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It was a. suffocating evening early in Au- gust, and I left my work at ihe fmeign of- fice to plod home to dinner through the dusty parks in the Worst spirits. The wrong; of a junior clerk whose long-promised holiday had just been snatched away from him on the eve of fulfillment Were boiling in me; I felt that they cried out for justice in a free country. Everything was prepared for this month’s leave which was to have begun next day. My father had taken a house on one of the most attractive slopcs above Grasmere, and the family residence in Lan- caster Gate already bore that denuded and forlorn appearance which precedes a gener- a! domestic flight. \Vo had breakiasted gayly, picnic fashion, with old and inade- quate implements ; we had prophesied with unabated cheerfulness, dining with still fewer of the appliances of civdimtion, the family plate being not lost but gone before to Grasmere. The housewas in as uncomfortable a state as much packing and putting away could make it, ior my people intended to spend between two and three months at "Emerald Bmk." Here was I, with my wings outspread for flight, caught back and doomed to remai in solitude, with dis mantled rooms an furniture lurking under dust sheets for company, and all because an unstable senior clerk suddenly declared that his health demanded instant change of air, instead of waiting to take his holiday later on, as he had intended. I‘he tale of woe is not complete, for Olga Fielding, to whom I had been but three weeks betrothed, was coming with us to Grumere, and we had promised ourselves a. month of unalloyed bliss among the Westmoreland hills before she was onliged to go back to her filial duties in Copenhagen. There, as her mother was dead, she had to preside over all mat- ters, social and domestic, in her father‘s ex- tensive establishment. I’m not at'all sure thatâ€"â€"” “Ah! how hor-r-r-rible,” broke in the soft voice of my betrothed, with the pretty careful intone.- tion, and long-drawn ripple 01 the r which she had inherited from her Dmish mother. “Dear Mr. Richardson. do not let us be reasonable to-night. What is the use of be- ing British subjects if we may not have a. great grumble? No, that poor boy is very badly treated, and it is all fr-r-r-rightfull” And my lady, unclaspiug her eloquent hands, approached the irou‘gray psrent for whom our affection had always been largely tempered with respect, and, flinging one arm tightly round his neck, laid her pretty head with its crown of bronze ripples oonfidingly on his robust black-cloth should- 51'. - My father, after the first natural shock of disgust. endeavored to console me With un- palatable philosophy and the cool light of reason. remedies which always seem an in- sult offered to aflliction. when applied to one’s own case. "It’s hard on you, Harry, my boy, no doubt, and I'm sorry for it," he said, in that sobering tone which strikes a chill through the greatest moments of ex. citement, and makes all previous emotion appear annoyingly ridiculous: "but now that you have entered on the serious duties of life, you can’t learn too soon that work and not play _is the object of _a man’s life. My father no doubt experienced a slight shock ; he was unaccustomed to such audaci- ous treatment from the young. But he liked it, he certainly liked it ;. and planting a parental salute on the breezy coils he left us to 20m out our; nlutuelyoe at leisure. Well, ‘the news was broken to s. dismayed and sympathetic circle. Olga, who had hitherto professed to consider me as likely to prove a very small addition to the natur- al teatures of the lake scenery, was quite overcome ; there was some smll balm in that. My mother was very unhappy. Even Barbara, the youngest of the family, and strong in the scorn of seventeen for matters of sentiment, forebore to jibe, and gave ut- terance to violent exclamations of regret, coupled with equally violent abuse of vague persons unknovyn. n...... Gracious heavens! what an ill-arranged planet is this, and what a. disorganized con- stitution was that miserable T.’s. to choose sucha moment to be out of repair ! The first. week of September Olga would have to follow her father, who had returned to Copenhagen, and we should meet no more till after Christmas. We: it not enough to make a worm blaspheme? and the bang I gave the hall door on entering covered a vig- ONE! expression of feeling. u ~ 'I‘hat night I found it impossible to sleep. The atmosphere was so close and oppressive there seemed to be no air to