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 AGRICULTUBAL. Small Fruits. A correspondent of the New English Farmer, writes thus sensibly and practical- ly :- The farmer shonld set apart a small piece of land especially for growing small fraits for family use, becanse it will be a luxury he can well afford. He has the land, and it will be used for a |;ood purpose if he sets out a strawberry bed and devotes a plot to raspberries, and one to bla kberriea, and also seta out some goosebei ries; of course, the currant will find a place on every farm without my nrgiotc its claims. Grape vines are neglected by far too many rarmers. There are now so great a number ot varieties, that it would seem that one could find scnne that would thrive in his own locality, and therefore, the farmer is neglecting a duty that he owes his family, if lie fails to set a few vines, and take Rcujd cfre of them. His wife and children v.iil thank him for i:;. Who does not like good grapes Is it not a pleasure to graw them ft. r uome consump- tion It J ou should happen to grow a lew more than sn wanted fc r yotr family's use. they can readily be (hspcsed of in the neighlxrhood or the village. Apples eri to be lound en most farms, to a greater r less extent, but what per cent of feraicri grow a full supply of small fruits extendirgttjrjufch the whole season, as they ought tu It is said that they Era eo productive that they can be grown profitably on land wcr;h SIOOO per acre; be this as it may, however, I am well satisfied that they can be profit- ably grown for family use. The strawberry is the fruit to come in the spring, and it is also the most temptiug to the taste, according to the writer's op.nion, and the st r iwbirry bed ought to be found in all gardens, however small they may be. It does not require a large bed to supply a family with an occasional diah of berries. Oae year ago last spring I sjt just six plants to see what they would do, and the list sea- â-  on they furnished us with six pints of fine strawberries; and plants often do much bet. ter than thij. Of course it is needless to grow a riwberries without givirg them carj. The ground should be well prepared, and clean culture is absdutely necessary; and if they are supplied with a great deal of water, the yield will bo largely incieissd. For family use select the fineat flavcrad ber- ries that produce well; bat for market the principal point is to select a largi, showy variety, the quality not being sd imp riant, as consume Ti will lock mc n to tne appear- ance of the berry, than ihey will to the quality. If a large bed is p'anted they should be S2t in rows, t^r enougu aptr; to admit of horse cultivation. In the autumn, jast as late as nay be, the p'ants should be given a light winter protection of hay; and in epring uncover the plants, leaving the hsy on the ground as a mu;cb, and to ke«p the btrries clean. I prefer to set a new bed every sprirg as it is leas work to do this than it id tu ket,. the old bed frie from weeds. Cutting Potatoes for Seed. Mr J. Birden, of Wells, "V t. gives an inter- esting account of some experiments he made last Summer in planting cut and uncut pota- toes, Taree rows, each long enough for 125 hills, were planted to Birbank seedlings, one row witn whole seed, one with one piece to the hill, and another with two pieces in a hill. At digging time the single-piece rjw yielded six bushels, the two-piece row, eight bushels while the row planted with uncut potatoes, produced ten bushels, These were very marked results, yet, in order to have aa experiment of ttiii kind teach all we would like to know about plant- lag cut or uncut potatoes, we ought to know whether the hills werj of uniftr.n distance apart in each ca^e, and aho whether the pieces were cut to single eyes, or whether ihey wers large potatoes cut in two. The whole seed, we be'ieve, was from large, selected potatoes. Now, as j rices ruled last season at pl'iuting and her vesting time, ii migtitstiU be a qiesciou wtiichseed was the most economical to plant? Av;ain, seed cut to single eyts should be plan '-ed with aereat many more hills to the acre, than would be judicious if using large whole s.ed. If Mr. B ;ri«n dropped his singl i eyes two or three teet apart in the row, we should suspect that he used too little seei to obtain a lull •rop. The question of whole or