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 LADiES' COLUMN. Ladies' Pastimes a Century Ago. Not loDg sin 36 an eminent German tra- veller described the faahionable Engliak t, ladies of the present day as intolerablj^^- dull, prndiih, and uninteresting, without a speck of natural gayety or fua. Such a complaint seems strange, says a writer in frank Leslies' Popu'ar Monthly, and with- out a doubt is fouuded upon mistaken no- tions of Eagli-h social life. He should have been abie to visit England in ttie last cen- tury, and then he would perhaps have found that the humors of a London season were more in accordance with his views of liveli- ness. Here are some pictures which would probably delight him " We have a youcg lady here," writes Gray, "that is very paiticular in her de- sires. I have known some young ladies who, if they prayed, would ask lor some equipage or title, a huhbaud or matadores. Bat this lady, who is but 17, and has £30,- 000 to her fortune, places all her wishes on a pot of good ale When her fi lends, for the sake of her shape and complexion, would dissuade her from it, she answers with the truest sincerity, that by the loss of shape and complexion she could e uly lose a husband, whereas ale is her passion." What an acquisition that lady would have been to H.ns Ikeitmau's famous "barty," and how she would have made the "lager beer ' vanish I Here is another pxiure of maidj of honor and their diversicin ju the season, among them beautiful, jolly Mary BjUendtu, rep- resented by her cuntemporaries as the "moat perfect creature ever known." In a plea sant letter Popj introduces us to a whole bevy of them. "I went," he says, "by water to Himp- ton court, and met the prince, with all his ladies, on horseba.^k, returning; from hunt- ing. Mrs. Belienden and Mrs. Ltpell took me into protection, ccnirary to the laws of harboring I'apists, and gave me a dinner, with something I liked better â€" an opportu- nity of speaking to Mrs. Howard. We all agreed that the life of a maiden of honor was ot all things the moat miserable, and wish- ed that all women who envied it had a specimen of it. To eat Westphalia ham of a morning, riding over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks, come home in the heat of the day with a fever and (what is worae a huudreu times), with a red mark on the forehead from an uneay hat â€" all this may quality them to make excellent wives fur hunteis. As soon as they wipe off the heat of the day they must simper an hour and catch cold i.. the princefcs' appartinent from thence \.^ dinner, with what appetite they may and after that, till midnight, work, walk, or think â€" which way they please. Miss Lepptlled walk withme three or four hours by moonlight, and met no creature of any quality but the king, who gave audience to the vice chamberlain all alone under the garden wa'l." But they could play at high jinks some- times, and thev were somewnat hoydenish in their manners, as tlie following anecdote, humorou-ly told by Walpjle to Sir Horace Manx;, will prove " There has been," be writes, "agreatfra- cas at KiDsingtcn. OLe f the mesdames (George H.'s daughter) pulled the chair from under Couutess Delorme u,t cards, who, bfcin:^ provoked that her monarch was diverted at i er disgrace, with the malice of a hobbeyhorse gave him just such another fnll. B .t alas the monirch, uke Louis XiV., 18 mortal in the part that touched the ground, and was so hurt and angry that the ccuntens is aisgraced. And her Ger- man rival (Lidy Yarmouth) remains in the eel-! and quiet possession of her royal mas- ter's favor." The following ichallenge, issued by Lady Bultertield, proves, too, that the women of the "teacup days of patch and hoop " ould hold their own at masculine sports "This is to give notice to all my honored masters and ladies, and the rest of my lov- ing friends, that my Lady Butterfield gives a challenge to ride a horse, to leap a horse, or run on foot, or holloa, with any woman in England, seven years younger, but not a day older, because I won't undervalue my- self, being now 74 years of age. My feast will be the last Wednesday oi this month, April, when there will be a good entertain- ment for that day and all the year after, in Wanstead, in Essex." This cartel of defiance to the sex was is- sued annually but we have never heard that there v.'as any Amaz )n who picked up the gauntlet. It was before the tim« of 'â- Mr.