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The leaders of the party of that queer amalgamation of Knownothingism and Free Soilism known as theAmerican party, out of which was afterwards born the Republican party, at the Philadelphia Con- vention of 1856, in casting about fora candidate for Congress in the Second Ohio District, hit upon John Scott Harrison, and without an effort on his part, almost Without his knowledge while the plan was hatching, he was nominated and elected. 01d “ Pap" Taylor, editor of the Evening Times, the organ of radical Know- nothingism, and candidate for Mayor on the “ American” city ticket against Jas. J. Faron, by whom he was defeated, was credited at the time with the discovery and resurrection of the son of old Tippecanoe, and probably deserved the distinction. Mr. Harrison served one term in Congress, achieving no distinction, and again returned to pastoral pursuits at North Bend. His regular habits, serene temperament and pleasant surround- ings gave him length of years, and he became the patriarch of the 3 place; but to the end of his day his chief distinction was that of being the son of his father, and as such his erect form and flowing white beard were pointed out to the occasional tourist, along with the old locust trees, the site of the “ cabin ” and thetomb on the hill as one of the sights to be seen at North Bend. Suddenly he was stricken with a mysterious disease that baffled the skill of the doctors, which in a comparatively short time carried him off. The funeral services were held at the little church in the old village of Cleves luv? 2"; so", “ ‘i‘ ‘ Ty 17a} in: .«rmd in the old family burying ground on the rounded summit of the old promontory that marks the “Bend ” in the Ohio that gives the place its name. Either because the family feared that the peculiar character of the malady to which he succumbed would make his body tempting to the medical fraternity or the general fear engendered by the prevalence of body-snatching in the vicinity of Cincinnati at the time, extra precautions were taken to preserve the grave from desecration. It was made unusually deep, was walled and cemented, anda huge slab of stone placed midway between the metal casket and the surface, and guards were nightly stationed in the graveyard. In spite of these precautions, however, a few days later, the ghouls tun- neled the brick work, pried the big stone partly out of place and stole the body. How this great work was accomplished without the knowledge of the guardswasa mystery. They were suspected and arrested, but nothing came of it. By acurious coin- cidence about the same time, but before the desecration of the Harrison grave had been discovered, another grave in the vicinity had been robbed and some of the Harrison family were among the party of citizens who had gone to Cincinnati to em- ploy detectives and search for the missing body.‘ While engaged in this work news of the disappearance of Mr. Harrison’s body reached them, and their efforts to discover the ghoulish marauders and recover the bodies were redoubled. Col. Tom Snell- baker, then chief of police, was appealed to, and consented to take the case in hand. His first move was to go all through the medical colleges with a drag net, himself taking charge of that drawn through the Ohio College, on Sixth street, near Vine, one of the oldest and most prominent in the West. The building was searched from cellar to roof, the “stiffs” in the pickling vats fished out and examined one by one, the half-carved subjects on the tables in the dissecting room scrutinized, but without finding a trace of the bodies from North Bend, and the search was about to be abandoned, when it occurred to 001. Snellbaker to take a look in the “ well” or chute, by which subjects and other heavy bodies were raised to the upper floor by means of a Windlass. He found the rope taut, and in the bare hope that the object of their search might be at the other end 'of it, laid hold of the arms of the Windlass and began to haul up. Slowly the weight at the end of the rope approached the sur- face, and the face of the janitor, who had conducted the searching party over the building, grew paler and paler. When the object reached the surface of the floor, it was discovered to be a corpse, with the loop of the rope about the neck. Throw- ing back the remnants of the shroud that fell over the face, the horrified searchers saw the face of a venerable man with white, flowing beard. John Scott Harrison, the nominee’s father, was a son of President William Henry Harrison. He lived at North Bend. about 25 miles below Cincinnati, near the Indiana line, on the not very large or pro- ductive farm that was all his famous father left him except his name, the “log cabin” which became so famous in the “hard cider, Tippecanoe and Tyler too" campaign of 1840. It was not a cabin in the sense in which it was used in the campaign, but a very comfortable, old-fashioned, roomy two-story frame house,fianked with porches and shaded by a row of magnificent locust trees, a number of which still stand to mark the spot where the old home, de- stroyed by fire about 30 years ago, stood. The real cabin part of the structure was an old log house ot early date, against which the General had built his more pretentious mansion when, after his distinguished early career as warrior and. statesman, he settled down in comparative poverty to make a living out of his farm. The cabin proper, its logs concealed by weatherboardingmas used as a kitchen. Here lived and died General Ben’s fa thcr, John Scott Harrison, :1 kindly, lovable man of scholarly habits and artis- tic tastes that his limited income did not always enable him to fully gratify. He lived the life of a gentleman farmer, re- spected by all of his acquaintances and “ loved by all the children and dogs of the ‘ neighborhood." He was a man of not ‘ very great force of character, devoid of ambition for distinction and particularly adverse to the pursuit of practical