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We come on the breath of the sharp clear breeze The spirits of frost are we; We hung our wreaths on skeleton trees, And beautiful wreaths they be. White, pure White, are the robes we wear, Robes wrought of the feathery snow ; With bright quick wings through the sparkling air On our silent missions we go. â€"â€"A man in walking a mile lifts a weight ‘equal to thirteen to fifteen tons. This is what makes some men so tired. By our aid the spirit of silence reigns, W e hush the brooklet’a song, And bind the water' 111 icy chains, By a, spell unseen but strong. Silent we work through the livelong night, In cities, and trees, and (16119; And men behold by the; 1110111ng light, We sprinkle the snow on the harden’d plains, We whiten the barren moor; We hide from view mormhty’s stains, Till the sinful earth seems pure, â€"There is one consolation in being broke. You have nothing to lose, and everything to 3am. â€"-A lame farmer was asked if he had acorn on his toe. “No," he said, “but I’ve got lots on the ear." â€"Some people are so seriously inclined that it is “ no laughing matter” to read over theirjokel. â€"There be men who would willingly search the Scriptures if they thought they could find anything to steal in them. â€"- If you regard yourself as the guardian of your own honor be careful that your position is not a sinecure. -â€"A Californian has seven acres of tube- roses, which pay better than 100 acres of wheat. Druggists buy them for perfumery. â€"~If one marches abreast with obstinate men, who will rush on guns and spikes, he must share the consequences. â€"It is a. great deal easier to build castles in the air when you are young than it is to live in them when you are old. â€"â€"-In 1873 the people of this world ex- changed 3,300,000,000 letters, and in 1877 they sent 130,000,000 telegrams. â€"London Lancet says that injections of morphia under the skin, if not made by phy- sicians, are only another form of opium eating. â€"In Iowa. the second Wife of a man who was about to be hanged was supplicating for his life while he was begging to see the pic- ture of his first wife. â€"Some females have just been arrested in Kentucky for the manufacture of illicit whiskey. This is the first recorded instance of a woman keeping still. ~New1y-married persons should remember that the morning fire is a prolific cause of discord, and husband and wife should arise and light the fire together. â€"-It took an English judge fourteen hours to decide Whether eggs were meat or vegeta- ble, and then he got around it by deciding that the eggs in question wereflbad. â€"â€"A brother in a colored church in Mis- souri wanted to sing “ Grandfather’s Clock,’ and before he got through wanting to twentyâ€" one men and women had beenbadly pounded. â€"Lemon well hit the abominable habit which some men have of perfuming them- selves by the following epigram :â€" â€"0f miracles this is sans doute the most rare I ever perceived, heard reported, or read; A man with abundance of scents in his hair Without the least atom of sense in his head â€"You can keep a squash ten years by sol- dering it up in a tin can, but at the end of that time you could buy another for less money than the can cost, so it isn’t a paying job. â€"The worst reason for not drinking water comes from an exchange, which says a Western editor refuses to drink water because since the deluge it has tasted of sinners. â€"10u may conclude that your character is pretty well established in certain circles if you find it easier to borrow money of those who don’t know you than of those who do. â€"-Wherever afiection can spring, it is like the greefi leaf and the blossomâ€"pure and breathing purity, whatever soil it may grow in. It is not satisfied Without perfect loyalty of heart ; it aims at its own completeness. â€"“ What the dickens do you call your mule Ann for .9" asked a tourist of a Western teamster. “ Wall,” said the interrogated, “its the nigh mule of the par, an’ I tuk the name out’n the Scripterâ€"An, a nigh ass.” â€"How much wisdom there is in the fol- lowing timely verse : ‘ E“. ggasps your hang! with 9. heagty shake, â€"â€"A Boston lady lost a. pocket-book con- taining $700, and when an honest little boy returned it to her she was so grateful that she gave him a great deal of good advice and didn’t charge him a cent for it. â€"Apostrophe to somebody : “ She was my idyl while I wooed; My idol when I won ; My ideal when in after years Ways idle had she none.” hisufécé gfdws meeker and meekér ; You know him well in the fall of the year He‘s the annual office-seeker." â€"â€"â€"It is a great gift of the gods to be born with a hatred and a. contempt of all injustice and meanness. It is a higher lot never to have lied and truckled, than to have shared honors won by dishonor. â€"The men who ordered 500 cans of0§stérs just before the “snap” broke can’t feel any worse over it than the man who made a hun- dred gallons of ice cream just before the cold weather came. â€"“ We must agitate,” exclaimed an ardent politician of the Seventh Ward ; “ we must agitate, or we shall perish." And then he agitated it gently With a spoon, and pretty soon it perished, all but the sugar. â€"A young lady who ought to know, ac- counts for the disposition of the average young fellow to put his arm around a. girl’s waist by the supposition that he is looking for that rib that was taken from him so long ago. â€"A Connecticut man once introduced abill in the Legislature to prevent any person in that State from falling in love with any other person under 18 years of age, and it was de- feated by only two votes. â€"A passer-by put his head in at the win- dow of the shop where an honest cobbler is working, never thinking of evil, and says cheerfully: "Well, my friend, how many thieves are there in this street without count- ing you ?” “What I" yells the cobbler, “with- out counting me ?” “Well, then.” says his imperturbnble questioner, “how many are there counting you ?" -â€"W'hen lovely woman looks quite squelly You may be sure her hose gave way ; What charm can make her feel less brawl‘y, What patch can heal the dreadful fray The one thing hast th_e_hole to cover. -A woman who was called as a. witness in an assault case tried in the Edinburgh Police Court recently. on being asked by the magis- trate what was the profession of her husband, answered promptly, “ My husband is a bank- rupt, sir.” -â€"When Douglass Jerrold heard a society bore speaking of a song that “ always car- ried 111m away” when he heard it, Jerrold simply asked if some one present would please to sing it. â€"The Chinese have gobbled the Pinafore music, and Wab-Hap, of Detroit, doth rub-a dubdub and sing : "I’m a. long pig-tailed Chinoe, And I keep a lauu-dry-ee And I washâ€"and I washâ€"Lee.” Is a French boot with top quite high ; Or, else. that