-,.' Thornton, who rode for thousands o{ guineas, and hogsheads of claret at Don- cajj er and York, and beat even the "crack" joi.key Frank Buckle himself otherwise Lid) Butterfield might have found a foewo- maii worthy of her steel in the mistress of the ..wnerof Thornton Roy al, B iC the ladies of that time must have been sicgularly simple and unaffected in their tastes, and free and easy in their manners Wneu i^au Fielding, a mighty fine gentle- man, was courtirg the lady whom he mar- ried, he treated her and her companion, at his lodt^iDgs, to a supper from the tavern, and after supper they went out for a fiddler â€" three of tuem. '• Fancy the three," says Thackeray, "in a great wainscoted room in Coven t Garden or Soho, lighted by two or three candles in silver scsnces, some grapes and a bottle of Florence wine on the table, and a honest fiddler playing old tunes in quaint minor keys, as the beau takes one lady after the other and solemnly dances with her." The Marriage Question. To be married is with perhaps the ma- jority of women, says a recent twriter, the entrance into life, the point they assume for carrying out their idea^and aims, and there are not a few women in most circles whose personal claims are not such as to promise them unlimited choice, and who know thi3 80 well that on receiving an offer of marriage they recognize it as an occasion â€" an oppor- tunity. If such a clear-sighted maiden re- fuses a pretender to her hand because he does not reach her social standard, she does so alive to tik alternative of the future â€" a life which offers her few honors {ind small gratitude in return for the sacrifices she makes to social obligations. For, after all, a man very much in earnest and uttering flatteries new to unaccustomed ears may naturally be rejected on the instant with an unforeseen tenderness, exciting a momentary question. We adopt the word sicrifioe, for which some apology is due to any single lady who reads the paper, fron De Quincey, who is eloquent on the nobility and virtues of the old maids (insultine name he calls it) of England in wBfi he recognizes the mast highly cultivated women of his dayâ€" a pa- trician class of martyrs, so to say, to the ause of social order. The highest type of eld maii has made no sacrifice, nor is she in any sense a victim, for marriage as a state is not necessary to her idea of happi- ness but she has none of that antagonism toward half the humm race which Miss Priscilla makes her boast nor is she the one who has set herself against marriage, or whom no man has ever wishJu to marry. She is the woman who has never met with her ideal, and who has never been cunning- ly persuaded to accept anything short of it. Every woman with any romancts or mag- nanimity has, 80 far as she contemplates marriage for herself merely in the sbstract, an ideal, or some vague assemblage of high qualities which stand for such. She can only suppose herself voluntarily linking her fate with ciuother, if tliat other is a man ex- ceptionally good or noble, or at least distin- guished among his fellows. At all events he must be qiite above the common run of men a bout her. The typicalold maid hashad this ideal and been laithful to it it may be for the want of adequate temptation to in- consistency. Sjme womenâ€" the charming woman, for exampleâ€" have not been allowed to keep their ideal. They have lost sight of it in "inding themselves the ideal of some one else. Oar typical vestal has never been a chaiming woman, though she may have many excellent gifts and graces. Women are so made, happily for men, that grati- tude, pity, the exqusitive pleasure of pleas- ing, the sweet surprise of finding themselves necessary to another's happioess (or being flittered into the notion), altogether ob- scure and confuse the judgment they either forget their ideal altogether or think they have found it in the very commonplace mor- tal who is their choice. But to some wo- men this does not happen. The natural instinct to please is not strong in them. They only care to please where their taste and judgment approve, and their manner is cold or indifferent in general society. There is a French proverb, compounded of resignation and worthy policy, which repre- sents the submission and the destiny of the attrnctive woman Qunnd on n'a pan ce qu' on aime, il faut aimer ce qu' on a. It is uot that the other is deliberately attractive, but she recognizes no necessity. Sie does not want to please out of her pale of sympathies, and the alternative has no ^terrors for her. In fact, she has foreseen that a single life is her possible destiny. It is not ..t all neces- sary that this unattractiveness should have to do with