breathe, and a dull feeling of undefined apprehension haunted me persistently through long hours of wakefulness and miserable brief dozes, refusing to be charmed by the voice of rea- son. Haggard, unrefreshed, and still con- scious of the same vague foreboding clawing at my heart, I left that bed of snflefing at an unwonted hour in the morning. and de- scended to the library, now a desert of bare boards, dotted about with precipitous islands under dusty cloths. Here a pipe, that an- failing comforter of dejected manhood, re- stored some balance to my disordered mind, but I still felt very depressed, and was pre- paring to go forth and seek the restorative dear to every unhinged Briton, an early swim, when the door opened, and to my amazement Olga glided into the room, pale and drooping, With dark lines under her brown eyes. After mutual exclamations and greetings, I demanded the reason of her wan and dejected appearance. She did not answer at first, but turned her face away and tormented the braid on her travelling dress in silence. “Well, if you will know, dear friend,” she said at last, with a charm- ing gesture of resignation, "I think your old foreign office has bewitched me. No. it‘s that unhappy T., who has the evil eye, for I have a feeling as if some danger was hanging over you, and I could not sleep all night for it. Oh Harry I” continued the impetuous damsel, suddenly throwing aside the dignity with which she was wont to treat me. now that the worst was out. “come away with us to-day. Never mind a thousand governments and clerkships l I will not go without you. Something dread. ful will happen ; you feel it too. You look fit for the hangman yourself.” It took me a long while to restore Ulga to calmness. I laughed at her prognostications and was careful to betray no similar fee‘ings on my own part. She was more or less convinced at last of the utter ruin it would be to my future prospects to desert my post, and we were reasonably resigned if not cheered by breakfast time. Well, I saw them all 03‘ from Euston Sta- tion, and trailed away, a hapless victim, to my dreary task in the exalted gloom of Whitehall. That day seemed interminable; THE CLERK’S TA LE. yet there was nothing to lo: the end of it, and still wx night’s weight on my spirits way back to the howling w canfer Gate. “NgariHyde Park corner, Where very few carriages remained to make bay of the dust, I was startled from melanchgly rgflectiou by a great hang on the back. Turning sharp’y round I confronted that athlete Jack Oliver, Who had be n at the same college as myself, and whom had not met since we took our respective degree: at Oxford three years be- fore. At Oriel I had been wont to write Jack dOWD an ass, because his invariably boisterous spirits and perpetual athletics were at times a perfect nuisance, but in my resent forlorn condition his jolly face and infectious laugh were a real Godsend. We dined at the club together, and after- ward went to the theatre. then smoked a pipe or two in company at Oliver’s lodgings, so that it was toward 1 o'clock when I left him to return to meuter Gate. Walking nlonz under the park railings, the trees made occaaionslly ghostly rustlings over- head ; the air was very atill and heavy in ex- pectation of a. travelling thunderstorm. an .._, __ ,. cnme rattle of an occasional hsusom, broke the strmge ahllucss. All the uncomfortable feelings of the last twantv-Iour hours, temporarily thrust back by Oliver‘s cheerful company, returned with ovcmbelming force. Indignanc at being so befooled by what I had declared to myself must be a dyspeptic imagination (though my acquaintance with dyspepsia. was happily of the slightest), I argued fiercely with my own folly ; but all in vein, that indecribable dead weight of apprehen- sion still crushed my spirits. The senseless sense of unseen danger grew stronger at every yard. I was ready to roar for very disquietude of spirit. "Confound it all,” I almost shouted, “this is beyond a joke! What an abject piece of imbecility, for a man who has always flattered himself on having too much reason to fall a prey to any superstitious delusions Whatever! I must be ill; if things go on like this to- morrow I shall give in, and 20 to old Bur- rows (the family lEsculapius) to be put. to- gether again." .- . e f ““““““ " 'â€" " u The tall shut up houses facing the park looked as forbidding a: so many mausole- ums in the moonlight, and only the foot ofa stray wayfarer here and that‘s, or the We!