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 t AGRICULTURAL orders and Ihdr Cbanetertatta. CB08SK8. The introiuotion of giputio Aciatie poaI .- DrwJoc*" ft great obuige for tiM better our poalteT-5»rd«. The little, epsre. " fo*l8, we once oalkd ponltnr, we now imwt forfiotton for one m other of the rl ored brefds bfta left iti impren on oor dIrt from Msise to Celifumia bnt the .test improvt ment for gfineral oae Ike fai ^„ew br'-e?8 prodoced by C'OwfnK the uiaticB wi'h our •ni»H, con-Mttiog birJe to ^Lino« a peimanaBt bretdthet will hatch ^own yonng, moke fiir fable-birde, m»- t arly i nd be fair layera. Thie bae been Id in the Plynconth Rocka, with a fair Lree of snccew I say a fair degree, ae I in not as well pleated aa aome people are ' tb fowls of thia breed aa now bred, and L,re are n:y reaaoDa too much iiDportanoe !w bet n attached to tizs thia trioflta oat '« P»saeagark"Hth^A'i*tc feature, and the p-oduotion of '"ill I ha^ a d Bwy. clompy birila is encoiraged at tie " train rollJ'*B.iotD'e of laiDg qualities, aa I am certain e wimo^Jifij" " ' Jh. aohsgotij* »««ek: â- â€¢'rtaai Uboya. g«tin«id^ J* wt by «i**.*« it Far, anaot tell." lieredat, thei Jor was in, Jgoneof the« • pills aal but an aea. Hence ierce'a "Pi, "igar-coated, i t, and are qg all derangenit stomach th^i of a Etnaai i it? ly, distilled or Smart-We ^mphor Water, i I'a Compoond the beati^ jra morbaa, 3ody-flax; allot and inflamn 3ep it on evidently refer I lie tniallest Plymouth Eooka lay the beat Itbey pai'^^*' loo'B ^^^ Dominique charaos* liristic in beJi g prolific layera. iBOtI er n~w breed ircm ^s'atic crorsog, Ifbicb premises much if tbe "Ameiican IjtjDnaio o' txcelleD-«' does not in^itt too liggch on fcize, is tbe Wyandotte. Thia iaan lijiatic cro«8 on the Hamburg, which is to Ijjjj,! a fowl to bo very uaefnl ia itaelf bnt this new form, we have a comely, clean- ^jDg. closely -feathered, linall aLd flit- nbed, yellow legged, esrly-feathtring and latnrirg. strong breed, which do their o«n ntcbing. and are quite peaceable birda, but leabovld keep them down to a fair aize, or be may as well breed pure Asiatioa, and iiethu fine lajing charactcriatioa of the Jamburgs, which la a great feature with {fowls of that breed, though their eggs are "jll. The Wyandott egga are not large, ythey are of a fair marketable size, weich tiie HaiDhurga' are not. What we gain in i breed is a hardier and larger bird than Hamburg, combining the laying and ier qualities enumerated above. luotfier cross which attracted much at- lEDtioD at the New York Fano'era' Exhibi- ilast winter, was one between tbe Dork- and Laogshan, The cfiF'^prings were DinenBe birds. Both partnta belong to large irceds but the Langahan is hardier than the Dorking.and the tfTi-prirg of the two (laUres very much earlier for Spring chiok- fi than birda of either anceatral breed. â€" ffwiry Hales, in Sural New Yorker. leaf" isnittheb^l siag. ;ood people of Gio-{ )rn Crop has be m Canada. N( will claim thia )n, but PuTSin'i :tor alone ia eH ,. It raises moi anything else p, sure and painlt nly 25 cants. " crop guarrant ubstitutea. U.C^ jrs, Kingston. imes Uid, bit hatch 3d. but go at once I ,nd buy a samj fc'iLiKB, the to gi^'e iminf orsed by nw 't wait a singi viline. The to keep in Ten and 25 1 in making the Ml kios." Lead Tht* If Marshall,^*"'"' Ilebrated HeoT" ^ectric AppH to men (yooEg' la debility, low' land aU kiBi»« lalism, nen \t diseases. vigor and »»i |sk is inoarred i red. Write I iphlet free. \a always hopp A Uoed Potato. When cut into, the colour of a good pota- aays the Jrinh Farmerb' Gazette, should yellowish white if it be a deep yellow, Jlwilt not cov k well. There moat be a con- ideiable amount of moisture, though not liongh to collect in drops and fall off, even Lith moderate pressure. Rub the piecea to- gether, and if the potato is good, a froth ill appear ar; und tbe edges and a'so up m t«u surfaces after they are separaxed. Us signifies the presence of a proper quan- Itf of starch â€" the more froih the more tfch, and consequently the better the iotato while the less there is, the