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 BUHOBS OF DlJELLL^Ci. Some Amosliigr Episodes on the Field of Honorâ€" Abraliam Lincoln's TVit. A PUloMphleal MathcnuUlcal Tutorâ€" Ad- Tentnres of Croqaard. Incomparably^ witty, u well as aarcaatic, was Abraham Lincola's remark, when â€" after accepting a challenge and agreeing to fight, he was shown the spot selected for the hos- tile meeting (which wts on the Missouri side of the Illinois river) â€" he said that the site was singular'y appropriate, as it wai within convenient diataoci of the peniten- tiary. It is well, by the way. that the gentleman selected by Mr. Liccoln for his attendant in his threatened duel was a min of infinite jest for he arran^d that the combat should be fought with dragoon snords, which put a ridiculous termination to the affftir, as Mr. Lincoln's adversary (Gen. Shiel^s) was a much shorter man than himself. We can just see the immortal Father Abraham going for the eminen^. Mis- sonrian with a dragoon sabre. The cascades of Liscjln's wit continued to effcirvesce, however, even after the dragoon sabres had been anointed with the oil of peace, for the illustrious Railsplitter then proposed to Shields that they play a game of "old sledge" to see which should pay the expense of the trip â€" and Shields "pungled." In 1414 Henry V. of England sent the dauphin of France 'a challenge and in reply the latter presented Henry with some tennis- balls, with a message to the effect that the latter had better confine himself to the usa of something less mischievous and moffe ap- propriate than the playthings of war. The Washington (D.C.) Sunday Herald, not a long time since, related the following anecdote of a well-known Virginian "Hill Carter, of Virginia, a lineal descendant of King Carter, ef Shirley, on the Lower Junes river, was for many years an officer of the navy of the United States but resigning he found his estate in a dilapidated cmdition. From his training in the navy he had become a rigid difciplinariau, thoroughly systematic and practicil. He first directed his over- seer to pull down the old fences and pile together all the crooked and dried rails and fire them. All of the old rickety cabins and other outhouses were next burned. Then all of the old waggons, carts, plows, hoes, axes, rakes, baskets, spinning- wheels, and looms W€ re piled together and burned. The next Older was to gather up every old horse and mule that ciuldnot work, and all non- producing mares, cows, sheep, and hogs, and old dogs that cjuld not hunt, and place them in a lot. When this was done the an\m its were killed, placad in one vast heap and burned. On his several plantations were seventy five or a hundred old negroes, male and females, that had not performed any labor for many years. Some were cripples and some almcss past walking from old age. To suppjri so large a number of non-producers uid not comport with Mr. Carter's idea of ditcpliae and economy. So he told the overseer to gather together in a certain lot all of these old negroes but when the overseer weut out to execute the order the old darkies, kn )wing how the old fences, cabins, farming impl^^- menta, and the eld stock had been served, had gone by the break of day to the fields and were all ready for work. The ex naval officer proved liimsalf a model and success- ful planter. Hill Carter was of an irritable nature, and by virtue of his education d:cia- torial. On one occasion, while riding over one of his plantations, the overseer had di. pleased him, and he undertook to horsewhip him. The overseer being the stoutest ot the two, took the whip from him and lashed him severely. He then c'lallenged the over- seer to mortal combat, but the overseer de- clined to fight, for the reason, he stid, that if he was maimed or killed it would leave his wife and children without support. Mr. Carter said he would settle on his wife and children a competency if he would fi^ht him. The overseer accepted the proposition, and â€" the property settlement made â€" the parties met, the terms of the duel agreed on, the pistols loaded, and they were just taking position when the sheriff of the county arrived on the fitli and arrested the parcies. Mr. Carter never changed his property gift to the overseer's