a conscious want of beauty. A beautiful woman, as far as color and out- line constitute beauty, but failing in be- witching qualities, may repel admiration by inditferei'ce, and live to glorify the sister- hood to which her manner devotes her but it is the woman of commonplace exterior and sensitive mind that is commouly left alone with her ideal. We believe that al- most any woman who is not called "parti- cular," may marrj if she chooses â€" that is, if she does not speculate upon her self or share the world's unfavoraLle view of her personal pretentions. GIRLISH GAIETIES. William Penn came of a hard family. came Haven't you heard of the "Pirates of Ptnu's auuts '" "I am at your service, madam," said the polite burglar when caught -with his arms lull of silverware. "Cloaks are worn long," says a fashion exchange, but it neglects to add that those with the shortest purse were them longest. ' No, sir, my daughter can never be yours." "I don't want her to be my daugh- ter," broke in the youn^; ardent, "I want her to be my wife." People who are color-blind can not dis- tinguish any difference between red and green. To them the woman who paints her cheeks look green. "I was only footingone of your late Bills," remarked a fond father to his daughter, alter kicking her sweet Williani out of the front yard. The christening of an infant archduchess of Austria occurred lately. This fact came by c^kble. The name of the royal infant will be sent over by steamer as soon as the royal secretary gets it opied. "The surest way to take coli," said a dis- tinguished physician, "is to hug the stove." Young men who go courting on Sunday nights should remember this, and not spend all their time hugging the stove. "Next Monday will ba a big day in the necropolis," faid Mrs. McGiU at tea last evening. "How so?" queried the squire. "Because," said she, "it is a sentimental universary of the vaccination of New York )y the British troupes." "Well," said a jaunty son-in-law, loung- ing in from the cffise with his fath'ir's mail, "you've got a postal from ma, and she says she has met a cyclone." "Pity the cyclone," was the old gentleman's crusty reply^ as he jabbed his pen into the inkstand. ' E^hel," said the teaohes, "whom do the ancients say aupported the world on his shoulder?" "Atlas, sir.^' "You are quite right," said the teacher. "Atlas supported the world. Now, who supported Atlas?"' "I suppose," said Echel softly, "I suppose he married a rich wife." Mrs. Symkins de Hirris (to lady caller)â€" Do we know the Hoggs I don't think we do. Do we Maud? Young Symkina de Harris (ige 11 years)â€" Oh, ma, what a story 1 Didn't p* say he owed Mr. Hogg $3,000, and he didn't know where in the world it was to come from (Tableau). "Have you decided on your winter suit?" inquired a tailor of a sad-eyed gentleman toungin^ in the door way of the store. "No," was the melancholy reply, "but I be- lieve my wife has." "Your wife has " ex- claimed the puzzled haberdasher. "Yes, I believe she calls it a divorce suit." The various phases of the tender passion have been thus exemplified A ship is fool- ishly iu love when she is attached to a buoy; shb is prudently in love when she leaves the buoy for the pier she places her affec- tion beneath her when she is anchoring for a heavy swell, and she is desperately in love when she is tender to a man-of-war. FOK THE FARMEB. The pig is the only farm animal that will profitably trbrk over the manure of other Kk If store hogs are left to run where cattle or horses are left on store gâ„¢'" *°fy wiU earn a good part of their »?°8 »' "^*; ing among the droppings. Agam their own Excrement will greatly add to, the ^alue of the manure pile. I" »=^; f ""« f°Vbe horse manure together and letting »* »" « rooted over by pigs is much better than us- ing either separately or composting in any other way. A barrel is a very convenient receptacle for holdiog seed potatoes in the winter, but one that has onca held salt should not be used. Ilf the potatoe is in any way bruised, enough of the salt will be absorbed from the wood to cause decay. There will at best be an injury to vitality of the eyes if kept in a salt or phosphate barrel for the wm- ter. A loose box not more than eighteen inches deep and ventilated is much better than any close receptacle. A light cellar kept a little above the freezing point is better than one that is warm and dark. Agricultural Notes. The most extensive orchard in this cmn- try is undoubtedly that of Mr. Robert McKinsteyof Hudson, N. Y., whose farm of 300 acres is entirely set to