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 '-2"" «i- r/"^- ^^^â- '•;m^^K#^:M;i' GAMBLDt'G IN OLD TIMES. Eo(7 tbe XKrda aad lAdles amnsed Tliemselves m tlie I«st Century. If, however, we are compelled to confess that a love for gaming, or, as some mildly call it, for speculation, ia not likely ever to be eliminated from the hamaa heart, it can not be denied that in these times there is more decorum among the habitual votaries of the whist table or of the board or green cloth than prevailed in London toward the close of the last century. Such books as "George Selwyn and His Contemporaries," by Mr. J. H. Jesse, or "The Works and Cor- respondence of Horace Wylpole," or "Whar- ton's Queens cf Society," reveal that the worst form of card-playing enacted in Lon- don during the reign of George IlL, was due to the faro tables kept in their own houses by ladies of quality. In a highly spiced and satirical volume, called "The Fe- male Jocky Club," we are told that the Ck)uate8s of Buckinghamshire, Lady Arch«, Ifldy Bessborough, who was sister to the celebrated Duchess of Devonshire, and Mrs. Crewe presided alternately at faro banks of their own, from which they reaped a golden harvest. The first bank at which the fas- cinating game of faro was played in London was set up at Brooks.' club about the year 1780 by four partners, two of whomâ€" Lord Cholmondeley and Mr. Richard Thompson, in Yorkshire â€" realized enormous p'ofits. It i s said that each retired with A SUM NOT LESS THAN £300,000. But the other two partners could not reiat the temptation of playing against the bank, and thus tbey lost upon one side what they gained on the other. "The partners," says Mr. Thomas Raikes, "would not trust the waiters to act as croupiers, but dealt the cards themseles, one after the other, being paid three guineas an hour out of the joint fund for doing so. At this rate Lord Chol- mondeley and other men of high rank were to be seen slaving like menials until a late hour of the morning. Before long this eel- berated faro bank had ruined half the town. A Mr. Paul, who brought home a large for- kane from India, LOST SOO.OOO rs' a single night, and, being ruined, went back to the East to make another fortune." Lord Cholmon- deley, m short, occupied the position which at a later period was filled by Crockford, seeing that both held mortgages upon houses, lands and property of all deecrip- tions. It was said, indeed, that Air. Coke, of Holkham â€" an estate which lay not fax from Lord CholmonJeley's seat of Honghton â€" wrote to his rapacious nei£;hbor to say that, "wishing to feel easy as to his own property, which he had inherited from a long line of ancestors, and knowing the various claims which Iord Cholmondely pos- sessed upon the properties of others, he beg- ged leave to inquire what sum he would be contented to receive as an indemnity for any claim he might heieafter think lit to make upon the Holkham estate." The an- swer of Lord Cholmondeley was couched in the same satirical vdn. "With every wish," he replied, "to trsti|uiliz3 the mind of an ol.i and much-loved triend, he did not thick that, injustice to his own family, he could consistently eiitf;r into any arrange- ment with Mr. Coke which might hereafter be detrimental to that family's interests." Of the scenes witnessed st the female faro clubs, very piquant descriptions appear in the "Memoirs of Sir Nathaniel WraJ:i]l/' in "Moore s Life cf SheridAn," and in other contemporary works. "About thirty years ago," wrote the anonyaous author of a pamphlet which appeared in 1S74, "there •yvas but one gaming clab in London. It was regulated and rtspectable. Few of the rcembers betted high. Ladies were admit- ted, but there was cjly one that played, and she was regarded ps an abomination. At present, howei-er, how rcrriy females at- tend, and bow many pet up thtir cv.n card- tables The effects are too clearly to be seen in thefrc(iacnt uivcrc.£: which t!i.=:arace this country, and in the shainekss conduct of ladies of fashion sicce they took to '-cam- bling." The first check adniinictcred to tli.