politics and to mixing himself up in the conten- tions and squabblies of the period, and yet the fates had fixed upon him to be the figure-head in one of the bitterest political contests ever fought in the State. Gen. Ben Harrison’s brother and nephew were among the party, and as soon as the brother caught sight of the partially con- cealed face he advanced, trembling and pale, and when the full truth was revealed by the removal of the tattered remnant of the shroud, shouting “My God! that is father!” fell back in a swoon. Col. Snell- baker at once placed the terrified janitor under arrest. The body was removed to an undertaker’s and again prepared for the grave. Gen. Ben Harrison, who after the funeral had returned to Indianapolis, was telegraphed to as soon as the discovery was made, and used all haste to reach Cincin- ati, arriving a few hours after the body ad been found. He bent every energy to he detection and punishment of the perpe- rators of the crime, but without result. Some others besides the janitor were arrested. There was some talk of indict- ing the faculty. The few facts gathered were laid before the Grand Jury, but noth- ing came of it, and to this day nobody knows the history of the journey of John Scott Harrison's body from its peaceful How the Body of Ben Harrison’s Father was Found. A Cincinnati despatch says : The nomi- nation of Gen. Ben. Harrison has set the tongues of all of the antiquarian gossips to wagging, and everything connected with the family history, from “ Old Tippe- canoe’s” day to the present, is recalled and repeated, including the most novel and ghastly incident, that of the stealing of the body of Gen. Ben’s father from the family graveyard at North Bend and its subse- quent finding in the “ well” of a medical collegeinjhis city. _ _ _ A { IT IVAS HANGING IN A “WELL.” A Young Man Shoots Himself Because His Wedding Suit Was Not Made in Time. A last (Friday) night’s Boston despatch says : William H. Gibson, a young chemist and electrician, employed by the Boston Electrical Com- pany, shot himself in the temple last night at his rooms, No. 11 Wellington street, be- cause his new wedding suit did not arrive from the tailor’s in time for him to attend the ceremony. He was found by his land- lady this morning with blood flowing from a pistol shot wound in his head. He was conscious, but could not speak. An am- bulance conveyed him to the City Hospital, where he died to-night. For the past two years he has been engaged to Miss Lillian Chandler, the niece of Col. W. H. Long, of Chelsea. Early the week he engaged rooms on Wellington street, telling the lan'dlady that he should bring his bride there to live in a short time. All day Tuesday and Wednesday he was going in and out of the house, seeming very much distressed. Yes- terday forenoon he said to a woman of the house: “I expect my wedding suit toarrive at any moment. The tailorpromisedtohave it here Monday. It is not done yet. I must get it right away, for I am to be married to-night and cannot stand up in a business suit.” He shook badly and wept while he told the story. The ceremony was to take place at 7 o’clock. As nothing was seen of Gibson after that hour thelandlady thought he had obtained his clothes and gone to the wedding. Miss Chandler, the bride-elect, waited with her bridal robes on until after 10 o’clock last night. The guests were assembled. the clergyman in waiting and the wedding banquet spread. At last messengers were sent to Gibson’s home, but the servants could tell nothing of his whereabouts. Policemen and messengers scoured the city all night to no effect. Miss Chandler joined in the hunt. About 9 o’clock this morning word was brought to the Chelsea Home that young Gibson was dying at the City Hospital. Miss Chandler and Colonel Long visited him. When he saw them he denied that his name was Gibson, but said he was Charles J. Rice, a clerk employed by Brown, Durrell & Co. Though both Miss Chandler and Colonel Long identified him he refused to acknow- ledge his name and protested that he never knew any one by the name of Gibson. This u'fternoo'n the suit in which he was to have been married arrived, and he will be buried in it. A Perpetual Railroad Pass. A Boston despatch says: A most singular case came before Judge Allen, of the Supreme Court, yesterday for decision. It appears that in 1836, when the Boston 85 Providence Railroad Company was char- tered, Mr. John 0. Dodge, of Attleborough, conveyed a portion of his land in considera- tion that he and his family should ride free over the railroad as long as the land was used for railroad purposes. A grand- daughter of Mr. Dodge claims that she is entitled to the privileges named in the deed, and that the word family meant “descendants” of the grantor. The rail- road company demurred on the ground that the remedy of the plaintiff, if any, is at law, and not in equity. Judge Allen overruled the demurrer, and expressed an opinion that under the deed the Boston & Providence Railroad Company would be required to carry free the descendants of Mr. Dodge for all time. A Widow‘s Revenge on 3 Railroad. The Savannah News says: A railroad running through Emanuel county recently killed a razor-back hog belonging to a widow, and she entered a suit for damages for the value of it. The railroad won the case, it being shown that the proper signals were blown and the precautions taken, and the plaintiff was sorely distressed about the result. Shehad converted the pig into lard, and as the road would not pay for killing him, she bestowed what remained ofthe porker on the company. On a dark night she took the pot of grease, and pro- ceeding to the track of the company, coated the rails with a liberal daub of grease for about a quarter of a mile. It took all the sand that the engines could bring to bear on the track for two days to tide over the spot which crippled traffic. Now the Widow is threatened with a law suit. “Are you the captain’s boy ‘2” asked the old lady on deck. “ Yes’um,” he replied