cut seed ii cn3 that is surrounded with too many difiicalc- ies to be ansvvered at once, and lor all time. It has been our aim when discussing the question, rather to study the laws which control the growth of the potato, than to at- tempt to lay down infallible rules, as guides for a:3tion. If one undertinds the nature of the plant he is cultivating, he w;ll be bet- ter able to ad( p' the conditions to each other that may exiat at the time. All potatoes are so cheap this tpring that tht.sj who wisi to experiment with la'ge, whole seed, Cdn do so with little ex"ra uis:. Our preference is for single eyes, if a;l other conditions are within control, and we would prefer the pieces should be cut from large, smooth seed; but if the price was high, we would not ob- ject to those which were jus" below market size. But in either caje we would want the rich soil, and in the very finest state of tilth, so that every piece would start and make an early and strong growth. The potato is like the constitution of some men, able to end I. re a good deal of abuse, but there is no argument in favor of abusing either. Yalne of Maples. Of the several genera of American shade and ornamental trees, including ilie caks, elms, maple, and birches, the maples stand first for general value, and are now more planted than any others. One of the most extensive nniserymen lately stated that he sold more trees of the sugar maple than of all other sbade trees together. Tae ease of propagation, and the clear, rich and healtay loliage, gives the maples a prominent ad- vantage. Some brief notes on the leading species, nowthat plantirg time is approach- ing, may not be out of pUoe. The sngar maple, called also rock maple, stands at the head for general popnlaricy. The young trees form hsndsone shade trees, and aa^ey grow older, if a slight attention is given to the form of the head, they as- sume a fine shape, with a dense, thick mass of foliage. For timber plantations, they psiess the value of supplying excellent fael, and the wood is valuable for various manu- facturing purposes, if not exposed to alter- ations of moisture. Unlike some other species of seeds ripen in autuoin, at wbieh time tb,ey may be sown, or kept till spring in slightly damp (not wet} sand. The yocng frees will make a growth of a foot or two the first year, and for timb-r planta tiopR do btst on rich nplaad, but they will not bear a wet suksiil. The black maple, regarded by some bot- anists ss only a variety of the preceding, but with some characti ristios of a dis.ioct species, resembles the sugar maple in the time of ripening its seeds and in affording sugar r;m the sap. It diflFers in its largr leaves, with drooping lobes and a (.light pubescence beneath, while the geufril ap pearance of the foliage is less stiflF and more graceful, with a waraner and richer color. The leav8 have often meisared nine inches in breadth. Tae silver map'e is remarkable for its rapid growth â- wnen young, and is much planted in v Uage streets. The branches are fpreadinc, and often drooping, and re- quire some shcriening to give a good form the leavps are silvery whn.e beneath. Like the sugcr maple it grows to a large 'ree, two or three feet in diameter, and sixty or seventy feet high. It is less valuable fcr timber p'antauois; tl-e wood, althorgh fine grain- td, is not dvrihle. The s^cds r pan early in the season, and may be at once planted, an'"' will make a good growth the same year. A? with the oth» r maph s they should be planted in drills about an inch deep, and covered with fine soil pressed down upon them. The young plants usually requiru a light shading frcm the hot sun. The red or soft maple resembles the pre- ceding in the gsneral apparane of the foliage which is silvery beneaih, but the tree is leas spr.