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AGRICULTURAL. The Song of the Mowing Macnine. J rntt-e amontrthe lonirgreen gra.-s, 1 Utter amid the clover. I wander awav through the meadows fitir- The bluebird'* my fellow-rover I II|H) In and out 'mid apple tree'. Ne.ith tj.iw.r- of golden green. Oh ! I here, never wan BOOK -o merry 10 bear A - the song of ths) mow ing niacbine. When the -'in hang? low in the burnn - >r Ami tin- tnr<l- are -mum* of mornini;. Tin- i. ill irreen graiueaail tremble with fear At they heur my musical warning. Ukeconquehav hot OB deld of war I man-It through their ranks of green, Oh ! there ni.-vcr wiw nong -o merry to heir A- the -oag of the mo* ing -Machine. I rattle among tbe long green gnu** I 1 latter amid the clover. I jnnl at the harveml Held am I. The wbnU- broad country over. In on-hard and meadow, on hil'.M !> fair Whereverlhe grass wave* green You will bear my melodioo* ratOs>ty-baaf The none of the mowing machine M. M The Practical 8 de. Many farmers hare groat d.-al to y about advice being prart<-/. ten .i"ii to something in (.all the. rat - i agricultural jour- member will illustrate our method : A men was over-churned (by hone power) during a very btuy time in haying. We never made any better butur except thai the textuie or grain was injured. \\ e might possibly have put it on our regular market without aeriouj detriment to reputation, but preferrad not to take the nk, for we were getting a good deal more than the general price lor our butter. We accordingly consigned it, un- branded, to a commissu n house to be dis- posed of on iU merits. We always sold oar cutter, to the very last lot we made, to one of the moat careful and discriminating tirnu in the trade for retailing over their own counter* ; and we had only a single com- plaint. One lot wa criticised ai too Highly colored, but when informed that it wai naturally colored only we got from th firm a moat graceful apology and appreciable compliment. XVe alway acted upon the theory that selling unsatisfactory but'.er would injure us a good deal more than the purchaser, and we would tather bar* given it away than have the name of telling it. New, how about this faulty butter I hare just bought * I took it, without having seen it, on the strength of representation by the producer that it wai goo.i ami nice. I pre- sume their butter it generally good and fre- quently nice, bat this one experience will suffice to set me against it, an.' I shall hav ual which, may be, you think i- of real | to be very hard pressed before I venture to value, and often they will turn tip t:ieir try it again. ' " V Hliss nose* at it and say " It isn't pr M t il . " In : and say " It isn't pr consequence of so much nse being made of this word one would naturally thint that the general average of farmers are among tar most practical men in the world. On the contrary, we believe, measured by good business standards, that no calling furuuhes) more unpractical men than fain.uig. Practical means doing things in ths best manner and according to the best proiit. To be " practical " calls for the putting in ! of sound theories au.l tlie use of the c r vi svuii'i iiicvim nun uiv uv wi me . . . . most intelligent methods. Is the practice '' bees will tour wings (Wywon|-rsi. | of our Western farmers in wasting the fer- " f ** " l*ncial in some war. A few . tility of the soil or in the breeding of their farm animals really and squarely practical T Take the dairy farmers of any section of the country. Can we believe that the ma- jority of them are governed by sound prac- tical ideas concerning cows when the aver- age yi ield of milk per cow n -->-ily pounds a year? If a man is ready practical will he not set to work in dead earnest to milk and feed a practical cow Can men be called practical who have kept a bent of twenty or forty