bravely. “ Well, you don’t look like him at all," she said, “ and I never would have be- lieved it.” The disappointed couple then retired to a restaurant near by and held a consultation. They concluded that it was impossible to get back to New York that night. Miss Ida Roorke (the girl) cried again, and her lover, George Reich, tried to comfort her, but to no purpose. The situation was get- ting desperate, and Reich decided that there was only one thing to doâ€"that was to get married. He boldly proposed it. The idea startled Miss Roorke at first and she protested against it. He reasoned with her that they had long been engaged and would have been married before this had it not been for impediments put in their way. After much persuasion she hesitatingly gave her consent. Then they got about every minister in the place out of bed before they found one who would marry them. They called in their coachman as a Witness and soon were made man and wife by the Presbyterian minister, Mr. Campbell, whom Reich gave $25 as a fee. Then they went to the hotel and retired with the con- sciousness of having done the best they could under the circumstances. Since then their parents have forgiven them, and they have been re-married by a priest. Lightning can be seen by reflection a. distance of 200 miles. p.111. the two lovers appeared at the station too late for the last train. The young lady began to cry, and her escort endeavored to cheer her by telling her he was sure he could find some way of getting back to New York that night. She said she would not for the world stay there all night. The young man was plentifully supplied with money, and wont to a livery stable and tried to hire a. man to row or sail them across the bay to New York, but there was no one who wished to undertake the job. They llIisscd a Train in a Village and “’edded to Prevent Scandal. ‘ A New York despatch says: Last Thursday afternoon a. well-dressed young man anda. remarkably pretty girl were seen dining at Clifton, L.I. After dinner the couple suuntered out, and later were billing and cooing on the beach. At 11.30 grave at North Bend to the end of the rope in the horrible well of the Ohio Medical College, where it was found. HIS BRIDE WAS DEATH. VOL XXXI BTARRIED IN A HURRY. The Skipper’s Boy‘ Divorce, and Swears He is After Her Money. A Baltimore despatch says : Florence R. Winchester, the child-wife of Charles E. Brooks, has applied for a divorce from her buy-Husband to wnom she was married last March. She alleges that he obtained her consent through fraud and perjury. The license, she says, was procured by her lover swearing he was 21 years old and she 18 years, when in fact he is only 19 years and she 15, and his object in marrying her was to get hold of property which she will inherit when she attains her majority. In describing their courtship the young wife tells how her husband prayed with her and read the Bible, when all the time he was engaged in dishonest and nefarious trans- actions. By these hypocritical professions and other deceptive means he won her affections. On the day the ceremony was performed they left home under the pre- tense of going to the theatre. She charges that on the way he suddenly surprised her by suggesting marriage and got her consent. They went to the parsonage. She imme- diately became conscience-stricken at what she had done. She left him almost at the altar and went to her father’s house. where she has remained ever since. Since the marriage she said her deceitful husband on one occasion decayed her from home and forcibly detained her. She charges that he has cruelly and brutally treated her and robbed her of her jewellery. The young people are well connected, and the case caused a sensation. Old World Jottings. Mining operations in metal and coal are beg_1_m vyiyh great energy in thqa. â€"Professor Huxley’e second son is a. student at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. So far Pasteur’s recipe for killing the Australian rabbits with chicken cholera has failed. An attempt has been made to have the historic Gallows tree on H&mpstead Heath cut down. The field 5f BannocE'bum is about to be converted into the site of a coal mine. A railroad will soon be built from Gib- raltar to communicate with the rest of Slain; Great pearl discoveries are reported in the Gulf of Mexico. One was sold for 140,000 francs. Nine of the Blankley yearlingsâ€"six by Hermit and three by Galopinohave been sold for £10,000. A six-ton cab, carrying an electric bat- tery strong enough to run it forty miles, recently made a. satisfactory trip through London. An expert says that in 108 Derbya the favorite has won 37 times, has run second 24 times, third 15 times, nndbeen unploced on 32 occasions. The monument to Sir Battle Frere on the Victoria Embankment, London, con- sists of a. heroic-sized statue on a granite pedestal fourteen feet high. The pedestal bears the words “ India. ” and ” Africa,” each within a. wreath of oak leaves. Sure Not to See Him. Mrs. Yeastâ€"Will you give Mr. Bacon 3 message to his wife if you should see him to-day ? Mr. Yeastâ€"Oh, I won’t see him to-day. “ But he may drop into your office." “ No, he will not.” “Why are you so positive about it ‘2" “1102med him $513M; Monday, and he promised to pay it to-day.” Charles E. Brooks' Child-Wife Sues for a She Was wrong. “You are entirely too aiffuse in your views,” remarked Mrs. Squildig to her husband. “Itis the man with one idea who succeeds nowadays.” “ I don’t know about that,” replied Squildig, “I think a. man with two good optics stands a. better chance than a man with one eye, dear.” ’band, and by A New York “Scotch” Marriage Held Validâ€"She Gets a. Divorce at the Play- wriglit’s Expense. A London cable says: The celebrated Boucicault divorce case was decided on Thursday in favor of the wife. In the trial of the case Mrs. Agnes Boucicault, the petitioner, deposed that her maiden name was Robertson, and that she was born at Edinbuigh in 1833, was educated for the stage, and