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. . a. . 0, '1’?“ M‘ "we. .- ev. mu... m-W. favfew *M.g. ‘0.»Mm up. .. . -.~ awning“, .41 _ iii _Mlll. mains OF lNTEREST ABOUT THE sosv YANKEE. Neighborly Interest In His Doingsâ€"Mutter: of Moi-ant and f'llrth Gathered from His Daily Record. The skin of the wolf makes the best covering for banjo heads. Among the perpetual motion cranks is a minister of the Gospel at Lansdale, Miss. A toper in Bangor, Maine, has invent- ed a hat, in which a pint bottle of whisky can be conveniently carried. A small but brilliant diamond adorns a front tooth of Mr. J. Von Craenbroeck of Chicago, and is distinctly seen when he smiles. A rabbit. chased by a do at Jasper. Fla... ran into a gopher ho 8, followed by the dog. and a rattlesnake killed both of them. Eugene Monroe, of Lyme, Conn, fir- ed into a flock of wild ducks. near Pov- erty Island, and with a single shot 'kill- ed fifteen birds. A lobster 40 inches long. and 17 inches round, weighing 19 1-2 pounds._was re- cently caught in a smelt weir inSouth Bay, Eastport, Maine. The election winning‘S of a iMadison, Ky., manâ€"a hat and a butcher knifeâ€" wore exchanged for a horse, and the horse he sold later for $1.50. Two cows. two pigs, eighteen hens, a greyhound pup, and a bull were,givâ€" on to an agent by an Abilene, lxan., farmer. for _a cabinet organ. A C-thaman advertises in newspapers of the City of Mexico a first class l’Am- erican restaurant where fresh oysters will be supplied whenever milled for. ' Two Kentuckians in a contest for the championship of the Cumberland Moun- tains at hoirseshoe pitching continued play for three days and were tied then. \Villiam H. Manson, the sailor who carried Farragut ashore on his back at the siege of New Orleans, died at his home in York, Men the last of Jan,â€" ' nary. To while away the time until the spring work begins, farmers in the v1- einity of Marling, Alav are to hold weekly horse swapping conventions there on Saturdays. At Taberville, St. Claire county, Mo, a barn 60 by 100 feet has been built, 36,000 feet of timber and 70,000 shinglw being used in putting it up. It is the largest in the county. Sam Cravens, of Spottsville, Ky., was as happy as a feast could make him on a recent Saturday night when he got three ’coons and four pailfuls of honey from one tree. a An Emporia woman who, tiring of _a physician, had adopted Christian sci- ence, 'minolated a poodle in the delu- sion that in that way only could her children escape being puisoned. in the last,twenty-five years, as in- dicated b' life-insurance statistics. the average ife of woman has increased from forty-two years to forty-Six years. an increase of over nine per cent. In Vanceburg. Ky., is a man 85 years old who has three families. He was divorced one afternoon recently‘_ from his third wife. and he was married to a fourth on the following evening. iAn lowan has invented a machine. which he hopes to have in operation by the next harvest season, for cuttin corn and separating the ears and stalks at the rate of fifteen acres a day. Sugar beets are to, 'be planted in Summit county, 0., next summer, as an experiment. 1f the beets yield 12 per cent. of sugar, capital is ready to es- tablish the heel; sugar industry there. While skating Charles E. Dow of Bar- lington. Vt., captured a gull. He took it. home and found that it would_ eat the food of ordinary domesticated birds, and seemed not. averse to becoming a pet. One of the lawyer members of the Montana Legislature at l-lelena. requir- ing the sworn verification by aOButte client of a legal paper. called him lap and had the oath administered by tele- phone. Near Lakewood, N.J.. there is a fer- ret farm. where these useful animals are raised. Their chief service is to capture rats in dwellings and store- houses. Last year 2,000 ferrets were raised on the farm. Arizona people have been for nearly a month felicitating themselves upon their climate, birds having been report- ed as building their nests on Jan. 19 at Safford, and buds having begun to swell soon afterward. in the neighbourhood of Wahoo,Neb.. the Russian thistle is no longer inveigh- ed against. the cattle having detected in it a staple food supply; and the law intended to encourage its extermina- tion has been repealed. Emma Micâ€"Cue. 50 years old, who inur- ried George MDCUG, three years older. at Franklin, lnd., last December, on his )romise to support her in ease and com- ort has sued for diivorce because she has had to do farmhouse drudgery. Having summoned his friends and neighbors to an outdoor beef roast. a tlreensbury Point, Md.. doctor, after his beef had been iraiscd, informed his guests that he ad fed them on an eight-incinth-old colt to dispel preju- dice. A citizen of Suffolk, Va... has offered a. factory site free to