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Ik Heir of Bottwell Chase, Y t. w. l HAWKR II. l-.iiuiv Dale raced up the thickly carpeled while in the huge flagged kitchen were al- ready assembled the gardener and his assis- tant ; Lin- coaohmau aiiti two liable helpi ill. I. u tier, who .(uiviTBtl like a blanc- marge ID hiistan shape ; couple at stalwart but overfed footSBtnt : the (fjamekeeper and his underling; Dickson, the fcalf-witted man -of all-wort ; and lastly. Sir Harne, with Mr. Warde, the lame land -Stewart. I '"till y I 'MIC I Al U<1 (U I IM I II I' . I *.*l I " Wi 1 I, a, * I lain which led to th upper tl..or as she had (Alter Lady Msrchment I death, the esta i pever raced before, and burnt into Therese '., lisbmeut at the Chaw had been considerably room, the Joor of winch had by Ibis lime . cut down.) The baronet* MMHH been unlocked. Mrs Msrchmenf s maid I the view of ascertaining whether any sui had putawt,v her Frenc* novel and resum cioun characters had been ed her ordinary attire. At the nioinent of TIE l>f riorwt-Ni at THE ric. Tk Kessill A f ri>iii|>k of in o.rr Nslrsre r Judlr .... KlrSMllBU <f ...Irrn ur, .r *srh *las)ere* Aalr/asl. I-- The ilevelsrpment of the pig is a triumph of art over nature. Natures pig, the wild boar, is not a very gaialy animal ; nature's i y that this enormous, whits fannyardy pig. again, simply domesticated and fattened | looking pig is exactly our idea of a wild t-oar. in In* <>*. r*t ~ :_ I. ..I- .* very good pig and shows considerable breed- ing. It has often been contended that the large Yorkshire is the truest bring repre- sentative of the aboriginal pig of the country So far as his drooping quarters, large head, long nose, strength of bone, Hat sides, and tendency to narrowness are concerned we willingly admit it ; bit we cannot truthfully Fanny's entrance (he was arranging her Ii in front of the glaxs. She turned in the act of tiirust og t long pin through one of the Colin, and regarded the panting, frightened seei about the house or grounds haviuir. failed to elicit any information, the little | company was divided into three parties, Sir Many taking charge of one of them, the * gamekeeper of another, and the gardener of the third. Kch parly took lanteroa, and each man was armed will- a stout cudgel, of which the gamekeeper had an ample supply in stcck. Then, after a few final instruc- tions, they all filed qnietly out by way of tbe back entrance, watched from a distance, girl with coldly quetionmg eye* "Oraauuelle the child Maler Frank he's miatiag '" blurted out Fanny. ' Mining ' What do you mean by mus- ing*' " He's gone- 1 can't find him anywhere. When I left the nursery to take miasis her i by the women portion of the '>elow*tairs U>a, he was flaying qnietly among his toys; | establishment, behind whom, silent but ob- but' when I got back lie was yone and the '. servant, stood Therese Cobran. As aoon as win. low was wide open. Oh ' what can have ' the door was shut behind the last man, become of him? You you hiven't neen , Therese turned and wont slowly-upstairs anything of him, have you V i without speaking to auy one. a faint amused Nothing whatever. How should I? uniile flickering round her thin lips ; but it An you must know, he would never come was not a pleasant smile by any means. stead of for what yi-u are the daughter of a wandering fiddle-scraper. But it may be that you will have occasion to change your opinion before you and I have done wit 1 . each other. " Next morning, while the family were at breakfast such a breakfast as their could eat Inspector Dim wade from Scotlai.d Yard was announced. Superintendent Yardley had met him at the station, and . _ . _ they had driven over together to tbe Chase, I ln tne ' orm ' a common farm pig, ii little j A few years ago, pigs of this breed used to the inspector being put into possession of , better than a necessary evil; but nature's toe fattened until they weighed, in tbe facU of the cat** f rourr. It may be P>8 from different quarters of the world, | &&., u ,,._, as bullocks one which here remarked that, so far, the efforts of the police had been