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Lb- The Pilgrim. He sought the land of spring, And through-the wide world went, lie halted when he heard the robins sing, And where tho buds their wondrous fra grance blent. But later on there came The breath of frost and chill ; The forest shed its robes of gold and flame, The birds flew southward o'er the distant hilL ' ( Intent upon his quest, He went through all the earth ; He sought the happy islands of the West, Where winter never silenced summer's mirth. At length he Joyed, and then He could not understand The passage of the robin and the wren ; To him sweet spring reigned ever In the land. Flavel Scott Mines, in Ilarper's Weekly. LOVE CLIMBS THE HILL. A NORWEGIAN ROMANCE. I Frpm the time that Aslang was quite grown up there wag no longer any peace or quiet at Husaby. In fact, all the handsomest young fellows in the village did nothing but fight and quarrel night after night, and it . was always worse on .Saturday night. As- never went to bed on those nights without keeping on at least his leather breeches and laying a good stout birch stick on the bed beside him. "If I hare such a pretty daughter," said old Canute, "I niuat know how to take care of her." 1 Thor Nesset was only the son of a poor cottager, and yet folks said that it was ho who went of tenest to visit the farmer's daughter at Ilusabv. Of course, old Canute was not pleased to hear this. lie said it was not true ; that, at any rate, he had never seen him there. Still they smiled and whispered to each other that if he had thoroughly searched the hay loft, whither Aslang had many an errand, he would have found Thor there. Spring came, and Aslang went up the mountain with the cattle. And now when the heat of the day hung over the valley, the rocks rose cool and dear through tho sun's misty rays, the cow bells tinkled, the shep herd's dog barked, Aslang sang her "jodcr1 songs, and blew the cow horn, all the young men felt their hearts grow sore and heavy as they gazed upon her beauty. And on the first Saturday evening pne after the other they crept up the hill. But they came dowri again quicker than they had gone up, for at the top stood a man who kept guard, receiving each one "who came up with such a warm re ception that he all his life long re membered the words that accompanied the action: "Come up here 'again and there will bo still more in store for yon lw ; All'Hhe young fellows could arrive but at one conclusion, that there was only one man in the whole parish who had such fists, and that man was Thor Nesset. And all the rich farmers' daughters thought it was too bad that this cottager's son should stand high est in Aslang Husaby'a favor. Old Canute thought the same when he heard about it all, and said that if there were no one else who could check him he would do it himself. Now Canute was certainly getting on i in years; still, although he was past 60, he often enjoyed a good wrestling match with his eldest son whenever time indoors fell heavy on his hands. There was but one path up the mountain belonging to Husaby, and it went straight through the farm gar den. Next Saturday evening as Thor was on his way to the mountain, creep ing carefully across the yard,hnrrying as goon as he wa3 well past the farm buildings, a man suddenly rushed at him. 'What do you want with me?" asked Thor, and hit him such a blow in tho face that sparks danced before his eyes. "You will soon learn that," said some one else behind him, and, gave him a great blow in the back of his neck. That was Aslang's brother. 'And here's the third man," said Old Canute, and attacked him also. The greater the danger the greater was Thor's strength. He was supple as a willow, and hit out right man fully; he dived and he ducked; when ever a blow fell it missed him, and when .none expected it he would deal a good one. He stooped down, he snraii? on one Bide, but for all that he A. O got a. terrible thrashing. Old Canute said afterward that "he never fought with a braver fellow." They kept it ni till blood began to flow, then Canute cried out: "Stopl" Then he added in a croaking tone: "If you can get up here next Saturday, in spite of Canute Husaby and his men, the girl shall be yours I" i Thor dragged himself home as best lie could, and when he reached the cottage went straight to bed. There was a great deal of talk about the fight up on Husaby hill, but everyone aaid, "Why did he go there?" Only one person did not say so, and tha Was Aslang. She had been expecting Thor that Saturday evening, but when the heard what had happened between him and her father, she sat down and cried bitterly, and Baid to herself : "If I may not have Thor I shall never have a happy day again in this world." Thor stayed in his bed all day,- and when Monday came he felt he mus jitay on -where