei.clicent sun fertilize the earth in its y.,.ili, giving birth to (lowers and fruits, nisi . .ind love. " Rut now all in over with the planet and all the works which have illustrated it 1 history. The eurth revolves Some were war ships, moved turn- of tho boys had l>uen more and more neglect- | ally by oars, distinguished by their sharp ed, and finally there were no longer oven beaks of iron, and their crews armed competent gardeners or agriculturists to be ' w ith spears and shield ; some were huge foui.d among the men. \\hat the women merchai.t vessels, propelled by oars and sail, did not do directly with thoir own hands in i laden with rich cargoes of Kactein inanu- thu way of industries won accomplished by factures, with the wines of Italy, and the !ii>." niotisly constructed and indefatigable machines. The slow decrease of the organic Inn.-es of the globe hod also manifested itself __ ..... _ __ _ ____ _ hero by a slow diminution of the births, by j cattle of the west to the ports of Gaul and a weakening of the average life, and it was on \ in rare circumstances, and by a sort of ii i ut v. that families counted, an in former more slowly times, a large numb ome longer, ! , mr ,l iiVt j n some coi The Fanners' Alliance. It seems to me that some of Mr. Shear- man's statements in his recent letter to you predicate a misunderstanding of the farm- ers' movement, or a desire for a roundly turned sentence, when he says : " The Farmers' Alliance and the millions of voters who have control distinctly want a dollar which shall cost them only seventy-five cents. " My friend the banker, who delights in twelve per cent, interest, insists that money never was so plenty, that gold is the il.unl.li il of all values. My neighbor who was compelled to haul his corn six miles Mid take sixteen cents per bushel for it, tho product of whose labor, according to the banker's standard, including use of team and tools and his own labor for the yoar, was less than one dollar for each working liay, and, if compelled by emergency to bortow a few dollars, is forced to pay twelve per cent, interest in advance, naturally con- cludes that money is scarce. There is no denyiii" the fact that farming, in spite of our b. as ted prosperity, our " great plethora of money," is not, n-ir has not been profitable for several years. I see no immediate relief under the present con- dition of affairs ; the way is tedious and long, involving about the same length of time to read just matters as it look n> bring about the present condition. I do not share in tho sentiment that therefore " farming has gone to the dogs." Rut, if forced by capital to accept the present condition of affairs, there must result considerable fric- tion, not a little strifc,_and serious loss to capital ittt.-lf more than the occasion justi- fies. Let me illustrate. The township in which this is written comprises I Til square miles of agricultural lands ; the uplands best suited to grazing, the bot torn lands to corn grow- ing. .Since the " hard times" began, five years ago, a vigorous retrenchment has set in : no new houses, no new barns, no im- provements of any kind, unless absolutely necessary. What is the result ? In the country seat, which depends solely for its support upon the farmers, the result is plainly visible. Merchants, mechanics, professional men, and laborers are leaving as fast as opportunity offers. Population has decreased f rom f>00 to 800 within the last five years, What Is true of tliis town is true in great- r or loss degree i>f nw" town in -thn ag- A WKSTKIIM Maple I/odge, Kansas. What Effected Her. ,ber of children. As in ._ _ , . _ countries, more i^irls than sun has boys were born on the average. This tend- of the C ncy increased from generation to genera- asttonoiners is fulfilled. The waters of the tion, and toward the end of the days that oceans which the solar heat caused to ova- remained, for Asia a* for the other parts of poralu in thu atmosphere, and which gave birth to the clouds, the rains, the springs, the brooks, and tho rivers, have from century to .