family, nor did he dismiss him from his employ. He said he would let him keep the property because he might again want to fight him." A certain mathematical tutor at Cam- bridge who had been confidently made there- cipient of information to the effect that a pupil had about completed preparations for a hostile meeting, sought out the latter and inquired "What is this all about â€" why do you fight?" "Because he gave me the lie," frankly and promptly replied the young man. "He said you lied, eh 7 â€" well, let him prove it if he proves it, then you did lie, of course but if he does not prove it, why, then, it is he who lied. Why should you shoot one another ' In the gallery of Dasenne, one time, a crack ihot was affording a good deal of entertainment to himself and others by shattering one after another the puppets set up to be fired at. There was one man present, however, who could not laugh. That mw was the pro- prietor of the puppets. At last they were all down but one â€" that was Napoleon. The marksman took quick aim, and doan went the first oonaul. The proprietor gave a wild scream, and exclaimed "Yc u cannot fire as well upon the ground I" ' Come out and see 1" "Bang 1" and down fell the pro- prietor. "He could fire as well," gioined the prostrate one. M. Olivier, bishop of Evreux, and Mon- signer Affre, archbishop of Paris, met one day.and the latter dwelt at length upon the imperfections and inconsistenciea of the law against duelling; when Bishop Oliver asked: Suppose, MonsignoT Affre, some one of standing should kl»p you in the face â€" what would you do ' Thee archbishop was slightly thrown from his equilibrium, but replied " "I know what I ought to do, but 1 doa't know, rtally, what I should do." Croqnari was not uclii^e St. Foix. in many respects, although not so gallant and proficient in the use of the sword, and was always withoui a sous. One day, at the in- stance of the Count 6i.^ Cnambord, he Cillad upon a c:ntractor ao i challenged him, at which the litter picked Crcqnard up and held iiim under a paoip and pamped water on him until he was uomplettiy drenched. Ha once challenged a linc:n drapr, whose â- w-ife mformefi Cr- qiard th it htr husband was lit CTi i wuil i not r-co'^r before s.-x mentis, I" piecistly sx moiths from the d£y 01 his li t vi.'i: C tqiard again calltd, and was again mv.-t a' »hs, door by ;ae wife of the Imen drapar, v»Lo â- nvited the noira' c daellist to breakfast. He declined, although hungry, saying that he wianted to fight more try a glass of Madeira T" inquired the diplo m itic woma i, with well-efftjoted affability. ' -Miideira 1' ejeculated Croquard, with a smack of his lips like the crack of a whip, "Oui, oui, my dear madame and your good husband shall remain ill for auother six montha." ^oquard once got eDragl with an actor named Monton, and was about to challenge ths Theapian, when he remember- ed that he owed him 5 francs. "How un- lucky, mon Dien I" he cried, after having nusncceasfully attempted lo borrow that amount from others preaent, "that I should owe a man money whom I want to fight." Saint-Beuve once fought a duel holding an umbrella â€" during the preliminaries of which he said that ne had no objection to being killed, but that he was determined not to get wet. When the Duke of Welling- ton wanted the 10th regiment kept at Dab- lin, he admitted that lots of duel* would grow out of such action, "but that's of no coniequence," he added. Some years ago two inexperienced shooters met in the woods near Paris, and at the first discharge of their pistols a cry went up at a point only a few yards away, and it was quickly discovered that a well known attorney had been hit. "If it is only a lawyer," cfied one of the combatants, "let us fire again." Daringthe progress of the dupl between Senator William M. Qwin and Rapresenta- tive J. W. McCorkle, in 1883, a poor donkey nearly half a mile away, was shot dead â€" and the donkey was not even a spectator. Sterne once fought a duel about a goose, and Ra- leigh one concerning a tavern bill. .An Irishman once challenged an Englishman because the latter declared that anchovies did not grow on trees. A m«nber of Louis the Eighteenth's bodyguard chaUengsd three men in one day^-one because he had stared at