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AGRICULTURAL. Starving Trees. Drought often kills trees the first summer | t * n< * ^ '' r * w tlle w *\ e r to the surface after they are planted, bat if a tree has been for some year* firmly root., I it may IfkSia alii i*. I. _ _ * 1 . lose all its leaves in midsummer, and , . l- revived by the rainsof the nert winter and pnug. A tree wlnoh is supposed to be killed by drought had better be nure-! than mourned over, uud uliould not ! cut down a* a hopless ease before the summer of the next year, according to </nn/. a,,,/ f,,,:,i. A tree which give* sign* of perishing l,y drought ought to receive, sympathy and assisunce. The wilting, turning yellow and MUBg of the leaves are signal* of dis- tress, fmially the tree in ctarviiiL.'. It cannot assimilate and appropriate, ml id ubstaneei, and a* there in no water to dis- solve it* foi.1 it -an neither e;it nor drink. Hut a tree nf vigorous constitution, grow ing in it* native aoil, will endure a long and severe fast. Of course it will grow while it ii starved, ami in time it will die. Hut it should not be cut down l>ecaue it is having ' """' llre - a hard tiul The trees that sre soonest injured by , drought have in most case nearly exhausted i f v *P D I* the soil in which they htand. I 1 "" ' '", to lift water fiom below to the root* of young and ah.tllow roo.i-.l plant*. (5) Kail plowing and early spring treat- ment with tool* like the disk harrow would witli the minerals held in solution, and thus concentrate the fertility at tlie surface for later use, thus preventing so much licing lost hy uudtrdralnage. The place wktre these su^festiom are most profitable U in the corn field. There are tune* in tha practical management of corn lhat it is very desirable to get ml of water hut often in Ute ears it is most de- sirable to (tore it. The tint ohj< t i I i i( 1. 1 >i i \ i i >i r I i I HI> II n ..i I*. AlUw a ..... NUB ( P., ic r. ,i. rd, n.. i ! In in H...I - A prominent clergyman who is the repre- -i- 1 1... i iv.- in New York of aUiM oublicotiou ocit-ty in I'hihtdelphia recently found two strange men waiting for him in his parlor. They had a letter of introduction from the head of tlie Philadelphia society. The clergyman read it.andfouiidtliat hi* visitor* were detective*, and that their mission wall* arret a young nun who had obtained em- rloyment in the office of the society in 'hiladelphia on the strength of a letter of i IKII it i< i oil n kn> (lien i\- when it I* needed by the use | recommendation written by the clergyman, i they The treatment required is not merely a supply of water, but an iiiipro\eineni of aoil. Grass and weeds should be rcmou d from tin- ground almtit the tree as far as the root* ex- tend, an.l n rich loam or suitable fertili/er should !-; eopi.iiMly applied and partially incorp : r M with the surface soil If en , '-a A ater i* tlien given it from time to tune to dissolve the IIL-W supply of food, the tree ii likely not only to live, but to grow much more vigorously than before. <Jreat niiinlMrs of trees in our town* grow very slowly, become enfeebled, and perish t last, not on account of the drought alone, but because of exhaustion of the soil anil an inadequate f-*>d supply. The people of a town ought not to remain comfortably indifferent while the n, ,),), trees which emliowur the ; r daily walks are starv- ing to de.illi. Tliev should lake im-amne* for their relief. Very often it would lie lietter not to plant no many trec-ii unless they- are tiken .are of afterward. In many intar..-.-i, Arhnr-lhty plan' the ceremonious inur.lur of lieautiful young trees, which .ire put into the giniind with songs and orations, and apparently not thought of af!.