poorer it lillccok. The quantity of the starchy ele lest may also bt judged by the more or p ready adherante of the two parts. If le adhf^rance be sufficient for one p:'ece to Icld the otl er up,^ that fact is evidence of a Kod article. These are the experiments pcilly made by experts when buying pota- K8, and are the best tests that can be giv- Dihcrt ot boiling but even they are by no bans intallible. aw York a^* barriasre a^ HOTKL opr elefant â- e millioa European P" Id with tne llevated can 'iJ"-i I Union Hotel lintheoitT. ,ake8 a vas' tund that a si hisleuein' IreatnieBt Tlinary8U»«" ti science hg [taient « »J .^oe'^y:^ !reman»b2S Ltients.gJSJ 1 P'-a'55SSS U medUda*^ sues. *^. oure^w shedtheju^ IbyhimW^ I else ha» "!«j Splean**?ii at '" |or a of co«*. T\'taeat iSotrliig- Tbe practice of sowing wheat after the corn for the Northern farmer, a striking f ea- in Southern farm management, and ightinsomeirstances, be adopted also in [orthein sections to good advantage. Early September, when the com has come to ktnrity,. three or four rows, in intervals at lilt sixty feet, are cut down. The open cessre then thoroughly I arrowed and to wheat vith the drill. Afterwards to corn ia all cut and placed in shocks on [oeseedei strips, when the rest of the M is ready for harrow and dr 11. If the â- liabatd or baked, the harrow is often {ted down with a short pece of timber »Bir.all leg, for the purpose of making a With and mellow seed bed. [For ages wheat and all tmall grain ha-) ben bread cast, thus precluding thepossi- ofcu!ti%ation, and this practice still For many years, however, drill- 'it has been practised in the better ^iged farms i.f America and Eorope, and "np'tment made specially for planting 'gram in drill?, a fe* inches apart, is now 'I'^ered as an etsential article for the ""planter to osra. Fperience has shown that the use of the •"is advantageous. It distributes the "l»ith gre.t regularity, thick or thin, aa 'y M preferred the growth of the crop is more uniform more sunlight and to the roots of the wheat, and the F )8 generally more and of better quality, F ie the case with wheat sown broadcast. Mme instances the advantages are very HU18 in others, not so manifest but ^ether it is found to be a great improve- ^tonthecld custom of seeding broad- There is every reaton therefore to iseit.- hUxt^"' Ensilage Without a Silo. iBilinf; without a siloâ€" that is, atacldng 'ttiffin thee pen airâ€" has been prao- "y Â¥. Cormouls Honifcs in France. .Pf" air silo was constructrd in May in ' "y.k'uilding a stack of 30 carloads of L '°' lucerne, and other grasses. No nee was visiole, whether the stacking ^l m wet or dry weather. As to the *luch consumed the products, 6d cat- l^^ied indifferently on ensilage from L fi *^ f'om the pits, and were turned [J«efaelo 8 for exercise alone. M. Cor- tioules insists upon the necessity of ^««ea and the other products being "While frfshly "cut. • His workmen, Lv f *^*^»°«' placed in the middle of :*« four or five cartloads of hay cut !„*: previously, and the result was a J^' wctitn of mould right across the kily dried mat- •toKit.V." â€" trying n"""' s »t 10 tne same treatment. A.?i^B^t" where the partially dried a^ ^Mk. .: *^.' placed. He is trying n C'O weather, in re-nailing every ^o* and in battening up the vaUkM BakatbemtMifanaiito. I*ia mmxtitw bar- M»j»te «i»iMth* crook is oofillkok " JS*^ 'â- â€¢â€¢'» '^** •1«~; •»* aw BUB who win bo M anal and iahiiaMa. sot to sov •liorteightwl, aboold be dtomrfto livo i bud-t«:k and alo^ inoa opon ganet with â- mpjrosbeetfor ooTcnB|(. It may bi foeh M^^^JT""" »"«»»»d hm of the pcoverb *A ntrcitBl man is mneifol to lin beMt," Tfekbw A ChiMuna Ji Tcatatd^r aromhMi solamn-iookjac Chinaman wwit west en tiie Union Padfio ttain. He was ew^vted to the depot by hftU ft docea of hia ahmmd-eyed ooutry. noa. who parted with him with envy m their hearts, for he was bonnd to his (dd home ij the Flowery Kingdom, while the* are doomed for a while looger to mangle the MelioftB man's linen. Ihthepooket of the eraveller was a check for a leuher cripaa"k, whieh he was oarefol to see 