he' was. Tuesday came, and it was a very lovely day- It had rained in the night; the hills looked so fresh and green, the window was open, sweet odors were wafted in, .the cowbells were tinkling on the mountain and far up above somebody was, "JodJing." Truly, if it had not been for his mother, whowas sit- ting in the room he could havecried. Wednesday came, and still he stayed in bed; Thursday, though, he began to think about the possibility of being well again by Saturday, and Friday found him on his legs again. Then he thoug what Aslang's father had said : '"If you can get up to her next Saturday without being stopped by Canute and his men the girl shali be yours." Over and over again he looked up at Husaby farm: "I shall never see another Christmas," thought Thor. . ' As before mentioned, there was but one path up to Husaby hill ; but surely any strong, able fellow must be able to get to it, even though the direct way were barred to him. For in stance, if he were to row around the point yonder and fasten his boat at the one side, it might be possible to climb up there, although it was so very steep that the goat3 had great difficulty in climbing it, and they are not usually afraid of mountain work. Saturday came, and Thor went put early "in the morning. The day was most beautiful; the sun shone so brightly that the very bushes seemed alive. Up on the mountain many voices were "jodling," and there was much blowing of horns. When even ing came he was sitting at his cottage dopr watching the steaming mist rise up on the hills. He looked upward all was quiet ; he looked over toward Husaby farm and then he jumped into his boat and rowed away around the point. Aslang sat before the hut; her day's work was dne; she was thinkiug Thor would not come that evening, and that therefore many others would come instead, so she unfastcud the dog, and, .without saying-any thing, walked further on. She tat dpwn -so that she could see across the valley, but the mist was rising there and prevented her looking down. Then she chose another place, and, without thinking more about it, sat down so that she looked toward the side where lay the fjord. It seemed to bring peace to her soul when she could gaze far? across the water. As she sat there the fancy struck her that she was inclined to sing, so she cho9e a song with "long drawn notes," and far and wide' it sounded through the mountains. She liked to hear herself sing, so she tlcgan over again when the first verse was ended. But when she had sung the second it seemed to her as though some one answered from far down below. "Dear me, what can it be?" thought Asians:. She stepped forward to the edge and twined her arms- round a slender birch which hung, trembling, over the precipice, and looked down, but she could see ' nothing ; the ford ay there calm and at rest; not. a single bird skimmed the '. water. So Aslang sat herself down again, and again she began to sing. Ouce more came the answering voice in the same tones and nearer than the first time. ' 'That sound was no echo, whatever it may be." Asland jumped to her feet, and again leaned over the cliff, . and there down below, at the foot .of rocky wall, she saw a boat fastened It looked like a tiny nutshell, for it was very far down. She looked again, and saw a fur cap, and under It -the figure of a man, climbing up the steep barren cliff. "Who can it be?" Aslang asked her self, and, IcttingTgo the birch, she stepped back. She dared not answer her own question, but well she knew who it was. She flung herself down on the greensward, seized the grass with both hands -as though it were she who dared not lose her hold for fear ailing. But the grass came up by the roots; she screamed aloud, and dug her hands deeper and deeper into the soil. She prayed to God to help him ; but then it struck her jthat this feat of Thor's would be called "tempt ing Providence," and, therefore, he could not expect help from above. "Only just this once I" she prayed. "Hear my prayer just this one time, and help himIM Then she threw her arms round the dog, as though it were Thor whom she was clasping, and rolled herself on the grass beside it. The time seemed to her quite end less. Suddenly the dog began to bark. "Bow wowl" said he to Aslang, and jumped upon her. And again, "Wow, wow I" then over the edge of the cliff a coarse, round cap came to view, and Thor wash? her arms. . He lay there a whole minute, and neither of them was capable of ut tering a syllable. And when they did begin to talk there was neither sense nor reasou in anything they said. But when old Canute' Husaby heard of it he uttered a remark which had both sense and reason. Bringing his fist down on the table with a tremen dous crash, "The lad deserves her," he cried; "the girl Bhall be his!" Bjorn8jterne Bjornson in Strand Mag azine. When