-i win. I Ht- fed Them. A I 'Ii'M-l.ind . <ir-i-i[)ciiident Hriid" to Th' Com/Mtlti" .1 | H ,y in tint city wlio ileoiiiiiiiMi.Ulilt kind lien-ted and in/eni-ni-.. He had to. in- i In- k>-:i* ,.: vhi-h ha hail made |M-t. l|.- .ui, I Ins f.itli.-r w.-nt - work early in the iirniiing, and while the mstof the family wen- iw.iy foi th.-niiniinei, it hecamr a .jii'-iitioii ii.w tiie . IIP -k- 10 w. n to be fe.l w tli j.. . ,i !t^ Tim I oy natequalta H an alarm <!'"!.. .ti. I ft.-iie.l il .r-im-lv i. one *|il>- of tin- I,, i u l,\ MH-. i n-. ..t : Neil he hiiin; i l>u<lel .f , i*tter, T-d .1 with the e|iK.-k by .1 cor. I. II- wound '.|. the alann and set it at four k. A' Ml. ll If. ill th.- .il.lllh We'll o'l, WOUUiluptl.- . tl'IIU', :in.| tlppe.l .,M-I I I,, bucket. An I -.. il . . ln.-ki-ns w.-re fed by clock worU of the narrow or disk cultivator. That the result follow* is known to every farmer who harrow* a pieo of land, a little wettish, and compare* it the next day with the unbar- rowed land adjoining. When it i* desirable to conserve m-m ture in the corn field in a dry time, the farmer provides by the use of liu cultivator, a mill. Ii of dry dirt, below whi'-h he will always, except during hot wind*, fin. I In other word*, he break* the .ipillain-s two or three inches below the surface, und by the loose dirt prevent* the ion ot w.iti-i pumped up from be- capillaries drop the water here it i* needed for plant root*. When he plows ground for wln-.it in the fall, he h.urows and r.'ll.s to make a solid seed bed, and by the use of the drill in sowing who.it Incaks up igain throe inches of the upper surface, SO as lo have the ideal wheat bed, a - -.lid bottom and loo*e top. I; is on the same prin iple thai some farmer* harrow their winter wheat in the -piing, to break oil the ton of the capillaf ics and preserve moisture below for the young plant. The whole subject iot very great importance, and it i- to lie hoped that in a very few years it w ill he so thoroughly investigated that the con- clusion* will lie- absolute, and not merely tentative. When this is done, principle* un- derlying the old. |iie.st ion of deep and shallow plow-ill.; will be no fully umlersliNid that there will bo lesi room for discussion on i that and kindred subjects. and, a few days after he was put to work, had disappeared with a sum of money be- longing to the society. The letter writer aski-d the clergyman to assist the detective* in finding the whereabout* of the thief. The clergyman was nearly overcome bj the discovery of the young man'* crookedness. He even ventured to do-jbt that it could Ix; true. He recalled the young man's mother, one of the most devout and sweetest mem- ber* of his congregation when he wa* pastor of a church up town six or seven years ago, and he rememl>ered that she was now a widow He pictured the Ixiy -or rather one of the boy*, for they were twins, and o near alike that only their intimate friends could tell one from the other -and h.- felt tempted to give the detectives no informa- tion. Then he decided that it was his duty as a clergyman and a good c.ti/en to help carry out the laws of his country. He told the detectives to wait awhile in the parlor and he would go up stairs and try to find in some old letters the address of the young nun's mother. He had not seen her for several years and had forgotten her resi- dence. While he was overhauling hi* papers there was a ring at the door In-Il. Presently the servant came up and told the clergyman that a young man in the back parlor wanted to *ee him. He came down and was dumbfounded to find himself face to face with one of the twins. He fervently hoped that it was not the ouc tint the de When .,.,! ashe. are sifted they make the I tec 1 t ' the ^ont room were looking for, ' and he asked with omc hesitation, "Art- you ( ieorge or John T" The young man an- nwen-d, "I am < ieorge." The Mauagein*nt of Water in the Soil. On of tl, ,,,.,,! nit.ie-.tuij; siibjectn of investigation on w I,,, I, , lemmu h ly yet entered, i* the l>et mi-ili. !