productive of no result. Inspector Dimwade was a man rive-and- forty, or thereabout*, with a Hand com- plexion and a somewhat ful! habit of body, sandy hair and short side whiskers to. match. He had a pleasant smile and a ! K piff ought to he, may be, and often is, to > j n g tne | arge Yorkshire with the Chinese. quietly plnsible manner, which hs found of I he * r people whoehould know better say that ' He represents the highest pinnacle to which mixed together, remixed, and judiciously |a wmn er at the Royal Agricultural Society's blended by the scientific breeder, eventually i & own ,. Carlisle and Derby weighed nearly produce a creature which is a joy, if not | hall a ton-bnt they are killed much young exactly a thing of beauty, forever -or, at er now and, being rather lean pigs unlil they T" 1 , 1 "? tl1 " " m * de mto b * OOD U " "*" ert ln . tb y - lre c -re r absolutely painful to a man who knows what ] ima || Yorkshire is a breed formed b a pig ought to le, may be, and often is. ire curers. The by cross great service to him in his profeiuuon. ! tnev "hate pigs." Such people have When the consultation with Sir Harry > 'or fonn, or they wonld not speak thus of animals showin the grace*! I carves of the had come to an esd, which it did in o tbe course of a few Dimwade asked to I: nur.tery. at once minutes, luspe-U>r l * B8t breeds conducted to the | Yorkshires. of Berkshire*, Chinese, and here of his own accord. " Kai.ny knew that quite well. To her mist res* Thereto might pretend to be as at- t* lied 'i the youthful heir as Fanny was in reality ; bnt thr latter knew how hollow i/as the pretenor, and that Therese disliked *11 i-V ilrlrtn w*'t""-' -.~p*~ " Perhaps t,'- has shut biniiujf in one of th< empty room top purpose to frighten me," went on the g\r\. "Oh, do come with me, ninn/elle, and help me to look for him!" "(Vriainly I will. Funny. You may de IM..| on it, the little imp in only playing yon a trick. Then, after a moment's thought, she added : "But you nay the window was open when you got back. That looks strain-*, \ cry strange. " I ii n tiogan to whimper. Tbe other K"|'| M <1 i ii'-t by the arm. " Uon't make a f''l ot y.ur!f," she aaid ; " at least, not till yon iia\v madr iiure that there is nnth- inyrlar left toilo. t'mr;." Tli") went ijuii Uly down-staini together ; .tin) Therese taking the It-ad. IM-KSII at once a systcuiatic search of the rooms, of which the nursery formed one, on ll ll.xir llow. TJ.fy were chiefly spare brdchainl>rr*, none of wtiirh, exoept on rare ocoasion, h.xl been npied for years. The bedroom > used by the I -iinily opened out of a corridor reachetl by another staircase on the opposite mile of the entrance-hall, or otherwise through the |.:. tare gallery, ml" v hirh latterapartm.nt in ilie faint hope, of finding the mi**ing cliiM there, Theie.e and Faniiv now ven- tured, bet, of course, to no avail. '!'!> dour at the opposite end of thr gallery, wl.u-h Kve access to the other wing of the house, L; locked, was snfb'cienl proof that Mas ter Frank conld " ot '"'' "''d' 1 I is way mi" the roomt beyond. There now re-mam ed only the I'oor Sir Harry !' he renarke<l to herself with a shrug. " I am afraia that he and his men will come tia>-k no wiser than they wen*. ' In the small drawing-room sat Mrs. March- "lent and Miss Feuton, one on each side of the fireplace, waiting and listening for the On entering the room he walked Undoubtedly the British pig of the end of to tbe window and submitted ! ]*t century mnst hare been an ugly ill- it to a close examination, fiutenmg and un- j favored-looking brute indeed, many of his modern representatives are little better -but by degrees there came import**: us of Chiaese, Siamese, Maltese, and Neapolitan pigs, which, if not altogether satisfactory in themselves, brought " corrective influences " to )>ear upon fastening tbe hasp severs! *. :r:ici, ar.:i then with his eye measuring the height >f the balcony from the gramud. Then he instruct- ed Ysrdley to shut the window while he re- mained outside. Thii being done, he prov- ed, by means of the blade of his pocket- knife, what an easy thing it was for any