they say the bride's costume was a dream do they mean to imply that it was an illusion ? Fined His Own Mother. Gen. Dan Macauley was at one time mayor of Indianapolis, and in those early day 8 petty offenders against the municipal laws were brought before the mayor, who passed sentence upon them according to their faults. There was a very strict city orAiirfhce against i$st driving,' which had been disregarded so steadily that it grew to be a matter 6f common complaint, and special instructions were given to the officers to keep an eye upon offenders and for a time a great part of the ju dicial business of the mayor was the consideration of charges of fast driv ing. , . ' i ' Geh. Macauley's mother was a very spry old lady, who was much inter ested in horseflesh, and who drove one of the fastest horses in Indianapolis. One day she came down one of the city's principal Streets in her buggy, driving this horse at a rate which ex ceeded the regulation, and a special officer placed her under arrest. Next morning she was brought before the mayor with the other offenders. Gen. Macauley looked up and caught sight of his mother under the vigilant es cort of a policeman.' He showed no sign of special interest in the case, and when he got to it on the regular ist he said to the officer: "What is the charge?" - The officer related the circumstances under .which he had arrested Mrs. Macauley. Turning to his mother, Gen. Macauley said: "Have you any thing to say?" 'No," said the old lady. "Ten dollars," said the mayor, and went on to the next case. Mrs. Mac auley paid her fine of $10 without comment. Indianapolis Journal. Worthless Human Hair. There is a fortune awaiting the man of sufficient ingenuity to invent some use of the refuse hair of the citv's barber shops. There are in the city 1,365 such shops, running on an aver age three chairs each, and in them a grand total of not less than 1,000 bus'hels of hair clippings accumulate monthly. This hirsute mass, of all degrees of color and quality, is carted away with the ashes, .no use having been found for it. These establish ments whieh have ladies' departments attached occasionally make use of the shorn locks of a fair customer who is generous enough to leave them behind. But the occasions are rare when the customer fails to take them away with her, so that the barber's revenue from this source is light. One barber in this city once saved three bushels of sweepings from his shop for a plas terer.. Two bushels of the stuff were returned the next day, however, the plasterer having found that it was of no use to him as an ingredient of his plaster. Philadelphia Record. Identification by Finger-Tips. ' In a recent number of the Nine teenth Century there is a very inter esting paper by Mr. F. Galton, on dentification by the surface marking of finger-tips. The method lies in tho system of ramifications of the minute ridges that run across the palms of the hands, and more especially in the scrolls or other patterns that the ridges form on the inner surfaces of the bulbs of the fingers. If these marks are peculiar to each individual, their utility would be considerable in crimi nal investigations and in cases of per sonation and of mistaken identity. Mr. Galton suggests the following method" for fingerprinting: A box. three inches and a half square by seven and a half long, contains a slip of glass, a email printer's roller, a collapsible tube filled with very fluid printer's ink and some blank paper. A drop of ink is squeezed out of the tube onto the glass, and is spread very evenly and very thinly over it by the roller. Then the fingers are lightly pressed, first on the inked surface of the glass and afterward on smooth paper. London's Host of Pickpockets. "There are 100,000 . pickpockets in London and each one of them knows an American the moment he sees him," said Barrett Seaton, a police sergeant attached to the famous Scot land Yard detective headquarters when at the Palmer House, yesterday. "The rendezvous of the thief train ers and their pupils are "''the dark thoroughfares of St. Giles and White chapel and along the wharves of the Thames. They are there by the thousands women and girls as well as men and boys. They are well or ganized, have societies and a contin gent fund. When one of their num ber gets into our hands this sum is drawn upon to help the culprit out. Some of the best legal talent in Lon don is sometimes called upon to de fend one of the gang. It is a shame that such a condition' of . affairs exists, but we cannot help it. Chicago Tribune. . Ponies Plenty and Cheap. Cayuse ponies are seldom seen here now, but they haye not become ex. tinct by any means. On a large range opposite Umatilla are some five or six thousand, owned by one man. A dealer reports that he was offered his pick of 400, out of a