cows for years and yet have never taken pains to know by a simple test Insect Friend-; and En- miM. An entomologist iu a recent bulletin says that it is not easy in the brief space of a newspaper artic'e to give m-tru<-tions which would enable a beginner to distinguish be- tween the insects injurious to vegetation and those which are beneficial by destroy- ing other inserts, but we can give a few- rules. Those which resemble wasps MIEMI7E At one of the locomotive manufacturing establishments in Philadelphia- the shops covering an area of 337 by'lM feet there are in operation two immense travelling cranes worked by electricity, being the largest pair of cranes in the world, but one crane, that in the gnn works at the arsenal in Washington, excelling either of these in power. Each of the cranes isof twenty-eight feet span, and tilted with two trolley* ca- pable respectively of lifting fifty tons, thus giving to each crane a power of I'm tons : the electric power is furnished oy two 100- horse power generators, driven by Westing- house compound engines. The shoos turn oat an average of5"J locomotives a year, and two men, by means of thee cr.ines, can handle the entire output. the adjustment of the cranesbein f such that tliey can be raised or lowered at will so short i disuu.e as a half an inch, and trey can lift one -ng r.< completely over another. In ths boiler an 1 electric houses there are four sra iller .- HUNTED BY WILD DIGS. Stirrinjf ld-ntiir<- of TV . Hunter* in Xf vi"oii luluuii. f ana HAISBREADTH ESCAPES. t Tkr.mb ike M.W With a Kark r -i vi. ras*lh*4 Bralr* i !,.- al Thrlr Hrrl- **ed ! \rrr One March morning two boys, Arthur and Fred Harloy, th on* about sixteen and the other l> yean old, were spending a few weeks in a settlement on the northeast coast of NewfoondUnd, shooting the northern bird known as :he great *alt water duck. vt, about twenty mile* or so away fi j:n :he settlement, was said to be haunted by wild !>({: indeed, these anianalshadsome- timei Actually d uh#<l through the village j I us) ti.-ver '. -.-aHy t t;...i r int.-ii.M victims. in tbeir inhabitants. fhe Lartridxe s in the hoys's gum were losv led with seal shot, and would carry ef- fectively sixty yards, su a- soon as' the more daring oaes came within range four m->re shots rang out over tn snow. Tbu tune two of the animals lay dead, and OSM of the others went liobblnig and howling away. Fred having mused with one of bus barrels. The whole hungry tribe at oace formed in two divisions around their dead comrades, and, as before, began feasting. Then the boys djtcoveied, with great con starvation, that they had no more shells loaded with seal shot, so they were obliged lo put in those having small duck shot, which, would be almost uselss fired iato the tough hi-ies of these animals. While loading they tan with the speed of .-h for food, frightening t5 der and they had now reached the top of an-1 young. Once they I *&' slope : here the snow was soft and deep. stationary, with a capacity ' . . i little bo> not far from his home and " "> 'o* 1 coP' of imnutes in binding their snow shoes to their feet. When they were ready to start about two-thirds of the pack htd again surrounded them aod began to close upou them t.-om every point. They each, posccssing the same character a* to ' tlj r* :um to pietes, t > that rer\ <>ue living nice adjustment and ready response to ihe j th*r>-' was in mor-.al dre.id of "the vicious touch of wheel or lever as the more elaborate creatures. ones. This arrangement of wheels is a: the lowest lowers, the highest lifts, s'ud the central fixes. A paper on the superior v*lue of cork coverings for steam pipes and as a protect: HI of water service pipes from frost has recent- ly been published by a r'ren.i. et u . According to this paper, oto variety >:' ih<se coverings which is found to be very efficient, consists of piecas of cork, snap.