- L__I,A Meanwhile every step forward appeared to grow more and more difficult. A sudden sound of footsteps close behind most aria;- countably paralyzed my powers of locomo- motion, and filled me with a horrible dread. This was monstrous; with a. kind of groan of disgust and misery over my own decrepi- tude, I resolutely turned round and waited till fihe Beeps reached the.“ Merciful‘ heavens i What was this that came up, brushed set me, and went on? My brain reeled. an oold perspiration broke out on my forehead. for. frantic as it may sound. it was myse’f that I saw go by. My exact image and counterpart came toward me, looked me full in the face with cold, inddferent eyes, differing from mine only in their expression at the moment, and passed on, brushing me with the sleeve of a light Overcoat exactly like the one I wore. I noted with despairing recognition on the creature‘s left hand, wnich was raisedI hold- ing the unbuttoned flap of his coat in tront of him (a favorite trick of mine), the very ring Olga had given me a week ago, and which was also on my finger at that mo- ment. For one long minute I stood stupified with horror, the next I darted forward after that terribly familiar form, which crossed the street and went on toward our door. I felt sure that I must be mad, or in the clutches of some hideous nightmare. Oh I for some power to shake it OE and awake. But no ! the area railings had a firm and chilly reality when I touched them. My footsteps and those others sounded all too solidly on the deserted payment. I even caught myself deliriously smiling at a peer:- liar trick of walking in the thing in front, with which Barbara had often taunted me. It was an extraordinary opportunity of see- ing oneself as others see one, but what mortal could have availed himself of it under such circumstances 2 I staggered on behind him, unable to di- minish the twenty yards or so that separated us. Would he stop at No 204? The sus- pense was almost intolerable. He did. He disappeared through the door, though the only surviving latch-key- was in my hand. \Vhen I reached the door it was shut, and bore no signs oi any unusual treatment. I could not 90 in ; I could not follow into the house, and run the risk of meeting of that on the dark stairs. A horror unspeakable had taken possession of my senses ; I turned and fled, and spent uncounted hours in walking about the silent streets and squares, unconscious oi the lapse of time. The early sunshine aroused and cheered my scattered wits. Gradually the sounds of common life awakening brought back my ressonin faculties; the discordant cry of that bir of dawn, the early sweep, way as music in my ears, and seemed to make the dreadful night fade into remoteness and unreality. I mede my way back to Lancaster Gate, footeore and exhausted. The milkman was driving merrily up and down ; when I reach- ed our doorete s, it seemed a year since I had last Bacon ed them. I rushed up to my room ; it was. of course, empty, the bed un- touched. But on the pillow and turned- down sheet, exactly where my be 5d and shoulders would have been in the natural course of things, lay the ruins of a large but, the Hermes, which had been wont to stand on the bracket over the head 0' the bed. This bracket my mother had frequent- ly entreated me to replace by a firmer eup- port : it had given away at last under the ponderoua weight of the bust, which, strik- ing against the iron rail of the bed, had broken into the two or three murderous por- tions that repoeed on the pillow and sheet, the br ket only having chosen to glance 011‘ on th floor. Hrd I been there Hermes must certainly have crushed my skull. Thrilled with fresh emotion; but too ex- hausted then to meditate long over the event, I went slowly down to the dining- room, and fell asleep on the sofa. The old ohm-woman, who appeared later With my breakfast, told me she had been startled by aloud crash in the night, soon after the clock struck 1, but having been only half awake at the time she caucluded that it Was the thunder of my boobs being thrown out to await the morning's cleaning. She was now, however, much excited about it, and disposed to revel in a tragedy. I told her I had found the statue fallen on my bed, and that, as it took three men to move it in a. general way, I had been obliged to con- tent myself with the sofa. The brief and look i Jemess in him Since that ni ht all has g us. _My blesse _ chief at the Suakimâ€"lhe word is spelt in a variety of waysâ€"is not only one of the most import. ant towns of Nubia. but the chief port of the Soodan and of the whole western coast of the Red Sen. 1% came