one to force open the hasp ofthe window. " Yon naveccrtainK scored a point there, Mr. Inspector," said the baronet as Dim attain in the proriuction of fat, and for this very reason he does not meet with the approval of the moder.i carer His breed, too, has been very much inbred with the usual results of delicacy and unproduc- tiveness. It may be observed here that all breeds much crossed with the Chinese are less in favor than they were a few years sgo. The Middle White Yorkshire is a variety of the Small White, and it may be that this breed hai a great future before it. Ihus far it is somewhat undefined in its form an>l uncertain in its produce. The Lincoln- shire pig is like the pike, "a voracious feed- er," and it is large, lop-eared, and ugly. The The native monstrosity, again, acted as a common white pig of Scotland is a long- corrective upon the alien, ami so we went | n<>t*d, leggy animal something of the NATIVE MONSTROSITY: on breeding, crossing, selecting, effecting the . - , , . j I ''' "i '* *lll fc^ , - U*Olllt XSt IWtlU|( , WllCV. >. tll,v lltr -, . . wadere enteredlherooiiitbroughthewindo* j lurvJTlll o{ tne filtei , t and the cur i ngo f t |, e tidings which any moment might bring. , s had MO readily opened. tlore *! less fit, until we obtained those glorious pigs man could do They spoke but little to each olfier. Ed- . . line, who had dearly loved the lost boy, and i must get into the balcony from below, and. had made far more of a pet of him than his , bowpray, wonld he manage that?" mother had ever condescended or card to i " Pardon me, Sir Harry ; 1 have not implied eo)lne o have juat done, he , whith afe (>uly ^ far >hort of do, would fain have sympathised with Mm. ; thatlhenurserywasenteredfromthebalcony. I merely wanted to satisfy myself that it could have been. I think I understood you to say i*. In n we were in the library that there are several unoccupied bedrooms on this floor asThe petals of a'delicat* plant shrink and j which are rarely entered by any one but the Marchmenl had she been pei nutted to do so but such timid overtures HS she ventured <>n were so coldly received by the widow t hat her feelings shrank within themselves. there, shrivel* liefore the first breath of frost. Mrs. M.ir lim.-iii was one of thoat- women whoarr urlicient unto themselves, who, how heavy so-ever may be the burdens they are called u|K>n to bear, not merely scorn to crave the sympathy of others, but repel it even when offered unasked. And yet, deep rooted in Mrs. Marchment'i heart was a passionate love for her i-lnld ; but even to the objevt of that love her lie- tray als of tenderness her moments of weik ness she termed them to herself were brief and infrequent. Kor the ordinary fond and foolish mother whose happirnt hours are those she spends among her darlings, she had nothing; but a feeling of ijuiel contempt. They were poor invertebrate creatures, with whom she wu* >;lad to feel tltat she hsd nothing in common. Frank had a child's intuitive consciousness that hit mother lovrd him ; but her caresses were matters of such rare occurrence that lie al , . most nhrank from them. In point of fact, Ira* mg room ; l.ut, u , Mla | UV1 . f or (. beautiful m.iiiinu was over I -on of nwc not fear, belt that it wiu a relief to him : ter Frank could not lm\e made Ms way Hi beytir small i -nny said, how mold the . lul.l pox*il>!y br wel ghu-.l with a litre, when It was from that room nlic her understood so I wlf had gone direct to the nursery after her - > und journey below -Ian It was to the nursery that ThereM anil her whib'-faceH companion now IIL- h.ini Ixvit llieu steps ; their search biul not oreiitiieil longer than -.11 or neven minute* in .ill Tie nursery wss just us Fanny hail last left it , t he toys scattered about the floor, and the window wide open, urept that by this time the room was nearly in darKiess. The first tliuiu that Therese did was to light llie candles in the girandolfts over the n turning to the ir done, Mrs. Marchnirnt. Fanny dropped < n her . lnmn*y -niece, then turning to the girl, she said " Biit one thing remains U> I that is, Intel! At these