- different sizes nf pipes, with radial The two boys et out early in the morn- . . in,;, :ii<ir mteMion biato shoo* seals in a were "> terror of letting the dogs get too co-.e about wn miles lUstant They i.k near to them and yet did not want to tir wr.h -.hem esMu a heavy ^un, a pair ofl witotoe ' r small shot at too far a range, so sriw-.-Ws. a pair of skates and enough pro- they waited until five or six ol their as v jion-. f. T tii* da\ . I'tieir course lav across ' sn.Unts had reached within twenty or thirty LStrrtchot bleak tV. I tiel barrens o .oveted with snow, I pswesi, '.hen crack, crack, crack, crack, went o-vvr whi.-h one cuold not pass withou: tn<r tT*"* *g*u | - soow-shocs. as the crtut was thir. ml brit;le: and as a loag ctwt.n of ponds and, Uk* stratciied alv>n< in the saira direction fr m the att ck. but the noise of the guns _J_ * ; I L I _ J A couple of the dogs fell, but got to their feet again almost instantly, and limped ort exceptions, like the saw dy, are not plenty , enough to do much damage. The small { amonnt of injury done by sacking the juices , of ripe fruit is more than overbalanced by tii- i- .ny favors they do the gardener. The l<utw-:dies u.d moths , similar to the suves of a barrel, win -h are I for twenty ur thirty miles, they brought I created tern potary confusion, an.l cnable.1 place.! arjund the pipe and fur -.h-; tmieUlou.; '.heir skates. | the boys while loadjmg afresh to get out of bourn' to the pipe hy s'.nr.j- .- 1 **sa clc.u-, crisp morning, and two ta < deadly circle and on a couple of hunoired pipe so covere.1 fc* Ijeen usXd with s'.caui i hours' travel, now on snow-shoes, and then yards more toward the ice. The whole l:erd for some time \nd the cork been sufficiently ' "P u skates, brought them to the cove, on.-e a,{ain joiue-l m full ch*s. and jut a dried, tke crevice* are rilled in nd the j There were several seals bobbing up and ' Arthur and Kre.1 got to the -Uge of the Uke atring replaced by wire--elbows being also I down in the clear water and they shot three sjid were about putting on their skates, th covered in the same manner and after the I "r four. !>ut the winl having veered so as:o snarling crowd were within fifteen psveav covering is finally fixed, the pores and ere- I Mow od land, they could not obtain their They tirwi full Lito the faces of the leaders. vices are closed by coat of "paint or lime pri . and so left the place an.l set out , empty ing four barrels : -lien nastily finished wash. In another arrangement, u proposed : cr>s Island Mead. aiut live milas further fastening their skates : but this time the rectangttUr bloi-ks of ewrk, auous one ai - b> knew that in the shelter of enraged mongrels did not hesitate long after are | fourth inch wide, and varyuv "' thickness nearly ail injurious to our plant*, either in from ooe-forth ot an inch for small pipes to that form or in the .-ateniillar, which hatch- five-eighths of an inch for piues from four es from their eggs, and from which they are inches in diameter aod upward, and cement- transformed. Ihptera or common two-wing- ! ed to strips ot -loth by an India rubbe r ed dies are nearly all peals, although one or ' solution, are used : the bands are Up: e-i two species, which resemble bees or wasps. ' spirally around the pipes and elbows, and excepting in the number of wings, live oy j covered bv anoth-r hand <>: waterproofed canvas lapped in the -same manner, so as to > ts a Ught where they cou'.d ti:<! shots, but bounde<i forward and aiw i) tin i '>ottle-uoosed*ivcrs and big salt the sdgs o/ths blue ice just as the boys water duck. their snow-shoe, for only a aU-.rt part ,.fth tramp ai |.>og stretches of which cows were not paying their keep - destroying other insect*. The cabbag*-, J VVonldapracticalmanufaclnrerallowhimself , ?" oa nd turn 'P dle !l r**mble the house to remain in very expensive urn ranee for "> "' torra wul somewhat m color. The years con.