-. .,i ,..ii trolling the water xupply in the soil, or, in other Wordt, how to get rid of a mil-plus of water when a anrphis exiint*, and how t., conserve and use for theiupport of plants, the existing supply when it ,|. t Ibis involve* several <|uelioni of great in- terest; the depth of the soil that will trans- it water, or in .ith.-r word*, thedcpth of an impervious sulxioil U-mntli the surface; tl,, capacity of the soil it*t If tg Jjold watar with out saturation, varying with the relative Jiroportioat of sand inn! clay: the amount ..I Water any givan aoll Is capable of supplying to growing plants by capillary action de pending on its texture, and tin |iro| riiielli.nl of manipulating the *urface in order to get rid of superfluous moisture, and che.-k t he- capillary action onllie surface w luh allowing free action of the capillaries mum h it. l\ I.. neath the surface. We will drul at pi. -. ni only with ihehuit of these ptol.l. m- 'f here art a few i.i.ts with wlmli farmer is fatmlinr. He knows, l.u exampli , tl.i' in tin- month of .Inly in H dry tun. he will ha\ .- t.i -iig down ijuite a distan.-e in 1 1.. n.- i'low t.p till. V visible molslllle, wlllle in .1 well cultivated . .rtnlii-ll iwljoming he ,.n find inoiii e utli I iv Ki'Mpmt; .itlii....|. iiirhe* of loo-..- .hit with hi* foot. \\'hy i> Ihl- ' He klloWK lli.lt 1 1 he giM-K into It <-|o\ fr field after a heitvy tain the HOI! i> i hor- ui^rhly *tniaii d I'h moisture- . inn. Idy and that ill a few days It has be- come wonderfully dry, that it is wetter in a Wet time ill ill I tllii'illi) liiead.iw, and .|i lr. out wit?, more rttpMil) : ho knows that h u rowing land after a raindrie* i lout rapidly, and thai harrowing or cultivating in n .li> tun.- gives tin- growing corn n increise of best material f>r the dust bath, and th coarseJ portion thrown on the yardaoiu in hardening the surface and pint.-, ting against mud, ax well a* piovn'in.' gritty material ; but when w 'i.id ashes are used they cause sores on the fowls by reason of their canst i propcrlte-.,e.|H- i illy iininnp w.-.itlier. Dur- ing very dry weather wood ashes may U- used, a* the hen- Hill slink'- out all the dust from llie feathers, which, howe\.i. I* ditti i-lllt when the :i-|li"^phc|e Is humid. Tin- aim of the horti--iil'iint, should I*, of coup.! 1 , tow. nd piodm-in^ frintot the veiy finest uunlity, nm nntilbuyersaie U-t t.-i . li:,-.it.-.| m this rexpect the man who t.T.iw* fiiui for pioi.t must IK- nun- to have uch p:,nlii ts HS are atti.i.-tne to tli- I' -Illy .in, I i|i[..-i;al..-e , in i.e . o-.,blm-d so much the b'-tt-i ; but .|iialit\ is is yet lo ;I|,|M- .'.in, . 111 si-Ming. Shade bus iiitliii-n -.- on the foimstion nf l.'iiniii. in the mill, tin all shady an.l in,,ist frill. .,hl I,;.., l,r, n II,, .|||, I,, Irrprl.r. Hrtrrrty fuui.li. ,|. The pas' yr lias been very Ud one for a number of tribe* in Africa, who hare long U-eii noted for th^ir hottllity t,. tb.- whites. One i rib.-, tiie Knholio, & oonple of hunilreil mile* inland from Zanzibar, have earned a very bad reputation on account of the robenes and violence ol which commer- cial "iravanj have been the victims. Kr the lirst time in their lawless career they ware much astonished three month* ago by Major von Wissman, who sent an expedition aganmt them, and gave them a very severe drubbing. Hi force connsi ,u, d i;,iim- haad of their cattle, a good deal of ammunition, and a Lirge i|uantity of ivory. Two huii.ln-.l of their warrior* fell in the tight, aixty were wounded, and fifty were taken prisoner*. The robber tribe wa* so completely hunil.U-.l that they Iwgged for tha Herman Hag, ami asaerted most solemnly that never again would they moleat trader*. Let* than ten years ago the Masai war- riorsof the lofty plateau extending northan-1 north-west of .Mount Kilima Xjaro were al- most unknown. No white explorer had yet ventured into their territory. Native cara- vans trading between the Indian i i.