that she first appeared at the Princess’ Theatre in London, which was then under the management of Charles Kean. She was then introduced to Dion Boucicault, who made her an offer of mar- riage. Influenced by the advice of Mrs. Kean she declined the offer, but eventually in 1852 went to live with him. Relations continued between them until August, 1853, when she went to America to follow her profession. She had an engagement at Montreal. and while there she received 1 letters from Dion Boucicault, who was at ‘ New York. At his request she went there to see him. On her raising some objections to living with him at the hotel,heinformed her that if she would consent to become his wife he would consent to become her hus- the laws of New York, that, together with living as man and wife under his name, constituted as valid a marriage as in Scotland. Under the circumstances she consented to become his wife, and they stayed at the hotel for a week or ten days, living pub- licly there as man and Wife. After that she was generally looked upon as his wife, and on one occasion at Boston he publicly made an announcement to that effect Irom the stage. Subsequently she executed a separation deed, under which she was to have an annuity of $4,000 a year. That document was signed in her maiden name, she being forced to do so, being warned that otherwise she would not receive the allowance in question. In 1883 she heard that Boucicault had gone through a cere- mony of marriage with a lady in Australia. She commenced a suit for divorce, but abandoned it at the request of her child. Mrs. Boucicault was cross-examined at some length as to the various proceedings she had taken against her husband, and as to the date of the alleged marriage, one of the dates being 1855. His Lordshippointed out that the pleadings appeared to have been amended. No witnesses were called for the defence. The respondent’s counsel contended that there was no marriage be- tween them. The judge came to the con- clusion that there was a legal marriage between the parties, and granted Mrs. Boucicault a decree m‘si by reason of the bigamy of her husband, Dion Boucicault, who, moreover, is mulcted in costs. Mr. Mowry, of Peterboro, is suffering from a. peculiar accident. While driving a. cat from among his poultry the vicious animal seized him by the'hand and hit him severely. The hand has since become swollen and is very painful. LEFI‘ HIDI AT THE ALTAR. BOUCICAULT’S WIFE WINS. RICHMOND HILL THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1888. ‘ preferred, can be made to do good service How to Manure at the Lowest Cost. One of the heaviest items in manurins the land is the hauling and spreading. Thig expense cannot be easily avoided, but there are many methods of enriching land that are available, though not always practiced. Where a large amount of produce is sold off the farm the fertilizing elements go with it, and if the fertility of the soil is to be retained something must be brought on the farm to take the place of that which is sold off. No farm will remain fertile unless the plant food necessary for the growing crops is provided, and manure will not retain fertility if it comes from no source but the farm itself, as sooner or later the supply must be exhausted. On stock farms, where large quantities of bran, middlings and ground grain are bought and fed, no difficulty will be experienced, but on farms devoted to the growth of crops, and the crops sold off the farm, the use of artificial fertilizers permits of a return to the soil of the necessary plant food in a concentrated form, the labor of their application being but a small expense. Green manuring is the cheapest mode of enriching land, as no hauling is required. There is considerable labor required in plowing land so treated, but the plowing itself is beneficial, as it reduces the land to a finer condition, and assists in destroying weeds and grasses. No field should remain idle. When one crop comes 0!? another should come in. If the second crop cannot be marketed let it be plowed under for manure. Early potatoes can easily be removed in time for a green manurial crop, such as buckwheat, peas and oats, millet, Hungarian grass or corn. These crops need not grow .very high. Under no circumstances should they be allowed to mature seed, even if the season permitted, but should be turned under green, so as to quickly decompose. A large majority of farmers after harvesting their corn leave the field until spring. How much better it would be to plow the field and sow it quickly to rye, turning the rye under in the spring for a potato crop. The plowing of the corn land would decompose large quantities of weeds and grass, as well as corn roots, while the rye so grown, if for early grazing by stock in the spring. ‘ Other crops may be followed by green manurial crops in like manner, thereby 3 enriching the soil by the decomposition of ‘ its own elements, and save hauling to that : extent. The manure heap should also be - composed of fine material, which will lessen the labor of handling the manure when the time arrives for spreading it on the land. ' The Willow a Useful Tree. There is no tree that is so sure to grow without any care as t" 4 willow. A twig from a branch of a tree stuck into the moist earth, and the labor is completed. An article in a German contemporary recommends the cultivation of willowtrees, not only from an economical and industrial point of view, but also for hygienic pur- poses. They aré especially pséful where’ the drinking. r":th '. F’M‘n from, fountains or natural wells, and still more where there are morasses and meadows ; and in the vicinity of willow trees water is always clear and pure. Let those who doubt this fact place a piece of willow which has not yet begun to strike into a bottle of water, and place this within another bottle con- taining water only, in a warm room for eight days ; in the first bottle will be found shoots and rootlets in clear water, while the other bottle will contain