-ading in growth, and the flowers, which come .out in spring befcra the leaves, are rich crimson in color. It is less rapid in growth than the silver maple. The leaves are sharply cut, and frequently char.ge to a brilliant in color in autumn befere dropping. In its native localities it becomes a large tr»e. Toe seeds ripen early in the seajon. The asb-Ieafed maple bcx-elder of the West, is made into a separate genus by some botanis*s. In rich Eoil its growth U very r'pid; when young it ia a beautiful! rae; and it is tpiciaily recommended for timb-r plantations at the West, Its wood is like that cf the silver and rad map'es. Its seeds ripen in autumn, and are to oe trjated like those of the sugsr msp'.a. Among the introduced ppecics are the Norway maple and sycamore maple â€" the for- me r makirg a handsome, round-headed tree with broad, smooth, bright green leaves, which appear early in spring and hang later in autumn that those of the sugir maple. The sycamore maile is a rather coarse-grow- ing Irae with s^.iff branches, and the young trees being slighlly tender are S)metime8 injured by winter. The leaves are whitish and slightly brown beneath. Bith of these species r'pen their seeefs in autumn. Taeri are some smalle r native p :cies of the maple, among which isthesViped maple or moose-wood which sometimes grows twenty cr thirty feet high, but ia more fr quen^ly on'y ten or fifteen feet, and with its sn-p^d bsrk and dense foliagjfr rois a hand- some Ornamental tree and the mountain maple which is a till shrib, with flowe rd in dense racemes, and is planted only for orna- ment. Of the pTincipsl native fp'cies which we have mentioned, the silver maple is found growii g on the banks of rive r i from Maine to frftorg'a, but is more piracularly abun- dant along the western rivtrj. The red maple 's found mostly in swamps and wet places, from Canada to the Galf of Mexico. The sugar maple is most abundant nortih of lati- tude 40 degrees, and east of the Mississipp' and on mountains further south. The Welsh Ti u on Cremation, Dr, Prise, the Welch Druid, having at las: s iccessfully conducted the crema- tion ot his dead infant, now announces his intention of erecting a crematorium at Llantrissant, Pirjona who deiire to le cre- mated or whose exjcutcrj wish the remains to be so ditposed ot will be accorded the re- quisite faculties. The doctor ^tite-'that all his family will be ceremated there. He points out the financial advantages of cremation over other modes of disposicg of the dead, and states that all the matefiah used in the crematiou of hi^ son were half a ton of coals, a gal'on of paraffia oil, and 6 penny worth of wood, the total cost being only S shi. lines an 1 two penco. Every vestige of the in'ait'a bjdy was burnt, and the breeze cirried away the as'ies. The fire was so fierce that it melted th« iron of the grate on wnich the body was deposited. Dr. Price arg jes that the ritual ot the Church of E ig- laud points to a period when cremation Wiiu the conventional method. What other s'g- nification, he asks, can the phrase "ashes to ashes" cr^nvey Frjm India, Spiin, Italy, France, London, and all parts of England letters of approval and symp ithy have been received by Dr, Price. An ex-clergyman aid a minister are among his correspondents, to whom Dr. Price desires to express his pro- found gratitude tor the couruesy extended to him. He states that he took his child's body on Friday to the place of cremation in a cart, accompaiied only by a man-servant. Dr. Price protests against the inurnment of ashes of crenated pjrsors as contrary to Druidic precedent and as calcu'ated to re- kindle gref anacn^ the survivors of the dead. He thiiuis cr amnion shonld be absolute in its disposal of the d« a 1. â€" Z/oadon Telegraph Always Cheerfnl. People of even temperament are the most companionable. There are some folk who are out of sorts at every hand's tura for no legitimate reason â€" beciu?e the sun has gone und( r a cloud, because they alep -, badly or ate too heartily; but the companionable per- son makes the best of every situation. She is not fidgety or fussy, and her prej adices are not, as with some, her chief ct aracteris- tics. When she arrives, she brings another atmosphere with her, and common things seen with her eyes, become wonderful. She ia a person of ideas, and bestows them with prodigality; she is not so often a wit as the occasion of wit in others, which is a far mere popular being than the mere wit cm hope to be; and, although she may only have travelled "a good deal on Cape Cod," yet she has seen and underitood more than many who have ransacked Cbristendom. "".