any one who will mtahllsh a manufzwtui'ing industry there, and one of the inducements held out hv ii local xtper is that “the mor- als of the people are equalled in few Olllt‘l' places." Professional strong men have equals in various respects in private life. it is asserted of Alonzo Lowe of Greene field. ind.. that he has lifted one of his horses clear of the ground and that he can shoulder alone. and carry a bar- rel of sugar. Fire startin on an upstairs hearth in the home 0 United States Marshal James McKay. at 'l‘nuiia, l-‘la., burned through the floor at :. a.m.. and sev- ered the cord of a icture. the fall of which aroused the amily. _who sought burglani and found the fire. L‘an'ful ix-ruml of \VeStu-rn records shows that the South does not monop- olixc odd names. This is evident from the divorce in Missouri of Buck Si er- flip and the marriage in Kansas of eie Juggersnnp H Carthage, Mo. Miss Trott is secretar Club. The receipt of a large sum to be de- voted to the needs of any destitute fam- ily of the town. led to a diligent inves- tigation by a charizable institution of Morgantown, \V. \'a.. with the result of estabishjng the fact that there was not in the town or adjacent country a iam- ily so poor that it needed the money. "l'akinga hint from a Louisiana drum- mer, a Tampa. l~‘la., proprietor of a shooting range where busness had beâ€" come slack because people were tired of firing at a negro's head. had a new target made- representing Weyler \Vll‘h the bull'sâ€"we over theheairt. immedi- ately Cubans and th-:.ir sympathizers swarmed about his place. forming in line to await their turn at the rifles. Some of the excitable ones offered a bonus to be. allowed to stab it and to beat the effigy with clubs. \. Tim Olin, a 10-year-old boy who be- cause of an accident is _compelled to wear two wooden legs. lives h_.gh' up in the Cumberland Mountains of hen- tucky, near the V iirginia line. . Havmg heard that forest fires were doxng great damage on the other side of the range, he climbed to a. peak and saw that in the track of the flames was a. cabin where two aged sisters and their blind brother lived. Although not fit for travelling over a muunrain path he made the best of his way to them. h.tch- ed their horse to a sled, and got them all away safely. The fare reached the cabin that night. ‘ _ Residents of the westei-rnportion of Louisville, Ky., and of Shippingport en- joyed an unusual Spectacle and sport on one morning when the air was clear and cold and very light. and the sun shinin . As it is described,_.“suddenly large %alls of pure, cryslalliized frost, shaped after the form and. Size of th.s- tie-bloom “lJallolpens” tlgaflcnildu‘en use as la thin rs, gan a ing in pro- fusiiirmyandbbefore the shower abated the ground was covered With frost bulls. The pretty visitors came dowm.slowly and lighted on the ground so eaSily that the small arms that extended from the centre of each ball was not broken.‘ Some persons caught the balls on dishes. A FATHER'S MURDEROUS FRENZY. Wounded Ills Daughter, Attacked llls Sis- ter, .luil Klllcil Ills lloy and "llll-‘lclf, John Mars killed {his four-yearâ€"old son John. shot his fourteen-yearrold daughter Helen, tried to kill his sister Ida. and killed himself a little before 8 o’clock on Saturday morning, at Lexâ€" ington, Ky. . i Marx's was about forty years old and had been a member of the firm of M. Kaufman 8: 00., clothiers, for years, owned a great deal of real estate and was regarded as one of the most suc- cessful of Lexington’s younger business men. When the servant girl went inâ€" to his room on Saturday morning, Marrs sprang from his bed and the 'girl fled from the room. \Vhen half down the steps she heard a pistol shot. Ma's. Marrs and herisister-in-law, Miss Ida Marrs, a teacher in the public Schools, ran to the room. They heard two more shots as they were goxng up and Mrs. Marrs fainted at the head of the steps just as her daughter, Helen, ran out of the room and fell. Miss lda. ran in- to the room. Marrs felled her With a blow and as she fell he fired a pistol at her. i Neighbors forced the door and found Marrs with his throat cut from ear to ear, his head being almost severed from his body. In his left hand was a large razor covered With blood, on the floor a large old-fashioned revolver with four empty chambers. On the bed was the boy with a bullet hole in the centre of his‘ forehead, and his throat cut from ear to ear, and three pieces of flesh out from the right cheek. Helen Marrs was picked up in the hall unconscious. A bullet had struck her in the back of the head, gone» downâ€" ward and lodged in her neck. She Will recover. Ida 'Marrs’s wounds are not dan erous, but she is prostrated by shoe . Mrs. Marrs is suffering from. nervous rostration. Ten years ago John Man's showed