apples, pears and cherries. The orchard consists of about 30,000 trees. Most of the fruit is shipped to Europe. Potato vines thinly spread over straw- berry plants makes the best protection for winter. They contain no we=d seeds, and most of their substance is broken down into rich mould by the time spring growth be- gins. Do not cover until the ground is frozen, and weight the vines to prevent them blowing away. In localities where amber cane has been grown for sugar this year it should not be forgotten that its seed, groiind and separat- ed from the husk, makes an admirable sub- stitute for buckwheat flour. The farmer who grows amb^r sugar can may thus em- ply himself with food and with sweet to make it more palatable. It will be a great mistake for any farmer to allow the loss of a single crop to so dis- gust him as to change his course of farming. If it usually succeeds, keep on. You have at least the implements and conveniences for cultivating and harvesting this crop. A change would involve increased expense, and, unless you have some experience, many losses. In some experiments with fertilizers on wheat it was lound that one piece, with the same treatment, yielded eleven bushels per acre more than another. The difference was finally explained by an old farmer who had long lived in the neighborhood, and who remembered that eight years before the plot yielding most heavily had received a heavy dressing of barnyard manure. Every crop grown since had shown the good effects ot this treatment. During the winter season hogs are apt to get too rich and too concentrated food. They will eat the straw given for bedding while it is clean. Hiy is better, because more noarishiog, and when hay is plentiful a litile may often be profitably fed with other food. It is especially valuable where corn is the staple feed. Oits and barley furnish enough bulk in the husks so th^t further distention of the stomach is not necessary. The eggs of the tent caterpillar m«xy now be found in shining bunches closely glued to the ends of twigs, where the worm is to hatch and fiod its feed. They will endure severe freezing without injury, and are pro- tected acrainst any ordinary degree of mois- ture. Painting each branch with a brush dipped in varnish will destroy their vitality by closing the eggs so that air cannot enter. Crude petroleum oil will do as well. It is a noteworthy fact that all the lead- ing dairy breeds of cows come from coun- tries near the seashore, and where there is an abundant supply of moisture in the at- mosphere. The milking capicity of com- mon cows may be greatly increased by moistening their feed. If water is always convenient cows will drink muoh more, but it does not always follow that water so tak- en will be assimilated with the food in the stomach, as it will where both food and moisture are taken together. Sows farrow in about 116 days or a little less than four months after coupling. The sows ii^tended for breeding should be kept by themselves and fed with wheat middl- ings ground oats or barley, and boiled pota- toes. It is not best to feed them much corn. They will naturally tend too much to fat while with pig, and it may be neces- sary to restrict their diet so that they will squeal occasionally before feeding. No time should now be lost in getting sows with pig, as late Spring pigs will hardly get growth enough to profitably fatten the coming fall. Meadows. Meadows are rarely as good as they may be made. To have them in good condition they require constant attention and repair. There are two seasons when the meadows can be profitably regulated, viz., Spring and Fall. Just now a liberal top-dressing with fine mantire, ashes, lime, or potash salts, with a little fresh seed in thin places, and a moderate harrowing will be of great benefit. There is not muoh to be got from them by the cows now, and what little there is not very good. It is a pood plan to keep a small meadow for Fall or Winter pasture where the latter can be used. If one has not the grass, rye sown in July or August among the com at the last working will make a very good substitute. But there is no crop that can be grown that is so good as good grass for this use. If the grass is liberally treated one acre of it will carry one cow, off and on, through the whole season A good meadow will pay the interest on $500 per acre that ia, |2.5 or (30 a year at 5 or 6 per cent, interest. And one reason for this is that it comes in at the very sea- sons when good feeding is the most valu- able that is in the Spring or eaiiy Summer