band of 1000,for $6 per head. This is cheap enough, but there is not much demand for In dian ponies nowadays. Portland Oregonian. A VACONE FARM. How the Dtors Get the Virus Usediti 11 anner of Cond u cti n g the Process of Inoculation. The Board of1 Health maintains one of the best vaccine "farms" in the world. From this "farm" is obtained almost all, if not all, of the virus that is used for vaccinnating purposes in New York hospitals and other institu tions. Sanitary .experts from many foreign countries, who have examined the "farm," have reported that it is a model of its kind. It is called a "farm," but it is located in an unpre tentious-looking stable on the south side of Forty-fourth street, between First and Second avenues. Dr. Edward L. Pardee, the Superin tendent, has had charge of the estab lishment since it was started. He was found yesterday intently inspecting the unpleasant-looking scabs on the hind quarters of three fat cows. Dr. Pardee knows all about vaccine virus, from its discovery by Jenner in 1796 until now. Under his care 250,000 vaccine 'points" are produced at the Board's "farm" every, year. The "farm" is fin the second floor of the stable. It contains twelve per fectly clean stalls, the framework of which was invented by Dr. Pardee. This is 60 arranged that the heads of the cows are fastened between two upright hickory posts, far enough apart however to enable the animals to eat Other pieces of hickory timber are so fixed that the cow cannot move more than an inch or two in any direction during the operation of inoculation. The animals are led to the upper flDor by means of an incline from Forty -third street. Usually, a . tame ox is led up in advance of the rest of the herd. The others generally follow without trouble. After having the hickory timbers around them, the cows become tame quickly. They are dealt with gently, but some of them will persist in kicking to the last. How ever, when Dr. Pardee's frames are around them, they hurt only them selves. Dr. Pardee, when the reporter call ed, was on the right-hand side of a cow wielding a knife and a bone scap ula, and his' assistant, J. J. Behan, was on the opposite side preparing a place for the inoculation. Mr. Be han first cut away the. hair on either side just forward of the root of the tail for a space probably ten inches square. This was done with a clipping-machine. Then he lathered the spot and shaved it clean with a sharp razor. When the piace.wasclean shaven, Dr. Pardee took a six-bladed knife, all the blades open at once from the same end, and scarified a spot on the clean hide about two inches square. Then he applied the virus from a bone scap ula. Two inoculations were made on each side of the hind quarters. When it was finished the cow munched her hay contentedly, but later on she occasion ally switched her tail as if she thought a new kind of a fly had discovered her whereabouts. Dr. Pardee explained that after the scabs are taken off, the .quills are dip ped in the exudations from the pus tules and are then laid away to dry. Subsequently each quill is cut into four points. One cow furnishes virus for 500 quills or 2000 points. The virus is almost Colorless and an oblique cut is made in the quill to show the doctor which end to apply to the scarification on the arm of a patient. Dr. Pardee said that only the health iest of cows were used at the "farm." Generally they were Durhams from two to four years old raised for beef. Every cow is,examined by a veterinary surgeon before it Is allowed to enter the stable and every day subsequently. If a cow shows a trace of any other disease after inoculation the . virus from her is not used. Only "healthy" virus is used. The healthiest virus is the poison, from a sore. When Dr. Jenner discovered the virus in 1796 he probably thought of this paradox. There are usually twelve . cows in the city stalls. They are furnished by a butcher who takes them back after they recover from the effects of the inoculation, which does not affect their quality for food. The sore heals up in a week, leaving the flesh absolutely pure. Of course, the butcher is paid something for the use of the cattle. New York World. A Word for the Snark. Naturalists are puzzled as to how the shark maintains himself. The ocean is wide and the number of men who fall overboard small indeed in comparison to its area. The vast pro portion of sharks, then, must go through their lives without the remote chance of obtaining a meal at the ex pense of the human kind. There is no ground for the supposition that the shark can exist upon air. He is not, like the whale, provided with an ap paratus that enables him to sweep up the tiny inhabitants of the seas. He is too' slow in swimming, and infinite ly too slow in- turning, to catch any fish that did not deliberately swim in to his