-.-.m ui<l the Victoria Nyan/a would not paao through their country unless they were at least l.iHKJ strong. At a large meeting held in London to diacuss the proposed exploration cf the- Maaai country. Archdeacon Karler and other misaionaries who lived a little east of Masai- land. expressed the opinion that it woiil.l not ba safe to go among this treacherous people, except in fonni.lable force. The mi pressiou derived from the speeches of these white*, who knew most about the Masai, wa that the natives were probably the moot formidable in Africa, and that their country would probably not be thoroughly explored for many year*. Joseph Thomson, an ex- plorer of great resource* and tact, did suc- ceed, however, in getting through Masulaml without any sacrifice of men. During the pa*t two yen n, however, the Masai have had tome very severe lessons, and it is likely that they will be better lie- have I in future. l>r. Peter* tc " Then a great temp- I r e clergyman's mind. ' , :hrou }" tation came up in the clergyman's Should he open the back w indow and let the son of the widow escape into the yard * No: he would do justice, lint he was determin- ed that the jor.n.' man should not be arrest- ed n; bin house. He cv-ii*cd himself to the \oinik.' nun and went into the fn.nt parlor. II- ilke.l up to the detectives and (aid mi- pres*ively, liecau*e he felt that he wax now a* an agent of Cod, who, he l>elie\u-,|, . brute force. In the recent expedition Victoria Nyan/.a he went hy the exercise of pure He fought and captured fowl had sent the young man to him : " The me von are looking foi is in the other room.' nth detectives sprang t.. then fee' a* if .l\ n unite had liven set off under theirchaira, and wanted to go imnie.il itely into thelck riMim ami ,ii -t tin- \. iiin^ m in. Hut the cler/yman motioned them liack to t-i.-n seats, and iuii.1 : \ on in iv arrest him, bn> you must not do It in n.v house. < to out on the street and wait foi him then H<- will lie la.-thwoiins at-- n-ii,ill\ num.-;.,u* be I In- first pemnn: tin t of the house. " win. h is .1 sui, .n ii iiioii of an in, ic. i-,- tit' v. tin- detective* went out, and the plant food. A lirin.-i who ' , |, of man, |i.il< with - ippn-sscd ei'-itement, le .I.Aer on tin- ground in entile M-IS.HI, | turned to ' he I*, k pallor and talked fora tbn.'i. -nriH, found, mi plowing it tew minutes w nh th- V'lmg wan al.ut In* 1 " nil , lei, th.-it tl.e I,.-,. I h.idnreatelj >mpr,,< ,-.!, family and bom-. Then the young n..in \' * r ^: '';""-.' wn ," J ' 1 Kii-l.i-.he h.1,1 oth.-i held* for ..n,p n is.in. , left. he attributed the 1,,-nent to the shadm- of One of the detective* had Ktationed him thr soil. | self a few bundled feet ea.il of the house, " I am not a vegetarian,' says a corree- ' al " 1 tll > " ll ' er "t <M >.l .ibout the name dist.m --.- west of it. The young IIMI. walked .-,<! win), and the detective quickly followed him. At l.e \ington avenue Imth dete.'tui -. without lotting the few <>l*M-ricrs who were around know that they were making an . whenever he could not persuade the Masai to present it. He Mdly faced the Masai, and in the end brought them to their kin -- The iMHik he ha* just published contains several pictures of battles between hi* force j and the Masai, and he expresses great con tempt for the pacific meMio.li of Joseph Thomson, and says that he would never ha\e submitted to such humiliating tion* of travel as the natives imposed upon t he Knglish explorer. He had at least twenty U.'