•^hat do circus folks do in winter?" asked a contemporary. The clown devotes the season to gleaning a fresh crop of jokes from the aloiaaacs printed prior to the American Re volution, and occasionally writes for the L)ndon somie weeklies; and the "atronj; man," who splinters roeks with his fist, secures employmant in a cheap boarding bouse at hammering tough beef. No doubt the others find employment atilapted to their respective talents. ST. HELENA AS IT IS. Tbe Home of Napoleoa a Harbor for 'Wbalersâ€" Frencb Soldiers Guard- lag Napoleon' Tombâ€" The Kmperor'a Kyes. If the allied nations of Earope had not in the year 1815 selected the island of St Hel- ena for the prison of Napoleon, it would to- day be probably little better known than its sister island, A'tcension. Yet Ss. Helena hai played a by no means unimportant part in the history of maritime commerce, and though its business is now rapidly declin'ng, it is still of great value to our southern whalers. Lying in the South Atlantic about 2,500 miles to the northwest of the Cipe of Good Hope. S\ Hdlena is the har- bor most convenient to the whaling grounds There stores and provisions of all kinds can be readily obtained, and in the safe anchor- age at James Town repairs to vessels are easily though somewhat expensively made. Everything, even to coal, that may be re quired for the supply of sh'pping has to be brought from England, and the price ship- owners have to pay ia proportiejnally high. Bat whalers, who are often away from home for a year or eighteen months, will run short of supplies, and it is no uncommon thing to see the flag of the United States flying at the sterns of five or six brigs or barks at James Town harbor. St. Helena is of volcanic formation, and is in outline an irregular oval about nines miles long, and five miles wide at its greatest width. The first Euro- pean nation to make a settlement there was Holland, but the E^wst lodia Company ac- quired it by purchase, and nearly fifty years ago it was t'-ansferred to the exclusive con- trol of the English Government. The in- habitants number about 5,000, more than half of whom are negros. The latter are aborigines, but the descendants of people brought Irom the African coast. When England was basily engaged in breaking up the slave trade of the West Coast, St Hel- ena was the depot to which the captured slavers were taken. There are still living there many negroes who thus etciped the horrors of the "middle passage." As is the case in post English colonies there is very little prejudice against the black man simply on account of his color, and one of the island's most respected ancl able merchants was brought there a lad in the hold of a slave ship. St. Helena is controlled by a Governor appointed by the Crown an i as- sisted by a Council of inhabitants. Its value as a supply station diminished so much with the completiouof the Saez C'aaal that the home regiment was disbanded and its place supplied by a wing of one of the West India regiments. When first seen from the ocean the island looks like a collection of lofty, bar.-en, and inaocessible crags, the most striking of which, Diana's Peak, attains an elevation of 5,000 feet. The harbor is almost shut out from view till a narrow opening between two hills nearly a thousand feet high give entrance to a wide roadstefcd. It is admir- ably sheltered from storms, and the only danger arises from a peculiar and powerful tidal wave that at intervals of several ycara springs up without warning and often tears ships from their anchorages. This tidal wave is aomewhat similar to the "bore" oc- casionally observed at the mouth of the Severn in the Irish Channel, The St. Hel- ena wave is, however, of greater dimensions, its height having been noted as over ten feet. Far out to sea it has been observed gathering force and height aa it advances with startling rapidity and irresistible power. James Town is a wide, straggling village, of white houses, with low, projecting roofs and ample verandas, that strongly recall lu- d an bungalows. Nearly all the storehouses and important public buildings are built of iron and slate, aa within the last thirty years the island has been subjected to the plague of white ants. These insatiable little mon- sters, who are three or four times as large as the ordinary black ant, are aole to speedily destroy any kind of woodwork. They can honeycomb a big log, till it may be crushed by the pressure of a hand.' And yet they do their word from the inside, leaving a thin veneer on the surface, so that their presence is often entirely unsuspected. Large build- ings have been brought to ruin by these