signs of insanity and was placed in the eastern Kentucky asylumi, He was dis- charged as cured after Six months. He was taken violently ill a month ago with a peculiar headache and was to have been taken to a DhYSlclfln’. Ills, father J. Marrs, was many years l‘reasâ€" urer of the city of Lexington, and the family has always stood high in bUSl- ness and social circles. FOLLOlVING THE FASHIONS. There has been a symposium in an English magazine under the heading "Should Sensible \Vomen Follow the Fashions?" The most common sense re- ply seems to come from Mrs. Rentoul Esler, who says: “The sensible woman is pre-eminently she who does follow the fashions in moderation. Being sensible she has learned that there is always a good deal of merit in exist- ing things; that the person who pur- sues a course indicated for her, whe- ther in minor matters or in great ones. saves herself much wear and-tear; that the momentum of themultitude will always overbear the individual, and that resistance is follyâ€"or heroism. The sensible woman does not want to be a martyr. she leaves that thankless role to cranks and enthusiasts; her_am- bitions are towards pleasant things, smooth roads for the wheels of her chariot, and cushions beneath her per- son since some jolts are ichitable." Another woman writes: _“I do not like to see a woman dowdily dressed, but the better one's taste and the keener one’s artistic sense, the great- er the temptation to spend undue time and thought over it; the less money one has. the more thought is required in order to spend it to the greatest ad- vantage. We are all, I think, aptdo for t that dmss is not an end in it- selgebut simply a means tomakeour- selves attractive and ourr lives pleasâ€" anter and more useful to others." .- CITY AND COUNTRY HOUSES. Jinksâ€"“'inks must be doing finely. He. tells me he has a country house and a cit ' house. Biuksâ€" le has. He takes care of my country hens» in winter and my City house in summer. . 94'" m K“? Pm YOUNG FOLKS. .mxdflyx JOHN POUNDS. Did you ever hear of John Pounds! Probably not, and yet he was one of the world's benefactors. He was born in 1766. in Portsmouth. En‘gland. In early years he learned the trade of a shipwright, but was so injured by afall thathe had to abandon this. He then mastered the art of mending shoes. and hired a. little room in a weather~ beaten tenement, where for a while he lived alone, except for his birds. He loved birds dearly, and always had a number of them flying about his room. perching on his shoulder, or feeding from his hand. In the course of time. a. little crip- ple boy, his nephew, mime to live with Uncle John and the linnets and spar-l rows. The poor child had not the use of his feet, which overlapped each] other. and turned inward. The kind uncle did not rest until he had gradu ally untwist/ed the feet, strengthen- iing them by an apparatus of old shoes and leather, and finally taught them to walk. Then he thought how much more pleasantly the tune would pass for the boy it he knew how to read and write, and so. he began to instruct him. Pres- ently it occurred to him that he could teach a. class as easily as he could man- age one pupil. So he invited some of the neighboring children in, and, as the years went on, this singular picture might be seen: ‘ la the center of the little shop, six feet Wtde and about eighteen feet long. the lame cobbler, with dis jolly lace and twmkiing eyes, would be seated, his last or lapstone on his knee, and his hands busily plying the needle and thread. All around him would be faces. Dark eyes, blue eyes, brown eyes, would shine from every corner, and the hum of young voices_and the tapping of slate pencils were mingled with. the singing of the birds which enjoyed the buzz of the school. Some of the pupils sat on the steps of the narrow stairway which led up to the loft which was John's bedroom. Others were on boxes or mocks of wood, and some sat comtentedly on the floor. They learned to read, write, and cipher as far as the Rule of Three, and besuies they learned good morals, for much fiomely wisdom fell from the cobbler's PS- , Hundreds of boys who had no other chance, for he gathered .illiS soho’lais from the poorest oi. L118 poorâ€"learned all they ,ever knew of books from this humble teacher. His happiest days were when somesu'aburned sailor or soldier would stop in his doorway, perhaps With: a (par. rot or a monkey in his arms, saying, “Why, master dear, you surely haie not forgotten me, 1 hope f” John rounds taught his little school for more than forty years, never ask- iing nor accepting a. cent of payment from any one. At the age of seventy-two, on Janâ€" uary 1, 183:), he suddenly died, while looking With. delight at a sketch of his school which had just been made by an artist. h‘or many days the children of the place were inconsolable, and by twos and threes they cameand stood by the closed door which in John rounds' time had always been open to the needy... 