1 ladea on the bM»sge oar befcra he boarded the train. Thve would be nothing vpeculiar aboot thia were it not that the Irather grip xn- tained the bones of a good Chinaman being tiansptrted back to the Celestial piradise fren of expense. Nine years ago Ching Lee, then a new ar rival frrm Chinaland, strolled into Bein- dorf s bwkery. and tackled his first dish of ice cream. Ching found it "belly goo J," a ad ordereil a whole quart, which he ate on tbe spot. The day was oppretsively het, and not having a cl iU-proof lining Uke the average Omaha girl. Ching found his load very tncomf«table. WhUe paising from tbe table to the street there was a Grseco Roman ttraggle between the iceberg within and the furnace without, and Chug was thrown. He fell on the sidewalk, and in five minutes he was a dead Chinaman. After Cbing had been buried two years a party of Ctiinese i ffijials wfco were en rente home stopped in Omaha to get his body and take it with them. Tbe grave was opened and the remaina taken ont, but they were not in shape for shipment, anu were re- buried. Sexton Medlook, at the leqnest of the mandaiini, took from the oa»ket at that time a hand mirror, an empty wallet, and aboat 80 cents in money, which had been buried with the oorpae. The three suits of clothes in which Ching was dressed were also taken off aihd planted under a tree in another part of the cemetery. Sunday morning Chlng's grave wai opened the second time. Five or six of the de- ceased's countrymen were present with a "joss" man, and a number of Americans watched the cer.mony ficn a respectable distance. After ccnsiderable blowing and scraping, a basket of eatables ;iras produced, and a goodly dinner spread about the head of the grave. A chicken roasted with the head on occupied the post of honor, fluked on either side by large piece? of boiling pork ard liver. Tea waa made in a ci r oaa little ChincEe caddy, and a nuriiber of cups ponred out and placad on the ground. Then, after more bowing and scraping, several packages of cigar. ttesv ere strewed over the grave, and iiinnmerable sticks of it. c! use lighted. More incantations by the "joss" mm fol- lowed, and when the moumeis had bowed themselves tired the casket was opened and the re males shovelled out. Tbe bones which were free from flesh, and perfectly dry, were rolled up in a piece of coirre eheetirg and sewed up, after which they were placed in tbe valis. Wtiile Medlook was busy pack- ing Cbing's remans for shipment two of the Ctiinamen jumped into the grave and piwed over the earth at the bott.m with their fin- gures in order to make sure that nothing belonged to the deceased's atatomy was left behind. S..tisfied that tbey bad secured aU of Caiog's bones, the Celesticals di auk the tea that bad been standing abrnt the grave, gathered up the eatables and came back to town, chattering like magpies, and smoking the oigerattes they bai offered up to their dead countryman The valise was taken by the journeying Celestial to his lodging and put under his bed, where it remained until the custdoiian started with it for China Monday noon. DREADFUL MUBDEB IN BUSSIA. six Peopto CrneUy Bntoheredâ€" Tlie Mnr- derera Ksoape. The Novoe Vrcmya publisbea Sv.me details of a frightful tragedy recently coiLmited in the parish of Ba'akovo, on the left tank of tbe Volga, and in the government of Sara- toff. The victims are aix if numberâ€" viz., a merchant's widow named Krasillalkoff, her two children, a seamstress, a mai-servant, and a coachman. The murderous band was apparently at ting upon a full knowl- edge 61 the house and personnel of the fami- ly. The third youngest child, which usual- ly slept with the seamstress, was given by the latter on the evening of the murder to the cook, who slept in the kitchen. The cook and this child, an infant at the breast, were the only two of the household who es. caped the premeditate! general bntohery. All the members of the household were asleep when the robbers and aaeassinB f »led the TOurtyard wall. JSTith sn evident fore- knowledge of the place, they proceeded to the eoach-hoose, where