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AGRICULTURAL. Small Fruits. A correspondent of the New English Farmer, writes thus sensibly and practical- l :â€" yThe farmer should set apart a small piece of land especially for growmg small fruits for family use, because it will he a luxury he can well afford. He has the land, and it will be used for a good purpose if he sets out a strawberry bed and devotes a plot to raspberries, and one to blackberries, and also sets out some oosebei ries; of course, the curraut will fin a place on every farm without my urging iis claims. (lrape vines are neglected by far too many Iarmers. There are now so great a number of varieties, that it would seem that One could find some that would thrive in his own locality, and therefore, the farmer is us glecting a duty that he owes his family, if he fails to set a few vines, and take good care of them. His wife and children will thank him for is. Who does not like good grapes ‘? Is it not a pleasure to grow them fl r home consump- tion? If you should happen to grow a few more than are wanted is r your family's use. they can readily be disposed of in tho neighbc rhood or the village. Apples are to be found on most forms. to a greater l. r less extent, but what per cent of farms rs grow a full supply of small fruits extending through the whole season, as they ought to? It is said that they are so productive that they can be grown profitably on land wcrzh $1000 per acre; be this as it may, however, I am well satisfied that they can be profit~ ably grown for family use. The strawberry is the fruit to come in the s ring, and it is also the most tempting to t a taste, according to the writer's opinion, and the slnwberry bed ought to be found in all gardens, however small they may be. It does not require a large bed to supply a family with an occasional dish of berries. One year ago last spring I set just six plants to see what they would do, and the last sea- son they furnished us with six pints of fine strawberries; and plants often do much bet- ter than this. Of course it is needless to grow strawberries without giving them care. The ground should be well prepared, and clean culture is absolutely necessary; and if they are supplied with a great deal of water, the yield Will be largely increased. For family use select the finest fiaVOred ber- ries that produce well; but for market the principal point is to select a large, showy variety, the quality not being so imprtant, as consumers will look more to the appear- ance of the berry, than they will to the quality. If a la rge bed is planted they should be set in rows, isl‘ enough apart to admit of horse cultivation. In the autumn, just as late as may be, the plants should be given a. light winter protection of hay; and in spring uncover the plants, leaving the hay on the ground as a mulch, and to keep the berries clean. I prefer to set a new bed every spring, as it is less work to do this than it is to keep the old bed free from weeds. Cutting Pom for Seed. Mr. J. Bnden, of Wells, V t, , gives an inter- esting account of some experiments he made last Summer in planting cut and uncut pota- toes. Three rows, each long enough for 123 hills, were planted to Burbank seedlings, one row with whole seed, one with one piece to the hill, and another with two pieces in a hill. At digging time the single-piece row yielded six bushels, the two-piece row, eight bushels; while the row planted with uncut potatoes, produced ten bushels. These were very marked results, yet, in order to have an experiment of this kind teach all we Would like to know about plant- ing out or uncut potatoes, we ought to know whether the hills Were of uniform distance apart in each case, and also whether the pieces were cut to single eyes, or whether they were large potatoes cut in two. The whole seed, we believe, was from large, selected potatoes. Now, as prices ruled last season at planting and harvesting time, it. might still be a question which seed was the most economical to plant? Again, seed cut to single eyes should be planted with a. great many more hills to the acre, than would be judicious if using large whole seed. If Mr. Birden dropped his single eyes two or three feet apart In the row, we should suspect . , that he used too little seeJ to obtain a lull crop. The question of whole or cut seed is cne that is surrounded wrth too many difficult- ies to be answered at once, and for all time. It has been our aim when discussing the question, rather to study the laws which control the growth of the potato, than to at- tempt to lay down infallible rules, as guides for action. If one understands the nature of the plant he is cultivating, he Will be bet- ter able to adopt the