no eye may discover, If she can’t darn she’ll have to dye her ex- posed epidermis in so skilful a way that it will perfectly blend with the hue of the surrounding stocking in a manner high- ly calculated to deceive the most search- ing and critical glances. â€"An exchange gives an account of a wo- man who “ had laudsnumed herself.” If this sort of thing is to go on we shall hear of per- sons prussic-acidating or Paris greenifying themselves ad infinitum. Our carv’d work and imoles‘ BSDNG OF THE FROST SPIRIT! COMIC :BUDGET. â€"-.thid Holt. â€"Wb&t has become of the good old days when a. greenhorn traveling by mil could buy far 75 cents apackage containing fifty ar- ticles worth a. dollar each, and then find a gold breast-pin weighing a pound and a-hulf besides ? â€"â€"’I‘eacherâ€"â€"“ Which of you can mention three animals that live in Africa ‘2" Johnnyâ€"“'I can Mr. Ferule." Teacherâ€"“ Well, let’s hear 1" Johnnyâ€"“ Two monkeys and a parrot l” â€"The melancholy days are come, The saddest of the year ; Of buckwheat cakes and scarlet rash, And five cent lager beer. Heap ed 111 the hollow of the grove, The autumn leaves lie dead, And festivals and cabbages Are fifteen cents a head. The robin and the wren are flown, And from the shrub the jay, And by the fire the loafer toasts His shine, the live-long day. â€"â€"We find this soulâ€"lifting advertisement among the New York Herald’s personals: Q I‘Lâ€"OI JOY. 0! BLISS. THOU BEAUTI- D . FUL‘ lady of pain, who did smile upon me from thy carriage window. Only my thoughts, not my Pegasus, could keep un with thy fiery Hteeds. Have no fear, but 0! Dolores, please write me and appoint interview; sweet lady of pain. Romeo like,I watch under thy window. 0 sweet, unconscious Juliet. Address “Romeo.” â€"-â€"A Frenchman said to his hopeful son :â€" “ My boy. marriage is an honorable institu- tion ; therefore I would like to have you marry.” ” Very well,” replied the dutiful boy, “ I will forthwith wed my sister.” “Your sister I " exclaimed the astonished parent. “ But it is not lawful to wed your sister.” “ And why not, air ‘2 Did you not marry my mother, pray 'I ” â€"â€"It is well to look at all sides of a subject before you indulge in an opinion. Curran once said to Father Leary, “I wish, reverend father, that you we1e St Peter and had the keys of heaven. because then you could let me in. " The shrewd and witty priest saw the sarcasm, and turned its sharp edge on the sceptic by replying, “By my honor and con- science, air, it would _be better for you that I had the keys of the other place, for then I could let you out." â€"â€"Apropes of the rent agitation in Ireland, the following from Mayfair is very good : Last weeka tenant entered the office of a Tipperary land agent. and throwing a roll of notes on the table exclaimed : “ There's iv’ry pinny I have in the world. It’s a half year’s rint, and ye may take it or lave itâ€"av ye take it I’ll ge to the workhouse ; av ye lave it I’ll go to America on it. The agent opened the roll of notes and counted the money. “ Why, my good man, there is more than a half year’s rent here. There is over four years’ rent in the bundle.” “ The divil there is,” cried the tenant, putting his hand in his pocket ; “ begor, I gev you the wrong bundle of notes, after all.” â€"Irish wit is certainly inimitable. It is like a. flash of brilliancy which lights up the surrounding gloom and leaves a pleasant re- membrance of itself behind. A son of the Green Isle stood on the highway looking on a. comrade who was lying helpless through drink. The day was hot, and, as the Irish- man wiped his forehead, he said sadly, “ Ah, my boy, I wish I had just half of your dis- ease.” â€"0, she was a maiden fair to view, With her blonde black hair and eyes of blue ; But, alas! our life is but a spanâ€" She started a fire with the coal-oil can. And when the Coroner came to see. He rubbed his hands with a ghastly glee, “ Oh, I should be a most mournful man If I got no help from the coal-oil can." ‘â€"Meeting anewshoy whose face was scar- red with scratches and looked like a map of some great railroad center, a reporter asked the youngster What the matter was. “ Feller spoke disrespectful to my sister ; said she was cross-eyed, and I sailed in." “ Is your sister cross-eyed l” asked the reporter, “Hain’t got no sister,” was the reply. “ It was the principle of the thing I got licked for.” -â€"A sharp answer is relished by every one except the person who is hit. When a lady in Louisiana was grufily asked why she rang the bell at both ends she quietly replied. “ BecauseI wanted both ends to stop, sir.” And when a soldier who was bitten by a dog. and who killed him with his bayonet, was asked by the owner why he didn’t beat him ofl with the other end of his musket, answer- ed, “ And so I would if he had run at me with his tail." â€".Detroit Free Pres: “A religious journal draws a moral that shows the evil effects of that wicked game, billiards, from the fact that one young man killed another with a billiard cue the other day over a dispute about the game. This upright paper forgets to notice that by a. strange coincidence on that very day ’1‘. S. Koiner and Lewis F. Johnson, students in Washington and Lee University, Virginia, were playing that eminently clerical game, croquet. when a quarrel arose and Koiner struck Johnson on the head with a mallet and killed him." To DICKENSâ€"1842. -â€"I’shaw l away with leaf and berry And the sober sided cup I Bring a. g 1blet and bright sherry, And a. bumper fl 1 me up. Tho'I hadn. pledge to shiver, And the longest ever was, Ere his vessel leaves our river I will drlnk a. health to Bozl Here‘s success to all his antics, Since it pleases him to roam And to paddle o’er the Atlantics After such a sale at home ! May he shun all rocks whatever, And the shallow sand that lurks, And his passage be as clever As the best among his works I â€"â€" [Thomas Hood. â€"â€"It won't cost over $25 to winter a. plant worth fifteen cents. An American is about to carry out the railway dining-car system in a novel direc- tion. He has designed, especially for the use of Londoners, a “ tea ’bns." In this vehicle there will be every accommodation for“ 5 o’clock tea.” It is expected that the ’bus will be a great favorite with ladies, who will take advantage of it not merely for shopping purposes, but also as a pleasant way of spend- ing the afternoon and having agreeable chats with each other over their teacups. A narrow table runs along the middle of the vehicle, and behind the seats there will be room for the conductor to wait on the tea-drinkers. Water will be boiled in a little apparatus be- neath the seat of the driver, the tap being inside the ’bus, so that the kettles may be filled without difficulty. The tires of the wheels are to be India rubber, to prevent un- pleasant 101ting. and the springs of the car- riage will be adjusted on an entirely new and improved principle, insuring the complete ease and comfort of its occupants. With a plentiful supply of biscuits and bread and butter the scheme may prove a success, but the ’bus will have to be driven with extreme care, for the horrors of a collision in the streets will be greatly enhanced by broken crockery and boiling water.