1A life like this, so lowly yet so use. full. contains lessons for us all. GRANDMA’S \VARNING. It wasalovely old orchard with apple trees and cherry trees in profusion and green gram spread out like acarpe't be- neath. The family had but recently come to this place from a distant town. and the children thought it the most de- lightful place in the world. They romped and played in the orchard half the time. The cherries were at last ripe and must be gathered. All hands went to work with a will. What fun it was with the gay robbins circling over their heads and appropriating the very' ripest and jucicst cherries from the tops of the trees. How the children laughed and chatted and tried to see who could pick the fastest. Even litâ€" tle chubby four~year~old Robbie was helping by picking off the cherries from branches thrown to him by the older children. ' That very morning careful grandma had warned the children not to eat too many cherries and told them of a. man she had known who, after working in the fie-ids until he was very warm, had eaten a great. quantity of cherries. swallowing the seeds, and had drank heartily of cold water. and before night he was dead. Robbie could not make it out ex- actly, but had gathered from it that if he swallowed a. cherry seed it would kl!“ him. So he was very careful. in- deed. in eating the cherries to spit every seed on the ground. But the cherries were so good he could scarcely eat them fast enough and soon in spite of his caution. one seed slipped down his throat. There was a fear ul scream which brought ever 'one to the ground in a twinkling. ll amma ran with all her might from a distant tree, her heart beating wildly. What dreadful acci- dent bail liclallen her dear little boy. Had a snake bitten him or was it the sting of a hornet or bee that would cause him to utter scream after scream. She reached him at last. The dear baby lay under the tree prone on his back. throwin out his arms, his face urple with right. and his little fat egs kicking wildly in the air. “0b. Robbie, darling, what is it, what hurts you. can't you tell mamma i" "I am dying. dyin l I know I am i" exclaimed Robbie, " or I swallowed a cherry seed." How the children laughed; even mamâ€" ma found it utterly mipossxble to keep her face straight. Robbie became very indignant at last. and said. "You can laugh if you want to. but I'll soon be dead. then on will cry. I lmow i will. 'cause gran a said it killed a man to swallow a cherry seed." I . It teak momma some time to connect- him that he was not a dying boy. and as gay and happy as ever. 'ache. when she had made him understand that there was nothmg to fear was soon Robbie is a. tug boy now, but he will never forget the fright a cherry seed once gave him. WHAT AN OLD MAN‘S DlARY TELLS OF THE YEAR 1816. Sumner ln Winter and Winter In Summer â€"A Man Lost In the Snow In Vermont in June~l~tveryinlng Green 'lI the l'nlied suites and Europe Destroyed By Frost In August. The year 1816 was known throughout the United States and Europe as the coldmt ever experienced by any person than living. There are persons in nor- thern New York who have been in the habit of keeping diaries for years, and it is from the pages of an old diary.be- gun in 1810 and kept unbroken until 1840. that the following information re- garding this year without a summer has been taken: January was so mild that mist per- sons allowed their fires to go out. and did not burn wood except (on cooking. There were a few cool days, but they were very few. Mostof the time the air was warm and springliike. [Febru- ary was not cold. Some days were colder than any in January, but the weather was about the same. March, from the lst to the 6th, was inclined to 'be winih'. It came in like a small lion and went out like a very innocent sheep. April came in warm, but, as the days grew longer the air became colder, and by the first of May there was a temâ€" perature like that of winter. with plenty of snow and ice. In May, the young buds were frozen dead. ice form- ed half an inch thick on ponds and rivers. corn was killed. and the corn fields‘wcre planted again and again, until it became too late to raise a crop. By the last of May imithis climate the trees are usually in leaf and ,birds and flowers are plentiful. \Vheu the last of May arrived in 1816 everything. (had been killed by the cold. ' June was the coldest month of roses ever experienced in this latitude. Frost and we were as common as =but.tercups usually are. Almost every green thing was (killed: ALL FRUIT WAS DESTROYED. Snow fell ten inches deep in Vermont. There was a seven-inch snow-fall in Maine, a three-inch