conditions to each other that may exist at the time. All potatoi s are so cheap this spring that those who wish to experiment with laige, whole seed, can do so with little extra crst. Our preference is for single eyes, if all other conditions are within control, and we would prefer the pieces should be cut from large, smooth seed; but if the price was high, we would not ob- ject to those which were just below» market size. But in either case we would want the rich soil, and in the very finest state of tilth, so that every piece would start and make an early and strong growth. The potato is like the constitution of some men, able to endure a good deal of abuse, but there is no argument in favor of abusing either. Value of Maples. Of the several genera of American shade and ornamental trees, including the oaks, elms, maple, and birches, the maples stand first for general value, and are now more planted than any others. One of the most extensive nurserymen lately stated that he sold more trees of the sugar maple than of all other shade trees together. The ease of propagation, and the clear, rich and healthy foliage, gives the maples a prominent ad vantage. Some brief notes on the leading species, now that planting time is approach- ing, may not be out of place. The sugar maple, called also rock maple, stands at the head for general popularity. The young trees form handsone shade trees, and as they grow older, if a slight attention is given to the form of the bead, they as- sume a fine shape, with a dense, thick mass of foliage. For timber plantations, they pisses: the value of supplying excellent fuel, and the wood is valuable for various manu- facturing purposes, if not exposed to alter- ations of moisture. Unlike some other species of seeds ripen in autumn, at which time they may be sown, or kep: till spring in slightly damp (hot wet) sand. The young frees will make a growth of a foot or two the first year, and for timbr r planla tious do best on rich upland, but they Will not bear a wet subsoil. The black maple, regarded by some hot- anists as only a variety of the preceding, but with some characteristics of a distinct species, resembles the sugar maple in the time of ripening its seeds and in affording sugar frcm the sap. It differs in its largr leaves, with drooping lobes and a. slight pubescence beneath, while the geniral ap» pearance of the foliage is less stiff and more graceful, with a warmer and richer color. The leavrs have often measured nine inches in breadth. . The silver mrple is remarkable for its rapid growth when young, and is much planted in Village streets. The branches are sprrading, and often drooping, and re- quire some shortening to give a good form ; the leaves are silvery white beneath. Like the sugar maple it grows to a large was, two or three feetin diameter, and sixty or seventy feet high. It is less valuable lfl' timber l plantations; the wood, although fine grain- ed, is not durible. The seeds ripen early in the season, and may be at once planted, and will make a good growth the same year. As with the oihrr ma.le s they should be planted in drills about an inch deep, and covered with fine soil pressed down upon them. The young plants usually require a light shading from the hot sun. The red or soft maple resembles the pre ceding in the general appearaue of the foliage which is silvery beneath, but the tree is less spreading in growth, and the flowers, which come out in spring before the leaves. are rich crimson in color. It is les rapid in growth than the silver maple. The leaves are sharply cut, and frequently change to a brilliant in color in autumn bef( re dropping. In its native localities it becomes a large tree. The seeds ripen early in the season. The ash-leafed maple box-elder of the West. is made into a seperato genus by some botanisls, In rich soil its growth is wry rapid: when young it is a beautiful free; and it is speciaily recommended for timber plantations at the West. Its wood is like that of the’silvn and red maples. Its seeds ripen in autumn, and are to be treated like those of the sugar maple. Among the introduced specus are the Norway maple and sycamore mapleâ€"the for- mer making a handsome, round-headed tree with broad, smooth. bright green leaves, which appear early in spring and bang later in autumn that those of the sugar maple. The ycumore maple is a rather coarse-grow- ing free with still branches. and the young trees being slightly tender are sometimes injured by winter. The leaves are whitish and slightly brown beneath. Both of these species ripen their seeds in autumn. There are some smaller native species of the maple, among which is the striped maple or moose-wood which sometimes grows twenty or thirty feet high, but