-en! m v been partially absorbed by the deep rocks ; the air has become drier and Mr. Oppenheimer" Rachel, do you ob- ! drier, and ceased to be a protecting cover serve dot peautiful sunset?" Mrs. Uppeiiliuiiner " I do, Solomon, vos lofuly. " It fur the preservation of the heat received ; the globe, there wore at the period of which v. ' -jieak only three living families, and by an uiilorlunaU) chance, thu two boyx having died in infancy, twelve beings of the femi- nine sex were left alone to represent the present and the future. The youngest, little Kva, was a child of 3 artistic wares ot Greece ; some, sailing down the river from the docks of London, would I carry the tin, lead, furs, and thu con. and ! cattle Spain, .inliun found in Britain the ncc.-. sary supplies for his perishing soldiers in Cermnny, and the immense stores he drew from it when famine prevailed on UieConti- nunl show the general cultivation and pros- perity of tho island. His six hundred corn ships were hastily built in the forest of Ar- dennes, and |K)ssibly landed only on the southern shore ; if we allow thum a burden of one hundred tons each, they would equal the capacity of al least six Umbnu*or h'trur- ia*, and Ihe very muiicn'of our modernargosies recall Ihe Italian teachers of our ancestors. tho nocturnal and even diurnal evaporation I years o'f age ; her mother hod reached 40, has caused all the heat borrowed from the , Thu last survivor of the fathers had died ot Mr. Oppciiheimor " Der finest thing I sun to radiate into space, and the cold of 1 haf seen nil my life in." the 1>o | eg come , gradually nearer and nearer Mrs. Oppenheimer --" Oh. Solomon, dcre I the tropical and equatorial zoucs. vas tears in your eyes. Dot shows mu you j " The summits of thu mountain-, had al- haf a goot heart ven you vas allectcd by dose , rc ,idy been long frozen because above them aneurism of the heart on the dsy of his wedding. The interest which attaches ilself to things which seems to be the caiire ot life had diminished with the decrease if population beauties of nature like dot " j lne atmosphere was too dry and two rarefied | and of business and with t h.- more and more " Mr Oppenhcinier I vas shust affect- to preserve tho heat ; but life established ! imminent threat of a definite end. Former- ed ven _I thought how I could look at dot j itself in the plains and valleys, aloug the ly immense and populous, the city had disap- peautiful effect mi.lout it costing me asmglej streams which traversed the surface of tho ptared beneath a pom -but invading vege cent." [i hicago American. Carry ins; Cut the Provisions of a "Oi heai that rich owld uncle of yoor'n are dead aim buried, Tarrance." He are, Moiles. " globe. Ths limits vegetation, and, at the I tation : all those 'ancient dwellings were same time, the conditions favorable to life, j empty, deserted, ruined, partly hidden be- insensibly descended. The lost /.one of ter- I neatli the moss and weeds, and tho traces of rest rial lite has been the zone of tlle equator ial plains along the thermic equator, whicl " And phwat the divil soort uv a will wer whence you came. at he mod, Oi doan' know? Tho owld When Kurope traverses on one side South America, where wu are, and on the other Central that amadhaun, shure Oi always thought ho were cracked, but the oideu of layviii instrooc- shuns to hev twenty -foivo tousand dollars buriud wid him ! And you were execootrix, Tarrauce ?" " Faith, that Oi was." " An' did you folly out the provishuns of the will?" "Oi did that." "An' wer it goold ye put in the coffln ? " It wer not." "Silver?" " Devil a ha'portli." " Paper mooney ?" " Not a whit." " An' phat thin?" " Shure, Oi soigned a check payable to his orther for the amount and shtuck it in his phist whin they closed the lid." [Detroit Tribune. It was Sam's Fault. Sam Now, boss, I never did git no sich a ting as dis on no 'count. Boss Well, Sam, you know that we keep everything in the store for you, don't you ? Yas, sar, I s'posc you does. Then, if you don't get it, it ain't our fault, is it ? No, sar. Then you have to pay for it, all the same, for it is your own fault that you did not get it, not oiiis. And Sam paid it. had disappeared beneath the invading glaciers coming from the North Pole, from Silx.