-â€"â€"Pall Mall Gazette. -â€"Even Death can be robbed of half its terror by a large inheritance. Two people were riding together in a stage coach, one of them in deep mourning.» “ Somebody dead, ma’am 7 ” was the question. An affirmative nod. “ ’Usband, ma’am?" Another nod. “ Did he leave you his property, ma’am ? " Still another nod. “ And are you ’appy about his soul, me’am ? ” One more nod. The sympathetic stranger stroked his beard for a few silent minutes, and then added in very tender tones, “ Well, ma’am, if you have inherited all his property and fell ’appy about his soul, it’s not so much of a trial, ma’am, after all." Say but good-night! Say not cod-bye! Say but cod-night ; A word t at blesses in its flig t, In leaving hope of many a kind, Sweet day like this we leave behind. Say but good-night! 0h, never say A word that tuketh thee away! Say but good-night! Good-night! . GOOD-NIGHT. GOOD-BYE. Say not good-bye! Dear friend, from thoe A word too sad that word would be ! Say not good-bye ! Say but goodâ€"night, And say it with the tender, light, Pare ssing voice, that links tha bliss Of yet anotNher (lay With_this, . TAKING TEA IN A ‘BUS‘ In an article entitled "Some Features of Kansas Farming," in the Scribner for Nov., Mr. Henry King gives the following vivid des- cription of thm beautiful scourgeâ€"a. fire on the prairies :â€" Next to calamities like that the home- steader‘s wife told of, the great besetting fear of the settlers on the borderâ€"in all the new and thinly peopled portions of Kansas, in factâ€"is the coming of the autumn prairie fire, which so frequently menaces their stacks and cribs, their helpless stock, their stables and cabins, and even their lives. Were it not for its own danger and power of havoc, this tempest and scourge of fire would be a spectacle of commanding force and beauty. First, you will catch glimpses of what you take to be gray wisps of haze away ofi on the horizon ; and watching, you will see those vagrant particles deepen gradually, and .gather into a definite column of smoke, black like a rain cloud, and bronze about the edges. Then the strange, sombre bulk starts for- ward across the prairie, and you hold your breath at sight of the rapid progress of it. A. mile in two minutes is not an exceptional rate of speed for a fire once fairly under way. It halts an instant, you note, over a broad swale where there is standing water ; but it is for an instant only. rI.‘he next moment it reaches the upland again and the dry grass ; and directly it grasps a belt of the tall blue- stem, and the flame leaps suddenly and mad- ly out above the smoke, then subsides again, ‘ and the black mass grows blacker than ever, and rolls higher and higher, and you can scent the burning grass, and hear the dis- tant roar of the fireâ€"an awful roar, resembl- ing the sound of artillery in heavy timber. And it is so calm immediately about you that you do not so much as miss the ticking of your watch in your pocket ; there is no breath of air stirring, and the sun is shining and the heavens above you are blue and placid. But the stillness will be broken soon. The oncoming cloud is only a few miles away now, and you easily trace the scarlet and terrific energy at its base; the smoke begins to hurt your eyes, too, and the heat becomes heavily oppressive. And then, all at once, the wind smites and staggers you, that appalling roar deafens you,. and the sun is blotted out, and you are in a darkness as of midnight without moon or star. It is an experience of but a dozen seconds or so, this sudden plunge into darkness, though it seems an hour, and when you look out again you find that the fire has passed you a mile or more to your right, and is still rolling desperately onward ; and there in its track are charred and smouldering stacks of hay, and an occasional house aflame and tottering to its fall, and a group of men and boys beating back the outer line of the fire with brush and old clothes, and sending forward little counter-fires to meet it and if possible keep it at a safe distance. The creek may stop it and smother it when it gets there, though such a hope has mere chance for a warrant ; sometimes these mighty con- flagrations vault across streams twenty or thirty yards in width, so swift and resistless in their momentum ; and as a rule they are effectually stayed only when they reach a wide extent of plowed land, and have to yield, sullenly, for lack of anything more to feed their inexorable fury (Philadelphia Sunday Times.) I have read that the European custom of eating mustard with sausage dates back to remote antiquity. Edward IV., brother-in- law to the Duke of Burgundy, replied in 1475 to the citizens of a town which they besought him to spare, that war could not be conducted without burnings any more than sausage could be eaten without musâ€" tard. Alittlo later Babbelais spoke of mus- tard as the “natural ointment of sausage." But these are comparatively modern ex- amples, for it is Worthy of note that the saus- age itself has almost as ancient an origin asits piquant companion. To the seven wise men of philosophical Greeceâ€"epi- curean Greece opposed seven famous cooks, one of Whom (Aphtontus) bears as his title to glory the fame of having invented sausage. Of the effect of mustard on the human system much has been written. It not only excites the salivary secretions and awakens the indolent stomach from its languor, but it appears to confer upon the system several physiological conditions. One author, ex- perienced in experimental gastronomy, asserts that by some occult virtue it replenishes the smouldering flame of vitality, while others claim that it strengthens the memory, en. livens the imagination and renders the per- ceptive qualities more clear. Hustins, a physician of the sixteenth century, who bore the name of the Esculapius of Germany, de- clared that it gave birth to Wit. â€"â€"An embarrassed actor bounded on the stage of a San Francisco theatre, in a scene depicting a. robbery in a, hotel office, and shouted, " Gag the safe while I blow open the night clerk.” This is on a. par with the case of a young man in Hamilton, who in giving evidence before the Police Commissioners asserted three times that the person against whom he was testifying “ shook his face in my flat." A street car going north yesterday full of passengers was boarded by a man with a book and pencil in his hand, and he straightway began taking a vote of the passengers. Some answered and