^ "Fe- male Jockey Club" came from the lips of Chief Justice Kenyon, when in EumaiLg up ht exclaimed "The vies ct gambling has descended to the very lowest orders of the people, who h\e caught the infection from thejr superiors. I wish the latter could be punished. If ariy protecutious are brought before me and the parties are convicted I j can promise them that, whatever may bo __their rank and station in the country â€" even "though ttty Eijculdbe the first ladies in the land â€" they shall stand in the pillory as a warning to others." That threat of the pillory killed tiie private iavo tables kept by ladies. To thei:i succeeded the famous clubs kept by Waticr and Graham, upon the ruins of which Croekford's ultimately arose. Watier's club was established in 1S07, by Lord Headfort and Mr. Maddox, of Cheshire. A house was taken in ricadiliy, at the comer of Bolton street, andWatier, a superlative cook, was put in charge. The dmners were so excellent that all the young men of fashion and fortune were eager to be- come members. Macao took the place of faro, as, in our own time, b^rccarat has superseded all its predecessors, and thous- ands cf pounds changed hands every night. The clnb lived until 1819. Mr. John Mad dox, one of its founders, cut his throat, and Graham's club arose in its place. It was here that a nobleman of ajicient lineage was accused and convicted of CHEATING AT CAED.S, and huadreds of men owed their ruin to the mania for play which they found opportun- ities of indulging at Graham's and Crock- ford's. No clubs of similar position now ex- ist, but who that knows the metropolis well can doubt that gambling is as rifs among us as ever If we cross the Atlantic the ver- dict will be similar. The late John Mor- rissey, the most celebrated gambler of the United States, is credited with the dictum that nowhere in the world has the art of cheating at cards been carried to such per- fection as at New York and Washington. It has long been notorious that American card- sharpers are m the habit of hanntinn; the steamers which ply upon the Mississippi, and also those which mn from New Yon^ to Liverpool and back. The monotony of life on board shdp predisposes paesen^ers to kill time with cards, and the professional gam« bier tarns his opportunity to good account. Not nnhrqnentiy the captain of a transat- lantic steamer gives some yoong green-horn a hint that be ia playing with a sharper, who will strip him of hia "bottom dollar" if tbey play long encngh bat the good- natured warning is often given in vain. So long as ships mn acroi8 the Atlantic, it is certain that dopes will play card and bet heavily upon the issae, and occasionally some despoiled victim will betake himself to a police conrt and let the world know how many hundreds of dollars he has been fool- ish enough to drop on his passage out. â€" Lon- don Telegraph. Marital Yengeance. Immediately below Paris there is a large island on the Seine which extend' from the Point de Courbevoie to Suresnes, and which is not less than a mile long. It is now known as the Isle de Rothschild, because it belongs to the wealthy Jewish banker. This island was in the latter part of the last cen- tury the scene of an act of marital ven- geance, whose hero died only a month :igoat the age cf 109 years. His name was Yves Coriedies, and he was the last survivor of the war of the Vendee, as well as ot the bands of brigands who were the terror of France during the directory. This veteran was born in 1774, and, after having fought bravely under Cathelieu for the royal cause against the republicans, retired to Brest at the end of the war and married a cousin who had a small fortune, and there he opened a small grocer shop. One night his wife elopel with the contents of the till and agenda- me. Yves determined to find the fugiiivf s, and followed their trace on foot as far as Chartrea, where, under the pretence of starvation, he enrolled himself with a band of brigands, who, during several years, carried on a successful campaign in the en- virons of that city. The chiet was at last captured and guillotinod, and tiieu the band dispersed. Yves, who had not forgotten his revenge, had now a bnug little capital saved up from hia share in t.