putrefying water. Holland is covered with willows, and the dam works are made stronger by the network formed by the roots. The Crow as a Farmer. The crow is nobody’s fool. “ Live and learn" is his motto; and he does both, especially the former, in a way to excite the admiration of all disinterested observ- ers. In the long struggle between human ingenuity and corvine sagacity, it is doubt- ful which has thus far obtained the upper hand. Nor haveI ever quite convinced myself which of the contestants has the better case. “ The crew is a thief,” the planter declares ; “ he should confine him- self toa wild diet, or else sow his own garden.” " Yes, yes,” Corvus makes reply ; “ but if I steal your corn, you first stole my land.” Unlike his cousin, the raven, who, along with the Indian, has retreated before the pale face, the crew is an ultra-conservative. Civilization and modern ideas are not in the least distaste- ful to him. He has an unfeigned respect for agriculture, and in fact may be said himself to have set up as a gentleman farmer, letting out his land on shares, and seldom failing to get his full half of the crop; and, like the shrewd manager that he is, he insures himself against drought and other mischances by taking his moiety early in the season. As I plant no acres myself, I perhaps find it easier than some of my fellow-citizens to bear with the faults and appreciate the virtues of this sable aboriginal. Long may he live, I say, this true lover of his native land, to try the patience and sharpen the wits of his would-be exterminators.â€"â€"â€"Bmdford Torrey, in the July Atlantic. Other Agricultural Notes. An immense radish has been picked by Miss Mary Lambert, of Island Lake, Fla. It weighed four pounds and was six inches in diameter at the largest point. This radish was thirteen inches long in the body pro- per, while its tap-root was thirteen more, making twenty-six in all. to arm 99H E'OFEGEK HC‘Nfide (arr-1mm HH 9‘40 ’0 lav-<19! In :5 nm Hrâ€"bcrrbh-(n-H Prof. J. A. Lintnet placed the total num- ber of insect species in the world at 320,- 000. Of those found in the United States 7,000 or 8,000 are fruit pests, and at least 210 attack the apple. The largest tree in the country east of California is a. snsrled old sycamore that stands in Uliper Sandusky, in Ohio. It is 40 feet in circumference. If lilacs were confined to one stem and given good care they would take a. higher rank among the shrubs andlilac trees that bloom in early spring. At the recent English live stock sales pigs brought much better prices than cattle. In one case a. boar sixteen months oldAbrought $250. One advantage in the soiling system is the freedom from weeds in the feed, which with cows at pasture in summer give a better taste to milk and butter. With corn- fodder, millet or other cultivated crops suitable for soiling purposes there is better quality and greater uniformity in the milk produqt. __ Gradually more attention is being paid to grass for the reason that by growing it and taking pains in the management the fer- tility of the soil can be gradually improved more so than with almost any other crop. And as the yield of other crops begins to fall below the line of profitable yields more attention is paid to grass. A New York farmer states that he used only coal-gas tar to prevent the ravages of the potato beetle. He puts a. gallon of tar in a tub, over which he pours boilingwater, which is allowed to settle and cool. This is sprinkled over the vines with an ordin- FARM AND GARDEN. A number of ladies in Philadelphia get their bonnets very cheaply by having a. clever milliner out of employment come to the house. They pay her $5 a day, and in one day she trims up the bonnets and hats for all the women in the family. Here is a. reflection from the Reflector: How women can manage to sit bolt upright and not change a. position, looking neither to the right not left, during a sermon in church passes the understanding. A man will sit on the picket fence all the afternoon to see a ball match, but put him in a church pew for three-quarters of an hour and he will wobble all over the seat. In Calcutta, a society of native young men for promoting the marriage of girl widows has been formed. Another has existed for some time, whose members promise not to marry little girls, nor themselves to marry so early as has been the custom. According to the accounts the new “ Lebel rifle ” is a wondrous weapon, and is destined to do terrible things in the hands of French soldiers. The members of the Academy of Medicine, wishing to diagnose the physical consequences of wounds in- flicted by the bullets of the gun, recently had experiments made on twenty corpses, probably those of paupers Whom nobody owned, or those off ill-fated waits picked up at the morgue. The bodies were placed at the ordinary firing distances, from 200 yards up to a mile or so. The bullets whizzed through the bones and pierced them without fracturing them, as is done by the bullets of the “ Gras rifle.” The wounds, if they may be called so, which were inflicted, were small in their punc- tures, and consequently very dangerous and difficult to heal. Injuries inflicted at short distances were so considerable that, in the opinion of the surgeons, they would be almost incurable. At the longest rangeâ€"2,000 meters~a poplar tree was hit, but the bullet did not go through the tree. At 1,200 meters the tree was pierced through and through. The discharges of the rifle are unaccompanied by smoke, and the reports are comparatively feeble.