mouth; and unless we suppose that, as it is said of the snake, he ex ercises a magnetic influence over fish and causes them to rush headlong to destruction between his jaws, it is im possible .to imagine how he obtains a sufficient supply of food for bis sus tenance. Indeed, it would appear that it is only when he gets the good luck to light upon a dead or badly injured fish that the shark has ever the opportunity of making a really square meaL His prolonged fasts certainly furnish an ample explanation and ex cuse for his alleged savagery of disposition. Man himself, when driven to dire straits by hunger, has often resorted to the hideous expedient of cannibal ism, and it is not for him to affect indignation at the unscrupulousness of a starving shark. The immemorial enmity between man and the snake on land is even less bitter and deep seated than that which the seaman cherishes -against the shs rk. In this case, however, it is one-sided, every thing pointing to the fact that, so far from having any ' hostile feeling jtor man, the shark has an aggressive liking for him. It is as unjust to charge the shark with hostility toward man as it would to accuse man of a savage ani mosity against the ox or the sheep. He is a food to be eaten, that is all; and man, the almost universal de. yourer, is the last who is entitled to blame the shark on this ground. A Hermit and His Millions. The coming novelist who will dis sect American character and hold it up to the wonder or admiration of the world j will find something worth studying in the life of' the hermit of New York and Newport who has just died and left behind him the $10, 000,000 he ached to take away with him beyond the grave. For ten years Edmund Schermerhorn had lived in a literally palatial mansion at Newport, R. I., with his gates locked against all but his physician, surrounded only by servants, and living in parsimony which contrasted strangely with his once spendthrift ways. In my boy hood I had heard of him as the gay est of gay young men in Gotham, and. afterward as entertaining the fashion able world at lavish expense in his Twenty-third street residence. Then, after awhile, he wearied of social pleasures, drew more and more with in his shell, became a recluse and scholar, and finally grew utterly un social. A bachelor of seventy-five when he died on Thursday, he belonged to one of the oldest of New York families through whom the Astors had by marriage become admitted to society. Why the wild and luxurious baehelor leader of society became transformed into' the unsocial recluse is one of the secrets, at which his friends only can guess they allege disappointment in love and which the novelist can 'spell out to suit him self. Philadelphia Record. A Powerful Magnet. Professor Smythe was once lecturing in a provincial town on natural phil osophy, and in the course of his ex. periments he introduced a most pow erful magnet, with which he attracted a block of steel from a distance of two feet. "Can any of you conceive a greater attractive powerf" demanded the lecturer with an air of triumph. "Yes, sir, I can," answered a voice from the audience. "Not a natural terrestrial object?" "Yes, indeed, sir." The lecturer, somewhat nettled, challenged the man who had spoken to name the article. Then up rose old Timothy Tinkle. Said he: "I will, give you the facts, Profes sor, and yon can judge for yourself. When I was a young man there was a little piece o' natural magnet done up in calico and dimity, as was called Betsy Mariah. She could draw me fourteen miles every Sunday, over ploughed land, just as natural as you'd sit down to your breakfast. There wasn't no resistin' her. That ere magnet o' yourn is pretty good,( but it isn't anything to Betsy Mariah." Tidbits. 1 Making a Fuss. Many years ago a prominent cler gyman Was consulted by the ladies of his congregation about certain clerical work in which they were interested. Smiling at their earnestness, he said: "That's right, ladies, make a fuss make a fuss! That's the only way to get work done in this- world I Set about it yourself, and make a fuss while you dp!" And so it. is. Think ing about wrongs and sighing over them never mended one. But the peo ple who exert themselves to right the wrong, making a good stir about it while they do, and worrying at other people to exert themselves too, L will often force the other people into ac tivity in, sheer self-defense. The other people would like to sit quiet and take it out in sighing, but these ener getic fussers will not let them. At last, to get rid of these agitators, they ronse up, go to work with a will, and accomplish what is asked of them for the sake of ihe peace they obtain thereby. But whatever their motive, ail mankind has the benefit. It is not. only well to get wrongs righted,' it is also well to get