minute pests, and it is no uncommon thing to see a chair or a sofa suddenly collapse, and to find that the ants have eaten every- thing but the varnish. They demolish any kind of wook but teak, and through this they bore, with the precision and smooth- ness of an augur, paths to lesdhard material. The ravages of these pests, supposed to have been originally brought from one of the East Indian Islands, have cost hundreds of thous- ands of dollars, and thongh large rewards have been ofi'ered for the discovery of meaas to exterminate them, no remedy has been found. Tae fi-st place the average visitor asks for is Longwood, built for Napoleon, and in which he speut nearly five years, and finally died. The road to Longwood which lies several miles from James Town, passes through some very pretty valleys, where all the available ground is used for farming purposes, and within sight of The Briars, a very pretty country house, in which Napo- lean was lodged while Longwood was pre- paring for him. The latter place is handier to the town, and N%poleon greatly objected to the transfer; but Lonewood is nearer the centre of the island, and it was considered advisable to make attempt at rescue or es- cape asjdifficult aa possible by keeping him far from the coast. The house is sunk in a valley, and is a long, low structure, very much resembling a two-story American summer hotel. Scarcely anything remains in the shape of relics; but the tomb near the house, and lying under weeping willows, is guarded by a French sergeant and two sol- diers. The giuund was purchased by the French. Under the sarcophagus, which is about three feet high and protected by an iron railing, the body of the great Emperor rested twen^-five years, and until it was taken to its final magnificent tomb in the Invalides. A very near relative of the wri- ter, who was present when the cofiSa was taken up and opened before the Prince de Joinville, said that the embalming bad been done so well, that though the skin had turned parchment hued tbe outline of the features renained perfect. It was under a tricolor of satin made by some women on the island that the body was. borne to tbe ship, and each of these laiies was presented by the Prince with a gold bracelet, in the name of the French nation. The same per- son who witnessed the exhuoiation became acquainted with Napoleon during the six years of his captivity, and declared that he could never meet the ex-E-nperor's eyes for more than a second. Hia glance remained till tbe list 80 piercing that it seemed to reach into the very soul of the person ou whom it was bent. The inhabitants of Si. Helena are callea "â- yamstocks," because of tneir fondness for yamsâ€" » monstrous variety of the sweet po- tato. Firming land ia so scarce that fresh meat and vegetables, batter and milk com- mand high prices. Saoh commoditias are, in a great measure, brought from Cipe Town. The steamers on tneir homeward trip to Eogland make the passage to James Town in about six days. They do not call on the southward voyage, but make a de- tour to avoid the trade windf, which blow almost constantly from the Cape. Sailing vessels stopping at St. Helena have first to go far beyond it, and come down with the "trades," It is sometimes very diflSoult to do this, and an instaace is on record, when the Eist India Company owned the island, and only two supply ships were sent out yearly, that the signal mister on Lidder Hill reported one ot tae ships in sighc less than thirty days after the date fixad for her departure from England. The veisel did not make the harbor, and the signal man was believed to have made a mistake. Near- ly BIX weeks later the vessel arrived, and an examination of her log showod the correct- ness of the signal man's report. The inter- vening time had been spent trying to beat up to catch the trades. St. Helena has no wild animals indige- nous to the land, but boasts two kinds of birds not found elsewhere. These are a gray abdavat, with pink breast and bill, rather smaller than a sparrow, and the S:. Helena canary, which is of a dark green color, sometimes shading to lighter green and with yellow on the breast. They are splendid songsters The females are dun brown. Java sparrows, the first of which probably escaped from some ship, are also plentiful, and there are a few wild p urrota and African birds, Negro