and in the Pall. Bat it ahoald ba only used at those seasons and rested between them so as to make a good growth vhen it ia wanted. And as soon aa it has been eaten down it should itself be fed that ia it should have a dressing of plaster, «ilt.' or fine bone, or all of them, in the Spring, and lime, asbea, or manure, or all of them, ui the Fall. Then it will pay, and, ]uit like a cow, it will p»y in proportion to the way it is fed. A reatless disposition in a horse is often very annoying and genisrally hard to over- come. One thing noticeable about it is that such a diaposition generally belongs to a horse which is deficient of real good horse sense hence the lack of a good foundation on which to beg n a reform. Kmd treat- ment and quiet handling are about the best treatment that can be prescribed in sue J cases. One thing is positive, that the rougher they are handled the more liable they are to become nervous and excitable. Winter Care of Stock. I do not make this appeal to those who are raising thoroughbred stock or who are devoting their time and money to the most intelligent methods of stock raising, sup plied with new and commodious barns and surrounded by all t'ae modern improve- ments, but to that more numerous class of farmers whose barns were built a half cen- tury or more ago, and whose methods of feeding and care are even aaore ancient. To these would I suggest the adoption of n ore rational and remunerative systems of Win- ter care of stock. W^armth is second only to feed for the prosperity of any stock. Many who reid this have practiced turning their cattle into the yard by eight o'clock in the morning of Winter days, where they remain till four iu the afternoon, possibly being tied up for a noon feed, but more likely a coarse fodder dinner being scattered for them in the yard. I ask that all such farmers should try for one month the methoi of keeping every creature sheltered all day, turning out but once, about noon being the best time, for drink. I am convinced that under this method cattle do better and consume less hay. New milch cows may need more dr.nk, but a pail of Wirm bran slop supplied the want. A single load of spruce, hemlock, or bass wood logs if carried to the saw mill will make a large number of half-inch boards or battens if split up in widths of four inches or more. These should be nailed over those crachs of the bam that have been widening every year for an age. Hay enough will thus be saved to pay the saw bill. Better still, if around the stable whole boards be nailed so as to leave a few inches space between the inner and the outer walls, the space between being filled with straw or forest leaves. The partition in front of the cattle should be fully boarded up, a drop door being fixed through which to feed. The mangers should be so partitioned off that no animal can steal anotherss hay. Regularity in feeding is essential to suc- cess, also that more feed be given than will be eaten up clean. Feed a variety while possible, and salt occasionally by dissolving coarse salt in a pail of hot water, and sprinkling a foddering of hay or straw. Frequent use of the cattle card makes frieuds of the stock and pays in dollars and cents. A pocket full of corn nubbins will induce cattle promptly to take their proper places in the barn, while screaming and pounding will ever cause disastrous commo- tion. It is often said that Winter ia the time when we feed out all we can raise in Sum- mer, as though it were a season of dread, with no profit accruing, but to the thought- ful and earnest farmer, watching and im- proving the condition of his stock, it should be a season of great satisfaction. Suitable care and attention will make most stock ad- vance in condition, size and value during the Winter months, and the net profit of keep- ing stock, whether for market or for heed- ing and dairy purposes is determining by the condition in which they come from the Winter quarters to Summer pastures. â-  â€" â-  â€" •â- â€¢^ â€" Inventions of Half a Century. The Home Journal The number of in- ventions that have been made during the past fifty years is unprecedented in the his- tory of the world. Inventions of benefit to the ^human race have been made in all ages since man was created; bu^ looking back for half a hundred years, how many more are crowded into the past fifty than in- to any other fifty since recorded history The perfection [of the locomotive, and now the world-traversing steamship, the tele- graph, chromo-lithographic printing, the cylinder printing press, the elevators