words. knees and broke into a tempest of hysterical sobs and tears. "1 daren t tell her," she exclaimed. "Oh '. what shall I do?" "If von dare not tell her, I must," re- plied the Swiss without the slightest change in tho low, even inflection* of her voice. "Oh, if you only would ' moaned tbe girl through her sobs. I 'or a moment or two Therm* stood regard- ing t I.e. ornm-hing figure before her with a t.fr of chiMy on tempt In her eyes, half- veiled by their white lashes, was the glitter of a malignant triumph. Without a word morr she quilted the room, and traversing the corridor with the noiseless stealthy tread of some soft footed predaneous creature, she tapped lightly at the door of (he small draw Ing-room ; and then, after a moment's pause, during which a film, so to speak. when the drawing-room ordeal was at an end ami he Masai liberty to race back to the uursery, where laughing, itweet tempered Fanny Dale more than inado up to him lor whatever he lacked in the way of caresses elsewhere. The Chase was so large ami some parts of it were so far removed from the dome*'!.- offices, that our two hvliea were nnnwure of the return of the search party til) Sir Harry in IHI-MHI opened the drawing room door aud walked in, Both ol them started U* their teet al his entry ; but his face told the news ' he brought before his tongue could fi am a 1 syllable. It seemed to Fdtdine that lit* look I ed live years older than he !iad loiUed al luncheon a few hour* before. He sank into a .'hair with a groan 'You have not I.MII. I him!" sanl the mother with a coimtricli m of the throat which all but choked I Kick lier words. The old man shook Inn head dolefully. " No, we have not found him," he answered hoarsely. Fora few mom-nts he was power I- - - to say more. A deep sigh that was almost a sob broke from Mrs. Marchment, and then sho sank into I. e- chair again. F.deline s heart went oat towards her, but encountered no re- sponsive chord. The widow's face might have been nothing but a beautiful mask for aught it liet rayed of whatever feelings and emotions were at work below. hamber-maid whose duty it is to keep them in order?" " That is so," responded Sir Harry. As a matter of court*, such a house as the Chase must have a number of doors. To begin with, there is the main entrance ; then there is the side-door through which Mr. Yardley and I were admitted ; I noticed, too, a door in the conservatory ; and doubt- less there are one or more entrances by way of the back premises.' The liarouet nodded assent. " Such being the case, would there, in your opiniou, sir, be any insuperable ililli i-ulty, supposing a person to be wishful of so doing, more especially if he happened to have a ready-made acquaintance with the run of tbe house, in stealing int-i it unobser \ ed, hiding in one of thr the unused rooms, watching his uppoi tumty, aud the moment I he gu l' back was : urn-.l, making his way to the nursery, flinging (let u* assume! a cloth over the child's head so as to smother its cries, upeuuig the window, dropping trum tbe balcony to tbe ground the height, even when liurJenetl with tl.r child, would be a trifle to au active man -and then, aided by the 1 1. ink, making ort ih rough the in rub- bery, it may be to some rendnxvous previous ly agreed on with his accomplices, suppos- ing him to live had any: would tlief Ixi any thiug out of the range of probability m all this?" Sir Harry gasped a little Dunw.de's such the baronet veined the I'resently tbe voire. barnnet cleared miuare yard of gathered over her eyes and roblird them of I g _ r _ein and shrubberies all expression, she turned the handle *nd 1 1Mkrv ) 1( , l | i - ne _,,., "and ui ut in. Strong woman though sho was, Mrs Ins the has lieen the park ilaelf thoroughly examined, bultono pnr- Yardley, the snperiiitendant of |xdire ' pose. Yanllcy, the supsnoieaoani M patio* men! sstmed to reel under the shuck ", j utll4 ,., j vr d with two of bis men, and I ..t Then-He's 111 w -, briefly nnd cli.trly told lit the waiting woman. Slie pressed her hand to her *idc and foi it monint or two WHS nowerlers lo speak. Uci first words wen an older to Therese to summon MI ((any, who was engaged with his Kteward in llie library Thin, v >in|nn n"l liy Miss Fenton, who was scarcely less shocked than i*he, Mr*. Maichnicnt hurried (> llie uurseiy, where Sir Harry made his appeartnre two minutes, later Fanny hale it limp, grovelling figure, wan power IIMB, in the utter abandonment of her despair, to an- swer any question coherently The lutronet, t.