is more fr:- quenlly only ten or fifteen feet, and with its s1 riped bark and dense foliage ft rms a hand- some ornamental tree: and the mountain maple which is a tall shrub, with flowers in dense racemes, and is planted only for orna- ment. 0f the principal native species which We have mentioned, the silver maple is found growing on the banks of run 11 from Maine to Georgia, but is more particularly abun- dant along the western rivurs. The red maple is found mostly in swamps and wet places, from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. The sugar maple is most abundant north of lati- tude 40 degrees. and east of the Mississippi, and on mountains further south. The Welsh B1 u on Cremation. Dr. Price, the VVelch Druid, having at last successfully conducted the crema- tion of his dead infant, now announces his intention of erecting a orematorium at Llantrissant. Persons who desire to be cre- mated or whose executors wish the remains to be so disposed of will be accorded the re- quisite facilities. The doctor states that all his family will be Ceremated there. He points out the financial advantages of cremation over other modes of disposing of the dead, and states that all the materials used in the cremation of his son were half a ton of coals, a gallon of paraffin oil, and 6-penny worth of wood, the total cost being only 8 shillings and two pence. Every vestige of the infant's body was burnt, and the breeze carried away the ashes. The fire was so fierce that it melted the iron ofthe grate on which the body was deposited. Dr. Price argues that the ritual of the Church of Eng- land points to a period when cremation was the conventional method. What other sIg- nification, he asks, can the phrase “ashes to ashes" convey? From India, Spain, Italy, France, London, and all parts of England letters of approval and sympathy have been received by Dr. Price. Au ell-clergyman and a. minister are among his correspondents, to whom Dr. Price desires to express his pro- found gratitude for the courtesy extended to him. He states that he took his child’s body on Friday to the place of cremation in a cart, accompanied only by a man-servant. Dr. Price protests against the inurnment of ashes of cremated persons as contrary to Druidio precedent and as calculated to re- kindle grief amc mg the survivors of the dead. He thinks cremation should be absolute in its disposal of the drabâ€"London Telegraph Always Cheerful. People of even temperament are the most companionable. There are some folk who are out of sorts at every band‘s turn for no legitimate reason -because the sun has gone undu‘ a cloud, because they slept badly or ate too heartily; but the companionablo per- son makes the best of every situation. She is not fidgcty (.r fussy, and her prejudices are not, as with some, her chief characteris- tics. When she arrives, sho brings another atmosphere with her, and cunimon things seen with her eyes, become wonderful. She is a person of ideas, and bestows them with prodigality; she is not so often a wit as the occasion of wit in others, which is a. far more popular being than the mere wit can hope to be; and, although she may only have travelled "a good deal on Cape Cod," yet she has seen and undersfood more than many who have ransacked Christendom. “What do circus folks do in winter i” asked a contemporary. The clown devotcs the season to gleaning a fresh crop of jokes from the almanacs printed prior to the American llevolution,und ocz asionzlly writes for the London comic weeklies; and the "strong man," who splinters rocks With his fist, secures employment in a. cheap boarding house at hammering tough beef. No doubt the others find employment adapted to their respective talents. lemâ€"mâ€"m _ ST. HELENA AS IT IS. The Home of Napoleon at Harbor for Whalersâ€"French Soldiers Guard- ing Napoleon‘s Tombâ€"The Emperor's lives. If the allied nations of Europe had not in the year 1815 selected the island of Sr. Hol- ena. for the prison of Napoleon, it would to- day be probably little better known than its sister island, Ascension. Yet St. Helena has played a by no means unimportant part in the history of maritime commerce, and though its business is now rapidly declin‘ng, it is still of great value to our southern Whalers. Lying in the South Atlantic about 2,500 miles to the northwrst of the Cape of flood Hope. St. Helena is the har- bor most convenient to the wh .ling grounds There stores and provisions of all kinds can be readily obtained, and in the safe anchorâ€" age at James Town repairs to vessels are easily though somewhat expensivcly made. Everything, even to cool, that may be re- quired for the supply of shipping has to be brought from England, and the price ship- owners have