him, another because he bad looked at him askew, and the third on account of his passing him by without looking at him at all. A Liverpool sea captain was once challenged, and named harpoons as weapons. A Frenchman who had been called out named twenty four loaves of "siege bread" â€" "We shall eat against each other," ha said, "until one of us shall die, for one of U3 is sure to die." Many who have received challenges have accepted and named horse- whips or cowhides. Two Tennessee editors, who had long quarelled, repaired to tbe field but settled their difficulty after firing one shot by agreeing to merge their papers into one Concern and. enter into partnership with each other, which they carried into effect after their return. One of the most remarkable dueli (or series of duels) of any age was the affair between two French officers named Foumier and Dupont. This duel was commencKd ia 1794 and lasted umeteen years Fournier had challenged and killed a young man named Blum, at Strasburg, unler distressing cir ciumscancts, and Gen. Moreau, the com mandant, who had issued cards for a soiree, which was to take placd upon the evening of the day of Blum's funeral, had hinted to his ciief of staff (Dupont) just before the c immencement of the arrival of guests that the presenc* cf Fournier might mar the character of the festivities. So, when Foumier appeared he was denied admission by Dupont, who waa at once challonged, and fought (with swords) and wounded Fournier. In a month or two they fought again, and Dupont waa wounded. Immediately upon the recovery of the latter the combatants again met, and both received severe and dangerous wounds. Before retiring from the field, however, they had an sgreement drawn up and sworn to that, whenever after- wards they came witiihi one hundred miles of eaoh other, each should travel fifty milea towar Is the other, and renew and continue the fight until at lea^t one of them was pliCdd bora de oombat. In the meantime they corresponded with each other, met and fought many times during ten or twelve years, always shaking hands, and sometimes dining together after their fights. Ai length both became general officers and during the year 1813 were ordered to Switzerland. Dupont arrived at the post at night, put up at the best inn, and learned shortly after his arrival that Foumier occupied an adjoin- ing apartment. In a few moments they were at it again, sword in hand, and the fight was temporari- ly ended by Dapont running his steel through his antagonist's neck and pinaing Fournier against the wall. Wuile in this situation Fournier challenged Dapont for a meeting upon the following day. "Early in the morning, with pistols, in the woods near Neuilly p' cried Dapoat, greaily to the astonishment of Fourniee, who was a dis- tinguished shot. ' Good 1" replied the litter. "Hear me," added Dapont, "I am about to engage in matrimony, and have concluded that this matter of ours must first be permanently settled so I propose tha^; we each arm ourselves with a pair of loaded pistols, go into the woods t^ether, then separate and walk off in opposite directions one hundred paces, then turn and fire at will." The proposiuon was accepted by Foamier and the combatanta met upon the following Kiorning, went to the wooda together, separ- ated, paced off a hundred ateps, turned and commenced to advance uastily. Dupont, while on his hands and knees, got sight of Foumier behind a tree, and at ones took up a like position. Ha then stuck out a flap of his coat ai if in a kneeling ptaition, and in an inatant a bull-it went through it from Fournier. Then Dapont hung his cap on ths muzzle end of one of his pistols and by degrees atuck it out to one side until at length Frontier blazed away, Dapont thea stepped oat from behind the tree and ad- vanced upon his aatouishf^d an-agonist wuti drawn weapons and stid: "Gaueral your life is in my hands but I do not care to take it. I waut this matter, however, to end right here and in the case of a fresa dis- turbance I want you naver to lose sight of the fact that the weapons must be pistols your favourite weaponsâ€" and that i am en- titled to the first two shots â€" distancj, three feet." The incident took place nineteen years after the first meeting between