< whom her moans and hewailings were irritating in the extreme, steinly ordered her to her own room, and then turiitd to the composed Therese for the particulars he had failed to elicit from the nurse maid Three minutes sufficed to put him m posses- MOII of all there was to tell. ' It'* a pity it i* a thousand pities," he onl, when Inert se had come lo an end, "that HO much time has been wanted in aearchinK the other rooms, he-, it is evi- denl that the child has been carried off by Mime miscreant by way of the window. You ought U) have summoned me nninedi- itirly the boy was missed. However, no inori* time must be lost. This room must IN* left axactly as it is till the arrival of the imlice You, my dear," turning to Mrs. Mari-liment, "had beller go back to the .Ii au ing-room; ami' Kdoline will keep yon < '<in|Nuiy." I. . tedly, .mi now going to consult with him as to the next .itepn it behoves us to take." I h ii in^lii 11 one which the inmates of Iti.iliAell Chaw were little likely ever to forget . Although the telegraph had been set to work anil the. country was U'liig in every direrlion by the mounted constabulary, hour passed after hour with- out bringing tidings of uny kind. It was long after midnight before the household separated. Mr Warde had kindly offered to remain up all night in case of the arrival of any news, which he would at once com- municate to his employer ; ami his ollVi had been accepted. It was with a heavy heart that the baronet kissed bin daughter in light the He spoke very quietly and col- It was only by the spasmodic >|>eninjf and shutting of his hands that he lie! rayed how deeply he was affected by the mysterious disappearing of his grandson and j strove to convey her sympathy. It is to b heir. With ttitt Sir Harry wont his way, I presumed that she wan successful in her and the two women returned slowly and ' efforts, seeing that Mrs. Marehment '< last law and bade her good night. At tne foot of the stairs Kdeline offered him hei arm without a word, and without wonl, he took it. Never hail he felt the nee. I of help as he felt it to night ; never hit I the burden of his years seemed tn weigh so heavily on him U-f i Therese, who seemed to have quite gal over her temporaiy iiidipositioii, wan wait ing for her mistress when the latter reached her dressing room. She was much too astute a person, and read her mistress to i thorough ly, to venture on any spoken expression of sympathy. To have done so, as she was well aware, would have merely resulted in a snubbing. But sympathy may be conveyed by manner, by an inflection of the voice even, and, more subtly still, by an indefin able something in the mere act of adminis tering tn the needs of those whom it is our privilege to serve in a subordinate capacity. Ami after such a fashion it was that ? hereae adl>,to ihf -Irawing room. There-is, find at present ing sherwraa not wanted further hadalrasidv vanished Five inuiufcd later, Tom Abrey, the words as she quitted her for the night were : You are a good creature, Therese." llmresepausedouUidalhe door and laugh ed a low aardnnie laugh. " I'm a good ^IIKIIII, wsssgianing, irJoug in thedrgcart on rreatnre, am I, insdsme ? To hear yon talk, his wsy te>IksrrietieTd > summon *V- police, onr might take you fur a ilunhrss born, in to make us zealous in the hope of some day attaining to it. It is mortifying to the Englishman to auow that, while he was still content with a grest leggy pig, Ine-South Sea Islands, on their discovery, were found to be well large Yorkshire type and a slow fattener. nsvortheleaa he makes an admirable cross with tbe Berkshire. "Uallant little Wales "also basils pig, and from its red and black hue plum-pud- ding color, as it is profanely called