to pay is proportionally high. But Whalers, who are often away from home for a year or eighteen months, will run short of supplies, and it is no uncommon thing to see the flag of the United States flying at the stems of five or six brigs or barks at James Town harbor, St. Helena is of volcanic formation, and is in outline an irregular oval about nines miles long, and five miles wide at its greatest width. The first Euro. pean nation to make a settlement there was Holland, but the East India Company ac- quired it by purchase, and nearly fifty years ago it was transferred to the exclusive con- trol of the English Government. The in- habitants number about 5,000, more than half of whom are negros. The latter are aborigines, but the descendants of people brought from the African coast. When England was busily engaged in breaking up the slave trade of the West Coast, St Hel- ena was the depot to which the captured slavers were taken. There are still living there many negroes who thus escaped the horrors of the “middle passage.” As is the case in most English colonies there is very little prejudice against the black man simply on account of his color, and one of the island’s most respected and able merchants was brought there a lad in the hold of a slave ship. St. Helena. is controlled by a Governor appointed by the Crown anal as- sisted by a. Council of inhabitants. Its value as a supply station diminished so much with the completion of the Suez Canal that the home regiment was disbanded and its place supplied by a Wing of one of the West India- regiments. When first seen from the ocean the island looks like a collection of lofty, barren, and inaccessible crass, the most striking of which, Diana‘s Peak, attains an elevation of 5,000 feet. The harbor is almost shut out from view till a. narrow opening between two hills nearly a thousand feet high give entrance to a wide roadstead. It is admir- ably sheltered from storms, and the only danger arises from a peculiar and powerful tidal wave that at intervals of several years springs up without warning and often tears ships from their anchorages. This tidal wave is somewhat similar to the "bore" oc- casionally observed at the mouth of the Severn in the Irish Channel. The St. Holâ€" ena wave is, however, of greater dimensions, its height having been noted as over ten feet. Far out to sea it has been observed gathering force and height as it advances with startling rapidity and irresistible power. James Town is a wide, straggling village. of white houses, with low, projecting roofs and ample verandas, that strongly recall In- dian bungalows. Nearly all the storehousss and. important public buildings are built of iron and slate, as within the last thirty years the island has been subjected to the plague of white ants. These insatiable little mon- sters, who are three or four times as large as the ordinary black ant, are able to speedin destroy any kind of woodwork. They can honeycomb a big log, till it may be crushed by the pressure of ahand. And yet they do their word from the inside, leaving a. thin veneer on the surface, so that their presence is often entirely unsuspected. Large build< ings have been brought to ruin by these minute pests, and it is no uncommon thing to see a. chair or a sofa suddenly collapse, and to find that the ants have eaten every- thing but the varnish. They demolish any kind of wook but teak, and through this they bore, with the precision and smooth- ness of an augur, paths to lesshard material. The ravages of these pests, supposed to have been originally brought from one of the East Indian Islands, have cost hundreds of thous- ands of dollars, and though large rewards have been offered for the discovery of means to exterminate them, no remedy has been found. The first place the average visitor asks for is Lougwood, built for Napoleon, and in which he spent nearly five years, and finally died. The road to Longwood which lies several miles from James Town, passes through some very pretty valleys, where all the available ground is used for farming purposes, and within sight of The Briars, a very pretty country house, in which Napo- lean was lodged while Longwood was pre- paring for him. The latter place is handler to the town, and Na oleon greatly objected to the transfer; but ongwood is nearer the centre of the island, and it was considered advisable to make attempt at rescue or es- cape asldiflicult as possible by keeping him for from the coast. The house is sunk in a valley, and is a long, low structure, very much resembling a two-story American summer hotel. Scarcely anything remains in the shape of relics; but the tomb near the house, and lying under weeping willows, is guarded by a French sergeant and