the two officars, during which period they had fought eic'.i other seventeen time. No fresh disturbance, it may bs added, in conclusion, ever broke out between them, which was very natural when it is remembered that Dapont was entitled to the first two shots. In 1858 M. de Pene, a Parisian j lumalist w;aa challenged by a whole regimaut. Dumas fought with GaUliardet, near Paris, over a controversy concerning the authorship of L* Toar de Fesle.' Marchal Nay once cUciileaged every man in a theater. lu his fatal y^-A with Lieutant C;c 1, Stackpcl^ airt;r filing, said, shaking his head aaJ sai:i! log a J Gjorge I tavo m Sic-i bi:a." INTERESTING ITEMS. A Great Bailwaj Tunnelâ€" A Mormon Saint- Mild Winter In lEngland- ShocKS n an Eartnqa eâ€" Herbert Spencer is going to Australia on account of failing health. The senior knight of the ^ritiah navy, Sir George Rose Satorias, is ninety-three years old. Victor Hugo ia to be offered the honorary presidency of a baby show to be htli in Paria ccxt July. All the rich obese are now flocking to Prince Biamarck's doctor, who has so reduc- ed him in size without injury to his health. The chair of mathematics is occupied at High School, in Stockholm, Sweden, by a Russian lady named Koiealewaka. Marwood, the late hangman, once paid Dore £53 to sketch him in the performance of his terrible duties. Work is proceeding rapidly with the great railway tunnel under the Mersey. The tun- nel will be three and one-eight miles in length. In the Paris Bon Marohe, where 2,000 persons are said to be employed, each girl has a room to heiself. There is also a draw- ing room with piano, ka. Mrs. Verrell, of Quebec, Canada, was actually frightened to aeath. not long since, by two dogs that rushed upon her withoat biting her. The wife of Judge Foote, of Lawrence, Kansas, died recently of blood-poiaoning occasioned by the absorption of the coloring matter of a green veil through a scratch on the face. Dr. Deaprez, of the Hospital de la Charite, Paria, though a free thinker, depreoatea the exclusion from the hospitals of persons con. nected with the religious bodies, and aaya that the lav assistants are far inferior in skill to the Sisters. The statue of Wm. Tyndale (martyred in 1536) which has been erected in a coaspicu: ous place on the Thames enbankment, waa unveiled recently by Lord Shaftesbury with appropriate ceremonies. A Mormon saint, the senior partner in a Salt Lake liquor store, was chosen on Sat- urday to preach the gospel in Great Britain, and the Mormon police, ignorant of the fact, within twenty -four hours arrested him for selling liquor on Sunday, for which he was fined $50. Mr. Matthew Arnold does not seem to have profited by bis elocution lessons in the United States. On the occasion of his first lecture in England, after his return home, Truth says that whenever he wished "to be particularly impresiive he was perfectly inaudible." Lord Rowton, it is said, finds his work of producing the memoirs of Lord Beaconsfield very difficult. The papers are enormous in number, and absolutely without order or ar- rangement. L'rd Beaconsfield seems to have kept everything in the shape of letters, disposing of them by the easy process of thru d ting them into a large box. The finest rubies are found in Ara, ftiam, and Peru others are found in India, Cey- lon, Australia, Borneo, Sumatra. The Bur- mese mines have long been famous the working of them is a royal monopoly, and the King has among other titles that of Lord of the Rubies. The Brazilian ruby is de- clared to be a pink topaz, inferior to the true ruby, vellow in its natural state, and colored artincially. Vigilance committees are being formed in some of the Dundee, Scotland, churches. The members ofcommittee scatter them- selves over the church and note absentees and strangei-B. Any member out of his place for two Sabbaths is reported to the minister, who immediately adopts means to know the reason why. In like manner strangers attending for two Sabbaths are seen after with the view of attaching them to the congregation. A recently published report states that out of every thousand recruits for the Rus- sian army examined in 1882, 57.5 per cent, were rejected for physical disability, 460 of these were thrown out as being "too