the coaohmftu ms sleeping. The latter appears to have made a desperate reaistanoe, but was nltimitely dispatched. The murderers then asoended to the roof of the house and jmteredby a skylight. Mme. Krasillnikoff, the two el- der children, and the seamstress slept m separate rooms on tiie upper story, and wore murdored simoltaneonsly. In th«; oise of the seamstress a billhook or chopper ftp- pears to have bean the weapon and. Toe iian servant, who slept on the ground floor, and the cook with the child m the kitchen, were awakened by the cries above. The cook, with the infant in her arms, nished out to arouse the coachman, but only to find his mangled cOTpee, and, being too terri- fied' either to return to the honae or to fly to the village, she concealed herself, and married to?thl the crie. of thei»f«t. The manM^rvant. immediately foUowing the oook'a flight from the house, was out down on the ttoeshold. T»»« »°^J"" *~ "^j! a search for the missing eook and ohdd, but failed to disooved the place of their coaoeal- ment. After pill^ing the houM the m«- derers locked the^ »nd left. IPhe twr.. fied cook rftised an alarm, and mesaengMs SSe Sspatohod to the poUoe. who only mt- rircdlfttothe following fow-^^^J^*"??' SiSo, the marder«ni W niftdo good their esoiqpe. j..go i ii»i ' 'Votto oTtiio hoMdje^ who buyt at ^Itetâ€"*' Measures, not men. TBAHSTAAL flOLD. For months past the late disooveeiee of void in the- T^aasTaal lepoliUe hftve been the priaoipal ti^ ofeoavetsafeion thnmgh- oatSoiiAAeriaft.aad a btgo aamber of peopio have thrown no employment ia th* ookny sad Natal to pi ooee d to -ha asw E Dorado at Hoodie's. As a great many Am eiieaaa are now ooauag oat tor tiiaoe fioMe, it may be. iatersstiag to year readers to kaow where tbey are ettoated, and what the snnoanding eooatiy is like. Moodlo's holdiag. apoB whieh tho reef oallad a^ him is sitoafeed. ia estftiatod to be 170 laUee west by sooth from the Pdrtogncse town of Delafoa Bay, and aboat tho some distenea northeast of Pretoria) ft town of someimpor* taoos, ooatftiaing about a ooaple of thousand iahabitaDts. Batthaaotaal distances are nrt known, for there arsoo many roads that few parties travel by too aaaie roate, and for the last twenty miles or so there are no roads at all, and ^om the nature of the country but little possibility of making any. Taere are two main overland routes to Moodie'ssnd the fields fartiier north from Natal and tbe Cape Colony â€" one, the post- cart route, through Potchefstroom,Pretoria, and Middlehnrg, the other through Utrecht and New Scotland. The latter is the short- route, but it is nnufe at present owing te the unsettled condition of the natives. There is also a r jttte by aea from Durban (Natal) to Dalagoa bay, and thence over- land. This is tbe quickest way cf getting to Moodie's, but the chances are that yon carry your death-warrant with you in the shape of the deadly coast f^ver. Tne road from Delagoa bay is only safe during the months of June, Jajy and Au- gust, when tbe weather is oool and bnt lit tie rain fads. The country near the coats is a succession of huge swamps, where the wagons sink up to their axles, and two, sometimes three, teams, of sixteen oxen each, have to be inspanned to get the blun- derine, nnwieldins vehiolM thicngh. Se- veral large rivers have to be forded, and here accidents are more the rule than tiie exception. One river, the Crocodile, is apt- ly named. A few weeks ago the sub-editor of one of the Durban papers, when orooaiiig it, suddenly disappeared. It was subse- quently discovered that he â€" or at least a considerable portion of him â€" had tsken an involuntary berth inside a crooodile, which officiated as a rifle target shortly afterward. When the lower oountoy is passed the tra- veller has tomskehisway as best he can over a range of lofty hills. Ihe track here is incumbered with immense boulders, many of which are as big as an ordinary three- story house. Wagcns generally break down on thia aeotion-of^e' j junay if they have not come to grief arevioualy, and many par- ties have to abandon their wagons here and go