â€" London Telegraph. Miss Linda. Gilbert has devoted 15 years and most of her fortune to prison reform. She has established 22 libraries in the prisons of diflerent States, and found employment for 6,000_ ex-convicts. Pundits. Ramabal has already secured about $50,000 toward the fund she is raising to establish a school in India. for Hiudoo widows. It is reported from Detroit that a. lad named Frank Bailey, 16 years old, has such a mania. for thrusting pine and needles into the right side of his face and neck that it has become necessary to send him to the lunatic asylum. At the time of his departure he had from 30 to 40 pins buried to the head in his cheek, besides an un- known numbet of needles that were out of sight. Madame Andre, the portrait painter, has given all her jewels, valued at $20,000, to thg Page Philantbrquo Society: Willing to Risk It. “Do you know, young man,” said the old gentleman, looking keenly at him, “ that in asking me for my daughter you ask me to part with something that is most dear to Death of Sir Duncan Cameron, the Veteran Colonel of the Regiment. General Sir Duncan Alexander Cameron, G.C. B., died at Blackheath on Thursday last. This distinguished officer was born in the year 1808, and the date of his first commission was 1825. He became captain in 1833, major in 1839, colonel in 1854 and major-general in 1859, and finally won the full rank of general after nearly fifty years of service. He was placed on the retired list in 1878. He served with distinction throughoutthe war in the Crimea, where he was in command of the 42nd High- landers (the Black Watch) at the battle of the Alma, and commanded the Highland *Brigade at the battle of Balaclava. He was further engaged in the expedition to Kertch and at the seige of Sebastopol, and in the assault on the Redan of the 18th of June. For his services he was mentioned in despatches and received the medal with three clasps, as well as many foreign dis- tinctions. He was made an oflicer of the Legion of Honor, and received also the Sardinian and Turkish medals and the 3rd class of the Medjidie. At the end of the war he received his 0. B. In the New Zealand war, 186365, he was in command of the forces and conducted the operations at Kolikara, Kohasoa, Trangiriri, the Gate Pah and other battles. For these services he was again mentioned in despatches, gained the medal, received the thanks of the Legislative Council of the colony, and was promoted to K. C. B. Sir Duncan Cameron was made colonel of his old regiment, the Black Watch, in 1863, and he was GOVernor of the Military College at San‘dhurst from 1868 to 1875. In 1873, on his attaining the rank of general, he was promoted to be G. C. B. Sir Duncan married in 1873 Flora, daughter of Dr. Andrew Maclean; she died in 1875.â€" Londan Times, June 12m. “ Yes, sir,” said the businesszlike youth, " and I expect she will be rather dear to me, too; but it will take her a. long time to run through with fifty shares of gas stock and 600 acres of Nebraska land. I’ll risk it. ’ A cleanly kept cow will yield sweet milk with an agreeable, sweet odor, and quite free from any taint or injurious quality Whatever, says Hoard’s Dairyman. That such milk is very mm is simply because such cows are rare, and this is the reason Why the very best purely flavored butter is rare, too. The cow that produces only 100 pounds of butter per annum is not to blame for the disgraceful factâ€"it is the stupid farmer, who either doesn’t feed her or makes. merciful use of the butcher-: knife. ‘ The Home and Farm gives the following novel method of making cabbage head. It says that “ when the plants are about eight inches high, and have formed woody stalks, make incisions in the stalks with the small blade of a. penknife, insert small pieces of wood of the size of a match, and break them off. This checks the growthmnd hard heads will be formed.” An “ Indiana. Farmer" correspondent advocates the use of rocks and stones for mulching newly planted trees, and where at hand they are superior for the purpose. Their pressure keeps the soil close to the roots and the roots in place, while they re- tain moisture, choke down weeds and pre- serve a. more even temperature than 9. mulch of litter does. ary sprinkler. A gallon of tar costing 75 ceqts sufficgi} for gaveral agree of potatpes. Terrible Work of the French Rifle. n?!) For and About “‘omen. THE BLACK WATCH. WHOLE NO 1,561 NO. 2. But now one word to the young man who is making haste to be rich. Not one out of ten thousand who give talent, energy and life to this race ever reach the goal. We have seen that the goal itself is a grand delusion, but as you will not see that truth. perhaps the tremendous chances against you in the race may turn you to a wise course. Your competitors are legion, and they have no bowels of mercy. They carry sharp daggers and use them skil- fully. The race becomes a game of heart- less trickery, and your discomfiture will excite no sympathy. You cannot stop a moment to rest or you’ll be trodden under foot. Plot and counterplot will Keep you busy day and night until your brain reels and your physical faculties fail. Yourhair becomes prematurely white, your limbs totter, your food has no relish, your dispo- sition grows sour, you are nervous with expectation or fear. Altogether you are a very miserable creature, made so by your own wilfulness. With mind and body thus weighed down, the thought that all is done for a questionable advantage and also by questionable means. will haunt you in spite of yourself, and add a moral sting to the intellectual and physical decay.