narrow chested," 50 for consumption, and 10 for poverty of the blood. Investigation showed that over 50 per cent, of the men of St. Petersburg between 20 and 22 were "weak and sickly." In Lancashire, England, they keep up to the traditions of centuries on Easter Mon- day. In Preston, for instance, the whole population make a pilgrimage to the park outside the town, each with a hard boiled egg stained somelcolor. Everybody, young and old, makes for the summit of a hill, down which the great aim is to roll the egg withoat getting smashed. To see crowds or well-dressed people rolling eggs against one another is a most amusing speotaole. A general impression exists that slow- grown timber is the strongest, but this opinion does not, it is said, stand the test of experiment. There is In London a Gov. erament estabUahment f or testing the quali- ty and strength of all woods and metals used for Government purposes, the chroni- cles of which are said to be very interesting Amonit other things that have been proved there, is the fact that fast grown timber- oak at leastâ€" is the strongest, and bears the greatest degree of tension. Ttiere have been winters in England mild- er than this last, exceptional as that has been. In 1882 so mil I was the season that the trees were covered with leaves, and birds built their nests and hatched their young in the month of February. In 1838 the gardens were bright with flowers in *^S^?^* -Neither ice nor soo w was visible m 1659, no fires were lit in 1692, and the softneisof the weather in 1791. 1807 and vas phenomenal. In 1829 white' bloa the only Christian chnroh io that city, be- canse it gave equality of admission to eolor- ed people, is disturbed by aoattemp" to dis- courage the attendanos of negroea. Some of the members tried to pass a resolution advising that the colored members ahould Attach themselves to another organization. This was overwhelmingly defeated. Now a battle is ia progress over a proposition to fit up and newly carpet the Sabbath soho 1 room of the church if the colored school, which meets there in the afternoon, oonld be put in other quarters. The great ladies of the Faubourg St. (Ger- main, in Paris, the favorite quarter of the old aristocracy, usually so modest and retir- ing, and so averse to anything (hat savors of oomm-n and vulgar publicity, have *ud- denly changed their time-worn tactics, and now seems to have but one idea in their heads, and that is "to appear ia public." Already two concerts have taken place at which ihajemmes dumonde, headed by the Vicomtesse de Tredern and the Marquise de St. Paul, have sung and played to paying audiences^-of course, for charitable pur- poses. At the last of these concerts such was the curiosity of the multitude to see these great ladies that 15,000 francs were taken at the doors, and one unfortunate tic- ket, which had been forgotten or mislaid till the la»t moment, was actually rafiled for and fetched 300 franca. The number of shocks in an earthquake varies indefinitely, as does the leu|(th of in- tervals between them. Sometimes the whole earthquake only lasts a few seconds. Thus, the city of Caracas was destroyed in about half a minute, 10,000 lives being lost in that time. Lisbon was overthrown in five or six minutes but a succession of shocks may last for hours, diys, weeks, or months. The Calabrian earthquake, which began in February. 1783, lasted through a continued series of shocks for nearly four years, until the end of 1786. The area shaken by an earthquake varies with the in- 'tensity of the shock from a mere local tract, where a slight trembling has been experi- enced, up to such catastrophes aa that of Lisbon, which oonvnlaed not only the Portu- guese coasts, but extended into Iceland on the one hand and into Africa on the other; agitated lakes, rivers, and springs in Great Britain, and caused Loch Lomond to rise and to subside with startling suddenness. DOMESTIC fiECIPEs. Extra Cymbals â€" Pcur spoonsful of Wttt-r, eight milk; spioe; floor to roll. f.iuri •"^fTS.,* Cymbals Othekwisb Dough.n bowl of flour, a teacup of suAr » â- "'" shortei.ing the size of a small ecff ""t' I sour milk with a small teaspoonfal T '" sslt, nutmeg or cinaamon. ""i, HaBD GiNOBEBREAD.