for hotels and other many-storied buildings, the cotton gin and the spinning jenny, the reaper and the mower, the steam thresher, the steam fire engine, the improved process for making steel, the application of chloro- form and ether to destroy sensibility in painful surgery cases, anl so on through a long catalogue. Nor are we yet done in the field ot invention and discovery. IThe ap- plication of coal gas and petroleum to heating and cooking operations is oaly trembling on the verge of successful experi- ment, the introduction of the steam from s great central reservoir to general use for heating and cooking is foreshadowed as among events the aitificial production of butter has already created a consternation among dairymen, the navigation of the air by some device akin to our present balloon would also seem to be prefigured, and the propulsion of machinery by electricity is even now clearly indicated by the march of experiment. There are aome problems we have hitherto deemed impossible, but are the mysteries of oven the most improbable of them more anbtle to graap than that of the ocean cable or that of the photograph or the .telephone? We talk by cable with an ocean rolling between we apeak in our own voice to frienda one hundred milea or more from where we articulate before the microphone. Under the blazing sun of July we produce ice by chemical means, rivaling the most solid and cryatalline production of nature. Our aurgeons graft the akin from P^e pe'son'" wma to the face of another, and It adheraa and becomea an integral portion of his body. We make a mile ot white pnnting paper and aend it on a apool that a perfeotmg printing presa nnwmda and prmte, and delivers to you folded and count- ed, many thonsanda per hour. Of a verity thu IS the age of invention, nor has the world reached a stopping place yet. ks^^i*? W«at»»ow preacher announced hu text .he simply aaid :â€" " Heil-what ia Ik. It 18 a mean wretch who will .i hair switch in a car loaded T. '^^ ^9 » then smile as he see. e.ery 'ar°'"«'i, aa grab for the back of ber l! j*" ""^^e notices it. ' ^^^^ whea si^ Gx)d boys are train 2d in tho dens of Chicago until they becl u"' '" then they can be admitted tr'?u"'"^S ville training school. This in A atl!"""' servea for bad boys. Poor on f " " «• no such place to go. ' ""ys h^i YiTBt boy: "Where yer hin t, Second boy: "Bin tishm' 'â-  p' " "Ketch anythin' T' v.ith an anx^n.if 'r. sion en his face. F^r seeinr „ "'«â-  'No._butIexpectterS^'rg°^;S: house. 5I' in tie "I don't un.ierstanl whv w,m thatway,"s.daman,poiSirir7dr«, who passed aJonz the «t....^ 7 ^^'»^iv who passed alon^ tne street "i r either, replied a bystauier. ""Th t the street. man," continued the first speaker 'â-  !!f^ "â-  ed ridiculously. Her hush-n/' "'^â-  fool." " I know he i "^S^il T' ' "Doyouknowhini-" â-  y '1 "^^.r, blamed fool mysolf. 'i^^' Imth; The Monetary Times says • 11 ir • iu the expense of maintaining a LT" car is the washing bill. The IMlmin r °^ pans entire outfit include; "lO nni i, 46,000 pillow-slips, 13 000 blanke S hand towels, and f,,000 roller towl" car 18 entirely emptied and cleaneiassai as It reaches it^ acstinition, and the lin sent straight to the kundry. The Wao Company's total ejuipment is 4.000 wooZ blankets, 13,851 liuca sheets, 12,202 piH slips, 5,740 hanc-iowls, and 2347 rollr' towels. The expense of keepi.,;; the «acm Company s bedding clean i, s:;9,0]0 a 4r the Pullman Company's is larger. ' ' Nost-BulMiiig Fishes. In 11 mating along the shore; of s:me wooJ. Ian J stream, we may watch the domssti'l Uie cf the sunfish A'^/zor/io.:;,, the mouu" bespangled frieni of tlie acgler, that 1^ seemingly always on hand to be caa;ht u default of nobler game, Along the shore where delicate grassy grow, where fljatin? lily pads cast slraogi shadows, and the white pink-tipped bus reach upward, here among the vmim stems, sheltered by a mossy bank with over- hanging ftrns and cat-o'-cins-tails, thesim- fish builds its nest. They may be seen by pairs moving in and out among the hlic! near ths shore, as if jointly selecting the site for their nursery. It is generally a gravelly spot, and once agreed upon, the little builders set vigorously to wort The stems and roots are torn np fo: twelve inches about, and carefully earned several feet away, while the smaller rootlets are swep aside by skillful blows of thair tails, both fishes standing over the neit creating a mimic whirlpool with their tails that effectually carries of the objectionible particles. The stones are next taken away, the smaller ones in