-les will, the Miuai. . 1 people who have given explorers more trouble than almost any others are th* I ."-.>. who inhabit the mam caravan route iH-tween Xin/ilr and Utke Taugunyika. They have tried to rob every white caravan tha; ever came among them, and the indig- nities inflicted upon many an explorer, ami partirrliirly upon Speke. .ire well -known. l'li--> nevei linvf U-en v-alU-.l to account for Hood's Sarsaparilla Ii a concentrated extract of SarsaparllU, Yellow Dock. I'lpslMPWa, Juniper Berries, Mandrake, Dandelion, and other valuable vegetable remedies, every Ingredient be lug strictly pure, and t!.c best of in kind It U possible to buy. It Is prepared by thorough y competent phar- macists, in tin- moil careful manner, bjr a peculiar Combination, proportion and Process, giving to It curative power Peculiar To Itself It Will cure, when In the power uf medicine, Scrofula, Halt Klieum. Blood Poisoning, Cancerous and all other Humors. Malaria, Uypep'la. Biliousness, Sick Headache. Catarrh, Rheumatism, and all dUBcultiei with the I.lu-r and Kidneys. It overcome* Tli.it Tiiv.l Feeling, Creates :\. Appetite, and given n>eutal, nerve, bodily, and digestive strength. The value u Hood's Sarsaparilla Ii certified to by thousands of voluntary wit- nesses all over the country whom It has cured of diseases more or lest severe. It Is told by all druggists. $1; six for $3. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD & CO.. Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. N. R. If you decide to take Hood's Sarsapv rllla do not be Induced to buy any other. IOO Doses One Dollar NiceirPut. 'What ev.-- I in, e of that tall hamlsonif valet of yi:ir*. Lord NooUlcby ?" aske.l \l.,, ! i "Uh I In! to di.s.-hawi;.- him Strangers would mix us up, ye know, and take him for Lord Noo.lleby , unl me for the vaJet," leturnetl tl.- ; "Oh. .i. i ' s*i.l Klhel. And doesn't that prove tiie truth of the old My * Xevei jui^-i-\ appearance* T" poM.lent of the l.-.n-l.-i- I /, , ./>. "nor likely I,, b, c .mi- one, still I feel con- \ iii.-.-.l thai it we wi*h to pre-!T\eo:irli<xlie MI .t p,.r.-. Ii litl.x Min-iiti.in ami keep ,mr ii'l- In ,.-h- and clear we nn.st nitnxlii.-e li|.-s f ,n n-.oie largely than we do at the present in our every <luy hill of fare." < in. ,ii.,,.. n, ...ii.ui At the in, 1*1 extemtive aquarium in Kng ,iii,l, the linghton Xoo, the female lolmti-i e, i-nilj ,-.i*t her .sin II. She x.iewed her- K.-lf up togi-ther "ii the toe* and tall, ,unl 11. Men l\ lieiit her |HH|V Snap went the hell in it* center, and the cane of the back .inn- away in one pic,, c. The claws were i.-r neUc.ite, and she worked away at them 'or a long time It w n a proeeedin^ of extreme delicacy, onsiilrring that all the Mesh of the great claw bail to lie |ia**ed through the small iMiring the oiiei. iti. m one claw came it) ilionethri. and tin* must have iteemed t arrest, simultaneously approached the young man from the real , nil. I quietly shpjied thru arum, after the inannei of sportive fneiuU, under the arm* of tin- young man. II, w an an g,x>d at simiil il. on as they were, and nobody guenaed that they had toM linn the iiiomeiit they locked arm* with him that he waa their priaoner. The viergyinan ay* limply that it was aeaat-of lYovidence. The young man may not look at it in that light. mi m -IKI < i io\ 01 oi IMM r .. .- ... i ..ii, i.i. i. n, . i N..HIM.. n^ i,, .n,. l.it.