it may claim to be descended from the aboriginal wild boar which used to be hunted by those Welsh kings from whom nearly every Welshman claims to be descended. Both stocked with a small, black, abort-legped the WeUhman and the Welsh pig have be- pig. As to the Chinese, they have been far | come a little mixed m the course of their ahead of us lor centuries, and in most of the province* of China pork is, at present, much more abundant than mutton. It is some consolation to reflect that America haioeen ln-!iind u>, aud that the pig is not indigenous to North America, although his tint cousin, the peccary, is a native of South America. The Americans, however, have made up for lost time, and we have nothing in thucoun try that can vie with the i;rea. pig-meat factories of Chicago. In respect to the treatment of pigs in other parts of the world it is sad, when we look at our own refined* ant' well-care. J-for favorites, to remember thatinxime parts of India semi wild pig* are allowed to work their own sweet will on the streets as sca\ angers. In short they lake the place of drains, and they go where they please in ptrtcct safety, for nobody has the least desire local such evil lit en. Yet it is of faith auioug pig fanciers that 'heir pet is n.i'.urally a clean animal ; lii*t he only rolli in mud fur hygienic purposes ; thai he hales a duly sty, aud that, if left to himself, he wonld feed almost i-xctnsively on chestnuts, acorn*, aud truffle*. A change of fashion has taken place of late in the modern Kutish pig, not thro whole affair jutas like a panorama liefore his <*ye. " As you state the case, there seems to me nothing whatever out of Ibe range of probability, " he murmured. " Indeed, ijdile the contrary, wore it not for one ilun.' whal possible mot i te could any one have for acting as you have riuggesled T" Dimwade showed hit teeth. " Motives are very queer things, air, and very hard to gel at. Just uow, I um concerned more with the method than the motives of the Muc.ion ; but we shall probably have to consider that part of the question later on." Then, a moment later : " Hy the way, have the unused bedrooms lieen searched for any t races ot a possible intruder '" " Not so far as I am aware," answered Y ardley. " Suppose wo throw an eye over them, now we are on the spot," miggestttd l>un wade. AccordiiiKly, not one eyu. but six were brought to bear un tbe rooms in question, but without Iwmg productive of the slight- est result. Now, as to the ground below tho bal- cony," said the detective ; " lias it been ex- amined for traces of footsteps, or any other marks which would tend to prove it was by that way the child was carried oil.' " That wan H point which I did not i.vei look," replied the superintendent : " but I tbouglii it I-'-.' lo leave the examination till we could h.tve daylight lohelp ut.' "Quite right. Suppose we go and ex- amine the ground at once." " Yes," sxid Inspector Ihmwado a few mint. >M Ut<-i , " Ihenu are iiinlniibtedly heel milks .m I thuastuniption is that they were m. t.le liy the rascal when he lei himself drop Ii.. m the balcony with the child in his arms." Ho had gone down on one knee, and was examining rcitam ilint* in the travelled drive which would fmrdly have been dit oernible hail they not I wen sought lor by the ait) of a small hut powerful magnifying " Now, if thissurfn.it>, he went on, " in- nti-atl of beiiighard gravel, had been turf or L-.II ileu inoulil, it might possibly havn furnish- ed us with an important link in the chain of evidence ; that is to say , wo might not have been abls to rind a pair of ies which would have exactly tilted the impienions. As it is, however, I am afraid the marks will prove of no service to us for, although they are palpably hers, yet th'y are little more than surface scratch- es, andmight have hewn caused by one pair of boot* just as readily as by another." He rose and put away his glass. " From this J 1 ' the taste of tbe fancier, but through the more practical if lass artistic demands of the bacon . ui.