to camp on foot, taking what goods and baggage tbey can carry on their mules and oxen. Horses and oxen will not live any length of time in this part of tbe conntr and the only heps to get them through is to push forward as fast as possible. Mules fare aomswhat better, bnt tbjB donkey is the beast of burden lor work in the C -oco- dile and Koop river country. He is sure- footed, will live on scrub-brush if he can get it, and thrive on rocks when he can get nothing else, and the bite of tbe dreaded tsetse Sy scarcely appears to inc: mm }de him at all, whils to oxen and hordes it is cartan death. Many travelers have s sorted that this urpleasant tittle insect does not extend its dental preclivitiei to the human species. Those travelers either wilfully lied â€" and being perKually acquainted with the mijor- ity of them I m y safely f ay tiiat their cap- abilities for the ecanom'zation of truth rank little, if at all, below those of the average Cretan -or they must have bean physically picbydermttouB. I do not pretend to be a great African traveller, though I hare me- andered over a cocsiderable extent of the country. I have shot at an elephant, but I missed him, which, considering that my only weapon was a Winchester rifle of the old rim-fire, pop-gun mike, was probably quite as well fos me as it was for the ele- phant; and I once woanded a buffalo, which turned out to be a black bullock, and whic*! I did not go after for prudential reaaona that may easily be ctmpreh ended by the class of sportsmen to which, I fear, I belong. Bnt I tave been bitten by tsetse fly, and I re- membered that bite for some considerable t ma subsequently. It is only, however.' during the eight or nine hot months of tbe year ihat thefee p'.s*^s are really troublesoms to man or dangeious to cattle, and, once the nigh bush belt between the swamps and the very high country is passed, one need be under no apprehenaisna of loss or incon- venience froJi this pest. This fly, however is not the_ only objec's- tionable specimen of the animal kingdom with which the gold miner is likely to make acquaintance on his road to the Transvaal fields. Snakes are plentiful, and most of them are exceedingly venomous, and there are enough tarantula, centipedes, and scor- pions to fumirii an unpleasantly liberal al- lowance ta countries where these horrors are not included in the census. The clim%to, however, in the high conntnr about Moodie's is probably one of the giandest in creation. In the winter months it is bright, bradDg, but always dry, and sometimes exceedingly c old. In the summer the heat during the daytime is enough to melt a Balsniaader,bttt it is a dry hea;, and therefore nothing hke so trying as the continual summer vapor- bath 9n the coast. There is water in abun- danoa, but it has to be led some.distsnoe for muning operations. Wood is not over plen- tiful, but there is ooal in the neighborUood of the mines, and this mil be the fuel of the future. Atpreient most of the diggers have to be content to use oow-dungâ€" and excellent fuel it makes, tooâ€" though the aroma it prodnoee in burning is not exactly the sort of thing that Euf ene Bimmel mikes hii dollars ont of. Life is nooessarily (tf the roughest; but the life of the pioneer miners generaUy belong to this oat^{ory. Most things can be had by paying for them, but the prioea are, in some oases, such as no sennble man would think of giving. How- ever, any man who is not blessedâ€" or onrs- edâ€" with agigantio ai^pe^ite, osh mauage to exist tolerably well on £10 a month, and if he cannot afford thia modest outlay, he is not likely to saooeed as a miner. Withr^ardto .the quarts, I may sfty tbfttX have seen and handled a great deal of it. Some was fftbalooaly rioh. There was actually more gold than quarto in the â- peeimens. But this waa picked stufl^ and went to Eaglftnd for the pnrpoM of oatioina cap talista to invest. Mneb of it wootd yieldonobunAcod ounces to tho ton. Of oo«nohiiBnMlnoft bo taken as tho avsr- a^ib Tbo ina j i ail y ot tho yiar ti howwet fBsaHaUyveqrnohtaBdthogmiinl opin- ion of-old Aostralian and