-erniiiK some machine, .-uid never ; t* 1 *''* 8 ' * ''' ""T wing eawsare [ show energy sufficient to teat it to see if it . boui eoually tivid-d between the injurious is not running him in debt' Tuink of a I md the beuehciil m number of species. Bat dairy farmer wh<. pretends to do business ' tn * ""jnrious are usually most abundant in for profit ; who sneers at the agricultural ! """'^r f individuals, and most of i'.etn. papers because they are not practi -al. going ; lkt- t;u- ' '"'"' ' ' ' ^etle. th, stripped sqaasfa along year after year with half the cows in , l *" U> - the rose bug which is not a his herd absolutely not paying fo- the fooU i 4 "- lmt J**" 1 ! lh ' " an<1 otber they eat at market prices. Men who talk weevils, and the Juue bettle, tioui whose so much about other men Iwmg practical 18* l-olne th * whlte rnb troublesome In should first establish clear, well defined ! *'"ws. are .-umeiently well known to standards ol what is practical. i mMt * the !"*"- -^nie of the ground The fact is, what is practical with one* 1 ** 110 * with -mall copper c .;,..-,. I 1 ,-ts. the man may not be with ano-.her. fP 01 '" ' "'> '' ; ' >*. "** *"* l V r Kvery man gives to himself or to according to the size of his measure ._. ligent men put into practice intelligent bu * au ' methods, aid thsy make money by i contain only a fe ^^ speci ^ ^ vc . As thev drew ne*r the pUce thev . -f their skates, hung them a -ro their te a*sertwn u m*.le by w.rkrsinrr.a rea.ly to strike off. Arthur wi> th first on the ice. but as Fred was sliding down tbe bank a huge dog b >und<*d forward ai His shoulder. Tbei lose, for all the rest . and ncwlinj gun and sti *-> the ; v . tene a it , t aih n not A u^unUf to reached the br-nk Arthur rai<el ha nt waii lh *.-rub hr and sprvh-e hid their approach, and through this they crept on hait.^ and knees sent w ^ . hen t , w two u ling upon the ice. - ,/,, ,| 1<ir trusty eel skates fairly ue ice. After they had got well started and had fuily a hundred yards wway from mental wood that hard finUiie-1 '.o get full view of the bight : but instead of in oils, n the rival in l>?au!v of appearance ' seeiiig clusters of sea birds as they expected \ of any wood th.: .jrow*. n p- -X'.-epting the in the calm water between the ice ana shore JW -", ; costliest of the well-known hard species, it the whole '*ach seemed to be moving, and shore thev iurued and saw some of the dis- SJtHg aososptlble a .- an.i-ii4i:itai:i Arthur whtspere-i to his younger brother, appomte.1 pack tumbling and scrambling ing as high a degree of polish u any known while clutching his arm - ' J ong the lov ., , ^, e distance behind them. wood, while, when impregnated with oil. it " The wild dogs : I wonder if they have The remainder raced with muhl and mam seen us'" But very c'.early they had. for alo . . i, ut t uv eould not keep up !f w itvl had crarne I their s-eutto the ' wi(h the two expert and muscular young f the p.,-*. and imme,liately \,, r .!,ern ... - . n were' no' the Uec:i noses "* tie * ll ' '">' friends. asaistir. K in ne destnie -r insects. ' ^ haU-wtafadl pecies beneficial to the them Ju -h methods would not be practical ' '*"' b " "k< the beetles, those injurious for men who don't understand their business to P UnU hem.de themselves well known, well enough to execute them. But the fault M *l<h ". chinch bug. plant lie*, etc. is not in tlie methods bul in the men. The l( in *y <lou '' t * lwut th * *" * method may be highly practical but the '} u ** to let '. " '< cannot b farmer, unable, cither 'for lack of means or (lom * mueh ln J llr >'- * "'y of those comprehension, to put it in practice. A good that llv< * u P n otl '" hrmful insects L ?ts, grasshoppers, and locusU (<>r<A r straight wingetll are all injurious. is well nigh indestructible. In such a con- dition it is found, in tact, to poetess the valuatU property of l-omg mipervi >-n even to hot grease and other substance that le*\e t'n-M-i-le herd turne.1 in the iirectaoo ot an inertac-aMeitain uponsu> hagreat \ - -.iieir noses th' u-t in the air sirtl- of woods. including 'ite pine, mapU . . ,T\ .