some didn't, and some didn't exactly understand what he was up to. When he came along to a little old woman with her lap full of parcels and bundles she called out : “ There is four of us in the family, and we are all grown up, our Christian names are John Henry, Betsy Ann, Melinda and Aaron, and that's all the census you’ll get out of me.” “ I am not taking the census, madam," he explained. , “ 1 am simply ." I‘ You raise on our wétér tax if you dare 1" she interrupted. “ We'll dig a. well before we'llipay another red cent.” “ fail] not a, water-m2: man ; I am canvas;- sing thjgl carâ€"~â€"â€"â€"” “Well,you can’t canvass me !” she snapped, “I’m bothered to death with canvassers at the house. and I don’t care what new-fan- gled clothesâ€"wringer you’ve gotâ€"I won't sub- scribe I” “ Madam,” He began,_“have ydu any objec- tion toâ€"" “ I won’t Sign any petition if I die for it 1" she shouted, “and now if you don’t stop pes- teling me I’ll open this package of pepper and fill your eyes for you and my husband will thrash you to boot I” The {man with the book let up and dropped ofi'.â€"~Detr0it Free Press.. The following is a copy of a. letter written by Sir Ewan Cameron, in the year 1702. The spelling and punctuation are as in the original -- “Dear James â€" What for wall ye niver com doon in the vscins tull se ye a‘, but ye Hielans in sore changitt syn ye saw yem. It is smashing hoo ye are changitt for ye waur. I was at diner at ye Dukes on Satirday & y’t is a sore changitt hoose. I mynd in my yont when I was a yonge Gallant I dynit on a day at ye Dukes wyt mony nobilities & ither of 3 degrees dz behynt ilk chaire or stul as we had yem, was a red-leg- ged loone wyt aclam shell, &a.’ye dyshes was timmer, & whan I was dune I pitit my (1th owr my shoulther to the India, &.he scartit it clean wi’ his shell, and gave yt back, but noo a‘ is changitt for ye waur, & a‘ye platters way sylver of wate & ye quaighs was glashes. I luik for no said of via changys. Ye wull hear news 01' lung be. I have sent ye a stott pr my lad Donald going South &houp all is well wt yr ladie an ye bairns. Yr trusty friend. Lochiel. Address to my worthy dz honourable fiend Mister James Campbell advocat, our brother to ye Laird of Arkinlass at his odgings in Edinr wt an black stott pr Donald McPherson.â€" Exchange. The passengers were all laughing, and he didn't want to _give it up that way. THE Vllt’l‘UES 0F MUS’I‘ARD‘ A RIG HLANDER’S LETTER. A PRAIRIE FIRE. A “ Sl‘RA ‘Vf’ [low lhe Missing Miss Found and the Glory IIII‘GI. The case of Miss Edwards, who disappeared from Liverpool 1n a mysterious manner, is still an object of excitement in the London i papers. After six weeks she was discovered in London, and, according to the Daily Tele- ‘ graph of the 24th, still remains at the house of her uncle, whither she was conducted upon i being recognized. She is suffering from a severe nervous afiection, and it is hardly pos- sible ihat she will be able to travel for some days yet. Her father and mother went to London at once on learning the very welcome 1 news that she had been found, with the in- tention of taking her home on Wednesday. Mr. Edwards was. however, obliged to return to Liverpool yesterday morning, but her moth- er remains to tend her. “The poor girl’s ill- ness is not to be wondered at," says the Tele- graph, “considering the sufferings through which she has passed since she left her home on Sept. 3rd last, justifying as there is reason to believe they do, some of the worst appre- hensions regarding her disappearance. Upon that day she was to visit some friends in the neighborhood of Islington (Liverpool) and pay several trifling bills. For these purposes ,she left Fairfield, where she resided with her ‘parents, and took an omnibus to the Monu- ment in London road. In the omnibus she met several persons who were members of the congregation at the chapel which she at- tended. and with some of whom she entered into conversation. Alighting at the Monuâ€" ment the young lady went down Stafford street as a near out to the house of a friend, upon whom she was to call, and who knew of the intended visit. A portion of Stafiord street and Blandford street form about the lowest neighborhood in Liverpool, and before now there have been more than one strange disappearance from this very locality, and in these cases it is believed that the agents were men afiecting the dress and manner of ministers of religion or women who carry out shocking schemes under the guise of friend- liness. “ Miss Edwards, who is scarcely eighteen years of age, is subject to fainting fits, and she was in this part of the town when she felt one of them coming upon her. She had either fallen or was stumbling when a man came forward to assist her, and she remem- bers giving her address and asking him to call a cab and have her driven home. Here begins the mystery. That she was drugged and involuntarily detained her friends have no doubt. She came to London on September 6. it is believed, partly under coercion and partly by the reason of the shame and horror she felt at the out. rages of which she had been the victimâ€"the unwilling and even unconscious victim, so far as it is possible to judge from the meagre in- formation which alone is allowed by the rela- tives to transpire; and, indeed, it is doubtful whether the poor girl, suffering acutely as she has been since her restoration to her friends. could at present give anything more than a disjointed narrative of her terrible experiences. She was seen in Hyde Park. it is believed, on the 7th and 8th, wearing the chequered print dress and black cashmere jacket she had on when she left home, and she remained in London, residing the greater part of the time at Brampton, where she was recognized by her uncle on Tuesday night, the 21st of the present month. There for the moment the authentic story of her treatment ends; her friends are naturally anxious not to enter into details of the painful facts regarding her detention and disgraceful treatment; but , they are aware that the public interest and , anxiety are too much concerned in the matter to allow it to remain where it is. Hitherto, unfortunately, the Liverpool police have ut- terly failed to discover the guilty parties, and this young woman has been going about Lon- don for many weeks undetected by the offi- cers of Scotland Yard. It remained for an amateur detective to make good those short- comings. The following statements will be perused with interest:â€" “The uncle of Miss Edwards. who is a business man residing in one of the suburbs of the metropolis. said on being applied to‘ last night :-â€"“We are indepted to Mr. Lloyd,‘ an emofficer of the Liverpool police, for finding my niece. and I am bound to say he deserves the utmost credit for his shrewd- ness, prudence and caution. She is at pres- ent in my house, attended by