boys drive a brisk trade in selling birds to passengers. The waters of the coast aboimd with fiso of all kiuda. One known as the albdcore is very fine eating and is considered equal to turbot. Attempts have been made to plant oyster 1, but unaucscessfully, p'xbably be- cause of the heat of the water. Although St, Helena lies well south of the tropica, the heat there is often intense, and winter is unknown. Consumptive and asthmatic pa- tients are frequently ordered there by Eng- lish physicians. Tae island of Ascension, which is about three day's sail to the north- ward, is much smaller than St. Helena, and is exclusively an English naval station. The ground is entirely Gjverjment property, and no one is allowed to settle or trade there except by special permit from the Admiral- ty. Ascension cannot bo a very pleasant place for those who like society. The last t.me the writer heard from there only three ladies graced it, aad not one of these would speak to either of the others. CAUSE OF CHJIIST'S DEATH. Oocosloned by Knptare of Tbe Heart Caneed by BXental A.a:ony. "Tne most remarkable event ia the his- tory of the world was the death of Jesus Christ," said Rev. Dr. Thomas A. Hoyt, pastor of the Chambers Presbyterian Church, of Philadelphia, recently, in be- ginning a special sermon to the medical stu dents. "Its hidden meanings," he continu- ed, "are tranac ndant and it was, without parallel, the most su'olimo tragedy ever en- acted." The speaker had chnsen his text from St. John xxxiv, 19. Jjhn, he said, stood only a few feet from the Saviour, and subsequently related what he saw. The subject discussed by the speaker was, "What was the physical cause of Christ's death?" Several eminent physicians had devoted years to the study of the question and a boos: on the subject had been publish- ed by Dr, Stroud, of Edinburgh, about thirty-five years ago, in which he ascribed Christ's death to rupture of the hea'-t. Dar- ing a convention of physicians in Scotland sever il years ago the deductions arrived at in this book were presented for their con- sideration, and they were confirmed. There a-e, the minister said, many cases on record where death has resulted from violent pas- sions of joy or sjrief. Pliny tells us of a Lacedamonian who fell dead from joy at hearing that his son had won a prize at the Olympian games. The speaker rjad sever- al opinions on the subject of heart rupture, and continued "There is no pretense that the spear thrust into the Siviour's side c lus- ed death. In tact, he was deal before the wound was received. Christ was crucified at 9 o'clock in the morning, and expired at .3 o'clock in the afternoon, or two hoora be- fore the centurian dealt the blow with his spear. The crucified generally lived from two to three days, and sometimes as long as five days on the cross. There is no evi- dence that disease might have caused) His death, and no reason to believe that he was not of perfectly sonn I health. Some have thought that H^ might have died from ex- haustion, but we are told that He was mir- aculously sustamed during His trials. It was not weakness. S ime declare that He voluntarily gave up life, but Ha did not take His life He simply submitted to the conditions under which H i died. The an- swer to the question, "Wnat was the physi- cal cause of Christ's death V is. 'R ipture of the heart caused by mental agony.' L'^er- ally. Hi diid of a broken near " The speaker read ex racta from many letters from eminent physicians giving their opin- ions on Dr, Stroud's book, and on hla de- duction aa to the death of the Saviour, They all endorsed his conclusion thit Christ had died of a rnptcrxl heart, "John says," continued the speaker "that when the spear was thrasc into the S^vLmr'a side 'forthwith cami there out blood and water.'" Dr. Hoyt then proceeded to ex- p'ain this from a medical point ot view. H i said that when the spear head punctured the penoar lium the blood and nemm from the ruptured heart escaped. Hi aaid that ail this was simply a fulfillment of a script, ural prediction, ss was the parting of H s raiment and the casting of lots among lUe soldiers for His vesture. "Bat what was this mental anguish that broke our Saviour's heartr' asked the speak- er. It waa not fear of death, for Helook- ed toward that with longing. 