-ie the plunder of the band. Accompanied by two comrades, he again be- gan a search for his faithless wife, and at last succeeded in tracing her and her lover, who had gone into the milling busines on what is now the Isle de Rothschild. Yves and his two accomplices succeeded in surprising the ex-gendarme and his wife, and, having stripped them naked and fastened them down to the floor, they filled the room with straw, which they set on fire, and then went away and left the couple to their fate. After having satisfied his vengeance in this horrible mmner, Yves Coriedie pucceeded in escaping to Bilgium, thence to England, where he made a moderate fortune. After the restoration he returned to France and settled down at Vannes. It was only through a manuscript entitled "History of My Life," which he left to his heiis, that the facts which I have just related became known. â€" Paris Cor. BOUSEHOLD HISTS. How Old uiaj a Man Live I In a Bessarabiau province lives one Sav- tchuk, who, at last accounts, was cue hun- dred and thirty years old. He is what is called a little Russian by birth, His eldest son is eighty-seven years old, acd is far more decrepit than the father. The one family is multiplied into fifty families. The age of the Russian is, of course, not m well authenticated as that of eld Parr, the Eng- lishman. It has been noted that reported cases of extreme o'd age always occur in the ranks cf the very poor, whose date of birth can rarely be verified, while kings, nobles and members of noted families, whose records are kept, in no age or country have ever lived a hundred years. Generalizing from this fact, a distinguished Knglish writer, Mr. Lewes, gives it, as his judg- ment, that it is very doubtful if any human being can claim the distinction of being a centenarian. Yet from the analogy of the animal races, every child that is well born should live a century. The rule seem to be that animals live five times the length of their adolescence, that k, they ought to live five times Iciiger than the period it takes to attain their full growth. There is no ques- tion bub what the whole human race does not enjoy the health and \igcr which it is possible to attain. There is some defect in the constitution of even the .scrnngest of our race. In the golden af;o of humanity yet to come, every child will ba well born. Its life and habits will conform to the scien- tific laws controlling our existence on this eaith, and then men's environment vrill help him to achieve the highest possible physical vitality. To-day the great bulk of the hu- man race are born with weak strains in their blood. They eat improper leod, use hurt- ful stimulants as drink. Tney are poisoned by malarias and subject to contagions due to their surroundings. The two great ob- jects of the best men and women in this life should 'oe first to improve the race itself, morally and physically, and secondly, to make this earth on which manliresafit abode for the superior people who will then occL'py it. Interested in Animals. A four- year old boy wa^ warned against eatins; meat for supper on account cf its lia- bility to produce bad dreams, but he still insisted on doing it. A few mornings ago the youngster was telling his last dream at the breakfast table. Bears had surrounded him, snakes had crawled down his back, a camel had turned a summersault over him, and a big elephant had assaulted him, etc "There," said hia uncle, "I told you if you ate meat at tea time ycu would have j bad dreams." "I don't care," promptly replied the boy " I ^ess 1 want to see a circus once in a while." Bringing a Bashful Fair Together. Jabez Lewis, of Williamstown, Mass., is 94 years old, has buried five wives, and says he would like to marry again if he could find a girl to suit kim. We must send Jabez the address of Miss Sabra Phillips, a maiden of Norwood. R, I., who has just finished her 100th yeiur, lives alone, does her own housework, saws wood for her own lire, and carries it home on her back from the woods. â€" Cincinnati Commercial Oazttte. " When does a man become a seamstrpsa?" "When he hems and haws." "No." "When he threads his way." "No." "When he ripe ead tears." "No." "Give it up." "Never, if he can help it." Here is a new way to preserve eggs. A rancheress of Washoe Valley, Neva.' a, has invented a novel method of preserving eggs for winter nse. Daring the sniamer she breaks tHe eggs, poors the contei^ts into bot- tles which are tightly corked and sealed, when they are placed in the cellar, neck down. She claims the contents of the bot- tles come out as fresh as when pat in. South America is destined to be the next great beet-producing region of the world. It is estimated that in two years from now the number of cattle in the Argentine confeder- ation will number twentv-eight million