â€" Oae ponnH two tablesp Kmsf ul of ginger, one-half " of sugar, one-third pound of buttfi ""U eggs, a smaill teaspoon of soda Tais gingerbread will keep roll 'I thm time Fish Pib.â€" Remove bones an 1 .ki any cold fish yon may have add tn I equal quantity of cold mash^ potatoJ'vl aa muca cold rice, season with n«nnr ' "1 and little bits of butter, turn bUi "'f greased dish and bake until lightly br*'1 Mock Mince Pik â€"Oae cap of cracb bread crumbs; one cup of sag.r- h°I fourths of a cup of molasses: one-fourth ' cup of butter, one-fourth of a cup of k • cider one cup of warm water 8pic»s! I chopped raisins, one cup, or a half P, I for two pies; very nice. °^'l French Pie.â€" Any remains of cold m J free from fat and gristle and finely m-n"!!' Season as liked aad moisten with plent".^ gravy Spread evenly oi a pie dish,!* an jnoh thick with mashed potato jg Itrsi few bits of butter on top aad plc quick oven until hot and brown. eit|l Fish Omelet.â€" Use a cupful of an? ki,J of cold fish broken up fine. Yon mvi^l the boiled roes of shad, if you havethetl Season with pepper and salt and h«tii,| cupful of cream gravj, same as u»ei in vl tatoes. Make an omelet with six egm Z\ when ready to fold, spread the hot'Tf evenly over it, roll up, dish, anl sand table at once. The Berised Old Testament. The American and English committees have almost finished their labors in the re- vision of the Old Testament. It b expected that the revision will be published m the course of a few months. The revision is said to have been made with tbe sole pur- pose of placing the Bit le in a position in which the people may understand every word |as the scholars understand them, and as the text stands in its original. To do this many of the beauties of expression have been sacrificed in order to give the true meaning of the original. The poetical forms and the archaisms will beetained to a larger extent thaifethey were in the New Testament. The fabulous beast, the "uni- corn," will give place to the wild ox. "The River of Egypt" will be "Tbe Brook of Egypt." "The Book of Jasher" wiU be "The Book of the Upright." "The plain of Morah" will be "The rock of Morah.^' The children of Israel did not borrow of the Egyptians what they never intended to re- turn, but they axked for and received jrifts, not loans. • 'Joseph' ooat of many color*" will be a "long tunic." "Judgment also will I lay to line, and righteousness to the plum- met," will be, "I will make judgment for a line and righteousness for a plumb line." "In my flesh shall I see God" will be, "yet out of my flesh do I see God." Some of the changes in the psalms will be â€" whet "If a vii. 20. "If He turn not He will His sword," (meaning God), will be, man turn not Ha will whet his sword." viii. 5. "For Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels," will be, "Thou hast made him a little lower than God." "I will praise Thee, oh. Lord," is often trans- lated, "I will give thanks unto Thee, oh Lord." ix. 7. "But the Lord shall endure for- ever," will be, "But the Lord sitteth as Kin e forever," xi. 7. "For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness His countenance doth behold the upripht," will be, "For the Lord is rghteous He loveth righteousness the up- riijht shall behold Hia face." xxxviii. 8 "Fret not thyself in any wise to do evil," will be, "Fret not thyself. It tendeth to evil doing." Ixviii. 11. "The Lord gave the word • great was the company oTf those that pub-' hshed It," will be, "The Lord giveth the word, and the women that bring gUd tid- inrn are a great host." vlf.^"";!' "^l"' "•" **»«"»«!» the Valley of Baca, make it a well tbe rain al- so fiUeth the piols," wiU be, "Passing through the vaUey of weeping, they make It a place of springs." j "«-.« xcvi. 12. "Taen shall all the trees of the wood rejoice," will be, "Then shall all the trees of the wood sing for joy." A Good Pudding.â€" Break open and J move stones from enough plump raiiim J line a well greased pudding dish, Cotj| the raisins with a quart of breidcmnJ To a quart of milk add three beaten em sweeten, flavor and pour over crumbs, Bibl until you think the pudding will retaio i]| shape when turned out of dish, be care;- however, not to bake ituntil dried out, [j| with hard sauce. Potatoes a la Lyonnaise.