-na, from Lapland, from the Alps, from the Caucasus, from thu Pyrenees, finally reduced to the shores *>f thu the ancient boulevards and principal streets were hardly visible to tho eye. As humanity had retired so Nature had resumed her Africa rights : polur plunta, lurches, piniss, some snow birds, and more lei.ently penguins and bears, had ni rived near tlle ancient, city Mediterranean, many centuries hud already olapsud since civili/ation had abandoned it The last building which remained standing was the public library, in which the purely literary works had nearly all been abandon- ed to the insects, and in which wore to lie found only t he scientific treatises written on the miprcmo question ol tne end of the to shinu in AmiTu-a, along which continent j world, and the historical annals of the it gradually descended. In consequence of departed centuries, humanity not having a strange social organization all tho Stales consented to it.s own extinction, and having of Kurope hud perished in their own blood ; ' ohing to all that personified it. But the fatal had mutually opened each other's veins. ! day had con.e. The world must end. Some (Joverunieiits had convinced millions I he decline of human forces had brought of citizens that the greatest happincsa, the ! about the decline of the inventions and us supreme honor, and the highest glory con- ages which seemed but lately the most indis- sistod in wearing uniforms of all colors, and peii.sublc. They hud wearied of all even of killing each other to the sound of music, hope. Tho electric mo ' ope. They believed that until tho day when the 'disuse. tor had fallen into There was no more travelling iftei Summer ia Coming- The bee will soon be humming, The soft south wind is blowing, The days of warmth are coming, The days of grippe are going. The daffodils are blooming, The garden walks adorning, The violets perfuming Tho zephyrs of the morning. The air is fresh and balmy, Unclouded skies are o'er us, Old Time will soon the palmy Days of Snmnicr-time restore u The landscapes all around us With greening beauty greet us, And the bacillus that downed m. Is reuevining its quietus. Bnrg A lamily Asset 1'oor Robinson. After ''. -.11(0 Chinese invasion came and confiscated t hem the invasion of the ice. No attempt hml e\ n like a band of schoolboys. been made to repair thn interrupt*-.! tele "The annals of modern times report that . graphic communications. Only a fuw cen- anciently expeditious had been sent through I turies before ail tho inhabitants of the .wlolio, tho ice to fin 1 the ruinsof Paris, of London, ' n, whatever poition they may hnvu .iw It, of Rcrlin, of Vienna, of St. Petersburg, and had constant intercourse with each other, us that they had principally found furls, bar- racks, arsenals, arms, and ammunition on nearly all the territories. It was doubtless a primitive race hardly differing from the animal races. "This opinion is, moreover, confirmed by tho books of anciunt hiutory prennrved in the libraries, showing a stale of rude bar- barism in the customs of these populat ions. \Vc find, am. .UK other things, a long list of though they had inhabited tiiu sonic country, conversing and hearing each other, what- ever may have been the distance that separ- ated : In in, and thero was but one nation .Mid onii single language for all the globe. Hut now isolation and separation hail n turned as in tho primitive ages the throe _iiiii|is remaining in the world no loup-rkjiw cnch other: ami the population of Cnyl"n, l tooiigh compared < nly of onnu, bft'l list died he married her drossinrikei. ( Irigg How are they getting on '.' Kriggs I understand that lie still owes her the money. Sad Jones. " I'oor Smith lost Ins life, though every one oUo escaped out of tlio burning building," Brown. " l>id they forgctto wakmliim ?" Jones. " No. Ho was onu of the fii-i in i eci-ive the alarm ; but the poor fellow wan so excited that he tried to get out of tho building by thu liiv i scapo. " Not toboEliiii.u. Railroad' 11. id (breaking the news gently to wife of T.-ionto dimiimii i. 'A Maiiain, be calm ! Your hlisl-iiin' im. n.et with > slight that is tu >. , nc ot tin- drive whreK of .i panptnger locomotive stun U linn on the nre!.. ami Wife "Well. sir. youni'idn 1 .-,,nie r.inund here trying to i olli cl 'tinui^i . Yiuwmil. get a cent front me. If your comf>any can't i,.'i:|i its proprrty 01 t of diin^cr, il !l hnvu to take ill'- \ in h*iiiiL curious tortures. Criminals were murdered all spirit of domination, all kculiiiienl of have your engine.-. ... a ;u-ud.