- The yellow pme chjuacterued b) tie \alii- tiieni. ill l->ng, lean, Iruits, - able quality referred to is the long leal pine, ' hair, sh.trp noses, rather sliori ears a: j or ;*>u atu'fain in technical classification, I skulki 4 eyes, for a few seconds they ran and when in great numbers can do much though to the credit of the cricket. ll>d DV l*lcken.-. definition of the word practical is that which ^ conduces to profit. If a course of action f". pro\e- unprofitable through any fault of ours, then it is not practical. Kxcept it may be once in a great while, we learn from it our own deficiencies. It is well to rement ln u*n numbers to prove a pest. Of her that it is never " practical " to measure the 'Vetsro|>.Vra or la. . , 4 , ,11 are beneli modern agriculture by obsolete ideas. 1 * 1 - excepting the wiute nit. which some- The farms of to , lay carry more or less tj"" 8 , ll ^-o'" P*t "' the groenhous.-. machinery. Asa rule it is rather p..orlv Th, dragonfly or darning nescils is a deter .-.nvd tor.' A g.xxl farmer who Has .1 go..d "" foe to other - idea about machiner>- carries with him -<n ba^kani f-th on the beach, their heads uow turned down, I ml constantly keeping their eyes upon Arthur and r'red, who began to retreat buck iato I As they near? 1 this shelter the\ aw about a do/eu of the dogs, some of which en- large, and evidently the leaders, make up the bank, followed by ;! e rest in a compact body. Then from all tiieir throats came sharp, crying noises, somewhat like the stautly a strong advantage over his more careless neighbor. One of the most frequent dithculties in the working of power machin ery is the SA-cumulation of ,lirt and gu:n Warm Water. ln , s ..n). , ...| a- an averse for the two liu :l hlTl , of Jc j , w , ODI> tM> With butu-r at 'A< cen's per pound, skim- - . _sd milk at .'."> c*ats yer cwt., corn fodder the bearings and journals, caused by the us ^ f.', OO per ton and a owt of $1 '. for wann- of fat oils for lubrication and infrequent ing water T.Xl days for D .... the nsiilts cleansing. lh.- I-,. ..-,.,,. /.'.,;/!.. gives t the Wi^c.-nsin experiment station sfcw the fallowing directions f.>r cleansing, which pro tit ot ?-.'(, l m l- are worth reineinliering. ' ' Kor each I ,POO parts by eight of water. Uke about ten or fifteen parts bv wei . caustic sod 01 1 00 parts ordinary od > Let the solution U>il and enter the parts to be cleansoil : either boil them in this lye or let them steep in it for lome time. Alflhedirt ami old resin is completely dissolved there- ' minute enters into >--<iiil>iiiatlon with the oil an I f urn- soap, winch is readily soluli'e in water. In order to pr.-vent the harden n .g of the lubricant on the machinery part-, it is only r.ec. stry to add ulwut one -tlur. 1 n etusene, An occasional lubrication witii kerosene alone is to he recommended by opening the blowoif cock and ths water to escape while good bright fires were burning, which could not fail ! . heat the plates. When sufficiently to melt disks of lead, tir. and /inc." the feed was suddenly turned on through special pipes, which injected the water directly on to the heated plates, but in no >-c. as U often assumed, w n this follow ed by a sud- den generation of -team at an excessive pressure, but in one case actually a reduction *tun loot pl.e The 'one mishap which took place proved, it seems, to have , been due to the feed not having been turned Births exceed tiie deaths by three every A sewing