sluggish people stirred up occasionally. rilarnftr'a Bazar. NIGHTINGALES. Some Interesting Things About These Beautiful Songsters. Like Mocking Birds, They are Natural Mimics. Nightingales have begun to appear in the bird stores about the city. They range in price from ,$15 to $20 and $25. The true nightingales are the birds from Germany. The season for them in the bird stores is from Octo ber to May. A hird dealer says: "The prevailing opinion is that the bird is delicate and seldom- lives long in a cage. This opinion is contrary to the facts. Not only does the night ingale live in a cage for many years, but he grows stronger and sings better constantly; and there are many au thentic cases of the bird's breeding aud rearing its young while so con. fined. When properly, cared for the bird will live for 15 years; and there are cases on record of the bird having lived for 25 years. "Within the past few years it has become fashionable to have one or more of these birds in a house. Lovers of birds music have, learned how to care for them so as to elicit from the nightingale most charming harmonies. He has a natural song, and, like the American mocking bird, is also a mimic. His cage may hang by it self, but. the more singers there are in the same room foi him to contend with, and surpass, the wider will be his range of voice. Each country has its night- gale. America has the red Virginia nightingale. The hedge singers, or tree nightingales of Africa, and the beautiful and very lively nightingale of China, are all fine songsters and whistlers. " "The nightingale is fond of an abundance of hearty food, and likes a variety, making no objection to a din ner say of four, five or six courses. As he is a soft bill bird his regular diet should be prepared food using first a bottle of the moist food, and then a box of the dry. Both of these should have fresh grated carrot, mixed with them, also one-half, teaspoonful of ants' eggs that have been soaked. Meal worms, beetles and spiders arc given daily. Some raw beef scraped should be given them. If insects are scarce, feed currants mixed in the food. Gravel should be, supplied. . v"The whole of the upper part of the bird is a brown, the breast a dull white shading into a brown, and the throat and belly a pale gray, the tail reddish brown, long and rounded. The full length of the bird is 6 1-2 inches. ' He is imported from England and Germany, most of the nightingales coming from Germany. However, the nightingale is met with all over Europe, from Sweden to the Mediter ranean, also in Central Asia, and in the middle of Siberia. Spain is for tunate in having great numbers; their voices are heard from every bush and hedge. The declivities of SanMdrena have been described as the nighting gale garden. "The flight of the bird is undula tory ; though light and rapid, it is dis tanced, but for a short distance. That these birds, however, are capable of great exertion while on the wing must be evident tp any one- who . has" wit nessed the endeavors of two contend ing rivals in love matters to drive each other from the field. "The nightingales nest about the middle of April. After that they are. in constant song. Some pour forth their trilling notes through the long, bright night, just as the mocking birds whistle during the moonlight nights of - springtime and early summer. How ever, generally they sing only in the daytime, except during the breeding season, when the desire to please and attract their mates renders the male birds excited and restless. "The nest is built of leaves, dried grass, bits , of bark and dried roots, lined with; finer grass, and horsehair loosely put' together and placed in some hollow in the ground in the root or stump of a tree. There are five eggs in a nest, and one nest in a season, un less the eggs or the young are des troyed, in which case there is another batch laid. - The moulting season be gins in July, after. Which, when the birds are in new full plumage, the au tumn migrations begin. They travel in families or small parties. They journey in distant lands, returning to Europe in April. The male shows himself two weeks earlier than the fe male. They generally seek their for mer haunt New York Sun. The Cwirewltch,i Fiancee. ' The Princess Marie of Greece, tha proposed bride of the Czare witch of Russia, is only about fifteen years of age. She partakes of the Danish type of beauty,-with blue eyes and light hair, and a peculiarly sweet expression. The Czare witch met her about a year ago, and appears to have fallen in love forthwith. The Czare witch is himself a very mjld young man, and as the princesses also of a sweet and yield ing disposition, the Russian throne will be occupied, should they survive, by a very different type from the average Romanoff. New York News. " Hy Palace, I built me up ar