her mother and my household, and is quite unable to under- take a. journey. Mr. Edwards. her father, who was obliged to return to Liverpool early on Thursday morning, has prepared a state- ment which he proposes. I believe. to make public, feeling that the g eneral interest in her daughter’s case called for some statement from her. Imust, therefore, decline to go into any particulars, but I must say that there is no doubt upon our minds that our poor girl has been fully treated. You will, no doubt, in due time learn the details, but you may take it that she found herself fainting in the course of paying a visit in Liverpool. A scoundrel ofiered her assistance. I can- not go any further. and prefer that you would wait for the statement collected from herself by a nearer relative. (London Christian World.) If one thing be clearer than another, it is that the agricultural depression, existing at the present time all over the country, is really unprecedented as regards character and extent, Before now, under the influence of bad weather, the earth has refused to yield her increase, and the farmer has seen his crops washed away by destructive rains, or nipped ofi by unkindly frosts, or dried up and parched by an unclouded sun, while his flocks withered on thousand hills, and the fertile grazing lands eft desolate. But a new diffi- culty faces the agricultural class. In America, in the far-distant West, cattle can be fed and corn can be raised, and both can be sent into this country and retailed at a price with which the farmer, overcharged as to rent, bound and fettered by antiquated covenants. with his land ravaged by game, and his land- lord always on the watch, is almost unable to cope. The Government feels the difi‘iculty, and, as usual, evades it by a Commission of Enquiry. In Northamptonshire Lord Burâ€" leigh takes the bull by the horns, as he thinks. It is the farmer who is to blame; he has suf- fered his daughters to learn the piano, when their proper place is the kitchen, and their duties those of a maid- of-all-work. As to re- duction of rent that is all nonsence. The farmer must not be above his business, nor his wife, nor his son,nor his daughter, nor his man servant, nor his ox, nor his ass. Such is the Burleigh programme. His lordship objects to a mere pounds. shillings and pence connection between the tenant and the landlord : that implies a contract, and a con- tract implies independence between those who make it. The Northamptonshire farm- ers who his lordship condescended to address have to be congratulated on what is before them. Lord Burleigh is the eldest son of the Marquis of Exeter ; in time he will reign in his fathers stead, and under his lordships paternal sway,they now know what to expect. No the Burleigh Estates it will be written up, “No Ladies admitted”â€"that is no women who can lighten and beautify the toil of life and can send the husband to his work re- solved to battle with every energy for the home refined taste and woman’s love have made so dear. His lordships insolenco is really amusing. One wonders that the farm- ers present did not at once rise in protest. In cities, before now, such speeches have been answered with rotton eggs ; but in the the country, of course, rotton eggs are not, and good ones are too valuable to be wasted. Besides, that kind of argument is only fitted for ploughboys. In the meanwhile, the farmers’ wives and daughters are filling the daily papers with rejoinders. Why, they ask indignantly, are they to be denied the education which is their birthright, and by means of which they can better be the helpmeets of men? His lordship tells them to put their shoulders to the wheel. Can they do this, they ask, all the better if intelligent than as LORD BURLEIGII AND THE FA BJIERS’ WI VEH. THE LIVERPouh MYs’l‘EBY‘ Edwnrds was of Bier Adven- ignorants milkmaids? Une lady in her wrath goes so far as to charge his lordship with cowardice. Assuredly this is going a little too far. His lordship can be no coward thus to make himself a subject of pity and laughter to gods and man. To tell a farmer in these days that his wife and daughters should be no better than servant girls in order that the pomp of the great house may be sustained; that his lordship may live in luxury; that he may be free to devote his time to racing and sporting and main- taining our glorious constitution in Church and State, is not the talk of a coward, but of man who feels that the world exists for the benefit of the class of which he is such an ornaments alone, and whose only fault is. and perhaps that is not his fault, but that of his father and mother and tutorsâ€"that he is a hundred years behind his age. A man must have a good deal of courage to talk in such a style as Lord Burleigh in these days of the steam- ship and the railway and the thoughts that shake mankind. It was because the old aristocracy of France talked in this wayâ€" becanse they thus cultivated this idyllic theory of rustic life as some people call itâ€" that the people in their might and majesty arose, and the chateau was given to the flames, and the owner because a fugitive on the face of the earth, and the heir of a hundred kings fell a victim in a carnival of blood. (From the Popular Science Monthly.) During the first week of their confinement his rattle snakes dlsdaiued to chase their game, and the stupidity of the bugs and young birds made it easy enough to collar them whenever they were wanted ; but one morning the gamins of the neighborhood caught an old black bird and sold it to the zoological druggist for two pieces of stick candy. The black snakes were covered up with an old apron to prevent their interfer~ ence, and the vivoras who had fasted for twenty-four hours, rather than eat cockroach- es, got one more chance at a square meal. After fluttering around in an excited way for awhile the bird settled down in a corner, and the two snakes prepared for action. They lowered their heads. and without moving the tail end of their bodies, approached the bird by agradual extension of their coils ; but he was all suspicion, and recommenced his flut- tering before their cat-like advance had brought them within range. Then the female rolled herself up in the blackhirds corner and her mate took post in the center of the room, but after readJusting their coils neither budged an inch ; they bided their time. Dashing his head against the windows seemed to tire the bird after a. while. Presently he came down, but nlighted in a rather inaccessible place. took wing again and. alighted in his old corner finally blundered into the water- pot. He hopped out with drenched wings and devoted a few seconds to the re-ar- rangement of his toilet. unconscious or heed- less of the proximity of the female partner of the hostile alliance. She watched all his movements, and her tail quivered in a curious