against thirteen million in 1877. The enor- mons increase in the number of cattle has brought down the price so that good fat steers are selling at $6 to $8. Little cakes, called "love knots." are nice for tea Five cups of flour, two of susjar, one of butter, a piece of lard the size of an egg, two eggs, three tablespoonsful of sweet milk, half a teaspoonful of soda rub the butter, sugar, and flour together fine, add the other ingredients, roll thm, cut in stripes one inch wide aui five inches long, lay across in true love knots, and bake in a quick ov3n. To Make Good Coffee. â€" Use a tia per colator. Take plenty of coffee, pour boiling water on it very slowly meanwhile the per- colator must stand in a hot place, so that the cofi^ee does not get cold during the mak- ing. I grind my coffee at the last moment, and use no chicory. In France it is very usual to make at least two days' supply at a time, and to warm up the cofiee when re- quired, taking care not to boil it. I always ao this and am frequently told hov/ remark- ably good my coffee is. Bad Teeth and Dyspepsia. While every one is liable to sufier at tim.es with indigestion, no matter how well preserved their dental organs may have been, there cannot be found to-day one whose teeth are decayed, broken off, and out of order generally, that does not suffer ccntinually with "heart- burn" or some of the multifarious gastric troubles incident to such a condition of the oral cavity. Persons having no teeth, or those whose teeth have been neglected and allowed to become diseased, are unable to masticate their food properly, which is deficiently mixed with saliva (a very essential auxiliary in the digestion of solid substances, and therefore, this food, beinef carried into the stomach without proper trituration and in- salivation, imposes double duty upon the gastric apparatus â€" that of mastication and digestion. Again, carious teeth serve for lodgment of particles of food which are retained in and about the organs until fermentation is set up. Friends, did you ever think of it, those whose teeth are rotten and rotting, that your mouths are regular cesspools And tills putrescent matter is conveyed into the stomach contiLually withthe saliva, and consequently produces an irritation of the lining membrane, which is the worst r.nd not uncommon form of dyspepsia, which is impossible to cure (not even with the 599,' 'J9'.t,99'J patent medicines now in the mar ket), until the dental organs have first re- ceived proper attention. Indeed, cases of dyspepsia of years' standing have been per manently cured by judicious attention to the oral cavity, and without medicinal agents to any extent when, on the con- trary, all the medicines that can be given will not effect a cure until the cause is re- moved. Nay, more than this in all mouths where there are tartar-covered and decaying teeth, there are millions of lepicthrices buccalese (microscopic parasites), which are also car ricd into the alimentary canal, and, it may be, produces other complicated and serious diseases the oiigiu of many of which are now unknown. The Moral Influence of Good Cooking Some people may be inclined to smile at what I am about to say, viz,, that savory diflhss, hard-working man's ordinary fare, afford considerable moral, as well as physic- al advantjaae. An instructive exoeiieaoe of iry own, will illustrate this. When wandering alone through Norway, in ISoG, I lost the track in crossing the Kyolen Ijeld, struggled on for twenty-three hours without food or rest, and arrived in sorry plight at Lorn, a very wild region. After a few hours' rest, I pushed on to a still wilder region and still rougher quarters, and continued thus to the great Jostedal table-land, an nnbroken e lacier of five hundred square miles then descended the Jostedal itself to its opening on the S.)gne ford â€" five days of extreme hardships, with no other food than flatbrod (very course oatcake, and bilberries gather- ed on the way, varied on one occasion with the luxury of two raw ttimips. Then I reached a comparatively luxurious station, Ronnei, where ham and eggs and claret were obtainable. The first glaffi of claret produced an effect that alarmed me â€" a crav- ing for more and for stronger drink, that was almost irresistible. I finished a bottle of St. Julien, and nothing bat a violent effort of will prevented me from then order