into the possession of Egypt in 1855 by cession or purchsse from Turkeyâ€"along with Musownh and one or two other towns and the districts around themâ€"nod now appears to be regarded by the British Government and every one else as an integral par! of the Egyptian domin~ ions. Similar subjection of Suuim to Egypt existed in Very remote times. The town proper lies on a small island about eight miles and three quarters in diameterâ€"almost as long as the little boy in which in is placed, a mere tongue of water separating it from the mainland. The chief articles of export are cotton, gum arabic, cattle, hides, butter. tamarindsl senna leaves and ivory. The im orts con- sists of cotton goods. iron, woo . carpets, weapons, steel. and fancy wares. Berber in the east and Kassola in the south are the great centres hr all the caravan traffic of Suakim, which is also the port on the one side for the whole Soudanâ€"an inland coun- try as large as Indiaâ€"and on the other side of Arabia. Hence it is much visited by the Mahommedan pilgrims to Mecca, their port of Jeddah occu ying a corresponding posi- tion on the Ara ran to that which Suakim does on the African coast. TWenty years ago from three to four thousand slaves per annum were shipped from here to Jeddah, and though this monstrous traffic has been much crippled of late years by the Egyptian Government, out of regard for English {eel- ingI it is to be feared that it is not yet ex- tinct. In ancient times, the whole of what we now call the Suakim seaboardâ€"extend- ing northwards along the coast as far as a line drawn from the first cataract, and south- wards as tar even as Bab-el-Mandebâ€"was known as the Troglodyte country.‘ The Troglodytes. as the name implies. dwelt in caves, were b occupation herdsmen, and often uncililize and wretched in theextreme. A graphic picture of the hard life of another Troglodyte people. dwelling in the rocky fastncsses east of J ordan, is reserved for us in the thirtieth chapter of t e book of Job. “ For want and famine," it says, “ they are solitary ; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and|waste. Who cut up mal- lowa by the bushes, and ’uniper roots for their meat. They were dnven forth of men (who cried after them as after a thief). to dwell in the clifis of the valleys. in caves of the earth, and in the rookLâ€"Chambe'ra’ Journal. 0 quell her ‘mazement. : mm the ple [Mails of the In dealing with physical ills which man- kind is heir to, as in everything else, parti- cular remedies. outside of those prescribed by regular physicians. have their season. Just now it is said to be hot water ; and it is so much in vogue that the Medical News calls it the “ hot water mania." People are taking hot water for every sort of disease. There are doubtless thOusands of dyspeptics who devote themselves several times a day to the irritation of their stomachs by the use of hot water as a beverage. If p<op1e must be dosing. it Is fair to assume that hot water. if its purity is assured, is a more innocent remedy than many which are indulged in. It is certainly a remedy at the hand for which those must be thankful who are either poor in purse or reside a distance from physician and drug store. But there may be such a thing as too much hot water. as there is of many things which have more character. And this is what the Medical News asserts. It says that the physical effect of hot water taken into the stomach is to wash out that organ and prepare it for better work, but he warns those who are after health in hot water that too much hot water injures instead of helps. Moreover, it should be taken either before the process of digestion is begun, or after it is completed. That is. the person who is seeking health by that remedy cannot devote his days to the drinking of hot water. It is fair to assume that, like other remedies, the water cure will have its day, and the ailing public will turn to the remedy then held to be the popular one. May it be as simple, harmless, and above all as cheap as hot water. Few pokes will be worn. Moat. bonnela are shingle-s. Orv! feather fans are fashionable. The favorite red is coquelicot or wild POPPY- Bonnets or hats entirely covered with black, jet-beaded net and trimmed with ostrich tips, take precedence of all other beaded net chapeaux, Glace silks are effectively trimmed with velvet. Gold and silver gossamer-like tissue ap- pear among milliuery materials. Few walking or visiting costumes are composed of woollen staff only. Lawn tennis and archery will be the pet outdoor sports at Newport