'If I be lift- up. He said, 'I will draw all men to M ' He antioipated death aa the conaummation of His labors. 'E^proach hath broken Mv hearts He mAd,uid then died. He died for h » '^^'atot of human guUt broke H« "The city undertaker of Palatka, Pla.. is a woman." Djwn South women seen oapible of ondertakmg almost anything. AN unfortusitT^B^'^^se ettheib A Toaohlnjc Incident from SoUool-Teachjr-a j^^ri,^ Tonight I 8 iw oae of my Ijdg jjo. dooiB ep. doubled up over his siail â- â- A*tfku.i#l Vila \yt nA frU;» -^._ ^*V: screwed his head this way and ft' ' vain endeavors to avail himjelf offLif of the Btreet-kmp, When I toe* t*!! out of his hands, L tound thatthn ^f out 01 his nauds, i tound that the tie man had worked out his sums in ing fashion. The light was so verv " "1 tain and his little fingers wera ga u'"*l ^tofthe, anything like neatness waa o,, „, tion, but he stuck gallantly to his d"'.*" rather, to his f'oorstepâ€" aadgrJQnt h"~*i his fac^ while I pa'.ted him. i ask i '^l what he was doiD;;j out on thn b'^«.„i M ig out on the 8'reet nr a nasty evening, and he replied- '-W "'" got no cand!e, bir. Father aad mothe??! got to sit in the dark, and I came out j I the lamp to get my home letsoa done "J Iwlkea into abetter neighbor aood a-ii the bright lights in p'ea.ait rcoms ' he.ird the laughter of caildreu and tbe ti i of planes. I thought rathir kindly np poor little man sitting witli cold fi groping through his sumsby the yfllovf°i|' of tne gas. It is a curious kind of ^r,^ turVy butiness alcogether. Tnat little til is a blight a? bright can hi. Wheu I J 'I knew him he was in dire distress b«c\ii« f could not read his litild book right a% 'f explained to him that there ^erecartaiii malities and drudgeries tj hi grne thitoVl before one could tell what was icaide bS I and we had great fun while he was leitmX his alphabet. He christened the lettenSl names of his own. The small d ha caiul "belly in front," and the sm*ll b "belly ^1 hind.' And he was charmed when he luji become able to tell the difi'drence betweenil p, b, and q with absolute csrlamty, M pegged the loan of books to take home; ]\ never played, and even when he was wall.! ing to and f rim school he pizzleJ himel over various "Rsadeis" untu he had mji tered a'l we bai m stock. T le lad was fil for anything, bat his pireats managed (]| make only about 9 shillings a week at ttnl best of times, so there is not muca cbjii»| for him in the future. I have had ;o do I with lazy boys who needed to hi ecoldeil into learning; but this p lor little eoilâ€" thtl ear- of a coster.monger and a cjllar-miker- would go without his dinner to get aa hjuri with a new book. Yet I ra!:tr fancy tsl will end as a laborer, or somei.iiDi; of tkl sort. The struggle for food will crash am f biticn out of him, and very likely by tail time he is 20 years of age he wiil not cirt| for re.^.diogevcn the .Saniay newcp;p:rs. The Caravan of the Dead. We had to cross the Persian desert in is entire length to get to our nexi station, Tn sil 'ucs of the nig it oecomes, in tnis wilde: ness, dor ly oppressive, and as for as thi eye of the traveller can reach he will fiid spot to repoie it upon. Oaly h^rj and tlim may ba seen piled up columns or sand, driv- en about by the wind, and gliding frjii p'a3e to place like so many dark spectrei. I did not wonder tba*; these shitting akid ows were taken by timid and cridalom souU for evil spirits pursued by fur.es. ily compinioa seemed to belong to tne supi stitiuus class, f r. wrapping his c'oakt'gbtly arjun'l him, he kept cl)se to the densest part of the carivan, and would not for the world, so much as glance at the wilderjesi stretching to the east, It was about midnight when he hear! tlie sound of bells, an I upon my inquiry as to the meaning of thii, 1 was told tnat a krgi c iravan which had left an hoar earlier than we did, wai inffont of us. We accelerated our march in c r ler to overiake it. but had hardly come within a hundred pvces frB it when an intoleribie s';ench. as if of dead bodies, filled the air. The P rjiana wer; aware of the cause of this poisonoas stencn and hurried silently on; but it went on in- creasing the further we advanced. I could nit reitrain my curiosity any longer, but turning to my neart s neighbor, I disked him what this meant, but he ct-rlly rtpied. be trayinj, however, greit auxiety â€" "Harry up, hurry up, this is the caravan of tiie