way when she saw him poke his head under his right wing, the one turned toward the corner; she seemed to know that he would repeat the same manoeuvre on the left wing side. He did so, and she had him directly. Drawing herself up. she poised herself like a dart. braced herself by contracting the rear coils. and let drive. Aloud screech. a few feathers flying, and a terrified bird darting through the room like a blind chickenâ€"cause and effect coinciding with shot-like suddenness. Insteadof follow. ing him she returned to her favorite nook, where she was soon after joined by her mate. The difficult part of the job was done. Three‘ or four time the bird managed to take wing. staggered around in a circle once or twice, and then sat still. The chemicals began to operate. First its legs and then its wings commenced to tremble ; trying to stand upright, it put its feet farther and farther apart, and finally spread its wings. but to no purpose; a con- vulsive tremor seized it. and with a gasp it fell over on its side ; and only at that mo- ment did the snakes glide up to take posses- sion of their prey. The same experiment was tried with a ground-squirrel and two half- grown chickens. and always with an analogous ‘ result. No animal likely to offer serious re- ‘ sistance was captured outright by the rattle- snakes. They managed to fetch it a bite and let it go, relying on the virus to do the rest. â€"A paper in Memphis relates a case of a beautiful young lady, the daughter of wealthy parents, eloping with an editor. This is as it should be. We thought all along that the young lady would eventually recover from the coachman mania and aspire to the nobility again. â€"A party of Cleveland youths marched around town the other day wearing elegantly trimmed bonnets. When the police asked them to explain the young men pointed to ladies promenading the streets with men’s hats on, and simply said. “Turn about is fair play.” â€"One of the returned warriors from Zulu- land tells a. good story. He was at Rorke's Drift, and was witness to the following inci- dent : A clergyman in clerical attire was hard at work handing out cartridges to the men, and he did it with a will. A private near was taking shots at the Zulus and cursing the while in the most ingenious manner. ” Don’t swear, man !" shouted the clergyman ;“‘ don’t sweat at them ; shoot them !” "I don’t think so. He would say, ‘ No, it is no goodfor me, Susie ; ’ but I pressed him,and he would soon get interested. Then he had such an indomitable perseverance. When he found a thing he could not readily underâ€" stand he would master it out of very spite. I remember once of his throwing down his arithmetic, shortly after we were married and saying pettishly, ‘ I don’t care about those fractions ; they‘re only part of a thing, anyway 1 What's the use of all this study. Susie ? ’ ‘ John,’ I said, ‘ if you don’t beat those fractions you’ll never go to Congress.’ ‘ Oh, that’s your lay out for me, is it? ’ ‘ It is, indeed, my boy,’ I replied. ‘ Then he took up his book again. and said, ‘ All right, my dear, we’ll go to Congress.’ And he did.” “ I knew John as a. ragged little boy about Troy, barefooted and beliggerent, always look- ing for a fight. When we were married he could not read nor write, and, to tell the truth, I was only a trifle better off in the matter of educational advantages. I told him he must learn to read. and he said I should teach him. Every night before going to bed he devoted himself to his spelling book, and in the morning one hour to writing in the copy book. The rule of study was inflexible. We made it so. The morning after he fought John G. Heeuan, when he was all sore and bandaged. and blind of one eye as well, I propped him up with pillows and made him write." “ How long, Mrs. Morrissey, did you keep him 3 pupil 1’" “Till his fstsl illness. Every night he studied something, and I studied during the day, that I might be able to help him out. Of course, whenI say studied I don’t mean in the ordinary schoolchildren way. After we mastered the English branches we took up history, and when we were pretty well posted in that we made the living topics of the day a. matter for investigationâ€"the European news, the speeches of the great men. I read them in the day time and John would go through them at night. Mr. Morrissey was a gambler, and by his profession made many enemies, who frowned upon him. He was possessed of knowledge on many subjects independent of city politics and horse racing, which would have put to blush his star-nest critics had they been in competition with him.” (From an Interview in the Philadelphia Record.) “Did Mr. Morriasey follow this line of study because of unatmal state of mind 2" [low Rattlesnake: Capture Singing Birds. JOHN MORRISEY’S “’l DOW‘ SNAKE CHARNIING. â€"A statue of Cervantes has been erected in his birthplace, Aloala de Henares. â€"It is proposed to erect in Paris a statue of Fermeutier, who introduced the potato in- to France. â€"The Italian citizens of San Francisco celebrated the anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus. â€"â€"A new Parisian play, the “Black Venus, in to present African scenery and an African princess. The actresses will wear fleshâ€"colored tights. â€"There are 50,000 deaf mutes in the United States, and fifty places of worship Where services are canducted in the sign language. â€"Iowa boasts a farmer who, for thirteen months past has drank an average of ten gal- lons of water a day, and cannot even then satisfy his morbid appetite. â€"â€"The French Academy of .‘M mass has been requested by the Minister of Commerce to as certain a practical method uf detect- ing the adultemtion of olive oil With other kinds. â€"A Cleveland fire-engine with four men on it, was driven off an open drawbridge forty feet into the watelx The men were rescued, but the horses were held to the bottom by the heavy machine and drowned. -â€"Col. Williamson. a noted Texan lawyer, stood up in church and called on a. young lady to come forward and marry him. The sudden~ ness of the proposal threw her into a. flwoon. Williamson had become insane. ~â€"A11thatthe promoters of the proposed Florida ship canal now want is a charter from the Legislature, and as that body does not. meet again until January, 1881, Mr. Aspiu- wail, who represents the French capitalists, asks Gov. Drew to call an extra. session. â€"â€"The Great Eastern steamship, which has been long laid up at Milford Haven, is about to be overhauled, provided with new machin- ery, and adopted to the conveyance of live cattle from Canada to the United States. She will be ready for operations next March. â€"The old trick of getting up a sham fight in the gallery of a theatre, and them throwing the stuffed figure of a man over the rail- ing,was successfully played at Leadville. The excitement in the lower part of