this season. Friee velvet grenadine is the favoi‘ite fa- bric for mantles and parts of summer even- ing toilets of ceremony. Bustles as big as a. small balloon deform the female form divine thm spring. Stifi‘ and an ular hats have almost en- tirely supersede the picturesque pokes and Damchets. The fashionable colors for ostrich feather fans are pale pink, shaded gray, buttercup yellow and white. Gray and black, with silver braid decora- tions, are the admired combinatlon for vel- vet dresses for dowagers. Slate gray and copper color combine ad- mirably m brocadea and in millinery. Snakim and its Surroundings. “The hot Water Mania. FASHION NOTES. ght all haer gorge wyell ujth )f glonmg over all th( iy which had been avert nat 4->«1 explfmat ‘eigu debarred ' all the 311 The Familv Melon Patch. In the growing of melons for the private gin-den, quality most necesslrily outrank all other consideratiors. Next to this imp )rt- none are earlincss and p-oductiveness. Like the rr‘pbatevs at the polls, it is desirable that mel ms shoul i come early and often. 0 wing to the influence of souls on the difi’erent vari- ties it may be neoz ssnry to do some experi- menting before we can hit up \n the best kind for our own ground- Weight and keeping qualities are secondary matters in the family gmrlen, and it should be borne in mind that quallty in the melon does not im- prove as the size inoreoss‘e. Ibelieve that a good plan for the private garden is to eel-eh some choice variety, and then grow only the one kind. In this way the grower can save his own seed each ear. and know that it is of first quality. he readiness with which varieties intermix makes it questionable whether they will be kept pure if one at- tempfu to grow different sorts. It is not certain that different varities will not “mix” ll planted less then 100 yards apart, and if planted even at that distance there is no oertainty about the matter; but if there is only one variety on the place, We know we can keep it pure, and also that we may improve it by careful selection. e \Vhile the melon does not require th amount of manure that is used in growing the cabbage or the onion, still next to a light warm soil, heavy fertilizing is one of the most important thingsâ€"always bearing in mind that the manure should be well rot- ted. Proper cultivation in the family mel- on-patch has a double interest ; it is neces sary in order to attain the best results ; and then there is so much more enjoyment con- nected with it There is more satisfaction in ten hills thorou hly cared for than in 100 improperly planted and then left to shift for themselves. Then, whether the patch be large or small, let it be properly tended. If you have suitable manure at hand, broadcast it liberally and plough under. Then where you are to put each hill dig a hole as though you were aettinga post. Fill this up with a mixture of soil and well-rolled, fine manure. If the patch is to be irrigated, it should be elevated above the surrounding surface as the loose soil will settle when flooded. Put the hills elqht feet apart. and alter the plants have passed all danger of frosts and inaects thin to one vine. This will enable you to see how many melons each plant produces, and to save seed from those only which show the most productiveness as well as early ma- tnrity. This year I had 100 hill of the Hacken sack planted by themselves. The average for the patch was only four to the hill while one hill ripened 10 good sized melons, though they were very late. The melons from dif- ferent hills varied greatly in ste and also in markings. The quantity was variable, and the flesh ranged in color all the way from the deep green of the nutmeg to a. pale yel- low. Of course, in saving secd, it makes a great difference which type of melon in se- lected, if it is to be cultivated year after year. Especially with the watermelon it is desirable to select for greater reductive- ness. By planting 100 hills wit a. single vine in a place, one will be surprised to see how some of the vines can put in all the summer. and produce so little fruitâ€"Rural New Yorker. 