machine work4 twelve times as- f.ist as the hand. Merer Sell Cower Butter. spent Itoctorssay that the left le^ is usually stronger than the right. The people of the I'nited S' vam.inHMHUI ii, tobacco in IVH There is a horse car line in Mexico which is seventy -two mile-i in length. Koi stiugs or bites from anv kind of in- KV ' P^ '1*>I*<'~{ '- **** tightly * and which grows so rxbundantly in parts of the South -. and, as trees are found iu this species having a curled grain somewhat simil- ar to that of " curly maple." no other wood i it is asserted, is capable of being fashioned i into more beautiful work for cabinet pu: ! poses. j A short time ago a Iviler was constructed ' in Manc'iester. I'lig.. with a view to testing I the practise advised by some, in case of , shortness of wjter being discovered, of turn ' ""Si i" do * ml '"<' y eI P ln *, "' " ing on the fed water a somewhat startling --onibin*.l : the tumult nwe and fell, ihe u.eth,Hl of t . ,o some. In leaders commencing tbe cry and all the rest these tests the furnaces were bared of water following. It was very plain UMkl tiie pack *os fam- ishing with hunger, foi the snow m all the region for a hundred |>iare miles about was very deep, and the :i in.'eer. hares, and rab- bits had gone lu-thcr -*outli. where they could ' n i ' - -t Ihe brothers made sure their gtns ere read his hands on r' red's s'.oulder. said "N'w. these 'mutes are going to attack be care-'ul about > our aim. rire when ius: not '.,-'. them get too close. isrges : you and 1 will take the "left. ' If we can keep t'.iein -^'a >>! off til! we .-au get | on soon enough. Again, the hogging upward U P to ! . he ._ 1 ^' ** v "*" ' Ull > '"*'*&* , on <" r of the due tubes, wnich was accurau-lv as- ] k t t*\ bo "' J 1 ?!!*' ilOoa> a ? a cei -.uue.1 bv means of rods, was , ,,, me ! f^l ^e 0.1 onru,- pack but as soon asthe cases found'to be a.- much as one-half inch. "^ nimals saw them they stopped The inadvisabihty of hurrvmg tires when ' a "T U J forward and spread out to the right raising steam was demonstrate;! as bex.md and :o the lett. then imne-l onwar.1 with the question Intention ot iurrou.ii ling them. Seeing their mo\e. the lvs ran as fa,-t as \ .chine for cutting sh.ng es has U-en ; ,, wv onlia the t , ba , ,., v nia Mevised Asd^-ri^l. the cedar bolts are ^oi,,,,- $tlrte ; t th . M1 the most uueai'tlilv enes Mimednve hours then run through a ^,. tVl . iyv> j H . :c ,,, the a,r from the piirsu trimmer after which the> go to the cutting ,.,,, ^ a , knife, a heavy knife running I. II strokes a J 1 , ,, u . ' ;ll|0 lll<;v S(Vn n minute, the shingles being cut ort with ease ^^ ,,f , h( .' *,;.,; 41 , a , h ', r ,. th , , Wl , ; at this rate, coming from the mac nne almost I to0v , , ,,,,, Wlow , urrolmc | e a by -reeping too rapidly, in fact, to U- counted. They are h .t,,. rm , c hing beasts, who soer-.e.'. i ige. and ts sound echoed > i . l. but the two _ - .- em for a shining stretch ol : -tir unlcs loog >re then-. Wnen they rea.-li.-l the end of it. which di 1 not take them a great many minutes. there were nowhere to be sevn aay of tbe wild dogs nor a cry to be heard. Then they fastened on their so >w shoes, ran ^ujckly over the T'ist till tl.-y rev.-hed t'ce next chain of lakes, and ut home safely The story of their adventure filled the svt-.le ment with wonder for many a day, and the boys were applauded 11 a pair of true heroes. KDMI NP (.''; i IN. rjr->n u J in : I rire. : i "1 -- u,l a woin.in I . . i "if then is an\l"'d\ from whom I cat. In, liutler that .HH-S nut i,is-.e,.i the tM ' lhavehad butter tivm families. >f the highest reputation ' for neatness, but it is su .wey I can not use ' A I'ltiladelphian, recently dec-eased, left ,t |$IO,t1) to b>- u.