the house caused a panic, and an actress fainted on the stage. â€"-Adam Hammond complains that the bed clothes in the Scottsburg. [11,, penitentiary are rotten. He toms. sheet into strips and hanged himself; but the cloth broke and let him down. Then he tried a quilt with no better success, and was badly bruised by the fall. -â€"Robert Goodpaster, of Owingsvflle, Ky., was a sensitive bankrupt. Being accused of trickery, he said he would just live long enough to clear himself of suspicion and then kill himself. Atrial at law vindicated him, and immediately after the verdict he swallow- ed a fatal dose of poison. â€"Many English and Americans are already at Monaco, near Nice, bettingin the gambling hell of Monte Carlo, now the only establish- ment of the kind in Europe. A large Russo- German colony will be near by at San Remo, and the gambling season promises to be the heaviest and gayest for many years. â€"â€"Ou the 10th ult., there was a general strike among the kid glove makers at Naples. They demanded an increase of wages, which the proprietors refused. At lusc the royal oarabineers were called in. a few of the ring- leaders were imprisoned, others fined, and then work was resumed at the 01d wages. â€"The Czar has confined the sentence by which a. certain Lieutenant Gortaloff, a Cus- tom House oifieer, was condemned to be de- prived of his funk and title of nobility and be banished to Siberia. The Lieutenant's crime was that he had allowed some persons to steal across the frontier with goods duty tree. -â€"-In China mothers are unwilling to allow the arms of their daughters to be scratched with the . ancet for vaccination, because unless a Chinese girl has a few marks on her face, giving evidence that she passed through small~ -.pox she is considered as lacking one of the chief qualifications of {a mm‘riugeable maiden. â€"A curious experiment was made with cats recently in Luttich, Germany. Thirtyâ€" seven of them were put into bags and taken several miles into the eountry, where they were released. Within three hours the first cat had found its way home. and before 24 hours elapsed, every one of the others had returned. â€"-â€"Tmy to boggm is the new rainy day country house pastime in England. You take a. substantial large wooden tray to the top of a flight of stairs, sit. in it, hold on well to the sides, and let yourself go. If you man- age well, you slide right down ; if you don’t, you thst and are tumbled over; Ladies are said to do it best. ~Benjamin Devries, one of the wealthiest men of Columbns, Ohio, became suddenly possessed of an impulse to get off the street car in which he had started for his office. He wandered to St. Louis, he says, and for a week he was only vaguely conscious of who and where he was. At length he read a, news- paper account of his disappearance, slowly re- alized that the name was his own, and went back home. He has since been completely restored to health. â€"A Swiss workman named Rtmili has ex- hibited at Chaux do Fonds a clock which in- dicates the day of the week and month, the signs of the zodiac. the moon‘s phases, and the hour of sunrise and sunset. The pendulum is a barometer. The clock strikes the quar- ters, and at every hour it plays one of eight tunes, for any one of which it can be set. â€"â€"A lady travelling on the New York Cen- tral road. the other day, last her satchel near Ilion. It contained $20,000. A freight train came aleng shortly after the passenger train, and the conductor picked up the satchel from the side of the track, and left it with the agent at Ilion. It was restored to the lady, who presented the conductor with $800 for his honesty. â€"Modern pottery boiled in oil and buried 1n wood ashes soon becomes very old. Ivories boiled in honey and hung up the chimney quickly become venerable antiquities. Glass buried in a stable becomes iraidescent, and many a bottle of the time of Charles II, fished out of the Thames. the water of which has wonderful chemical properties, has been sold as old Roman glass. â€"'.[‘he tax collector of San Francisco, finding it impossible to collect the tax on a. Chinese hospital in that city, levied on a wooden god or idol that he found in the building. The speed with which the terrified Chinumau pro- duced the money and restored the god to its place showed plainly that it was a deity of considerable influence on Chinese fortunes 1n the next world. â€"-(}iuseppina Raimondi, from whom Gari- baldi is seeking a divorce, has Written to at Milan paper denying that she was pregnant or a mother at the time of the marriage in 1859. This oft-repeated allegation was in. vented, she says, as the only means of ob- taining a decree of nullity of marriage ; but, though she desires the dissolution of the a1» normal tie, she cannot allow it to be effected except on condition of respecting honor, truth, and legality. â€"Lawlessness was common in Kentucky in 1866. Ebenezer Kennedy got drunk while out with a party hunting for horse thieves, and, in pure wantonness, killed an inoffen- sive negro. No effort was made at the time to punish the murderer, Recently, thirteen years after the crime was committed, he was put on trial. The testimony was direct and uncontradicted, but the jury could not agree to a conviction, and the Governor is to be petitioned for a pardon. â€"â€"Two Lincolnshire farmers sailed for New Zealand from England. the other day, in compliance with a requisition from upward of 500 farmers and landowners, who occupy or own in the aggregate considerably more than 100,000 acres, asking them to proceed to that colony, in order that, after personal in- spection, they may report upon it as a field AROUND THE WORLD for emigration for farmers of means and capitalists. with special reference to such as have had experience of farming in Lincoln- shire. â€"â€"The following interesting item is taken from a London letter : “ In examining the budgets I came across one item which has some special home interest. In the state- ment of receipts and expenditures of the city of London for the year 1877 there occurs this charge : ‘ Dejeuner to Gen. Ulysses Grant. £1,877.’ The item next to it curiously read : Reception to H. R. H. the Prince of Wakes, £3.) H â€"A photographer in Germany has made seals and stamps with the potraits of his customers. A thin layer of gelatine sensitized with bichormste potash, is exposed to the action of light under a photogmghic positive. by which the parts acted upon are rendered insoluble in water. The gelatine film is im- mersed iu water, and the parts not acted upon by light swell up, and we obtain a. picture in relief, of which a plaster oast can be taken. A gelveno-plastic copy being taken of the cast, we have a metallic fac-simile of the photograph which can be employed as a. seal. â€"A new invention has been tried with success in London in the utilization of the power generated in stopping street ears for the purpose of restarting them and thus sav- ing the extra. exertion of the horses. The; contrivance is a coiled spring, which is wound up by the stopping of the car, and which, when released. acts on the wheels so as to impart motion. It acts, too, as an assistance to horses up a steep grade. the power having been acquired in a proceeding down grade and kept stored up in the spring until the energy is required. â€"A soldier named Mariotti, of the Elev- enth Battalion of the Italian Bersaglieri, though leng confined to the room by illness, refuses to be carried to the hospital. Ulti- mately, on being forcibly removed thither, the soldier was discovered to be a. woman. She joined the army during the war of 1866 to enable her brother to remain with his wife and six children. She had previously. being very strong, worked in the mines. At Gus- tozza she won a medal for bravery. The King has now conferred on her a. deeorstion and a pension of 300 lire. â€"M1. Gladstone is expected to publish in the University Magazine a series of papers conveying his 1mpressions and expei 1ences in Italy. It is asse1ted by one to whom the Premier has sketched his idea that the series will embrace the religious, political, and social aspects of united Italy. There is brisk com- petition among publishers. One rather lan- guishing periodical offered him 100 guinea! 9,11 article. the price he receives from the monthly reviews ; but though “ The People's William” is keen about his money, he closed with humbler terms from the magazine 6! his selection. -â€"The- Italian papers report a. case of bigamy just tried before the law eour ‘ Salerno, which is another of those instan seeming to show that the institution of trial byjuryis not suited for all human beings alike. The offender admitted the two mer- riages, which were otherwise proved, and the judge summed up for a verdict of “Guilty,” but the jury decided in the negative. The judge, dismissing the prisoner. said: "Signor Musitano, you assert that you have married twice, but the gentlemen of the jury have de- clared that you have married neither once nor twice ; consequently I set you at liberty, and you may now marry a third time." â€"In Colusa County, California. there is a, “ wild man," who lives in the woods, obtains food by robbing sheep-herders’ cabins. and wears no attire except a breech clout. He is described as 35 or 40 years of age, apparently. with u. long. shaggy beard, long and irregular hair, and a body burned by the sun to a coffee color, and in many places cevered with u thlck growth of hair. No one has been able to learn his history or who he is. Occa- sionally he meets hunters or travelers, and asks for tobacco, but he refuses to answer any questions, and as soon as he gets his tobacco starts back for the brush. It is sup- posed that he was originally a fugitive from justice, and that he has become so accus- tomed to his solitary life that it is second nature to him. â€"â€"A murder that for coolness and delibera- tion is not often surpassed is reported from Breitonbach, Germany. A married couple having quarrelled, the wife left the house, and. for several days stayed away. sleeping at night in barns or wherever she found it con- venient. Meanwhile the husband remained calmly at home. This indifference exasper- ated the wife to a pitch at diabolical hatred. and about 11 o’clock» one night she returned to the house, and While her husband lay asleep in an adjoining room went into the kitchen, started a fire, filled the kettle with water, and put it on the stove, waited pati- ently until it steamed, and then, taking it to her husband’s bedside, poured the cantents over him, scalding him so badly that he lived only a few hours. (From the Burlington Hawkeye.) And then remember, my son, you have to work. Whether you handle a pick or a. pen. a wheelbarrow or a set of books, digging ditches or editing a paper, ringing an a i M bell or writing funny things, you must!“ If you will look around you, son. you wil that the men who are the most able to live the rest of their days without work are the men who work the hardest. Don’t be afraid of killing yourself with overwork, son. It is beyond your power to do that. Men cannot work so hard as that on the sunny side of thirty. They die sometimes, but it’s because they quit work at 6 p. m. and don’t get home untilZ a. m. It’s the interval that kills, my son. The workgives you an appetite for your meals, it lends solidity to your slumber, it gives you a perfect and graceful appreciation of a holiday. There are young men who do not work, my son : young men who make a living by sucking the end of a cane ; whose entire mental development is insufficient to tell them which side of a postage-stamp to lick ; young men who can tie a necktie in eleven different knots and never lay awrinkle in it, and then would get into a West Hill street car to go to Chicago ; who can spend more money in a day than you can earn in a month, son, and who will go to the Sheriff‘s to buy a. postal card. and apply at the office of the Street Commissioner for a marriage license. But the world is not proud of them, son. It does not know their names. even : it simply speaks of them as old Soanso’s boys. Nobody likes them. nobody hates them, the great busy world doesn’t even know they are there, and at the great day of resurrection, if they do not appear at the sound of the trumpet, and they certainly will not unless somebody will tell them what it is for and what to do, I don’t think Gabriel will miss them or notice their absence, and they will not be sent for. or waited for, or disturbed. Things will go on just as well without them. So find out what you want to be and do so. son, and take all your coat and make a dust in the world. The busier you are the less deviltry you will be apt to get into, the sweet- er will be your sleep, the brighter and happier your holidays, and the better satisfied will th world be with you. â€"It is related that a Yankee who had just lost his wile was found by a neighbor empty- ing a bowl of soup as large as a hand-basin. “ Why, my goodness, Elanthus I" said the gossip, “ is that all you care for your wife ‘2” “ Wall,” said theiYaukee, ” I’ve been cryir‘ all the mornin’, and after I finish my ' - I‘ll cry another spell. That’s fair, anyho . â€"Home teachings: I must tell you of a conversation I overheard on the beach bo- tween two children who were playing in the sand together. The small boy said to the little girl: “ Do you Wish to be my little wife ?” The little girl, after reflection : “ Yesâ€"” The small boy : “ Then take off my boots I” 7â€"When a man comes to the deliberate con- clusion to live on his wits he must generally be contented with a slender income. The capital in trade is not large enough to prom- ise much. G00!) ADVICE T0 YOUNG {WEN