â€" Usi sized potatoes; pare and drop them inc. water, lat them remain two hours, then sla thin aud drain. Put into a frying pan oil f sufficient lard or nice drippings to preve the potatoes from sticking while cooki Heat the lard hot; add onions to the t fry a few minutes, then add the potato Stir diligently, and cook slowly until da brown. Just before taking up, add panj and seasoning. iTTlns's Only 1822 soma were to be seen on the trees in March and 01 the vines in April. ' The wearing of the primrose as the repre- sentalive of Lord B-iaoonsfield is but one more of the many flowery symbols with which the history of England blossomsâ€" the broom plant of the first Plantagenet the red and white roses of Lancaster and York- the Scjtoh thwtle which betrayed the naked footfall of the mvadiug Dane, and sj saved bootland the leek of the Welshman, sym- °J'/v^*'";f** """»«• "»««' ««l» law brou^t his share of the common dinner -a solitary leek-in his hat for the want of pock*s the rose of England and the sham- rock ti Ireland, emblematic of. the Trinity. Th» first Cmgregational church in Wash- mgtoa, TFhich Frederick Douglass onco oaUed Appearanoe dan. as a Follti- Once," says[Mr. Labonohere, r..ferring to the rnnaor that Henry Irving is about to run for Parliament; "Mr. Irving did appear on the hustings, and it was in this wi«e • I waa the defeated candidate at the Middle- sex election. Those were the days of bust- ings and dispUy. and it was the fashion of each candidate to go down to B-entford in a carnage and four to thank hu supporter- On the morning of the day that I had to p^r form this function Irving called ur^n i" and I invited him to accompany me we drove I made an inaudible bm Amnsements of Millionaires. Some years ago I sat one evening ret a volume of Prescott's histories in the 1 of a rich Wall street man who was a president at 30, when he came in and a me if I really enjoyed reading sucli He added that he found it imposiible to i terest himself in any of the hundredi o!n nmcs he bad purchased, although he i tried hard to do so. "When I take t up," he said, "I see nothing bat stock quotations on every page." Tidsg tleman died at 40, and leti a large lorta as the price of his lifeâ€" a fortune whicii i family has since dissipated. Hai bei anything to occupy his mind outside c office and when he left Wall street he i have lived to en]oy the pleasure of speniii the million he had made. In almost ert case some special amusement or point oiij Uxation is a sanitary necjssity for 'he 1 ness man whose brain is racked by the oentrated pressure of bis six hours i "street" labor. Jay Gould ia a dilij reader of books and cultivator of eioM Vanderbilt never opens a book, but! horses and stables help to freshen cj] intellect. John Jacjb Aster climbs tc? top of his house, and in a s Bcludcd M tum hammers away at some mechaiii;»^ j ventioas that are to revoluti.inize the it;i trial woill â€" that is to say if they sra i per'eoted. Yachts, horses, aviaries, i flies andfishiag.rjds, ordoublebarrelled SI gnni distract the attention of other mc wealth from the cares which riches 1 their tra'U, and preserve the mental bsiij of their devotees. One well known broT keeps a stlect assortment of fowls back yard, and he has no sooner enterei] front door than he makes a bolt w' chicken-coop, where he fusses abont i the repeated clamor of a starvin? hold calls him to dinner. His neighb"'"' plain of the crowing of hia pet roostertj he has a permit whicii protects hisfeatM friends, and he defies criticism. BefonJ kept fowls hia nights were almost sle^F^ now he snores all night like a farmer J the same story all around. " If I ^^} do this or that I should die," saytbew" ness- worn men who have returned Kj loves and likings of their early lif fl lief against " black c%Te."