two sol- diers. The ground was purchased by the French. Under the sarcophagus, which is about three feet high and protected by an iron railing, the body of the great Emperor rested twenty-five years. and until it was taken to its final magnificent tomb in the lnvalides. A very near relative of the wri- ter, who was present when the coffin was taken up and opened before the Prince de Jciuville, said that the embalming had been done so well, that though the skin had turned parchment hood the outline of the features remained perfect. It was under a tricolor of satin made by some Women on the Island that the body was borne to the ship, and each of these lulll‘fl was presented by the Prince with a gold bracelet, in the name 01 the French nation. The same per- son who witnessed the exhumation became acquainted with Napoleon during the six years of his captivity. and declared that he could never meet the exvl‘imperor's eyes for more than a second. llis glance remained 8 till the list so piercing that it seemed to) r.-ach into the Very soul of the person 0n whom it was bent. The inhabitants of St. llrlcna are. calla] “Y amstocks," bicause of their fondness for yamsâ€"a monstrous variety of the sweet po- mto. Firming land is so scarce that fresh meat and Vegetables, butter and mill: coni- inand high prices. Such commodities are, in a great measure, brought from Cape Town. The. steamers on their homeward trip to England make the passage to James Town in about six days. They do not call on the southward voyage, but make a dc- tour to avoid the trade winds, which blow almost constantly from the Cape. sailing vessels stopping at St. Helena. have first to go far beyond it, and come down with the "trades." It is sometimes very difficult to do this, and an instance is on record, when the East India. Company owned the island, and only two supply ships were sent out yearly, that the signal mister on Liddcr Hill reported one of the ships in sight less than thirty days after the (late fixed for her departure from England. The vessel did not make the harbor, and the signal man was believed to have madeamistake. Near- ly six weeks later the vessel arrived, and an examination of her log showod the correct- ness of the signal man's report. The inter- vening time had been spent trying to beat up to catch the trades. St. Helena has no wild animals indige- nous to the land, but boasts two kinds of birds not found elsewhere. These are a gray abdavat, with pink breast and bill, rather smaller than a sparrow, and the St. Helena canary, which is of a dark green color, sometimes shading to lighter green and with yellow on the breast. They are splendid songsters. The females are dun brown. Java sparrows, the first of which probably escaped from some ship, are also plentiful, and there are a few mid pn'rots and African birds, Negro boys drive a brisk trade in selling birds to paesengers. The waters of the coast abound With fish of allkinds. One known as the albecore is very fine eating and is considered equal to turbot. Attempts have been made to plant Oysterl, but unsuccessfully, probably be- cause of the heat of the water. Although St. Helena lies well south of the tropics, the heat there is often intense, and winter is unknown. Consumptive and asthmatic pa- tients are frequently ordered there by Eng- lish physicians. The island of Ascension, which is about three day's sail to the north- ward, is much smaller than St. Helena, and is exclusively an English naval_station. The ground is entirely Government property, and no one is allowed to settle or trade there except by special permit from the Admiral- ty. Ascension cannot be a very pleasant place for those who like society. The last time the writer heard from there only three ladies graced it, and not One of these would speak to either of the others. â€"â€"~â€"4004->00’â€"â€"- CAUSE OF CHRIST’S DEATH. Occasioned by Rupture of The Heart Caused by Mental sunny. “The most remarkable event in the his- tory of the world was the death of Jesus Christ,” said Rev. Dr. Thomas A. Hoyt, pastor of the Chambers Presbyterian Church, of Philadelphia, recently, in be- ginning a special sermon to the medical stu dents. “Its hidden meanings,” he continu- ed, “are transcandant and it was, without parallel, the most sublime tragedy ever en- acted.” The speaker had chosen his text from St. John xxxiv. 