-i . The fad is that curing hai been revolutionized. Formerly the lean of bacon and bani used lo be hard, unpalatuble, and fearfully and wonderfully salt, while llie fttt, as ful, was good enough . BOW, under the system known as " mild cumin," the lean is excellent. It may easily be uu derstootl, therefore, that IM KINi. TIIK I'tKk \ir.s of bacon cui ing tSe chief objects of the pig- fat tenvr was tu produce the largest possible am. .tint of fat to lean, whereas at present it is to produce the igreatesl possible propor- tion of lean to fat. There have been chauges, R^-IUII, in the ideal shape of the pig, and these have been brought about by the alter- ations in the prices given per pound in the market for certain portions of the pi For instance, the should. le |ilg s ci r and ne s car- k are now about the least valuable parts of his body, consequently the immensely devel oped crwts and shoulders, which used to excite HO much admiration, are now odious in the ayes of the practical breeder. With- out entering into the details of " tides of lit.-ini," sucli as "prime stieaky," " thin streaky,"" middle of gammon," " loreend," A. . we may remark that there are about seven ditlinct prices for seventeen different paita of the " sides," to say nothing of the lienil and trotters. If we were asked which modern breed was probably the most direst descendant of the aboriginal pig of tbiscountry, w should lie inclined to say Tamworth. This bleed has been steadily increasing in favor during improbably I lioota or aim paint, 1 presume, the fellow would have little or no ditliculty in making his way out ofthe park V" " None whatever," answered the baronet. " Theru is a public right-of-way across the lower end of tho park which is open night antl day to anybndy who may chose to make use of it. (TO Br. CONTINUED. ) Most rivers have running accounts on two banks. A soldier once went into the 71st. Kegi men t in order to be was in the 7-*ml. near his brother who the last few years. Tamwo'-th's color i The common idea of dull red, with Mack spots; lint it v^rirs from a deep, rich red to a brick dint tint, and in some cases it i> of a dark slate color. The uncultivated Tamworth is hardy, ugly, leggy long-nosed, and slow in growth ; the improved Tamworth is also hardy and long in the nose, but he puts on lean quickly and fat slowrv, which makes him the big of the period lor curing on the moderuiystum. The black Herksliire U still t wry popular pig, ami for many years he ' wait generally r pig, liaed better Ihau any other, although he had to make a hard struggle to o\ ei i-iiinr \ .TKIIM. l-HUt'llli * win. Ii existed in certain localities against hii.olor. This pig, an well as the Kassx, wan improved many Vt*ar*< ago by a cross of \e,t|niliuii hli>d The probability that the Berkshire breed has Iwen black for a very loiv period ban lieen questioned. Black ings with white points can he traced hack for seventy years in Berkshire ; yet it has been confidently asserted that the pig of' the district IIM| to be a tawuy with black ipots. At any rate, crosses of Berkshire with white pigs fieqtumtly produce offs with a certain amount of red, which s that this breed, like the T ally sprang from the old worth, origin red pig of the oonntry The pmduce of a Berkshire MVI by awhile boat is almost always white, but, curiously enough, dark colors often appear in later crosse.-. The chief faults to be guarded tgainsl in buying Berkshire* are liLfht lltokn, sluu I, dropping quarters, -uine approach to leggiurss, unduly toarae hair, nd I deeply II llk'-'l furrowed skin. They should not be marked with white except on the nuse, forehead, tip of tbe tail, and feet ; lint if they have no white upon them .u (ill it is probable that they have a cro of Kssox Mood in them. The PJMX is quite Mack and U soDiethiuA between the. Berkshire and small Yorkihiro in shape. If not vary weffl known, he it a pig In d is is- long descent, and the pig is an exceedingly vulgar looking beast, whose only value con- sists in his making a hardy outcross with other breeds. One great drawback to pig breeding and observe thsl thin is not the fault of th pigs is the violent fluctuation which is con- stantly taking place in their prices. When your bailiff