â€" New fc" ' Philadelphia Record. *Do5ot The bones of fisl I large sod (mall b with beefsteak and yery best of food f vines, if thefrsgm* the roots can lay h allowing pieces of 1 backyard, as food i oats, domestics ebc everything of the s I ed with a lid. As have accumulated, grape vine or fruit more f 3et long, a fc less than a foot dee are dumped, sprea and covered with t fragmente can be i they should be bnri or spade will not to growmg vines or fr the valuable mine c feed on the element mote tbe growth of development of fair £ horticulturists and dust, costing no lesi simply to enrich the their vines fragmei valuable as ground elemente of fertility able in so short a tii were reduced to stru if large bones be bu from a grips vine, t mouths at the end dissolve, take up an tide. When cast o bones are likely to b as if properly buried of valuable fertility. ownes a grape vine bones that pass tnr bury them where s will be turned to Farmer. called upon me, inaudible speech to a Down moo and we re entered ur carnage to go to iflnJr- 1° J"8« constituency like Middlesex few know the candidates by sight. Irving felt it his duty to a,same a mine de circonstance. He folded his ar^nsT pressed his hat over his brows, and wm saTL'^tt^t ^^' politician-defeat^^ th?.' nULJ ' u^^y resigned to hi, fate. In this character he was so impressive that the crowd came to the cpnclusion that hewal the defeated candidate. So woe-begone In^ so solemnly dignified did he look tfat they were overcome with emotion, and, to show don ^;f'*8« »°d «^Wed it back to Lon- Oriirin of the Png. The png was not generally known o" ed in the United States prior to 1»'"' Eoglaod has been acquainted with tw only for the past quart, r century. », gin is in douot, aod dog fanciers ha"» him a Muscovite or a Datch V^j^!^ Manv maintain that he is a cross W' the English bulldog and the smal' but no matter what his origin or « circumstances his popularity mo«t|" „1 uted, certain it is that he is very ww tributed, for he is known and P*' England, Eussia, France, Holland i pan. A Single Fanlt- "I think that young Mr. Cats^^l^f a perfect gentleman," remarked '^-^ anfeatber to her daughter ^^"^^ ' man had gone before the clo.k " ten-strike. "He is certainly veiy pleasant' but he is not perfect, n.aamia. "Ani what have you hch think he is not " "Why, you know, girl with a chuckle, ' hiug'e fault." "Well, my daught.r, '•""'-â- ,.';, year, and jou -wiil hive """'i' i' you allow bim to ha^f 'â- 'â- '" 'â- '" of tho J ear." ;ef •lit to Agricultnri At a public meet: Wentworth Co., a fc theM. P, P., for the to the agricultural last session of the Or An important me one connected with weeds such as thistli weed and burdock, ed for a measure to these weeds, and sue passed. Each farni( and the pathmasier from going to seed or tor can be appointed oil when one is need* visions of the Act ar« was also passed to pi fectious diseases in 1 estic animals. The fc stuffj is becoming pre farmers must turn th more to the raisins; c people of Europe are eases among Canadia market will be cut ot: take stp3 in time to Igricultii A writer in the I. or ette, is of the opinion ' leag cattle are the eld' homed form is the int A gill of strong gre specific for sheep pois A farmer who has us years says he has sav by it. Do not base swine f that pigs will eat an\ deed, not very choice" food, but growth and moted when they arc food. Vick'a Magazin' say tiyes of mildew on ros high manuring, select proper pruning, ana i as soon as it appears, some varieties are moi others. An Ohio farmer wa every spring and fall i Will float an ege, and death to the borers. not lost a tree since bt although he has lost i W, W. Dunham of ^orth Paris, Me., hi demonstrated his theoi ering of bees. Of fifty onies that he commenc he has only lost two s\ Ufty-one lively swarms «onof 1884. The sewerage of the pumped into an aquedi *o which it flows fri through this aqueduc °iues to a farm of sixt ?«ed for fertilizing puri â- ng the cost of the pun arainmg systems used 'lus farm was ?S0 000, '*ha has been 8Sd,000. It was fouud by care of the New York Expe «tte old and expensive 'erymdeep trenches «rthmg np" as the pi *?y superior to the le^ •"«! a single earth •terns after they com ^iu IS in accord with â-  01 our best gardeners at w contrary to the tea. ^^ters on the subject. In a late address, Tr lyi* of his inve^tig^ qtt«tiOD, -how far â- ^ industry extend "'eBucoessofthesorgti ^* be found so far nq ?«ods had hoped, and g«Phesied. It is yet wte answer, but at pre «Pttion that tbe isoth S^' and Novemb. IJP? *f»y. N. J., shou â- Wiiem boundaries of S^J«nch gardeners Eaa ^•re quite whimsici ^5i»8 their aspara 2;»««_a.paragns^kn nc ttabu_ j^^K»^8re intended '•n'V proper way is