19. John, he said, stood only a few feet fr0m the Saviour, and subsequently related what he saw. The subject discussed by the speaker was, “What was the physical cause of Christ’s death ‘3" Several eminent physicians had devoted years to the study of the question and a book on the subject had been publish- ed by Dr. Stroud, of Edinburgh, about thirty-five years ago, in which be ascribed Christ’s death to rupture of the heart. Dur~ inga convention of physicians in Scotland severil years ago the deductions arrived at in this book were presented for their con- sideration, and they were confirmed. There are, the minister said, many cases on record where death has resulted from violent pas- sions of joy or grief. Pliny tells us of a Lacedamoniun who fell dead from joy at hearing that his son had won a. prize at the Olympian games. The speaker read sever- al opinions on the subject of heart rupture, and continued : “There is no pretense that the spear thrust into the Saviour’s side caus- ed death. In fact, he was dead before the wound was received. Christ was crucified at 9 o'clock in the morning, and expired at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, or two hours beâ€" fore the centurion dealt the blow With his spear. Tho crucified generally lived from two to three days, and sometimes as long as five days on the cross. There is no evi- dence that disease might have caused! His death. and no reason to believe that he was not of perfectly sound health. Some have thought that He might have died from ex- hamtion, but we are told that He was mir- aculously sustained (luring His trials. ll: wasnot weakness. Some declare that He voluntarily gave up life, but He did not take His life ; He simply submitted to the conditions under which He died. The anâ€" swer to the uestion, “What we. the physi- cal cause of hrist's death 7’ is, ‘Rupture of the heart caused by mental agony.' Liter- ally, He died of a broken heart.” The speaker read ex‘racts from many letters from eminent physicians giving their opin~ ions on Dr. Stroud's book, and on his de- duction as to the death of the Saviour. They all endorsed his conclusion that Christ had died of a ruptured heart. “John says," continued the speaker “that when the spear waetbrust into the Swiour’s side ‘forthwith come there out blood and waiter.m Dr. Hoyt then proceeded to'rx- p‘aiu this from a. medical pomt of view. He said that when the spear head punctured the pericar from the blood and serum from the ruptured heart esuaped. He said that all this was simply a fulfillment of a script: ural prediction, as was the parting of its raiment and the casting of lots among the soldiers for llis vesture. "But what was this mental anguish that broke our Saviour’s heart?" asked the speak- er. “It was not fear of death, for lie look- ed toward that with longing. ‘If I be lift- ed up,’ He said, ‘I will draw all men to M e.’ He anticipated death as the consummation of His labors. 'Rsproach hath broken My heart.’ lie said, and then died. lle died for us. The weight of human guilt broke His heart.’ ” "The city undertaker of Palatka, Fla” is a woman.” Down South women seem capable of undertaking almost anything. AN llNFllRTU‘NATE (111le A Touching incident from a. London School-Teacher's Journal. To-nighfl siw one of my lads ~if‘iu;: nr. ’1 doorS'ep. doubled up over his slaw, “pl be summed his burl C’.l‘3 way ilUtl that in his vain endeavors to avail himself of the light of the street-lump. When I took his Slate out of his hands, l found that the DN‘J‘ lit- tle man ha. 1 Worked out his sum l in a. spra wl- ing fashion. The light was so very uncer- tain and his little fingers Were so cold that anything like neatness was out of the «pies. tion, but he stuck gallantly to his p letâ€"or, rather, to his doorstepâ€"and grinned all over his face while I patted him. I asked him what he was doing out on the street on such a. nasty evening, and he replied: "We ain't got no candle, sir. Father and mother has got to sit in the dark, and I came out under the lamp to get my home lesson done." As lwalkell into a better neighborhood, and saw the bright lights in pleasant rooms, and heard the laughter of children and the tinkie of plants, I thought rather kindly of my poor little man sitting with cold fingers groping through his sums by the yellow light of the gas. It is a. curious kind of topsy- turvy business altogether. That little boy is as bright as bright can be. then I first knew him he was in dire distress becruse he could not read his little book right away. I explained to him that there were certain for- malities and drudgeries to be gone through before one could tell what was inside books, and we had great fun while he was learning his alphabet. ' He christened the letters by names of his own. The small d be called “belly in front,” and the small b “belly be- hind.’, And he was charmed when he had become able to tell the difference between d, p, b, and q with absolute certainty. He begged the loan of books to take home; he never played, and even when he was walk- ing to and fer school he puzzled himself over various “Readers” until he had mas- tered all We had in stock. The lad was fit for anything, but his pirents managed to make only about 9 shillings a week at the best of times, so there is not much chance for him in the future. I have had to do with lazy boys who needed to be scolded into learning; but this plot little soulâ€"the son of a. coster~monger and a collarâ€"makerâ€" would go without his dinner to get an hour with a new book. Yet I rithcr fancy he will end as a laborer, or something of that sort. The struggle for food will crush am- bition out of him, and very likely by the time he is ‘20 years of age he will not care for rezdiug even the Sunday newspapers. «96“.