Oalitonian min- ors iottal from two to sovon oaaeei maiy beaoeeptod as a g e ni i avciagr. Thero are at p m esat aboat 1,800 m^a on Moodie's reef. Maay of tham aio almiok itMTiiig. Tbo latter aio m stly ohtks who have thrown m sttoatioas in stereo aad goao up to tho floMo wHhoat oither auMMf or miaiag ezpomaoo. Tho some ohMsof men starved in tha carfy daysof the diamoad iolds sim- ply boeaaso they did net posseso the phy- sique for hard mannal labor aad wanted to make fbrtrnm by worldng at Aoir olaims. Mon who aaderotaad miaiag are doing wdl. The eoantoj a% present ie entirely naaettl- ed. The Transvaal legislatnro is poworleao to protect tho oonoessicaaireo, and tho only law ot the gold fields is that of Mr. Justice Lynch. Native labor is not ov.r plontifnl, but so soon as the "Swas e ehmfa find oat that the fields are be- mg worked â€" as they eveatually will beâ€" by aa exotusively BagUsh speaking population, they will be only too willing to tend down their men in parties to contract f* r six or twelve montlra work.â€" [Port Eb'zebeth C r. San Francis oChioniole. ALL SOBTS. A flat-head â€" T le janitor. A aigh for nothing â€" a cipher. A last resort â€" The cobbler's shop. A sound reason â€" a fog-horn oonolusion« An open question â€" who will shut the door? Toung men don't often go wild over blonde hair, novels to the contrary notwith- standing. 1*» the blaok looks they go raven over. The cold winds of automu remind the farmers that i: will soon be time to put their ca tie under cover. Ye who have steers to shed prepare to shed them now. A new brand ef ci ^ar U advertised celled " The kicker." We stiould think that a cigar would be more apt to be a butter tuan a kicker. Tne one wbo smokes it is probab- ly the kicker. When a man's clothes come home fiom the laundry only half doni up ita but an other illustration of the irony of fato and generally he geta so mal that it tekes all the storoh out of him. Westward the ster liar tokes his wav. The Montana Sun says a i^entleman in tha' vicinity recently ki A tWin*:y-four fish in a sinill pen 1 with a buggy whip, the ehortest moaaaring thirteen inchea. At a recent Sun lay achool meeting,a long- winded clergy m.n consamed too macU tims with a wordy addraes. When he sat down the leader of the meeiag unwittingly an- nounced the hymn begianing "Hallelnjah! 'ds D.na." The truth is often spoken inadvertently. A French Bishop, in the coarse of a talk with a emart young man, mechanically opened his snuff-box and offered i% to his questiiner. " Much obliged, no, mon is- neur," was the answer; " thanks to God I have not this defect." "Oh," retuiuedtbe prelate, laughing, "if it were a defect }Ou would have it." Mrs. Seeley, of Sardinia, N.Y,, is a needla manufactory. The doctors in one week toon fcrty-six needles from her arm. She doesn't know bow they go*; there. Tney keep a coming. Her husbanl wants the doctors to keep pi obing until tbey find a sewing ma- chine or a Bssaemere furnace, bein't par- ticular which. " Doesn't that man repilnd you of the sea?" said a pretty girl on Fourth street to her companion, aa a very faabi enable muher went by. " I don't know, How do you mean?" " Oa, because he is such a heavy serell." " Yes, dear," was the quiet response, " but yon knjw the sea swell is salt." Excavatloiis In Greece. Ifxcavations are being carried en with great activity and mora or less success in various parte ot Oreeoe. U^Q the site of the temple of Atklepioi, at Epidauros. and upon that of tne Amphiareion, at Oropo8,ii Attica, the digi.ings, which have been gohig on aimultaneoiuly for some tims past, havo resulted in the discovery of nimerous pieces of sculpture and inscriptions of value. The excavations bagun sev-ril years ago on the site of the Temple ol Elcusis have been re- sumed after a considerable puss. In all these cases the work is conducted by the Archaeological Society of Athei s The GreeK Government on the other hand, has taken up a very extensive and impor-ait task in Athens itself, where it is engaged in thor- oughly examining the AcropoUs. Two years ago a portion of the ancient