-i , when another kind of Kontan influ- ence liegan, 1^ union learned much, and took much, from Rome -. hut from August* from the lobster lady a serious nnnfoi tun, . as > Koman London nothing. Koinan tradi moisture. Why these well known i. -nil- follow ale not fully understood, and are in teresting and im|M>rtant subjects for IIIM-S tigation. The moat investigation that has ever Iwen made on this subject, wa* by the I B rik>1 ' Wisconsin experiment station in IMMll. We' have not (pace to go through these ev|>.-n ment* in detail, Imtgive only thnse conclusion which bear on the farmers' work for the next three months, with the caution, sug- t u ill not grow to lU full si/e again until the se. on.l year. The tail and legs t;,n. M-rj little trouble, and the |MM!\ , uhenthiin UMI . -i .1. |no\ .-.I to be of a pale blue. The .shell casting o\.-i. th, l..b,t,i sank on tin- Mind, and tins H' I n n seemed a -ignnl foi ih attack nf every creature m the tank. The def.-n. fless Victim bide tall to*UO- cinnli in the fury of her enemies, when the nial" liilistei Middi-iily came to the n-s, HI .\,-i Ins shell-leu l.cttor halt, be t. infill hei ....... mi , i. -lei,tl.-.s-,l\ lay ami night did he watch over her, until her .^lo-ll wa siitliciently hii.li-in .1 to p:ote. t her in lighting her own battles. When i ln Impin moment arrived, he deliberately |n.k..lip the old claw, look,- it in las nippers, and ate the m.-a He then dug a hole in the sand, placed in it tie broken bus of hel!, buried them, and iled a iiiin.bci of small atone* above the n. sied liy the anther, I'rof. K. H King, that further investigation* are needed foi i h. u i onfirination, a* follows : (I) A tool lie a <lnk harrow, 01 like a curved toothed barrow, which cut* IHUT..W ,ui, I i paiau\1y dei |, groove* m D- leaving undisturbed ndgc- liolwien them, tend tn ilrj the grim ml i apt. My und deeply. rJl Tools like the plow nnd *ome foi in* of cultivators, w hiih cut the whole mnli-.- of the gi.nind, lenving a IIM>W layer on the top, tend to (11 v the loosened soil, while the loss of i.ioistuiu from nelow b\ capillary action and c\ | i.n 1 i,,n indini.ni*li (:il IL . |. plow ing m the Mpring, especial- ly if the >.,d is li.-.n ^ , and if cnitme matci i.il H) till lie, I under. Would tend, miles* pre\ , lit d by early, heavy rains, to produce n d.-li cien, y of im.Murc fornlutllow riHite.l plant*, and for deep i.N.ted pliints during the early part of t'leseawm, by partially cutting off the water mipply al a depth below the root*. CT<4) -Shallow plowing or surface stirring would tend t., diiiiinuih surface evaporation, and t the same time allow capillary action Qraps culture In the United si.ii., .n.i its induBtrie* represent a capital of M,,.., iiiil.iKni nuil en, ploy -JKI.IHIO pernons. Ill l>v.i t!i. i. weruovej- 400,U>0 acre* of land in \ me*, three foin llmof w In. h were bearing, and pindiii-ed ne.nl\ 000,000 tons of grapes ; of them- !iir7,(X)4 tons were table grapes, 41 ,- Ibli tonn were u*il for raisins and -.'(,.'''-'" tons for dried grapes The raisin |,i,,,lu. I ,-t < ,li! - i i , >v i-, l,.'!7-.IUr> Uue of M In*. eit. h at *l (in |n-r l.o\. Total value $2,195,- P'H. Califii.-nia iilrendy produces 71 JM-I- rent, oi thf i iisnis needed for the Tinted States. In l.HilOth* raisin crop wan'.', l''7, In.: l>o\e*. In Ii \ u years there will Iw t -n. - enough in bearing to pi.nlu. .- fi.uu \INNI.- INHI t,, III.IHKI.IIINI boxi -. I he average l.il- .1 employsd i" one person to two acre* of lain) i-,e tho fruit, the others are employed in the curing and manufacturing of the various productions from the grape, i .th forma ha* now more than half the vines. New York State and Ohio are the next. The average yield in New York State i* I . tons per acre, value $l?J..Vi per acre. For table use $00,1*; tor wine f l.