ing some braady. I attribute this to the exhaustion conse quent upon the excessive work, and insuffl cient, unsavory food on the previous five days. I have made many subsequent obser- vations on the victims of alcohol, and have no doubt that overwork, and scanty, taste- less food, are the primarysource of the crav- ing for strong drink thatso largely prevails with such deplorable results among the class that is the most exposed to such privation. I do not say that this is the only'sonrce of such depraved appetite. It may also be en- gendered by the opposite extreme of excess- ive laxurioas pandering to general sensual- ity. The practical inferenca suggested by this experience and these observations, s, that speeoh-maKing, pledge-signing, and blae- ribbon missions can only effect temporary resolts. unless snpplemented by satisfying the natural appetite of hungry people by suppUea of food that is not only nutritious, bat savory and varied. Such food need be no mote expensive than that which is com- monly eaten by the poorest Englishman, bat it mnst fafe for better cooked.â€" Popular Snenee Monthly. Why are babies lik^ new flumel? caoBe they shrink from inwhiaig, ,, B ALL SORTS. Waat is it has a month and never spe iks, and a bed and never sleeps A river. A goat ought to be a first-clas^ material *For oleomargfi) i je. There ii no bjtter butter than the goat. Liureate Tennyson wrote his first verses where the average sal Tou-keeper puts his re- verses â€" on a slate. Courting a girl is paying her addresses. Marriage is paying for her drdsses aod all the other fixings. There is one good thing about leap year, land that is that; leap ^ear jokes can only be used one 3 in four years. A Yaokee editor, observing that "the cen- sus embraces 17,000,000 women," asks " Who wouldn't be a census." Counterfeit silver dollars are flirting about the city. â€" Hartford Times. Those that float are not good, of course. The man who said that he " couldn't see it " when asked by his wife to buy her a pair of diamond ear-rings was stone blind. A Western piper alludes to an opera star as a, diamond-throated songstress. It pro- bably alludes to the precious tocea in her throat. "Have jou Feen my dear love?" sings Ella Wheeler. We have indeed, and he was eating ice cream with another girl. There, now Don't bother us any more. Candid sportsman â€" "Boy, you've been at this whiskey " Boy who has brought the luncheon basketâ€" "Na The cooark wad- na come oot 1 " The Chinese are badly in need of gunboats and it is possible that if we move quickly we rnay be able to trade our navy for a couple cf genuine antique vases, which will hold water if thfy won't float. A medical writer says that girls are so constructed th^t they cannot jump. If he is a respectable young man, let him propose matrimony to one cf the girls, and he'll soon see h';r jump â€" at the offer. A young man in Central Illinois lost six ounces of brain lest week and still lives. Brain is a drug on the market in this S tate. â€" Chicago News. Not wholly a drug, we imagine, but badly adulterated. " What will you think of your beautifu wife twenty or thirty years from now â€" that is the question," according to Mgr. Capel, it is certainly a hard one, especially if a fellow has not one now as a basis for the computation. The ladians who sell hay to the govern- ment out West have been detected placing lar^.c rocks in the bales. That comes of teacbing the Indians to read, so they can study tiie daily papers and become posted in the tricks of the whites. We read of a child, only '.I years old, who can speak the Chinese lan?i age distinctly. There are niany person' m t'us country, 00 years old, who don't uiifr^tand a word of that language. The chiii, by the way, has Chinese parents and lives in China. A scientific journal says that " a psyschic man does not receive what is pneumatic or spiritual." A " psychic " manuossa't have much appetite to receive any kind of food â€" pneumatic or spiritual â€" bat when he re- covers he should shoot the man vho spell sick, " psyschic." Id is the worst ortho- graphical outrage we ever saw. I Female Oddities. Nor must we forget, says a writer in The Manhattan, tiiat if there are women who strive to unsex themselves by becoming too masculine, so are there men who most ef- fectually unsex themselves by a general em- asculaticu of dress and manner, which