citadel, lying to the southeast of tbe Parthen-n, was cleared by i rler of the Ephor, M. E wtrati- ades, and resulted in the disoovery of nu- merous very beaitiful ani remarkable mon- umentoand remains of ancient A -tic art. It was accordingl|[ determ ned tioronghly to explore the Mitiro site of the A sropolis. The work has been b^nby the i Ephor, M. Stamatakis, on a laroa scale, a ' already a considerable portion m the m9a.ab /al and Tnrkiah fortifications surrounding and dis- figuring the hill have been demolished and removed. The appointment of M. Stamata- kis as I^hor-CtoaerU of the antiqoi ies of the Kingdom of Greece is the bobt guarantee tbat this important work wi 1 be carefully and thoroughly executed. For many years past the new Superintendent has distin- gu'shed himself by his labors in brinsing to lisht and preserving antiqaitiei in all parte oiGreace. The pritotical direction of the wcrk of demolition and excavation has beea intrusted to D;rpfeld, a Germsn arohiteot, who is well known for hi* labors in oonneo* tion with Dr. Sohliemann. A Maine Fuiners FIA Story. A tmer who was in town from Wells,. Weinesday morning, related a remarkable cironmstanca whiih happened in his town one day recently. For some time past the herring have romalned away from 8hon,and the fisbormen were tmable to obtain them in very large numb* rs. All at once they began to come in shore, even mto the breakers, in immense numbers, probablv bang frif^toi- ed by dogfish or blnefish. The number kept increasing, and when the tide went out it loft a pliwe of about an acre completely covered with the fish. In some spots, where there was a depreoeicn in the sand, tiie fish wera piled ia to the depth of ftbojt five feet. The fanners in tiie vicinity soon learned of the fact, ami they flocked to the diora and aeoored oartioads of the fiA to bo used oa their fwrms as fertilizsrs. One farmer ob- tained 60 cartloads. ' 8G1E1ITIFIC CKNSSIP. Tcry lately, and following ap reoeat ro* •aaioheo. Dr. Hoiaioh, of nai^fort^ boo has dotMtod tho eziatttoe of bftotaria upon half-BMi^ piooeo iriiioh had been h»g ia oir* An optioal teleetaidi waa es'ab'ished on Laeroiz Pnik. in BewMoa. aad Vert Peak, la Mwritfan. oa the a%ht of July 12-13, when BMMftgeo wore froaly cxehangod bo tte two islands. The one»lpla^ or AistraUaa bloo-goa tree, is aow growa in ov«ry oinUaod oonntiy almoot where froili de nik oooar, bat, beiog by nttore adapted tj act as aa evaporating maohinj. it wiU not destroy malaria or kiep off moeqnitoes it plaated in a dry aad not m a mairiiy sooL A obeatnat at tho foot of Mount Etna is believed to be tho largest aad oldest tr!0 in Europe. It is hoUow, aad krge enough to admit two carriages diriviag atwaast to pass through it. The main tnnk has a cironm- ferenoe of 212 fe»t. This grissly giant is said to meastuo 92 feet in height. Until lately moat of the suwly of sugar ia Deomark was imported. Now the ma- terial for sugar is provided within tiio bonndariee of the k'ngdnm. Six years ago the Danes made 2 600 000 pounds of beet* r)ot sugar, and 'ouir yean later tbe figures roBA to 8 600,000 piunda. The production of 1882 exceeded that of 1881 by folly 2 000 000 pounds. It ia atated that the Tahi Yn^n. a power* fnl "protected" cruiser of 2 355 tens and 2 800 borxe-pawer. oarrying t« o 8^ inch and 57-8inohKruppgan8 ((noont^d en ar6etfe), built for the Cnsniae Government at Stettin, made aeverai trial tripi, without makinjg the full contract apeed ot 15 knote an hour. But the reault has been that the causee of the slow rate clearly revealed themselves, and proved to be easily remed- ied. It is said that the French railroad com- panies are about to adept an electric gate opener. A catch connec'ea with anelectro- magust keeps the gates dosed. When a tram approachea it cl saa the cirouit, re- leases tbe catch, and the gates fly open. Tne last crain aa it posses through opens the circuit, and the gates are again closed. The same apparatus rings a tell violently on the approsch of a train. Laad tanks which withstool sulphurio acid perfectly, Mr. S. P. Sharpies reports, were