\ 17'J. The above is from a carefully prepared article in the April number of The American Agriculturist by H. Oardiner. tions. Unman apecli, (Ionian Mipcrstit i,,iiv linger yet among the noiitbern >|Ntiiiaid.s. though the Moor eoni|iieied nnd held the country for mx hnndi..! \- .:> They linger, in npite nf niaiiv , .n liicsts, in fiance, in Italy HUM th an,I*o itli I in Koiimaiiia, in Anatoli, i. lu l^uulon aloi.e, of all the place* w Inch IIII|H-I ml Home made her own and kept f.u liundi.-d* of yean, no ..I initniit Koine lem.iins When London next hear* ot the Kt. -iu.il City, it is I!., me nf the ( 'In i-.fi.in I Inn, I, l'oui|i,ire tin-, ,ui,|iiest of bmdon by the men of KSM*\ with that of .leriisalem by Titus. The luttur coui|iieior utterly dtuitr.iyed the city and dune nut its people. One mii'ht have -\|H', -ted the silence of Sihheter i>r I'eveiiRcy. No ; the people crt-pl back !> di-nre.-* ; the old tradition* remained and .'.ill remain. Behind the monkuh site* are those familiar tolhe common people. Here is the tild place of execution the monks knew nothing of that. Here is the valley of llmnum, here that of Kedron. These mem. n ic have not died. Hut of the old Augusta nothing at all remains. Not a single tradition waa preserved by the scanty remnant nf slaves which survived, the con- ipiest ; not a *ingle name lurvive*. All the sii eei* have been renamed ; nay, tlmir very courses have liven changed. The litera- ture of the city, which, like liordcaiix, had its | opt* and its schools of rhetoric, ha* di.iitppi red ; it ha* vnninhed an completely is ili.il oil aitlmge. All the memories of four hundred years have gone : there i* nothing left lint a few fragments of the old wall, and fliedc nce'in to contnin but little ot the Unman work an old bath, part of the COIIIM- f an ancient street, andthe frngnienl which we. -all l-oml-.n >t,.ne I '.-i hups mime p., 1 1 u m- of the I!,, nun ii\.i wall have 1,,-eii nneaitbe.l, but this i* uncertain. lf'<>i"r\ Mai' A Hottet of History. A little girl who had heard her family talking about hysterics was present when a story was told at which her mother laughed immoderately. The child seemed much im pressed and look ing anxiously at her mother- slic *aid very gravely : " Mamma, ain't you afraid if you laugh so much you will get historical !" their niliospitahlo an.l rapacious treatment within thr pa-st tuo lioth the I'.iier*. the Stanley, and the Km in 1'wha .-xpedi tiont liavi- had hard battles with \\ .1^ . ... ch.HMing rather to tight than submit to tlieir exactions. The result i* that the |x>wvr of thi> ;-iip!.-, who have lived larjtt-ly upon the blackmail leviod upon strangers, is al- most completely broken. Hundred.* of tin m have bwn killed la little with the three expeditions referred to, and it is not at all . likely that tlie VYasjogo w ill again lie is seri- ous menace to commerce. "August Flower" Biliousness, i Constipation,. Stomach Pains. I ItC I 1 X I I.I > -I. .,. I ., V I ..r UM- Mtnl l*M'i>ral ol H.,.l.-r IB. >Brrprls~. The present year will prolwiny witneiw tlie completion of the ship railway avro** the isthmus of Chigjie- t, win. h cnnn-'- the province* of Nova Scotia ami New Itrunnwuk and auparatc* the Ba> of Kuudy from the linlf of St. Ijiw reuoi'. The Irrpriae i* one of the w*t lii;nirioaiil in modern engineering and ita importance to .'ii iner, .- is ineatnnable. Uy iU u*. ship* sailing !! ween Amei i. in or Kiy of Kundy IHH-I.I and Montreal or port* ou the t Jult ol St. Ijkwmi.-c will lie saved a journey of IKI.ir Mm miles aromul the nmt .lanp-r ous coast of eastern North America, w itli a .-..nespi.ii.ling gain in time and expense. A* the trallu between the porU mentioned u very exteniive, this will mean a tutving of several millions of dollars annually. Die railway is Ix-mg built hy a c\>iiipauy of Knglial: capitalists and the wurk <> struction ha* been v'.xng on sm .