would readily strike a stranger from an- other planet as representing a transition period oetw ecu the sexes. If a marnish wo- man offends our good taste and jjdgmeat, a womanish men ia an insipid embodiment of nothingness, an.l oug'nt to be treated as a zoological oui-ioBity representicg some hith- erto unknown family of the asinary genu;-. From these considerations it therefore fol- lows that if there aie female oddities who furnish the weapoii.s of satire to those who are opposed to the advancement of woiuan, there are also masculine oddities who tliow how closely a man can sometimes resemble a monkey. Touching the important questions of life la ths most remote and superfijial manner, and representing a phase which can not be seriously treated, these pecuiidr creatures excite our risibility, and cause U3 to abandon ourselves to the calms of Demo- critus, the laughing philosopher. Much as the study of these superficialities may amuse us, they do not, however, and they can not, reach those strata of evidence from which we must draw our conclusions if we desire to be philosophical and consistent. Shocking Ci'neltj to a Child. At the Thames police court recently, Em- ma W^est and Willfam West, living in Lydia street. White Horse lane. Stepney, were brought up on remand charged with cruelly torturing and ill-using their nephew, Charles Martin, aged 9 years, and not pro- viding him with adequate food and cloth- ing. The prisoners had been formally re- manded for a week to see how the unfortunate child progressed in Mile-end Infirmary, but as he had become worse it was thought requisite to take the boy's deposition in case of death. Mr. Bi- ron. the magistrate, accompanied by Mr. Williams, the clerk, went to Mile-end In- firmary to take his deposition. The boy's statement, taken aown by George Yoang, chief inspector of the H division at Arbour square, is as follows " My name is Charles Martin, and I am eight years of age. I know when I am good I shall go to God, bat if I tell a lie I shall not. I have lived with ancle and aunt for two years. My ancle has strnck me on the nose with a slipper, and kicked me on the head. He held me and beat me, and kept me without food, because he wanted to get rid of me. He tied my hands with tarry ropei, and fastened me to a bedstead, and I was kept without food. My aunt helped to hold my hands, and held them over a lighted lamp, boming my fin- gers. The cuts on my hands and arms were (Aosed by the ropes that my ancle and aant tied me up with." Ppobablv the ofaaige may resolve itself iato manslaaghter, and Mr. Biron again remanded tihe primmers for a week to see how the nnforlonata child pro- gressed,â€" Xoiwfon Daily News. TELL-TALE TENDS. Slis Gives Away the Seerat of the Glow- ing ittutset. For several weeks past there has been a vabt amount of sp. culation concerninij the causes producing ihs crimson glories of the western skies at twilight's poetic hour Sages have pondered long and deeply over the mysterious problem scientists have wearied their practiced eyes g^zâ- ng throui{t their spectroscopes upon the briluant gaib assumed by the tired day when about to smk into the arms of restful night tbe fly. ing and floating ashes of mighty vclounoes" the smoke from burning forests, hitherto unknown magnetic disturbances at the frozen north pole, and varii.us other theories have been advanced as the cuse cf th- phenomena. L-^arning that a professor at tho Cocpsr Medical college had a theory, a Chronicle re- porter proceeded to investigate it, so tha' the public apprehension ot dire cilatiutv beiiig evolveil from the lutninoiia heavecV; might be set at rest. At five o'clock last evening the professor war found in an upper room of the college building, waiting, v/itl^ a telescope in h^nd, for the star Venus to emerge just above the crimfoahued attr!r,s. phere of the western horizon. Soon i'n^ goddess appeared low in tky sky, outshining m brilliancy all others of the starry host soon to follow. " We will observe Venus now through the telescope before she is affected by tli i line of crimson below," said the profttsor. "i"oii will observe that she now presents her usual normal appearance cf bluish-white, with a mild yellow glow similar to tha: cl tae moon." The star of the eve was found to shine just as the professor predicted. " Now," continued the professor, "I pro- pose to show you what I