-K-dto ke.p a lamp | "Ho 'ho" replietl another. "\,.u old ally burning in his memory on an t- butter-makers are too critical : \mi -h.nild eh inch altar. have more charily. In all the tons on tons An appliance has been patented by three f liutter you have ma>le. did \u never ISuchanau .Mich.) young men whereby the liap|H-n lo have mess thai tasted of the uneiiniatie tire on a bi.-\ cle is kept inflated stable '" ! by the weight of the rider. -Never. ' -id sit*. "Wedidnot make' " A t Munich there is a he-pital which is that kind ; aiK Iken is noexcns,- for making ,,ntirly supuortinl by the sale of old steel it. Knt if we bad maile it we would not pen niU h.*v e sold it, ttud least ot all to our neighbors. U r never iiiuleilook the impossible. lu a dan> ol titty or more cows of course we hail several milkers and were subject to fre i|iiiiit change* of men. Kesonable precau- tions were made to n.i\ e e\eiytbinx as clean as practicable in thj stables, and then the men were given to uuderstaud that if by aivident any t liiiit; unclean got into the mils, they could report it and put the milk into the vat of skim milk for feeding calves and swine, but under no Pirvumstuce must it go into the dairy house, and every pail of milk was careful!) inspected to know that none i-.ime in. Lenient, fail treatment made the men careful and faithful, and by That simple means we lost little milk and no butter, " Now, about selling butter off quality, " ssW continued, "almost the only case I re- pen nibs, collected from all parts of tier many. They are made into watch springs, knives) and ra/ors. A mathematician has computed the move incuts of a rider's feet while operating > bicycle, and has demonstrated that it s|iur less exertion to travel tifte-u miles on a bicycle than to walk three miles. Boston's new temperance law is rather (xvuliar. It permits any man to get tight twice a ,e.r without punishment, but ifhe is arrested for drunkenness the third time his sentence is imprisonment for a year. The Milan Museum has a remarkable, clock, made entirely of bread crumbs. A pool Italian workman made it. Kvery day be set aside a portion of his imxlest meal in order to carry out his carious project The brea.t-crumbii are hardened by the addition of salt. not ami -detuning and cut smooth, and aru afterward trrate-1 thesame as othershmgles. It i c!.t lined that tne steamiu.; dr-.xe< out all sap and prevents all liability of warpuig-*, there is also no sawdust, hence no waste. The highest cut made in a ten hours' run is stated at mr.it) six thousand. rush upon them directly, bul tried lo ap- I >< .> 4lra The muscular power of Augustus the Strong. Klector o: ^IX.MIN, was wondeiful, and in tny are the tale* told of his strength On one occasion he unexpectedly met his match iu the pern of a blacksmith He entered a blacksmith's shop to have his hone shod. To show his attendants how strong he was, picking up several horsv- shoes, he broke one after the other, asking the blacksmith whether he had no better. When it came to paying the bill the Klector Augustus threw a silver dollar on the anvil. It was a very thick coin. The blacksmith took it up and with his Dngets broke it in halves, saying. " Pardon me : but I have given you a good horse shoe, and I want a good coin in return." Another silver dollar was given him, but he broke that and rise or six others, when the humiliated prince put an end to the- performance by giving the blacksmith a lotus d'or (worth about $9) and pacified him by saying. " The dollars weje probably made of baa metal but this goU' pfec, I nope, is good. " Measurer for the relief df the distressed districts of Russia include tbe building ot canal*, barracks, railroads, the paving of stroeU and (last ting of forest* proach them by stealth, with their tongues and hungry eye. whenever their IM. k- were turnel -' I-.-: riir iH. Thty are now within ratue. Krexl," said Arthur" "yon take these t^< bi^ fellows vli> Telezrak rtrr< are 1st <!