sojn destroyed by hydiochloric acid, lusome recent experimento undertaken to destroy cotton there by meana of hot hydrocbloric acid it was found that lead* lined vessels were soon renderad naeleas by it. Even the cold acid coald not be kept ia wooden tanka lined with lekl. Moat antbors say that lead is only sUghtly affected by hydrochloric aoid. Oj brass, a technical journal says, a steel color is developed by using a boiling solu- tion of arsenic chloride, while a careful ap- plica^ion of a concentrated solution cf sodium sulphide causes a blue coloration. Black being generally used for optical instrumenta 18 obtained from a solution of (.Ktinim chkr de tn which tin nitrite has been add- ed. In Japan the brass is bronzed by ueing a solution of copper sulphate, alum, and verdigris. Work on the Antwerp Inlematirnal Ex-^ liiition, 1885. is advancing rapidly. The buildings are convenient fi r foreign exhibi- tors and visitors, as the grounos can easily be r. ashed from the ducks quays, Lnd rail- way B'ation. Space has already been taken by Belgium France, Hjliand, Great Britain, ^G'rmany, Danmark, Austria, iSpain, Italy, 'America. Ncr vay and Sweden, Ruseia. and H tyti. Tne buildings Will be finiataed by the end of March next. Some remarks wer) r.ceatly made by M. F. Tiaserand tn thesnbject nf the theory of the figure of the plareta. H a calcaia ions and estimates of their present foim wen founded upon the assumption that tbe ce- lestisl bodies were originally in the fluid state, subject only to the mutual attraction of their conatitoent elements, and en lowed with a rotary movement with very slight angular velocity. Their out;.r surface woul 1 thus b J somewhat of a ravolving ellip- soid. w I â-  » â-  I â-  Origin of a Few Oaths. The courtiers of Louis IX. wers wont to indulge in swearing to aa extent that was both paiuful and distre^siag to the good kmg, thei' master, although the penalty prescribed in the statoto book for the offence was no less than branding the tonsne with a red hot iron for every comnaission of it. The oaths most offensive to the aamtly monarch were the "cordieua," the "totodiens," tho "paradieuB," etc., which siill survive in Mo* liere and Babelais. At this time there was at the palace, bsloneing to one of the ladies of tbe court, a little pet dog named "Bleu." To elide the harsh sentence of the law, wbioh ni3;ht deprive them forever of the po«er o* indnlgmg in their favorite pastime, the courtiers determined to substitute for "dieu" the name of the dog. So " oordien " became " oorbleu, " " tete* dieu " " totebleu," eto.iand the apparently meaninglees words are preserved to the pres- ent day. "Sacredieu" became "sacrebleu," and wae finally contracted to "sacra." This last is tho most common of French oatha nowadays.^exoept "mon Dieu." The dan- dies of ancient Rome need to swear by all the gods indisoriminately, a'though it waa customsry for each one to have his favorito oath. Castor and Pollux were the favoritea among the demi gods to. swear by Oomini, they meant to awear by Caator and Pollux, the twins. This oath has come down to us, even to the present day, when the express- ion '^v Jimmy I" is frequently he*rd. "Hio denoel is a very ancient oatSi, indeed, aa will appear from the derivation to which it is referred â€" the Latin Daiuâ€" God. Nowa days it ia oonsiderod a mild oath to soy "the deneel" Is is ft curious thing that deuce is generally supposed to mean the ' 'devil. " So people say, "go to the denoel" The origin of the phrase "by jingo" ia traoed to tho word Jincoaâ€" the baser name for God. To* Imltatiye by Far. Mrs. Benshkr of Madison Wis kflled a chicken in the preeenoe of her little boys, .utting ita head off with a hatohet. TBe boysbeoamo interested ia the prooeeding and while the mother was in the house tho older boy provuled upon the younger to nlay the pert of ohioken and ftotaaUy had hia ]|wad on the Uook aad waa in the aot of diopping off bis head when the older brother aoeidontally aotioed tho f^-no and stopped tho opanitioa before oay aeriou I dMBaoM had boan hifliotod. A i'-W \\ H 1i