fall in the interior of New York State. and the same in Massachusetts. There were only a few moderately warm days. [Everybody looiked. longed and waited for warm weather, but warm (weather did not come. .lt was also dry; very little rain fell. _All summer long the wind blew steadily from the north in blasts laden with snow and ice. hfothers knit socks of double thickness for their children, and made thick mittens. Planting and shivering were done together, and the farmers who worked out their taxes on the. country roads wore overcoats and mittens. On June 17 there was a heavy fall of snow. A Vermont farmer sent a flock of sheep to asturo on June 16. The morning of t 8 17th dawned with the thermometer below the freezing point. At about 9 o'clock in the morning the owner of the sheep started to look up his flock. . Before leaving home he turned to his and said, jokingly: "Better start the neighbors soon; it's the middle of June and I may get lost in the snow." _An ’hour after he left home a ter‘ l‘l‘ble snow storm came up. The snow fell thick and fast, and, as there was so much wind, the fleecy masses piled in great drifts along the windward side of the fences and outbuildings. Night came and the farmer had not been heard of. {His wife became frightened and alarmed the neighborhood. All the neighbors .joined the searching party. mil; this graciousness on our part to On the 1.11mi. day “my R’qu 'hlm‘ [.113 be understood. We are too stingy with “’95 3' ly'ng "1 3' houow 0” 9' Sid“ h‘”~ our politeness, and an effort on the part “’0 W'h feat from"; he was half 00"" POLO. \Ve have recently read an account of a polo match at l'etei‘hoff. Russia, reâ€" sulting in the death of one of the play- eis. From the account we take the following touching description: Horse and rider still lay motionless. Was it possible that the shock could have killed them both? The man lay just as he had been sitting. turned to one side in readmess to strike the ball; so that, while his feet were still inthe stirrrups. his head and shoulders had fallen incl: on the ground. At this deathâ€"like stillness a. shudder passed through all that vast assembly; and in the carriage next to us a. lady fell suddenly back against the cushions. fainting. Then two or three officers sprang forward to see what had hap- pened. while the players leaped from their horses to assist their fallen com- rade. Never have I seen a sign of higher intelligence in a. brute than was then exhibited by that little Cossack puny. .As two or three of the officers, stoop- ing, took him by the head to raise him. he looked up at them with pleading, pa.- thetic eyes, as though entreating them to be very careful. Then slowly. cau- tiously, he allowed himself to be drawn away frothe prostrate figure, raising hunseli: as much as posiole, that he might not crush or mjure his beloved master. No sooner was this weight removed than the officer's body turned with a. quick,convulsive movement, and the next moment stiifened as though suddenly changed to stone. in made everyone shiver to see that; ominous ghastly mo- tion. The horse was no sooner on his feet then, shaking his head free from the hand that held his bridle, and step- ping, oh, so_ca.refu.lly, he passed around to where his master’s head lay. The great fur cap had fallen backwards, ieavmg the bronzed forehead bared. Then thebystanders all the while look- ing on in pitying silenceâ€"the poor beast came close up, and putting out his tongue. touched the officer’s face lov- ingly, licking the temples and brow. and running his nose carefully under his chin, ast‘hough he would force his masâ€" ter to raise his head and speak to him. Finding this to be of no avail, he lift- ed his own head sorrowfully. and. look- iiiig around at the mute observers of this touching scene. gave a low, pitiful whmny, which said as plainly as any words coqu have done: ' “Can no_ one here help him i" .A chockiing sensation came into my throat, and in the carriages close around there were scarcely any eyes without tears. But there was no help. He had injured his spinal column, and snap- ed_ some ligament connecting with the rain, so thatâ€"although he was taken to the hospital and did not cease to breathe for several daysâ€"he was virtuâ€" ally a dead man. JUST A LITTLE THING. Why should it be so very hard to use those little words " please ” and “thank you?” It is rarely one hears them be- tween members of this family. Little duties are exacted without thanks. and " please " seems altogether unnecesSiry. But how different With friends or strangers. Those who are bound to us by the closest ties; those who think more of us than strangers ever canâ€"- they are not worth the trouble to please! Surely they can appreciate politeness as well as others. rrobably it. is mere forgetfulness; but we