palace,. It was -years and years ago, Long before the threads of stiver And the wrinkles used to show, I peopled it with fancies And I reared it to the skies. When the rainbow life was golden 4 In my youthful paradise. Its hallswere hung with satins, And its courts were paved with goll , Its lads and lasses nightly Gayest carnivals would hold. And I listened to the music From the hidden players who Iient their spell to my elyeian - From beyond the mystic blue. From beyond the blue of ether And the dreaming: and the mist, And the veil that hid my palace From the common wordly list. Ah ! its turret walls o marble, ' And its steps of jasper white I Ah ! the tinkling of its fountains a Making music in the night. It is well to build a palace, Grand and noble, proud and till;. For it is the dream of dreamers Never matter how it fall. Love requited may cement it Close unto the human heart Disappointment may disrupt and tear Its sacred walls apart. So, I built me up a palace ' Years and years and years ago And tonight it lies hi ruins, And tonight my hair is snow. But I would not give my palace For a kingdom's price or beck ; For the phantoms of my fancies Float above the dear old wreck. H. S. Keller, in Detroit Free Press. HUMOROUS. A deaf farmer drove in his flock and herd. A dog in Idaho turned into bone and died.- He died hard. The woman who cannot keep a se cret manages to hold her age all right. "A stone's throw" is a distance that depends a good deal on the size of the stone. "Your husband wears his hair very short"' "Yes, the cowardly wretchl'' replied Mrs. Terror. I If "great wit to madness surely ii allied,' there isn't much doubt of the sanity of most jokers. v Extenuating Circumstances. "Per haps I don't look very cheerf uV re marked the coal hole. "But consider how often I am pitched into." ' Gay man This is a great day with us at home. My daughter "comes out" tonight. Dumley Don't say I So does my brother. He's been in for seven years. Johnny Clara became old almost in a momeat the other night. Mary Nonsense! Johnny Not at all, rShe was sitting in the parlor with her young man, when her father entered. Her youth departed immediately. The dairy-maid pensively milked the goat, And, panting, she paused to mutter; "I wish you brute, you'd turn to mUir, And; the animal turned to butt 'er. Brasil's Coffee Industry. ' J Coffee is the product on which thl prosperity of Brazil, chiefly depends. me plant was ongmauy ODtainea from Africa, aud it found in the cli mate and soil to which it was trans planted the conditions necessary for a marvelous growth. In 18C0 Brazil exported 13 bags of coffee; last year she sent abroad 6,000,000 bags of 182 pounds each. Of this quantity the United States buys as much as is sold to all Europe. For the cultivation ol " the berrv virsrin forest land are pre- V ferred. The latter are cleared of trees and brushwood by burninjr, and the roots and 6tnmps are left to natural". decay. The plants are raised from seeds and planted when one year in holes dug for their reception. At the end of four years they begin to produce, reaching their maximum of bearing at nine years aud continuing to be fruitful for forty years. There are three crops annually. ! The berries are gathered in baskets and either spread out to dry In the sun or sub jected for the samo purpose to artifi cial heat in pans. Machinery sepa rates the outer shells and inner husks from the beans, and the coffee is then, ready for market. Its quality is -greatly improved by age. From the . same crop are obtained Mocha, Java and other varieties which figure in the market reports. The grades are as sorted in Rio de Janeiro and in New York and Brooklyn. The beans of UAUVJVUW - . w v -r arated mechanically and are sold ai Mocha, Java, etc., according to th taste or gullibility of the consumer. For the benefit of those who know no better the light and spotted beans are dyed to a beautiful green, which is easily washed off in warm water. Probably not a ton of real Mocha enters the United States annually. Washington Star. " A Point In Favor of TaecinaUon. 1 Dr. Edson of the New York Board of Health adds another to the many strong points imade in favor of vac cination.4 He says: 4 During yei nine years' service in the Health De partment of New York, I have never seen a case of smallpox in a person who had been successfully vaccinated Within five years, and the number of case I have seen amount into the hun dreds. During that period I have seen only one inspector cf contagious dis eases contract smallpox, and he was the only inspector who disbelieve! in vaccination and refused to have.it performed on himself." Boston Transcript.
Salisbury Globe (Salisbury, N.C.)
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Dec. 10, 1891, edition 1
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