‘594 The Caravan of the Dead. We had to cross the Persian desert in its entire length to get to our next station. The silence of the night becomes, in this wilder- ness, doubly oppressive, and as far as the eye of the traveller can reach he will find no spot to repose it upon. Only here and there may be seen piled up columns of sand, driv- en about by the wind, and gliding from place to place like so many dark spectres. I did not wonder that these shifting shad ows were taken by timid and crednlous souls for evil spirits pursued by furies. My comp inion seemed to belong to the super- stitious class, for, wrapping his cloak tightly around him, he kept close to the densest part of the caravan, and would not for the world, so much as glance at the wilderness stretching to the east. It was about midnight when he heard the sound of bells. anl upon my inquiry as to the meaning of this, I was told that a large caravan which had left an hour earlier than We did, was in front of us. We accelerated our march in crder to overtake it, but had hardly come within a hundred pwes from it when an intolerable stench. as if of dead bodies, filled the air. The P.rsians were aware of the cause of this pain us stench and hurried silently on; but it nt on in- creasing the further we advanced. I could not restrain my curiosity any longer, but turning to my nearest neighbor, I asked him what this meant, but he curtly replied, be- traying, howaver, great anxietyâ€"“Hurry up, hurry up, this is the caravan of the dead." This information was sufficient to make me urge my wearied beast forward to grfati r speed, and after a While I reached, together with my companions, the caravan. It consisted of about forty animals, horses and mules, under the leadership of three Arabs. The backs of the animals were la.- den with coffins, and we made every effort to avoid the dread procession. In pissing near one of the horsemen who had charge of the caravan, I caught sight of a. face which was frightful to look at; the eyes and nose were con sealed by some wraps, and the rest of his lividly pale faCe looked hastly by the light of the moon. Undaunted by the sickening armosphere, I rode up to his side and inquircl about the particulars of his errand. The Arab informed me that he had been now ten days on the way, and that twenty more would pass in taking the dead bodies to Kerbela, the place where, out of devotion for Hussein, the pious wish to slleep their eternal sleep. The custom pre- vails all over Persia; and every person who can afford it, even if be live in distant Khorassau, makes arrangements to have his remains carried to Kerbela, fn order that they may be interred in the soil wherein the beloved Iman Hussein is reposing. It takes some two months before the dead body can raach its place of destination. 0.10 mule is frequently laden with four coffins, and whilst their conveyance during the winter is com- paratively harmless, it is of deadly efi'ect to beast and man alike, in the heat of July in Persia. At some distance from the caravan of the dead I glanced back at the strange funeral procession. The animals with their sad burden of coffins hung their heads, seem- ingly trying to bury their nostrils in their breast, whilst the horsemen, keeping a good distance from them, were urging them on to greater speed. It was a. spectacle which seen anywhere could not fail to produce a. profound impression of terror, but seen in the very centre of the desert, at the dead hour of night, in the ghastly illumination of the moon, it could not fail to strike the most intrepid soul with sore and terror.â€" A rmiuiux Vambery, â€"â€"‘â€"-N<-.'>N'â€"â€"-â€"- It was at the Catearact House in Sioux Falls. A son of the Emerald Isle was ush- ered into the dining-room at the dinner hour and the polite steward took hold of the back of the chair to push it into place. The guest looked around suspiciously for aminute, and then said loud enough to be heard all over the room: “By the hole Moses, if ye: jerk out that chair from under me I’ll knock , the whole top of yer head off 0’ yes.”