- Ks. The railway will be 17 mile* lu length an.l at each end of the line will > coii.slni. t. ,1 a receiving basin, with a dock, -n l>y liu feet. VViOiiuei.h of these (locks a liftiof apparatu* wilt lie placed, to he operated l.v hydraulic power, by means of whu-h ves- nets will bo rune., I from the water to the railway or lowered from the railway to tha water. A ship canal acroas the isthmus wavs ad- vocated for many year* hut was given up a* impracticable, on account of the ine- quality in the ebb and How of the ti.l.-s mi opposite sides of the isthmus. '1 he tide in the Hay of Kundy is the highest in tin- world, sometime* rising to 40 feet, and comes up with amazing rapidity. On the opposite aide. 1* the (.nit of Hi Lawrence, it seldom rises to a greater night thai tint > feet. With the flow of the tide, the wat.-is of the bay, being so much higher than those in the gulf, would naturally rush through the canal, and with the ebl> ttow hack again. Thin would result in an a] . oBtiniKius rise and fall in the waters of the canal mid make navigation iinpo.-i.sii:.. It waa for this reason that the idea ij , canal w given up in favor of the hip rail way. WcaldiTI.br UIII...HI n Mr. Alfn-,1 Koberts, Manager of tl-e It,.- minion Knlway Advertising Agen \ ] King St., \V. Toronto, Ont., June 1, l--s~ writes a* follow* : " 1 desire to testify lothe efficacy of St. Jacob* 01 as a sure rei.n-,1) for sprains, bruises, rheumatism, tc. , having had occasion to use il in my family for some Urn* past. In fact I would not he without a bottle of the Oil in my house for double the amount charged. " I have been afflict- " ed with biliousness and constipation for fifteen years; " first one and then "another prepara- " tion was suggested "tome and tried but "to no purpose. At last a friend " recommended August Flower. I " took it accordi. ..; ! dnecti ,r nd ''''.itfifwU rore W'jndeiA.l reltev- 'iig me ot those disajreeao'e "stomach pains which I had been "troubled with so long. Words 1 ' cannot describe the admiration "in which I hold your August " Flower it has given me a new "lease of life, which before was a " burden. Such a medicine is a ben- " efaction to humanity, and its good " qualities and "wonderful tner- Jesse Barker, "its should be "made* known to "everyone suffer- " ing with dyspep- "sia or biliousness Printer. Humboldt, Kansas.* G. G. GREEX, Sole Man'fr.Woodbury.NJ. The Little Growc Folks. Said little di.-e to little Bess, s I'll make my >li>ll n dress." Saul little Hemto little (.1 , I think yoiid Jiettei wush itn t.u-e '" 1 \Vali its f,i'-r. indeed '",-i ie.1 I i race lu ciins,-],,ns wi-il.iiii sin- grew (irouder ' I'll do like grown up ladies do, Jiwt put mi greane and lot of powder '" SPRAIM6. STRAINS, INJURIES. It Us.*) ermnpous i.lea to HU>UOM that irrca' force I* reiiuln-il to (.r, ,|u, ( - a iruin ,,r suralu There are o many tlclicalo mum-leu and ten- ions in. u hoM tii.-ilier IhSankle and (hot, and <llre.t th rehlcle nf looomotlon, that a very nli|(lit LliuiK ol,-n .nines nut onlva very K infill, >ut n very serious sprain, WOiohM. CiilnOilwlUurc SURCL* AND PlKFtCTLV. Weak 8pot9. A large number of raseo 11 reported - to the ankle i>r f.~i, inuru than lo nil Hi,- rent of thetxly. The knee U n ,,-iire > i-ilim. and i ,. . i, -u i tn ... J i. , i. M. St. Jacobs uii i i tsr Cunts ARC CHRONIC Cst* Definition. weak- en, M a joint , v - - slrieriloii uui without dlaloi .-sU'lcurus CusikV NO WITHOUT RCCUMAINCI. Treatment, itubvlth St. .laeobs Oil freelj in - i>.ut afTecteiL Vro- t ft the ti.xh I: ,-n e. 1 1 and llrufX. 1 Ml CHARLES * VOGC LED CO., BaHlmcr*. M. raii.li.in Depot: Toronto, Ont.