their mouths, tne lirgir being pushed out bodily, or fanned away by the ^sweeping process, until finally an oval depression appears, with a fine sandy bot- tom. The stems and other aquatic verfure about the sides, that seem 10 have bsei purposely left, now naturally fall over, » tnat oftentimes tne ne-it is a perfect bora, its walls bedecked with buds, while theroi is a mat of white lilies floating upon the m- face. Here the eggs are deposited, the ait and female alternatively watching to* We have always known the suulish as tii most peacelul of the finny tribe, andonlyu wanton playfulness chasing the goiM carp but let a stranger, a hew dskeredct fish, approach the bower, aad war is l once declared. Tne little creatures seemt; snip with rage and detiiuce, the sharp M sal fins stand erect, the pectorals vibrati with repressed emotion, while the conral sive miovements of their powerful tails sm« that they are ready to stand by their hcmf to the last, and indeed so vigorous is toen charge that larger fishes are foreed to re treat, and as the suntiihes bjild in on panics, the intruder is often attacker Dy»' entire colony of them. Tney have, a' ever, an enemy thatst-ems to defy them,» pirate perch (AphrodeJrv-^ ^yan""' ""° like the cuokoo, that is either locap""' too lazy to build a neat of its own. o"" posits its eggs in that of its neighbor.-M I' HOLUKR, cember. in Harji:rs Magazine J^r No Reason There "Hi say Mr. Pongranate," observeda" ored Austin expressman, who was i- fortunate owner of a baulky muie, ^^ some one had unloaded upoa hira ' melancholy pwt, "didn't I he^b " t' good many times dat dare was reason 'i^s-S.m." replied MnP^ngran^.; believe that precept and am t airai so." " Yer wussen't?" Vvlu,den, Ijusiwishtyo'dcamw^' alley an' look at my mule. stuck dar for mo' un hojr ings. Hi's dun i«^ Look Out. ^^^ It is said that niany of the «o-c^^ ^, wool blankets made '° ^f^'J! V •»«• lishments of the United h*»^«. ^jjei made up of hair taken *5°^j tskenff Texas cattle. When the ha.r » the hides it is cleaned '" ;, then c*" with wool of a low gra*^^'" blanket » ed snd worked into "oars* J of « adds to the weight a-'J ^^ ^^ blanket, and '^^^^^ 'Z°S^J\tf '» durability. Taere is 1' f j" J, work â-  tecting the hair iV^f^sUoa^ the coarse thread ,.Toe «J -^ very aa it is not barbed like wool, It « pulled out. ^_____ â€" â€" A law has i^tfTtlTr^^^^^^i York City P'°^'^^^'°^, toLcoin^r^Kt cigars or preparation of toD^^ j^^ orb" ZnU ocrupfed ior^^^^^fS te^^ hold purposes. It^J^ ,„^afa=t J house c.gar and tobac. ^; pn and was enacted o" f ^,^, are »ff^l health. Twenty-eight nr ^^^,n, and 7,000 operatives-m^,B.l,g.a children, chiefly f^.-'^lyment. T^; are thrown out of emp "5^ ^f the " dition of health and m'«J_ .i.^mpf paople is said to be fngj ^^ „»de. evade the law will probaoiv Ml The wagci ji»n Pacific ^noed ten The Kint oroved a fi jooatobes Lsdy Bos don, former ia dead. •• Ex-Aldei Qfgad Secre Jtoresters, d; lion, a few d Hon. M. gone^ith hi the beneflft from disease The new ning the Ni lailway susp and it will b Rev. Dr. 1 ent minister oently in Mo ent man in t It is repor been in Parii naercial trea prove of gres Hon. John appointed on consolidatioi the place of The Hast mei^orialize: half of Wom Kingston ci similar actioj A North V cently paid Ottawa $S2 $32 960 acrei District. The Nap: through Len now nearly c ly all laid an running orde The Monti ia that city preparations kports and ai and extensiv Ssarlet fev ported to be Mr. Joseph 1 five children Two cf them Workmf n' down. A fe ployees of Railway wor $1 per day. tion quietly. Mr. Georg Canadian Pc presented to tor the pur] oommemorat Campbell, Trie Petro representatii mtnt to plac importation 80 ^ish the i the Customs ment. There are about the ch this year, I arriving at t work houses than 2 460 â-  work houses Several ic( A young lad injured oy tl head, that si Man, of Dri the ice in thi Two men w the river nea Mr, John Brantfurd, h in that city, donate it t( l^ave thackfi and the woi Two or three part of the V •Hardy. I'rov A new unf wrecked ne cently. The caan, on the towed to H steamer A\ir and the haw being towtd the rcck.o, w wreck. The of whom wei The presei MiEsifsippi the most pre A fire cci New York, deal of destr hut not co: ^••s is estims A Chicago 000 has bee felony. No â- worm that 1 will not be c It is said tisis in the t tan Oi pure g ging tteth. may Le amcr eountry. The Nati( iiahtd thrcu War, have, ii is said tha iu the hands »mt of the t The Frecc rescind the tion cf Amei • 1 the munii bersof Comn *ill organize A New Or