4 \Ve meet frequently with this heading to paragraphs in exchanges. It conveys a wrong lesson, as commonly used. Simple and quiet extermination is better If weeds are allowal to get a. foot in heightI a. war- fare is then begun and carried on to an in- definite length of time. and the weeds often come off victorious. The usual cause of this failure is in attempting to cultivate too much [and with a small force. The result is an enormous growth of weeds, a choking and diminution of the crop. and a supply of nox- ious seeds to fill the soil and last years. The weeds get entire possession in this way and the crops have an unequal chance until another ploughing checks them temporairiy. The remedy is a well arranged plan for going over the ground once a week, in all ‘ hoed crops, sweeping the surface, killing all weeds before they come up. All this work ‘ is more than pad for in the increasing . growth of the crops by their continued stir- ring providing the right tools are employed. Take the corn crop for instance. The plough and the barrow will prepare a. clean mellow bed of earth before planting. If the field is inverted sod, it may be reduced to a state of fine pulverizstion with the Acme harrow, or With a disc barrow, the finish being given with any smoothing harrow. By planting the seed an inch and a half or two inches deep, in the shallow furrow made by the marker, a fine slant-tooth harrow may be passed over both before and after the plants are up without injury to them. The oper- ation may be continued once a week until the corn is a foot high. Some of the plants may be bent over but they will be erect again in a day or two. After this ashallow cultivator may be run between the rows till the corn is as high as a horse's back. This work, properly performed, will leave the field as clean as the floorâ€"the small shut teeth killing the sprouting seed in the row among the plants as well as over the whole surface ; and the subsrquent cultivating keeping the spaces clean between the rows. We have never seen cleaner fields than such as were treated in this way and the cost of this libor. first and list. was less than the old hand-booing. But it must not be forgotten that the at- tempt will be a. failure if the necessary work is intermisted and the weeds gets start. It is indispensably necesear to keep them con~ stamly under the an ace. There must be no “ fighting," but surpression and exter- mination. The potato crop may be treated in the same way until the plmts are five or six inches high. after which the leaves would be somewhat lacerated with the barrow. Car- rots. beets, and turnips are too small in early growth, land require clean soil in advance, with frequent passing of the cultivator be- tween the rows. whicn as they become larger by growth. require a, cultivator that may be contracted 1n breadthâ€"Country Gentleman. When oats or other feed gets low in the granary. instead of straining to reach them, nail a. about strip to a. bucket or box with which they can be easily lifted. A horse of mine takes especial delight in rolling in mud or manure. I tie an old broom‘stiux to the curry-comb and stand off at a clean and safe AGRICUI ‘ ‘ Fighting Weeds.” Helpful Hints. LITURAL horse so that the lzzy one will strike it every time he crowds. and he wil soon gm tired of doing so, Alwsys have on h 2nd 3. p nper of copper rlvets o' assorted siz )8 and a. pieca of oiled lather for cutting strings to keep the harness momth with ; than breaks cm be readily mended, or those threatening in tugs, lines. straps. etc.. either by rivetting r‘r sewing with astout leather strii 8 when & cslf pers‘sts in exciting ailrl‘ being separated from its dam for several weeks, take an old halter and through the strap passing around in front of the nose pat nail, having the points filed sharp and standing outward. A piece of leather sewed over the heads keep the nails in place. With this halter on the calf the cow will kick and k aep ata distance, and it will soon give up in disgust. Formerly I was often annoyed and delayed by the loosening of nuts on coulters or rolling cutter, until I hit upon the plan of putting leather washers under the nuts. which stopped their working 10099. If at work inn field where you cannot plzce the jug of drinking water in the shade set it in the furrow, throw a. bunch of grass over the mouth to keepi: clean, and plough the jug under. The ground will shield it from the hot sun, and blew; cool and damp will keep the water cool. In ploughing to keep dirt out of the shore take the lags of an old pair of trousers and cut oi? pieces about a foot long. At opposite points of each sew two strings. Draw the pieces on‘ over the shoes, tie the strings down underneath jus‘, in front of the heel. Then fasten the upgel‘ ends of the pieces around above the ankles with el- astic garter. For a. marker to lay OE corn rows among stumps, put two waggon wheels on an axle of a length to k aep the‘wheels just the distance apart the rows are desired. Any stout stick of wood will do for an axle. fix on a seat to ride if desired. This marker will pass over ordinary stumps, and can be easily turned to avoid those directly in the wav of a wheel.