believe to t:e the cause of the rare crimson sunsets we have ex- perienced recently, and to do sa by observ- ing Venus later, as her light is reflected through the intervening atmosphere, which, in my opinion, contains an unusual quantity of aqueous vapor that acts as prisms. In other words, we will find from her a con- tinuous spectrum.. Spectrum in physics does not mean a ghost, as the word might «icate, but the rainbow colors obtained en the light of the sun or any other bril- liant object IS allowed to pass through glass in a prismate form, through drops ot liquid, or through vapor. Rain drops act as priams, and hence we have the sp'tctrum m the sky in the form of a rainbow. The light from Venus passing through this red atmosphere is refracted, and we will see the rainbow colors, red on one side, then the yellow and blue. Tliis to me is satisfactciy evidence that the red glow contain? aqaeajs vppors ia larger quantities than usual." After receiving this explanation from tiit professor an hour was passed by the reporter in stargazing. Beauteous Venus was raa:-- uified by the telescope many times her ap parent size as viewed by the naked eye. Sure enough, the evening quceu aook upc:; herself the prismatic colors of the rainboir, just as the professor had stated at orn. time her upper third would be a bright red, her lower third blue, w!i:le a band of yellow divided the two agaia, in a momeut the red and the 'olue would change places aaos from the star would flash pnsmati j colorsâ€" a triani;le of varied hues would seeui to hang itom her lower diiic eu instant to ap- pear the next about her. S-^, uatil the twi- liglit had deepened into darkness and the glow iu the west had become purple, diJtne colors coaie and go, and the tell-tale 'enuii thus revealed the secret and vcxi'.ion^ pr-i- blem of how tie crimson sun e^^ are i-:u.;e â- . â€" .San Franciscn Chronicle. Kow tlio Japanese K â-  fore Fiidc^il Aflcrn i:ouquct is i;roopiti;jl!;y,..ii,; ,-,;; rem- edies of frcib. uMier the. Jjpaneie can brinj^ ii back to all its.fir.st ^lory 'oy a simple a-:d secmiugiy most de:=t.nctive optratioa. A recent visi:or t j .Japan says "X had receiv- oi some days ago a dchehiful bundle o: flowers from a .lapaii j;c acijaaintanco. They oontiuued to live ia all tfieir beauty for neatly fyo ^eeks. whoa at last they faded, â-  iust aj I was about to have them thrown away the same gentleman (Japanese gentk- man) came to sea me. I showed him the faded tijweis and told bini that, thaugii lasting a long time they had no'.v becDme useless, 'Uh, no,' sa'd he, ' on'y pa; the ends of the stem into the iire, and they will be as gooi as before.' 1 was incredulous £0 he took them himself and held the stems ends in tire fire until they were charred. This was in the morning at evening they were again looking fresh ana. vigorous, an j have continued sj for another week. What may be true agents in this reviving process I am uuable to determine fully whether i: be the heat driving once more the last juices into every leaflet and vein, or whether it be the bountiful supply of carbon fur- nished by the charring, I am inclined how- evdr, to the latter cause, as the full effect was not produced until some eight hours after waids, and as it seems that if the heat was the prinaipal agent it must have bscn sooner followed by visible changes. The Duke and the Toll-Keeper. When a Scot meets a Scot, then comes the tug of war. The late Duke of Bu3oleuch, on one occasion, preferred riding on horse- back, and unattended. He came to a toll- gate. "The toll, sir, gin you please," said the gate-keeper. His Grace palled up, and, while searching for the needful, he was accosted by the gate- keeper. "Heard ye ony word o' the duke coming this wiay the day, sir " "Yes," was the reply, "he wUl be tbis way to-day." " Will he bs in a coach an' four, cr only in a carriage and twa, think ye " " In all probability on horseback," was the rejoinder. " In that case, do yoa think that he wad be cfiTended gin I offered him back the change should he gave me a sixpence or a shilling to pay wi' as he passed " The duke stretched forth his hand to re- ceive the balance, and, with an sich and knowing look, replied " Try him, friend, try him," and pocket- ed hii ooppen, mntterins; to himself " Not to be dcQ3 in thtt way 1'° *â- -â- ; u^v^t. Mt^V'^^^^-'^m ^f^^^ggfOIJign^^ ^^uoaHitt .^^.jaii"