*. \ superstitious reveren-.v for the accomplished" years agu in that regarvl for the ovmfort and sa:- the living, even w heu ai-i li -ial uuuidates and radical municipal trie- has been <>nl\ partially able to accomplish and Arthur, laying in lhi< said a telegraph lineman who was in the einpl t establi-he.i therirst telegraph line in (hi no, "The telegraph wires are pla.-evl u ground there, and if the o not so disposed <>' tl cm there would have !>een no telegrapii '.m i tv> day I Vad aucestcn aie 1 eld 111 peculiar rev-reuce in that curious iinmtiy. md the casting > shadow upon the grave of an an cstoi is looked upon by >e ,-.-< an beoorne. an-i r i .ilwa\s reoented with nnpetuoiw raijc \ no cemeteries or genei-al burying; :;rou' (.'hina, but e\ er\ i the rura' i tl-.e family preini.-e. ( <>psex|uently yard or garden u a of aneeatral reir.xias. and .is i'h:iii - started iu pursuit populate.!, the re- r,ud ;ivian pio^em- ..r max 1" found rvsliug beneath everv l,-v> uU ot earth. When the I"*") went t-> work to put up the pub's on which to hang iu >, - the work-i.- i were finUai rnnssd everv liule wiule by wrnthful I'iiiHaineii, who would rush ancrilv np.>n certain p ties and chop them ' -\ the woikmen. with miuh IHIMU* -hatter, that they would put them up again at their peril. The cause ef this interference was unk to the workmen, who wens at last forced > pouiuug 1,1 front. " 1 will take two , ^o'.nt'iu'ue'the' wor t .".uf 'e'xpUnatioiV w .* tKisi ji.l.i Kitt n .tn,'> iirs>ka<>i ' i^. ) 'alt , i i_ i 1-1 mi this side. " Both at once preseuteil : tak UK "ire aim : I Men there was a simultaneous repott.tlien two other shots, one a little after the other, and four of the mongrels sprawled upon 'he snow, (.hie of them only w is dead. . . . '. , i i_ i 1-1 demanded by the authorities. Then r le.irncd that the poles that were cut had cast a shadow some tune during the ,lvy .'n the i[ives of revered ancestors of Chinameu. and the insult could ' _-... ,'. V. IKUAIIIVIt. A1IU itIV lll--,u.. I.'. for the other three rose, and with piercing , , oth( . r w , y , >u , ,, v , ummtril% howls and yelps went l<ackwanl to the rear of the punning part). The boys immediately threw out the old cartridges and put fresh ones into their double Krreled guns, then dashed onwanl, for the circle of dogs had widened as th boasts look fright at the report of the guns. They succeeded during the panic m making a headway of a couple of hundred yards and broke through ths circle ; then they wonder ed why their pursuers all ervwded' together about the body ot then dead con tde, but they soon saw that the famishing creatures hid begun to devour it. Only ci^ht or ten of them, however, could feast at the same time, and after much yelping, biting >nd jumping, those who were uot engaged in eating again started ol in pursuit. They are growing bolder and bolder, not allowing away so far ahead ss they did at rst, but tXMiilng directly for the two young hunters, aad they approached them some- what in the manner of a fawning tame Jog who n T ..! t > lu< mviter : walk- moving the poles. It was found thai this superstition was too -a. ted a one ainoog Chinese ',. I*. , . - -n > bribery, and at lost t . >n>. as a matter of cowoinv and self prote. laid their wires beneath the surface, wht re they have been ever since." The I'uke of Wellington iu a delwte in c.l lliat tw,> Insli had been murdered. A noble lord' ex N \\ here- upon the Duke rejoined "111 am Miistakeu. I m svrry t "The happiest -i.mient of a man's life," he- said tendrrlv . " H hen l-e !;::> < h.- h 14 won a girl's heart.' "Is it' sbe - asked. ' Vci , " he replied i " now. i.il ms what is the happiest moment in a we life'" She blushed and hung b.-r head. " Tell me.' he wliitpemi. \ , < wnnt think me too sold'" "(,'ariai-lv " Whra she's taksd U< aaine ihe \i\