urgt*s you to sell because you have got "sadly too insny," you get wretched prices, and tbe only consolation of- fered to you i> Iba l " utga is very low. " \Y hen pigs are " up " and you want to sell yon either find that you have none to spare, or else your bailiff declares that it would be a " thousand pities " to part with them now that "there's such a lot o' keep." An average pig fattens most quickly from the lime be weighs nine stone to the time he weighs twelve stone, and, in the present condition of taste in oacon, it pays best to kill when he weighs about twelve stone. Sows should be fattened afte. they have produced s second or third litter, however great the temptation to have "just one more." " Oh that we were all as tit to die as that pig '" said the pious farmer ; but it is not so easy to say exactly when a p fit to die as some people suppose. In missing the subject, let it be said to his credit, thtt the pig is the most economical meat producer on a farm, and that he is about the only living creature about a Ken tlu.nan's establishment that pays a*, all - Saturday Ktnnv. i in ftrKKB 01 i > i i i . lh. n > Makes ties Nireltri a <rrami v rr lo a llui r> There are many msrcts which une would little simpeci to be furnished with apparatus suited to swift ami more or less continuous flight. House flys frequent the insiue of our windows, bulling ulaggishly in and out ol the room. But what dirlereut creatures are they wbea they accompany you on a hot Hummer's Ay. A nwarmof these- little pests keep pertinaciously on wing about your ears ; quicken your pace, and still they are with yon ; let a gust of wind arise and* carry them backwsrd'and behind, the breeze hav- ing dropped, their speed i*> redoubled, and tney return to their post of annoyance. But this example gives only a partial proot of the fly's power of 'light, as the following will show The writer was travelling one day in autumn by nil, at abjut *.TI miles an hoar, when a company of flies put in an ap- pearance at the carriage window They never nettled, but easily kept pace with the train : so much so, indeed, that their flight teemed to bo almost mechanical, and a thought struck the writer that they had probably been drawn mtoa sort of vor- tex, whereby they were carried onward with but little exertion on the part of themselves. Bnt this was soon disproved. They forth al right augle-i from Ibe train, flew tu a distance of SO or 40 feet, still keeping pare. and then returned with increased speeu and buoyancy to the window. To account for this look at the wings of i fly. Kach is composed of an upper and lower membrane, between which the bloodvessels and respira tory organs ramify no as to form a dslsrate, network for the extended wings. These arc used with great quickness, and probab ly 600 strokes are made per second This would carry the fly about '25 feet, but a xevenfold velocity can easily lie attained, making Pii feet per second, so that under certain circumstances it can outstrip a race horse. A postman m Kgypl who carried the mail tu the villages in the neighborhood of Minieh was in the habit of announcing hit arrival by shouting so that the villagers should conic at once for their mail aad not keep him waiting too long. He was placed on anew route, and shortly after leaving the first village one of the inhabitants died. prmg TwotlayM later ho cr.iled there again, and diuws another villager -'.ed after his departure. After his third visit a third villager died The villagers attributed these deaths to the evil influence of the new footman, called him the messenger of Satan, aud determined to put a stop to hU visits. On the occasion ol his fourth visit to the village a woman, who was related to one of the dead men, insulted him grossly and threw mud itt him. The postman went to complain to the sheiksof the village, whereupon the latter turned on him in a rage and reviled him in the most outrageous manner as the i-.tu-c of toe vil- lagers' misfortunes. The poor postman was obliged to resign his office. Women are so fond, of trimming* and finery that they even have ts*V fempers, rufflett'onee in a -while.