â€"Dr. Crosby in the Forum. “ ‘Seven’ being the average size of a man’s head as measured by his hat,” says a London exchange, “ it appears that out of fourteen distinguished personages, two (Lord Chelmsford and Dean Stanley) were below, while other two (Lord Besconsfield and the Prince of Wales) were exactly up to the average. Of the others, Dickens, Selborne and Bright required 7%, Earl Rus- sell 7}, Lord Macaulay, Gladstone and Thackeray 7%. Louis Philippe 72. and the Archbishop of York 8 full. Of twenty- three distinguished men whose actual brain weights are known, four, including the late Prof. Hughes Bennet and Hermann, the philologist, were distinctly below the average, showing that a well constituted brain of small dimensions may be capable of doing much better work than many a. larger organ whose internal constitution is, from one cause or other, defective.” The London correspondent of the Man- chester Guardian writes: “In Noncon- formist, and particularly in Baptist circles, growing interest is felt in what will be Mr. Spurgeon’s next step. It is an open secret that the instincts of his nature compel him to seek congenial communion, and that he cannot long remain content with his pre- sent isolation. No one dreams now of his return to the Baptist Union, and the general impression is that circumstances will compel him shortly to initiate a move- ment which will result in a sort of federa- tion of Baptist Churches, comprising those who share his views, and which will be tantamount to the formation of a new denomination. A movement of this kind would, in the opinion of some, help for- ward the suggested union between the Con- gregational bodies and the Baptists.” Just nowit is the fashion for those who get mud to commit suicide. How 8.11 angry man can get any satisfaction out of killing himself is not easy to see. Still it is better than killing somebody elemâ€"Boston Globe. She â€"And do you really think you would be happy with me as your Wife ‘2 Heâ€"Oh, I am sure I have always been a lucky fel- low in games 01:3hance. I have bought a piece of land in Contra Costa County, and put on such improve- ments as I can afford. My wifeâ€"the best half of meâ€"has taken our three girls, aged respectively 11, 13 and 15 years, and our youngest son, aged 1'7, and. has settled on the ranch. I remain in the city at work and visit them every Saturday evening, re- turning early Monday morning,at a cost of $2 the round trip, and I may say the plea- sure of these weekly reunions more than compensates me for the enforced absence. I have planted nine acres in fruit trees and vines, which I reasonably expect will be a source of income at no distant day. Thus far we have a cow, a pig, and a horse; chickens are to be added, and after awhile we shall duplicate the horse, cow and pig. The two youngest children attend a good district school, where they can receive an education equivalent to that of our best grammar schools rIhe two eldest will have the assistanceâ€"â€"easily obtained in our older settled communities â€"ol:' some competent teacher, say once a , week or so, in advanced studies, so that they 3 may keep pace with the intelligence of their l times. Already their new life has set its‘ mark upon them in the glow of health and strength of limb; and withal and above all, they have work to do, that greatest of all blessings to humanity. My eldest sons, when they visit the little family, envy them in brotherly fashion their good fortune, and it is only a question of time when the lesson to them will bring forth fruit in due season. I have written this, thinking perhaps, some man out of this cityful, situated as I am, might see his way as I do to independence for the most helpless portion of his family, and also provide a pleasant retreat for his own old age; and if by “ keeping the girls on the farm ” the “ boys should follow,” then another problem is solved: A Californian’s Plan for Keeping Boys on the Farm. A San Francisco father writes to the Alta California: An editorial paragraph in a recent issue of the Alta, says : “The best way to keep girls on the farm” is to “keep the boys there, and the girls will stay to keep them company.” The pith of this humor is its truth, and the rule will work both ways, for if the girls are kept on the farm the boys will not go far away or" be long absent. If I may be allowed a liberal use of the personal pronoun. and a little space in your paper, I would like to give utterance to some reflections of my own on “ the problem of life,” in the hope that some one similarly situated may be helped in his thinking. I am on the shady side of 50, an accountant by occupation, witha large and happy family of boys and girls around me. The boys are the eldest, and are following in their father’s footsteps, viz., earning wages enough to support themselves in what is called respectability; but their future is necessarily an uncertainty. I have not worried about the boys, however, they will hold their own. But the girls! Shall they enter the whirlpool of wage- workers in this big city and pit their strength against so many, where only the fittest survive; or shall they. with their natural right to my assistance, be the founders of their own independence? I am endeavoring to solve this problem in the following fashion: HIS GIRLS WILL BE INDEPENDENT. Mr. Spurgeon’s Next Step. The Haste to be Rich. It Might be Worse. flats of Great Men. A Girl Abbess. London St. James’ Gazette : The Arch- duchess Marguerite Sophie, daughter of Archduke Charles Louis, has been installed at Prague as abbess of the community of Noble Ladies of the Hradskin. The instal- lation was eflected with great pump in the Church of St. George, a large number of officials and knights of the imperial orders being present. The new abbess, who was robed in black. with an ermine mantel, was formally presented with the insignia of her dignity, a staff and ring. The Hradschin is the capitol of Prague, and this com- munity, to which it gives its name, is a re- treat for unmarried ladies of noble family. It was formed under Maria Theresa. The inmates, it is stated, are not subject to the ordinary vows or rules, and are even per- mitted to marry. The present Queen Regent of Spain was abbess there from 1876 to the time of her marriage. The new abbess is 18 years old. The signal is taken up by other bands, and all through the city horn-blowing and drum-beating goes on unoeasingly. “ Ihad never heard a more pure and liquid musical sound than this was. The pleasing effect upon the ear was but little diminished on learning by what animal it was produced. The vocalist was a frog. and soon another from a more distant spot took up the strain and the two sang together, now in solos, now in chorus. Curious to see this musical fro , I took a torch from the fire and went to look for him. I arrived at the spot whence the sound was proceeding, but as I stooped to