should never per- 'wife of the older members of the family to Brad with snow. but alive. Most of the remember it would be a. wonderful les- Sheep were IO'SL- , son to the litue folks, A farmer near '1 ewksbury, Vt. own- ed a large field of corn. llle built fires around the field to keep off (the frost. Nearly every night he and his men took turns in keeping up the fires and watching that the corn did not freeze. The farmer was rewarded for his tire- less labors by having the only‘ crop of corn in the region. July came in _with ice and snow. On the Fourth of July ice as thick as win- dow glass formed throughout New England. New York, and in some parts of the State of Pennsylvania. Indian corn which in some parts of! the East had struggled through May and June, gave up, IS IT CONTAGIOUlS? Marion came down to breakfast with an ugly pout and a worse temper one morning. She felt cross when she awoke. Everything seemed wrong. nothing would go as she wanted, and she had concluded that she was a dread- fully abused girl. The tempers of the family were about as usual, and no one seemed especially inclined to be over- sweet, or vice versa. She did not an- pwer infilfather’s Goodtniornliug,”tand ier mo er's usua swee smi e me' no -. y , ‘. response. The little brother was cold- , “1041‘ AND ml‘D' ly told to let her alone when he called '10 “"3 “WI‘W‘H‘Ie 0f “Verl'ifl’dy August bel- to come u, the window to see the proved the worst. lllpllllb of all. 'Al- new1y_fauen snow which my 50 gently iiiost every green thing ill the United and peacemuy over everything. She States and laurope were blasted with Me in suneu Silence, and before she frost. .8an fell at. Barnet, thirty had finished her breakfast it seemed “Hie-“Thom Lo’fld‘uni I‘illls'lflmi. on AUB- Lhnt each one at the table had become 31). hewspapers received from ling- oppressively silent. land stated that ISIS would be rememb- Hm. usually patient father seemed cried by tlie_exisiing generation as the much provoked because his hat; had 3'9"" “l Wilth Wefe \WLS_ 110' summer. been misplaced, and before he left for ‘9” Wu“ CW" “Veiled "l N‘P‘V' Eng' his office he was not in the best “(1111. land. lliere was great privation, and man The baby had been cross during thousands of persons would have per- the night and kept its mother busy at- IWed llllll' it not been for' the abund- tending in Marion did not care to once of fish and Wild .gaine. . I amuse it, and before long her mother in direct (ynitrzist, With 1810 appears too seemed much out of patience and the year .1827'38- When the” “’38 .90 iater on suffered from awvem bead- Winter. tapt. Daniel Lyon. who died The little brother administered some 3'93” “5"? ‘" Burlmgmp- Vi-o 11“- a couple of severe saws to his beloved ed to relate his experience in_ l827-28. little dog” a thing which he very gel- lie was a walking encyclopaediauf loc- dom did, and cried for it afterward. al events. lie said: "i ’knew but qne it seems that the “Dunn-,0]: the L.reso when Winter was almost like are bonschom was ruuled {muse of suiiiiiier. the winter of 18:27-28. I was only 0m, member_ can we not believe running the steaiiilniat Gen. Green be- it would have been wholly different if “VH3” “UTI'HWUIL ,\ 3-. “nd Port Kent Mal-ion 11ml smiled instead 0: vowed aiiil l’laltsburgh, .\.l.., and during the that, morning? Surely crassne‘gs .3 am- year there was not a hit oil we in the mgion. one only needs to stop w whole [axe from one end to the other. think no“. ofwn She has been the cause The old Lake. (.‘liiiiiiplain Steamboat (.‘oiiipziny hauled out the sleainboats Phoenix and Congress. and hardly a bit of ice appeared on Shelburne Bay, near Burlington, during the winter. "The Phoenix had a new engine built. in Albany. and the whole outfit had to be carried from that city to Slielliurne Ilarbor b team.» through the mud. At Middle Jury, Vt.. the mud was more than a foot dee . The phoe- ni xwas rebuilt and ram y to launch by Jan. 15. Jan. 18 was the day fixed for the launching, and I took over a large party from Burlington on the Gen. Green. The sun was shining with the warmth of a July day. The worn- enl who eat on deck raised. their parit- i-‘o s. of a similar disturbance. We have no right to distribute any kind of disease, neither should we‘ this. Very often a merry laugh, or c cheerful "Goml morn- ing" has dispelled the sour little de- mons lurking about to do mischief of a mornin . Oh! for one happy. smil- ing mem er in the family, and one would not encounter cross looks and sarcastic answers over the breakfast table so often. A good beginning will usually make a happy knows. Girls. let one of the resolutions for the new year be. that. you will do vour best to keep up the good spirits of the family by your own happy faces and smiles. day. as everyone i flit mm sum... We