â€"America.n Agricuuurist. The question is often asked whether arti- ficial heat should be employed in the hen house, to make it more comfortable in the winter season sni to increase the egg production at that season of the year when eggs are most valuable far the market. As our best fanciers are byno means unanimous in their answers. it may be inferred that there are two sides to the question; and so in fact there are, and with this as with so many other phases of the subject, it is hard tolay down rules that shall apply to all Manifestly the man who has but a few birds, and those comfortably housed. is the best ofl'as he is; while the one who has a large number, and wishes to get the greatest possible returns from them during the colder months may find it desirable to employ ex- tra warmth. In very cold locations, too, where the thermometer insists on hovering for bug periods in the vicznity of zero, it is but merciful to migitate as faras practicable the severity of the climate. But in ordin- ary breeding it seems to be pretty generally decided that much artificial heat is not de- sirable. W'hile the very early chicks of the larger breeds will require it, or its equival- ent, when first hatched. those intended for general sales are best off with the natural temperature after the tender days of early age are passed It is hardly probable that the average purchaser will be provided with artificially heated quarters. and to buy birds coming from such and try to change their habits is to invite disease and death. The complaint is not infrequent that sellers send out birds that have been forced to unusual developement in a warm house, and the pur- chaser finds only too late that he cannot ac- custom them to his own accomodatlons, but has all his fond anticipations scattered by the unaccountable lzss of his purchase. No- body is to blame strictly speaking, but some- body is disgusted and mad clear through. One thing seems to be settled. and that is that artificial heat in the poultry house does not conduoe to hardiness, but does have ex- actly the opposite result, and it would seem to be the proper thing to rear all birds in- tended for sale in that manner which shall give them the greatest degree of that very desirable quality.~â€"A merican Poultry Yard. There has been tested recently on our sea coast a new kind of gun, which it is hoped will be useful in protecting cur harbors. It contains a dynamite cartridge which is ex- pelled from the gun by air-pressure. Dyna- mite would do very great destruction if it should be shot out or an ordinary cannon; but as it explodes by anything in shape of a shock, it would naturally do more damage to the cannon which expelled it than to the ob- ject agsinst which it was direeted. A gun. however, has been invented to send this dy- namite cartridge against a fort, or an ap- proaching iron-clad. The machine is upon exhibition at Delamater Iron Works in New York. It looks like a forty-foot brAsa pipe. mounted on a steel girder. This is the bar- rel and carriage of the four-inch dy- namite pneumatic gun. It weighs a ton, and is capable of sustaining a pressure cf 1,090 pounds to the square web. The dyna- mite cartrid eis incased in soft metal, with- in a shell of was, and fitted with a wooden tab. It is expelled by compressed air, and when the projectile, flying at speed, strikes head~on against a resisting surface, ahard metal pin embedded in the soft metal is forced into the fulminate at the head of the cartridge and discharges the dynamite. Should this cartridge hit the deck of an iron-clad vessel it would tear it all to pieces. lt is claimed that this cartridge can be thrown three miles with a precision never obtained by gunpowder. Our Government has been experimenting at Fort Hamilton, ‘ N. Y., and has done some wonderful execu- tion. Should We have a foreign war, these ‘ guns would be our dependence against for- eign fleets. as we have no defence nor any navy. It is said these dynamite guns may be used as field-pieces, which would make war so destructive that it could not be Hull‘- ried on. About two millxon sheep are at present in CJlorado. The clip this year will be ten mxllion pounds. As a rule, only two materials are used in one costume, but the rule is frequently broken in favor of velvet, plain silk, and brocade all in one dress. Artificial Heat with Fowls. The Dynamite Gun.