search the grass the music seemed to float away to another place sonxe yards distant. “ I followed, and still the sound moved, and nowhere could I discover whence it came. I searched for nearly a. quarter of an hour without be able to fix the spot, and then I gave up in despair, The fact is, this frog is recognized to be a. ventriloquist of no common order. I have many a. time since heurd him crying in broad daylight, and the power of ventriloquism is no doubt given to him as a. protection against the numerous cranes and other frog enemies that would otherwise be guided by the sound and soon render the species extinct.” There is now filed with 9. will in litiga- tion in Monroe County, Ga.., 9. silver dollar that was issued in 1775, and has been in possession of the same family for more than one hundred years. It is one of thit- teen dollars that were paid to 8. Revolution- ary soldier when discharged from the Con- tinental army. While pioneering in south Brazil Mr. Withers was struck by the low and plain- tive cry of some creature calling in the night. He was at first impressed with the idea. that it was the cry of a. child. but the tones soon convinced him that this could not be the case. The band plays a. signal as each victim is slaughtered. Two blasts on the horn mean “Death, death ;" three drum taps, “ Cut it ofif ;” one best from a. big drum, ” The head has fallen.” The §ame work goes on at the neitrdell. and so on, the fearful work going on far into the night. A: the King enters each cell with a meat and drink offering to the departed, the band plays the favorite melodies of that particular King, and unawaree the royal visitor signs to the executioners Who have followed him, and an attendant is pierced through the cheeks and killed, the King washing the skeleton in the warm blood. Every skeleton is taken from its richly ornamented coffin, Where it has lain sur- rounded by the things that had been most pleasing to it in life, and is placed on a. chair to welcome the visitor. Then on his birthday the King of Ashan- tee goes early to the house of the royal dead. “ For a. King there remains yet another “ custom.” At. the end of thirty moonsthe grave is opened, the royal bones fastened together with gold wire and the skeleton placed in a. long building divided into cells, the doorway: :c which axe hung with silk curtains. A royal burial is a. horrible spectacle. At the bottom of a. huge grave ere laid the heads of the slain. On them the coffin rests. Then just before the earth is thrown in one of the bystandersâ€"a freeman, if of some rank so much the betterâ€"is suddenly clubbed, and a gash made in the back of his neck, and he is rolled in upon the coffin. The idea. is to send along with the crowd of slaves and prisoners some one who shall look after them as B. ghostly ” major demo,” says a. writer in “ All the Year Round.” The Ceremonies with Which an Asliantee King’s Birthday 15 Celebrated. When an Ashantee King dies 3. human sacrifice of 200 victims a. Week is offered for three months. A King’s mother died in 1816 and her son slaughtered 3,000 peo- ple, 2,000 being persons just captured from the Fantis. To make up the tale every big Ashantee town had to give 100 and every small town ten victims. , ..__- -n..- .v “way “run LIL" monument Would find it quite impossible to keep their laughter pent. ’Tis useless to deny it. now, amok! the mischief’s done, And I must be a. humorist, find an unconscious 0110. I‘ve only this request to make, which no one can resist: Please call me in my epitaph the Serious Humorist. .....u w nuuu AUL uuuuu publication; And scented notes and letters couched in words as sweet as honeyâ€" “ Now won't you send your autograph? and please to make it funny.“ If I should sink beneath my trials, and leave this mortal sphere. The world would give me credit for the best joke of the year; And deruptless. folks who came to gaze upon mv vitatiolfs V Tm" To humorous banquets and .,,,. w .- I weplf Bi little when I could, all steep’d in melan- c o y. But people only laughed again, and whispered, “Ain‘t he jolly x " In fact, the more that I became a sacrifice to sadness, The more I met the wretched glue that drove me near to madness. Full half my time is spent declining pressng in- Vitah‘mm WV. .. ~uuAuvnD, muu uunymnug told my Wife, She, laughlng, vow'd I'd never been so funny in my hfe! I dressed in Isombre black, assumed a. grim, funereaJ am, And spoke in woe-enveloped tones, my face dis- tmught w1th care. __-°.. ., “wumuuu mwuuumgly (hpregéhg , And whenlfuiled in business, and despairing tnlfl vnv nâ€"n'fu . v. uumu cuuauuuu um- tmséing. . They roared with mighty merrimont exceedlngly flanvnum’un - m vmnltried to prove myself a libelled indl- vidual, The mm] truth confronted Inaâ€"the joke was quite original. Where‘er I went there followod me that dread- ful reputation, And evqry word I spoke aroused upronrious cachmnacion‘ IfIrelnarkedin casual tones upon the gloomy Weather, The people laughed until they cnied,und laughed and cried togethar; What I ve information of some accident dis- “. fl ,V. -.....,, -w, v; uv, Arqu wm numb us funny. I might perhaps have since escaped the direful consequences Had 1 not penned a. feeble joke when hardly in my senses ’ngs printed in a. paper of tremendous circular 1011 And I W’as dubbed a. humoristby all the laughing n n.Hnn ,m _ ,.. .. _w-«VAABVMJ in nation; In W n I tried to prove myself a i A...” , r _ w. ‘wvwl uvuL Luv yuuynu uu uu- clare That I became a. humorist, alas! right then and there; Though to be considered serious I’d give a. lot of money, Whateverlmuy say or do, they will insist it's {‘1‘ n n n My story is a. sad one, and won’t take long to tell. To any sort of metre I can suit it just as well. Youéll understand my misery before the tale is one. It all began one hapless dayâ€"the day I made a. Pun: And ever since that fatal hour the people do de- n1nvn WASHED IN HUMAN BLOOD. Ventrlloquism in Nature. Serious Humorist. to write for comic an unconscious gaze upon my