dead." This infoimition was satiijieEt to make ma urge my wear.ed be is; formal 1 to grca'tr speed, ;ind af ter a while I reaoied, together v/ith my companions, the caravan. It consisted of about forty animaLs horJS-' and mules, under the leadership of three Arabs. The backs of the animaU were li- dtn with coffins, and we mide ever/ efifon to avoid the aread procession; la pissinj near oae of the hcrsemen who hai ciiarge of the caravan, I caught sight of a face which waa frightful to look at; the eyes and nose were concealed by some wraps, aad the rest of his lividly pile face looked h istly by the light of the moon. Undaantei 'oy the s ckeniug atmosphere, I rode up to his side aid inquire I about the particahirs of his er.anJ. Tne Arab informed me that he had been now tea days Dn the way, and that twenty more would pass in taking the dead bodiei to KerbeLa, the place wh;rj, ont ci devotion for Hussein, the pious wisii to slleep their etornal sleep. The cus toai pre- vails a'l over P^irsia; and every pjra n wio can atford it, even if he live in distant Khorassan, makes arrangements to have his rjmans carried to Kerbala, fn crier that they may be interred in the soil wherein tbe tHlovod Iman Hussein is reposing. It takes some two months beJorj the dend body can r ach its place ot destination. 0.io male ii frequently ladea with four cotli i.' :.nd whils' their conveyance during the wint^ r is com- paratively hamless, it is of deadly eflfect to beast and man alike, in the hea' of Jti!y '" Pdrsia. A' SDme distance fr)m the carav.%r! of the dead I glanced back at the strange funer^ procession. Tne animils with their sal burden of ccffi 13 hung their heads, seem ingly trying to bury their nostrils in their liriaat, whilst the horsemen, keeping a goo" distance from them, were urging them on to greater speed,. It wai a spsccasle whioo seen anywhere ciuld not fail to Fr)duoes profound impression of ttr.-or, but s5ea the very centre of the desert, at the dew hour of night, in the ghastly illumination «' the moon, it could not fail to strike tW most intrepid soul with awe aid teirJ"" Arminiua Vamhery, Siani ush- ered into the dining-room at the dinner boi^ and the polite steward took holi o' tbebw^ of the chair to push it into place. Tae m^^, looked aronnd aaip:oioualy for a minute, ' then aaid loud enough to ba heard a^! "L the room: "By the howly Mjse' u 5? jerk out that chair from under me I'll 8""' the whole top of yer head off o' yez ' It was at the Catearact House in FaUs. a son of the E aerald Isle was 'S!T«1 deliveries are theri Si the holidays begin « .?*:Vriminils feel sura of a1 Business is now over â€" xi a deafening roar of cracA' canncn and bombs aud a i announce that rmdnight h, worship aud ceremocies c hava bsgua. For tiie dr.; daring the year the city z left open throughout the mosphere is heavy with of spent fire-crackers and Every house is brigh'ly Ii of candles, lamps, and "ol hang at every dcor. C'Js every adult membei- of th up the whole night and vaiious cxerdscs and se: or hast omission ot whie! bring untold Sf rrcws ac the sluet;aTd's head th;o' yea-. In the small hou take place sever. 1 inton One of the first New sacrifice to heaven aud laid in the hall, upoa w huge bowl of ricf, five b^ an eqtal EUtnbtr o: cup: plates of oranges and pse chop-sticks complete, ancl laid upon the dishes. A era calls forth the elder c incense sticks in his han^ himself in front of the t head three times upot thanks to heaven and eai of the past, and beset ch through another year. paper money, whi.h pa nnoke and in ashes to â-  explosion of another str concludes this ceremony. of worship of deceased peiformed before an np: fixed to a stand, the uji reality two pieces lappi ifg some twenty or more *d with peculiar sauc. where hovers the spirit i «88torB. Here, also, rici tea and wine are offerci them. Lamps, candlci lighted around the altar of the family, in order solemnly prostrates hie fore the mystic shrine o fathers. Homage is al *ay to the household wres and penaUa have t meats and drinks, there eniuB din cf frs-cra-l *wcb is to clear the h^ •pints which have congi J^'e paet twelve monthi benign bfiaences of 1 household during the uvmg elders and repi i*mDy next come in fc i *R«; Grandparents, J na and aunts, take *hile the junior men Kneel ia lowly reveren •*?"»•« their dutiful cc ,^1«P« the most in